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What’s on the agenda, as we prepare for this week’s Friday doc dump (and for some lucky Americans, a long weekend?
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From the Washington Post, “Storm clouds: Independents turn away from Trump while his base turns inward”:
The first major poll of opinions shows that the health-care bill under consideration in the Senate is about as unpopular as the one that passed the House. A PBS NewsHour-Marist poll released Wednesday reveals that only 17 percent of the country supports the Senate measure, known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Bad news for the Republicans advocating its passage, clearly.
Buried in the poll, though, is even worse news for the party. Democrats continue to be stalwartly opposed to President Trump and his party’s health-care proposals, unsurprisingly. But independents are similarly souring on the president and the party’s legislation — as Republicans and Trump supporters appear to tune out. November 2018 is still a long way away, but if that trend continues, it suggests the possibility of a disinterested Republican base and a hostile middle — bad news for Republicans in Congress in any sort of contested race.
Since February, approval of Trump’s job performance among independents has fallen by 9 points, from 40 percent to only 31 percent. Four months ago, Trump was 11 points underwater on favorability with that group, meaning that his unfavorable numbers were 11 points higher than his favorable numbers. That spread is now 28 points…
Consider Obamacare. The Republican effort to repeal Barack Obama’s signature legislation has served only to make the bill more popular, with most Americans hoping it remains in place and a plurality thinking that it should be strengthened, not repealed.…
Trump’s presidency has been predicated on making direct appeals to his base of support. On health care, there’s no group that supports what he and his party are doing more than those voters. But Trump won the presidency by the skin of his teeth, thanks in part to independents willing to give him a shot over Hillary Clinton. If those independents are as antagonistic to him and the Republicans by this point next year — and if Republicans continue to find it frustrating to hear about what Trump is doing both from the media and from Trump himself — it’s hard to think that the composition of Congress in 2019 will be as favorable to Trump’s party.
Trump Job Approval:
Fox viewers: 89%
Everyone else: 25%https://t.co/2MahGCxFTZ— Adrian Gray (@adrian_gray) June 29, 2017
Baud
I can’t believe the president’s behavior on Twitter. What happened to the Donald Trump we saw on the campaign trail?
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Oh…right.
Baud
And fuck anyone is the media who is offended for Mika but gleefully joined in the sliming of Hillary Clinton.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
Yeah, this. As I remarked a few minutes ago on the night thread, Harold Ford is finally calling out Trump’s electorate for what it is and assigning blame to it.
Remember the MSM fainting couches on deplorables?
And on another note on those deplorables, Trump plans global trade wars in order to please his asshole, deplorable, authoritarian base, as even his mediocre cabinet voices concerns and objections.
TS
@Baud:
Guess the media didn’t notice until he turned on one of them.
He acted the same way towards Hillary Clinton & every other woman that didn’t fall before him in praise – yet the media laughed and supported him. Suddenly he turns on their wonderful intelligent strong and resourceful Mica – and the media is outraged. Morning team having a hate session on trump and a love session for Mica. Shame they didn’t attack him for all the other women he attacked – but especially for his rude and ignorant attacks on his election opponent.
He is not smart enough to have done this to turn the conversation away from congress and health care – but regardless of his lack of intelligence, it seems to have that result.
TS
@Baud:
Worth repeating. A much better way of saying what I was trying to say in the above post.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
rikyrah
@Baud:
Tell the truth, Baud.
Baud
@TS: One if those idiots said it’s different know because of the dignity of the Office. What office did they think he was running for during the campaign?
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Upgrading my phone…I’ll be here a while.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: What are you getting? Or are you installing a new ROM?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: You sound, eh, SHRILL.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I think it’s just a security patch, but since I’m rooted I can’t do it via the OTA. I had to download the complete ROM and run it though flashfire.
TenguPhule
25% of Americans are unsalvageable and need to be recycled for their components.
satby
@Baud: if I never hear another word about the “dignity of the office” from anyone ever again I will die happy. That old chestnut only gets dragged out when one of the occupants has sullied the office to begin with.
TenguPhule
@Baud: That would be all of em, Katie.
Kay
You can read all about Hans here.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning?
Baud
@satby: Or when a Democrat wears jeans in the Oval Office.
TS
@rikyrah: Well Donny Deutsch went “low” with the truth this am – quite a rant. Shame he didn’t do it when other women were attacked by this excuse of a man.
And … good morning
JPL
Trump tweeted this morning that he wants totally repeal of the ACA. They can worry about replacement later. Somehow I don’t think 20 percent tariffs and lack of funding for health care, will lead to economic growth.
Baud
@Kay:
Even assuming a world where that lie is true, how does voter ID solve the problem of paying voters to vote?
TenguPhule
@Kay: They’re not even pretending anymore, aren’t they? Its going to be vote rigging, disallowance and denial now and forever.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Obviously by making it too expensive for them to vote.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: …or puts he feet up on the desk.
I think there’s room for Baud! here.
satby
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I shared that from the previous thread you posted that to. It would be a disaster for the economy, and might be what it takes for our corporate overlords to decide to push him out of office. When they decide he’s gone too far, the Republicans will magically also grow spines.
OzarkHillbilly
A contrast in styles, first from Jessica Valenti:
2nd, from Pete Souza: Respect for women.
Lastly, from the Australian comic Celeste Barber:
More of her Instagrams Too funny. I think my favorite is, “If this isn’t sexy, I don’t know what is.”
MomSense
Trump is good for their ratings. That’s why we are living this nightmare. They played chicken with the election and now we all lost.
JPL
@TS: CBS Morning Show just showed a clip of that.
TenguPhule
@JPL:
They certainly won’t lead to stability and public order.
TenguPhule
@satby:
He’ll never go too far for their base. And that’s who’s holding the primary guns to their foreheads.
bemused
The cretin is steadily deteriorating, day after day after day, ala Sarah Huckabee.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Baud 2020: No Pants! You’re the Pants!!
efgoldman
@Baud:
You should have suspended your disbelief months ago. The only thing I can’t believe about him is if he ever did something sensible, logical, and sort of presidential.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
So we can rule out his suicide then.
Kay
@Baud:
Well, she’s assuming all black people are fraudulent voters so with the ID they can’t vote and also won’t get paid.
Trump’s commission is sloppy. They sent the request to the wrong place in some states- not all states run elections thru the sec of state. The one thing you can’t be in voting process is “sloppy”.
Kobach wants to run the names thru his garbage “vote chek” system which is software he bought in Kansas that checks for one voter registered in multiple states. The problem is for every multiple state registered they found they flagged four who just had the same name. So he needs the Social Security numbers, but a lot of states either don’t use them in voter registries or will never hand them over. It’s crazy to hand over information to some bogus “commission” – who knows what they’ll do with it. They know they can’t demand it so they’re “requesting” it but why should a state go along?
satby
@TenguPhule: his racist troglodyte base will be among the very first that get laid off in a down economy, and the part of his base that thinks he’s bringing the tax cut fairy to their McMansions will watch their investments go south fast. Neither will be happy for long with a trade war.
Baud
@Kay: I’d imagine the blue states won’t.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Agree totally. Too much of the MSM slimed Hillary with everything they had; I am not going to spare any sympathy for that fucker Mika.
I think Trump is going to take Big Media (including broadcast and cable news) down too. It’s so obvious they are into ratings, and Trump is good for that. And don’t dare offend a deplorable. No no no.
debbie
Stephen Colbert had some choice words for Trump’s tweets last night.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
Hans would look good doing the downward dog over the slot in a guillotine.
Any commission consisting of him and Kristopher Kolumbus Kobach is a total Bannon creation.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
Some of it states shouldn’t even be collecting in the first place, the fuckers want to know who the named voters voted for going back to 2006.
seaboogie
@satby: I would give anybody’s left nut (am female, or I’d offer my own) for a pic of Obama in a tan suit with his feet on the desk in the Oval right now.
Kay
@Baud:
I thought it was a new low though. It’s not that it’s more offensive than what he said in his campaign where he smeared whole giant groups of people, but it’s so petty. It’s like a celebrity spat on the cover of the National Enquirer.
TenguPhule
@satby: Two words. “Democrats Fault!”
And they’re stupid enough to fall for it. Won’t be the first time.
efgoldman
@satby:
No they won’t; most of them in mining towns and factory towns were laid off years ago
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
What the fuck else could she do? Those “some” have obviously never been targets of harassment. Pigs.
TS
@JPL: Sham horror by the others on the set – they seem to have stopped him doing it again. it was a worthy rant. Now they are talking about “how trump has changed – how we used to be friends” and “he must be ill”
pfffft
Kay
@TenguPhule:
Not who they voted for. They’ll be able to find out if they are registered for a Party and whether they took that Party ballot in a primary, but only in “closed” primary states.
The party ID isn’t really reliable. If I register as a D in Ohio and pull a D ballot in a primary and then vote GOP in the general I’m registered as a D.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
He tried to bodyshame a Miss America. How is this worse?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Holy fucking shit. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!
debbie
@TenguPhule:
Who among us will admit to making a mistake? ;)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Enquirer-sourced blackmail?
Baud
@Kay: More petty than brining Bill Clinton’s affairs to one of the debates?
TenguPhule
@Kay: Ah, so the reporters are not doing their job explaining it well in the article again.
debbie
@Kay:
Have you forgotten Megyn Kelly’s bleeding out of her eyes, her whatever?
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: The National Enquire thing? Why didn’t they mention this before? Seems newsworthy.
TenguPhule
@debbie: I do, all the time.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@TS:
Trump is what he always was. They simply ignored it.
Keith P.
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That’s going to be some big news until whateve happens at 5pm.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
I sea what you did there.
satby
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: WHAT???
TenguPhule
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Context?
Elizabelle
Simone Veil has died. She was a marvelous human and feminist. Aged 89.
The Guardian:
Baud
I dislike Joe and Mika, but they are liked by people we need to turn against Trump.
I hate our bedfellows.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@satby:
They were threatening some bullshit story (and calling Mika’s kids) unless they called Trump and got him to spike it. In Joe’s communications with the White House, it was “back off and apologize”.
Kay
@Baud:
We supposedly couldn’t have uniform voting laws over 50 states because conservatives objected to a “national registry” – their phony “federalism” principle again- but now Hans and Kris are putting together a national registry in a fake commission with no oversight and no transparency using some bullshit “proprietary software” Kobach bought, and conservatives just yawn.
I tell people to check their registration well prior to the election so they’ll have time to fix any problems- that becomes more important now.
satby
@TenguPhule: Nope, if Axios article is correct, no Democrats in sight to blame. They’ll blame Trump.
bystander
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
You’re trying to get a slot in the TenguPhule reign of te….er, administration, right?
So where are Mika and Joe? Hiding out from twitler’s death squad?
Baud
Now Joe is lying about policy.
Mark
Donny’s latest outrage. Rest assured it won’t be his last.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
He’s gone below the Crazification Factor? Or is that within the margin of error? Either way, it’s amazing how the 27% number holds up.
Baud
Shorter Joe: Still pass Trump’s agenda.
MJS
@TenguPhule: There are no components worth recycling. Who would want any part of them, in any way?
bemused
Trump is boxed in a corner. His bullying isn’t working on anything like it has most of his 70 years. Morning Joe is revealing his threats.
The guy is going to blow like the exploding Oregon whale 1970.
OzarkHillbilly
@TenguPhule: So much for the “anonymity of the voting booth”. And all this time I thought that was sacred.
Kay
@Baud:
One of my sisters calls Morning Joe “soul killing” :)
Baud
@Kay: Their only principle is aggrandizing power to themselves.
Baud
@Kay: That is apt.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@bystander:
I wish to be on the platform assisting with the placement of the condemned so that my unkind words are the last thing their senses register…
Baud
To sum up: But her emails!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
ROFLMAO!!!!
Elaine Chao gonna speak up?!????
Elizabelle
@bemused:
Now there’s an image to go with our coffee.
But I hope you are right. And that the GOP leaders/those supporting him get slimed so bad they smell for the rest of their lives. So bad we can sense them coming.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
The reason the media is so upset about the mika tweet is because they all get cosmetic surgery.
First they came for the birth certificate, but I said nothing cuz I am white. Then they came for the mexicans, but I said nothing cuz I am white. Then they came for the mooslims, but I said nothing cuz I am white. Then they came for the jewish internationalists, but I said nothing cuz I am white. Then they came for the vagina, but I said nothing cuz I’ve had multiple affairs and been married a slew of times. Then they came for my cosmetic surgery, but there was nobody left say anything for me.
Baud
@Elizabelle: Won’t happen. Trump is a lone wolf.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Nothing new about it Kay. Remember the NYT reporter> That was pretty personal.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Your vote is still private. They can’t tie an individual vote to a name, except with absentee ballots, but once the ballot is removed from the envelope then they no longer can. We get people every year who sign their ballots- I’m not sure why- seems like something you should do at the end of a form? Anyway. Not supposed to. It’s technically a “spoiled ballot”.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: JV makes that point.
Elizabelle
@Kay: You know, we could push for federalism to protect a lot of us.
Federalize the national elections. States can administer, but under a set of standards. Paper ballots, equal access to voting equipment throughout a state and community. Mail in ballots, and easy access to advance voting.
National ID card. It’s time. Will be helpful for VOTING, healthcare, benefits, and employment verification. Biometric. Kill a lot of birds and opportunities for GOP to whine with one fell swoop.
States rights is the last gasp of the Tea Party types/present day confederate state supporters and traitors. There are some minimum protections and services that ALL our citizens deserve.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Right, but that seemed more grave to me. More serious. This is like “Mika was at Mar a Lago and SHE said..”
I’m shocked by that, that he thinks he’s involved in some game where he’s sparring with celebrities. Maybe it’s the difference in stature – I think Mika is a celebrity and I don’t think the judge or the NYTimes reporter or Mr. Khan are celebrities. It was more grave not because of Trump’s status but because the people he attacked are so much better than he is.
Luthe
Why am I getting ads for the Trump International Hotel in Miami? *shudders*
FYWP.
JPL
White House council for women and girls goes dark under Trump
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/30/donald-trump-white-house-council-for-women-and-girls-239979
MJS
@Kay: Now who’s being naïve, Kay? (I don’t think you’re being naïve. I just couldn’t pass up using that line from The Godfather).
Iowa Old Lady
@TenguPhule: Live by the gerrymander, die by the gerrymander.
JPL
If Trump is openly bribing reporters, that is news.
Kay
@Elizabelle:
Mexico federalized elections and it helped a lot. I’m fine with a national ID card. The REAL ID program is run thru driver’s licences and it’s basically a national ID. We’re quibbling over details at this point. The horse is out of the barn on that.
JMG
So the new genius plan from Trump (and Ben Sasse!) is just repeal Obamacare straight out, then replace in August — somehow. They will not rest until their plan goes from just hurting poor people to hurting everyone and the entire health care industry.
Kay
@MJS:
I talked to my daughter last night and she said, sadly, “he gets worse every day”
We maintain the capacity to be still more disappointed in his behavior :)
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: What?
@Kay: So I had always thought, if I had thought it thru a little more, would have known that.
Kay
@JMG:
So much for the vows last week not to “pull the rug out from under anyone”
They just lie to the voters CONSTANTLY.
TS
@debbie: Stephen on Trump’s tweets (from your link)
“Someone bleeding badly at your door – and you say no – sounds like your health care plan”
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
I’m old enough to remember every proposal for national ID to fall apart amid cries of “muh sacred freedoms”, “mark o’ The Beast” and “we don’t say ‘papers, please’ here in ‘Murka”. Your white face wasadequate to get you whatever.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby:
When did that ever stop them?
Bobby Thomson
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: too many pronouns without antecedents. Who did what?
MomSense
Eric Holder tweeted at 3 am to the DOJ/FBI to stay strong. Wonder if something big is going to drop today.
Another Scott
‘ Morning.
No time to read all the replies yet (sorry if it’s already been mentioned), but I’ll leave this here.
Donnie seems desperate to change the subject (probably worried about the shoestore’s worth of shoes dropping today about Flynn, etc.), and to also too somehow create a “win” out of the Trumpcare debacle:
Bannon must love that older one. “Let’s break everything now – we’ll fix it later (when we have leverage over everyone else to make them do what we want).”
(sigh)
Rahm probably welcomes the opportunity to have a public spat with Donnie again.
Keep fighting, everyone!
Cheers,
Scott.
Bobby Thomson
@Kay:
No maybe about it, but I strongly contest that Mika is anyone’s “better.” Like Republicans, nothing is real to members of the press until it happens to them.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Bobby Thomson:
National Enquirer reporters were apparently threatening to slime Joe and Made last unless they called the White House and got Trump to spike it. The White House was demanding that they back off and apologize to Trump.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Got it, more petty.
different-church-lady
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: Agreed, a driver’s license says you are certified to operate a motor vehicle. It shouldn’t be used to get on a plane, vote, or anything else. Bring on a national ID.
ETA: Here in California, undocumented folk can get a driver’s license, being that they’d drive anyway, it’s a good thing.
JPL
Mediaite has the Deutsch rant
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donny-deutsch-melts-down-over-bleeding-facelift-i-probably-wont-be-on-the-show-again/
I must say that I don’t think he should have attacked the president’s appearance on the air, but he is correct to say that Trump is a vulgar pig.
JPL
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: David Fahrenthold should make some phone calls, because you know that there were others.
Bobby Thomson
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Still a little fuzzy, but sounds like:
1. National Enquirer was threatening to run a story before Joe and Mika got married talking about how they were schtupping. Recall that Trump also made insinuations in at least one tweet during the campaign.
2. The National Enquirer, which was and is fully in bed with Trump, told Joe and Mika that Trump was the only one who could kill the story.
3. The ask for killing the story was “backing off” and “apologizing.”
4. Looking back, I remember that they did do a half assed apology of some kind, but they also effectively killed the story by getting married.
Bobby Thomson
@JPL:
Why the fuck not?
Peale
@JPL: nope. I’m not really feeling all that sorry for them this morning and their reaction to the insult to the tribe. Some of us saw him for what he was 2 years ago. 30 years ago even. Boo hoo hoo for them.
Another Scott
@seaboogie: Oh the Humanity – the Tan Suit!!11, amirite?
(Google doesn’t seem to have any images of Obama in the Tan Suit in the Oval Office.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@MomSense: Oh goodie.
It’s the weekend before the 4th of July. Thought it might be a big news day.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL:
I think he should do it every chance he gets. Trump is a phat ugly disgusting pig.
Peale
@TenguPhule: huh? In no states I know of do they track the ballots that way.
MJS
@Another Scott: No images of the tan suit? The Deep State strikes again.
Shalimar
@Bobby Thomson: It was very common gossip that Joe and Mika were schtupping. All you had to do was watch their “playful” promo pictures and commercials to tell. Their MSNBC-created image was as a longtime-married couple. Not sure why they would bother submitting to blackmail to try and hide it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Peale: Asked and answered by Kay up above
Another Scott
@Kay: National IDs are fine, if done reasonably sensibly (e.g. what do you do about people who were adopted, changed their names multiple times, don’t have birth certificates, changed gender ID, etc., etc.). It all depends on the corner cases, the cost, the required “proof”.
But national IDs won’t “solve the problem” of “dead people voting” and the like, because dead people – obviously – don’t vote. This whole “voter fraud” stuff is a distraction. It’s (as we know) not a real issue. Trying to come up with real solutions to a problem that doesn’t exist isn’t just wasting resources, it’s supporting damaging memes.
It’s like “we’ll have comprehensive immigration reform after we stop the illegal immigrants from entering the country” buggaboo. When is that “stopped”? When it’s down 90%?
99%? 99.9%? 99.999999%? And like the never-ending abortion rights and contraception rights fights. It will never end.
Dead people being on voting rolls isn’t a problem. Dead people can’t and don’t vote. People voting multiple times isn’t a problem – voting is too much of a hassle (and individual votes almost always have too little effect on the outcome) for people to try to bother (and the penalties if caught are severe).
Voting rolls will never be perfect. People move, and die, and turn 18, all the time. It costs time and money to update the rolls, money that localities cannot spare, and they will never be updated in real-time.
RealID didn’t stop terrorist attacks in the USA. National ID cards for voting won’t stop the Teabaggers screaming about the “wrong people” voting.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m all for national, uniform standards, mail-in ballots, extending voting days, making absentee ballots excuse-free, greatly restricting the need for “provisional ballots”, and all the rest. I just don’t think we should kid ourselves that even an excellent fair and national system will make the “problem” and the talking points go away – the “argument” will just shift (“The Federal Government is rigging the vote!!1 Hillary and Nancy and George Soros are paying people to vote for the Democrats!!11”)
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@MJS: *in the Oval Office*. There are zillions of pictures in the Tan Suit at that press conference, and a couple of other places.
Yeah, the Deep State is clever, but … :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Another Scott: Also too, what Betty says upstairs.
Cheers,
Scott.
JPL
IMO, Deutsch was correct in going low, and to call trump a vulgar pig was within the limits of decency. He went beyond that though, but that is just my opinion. I live in the GA sixth district and the message was loud and clear, that Ossoff should have fought back, against the lies told about him.
@MomSense: Benjamin Wittes has an interesting re-tweet also. https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/880737797551919104
We all could use a good Friday night news dump. It’s been a long week.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Agreed, cry me river, T enabler.
JPL
Trump’s new tweet
Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show
Why would Joe think the president could stop an article from being printed? hmmm
Jeffro
Here’s some good advice from Josh Marshall: reporters need to pull out of Trumpov’s dominance rituals
The president as dark, malign initiator of sick dominance rituals…I guess this is one of those ‘new norms’ that Amy Siskind’s keeingp a list of, so that some day we can find out way back. (There should have been a h/t to Sara Kenzidor in that article btw)
Bobby Thomson
@Shalimar: there’s also a lot of other gossip about Joe that a focus on workplace dalliances might lead people to talk about. And there’s a difference between inside baseball stuff with plausible deniability that all the villagers joke about, and having unflattering photos plastered in every grocery store check out.
Bobby Thomson
@Jeffro: Good strategy that will never be followed because of both-sides-do-it, phony balance, and a pathological need to see bias in attempts to get a comprehensive but accurate story.
Yoda Dog
@Bobby Thomson: His physical appearance is beside the point and by far the least offensive thing about him.
But DD can say whatever he wants, that’s fine. He sure as hell wasn’t wrong!
Booger
@Kay: I’m absolutely positive the RNC would receive the full dataset…as a courtesy.
Bobby Thomson
@Yoda Dog: I’ve never been much for the royalist bent of American politics. Certainly not when it comes to jumped up scum like Princess Snowflake.
H.E.Wolf
@Bobby Thomson:
Gendered slurs of that sort are generally eschewed nowadays at Balloon Juice, because they reinforce the false equation of “female” = “bad”. The current President uses that formulation all the time… which is sufficient reason to avoid it.
Laura
@Kay: Kay it’s too bad you cannot embed a clip of Hand Von S’ voice. It is . . .one of the oddest, Dr. Stranglove-esque, evil villain voices I have ever heard. It matches the evil he does.
And hats off to CA AG Becerra in refusing to kowtow to Kobach’s request for voter information, and calling out the entire investigation for what it is, a bs attempt to prevent Americans from exercising the franchise.
Also, Good Morning Rikyrah.
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly: OMG, I don’t know if these are actually safe for work…mostly because I’m going to be laughing so hysterically that all my office mates will suspect something is up!
Tenar Arha
@?BillinGlendaleCA: @Kay: I don’t think this is a good idea. Voter/Federal ID is a solution for a problem we don’t have. I don’t believe it’s worth even thinking about agreeing to this, especially since we’d have to figure out how to get all the supporting documents and the ID’s for free, solve the problem of people who were born at home especially prior to the CRA, the tendency to deliberately neglect birth records especially in certain areas of the country, the guaranteed roadblocks that’d be put in place for adequate locations to provide the ID’s etc. And it still wouldn’t solve the underlying problem of people who refuse to admit that fraud isn’t our problem like @Another Scott said.
J R in WV
@TenguPhule:
States can’t know that – it’s why we have the secret ballot, no one knows, at least not legally – who voted for whom. At most they know which primary voters voted in, so whether you regarded the Dem or the Republican primary as more important in a given election year.
I would be no party selected, but then I wouldn’t have a primary vote at all, and in many elections, the primary selects the winner.
J R in WV
@Shalimar:
Maybe because at least one of them (the woman I think) was already married to someone else?
Bobby Thomson
@H.E.Wolf: fuck off.
J R in WV
@H.E.Wolf:
Let me be clear on this: You are objecting to the use of “Princess Snowflake” in a political blog known as the home of Ravening Jackels?
Were you born yesterday?
I know better, because you’ve been posting (44 or so times) all year. But still, really? Really?
;-)
Don’t take it too hard, I’m partly kidding, but still, really?
J R in WV
@H.E.Wolf:
Or, better still, what Bobby said!!