Huntsville, Alabama news station WHNT:
The Republican Senate Nominee Roy Moore was the keynote speaker Thursday night at the Madison County Liberty Gala. It was his first major public appearance since several news stories broke this week involving his personal and campaign finances.
Most notably, the Washington Post ran a story about him taking more than a million dollars in undisclosed money from a charity, later run by Moore’s wife.
Moore was scheduled to speak to reporters after the speech, but we got word just about an hour before his address that Moore was not going to be taking any questions.
No reason was given for why that was canceled.
Moore did not directly address any of the controversies that surrounded his campaign but did say, he’s been accused of things he has not done…
Urban cynic that I am, I begin to suspect that ol’ Judge Moore had settled happily into a quasi-legitimate semi-retirement grift until the unexpected success of a certain Donald Trump roiled up the rubes all across thisyere great nation. What with a Godless fella like Trump getting his face and philosophy all over the tee-vee, suddenly doing a trickle of expense-account speaking gigs while his family cashed steady checks for their talent at being related to Judge Moore just didn’t seem… sufficient for God’s devoted servant.
Then the WaPo struck again — “Charity once led by Roy Moore has listed its headquarters for sale, a move that could bring him $540,000 windfall”:
… The 1850s-era building was put on the market in April for nearly $1.9 million by Moore’s wife, Kayla, now president of the charity, said Ed Fleming, the listing agent for the property. Fleming said Kayla Moore and her husband were “thinking of moving and retiring” at the time.
“I deal with Kayla. She made the decision,” he said.
The circumstances of the listing add to questions swirling around the charity and more than $1 million in compensation for Roy Moore while he was working part time from 2007 to 2012. Kayla Moore took over as president in 2013, earning $65,000 a year.
On Wednesday, The Washington Post revealed that the nonprofit group, the Foundation for Moral Law, agreed to pay Moore $180,000 in annual salary, far more than the charity reported paying him in most of those years, and to honor the agreement even in years it did not have enough in contributions.
Moore was given a promissory note for back pay in 2011, tax filings and mortgage documents show, the first public indication that his annual compensation surpassed what had been reported. The note, backed by a second mortgage on the building that serves as the charity’s headquarters, was eventually worth $540,000, mortgage records show.
Kayla and Roy Moore declined multiple requests for interviews…
The charity was founded during Moore’s legal battle over his decision to install a granite Ten Commandments monument in the state Supreme Court building. Moore joined it after he was ousted from the court for refusing to remove the monument. The charity bought the building in 2005 for $546,000 and spent hundreds of thousands more to renovate it…The charity has filed scores of legal briefs in cases involving conservative Christian issues. It also has helped Moore maintain his national profile by promoting his speaking events.
Maybe Miz Kayla was the smarter half of this couple: take an immediate profit, shut down the bucket shop, go live quiet for a while and wait for the national media storm to blow over.
There’s an old saying that Nobody knows who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out — and it looks like Trump just might be the giant luminous object sucking away all the two-bit local scams and side cons to expose a great many Talibangelical figures as more dedicated to Mammon than their old-testament Father. Given as I myself believe Murphy the Trickster God rules politics, it sure would be entertaining if Judge Stone Tablets ended up as the poster child for this bunch.
Steve Benen, at MSNBC:
…To state the obvious, this paints an unflattering picture of the extremist Republican, not only because he appears to have made misleading claims about his compensation at the Foundation for Moral Law, but also because there are legal questions about the organization’s tax filings.
Indeed, the Washington Post’s article referenced “errors and gaps in the group’s federal tax filings,” which had been “obscured until now.” The article added, “Seven charity and tax law specialists consulted by The Post said the nonprofit’s activities raised questions about compliance with IRS rules, including prohibitions on the use of a charity for the private benefit or enrichment of an individual.”
And given the available information, it sure looks like Moore and his family – his wife and kids are paid employees – used that charity for their enrichment. Indeed, the Post’s report added that the group, among other things, paid Moore’s travel expenses, promoted his book and public appearances, and even hired a bodyguard.
The story is starting to get some pickup locally, with the Alabama Media Group’s Kyle Whitmire writing a column today describing Moore as “a man of principal, not principle.”
The special election in Alabama is two months from today…
Might be a long two months, for some.
Aaaand here’s our ActBlue fund for Roy Moore’s Democratic opponent Doug Jones, who is worth supporting regardless:
opiejeanne
Have you seen Trump’s nominee to head up NOAA?
BARRY LEE MYERS
Skip down to the part about how will NOAA fare under this guy. If I’m reading this correctly they’ll be cutting back on how much info is available to the public from NOAA regarding local weather, and limiting it to announcements about large events like hurricanes. He was a big donor to Santorum, and Santorum introduced a bill that failed, the intent of which was to stop NOAA from competing with private companies by charging us, the taxpayers, for NOAA’s content. Which we’ve already paid to produce.
opiejeanne
I like that “a man of principal, not principle”. It’s clever but I wonder how many people know the difference.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: I thought principal was the guy in school that was your “pal”.
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: I was in shock on election night and utterly despondent for weeks as I thought about how much destruction there would be. I thought about all the big stuff that would be compromised or destroyed, but it has been so much worse than that. Is there even a single cabinet member or appointed position where it’s NOT the fox guarding the henhouse?
Surely we can’t go on like this much longer. I used to wonder how everyone could sit idly by while the Nazis were murdering millions of jewish people. Now I wonder how it is that we are not all rising up as people in puerto rico are left to die in darkness.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Regarding Moore’s grift, like many evangelicals with a shitmouthed drawl, he and Kayla probably referred to themselves as “blayussed bah are personal Loard ‘n Savior Jayuses Chraaaaast”.
I hate these fucking people.
WaterGirl
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Did you end up going away on your vacation or stay home to protect your home and your daughter? I hope your crazy family drama has settled down a bit.
opiejeanne
@WaterGirl: We watched the polls the night of the election and there was that point when suddenly we knew it was going wrong. We were depressed and horrified the same as you and it took me weeks to overcome my utter grief and terror; but it’s not just foxes guarding henhouses, it’s more like hiring an arsonist to manage every damned institution.
Weather Underground is freaking out about this, and they’re not exactly a non-profit.
opiejeanne
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: You do that too damned well.
And what’s WaterGirl talking about?
I missed a lot today because I have been sick, but it’s 2:am and I’m not sleepy because I napped earlier.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@WaterGirl:
Took our trip, but damn, this girl is messed up.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I’m with @opiejeanne:
Feathers
@opiejeanne: They tried to privatize the NOAA weather data back in the Reagan administration as well. It turned out that the buyer they had lined up was a shell company for a shell company and the trail led back to a Swiss company with ties behind the Iron Curtain. And weather data is vitally important in targeting ICBMs. This was enough to quietly scuttle the plans then. We’ll see how it goes now.
Patricia Kayden
Go Doug Jones!! Apparently he’s down around 8 points but I believe the election isn’t until December so he has some time to make up ground.
I don’t understand how someone who was removed from the judiciary and who advocated breaking laws can turn around and be an effective Senator.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: Well the guy he’s replacing was turned down by the Senate for a Federal judgeship.
Amir Khalid
@opiejeanne:
Those who know the difference will get the point, I’m sure.
JPL
@Patricia Kayden: The problem is they don’t want to be effective. The goal is to ruin the federal government, whether it be NOAA or health care.
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden: It’s Alabama. Do you understand now?
syphonblue
Oh Roy Moore is corrupt, you say? Yaaaaaaawn. The Republican base won’t care one shit. He’s a victim of liberal smears, never did nothing wrong, he’s a good Christian man who was fired for doing his good Christian job of persecuting gays, and he pisses off liberals so they’ll all line up to vote him into office. I guarantee he’ll still win by twenty.
Amir Khalid
@Patricia Kayden:
Feature, not bug. For some Republicans, at any rate.
raven
@Patricia Kayden: You’re setting yourself up.
eclare
@syphonblue: Unfortunately, I agree.
NotMax
TCM, 10:15 p.m. Eastern time today:
Falling squarely into the category of noble failure is Jules’ Dassin’s Phaedra. Plenty of positive elements – terrific score, luscious, at times sensuous, cinematography and stars Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins, also Raf Vallone as a thinly disguised simulacrum of Aristotle Onassis .
But – the chemistry isn’t there. One of the most stylish, lovingly designed lovemaking scenes ever put on film, yet the core emotional connection never quite breaks through. An A for the recipe, an A for the ingredients, a B for the dish as served.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: In other words, a very small minority of Alabama voters.
Kay
Good work by the Washington Post. It looks like they found it by checking property records- the Moore Family secured their interest by attaching “charity” property which made me laugh because damn, they were gonna make sure they got paid!
Probably essential to keep the grift flowing since none of them have an actual job.
Kay
I was thinking tax problems might be a problem for a member of Congress then I remembered the new, lower “Trump Standard” and realized it’s fine, whatever they do. Off the table.
One of the newer members of congress has a mug shot – assault. It can go lower than this but not much. We’re scraping the bottom.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
rikyrah
Of course, Moore is a Grifting crook. He is a Republican.
eclare
Take a knee, y’all
OzarkHillbilly
@eclare: gotta love that man.
bystander
Did anybody catch Moanin Joe’s beef with Weinstein? HW would ask for Joe to interview somebody from his newest movie. But when Joe would say, sure, how about A, B, or C? The return offer always was X, Y or Z, and never any quid pro quo.
J R in WV
@rikyrah:
Good Morning, rikyrah!
I’m not usually up at the time of day, and plan to go back to bed as soon as this glass of milk kicks in. You have a good one all a y’all.
debbie
Today, we find out whether OSU lets Richard Spencer speak on campus. If the school refuses, his attorney says he will sue. Oh boy.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s also money.
debbie
@Patricia Kayden:
Effective? What does effective have to do with the Senate?
debbie
@bystander:
Harvey and Trump are peas in a pod. Both pigs, both liars, both predators, both cheats. Period.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: I know that(I’ve studied the Dismal Science), I was just being silly.
MomSense
The Republicans are not acting like they think voters will be able to hold them accountable.
We have to do voter protection work right now.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Sorry. Still waking up.
Chief Oshkosh
@MomSense:
OK and agreed, but what does that entail?
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
He is a Con man with no morals, why expect his hires to do any better.
MJS
@syphonblue: I try to be as positive as possible, but even I have to admit that you’re probably right. The Washington Post did similar excellent work regarding Trump’s fake charity before the election, and it didn’t matter one bit. There is nothing a Republican candidate can do to make Republican voters vote for a Democrat. The best we can ever hope for is that they stay home or vote for a third party candidate, but I don’t see that happening in Alabama. Plus, Repub voters will have the opportunity to vote against the guy who put those KKK members away, which is reason enough for them to go to the polls.
rikyrah
@MomSense:
I hear you
rikyrah
@MJS:
Him putting the Klan in jail is a good enough reason why the Democratic Party should be going all in with this candidate. I don’t give a shyt if it is Alabama.
MomSense
@Chief Oshkosh:
People need to make sure they are registered. Need to help people secure the identification they need. What kind of vote tallying machines do you have? Do they have paper receipts? Are there enough of them?
Shalimar
@syphonblue: I’m not saying it will make them care, but when they cry liberal bias and fake news, the easy point is that it was a charity that took donations from people who were sympathetic to the Moores, which means he stole money from supporters, not from people who already thought he was pond scum. Congratulations to them on being a sucker who will believe any scam as long as someone says “fake news” first.
MJS
@rikyrah: Agreed.
MLC
Problem is, Republicans do not care. Cheating on taxes is not something they frown on — it’s being taxed that they hate. Find a dead girl or a live boy, or else Moore wins.
Kay
@Shalimar:
You would think it would work but people are really resistant to the idea that they got robbed. It’s how scams go on as long as they do. Amway has been in business for 100 years. No one makes any money, except the owners. They’re in China now- they ran out of people in the US to rob but it took 100 years.
Once every couple of months I have to tell people they won’t make enough to pay themselves with their “small business”- I may as well be talking to a wall. Belief is a powerful thing, but it’s not a rational thing.
bystander
@Shalimar: When Alabama elects Moore, he will graduate from grifting a bunch of willing suckers to the big time: stealing from our tax dollars, like Trump.
Kay
@bystander:
Whoever solves the puzzle of allowing people a face-saving, dignified exit from a scam will be a genius. I feel like I’ve tried every possible rhetorical gambit and they all fail.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Hence we have today’s GOP.
rikyrah
Facebook has removed data and thousands of posts from the site, obscuring the full reach of Russian disinformation. https://t.co/F9dGbOCzZ9
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 12, 2017
rikyrah
And the people cry out “Who will save us?” And no one answers.
By Liberal Librarian
Amir Khalid
@Kay:
Scamway went international decades ago. They’ve been in Malaysia since at least the 1980s. The whole thing has always seemed hinky to me. The cult meetings I went to years ago — I had friends caught up in it — really creeped me out. In their plainly irrational fervour, they resembled Christian revival meetings I’d seen in American movies. They were all about how rich you could get by recruiting more and people. Never a word about why Amway products were worth buying. And there’s a whole freaking subculture of dubious schemes for climbing the dealership hierarchy.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Good for LL.
ET
I spent 4 years in Tuscaloosa and I don’t think that any of what is in the news about Roy Moore will hurt him – I fully expect him to get elected.
Peale
@Amir Khalid: Yep. I’ve never bought anything an Amway salesman has tried foisting on me. I have grocery stores for that. Avon and Tupperware in their times at least made sense as direct selling organizations when I was growing up. Before Rubbermaid, Tupperware had many household products that one couldn’t find stocked in small town stores. Same with cosetics – before the large retail pharmacy chains decided to become personal products convenience stores, cosmetic options were definitely not stocked as comprehensively. But detergent and dish soap have been widely available since what? 1920? The only reason to buy that stuff from a cultist is if you’re a crazy hack who thinks that the moon on the P&G package indicates Satanism and Church & Dwight profits fund feminist causes.
satby
@WaterGirl: hey you! I’m wondering right along with you. It’s a beaten down nation we’re in at this point.
rikyrah
Trump Is an Agent of Voter Suppression
by Martin Longman
October 12, 2017
Amy Walter makes a good point:
rikyrah
IMO, Real Disaster is HERE.
His incompetence + His Racism = Dead American Citizens in Puerto Rico as we sit here.
Real Disaster Cannot Be Put Off Much Longer
by Martin Longman
October 12, 2017
Nancy has been on a justifiable warpath against President’s Trump’s fitness for office today, so it’s tempting to find something wholly unrelated to write about. Instead, I am just going to take a different angle on what is still basically the same topic. I am going to talk about risk and damage.
So far, the damage done by Trump’s presidency has had a lot of intangible characteristics. It’s hard to quantify how our loss on international prestige negatively impacts our nation. Our beleaguered diplomatic corp might struggle to explain all the ways their jobs have become more difficult, even nightmarish at times. Our military commanders know that our working relationships with allies are under newfound stress, but maybe they can’t easily attribute any particular problem to a definite cause. How do we measure the downside of all the stress people feel because they’re worried about their access to health care or the possibility that the government might break a promise and deport a member of their family? What does it feel like to be a part of a vulnerable community that the president attacks as criminal in nature or as insufficiently patriotic? What kind of damage does it do to the character of our kids to have a president who lies, cheats, bullies, and defrauds people, and is seemingly rewarded for it? What happens to the character of people who support the president for the things on which they agree when this causes them to excuse things about him they would never overlook in their friends or children?
This isn’t to say that the president’s policies haven’t yet done any real, tangible, measurable harm. But it’s true that his worst policy proposals have mostly been checked or watered down. Unfortunately, we’re reaching a new point in the life of this administration where the destruction is going to be more noticeable and easier to put on a straightforward cause/effect chart.
rikyrah
Watch our rates go sky high.
Throwing a bomb into the insurance markets, Trump now owns broken health-care system https://t.co/y6b3Tf9MuF
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) October 13, 2017
rikyrah
This went under the radar.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/12/17
DoJ argues Trump doesn’t have to preserve presidential records
Rachel Maddow looks at the idiosyncrasies of Donald Trump’s legal team, as well as an argument being made in court by the Justice Department that Trump is not bound by the Presidential Records Act to preserve materials from his time in the White House.
rikyrah
This story was outrageous.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/12/17
Doctor quits Puerto Rico medical relief team over ‘spa day’
Rache Maddow reports on a doctor who has quit her disaster response team in Puerto Rico after seeing medical workers treat themselves to a ‘spa day’ in the medical triage tents.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/12/17
Trump fails to implement Russia sanctions he signed into law
Congressman Adam Schiff talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s failure to implement sanctions against Russia for their interference in the 2016 election.
rikyrah
The Mayor said that three towns sent out an SOS yesterday….
The incompetence + racism is killing American Citizens.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/12/17
Mold, waterborne illness pose new threat in Puerto Rico crisis
Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico, talks with Rachel Maddow about the status of her city’s recovery and new concerns about mold, waterborne illness, and bacterial infections threatening a health crisis the island is not equipped to handle.
Kathleen
@debbie: Same thing at UC. Don’t know if he’ll be speaking or not.
Leto
@Patricia Kayden: Paging Jeff Sessions… Jeff Sessions… you’re wanted at the courtesy phone.
rikyrah
Trump goes to war against his own country’s health care system
10/13/17 08:00 AM—UPDATED 10/13/17 08:13 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump’s executive order yesterday on health care policy threatens to do real harm to the individual marketplace, pushing costs higher on those who need care most. Last night, however, the second shoe dropped, and it’s vastly worse.
Note, for months, people involved in the health care debate have played a game of “will he or won’t he?” when it comes to the president and cost-sharing-reduction payments (CSRs). That question is no longer speculative: Trump is actually stopping the payments.
Indeed, he said as much this morning on Twitter: “The Democrats [sic] ObamaCare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. Dems should call me to fix!”
In other words, the president, who is effectively going to war against his own country’s health care system, is moving forward with a plan that’s likely to hurt many Americans in order to gain some kind of political leverage.
rikyrah
A new frontrunner in the ‘Trump’s Oddest Cabinet Member’ contest
10/13/17 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump has assembled quite a motley crew for his cabinet, and choosing its strangest member is challenging. But Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is clearly making a name for himself – and not necessarily in a good way.
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When a cabinet secretary and the Queen of England have a flag practice in common, that’s weird.
The cabinet secretary’s press secretary told the Post in an email, “Ryan Zinke is proud and honored to lead the Department of the Interior, and is restoring honor and tradition to the department, whether it’s flying the flag when he is in garrison or restoring traditional access to public lands.”
schrodingers_cat
I am not positive about the direction the Orange despot and his R minions are taking this country in but I am going to fucking fight it every step of the way. We cannot lay down and play dead so that they can walk all over us again and again.
rikyrah
Most @RealDonaldTrump supporters say his policy of deliberately undermining Obamacare is wrong (via @aslavitt @KaiserFamFound) pic.twitter.com/SGiAn5eJBM
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) October 13, 2017
rikyrah
This is the best description of what’s gone wrong with the Republican Party https://t.co/TtNj7sCdMm pic.twitter.com/22JGn3oZzc
— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) October 12, 2017
gene108
@Amir Khalid:
I got suckered into an Amway meeting 20 years ago. They had ruled on hair length, men could not have facial hair, how you are supposed to dress, etc.
Really did give off the cult vibe.
WaterGirl
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I hope you were able to enjoy the trip.
Maybe it’s like what they say about losing weight? You didn’t put the weight on overnight, so you can’t expect it to come off overnight, no matter how hard you try. It would be so hard to be patient, though, because you can see that she’s a willing participant in her own awful situation. If she gets that sometimes and doesn’t seem to get it at other times, I imagine that would be maddening.
Adding my good thoughts to what is surely a substation pile of good thoughts at BJ.
schrodingers_cat
@gene108: Husband kitteh and I were taking some sort of a winter driving class by AAA and an Amway person tried to recruit us. I told him to his face, fuck no ( without the profanity, of course). I have only become this sweary since last November.
Kathleen
@rikyrah:I’m normally not a Rachel Maddow fan but her efforts to keep crisis in Puerto Rico front and center are stellar. Good for her!
Tokyokie
As is usually the case, I’m late to this thread, but have the Jones folks approached Condoleezza Rice about doing a TV ad for him? My understanding from watching Spike Lee’s 4 Little Girls is that Rice was a playmate of the children killed in the church bombing, and although she went on to become a big-time Republican, I can’t imagine that she wasn’t grateful to Jones for putting those chickenshit murdering crackers in prison. And, as someone rumored to be a closeted lesbian, Rice is probably appalled by Moore. And even if Rice won’t help, I’m betting Spike Lee would be delighted to do so.
rikyrah
When you finally got health insurance: that was Obamacare.
When your premiums shoot up this year and next: welcome to Trumpcare.
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) October 13, 2017
rikyrah
Trump’s move to kill subsidy payments would increase premiums by 20% next year, 25% by 2020 per CBO. https://t.co/CypIi1Oz0S
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 13, 2017
A Ghost To Most
@rikyrah: I prefer DonTCare.
gene108
@schrodingers_cat:
I had just moved to NJ. I didn’t know anyone outside of work. This guy comes up to me in a store. Says “Hi John” and I am like “no I am gene108” and starts chatting. I tell him I just moved to NJ from NC and he says he and his wife, who he told me went to high school in the same town I did, were having a get together and why not come by, since I am new here. He didn’t tell me it was an Amway meeting. Turned out his wife was not from NC either.
gene108
@Tokyokie:
Rice could speak out. I think she is teaching at Stanford or some other legit college. She’s not dependent on the wing-nut welfare circuit for a living.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@Amir Khalid: Gah. I got suckered into a Melaluca meeting a few years back (run by friends who, bluntly, made some horrifically bad financial choices, and fell for the get-rich-quick patter). Le sigh. I believe Melaluca’s gone international as well.
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
“… in garrison”? A curious turn of phrase by the press sec. Since when is a civilian agency’s office a garrison? As I understand the term, the Pentagon isn’t a garrison.
rikyrah
Trumpism Didn’t “Corrupt” White Conservative Evangelicals, They’ve Always Been Horrible People
The only difference today is that Trump is particularly bad at pretending to love Jesus.
JUSTIN ROSARIO
rikyrah
The sudden demise of the ‘Trump is an independent’ meme
10/13/17 10:05 AM
By Steve Benen
In early September, Donald Trump surprised much of the political world by agreeing to a three-month fiscal deal with Democratic leaders, extending the debt ceiling, and irritating congressional Republicans. For many in the media, the long-awaited presidential “pivot” had finally arrived.
The New York Times published an especially memorable piece with a striking headline: “Bound to No Party, Trump Upends 150 Years of Two-Party Rule.”
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Even at the time, it was difficult to take the chatter seriously. A three-month delay in the fiscal status quo and a vague commitment on immigration did not a pivot make. For that matter, while Trump has repeatedly clashed with Republicans over process and personality disputes, this president has been pretty consistent since Inauguration Day about his partisan instincts on practically every issue under the sun.
But a month later, the “Trump the independent” meme looks even more misguided.
The president, for example, has already moved to kill the immigration deal he reached with Democratic leaders. He followed that up by taking unprecedented steps to gut the nation’s health care system, motivated almost entirely by spite and partisan rage.
All the while, Trump has been pushing a partisan tax plan, written in secret exclusively by Republicans.
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah:
?
What the ever-luvin’ PHUCK does that mean?? The Department of the Interior is a “garrison”?
The Lodger
@Miss Bianca: The Interior Building isn’t even that forbidding. Some of the other department HQs really look like they were designed to repel unwanted visitors.