Looks like the White House secured major network TV time for an address that repeats all of the president's arguments on immigration, only, this time, through a TelePrompTer. — ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) January 9, 2019 Take it from the professionals… I enjoyed how Trump aides told the WSJ they were super-duper fact-checking their content because they …
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Horrorshow Open Thread: He’s Talking to the WH Portraits, and They’ve Started to Talk Back
There are four living ex-presidents. President Trump says "some of them" have told him we should have built a border wall in the past. pic.twitter.com/ReFDDlmKmp — Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) January 4, 2019 If you’re old & cynical like me, you remember the Watergate-era rumors about a drunken Nixon talking to the presidential portraits in a …
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Texas Judge Pulls ACA Ruling From Vulgar Bodily Orifice
https://t.co/vKdlFnks3Q has a banner up now: "Court's decision does not affect this season's open enrollment." pic.twitter.com/OMLQEGskrV — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 15, 2018 This seems to be the most important fact about that ACA story *right at this very moment.* If you, or someone you know, has not yet been able to enroll — DO IT …
Sad, Low Energy Late-Night Open Thread: Rallying the Deplorables, Disappointing the Rest of Us
We are just a few hours from the most spectacularly insane Trump rally ever, expect hyperbole, expect lying, expect racism, expect crazy like the world has never seen. Will the president strip? It’s a distinct possibility. https://t.co/g95Rg14UAv — Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 21, 2018 There's a decent chance Trump kills someone at his rally tonight. …
Class VI Rapids Ahead in Bullshit River
Ezra Klein published an interesting piece in Vox today arguing, among other things, that Aldous Huxley’s dystopia resembles our current state more than Orwell’s did. Klein cites Neil Postman, whose “Amusing Ourselves to Death” came out in 1985: In his classic 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman wrote of the difference between George …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Down to the Wire in PA
The nail-biter PA-18 election tomorrow is in an R+11 district. If the wave this November were to hit all districts as conservative as PA-18, Dems would have a 323-112 majority. H/t @JooBilly https://t.co/d7RfsymIfz — Ezra No Dream No Vote Levin (@ezralevin) March 12, 2018 If Accuweather is to be believed, the Pittsburgh area is far …
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Russiagate Open Thread: Watching the “Detectives”, Nunes Edition
Nunes has created his own alternative news site called The California Republican whose headlines include “CNN busted for peddling fake news AGAIN!” https://t.co/cW39gRgrMX — Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 11, 2018 Nunes Memo Reveals Congressman’s Penchant for Conspiracy Theories https://t.co/dDEp0cS0rC — Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) February 11, 2018 … “Nut job” has clung to Nunes’s reputation as …
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