The Prince is speaking at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum right now:
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The Prince is speaking at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum right now:
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.@SenOrrinHatch on CHIP: “I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves – won’t lift a finger – and expect the federal government to do everything.”
Unbelievable. https://t.co/4VHROvIL8X
— Jenny Wilson for UT (@JennyWilsonUT) December 2, 2017
HE’S TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN https://t.co/9CiZPhb9Kl
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) December 3, 2017
Yeah get a job all you fucking sick kids. I’m tired of this. https://t.co/cnpBvpQGF2
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) December 3, 2017
I'm with Orrin. The first indulgence was child labor laws, now these brats have the nerve to be poor and sick at the same time. https://t.co/Nm8pRNEALB
— David Simon (@AoDespair) December 3, 2017
Just to be clear S-CHIP supports the children of the WORKING poor. Interesting contrast to view on cutting estate tax for those who can supporting themselves w/out lifting "a finger" by inheriting great wealth. https://t.co/UxheUSpbPy
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) December 3, 2017
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Word is that Sen. Hatch is planning to retire, so I guess he now feels free to air his true GOP “I got mine, fvck you poor kids” philosophy in public.
I don’t know much about LDS theology, but from what little I do, there’s a bunch of [face*palm] going up back on Hatch’s home stake right now…
A lesson in how Republican politics have changed: Hatch created the Children's Health Insurance Program with Democrats, then in 2008, worked with Democrats to expand it with a higher tobacco tax against Bush's wish. https://t.co/MYNmK7wXYU
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) December 3, 2017
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The New York Times (yes, I know) has received and had described to reporters EMAILS from the Trump campaign. They are releasing them as they work through them and presumably verifying the material, unlike Wikileaks. Also, with Mike Flynn’s plea deal, the Tweeter-in-Chief is being more productive than usual.
In May 2016, the Russians wanted to make friendly contact with the NRA, who had a convention coming up.
The emailed outreach from the conservative operative to Mr. Dearborn came far earlier, around the same time that Russians were trying to make other connections to the Trump campaign. Another contact came through an American advocate for Christian and veterans causes, and together, the outreach shows how, as Mr. Trump closed in on the nomination, Russians were using three foundational pillars of the Republican Party — guns, veterans and Christian conservatives — to try to make contact with his unorthodox campaign.
This may be how all those wholesome flyover country folks like Jeff Sessions and Sam Clovis got involved with the Russians. Or not. They don’t seem to figure very prominently in the NRA stories yet. To be continued.
Meanwhile, the President is tweeting. I don’t link directly to his emails because I don’t want to give him the stats. My very few links don’t count for much in his numbers. It’s a matter of principle.
Here’s the tweet from yesterday that people are saying admits obstruction of justice. I’ll wait to see what Robert Mueller does with it.
“Acid washed”
And a couple from this morning.
And open thread so that the home improvers can concentrate on that!
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Since our correspondents in the warmer zones can’t carry the Garden Chats through Northern Hemisphere meteorological winter on their own, it’s been suggested that we have some alternative Sunday-over-adult-beverage-of-choice Chat topics:
(a) Photography questions / tips. While everyone eagerly awaits the return of Alain’s wonderful On the Road posts, there are commentors who have questions for the more skilled photogs among us. If anyone wants to submit topics in advance (best equipment for specific needs? best settings for shooting pets / action / landscapes?), I can post them on Sunday morning and let the rest of you give advice.
(b) Household projects / repairs. Yesterday morning, several early-bird regulars swapped tips about cleaning antique roof beams, refinishing stonework, and repairing bubbles in veneer. It was suggested this might be a good alternative for Sundays. If there’s interest, I’d be willing to dedicate some Sunday chats to such topics.
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Apart from mutual aid, what’s on the agenda for this particular Sunday?
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Speaking of striking photography and houses that will need serious fumigation one day…
The National Tree Lighting ceremony was beautiful this evening – but hard not to notice the empty seats. #Christmas #DMV #USA pic.twitter.com/oKMrnnBekG
— Steve Rudin ABC7 (@SteveRudinABC7) November 30, 2017
The thing with this picture is it could be a sign of Trump's historic unpopularity, but it's equally possible that it's an example of this White House's inability to do anything competently. pic.twitter.com/ym3NK9ANro
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 1, 2017
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by DougJ| 144 Comments
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Been thinking about this a lot, but my therapist advised against watching Charlie Rose clips:
Many of the male journalists who stand accused of sexual harassment were on the forefront of covering the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Matt Lauer interviewed Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump in an official “commander-in-chief forum” for NBC. He notoriously peppered and interrupted Mrs. Clinton with cold, aggressive, condescending questions hyper-focused on her emails, only to pitch softballs at Mr. Trump and treat him with gentle collegiality a half-hour later. Mark Halperin and Charlie Rose set much of the televised political discourse on the race, interviewing other pundits, opining themselves and obsessing over the electoral play-by-play. Mr. Rose, after the election, took a tone similar to Mr. Lauer’s with Mrs. Clinton — talking down to her, interrupting her, portraying her as untrustworthy. Mr. Halperin was a harsh critic of Mrs. Clinton, painting her as ruthless and corrupt, while going surprisingly easy on Mr. Trump. The reporter Glenn Thrush, currently on leave from The New York Times because of sexual harassment allegations, covered Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 campaign when he was at Newsday and continued to write about her over the next eight years for Politico.
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I have spent the day working a fresh install of windows ten after upgrading the motherboard/processor/ram on my computer, and installing programs is fun. On the up side, I won’t need to do this for another year. Getting outlook to run almost had me in tears.
At any rate, I discovered today that MadCatz went out of business, so I no longer have working drivers for my programmable mouse, WHICH IS ALL KINDS OF FUCKING AWESOME (THROWS SHIT), so now I need a new mouse.
I like a heavy mouse. Any suggestions?
Also, I am still waiting for fucking Soros to buy me these:
http://amzn.to/2ic0wuu
http://amzn.to/2BH1Yxx
Does anyone even get the Soros checks jokes anymore? Is this the internet version of calling the refrigerator an icebox or saying going to the pictures instead of movies? Am I that old.
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This book appears to paint Trump as he actually is in some respects – not something often seen by people in his circle https://t.co/KsCdxR2lGI
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 2, 2017
It worked when they needed to shut down the Watergate investigations, it worked when they wanted to separate Reagan from “Iran-contra”, and now they’re setting up for the hat trick! Corey Lewandowski has a book (and a defense) to sell:
Elton John blares so loudly on Donald Trump’s campaign plane that staffers can’t hear themselves think. Press secretary Hope Hicks uses a steamer to press Trump’s pants — while he is still wearing them. Trump screams at his top aides, who are subjected to expletive-filled tirades in which they get their “face ripped off.”
And Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”
The scenes are among the most surreal passages in a forthcoming book chronicling Trump’s path to the presidency co-written by Corey Lewandowski, who was fired as Trump’s campaign manager, and David Bossie, another top aide. The book, “Let Trump Be Trump,” paints a portrait of a campaign with an untested candidate and staff rocketing from crisis to crisis, in which Lewandowski and a cast of mostly neophyte political aides learn on the fly and ultimately accept Trump’s propensity to go angrily off message…
a quote from one of the "Get Me Roger Stone" directors. his takeaway from it is… not what mine would be pic.twitter.com/3BBEz7nxWd
— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) December 2, 2017
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Just coincidentally, look what Russiagate news dropped this morning!
Well, that's quite a thing for a Trump official to have said in an email. https://t.co/CHqYHf2b9b pic.twitter.com/Cq7YvUWSJ2
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 2, 2017
Trump back then: "I fired him because of what he said to Mike Pence. Very simple." https://t.co/iFM20AOVbC
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 2, 2017
These jokers seriously must compete with each other to write the most ludicrously incriminating emails. https://t.co/bevCC6MVNm pic.twitter.com/w5nMW6aVbX
— Zeddy ( me [ person ] ) (@ZeddRebel) December 2, 2017
A lot of people will go to town on this quote, but bear in mind that all of K.T. McFarland’s writings suggest that she’s a complete idiot. https://t.co/0wnUnnyKzl pic.twitter.com/Fin0GTEHTG
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 2, 2017
What does that make Flynn? pic.twitter.com/GBIj3J8z4a
— Marcel Dirsus (@marceldirsus) December 2, 2017
Most importantly, being dumb is not a get out of jail free card
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) December 2, 2017
What are the odds Trump realizes obstruction of justice is actually a problem and not a perk?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 2, 2017
"Forget the myths the media created about the White House. The truth is, these aren't very bright guys, and things got out of hand." pic.twitter.com/8ZoovuUAFT
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 3, 2017