The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!

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Kerosene31 said:
The job gains are coming at the expense of massive debt. A massive increase in debt by cutting taxes for the rich gives us less unemployment but flat wages.
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But the debt only matters when a Democrat is President. The debt doubled under Reagan, almost doubled in four years under Bush the Elder, doubled under Bush the Younger, and is not trending well under Cheeto the Red.
 
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Plainview said:
Mike Pence writes an anonymous op ed for NY Times? Read it all. It’s a goddamn national security nightmare.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
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lol I saw a Twitter post about the thought that it is Pence because of the use of 'lodestar'.
 
How crazy would it be to bring articles of impeachment against a nominated Supreme Court judge?

Patrick Leahy Points to Email That Suggests Brett Kavanaugh Lied About Receiving Stolen Documents

In Wednesday’s first round of questioning during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Sen. Patrick Leahy made a significant allegation against the Supreme Court nominee. The Democrat from Vermont claimed to have evidence showing that Kavanaugh lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the 2004 and 2006 hearings regarding his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The key testimony came when Leahy questioned Kavanaugh about previous testimony in which he denied that he had any knowledge of confidential electronic communications that had been pilfered from Democratic senators by Republican staffer Manuel Miranda and used to help advance President George W. Bush’s judicial nominations in the early 2000s. Kavanaugh, who worked for the Bush administration as part of the White House counsel’s office, worked with Miranda on matters relating to those judicial nominations.

On Wednesday, Leahy pointed to newly released emails that he says contradict Kavanaugh’s previous testimony. Leahy began by asking, “Did Mr. Miranda ever provide you with highly specific information regarding what I or other Democratic senators were planning in the future to ask certain judicial nominees?” This time, though, Kavanaugh hedged, refusing to directly answer a question that would seem to elicit a simple “no” based on his previous testimony. Instead, he offered that it was typical in his role in the White House counsel’s office to meet and discuss what senators on both sides of the aisle were thinking about asking a given nominee:

Leahy then pointed the Supreme Court nominee to an email Kavanaugh had received from Miranda describing Leahy’s line of questioning about a nominee on July 19, 2002, four days before a hearing with that nominee.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics...email-that-suggests-judge-lied-to-senate.html
 
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In response to that article, Cheeto the Red wrote:


Anyone who supports this wanna-be dictator after this needs to stop pretending they give a s*** about the Constitution. We are a nation of laws, of rights, and of freedoms - not one where questioning the second-leading vote getter in the last presidential election is a crime, or a matter of national security.
 
Plainview said:
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These death stares.....

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tru adam30000 said:
Are those the same polls that projected Hillary to win?
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Same ones. And they were accurate and within the margin of error. We'll see more state-level polls especially in the battlegrounds and fewer national polls in the future. So what's your point? Are you going to offer up anymore about how secretly popular Trump is or deflect to Clinton? I was expecting discourse.
 
Plainview said:
The person talks about being fired, so it can’t be pence.
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I read it as his job would be in jeopardy. or something like that which doesn't necessarily mean fired. So it could very well be Pence....Or Mattis as someone else pointed out on Twitter since "first principles" is a phrase Mattis uses a lot. Either way, many people pick up on other people's phrases when they are in their orbit often. I used to say "inconceivable!" a lot at board meetings until everyone was saying it. So it could be anybody. It would be hilarious if it was Ben Carson, but I think it's KellyAnne and her husband helped her write it.
 
rankandfile said:
I read it as his job would be in jeopardy. or something like that which doesn't necessarily mean fired. So it could very well be Pence....Or Mattis as someone else pointed out on Twitter since "first principles" is a phrase Mattis uses a lot. Either way, many people pick up on other people's phrases when they are in their orbit often. I used to say "inconceivable!" a lot at board meetings until everyone was saying it. So it could be anybody. It would be hilarious if it was Ben Carson, but I think it's KellyAnne and her husband helped her write it.
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I think it was multiple people as well, but they're all working for the administration.
 
Plainview said:
I think it was multiple people as well, but they're all working for the administration.
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Everyone is a motherhucker. Appointed positions still making public policy decsions under a curropt POTUS and think what they're are doing is honorable. It's tree son!
 
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Yea well I work IT in schools and this is the first week. So much s*** on my plate and not able to follow along with what is going on.

Anyways, right now, something really stinks to high hell with Kavanaugh. There are either just tons of things or something big being covered up.
 
Plainview said:
Where you at rand paul? You suck the constitutions dick, where are you at coming out against this?
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Fortunately, he's spoken and... it's what you'd expect:


(He's a libertarian insomuch as he wants zero taxes and no government assistance to anyone, but is just fine with our little wannabe dictator pissing on the Bill of Rights.)
 
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His answer and the explanation by the Senator who butted in were terrible, just say if you knowingly spoke to someone there or not don't hide behind the "well I don't know everyone who works there" BS.
 
The country is doing so well. The country, best ships, planes, toilets, public bathrooms...*YAY!*...It's just so incredible. It's perfect. It's better than perfect.
 
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