All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!(Part II)

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Cohen: Mueller Has ‘Substantial’ Evidence to Back Up My Story: The president’s former right-hand man says Donald Trump wanted to silence his accusers for political reasons.

The question now becomes ... will Trump be charged with coercion, collusion, campaign fiance violations, obstruction of justice, and/or election interference?

How about all of the above? That would be nice.

[Tami]

[BeastieRunner]

You know Trump is having a bad day when his favorite legal eagle, Judge Napolitano, says on his favorite TV show , Fox and Friends: We Now Know Trump Committed a Felony

Yeah, it appears Fox and WSJ have turned on 45. Breirbart and other hard rights already did. He's not bringing social and economic ruin to non-whites fast enough. Luara I. lost her show, too, because of it. Hahaha ...

Ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos announces plans to run for Congress after getting out of prison



WBE is going to have a great time with this write up.

Doesn't a felony bar you from voting in most states and running for office?

How about all of the above? That would be nice.

That's what the and/or is for.

[Kirby101]

Conservative Magazine The Weekly Standard To Fold After 23 Years

Though some here might protest this truth, there is no more room for anti-Trump conservatives in the modern GOP.

[BeastieRunner]

Conservative Magazine The Weekly Standard To Fold After 23 Years

Though some here might protest this truth, there is no more room for anti-Trump conservatives in the modern GOP.

There will be once they all flee like rats on a sinking ship when Trump goes down.

[PaulBullion]

You know Trump is having a bad day when his favorite legal eagle, Judge Napolitano, says on his favorite TV show , Fox and Friends: We Now Know Trump Committed a Felony

MAGA twitter is taking that well:

[BeastieRunner]

MAGA twitter is taking that well:

Thank the Lord we have Planned Parenthood to help this lot from reproducing.

[Iron Maiden]

Cohen looks like a broken man.

And very disillusioned. He probably really looked up to Trump and expected to bring him along to the White Hous. Or for Trump to back him up somehow when the investigation focused on Cohen and the searched his home and office. Instead, he's been called a rat, weak, etc.

[InformationGeek]

Well this is bad. It's the sixth anniversary.

Sandy Hook Elementary School was evacuated this morning while a threat is being investigated by our police dept. Please stand with our community as we attempt to survive another tragic anniversary. #EndGunViolence #SandyHookStrong https://t.co/qNsXADnoPr

[PaulBullion]

So... will Wisconsin's Scott Walker be remembered for going out like an autocrat by signing the GOP power grab into law...

... or for having no understanding of how Venn diagrams works?

[BeastieRunner]

So... will Wisconsin's Scott Walker be remembered for going out like an autocrat by signing the GOP power grab into law...

... or for having no understanding of how Venn diagrams works?

It's the new cover photo for WBE!

Also, Chris Christie said no to Trump for Chief of Staff.

Cited all the dick moves he's done to him.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[worstblogever]

If Trump is seriously considering his Son-in-Law for Chief of Staff, isn't that illegal? Or at least unethical.

Trump Considering Son-In-Law Jared Kushner For Next Chief Of Staff? Unlikely, thanks to an anti-nepotism law passed by Congress after JFK appointed his brother RFK as attorney- general. The Federal Anti-Nepotism Statute went into effect six years after John F. Kennedy made his brother Robert F. Kennedy the U.S. Attorney General in 1961, so it has been nicknamed the “Bobby Kennedy Law.”

http://time.com/4574971/donald-trump...-nepotism-law/

Federal Anti-Nepotism Statute

Pretty much this, although, since when does knowledge of the law, or any reason to follow it matter to Individual One?

[worstblogever]

Cohen looks like a broken man.

Well, getting thrown under the bus will do that.

I was watching a show where they were showing how much Cohen's story has changed through the years, and they showed him on Fox News praising Trump back in 2011. Then Cohen in 2015, and 2016, before today.

He looks like he's aged 20 years in the past 7. Most of that in the past two.

Ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos announces plans to run for Congress after getting out of prison

WBE is going to have a great time with this write up.

But y'know, both parties are just as bad, right? Where felons indicted for lying to the FBI about potential treason are what the GOP have to offer?

[worstblogever]

There's a list I spotted over at DailyKos of speculative House Republicans who might head for the exits before 2020, citing age, being term-limited by their party for Committee chair titles (5 of 6 chairs who faced this limitation retired in 2018), indictments (Hunter and Collins), or seeking Senate or Gubernatorial aspirations, as reasons they might be leaving those seats.

They see 19 Republicans potentially bailing, versus 12 Democrats (Two of which are Seth Moulton and Dan Lipinski, who they predict will get primary challenges).

Democratic turnout is always higher in general elections, compared to mid-terms, and the Democrats just got 9 million more votes than the GOP and they picked up 40 seats in the House in the mid-terms. What this could also do to the Senate, in a year where the GOP are playing defense across the Senate map...

They're already looking at the possibility of losing more seats to Democrats, even after the Blue Wave year we just saw in the House. Those 19 seats being at risk will not make their fortunes much better, if that list proves prescient.

[PaulBullion]

There's a list I spotted over at DailyKos of speculative House Republicans who might head for the exits before 2020, citing age, being term-limited by their party for Committee chair titles (5 of 6 chairs who faced this limitation retired in 2018), indictments (Hunter and Collins), or seeking Senate or Gubernatorial aspirations, as reasons they might be leaving those seats.

They see 19 Republicans potentially bailing, versus 12 Democrats (Two of which are Seth Moulton and Dan Lipinski, who they predict will get primary challenges).

Democratic turnout is always higher in general elections, compared to mid-terms, and the Democrats just got 9 million more votes than the GOP and they picked up 40 seats in the House in the mid-terms. What this could also do to the Senate, in a year where the GOP are playing defense across the Senate map...

They're already looking at the possibility of losing more seats to Democrats, even after the Blue Wave year we just saw in the House. Those 19 seats being at risk will not make their fortunes much better, if that list proves prescient.

Also, non-elected Arizona senator John Kill (using the completely unrealistic nom de crime of Jon Kyl) announced today he is resigning, so governor Doug Douchey will have to find somebody willing to take the job who has a better chance of keeping the seat red than Kill.