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    So his anger was even staged.

    From @WhiteHouse pooler @Tierney_Megan:

    "In the rose garden now. There’s a podium with a sign that says “no collusion, no obstruction” plus some stats about the Mueller probe."

    Mind you @SpeakerPelosi and @SenSchumer were supposed to be meeting with POTUS at 11:15 a.m.
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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    "18 Angry Democrats".

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    ...

    Ahem.
    OH WBE-EEEEEEeee..


    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/m...ife-allegation
    The Mississipi Republican Party is calling for state Rep. Doug McLeod (R) to step down if the allegation that he punched his wife in the face is true.


    Police responded to a call from McLeod’s residence on Saturday night, where they found the lawmaker drunk and his wife’s nose bloodied.

    According to the police report, McLeod punched his wife in a drunken rage because she wouldn’t get undressed quickly enough to have sex with him.
    After McLeod allegedly hit his wife, she ran to another woman’s room to hide from her husband. McLeod allegedly banged on the door and threatened the other woman that he’d “kill her [expletive] dog” if she didn’t let him in.
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    Oooooooooh.

    UPDATE: Deutsche Bank says it will abide by court order compelling it to provide Trump's financial records to lawmakers

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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    Tomorrow: War with Iran!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    You know, what really frustrates me in all this is when I see ostensible leftists praising Amash for his 'principled' stand. This is a guy who votes against clean water for Flint and all the other things WBE has catalogued over the years. Don't lend him credibility he doesn't deserve for doing the bare minimum. Let him sink or swim on his own. Credibility, once lent, can not easily be revoked and we don't need to build this guy up. He's horrible and awful to the highest degree and a truly terrible example of a human being. I will welcome any and all opposition to the criminal in chief but I'm not going to help Amash or Kristol or any NeverTrumper conservative rehabilitate their image in an attempt to wash,say, the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis off their hands.
    To be fair to Amash, if this is the bare minimum, he was moving faster than Democratic leadership (at least openly). Hell, he might have forced Pelosi's hand, or given her the opportunity to move forward.


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    Since the potential nose dive here is something that has come up on a few occasions...

    http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/...yet-again.html






    While there may very well be time that it does wind up happening, it does not appear that said time is now.
    There is a curiously high range at the approval ratings.

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...179.html#polls

    Quinnipiac has him at 38 percent approval. Rasmussen and Fox have him at 46; the Economist/YouGov and The Hill/ Harris at 44.

    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    Should someone who's probably been described on at least a few occasions as being Black on the outside, white on the inside, really be using Oreo cookies as a prop?
    Why not? It would diminish his opponents if anyone goes and calls him an Oreo, even moreso if anyone reputable tries to defend it.


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    In depressing news.

    Study finds climate change now more politically polarizing than abortion in US

    We went pages going over why the abortion arguments never going to be resolved because it's more philosophical than objective, yet here we're divided something that should be objective.
    The disagreements with climate change aren't just about whether there's a problem, but what the solution to it is. Much of what Democrats propose is ineffective (since India and China are becoming larger producers of greenhouse gasses) and costly. The response to alternatives (fracking, nuclear power) also suggests it's not something they really take seriously, and more of a method to get to what they really want (this wouldn't mean everyone on the left is acting in bad faith, but it's convenient that the solution is what they would otherwise want with stuff like the Green New Deal.)
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    In not even remotely shocking news...

    https://www.apnews.com/a6e717dc8d224706a766b759ffded030

    Michael Avenatti charged with defrauding Stormy Daniels

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    There's an new book out about Reagan's infamous welfare queen.

    Ronald Reagan, the former star of “Bedtime for Bonzo,” was having trouble gaining traction in the presidential race he hoped to upend. It was 1976, and as the new candidate shook hands in diners, gymnasiums and town fairs, he hit upon a crowd-pleaser, a riff that caught the crowd’s attention by playing to its fears — call it a 1970s version of “Build That Wall.”

    “In Chicago, they found a woman who holds the record,” Reagan said in his folksy baritone during a luncheon in Asheville, N.C. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. … Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.”

    On audio recordings from the time, you can hear the audience gasp.

    Reagan didn’t use the phrase “welfare queen” — he left that to the headline writers. His euphemism was “the woman in Chicago,” but the message was clear.

    “The audience knew what this welfare-swiping villain looked like,” Josh Levin writes in his new book, “The Queen.” “She was a lazy, black con artist, unashamed about cadging the money that honest folks worked so hard to earn.”

    A new political trope was born, and the specter of the “welfare queen” has been with us ever since, a cudgel hauled out by right-wing candidates and cable news hosts to demonize the poor and justify limiting public benefits.

    But there’s a wrinkle to the story: Reagan’s “woman in Chicago” was a real person, a mother named Linda Taylor, who had indeed been in the headlines for welfare-related “irregularities,” let’s call them. Taylor’s story has long been forgotten, if it was ever widely known, and many have long assumed that the “welfare queen” was an urban myth. With “The Queen,” Levin, the national editor at Slate, attempts to excavate the gritty, smudgy truth beneath the political rhetoric.

    I settled in, expecting to read a story that punctured Reagan’s indelible stereotype. Surely, the “woman in Chicago” would turn out to be an honorable, hard worker who had been unfairly maligned and chewed up in the maw of presidential politics.

    Nope. Levin’s book is much stranger than that because here’s the thing: Linda Taylor actually was a scam artist who cheated the system quite prolifically and without the slightest compunction. She turns out to have been a scammer of historic proportions, a woman so protean that she had gone by at least eight different names by the time she was 22. She was, apparently, a kidnapper. Levin even suggests that she committed murder.

    This presents an interesting conundrum. Reagan’s stereotype was sweeping and offensive, but the woman at the center of it did drive a Cadillac and wear fur coats and take advantage of state programs intended to help the poor. What’s a writer to do? Levin makes no excuses for Taylor and instead rushes in, magnifying glass in hand, to the tornado that was her life.
    In the New York Times upshot, Emily Badger considers the electoral consequences of the rural-urban divide. This gives a natural benefit to Republicans even before anyone's in a position to gerrymander.

    Democrats have blamed the Senate, the Electoral College and gerrymandering for their disadvantage. But the problem runs deeper, according to Jonathan Rodden, a Stanford political scientist: The American form of government is uniquely structured to exacerbate the urban-rural divide — and to translate it into enduring bias against the Democratic voters, clustered at the left of the accompanying chart.

    Yes, the Senate gives rural areas (and small states) disproportionate strength. “That’s an obvious problem for Democrats,” Mr. Rodden said. “This other problem is a lot less obvious.”

    In a new book, “Why Cities Lose,” he describes the problem as endemic, affecting Congress but also state legislatures; red states but blue ones, too. As the Democratic Party is tugged between its progressive and moderate wings heading into the next election, Mr. Rodden’s analysis also suggests that if Democrats move too far to the left, geography will punish them.

    In the United States, where a party’s voters live matters immensely. That’s because most representatives are elected from single-member districts where the candidate with the most votes wins, as opposed to a system of proportional representation, as some democracies have.

    Democrats tend to be concentrated in cities and Republicans to be more spread out across suburbs and rural areas. The distribution of all of the precincts in the 2016 election shows that while many tilt heavily Democratic, fewer lean as far in the other direction.

    As a result, Democrats have overwhelming power to elect representatives in a relatively small number of districts — whether for state house seats, the State Senate or Congress — while Republicans have at least enough power to elect representatives in a larger number of districts.

    Republicans, in short, are more efficiently distributed in a system that rewards spreading voters across space.
    “You have this great strategy available to you as a Republican: Just talk about A.O.C. all the time,” Mr. Rodden said, referring to the progressive representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Talk about Nancy Pelosi. They say, ‘This is what it means to have a ‘D’ next to your name, you’re signing up for that team.’ That makes it so hard to be a suburban Salt Lake City, suburban Oklahoma City Democrat.”

    The median congressional district in America looks ideologically more Republican, Mr. Rodden finds (the median precinct in the chart also voted slightly Republican). And so Democrats have to find a way to win in those places, even as the progressive wing of the party is ascendant and lobbying for control of the party’s message.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mogwen View Post
    Tomorrow: War with Iran!
    Wag the dog, yo! I could see that happening. Hell, since Trump rattled sabers with Teheran last week, he might even have known the bank reveal was coming, or that he’d lose that appeal, so he started cranking up his distraction early.
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    That we know of. It keeps getting worse.

    BREAKING: CBS News has learned that a sixth migrant child died after crossing the U.S. border, an HHS official confirmed Wednesday.

    The 10-year-old girl's death had not been previously reported

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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    A few decades from now, someone is going to find a hole in the desert filled with bodies, and absolutely nobody is going to be surprised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    And, as usual, not so much as a peep out of Republicans in Congress, never mind anything even remotely resembling outrage at this needless and terrible loss of life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    And, as usual, not so much as a peep out of Republicans in Congress, never mind anything even remotely resembling outrage at this needless and terrible loss of life.
    At this point we don't know which deaths were the result of the mistakes of the federal government, or what the best alternative would be.

    The following is from a Vox article...

    But it’s becoming increasingly clear that the government is in the midst of a broader public health crisis regarding migrants, especially children, in its care. The processing center in the Rio Grande Valley where Hernandez Vazquez had been held is in the midst of an apparent flu outbreak; on Tuesday night, the government announced it would stop sending migrants there, essentially quarantining it. In recent weeks, pictures of children being held outside — having to sleep on the ground — have raised alarms, as temperatures climb into summer.

    The health crisis isn’t just the children who are dying, but those who are being taken to hospitals and treated successfully, and those who are in custody without needing medical care.

    Children are dying in CBP custody because more children are in CBP custody, for longer, than ever before. No one believes that’s a good or safe place for them to be. But no one can agree on what the alternative is.
    The deaths are unprecedented — but so are the number of children coming
    For the past several months, tens of thousands of children a month — most of them traveling with a parent — have been coming to the US from Mexico, getting apprehended, and spending time in Border Patrol custody.

    The number of children and families coming to the US without papers (most of them Central Americans from the “Northern Triangle” of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) is to all appearances higher than it was even in the early 2000s, when unauthorized immigration overall was much higher.

    It’s also possible, though it’s difficult to measure for sure, that the people coming now are more likely to have medical issues than those coming in the past. The rise of quick bus smuggling routes through Mexico allows people to be brought to the US more quickly and comfortably than before — potentially making it possible for someone to leave who might have been too sick to risk a dangerous journey on foot.

    The US immigration enforcement system isn’t built to care for these people; it isn’t built to deal with anyone who can’t be quickly deported. One consequence of the system being overwhelmed is that migrants may not be quickly picked up by ICE for transfer to a detention center or to an ORR unaccompanied-child shelter; instead, they remain in Border Patrol custody, perhaps for longer than the 72 hours the government is supposed to use as a guideline.

    Those resources are crunched even further by caring for the medical needs of migrants. It takes people, vehicles, and time to take people to the hospital. From December through February, agents spent a combined 57,000 hours at hospitals; at one point, a Border Patrol official said that half of all agents were on duty at hospitals with migrants seeking care. That results in fewer people checking on the migrants staying behind, and less ability to quickly respond if someone else is showing signs of illness as well.

    This doesn’t mean agents acted blamelessly or that none of the children could have been saved. It’s entirely possible that in some cases — for example, the ones where migrants spent little time in CBP facilities and were sent to the hospital shortly after their arrival in the US — agents acted appropriately, while in others, more could have been done.

    Ongoing congressional and Office of the Inspector General investigations into the December deaths aim to answer these questions. But investigations into individual deaths may not be asking the right question: whether more children will die, and what — if anything — can be done to prevent it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kusanagi View Post
    In depressing news.

    Study finds climate change now more politically polarizing than abortion in US

    We went pages going over why the abortion arguments never going to be resolved because it's more philosophical than objective, yet here we're divided something that should be objective.
    The irony of this is that it would be in the Republican's benefit to jump on it. Seriously, with renewable energy sources you can produce locally and so you don't have to import nearly as much oil. Modifying cities and towns as well as upgrading gas stations and creating new locations would introduce much needed jobs. You introduce a tax incentive to the auto industry to introduce electric power into cars to eventually phase out oil so long as production is kept in the US. Therefore you can introduce jobs to the country and keep them there. As well as you can shut up the climate crowd and be hailed as heroes in the process. Phasing out oil wouldn't happen over night so you're looking at a decade or more of praise and job growth for that decision possibly keeping politicians in office.

    It's baffling they don't at least consider the monetary benefit of this because that oil money is only as good as the source of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperiorIronman View Post
    The irony of this is that it would be in the Republican's benefit to jump on it. Seriously, with renewable energy sources you can produce locally and so you don't have to import nearly as much oil. Modifying cities and towns as well as upgrading gas stations and creating new locations would introduce much needed jobs. You introduce a tax incentive to the auto industry to introduce electric power into cars to eventually phase out oil so long as production is kept in the US. Therefore you can introduce jobs to the country and keep them there. As well as you can shut up the climate crowd and be hailed as heroes in the process. Phasing out oil wouldn't happen over night so you're looking at a decade or more of praise and job growth for that decision possibly keeping politicians in office.

    It's baffling they don't at least consider the monetary benefit of this because that oil money is only as good as the source of it.
    This has all been known for decades, the fossil fuel companies just have been doing whatever they can to stifle the development of renewable energy because they don't want the competition. The Republicans have hitched their wagon to oil and coal, even if they do flip flop on it now we should keep hammering them on this in perpetuity, **** them.

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