All Purpose News and Politics Thread Part IV: The Center Cannot Hold

[Tendrin]

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...as-congressmen

WASHINGTON -- One of the country’s largest operators of private immigration detention facilities has made significant contributions to several Texas members of Congress.
The GEO Group’s PAC and executives have given $32,900 to Houston Republican Rep. John Culberson’s campaign this election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org. GEO is Culberson's largest donor.

[jetengine]

The donor system literally ruins american politics

[BeastieRunner]

The donor system literally ruins american politics

Money and special interest groups.

Money and special interest groups.

Money and special interest groups.



Democracy is dead.

[superduperman]

Boris Johnson is a piece of ****.

Mps have just come back from Holiday, well now Boris wants parliament to be suspended for a few weeks to silence the opposition to a No deal brexit

What a fucking joke

This is how Palpatine came into power. Just saying.

[Tendrin]

Can't check if you've got this guy, WBE, but you probably should.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/wes...titution-ring/

West Virginia Republican state Sen. Mike Maroney was charged this week with soliciting a prostitute.

According to criminal complaint filed on Tuesday, Maroney’s cell phone was used to solicit a prostitute in May.

The complaint claims that someone with Maroney’s phone exchanged text messages with a prostitute who offered services for $120 an hour.

[Tami]

A running list of how President Trump is changing environmental policy

The Trump Administration’s tumultuous presidency has brought a flurry of changes—both realized and anticipated—to U.S. environmental policy. Many of the actions roll back Obama-era policies that aimed to curb climate change and limit environmental pollution, while others threaten to limit federal funding for science and the environment.

It’s a lot to keep track of, so National Geographic will be maintaining an abbreviated timeline of the Trump Administration’s environmental actions and policy changes, as well as reactions to them. We will update this article as news develops.

[BeastieRunner]

[WestPhillyPunisher]

A running list of how President Trump is changing environmental policy

In terms of those changes, I think they driven by a combination of Trump’s obsession with killing any legislation with Barack Obama’s name on it, and his greedily slurping big business, just like his clownish contemporary in Brazil who’s inadvertently helping destroy the Amazon Rainforest.

[Michael Watkins]

Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer, strangest buddy cop duo ever?

[Mister Mets]

A source from inside Deutsche Bank told Lawrence O'Donnell,

Trump's bank loans from Deutsche Bank

May have been co-signed by

Russian Oligarchs


.... Would solve two puzzles, why Deutsche Bank is giving Trump loans when no other bank would,

and what Trump's relation to Putin is.

Unproven, unverified, but it makes sense.


Deutsche Bank has Trump’s taxes — and loan applications cosigned by Russian oligarchs: report

O'Donnell is walking it back.

https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/...272353792?s=19

[Gray Lensman]

O'Donnell is walking it back.

https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/...272353792?s=19

When I first heard this it was mentioned that he only had one source and probably shouldn't have gone public with it.

[Tami]

When I first heard this it was mentioned that he only had one source and probably shouldn't have gone public with it.

I still say that it makes sense. I only wonder if he is walking it back because it has been proven wrong, or if he is walking it back because it is unproven but not necessarily wrong.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

O'Donnell is walking it back.

https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/...272353792?s=19

This isn’t the first time MSNBC failed to deliver the goods on Trump finance related information

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. Sayonara Gillibrand. Your campaign was more embarrassing than I thought it would be

[InformationGeek]

While you're all focused on that, Donald Trump unleashed a new awful thing.

Children born to U.S. service members and government employees overseas will no longer be automatically considered citizens of the United States, according to policy alert issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.