All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[Moon Ronin]

Pay attention I literally stated that snopes said it WASN'T SELMA!!!!

He was in DC. Now please watch the video of the man himself, why is that so hard for you?

From the Snopes article

The above-displayed image was taken on 26 March 1965

That was the day of King's Selma to Montgomery march so that is not Bernie Sanders in the image because he was not at that event (the actual say that it may be Paul Reese in the picture who actually was at the Selma march). No one is disputing that Sanders wa at King's March on Washington in 1963 just that is not a picture of it though. The Snopes article also says that Sanders' activism in the civil rights movement was "brief and localized".

[Superbat]

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/31/211137...lity-primaries

[PaulBullion]

New York writer who accused Trump of raping her wants a sample of his DNA

E. Jean Carroll, a New York-based writer who last summer accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s, requested Thursday that he submit a DNA sample to determine whether his genetic material is on the black coat dress she said she was wearing during the alleged assault.

Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney on Thursday, asking that Trump provide a sample for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress,” the Associated Press first reported. Carroll’s lawyers requested that Trump provide the DNA sample on March 2 in Washington.

She said she told two close friends about the incident at the time, and she kept the coat dress she wore during the alleged assault in her closet.

[SquirrelMan]

The DOW is now DOWN 613 points.


See what I did there?

[JCAll]

Can't say I'm surprised. In the end, Republicans decided that being accused of participating in a cover-up is easier to deal with than a pissed off Trump and his rabid base. With the help of a compliant and compromised Senate, Trump survived the Mueller Report and now, the Impeachment Trial, all that remains is the general election in November, and you can bet the mortgage Republicans have been working their asses off to rig the vote to get the Orange Menace reelected.

Yeah, I learned a long time ago to stop expecting any level of decency from the GOP.

[JCAll]

What scares me now is that the president, feeling emboldened and delusional, might try to cancel the election as he sees that as the only way to stay in office

He won't, he wants a win he can brag about. And now that the president fixing elections isn't a punishable offense, he can get that any way he want.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

The sad thing is Trump might be the luckiest person in alive. He's pissing all over the consitution and blatanly stacking his own impeachment trial the same week Kobe Bryant died leading into a Super Bowl. Most of the country isn't going to be paying attention to this. Then the Republicans will vote to acquit and he'll run on that

[SquirrelMan]

The sad thing is Trump might be the luckiest person in alive. He's pissing all over the consitution and blatanly stacking his own impeachment trial the same week Kobe Bryant died leading into a Super Bowl. Most of the country isn't going to be paying attention to this. Then the Republicans will vote to acquit and he'll run on that

Can one extract DNA from urine?

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Can one extract DNA from urine?

Yeah but you might have better luck getting it from a hotel room in Russia

[shooshoomanjoe]

The sad thing is Trump might be the luckiest person in alive. He's pissing all over the consitution and blatanly stacking his own impeachment trial the same week Kobe Bryant died leading into a Super Bowl. Most of the country isn't going to be paying attention to this. Then the Republicans will vote to acquit and he'll run on that

None of that would have made a difference. The senate had already stated they were going to side with trump even before he was impeached.

[PaulBullion]

Interesting that only Biden and ... Bloomberg!? beat Trump in this new poll from IBD/TIPP. It also shows Biden back to a comfy primary lead nationally.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

None of that would have made a difference. The senate had already stated they were going to side with trump even before he was impeached.

It matters if you do something fucked up and nobody watched. If it was a slow mess week this is all anybody would talk about. Now it happens in a bunch of noise and they can scream acquittal after

[Gray Lensman]

Interesting that only Biden and ... Bloomberg!? beat Trump in this new poll from IBD/TIPP. It also shows Biden back to a comfy primary lead nationally.

Interesting, but any polling that doesn't break things down state by state is kinda bunk due to the effects of the electoral college. Clinton won by a national average, but lost the part that matters.

[Billy Batson]

DNC chair Tom Perez on his reasoning for not holding a climate debate because it violated agreed-to rules about the (left) vs. the DNC changing agreed-to debate rules to accommodate a billionaire (right)

https://twitter.com/KateAronoff/stat...50128083439621

[maninthemacintosh1606]

The sad thing is Trump might be the luckiest person in alive. He's pissing all over the consitution and blatanly stacking his own impeachment trial the same week Kobe Bryant died leading into a Super Bowl. Most of the country isn't going to be paying attention to this. Then the Republicans will vote to acquit and he'll run on that

Well, he is a fan of golden showers. In typical fashion, he is paying other people to piss on the thing he wants pissed on.