Republicans

[pErvinalia]

I have no idea what he was trying to say. Looked like the usual partisan nonsense, so I didn't need to look any further.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Paul Gosar may be giving even Louie Gohmert a run for his money. OK, maybe not. Gohmert has his own patented brand of numb-skulled far-right blithering whackiness. This wingnut is just a run-of-the-mill acolyte of Alex Jones, but still, he's a Representative in the US Congress.

'Congressman suggests Charlottesville was George Soros–backed conspiracy'

Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar suggested the participants in the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August may have been organized by an “Obama sympathizer” and funded by George Soros, whom Gosar accused of having “turned in his own people to the Nazis.”

Gosar made these comments — and there is no evidence backing these theories — to VICE News in an interview about one of his constituents who is suing him in federal court for blocking her on his official Facebook page. The constituent, J’aime Morgaine, argues that Gosar is violating her First Amendment right to engage in debate in a virtual public forum.

...

Gosar mentioned antifa repeatedly, and when VICE News noted that antifa is in the news because of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Gosar responded with the suggestion that the rally was a false flag operation.

Charlottesville conspiracy theories about George Soros have been promoted by Alex Jones. They’re false. Soros is a billionaire investor who funds various liberal causes and is a major Democratic donor. He was born in Hungary in 1930, so he was 14 in 1944. Soros is Jewish, and his father had him pretend to be Christian to escape being killed in the Holocaust. Conspiracy theorists have manipulated this fact to falsely claim that Soros turned in thousands of fellow Jews to the Nazis.

[Scot Dutchy]

True; the commonly cited number is 60% of gun deaths in the US are suicides. So of that 1,530,000 approximately 918,000 were suicides.

It is the easiest way of taking your life.

[Scot Dutchy]

These two should be locked up. Well the whole family should be locked up.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump must leave White House after private email scandal exposes hypocrisy

President's daughter and son-in-law seemingly at fault for same security violation that father Donald repeatedly attacked rival presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for on campaign trail

Now USA Today reports:

“President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump re-routed their personal email accounts to computers run by the Trump Organization as public scrutiny intensified over their use of private emails to conduct White House business, internet registration records show.

“The move, made just days after Kushner's use of a personal email account first became public, came shortly after special counsel Robert Mueller asked the White House to turn over records related to his investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with Trump associates. It also more closely intertwines President Trump's administration with his constellation of private businesses.”

[Svartalf]

Frump used to be in cahoots in the clinton, he manages his mails like she does...

[mistermack]

I don't think either of them was Secretary of State at the time.

Did they have jobs requiring them to use special email services ?

[L'Emmerdeur]

Vice President Pence flew east to Indiana from Las Vegas so that he could walk out of a game to highlight his awesome patriotism. Then promptly got back on the plane to fly back west for a political fundraising event. Both flights at public expense, of course.

'BUSTED: Pence made press wait in van so he could leave game early for taxpayer-funded stunt, NBC reports'

Vice President Mike Pence left the Indianapolis Colts NFL game early on Sunday after players kneeled during the national anthem as a protest against systemic racism — but many people suspect the White House of orchestrating the stunt at the expense of taxpayers.

In a tweet on Sunday, NBC’s Peter Alexander reported that Pence’s press pool was ordered to wait outside the game because the vice president had planned to leave early.

Speaking on MSNBC, Alexander explained why many people were dubious about Pence’s departure from the game, beginning with the fact that Trump admitted that it was his idea in a tweet praising Pence.

“The vice president was just in Las Vegas speaking about the desire for unity in this country,” Alexander noted. “Then he flew last night in Indianapolis with the sole purpose of going to this football game… where his team would be playing the San Francisco 49ers, the team where Colin Kaepernick obviously began this entire situation by taking a knee last season during the national anthem.”

“So, Pence went to the game, as soon as he saw someone take a knee, he left,” he continued. “And as we understand right now, he’s already on a plane in route to Los Angeles for a political fundraiser.”

Alexander also pointed out that Pence may have offended many Americans by using taxpayer money for a “political stunt.”

[Forty Two]

This taking a knee thing should have been brushed off as meaningless. Trump and Pence should have said that it's a matter between the NFL, its players, sponsor and fans, and that they're busy doing real work. Pence should not have done that publicity stunt. it's stupid. They should stop wasting time and money.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Trump's base loves this kind of grandstanding, though. Since they're the only ones he can depend on to support him, I think he's intent on continuing to throw them red meat they'll consume with gusto.

[Svartalf]

it's not red meat, it's chum

[Animavore]

They should be called "Republicants" because they can't seem to get shit done.

Amiright?

[Tero]

Republicans have no problem going forward, as they are always the same. Well, the party is a bit more split but you still know what they do. Nothing. Up the military budget beyond what Pentagon asked etc. They merely need to get past Trump. 4 years and he it out.

Democrats have a bigger problem. Where is this new populism thing going? It never lasts long but 2, 4 and 6 years is a lot of options. They really should have run Bernie. Bernie does not look like "back to normal" but it did look like a "revolution."

[Svartalf]

They should be called "Republicants" because they can't seem to get shit done.

Amiright?

actually it should be repugnican'ts, since they can't do a thing are are quite pugnacious all the time failing to achieve it.

[Forty Two]

Republicans have no problem going forward, as they are always the same. Well, the party is a bit more split but you still know what they do. Nothing. Up the military budget beyond what Pentagon asked etc. They merely need to get past Trump. 4 years and he it out.

Democrats have a bigger problem. Where is this new populism thing going? It never lasts long but 2, 4 and 6 years is a lot of options. They really should have run Bernie. Bernie does not look like "back to normal" but it did look like a "revolution."

Bernie Sanders --

University of Chicago Young Socialist League - youth wing of the Socialist Party, USA.
Organizer for United Packinghouse Workers Union, a communist front organization.
Organizer for American People's History Society, a Marxist propaganda group.
Founding member of the "Liberty Union Party" whose platform included the nationalization of all US banks and all US public utilities.
As mayor of Burlington Vermont, he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts.
Traveled in 1985 to Nicaragua to celebrate the rise of the Sandinista communist government.
He honeymooed outside Moscow in the USSR with his second wife, and he put up a Soviet flag in his office.
He has a picture of Eugene Debs prominently displayed in his US Senate office -- Eugene Debs, hailed by Bolsheviks as "America's greatest Marxist" and the guy who lauded the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1918 as "laying the groundwork for the first real democracy that ever drew breath on this Earth..."
He wants to socialize medicine, nationalize banking, nationalize utilities, nationalize education, and tax up to 90% of income.





He admits he is a socialist, but despite his own words, and the policies he supports, he's not a socialist. He's just sort of western European nordic-style social democrat.

[JimC]

As President (and I think he would have beaten Trump), he would have been constrained from initiating most of of the truly socialist policies he may once have aspired to...

After all, Trump has been constrained from initiating most of his policies...