Am I the only one who goes to bed every night convinced that my mild throat scratch is the beginnings of coronavirus only to wake up with a wave of huge relief that it's gone?
Sorry, but this tragedy isn’t “unimaginable.” We saw ten people killed at a grocery store last week! We saw an elementary school shot up with 20 kids dead less than ten years ago. It’s very much imaginable now.
Bernie announces his next move: An amendment to take tax deductions away from large corporations that don't pay above $15-an-hour wages. Wants it IN the reconciliation bill
Trumps campaign appears to believe he has won the election by putting on a mask, which raises the question of why they resisted this tactically brilliant political move until after 133k deaths
As Pence’s team mocks Harris for wanting a plexiglass barrier on the debate stage, worth noting that the CDC’s own guidelines call for work spaces to “install physical barriers, such as clear plastic sneeze guards” if applicable. Pence runs the COVID task force.
Just to be clear, Trump is currently, this morning, calling on foreign leaders to investigate Biden in the midst of an impeachment proceeding about whether he has encouraged foreign leaders to investigate Biden
i sincerely don’t care that Trump plays golf. god speed. but the sheer amount he plays does spotlight how insincere Obama’s critics were about his golfing habits. here’s a little sampling of people who’ve gone suddenly quiet on the topic
So the crowd that asked the Russians and Wikileaks to help obtain Clinton’s emails is now upset with Mueller for obtaining emails through the General Services Administration?
Among the answers Trump could have given to the Jean Carroll accusations are, “are you kidding? I would never do that.” Or “rape is abhorrent. I’m disgusted someone could think I’d do such a thing. Let alone accuse me of it."
Instead he went with, “she’s not my type"
Maybe I'm not following this but why would teens on tiktok prank ordering a bunch of unlimited tickets to a rally mean the rally was not full and that no one was at the overflow? I get that it set up expectations to absurd levels. But it doesn't account for the sparse crowd.
Romney not just voting to convict, he’s ripping Trump anew:
“An appalling abuse of public trust”
“A flagrant assault” on our elections
“Perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of ones oath of office that I can imagine."
Art of the Deal: hold out 35 days to end up where you could have been on Day 1. Only you’ve pissed off the opposition and let down your allies and killed your poll numbers
One other data point: Loeffler had not made a single stock transaction during the three weeks she served in office prior to this one. This was her first. The day she got the coronavirus briefing.
So the sequence here appears to be.
1. DNI gets intel that Russia is interfering again in the election
2. Acting DNI briefs lawmakers about the threat.
3. Trump finds out
4. Trump berates acting DNI
5. Trump replaces acting DNI with political stooge/ally
Klobuchar has good news on her husband: "He has coronavirus and has been in the hospital for pneumonia and low oxygen. He took a good turn, was just released and is now recovering at home."
With respect to John Legend, I think the bigger story from last night was the administration denying Bahamians without a visa the ability to enter the US despite their island having been decimated
Can’t unsee that video of the Buffalo PD. Completely unconscionable. Literally disgusted by it. And enraged that they said he “tripped and fell.” Shameful stuff.
I can’t get over the fact that the president just cancelled a trip to a country because that country refused to sell him fucking Greenland. I mean, I’m cracking up just typing this. But it’s real!
Imagine President Hillary Clinton hosting a NYE’s event at the Clinton Foundation HQs and charging people to attend. It would cause a country-wide fever panic… and for good reason. This isn’t even for a charity. It’s for his own club.
Trump is planning to attend the NYE party at Mar-a-Lago, where they increased ticket prices to $600 for dues-paying members & $750 for guests. Last year’s tickets went for $525 for members & $575 for guests.
i still can't get over the fact that top Trump officials were told that their no tolerance immigration policy would cause severe psychological damage to young children and they went forward anyway
If I'm following this correctly, Rudy has spent months arguing that Hunter Biden was paid an absurd amount of money based on political connections and not actual professional skill, all while being paid half a million dollars for his political connections
Tough to decide what the worst part of Trumps CDC visit was
- Saying he wanted to keep sick people on a ship to fudge the numbers
- lashing out at the gov of the worst hit state
- being preoccupied w/ the ratings he got on Fox
- or saying anyone can get tested when they can't
Truly remarkable that these companies knew to make big payments into a totally unknown LLC operated by Trump aide who had no position inside the WH and no formal role on the campaign.
I’m sorry. But if you willfully work for a guy who was caught on camera bragging about grabbing women by their genitals and forcefully kissing them because you’re famous you really don’t have any room to speak on this issue.
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@KellyannePolls
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@JoeBiden
: If anybody just types in “Creepy Uncle Joe Videos” you come up with a treasure trove…I think Joe Biden has a big problem here because he calls it affection and handshakes, his party calls it completely inappropriate.
Marco Rubio was incredibly outspoken about his fears of election corruption in Florida, taking to Twitter to warn of votes literally being made up/fabricated.
I asked his office if he had a comment on the situation in North Carolina.
20 hours later, still no response.
Sen. Whitehouse calls for the Senate Ethics Committee to consider "the expulsion, or censure and punishment, of Senators Cruz, Hawley, *and perhaps others.*"
As you watch MAGA protestors storm the capitol largely unimpeded, recall that BLM protestors were peacefully outside the White House and Trump had them dispersed with, what turned out to be, tear gas.
You would think the opposition party would have a field day with a president cancelling a trip to commemorate WWII so he could monitor a hurricane only to then be spotted playing golf two days in a row at his personal club. But I can’t even recall seeing one Dem take a whack
Trump spent years insinuating then insisting, then even trying to prove that the biographical foundation of Obama’s political career was a hoax. In the end, it was Trump’s own biography that was painfully phony.
So Mulvaney has admitted:
1. Trump encouraged that Doral host G7
2. They did have, in fact, a quid pro quo with Ukraine for investigations into the DNC server
3. That politics is influencing their foreign policy.
It never gets mentioned but one thing that Trump White House did early on that has had major ripple effects was to get rid of the visitor logs. We would know right away how many times Rudy was in the building or, for that matter, if Parnas and Fruman ever stopped by.
NEW — The son of one of Trump’s pardon recipients gave $85k to Trump victory this August. His wife gave $50k that same month. On top of that, they made an in-kind contribution for $75k in air travel.
Some personal news. I am a father again. Harry Leinwand Stein was born four weeks ago. I've held off on saying anything because he's been in the NICU since his birth. He came pretty early.
Guys, as we digest Trump telling Fox & Friends that he only knew about the payments "later on,” please try and recall a few weeks back when MICHAEL COHEN PRODUCED AUDIO TAPE OF HIM AND TRUMP DISCUSSING THE PAYMENTS AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE MADE.
#crazypills
When you've burned all your credibility on big, medium and petty matters you lose the benefit of the doubt on important stuff. And, right now, no one realistically can take at face value the WH word on the president's hospital visit yesterday.
It's days when the president just decides to unload on black lawmakers and majority-minority US cities that I often ask myself: How's the Be Best campaign going?
I get that Beto got a lot of glossy coverage. But you’d have to be insane not to recognize how innovative and remarkable his campaign was. He put together the most groundbreaking fundraising apparatus in Senate history
Got the bill for my kids four week stay in the NICU. Let's just say: I'm extremely grateful for the health insurance our family has and far more fearful and frightened for those who don't have these benefits
it’s a small thing. but it matters, to me at least. The first time (right?) that the vice president’s office is celebrating Hanukkah as a matter of religion and not just ceremony
So Collins and Alexander confirm that CHIP, a program that gives health care to 9m kids and whose money expired in Sept, won’t be renewed this year. Maybe next year.
9 million klids.
Cuomo: "Did you ask the Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden?"
Rudy: "no, no i didn't"
LITERALLY 30 SECOND LATER
Cuomo: "So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?"
Rudy: "Of course I did!"
Today I am making good on my promise to defend our Farmers & Ranchers from unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. I have authorized Secretary Perdue to implement the 2nd round of Market Facilitation Payments. Our economy is stronger than ever–we stand with our Farmers!
Apologies for not knowing this, but are other countries seeing similar cases of gleeful defiance of stay at home/public safety orders, with people showing up at stores videotaping their refusal to enter with masks on? Or is this a predominantly US thing?
Amazing contrast in gender norms and expectations. Ford (who says she was sexually assaulted) is almost apologetic in her testimony. Kavanaugh, the alleged perpetrator, is yelling and angry.
I’m not surprised that Trump has managed to make himself the victim (of Biden, the press, Sherrod Brown, the Dayton mayor) during the day when he’s visiting literal gun shot victims. If you’re surprised, you really haven’t been paying attention.
Everyone focused on Trump melting down right now, and deservedly so. But the real story seems, to me at least, to be the continued absence of public concern from elected Republican leaders over what seems increasingly likely to be coming.
So today Blue Apron announced that it was going to be shuttering its facilities on Election Day to make it a defecto holiday for its workers. Which got me thinking: is there an activist push being made on other companies to do the same.
Twice now i've asked the First Lady's office whether she feels differently about the issue of chain migration than her husband given the story of her parents.
24 hours later. No response.
This is a bombshell that isn’t getting much notice. But the top diplomat in Ukraine was texting in real time that we were withholding security funds to help with Trump's political campaign
So, if Nadler’s tweet is true, Bill Barr will have summarized the Mueller report, redacted it, briefed the White House on it, and then given a press conference on it all before allowing Congress to see it.
It seems fair to note that Trump has offered some concessions here. But only fair if you also note that his administration ended DACA protections and slashed TPS protections in the first place. So his concession is, in part, just to undo the damage he inflicted.
So very odd that Kavanaugh apparently committed himself to upholding Roe (per Susan Collins) and yet, all these states are rushing through these aggressive anti-abortion laws in belief in that’s he’s with them.
Trump, who discussed pulling the US from NATO takes credit for NATO’s existence in a new statement. Trump, who threatened to withhold weapons funding from Ukraine to get dirt on Biden, takes credit for Ukrainian weapons in same statement.
When GOP congressmen are asked tomorrow about reports that the president directed his lawyer to lie TO THEM, will they go with
1. "I haven’t see those reports you’re talking about."
Or
2. “Look, this is an unconventional president…."