Cont: The Trump Presidency IX: Nein, Nein!

[dudalb]

Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) and wife indicted on charges they used campaign money for personal expenses

Perfect timing for Hunter - nobody will notice or give a ****.

Not a good day for the GOP. *snort* Where's logger when you really need him?

t's almost fun to have some good old fashioned .uncomplicated Tammany Hall/Chicago Machine type corruption like that.

 

[dudalb]

Lanny Davis (paraphrase): if it’s a crime for Cohen [and Cohen says Trump directed him to do it] then why isn’t it a crime for Trump?

TICK. TOCK.

It is. First week of freshman Criminal Law in Law School stuff. THe person giving orders for a crime is just as guilty as the person who actually commits the crime. Applies to any criminal boss, From a Mafia Don, to a Terrorist Leader to a POTUS....
That is why Charles Manson died in prison. He never actually, personally commited a murder, Just gave the orders.

 

[Stacko]

Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) and wife indicted on charges they used campaign money for personal expenses

Perfect timing for Hunter - nobody will notice or give a ****.

Not a good day for the GOP. *snort* Where's logger when you really need him?

Now the first (Chris Collins) and second (Hunter) congressmen to endorse Daft Taft are under investigation.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

And reports that Omorosa will relase one of her tapes tonight. The bad news just ain't stopping today for Donnie.

She's on Hardball right now.

 

[CapelDodger]

I'm not sure this Nunberg guy is helping.

“So what do they have?” he asked of the prosecutors. “That Cohen paid off a woman and Trump told him to? My argument would be Trump has done this before, this wasn’t his first rodeo doing this.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-former-lawyer-to-appear-in-court-in-new-york

 

[CapelDodger]

Now the first (Chris Collins) and second (Hunter) congressmen to endorse Daft Taft are under investigation.

How very tidy. Any idea who was third?

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Fox News is pushing the "illegal immigrant murdered innocent woman" story hard.

 

[alfaniner]

Can't wait for the Twitter meltdown.

I'm more afraid of whatever SmartBomb he's going to pull out. This one's got to call for drastic distraction methods.

 

[C_Felix]

Rally is starting.

Yahoo news has a live stream.

 

[newyorkguy]

In Charleston, West Virginia, arriving for a rally on Tuesday evening [tonight], Trump told reporters the Manafort verdict was a “disgrace” but ignored shouted questions about Cohen.

And....

"Tonight you're going to see one of those media moments where several networks cover the news, and Fox dedicates 80% of their airtime to a local crime story," Republican political consultant Rick Wilson tweeted. Link

 

[dudalb]

Fox News is pushing the "illegal immigrant murdered innocent woman" story hard.

Of course they are. You expect anything else?

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

So far, Trump's speech has just been about patriotism, strong military, the NFL, greatest economy, steel coming back due to tariffs, coal being clean and indestructible (?).

Some weird comments about the governor's weight (?).

 

[newyorkguy]

So far, Trump's speech has just been about patriotism, strong military, the NFL, greatest economy, steel coming back due to tariffs, coal being clean and indestructible (?). Some weird comments about the governor's weight (?).

What, him worry?

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

The crowd keeps trying to chant "Build the Wall" and "Lock Her Up" and they are just ignoring them. Awkward.

 

[dudalb]

Watching those rallies is truly scary. Never though I would see the open face of Fascism in the US.

 

[newyorkguy]

It's really sad. People at a rally in West Virginia and a major concern of theirs is security on the U.S.'s southern border and illegal immigration?

This is from an Op-Ed in one of the local newspapers in West Virginia published today:

By Kendra Fershee (who is running for the Democratic nomination for West Virginia’s First Congressional District.)

I don’t need to spew a bunch of negative statistics to express how difficult life is for many West Virginians right now; all you have to do is look around to see the struggle. But I’ll share a couple of very important measures that indicate the depth of our challenges: the Centers for Disease Control reports that our drug addiction death rates in West Virginia are three times the national average. And those unemployment rates that the Congressman [David McKinley] is so proud of? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, West Virginia’s unemployment rate worsened rapidly between May (4.5 percent) and November (5.3 percent). To the extent that there are businesses in a position to hire people, finding employees that can pass a drug test is a struggle. Small communities are dying (medium and larger communities are also fighting for survival, for that matter), and people are leaving in such large numbers that we are likely to lose a Congressional seat after the 2020 census. Link

Build the wall! Lock her up!

 

[Mumbles]

It's really sad. People at a rally in West Virginia and a major concern of theirs is security on the U.S.'s southern border and illegal immigration?

This is from an Op-Ed in one of the local newspapers in West Virginia published today:


Build the wall! Lock her up!

Even sadder - while I still think the democrats deserve criticism for not doing enough to attempt to build bridges to areas like this, it's painfully stupid to vote for some buffoon based on misplaced racial grievances and dreams of returning to a 1920s-1950s industry - particularly when voting for a buffoon who openly states that, actually, he'll still screw you over anyway.

...anyway, I'm not listening to Cheeto Benito live, or ever in general.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Even sadder - while I still think the democrats deserve criticism for not doing enough to attempt to build bridges to areas like this, it's painfully stupid to vote for some buffoon based on misplaced racial grievances and dreams of returning to a 1920s-1950s industry - particularly when voting for a buffoon who openly states that, actually, he'll still screw you over anyway.

...anyway, I'm not listening to Cheeto Benito live, or ever in general.

W. Kamau Bell did a program on the coal country and it turns out there was a decent reeducation program that was leading to new jobs in the area and people were happy with it.

It was unfortunate that Clinton couldn't have countered her negative sound bite about coal jobs by promoting such programs.

 

[quadraginta]

Even sadder - while I still think the democrats deserve criticism for not doing enough to attempt to build bridges to areas like this, it's painfully stupid to vote for some buffoon based on misplaced racial grievances and dreams of returning to a 1920s-1950s industry - particularly when voting for a buffoon who openly states that, actually, he'll still screw you over anyway.

...anyway, I'm not listening to Cheeto Benito live, or ever in general.

Aside from trying to peddle the same lies that the Republicans were spewing there weren't very many bridges they could build.

They tried selling actual, feasible approaches to solving the real problems, but the voters there didn't want to hear any of that.

They wanted to hear how someone was going to bring all the coal jobs back. A bridge which had been conclusively burned decades before.

How can you build bridges to people like that?

(And I say this with no small amount of pain, because they are the people I grew up among.)

 

[Cain]

From Rich Lowry (editor of National Review) on Twitter: "Biggest loser from today is clearly Cohen. Manafort is facing much more time, but also has the real prospect of a pardon."