Spud Demon

Awww.  We don’t need to sully Manafort’s good (COUGH!) name with this tenuous guilt by association.  I applaud his daughter Jessica for kicking that guy to the curb.

Welcome to the Peacekeepers Mercenary Service, a division of the US military, soon to be outsourced to Trump, inc.

Medieval rules like this?  Seems like the South Americans are about to change the church from within.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/catholic-bishops-from-across-amazon-propose-allowing-married-priests-and-female-leaders/

@mrmickeysmom I support everything she’s trying to do, I just don’t see why she needs to throw away her current seat in Congress.

@ohiobarbarian A cabinet post would be good too.

Meh.  Beating on Joe isn’t going to accomplish much of anything.  The impeachment inquiry is going to keep his son’s life of privilege in the public eye (not that Hunter did anything wrong, but your son isn’t eligible for that kind of job, is he?).  So he probably can’t win the primary, and if he does it will be a repeat of 2016, with the pr…[Read more]

Fuck.  I wish she would stay.  She doesn’t have a real chance of winning the primary, or as a third-party candidate.  It’s going to be Sanders or Warren vs. Trump.  Gabbard would make a good VP for either of those, but…

• What if the winner doesn’t pick her?
• What if Trump wins the general?

If she stays in the running for Congress, the wor…[Read more]

Of course supporters are allowed to ask questions.  Even rich ones who have maxed their donations.  Expect softball questions.

The issue with this case was that CNN, which had some role in the town hall (host?) and the selection of questions, failed to investigate or disclose the fact that the questioner was such a great donor.

I saw Bernie on Colbert last week (possible rerun?).  So at least one network is not ignoring him.

He had some harsh words for Trump, harsher than usually come out of Bernie’s mouth (and I’ve been listening to him talk about Wall Street for many years now).

I’m worried that this is the end of our wisest choice.

Preparing myself to vote for someone who:

• is not corrupt
• doesn’t want to put me in jail for weed
• won’t start needless wars

I think Warren fits.  Will vote for Bernie in the primary unless he tells me not to (i.e. withdraws).

Bolton had opposed a State Department plan to sign an Afghan peace deal with the Taliban militia, believing the group’s leaders could not be trusted.

And Bolton was proven correct by the attack on the day before the summit, which is why Trump cancelled it.  I bet Bolton did some “I told you so” gloating, then he was fired in petty re…[Read more]

The way things are going, it doesn’t look like a regime-change-quagmire war is brewing, more like a naval war for complete domination of the Persian Gulf, and while we’re at it, the Arabian Sea.  Victory would mean continued economic starvation of Iran.

Tactically, it would be a not-huge effort for the US to take over the islands where Iran has…[Read more]

Wow.  UAE media are really backing the John Bolton world view.

Looks like we have a new swing vote. 

I think it’s strange that state-level hunting laws even apply to national forests.

Another woman who was there said McLeod’s wife came running up to her room, her face bloodied. The woman shut the door and locked it with McLeod’s wife inside.

The other woman said McLeod started banging on the door and telling the women to open it. He told the other woman if she didn’t open the door, he’d “kill her (expletive) dog.”

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“Democratic Center Party” is the literal translation of their official name, but they are right-wing.