(AP) — A Pennsylvania branch of Planned Parenthood says a tweet declaring the need for a Disney princess who’s had an abortion was not appropriate and the organization has taken it down.
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Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has called on supporters of tighter gun-control legislation to fight for more permanent reform: repeal of the Second Amendment. “That simple but dramatic action would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform,” Stevens wrote in a New York Times op-ed column.
speaking of the not helpful category, the twit’s tariff threats to our biggest creditor. bw linked an article last thread about us having to borrow another $300 billion from china last week. it also said this:
…China, which owns more Treasury bonds than any foreign country. China responded by saying it would fight any trade war “to the end.” When asked by Bloomberg Television whether China was considering scaling back purchases of US debt, China’s ambassador to the United States said, “We are looking at all options.” China holds $1.17 trillion of US debt. It trimmed those holdings by 1.4% between December and January, the latest data show. “We do rely on international investors in Asia for a good deal of our Treasury funding. And that is something a lot of eyes are focused on now,” Rieder said.
Speaking of not helpful, I just saw the discussion on Morning Joe of the PPP presidential hypothetical head-to-head matchups that they polled recently. John Hileman was probably right when He said it was silly. I think that what it really shows is the relative strength based dolely on name recognition of Democrats that were put in the Hypothetical match ups with Trump. His numbers were consistently 38, to 42 – you know, his approval rating. And the hypothetical opponents had his disapproval ratings. What it did show was the relative strength through the name recognition of the various Democrats that have been rumored to be thinking of running. Biden and Bernie are at the top. Wonderful.
Exactly! Quit throwing chum into the water, you chumps!
In an IDEAL world, of course their would be no guns or abortions. We live in the real world, where we need realistic compromise. Those kids that were shot at and who watched their friends only asked for sensible gun legislation and better mental health support. Sure, there was an NRA-paid jerk in the crowd with a giant sign; he was there to whip up Trumpsky’s base.
For goodness sake, don’t alienate folks with unrealistic extremes and don’t disrespect them and call them “willfully ignorant” just because they have a different world view. You don’t have to embrace Islam, Christianity, Wicca, or, any other worldview. But as long as we have too many people on the planet and in this country, we will either have to compromise or wait until the population problem rights itself.
Let’s take our foreign debt off the the three-legged table by clarifying exactly what it is. Here is an excellent, clearly written, factually accurate presentation, prepared by billmoyers.com, on our China debt; it can be extrapolated to fit the other countries to which we are indebted.
drip drip drip
newsweek:
In a court filing Tuesday night special counsel Robert Mueller alleges Rick Gates, a close associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, knew the two were working with a former Russian intelligence officer during the 2016 election.
The FBI has determined the former officer continued to have ties to Russian intelligence in 2016 and worked with Gates and Manafort in September and October that year. It is not clear whether the two men knew this.
Mueller’s team made the revelation in a sentencing document against lawyer Alex van der Zwaan, who pleaded guilty in February to lying to investigators in the Russia probe. The investigation is examining whether the Trump campaign assisted the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election.
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So let’s see if we have another internecine shit fight for the nomination and pissed off supporters of the losers who are bled away to third party candidates so the dotard wins re-election. See if we repeat the insanity of 2016 tha put SFB in office and put our country in the deplorable state it is in now. I have exactly NO confidence that so-called dems learned anything from 2016.
Thanks for all the info on China and our debt. The thought that trumpty dumpty is in charge of negotiating and trying to fix it is frightening.
Pogo… I want to be associated with your 9:18 comment.
If Sen. Sanders wants to be a Democratic Party member he needs to actually be a Dem, not an I. Second, there is sniff of something Russian around him. Right now I think anyone with a scent of Russian should be concerned as the Mueller investigation might be focused on SFB and his mob, the overall charter is the 2016 election and interference by the Russians.
The wild extremes rarely accomplish anything. Our system of government works best when those extremes feed into and provide ideas for one of the major parties (ie Socialists on the left, John Birch on the right). This incremental creep may be slow but it works. Right now everything we see in the insanity of the current GOP office holders, started 40 years ago on school boards. To combat it, we need a sensible middle presidential candidate with progressive ideas (but not DEMANDS) to attract all those the GOP hard right have driven away to get the pendulum swing back into the realm of sanity.
Jamie… IMO, this whole slow descent into madness started the moment Ronald Reagan mouthed the words… government isn’t the solution, government is the problem.
And don’t y’all just love it when someone is decrying not to call the other side names and yet is using terms such as “bleeding heart liberals” and “chumps”. It’s that mirror thing again.
Conor Lamb is certainly a study for Dems winning middle ground in Trump country but Lordy he had to carry an assault rifle and disavow Pelosi to do it.
Oh puleeze stop with the stupid attacks on Nancy P the only people who want her out are Republicans stop buying into to their message. Conor Lamb only campaigned on the Nancy P issue because Goopers made an issue of SF values —
People are so stupid Conor Lamb will be voting for Nancy P
And if he doesn’t support the assualt weapons ban the high school kids will vote him out in November
This isn’t about switching voters it is about turning out the right voters. Lamb except for attacking Nancy P and the one part of the gun safety issue supports the dem agenda. Grow up put on your adult pants and stop being afraid of goopers
don’t think so, KGC, he’s got to run again in November, would be a mistake to break his promise to vote against her, she’ll probably give him a pass.
vote against her? who is running against her? are you saying he would vote for some idiot
the only thing he has to do is not be black or a woman plus he is not running in the same district — much more dem
Let me know what he plans to do about Steny Hoyer ?????
i just don’t see how you run TV ads vowing not to support her and break that promise a few months later, no matter what the new district looks like
what you’ve never met a politician who has changed his mind.
Or is there some kind of double standard where goopers can change their mind and Dems can’t. Or the same for broken promises. He can say now that he has met her and worked with her the Republicans are wrong about her and so was he
Republicans don’t want to get rid of Nancy P because she is bad for the Democratic [arty. Dems should be running ads with Paul Ryan talking about ending social secuirty and medicare and let’s see who runs away from their leadership
Democrats need to ask the questions and set the agenda not let the goopers control the conversation. I do fault the party for not have a rapid response team to attack all things Republican on a 50 state basis. They should have made a much abigger deal about the nazi /republican running for Congress in Illinois.
pogo – Dems learned nothing from the “basket of deplorables” label, either.
Craig is correct about getting the right voters to the polls. If women and/or African-Americans had turned out for Hillary like they did for Obama…Now, why is that and what does the next prez candidate do about it?
It won’t be Bernie, and, I hope Hillary won’t run, again. Gearing up for the Repugz is George P Bush of TX.
Poobah, you can’t overstate what Connor Lamb did, and if he had to play a little politics, hey it’s politics. He was running in South West Pennsylvania. Southwest PA has a whole hell of a lot more in common with Southwest WV, complete with closed down coal mines, than it does with the Pittsburgh suburbs that let Lamb get elected. If you don’t run in the district you’re trying to get elected in you ain’t going to get elected there.
george p has trump stink all over him ok for texass but not for a national run
Renee, I’m honored to have you associated with anything I say.
Dems should be running ads with Paul Ryan talking about ending social secuirty and medicare and let’s see who runs away from their leadership
KGC… I hoist a glass of pinot noir in your honor!
rr – I used “bleeding heart liberals” and “chumps” to illustrate what it looks like to other groups when they are labeled negatively. However, I did mean to point out how narrow-minded folks are around here. I don’t see Dems “going high” very often.
“So-called Dems” from 2016 have fled the party system. Don’t blame the messenger; it’s still the mood out there.
There won’t be cult-of-personality candidates on both sides like we had last time. It will actually be about issues and ideas for those who care to vote. For those on the fence about voting or party choice, it’s probably best not to disrespect an entire group of folks in case some of them might be on board with your candidate’s ideas.
crackers – Yes, but he’ll be running. Just warning ya.
I join in that toast!!
I toast
One man’s narrow minded is another man’s Focused.
I’m pretty firmly convinced that if Nancy P. does run, it will be on the basis of
“Let me do what I do best to clean up and organize this mess into a money making machine while you guys hash out who you want for a replacement”.
She will then, of course, pick who she wants and engineer that election so she can take it easy. lol
does strike me as odd that some folks demand a litmus test on nancy in order to represent democrats but not require Bernie to actually be a democrat in order to represent democrats.
I agree with kgc that energy, time and money is better spent in revealing the real paul ryan rather than fighting about an imaginary nancy shrew.
cnn:
A federal judge said Wednesday that a lawsuit alleging foreign gifts made to President Donald Trump may be illegal can proceed.
But the ruling from Judge Peter Messitte of the US District Court of Maryland says the Maryland and District of Columbia attorneys general who brought the case will have to focus it on the Trump Organization’s operations in Washington. That means the case going forward will challenge payments made by foreign officials for services at the Trump International Hotel, but will not include visits to Mar-a-Lago in Florida or other Trump properties.
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Messitte did not make any rulings on the allegations in the case, which accuse Trump of taking illegal gifts from foreign governments through his family’s business, violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.
Still, the judge hints at his feelings toward the Trump International Hotel. He notes multiple times, for instance, that foreign governments have moved business from the Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton hotels in Washington to the “President’s Hotel.”
“[A] large number of Maryland and District of Columbia residents are being affected and will continue to be affected when foreign and state governments choose to stay, host events, or dine at the Hotel rather than at comparable Maryland or District of Columbia establishments, in whole or in substantial part simply because of the President’s association with it,” Messitte writes.
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The replacement for Nancy P is Steny Hoyer…
I just want to be clear I am an admirer of Nancy Pelosi, but politics is often unfair. And I do think her public image has become toxic beyond repair.
pffft
NEW THREAD
“There won’t be cult-of-personality candidates on both sides like we had last time.” Probably not on the R side of the primary ballot anyway – they have more discipline in that regard than Ds (notwithstanding who they nominated last time). On the D side, I’m betting on it, and I’m betting shiitake loads of the so-called Ds who worked so hard against the eventual head of the ticket will be doing it again – so if you did it last time, BiD, I have every expectation based on so much of what you’ve said here since the election, that you’ll be buying a ticket on the same train this time around. Have a nice trip.
Yes, Bon voyagey……
hoyer…..another wrinkle-ass old white man, no thanks, it’s Nancy all the way to the goal post.
she’s not toxic unless democrats fight for her to be so.