June 26, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, June 25, 2018
Goooooood Morning! Theresa here, filling in for Teri.
Notable reads for today:
- Commentary– “The treatment of Sanders at the Red Hen restaurant is the very incarnation of the double standard many conservative Americans feel they’ve lived under for years. Their social media feeds are full of liberals supporting the very same behavior for which they’ve been condemned as (literally) “bigots” and “Nazis.”
- There is a fine line between ethical high-ground and common-sense. In this case, the line seems to have flashing neon lights.
- If you know me at all, you know I am *slightly* obsessed with all things Southern. THIS is the perfect little Southern Know-How Manual from Garden and Gun.
- Commentary– “Marriage counselors say that when a couple view one another with contempt, it’s a top indicator that the relationship is likely to fail. Americans, who used to know how to disagree with one another without being mutually contemptuous, seem to be forgetting this. And the news media, which promote shrieking outrage in pursuit of ratings and page views, are making the problem worse.”
- Who doesn’t love a good tip from Southern Living?
- Podcast- “The Problem with the Solution” I am not going to be happy until everyone has listened to this podcast from Invisibilia. Give it a listen and let’s discuss!
- Maxine Waters is currently in the process of losing her mind and Chuck Schumer realizes it.
- Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of Long Beach Fire Captain.
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Wow! I know I’m surprised….
https://wtop.com/government/2018/06/increasing-threats-to-homeland-security-include-burned-animal-carcass-left-on-staffers-porch
Don’t feign surprise, the only thing you’re surprised about is that you didn’t do it to a lib’ral first.
Good guy with a gun at IKEA? Allen wrenches make me nervous, too.
More SCOTUS opinions at 10:00am today, and it’s a pretty good bet we’ll get the Georgia-Florida water wars case. Stay tooned.
OK, GA-FL opinion NOT coming today. Next (and last) opinion day yet to be announced. I’m guessing Thursday.
Wrong again….tomorrow (Wed) is the LAST day of the term, per the Chief.
The Supes are toying with you John!
OK, Sanders got 86ed from a leftier-than-thou eating joint. That was too bad. Most people I know think that act was an embarrassing over-reaction and in some deep sense un-American. It shouldn’t have happened.
Now, can we expect the right to start showing concern at Sander’s constant dissembling and evasion? Maybe her boss’s too? Maybe even expect a direct answer to the question ‘What are the administration’s plans to reunite the kids you’ve shipped around the country with their parents?’
We now know the depths of the depravity of Liberals and Democrats and what they would do to us if they are in power. Vote like your life depends on it, because it does.
They control all three branches of government and are whining because someone was politely asked to leave a restaurant. The truth is they are mad we are not like North Korea where we all go around all day and laud the glorious leader. They have brought shame on themselves by their own actions but boy nobody better point that fact out.
When a kid illegally crosses the border, the government has no idea if the claimed parents are real or if the kid is part of a sex trafficking/kidnapping scheme. The government has no idea if the claimed parents are molesting, raping, beating their own kids. There is no way to know if the child is safe or is in fear for their lives or the lives of others.
We have two bad choices dumped on us by the border crossing parents: 1) don’t protect the kids from rape, abuse, and enslavement or 2) protect them in safe locations away from potential abuse by adults including their “claimed” parents.
They are our only two choices: Child Rape or Child Safety.
We see that Liberals and Democrats desire Child Rape and happily side with the Mexican Drug Cartel and Sex Traffickers. Like I said, we are now seeing the depths of depravity of Liberals and Democrats.
“We see that Liberals and Democrats desire Child Rape and happily side with the Mexican Drug Cartel and Sex Traffickers. Like I said, we are now seeing the depths of depravity of Liberals and Democrats.”
Do you really believe that? That is a broad brush.
Can you say “false choice?” Can you build a bigger straw man?
That post is the real depravity.
Actually they do have a process for identifying sex slavers and kidnappers. But I’m sure you really don’t care to know that. By your standards every child in America should be taken from their parents and put in detention centers and interment camps.
I’m laughing at the people who nominated a pedophile for senate in Alabama and are still operating the house of representatives under rules set by a convicted pedophile. The same people who want “legitimate rape” legislation.
I’ve been watching the Handmaid’s Tale and I have to say if I hung out in the bizarre world a lot of conservatives apparently do I would swear I was watching a documentary.
Red Hen meet Natalie Maines!! LMAO!
Yep. We now have an elected member of Congress publicly inciting to riot. Chastising her is not nearly enough. At the very least, she needs to be expelled from Congress.
Not to riot, but to protest. Although I do not agree with anything that is not civil. Like a direct incitement to violence, like if someone told someone in their audience that they should punch someone else in the face.
Under that logic…time to impeach Trump since he has actually INCITED people to violence.
As opposed to the president who tells people at his rallies to punch people and if they harm anyone he will pay their legal bills. You are a bunch of hypocrites. There is no equivalence. The threats of violence and for that matter REAL violence (bombing abortion clinics, shooting dead abortion providers IN CHURCH). So take your unrighteous indignation and bury it in the back yard with your self respect.
Awwww-nawwwew! Al Gorged must be apoplectic!!!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Judge-throws-out-SF-and-Oakland-climate-change-13025637.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result
I challenge my Lib opponents to actually take a gander at the love, respect and adoration afforded The Great Man!! THIS… is why y’all will lose in November!
https://m.youtube.com
Linkie don’t workie.
Mike, I clicked it and it did. No matter, it’s last night’s speech by Trump in SC!
This link may work …. https://youtu.be/NjPU3J2oEns
I’m still looking the much heralded d Bi-Partisanship that the Democrats and Marxist claim they desire. All I can find is physical violence against Conservatives. I’ll keep looking.
You noticed? We’ve seen this before: David Koresch, Jim Jones and Adolf Hitler all have one thing in common with the Donald.
You don’t post too often. Which is good, actually. You’re a blithering idiot.
Thanks.
You’ve made my points twice today. First, you noted the cult-like behaviour of
trump supporters at these rallies.
Second, you proved another tenet of cultism, no one may criticize or make a negative observation about the cult leader without being attacked, insulted, dehumanized and ultimately, killed.
Finally, many cults will not allow the members to gather information from outside of the sphere of the cult leader but they do encourage the cult members to spend all day on social media trolling others and insulting people they don’t know.
Again thanks, I don’t need to comment much because many of you unwittingly make all my points for me.
So, supporters who continue their support a year and a half later are cultists? Seriously? I assume you don’t include The Hag’s supporters in your characterization because right about now she’d never get a crowd that could even fit into a broom closet. Brings to mind a song by Robetta Flack and the late, great Donnie Hathaway. “Where is the Love”? LMAO!!! No, you and your side continue to hassle folks at restaurants!! Pathetic. Losers.
Says the man whose side is populated with lemmings wearing bright pink pu**y hats! LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really don’t want to silence you or anyone else. I’ve learned a lot about the current state of politics by reading your days long stream of consciousness postings. Donald Trump and his worshippers are dangerous because they first dehumanize anyone who does not conform to the MAGA cult. After dehumanization, the cult can then justify 1) banning muslims, 2) seperating children from parents, 3) calling our military killers, 4) cozying up brutal dictators in Korea, Russia, Turkey, Philipians….5) banning Muslims just because, 6) equating people who protest nazis with nazis….I could go on but the point is you keep right on posting all day everyday. The resistence is learning from you and your unwittingly exposing yourself.
Looks like North Korea. So you’re right if we’re getting rid of democracy.
Today is the 26th.
No worries. Blame Ed. It’s almost always Ed’s fault anyway.
I thought it was the generic…blame others (since we’re being all civil and such)
It isn’t a librul vs. conservative battle as the Trumpsters would have you believe. President Trump is simply not a conservative. This is true in both the traditional fiscal and social views of conservatism if you view his actions rather than his rhetoric. As long as the Republicans continue to back the near insanity of this regime then they are facing the demise of their party as we know it as well.
One case in point although there are many others. Last week it had to be explained to the man by staffers that immigration policy could not be set unilaterally through an executive order. This resulted in another announcement from the Twitty Pulpit that the bill previously backed earlier in the week “1,000%” was now toast and would await the November elections when the Republicans would gain even greater majorities in Congress.
I will repeat- he doesn’t want to solve any immigration crisis because his base is motivated by anti-immigration animus. He needs it. Odds are that he will also not let it get resolved in 2019 either, regardless of the party in power. Not so long as he wants to get re-elected. If he did solve it, he would have to create another crisis (whether economic or national security) to fan the flames.
Trump wins travel ban and pro life centers in California defeat the forces of death.
Good day at SCOTUS.The republic survives another day.
Poor Libs! Lolololol!
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/supreme-court-rules-in-trump-muslim-travel-ban-case.html
Keeping America Safe and keeping his campaign promises. Landslide 2020!
Thank you, Neil Gorsuch!! MAGA!
It’s all about the ratings.
Trump has captured his demographic and believes he will be renewed in 2020. The rival networks have to identify their audience and get them to tune in.
The poor audience may get reality show fatigue and decide to turn it off.
We better have a reason for that audience to change channels instead.
A time-honored tactic: calling legislation that was/is:
1) written by Democrats
2) is advanced by Democrats and progressive activists
3) has very nominal support on the part of Republicans, conservative activists and their voters
as “bipartisan.”
Now legislation that is:
1) written by Republicans
2) is advanced by Republicans and conservative activists
3) has very nominal support on the part of Demoocrats,progressive activists and their voters
is NEVER called bipartisan. It is always called right wing, Republican, conservative and often far right and extremist. Even when said legislation actually attracts a somewhat decent percentage of Democratic support.
Bottom line: there is no “bipartisan immigration reform package.” There is a Democratic immigration reform package that is supported by a few Republican congressmen and senators and a Republican immigration reform package that is supported by a few Democratic congressmen and senators. When you claim otherwise, you are only talking to your side of the aisle. Even if there was a large percentage of the Republican Party that supported the so-called “comprehensive immigration reform” bill (which is a misnomer as by design it doesn’t do a thing of substance about recently arrived and future undocumented and is only “comprehensive” insomuch as providing permanent residency or a pathway to citizenship to most undocumented) during the era of peak neo-conservatism that was the George W. Bush administration in the 2000s, that time has long past. 3 events occurred.
1. After the coalition of Democrats and George W. Bush fellow travelers got one of the precursors to the “bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform” bills through the Senate, a grassroots campaign mobilized voters to contact their congressmen to block the bill in the House.
2. Anger over the Iraq War and later the Great Recession caused batches of the neo-cons to lose to Democrats in 2006 and 2008.
3. The Tea Party caused still more neo-cons to lose to Republicans in 2010, 2012 and 2014.
4. The election of Trump – and the primary losses and/or resignations of still more neocons – cemented the current GOP position on this issue.
So not only has “comprehensive immigration reform” not ever passed the House – meaning that Pelosi erred big time by not bringing this issue to the floor between 2006 and 2010 (still waiting on a good reason why she didn’t, if you know one please provide) – but nearly all the GOP senators who supported those bills under George W. Bush and later under Barack Obama (who along with Pelosi could and should have made this an issue the first 2 years of his presidency when the Democrats enjoyed huge margins in both chambers CONSIDERING THAT HE MADE IT A CORE CAMPAIGN PROMISE) – are no longer in the Senate (or won’t be in a few months).
So there never was a “bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform” bill, and the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times editorial pages repeating it over and over again won’t make it so. Even if there had been, the people who supported it have been rejected by the Republican voters, meaning that any “bipartisan consensus” that may have existed back then doesn’t now. Just like the bipartisan consensus that existed around that same time that invading Middle Eastern countries to force them to adopt democracy (and maybe, you know, destroy their weapons of mass destruction if they actually have them) no longer exists. Or the bipartisan consensus in opposition to gay marriage – which as late as 2012 Barack Obama was opposed to – that existed at the time. In 2008 it was possible to to get the Democratic nomination for president while supporting the invasion of Iraq and opposing gay marriage. The former was the position of Hillary Clinton, the latter was the position of both Clinton and Obama. Now you can’t win a Democratic primary for dogcatcher with those beliefs. Well the same happened on the GOP side. You can easily get elected by admitting that the Iraq War was a mistake today … just as Trump did. There was no way y ou could have done so in the Bush era. Similarly, it was possible to get elected with the Bush position on immigration back then where no chance of it exists now. When Trump first proposed his travel ban, “establishment” (for lack of a better term) Republicans were among the first to denounce it as a violation of the 1st amendment and the equal protection clause and claim that it would be surely overturned. I wonder what their thoughts are now?
The old Victrola has long stopped playing the background music for that tune. Time to start signing another one.
That gang of 8 bill would be the one that might well have passed the House and sent to conference but never got called up because Boehner caved to freedom caucus, right?
I guess you don’t remember Marco Rubio being the author of an immigration bill and then the minute the far right Republicans raised objections voted against his own bill. The truth is the far right has killed every immigration bill since 2007.
Paul Manafort loses in court again today. This time in Virginia. Has anybody ever in the history of the country had a campaign manager in jail? Even Nixon didn’t reach that point.
May I introduce you to Former AG and two time Nixon campaign manager, John Mitchell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell
Kind of. John Mitchell went to jail as AG even though he had been a campaign manager on Nixon’s first campaign. Paul Manafort sure has had a long career in Republican politics though going back 40 years. I guess he was too young to be on Nixon’s campaign or he probably would have been on that one too.
He resigned as AG to run the 72 campaigns and was convicted as part of the Watergate as being at the meetings to plan the robbery and then the cover up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/mitchobit.htm
I thought it was Mueller was going to get reamed when the actual decision came down and then Mueller was going to just give it all up. Or that is what other conservatives said. I will take your word on what noway said.
The first trial is apparently supposed to start July 25th. I guess noway is already preparing the excuses for Manafort or is going to start explaining how Manafort was really only just a coffe boy. The Trump campaign sure had a lot of coffee boys it seems. Even Generals were coffee boys.
Funny thing, Manafort is being tried for something he did way before his Trump association. Great job! Lol!
Not so far before that the statute of limitations has run, I’m guessing. But what if a maggot had broken and entered into a home illegally ten years ago, but his crime was only discovered after an associate of his was being investigated for a different crime? Let the maggot go?
You’re just proving to those of us who post here that you apparently are unable to read.
In today’s version of Twitty Pulpit Splainin’ from Sarah Huckabee Sanders we get this gem: “Just because you don’t see a judge doesn’t mean you aren’t receiving due process,” (Politico).
This was in response to a question regarding a couple of yesterday’s tweets from Il Duce: “Hiring manythousands [sic] of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go – will always be disfunctional [sic]. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally.” “If this is done, illegal immigration will be stopped in it’s [sic] tracks – and at very little, by comparison, cost.”
“Just because you don’t see a judge doesn’t mean you aren’t receiving due process.” is something to be expected out of the mouth of Groucho Marx, or Moe Howard.
Better yet, we can increase tax revenue by further cutting taxes for the rich and corporations. GOP theory is that every tax cut reduces revenue, but we make it up on volume.
Breaking News… Man most likely to be Speaker of the House if Dems win it back in November JUST LOST his primary. It’s like Canter losing in the primary.
https://www.axios.com/joe-crowley-loses-his-new-york-primary-1530063288-7f4deab8-36c4-4a1d-a2d0-1ac10ca7d494.html
Well, that’s a little victory for the Whiners to crow about!
I can’t speak a lick about the regulations or laws which establish the immigration courts, but they are Executive branch courts. So perhaps the argument is that due process for asylum seekers is just an administrative decision. But even then, you can at least seek appeal and review in Circuit Courts, I think. And in theory, rejecting someone at the border is an administrative decision if asylum is pleaded, so a lawyer could still seek appeal in Circuit Court for a rejection. Not efficient, but maybe more disinterested judges. Also don’t know, but I imagine criminal convictions of illegal border crossing (or whatever the actual offense is- unlawful entry?) can also seek appeal and review in higher federal courts. To eliminate the possibility of judicial review altogether, I can only think of one possibility, but I shan’t mention it.