The people who voted for Donald Trump for President where looking for a President to shake things up….
He’s done THAT….
They where looking for someone to give a voice to white poor Americans who feel left behind with a country that has become less white…
They voted for a guy who ‘Stand Up’ for America against their own companies hiring of cheap labor….
They wanted someone who would make those darker people stop working in their stores and moving into their neighborhoods…
They wanted someone who appeared ‘Strong’….
They wanted someone who wasn’t black, brown or yellow…
All these things they HAVE gotten….
They do NOT care if who they have is trying to get bed with the Russian President…
They are will ing to give up old traditional Right -Wing Conservatives….
Donald Trump HAS gotten it right for around 40% of America….
And they come out and vote….
Ask Trump adopted lawmakers in his party….
They’re scared shitless of him….
They seem to be waiting to see how far he can go before he self implodes….
And He will eventually…
But it might be a long wait…..
image….Time.Com
This is Open Thread for 7/27/18
Trump’s disapproval ticks back up….
Morning Everyone…..
The Big Apple LOVES Hillary Clinton…..
Hillary Clinton gets standing ovation at Broadway production of ‘Hello, Dolly!’
Hillary Clinton was greeted with a standing ovation as she arrived at a Broadway production of “Hello, Dolly!” this week.
Video shows members of the audience standing and cheering as Clinton entered the theater for the performance on Thursday night….
Much More…
I’d cheer too, were I there.
So would I!
Of course you would, James, because you’ve always been an ardent and vocal (though not uncritical) fan of Hillary Clinton.
Would you have cheered if Bernie Sanders had appeared instead ? [It just wouldn’t be notable if I cheered.]
No…
I have feeling known about the Senator
He makes good sense on a lot of things
But I find his views un-obtainable in the political world we live in America…
I DO hold his resistance against joining the party he is pimping against him….
But if I ever met the guy in person?
I might actually like him
Who knows?
Hillary?
A lousy campaigner
Fuzzy politics
Poor judgement at times
But a good Democrat and props for WINNING the vote for President..
She has put in her time
A strong woman who has gone someplace NO OTHER American woman has….
Yea
She’d get my clapping
Damn Real!
Good Morning All
Alabama Governor:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/07/alabama-governor-race-of-day.html
You want this Alabama piece like this….
Or in a featured post here?
No thanks. I will just post them in the comments.
ok….
Morning People….
CG wants people to go to his site. I don’t thinks his site gets the hundreds of visitors each day like yours does.
Funny thing.
I was on here Saturday afternoon on catching it from CG and James.
Bored by being blasted by the “usual suspects” I invited the “hundreds” to join in.You would have thought that I would have offended at least one of them.
Alas, no one took me up on my offer.Accordingly,using the type of flimsy “evidence” often used here to make all sorts of irrelevant to much of anything “points,”I hereby declare that the “hundreds actually agree with me.(thus their refusal to join in the general bashing,then again, perhaps ,like me ,they just don’t see the “greys” as our two friends remind us ,they do)!
CG, James and any others who may seek to contradict me?
Eat your hearts out suckas!The “hundreds” stand with me!
Yeah – I did see your discussion with CG. Anyone who always votes the party line (as CG does) will be voting for some absolutely terrible candidates. And for state and local positions, it is far more important to have someone who is at least intelligent – and yes, there are some intelligent people in the GOP. How one stands on abortion, national defense or gun violence is totally irrelevant for almost all state and local positions.
It was amusing to see CG trying to “out” you for voting for a Republican when you volunteered that information in the first place. I just don’t understand Republicans. Maybe in that sense I deserve the “Clueless Zreebs” name that CG gave me. Perhaps one of the hundreds of people who visit this site can clue me in.
I can save all those people time.
Corey predicted that the Alabama Governorship will go Republican.
Far less predictable- Alaska Governor!
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/07/alaska-governor-race-of-day.html
Former Congressman Ronald V. Dellums (D-Oakland & Berkeley, Calif.) has died at the age of 82. He was also a Marine veteran, a former Berkeley City Councilman and a former Mayor of Oakland.
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Ron Dellums, former congressman and Oakland mayor, dies at age 82
By Rachel Swan
The San Francisco Chronicle
Updated 10:59 am PDT, Monday, July 30, 2018
Ron Dellums, a Marine turned antiwar activist and feisty Democratic politician, was never one to walk away from a fight, no matter who started it.
Dellums, who died Monday at the age of 82, made that clear during his first run for Congress in 1970, when Republican Vice President Spiro Agnew, speaking for President Richard Nixon’s White House, pointedly branded the young Berkeley councilman as “an out and out radical” who needed to be “purged from the body politic” for his stance against the war in Vietnam and up-front fight against social ills.
The attack, like many others to come during his decades on the political battlefield, never fazed him.
“If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical,” he told a scrum of reporters at his campaign headquarters….
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ron-Dellums-former-congressman-and-Oakland-13116263.php
James,
Predicting the fiture is really, really hard, but it is would be worthwhile to look at some trends. 55% of millennials say they support socialism, and there are some long term trends that are not going away, For example, a larger share of both income and wealth are going to the super-wealthy. That is especially true under Trump, but it was also true under Obama and Clinton, and this is coming at a time when corporations are eliminating or more likely have already eliminated pension plans. And despite what you preach, almost all of the energy of the Democratic Party is with progressives, and it has been moving in the direction since around the turn of the century. Perhaps you missed what Chairman Perez said…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/socialist-candidates-the-future-of-our-party-says-dnc-chairman-tom-perez%3f_amp=true
Z?
It is NOT gonna happen….
If you run the 1-minute YouTube clip at the bottom of that Washington Examiner article, you’ll hear Tom Perez (at about 1:00) say, “I have great respect for Joe Crowley; Joe Crowley’s a good Democrat, he was one of the sponsors of the Medicare-for-all bill, he’s fought the good fight.”
But we know James’s opinion of Medicare for All.
By the way, The Washington Examiner was set up as a conservative alternative to The Washington Post, so if its editors had a political or policy aim in running that story, it wasn’t to praise socialism, but to show that the Democratic Party has gone so far left that it’s (horrors!), socialist.
I don’t know the guy , but I’m sure he’s good man….
I ‘ve begun repeating the same thing…..
Even if you are a leader for the party?
Ya have to take care of your homework…
Ya have to stay in touch with them who sent ya to Crystal City…
The Democratic Party remains far from a socialist party, but the progressive base appears to be growing.
No Corey, I don’t want you to use either my first name or my last name even though most people on this site already know it.
I take it you think I am Keith’s “puppet”? You implied this before. Does anyone else think I lack independence from Keith? It sure doesn’t Feel that way to me.
FYI?
BP posted a $2.8 billion second-quarter profit Tuesday, beating analyst expectations with a tally that’s roughly four times higher than the same period a year earlier….
Shell/British Petroleum, last I read, was an Anglo-Dutch company (like Unilever). But maybe the ownership has changed.
For those who though the company MIGHT go under a few years ago?
They didn’t….
Trump is calling the Koch Brothers Network a “total joke” for refusing to back the Republican nominee in the North Dakota Senate race.
I’m trying to figure how that jives with Trump bring s “secret Democrat” or that he “basically endorsed Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in that race.
Both theories CG has floated in the past
Trump going after the Koch Brothers and calling them “globalists” and greedy is definitely something a Democrat would do. He sounds like Harry Reid. Or he’s just being Donald Trump, i.e. out for himself and not really a Republican. In any event, this is not going to help Republicans, so Democrats should be happy.
Uh, he’s going after the Kochs for being insufficiently Republican.
He thinks they should support the GOP in wach and every race.
But keep going down upur foolish rabbit hole with your “secret Democrat” routine.
He called them “globalists.” That’s hardly a traditional Republican talking point.
On trade, Heitkamp’s position may be more in line with traditional Republican policy than that being taken by Cramer.
Just embrace the fact, as a Democrat, that the “Republican” POTUS has so fundamentally changed the Republican Party. Don’t take the frustration into losing so many elections into being something that it isn’t.
Yes Trump has changed the Republican Party and he is now seen as more Republican than Ronald Reagan.
You may not like the destination but you all started down this road with people like Rush Limbaugh and later Sarah Palin.
The directions were pretty clear. And don’t expect them to turn the car around any time soon.
Is Trump a poison that could destroy the party he adopted and is pimping?
Yesterday the Trump Administration flaired the idea of another tax cut aimed almost entirely at the wealthy.
That the wealthiest Americans should receive tax cut after tax cut is arguably the onr underlying principle of the modern GOP.
Before, during, and after Trump!
He has said in private he’ll wait until AFTER the midterms…..
Expect him to push the shutdown in the media though for the base…
via twitter…..
Benjy Sarlin
@BenjySarlin
Benjy Sarlin Retweeted Judd Legum
This kind of comment (unfairly) wrecked George H.W. Bush and would have vaporized Mitt Romney. But “authenticity” is a dumb artificial construct and Trump’s version does not depend on him even pretending to live like a normal human. In fact, it’s the opposite.Benjy Sarlin added,
Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
Trump says you need a photo ID to buy groceries.
Seriously?
Donald Trump IS operating in a Alternate Universe
Globalists as a Dirty word?
REALLY?
Yea Barack Obama spent time traveling around the planet HELPING American companies do GLOBAL TRADE!
Donald Trump is dropping out of global trade deals so he can try to leverage MORE GLOBAL. Trade for American companies ….
This guy has been funded by Russian’s after he lost access to American banks who didn’t trust getting paid their money back from the ‘debt King ‘
WTF is this guy talking about????
Globalism as BAD?
Someone run the number of pieces of property this knucklehead has around the planet!
Each and every race.
Good Morning All….
Arizona Governor-
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/07/arizona-governor-race-of-day.html
This is something a secret Democrat could do:
https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/trump-congress-elections
CG?
He, he, he….
The guys here are gonna bring up the secret Democrat angle off of this linked piece….
Why James? I have nothing to say.
Huh?
Good Morning All….
Arkansas Governor:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/08/arkansas-governor-race-of-day.html
Morning people….
California Governor:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/08/california-governor-race-of-day.html
I didn’t realize that Newsom’s ex wife was the FOX News lawyer Don Jr was boning.
Hope she’s OK with conjugal visits!
Morning All….
Donald Trump’s campaign might still be under investigation over alleged collusion with Russia; his former campaign chairman might be up in court; but as far as his many overjoyed supporters are concerned, the president is doing a fantastic job.
At a Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, this week the overriding emotion was jubilation. As they see it, Trump is cutting their taxes. He’s keeping out the immigrants. He’s putting foreign leaders in their place, all while fulfilling that oft-quoted campaign promise: winning.
“A-plus,” was the verdict of Suzie DeFranco. “A-plus-plus.”
More…
Any surprise?
The idea that Trumps supporters are going to desert him because of demeaning remarks by “”libruls”( being so defined as anyone they disagree with,party notwithstanding.In SC many Republicans often refer to conservative Republican Lindsay Graham by this designation) or negative news stories by the hated media?
That’s why I place little faith is these ,fruitless in my view, efforts by Democrats to “convert” his followers,no matter what party they claim to adhere to.
Far better to concentrate on increasing turnout by minorities and younger voters.
I agree Jack, and I would take this a whole lot farther.
Last night I heard a great conversation on Bill Maher (referenced here on the board) with Steve Schmidt and others about where all this hate came from in our political discourse.
Schmidt has already said that he will be voting for Democrats until the Republican Party gets its act together. A pretty amazing statement for the man who gave us Palin.
But, at the risk of repeating what I have been saying for years now, the Republican Party has been moving in this direction for years.
Moving to an aging, almost all white, party that breeds racism and conspiracy theories.
There isn’t any light between where Trump and the Congressional Republicans are on the issues. They enable him and if you oppose Trump, you are morally required to oppose the Republicans running for Federal office this November.
I know I will, I would hope all patriotic Americans will do the same.
Phillip Rucker via twitter….
Remember the presidential commission on voter fraud? One member says it was extraordinarily opaque and it’s mission was to prove Trump’s made-up claims that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in 2016. It found no such evidence.
I thought that commission just broke up without publishing any findings.
Kris Kobach (Kansas Sec. of State who led the commission) is now running for Governor of Kansas.
There have been a few follow up pieces on the data collected….
A LOT. Of Sec of States would not share info with the sham commission, including some from ‘Red’ states….
Just a random thought…..
Anybody heard anything about Energy Sec Rick Perry?
Good Morning everyone…..
And to the new subscribers….
Welcome aboard …..
All’s quiet at the PDog
Enjoy your Summer Day you all!
McConnell Announces He’ll Run Again In 2020
“Saying it was never too soon to start, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell formally announced his 2020 re-election bid in his home state Saturday and tapped the young leader of the state’s House Republicans as his campaign chairman,” the AP reports.
Said McConnell: “I don’t like starting late.”
Politicalwire…
(He’ll be Minority leader come 2021 though)
Roy Blunt is on Meet the Press talking out of both sides of his mouth when asked about Trump’s racism and hatred of the press.
Are they all afraid of Trump?
No….
They are afraid of his supporters ….
GOP Sen Roy Blunt: Maxine Waters ‘Is Very Smart’
….SENATOR ROY BLUNT: Well, the G.O.P.’s not anti-black. And when you look at what’s happening in the economy and lots of other places. But you know, when he says things like low-IQ about somebody like Maxine Waters who–
TODD:It’s always with an African-American when he questions intelligence.
BLUNT: — grew up in Saint Louis and —
TODD: That’s what makes a lot of people uncomfortable with what he’s doing.
BLUNT: I don’t think always. I mean, look at what he said about his various opponents in the Republican primary. It’s not always. But I think you’ve gotta be more careful in our society about what you say about people that are different than you. And, you know, a lot of things, for instance, you could say about Maxine Waters. But to indicate she’s not a bright person is not one of them. She is very smart. And very calculating. And grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri. So, I served with her in the House. Usually–
TODD: Sounds like you embrace her, though, as a proud daughter of Saint Louis.
BLUNT: I embrace her as a person…
Breitbart…
I guess that means they are afraid of their own party.
After all who are the “Trump supporters?”
Morning People….
Colorado Governor:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/08/colorado-governor-race-of-day.html
Connecticut Governor:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/08/connecticut-governor-race-of-day.html
Morning All….
Any predictions on the outcome of the Ohio 12 CD vote result?
Balderson wins by a hair.
The polling IS on your side trumpfan….
We’ll see if the GOP effort has paid off….
O,Connor
Thanks Z
Polls have closed….
Early vote goes to O’conner 2-1
Balderson’s county goes to him 2-1
I have. No home power after a storm
OH-12 has Balderson up by about 700+ votes with 95% in…
Dave Wasserman
Breaking: Balderson (R) expands lead to 1,685 votes (0.8%) w/ 152/159 Delaware precincts now in. That’s *probably* the ballgame in #OH12.
Daily Kos
AP calls #KSGOV Dem primary for state Sen. Laura Kelly. Still waiting to learn GOP foe: With 41% in, Gov. Jeff Colyer leads Kris Kobach 41-30
FiveThirtyEight
All but 7 precincts are reported in #OH12 and Balderson leads by 0.8 percentage points or about 1,500 votes. It’s a long shot, but O’Connor will need help from provisional ballots, or he’ll need there to have been voting irregularities.
AP Politics
BREAKING: Rep. Ron Estes wins the Republican primary in U.S. House District 4 in Kansas, advancing to face Democratic winner James Thompson in November.
(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
Folks, I’m just gonna put this out there… but I don’t think Ocasio-Cortez has the pull with the Dem base that some on Twitter believes that she has.
Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
You can call Troy Balderson (R) “Mr. 1%.” May: defeats Leneghan (R) 29%-28% (btw, she would’ve lost). August: defeats O’Connor (D) 50%-49%. #OH12
Morning after the Ohio 12 vote….
8,500 outstanding votes to be counted ….
Odds are Balderson wins by a hair
These two will do this all over in less than 3 months
The Republicans have a win probaby
But like I said last night?
They won’t be able to marshal the same resources for this race again….
Oh, and Kobach is up about 600 votes
Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) has been arrested and charged with insider trading by the Justice Department.
Collins, President Trump’s top defender on Capitol Hill, turned himself in to the FBI on Wednesday morning, according to multiple reports.
An indictment from a grand jury also charges Collins’s son, Cameron Collins, and Stephen Zarsky, the father of his fiancee.
The indictment relates to securities of Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian biotechnology company where Rep. Collins served on the board….
More….
Yesterday was Robert Mueller’s Birthday….
Here’s the guy smiling at least 17 times….
Collins will still be on the ballot in November….
Nate Silver
Chris Collins’s district, NY-27, is really *quite* red, surprisingly so for New York state, but not so red that Democrats don’t have a shot there against a guy just arrested by the FBI. The Democratic candidate in NY-27 is Nate McMurray, the town supervisor of Grand Island.
Ryan pulls Collins from House committee leadership spots….
While the media is on fire about this?
I do NOT see this as a major story…
Collins has been under scrutiny for a while….
Ryan has only moved because of the media finally front lining this…
twitter….
The Boston Globe
@BostonGlobe
GOP Congressman Chris Collins said he would suspend his re-election campaign after being indicted Wednesday on insider-trading charges. http://bos.gl/JpSLZdm
Collins district is solid Red….
I doubt that he loses the November election , even in upstate NY , which WILL have him on the ballot anyways…
A little on others in the same situation….
Update….
Collins will just finish out his current term….
More…
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Another Update…..
…While Collins has easily been re-elected to the 27th District, he won his first race in 2012 against Democratic Rep. Kathy Hochul — now New York’s lieutenant governor — by only 2 points.
Both Andres and Livingston County GOP Chairman John Pauer said they had been fielding calls throughout Saturday morning from candidates interested in running.
They also both noted that it was still unclear how Collins would get off the ballot.
The three avenues to remove a name from the ballot are: if the candidate dies; does not meet the basic requirements for candidacy like minimum age and residency in the state; or runs for another office and declines the nomination for the first office that candidate was seeking, according to a spokesman for the state Board of Elections
Andres was confident that Collins would take steps to remove himself from the race. In that instance, the eight county chairs would pick a nominee.
But until then, Republicans are still trying to figure out what happens next….
More…..
My power is back on….
OH-12 looks like a GOP win possibly? by a hair….
And I’m out for the night….
No one else on the OH-12 outcome?
Hmmmmm????
via twitter….
Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
Fact: there are 68 R-held House districts *less* Republican than #OH12, per @CookPolitical PVI (there are also 119 less R than the old #PA18, where Conor Lamb (D) won in March).
Connecticut U.S. Senate-
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/08/connectict-us-senate-race-of-day.html
which appeals more to Republican primary voters?
“Boy Meets World” or Broccoli Rabe?
Morning
For a guy who is being threatened with impeachment by Trumps biggest fans in Congress.,Deputy AG Rosenstein is doing ok with the Leader.
Rosenstein has apparently developed a “rapport” with Trump ,according to the WSJ as reported on PoliticalWire ,and is advising him on several matters.
Trump himself is absolutely gushing in his view of his new relationship with his former presumed adversary ,describing it as “fantastic.”
Rosenstein is playing good cop/bad cop all by himself with Trump?
VERY DANGEROUS
Delaware U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/08/delaware-us-senate-race-of-day.html
Morning People….
via twitter….
Annie Correal
@anniecorreal
Melania Trump’s parents and their lawyer just arrived for their naturalization ceremony in Manhattan.
(They where escorted by unformed DHS security guys)
New Thread for Aug. 9, 2018 HERE.…