Ahhhh, The Visual
Kellyanne Conway, the little wind-up yakkey doll of crazy butt language, had one that made me stop and think yesterday.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that while President Donald Trump “works hand in glove” with Attorney General William Barr, Trump never asked Barr to intervene in Roger Stone’s criminal case.
Hand in glove? I mean, I could see hand in hand is probably what she was going for. But, hand in glove has some strange visuals for me. Think puppet. There ya go – hand in glove.
I dunno. Maybe she told the truth without knowing it. When Barr said he couldn’t “do his job” if Trump kept twittering, the only thing that could possibly mean in the real world is that Trump has to quit announcing that he has his hand up Barr’s butt, and that it fits like a glove.
Today is the first day of early voting in Texas. I will vote today. I have come to believe that we live in dangerous but not unsurmoutable times. We have some vitally important statewide judicial races that can change the corporate owned face of Texas. Please, please, do not vote blind in those races because we also have some real stinkers running.
I still do not know who is going to get my vote for president. I’m leaning toward Elizabeth Warren. About 85% of my friends are mad at me about it which tells me that she’ll get around 15%. I wish Franklin Roosevelt was running. He’s not. And I’m pissed off about it.
J.J.
I just want to a Dem that can beat the hell out of Rump really bad in Nov. I don’t care if that candidate is a male, female, gay or straight, so long as they can beat him. We got to vote Trump out of office. He and the GOP destroy the rest of the country in next four years if we don’t.
1OOPS, left out the word “will”. Dang nabbet!
2Any good source for info on the judicial nominees?
3Vote for Lizzie. I can see her still standing after all this is over. She’s gonna let the guys beat up on each other. Nevertheless, she persisted.
4go warren.
5Mark – I guess the usual League of Women Voters or a hairdresser you know. The courts may differ depending on where you live. I live in the greater Houston area.
Railroad Commissioner – Chrysta Castaneda
6Chief Justice, Supreme Ct of Texas – Amy Clark Meachum
Supreme Court, Place 6 – Kathy Cheng
Supreme Court, Place 7 – Brandy Voss
Supreme Court, Place 8 – Gisela D. Triana
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3 – William Pieratt Demond
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4 – Tina Clinton
Can everyone stop talking like the primary is the general election? Go ahead and fight like hell for you primary candidate, but if/when she or he loses then fight just as hard for the primary candidate that did win.
P.S. I prefer Warren as well.
7If eggs are a function chickens, only time will tell… i.e., the early primaries will suggest the direction we will travel.
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‘You Are Not Going to Buy This Election,’ Sanders Tells Bloomberg at Rally of 17,000 in Washington.
That sounds a little FDR-like to me Ms. J.J. Vote your heart, not your fear and if you’re right, think of the crowing you’ll be doing at 4am on the phone to your friends!
8Hand in glove.
9Trump as armchair proctologist.
I’m with Senator Professor Warren also.
10I like Liz too. My only concern is who replaces her in the Senate if she were to be elected. A Massachusetts Republican isn’t the same as a midwest Republican but still – who will her Republican governor replace her with?
11“hand in glove” … maybe it’s a criminal thing. Dersh was one of Donnie’s* defenders at the Moscow Mitch circus having had previous experience at another circus trial in which the defendant was ‘acquitted.’ Note to Messy: google 6 Handshakes rule; Claus von Bulow. The Soap Opera on the Potomac is getting deep. In other not the news incel Stephen Miller found himself a bridezilla right there in Mike Pence’s office. Okay … stopping now with all dues apologies.
Warren. Warren. Warren! She is our ultimate choice for at least the first 2-3 rounds of caucus this Saturday. We can be bought. No, not voting for Magic Mike; and hell no we wouldn’t propose something illegal or otherwise st00pid. But we may propose a deal of sorts with our fellow millennials on the younger end of the spectrum supporting Sanders. If they promise to do their level best to register 2-12 friends before the general, we’ll support their enthusiasm for Bernie and switch our votes at caucus. In exchange everyone commits to vote Democratic at the general. No tent sulking stay at home hurt fee fees. No guarantees, but we know these guys, they’re honorable and not members of some mythical Bernie Bros Bot Band.
12lazrgrl@11, Scott Brown? j/k
13#PresidentWarren is starting to blow up on twitter today. good. also, one of the tweets i follow stated that of course the MSM stopped following her once she surged. they are all owned by billionaires that are made nervous by Sen Warren & her fiscal policies. i love her more now.
14I’m with you on Warren, jj. She’s right on the issues and doesn’t play games. It appears we’re so fearful at the prospect of another 4 years of Trump that we’re choosing our candidates based on their perceived electablity rather than on how awesome their platform is.
That’s why our black and brown candidates have fallen by the wayside and the two remaining female candidates are now polling at the bottom of the pack. We (the Democrats) still haven’t risen above our racist/sexist past.
It’s a crying shame.
15Before I read this I used the term hand in glove to describe this relationship between trumputin and Barr
16I voted this morning. I had my list, so it went pretty quick; I saw some suddenly realizing there were 54 positions and 11 questions! I always feel like the primary is where I vote my heart and the General is when we get down to business.
17By the time the primaries get here to Nebraska, most of the Democratic field will be gone and there should be a clear front-runner in May.
It seems to me strategic voting in the primary is the way I should go, regardless of my preferred choice amongst those who remain: Vote for the candidate who is ahead, to pile on more votes and try to prevent splitting (and worse, a brokered convention).
18Well, if we’re going there with the hand in glove visual, we might as well go all the way.
19Add Vlad the impaler to the mix, and trump gets, AND gives.
Kinda like Russian nesting dolls.
I intend to vote for the candidate who Putin and Trump don’t want us to vote for: Joe Biden.
20I’d be happy if you were to vote for Sen. Warren.
21Warren. Senator, Professor, CFPBureau, Age, Health, Fighter. woman.
22lazrgrl@11, I feel your pain. Here in Alaska, Frank Murkowski used to be US Senator misrepresenting Alaska. Then somehow he got hisself elected governor of Alaska. This left an open senate seat. The open senate seat is filled by the governor. So Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter Lisa Murkowski to the senate seat recently vacated by Frank Murkowski.
We thought the corruption could not possibly be piled any deeper, but Lisa proved us wrong. She voted not to call any witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial. She made a blathering statement that what Trump did was wrong and shameful — then voted to let him continue doing it. And he is.
Murkowskis — the gift that keeps on dumping on you.
23“When Barr said he couldn’t ‘do his job’ if Trump kept twittering, the only thing that could possibly mean in the real world is that Trump has to quit announcing that he has his hand up Barr’s butt, and that it fits like a glove.”
Best line of this political season regarding disBarr. Outstanding!
Minnesota has early voting too and I’ll be doing so Thursday for Warren. Serving as an election judge for our Super Tuesday primary.
24Headlines: polling+politics= pollingtics – a dicey proposition!
Bloomberg moves into second behind Sanders among Democrats, Biden third: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Edit: The opinion poll taken from Friday to Monday showed 25% of registered Democrats and independents said they would vote for Sanders, 78, a liberal firebrand who won last week’s New Hampshire primary. Support for the senator from Vermont grew by 5 points over the past week, the biggest one-week increase for any of the candidates.Bloomberg, 78, a billionaire media mogul and former New York mayor, was backed by 17% of respondents, versus 13% for Biden, 77, a former vice president, who long led in national polls among Democrats vying to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 election.Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who edged Sanders in Iowa and finished a close second in New Hampshire, got 11% support in the poll. Nine percent backed Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and 5% said they would vote for Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
Sanders’ popularity has risen steadily over the past several weeks, especially among men, African Americans and rural residents, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. He leads in polls for Nevada’s nominating caucuses on
Saturday.
Bloomberg appears to have positioned himself as one of the top moderates standing in Sanders’ way for the nomination.
According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, Bloomberg has increased his share of support among registered voters in each of the past three weeks and has flipped places with Biden, who had 17% support last week versus 15% for Bloomberg.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-democrats-poll/bloomberg-moves-into-second-behind-sanders-among-democrats-biden-third-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN20C2KV
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How many times I gotta tell you goop kids, no, no, no!
North Carolina court blocks voter ID law as discriminatory(Reuters)
Edit: A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday blocked the state’s voter identification law from going into effect, finding it was a discriminatory attempt to suppress the black vote, in a victory for Democrats and voting rights advocates
The appeals court reversed a lower court decision that denied a preliminary injunction against a law requiring voters to produce a photo ID at the polls.The ruling puts the voter ID law on hold until the underlying lawsuit challenging it is decided, likely blocking it for the November 2020 general election.
The law did include a provision allowing people without proper ID to still vote, but the appeals court found the provision burdensome and that the “discriminatory intent” of the law was especially evident in those exceptions.“Such a choice speaks more of an intention to target African-American voters rather than a desire to comply with the newly created Amendment in a fair and balanced manner,” the three-judge panel said in its 45-page ruling.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-court-blocks-voter-id-law-as-discriminatory-idUSKBN20C2DC
25What Grandma Ada wrote: “…the primary is where I vote my heart and the General is when we get down to business.”
Warren now.
But whatever: D’s need massive voter turnout numbers in Nov. Staying on the couch that month means you effectively vote for 45.
26My grandparents kept a framed photograph of FDR on the wall in their living room as long as they lived. I suspected that was required by law.
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