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The 3 investigations into Trump and Russia are all hopelessly compromised

Cause one A2K member = "the cheese-eaters".

Olivier, did you know you spoke for all of us now?

The congressional Republican hardliners who have revolted against proposals floated in a leaked draft of a GOP Obamacare replacement plan now have the support of two outside conservative groups, Club for Growth and FreedomWorks

They'll fix Obamacare. I shouldn't have called it repeal and replace because that's not what's going to happen. They're basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it.

Apparently Sprey likes to hear himself talk. half of what he sqid was "Irrelevant but brilliant", The other half was "Just Bullshit"

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/pierre-spreys-anti-f-35-diatribe-is-half-brilliant-and-1592445665

That seems to be the opinion more or less of every competent person who has taken any sort of a look at the F35 program.

Kinda funny that the cheese-eaters just can't stand to see low population states in the U.S. get a slightly disproportionate voting influence in the electoral college, but are thrilled to give much greater power to tiny-ass third-world totalitarian commie shitholes from all around the globe, eh?

President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, advised him in a closed-door meeting last week to stop using a phrase that was a frequent refrain during the campaign: “radical Islamic terrorism.”

But the phrase will be in the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, according to a senior White House aide—even though McMaster reviewed drafts and his staff pressed the president's chief speechwriter and senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, not to use it.

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump hosted the nation’s governors at the White House on Sunday night and welcomed them and their families ― well, the married male governors with daughters, anyway.

“He welcomed all the governors, their wives and their daughters last night,” Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) told The Huffington Post on Monday. “It was weird.”

Brown, one of four female governors in the U.S., took the slight in stride.
“It was just ― I’ve been there before,” she said. “I think people forget that there are female governors in the world.”

The White House’s Politico slime job, from start to finish

I'm on record saying I believe President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. The waves of antisemitism crashing around the nation are sufficient evidence, as are the president's repeated attacks on the press, the courts and democratic norms.

While we should be vigilant, I've been thinking: Are we seeing fascism where there is first plain ordinary incompetence? This may be a moot distinction since one thing can beget another, but in terms of a communication strategy, it's important to understand what's going on. This White House talks a good game. It has crowed about the return of "alpha males." But when it matters, it chokes.

More than exposing Trump for his white nationalist sympathies, the best way forward may be stressing what's emphatically evident: Trump can't govern.