StrangeSox

State Dept. letter could pave way for deportation of 300,000 immigrants with protected status http://wapo.st/2zgtz9S Some of these people have been here over twenty years. They're also not going to do anything to fix DACA, so that's another few hundred thousand that'll be deported next year.

well brazille may have been exaggerating or conflating two different agreements to save her own ass https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/...nc-deal-n817411

He was probably mentally ill and never should have been let in the army. The "got people killed" thing is a bit of a stretch. What happened was that rescue missions were more likely to get approved, so they would toss in "oh and look for bergdahl" as a secondary objective. He also spent five years in captivity already so that seems like enough punishment.

Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change

Adam Schefter 11 mins · Facebook Mentions · Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Texans owner Bob McNair, amongst others, will be deposed and asked to turn over all cell phone records and emails in relation to the Colin Kaepernick collusion case against the NFL, a league source confirmed. Others owners, teams and league officials also will be deposed, but those individuals have been confirmed for now.

If you strip out the AMT repeal (AMT only hits upper middle class and wealthy households, so this repeal would only benefit them), the tax plan is actually a net tax increase That's how bad this thing is.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 10:45 AM) I think the change from asylum to prison is a pretty big slip up given the racial composition of the owners and the players and what the protests are about in the first place. Yeah, that's the subtext that made it a messed up statement. Whether or not that implication was intentional, that's the way a lot of people are going to take it. Or at least give it a pretty skeptical look.

I dunno where to dump this since it doesn't deserve it's own thread, but Berghdal is only being dishonorably discharged, no prison time. e: the judge specifically said he was considering Trump's dumbass tweets about Bergdahl for sentencing. gotta wonder what impact his DEATH PENALTY!!!!!! tweets about the NYC attacker will have.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 10:19 AM) TBH this is just the much more comfortable area for house republicans of signalling. They know it's impractical and "wouldn't actually vote for it!", but they get to show their constituents they are TOUGH in protecting the president. The president, of course, can't see that game. So he will start to think he has congressional support, fire mueller, and be surprised when congress has an issue with it. They will be deeply, deeply troubled and then do absolutely nothing about it because they have their own independent and very real & serious investigations going on, you see.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 10:02 AM) Ok so Mueller is forced to resign, this s*** just doesn't go away! He has members of his teams who are also investigating. God, Trump and his band of misfits are so short sighted it's scary. They'd replace him with someone who would play ball and either slow-play the investigation, severely limit its scope so the charges against Manafort and Gates would never arise and nobody would look into any other shady financial dealings, or expand it and go after the REAL criminals, the CROOKED DEMS! The Republicans spent years and IIRC 12 different Congressional committees investigating BENGHAZI!!!! which turned up zero wrong-doing related to Benghazi but did expose Clinton's email server, the issue that dogged her for the entire campaign.

First open calls from Congressional Republicans for Mueller to resign

A highlight of how badly Trump is damaging institutions and how poor an understanding he has of the government he runs: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/...n=sharebutton-t "Aides have a privately said he conflates himself with institutions since he took office " https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/926459518657146880 None of this is surprising, or at least it shouldn't be to anyone. Trump's biggest praise for foreign leaders has always been for autocrats, and this is straight out of the standard "consolidate power into one unquestionable ruler" playbook they all run. Damage institutions, destroy norms, break governance as people know and expect it and never slow down until you have total control.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 09:28 AM) also as if there aren't millions of republicans in those states. But they've clearly been right that many voters care more about antagonizing libs than getting anything that helps them. This isn't the smoothest segue, but on "getting anything that helps them" Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining More people work at Arby's than are employed in coal mining nationally, but coal miners have become a totem of the WWC. Coal is dead largely for economic reasons, not regulatory.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 09:25 AM) Isn't there also a "Child tax credit" that they're getting rid of that would matter in the family of 4 case? They're actually increasing it by a couple hundred bucks and raising the income phase-out limit on that one.

One thing that's not being covered too much in the tax plan from what I've seen is that while they are doubling the standard deduction, they're eliminating the personal exemption. This means the changes are more or less a wash when you combine those two, and you lose out if you're currently taking SALT, student loan, medical, or mortgage deductions.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 09:11 AM) My guilty watch for the last couple seasons has been Leah Reminis show on Scientology. If even a fraction of what they talk about is true, that is a f***ed up organization. HBO has a good documentary on it. https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/going-clear

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 08:56 AM) Nothing is surprising anymore, but it's pretty crazy that the President almost always refers to a sitting U.S Senator as "Pocahontas". Three days ago, Trump declared November "National Native American Heritage Month" This is the President of the United States.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 08:59 AM) I mean, what's worse, is as many pointed out, if what Trump just tweeted about demanding FBI/DOJ to investigate political opponents was in an uncovered email, it would be a scandal. It still is. He's openly bemoaning the fact that he can't just order the FBI and DOJ to stop investigations he doesn't like and to launch frivolous investigations of his (former) political opponents. He's being so open and honest about how badly he wants to corrupt our federal justice system and obstruct any investigations he doesn't like. https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/926269757443190785 At least, for now, he's being frustrated by the system because he's not successful at his attempts at corruption. But how long will that hold? Will Republicans, either elected officials or the voters, ever hold him accountable? https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/926417953750384640

He bought the -ist sites in May but I thought he actually founded DNAinfo? Either way yeah buying up all these sites and then shuttering them a few months later "coincidentally" right after they unionize is so blatant. I'm sure the NLRB will be all over this!

Supposedly, DNAinfo never really did turn a profit for Ricketts. So even if the closure decision was anti-union spite, it may be that local news just isn't profitable enough. I'm not sure how you fix that problem as a society because it's still a valuable thing and not everything should be covered on a more national scale.

Probably. We already saw how badly Republicans will abuse their Congressional powers with all of the Benghazi nonsense, and even now they're starting to ramp up the cover for Trump with the Uranium One non-scandal investigations they're kicking off. They're normalizing so much awful, damaging behavior that it's becoming harder and harder to see a path where we fully recover and get back to normal governance.

What happens when the 2020 campaigns really start kicking off and Trump starts calling for investigations of his political opponents?

Initial polls for the CUT CUT CUT ACT aren't as bad as the ACA repeal bills, but it's still a pretty unpopular proposal. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/60-percent-...al_twitter_abcn https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/926412717434564608

Completely removing the sites with no notice seems ridiculous. Gonna be hard to assemble a portfolio for all the fired employees now.