Trump is proposing to do exactly what the NRA has proposed.

Trump's Answer For America's Kids:

@JoyAnnReid

Maybe we should just turn our entire country into a live battlefield, with every citizen prepared to kill and die at all times. Perhaps we’ll have actual warlords who control swaths of territory with mini arsenals like a Mad Max movie. Maybe then the gun lobby will be satisfied.

Newsweek Al Franken story has been retracted.

Newsweek Al Franken story has been retracted.








https://twitter.com/yashar/status/966423967224532992

He knew. He 100% knew.

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But none of these are the key thing. That is this: For the second half of 2016 Donald Trump himself and his campaign knew that Russia was engaged in a wide ranging effort to subvert the 2016 campaign and to work to get him elected. Yet despite this knowledge he and his campaign continued to approve numerous contacts with Russian government officials, clandestine meetings, receive offers of assistance. He also continued to push a decidedly Russia friendly policy agenda, even to the point of threatening to short-circuit or abandon the NATO alliance – probably Russia’s principal foreign policy goal not only today but decades back into the Cold War. They continued to authorize all of this, continued to feel out the possible dimensions of the relationship and, critically, made no effort to contact the FBI or other relevant federal agencies about a plot they knew these agencies were tracking and trying to combat.

He knew. He 100% knew. And yet they continued on with the contacts and clandestine discussions and public policy promises right up to election day and intensified them during the transition. Not once, as far as we know, did anyone associated with the Trump campaign or Trump himself speak to anyone from law enforcement or the intelligence community and say, “Hey, you told us about that interference campaign. This one guy contacted us and we had a few conversations with him. Just wanted you to know.”
Not once.

Of course, Trump or Jared Kushner or Paul Manafort or Don Jr might have said, “Hey, now that you mention it, we actually took this meeting in Trump Tower in June. And someone said it was the Russian government itself trying to give us dirt. We just wanted you to know.”

Not once. None of that happened. To me this shows a clear consciousness of guilt and more specifically a desire to participate – ‘collaborate’ is probably the better word – in the Russian operation out of the view of the US government which was trying to prevent it.

Paid actor? "If you had seen me in my school's -Fiddler on the Roof, you would know i wasn't"

Wolf asks Parkland student Cameron Kasky if he was invited to attend the president's listening session.

"My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail."

Is he a paid actor?

"If you had seen me in my school's production of Fiddler on the Roof, you would know I wasn't..."

This is what democracy looks like. Tallahassee, Florida.

VIDEO:

https://twitter.com/PeterSchorschFL/status/966350903132540929

https://twitter.com/funder/status/966342390696108032

Source inside WH: "Everyone knows the jig is up."

@JYSexton
Just got in touch with one of my old sources inside the Trump Campaign who raised alarms about Russian interference. According to him, "Everyone knows the jig is up."

He told me the feeling when Mueller got appointed was that maybe this investigation might end up with a hazy narrative of what happened, but the minute people read the Manafort indictment "the air came out of the balloon."

The feeling inside Trumpland isn't that Trump is desperate, but that he's convinced himself there was no collusion. They've rumored about delusion for awhile, but that seems to be the prevailing opinion now.

Nobody I talked to was engaged in these meetings or negotiations with Russian nationals. They'd always heard these rumors and innuendo and were always suspicious of Manafort, Flynn, et al. The rumors and innuendo, however, have all been reflected in what's made it out.

For a lot of the workers and staffers inside the campaign it's become a paranoid life filled with lawyers. A lot of them who got in to have a job in national politics or a future media gig in "Trump TV" regret having helped Trump and fallen into this.

WTF. Traitor - Devin Nunes - Asking Russian bots for help?

@DevinNunes: Catch up on mainstream media Russian conspiracy theories in this piece by @FDRLST PS-If you are a Russian Bot please make this go viral PSS-If you’re not a Russian Bot you will become one if you retweet:
https://twitter.com/fdrlst/status/966314566752747520 …

David Corn: Looking forward to reading Chapter 9: "How Jesus Would Pay Off a Porn Star."

@DavidCornDC
Book-signing at CPAC:
"David Brody and Scott Lamb: 'The Faith of Donald Trump: A Spiritual Biography'"
Looking forward to reading Chapter 9: "How Jesus Would Pay Off a Porn Star."

So the 1st amendment doesn't count in Texas.

A superintendent in a Texas school district is warning that students will be suspended if they cause any disruptions to protest gun violence.

Needville ISD Superintendent Curtis Rhodes said in a letter that was sent to families and posted on social media that students would be suspended for three days if they took part in the protests happening in the wake of the deadly Florida high school shooting, The Houston Chronicle reported.

In the statement, Rhodes said that Needville ISD is "very sensitive" to violence in schools.


"Please be advised that the Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness!!" Rhodes said.

"Should students choose to do so, they will be suspended from school for 3 days and face all the consequences that come along with an out of school suspension."

Life is about choices, Rhodes said, adding that "every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative."

"We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved," the statement said.



http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374814-evangelical-leader-pat-robertson-calls-for-stricter-gun-laws?__twitter_impression=true