Honeycombe8
Honeycombe8's Journal"The cavalry isn't coming to save us."
If we want change, we have to go out ourselves and seize it.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/opinions/state-of-the-union-we-the-people-cynthia-nixon-opinion/index.html
It's looking more and more like this is the case. It's up to us, the citizens.
What kind of dog is this? (UPDATED)
Can anyone say what kind of dog this is? He's adorable.
https://twitter.com/WinstonTapper/status/956879463748456448
UPDATE:
Here are both of Jake Tapper's dogs. Adorable. The boy tan dog is Winston (an Australian Terrier) and the one on the right is Clementine! (a maltese/dachsund mix). Thanks to demmiblue's post, who found the answer. Phew. I wanted to consider getting a dog like Clementine in the future, but since she's a mix, she's a one-of-a-kind!
https://twitter.com/WinstonTapper/status/944978660813099008
I bet there are a lot of Washington Repubs calling each other tonight.
Getting their talking points together. Tommorrow: sending out the dogs with the talking points. Fox will also get the memo.
Pretty good timing...the story is out suddenly, at night, before the Repubs can get ahead of the story. Someone knew what he was doing when he leaked this.
Awwwwwww.....doggie singing
Too cute!
https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/956526876285075456
Bill Kristol: Trump may have returned to the idea of firing Mueller....
and this may have been McGahn's attempt to stop it. Or why leak it now?
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/956715231660699648
Is there going to be an alternate DU group page during the mid-terms?
This was brought up previously. Has anyone heard anything? In case the site goes down during the mid-terms like on 2017 election night. Or is that impractical?
I'm concerned we're going to see a repeat of the 2017 election because the Russians are still doing what they were doing last year (at least that's what I've heard officials say).
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!!! Jobs?
The big jobs guy, the smartest man in the world, the one who makes the best deals (there's no better deal maker in the world), the guy who's going to bring so many jobs that the people will start saying "Stop! Stop with all the jobs!" That guy, it turns out, isn't producing more jobs at all. (Color me shocked!)
https://twitter.com/NOW1SOLAR/status/955579485998362625
https://twitter.com/hardball/status/956322979209760768
https://twitter.com/rmayemsinger/status/956203111823040512
Who will play Mueller in the movie? Who could possibly be a believable Trump?
There will be a movie about Russiagate at some point in the not too distant future. Who would be good to play Mueller?
My vote goes to (drum roll)...George Clooney. I think he'd be great in it.
An actor to play Trump stumps me. Tall, overweight, old, the hair, loudmouth, vulgar, molesting women, a liar, a braggard, mental issues. Jeff Bridges, maybe...but he's too likable, I think.
Exodus (Syrian Refugees)- PBS. Trump should be forced to watch this.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/exodus-the-journey-continues/If it were up to me, Trump would be strapped to a chair, with eyes clipped open (like the protagonist in A Clockwork Orange), and forced to watch a documentary I saw last night on PBS.
It follows several refugees and refugee families on their trek from Syria, as they flee for their lives and seek a place....any place...to stay. With all their belongings on their backs, with little ones in tow or in arms, they walk, and walk, and walk...until they find a refugee camp or a country who will let them in. One family walked through eight countries. Another walked through 11 countries.
This documentary just ripped my heart out. The largest refugee crisis in the history of the world, and the world isn't able to handle it very well. Young men who have lost their livelihood...looking for food or any way to make a dollar. They had been laborers, electricians, plumbers. Mothers trying to stifle tears as they try to give their children a semblance of normality, not to let them know how bad things are, as they find trash to pretty up their shacks to make them seem like homes, and make meals out of nothing much.
I highly recommend this documentary. It's up close and personal, following several refugees as they deal with life after ISIS in Syria. It's heartbreaking. Especially so when they come up against protests by far-righters protesting against the refugees. One young man is reduced to tears, saying "I'm a human being like they are."
Some of them even have visas for the U.S., but haven't been allowed to come here yet. It broke my heart. Now, I know it's not entirely object. For instance, it doesn't show the terrorist acts that have been done by some refugees, which is partly behind the protests against allowing more in to their countries. In fact, that's not even mentioned. It should be, since it is a factor to some degree. Even so, the documentary puts a face on the refugees, and you can see just how normal they are. Like you and me.
CNN: How Democrats lost the shutdown
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 8:21 PM ET, Mon January 22, 2018
And then, suddenly on Monday afternoon, Democrats gave in, with all but 16 of their 48 members voting to reopen the government with a three-week continuing resolution and a vague promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that they would get a fair hearing in their efforts to extend the DACA immigration program.
Why? Good question! And one that many liberals within the party -- up to and including the half-dozen or so Democrats in the Senate planning runs for president in 2020 -- are asking in the wake of the Democrats' capitulation.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/democratic-party-shutdown/index.html
The analysis goes on to say that he thinks the answer is that red-state Democrats up for re-election in 2018 panicked. There are 10 Dems running in states where Trump won (North Dakota, West Virginia, Indiana, Missouri). He says that those Dems put pressure on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to get the best deal he could, reopen the government and declare victory. (Article says that Schumer was losing support among that group of vulnerable Dems.)
The article says that a three-week CR with no guarantee of a clean DACA vote -- "belies that claim of a Democratic win."
So could this end up being a deal for DACA? Maybe. But, like the article says, "....even if Schumer gets his promise out of McConnell for a DACA vote and even if it passes the Senate, the Republican-controlled House and White House await. And it's hard to see a Senate deal surviving those two gauntlets."
Kamala Harris and Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond both made statements against the deal.
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