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Friday, May 26, 2017

Late Night Track -- To All the Little Girls

I hadn't seen this performance up until now, but posting it felt appropriate tonight.


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#HRC46



In most sporting events, when a team or player is discovered cheating, the game is turned over to the opponent. While there's little precedent for this (there is, in fact, a little), there's also no precedent for a Presidential campaign not only cheating so brazenly, but being found out so quickly.

There's just way too much now. The Jared Kushner news is just the latest shoe to drop. I don't need to go through the litany...

It's time we start talking about the election being turned over to Hillary Clinton. She was the rightful winner. I don't know how this would happen on a practical level, but that's not up to me to decide. We need elected Democrats to call for this. They're not going to unless millions of us do.

So let's get this out there. #HRC46. Spread it. Make memes. Tweet it to your Congresscritters. Let's see what happens.

UPDATE (5/26/2017, 11:17 PM): It looks like Twitterer Miss Jass beat me to this:

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BREAKING: Not Gonna Make a "He Went To Jared" Crack





... though I *really* want to. Anyway, Sergei Kislyak didn't have to go to Jared, because Jared came to him:

Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, son-in-law and confidant to then-President-elect Trump, made the proposal during a meeting on Dec. 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials. Kislyak said Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications.
The meeting also was attended by Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser.

As you might expect, Twitter is all a-twitter over this!














Word.
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The Daily Combover - May 26, 2017

Trump day 128.

He is officially the laughingstock of the world. World leaders are mocking him to his face:

Macron makes sure Trump knows that he is going to greet everyone else before finally coming in for a handshake. And, of course, he'd already sent Trump reeling with the patented French Squeeze:


 It's not really fair given Trump has the IQ of Louie Gohmert and most other Presidents are at least sporting a 120.

So it comes as no surprise that everyone is laughing at him. The good thing is that they don't believe the US is seriously going to shift policy. The bad thing is that respect for the US is at an all-time low. And when nobody respects you, that's when things get dangerous.
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Open Thread -- Hillary's Still Got Something Important to Say Edition

From her commencement speech today at Wellesley College:

What role do you think she'll play in taking down Trump?

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Earworm of the Afternoon -- I Was Born


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Friday Links -- 5/26/2017

One thing that has changed a lot since I began this sucky blog is that now "everybody" follows the minutiae of daily politics. It's a bit because of Trump, but also a lot just because of social media. Facebook is like this politics gusher now. Once upon a time I was this weird dude who knew what was going on all the time, and now everybody I know does too.
 .... for two reasons. for one thing, I know what it's like to have a sucky blog. Second, it's unbelievable to me how many people I know who could not hold a conversation about politics a year ago are addicted to the news.

Believe it or not, I've lived in New York during the age of Uber/Lyft/other yellow cab replacement companies and still do not have the Uber app. They've always appeared to be leading a race to the bottom, workers and passengers be damned, and the only question to me has been whether they'd take the existing yellow cab service with them. I was pessimistic for a while, but Uber appears to be determined now to go it alone, trying some crazy things, like flying cars, that will never work but are aimed at separating stupid investors looking for some glitz. And, no, I don't believe their cars (or any others) will be driving themselves, outside of very controlled conditions, anytime soon.

  • This story in The Atlantic about lead poisoning in New Orleans is tragic, but it's good to see that someone other than Kevin Drum is picking up on how devastating the scourge is. It took me a while, but I'm fully on board with the idea that lead exposure caused a surge in violence in cities in the second half of the 20th Century and that decreasing that exposure accounts for much of the decrease in crime we've seen since the 1990s.
  • Speaking of American cities, Jared Kushner is a horrible slumlord. I'll bet that guy doesn't care if his tenants are exposed to lead.
  • Ed at Gin and Tacos wonders why it's become OK to be a Nazi in the United States these days, when it wasn't in the days of, well, the Nazis.
  • The irrepressible Sally Albright musters up quite the Tweetstorm about the issues we face in try to bring the Democratic Party together:



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Stephen Colbert Kicks Some Ass

Even though Rob Quist didn't quite beat Greg Gianforte in Montana's lone Congressional district yesterday, he definitely demonstrated the potential strength of Democratic candidates over the next couple of years as we continue to try to throw off the yoke of Trump and the Republicans and to advance an agenda that will actually help Americans.

So it's OK to still have some fun with Greg Gianforte, journalist batterer:


 
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Trump's Playing With Fire



So, as Ari discussed yesterday in the Combover, Trump really insulted our allies in NATO.

His transgressions were not minor, as Eli Stokols tells us in this thread:




This is some grave stuff, and could cost us our relationships. However, I think that most European leaders (as well as North American ones) are giving the U.S. a pass for now because they believe that Trump is an anomaly, because most Americans that Europeans know didn't vote for Trump, and because they understand that Russia helped Trump steal the 2016 election. But  if somehow there's a second Trump term, all bets are off.

But while NATO may give *us* a pass, I think Trump is another story. He blew any goodwill that might have been remaining towards him and showed how dangerous he is. Look at the steely, resolute faces in this crowd (and also at Trump's incredibly badly done hair). They're done with him.


Macron showed that in his own way today:


It seems to me that Trump doesn't understand who he's messing with, and it could be his downfall. It would not surprise me at all if our allies help to take him down. Trump essentially made it more likely that we'll see a pee-pee tape or that he'll have assets in illegal accounts exposed and seized. And I can't wait...
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Thursday, May 25, 2017

Late Night Track -- One Dance


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