At a local and even state level, most people aren't completely Mike Pence level evil. Running a campaign is largely administrative and that experience translates.

There probably less cross over on the heavy strategy stuff, although manipulating people would seem pretty universal.

SPICE

Dick Morris says hi

Reality TV

Stay tuned for next week.

With all the wonders of modern technology that's the best they could do to make his face look likable?

So is the Bannon crew's objection to scaramoosh a) a good sign, because it means more of trump's strings will be getting pulled by someone less evil than them, b) a bad thing because, against all odds, trump has hired a new puppetmaster even more evil than Bannon, or c) no one really knows?

he can't be worse than bannon

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https://twitter.com/octonion/status/888796242586722304

amazing

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...ns-russia.html



but he'll obv veto the bill
fire Mueller
preemptively pardon everyone in his inner circle
etc
business as usual (which includes actively trying to kill the ACA)

What would be the count for veto proof?

2/3rds

Presumably 19 Rs, assuming all 48 D/I's agree to try and override a veto

Best bet is somehow to pass this was like 60 votes, because passing it with say 75 votes just means Trump can remove all responsibility.

Senate is easier than house I would think, since they said senate version was near unanimous in principle. I'd say it's probably up to ryan to orchestrate either less than 2/3 majority or more.

Hot take alert:

The epidemic is the militarization of the police. The us vs them mindset.

Them killing us is the easiest thing to get righteously indignant over and have others become sympathetic to the position.

Police is a government institution, with a code of conduct rules, accountability, and culture imposed from above. The citizenry is responsible for electing officials who will run and oversee it in good faith. The left doesn't demonize all of police, when they ask for actual oversight and accountability.

The Muslim community is diverse, disjointed, and overwhelmingly just want to lead their own lives, even while their rights are routinely trampled. Generalizations of the two groups are not similar at all.

I think it is similar. It's an oversimplification and generalization of the simplest thing to wrap your head around and an overreaction to that generalization. It's a problem, but a tiny one both in terms of percentage of occurance and relativity to other problems

In the broad sense I agree 100% the militarization of the police is yuge problem that needs oversight, accountability and curtailing that doesn't seem remotely close to ever happening but the only thing people get up in arms about is a shooting and the response is temporary until the next one.

There has never been a plan for what comes next, the outrage is never sustainable because a majority of the people who take to the streets or protest are propostrously uninformed you end up with the candle burning bright early and out fast. The formula is usually pretty simple:

1. Cop shoots civilian
2. OMG COPS ARE KILLING US ALL
3. TO THE STREETS!!!!
4. 'NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!'
5. Repeat 4 with less and less people for about a week til nothing's left
6. Return to apathy

Consider that militarization is occurring in virtually every law enforcement department meaning that every cop is undergoing a culture shift at his workplace. We know that a hostile culture breeds these incidents when force is abused, and their political clout defends the perpetrators. but religious radicalization by fundamentalists is still very rare and fringe, yet regular peaceful muslims experience their demonization on a regular basis.

SRM,

It's not strictly that cops kill people. It's that cops kill people and almost never face justice, and in that, it's really hard not to say that the entirety of the criminal justice system is complicit in letting cops get away with murder all the time. If cops were routinely arrested, charged, arraigned, tried, and convicted as common murderers when they murdered people, you wouldn't see protests when cops kill people. You'd also hopefully see a lot fewer instances of cops killing people.

islam is obviously pretty crazy

ya ... so is christianity

the pope has Gods cell phone # man.

While the enforcers of law, and those given power by citizens, need to be held to a higher moral standard than those citizens, you also need to be careful when prosecuting police. That is, the punishment can't be results oriented so that it won't discourage officers from using force in the correct situations in the future.