lord hear our prayer

It's hard to bravely fight drugs and criminals when you're not getting paid.

They're probably carpet squares for bouldering that rock climbers use to clean off their shoes before trying a problem. I have to guess there are some bouldering areas along the border.

Edit: sorry missed the obvious answer which is the ranchers are lying bigoted ****ing racists.

Yeah turns out that out of the 60 million voting Republicans 59.9 million are completely dissociated from reality and will believe a random chain email over a years-long FBI investigation

Don't be silly, we all know that random border ranchers are all experts at identifying Muslim prayer rugs.

Not even a warm take imo.

Trump: our border patrol is great and they are heroes, but also they are powerless to stop a caravan that has media members following it and updating their location

Another tweet, another felony count for witness tampering/intimidation/obstruction of justice

I think this is right. Just look at the Kavanaugh stuff - pretty clear he did it - but the hearings likely helped R's shore up support from their base (polls showed that their/Trump's approval increased even though Kavanuagh's fell).

I'm not sure I'd say rock solid, but it needs to be corroborated beyond witnesses. It's too easy for R's to launch ad hominem attacks on Cohen's character, but if there are records it'll make it much tougher for them to just dismiss it out of hand.

I've flown a lot of codel's around Afghanistan. I got the impression they saw whatever they wanted. They would typically fly to wherever the focus of the war was, which in most cases was far from sanitized. Lots of meetings with US + Afghan military. If there's an effort to sanitize what they see it's done as an uncoordinated effort across all levels of leadership across all branches of all coalition countries. As in, yeah, Matt Golestyn probably didn't reveal he was murdering prisoners but they probably left with a pretty good idea about what our goals were at the lowest levels and what we were doing to accomplish them.

Their Fitbits died so they stopped walking. Imagine the steps you could rack up on that track

Deplorables have short memories. Maybe there's a little wavering but once the shutdown ends, it'll be forgotten by history and he'll be closer to 40%. Hell, people will remember Trump serving McDonald's more vividly than the shutdown.

Because we know that ranchers who haven't seen a Muslim in their lives can tell the difference between a welcome mat and a prayer rug.

None of it matters. Haven't these idiots figured that out yet. Trump could go through a town and rape all of the babies in it and nothing would happen.

Removing him from office is a pipe dream no matter what happens.

There's no doubt that with the right timing, Democrats could hijack the media with committee after committee and hearing after hearing of Russia-Trump collusion. Actually, it'd be interesting to start doing that as Trump is running for reelection. Having that blocking out all of the Trump propaganda would be pretty strong.

Sure they won't impeach but the news will be enough to keep him out of office for a second term and possibly cause even greater damage to the party as a whole.

True but is this enough in a Trump Presidency to successfully remove him from office?

If the Mueller report contains things even in the ballpark of the BuzzFeed article, they will have to impeach. Dems also need to start the house investigations ASAP because it will get even messier if impeachment and the re-election campaign are going on at the same time. I do think impeachment sometime later this year is becoming increasingly likely.

I don't know, he's still got his base...

Trump throwing all the greatest hits at the wall today. Seems shook.

The worry has traditionally been that it clears the way for a more focused and competent Trump in the form of President Pence. I'm not incredibly up to speed on Pence's current alleged degree of involvement and culpability, so the 'President Pelosi' stuff seems a bit previous to me.

The interesting point about trump's and guiliani's reaction to the buzzfeed story is that they don't say that the story is "fake news", instead they say that Cohen is a liar. Cohen makes no comment.

I would say that this reaction makes the likelihood that the story is broadly true much higher.

I'll be honest, I didn't think Boris Johnson had that in him.

The titty twerking in that video is remarkable.

And I hate to say but the face paint on that girl is really impressively done.

I don't think Pence would be that scary. He'd be a lame duck with low approval imo - I don't think there is a voting block for choir boy neoconservatives anymore.

What scares me is the next GOP candidate.

do juggalos tend to break for trump, as a group?

I like that people are just randomly dunking on MAGA Haberman for no special reason.

Of course it's true.


https://twitter.com/ChrisMegerian/st...14133383929856

The video is funny and also the guy who made the video is definitely not a Trump supporter, he does parody videos like this all the time.

He knows how to actually govern, though, and would be able to get more done than just shouting into the Twitter void. A Dem controlled House limits the damage he can do but he can pull off all kinds of fun shenanigans.