Trump's Card

[ursus arctos]

Another knee slapper

https://twitter.com/maxboot/status/1049451517907005440?s=21]

[Ginger Yellow]

Gee, ya think?

[Satchmo Distel]

Kavanaugh's family seems to have recovered from the trauma of being in the public eye now that Trump has declared him proven innocent.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Why don't the useless Dems win easily (part 100)?

One answer is they can win the (suppressed) popular vote by 8 points and still not pick up a single seat in swing states North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. They can win the house by 12 points and not pick up a seat in Wisconsin.

[Nefertiti2]

Absolute control of all parts of Government( executive legislature and judiciary) despite a minority in the popular vote -sure looks like a coup to me.

[anton pulisov]

I can name... Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Ted Cruz, mukowksi, flake, Rubio, hatch, feinstein, manchin, Bernie, Warren. That's it I think. The rest are corpses

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Is it possible to impeach Kavanaugh? He definitely lied to congress. He lied a lot.

[ursus arctos]

I've been talking about that for at least a week

It is very possible that a House with a Democratic majority would impeach him. It is virtually impossible that any conceivable Senate would convict and remove him.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Ah, is it the whole two thirds thing? I haven't been able to bring myself to read about this process for about a week. It's too fucking grim.

[ursus arctos]

Yeah

Majority of the House to impeach, two thirds of the Senate to convict.

[anton pulisov]

The descendants of slave owners benefit from a constitution written by slave owners.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Absolute control of all parts of Government( executive legislature and judiciary) despite a minority in the popular vote -sure looks like a coup to me.

Yep.

I don't know what the Dems have to win the house by to gain control. Seen people say as much as 7 points. I don't know if they're going to manage that. By contrast, the Republicans in 2014 only won by 4.7 points. That got them 247-188.

[ursus arctos]

Nikki Haley has resigned as Ambassador to the UN

[Ginger Yellow]

Huh.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Yep.

I don't know what the Dems have to win the house by to gain control. Seen people say as much as 7 points. I don't know if they're going to manage that. By contrast, the Republicans in 2014 only won by 4.7 points. That got them 247-188.

Today's House race estimates.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That's cheered me up a bit, Amor.

[Amor de Cosmos]

A cautiously positive article on the decline of female GOP voters.

I didn't know that more women than men voted in US elections by such a significant margin. Nor that the male shift away from Dems began during the Civil Rights era. We really do wear the black hats don't we?

[adams house cat]

From what I am hearing the Dems seem fairly confident in North Carolina.

[ad hoc]

Nikki Haley has resigned as Ambassador to the UN

I'd like to applaud joyfully, but experience suggests that as impossible as it always seems, Trump invariably finds someone even worse.

Probably Sheldon Adelson

[adams house cat]

Please Lord. Not John Bolton.

[Ginger Yellow]

Better that than NSA. I mean, it was one thing under Bush, but it's not like Bolton could make the Trump admin more hostile to the UN than it already is.

[ursus arctos]

Indeed, I'd much rather have Bolton at the UN.

There's very little question the new person will be worse than Haley. She was always going to go, but I'm wondering if the timing is linked to the tame reaction to the Saudis disappearing Khashoggi and/or the absolute non-reaction to the IPCC Report.

[Tubby Isaacs]

From what I am hearing the Dems seem fairly confident in North Carolina.

Glad to hear that. Maybe they're expecting to better than nationwide there, and pick up a couple of seats?

[San Bernardhinault]

I've been talking about that for at least a week

It is very possible that a House with a Democratic majority would impeach him. It is virtually impossible that any conceivable Senate would convict and remove him.

If a house impeachment proceeding shows illegality - such as perjury - would federal prosecutors be obliged to prosecute? And if Kavanugh was locked up, would that be enough to persuade the Senate (I assume the answer is "no" to pretty much anything Kavanaugh might have done, including murder)?

[Ginger Yellow]

Jesus fucking Christ:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1049638803177127936