WASHINGTON (AP) — AP Sources: Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to announce Alabama Senate bid on Thursday.
— Mike Balsamo (@MikeBalsamo1) November 6, 2019
Yes, I normally try to keep the first-of-each-morning Open Thread light & upbeat, but then…
Sessions intends to make his announcement on Tucker Carlson on Thursday night. **To note, Sessions must file his paperwork to run with the Alabama GOP by Friday at 5 p.m. He has yet to take this official step ahead of the Friday deadline. https://t.co/1w4msJbwO6
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 6, 2019
in fairness this must really leave many white nationalists with mixed feelings. https://t.co/9SmwN0HOHl
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 7, 2019
No because he’s long been the top white nationalist in American politics. But he’s also hated by Trump and Trump is the King of white nationalism. So it’s tough for them.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 7, 2019
People close to Trump and McConnell have tried to gauge how much POTUS will attack Sessions in AL bid. Trump has told senators/advisers he will move to Alabama to beat Sessions himself. But he's also kept his powder dry publicly as stories have swirled. https://t.co/akKdwSn562
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) November 6, 2019
… Sessions, whose turbulent two-year stint in the administration ended in dramatic fashion when he was forced out by Trump in November 2018, would enter with strong name recognition and deep institutional ties in the state and elsewhere. He held the seat for two decades before he became Trump’s first U.S. attorney general.
But the wild card in the race will be Trump, and whether he will weigh in against his former attorney general and in favor of other Republicans who have already announced their candidacies. Trump remains popular in the state and plans to attend the University of Alabama’s football game against Louisiana State University in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday.
[Where, if Trump gets boo’d, he’ll be able to claim they were booing Sessions.]
Trump never forgave Sessions for recusing himself from the Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, frequently berating him on Twitter for a move he viewed as a betrayal…
The Alabama race could factor heavily into determining which party controls the Senate following the 2020 election. Republicans are defending 23 seats, compared with just 12 for the Democrats. Republicans hold a 53-to-47 advantage and have long been hoping to oust Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.). They are wagering that his defeat would help offset any losses in other battleground states and protect the GOP’s majority.
“This is a nightmare for D.C. Republicans that just want to defeat Doug Jones,” said Dan Eberhart, an oil industry executive and a GOP donor who plans to back Sessions. “This is going to tie Trump and McConnell in knots.”…
Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) said that he spoke with Sessions this week but that the former senator and attorney general did not indicate to him directly whether he would run. Shelby said he spoke with Trump two months ago about Sessions’s potential candidacy and that “he was not exactly on board.”…
I have personally briefed Jeff Sessions (when he was AG) and found him to be cognitively unable to understand the words coming out of my mouth. Repeatedly. Alabama should pass. https://t.co/lMd5f6fC80
— katrina mulligan (@NatSecMulligan) November 6, 2019
I’m guessing he thinks God wants this, despite significant evidence to the contrary
— katrina mulligan (@NatSecMulligan) November 6, 2019
Just a friendly reminder that the Alabama Senate primary is the same day as its presidential primary…March 3rd.
Yep, Super Tuesday.
Also, Trump is likely to be campaigning against his former AG while his Senate impeachment trial is underway.#BestTimeline https://t.co/fEhBbmPj3Y
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) November 7, 2019
That sword cuts both ways, as Oleg Deripaska can tell you.
Sessions knows where many of the bodies are buried WRT Russia.
— Phoenix Woman ?? (@PhoenixWomanMN) November 7, 2019
Sessions, a 4-term senator, lost a network of allies since Trump’s election–some to jobs within the DOJ and other now-former WH aides who fell out of Trump’s favor. His former campaign manager and state director, Chuck Spurlock, died of cancer in 2013.
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 6, 2019
Sessions also spoke on Tuesday at Northwestern University, where he said: “The president is allowed to fire you, but fortunately he doesn’t get to shoot you.” https://t.co/kUXEbaGx64
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 6, 2019
Crowded Alabama Republican field (get ready for a runoff):
-Jeff Sessions
-Tommy Tuberville, former Auburn football coach
-John Merrill, current AL Sec. of State
-Congressman Bradley Byrne
-State Rep. Arnold Mooney
-Fmr AL SCOTUS Chief Justice Roy Moore— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 6, 2019
Why not both? https://t.co/qvtNKfw9N3
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 6, 2019
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
That Josh Marshall tweet????
Steeplejack (phone)
@rikyrah:
Good morning. ?
evodevo
Ultra white supremacist vs. child molester….only in AL lolol
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
Jeff Sessions is pretty light and what could be more upbeat than a cage fight between 2 of America’s favorite racists?
Chyron HR
Ha ha, very funny, but this is a serious topic.
flyingwatertanker
Maybe they can withhold a military aid package to Alabama in exchange for elf dirt
NotMax
Bring out your dead!
7.7 billion people alive on the globe and not a one would do? This has gimmick written all over it. Although come to think of it, the possibilities for the porn industry are staggering.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Republicans in disarray!
Baud
The Mississippi governor’s race was closer than it has been in the recent past. Maybe there’s a sliver of hope for Doug Jones.
John S.
@NotMax:
John Holmes makes his return in the zombie porn thriller Army of Cockness.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Good times!
NotMax
FYI. 42 years and still ticking: What Voyager 2 Learned After Spending a Year in Interstellar Space.
OzarkHillbilly
Doug Jones is toast. They could run a religious nutbag sexual predator who cruises courthouse hallways in search of vulnerable teenage girls in need of a daddy figure and Jones would lose. Yeah yeah, I know they did that 2 years ago and Jones won. Trust me, Alabamans ain’t gonna make the mistake of voting for a DEM again.
NotMax
@John S.
Was thinking more along the lines of Jean Harlow in Sinner at Eight.
:)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Have a peek at Orion, I think there are 11 nebula in this shot.
Betty Cracker
I’ve been assuming Jones will lose the seat and that’s probably still a safe assumption. But a GOP primary that features a Trump grudge-match against Sessions, a reappearance of the tiny pistol-waving pedophile, and an ex-Auburn coach? This distills every Alabama pathology down to its purest essence. Great news for Jones, IMO.
NotMax
@David Booooooo Koch
It’s always projection.
//
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Damn, so many stars. How did we end up orbiting the same one as Trump?
NotMax
FYI. Canadians with Down syndrome help teach Google how to understand speech.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Our luck really sucks.
Cermet
Well, one way or another, Sessions will likely win the primary and then retake his seat. Nice if the orange fart cloud somehow convinces the dumb thugs in AL to vote otherwise; here’s to hoping. One thing – at the least – Sessions was a better Attorney General then that that ass licking floating piece of stinking shit named barr. Sessions had a trace of honor.
arrieve
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Spectacular shot, Bill! Orion has always been my favorite constellation.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud:
With all the planets orbiting all the stars in all the universe, how did he end up on ours?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Just lucky I guess.
ETA I see Bill got there first.
OzarkHillbilly
@Cermet:
He was silly enough to think it still mattered to Republicans.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@arrieve: Thanks. I’m going to try for a shot of the Flame and and Horsehead nebula next time I’m out there later in the month.
Chris Johnson
Oh my God. Suppose if Jeff Sessions was forced out because he got a chance to get into the Russian-compromised network but took a pass? Making him a toxic old white racist right-winger, but of the Red Dawn generation rather than the ‘Putin Yay’ generation? And the only reason he’s doing this is because he KNOWS that shit is primed to blow, sees the impeachment proceedings and the daily events, and has decided Trump is going down as a traitor?
What if he is trying to stake a claim on the original Red-baiting rightwingers knowing that people are going to be bailing desperately off that sinking ship?
He could split the asshole vote! :D
Jeffro
“Ah…Ah jes want t’ be back in Alabama, ruling mah people, ruling those other people…”
Jeff, baby, you could just sit in the nursing home and reminisce over old photos, you know that right?
Jeffro
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That is one beautiful shot, thanks Bill! I agree with arrieve, Orion’s my fave. That and the Pleiades.
Chris Johnson
@Cermet:
Maybe he was just picking sides. I assume you mean that he recused himself from interfering with investigations on Russia, so Trump replaced him with someone who wasn’t as fastidious? Maybe Sessions has no honor but just didn’t like Trump and his Russians enough to team up with them. I guess we’ll be learning more about that. *glee!*
I particularly love that he’s doing this knowing that Trump hates it and doesn’t want him to do it. If it’s not a profile in courage, it means Sessions knows something and is seriously taking sides. I see no indication that this move is happening to please Trump, or his handlers in Russia.
debbie
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch:
How long do you think Trump will remain silent in light of his supporters insisting he’s just inept?
arrieve
@Jeffro: Also love the Pleiades.
I have to go to a funeral this morning — a dear friend’s brother-in-law, a firefighter who worked at Ground Zero and died of cancer. It’s unbelievably sad, and pictures of the stars are somehow very comforting.
John S.
@NotMax:
LOL. If you go that route, they can put Jayne Mansfield in just about anything – they don’t even have to change the titles.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Wow.
Not only at the picture, but that you live near enough to a place where you can see all of that stunning beauty. ?
JMG
I’m hoping Tuberville wins the nomination. What could be more Alabama then the statement “he wasn’t smart enough to be a football coach, so we kicked him over to the US Senate”?
Patricia Kayden
@evodevo: And White Alabamians will vote for either one of them because they’re Republicans.
Spanky
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I can see the Horsehead in this one, although it’s tiny. It was much smaller IRL than I had thought when I first saw it through a scope.
You folks are all lamenting the fact that we occupy the same planet as Trump, whereas I wonder how many so very much worse beings are out there, glass totally empty kind of guy that I am.
OzarkHillbilly
Meanwhile, here in the US of Asses…
Betty Cracker
@JMG: Hard to imagine Tide fans voting for an Auburn reject though…
BlueDWarrior
@Spanky: I mean between the hordes of murderous AI-Bots, all-consuming space-bugs, and still-bad-but-different space bugs that see you as a living nest (or worse depending how vulgar you let your imagination get)… yeah I can see why.
Trillions of planets man…
OzarkHillbilly
@Spanky: Oh sure, go ahead and piss in our whine.
JPL
From the Daily Beast
link
haha republicans are gonna love that. He’s going to choose the candidates isn’t he.
Immanentize
@JMG:
Will Roll Tide fans actually vote for an Auburn coach? Dourg Jones is a proud graduate of Alabama!
ETA. Hi Betty with-the-same-thought! ?
Baud
@Spanky:
Better out there than in here.
PPCLI
@JMG: Campaign Slogan: “I’m not from Alabama, I didn’t live in Alabama until my mid-forties when I came here to coach a team half the state hates, remaining until I was fired 9 years later and left the state altogether. I left for Texas Tech, who fired my ass after 3 years and then non-power-5 Cincinnati who dumped me after going 1-7 in a weak conference. Nobody has wanted to hire me since. I was sued a few years ago for defrauding investors, and I settled, but won’t tell you the terms. Vote Tuberville!”
I’m no political consultant, but that seems like a winning slogan to me.
OzarkHillbilly
Hand of missing Scottish tourist found in shark off coast of Réunion
You can add that to the “Headlines I Never Expected to Read” file.
Immanentize
@Baud:
But we will have to fight them out there so we don’t have to fight them here.
OzarkHillbilly
@PPCLI: In today’s GOP it is.
Snarki, child of Loki
“Trump has told senators/advisers he will move to Alabama to beat Sessions himself.”
That’s just the strange sharpie track added to Hurricane Dotard, which was definitely headed to Floriduh.
JMG
@PPCLI: Tuberville’s trail of failure is why he’s a PERFECT GOP candidate.
Dorothy A. Winsor
When I was in IA earlier this week, I wound up sitting at a restaurant table across from a guy talking about “Shifty Schiff.” I bit my tongue because the friend I was with will run into this guy again, but she spoke up. Afterwards, her husband, a life-long Republican, said he didn’t understand how people could think that way. He had changed his registration to Independent, which is a step in the right direction at least.
Barbara
@OzarkHillbilly: It is an interesting article, informative without being lurid, well at least after you get past the headline.
Kay
The “suburban backlash” from 2018 held on Tuesday, including in Pennsylvania:
I think that’s probably good news for two Dem issue groups- prochoice and gun control.
Trump is making the same political choices every GOP-er must (now) make. He has to be far Right on guns and abortion, and that comes with a cost. In unifying the GOP base he becomes much more of a standard issue Republican who can’t veer from the Party line. His complete and utter capitulation on gun control was the most recent example, but he’s also had to go far Right on abortion. The two areas he veers from GOP orthodoxy are (now) limited to trade and foreign policy, and trade won’t help him in the suburbs and most people don’t vote on foreign policy.
JPL
@Snarki, child of Loki: good. Let him move.
JPL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: You are a better person than I.
Jamie
Injuries. Rooting for so many injuries.
O. Felix Culpa
@NotMax:
At first glance, I thought that was a reference to yourself. Been de-aging, have ya?
Ken
Please FSM, let him miss the deadline and announce a write-in campaign.
JPL
Someone is putting billboards up in SC with Lindsay Graham tweets.
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/1192428480765603840
Maybe someone with magic access can post the picture. lol
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JPL: I was tired.
JPL
@Ken: haha Run as a third party candidate. Cool
Ken
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Polls really should change that to “Republican but ashamed”.
Obviously excluding the special sub-set of “independents” that appear weekly in NYT pieces, who are actually “Republican party activists and former convention delegates who have built a small shrine to Trump and follow him around the country”.
Kay
I think Doug Jones can still win. I hope the national Party invests in him. We can’t say we want a “50 state strategy” and skip certain states. A 50 state strategy guarantees more frequent losses. The goal of the thing is more infrequent “upset” wins but that comes with a higher (total) number of losses.
Kirk Spencer
Imo the advantage of the 50 state strategy is that it builds the bench and infrastructure. Sure, at first it’s a lot of losses and infrequent upsets, but a decade later it’s Virginia turning blue.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: The responsible party: Mad Dog PAC
Raven
So my wife just walked me over to the eatery where my birthday/retirement party is. She framed what looks like 500 pictures of me through the years. I had an inkling because a couple of people almost let the cat out of the bag. It was a lot of work and I’m probably not as excited as I should be but it’s pretty cool. I did make her take down the picture of me with Zell Miller but we’ll leave the blown up picture of me in front of the White House throwin up the power fist
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
All kinds of stuff washes up on the beach at Reunion — including, if I recall correctly, a few pieces of MH370.
p.a.
“You’re not the real fascist, I’m the real fascist!”
“You can’t even spell fascist. I was a fascist when you were running a football league into the ground.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
would work as a replacement for the one with Zell.
Happy birthday/retirement party! It sounds great, and your bride has put a lot of love and work into it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Raven: Is your party this morning?
@p.a.: Hee.
Spanky
@Raven:
Yeah, I’ve got one of those. Think it was from the ’80s.
hueyplong
I kind of hope Sessions files in time and Trump becomes obsessed with the Alabama primary to the exclusion of literally every other subject on earth, including his fealty to Vlad and his desire to cage children. He decides the GOP Senate is in on it and petulantly refuses to nominate judges on the list handed to him while any sense of a coordinated impeachment defense is abandoned.
Then Sessions actually gets the nomination and Trump loses what remains of his mind to push his own third party candidate in a last shot at revenge.
And we end up with Jones being re-elected while Trump isn’t.
A person can dream about a string of own goals.
danielx
Roy Moore? That schmuck seems to have more political lives than ten cats.
RAVEN
@Dorothy A. Winsor: No, tomorrow night but the White Tiger is right down the block and there is no way she’d be able to keep me from going over there so she needed to get if over with. My stepmom and half sis are coming in from AZ this afternoon and my brother and his bride on the redeye Friday. My sister fell and shattered her elbow Halloween so she’s not coming.This has all been complicated by a home football game that made accommodations a nightmare but it’s time to power through it and get it over.
Raven
@Spanky: This was at the VVAW action, Nixon’s chopper had just landed and there were many a fuck you’s thrown up as well!
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: That is very cool!
Jamie
@hueyplong: From your lips to God’s ears. Given the current clown show, this scenario doesn’t even sound unlikely to me.
JPL
@RAVEN: Congrats and have fun with friends and family.
hueyplong
@Jamie: Think of how quickly Sessions would become a co-conspirator in the bizarro FoxNews world of plots to frame Trump for Russian interference.
His old pals (and potential impeachment jurors) from the Senate would start to wonder about Trump after all…
You can see how this would go.
MattF
Somewhat OT. Hugh Hewitt gives Mitch McConnell advice on how to rapidly smother the whole silly ‘Trump is a criminal’ business. We shall see, I guess. I’ll note that the word ‘Pelosi’ never occurs in his plan, which is an oversight.
Kay
They should do one of those whole-page ads in the NYTimes. “AS billionaires, we state the following…”
Then a list of names, ranked by net worth.
Jamie
@hueyplong: Yep, and it’s not like we haven’t seen this kind of circular firing squad before. Hell, Lindsey Graham is now accusing the guy who bought an ambassadorship for a million bucks of being a secret liberal.
jonas
@OzarkHillbilly: I don’t expect him to win reelection either, but I wonder if anyone from Alabama could say something about how his constituent services and local politicking are working out. I was once told by a South Carolinian that they kept sending Strom Thurmond back to the Senate for decades even after it was clear he was a completely useless, senile old fossil because he had this huge and very powerful staff both in Columbia and in Washington and if you had an annoying pothole on your street or something and the county maintenance people were ignoring it, you could call Thurmond’s office and the next day a crew would be out there working on it. If Jones has earned a reputation of being effective in that way, it might not be as easy to sideline as Republicans are expecting.
CaseyL
@MattF: There is no need for advice or strategy when the Senate can just summarily dismiss the charges. CJ Roberts may be able to control the process, but he can’t force the Senate to do anything more than go through the motions. (And I think it’s odd that people believe Roberts will act in good faith in the first place. There is no evidence that he will.)
BroD
Damn! I’ma gonna take out a mortgage on my house and invest it all in popcorn!
danielx
@hueyplong:
Sessions is a vindictive little fuck, and sure as God made little green apples he has been brooding over being repeatedly humiliated by a man he considers to be socially inferior to a southern gentleman such as himself. It would be the crowning point of his life to vote against Trump in an impeachment trial.
Yeah, I know – the list of people Sessions considers to be socially inferior to southern gentlemen like him numbers in the billions, and that’s not even counting white people.
Redshift
The perfect outcome would be if Sessions splits the field and Roy Moore wins the primary, Trump campaigns for Moore, and he loses to Doug Jones.
But I doubt the FSM and Murphy the Trickster God love is that much…
rikyrah
@Kay:
He’s a sitting Senator…of course,the party should invest in him.
hueyplong
@danielx: Agree with your talk about Sessions’ motivation, but don’t like the idea of him voting in an impeachment trial, which could only happen in a scenario in which Trump has been re-elected.
Citizen_X
@Raven: That sounds like an awesome project. Have fun!
MattF
@CaseyL: Perhaps. The catch, for Trumpites, is that impeachment is a political process— so procedural ‘solutions’ miss the point of the exercise. But, as I said, we shall see.
Cermet
@Spanky: You do realize that if current measurements and understanding are correct about physics/universe, then the universe is infinite and there are an infinite number of orange fart clouds being stupid/ruining the country and maybe in one, the orange fart cloud isn’t stupid (and that world is even more royally screwed!) Hope that doesn’t ruin the joy you have (and we all get) from your making those beautiful photo’s.
rikyrah
@Raven:
The visual of that must be beautiful. I bet you will be all up in your feelings when the party actually gets here.
Kay
@rikyrah:
Democrats in red areas have kind of a different take on this. They’re Democrats and they want the Party to try, to show up, to compete. They are sometimes unrealistic- expecting presidential candidate visits to counties where the Democrat will get 5000 votes or something which just isn’t a good use of time, but I hope they invest in his defense. It’s, simply, worth it.
rikyrah
I know it’s the Daily Mail, but…….
just hope Omar’s ducks are in a row….
EXCLUSIVE: Newly divorced Ilhan Omar faces investigation over taking her lover on trips paid by her campaign, as the Federal Election Commission is asked to examine at least $369k in payments made to the married aide
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is facing an investigation over taking her lover Tim Mynett on trips that were paid for by her campaign
The conservative National Legal and Policy Center last month filed an amended version of a complaint lodged earlier into Omar’s campaign spending
The group is asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate payments made by Omar’s campaign to Mynett’s company, The E Street Group
Ilhan’s campaign paid Mynett’s company more than $369,000 since hiring him in August of 2018 up until this past September
Nearly $25,000 is labeled as travel expenses, according to records
‘If Ilhan for Congress reimbursed Mynett’s LLC for travel so that Rep. Omar would have the benefit of Mynett’s romantic companionship, the expenditure must be considered personal in nature,’ according to the complaint
Omar’s divorce from husband Ahmed Hirsi became final this week, while Mynett’s wife Beth has also filed for divorce in the wake of the affair
By MARTIN GOULD IN WASHINGTON D.C., FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:46 EST, 6 November 2019 | UPDATED: 11:57 EST, 6 November 2019
CaseyL
@Raven: 500 photos! The walls must be completely covered. The Story of Raven – sounds like something out of folklore. Have fun at the party!
Kay
@RAVEN:
The best birthday I ever had was when a then-boyfriend planned a surprise party. I would have thought I would hate that but I was genuinely surprised and he put a lot of effort into it and it was really kind of amazing how well it went and the people he turned up who showed up. Good job! It remains the gold standard of birthdays :)
Party planners don’t get enough credit. It’s very risky! If it’s horrible it’s their fault.
danielx
OT, but –
I never cease to be amazed at how much noise a nine pound cat and a fifteen pound cat make while chasing each other up the stairs and along the upstairs hallway. Sounds more like small children than cats.
rikyrah
@Kay:
He hasn’t been a Manchin….
and, I would even believe that they should be put the resources in to fight for Manchin.
Immanentize
@RAVEN:
I thought your step mom wasn’t going to be able to make it? Or was that your sister?
In any case, enjoy your day and don’t let any rain fall.
rikyrah
This muthaphucka, here!!
The damn nerve!!
GOP senator rips into Pelosi at Trump rally: ‘It must suck to be that dumb’
BY JUSTIN WISE – 11/07/19 07:45 AM EST
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) launched into a blistering attack against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) while speaking at a Trump campaign rally in Louisiana late Wednesday, stating that it “must suck” to be as “dumb” as her.
“In three short years, President Trump has doubled the growth in the greatest economy in all of human history. And do you know what our Democratic friends have done for him?” Kennedy asked. “Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach him.”
cmorenc
@MagdaInBlack:
Consider the possibility there is a countlessly vast multitude of Trump-replicants scattered throughout the universe, and we may actually lucked out getting one of the relatively less malevolent ones, terrible though he is.
UncleEbeneezer
@Redshift: Even better: whoever loses the GOP Primary runs in the General as a 3rd Party candidate and splits the deplorable vote, handing Jones the election.
BlueGirlFromWyo
@rikyrah: Can’t impeach with a good economy? Bill Clinton says hi. Senator Kennedy can suck it.
rikyrah
The crazyfication factor strikes again ???
Stuart Rothenberg (@StuPolitics) Tweeted:
In latest NBC/WSJ poll, 27% of respondents say Trump is “honest and trustworthy.” Also, 27% say he has “high personal and ethical standards.”
JWR
@NotMax:
The CEO of the company doing this sounds more like a mortuary director planning a reboot of the original Night Of The Living Dead than a representative for the Dean family. But then, there’s money to be made! (eta and they may actually need some, too.)
Raven
@Kay: I did a surprise party for my ex and she was furious!
Baud
@cmorenc:
Halloween was last week.
SFAW
@rikyrah:
I’m wondering if maybe the name should change from “crazification factor” to “moronification factor.”
ETA: Or, perhaps to address the “Por que no los dos?” contingent, perhaps it should be the “C/M factor”?
Ladyraxterinok
@Kay:
Sure wish national people would listen to you!
David Evans
@Cermet: My guess is that in the multiiverse there are more versions of Earth where Clinton won, and there are versions of each of us there breathing sighs of relief. Not that it does us any good.
Frankensteinbeck
@JPL:
Oh, Donald, you sweet summer child. Your voters are exactly like you. The instant you no longer have the power to deliver white supremacy, they will forget your name.
SFAW
@Raven:
Congrats once again on your movement into the “drain on society” class. I hope you (or y’all, I guess, but mostly you) have a great party.
SFAW
@rikyrah:
That’s only because even he could not fuck up the Obama boom in only three years, even though he keeps trying. So kindly STFU, Kennedy, you fucking moron/liar.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Wouldn’t mind that at all
rikyrah
@jonas:
Someone posted here that’s why Steny Hoyer doesn’t have to worry. He does fabulous constituent services.
frosty
@Raven
There’s a great memento!
PS speaking of retirement I’m down to 85 and a wakeup. And trying to figure out Medicare.
rikyrah
@CaseyL:
No evidence…AT ALL
StringOnAStick
@danielx: What lovely and loving kitties! Our two sister kitties are at least 2 lbs heavier, and we call that ruckus Kitty Thunder.
We consulted with Werebear, and the annual growth and loss of an impressive mane in one kitty plus her size is indicative of Norwegian Forest Cat genes for these rescued orphaned barn kittens.. That means she won’t be fully mature until age 5, in 3 years. Occasionally I look at her and realize she’s gotten bigger even now.
Shalimar
I was talking about this with very well-connected friends about whether Trump would support proven failure Moore or go with someone else like loyal House member Byrne, and was surprised to hear that Bradley has garnered significant backlash from big money Alabamians after taking part in the storming of the SKIF. I was unaware he was even one if the 30, but both friends i talked to were outraged about it. They said it was a sign he doesn’t take his job seriously.
Ladyraxterinok
@Kay:
The girl friend of one of my brothers threw him a birthday party that was all one of those murder weekend-clue parties that were all the rage about 20 yrs ago. From the pictures it was a real blast!
Aleta
@StringOnAStick: We called it (two cats) the Thunderous Horde.
Kay
@Raven:
Oh, that’s funny. I hate surprises but this was fun. That bf later turned out to be a snake in the grass so apparently he was good at keeping secrets, ya know, in general.
You take the good with the bad, right? Good at surprise parties, also good at secretive betrayals :)
J R in WV
@hueyplong:
Actually, you are wrong. Senators are seated several weeks before Inauguration Day, so Trump could lose the election and THEN be convicted of High Crimes and be removed from office, thus losing his Federal pension and a shot at a Presidential Library and a government-funded office and staff.
Coyote may love us well enough for that to unfold in January, 2021. Or not… would surely be a fitting finale to the whole corrupt circle of horrors. If Trump lost the election, I would guess that many more Senators would feel free to vote against him in the trial.
Gravenstone
@NotMax: I’ve long argued that every time Trump mocks someone else’s intelligence, he’s just regurgitating what Fred told him every day of his own miserable existence.
glory b
@Kay: The judicial candidates here (for Superior Court) all ran as proud Dems, touting support from Planned Parenthood. The Repubs didn’t give a party affiliation in their ads, just said they would protect families, neighborhoods and children (didn’t say from what).
There were negative ads tying the R’s to Trump, and saying they would take away a woman’s right to choose. I figured the Dems must have had pretty good poll numbers.
Ksmiami
@rikyrah: good morning and just a reminder – Trump supporters are garbage people- now carry on
J R in WV
@frosty:
I didn’t actually count down, and for Medicare, I just took the state defaults, they chip in a little bit on the Medicare supplemental from Humana, and that comes out of my state pension automatically… I guess I could pick some other plan, but other than some prescription annoyances it seems to work out OK for me.
Wife has AARP supplemental, it appears to be mostly OK although they require her to order many prescriptions from a mail-order outfit that seems nearly incompetent at just doing their job.
So there are two Medicare Supplemental plans evaluated for you. Neither is terrible, neither is great.
cain
@StringOnAStick:
I had a great name for a cat Pounce de Leon, but I don’t have a cat to call them that. :(
Ben Cisco
Dems here aren’t planning on rolling over, and conventional “wisdom” notwithstanding, Jones ain’t dead yet. I expect the GrOPer primary to be a shitshow; if the loser(s) mount independent campaigns I’ll take Jones winning outright in the general.
Citizen Alan
@JMG:
In Tuberville’s defense, I was very impressed when he took a remarkably strong (for the time) stance against the Rebel Flag, all but begging students and alumni to stop bringing them to games. IIRC, he got death threats over that.
Citizen Alan
@Snarki, child of Loki:
What makes that stupid comment by Shitgibbon so especially ridiculous is that if Sessions eventually wins, Shitgibbon will turn on a dime and claim the *only* reason Sessions won was because of his influence.
Aleta
To me this leak reeks of John Barron-Miller phoning it in.
“One thing I’ve learned about the press is that they’re always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.” —Art of the D
Ben Cisco
@Aleta: Mailing it in, perhaps. But his take on the media is dead on, unfortunately.
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: “Degenerates in Disarray”!
Kathleen
@evodevo: How can you tell them apart? They all look alike?
mrmoshpotato
Does this idiot not know Florida and Alabama are separate states?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Five minutes with a Sharpie will take care of that.,
;)
mrmoshpotato
@PPCLI: Vote Tuberville! Because my name is fun, and we’re all fucking horrible!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: White-out pen. We’re eliminating borders here.
Brachiator
The super-Trumper GOP alternatives to Sessions must really be something.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
But in this case, still true.
Kathleen
@JPL: They can call the show Face In The Crowd and end first episode with Trump standing on balcony and screaming, “Marsha! Don’t leave me!” while recording of fake applause blares in the background.
moops
I said it first, years ago, that after Trump’s presidency he would have a reality show where he picks the GOP nominees for office. He’ll start with governorships and senate and congress nominees and build up to the 2024 GOP Presidential nominee.
moops
Would Trump lose his ability to homestead in Florida if he took up residence in Alabama?
Citizen Alan
@Shalimar:
Do we have a list of who those a-holes were? I really want to know if my local congressman was one of them so I can start spreading rumors about how he may be a Russian asset.
Matt
Somebody put down some tarps; a heap of toxic garbage this tall is gonna have Superfund-level runoff
unknown known
@NotMax:
Yes, but a stopped clock…