February 15, 2018

I was hard on Haiti during the 2016 election because the Clinton's pulled their

foundation out of Haiti a bit after 2010. I assumed it was because you cannot get away from having to do graft in Haiti to get things done and a Clinton run for the Presidency would not have gone well with a graft scandal. But hell yeah. Haiti does not do shit like what was let happen in Florida today.

February 9, 2018

The strange tale of Carter Page: Republicans built a defense of Trump around this guy?

MATTHEW SHEFFIELD at Salon

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/09/the-strange-tale-of-carter-page-republicans-built-a-defense-of-trump-around-this-guy/

"SNIP.......

Page is far from the only person who has given conflicting public statements about his relationship with the president. The Trump team itself has vacillated repeatedly about what role Page played on the future president's advisory team.

In early 2016, Trump and his campaign staff were forced to cast about desperately for warm Republican bodies they could put forward as foreign policy advisers. At that time, Trump listed Page as the second of several such counselors when he was asked to name some during a March interview with the Washington Post editorial board.

Just a few months later in September, however, the Trump team abruptly reversed itself after Yahoo News reported that Russian intelligence officials were chattering about Page's Moscow trip and his alleged meetings with members of Putin's inner circle.

"Mr. Page is not an advisor and has made no contribution to the campaign," communications director Jason Miller told The Hill after the story broke. "He's never been a part of our campaign."

.......SNIP"

February 6, 2018

Study Finds Election Forecasts Lower Voter Turnout

https://politicalwire.com/2018/02/06/election-forecasts-lower-voter-turnout/

"SNIP.........


Pew Research: “These probabilistic forecasts can give potential voters the impression that one candidate will win more decisively and may even lower the likelihood that they vote… The use of such probabilistic forecasts was a constant in coverage of the 2016 presidential race, with an average of 16 mentions per day in cable news broadcasts, according to the study. And at least in 2016, outlets with more liberal audiences featured more coverage. Forecasters uniformly favored Hillary Clinton to capture the White House, with odds ranging from 70% to 99%.”

“The new study finds that numbers like these can leave people with the impression that the race is far less competitive than when they see polling data presented as the percentage of the vote they are expected to get – something familiar to the public.”

............SNIP"

January 29, 2018

+1000 Can you imagine where we'd be if we didn't have him? Unthinkable.

January 26, 2018

Justin Trudeau gets agreement with remaining countries on TPP. He was

gunning for more protection for workers and the like. Because you can put anything you want in a trade agreement, not just pure capitalist things. Seems the GOP has made a big booboo allowing Trump to take the right wing off the stage in negotiating trade agreements. The world is moving on without them. And agreements will reflect more of a worker bent.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Great discussion at the <a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reuters</a> panel on New Avenues for Global Trade <a href="https://twitter.com/Davos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Davos</a>. In the face of rising protectionism, Canada is proud to stand for open trade, while ensuring its benefits are shared by everyone. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEF18?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WEF18</a> <a href="https://t.co/POvBBokFso">pic.twitter.com/POvBBokFso</a></p>— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) <a href="https://twitter.com/cafreeland/status/956717518869037056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

January 26, 2018

One thing for sure, the GOP want to be seen as protecting Trump so they can get their base back

into the fold if Trump loses his job.

January 23, 2018

Take care.

January 20, 2018

Cause so many evangelicals and right wing Christians vote in racist snakes

and are dependant on religion to make them feel good. Then they project who they would be without religion on atheists. And they would be racist snake voters: the wretched of the song 'Amazing Grace'. So they assume atheists would be the same. They are projecting who they would be without religion on people.

January 17, 2018

It is not a double cross. He is dyslexic and looks at things with various assumptions.

When he is near democrats he goes with them. When he is with the right wing he goes with them. He should retire and come up with a big picture like most dyslexics but he is busy watching tv and probably his father and Roy Cohn drilled big picture thinking out of him because it implies looking at the world through multiple and various perspective (empathy). Democrats are not near him often enough. And he does not have enough time to reflect. And he doesn't care about policy. Which means he doesn't care about the people.

January 7, 2018

Thanks Peggy. Great, if unhappy, read.