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[skullmuffins]

Trump has Zinke threatening our Moderate Darling and her fellow senator.
Alaska Dispatch News @adndotcom
The interior secretary told Murkowski and Sullivan her vote put Alaska's future with the administration in jeopardy

 

[sangreal]

Trump administration signals that Murkowski's health care vote could have energy repercussions for Alaska

Is this legal?

Sounds like a good way to turn the Senate and Alaska against him

works for me

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Trump administration signals that Murkowski’s health care vote could have energy repercussions for Alaska

Is this legal?

does this question even matter anymore.

like I don't know why we're pretending we have a rule of law anymore.

Sounds like a good way to turn the Senate and Alaska against him

works for me

(they're gonna vote for the bill)

 

[ivajz]

Trump administration signals that Murkowski’s health care vote could have energy repercussions for Alaska

Is this legal?

He will make it legal.

 

[jtb]

What an incredibly stupid move. Keep em coming.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

That's how politics normally works, it's just that Trump doesn't now how to keep things behind closed doors.

 

[sangreal]

(they're gonna vote for the bill)

I don't mean w/r/t Healthcare or any other specific bill

Regardless, Murkowski will have the last laugh. Trump will get bored of Zinke soon enough

Murkowski chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and has used the position to drive home Alaska priorities, particularly with Interior nominees. She oversees the confirmation process for the Interior Department.

On Wednesday, a committee hearing on nominations to the Interior and Energy departments was postponed indefinitely. A reason was not posted.

How stupid do you have to be to try and use the department she oversees against her?

 

[Drkirby]

does this question even matter anymore.

like I don't know why we're pretending we have a rule of law anymore.



(they're gonna vote for the bill)

Well, there is only so many Congressmen, Trump will eventually alienate a super majority of them. The prospect of installing Ryan as the new President has to be looking better by the day for the Republicans (They just need to find something to Impeach Mike Pence over first)

 

[Autodidact]

Damn, Moderate Darlings be catching heat. I bet they secretly want Obama back, too. Who wouldn't long for the days when they could take meaningless votes and look enlightened and bipartisan because they knew it wouldn't matter?

 

[B-Dubs]

Well, there is only so many Congressmen, Trump will eventually alienate a super majority of them. The prospect of installing Ryan as the new President has to be looking better by the day for the Republicans (They just need to find something to Impeach Mike Pence over first)

Odds are Pence is involved in Russia somehow, remember how he knew about Flynn?

 

[Zolo]

GOP vs Trump

 

[Spoiled Milk]

Damn, Moderate Darlings be catching heat. I bet they secretly want Obama back, too. Who wouldn't long for the days when they could take meaningless votes and look enlightened and bipartisan because they knew it wouldn't matter?

Every time you use that word, it's like nails on the chalkboard for me. So corny.

 

[Autodidact]

Every time you use that word, it's like nails on the chalkboard for me. So corny.

It's meant to evoke images of corny beauty pageants: "And now, straight from Wilmington, here's Delware's Darling Darla Dimples!"

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

It feels like one wrong move and everyone in the White House is going to kill each other with all that is going on.

 

[RastaMentality]

Every time you use that word, it's like nails on the chalkboard for me. So corny.

it's supposed to make you feel that way.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

GOP vs Trump

You know, it was already GOP vs. Trump. For a year. Until he won the primary and then they attached their political careers and conservative ambitions to his presidency. And then he won. And here we are and they can't do what they were going to do. It's extremely embarrassing and I don't blame Trump at all for what he's doing.

It's meant to evoke images of corny beauty pageants: "And now, straight from Wilmington, here's Delware's Darling Darla Dimples!"

I'll let it slide because your Murkowski avatar is still roflcopter.

 

[Abinash117]

I wish someone catalogs all the dumb things Trump does. Its so hard to keep up.

 

[aspiegamer]

Trying to take obamacare debates down to a state level is not a good idea, since it's typically very popular once you actually explain the thing to people. Anger has survived this long based on broad, national ignorance. The governors know what's up. Anyone taken off medicaid would instantly look at them for help.

How stupid do you have to be to try and use the department she oversees against her?

Do you really need an answer to this question at this point? This administration just announced it was feeding one of its own to the FBI for leaking a non-classified document.

 

[hydragonwarrior]

GOP vs Trump

I agree with this but hopefully Dems have a far better strategy than this, because I remember we were posting this meme before Trump won the election...

 

[Autodidact]

If Republicans really want to retain the Nevada seat, at some point they may just dump Heller and try to run Sandoval.

Sadly for whyamihere, even Jacky Godsen probably couldn't beat him. The Democrats could just run Dina Titus as the sacrificial lamb.

 

[Drkirby]

Odds are Pence is involved in Russia somehow, remember how he knew about Flynn?

Yep, but they need something more solid. They could impeach Trump right now for his obstruction of justice and violation of the emoluments clause, but impeaching Pense is too difficult to sell to the public right now. When they are ready to remove the Trump Tumor though, they need to get rid of the whole thing from the White House at once to minimize fallout (What's worse for party image than one disgraced President? Two disgraced Presidents)

I am likely just in denial about the GOP, believing the party's leaders are sane actors with political clout, and not that the party is a coalition of incompatible groups that have no actual leadership anymore.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

I feel like there is a cold war going on with the GOP and Trump's White House that we are not seeing a lot of.

 

[Zolo]

I feel like there is a cold war going on with the GOP and Trump's White House that we are not seeing a lot of.

There's basically one going on in the White House itself.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

There's basically one going on in the White House itself.

There is one going between the states and the White House too.

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

Trump administration signals that Murkowski’s health care vote could have energy repercussions for Alaska

Is this legal?

Holy crap lol.

Alaska gonna go blue you guys.

 

[Autodidact]

And maybe that fucker Don Young will finally lose. He got just over 50% of the vote last time, but, like Maine, Democrats and independents always split the rest of the vote in Alaska.

 

[jtb]

If Republicans really want to retain the Nevada seat, at some point they may just dump Heller and try to run Sandoval.

Sadly for whyamihere, even Jacky Godsen probably couldn't beat him. The Democrats could just run Dina Titus as the sacrificial lamb.

This thought did cross my mind...

It's very possible Heller doesn't even bother running for re-election because he's too lazy to raise money just to lose (pulling the 'Evan Bayh 2010' manuever), opening the door for a non-moribund candidate like Sandoval who is itching for a national profile.

Sandoval, now there would be a moderate darling in every sense of the word.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Trump has Zinke threatening our Moderate Darling and her fellow senator.
Alaska Dispatch News @adndotcom
The interior secretary told Murkowski and Sullivan her vote put Alaska's future with the administration in jeopardy

Challange accepted you orange twat,

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

And maybe that fucker Don Young will finally lose. He got just over 50% of the vote last time, but, like Maine, Democrats and independents always split the rest of the vote in Alaska.

The third party was far right.

 

[shem935]

https://twitter.com/colinkahl/status/890161558520610818

Re: Iran nuclear deal renewal

 

[Autodidact]

The third party was far right.

Oops.

 

[chadskin]

Russian intelligence agents attempted to spy on President Emmanuel Macron's election campaign earlier this year by creating phony Facebook personas, according to a U.S. congressman and two other people briefed on the effort.

About two dozen Facebook accounts were created to conduct surveillance on Macron campaign officials and others close to the centrist former financier as he sought to defeat far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen and other opponents in the two-round election, the sources said.

Facebook confirmed to Reuters that it had detected spying accounts in France and deactivated them. It credited a combination of improved automated detection and stepped-up human efforts to find sophisticated attacks.

The spying campaign included Russian agents posing as friends of friends of Macron associates and trying to glean personal information from them, according to the U.S. congressman and two others briefed on the matter.

Facebook employees noticed the efforts during the first round of the presidential election and traced them to tools used in the past by Russia’s GRU military intelligence unit, said the people, who spoke on condition they not be named because they were discussing sensitive government and private intelligence.

Facebook told American officials that it did not believe the spies burrowed deep enough to get the targets to download malicious software or give away their login information, which they believe may have been the goal of the operation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-france-facebook-spies-exclusive-idUSKBN1AC0EI

Interesting that Facebook employees were able to detect these Russian efforts.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

it's supposed to make you feel that way.

Are you specifically calling me a moderate darling >.>

 

[Drkirby]

https://twitter.com/colinkahl/status/890161558520610818

Re: Iran nuclear deal renewal

The Best Dealmaker

 

[Aaron Strife]

https://twitter.com/colinkahl/status/890161558520610818

Re: Iran nuclear deal renewal

He's melting down.

 

[Zolo]

https://twitter.com/colinkahl/status/890161558520610818

Re: Iran nuclear deal renewal

Yeah. Trump's becoming increasingly unhinged. This would be a good time for congress to impeach him before he starts making too many harmful decisions, but hey. Gotta put party over country.

 

[skullmuffins]

https://twitter.com/colinkahl/status/890161558520610818

Re: Iran nuclear deal renewal

Yeah, there was a Foreign Policy story the other day about how he created a White House team for the sole purpose of finding a way to decertify the Iran deal against the wishes of his State Dept and other top advisors. (link)

 

[UberTag]

Yeah. Trump's becoming increasingly unhinged. This would be a good time for congress to impeach him before he starts making too many harmful decisions, but hey. Gotta put party over country.

Not sure where the line is for them in terms of how unprofessional he acts or how many Republicans he throws under the bus.
Would inciting a conflict with a foreign nation be the line? Probably not.

 

[sangreal]

Not sure where the line is for them in terms of how unprofessional he acts or how many Republicans he throws under the bus.
Would inciting a conflict with a foreign nation be the line? Probably not.

When he stops rubber-stamping their ultra-conservative agenda and appointments

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

It's only been 6 months, Jesus.

 

[Ernest]

Yeah. Trump's becoming increasingly unhinged. This would be a good time for congress to impeach him before he starts making too many harmful decisions, but hey. Gotta put party over country.

This is what happens when the things you believe wholeheartedly turn out to be false. You don't want to accept them and you go batshit crazy.

Everything Trump "understands" about government and policy comes from Fox News, which is fuck all. So it's being slowly revealed to him that most of what he's learned from Fox is not actually the case, and he can't fucking take it, so he lashes out like this.

 

[Zolo]

President of the US folks.

 

[Slime]

I mean, Republicans were completely OK with Trump suggesting his supporters commit political violence, so I doubt there's any line that would get him impeached.

The only scenario I see being too much for them is Trump getting so pissed at the GOP that he morphs into a Democrat.

 

[RoKKeR]

What a day. Words can't describe how awful this administration is.

 

[whyamihere]

40,000 votes separated Trump and Clinton in Alaska.

Do you think he's going to be enough of dick to make Alaskans say fuck you in 2020?

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

It's hilarious that Trump is cyber bullying Sessions and Melania is like... supposed to be against cyber bullying.

 

[whyamihere]

Can we all really do this for another 3 and a half years?

 

[B-Dubs]

Can we all really do this for another 3 and a half years?

Has it only been six months?

 

[sangreal]

It's hilarious that Trump is cyber bullying Sessions and Melania is like... supposed to be against cyber bullying.

She actively defended his personal attacks on Mika, even after being called out for her bullshit cyber bullying initiative

 

[Aaron Strife]

It's hilarious that Trump is cyber bullying Sessions and Melania is like... supposed to be against cyber bullying.

I think it's pretty obvious Melania doesn't pay attention to any of this shit and is just in it for the money.

Or maybe she's just as evil as the rest of them, idk.