pacino wrote:This shutdown is absurd. Fuck Trump and fuck Mitch McConnell

traderdave wrote:Trump’s southern border apocalypse ad ran Tuesday morning on CNN as the cable news network Trump has called The Enemy of the People discussed Trump’s credibility crisis in his primetime address:

Drugs, terrorists, violent criminals, and child traffickers trying to enter our country though our southern border. But Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi care more about the radical left than keeping us safe. The consequences? Drug deaths, violent murder, gang violence. We must not allow it! Every country defends their borders. President Trump wants to defend ours. The Democrats must stop playing politics and support real border security

“I’m Donald Trump and I approved this message,” Trump said, as the ad wrapped while the words: “Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President. Approved by Donald Trump” played on screen.

Tonight should be fun. I'm debating whether or not to even watch because I think it is only going to piss me off.

npr.org wrote:Just two months ago, Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment to change how the state draws legislative boundaries. The state's lawmakers, who return to session this week, aren't having it and may seek to nix or rewrite the anti-gerrymandering law.

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In approving a measure known as Amendment 1 with more than 60 percent of the vote, Missouri voters chose to give much of the power to draw state House and Senate districts over to a demographer who must craft a map that emphasizes partisan fairness and competitiveness.

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But fans of the measure barely had a chance to exhale before the GOP majority began to talk about repealing it. The Republican leaders of the House and Senate, as well as Gov. Mike Parson, expressed support for repealing or altering the new redistricting system.

"I think it's a major concern for this majority, in how that is going to impact the future," said Senate President Pro Tem-elect Dave Schatz last year. "And I do think those issues are going to have to be addressed there."

A number of prominent African-American Democrats have also come out against it.

Some, including Democratic Congressman Lacy Clay of St. Louis, believe that the only way to create more competitive legislative maps will be to spread out voters from heavily African-American districts into more majority white districts.

CalvinBall wrote:Remember when diplomats in Cuba were to believed to have been victim of some sort of sonic sound attack? Two years later, turns out it was crickets

thephan wrote:Hi, I'm Paul Manifort, and I am a complete idiot.

His equally inept legal team screwed up and filed documents that clearly record that he met with a Russian agent in Madrid to shared polling data. That is what they submitted to the court themselves! Who knows if Team Mueller knew about this before it was filed into the record.

Corey A. Stewart, the Republican firebrand whose fights to crack down on illegal immigration and preserve Confederate monuments reflected the nation’s increasingly polarized political landscape, is calling it quits after 15 years on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.

In an interview, Stewart, 50, said he will not seek a fourth term as board chairman this year and is leaving politics “for the foreseeable future” to focus on his international trade law practice and the business ambitions of his wife, Maria.

Citing his 16-point loss to Sen. Tim Kaine (D) in November midterm elections in which Virginia Republicans also lost three U.S. House seats, Stewart said his departure from state politics will last “until and unless the Commonwealth is ready for my views on things, and that’s not right now, clearly.”