jerseyhoya wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:We've bantered about the proper appellation for Chump.

Turnip has a ring to it, but in this PC age, it's just too demeaning to root vegetables.

Trumo is an inside joke, and there's already way too much of that here.

I like Chump, or the more proper Chumpolini, but it doesn't roll off the tongue too easily.

Happily, John Oliver has solved it for us: Drumpf.

Details

This from Oliver was really well done. Excellent broadcast. Tremendous!

It’s scary,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has endorsed Rubio, said on ABC’s “This Week.” She added: “I think what he’ll do to the Republican Party is really make us question who we are and what we’re about. And that’s something we don’t want to see happen.”

td11 wrote:

It’s scary,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has endorsed Rubio, said on ABC’s “This Week.” She added: “I think what he’ll do to the Republican Party is really make us question who we are and what we’re about. And that’s something we don’t want to see happen.”

CalvinBall wrote:Sessions is endorsing Trump according to Drudge.

Senate Democrats tracked down a career justice department employee named J Gerald Hebert, who testified, albeit reluctantly, that in a conversation between the two men Sessions had labelled the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) "un-American" and "communist-inspired". Hebert said Sessions had claimed these groups "forced civil rights down the throats of people."

In his confirmation hearings, Sessions sealed his own fate by saying such groups could be construed as "un-American" when "they involve themselves in promoting un-American positions" in foreign policy. Hebert testified that the young lawyer tended to "pop off" on such topics regularly, noting that Sessions had called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases.

''Mr Sessions ... stated that he believed the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Operation PUSH and the National Council of Churches were all un-American organisations teaching anti-American values,'' Figures testified. ''The statement clearly was not intended as a joke.'' Figures also said he was present when Sessions said he believed the Ku Klux Klan was OK until he learned its members smoked marijuana – a statement Sessions has said was clearly made in jest. ''I certainly took it as a serious statement,'' Figures said.

Sessions fought the charges. As I wrote in 2002: "[He] denied the accusations but … admitted to frequently joking in an off-colour sort of way. In his defence, he said he was not a racist, pointing out that his children went to integrated schools and that he had shared a hotel room with a black attorney several times."

pacino wrote:idk, feelin' like Trump is the epitome of everything they've been pushing for years and years but now the cards are just laid out on the table instead of up our sleeves

Alabama's governor and legislature Thursday blocked Birmingham's attempts to raise its minimum wage as they swiftly approved legislation to strip cities of their ability to set hourly pay requirements.

The Alabama Senate passed the legislation on a 23-11 vote that largely broke along party lines.Gov. Robert Bentley signed the bill into law about an hour later. The legislation voids a Birmingham city ordinance attempting to raise the city's minimum wage to $10.10, the city's legal department said Thursday afternoon.

Meanwhile, some legislators expressed concern about a precedent of state government control of local legislation.

"There may be a time my district needs something none of y'all understand," Republican Sen. Paul Bussman, who voted against the bill, said in committee Wednesday. "Does that mean you'll come in and prevent that?"

Monkeyboy wrote:Trump is a new Reagan. He's going to keep the R base and use his willingness to support social security and other entitlement programs to grab a section of the dem base, which R's will then hold by pretending to support said programs.

It's a realignment. R's are hating it now, but he's going to help them win for a generation.

Or not. probably not.

I can't believe there's a non-zero chance the clown might be president. And I actually think he has a decent chance at winning if he's able to pivot enough to fool the undecideds. Do you know how embarrassing it is to live abroad with this shit show happening? We look like a country of idiots.

Even as Senate Republicans vow to block President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick until after the election, GOP leaders are quietly maneuvering to approve lower-level judicial nominees in the Senate pipeline, including several from conservative states who were recommended by Republican lawmakers. The effort, which Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) hasn't officially sanctioned by scheduling floor votes, threatens to undermine the GOP's argument in the high court standoff that a president in his final months should be denied a lifetime judicial appointment.

The conversation between Cornyn and Eggleston centered around the senator’s home state of Texas, where seven of the country’s 31 judicial "emergencies" — openings deemed especially pressing because of heavy caseloads and under-staffed benches — are located. Filling those courts would require some new nominees to be put forward this year. Federal judicial nominees are typically chosen after extensive deliberations between the White House and a state's two senators.

mozartpc27 wrote:Gut feeling: Rubio does quite well tomorrow. Basically no new polling since the debate, so hard to say water effect it had, but tea leaves seem to indicate, to me anyway, that Rubio is getting something together.

Monkeyboy wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:We've bantered about the proper appellation for Chump.

Turnip has a ring to it, but in this PC age, it's just too demeaning to root vegetables.

Trumo is an inside joke, and there's already way too much of that here.

I like Chump, or the more proper Chumpolini, but it doesn't roll off the tongue too easily.

Happily, John Oliver has solved it for us: Drumpf.

Details

This from Oliver was really well done. Excellent broadcast. Tremendous!

Big time take down by Oliver.

pacino wrote:Iraq's largest damn, which is located outside Mosul, is in danger of bursting.

This comes as Iraqi forces (along with Turkish and US help) plan to retake the city from ISIL.

get yer popcorn

TomatoPie wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:We've bantered about the proper appellation for Chump.

Turnip has a ring to it, but in this PC age, it's just too demeaning to root vegetables.

Trumo is an inside joke, and there's already way too much of that here.

I like Chump, or the more proper Chumpolini, but it doesn't roll off the tongue too easily.

Happily, John Oliver has solved it for us: Drumpf.

Details

This from Oliver was really well done. Excellent broadcast. Tremendous!

Big time take down by Oliver.

Unfortunately, no Drumpf voters watch Oliver. They can't understand his accent nor his vocabulary. And if they could, they wouldn't get any of his jokes.

If Trump is gonna be taken down a peg, you need blue collar voices against him, NASCAR drivers, WWE goons, Tim Allen, Jeff Foxworthy, Brad Paisley, Flarder Georgia Line

Bucky wrote:

pacino wrote:Iraq's largest damn, which is located outside Mosul, is in danger of bursting.

This comes as Iraqi forces (along with Turkish and US help) plan to retake the city from ISIL.

get yer popcorn

OH DAM