Mojo Hand

Just for sake of discussion, say Trump resigns or gets removed. How does it shake up the Dem race? I would think it would hurt Biden, as his entire campaign is based only around beating Trump.

You don't get a cell phone in prison.

Schiff has been talking to the WB's attorney, so it's possible he's gotten a proffer and knows what's in the complaint.

Yeah, if anyone's got anything, now's the time to bring it out.

You knew a whistleblower would come forward to leak yet another impeachable offense? Bravo, Nostradamus!

It's sad that someone in our intelligence apparatus had to blow up his or her career to get Democrats to do what they should have done after the Mueller report. And, really, Mueller should have gone further to help that process along then.

IMO Pelosi can pretend that she played this brilliantly as much as she wants, if that's what it takes for her to finally get this shit done.

Noooooooooo. Damn. What a loss. Fare you well my honey Fare you well my only true one All the birds that were singing Have flown except you alone Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll Make myself a bed by the waterside In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll In a bed, in a bed by the waterside I will lay my head Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul River gonna take me Sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back back home It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home Goin home, goin home by the waterside I will rest my bones Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul Goin to plant a weeping willow On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow Sing a lullaby beside the water Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll Fare you well, fare you well I love you more than words can tell Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul

The popular vote still matters. It sends a message to the nation and the world, who know that Trump does not actually represent the will of the. And losing to Hillary by 3 million has been driving Trump crazy for 3 years. Be part of that message, even if your state is a foregone conclusion. The bigger the popular vote loss, the better.

I didn't know that about the 25th. That seems like a big oversight. It may not be as pressing as an incapacitated president, but what if a VP is in a coma? There won't be a backup for the president until the next election? I guess the backup would be the Speaker, and if something happens to the president, the comatose VP would become president for 5 minutes until the 25th is invoked as to him and the Speaker steps in?

To be fair, I watched this live, and this guy is cutting off Trump's quote in a misleading way. By the last sentence, Trump meant that Biden was the one putting pressure on Ukraine for corrupt purposes when he was VP, and Trump made that clear (despite this confusing phrasing) with what he said immediately after this quote. And that is obviously a bullshit attempt at distraction, etc., but that's a different story.

No doubt about any of this. The fire will keep getting turned up. I just bridle at the narrative, often pushed by Bernie supporters to explain their candidate's failure to launch this cycle, that Warren is a creation of fawning media. There have been negative stories about her in the media for years. There have been negative stories in 2018 and 2019 and this week. Yeah, she's also generated a lot of positive media coverage, but it's through her own efforts, which is an essential part of any campaign. Yeah, she hasn't gotten attacked on a debate stage, but nobody has, aside from the front-runner Biden. There's no special treatment going on.

The proof will be in the pudding. Either he can inspire the political revolution needed to pass his policies, in which case he'll be swept to the nomination and presidency, or he can't, in which case he'll hit a ceiling. So far it looks like he's hit a ceiling and lost ground since 2016. If he doesn't have a revolution behind him, it further supports the notion that we need a pragmatic progressive who can work with whatever situation she steps into.

I don't agree with that first part. I think Trump's attacks on Warren were very damaging — both directly, and from Dems worried about whether she would be vulnerable to Trump's bullying as the nominee. It's a big part of the "electability" concerns that she's been fighting — including by the media. Every Dem family member I've talked to about Warren, without exception, has said, "yeah but what about the Native American stuff, won't Trump destroy her with all of that?" And I've seen tons of "Warren still struggles with identity" and "But is she electable?" concern stories throughout the media.

The public has heard plenty of attacks on Warren from the president. His routine is pretty much Pocahontas and Sleepy Joe Biden.

It is indeed weird. But people are weird about their identities and family history. I think about her every time I see those ancestry.com commercials, which are all built on the premise that one random family member from 200 years ago is "where I get my fearlessness from" or whatever nonsense sells DNA testing kits. This kind of fantasizing is very common thing among normal people. My conclusion based on the public evidence is that her imagination ran wild based on her family story and she felt a strong connection to Native Americans through the great-great-great grandmother. Statements from her family members and even the DNA pretty much proves that this really was part of her family story. Every time she had to fill out an official form requiring her legal status, she identified as white. When it was a less formal self-identification thing, she identified as American Indian. She was a private citizen throughout this time and probably never imagined it would be a national story. I don't think there's anything more to it than that. People have quirks.

It's OK, it means they've officially moved from denial to anger. Hopefully they move on to bargaining and the rest soon enough to help prevent Biden from being the nominee.

I don't quite get why the new Dems in these borderline districts are so shy about going after Trump. Yeah, Trump won there in 2016, but he's also the reason they swung Dem in 2018. His supporters will be voting in 2020 no matter what, so why not energize the anti-Trump voters, especially the women who hate him?

Wow, incredible

Latest Morning Consult poll. More good news for Warren. Check out the gains for Warren as second choice for supporters of other candidates. She's now passed Bernie as second choice for Biden supporters, and has expanded her lead as second choice for Harris and Pete supporters. For Harris supporters, second choice is 31% Warren, 18 Biden 14 Bernie. For Pete, second choice is 30% Warren, 19 Biden 11 Harris. Warren is steadily becoming the consensus choice.

Remember Obama phones?

I'll forgive him once we fully recover from him and win a Big 12 championship again.

Can someone explain to me exactly what she has done that is different from all other climate activists? I'm not arguing against her, I just somehow missed how she became so well-known. I've gathered that she is a Swedish girl who started skipping school to protest climate change inaction, and then she was speaking to big groups, and she's a vegan who sailed across the Atlantic to come here without emissions, and now people think she's a lock for the Nobel. (And not to take anything away from Greta, but José Andrés is a worthy pick as well.)