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Trump's personal assistant was canned for telling reporters that Trump couldn't pick Tiffany out of a crowd and that he didn't like taking pictures with her because she's fat. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/trumps-personal-assistant-fired-ivanka-tiffany-1479226

Absolutely. Look, I respect the hell out of Obama's desire to try to bring Ds and Rs together on policy to unite the country. It was just a massive failure. And I absolutely loathe McConnell's completely amoral approach to winning at all costs. But he's succeeded in obtaining many of his policy goals. To me, politics is about finding the right balance between doing what's right and actually accomplishing things. I like the balance Warren is striking right now.

She's purer than everyone but Bernie. It's just a fact, and that's exactly what she's openly selling. I don't buy the notion that there can be no sense of scale or relativity in politics. That's the bullshit that bothsiders push. She's better than Kamala and Pete and Biden on fundraising, and that's something to tout versus them. For those who want even more purity on this issue, Bernie's there for you.

Her rhetoric might change in the general, but I don't see why that possibility would be made more likely by a position that she's open and up front about during the primaries. Maybe if she were refusing to answer questions about how she will fundraise in the general, but she's answered the questions, so there's nothing about it that hints that she will be pulling surprises in the general. Personally, I hope the D nominee does whatever it takes within the law to beat Trump, so I'm happy about this position. To me, the primary is a completely different situation than the general. The primary is about picking the best Democrat. The general is about beating Trump with whichever Democrat is the nominee, even if it is a shitty Democrat like Biden and there is a better, totally pure third party candidate available. Foregoing the donor class in the primary serves that end, and so does playing the money game in the general. But I can understand if you think fundraising method is a matter of uncompromisable principle. I don't — I think we should drastically change what money can do in the general, but not tie our hands before the laws are changed, giving Republicans a huge advantage.

Why would you expect anything else to change, when she's totally open about this change upfront?

I don't see how that would be attributable to the DNC primary system. Maybe in 2016, but this time around there are many alternative candidates to make the case for themselves, and the DNC is giving them more than enough opportunity to do so.

But why oh why don't those disloyal Americans Jews support the Republican party? Their true King, Trump, loves Israel (the country where they really belong!) and Republicans would be happy to help the Jews move back there to hasten the second coming of Christ (who is also Trump)!

Lulz at the America Firsters wanting to prop up the UK.

He's just happy not to be next to Kamala.

I don't see a single quote from AOC in that article calling Millennials the greatest generation.

Yep. It's moronic to argue that, because a small majority voted for Brexit, they voted for it to happen no matter the terms. But, that's where we seem to be.

I thought Biden was drawing small crowds.

Just to be clear — and I haven't been able to figure this out — if two US citizens in diplomatic or military service have a baby overseas, and they have lived all of their lives in the US apart from recently going overseas, they will now have to go through the effort of naturalizing their baby for citizenship? If so, that also likely means that the baby can't be president someday.

A majority of Brits oppose no-deal Brexit.

Thanks, I'm already seeing a big improvement, though I have a ways to go

8 days in on a hunger strike to save The OA:

So Roman hasn't fucked Tabitha. He's got some serious disfunction.

That said, Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon say hi.

Lulz:

Since truth is a defense, I look forward to discovery if he sues.

Same, that was hilarious

Yeah, and because DeSantis barely won by 0.4%, he and the Secretary of State he appointed will do everything possible to swing the state for Trump. If Puerto Rican natives in Florida oppose Trump's treatment of the island — and maybe they don't, it's entirely up to each person what he or she cares about — they squandered the only opportunity to do something about it.

Joke's on Marianne, cause Gilly's at 0.

No doubt, but Rick Scott can't (and hasn't been able to) make Trump send Puerto Rico the aid that Congress actually approved for them. Either they got fooled or they support Rs for other reasons, which is entirely fine and their choice, like the farmers and rust belt industrial workers who are getting the fucking that they voted for (but with lib tears!). The reality is that every election right now is about Trump. If Puerto Rican natives in Florida had massive turnout in 2018 for Dems, the story would have been "Trump is so toxic that even Scott's significant outreach efforts were for naught," and Trump would have been under real pressure to help Puerto Rico or forfeit Florida in 2020. They may or may not surprise everyone in 2020, but that doesn't help right now, while Trump takes them completely for granted based on 2018.