Mojo Hand

Is it just coincidence that it went down during the WH social media summit?

It appears that Twitter is down?

It's unclear. Her actual proposal isn't limited to abuses under Trump, but it is framed as deterring future abuses during the remainder of the Trump era:

Nobody will read it, even with pictures. Maybe if they did a short animated video.

The same as a non-impeached president Trump winning re-election. Our country is fucked.

If there isn't some express legal bar to this, I bet he'll give census takers the dual task of getting the census form filled out and, "separately," asking people whether they are citizens for a "separate" report on citizenship. With the citizenship question being asked before getting to the census form.

Looks like you're right and he's surrendering:

Nobody is reading the Mueller report. Hopefully people tune in when he testifies. But I think deep down, most people won't pay close attention and will decide that if the Dems don't impeach, he must not have committed impeachment-worthy offenses.

That's true. Hopefully it doesn't happen.

And to be clear, I haven't studied the legislation in any detail, I'm just going off the general idea recounted in the news. So maybe my initial reaction is misguided, I'll have to read more.

With landlords, I'm particularly worried not about them threatening false reports, but promising not to file true reports of late payment in exchange for something. I'm all for hearings on this, but my gut says this is exactly the type of bipartisan bank-friendly shit that gets passed with the promise of helping people but really fucks them over. I mean, the entire approach is framed around giving banks more relevant information to make accurate credit assessments, rather than forcing banks to take somewhat greater risks on people (or the government covering those risks). That is a very Republican/uniparty approach.

I'd support measures to help people get their first credit cards or mortgages without much credit history, to allow people a chance to build credit. But giving landlords the power to destroy your credit score sends chills down my spine. And for people who aren't financially ready to take out a credit line, I don't see how it would be helpful to ding them for late rental or utility payments. It seems to me it would strangle their credit scores in the womb.

I don't see how it isn't a constitutional crisis if he ignores the Supreme Court's decision upholding the injunction against his administration. The legal way to justify the question would be by going back to court to get the injunction lifted before printing the form with the question. Ordering the form to be printed with the question, if that is what he does, would put the Court in the position of having to uphold the administration's action based on whatever bullshit rationale is in the EO, or wag a finger but say it's too late to remove the question, or else risk the loss of its power with respect to the Executive. That's a crisis. We've had a few situations along those lines. FDR threatened court-packing, but at least he was threatening a legal, constitutional approach, and he couldn't do it without congressional support. This is more akin to Marbury v. Madison or the Andrew Jackson "let him enforce it" case, but if I'm not mistaken both cases avoided issuing court orders under threat of non-compliance; here the Court could be forced to excuse non-compliance with an existing order. Either way, those examples arguably presented constitutional crises too, which is why they are such well-known and well-studied situations.

Pelosi knows that but doesn't give a shit because she'll be dead by then. She just cares about her own power while she's still around.

That's what he's doing. He's persisting after failing judicial review. Seriously, wtf dude?

Wtf? This is a terrible idea. Is she trying to make up with Biden or something?

So how long is Trump going to stand behind his Labor Secretary, who is unrepentant for letting Epstein off the hook for child sex trafficking? And why hasn't he cut him loose yet?

New credible accuser. Forcible rape at 15, so the no-penetration "defense" is out the window there. And in Manhattan, so the Florida defense is out the window too. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jeffrey-epstein-accuser-he-raped-me-when-i-was-n1028011

All of my ancestors came to America in the early 1900s and had to start from scratch in New York slums after escaping Eastern Europe with nothing but their lives. They faced heavy discrimination outside of their insular communities. But even that was a huge head start over the children and grandchildren of slaves. And at least my ancestors were allowed to have their insular communities, which were not destroyed by government policy. At least my ancestors got to choose to come here and face what they faced. I don't view this as a matter of "genetic" responsibility or justice, but rather the continuing generational consequences of unique atrocities by the United States. As I see it, the U.S. as a country is built on the decimation and systematic oppression of two groups of people who didn't choose their lot: Native Americans and Black people. It is unique among all subgroups of Americans and was inescapable for their descendants in a way that it hasn't been for any others. We've given some reparations to Native Americans, and some small degree to black people, but not nearly enough to either. Sure, I'll be on the hook as a taxpayer even though I didn't oppress anyone in America (nor did any of my ancestors), but I also had a huge advantage in life that was built on the blood of Native Americans and the backs of slaves and victims of Jim Crow, and I had huge advantages over their descendants in modern society. I have no personal guilt about that, but as inheritors of the American legacy, I think we are all responsible for remediating the continuing harm to other Americans that is also part of that legacy.

You may not be aware, but we can all follow Trump on Twitter if we want random FoxNews clips he is watching.

This one is a combo of two references. "Becky" is a slang name meaning a stereotypical white woman. It may have originated from the song "Baby Got Back," where one of the valley girls talking at the beginning was named Becky. Recently, Beyonce used the reference in the song, "Sorry," for "Becky with the good hair." "Distraction Becky" follows the naming trend given to white women who call the cops on minorities for bullshit reasons, where they're given a moniker that is descriptive of their offense plus a stereotypical white woman name. Like "Permit Patty" or "Golfcart Gail."

For. Not cutting checks per se, but targeted government investments to remediate the continuing effects of slavery and the Jim Crow era on people today. One example might be addressing the racial gap in home ownership through special mortgage tax credits, or down payment assistance, or something else along those lines.

I agree that the main focus politically should be the only concrete thing currently on the table in that arena, which is that Trump is still standing by Acosta. And New Yorkers should also be pissed at Cy Vance, it sounds like.

Lulz. A couple years of Trump and Rs have lost their ability to read simple English.

Gotta love the Brits