You have a significant portion of a party's base that lives in fear. Fear of illegal immigrants, fear of their guns being taken, fear of homosexuals, fear of Muslims. You have party leaders that either live with the same fears or do their best to stoke those fears. I strongly believe this is largely why Trump's base will not abandon him. Their fear outweighs how much they care about any crimes he may have committed.

They ran a center-left candidate against Trump and lost.

...with considerable baggage and a target on her back...

Pecker has Immunity now, which is probably part of the reason Trump was up to 1 am this morning tweeting.

Curious as to why Pecker would need immunity. What crime could he have broken?

Helping Trump covering up the women's stories by buying their silence?

Chief Content Officer at the Enquirer Dylan Howard also granted immunity.

Is that a crime to take money to not report a story?

I guess maybe it's that he provided some value to Trump during his campaign which would need to be reported. So it would count as an illegal campaign contribution. Just a thought.

It's a crime to be involved in a conspiracy to break campaign finance laws.

dola

GOPers start to lay the groundwork for firing Sessions:

$1500 on Steam games! Who has the time to play that much? Also wait for the sales!

Rep. Duncan Hunter spent over $1,500 of campaign funds on @steam_games according to a copy of the indictment. pic.twitter.com/DJsthprm8w

— Jeff Landa (@JeffLanda) August 21, 2018

Waiting until after mid terms because they know that doing so prior will ensure a flip in both house and senate, which is likely anyway. Graham is such a fucking lap dog.

***modified from Twitter*** A lot of people have been wondering about his possible fiip. Would he? Would Pecker?

Clinton wasn't running as center left. She tacked hard to the left during the primaries. I am not sure what she was doing during the actual campaign.

If it's not your money why delay the gratification?

Also from Twitter:

"Feds Use Pecker to Probe Trump"

My point exactly.

It doesn't matter who the Dems nominate, they will by default be far left.

dola

This is totally fine.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...-michael-cohen


Article about why they flipped-Pecker hasn't spoken to Trump in about 8 months, and the other guy is mad at him too.

Can't wait until reporters find out why Graham has flipped so much on Trump. John McCain would not be happy with him right now.

What was "hard to the left" about her campaign?

is he on this site?
I still don't think he has more than mckerney

I mean Hillary campaigned to the right of Trump on foreign policy, trade, budget, and military. Almost all her positions were moderate with maybe a twinge to the left.

Does that include campaigning for $15/hr minimum wage? Free tuition for public colleges? Keeping the Iran deal? Supporting Unions? Taxing the rich? Supporting AWB?

Her positions were often in the left column even if they weren't far left.

I don't think those positions are far left by global standards. It's pretty center-left to me. When you mix that in with the other positions I mentioned that were on the right, she's a moderate.

I know there's some revisionist history that goes on during elections to paint a candidate to one extreme or the other, but she was one of the most (if not the most) conservative Democrat Senators during her time. Her run as SoS carried on most of the same policies the Bush Administration started.

She is and always was a moderate Democrat.

Should also add that she wasn't calling for a $15/hour minimum wage. She called for it to be $12/hour. She said she supported those people who were fighting for $15 in certain cities but that wasn't her policy position. It was one of the biggest moments of the primary debates.

From Labor and workers' rights - The Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton


ETA: Yeah I know I'm splittin hairs here, but Hillary was definitely on the left and not center-left.

So this lone juror was a die hard Trump fan? That's rich.

The key word is "over time". She added that to appease the Bernie supporters. Her proposal was to get it to $12/hour. She wrote a piece on it during the campaign.

Organizing to raise wages – Hillary for America – Medium

The whole point of pushing for a $15 minimum wage is that you are willing to settle for like 10-12$. I think the federal minimum wage is still under $8. You always aim higher then what you are willing to settle for.


That being said I fully acknowledge that a lot of people are way overpaid making minimum wage

Bullshit. The point of raising minimum wage is to get those that are under the poverty line and working up to a acceptable standard of living while also driving middle class wages up.

If middle class wages were rising $12 or even $15 per hour wouldn't seem so ridiculous. Saying anyone making minimum wage is overpaid when we have people in our society making millions doing nothing but having other people move their money around is absurd.

ping: Critch

Ha ha ha HA ha!

In addition to the Enquirer flipping on Trump, there's this gem:


Ken Thomas‏Verified account @KThomasDC 5h5 hours ago




NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement told The AP.

Hillary didn't lose because of her positions, she list because of her personality. Nominate someone younger & more charismatic, it's not rocket science... but yet we still hear about HRC, Kerry, Bernie & Joe Biden.

It's a big part of it. They need a new standard of leadership. This going back to the well of retreads it bullshit.

Oh fun!

Still (probably) not impeachable offenses but looking forward to hearing about the salacious details.

Political nominations have a lot in common with hiring of professional sports managers/coaches.

I think you're seeing the information (the real backbone of Mueller's probe and raid on Cohen's office) starting to flow out, and like a ship taking on water, there are some who are getting out now, while the getting is good. It may not sink, but they are guaranteed to make it if they leave now.

:popcorn:

To be honest, I don't think anyone is clamoring for Hillary to run again. Maybe not even her.

I do think a fresh face would be good. And let's have a new Speaker of the House if the democrats take control.

trump straight out calls on the head of the Department of Justice, to openly investigate political foes, and calls each of them out by name. The funny thing is that it almost sounds like begging.

Who was the last president to brazenly, openly, call for Justice to be used to go after people who disagreed with the president. Is this how the government was intended to be run? Is the Justice Department now just the 'capo' of the Don?

Talking about unprecedented:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...rmers-violence

Longtime Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg granted immunity in Cohen probe

The CFO of the Trump Organization has been granted immunity.

Pretty soon they will only have Trump and his family left to give immunity to :)

Looks like the end for John McCain might be sooner rather than later now:


http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4...ncer-treatment

I don't think any family members are ever getting any immunity. :D

:( A true patriot, even if I frequently disagree with him.

BREAKING: President Trump tweets that he has asked Sec. Pompeo to not go on his planned next trip to North Korea "because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." https://t.co/kdrUxk2XiK

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 24, 2018

While this may not sound great, I'm not exactly sure why we'd need to make progress on a situation Trump had already solved.