So I guess 2016 claimed its biggest victim yet - America

Chicago Tribune: Anonymous publishes GOP legislators’ private numbers in bid to push for Trump’s impeachment

A group affiliated with the online activist group known as Anonymous on Thursday posted what it says are the private cellphone numbers and email addresses for 22 Republican members of Congress in a bid to push for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, reigniting the use of hacked information in U.S. political battles.

Rob Pfeiffer, chief editor of online publication The Anon Journal, told The Washington Post Thursday morning that the move was spurred by Trump’s contentious reaction to violent clashes in Charlottesville over the weekend. The president set off a furor after he made it clear he had no intention of backing down from his claims that “both sides” were to blame for the mayhem that left one woman dead and dozens of others injured.

If impeachment happens it’s going be coming from Pence, with behind the scenes support of the GOP. The rank and file members are too terrified of their own base to make a move, but they would probably go along with Pence since it would give them a CYA.

Because you can’t spell GOP without CYA. That’s kind of their guiding political principle now.

The real question to me is if Pence has the drive, ambition and courage to get the ball moving.



Opinion piece that is spot on this an all the Bannon bullshit coming out of the WH

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/18/heather-heyers-mother-just-brutally-unmasked-trumps-racism-and-cruelty/

Bro’s emotional response to Trump is a reminder that his reversion to his current reprehensible posture didn’t have to happen. While his flat condemnation of white supremacy did not undo the damage caused by his initial statement on Saturday blaming “many sides,” it largely said the right thing. Republicans were pleased and relieved by it. The mother of the young woman who died had thanked him for it.

But then Trump just had to make a large show of returning to his original position, dividing blame between white supremacists, Nazis and Klansmen on one side, and those protesting their racism, hatred and belief in the inferiority of African Americans and Jews on the other. We know Trump did this at least in part because he did not want to be seen surrendering to pressure to single out racism and white supremacy for full blame. He was in a rage because he “felt he had already given too much ground to his opponents.” He didn’t want to deliver the statement condemning white supremacy because he was “loath to appear to be admitting a mistake.” It is utter madness that these sentiments played such an important role in shaping the presidential response at such a fraught moment of national tension and introspection.

Meanwhile, Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, is strutting around extolling the political brilliance of Trump’s Charlottesville response. Bannon did a media tour yesterday boasting that Trump’s escalating defense of Confederate statues is a political winner for him. Now Bannon adds to this in a brash email to the Post:

“This past election, the Democrats used every personal attack, including charges of racism, against President Trump. He then won a landslide victory on a straightforward platform of economic nationalism.”

The idea that Trump won a landslide is an absurd lie, and the idea that Trump has any kind of agenda of “economic nationalism” to speak of is laughable. There are no trade or infrastructure plans (which progressives would actually like to see) in sight. The only real policies Trump has embraced that fit under what Bannon describes as “economic nationalism” are stepped up deportations, slashing legal immigration, and the thinly disguised Muslim ban. Indeed, it’s telling that Bannon defends Trump’s Charlottesville response by pointing to the alleged power of his alleged “economic nationalism” — it validates suspicions that this was always intended largely as a fig leaf for xenophobia and racism.

Whoops, I just posted the video clip to the Wisdom thread. Here it is.

Can you spot the secret message?

Spoiler alert: RESIST

I would have gone with “RESIGN”, but then again I’m not an artist. Or human.

Zoë Baird, a founding co-chair of the Board and the President and CEO of the Markle Foundation, confirmed that she had submitted her resignation on Thursday in a phone call with VICE News, and that other members had as well.

“It is the moral responsibility of our leaders to unite Americans by respecting the diversity and inclusion that enables our country to generate new opportunity and celebrate freedom,” Baird’s resignation letter reads. “In order to preserve these cherished values, there must never be equivocation in denouncing hate, bigotry, violence and racism.”

The funny? tragic? (is there a German word for both?) thing about all this is it’s just going to make Trump dig in his heels even harder. The man is just constitutionally unable to admit when he’s wrong.

Drudge reporting Bannon is out

Huge if true.

Popcorn on standby for Brietbart turning on Trump.

Please let it be so.

NYT reporting that Trump has told aides that Bannon has to go. Aides trying to figure out how.

Wow, Trump won’t can him himself?

Linkage

Ultimate qt3 “Jinx, you owe me a coke!” moment. ;)

BTW, big Trumpista contingent to Camp David this weekend for meetings, Donald included.

Bannon not on board.

It’s sounding like they’re trying to figure out how to remove him the least messily way possible. He may stay a while rather than get the Mooch treatment.

The weasel words there are “as chief strategist.” Remember when he was kicked off the National Security Council and we thought he was done?

Get out your garlic and wooden stakes just in case.