1750

This is important to read. Basically, by already filing paperwork to be a 2020 candidate, Trump now is allowed to engage in behavior and fundraising he otherwise would be barred from participating in. Click through to read.

1751

Chilling thought: What happens when it’s 2018 and Trump’s team of advisors realizes their boss not only faces an uphill fight for re-election from the opposition, but may also face an in-party primary fight?

Hello, Wag The Dog scenario…

1752

There’s no way there is a 2020 election with Trump in it, at this point. 90+% certain of that. WHY exactly there won’t be a 2020 election with Trump running, well, there are many different possibilities with him being disallowed. But Trump 2020? At this point? Give me odds and i’ll take them.

1753

Thanks to my old gig as a bar manager at some swank digs in the DC area, I play poker and regularly have a few beers with folks who are on the inside a bit, as fundraisers for both Democrats and Republicans.

We talk about who will be the next Democrat to really step into a position of being a player on the stage. It’s a good question, because we’re at a unique nexus for the party with Obama out of office, the Clintons and Harry Reid being retired.

Have heard a lot of the names you’d expect, of course: Warren, Sanders, Franken, Booker.

One very surprising name that keeps coming up belongs to a guy who isn’t in any elected office, though: Jason Kander of Missouri.He narrowly lost to unseat Blunt in Missouri for Senate, despite the DSCC not giving him any money until far too late. He has a potentially winnable race for the Missouri 4th in 2018 if he wants to take it…or he can bide his time for a cabinet position in the next democratic administration.

Just a name to keep an eye on, because it was surprising to me to hear him mentioned alongside some household names by both parties, and with great anticipation/apprehension, depending on which party the person talking about him was a member of.

1754

As a conservative, I would definitely vote for Jason Kander.

1755

I think Warren has “shot her bolt” to use an archaic and perhaps now inappropriate idiom. In some ways there is a changing of the guard now, and for all of Warren’s many accomplishments, she’s old and she went along with the Republicans at the very moment her base is clamoring for resistance. That moment when she would’ve could’ve been something has now passed. What the party wants is ideological, young, and confrontational.

1756

Trump supporters still love him. I heard two of them talking about impeachment and assassination last night as if they were the same thing! As if one was as equally bad as the other instead of one being a legal process that actually happened to a fairly recent president and the other an act of murder!

1757

At this point I’d vote for Jason Voorhees.

1758

/thread

1759

Connely thinks Congress doesn’t think it has a say in this debacle, only the courts

Meanwhile while everyones distracted they are courting their next act:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tribes-insight-idUSKBN13U1B1

1760

New rule: You sign an executive order that is unconstitutional, you hang for treason. And everyone that supported it.

1761

I like the sentiment, but in that case probably every President since Washington would hang. No doubt there was illegality in the whiskey rebellion suppression…

1762

I was thinking what is the last name of Jason from Friday the 13th. But pretty much any random serial killer would be preferable.

1763

I am not surprised by President Donald Trump’s antics this week. Not by the big splashy pronouncements such as announcing a wall that he would force Mexico to pay for, even as the Mexican foreign minister held talks with American officials in Washington. Not by the quiet, but no less dangerous bureaucratic orders, such as kicking the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff out of meetings of the Principals’ Committee, the senior foreign-policy decision-making group below the president, while inserting his chief ideologist, Steve Bannon, into them. Many conservative foreign-policy and national-security experts saw the dangers last spring and summer, which is why we signed letters denouncing not Trump’s policies but his temperament; not his program but his character.

We were right. And friends who urged us to tone it down, to make our peace with him, to stop saying as loudly as we could “this is abnormal,” to accommodate him, to show loyalty to the Republican Party, to think that he and his advisers could be tamed, were wrong. In an epic week beginning with a dark and divisive inaugural speech, extraordinary attacks on a free press, a visit to the CIA that dishonored a monument to anonymous heroes who paid the ultimate price, and now an attempt to ban selected groups of Muslims (including interpreters who served with our forces in Iraq and those with green cards, though not those from countries with Trump hotels, or from really indispensable states like Saudi Arabia), he has lived down to expectations.

Precisely because the problem is one of temperament and character, it will not get better. It will get worse, as power intoxicates Trump and those around him. It will probably end in calamity—substantial domestic protest and violence, a breakdown of international economic relationships, the collapse of major alliances, or perhaps one or more new wars (even with China) on top of the ones we already have.

For the community of conservative thinkers and experts, and more importantly, conservative politicians, this is a testing time. Either you stand up for your principles and for what you know is decent behavior, or you go down, if not now, then years from now, as a coward or opportunist. Your reputation will never recover, nor should it.

There was nothing unanticipated in this first disturbing week of the Trump administration. It will not get better. Americans should therefore steel themselves, and hold their representatives to account. Those in a position to take a stand should do so, and those who are not should lay the groundwork for a better day. There is nothing great about the America that Trump thinks he is going to make; but in the end, it is the greatness of America that will stop him.

1764

“Stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech without a permit,” he explains.

Lopez warns in the video, which lacks context, that even carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution was prohibited in the airport.

“I cannot carry the Constitution without a permit?” one protester asks.

“Correct,” the officer replies.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/denver-police-to-protesters-stop-doing-anything-that-could-be-construed-as-free-speech/
America.

1765

Can any Trump supporters please explain to me how that makes America great again? Besides saying that some people are more equal than others?

1766

… you just answered your own question.

1767

Who knew Reagan was a libtard cuck

1768

I think it’s pretty safe to say th GOP no longer gives a shit about Reagan.

1769

Ladies and gentlemen, the source of the ‘3 million fraudulent votes’ claims torn down on CNN.