@GottaLaff's Threads
FFS, they're purging DHS, installing tons of extremist judges in record time, war on press, spreading lies, propaganda, allowing election interference, you name it. Between Trump & McConnell, they're weakening nearly every defense we (their opponents) have. This is happening NOW.
2/ News outlets should report all of this in that context, too: A power grab, a very alarming, very dangerous, very real long term power grab that would keep racist, bigoted, corporate GOP policies in place for decades & longer. This is urgent, this is a crisis.
3/ There are times when objective reporting has to be less objective, when "both sides" must be set aside in order to save democracy, to save the heart and soul of our country, when news outlets warn citizens. This is one of those times. This is the real national emergency.
"So this is how liberty dies -- with a rambling, incoherent monologue. Trump’s bizarre -- and, to be brutally honest, frightening -- Friday morning appearance in the Rose Garden..." If @Will_Bunch wrote it, you should read it.
2/ "The import of what Trump was actually doing--triggering 1 of most signif constit crises in Amer history--as buried in alarming incoherence of delivery. Instead of case for his bogus “national emergency," short-fingered-vulgarian-in-chief presented urgent argument for 25th A"
3/ "It’s wrong not to recog there’s a history of POTUS power grabs, but this kicks it up several notches. Never b4 has a pres claimed authority to spend $ on a project that had been so clearly rebuffed by Congress, the branch of govt that is supposed to control gov purse strings"
"Chaos of 2020 election has meant no honeymoon for Beto O’Rourke, 47th pres, whose narrow win over Nikki Haley (GOP convention in Charlotte having rejected Pres Pence) had only enraged both the right & increasingly angry left..." If @Will_Bunch wrote it, you should read it.
2/ "You’d think the rapid decline of Western civilization would get more news coverage in America ... but the latest chess moves in the Trump-Russia scandal and the embattled White House continue to trump most other headlines."
3/ "I imagine one reason the mayhem in Paris hasn’t been viewed with much alarm here in the United States is the notion of French Exceptionalism, that those crazy Gauls have always gone off the deep end with their protests -- remember 1789? -- and this is just one more."
"Nat. Park Service threatens to hit political protesters on Natl Mall w lg gatherings, and it wants to make it easier to reject a spontaneous protest of the type that might occur, say, if Trump fires Mueller." If @Will_Bunch wrote it, you should read it!
2/ "The @ACLU would likely mount a similar challenge if the new Trump-era restrictions are imposed — but past success is no guarantee of future results."
3/ ... Trump and his allies — Republicans candidates, the Fox News Channel, talk radio — instead have amplified divisiveness and, in some cases, unleashed hate."
"It's nighttime in Donald Trump's America." If @Will_Bunch wrote it, you should read it.
@Will_Bunch 2/ "Worst part. In its unyielding effort to bend environmental rules to the will of its corporate patrons, Trump decided to stop arguing #ClimateChange is a hoax, instead acknowledge catastrophic climate change is so locked in for there is nothing humankind can do about it."
3/ "Team Trump has found a way to turn climate denial into something even worse — climate nihilism, the belief that the party's almost over so tonight Big Pollution might as well party like it's 2099."
Ruh roh! "According to an anonymous complaint sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Kavanaugh physically assaulted a woman he socialized with in the Washington, D.C., area in 1998 while he was inebriated."
2/ “When they left the bar (under the influence of alcohol) they were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh, shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually.”
“There were at least four witnesses including my daughter.”
“There were at least four witnesses including my daughter.”
3/ Ooof!!
Our system is too broken to assess the sexual assault claim against Brett #Kavanaugh: slate.com/news-and-polit… via via @DahliaLithwick "Kavanaugh defenders were quick to say that the woman, still unnamed, was a drunk and a liar." <<Trolls are doing this as we speak.
@Dahlialithwick 2/ #Kavanaugh "called the abuser, because he was worried about the abuser’s mental health. Worrying more about the accused judge than the accusers one claims to believe is the system protecting the system. This is why women don’t come forward."
3/ "The problem is that demanding that any one woman bear the full professional and social and emotional cost of dismantling the machinery of men in power propping up other men in power is expecting entirely too much." #MeToo
>>>California professor, writer of confidential Brett #Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault wapo.st/2QAADV4?tid=ss…
2/ "I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”
3/ 💥💥💥 Read this thread. "Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband. "
"...All of those euphemisms for “lies” still mean lies, and if, as Haberman asserts, he really believes them, then she should report that it is also possible that the president is out touch with reality."
2/ "Journalists must work to help the public make sense of this great American dumpster fire, and a part of doing that is centering the conversation around the White House’s conflicting versions of reality."
3/ "Much of Trump’s war on the truth appears to be based in exploiting widespread media illiteracy among the citizenry. Journalism is not about striving to appear fair, but maintaining a rigorous objectivity for the purpose of serving the public."
Whaaaaa?👉🏼👉🏼NEW: Sources tell us that Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of the dossier mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
Boing!💥 
3/ “Cohen has vehemently denied for months that he ever has been in Prague or colluded with Russia during the campaign.”
Nunberg is on with @KatyTurNBC right now.
"Roger Stone is like family to me. I'm not gonna do it!" Nunberg to @KatyTurNBC. "I'm not a fan of Trump... He's right. It's a witch hunt."
"Why should I spend 80 hours going over my emails?" Nunberg to @KatyTurNBC. "Had he not won the primary, Trump would probably have endorsed Hillary Clinton."
👉🏼👉🏼Trump’s Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry via @NYTimes nyti.ms/2EmTm3e
2/ “His lawyers are concerned that the president, who has a history of making false statements and contradicting himself, could be charged with lying to investigators.” FOR GOOD REASON.
3/ “Refusing to sit for an interview opens the possibility that Mr. Mueller will subpoena the president to testify before a grand jury, setting up a court fight that would dramatically escalate the investigation and could be decided by the Supreme Court.”
