Once again its time, time for the Good News Roundup. We’re better for the environment that Roundup Weed Killer, and we don’t cause cancer, but we do kill weeds (Although calling Trump and his weeds may be too generous).
Anyways, onto the news.
One tweet from Trump showed that the in hiding president is holed up, watching Fox News, and insanely jealous of Obama.
One Tweet Says A Great Deal About What Is Going On With Trump
Trump unleashed a few tweets where he is seething about the accurate death toll in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Trump is also mentally wrecked by Paul Manafort’s flip. He is depressed and holed up in front of his television. Trump is watching Fox News comfort and crying to himself about how unfair the media is to him.
Trump has already been described as obsessed with the anonymous NYT op-ed author from within his administration. Trump‘s own son Donald Jr. is worried because his father is not sleeping and growing more paranoid by the day.
The President Of The United States Went Into Hiding After Manafort Flipped
Trump responded to Manafort flipping by going into even deeper hiding.
It has gotten so bad that the White House called a lid, which means that there will be no more activity for the day, at 10:45 AM on Saturday
I’m gonna real talk with y’all for a second. When Trump won the election. It destroyed me. I was left an emotional mental wreck for months. I was having literal panic attacks, I could barely function. It ruined my entire Holiday season.
I am not by nature a vengeful or vindictive person (well maybe a little), but I can say this: Mr. Trump, you deserve this. You deserve to be hiding under your covers, afraid and uncertain of what the future holds, unsure you even HAVE a future, because that is the pain you have inflicted on pretty much every sane person in the world. I would say I hope you learn a bit of empathy and humility from that, but we all know that ship has sailed. So stay afraid and miserable until Mueller comes for you. You orange shit.
The White House on Sunday stood by Brett M. Kavanaugh after a woman publicly accused him of sexual assault decades ago, an allegation that triggered the most concrete signs yet of Republican resistance to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
With the nomination suddenly in doubt, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) was working to arrange follow-up calls with Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who said he assaulted her when the two were in high school.
Sens. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.), two Republicans who are retiring at year’s end, joined Democrats in urging a delay in the vote until the committee hears from Ford. The panel is scheduled to vote Thursday afternoon on Kavanaugh’s nomination.
The Washington Post published a story Sunday afternoon that included an interview with Ford. The report marked the first time her identity had been revealed publicly and her first public comments about the allegation.
Now, in any sane world, this would be a career ender. Kavanaugh would kiss his chances for the SCOTUS goodbye. Hell, he would be kissing his career as a judge goodbye. But we all know the GOP is perfectly ok with working with sex offenders, and they really REALLY want that SCOTUS chair, and they may not get it if they wait. Still, this is a hopeful sign. Hopefully this debacle will sink Kavanaugh’s chances of getting on the Supreme Court. And if we win the Senate back in November, we can hold off until we get a REAL President to give us a Supreme court justice.
Democrats are targeting black voters in the battleground state of Ohio as key to victory in a state they lost to President Donald Trump in 2016.
The months-long effort was highlighted when former President Barack Obama made a stop in Cleveland last week to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray, where he delivered a plea for voters to turnout on Election Day. In addition to the governor's race, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is running for re-election and there are competitive congressional races that could be key to determining which party controls the House.
"The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference," Obama told a packed gymnasium. "The biggest threat to our democracy is where you just turn away from politics and you stay home on Election Day."
Before Trump's victory in 2016, Obama carried the state with 97% of the black vote in 2008 and 96% in 2012, according to exit polls. Hillary Clinton lost the state with 88% of the black vote. A major question going forward for Democrats is whether they can count on the support of black voters who turned out in a historic way to vote for the country's first black president.
And particularly in Ohio, where the Democrats running for governor and US Senate are white men, November's election will be a test for the party as to what type of candidates, message and efforts can appeal to the black community.
Come on Ohio, we can do this!
In a post-Labor Day briefing at the White House, a top Republican pollster told senior staff that the determining factor in the election wouldn't be the improving economy or the steady increase in job creation. It would be how voters feel about Trump. And the majority of the electorate, including a sizeable percentage of Republican-leaning voters, doesn't feel good about the president, according to a presentation from pollster Neil Newhouse that spanned dozens of pages.
Newhouse's briefing came amid a darkening mood among Republican officials as the November election nears. Party leaders were already worried that a surge in enthusiasm among Democrats and disdain for Trump by moderate Republicans would put the House out of reach. But some Republicans now fear their Senate majority is also in peril — a scenario that was unthinkable a few months ago given the favorable Senate map for the GOP.
"For Republican candidates to win in swing states, they need all of the voters who support President Trump, plus a chunk of those who do not," said Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster. "That is threading a very narrow strategic needle."
Operatives in both parties say Republicans still have the edge in the fight for control of the Senate. But GOP officials are increasingly worried that nominees in conservative-leaning states like Missouri and Indiana are underperforming, while races in Tennessee and Texas that should be slam-dunks for Republicans are close.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell raised an alarm last week, warning that each of the competitive Senate races would be "like a knife fight in an alley."
Some of the public fretting among Republicans appears to be strategic, as party officials try to motivate both voters and donors. Many moderate Republican voters "don't believe there is anything at stake in this election," according to the documents Newhouse presented to White House officials. He attributed that belief in part to a disregard for public polling, given that most surveys showed Democrat Hillary Clinton defeating Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Newhouse and the White House would not comment on the early September meeting. The Associated Press obtained a copy of Newhouse's presentation, and two Republicans with knowledge of the briefing discussed the details on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the matter publicly.
At the White House, anxiety over the midterms has been on the rise for months as polls increasingly show a challenging environment for the GOP and heightened Democratic enthusiasm. The sheer number of competitive races in both the House and Senate is stretching cash reserves and forcing tough calculations about where to deploy resources and surrogates. And there are growing fears that the coalition of voters that delivered Trump to the White House will not come out for midterms.
Republicans are scared of the Midterms, as well they should be. BLUE WAVE BABY WOO!
Former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, who became a regular character in American politics as the independent counsel during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, said President Donald Trump would be ill-advised to get rid of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Starr made the comments on Friday after Bloomberg’s David Westin asked him what the consequences would be if Trump were to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and get rid of Mueller.
“I think that there would be hell to pay if the president fired Mueller or ordered the firing of Bob Mueller,” Starr said.
On Friday morning, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded guilty as part of a deal to fully cooperate with Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
And in the “broken clock is right twice a day department.” Ken Starr says what we all already know.
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