Morning newsies, welcome to the Good News Roundup Monday edition. I got most of my Christmas shopping today. My foot is still bothering me, but I’ll figure out what’s wrong with it eventually. I got a new DnD book for Christmas, I got a new Hearthstone expansion soon, and I got other fun stuff waiting in the wings. So I’m doing pretty well.
And now its time to give you a reason to smile: Good news.
Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed to pass legislation that would put so-called Dreamers — young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — on a pathway to citizenship when her party retakes control of Congress' lower chamber in January.
Just another reason I’m glad we won the house. Go Pelosi!
Michael Cohen, former attorney to President Donald Trump, has sent the news cycle into overdrive this week when he admitted that he lied to the Congress when testifying about his involvement in a deal for a Trump Tower built in Moscow. Cohen’s admissions have reportedly led to increased consternation in the Trump camp, as reported by the Inquisitr, with the president and his lawyers desperately trying to outwit his former attorney.
Micheal Cohen.
Yes Papa
Help from Russia?
No Papa
Telling Lies?
No Papa
Open mouth.
….Okay we got that out of the way. Anyways yeah its beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and Trump is getting the biggest piece of coal of them all.
There’s considerable pathos and dramatic irony to the end of Paul Ryan’s political career — if you are able to view him from a distance, like a character in a Jonathan Franzen novel or a Netflix drama set in Norway. He’s a guy who believed he was out in front of history and positioned to shape it, but wound up being dragged behind the emperor’s chariot while the populace laughed at him and threw unpleasant objects. Until a few years ago, I bet he didn’t even know what “cuck” meant!
Wow, not pulling any punches on this one. I hope they have an equally scathing political epitaph prepared for when Mitch McConnell gets kicked to the curb.
More from the Salon…
Republicans and conservative media did their best Thursday to give the impression that the latest revelations in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation pose little threat to the administration and their party. But the signs are clear that there's one person who isn't buying this story: President Donald Trump.
The president tried to brush off the news Thursday morning that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about efforts to build a Trump Tower Moscow with Kremlin officials. Cohen said he did so out of loyalty to the president. In response to this plea, Trump called Cohen a "liar" and "weak."
Whenever threatened, it's Trump's instinct to lash out. But this attack made little sense.
Yes I imagine the thought of going to jail soon would be distracting anyone. To anyone who thinks Trump will never see Prison. If that were actually the case, why is Trump so scared?
LOS ANGELES, CA — Three weeks after the midterms, the nation’s only remaining undecided race was called this week with Democratic challenger TJ Cox pulling off an upset victory over Republican Rep. David Valadao in California’s 21st District.
At the end of the day, Democrats flipped 40 House seats nationwide, the party’s biggest coup since the Watergate scandal. In California, it was a political bloodbath for Republicans, who lost seven long-held seats and saw their delegation in the House of Representatives cut in half. Now Republicans hold just seven of the state’s 53 seats. Democrats won every statewide office and hold a supermajority in both houses of the state legislature.
Just a reminder of how much ass we kicked this month, in case anyone forgotten.
Also the Bloodbath hasn’t ended, we’re just ganging up for round two. See you jerks in 2020!
That’s the Good news for Monday, before we go I must once again plug the Good News Roundup playlist, brought to you by the magic of Spotify. Almost six hours of Resistance friendly music for your listening pleasure. Listen to it while sending postcards, making signs, or going out to protest. The sky’s the limit.
Have a good morning, and I hope you got your Christmas shopping done.