Good Monday to all of you. Lets get right into the good stuff, I have a good feeling about the roundup today
Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan reportedly told House Republicans they could abandon Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign after the infamous Access Hollywood of the then-GOP presidential nominee emerged in the public sphere.
The days after the tapes, where Trump bragged about grabbing women “by the p****,” were released in October 2016, Ryan told Republicans in a conference call that he was “not going to defend Donald Trump. Not now, not in the future,” according to a new book written by Politico’s Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, seen by Axios. The book, A Hill to Die On was released on Tuesday.
So as a surprise to no one, the GOP are revealed to be a bunch of pathetic hypocritical shits. Paul Ryan encouraged the GOP to abandon Trump after the Pussy grabbing comment came to light…. right up until the bastard won, at which point you all got real friendly with him.
Still, I feel this illustrates how flimsy Trumps position is; The second he dips down low enough, the GOP will turn on him, and the second he’s gone they will spit on his name. As will we all.
New Hampshire state Rep. Renny Cushing opposed the death penalty before his father was murdered more than 30 years ago. He opposed it still in 2011, when his brother-in-law was shot and killed in Tennessee.
And in early March, he took to the House floor to encourage his colleagues to support his bill to abolish capital punishment in his home state — the bipartisan fruit of about six years of work in the Legislature, the Democratic lawmaker said, and one that comes 21 years since he sponsored his first piece of legislation aimed at repeal.
"To me, it was hanging on to my values as a victim," Cushing, 66, told NBC News of his decadeslong effort.
"I know that in the aftermath of murder, having a ritual killing by government employees of an incapacitated prisoner doesn’t do anything to bring either my father or my brother-in-law back," he added. "It just really fills another coffin and widens the pain."
Progress marches on, as the death penalty slowly but surely becomes a relic of the past.
Is it possible that President Trump actually has no intention of winning re-election in 2020?
That's the question that was posed on Thursday by a surprising voice: Fox News' Tucker Carlson, who in a segment on his show wondered what it might look like if Trump had decided he didn't want to be president anymore and was taking steps to ensure he didn't win another term, per The Washington Post.
In this "hypothetical" scenario, Carlson ran through a number of things Trump could do so that his base would turn on him — all of which line up with actual Trump administration actions or reported proposals. He noted, for example, that if Trump wanted to lose, he could raise gas taxes, something the administration is reportedly considering and an idea that Carlson said is "so mindless and counterproductive there's literally no way you could get re-elected after doing it." Later, he told Trump he should definitely "go with the gas tax" if he secretly wants "to retire early" and is "really sick of the job."
Jeez Donny, if even Tucker Carlson thinks you’re phoning it in you got problems.
(Also, I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Trump wants to lose, because he probably never wanted to win in the first place, at least not at first.)
With a disaster relief bill deadlocked in the Senate, House Democrats are prepared to move ahead with their own package that includes billions of dollars in aid for the rain-swollen Midwest.
The Democrats’ revised bill would add $2.5 billion for heartland states reeling from catastrophic floods, an overture to Republicans after months of partisan bickering.
But the new version is unlikely to advance in the Senate because it includes the same contentious pot of money for Puerto Rico, which has been among the GOP’s chief criticisms against the bill.
Once again: Democrats are getting shit done while Republicans are useless.
Fortunately, there was no knife and no pill, Buttigieg said. Because then he would not have met his husband, Chasten, who has made him a better person, he said – and their marriage has moved him closer to God. The message many gay people get that there’s something wrong with them, he continued, “is a message that puts you at war not only with yourself, but with your maker.”
“That’s the thing that I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand,” Buttigieg said of the vice president, who has opposed same-sex marriage. “That if you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”
Oh yeah, Buttigieg went there. I’m glad we have so many potential future Presidents. Whoever wins I’m sure they will be more than a match for Trump.
That does it for today, everyone have a good morning.