Random Politics & Religion #38: The 38th One

Still not quite sure why people are bashing Mueller, he did his job and was impartial. He didn't want to be used as the symbol for dems to start impeachment proceedings. If the political system is broken it's clearly not his fault.

Republicans were bashing him for not investigating Clinton ... It was clearly not his job ...

Also he isn't a politician, he's clearly not a good orator, like most of us. Its vicious to attack him for that.

I honestly don't think he had a real grip on what was actually going on with his investigation.

But at the same time, republicans were complaining the investigation was taking too long and costing too much ... they had to limit the scope to what the core of the investigation was about.

Monica Crowley, whom President Donald Trump appointed as a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department last week, once pushed conspiracy theories suggesting that then-President Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim and sympathetic to terrorists, according to a CNN report Thursday.

Why the hell does he have a duck in there?

Oh look, actual racism:

Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election hacking campaign, Senate report confirms
"America is facing a direct assault on the heart of our democracy," one lawmaker said.
Think progress

But as long as they are intervening for Republicans, Mitch McConnell, like Trump, is all for it.

You must understand they do not favor Republicans because they think Republican rule is good for America.

Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election hacking campaign, Senate report confirms
"America is facing a direct assault on the heart of our democracy," one lawmaker said.
Think progress

But as long as they are intervening for Republicans, Mitch McConnell, like Trump, is all for it.

You must understand they do not favor Republicans because they think Republican rule is good for America.

...
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had tried to get consent Thursday to pass a House bill that requires the use of paper ballots and includes funding for the Election Assistance Commission. It passed the House 225-184 with [one] Republican voting for it.

But McConnell objected, saying Schumer was trying to pass “partisan legislation.”

“Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent,” McConnell said.

Guess what: McConnell is right! Legislation to secure our elections is partisan. And the fact that it’s partisan shows just how pathological the Republican Party has become in its determination to hold on to power.

So here are some things that, in our system today, are “partisan” in the sense that if we were to do them they would advantage the Democratic Party over the Republican Party:

Securing our voting systems from foreign hacking
Allowing every American to vote
Making it as easy as possible for Americans to vote
Ensuring that all votes count equally

Now consider what it says about your party if doing those things would make it much more likely that you’d lose....

There certainly won't be any direct funding for the wall, which would mean he would have to declare a fake emergency again, and considering how his first maneuver is still blocked by the courts 6 months later, I wouldn't expect it.