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Grover Norquist and Andy Green on the Republican Tax Reform Bill
"Grover Norquist and Andy Green talked about the final Republican tax reform bill that was to be voted on later in the week".
https://www.c-span.org/video/?438547-3/washington-journal-grover-norquist-andy-green-discuss-republican-tax-reform-bill
Cornyn Says It `Would Be a Mistake' to Fire Mueller.
~ Senate No. 2 Republican reject calls to remove special counsel
~ White House officials say there’s no talk of axing Mueller
"John Cornyn, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, came to the defense of Robert Mueller, saying it “would be a mistake” for President Donald Trump to fire the special counsel, even as many GOP lawmakers ramp up criticism of his probe.
Cornyn’s comments on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday came as a handful of congressional Republicans have called for Mueller’s firing. Representative Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, said in a radio interview on Friday that the “rumor” sweeping the Capitol was that Trump plans to fire Mueller on Dec. 22"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-17/cornyn-says-it-would-be-a-mistake-for-trump-to-fire-mueller
This Tax Bill Is a Trillion-Dollar Blunder
Congress and President Trump put politics ahead of smart reform.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-15/this-tax-bill-is-a-trillion-dollar-blunder
Do Current GOP Tax Reform Proposals Resemble Reagan’s Tax Reforms?
"The current tax cut proposals would raise the budget deficit as the 1981 cuts did; but there is good reason to think that the long-term effects on the economy would be much worse this time".
http://econofact.org/do-current-gop-tax-reform-proposals-resemble-reagans-tax-reforms
The G.O.P.’s Legislative Lemons
"But it doesn’t add up, and the American people know it. The bill is wildly unpopular: Approval for it languishes around 30 percent in polls. In fact, it’s the most disliked piece of major domestic legislation of the past quarter-century — most disliked, that is, except for the Obamacare repeal undertaken this past summer by this same Congress. That effort, which failed only because of Senator John McCain’s dramatic 1 a.m. thumbs down, was polling at 23 percent.
On what basis do I assert that these two bills are the most unpopular pieces of major domestic legislation of the past quarter-century? On the results of research conducted by Chris Warshaw, a political scientist at George Washington University who specializes in studying the link between public opinion and political outcomes — whether the government is doing what its citizens want it to do".
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/opinion/the-gops-legislative-lemons.html
The Republican Tax Plan Is a Recession Waiting to Happen
"Then, of course, comes the higher cost of home ownership. For most Americans, their home is their single largest and most valuable asset. When its value goes up, homeowners feel wealthier and traditionally spend more. When the value goes down, they feel poorer and their wallets snap shut. Lower consumer confidence and spending can easily push our economy into a recession. Once upon a time, homeownership was considered the pillar of the American Dream. Presidents have routinely preached the value of homeownership. Not Trump. With caps on the deductions for mortgage interest and on the deductibility of state and local taxes, the cost of owning a home will rise and the value of a home will fall. And that is a recipe for a recession".
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/the-republican-tax-plan-is-a-recession-waiting-to-happen
Jeff Sessions Isn’t Giving up on Weed. He’s Doubling Down.
Congressional dysfunction may do what the pot-hating attorney general hasn’t managed to do all year: Remove protections for the booming legal weed industry.
By JAMES HIGDON December 16, 2017
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/jeff-sessions-marijuana-216109
That is an interesting article crazy horse 0,
talk about no scientific evidence to back up that one.
My father passed on over twenty years ago and he was real close with my sister.
About a decade "after" he passed on she swore he came to her in a dream and told her that she was going to die soon, and that it would be alright.
Obviously this upset her greatly.
She was a big girl, and struggled with weight her whole life, so she made an appointment to have her stomach stapled, a pretty dramatic event. You have to change your whole diet and pretty much eat like a bird.
She lost a ton of weight and became skinny, skinny, skinny!!!
A while latter she was driving on a two lane road in one of those big 4 door cars... a ford ltd?
Anyway somebody pulled right out in front of her at highway speed and she nailed them, T-boned them and the people in the car didn't make it.
Her airbag didn't deploy and she broke some ribs slamming into the steering wheel, but she lived.
I visited her in the hospital and she was alright and she just started crying and she said that the doctor said that if she hadn't lost all that weight, that she would have died at the scene.
She believes that she changed her fate by getting that operation, and that it saved her life.
My father to date hasn't shown up in her dreams anymore and me and my brother were kind cracking jokes that we hoped he doesn't start showing up in ours....lol
The GOP’s Weapon of Suppression: Voter Purges
Eliza Newlin Carney December 15, 2017
Voter suppression doesn’t always work, as Democrats learned in Alabama, but Republicans will be back—and they have some new tricks up their sleeves.
"The nation’s voter lists are notoriously error-riddled, and Levitt acknowledges that maintaining accurate rolls is in everyone’s interests. But cleanup efforts must be careful and precise, says Levitt, who likened the process to surgery. The multi-state “Crosscheck” program championed by Kobach, for example, matches up state voter lists without adequate controls, and misidentifies large numbers of voters as registered in more than one state. A more reputable data sharing project known as the Electronic Registration Information Center allows states to check their records against numerous government databases, resulting in fewer errors.
“It’s the difference between surgery in an operating room with a best-of-class surgeon, and surgery by your neighbor with a chain saw,” says Levitt of the difference between ERIC and Crosscheck. Indiana, one of 30 states to participate in Crosscheck, enacted a law that clears election officials to remove from the rolls anyone flagged by Crosscheck as registered in more than one state, prompting Common Cause Indiana and the ACLU to sue.
Civil rights advocates have also pushed back hard against an intimidation campaign by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative group headed by anti-fraud activist J. Christian Adams, who serves on the Kobach commission. His group has sent threatening letters to state election officials, demanding the right to inspect voter rolls that it claims are inaccurate. A coalition of civil rights groups last month set out to counter what it called “an alarming voter purge campaign,” urging election officials to reject the group’s efforts and offering guidance".
http://prospect.org/article/gop’s-weapon-suppression-voter-purges
How Flynn Could Actually Take Down the Trump Administration
https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/how-flynn-could-actually-take-down-the-trump-administration.html/?ref=YF&yptr=yahoo
Trump lawyer says a president can't 'obstruct justice.' Can that be true?
"Nixon's threatened impeachment, as well as President Bill Clinton's actual impeachment in 1998, both began with reports from special prosecutors in roles such as Mueller's. Obstruction-of-justice charges were leveled in both cases.
In the Clinton ordeal, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment in December 1998 related to obstruction of justice and perjury. The Senate acquitted Clinton in February 1999 after the chamber fell short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction. The only other US president to be impeached, Andrew Johnson in 1868, was similarly not convicted by the Senate".
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/obstruction-of-justice-president/index.html
President Trump Is Losing the Support of Fox Viewers
"Which brings me to those poll numbers. Suffolk University and USA Today released a poll this week, which found that among people who trust Fox News the most, the president’s approval rating has been sinking. His favorability among Fox devotees in June was 90 percent. In October, it was 74 percent. This week? Fifty-eight percent. If that trend continues, he will be underwater with the Fox audience long before the 2018 midterms. You can cry “fake polls,” as Trump often does. But was the same poll fake in June? Or are the same trends that led to Trump’s historically abysmal approval ratings now reaching even the Fox faithful"?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454668/donald-trump-president-losing-fox-news-viewers-approval-rating
It Is Now an Obstruction Investigation
Which means that it’s an impeachment investigation
"Any powers can be abused. When executive powers are abused, Congress retains the constitutional authority to impeach and remove the president. Obstruction of an FBI investigation may not be realistically prosecutable in court, but there is congressional precedent — in the Nixon and Clinton situations — for obstruction to be a “high crime and misdemeanor” triggering impeachment. Undoubtedly, abuse of the pardon power would also be an impeachable offense, even though it is not reviewable by the courts".
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454311/mueller-strategy-obstruction-justice-investigation-leading-impeachment
Obstruction of Justice
"Generally speaking, a person commits criminal obstruction by engaging in any act that interferes with the investigation or prosecution of a crime".
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defense/crime-penalties/what-criminal-obstruction-what-penalties
Collusion Doesn’t Have to be Criminal to be an Ongoing Threat
by Alex Finley, Asha Rangappa and John Sipher
"During the hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday, some members of the House Judiciary Committee did not try to conceal their attempt to discredit and derail Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. The way that the Russia investigation has been framed has made it easy for them to do that: Its legitimacy appears to rest on finding a smoking gun of criminality – a simple yes or no on whether any of the cast of characters in this saga committed a serious federal offence.
But making this merely about the bright line between illegality (criminality) and legality means that most Americans are missing what is right under our noses. To wit, there is no question that Russia made multiple, unprecedented attempts to penetrate a U.S. presidential campaign, that its approaches were not rebuffed, and that its contacts were sensitive enough that everyone, to a person, has concealed them. These facts might never be adjudicated inside a courtroom – they may not even be illegal – but they present a clear and present national security threat that we cannot ignore. We write here to broaden the public understanding of that security threat, and to underscore why the principal part of Mueller’s investigation—which is a counterintelligence probe not a criminal one—is performing a vital role for our country.
Assets: Tools In A Toolbox
Russia’s intelligence services, like any intelligence service worth its salt, aims to recruit a variety of assets (a.k.a. sources). Assets are a spy’s version of a “toolbox.” Different intelligence operations require different tools, so spies target a wide range of potential assets who vary according to their skills, access, and how they can be utilized. How witting they are of their role and how much control the foreign intelligence service (FIS) has over them will often depend on how far the asset will have to go to serve the FIS’s purpose.
It’s useful to think of recruitment – the process of getting an asset to work on behalf of an intelligence service – in dating terms. Let’s say a guy spots a girl he’d be interested in dating. The first thing he does is assess if she might be interested in dating him, too. To save himself potential embarrassment, he might send a friend over to the girl first, to see how she feels. If she shows interest, then the guy will officially ask her out. Of course, he doesn’t propose marriage on the first date: there is a period of courtship. It might be slow, it might be fast, but if all goes well and it’s a good match, the marriage proposal is the ultimate step. When it happens, it probably won’t come as a surprise; in fact, in the spy context, it might not have to be stated out loud at all.
In the world of espionage, the “dating” ritual might look something like this: An intelligence officer (IO) spots a target of interest, likely based on their access to information or resources of value. To assess that person’s willingness to cooperate, the IO gives the target a task to test their reaction. Usually this will be something easy, but slightly unethical – like, say, asking a political candidate’s team to meet with people who offer (potentially stolen) dirt on the opposing candidate. As protection, the IO might send someone else on his behalf, known as a “cutout,” to set up this type of meeting – this ensures plausible deniability in the event that the meeting goes south. But if the target performs the task as desired, they have shown a willingness to “cross the line,” even if they haven’t done so yet. (And even if nothing of value is handed over in that initial meeting.)
From there, the IO has a “hook” to meet with the target again, and then again. Each time, the IO will slowly ask for more, ratcheting up the risk each time – but always offering enough of an incentive to make it worthwhile for the target to accept. As the tasks requested of the target become dicier, the IO will begin taking the relationship underground. By the time the IO asks the target to do something clearly illegal, not only has the relationship become clandestine, but the IO has collected a whole string of compromising actions the target has performed along the way but probably shouldn’t have – and now the IO has leverage over the target.
In short, the key to recruitment is time and subtlety. An intelligence officer doesn’t make a target compromise himself in one fell swoop. Rather, it happens incrementally with each small act that “crosses the line” giving the intelligence officer a bit more control. Before the target knows it, the IO has made the target into an asset.
A Russian Courtship
From an intelligence standpoint, the numerous Russian approaches to the Trump campaign look like a textbook recruitment effort. Campaign officials were an attractive target for Russian intelligence, of course. They provided a chance to catapult Russian influence into the Oval Office, and to obtain the Holy Grail: to manipulate a sitting presidential administration to act in a way that is favorable to Russia. (And even if their candidate did not make it into the White House, they would have a grip on him and some of his most powerful associates for years to come.)
But this ambitious goal would not have been foreseeable at the beginning of Russia’s operation. After all, Trump and many of his associates were already on Russia’s radar screen well before he was running for president. This isn’t because Russian intelligence services are geniuses who maneuvered a grand scheme into place. Rather, it is because Russia’s intelligence services, like all intelligence services, are always on the lookout for new assets to add to their toolbox that could be useful in the future. An obvious target would be a wealthy business person interested in working on projects in Russia, or places like Ukraine, or benefiting from Russian investments. By the time a pie-in-the-sky opportunity like a presidential election came along, much of the groundwork for further outreach would already be in place.
The sheer number of Russia’s attempted contacts with the highest level of a U.S. presidential campaign and then transition team is mind-boggling. They employed Ambassador Sergei Kislyak to engage members of Trump’s team, like Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, and Jared Kushner. They put the head of a Kremlin-linked bank under U.S. sanctions in front of Kushner. They used Trump business partners to arrange a meeting between a Russian lawyer and others (including with ties to Russian intelligence) with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Kushner. They used the National Rifle Association to get another Russian banker close to Putin, Alexander Torshin, in front of Trump Jr. They approached George Papadopolous through a Russian professor in an effort to set up a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (and who also gave information that the Kremlin had dirt on Clinton). They got Carter Page to provide one of their intelligence officers with industry documents and invited him to Moscow and elsewhere for meetings. They used Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to keep pressure on Manafort, who was already being paid by Russian intelligence. They partnered with WikiLeaks which contacted Trump Jr. They feted Mike Flynn at a gala for Russia Today and paid him.
And those are only the contacts we know about; U.S. and European intelligence communities probably know about others. But this list is enough to show that the Russian effort to influence the Trump team involved multiple players, some covert and some less so. The Russians might not have directly orchestrated all of the approaches – in some cases, they may have simply exploited existing relationships – but all of the contacts were useful to them and would have most likely been reported back to the Kremlin in some form.
The context of the approaches also reveals that Russian intelligence agencies were working along multiple fronts. We can imagine cyber thieves collecting DNC e-mails, a domestic counterintelligence service providing potential dirt on and assessments of Trump surrogates’ escapades in Moscow, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leveraging unwitting but pliable contacts, and the SVR—Russia’s external intelligence agency, akin to the CIA—recruiting potential agents-of-influence in and around the campaign itself. Each avenue provided an angle that Russian intelligence could exploit as needed.
The Pattern of Deception
By accepting certain meetings, members of the Trump team communicated that they were indeed interested in having a relationship. They welcomed the prospect of receiving stolen material on their opponent, and even sought it out. Nevertheless, to date, there is no indication that Russia’s efforts proceeded beyond the initial stages. It’s possible, then, that Russia’s efforts to infiltrate the Trump campaign went nowhere.
Here’s where the deception on the part of Trump and his team is telling. Trump and his crew never, not once, considered reporting Russian approaches to their campaign, even after law enforcement and intelligence officials made it public that Russia had attempted to interfere with the election. Rather, at every turn, they encouraged unethical behavior and misled the American people, Congress, and even the FBI, claiming repeatedly they had nothing to do with Russia or Russians – even as evidence continues to surface that reveals otherwise.
Further, since taking office, the Trump administration has strenuously resisted taking any action against Russia for its attack on our democratic process. In fact, the President continues to call the intelligence community’s assessment a “hoax” and has taken no meaningful steps to protect against further interference in the future. President Trump even went as far as trying to return Russia’s spy compounds which were confiscated by the Obama administration as a part of its sanctions. Even after Congress passed a bill reinforcing sanctions against Russia this past August, the Trump administration has yet to enforce them.
Obstruction of Justice Law
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy hosted a panel discussion about *Obstruction Of Justice Law*. Legal experts and scholars discussed how prosecutors build an obstruction of justice case, the laws governing investigation interference, and how those laws might apply differently to the president or other top administration officials.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?438473-1/obstruction-justice-law
Scroll forward to 24:00 to Jed Shugerman - Fordham University Law professor
Scroll forward to 34:00 to former US Attorney Barbara NcQuade
**Scroll forward to 47:50** to Jed Shugerman - Fordham University Law professor
Alabama Supreme Court Okays Destruction of Digital Voting Records
"Four Alabama voters sued in an effort to get ballot images preserved, according to AL.com, arguing that state and federal law requires election officials to preserve the digital ballot images for six months. In Alabama, the digital images are typically destroyed after an election.
“After hearing arguments and reviewing the filings, it appears that Plaintiffs and similarly situated voters would suffer irreparable and immediate harm if digital ballot images are not preserved,” Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul wrote in his order requiring ballot images to be preserved.
However, the state Supreme Court overruled his decision, which Verified Voting says will limit the state’s ability to do election audits or catch hacking attempts.
“If every state’s election systems provided voter-verified paper ballots and post-election audits, we would be able to detect and correct errors or election tampering. But without the proper procedures in place, Alabama will be unable to do this,” Schneider said".
https://gizmodo.com/alabama-supreme-court-okays-destruction-of-digital-voti-1821223685\
Alabama Supreme Court blocks order to preserve digital voting records
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/alabama-digital-records-vote-roy-moore/
In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/in_final-hour_order_court_rule.html
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Winter in America (1974) (Full Album)
I started listening to this cat when I was in junior high, it was funny because I think I certainly was the only white boy listening to Gill Scott and I couldn't find anyone who even knew who he was at all.
I went to the record shops and just searched for the most outlandish stuff I thought maybe would be cool.
I listened to a lot of crap and ran across Gill in a discount record bin. I think it was his Johannes burg album that I can't fine.
This next full album I'm fixing to post up was released the year I was a freshman in high school...lol
Furthermore, Mr Bill Schaefer stated to the court in this linked in post: #msg-136786114 that 2016 quarterly and annual financial statements were already completed and ready to file. And that this was being done "in preparation for the Merger / Acquisition of an income producing asset for the company".
Mr Schaefer further stated to the court that "Merger Negotiations" had been ongoing since on or about May,15 2017.
And that Guard Dog (GRDO) was active and not abandoned.
Mr Schaefer stated all this to the court "Before" the motion was dismissed.
He didn't state it in a tweet, or a PR, or a filing, or a podcast.
The president and CEO of a publically held company stated it to a court.
Now, Mr Schaefer is legally bound to proceed, with the oversight of the court, because of his previous statements.
The oversight would be the court reversing it's previous decision to dismiss if Mr Schaefer doesn't make good on his statements to the court.
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/57b27a25-b17a-4654-9c8d-45e59530d6ba
Please verify it with the T/A on Monday, then you have it straight up from the transfer agent.
https://www.otcmarkets.com/research/service-provider/Madison-Stock-Transfer-Inc.?page=1&pageSize=25&id=2449&filterOn=6
Ok Thxs NOBO, that's exactly what I thought it would be, so it's not a renegade stock, just one that needs to be updated per: the court filings, that you referenced to, and provided links to previously.
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/929e392a-12fd-42f7-9129-9c842e2ade8f
Respectfully TRUSTUNITS1000000, No. A company has to be 100% up to date with respect to their SEC filings, before they are able to release any shares from the treasury or for anything like a reverse merger, the filings would all have to be up to date, and then file with FINRA.
Of course if any of the company officers [which there is only one] have any shares they would like to sell into the market, they can do so,[I think] and then they would have to file a form 4 filing with the SEC reflecting that.
I don't see any:
http://www.secform4.com/insider/showhistory.php?cik=grdo
Nor do I see any filings since 2015
https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/GRDO/filings
Madison Stock Transfer Inc. still has GRDO listed as their transfer agent. I suppose you could contact them to see if the A/S O/S has changed at all recently.
https://www.otcmarkets.com/research/service-provider/Madison-Stock-Transfer-Inc.?page=1&pageSize=25&id=2449&filterOn=6
Authorized Shares
5,950,000,000
a/o Sep 24, 2015
Outstanding Shares
2,382,589,568
a/o Sep 24, 2015
Float
2,371,589,568
a/o Sep 24, 2015
USAF’s Mini Crypto programme passes production readiness review
http://www.airforce-technology.com/news/usafs-mini-crypto-programme-passes-production-readiness-review/
"The Mini Crypto programme covers the development of an embeddable cryptographic security/data module for military handheld devices and unmanned systems that communicate sensitive and classified data".
Hank Williams Jr - I've Got Rights
What? Who told you that, where did you get that from?
Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/08/569394885/pentagon-announces-first-ever-audit-of-the-department-of-defense
Jeff Sessions wants to crack down on legal weed — will Congress let him?
UPDATED: Limits on federal pot prosecution just got a brief extension, but medical marijuana may still be at risk.
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/08/jeff-sessions-wants-to-crack-down-on-legal-weed-will-congress-let-him/
"Ultimately, the legal limbo around this question has to end. There's already a surprising amount of bipartisan support for medical marijuana in Congress. A recent CBS poll shows that 61 percent of Americans believe recreational marijuana should be legal, while 88 percent support legalized medical marijuana. Seven out of 10 Americans believe the federal government should not interfere with marijuana sales in states where it's legal. Ideally, Congress should simply pass a bill removing marijuana from the controlled substances list. In lieu of that, a bill compelling the Department of Justice to respect state marijuana laws will finally clarify the murky legal status of people who sell or use pot in states were getting high is not a crime".
Republican Rep. Trent Franks to resign amid investigation into inappropriate conduct
He discussed surrogacy with two female staffers.
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/7/16748876/republican-trent-franks-announces-resignation-surrogacy
No grab ass, harassing sexual promiscuity going on at all, just a guy wanting a family for he and his wife because they can't have children.
So he reaches out to try and make that happen.
And now he's a piece a shit, this is total overreach bullshit at it's finest.
Total disgrace that he thought he had to resign and move on.
Pure and unadulterated malarkey.
Ryan says Republicans to target welfare, Medicare, Medicaid spending in 2018
"House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said Wednesday that congressional Republicans will aim next year to reduce spending on both federal health care and anti-poverty programs, citing the need to reduce America's deficit."
“We're going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit,” Ryan said during an appearance on Ross Kaminsky's talk radio show. "... Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health care entitlements — because that's really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/01/gop-eyes-post-tax-cut-changes-to-welfare-medicare-and-social-security/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_wb-medicare-240p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.8ede713c3d44
A team of Republican strategists and ‘true GOP warriors’ donated to Roy Moore’s challenger to save the Republican Party.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/a-team-of-republican-strategists-and-true-gop-warriors-donated-to-roy-moores-challenger-to-save-the-republican-party/
"On Wednesday evening, former John McCain and John Kasich strategist John Weaver announced that he, along with four “fellow true GOP warriors” were donating to Doug Jones’ campaign in hopes of saving the party from itself.
The Republicans joining him in donating to Jones are speechwriter and McCain collaborator Mark Salter, Harvard Belfer Center Senior Fellow Mike Murphy, crisis communications strategist Matt David and Jeb Bush campaign alum Tim Miller".
https://twitter.com/JWGOP/status/938551354703990784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2017%2F12%2Fa-team-of-republican-strategists-and-true-gop-warriors-donated-to-roy-moores-challenger-to-save-the-republican-party%2F
The GOP's coming doom
"The Republican Party holds the presidency, controls both houses of Congress, and dominates legislatures and governorships in roughly two-thirds of America's 50 states. But that doesn't mean the GOP is healthy. Far from it.
Even aside from the stunning unpopularity of its signature policy initiatives and the record-high disapproval of its president, the GOP suffers from serious internal tensions. Indeed, if a new PRRI poll is to be believed, the most significant challenge of all might be the deep fractures within the party itself over President Trump. If the GOP isn't on the verge of disintegration, it may be just one potent primary challenge away from breaking into two".
http://theweek.com/articles/741500/gops-coming-doom
The GOP for Doug Jones movement is real
Alabama Republicans are doing something they never thought possible: Voting for a Democrat.
"The 43-year-old Alabama resident considers herself a staunch Republican. She voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and still supports the president. But on December 12, she will cast her ballot for Democrat Doug Jones.
The decision to support a Democrat did not come easy. She said she prayed over it for months, debating what God would want. But after she read the Washington Post report detailing four women’s accounts of being sexually assaulted by Roy Moore as young girls, Dowdle made up her mind. The details felt all too familiar. She said it was like God giving her a sign".
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-for-jones-b45a3e1e6697/
The US is testing a microwave weapon to stop North Korea’s missiles
"No, it won’t cook your Hot Pockets
The US military is developing a weapon with microwave technology — yes, microwave — designed to stop countries like North Korea from launching missiles.
According to an NBC News report, the weapon — which is still under development — could be put on a cruise missile and shot at an enemy country from a B-52 bomber. It’s designed to use microwaves to target enemy military facilities and destroy electronic systems, like computers, that control their missiles. The weapon itself wouldn’t damage the buildings or cause casualties".
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/12/6/16738894/north-korea-missile-threat-trump-microwave
Can the US president obstruct justice? Yes he can.
"Donald Trump’s lawyer, John Dowd, is not alone in arguing that the president is immune to the usual constitutional checks and balances.
If the president cannot obstruct justice, what on earth did Congress think it was doing when it drafted articles of impeachment against presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton on precisely these grounds? If a president destroys evidence germane to a criminal investigation, what is that if not obstruction of justice? The answer seems so obvious that it’s hard to take seriously claims to the contrary. But claims there are, and they come from some notable authorities.
Dowd’s statement would provide a good starting point to evaluate these claims were there not powerful reasons to question not simply his objectivity, but his basic lawyerly reasoning".
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/06/us-president-donald-trump-obstruct-justice-yes-he-can
After Tax Cuts, Republicans Eye Civil War
"This anxious logic — reinforced by threats of donor revolt — helped propel the Trump tax cuts through both chambers of Congress. Those cuts were historically unpopular. They made a mockery of Republican rhetoric on the deficit, regular order, and “middle-class tax relief.” But to vote down the legislation would have been to remove the last bit of glue holding congressional Republicans together.
Unfortunately for the GOP, it’s starting to look like passing the Trump tax cuts might do the very same thing. The moment Republicans fulfill their one unifying ambition, their intraparty divisions are poised to return with a vengeance — if they haven’t already".
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/after-tax-cuts-republicans-eye-civil-war.html
Republicans Have Written the Least Popular Tax Bill in Modern History
"This is a truly remarkable accomplishment: Despite investing tens of millions of dollars into propaganda for their tax plan, conservatives can’t even get a plurality of Americans to believe one of the few, objectively true points in its favor. Instead, they have found a way to make a tax-cut bill unpopular, for the first time in at least four decades.
Fortunately, for the plutocrats who bankrolled that propaganda, none of this appears to matter: The GOP donor class may have failed to buy off the public, but they seem to be having much better luck with the U.S. Senate".
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/gop-has-written-the-least-popular-tax-bill-in-recent-history.html