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New Guinea campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea_campaign
"Thenceforth, the Battle of Milne Bay became an infantry struggle in the sopping jungle carried on mostly at night under pouring rain. The Aussies were fighting mad, for they had found some of their captured fellows tied to trees and bayoneted to death, surmounted by the placard, 'It took them a long time to die'."
– Samuel Eliot Morison, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, p. 38
Australian soldiers resting in the Finisterre Ranges of New Guinea while en route to the front line
Marines of the 1st Marine Division display Japanese flags captured during the Battle of Cape Gloucester
Of course the position of Trump and GOPERS is that of Brer Rabbit.
Oh, PLEEEEASE don't make me turn over the whistleblower report.
Because 3 dimensional chess, I guess. From the moron who can't close an umbrella. Whatever.
Orwellian level spin.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-federalist/
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According to an article from the left leaning Daily Beast, The Federalist was openly critical on Donald Trump before he won the election, but has since become a strong supporter of his Presidency and agenda. Further, In November 2017, The Federalist came under criticism from both conservatives and liberals for publishing an opinion piece by Ouachita Baptist University philosopher Tully Borland defending Roy Moore’s dating of teenagers while he was in his 30s and arguing that such behavior was “not without some merit if one wants to raise a large family.”
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Source: http://thefederalist.com/
BREAKING NEWS: Statement Concerning the Intelligence Community Whistleblower
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212496087
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2019
Statement Concerning the Intelligence Community Whistleblower
Our firm has represented our client from the outset, and he/she has diligently followed the
processes and laws that afford the greatest legal protections against reprisal. As legal counsel, it is
our duty to ensure our client is fully protected.
We support the bi-partisan, unanimous resolution passed by the Senate regarding our client’s lawful
whistleblower complaint and call upon the Acting Director of National Intelligence to transmit the
complete disclosure to the two Intelligence Oversight Committees. Additionally, in order to ensure
maximum legal protections for our client, we can confirm press reports that, today, we wrote to the
Acting Director of National Intelligence to request specific guidance as to the appropriate security
practices to permit a meeting, if needed, with the Members of the Intelligence Oversight
Committees. We await a timely response from the Acting Director providing such guidance.
Andrew P. Bakaj, Esq.
Lead Attorney for the Intelligence Community Whistleblower
I. Charles McCullough, III Esq.
Mark S. Zaid, Esq.
Attorneys for the Intelligence Community Whistleblower
- End -
September 24, 2019
VIA E-MAIL
THROUGH THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY INSPECTOR GENERAL
The Honorable Joseph Maguire
Acting Director of National Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Washington, DC 20511
RE: Notice of Intent to Contact Congressional Intelligence Committees
Dear Acting Director Maguire:
My firm represents a member of the Intelligence Community who has reported an “urgent
concern” to the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (“ICIG”). My client
submitted a disclosure on August 12, 2019, through the established procedures promulgated by law.
Within the statutorily-mandated period, the ICIG concluded that my client’s disclosure was both
“credible” and “urgent”, as the underlying information disclosed meets the standards set forth under
50 U.S.C. § 3033(k)(5)(G).
In accordance with 50 U.S.C. § 3033(k)(5)(D)(ii)(I), I am providing you formal notice of our intent to
contact the congressional intelligence committees directly. Accordingly, I request direction on doing
so in accordance with appropriate security practices per 50 U.S.C. § 3033(k)(5)(D)(ii)(II).
I thank you in advance for your time and attention to this matter, and I look forward to your
forthcoming guidance.
Sincerely,
Andrew P. Bakaj
Lead Attorney for the Intelligence Community Whistleblower
Enclosures: None.
cc: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Statement and Associated Documents here:
includes:
September 24, 2019, Letter from DNI OGC to Andrew P. Bakaj, Attorney for Intelligence Community Whistleblower
https://compassrosepllc.com/intelligence-community-whistleblower-matter/
Federal Courts take subpoenas resultant from impeachment hearings more seriously. Specifically, they expedite the enforcement of them
That has been the history of such anyway.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-powers-does-formal-impeachment-inquiry-give-house
Several experts have argued that the House might have a stronger legal position in disputes with the executive branch over information and witness appearances if it were undertaking impeachment proceedings rather than investigations. Michael Conway, who served as counsel on the House judiciary committee during the Watergate investigation, has advanced a similar argument.
In particular, he points to a staff memo written in April 1974, which argues that “the Supreme Court has contrasted the broad scope of the inquiry power of the House in impeachment proceedings with its more confined scope in legislative investigations. From the beginning of the Federal Government, presidents have stated that in an impeachment inquiry the Executive Branch could be required to produce papers that it might with-hold in a legislative investigation.” Others are more skeptical—like Alan Baron, a former attorney for the House judiciary committee on four judicial impeachments, who has cautioned that impeachment proceedings don’t “make all the problems go away.”
Certainly—as was suggested during our conversation on the Lawfare podcast last month—we would expect members to ask different kinds of questions during hearings if the goal is to establish a case for impeachment than if they are doing more general investigative work. But that is a separate issue from whether impeachment proceedings would meaningfully change the process members can use to obtain information in committee, the kind of material the committee could obtain and the speed at which the committee would be likely to obtain it. The answer to all these questions is: It depends.
We think it is entirely possible—probable even—that judges would recognize the primacy of impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States and expedite consideration of such cases. The case of U.S. v. Nixon—in which the Supreme Court ruled that the president had to turn over the infamous Oval Office recordings to the special prosecutor—was decided just over three months after the relevant grand jury subpoena had been issued.
That was a criminal investigation, so the analogy is not entirely apt, but we think it reasonable to assume courts would take a similarly expeditious view in the context of a subpoena issued pursuant to impeachment proceedings.
Of course, it is worth remembering that the Supreme Court has never decided a case concerning a congressional subpoena for information issued to an executive branch official where the president has asserted executive privilege. In theory, the Supreme Court could decide the issue is a political question and leave it to the other two branches to sort out in some other way.
Thanks, I needed that clarification.
Really, eleven years? What drama did Obama create? I mean the teabaggers and birthers weren't bullshit of his making.
I stated this many times, It would be Trumps narcissism that destroys him.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212492912
This mistake Trump made was a direct result of his narcissism. He thought he had beaten the Mueller Report. He thought the Mueller report cleared him of conspiracy, It did not.
A person with a normal brain who survived the Mueller report would have said this to themselves, I dodged a bullet, don't make that mistake again. Not Trump, He saw it as green light to do it again. His narcissism will now lead him to believe he can get out of this. He thinks he is smarter and better than everyone. He thinks he is invincible. He will commit more crimes and make more mistakes. He cannot control himself.
Tuesday TOONs - No Squid Go-Pro
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212491680
Excellent point. Please lay that standard along side of the two comprehensive lists of Trump's immoral, unethical AND illegal behavior. Yeah, much of what is in the Mueller report IS prosecutable when applied to a private citizen.
You just don't get it do you? Does something have to be illegal to be immoral or unethical?
This constant "We are better than you" is a crock. In other words, I am not defending Trump. In my opinion, he is no better or no worse than most of the other political hogs that feed at the trough.
Who's Laughing Now?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212490798
We’ve been hearing from Trump & Co that the whistle-blower’s complaint is such a nothing-burger, those who have seen it have laughed at it.
Of course, the obvious question has been that if it’s so devoid of substance, so easily dismissed as trivial, so downright laughable on its face, why are the Republicans so blatantly flauting the law in order to keep it under wraps?
Surely the GOP knows that we Democrats have a sense of humour – we couldn’t have survived the past three years without it. So why not let us in on the joke?
Needless to say, the lengths to which the GOP have gone to protect their “pResident” – including lying, covering for him, perjuring themselves, and breaking the law – have been, in and of themselves, staggering in their depth of depravity and breath-taking in their breadth of corruption. And yes, at times laughable in their incredulity.
But given Trump’s stupidity, his inability to keep his lies straight, and his arrogant belief that he is untouchable, all of the lies, the cover-ups, and law-breaking on the part of his party have now gone for naught.
While the GOP spokes-whores are busy on the TV machine insisting that Trump didn’t do what the Democrats are accusing him of – i.e. soliciting the leader of a foreign nation to ‘dig up dirt’ on a political rival – The Dotard has been busy running his mouth admitting that he did exactly that, while trying to couch it as being his right because he is above the law.
We’ve seen this comedy act before – and while it’s not funny for the country, it is certainly laugh-inducing on so many levels: the outraged denials of things that proved to be true, the insistence that what we never saw and heard what we have clearly seen and heard, the court jesters like Guiliani publicly melting down while trying to deny facts that were already as evident as they are damning.
Watching the inept spokes-whores on TV tonight, it seems the tack the Republicans are now taking is that the current revelations will simply “go away” if they wait out another news cycle or two.
Scott Jennings said as much on CNN tonight, insisting that this has been the pattern, that the outrage over Mueller’s revelations, Kavanaugh’s appointment, the Stormy Daniels fiasco, etc., have all faded away, and this latest story will be no different. (Of course, none of those issues have actually gone away – but Jennings, like other Trump-humpers, have their heads so far up their “pResident’s” ass, they’re not really up on current affairs.)
He who laughs last laughs best – and despite putting a happy-face on this latest disaster, the Republicans are oh-so-apparently shitting their collective underwear.
In fact, they’re looking like toddlers who, despite sitting on a pile of crap, keep smiling through their own self-induced stink, in hopes the stench isn’t as noticeable as it actually is.
I’m not saying that the Fat Lady has sung. But she’s bellowing from backstage right now, and even the most devoted GOPers can’t help but hear the song she’s about to sing.
It WILL become clearer soon enough.
It’s unclear if the individual read a transcript of the call, heard about it in conversation, or learned of it another way.
Just like with your Uranium One nothing burger and birther bullshit, you critical thinking impaired dumb asses can't get enough of that good Conspiracy Theory Chow, now can ya?
Instead of Godot, We’re Waiting for Decent Republicans Who’ll Put Country Before Party, With Similar Results
Monday, September 23rd, 2019
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal |
http://showercapblog.com/instead-of-godot-were-waiting-for-decent-republicans-wholl-put-country-before-party-with-similar-results/
Man, Amtrak is phasing out the dining car! I love long train trips, and a solid 60% of the craziest conversations I’ve ever had have come in those charming-if-forced social interactions. The end of an era. Lucky for me, the news contains more than enough abject insanity to fill the void. Let’s dive in, shall we?
Vice President Mike Pants made history (as usual, the bad kind), bludgeoning his way through Mackinac Island, Michigan, in an eight-vehicle motorcade, despite a century-old ban on cars, because the current administration never misses an opportunity to demonstrate their sneering disdain for their constituents.
Anyway, if you want to take a big fat dump in the middle of a must-win swing state’s breakfast cereal, I say go right ahead, Hairshirt Mike.
Checking in on the information superhighway, the latest viral trend is videos of people climbing Hairplug Himmler’s Big Stupid Wall with the greatest of ease! Fucking hell, have you ever seen anything that encapsulates Trump and Trumpism more perfectly?
Flagrantly racist, unwanted and unnecessary, paid for via an unconstitutional power grab that fucks over people all over the country…and it doesn’t even fucking WORK. It’s a wall. It has ONE JOB.
I guess all you snowflakes are still mad about the whole “blackmailing a foreign nation to fabricate dirt on a political opponent” thing, huh?
And the bit where Pumpkin Spice Pol Pot and his craven enablers pivoted to attacking the whistleblower who revealed his treasonous conduct as a partisan deep state hack, without a moment’s hesitation or a shred of evidence, got under your skin, too?
Aw, are you TRIGGERED by treason? Would you like a SAFE SPACE from the lawless wannabe tyrant burning the whole fucking country down in order to stay out of jail?
Yeah, me too. When I’m triggered, I like to funnel my energy into defeating the cowardly, complicit, Republican Party wherever it rears its shitty little head, don’t you? Anyway, back to the crimez…
Y’know, Rex Tillerson was mightily shitty as Secretary of State, and undoing the damage he did at Foggy Bottom will take years, but my God, give me a hundred Tillersons over one Mike Pompeo, coldly parroting his Turd Emperor’s brazen lies on live teevee.
Gotta admit, this shit sends a chill down my spine; you watch the Pompeo interview, you see a guy shamelessly breaking the law without an ounce of fear of eventual consequences, because he’s grown comfortable with an image of himself as Deputy Führer in a theocratic American Reich that will reign for ten thousand years, and I’ll live to see your head on a pike, pompous journalist scum.
Treasury Secretary Mnuchbag got in on the gaslighting fun, too, denouncing the dastardly-though-imaginary crimes of Hunter Biden, only to vanish in a puff of logic when Jake Tapper pointed out the entire Grift Family Robinshart is traveling the world, at taxpayer expense, stuffing their filthy little pockets with anything that’s not nailed down. Starting to understand why Stevie Boy doesn’t get dispatched to th’shows more frequently.
Willard Romney issued a statement, consisting of the weakest imaginable sauce, filtered through whitest slice of bread on the fucking planet, and debate ensued as to whether or not statues should be erected in his honor for this flimsiest of gestures, because we’ve come to a point in American history where we have higher expectations for a spontaneous unicorn stampede in downtown Detroit than for elected Republicans to stand up for the rule of law.
Meanwhile, folks keep pointing out the way Ben Sasse’s once-loudly-professed principles have vanished like a wad of cotton candy that’s been dropped in a puddle. Anyway, I’m glad to belong to the one party that still values patriotism.
So now I guess we get to wait for Bronco Billy Barr to release his hand-doctored version of the Ukraine call transcript. I wouldn’t worry about it; after all, he was so fair and thorough in his representation of the Mueller report.
The real action, as smarter folks than yer humble blogger have pointed out, is the whistleblower’s complaint, which I assume is being launched into the sun as we speak, alongside Sharty McFly’s tax returns.
Replacement Sarah Slanders/Not Our Real Mom Stephanie Grisham says she won’t be bringing back daily press briefings any time soon, because accountability is for CUCKS, and also because doing the job we the people pay her to do might cut into her drinking and driving time.
The Alaska GOP jumped on the Fuck Voters and Fuck Voting Fuck Them Both So Very Very Hard bandwagon, canceling their 2020 primary to spare Baron Golfin von Fatfuk the trouble of making his case to the people he’s been failing so spectacularly and regularly.
Hey, when a political party repeatedly demonstrates its eagerness to do away with all that pesky democracy, that seems to me like the sort of thing that might merit a bit more fucking attention than it’s getting.
Dinesh D’Souza, like so many right-wing grifters, relies on generating attention-getting outrage in order to snatch up his share of that sweet, sweet, rube money, and so he decided to call Greta Thunberg, who, in leading a movement that turned out millions of marchers a few days ago, has accomplished more in 16 years than Dinesh has in his entire misspent life (and with significantly fewer felony convictions), a Nazi. I guess it must be liberating, in a way, to be so divorced from shame and morality that you can casually demonize children, but on balance I prefer not being a raging shitsack.
It’s not just foreign countries, desperate for U.S. aid, who’ve been conscripted, against their will, into the Committee to Re-Elect the Scrotal Tumor, it’s you and me, the American taxpayer*!
Twenty-eight billion dollars worth of bribes to farmers to please please please vote for him again even though he’s hand-delivered your markets, gift-wrapped with a goddamned bow on top, to your competitors…and like everything he touches with his tiny, inadequate, little hands, it’s not even fucking working.
Yet another shitty white boy would-be mass-murderer, this time a U.S. solider, was arrested for threatening to bomb a major news network, because while the trade deals aren’t materializing and the manufacturing jobs keep on disappearing, the stochastic terrorism is working out quite nicely.
Y’all know Judd Legum, yes? He writes a great independent newsletter called Popular Information and today, he more or less single-handedly took down a gigantic pro-Trump Ukrainian troll farm that had amassed a genuinely terrifying reach on Facebook. Sunshine truly is the best disinfectant, and we should celebrate this significant victory in the War for Reality, probably by supporting Legum’s work.
And the Velveeta Vulgarian swung by the United Nations Climate Action Summit just long enough to drop a few overdone steak farts in the room, before wandering out to threaten one of his leading political rivals with capital punishment. The election’s more than a year away, and we’ve already progressed from “Lock her up” to “Fry, Joe, fry?” Is there enough beer in the whole godforsaken world to get me through 2020?
And when he’s not lost in erotic fantasies of electrocuting Joe Biden, the Marmalade Shartcannon is off doing what he does best; whining like a rich kid who didn’t get the Happy Meal toy he wanted.
The Nobel Prize people are soooooo unfair to him, y’see, cuz even if he has yet to accomplish half an inch’s worth of actual progress with North Korea, or the Taliban, or Israel, he should get credit for all the praise he’s lavished upon himself, which more important than dumb ol’ peace anyway, right?
Old man, you’ve opened concentration camps where you deny children access to health care and basic hygiene; the Nobel thing is off the table. You’ll just have to console yourself with the millions of dollars you’ve stolen from us taxpayers, ‘kay?
Is any of this still funny? Some days I feel like I’m going HA HA THE BASTARDS WHO ARE SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYING DEMOCRACY ARE POOPYHEADS HA HA. Anyway, it’s a bit shorter than usual tonight, probably because everybody’s focused on whether the Dotard finally betrayed America too hard this time. I’m choosing to view it as a blessing, I’ll be using the extra time to re-read King Lear**.
PS – While I’ve been workin’ up this piece, an avalanche of new Dem Congressfolk, including vulnerable swing district freshmen, have joined the calls to Impeach the Motherfucker already, and I think it’s gonna happen. Put on your fightin’ shoes, Resisters, they will need our help.
*No disrespect meant to my international readers, also can I sleep on your couch when the Second Civil War starts?
**Or drink and play MarioKart, whichever one lets me drink and play MarioKart.
And man don't they have a shit load of those? I hope that all GOPERS sleep uneasily with the light on in there bedrooms, and all of the lights are energy efficient LED's.
Many of them are shaped like incandescents so that your average ACE Hardware/Home Depot/Lowes reps can con the Trumpanzees that they are the new improved incandescent bulbs.
LOL!
He’s become an all-purpose boogeyman.
I forgot about your collation skills. 'Dear Republicans' will be sufficient to distinguish it from my many references to Trumpanzee imbecilities.
Had to cuff around a righty on another board for claiming educational/intellectual superiority of conservatives over liberals. Why are liberals so stupid / ignorant**.
Amazing the shit they need to believe, and the irony in making a claim that an actual education would've have precluded them from making.
Actually there are no data that support your willfully and sadly fact-challenged assertion. You really should check things out before posting such laughably inaccurate shit.
Actually it is fairly simple.
Quite the contrary, in FACT. You of course are welcome to post some facts that contradict the following. Fat chance, right?
America Is Divided by Education
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/education-gap-explains-american-politics/575113/
Adam Harris
| Nov 7, 2018
One of the most striking patterns in yesterday’s election was years in the making: a major partisan divide between white voters with a college degree and those without one.
According to exit polls, 61 percent of non-college-educated white voters cast their ballots for Republicans while just 45 percent of college-educated white voters did so.
Meanwhile 53 percent of college-educated white voters cast their votes for Democrats compared with 37 percent of those without a degree.
Find something to contradict that, or slink away.
The diploma divide, as it’s often called, is not occurring across the electorate; it is primarily a phenomenon among white voters. It’s an unprecedented divide, and is in fact a complete departure from the diploma divide of the past.
Non-college-educated white voters used to solidly belong to Democrats, and college-educated white voters to Republicans. Several events over the past six decades have caused these allegiances to switch, the most recent being the candidacy, election, and presidency of Donald Trump.]
Last night’s results confirm that the diploma divide is likely here to stay—especially if the GOP maintains its alignment with Trump and the nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiments he hangs his hat on. The gap is likely to be one of the most powerful forces shaping American politics for decades to come.
The Democratic and Republican Parties looked a lot different in 1952, when the American National Election Studies—surveys of voters conducted before and after presidential elections—were in their infancy. The Republicans, to some extent, were still regarded as the party of Lincoln, even though they had shifted their focus to courting southern white voters, causing black people to leave the party.
Meanwhile, the Democrats were the party of a coalition that pushed for social services—the party of the New Deal. There were far fewer college-educated Americans at the time, but the white Americans who did have degrees tended to vote Republican, and those who didn't sided with the Democrats by a significant margin.
This split was relatively stable for decades and then, steadily, it began to change. “The shift in whites without a college degree away from the Democratic Party begins as the Democratic Party becomes identified as the party of civil rights,” starting in the 1960s, Robert P. Jones, the CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, told me. Disaffected white southern Democrats, in particular, fled in droves.
Party realignment doesn't happen overnight. Just because some voters swing across the aisle in one election doesn't mean they’ll quit the party they've identified with their entire lives. Still, strong support for the Democrats among whites without a college degree, borne out of economic incentives—and racial resentment—began to wane. In their book, The Rise of Southern Republicans, the scholars Merle Black and Earl Black call this shift the “Great White Switch.”
From the mid-1990s to 2008, the diploma divide was small, if not negligible. Even though the Democrats had become the party of civil rights and a broad, multicultural coalition, they were also still the party of unions, which were largely made up of non-degree-holding whites. Therefore, white people with and without college degrees were equally as likely to be Democrats or Republicans.
But in 2008, the election of Barack Obama, a black man, signaled that the Democrats were becoming the party of progressive racial politics. “Obama’s presidency simplifies the politics of race,” Michael Tesler, an associate professor of political science at UC Irvine, says. “If you were a low-educated white, you were much more likely to know about the partisan differences on race [after Obama] than you were before.”
That change didn’t show up in the party-affiliation data right away, but that’s common, Tesler says. It often takes more than one election for people to switch their party identification. But by 2012, white voters without a college degree were distinctly more likely to vote Republican than those with college degrees.
In the 2016 election, 48 percent of college-educated white voters voted for Trump, compared with 66 percent of non-college-educated white voters. A Marist poll in October of this year found that 55 percent of non-college-educated white voters approved of the job Trump was doing, compared with just 39 percent of college-educated white voters.
When Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh squeaked through a Senate confirmation hearing with a sexual assault allegation in tow, 54 percent of non-college-educated white voters supported him, compared with 38 percent who had gone to college. And the partisan diploma divide held steady last night, reflecting a divide in values between those with degrees and those without.
There’s a question that splits Americans neatly in two. Every year, on its American Values Survey, the Public Religion Research Institute asks Americans whether they “think American culture and way of life has mostly changed for the better, or has it mostly changed for the worse,” since the 1950s. Fifty percent of Americans say that it’s gotten better in this year’s poll, and 47 percent say that it has gotten worse.
But for white voters, the answer to that question is split by education level. Fifty-eight percent of college-educated whites this year say that America has gotten better since 1950, while 57 percent of non-college-educated whites say that it’s gotten worse.
When President Trump says “Make America great again,” the again is instructive. He’s capitalizing on the nostalgia that non-college-educated white voters have for America’s past. “That harkening back to a supposed golden age where things were better has a really, really strong appeal for whites without a college degree,” Jones said.
That nostalgia, however, is for a time when black Americans and other minority groups had significantly fewer civil rights. And a Republican rhetoric that centers a longing for an era of white prosperity, rife with racist violence against black people, is why it’s impossible to understand the diploma divide without accounting for racial resentment. Needless to say, black Americans and other minority groups aren’t as keen on returning to the past.
When researchers control for voter attitudes on race in addition to white voters’ education level, Tesler says, the diploma divide disappears. No other factor, he says, explains the education gap as well—not economic anxiety, ideology, income, or gender.
David N. Smith, a professor at the University of Kansas, came to a similar conclusion when he and Eric Hanley took a dive into the 2016 American National Election Survey. They found that demographic data such as education are important predictors of which party someone votes for. But “when you bring the attitudes variables into account as well, what emerges is that attitudes loom even larger than demographics,” he told me.
Here’s how he put it: If you look at white people who voted for Trump—both those with college degrees and those without—and identify everybody with a high level of resentment toward minorities, women, and Muslims, as well as those who want an arrogant, assertive leader, there’s almost no one left. The vast majority of Trump voters share those sentiments, the researchers found, regardless of education level.
The GOP has come around to Trump. As my colleague McKay Coppins wrote, “Trump’s conquest of the Republican Party is complete, and the former ‘fringe’ has become so thoroughly intertwined with the ‘establishment’ that the two are virtually indistinguishable.”
The growing diploma divide is less a result of non-college-educated white voters becoming Republicans, and more of college-educated white voters finding that they can’t fully support the party anymore.
“What's happened since 2016 is that the low-educated whites have kind of plateaued in their support for the Republicans,” Tesler says. “But you've seen this trend increase [of] high-educated whites [moving] towards the Democrats.”
Smith told me that from 2015 to 2017, the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis conducted a monthly panel survey—where the same statistically significant number of people are interviewed each month—that cataloged Republican attitudes toward Republican candidates.
Over time, those who supported Ted Cruz, who called Trump a “sniveling coward” during the campaign, and those who supported Marco Rubio, who called him a “con man,” tended to come around to Trump.
But the voters that stand out, Smith said, are those who initially supported John Kasich. “They, in many instances, agree with Trump on policy issues, but the best data indicates that they are uncomfortable with him personally,” he said. “There are key aspects of his rhetorical style, of his governing style, that they don't like.”
Kasich has been on a crusade in recent weeks combatting the Republican rhetoric around the migrant caravan. “The Lord doesn’t want” America to build walls around around itself, he told CNN. And that wasn’t the first time he’d expressed concern about the state of the Republican party, and its rhetoric, as it has inched closer and closer to Trump. “If the party can't be fixed,” Kasich told Jake Tapper in October 2017, “then I’m not going to be able to support the party. Period. That's the end of it.”
Jones argues that the logic is simple. “The risk that the Republican Party runs by becoming the party that’s opposed to immigration, that’s worried about the country becoming more diverse,” he said, “is that they will turn off college-educated whites.”
But the consequences of the diploma divide are not just evident in the demographics on Election Day. Hidden in that gap is a threat to higher education itself. Last year, Pew issued a sobering survey. “Republicans have soured on higher education,” the survey declared, and it threw people into a frenzy.
Sixty-seven percent of Republicans, the survey found, had “some” to “little” confidence in colleges as institutions. A number of factors contribute to this distrust, the rising cost of tuition and the perception of a liberal bent at colleges among them.
And if one major party believes that higher education is an engine of liberal indoctrination, and that party’s voters are increasingly likely not to have attended college, the political benefits of an anti–higher education stance are obvious.
That puts the budget lines for public colleges, in particular, at risk. Decades of funding cuts by state governments have already hit the institutions hard. And these cuts, in turn, have driven an increase in tuition costs and more animosity toward higher education. As Michael Grunwald recently wrote in Politico, “The next big Republican culture war will be a war on college.”
As the Republican party continues to cozy up to Trump, whose political career began by questioning the legitimacy of the first black president, and who rests his laurels on hostile anti-immigrant sentiments, more moderate Republicans—who, often, are college educated—will likely continue to flee.
And the GOP will have even less of a reason to try to cater to the college set, or to embrace higher education–friendly policies. The diploma divide is wide, and the closer Republicans embrace Trump, the wider it may get.
LOL! Sounds like a Duffel Blog like take from the bath tub lobby.
Dilation of blood vessels from heat is not quite the same as that from training.. After all, the heart IS a muscle.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_vascular_institute/clinical_services/centers_excellence/womens_cardiovascular_health_center/patient_information/health_topics/exercise_heart.html
Exercise has many positive effects on heart health. A regular exercise routine can help:
•Lower blood pressure
•Lessen risk of developing diabetes
•Maintain healthy body weight
•Reduce inflammation throughout the body
Fake news, that only fools credulous morons.
They are allowing their kid to be manipulated by sick globalists like George Soros to push a fake climate crisis agenda.
Should've saved that for...…………...Rooster's return.
Democrats Must Impeach Donald Trump to Defend the Republic. Also, It's Good Politics.
The president is lawless, and has violated his oath to defend the Constitution. Make Republican senators defend him and what he's done.
By Jack Holmes
Sep 23, 2019
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29188688/democrats-must-impeach-donald-trump/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=092319&utm_campaign=nl18101818&src=nl
At the risk of sounding a bit repetitive, Democratic leaders must come to grips with who and what Donald Trump is—and the nature of the Republican Party he leads—before this crew tramples what's left of the republic.
One of our two major political parties is now an authentic authoritarian outfit, where the political playbook at both the state and federal levels consists of using the mechanisms of democracy to strangle the popular will and entrench minority rule. Anything is acceptable if it helps you maintain your grip on power.
Just as important, every party official now marches in lockstep with The Leader, who will do anything he feels will benefit him personally as long as there are no concrete consequences. This is how Trump has behaved his entire life—strong-arming opponents, bending or breaking the law, using mobspeak to hint at the quid pro quo—and gotten away with it, except now he is President of the United States. The authoritarian knows only force, and until Democrats impose consequences for the president's behavior in the form of legal force, Trump will continue to break the law and destroy institutions of the republic until the landscape of our politics is unrecognizable.
So far, Democrats have completely failed to make Trump believe there will be repercussions if he breaks the law or violates his oath to defend the Constitution. The Mueller Report detailed multiple instances in which the president blatantly attempted to obstruct justice in an investigation into whether he and his associates accepted help from a hostile foreign power in 2016.
Democrats chose not to impeach the president, despite the fact that he'd broken the law repeatedly, and so far have failed to even call many of the key witnesses to testify before Congress.
No wonder, then, that Trump reportedly called the Ukrainian president the day after Mueller's testimony and hinted, likely in mobspeak, that he would hold up $250 million in military aid until they got to work investigating Trump's political opponent.
There were no consequences for what we learned about Trump's activities in 2016 and during the subsequent investigation, so why would there be consequences if he got up to the same—or more—in 2020? And in between, he has continued to destroy the separation of powers that forms the essential architecture of our Constitution and relentlessly profited from his office.
Trump has broken the law, assaulted the Constitution’s separation of powers, and profited from his office relentlessly.
Democratic leadership, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has thus far held the line that the best way to rid the republic of Trumpism is to defeat Trump at the ballot box in 2020. But this rests on a number of tenuous premises, not least that the elections will be free and fair.
Domestically, the Republican Party will work overtime using the time-tested shenanigans: voter purges, voter suppression, closing polling places, old-fashioned ratfucking.
And now the president has essentially put up a neon sign for the world's shadiest operators: do me a favor and ratfuck my opponent, and there could be something in it for you down the line. Bonus points if you put money in my pocket at one of my hotels. He said we were waiting for word from the Saudis on whether the U.S. military should strike Iran, for Christ's sake.
The simple fact is that the president is lawless and must be made accountable to the law, or his lawlessness will continue to spread and metastasize. Democrats must initiate impeachment proceedings against him on the basis that he has betrayed the republic and violated his oath of office.
Along the way, they should call every witness they need and hold those who refuse to testify in contempt. They should literally be held in jail. Those who do testify but make a mockery of proceedings, like Corey Lewandowski did last week, should also be held in contempt.
The president is not going to suddenly see the light and stop doing crimes because they're the wrong thing to do. He will stop doing crimes if someone stops him from doing crimes. This is what he's up to more than a year out from the election. What will he do between now and November if he is not held accountable, particularly when he knows that a failure to win reelection could mean a federal indictment?
Democratic leaders have also relied on the excuse that impeachment will not succeed in the Senate even if the House initiates proceedings. This is also absurd, particularly if you're banking on winning the next election.
Impeachment hearings function as an airing of the president's misconduct, putting it on blast for the whole nation to see. Just 19 percent of the public supported impeaching Richard Nixon when the Watergate hearings began. By the time he resigned, it was 57 percent, because people learned the extent of his treachery. Support for Trump's impeachment already hovers between 35 and 38 percent.
And along the way, it's not just the president who will come under pressure for what he's done. Senate Republicans will have to defend their defense of a criminal president, some of them while they're running for reelection.
Does Cory Gardner want to defend the president's behavior while defending his seat in purple Colorado? Also, if you care about that kind of thing, they'll have to live out the rest of their lives knowing they, too, betrayed everything they claimed to hold dear to stay in favor with The Base.
Simply put, Democrats must impeach Trump because he has likely committed high crimes and misdemeanors. It is the right thing to do in defense of the republic.
But it will also be good election-year politics as they try to sink Trump and take the Senate, without which any Democratic legislative agenda is dead on arrival. The only reason they wouldn't, at this point, is that they are afraid. Or maybe Pelosi and her leadership team still think they're playing chess when Trump and his crew upended the board years ago.
I see that Trump and Pence dropped by for a ten minute cup of coffee at a UN climate meeting. I wonder how many times Trump said 'fake science' before he and Pence left to a chorus of indifference.
Space Command GS-15: Nobody leaves orbit until they complete DTS training
September 23, 2019
By Bull Winkle
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado – Regardless of its recent official activation, U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM) operations will not be “go for launch” until the force masters space travel regulations, a super important civilian says.
“Fiscal accountability applies in space just like on Earth” said GS-15 Bobby Hall, SPACECOM Resource Management Officer and Defense Travel System (DTS) Level 25 approver, “and SPACECOM is comprised of aviators and aircrews from all the services. Those zipper-suited dumbasses can’t even pull off a simple fuel stop in Scotland without causing a national shit-storm. So all the junior James T. Kirks need extensive DTS training or we’ll have a ‘Space-Gate’ scandal bigger than Jupiter.”
Hall explained how military space travel presents astronomical problems. “Every mission is a TDY,” Hall says, “at 34 cents a mile, a round trip to the moon is a $162,421 mileage check to every Star Lord wannabe. But they’ll wait until the last minute to submit their DTS, and want voucher settlement before they even dry off after splash down.”
Proper DTS use will help SPACECOM personnel, according to Hall. He offered the example of people stranded in orbit who need to use another country’s spacecraft for return to Earth and claim the cost as a Foreign Supplied Space Vehicle. “Like what happened in that ‘Gravity’ movie,” Hall said, “we call it the Sandra Bullock provision.”
Or hypothetically, a crew member involved in a custody dispute or other marital difficulty might need to access their bank account from space. “That might incur some wifi connection costs, and those are totally reimbursable, as long as it’s not for anything like a cyber space crime,” Hall said.
Experts admit that sending military aviators into space regularly will require strict travel guidelines. Hall says, “The Russians operate a bar on the International Space Station, so you can bet your big Battlestar Galactica that somebody will try Remain Overnight on the ISS. With training, they’ll know how to request an orders amendment as a BDM, or ‘Boondoggle Disguised as Mission.”
Col. Kerry Becker, SPACECOM Public Affairs Officer, stated, “We certainly intend for all SPACECOM operations to follow travel regulations. Leadership expects that all of our trips away from Earth will be just as proper and ethical as terrestrial aviator TDYs.”
Becker departed the interview to attend DTS Level 10 training and Hall’s mandatory class, “Smart Space Travel: Because What Happens on the Moon Does Not Stay on the Moon.”
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/09/space-command-gs-15-nobody-leaves-orbit-until-they-complete-dts-training/?utm_source=Normal+Subscribers&utm_campaign=c5a590a5ec-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-c5a590a5ec-23791221&goal=0_6d392bc034-c5a590a5ec-23791221&mc_cid=c5a590a5ec&mc_eid=cc8af7284a
This has more.....punch, as it calls for accountability.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=151286568
When the nightmare ends, fcuk Republicans forever.
The Trump brand of betrayal and thieving will ALWAYS be the Republican core value. Lie and cheat, deny, deny, deny.
Hey mods, can we sticky this as a handy check list of Trumpanzee moral imbecility, double standards and hypocrisy?
I looked in the dictionary for a working definition of 'comprehensive', and this was the newest entry.
'Leaders Week'? Well right off the bat the marmalade shartcannon is crashing a party he has no business attending.
Maybe he can play the 'Ukrainian Cajole' that he test drove, and which worked so well for him, a little while ago?
Shower Cap's blog will write itself with this week's iterations of Trump's embarrassing tweets, malapropisms, insults and miscellaneous foolishness.
One article of impeachment should be for conducting himself like a fucking clown.
I've lost sight of nothing. You just read the intent of the compromise, it was a failure and a moral abomination.
Why count human beings as 3/5 of a person while they are enslaved and are in no way able to participate in the election of representation for themselves? Peculiar institution, peculiar head count, tragic results.
No part of my argument is ideological rather than based upon pragmatism, fairness and an accurate reading of history.
Then as now, "DISproportionate power....."
It would be helpful if you actually analyzed this issue thoughtfully instead of parroting weak arguments to perpetuate disproportionate power.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=163
It is ironic that it was a liberal northern delegate, James Wilson of Pennsylvania, who proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise, as a way to gain southern support for a new framework of government. Southern states had wanted representation apportioned by population; after the Virginia Plan was rejected, the Three-Fifths Compromise seemed to guarantee that the South would be strongly represented in the House of Representatives and would have disproportionate power in electing Presidents.
Over the long term, the Three-Fifths Compromise did not work as the South anticipated. Since the northern states grew more rapidly than the South, by 1820, southern representation in the House had fallen to 42 percent. Nevertheless, from Jefferson's election as President in 1800 to the 1850s, the three-fifths rule would help to elect slaveholding Presidents. Southern political power increasingly depended on the Senate, the President, and the admission of new slaveholding states.
It's part of the reason. Mostly it's the disgust with Party politics, MOSTLTY GOP Party politics. Hence the larger shrinking of the GOP, as you noted.
You might want to look at how many ways our population has changed and you might want to remember why the formation of our government included the amendment process, used right off the bat for ten of 'em.
Which is why so many Districts are gerrymandered, another way of thwarting majority rule.
You forget that the House is populated strictly by population of each state.
You're making the argument that an increasingly minority Party should continue to have a disproportionate say in national elections.
Most of those independents reside in Blue States.....
https://ivn.us/2018/08/08/9-states-registered-independents-outnumber-major-political-parties
And you can bet your righty ass that so too do most independents reside in large metro areas within both Blue and Red States.
Harder but, as '16 showed, not impossible. Trump is the very model of a modern major demagogue. Irony 1- ForReal-0.
It is much harder to win that kind of election as a demagogue than it is to win just one election nationally.
Socialists and Fascists are experts in demagoguery, and will use any and all means available to them to exploit tragedy to advance a totalitarian political agenda.
Now, if the Electoral College did not exist, what would happen to the grey counties? They would be forgotten, they would not matter. Only the most heavily populated areas would be courted for votes.
LOL! I hope you got it right about here...…
Much like Sampson, Robert Pattinson, or Robert Plant, Rivera received the majority of his sustaining life force from his courageously out-of-regulation haircut,
When the nightmare ends, fcuk Republicans forever.
The Trump brand of betrayal and thieving will ALWAYS be the Republican core value. Lie and cheat, deny, deny, deny.
Hey mods, can we sticky this as a handy check list of Trumpanzee moral imbecility, double standards and hypocrisy?
I looked in the dictionary for a working definition of 'comprehensive', and this was the newest entry.
https://liberalsarecool.com/post/187851828176/when-the-nightmare-ends-fcuk-republicans
Rudy Giuliani accused me of exposing Paul Manafort’s Ukraine deals to help U.S. Democrats. That’s a lie.
Really, Rudy lying? That's the sturdiest of limbs to not just crawl out on but also jump up and down on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/21/why-is-rudy-giuliani-trying-drag-my-countrys-president-into-trumps-reelection-campaign/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
By Serhiy Leshchenko
September 21 at 4:57 PM
Serhiy Leshchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and political activist.
On Aug. 19, 2016, I convened a news conference in Kiev at which I revealed previously secret records of payments made by the former pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych to Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. (Yanukovych fled the country in February 2014 after he was toppled by our Revolution of Dignity, a popular uprising on the streets of Kiev.) The information came from the “black ledger of the Party of Regions,” which was obtained by an anonymous source in the burned-out ruins of the headquarters of Yanukoych’s party. Yanukovych had used the ledger to keep records of his illegal transactions. At that time, although I was a member of parliament, I continued to combine that position with my journalistic work, which is allowed by the laws of Ukraine.
I will always be angry at Manafort. His work contributed greatly to Yanukovych’s election victory in 2010; Yanukovych then used his position as president to enrich himself and his inner circle. I have no doubt that Yanukovych paid Manafort for his services out of the funds he robbed from Ukrainian taxpayers.
Corruption is harmful whether it takes place America or Ukraine. My desire to expose Manafort’s doings was motivated by the desire for justice. Neither Hillary Clinton, nor Joe Biden, nor John Podesta, nor George Soros asked me to publish the information from the black ledger.
I wanted to obtain accountability for the lobbyist whose client immersed Ukraine in a blood bath during the Revolution of Dignity and the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine, when Yanukovych called on Russia to send troops.
A federal judge in the United States later sentenced Manafort to 7½ years in prison for his many crimes. Among his offenses was his non-payment of taxes on undeclared income whose origins were revealed by Yanukovych’s secret accounts.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the Manafort revelations would become fodder for the U.S. elections in 2020. President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, the mouthpiece of this campaign, is not only attempting to rehabilitate Manafort but is also working to undermine U.S. relations with Ukraine, which has been confronting Russian aggression on its own for more than five years.
Giuliani and his associates are trying to drag our newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, into a conflict between two foreign political parties, drastically limiting Ukraine’s room for maneuver in respect to the United States, perhaps its most important international partner.
Giuliani attempted to visit Ukraine in May 2019 with the express purpose of involving Zelensky in this process. His aim was quite clear: He was planning to ask Zelensky to intervene in an American election on the side of Trump.
Zelensky refused, forcing Giuliani to cancel his trip. Shortly after that, Giuliani went on Fox News, where he called me “[an enemy] of the president [and] of the United States.” This accusation had a devastating effect on my political career. I had been helping Zelenksy’s team since January — but now Giuliani’s smear cost me a job in the new administration. Not wanting to create problems for Zelensky, I withdrew from consideration.
Giuliani's entire approach is built on disinformation and the manipulation of facts. Giuliani has developed a conspiracy theory in which he depicts my revelations about Manafort as an intervention in the 2016 U.S. election in favor of the Democratic Party. In his May interview on Fox, Giuliani even claimed that I was convicted of a corresponding crime.
The facts do not support this allegation. Here’s the truth:
The administrative court — which has long had a reputation as the most corrupt in Ukraine — ruled in December 2018 that I had acted illegally by disclosing the payments to Manafort. We appealed, and the verdict was suspended. And in the summer of this year, we won the appeal and the court’s decision was completely annulled. The appeal concluded that all the charges against me were unfounded, and even obliged my opponents to reimburse me for $100 in legal costs.
But Giuliani continues to quote this court decision even though it never attained legal force.
Giuliani also persists in claiming that the “black ledger” is a fake. He stated this most recently just a few days ago in an interview with CNN. In fact, the book is a genuine document. Expert examinations have confirmed the authenticity of the signatures shown in it.
Giuliani has also been attacking the fearless activists from our Anti-Corruption Action Center, who managed to uphold their ideals even though they were persecuted by the previous government of President Petro Poroshenko.
By repeating this lie, Giuliani is not only deceiving American citizens. He is not only intervening in Ukrainian politics, smearing parliamentarians and officials of the presidential administration. He is also trying to drag the new president of Ukraine into an American election, which is absolutely unacceptable.
I know that leaders of the three U.S. congressional committees that are now investigating the whistleblower case have asked the White House and the State Department to share all correspondence regarding the people involved in this story, including me.
As a person who has had direct experience of many of these events, I express my readiness to testify to the U.S. Congress about what has been happening for the past six months in the gray zone of Ukrainian-American relations.
PSYOPs officer told to cut hair, dies
September 22, 2019
By As For Class
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The entire Psychological Operations Regiment mourned today, as Capt. Robert Rivera was forced to receive a wicked haircut within military standards, resulting in Rivera’s immediate death.
Much like Sampson, Robert Pattinson, or Robert Plant, Rivera received the majority of his sustaining life force from his courageously out-of-regulation haircut, which flowed down to his shoulders on days when he let his ponytail out.
“The mane was amazing. I couldn’t bring myself to deny the world of such beauty,” said Rivera’s previous commander, Major Roger “Roger” Smith. “Even the [special forces] guys complimented him on it. Do you know how rare it is for a PSYOPer to be complimented by anyone in Special Forces? Rivera was our unicorn.”
Rivera was spotted two days ago in 82nd Land, an area rarely frequented by psychological operations—or “PSYOPs,” as they like to be known—personnel. Sergeants major and higher ranking officers tackled Rivera to the ground, held a spontaneous trial, and presented what remained of Rivera to the nearest general officer for judgement.
“It was horrible. I saw the entire thing,” said a fellow PSYOPs long hair on condition of anonymity. “They—they did it in front of everyone. Oh, God. They did it in front of children!”
“Once the General stuck his thumb down it was all over. A pair of cordless clippers emerged and the follicles screamed to the ground. We cried out, but our screams were muted against the cheers from all of the hooah exuded by the 82nd.”
The incident was shared on the post blotter as a show of force against the Psychological Operations Regiment. No member of the Regiment has since set foot in 82nd Land.
The entire branch will be taking a knee this evening in a planned silent vigil. The bugler will play “Taps,” as well as “Whip My Hair” by Willow Smith. It is likely that all will shed tears.
Rivera’s sick hair is survived by the hair of Capt. Dave Kal, Master Sergeant DeShaun Waves, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who admits he shaved his head recently out of respect for Rivera’s memory.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/09/psyops-officer-told-to-cut-hair-dies/?utm_source=Normal+Subscribers&utm_campaign=596adaeb88-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-596adaeb88-23791221&goal=0_6d392bc034-596adaeb88-23791221&mc_cid=596adaeb88&mc_eid=cc8af7284a
Apples and oranges.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we've seen in this case.”
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election. And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
Inconclusive my ass. As I said the indictments would have been sufficient for the situation I described.
Special prosecutor looking into the Clinton campaign for a shit load of her associates lying about contacts with Russians, Putin's expressed desire for her election, directing HIS GRU in those efforts, and those same Russians indicted for hacking into the TRUMP campaign. Apply some lipstick to that, asshole.
You wouldn't give a flying fuck that the Russians were beyond reach, the indictments would suffice for more choruses of 'lock her up'. That is so patently obvious to anyone not suffering from selective memory, or brain damage.
Deny that and point out anything I've posted that reeks of the double standards you're employing.
Name the smears. Trump is a congenital liar and a fucking nitwit who communicates at a grammar school level.
Colonial airports and Sharpie modified weather maps, for Christ's sake.
He's an embarrassment to all intelligent and decent people.