Democrats, Republicans compare Al Franken and Roy Moore
AM Joy 11/26/17
Al Franken’s sexual misconduct allegations vs. Roy Moore’s sexual abuse allegations—are politics confounding the issues? Joy Reid and her panel debate this controversy. Duration: 16:17
Net neutrality undoing by FCC raises fears for open Internet
AM Joy 11/26/17
Net neutrality rules ensuring equal access to Internet bandwidth will be weakened by the FCC, possibly leading to many inequalities. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. Duration: 13:05
Cyntoia Brown: Sex trafficking victim gains celebrity advocates
AM Joy 11/26/17
Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life at 16 for killing a man who was sexually exploiting her. Joy Reid and her attorney discuss renewed interest in her case. Duration: 4:25
Is Donald Trump advised by conservative news pundits?
AM Joy 11/26/17
Jeanine Pirro, Sean Hannity and other conservative media personalities are said to have Donald Trump’s ear on far-reaching subjects. Joy and her panel discuss. Duration: 16:09
Santa Claus in the very special avatar of Santa Larry comes to MSNBC to wish us all a very happy holidays, and explain how he travels the whole world in one night. Duration: 4:08
Sunday, Nov. 26th 2017: Trump Feud With Media Continues - President Trump poked fun at Time magazine and CNN over the weekend, sparking a media outcry with a former Bush speechwriter accusing Trump of ‘direct attacks’ on journalists. Longest serving House member John Conyers has stepped down from the House Judiciary Committee as sexual harassment allegations mount. On today’s show, we’ll discuss what that means for the Democratic Party and the culture on Capitol Hill. Also, Trump and the GOP hope to pass tax cuts by Christmas despite Democrat opposition. https://www.infowars.com/msnbc-guest-republicans-are-domestic-terrorists/
Donald Trump’s Motorcade Disrupted by Angry Van Driver 'Screaming Expletives' at President Donald Trump’s motorcade was disrupted on Saturday, Nov. 25, by a driver in a red van who reportedly cut in and made “obscene gestures and screamed several expletives” at the U.S. president. The incident happened as Trump made his way back to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after spending his morning playing golf at Trump International in West Palm Beach. “At one point a man in a red van attempted to cut into the motorcade,” a White House pool report stated. “Local law enforcement pulled over the vehicle, where the driver made obscene gestures and screamed several expletives.” [...] http://www.newsweek.com/angry-driver-disrupts-donald-trump-motorcade-swears-president-722549
Trump Is Quietly Making It Even Harder To Report Sexual Harassment And Discrimination The White House has been trying to shut women up this whole time. To the droves of women speaking up about sexual harassment and discrimination, the Trump administration’s message is clear: Shut up. Behind the scenes, and mostly through executive orders, the White House is making it harder for women to report sexual harassment and fight sex discrimination. The clearest example came in March. It received little coverage at the time. President Donald Trump reversed an Obama-era order that forbid federal contractors from keeping secret sexual harassment and discrimination cases. The 2014 rule prohibited these companies, which employ about 26 million people, from forcing workers to resolve complaints through arbitration, an increasingly common method businesses use to settle disputes out of the public eye. “This was a clear sign of the administration silencing women,” said Jessica Stender, senior staff attorney for Equal Rights Advocates, a women’s rights nonprofit. And it’s only a small piece of the picture. “The Trump administration has a clear anti-women agenda,” Stender said. “I say that with complete certainty. This is an all-out, full frontal attack on women.” The attack so far has seen the most success via executive order, but a vast swath of the public policies proposed or endorsed by administration officials attempt to scale back women’s rights. From Trump’s repeal of executive orders meant to reduce pay discrimination to the budget floated in May, the failed repeal of Obamacare, and now the Republican tax bills, actions taken or backed by this administration harm women. [...] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-sexual-harassment-discrimination_us_5a15b385e4b03dec8249b7e5
Why Trump Stands by Roy Moore, Even as It Fractures His Party [...] But something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.) [...] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/us/politics/trump-roy-moore-mcconnell-alabama-senate.html
The 2018 Election And The Margin Of Theft A big blue wave would help the Democrats take back several state legislatures. Democrats were rightly euphoric after their big gains in the 2017 off-year elections. With new grass roots energy yielding improbable down-ticket wins, they very nearly took control of the Virginia House of Delegates, which had been 2-to-1 Republican. At this writing, the House is 49 to 48 Republican, with recounts still pending in three races. The Virginia win was also heartening because it sidestepped and began to heal the Bernie/Hillary schism in the Democratic Party. Both factions came together to elect mostly young progressives to office. Normally, one would expect 2018 to be bumper year for Democrats. The out party normally picks up an average of about 30 House and 4 Senate seats in the first midterm election after a new president is elected, and this is no average year. Republicans are divided and dispirited, Trump is monumentally unpopular, Democrats are energized. But because of gerrymandering and a variety of voter suppression techniques Republicans have a structural advantage of between six and nine points. In other words, Democrats need a landslide win in order to gain a modest legislative majority. Nationally, vote rigging and gerrymandering gives Republicans a head start of something like 20 to 25 House seats. There is a lot of nonsense being peddled about “wasted” Democratic votes due to the fact that Dems are crammed into heavily blue states and cities. This does play a role but not as much as gerrymandering and voter suppression. Until the election of 2012, gerrymandering was practiced to a roughly equal degree by both parties. But in 2010, Karl Rove launched Project REDMAP, to take over state legislatures and hire armies of technical experts armed with computers and sophisticated algorythms to keep running literally thousands of possible maps until the maximum number of Republican seats resulted. As a consequence of this thumb-on-the-scale redistricting, Democratic candidates for House seats in 2012 won 1.4 million more votes than Republicans, yet Republicans won 33 more seats. In 2012, Pennsylvania Democratic congressional candidates collectively outpolled Republicans by nearly 100,000 votes, yet Republicans won thirteen of Pennsylvania’s eighteen seats in the U.S. House. A similar story obtained in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. By contrast, in the 2008 election, before the super-gerrymandering, the party allocation of seats closely tracked the popular vote. All told, REDMAP gave total control of the redistricting process to Republicans in 21 states. (For the definitive account of REDMAP, see David Daley’s book, Ratf**ked.) In addition to the legacy of the gerrymandering of 2012, we can expect redoubled voter suppression in 2018 — purges of voter rolls, the selective use of photo ID, and long lines in districts with black and brown voters, or areas known to favor Democrats. Even so, the signs are that the blue wave in 2018 will be so intense that it will defeat the Republicans’ built in margin of theft. (You can’t gerrymander the Senate more than it is already gerrymandered – the Founders did that in advance, giving tiny states the same number of seats as the most populous ones.) Yet the prospects of a Democratic takeover of the Senate are also looking better and better. A big blue wave in 2018 would not only overcome the legacy of gerrymandering and voter suppression in Congress, it would help Democrats take back several state legislatures, looking forward to the 2020 Census ? and an opportunity for real electoral reform. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-2018-election-and-the-margin-of-theft_us_5a1b5debe4b0d4906cafa945
Elon Musk’s Tweet Gives Creepy Insight Into Future Of Humanoid Robots “This is nothing. In a few years, that bot will move so fast you’ll need a strobe light to see it. Sweet dreams... https://twitter.com/mrmedina/status/931291808394440706” Elon Musk’s predictions about robots is the stuff of nightmares. Twitter user Alex Medina captioned a promotional video of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing front flips and jumps in an obstacle course with the panicked caption: “We dead.” Musk responded to Medina by essentially telling him to buckle in for a lot more terrifying features to these humanoid robot advancements. “This is nothing. In a few years, that bot will move so fast you’ll need a strobe light to see it. Sweet dreams…,” Musk wrote. [...] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence_us_5a1b3e02e4b0cee6c0508746
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