Donald Trump’s apparent defense of alleged abusers may alienate GOP women voters. Joy Reid speaks with Republican women active in the party about why they continue to support the president.
Why Democrats can release their memo despite Trump
AM Joy 2/11/18
Donald Trump allowed the Nunes memo to be released, but is apparently attempting to block the Democrats from releasing their own memo on the Russia probe. Joy Reid and Harvard professor of constitutional law Laurence Tribe discuss why experts say the Democrats can release their memo under House rules.
Rep. Swalwell: president willing to do anything to obstruct
AM Joy 2/11/18
Donald Trump is apparently trying to block the Democrats from releasing their memo, but experts say they can do so regardless of his unsubstantiated demands. Rep. Eric Swalwell joins Joy Reid to discuss what Democrats in the House might do.
FOX news covers trivial story over Trump’s troubles
AM Joy 2/11/18
Why did FOX news choose to ignore news of alleged abuser Rob Porter leaving Donald Trump’s White House, in favor of promoting debunked text messages intended to implicate a Democratic U.S. Senator? Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
Omarosa was fired from Donald Trump’s White House in an awkward manner, but she is back saying she would ‘never in a million years’ vote for the president again. Joy Reid and former ‘Apprentice’ contestants discuss Omarosa on ‘Celebrity Big Brother.’
‘Black Panther’ is a movie featuring an African-American director and almost all-black cast, a huge budget, and phenomenal ticket pre-sales. Journalist Jamil Smith joins Joy Reid to discuss his Time magazine cover story on this cultural milestone.
The United States is deeply saddened by the tragic deaths of those on board Saratov Airlines Flight 703. We send our condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and to the people of Russia.
Sunday, Feb. 11th 2018[, with an appearance by Jerome Corsi]: Olympics Kick Off In Seoul - The 2018 Winter Olympics have begun in South Korea, with Vice President Pence in attendance. Tensions are high in the Middle East after an Israeli F-16 was shot down in Syria, resulting in retaliatory airstrikes by Israel. Meanwhile, President Trump’s approval rating tops Obama’s on the same date of his first term. On today’s show, we’ll discuss the Olympics and North Korea, as well as the latest developments surrounding both the GOP and Dem FISA memos.
Responding to a response video to me, where the person tries to make the case that the great flood story doesn't violate Gods objective moral standards because...reasons.
Those reasons include giants, aliens, angels and possibly demons doing stuff God didn't like, so he was forced to drown everyone.
At VICE News, chronicling Trump’s various physical and linguistic ticks is somewhere between a hobby and an obsession. These Trump quirks are sometimes informative, sometimes absurd, always entertaining.
Joseph Nickell: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know - Christo-fascist white guy 1. The Sheriff Called the Shooting ‘One of the Most Disturbing Acts of Violence I Have Ever Seen’ 2. Nickell Was a Fan of Donald Trump & Made Islamophobic Posts on Facebook 3. Nickell Worked as a Hair Stylist 4. Nickell’s Sister Died in August 2017; 3 Months After She Was Arrested for Possession 5. Nickell Had a College Aged Son Who Shared His Name https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/joseph-nickell-paintsville-kentucky-shooting/
The Christian Who Cried Abortion - and tie "The Real Origins of the Religious Right - They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation." https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103100000 The fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf chronicles the story of a young boy who, in his boredom, deceives his village into believing that the sheep have all been scattered by a wolf. After multiple cries, the villagers stop responding and calamity strikes, the moral: no one believes a liar, even when they are telling the truth?he loses his credibility and everyone suffers. The American church faces a similar issue of credibility?in outspokenly crying out for anti-abortion policies, they reveal their lack of credibility in engaging in a more holistic pursuit of life for all. The American church is compromised by its single-issue martyrdom complex that asserts political moral superiority based on a commitment to “pro-life” politics, while being attached to a Republican party that espouses anti-life policy and rhetoric at every turn. Single-issue voters are people who, in being passionate about a particular issue, are willing to cast their vote for a candidate based on that position alone. The problem for conservative Christians who do this is that Jesus didn’t espouse a single-issue politic and the commitment to anti-abortion policy is revealing both a fundamental misunderstanding of the holistic healing and the teachings of Jesus. Jesus could have singularly focused on saving souls, but instead he adopted a multifaceted method of spreading the Word: by healing the bodies of people that would never follow him, challenging the power of religious institutions, inviting people from the margins to experience holistic life, and teaching his disciples to meet the practical needs of the community around him. Most American Christians hold no such complexity in their engagement with single-issue politics. Their cries, with an incomplete witness or care for issues impacting people outside of the womb, are like the boy who cries out over and over again, drawing the attention of the villagers who recognize that what he is saying doesn’t match up with reality. One can, as a Christian, claim to be pro-life and use that stance to establish moral high ground in political conversations. It is acceptable for them to call those who don’t share their anti-abortion position “baby-killers,” while also supporting the use of drones, nuclear weapons, ignoring gun violence and continuing to support a criminal justice system that takes people’s lives with the death penalty, or prevents people from having access to resources that would ensure a quality of life that matches Jesus’ clear instructions to meet and care for people’s practical needs?the metric that Jesus used to test whether people actually know him. In having an loudly spoken and politically charged value for anti-abortion policy, American Christians cry out this single value in such a way that not only maintains power in the religious right, but compromises the greater picture of Christian integrity as a whole. By siding with candidates that disregard life in every other facet (other than abortion) through their pro-war, pro-violence, pro-militarism and pro-death penalty policies, American Christians reveal not only their lack of care for holistic life politics but a fundamental misunderstanding of the way of Jesus. Conservative Christians are not pro-life, they are simply anti-abortion. Single-issue voting, at its worst iterations, places people like President Donald Trump, in all of his functional violence, immorality and power mongering, at the center of the Christian consciousness. By elevating and blindly submitting to a single-issue politic, Christians endorse corrupt and immoral leaders and opt into ideological hypocrisy to uphold it. The risk for Christians is the loss of all ability to think in nuanced ways. It forces black-and-white thinking that moralizes some politicians based on a single belief. While some may believe that Democrats should abandon their stance on reproductive rights to attract these more conservative voters, it may be more prudent for those on the religious right to re-examine their devotion to this single issue. It is key that Christians embrace a more nuanced way of viewing politics that both takes responsibility for the ramifications of voting for and espousing single-issue politics (Trump’s election, the failure of abstinence-only education, sexual misconduct in the church, etc.) They should also adopt a posture that seeks not to derail but to learn, engage and dialogue. Everyone has priorities in their ranking of issues and in choosing which candidates to support. However, the defense of a single political adage over a more well-rounded politics undermines the so-called pro-life movement that is typically politically pro-war, pro-violence, pro-militarization, pro-death penalty and anti-social services that maintain quality of life for those already born. Christians can cry in response to every left-leaning platform “but what about abortion?” but if they cannot back up that claimed value with a holistic engagement with other issues impacting people’s day-to-day experiences, their cries will fall on deaf ears. It is becoming increasingly necessary (if they are to maintain any public integrity) for Christians to recognize the greater implications of how their selective politics wreak havoc on the greater good. It is concerning that the defense of a single issue puts all other issues aside, especially for communities of Christians who claim that Jesus wants to transform the world. In attempting to publicly police people’s ideology while using Jesus’ name, Christians functionally shut down the very dialogue that might lend them credibility. At the end of the day, people have no incentive to respond and these folks, who, in their moral superiority, lose their political credibility with each vote cast on behalf of single-issue passion. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-miller-single-issue-abortion_us_5a7fb37be4b044b3821e19e2
NASA is keeping tabs on Elon Musk's Tesla roadster Astronomers aim to keep tabs on everything up in the night sky. A NASA database includes our solar system's eight planets and their moons, more than 755,000 asteroids, 3,500 comets -- and, as of this week, one cherry red sports car that belonged to a Silicon Valley billionaire. http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/10/technology/future/nasa-elon-musk-spacex-tesla-roadster/index.html
The Most Interesting Thing Shot into Space This Week Wasn't a Tesla There was a second payload on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that launched Tuesday (Feb. 6), and (unlike the Tesla Roadster) it's built to last 14 billion years. SpaceX confirmed during its pre-launch livestream that the gadget, called an Arch, is tucked away somewhere inside the red Tesla Roadster now floating through space. It's a simple-looking object: a clear, thick disk of quartz crystal, about an inch across, with lettering across its face. It could almost be a small business award — best car dealership maybe, or top pizza restaurant — except for the data etched microscopically into its body with powerful, high-frequency lasers. And that data, or at least the future suggested by that data, is what earned the Arch a ride aboard the Roadster. [...] https://www.livescience.com/61714-space-archive-falcon-heavy.html
Test finds HomePod's Siri 'at the bottom of the totem pole' in smartspeaker AI While the Apple HomePod is the "best sounding" smartspeaker and has a "measurably better" user experience in many areas, its underlying AI assistant —Siri —failed dramatically in a query test versus Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana, according to Loup Ventures. http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/10/test-finds-homepods-siri-at-the-bottom-of-the-totem-pole-in-smartspeaker-ai
Hope Hicks to Leave Post as White House Communications Director
"Weakly Address: 2/10/18"
By MAGGIE HABERMAN FEB. 28, 2018
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Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling the panel that in her job, she had occasionally been required to tell white lies but had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Multiple White House aides said that Ms. Hicks’s departure was unrelated to her appearance before the committee. They said that she had told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to leave her job.
Her resignation, if not related to her actual Mueller appearance, is likely at least related to the Russian scandal Trump, and many around him, became embroiled in. And to Mueller's investigation into that.
Hope Hicks emerges unscathed as the White House battles fallout from the domestic abuse controversy Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, has come out relatively untainted as President Donald Trump's administration continues dealing with the abrupt exit of two key aides accused of domestic abuse. The development comes amid reports that Hicks was instrumental in crafting White House chief of staff John Kelly's response to allegations against Rob Porter, the former staff secretary whom Hicks is said to be dating. While Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn have been roped into the controversy after reports surfaced that both men were aware of the allegations since last year, Hicks maintains strong support from Trump and other cabinet members. http://www.businessinsider.com/hope-hicks-emerges-unscathed-amid-white-house-domestic-abuse-controversy-2018-2
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