OT subject, but Teen Vogue is throwing shade at tRUmp, Sessions and O’Reilly playing the victim card, TEEN VOGUE!!!
“If we’re batting around meaningless recusals, I would like to recuse
everyone from the phenomena of powerful men exploiting a persecution
complex in order to accrue sympathy and evade accountability. This is
not limited to the halls of the senate. Bill O’Reilly displayed a similar tactic
in response to sexual assault allegations made against him, and Donald
Trump’s signature achievement is perhaps his ability to maintain
victimhood despite holding the most influential office in the world. For
Sessions in this case, it meant framing himself as the target of what
he sees as a politically motivated Democratic campaign instead of
providing the information that might put it to rest.”
Good article, but I hear Tiger Beat has an even more shocking expose coming up.
Rachel Brand is a Federalist Society pod person, but I’d wager she’s weighed shilling for this administration versus her long-term career prospects.
This is not a well-connected administration, except to Russia. So, yeah.
Two reasons to NOT clamor for Dep. Atty. Gen’l Rosenstein to recuse himself:
A. His next-up replacement, Rachel Brand, is a GOP political appointee. Not a single Dem. voted to confirm her. Now, she might be a perfectly decent civil servant . But so far, Rosenstein has performed (I would argue) mostly admirably in a tough situation. Can we really expect a partisan GOP appointee working under Richard Sessions to do better?
AND
B. Rosenstein did a solid for the American people and the cause of justice by his choice in appointing Director Mueller as special prosecutor. For doing so, he’s paid a price. Rosenstein’s choice of Mueller has drawn upon him the “Wrath of Don”. Let’s not punish him (by pushing for his ouster) for doing the right thing!!
I’m glad to see consciousness raising at a magazine you might assume is little more than fashion, makeup, etc. Very gratifying.
However, what (my) senator Harris and H. Clinton have experienced is an observable phenomenon: men interrupting women because they can. trumpet did it to Clinton repeatedly at the debates (“Wrong!”), and it persists wherever it’s mostly men in charge.
The problem is his replacement would be a Trump pick.
We’re going to exchange an ignorant bigot for an ignorant zealot, but at least one who won’t be a rush to make war if we get the outcome we’re hoping for.
Women often have the last word. Not always, but often. I’ll even go so far to say that it happens more than half the time.
@littlegirlblue If Trump gets the really big hook…
The fact that Trumpskis are trying to blow up the Middle East is horrifying.
At that point we’re screaming “Over here!” and waving wildly at the guy presiding over the proceedings. Harris has to go last because of seniority which is a pity because she’s the prosecutor on the Democrat’s side that we really need to hear from.
She’s a newbie. They’re making her earn her creds. I haven’t noticed that she’s backed down.
Women rule, but then we knew that.
Fathers of daughters should care that it’s not just fluff being directed them in what is otherwise a fashion magazine. Girls are never too young to learn how to be women
@chelsea530 The protocol and the rules that are in place governing behavior in the senate, always diplomatic, always display comity, must be burden for someone who wants to get some real work done and has seen results in the work she’s done in government before entering the gentlemen’s club.
I must respectfully disagree: I have zero faith in Rachel Brand.
Because I’ve spent my entire life watching Republicans cheat.
From Nixon’s treason by queering Johnson’s negotiations to end the Vietnam War, to his perverting the federal government to settle political scores…
From Reagan selling weapons to a country holding US hostages, to his illegally giving weapons to nun-murders whom he called “the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers”…
To W’s outright theft of the Presidency, to his lying us into a war that killed millions…
Decade after decade, the GOP has a chance to do the right – the honorable thing – for America.
And every single time, they lie, cheat, and steal.
Be they POTUS, judge, or DOJ appointee, we can count on Republicans to do one thing and one thing only:
Whatever helps Republicans.
Hey, as the father of three wonderful young women, I wasn’t dissing the message. I just (apparently awkwardly) was making fun of the fact that it’s becoming open season on Donnie, even in unexpected quarters…
You’ve mentioned you had daughters, and I wish that as a teenager I’d had something to read which spoke to the issues of the world including politics. I had Seventeen and a lot of other pap. The more we know about orange the more we’ll be behind any efforts to get rid of him and with any luck young women will decided to be voters as soon as they can.
Edit to add “informed” voters, not just showing up every few years.
Yes, and that’s exactly what I thought when I read about her getting the hook.
No, whatever helps wealthy white men. Men who want to keep it all.
Assholes.
I can’t find a definition for the phrase “weighed shilling”. I think I know from context what you mean, but could you straighten me out on the phrase, please?
Our daughters were all home-schooled (no not the scary religious indoctrination type) from middle school on, a function of living in a rural area where the elementary school was great (every teacher knew every kid), but the high school had no college prep, and the school board didn’t have a single college graduate on it. So my wife and I had plenty of opportunities for getting them very politically / morally aware. Hopefully, they’ll have the same opportunities with their kids.