Most people love authoritarianism spiced with pomp and show. They don’t care about nuance, which is what you have to do in order to object to using WH for a campaign event. For a typical American, what is the big deal.
Biden and Harris are too nice to beat him. At least they are acting too nice, relying on the hope that the third parties like the Lincoln Project will do the dirty work for them. That ain’t gonna work.
Trump would not have paid Melania out of his own pocket, but now that he’s on the outs with Michael Cohen, I’m not sure where the cash would be coming from.
Making a pardon of a convention speaker a part of the program seems kind a fitting, even if Mr Ponder’s criminal history is rather mild and short compared to many others
The Gulf Coast is experiencing an extreme weather event (Laura) even as the GOP is trying to reelect the very guy who rejected the US commitments under the Paris agreement in 2017 and which takes effect on November 4, 2020. And he’s doing it amidst atmospheric conditions not really ever seen, and certainly not close to anything seen in the past 3 million years.
Wasn’t there something a while back wherein a Sec of State sent some emails not using an official gov account and it almost made the earth stop & spin the other way? At least nothing that dire is taking place here. The current Sec of State made a campaign speech for a guy actively attempting to throw out the Constitution. But there’s nothing wrong with that, right?
Tell me about it. I’m already seeing praise for his mail order bride’s speech with what sounds like the media hoping that we’ll have the horse race they so desperately want. How is her speech a pivot? We’re just over two months away from an election. If we’re not going to ignore the 98% of the night that was BS then the media shouldn’t either.
Use their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of an election.
Engage in political activity – i.e., activity directed at the success or failure of a political party, candidate for partisan political office, or partisan political group – while the employee is on duty, in any federal room or building, while wearing a uniform or official insignia, or using any federally owned or leased vehicle.
TPM, also, covers Bundy and Falwell’s pool boy but nothing on the killing of two protesters in Kenosha last night. Maybe they will mention it today. I hope it’s noted that a militia group carrying assault weapons and body armor was spotted patrolling the area before the shooting. I doubt they were carrying “toy guns”.