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1. about 3 hours ago on Clay Jones

   — do a Google Image search — it’s true.

   Roger Stone has the Nixon tattoo on his back that he has proudly sported for more than 40 years. He loves Nixon, admires Nixon and, as one of Nixon’s early dirty tricks team (that earned Nixon the monicker “Tricky Dick”) has never wavered in his support of Nixon.

   But after the fall of Nixon, shunned by the Republicans that survived, Roger Stone was forced into the private sector. And, voilà! The Trump family, going back more than 20 years, gave him a private sector home. Roger Stone was the earliest and longest continuous supporter of Trump.

   Roger Stone’s arrogant, defiant response to his conviction is clearly a plea to Trump for a pardon. And considering how many decades Trump and Stone have shared their joint corruption and crimes, it seems Stone is one of the most likely to win a pardon (though possibly after the 2020 election, win or lose).

2. about 5 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Recently convicted Roger Stone (five counts of lying to Congress, one count of obstruction and one count of witness tampering [Donald Trump, are you listening?]), who got his start in political dirty tricks working for Richard Nixon, who he worshipped, and whose face he famously has tattooed on his back (yes, this is true), is going to jail.

   Finally Nixon (or at least his visage) goes to jail.

   Finally someone goes to jail for Hillary’s emails!

3. 1 day ago on Signe Wilkinson

   @banjoAhhh! — Abraham Lincoln was referring to elections.

   Legitimate elections.

   Elections won by those who get the most votes.

   Elections that do not include voter suppression. Elections not manipulated by foreign intervention (like Russians).

   Impeachment of a corrupt president is in the Constitution.

   The Founders made it clear, in the Federalist Papers and the notes to the Constitutional Convention, that their biggest fear was foreign intervention.

   Impeachment of a corrupt president does not overturn an election.

   Apart from the fact that Trump, who lost the actual vote of the people by almost THREE MILLION, was not legitimately elected (he only won by massive voter suppression and Russian interference), even if he was legitimate (he’s not), the “election” is not overturned.

   Mike Pence was also elected … as vice president.

   The only substantial duty of the ELECTED vice president is to finish the term of a president who cannot complete his term.

   Impeach and convict Trump.

   Let boring Mike Pence become president and try to run for re-election.

4. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

   — agreed that process is a legitimate concern. I should be more precise:

   Republicans are not only misrepresenting the process (they are lying and saying that they and Trump are being excluded from it; they are not) but they are referring to process as a SUBSTITUTE for substance, not as a means of getting to the core issues.

   Progressives are arguing substance.

   Conservatives are lying about process and then whining about their distortion of it.

5. 1 day ago on Steve Kelley

   And here we go, @kgsmith1 comes along, a fanatic extremist whose single issue is the desire to control the most private parts of women’s bodies, and wants to hijack a thread, distort the facts of what Planned Parenthood does and then try to blame the judicial system for accurately noting that, when right wing nuts could not get anyone from Planned Parenthood to say what they thought they could get them to say (because Planned Parenthood does not do what they thought it was doing), they cobbled together a highly-edited video that dishonestly distorted what they did say into what they didn’t say and then, rightly, got sued for the lies and distortions.

   You know, kind of a precursor to the kind of “deep fake” strategy that lying extremists will be depending on to peddle their future lies.

6. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

   Obviously there is no need to rebut those who make noise but say nothing.

   Progressives argue substance.

   Conservatives whine about process.

7. 2 days ago on Steve Kelley

   Excellent cartoon by Steve Kelley demonstrating how Democrats have a far more realistic view of the corrupt, vile Trump administration.

   Campaign chair Paul Manafort? In prison.

   Personal lawyer Michael Cohen? In prison.

   Campaign aide George Papadopoulos? Convicted; prison sentence completed.

   Campaign deputy chair Rick Gates? Convicted; awaiting sentencing.

   First National Security Advisor Mike Flynn? Convicted; awaiting sentencing.

   Campaign liaison to Russians (Guccifer 2.0) and Wikileaks (Assange) Roger Stone: Convicted, awaiting sentencing.

   Individual 1 Donald Trump? “I only hire the best people” (has fired more staff than any other president in history — oopsie)

   Much scarier than Frankenstein’s monster.

8. 2 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   The few richest elites who already have the most want the middle class to WORK HARDER for LESS MONEY on which we pay a HIGHER TAX RATE, so they can WORK LESS (or not at all) for MORE MONEY on which they pay a LOWER TAX RATE on their investment profits (or none at all through loopholes, deductions, exemptions, exclusions, shelters, corporate welfare, Cayman Islands tax havens or just eliminating taxes on investment gains).

   Class warfare? The real CLASS WARFARE is really all about the corporate feudal CONservative plan for REDISTRIBUTING middle class wealth from working people to the few richest elites.

   In the words of Warren Buffett, the most successful investment capitalist of all time (but vilified by TrumpubliCONs for having the nerve to remember his modest origins and stand up for the middle class): “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

   http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html

9. 2 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   A few blood-sucking vampire billionaires feel so entitled that they believe they should be able to pay LOWER TAX RATES on investment profits (capital gains) on their accumulated billions, gained either by inheriting it from Daddy, or exploiting — preying upon — workers and consumers and our shared environment, since it is impossible for one person to single-handedly produce that much of real wealth. Not only do they pay a lower tax rate, they also get many special loopholes, deductions, exemptions, exclusions, shelters, corporate welfare or Cayman Islands tax havens not available to the rest of us.

   They depend on an educated work force; they depend on roads, bridges, infrastructure, protection by law enforcement and military against both domestic and foreign threats. They depend on orderly systems of transportation and communication to make that system work. They depend on an economic system that has given THEM the greatest advantage and the greatest wealth and helps them preserve it, often at the expense of others who produce their wealth for them, while participating in a tiny fraction of a percentage of the wealth they create.

   Elizabeth Warren is not trying to punish anyone. She just wants those who have benefitted the most from the economic system and who have the most assets and resources being protected by it do have a moral obligation to contribute the most towards maintaining it.

   If Warren’s proposed taxes on the wealthy were to be enacted, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would all still be worth more than a HUNDRED BILLION after paying the taxes. Michael Bloomberg would still be worth more than FIFTY BILLION after paying the taxes.

   If they find trying to survive on fifty or a hundred BILLION DOLLARS distressing, then boo hoo, too bad, so sad for you.

10. 2 days ago on Signe Wilkinson

    Remember, in 1974 Richard Nixon resigned in lieu of certain conviction on impeachment less than two years after winning a 49 state landslide with 61% of the popular vote.

    Nixon was smart and popular. Trump is neither. Trump not only did not get a majority of the vote, he didn’t even get the most votes.

    And Trump is far more guilty in ways that are far more obvious and with far more explicit evidence already uncovered (but not yet publicized) than they ever had on Nixon.

    While the polarization is far more extreme today, and Trump has Faux “News” that Nixon did not have (his top communications advisor Roger Ailes would later propose it as a Republican “news” machine), it will take an avalanche of clearly proven very serious crimes against the United States and our national security to move public opinion to either pressure the GOP into moral decency or make them run on a record of failing to do so.