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Arrrrrgh. Trump, who took the side of the fires, plans to visit California survivors Saturday

Meteor Blades

Daily Kos Staff

Friday November 16, 2018 · 6:40 AM PST

2018/11/16 · 06:40

Tal Kopan and Sarah Ravani write:

President Trump will visit California on Saturday to meet with people who have suffered losses in the state’s wildfires, the White House said Thursday.

“The president will travel to California this Saturday to meet with individuals impacted by the wildfires,” White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said in a statement. “We will keep you updated on details as they are available.”

They’re probably scouting out golf courses and places to buy rolls of paper towels.

Jerry Brown could do the Golden State one more good turn in these last two months of his fourth term as governor by hiding the welcome mat, meeting Trump at whichever airport he flies into, and sending him scuttling back to Mar-a-Lago. That would no doubt violate some rule of federal-state etiquette. “So, sue me,” Brown could say.

The last thing we need here this weekend is this pathetic climate science denier mouthing off about how to handle wildfires. He’s already had his say in that matter, and he was wrong.

Before the two biggest fires were even slightly contained, and the death toll had not risen to the 66 now tallied, Trump tweeted:

There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2018

Another example of his heartless malevolence.

Mississippi Republican has a 'great idea': Making it harder for 'liberal folks' to vote

Laura Clawson

Daily Kos Staff

Friday November 16, 2018 · 6:00 AM PST

2018/11/16 · 06:00

State Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks about the positive actions of her department to protect and enhance the lot of the state's farmers during her address at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Thursday, July 27, 2017. Known as "Mississippi's Giant Houseparty," the fair is an annual gathering where hundreds of extended families live in brightly painted cabins for more than a week and among the featured events are two days of political speaking. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) — Cindy Hyde-Smith

Fresh off of “joking” about public hangings while running against a black man in Mississippi, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is now saying she was also joking when she suggested it should be harder for liberal people to vote—something that’s still relevant for 2018 in Mississippi because Hyde-Smith is in a run-off election with Democrat Mike Espy.

A video tweeted Thursday afternoon shows Hyde-Smith telling a small crowd in Starkville, Miss., that “they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea."

Some jokes, of course, tell us a lot about the people making them. Such as that they have no meaningful sense of humor except when it’s mean-spirited and that they think “hey, I was joking” is the best defense every time they get caught being a little too truthful.

It would also sound a lot more plausible as a joke if keeping liberal people—like college students, as in this example, or people of color—from voting wasn’t a key Republican electoral strategy that they’ve been putting in place everywhere they can. “Let’s do a little more of the thing we’re already doing” does not really play as a joke, even if you wink and say “ha ha ha” at the same time.

Whether it’s giving college areas or areas with lots of people of color fewer early or Election Day voting locations, making it harder to register to vote, long lines at polling locations where probable Democrats will vote … Republicans have been enthusiastically pursuing it. Which means that if we believe Hyde-Smith was joking, the humor came not from the improbability of what she was suggesting, but from the fact that it already happened. And that brings us full circle to how some people have no sense of humor outside of the mean-spirited and think “I was joking” is a solid defense to any appalling thing they say. Cindy Hyde-Smith to a T.

The Mississippi Senate run-off is November 27. Make calls for Democrat Mike Espy!

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Friday, Nov 16, 2018 · 4:54:12 PM +00:00 · Laura Clawson

Hyde-Smith is such a rebel! She tweeted Thursday evening that “It’s ok to still have a sense of humor in America isn’t it?” As if that was what’s at issue here ...

Morning Digest: Democrats flip Maine House seat in country's first instant-runoff congressional race

Daily Kos Elections

Daily Kos Staff

Friday November 16, 2018 · 5:30 AM PST

2018/11/16 · 05:30

Maine's 2nd Congressional District Rep.-elect Jared Golden (D)

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.

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● ME-02: Election officials in Maine tabulated the results of the country's first-ever instant runoff for Congress on Thursday, determining that Democrat Jared Golden defeated Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin by a narrow 50.5-49.5 margin after the second-choice preferences of voters who cast ballots for two third-party candidates were taken into account. Poliquin had led 46.4 to 45.5 on the initial balloting, but 65 percent of those who voted for independents Tiffany Bond and Will Hoar elected to mark a second choice. That group overwhelmingly transferred their votes to Golden, who won second-choice ballots by a 69-31 margin, allowing him to edge ahead of Poliquin.

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Golden, a Marine veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, gives House Democrats their 37th flip this cycle, with four races still uncalled at press time. This race saw heavy spending, but Golden prevailed even though northern Maine's rural 2nd District veered sharply away from Democrats in 2016, voting for Donald Trump 51-41 after supporting Barack Obama 53-44 four years earlier. Remarkably, that makes Poliquin the first incumbent to lose this seat since 1916.

Of course, the soon-to-be-ex-congressman is extremely bitter about this turn of events, even though Mainers twice voted to require runoffs in such races, and all candidates participated in this election knowing the system they'd be operating under. Nevertheless, Poliquin waited until after Election Day to file a lawsuit challenging the system, but just ahead of the tabulation on Thursday, the judge hearing the case, Lance Walker, sharply rejected Poliquin's request for a restraining order to block the instant runoff and declare him the winner.

Walker specifically noted that Poliquin's position would deprive all of Bond's and Hoar's voters of what they understood to be their right to be counted—that is, their right to be able to cast a second-choice ballot and have that tallied if their first-choice candidates were knocked out. Walker concluded by saying that Poliquin's remedy does not lie with the courts but rather would be "to petition the political branch to change the law"—in other words, call your congressman.

Poliquin says he plans to forge ahead with his challenge regardless, but if legal norms hold, his odds of success look poor. Of course, that's a big "if" nowadays, given the makeup of the Supreme Court, but it's worth noting that Walker is a Trump appointee.

Cartoon: Fight the victims

Mark Fiore

Community

Friday November 16, 2018 · 5:00 AM PST

2018/11/16 · 05:00

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With the deadly fires in California still burning and hundreds of people missing in the area that was once the town of Paradise, President Trump thought it would be a good idea to blame the fires on his favorite punching bag state. Tweeting that “there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires,” Trump blamed the fires on California.

Firefighting organizations quickly pushed back against the president, not that that will keep him from lying and making up his own facts. (Although it did seem to get him to hand over some disaster aid.) It’s not just Trump who blames the increase in wildfires on lefty foes, Interior Secretary Zinke has blamed “environmental terrorists” for the rise in megafires.

Just blame the other tribe instead of generations of fire suppression and (gasp!) climate change. It’s a pretty simple formula that plays well with the base. Unfortunately, it does nothing to help fight the raging fires or help the victims. Here’s how you can help people impacted by the fires.

Abbreviated pundit roundup: Protecting Mueller

Georgia Logothetis

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Friday November 16, 2018 · 4:30 AM PST

2018/11/16 · 04:30

We begin today’s roundup with the The Washington Post and its editorial on the need to protect special counsel Robert Mueller:

Now more than ever, the president must get the message: Hands off the special counsel.

The warning signs are there for anyone to see. Mr. Trump just fired Jeff Sessions as attorney general because Mr. Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe instead of protecting the president from it. Mr. Trump tapped — probably illegally — Matthew G. Whitaker to be an interim replacement. Mr. Whitaker is a partisan mediocrity whose appeal seems to be that he attacked Mr. Mueller’s investigation before joining the administration.

Elizabeth Drew, who covered Watergate for The New Yorker, says that Trump’s firing of Sessions and his approach to the investigation is worse than Watergate:

Each president tried to stir up public impatience with his perceived persecution and thus pressure investigators to hurry up, but Mr. Trump makes Nixon look like a pussycat. Nixon officials were prone to saying things like, “Enough wallowing in Watergate,” while, for example, in early August, Mr. Trump tweeted, “This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now.” Mr. Trump has done much more than Nixon did in trying to damage public trust in whatever their prosecutors might come up with.

Natasha Betrand at The Atlantic analyzes the latest, highly specific attacks on Mueller and his team:

Whereas Trump typically attacks Mueller’s investigation with the same perfunctory language—calling it a “witch hunt” and “rigged”—he was unusually specific in his accusation that Mueller’s investigators were “threatening” people “to come up with the answers they want.” He made a similar charge in August, claiming that Cohen, who is now cooperating with prosecutors in a separate investigation, “made up stories in order to get a ‘deal.’” [...]

Trump’s outburst “could just be another rant,” said Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who handled organized-crime cases. But on the other hand, it could signal action on the part of prosecutors that Trump registers as a threat. Honig explained that prosecutors sometimes get fed up with people they know are not being honest and threaten to bring charges against them. They may also threaten a person’s status as a potential cooperator, which typically comes with reduced charges. “My hunch is that prosecutors had some sort of ‘Time to get real’ conversation with someone implicated in the investigation, which was then relayed to Trump by defense attorneys,” Honig said.

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Friday November 16, 2018 · 4:00 AM PST

2018/11/16 · 04:00

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Open thread for night owls: 'Green New Deal' activists want Dems to confront fossil fuel industry

Meteor Blades

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday November 15, 2018 · 8:00 PM PST

2018/11/15 · 20:00

Julia Conley at Common Dreams writes—As 'Green New Deal' Demand Grows, Democrats Have Choice: Confront and Defeat Fossil Fuel Industry or Take Credit for 'Doomed' Planet:

Weeks after the UN released its report on the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions in order to avoid "potentially irreversible" effects of the climate crisis, critics say Democrats have the opportunity to stand firmly on the side of progressives who are advocating for a Green New Deal in order to help save the planet—instead of continuing to rely on incremental measures aimed simply at "exploring" the climate crisis.

This is just one (relatively brief) blueprint for a Green New Deal put together by Data for Progress. You can download it at tinyurl.com/...

The Green New Deal is comprised of an ambitious set of proposals aimed at transitioning the U.S. to 100% renewable energy and employing millions of Americans to aid that transition.

In The Guardian, journalist David Sirota noted that in order to take meaningful action to help stop the climate crisis, Democrats must fundamentally change their outlook on the oil and gas industries which poured $100 million into midterm campaigns.

The fossil fuel sector, Sirota wrote, helped fund the fight against Proposition 112, aimed at keeping new oil and gas drilling operations away from schools, hospitals, and water sources in Colorado; an anti-carbon emissions measure in Washington; and a pro-solar energy proposal in Arizona.

The same industries were able to donate to Democratic candidates after a brief ban on such contributions was lifted by the Democratic National Committee was lifted after just two months—donating more than $4 million to party members in 2018.

The campaign to defeat new climate policies, wrote Sirota, "was a shock-and-awe spectacle designed to intimidate any prospective campaigns, organizations and movements that want to challenge the political supremacy of oil and gas—and some prominent Democrats in Washington seem to be cowering in fear."

"Always nervous about the donor class and about electoral blowback from Republicans, some congressional Democrats now seem intent on avoiding any direct confrontation over climate change policy," he added. [...]

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On this date at Daily Kos in 2002—Army fires gay Arab linguists:

How can the US make any credible claims that it is fighting the terrorist threat with all available means when this sort of crap happens?

Nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, have been dismissed from the military because they are gay.

The soldiers' dismissals come at a time when the military is facing a critical shortage of translators and interpreters for the war on terrorism.

[...]

The government has aggressively recruited Arabic speakers since the Sept. 11 attacks.

"We face a drastic shortage of linguists, and the direct impact of Arabic speakers is a particular problem," said Donald R. Hamilton, who documented the need for more linguists in a report to Congress as part of the National Commission on Terrorism.

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Report says NRA is hurting so bad, it can’t even give employees free coffee and water anymore

Walter Einenkel

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday November 15, 2018 · 7:30 PM PST

2018/11/15 · 19:30

DALLAS, TX - MAY 04: (L-R) Donald Trump Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump, Executive Director NRA-ILA Chris Cox and NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre greet the crowd at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum during the NRA Annual Meeting & Exhibits at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on May 4, 2018 in Dallas, Texas. The National Rifle Association's annual meeting and exhibit runs through Sunday. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) — People you don't want to be around

The non-profit news site Trace, an organization that focuses on gun control and gun safety news, reports that NRA officials have begun implementing an “austerity campaign,” spearheaded by executive director for general operations Josh Powell. The news organization says that free water-cooler access and free coffee have been done away with at the gun association’s Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters.

“Josh is going to greatly reduce education and training and slash the number of the NRA’s publications down to one magazine,” said a source close to the gun group’s leadership. The group currently maintains six publications, including four print magazines.

Powell is an unlikely budget hawk. A Trace investigation into his business history last month found a trail of defaulted debts, including 20 lawsuits for more than $400,000 from jilted vendors.

Trace says that the NRA, when asked, did not deny the report, though it did not confirm it either. As the Washington Post pointed out earlier this year, the NRA—after boasting about rising membership numbers every time a child died by gunfire—had suspiciously boasted the same not-growing numbers for years.

Now that election is over, Ted won't discuss his lie about Beto and the caravan

Barbara Morrill

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday November 15, 2018 · 7:00 PM PST

2018/11/15 · 19:00

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 10: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is speaks to the media as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol, May 10, 2016, in Washington, DC. Presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled meet with Republican House and Senate leadership on Thursday. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) — "And those suckers believed me!"

Now that the alleged Zodiac Killer has won re-election in Texas, slimy Ted Cruz doesn’t want to talk about a lie he told during the campaign:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) brushed off questions Wednesday about his campaign claim that Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D) illegally funded a caravan of migrants approaching the U.S. border. [...]

“I’m happy to talk about policy, but there’s no point in revisiting the campaign itself,” Cruz said during a brief interview in a Senate elevator, according to HuffPost.

Well, sure. The campaign is over, so why bother talking about a vicious lie he peddled to whip up hate and fear? After all, no one sent Beto a pipe bomb so no harm, no foul. Right?

Private prison industry spent as much on the midterms as 2016's presidential, but it won't pay off

Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday November 15, 2018 · 6:30 PM PST

2018/11/15 · 18:30

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 25, 2018 comedian Bill Cosby is taken into custody at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, after being sentenced to at least three years in prison and branded a "sexually violent predator" for assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago. - The #MeToo movement in one year has shaken the United States, brought down dozens of powerful men and threatens the confirmation of a Supreme Court judge, yet it's deeply polarizing and its long-term impact remains unclear. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) — In this file photo taken on September 25, 2018, comedian Bill Cosby is taken into custody at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, after being sentenced to at least three years in prison for assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago.

During the 2016 election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the abolishment of private prisons. Noting the dropping prison population and an existential political threat, the GEO Group—the largest private prison company in the United States—doubled down on its support for President Donald Trump, giving his super PAC $225,000.

In all, GEO’s spending on the 2016 election was greater than the sum of its spending over the seven years preceding. And it didn’t stop in November 2016. Following his election, GEO funneled another $250,000 to Trump’s inaugural committee. In 2017, GEO held its annual leadership conference at Trump’s Miami golf resort. The rewards of GEO & co.’s 2016 support were obvious: Trump’s administration reversed a move away from private prisons and scaled up practices that boost incarceration and detention.

Come 2018, private prison companies wanted to make sure that things stayed profitable. After all, ICE immigration detention funds made up one-quarter of GEO’s 2017 revenue. GEO spent almost as much on the midterm elections as it did the presidential: a staggering $1.6 million. Mind you, that’s only what’s publicly disclosed. Dark money contributions remain private. That’s three times more than private prisons have spent on any other midterm election.

The prison industrial complex is a big fan of Republican candidates and officials, from federal to local. The federal piece isn’t mysterious. Beyond the major DOJ-level decisions that determine whether and how private prisons stay in play, GEO & co. target members of the Homeland Security appropriations subcommittee; it’s that subcommittee that oversees ICE’s detention budget.

As Mother Jones reports:

Members of the subcommittee are some of the top congressional recipients of private prison campaign cash. That includes Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas)—who received $44,000 in contributions from the industry this cycle, only to be defeated by Democratic upstart Lizzie Fletcher. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) won reelection after taking $36,400 from the prison industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Cuellar is perhaps the industry’s most vocal Democratic defender; in July he praised GEO for playing “an important role in maintaining our public safety,” adding that “without them, rapists, murderers, and other offenders would not be incarcerated.”

Spread the word: The clock is ticking on Affordable Care Act open enrollments

Joan McCarter

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday November 15, 2018 · 6:00 PM PST

2018/11/15 · 18:00

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks at a rally to oppose the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and its replacement on Capitol Hill on June 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Criticism is mounting on the GOP for health care reform legislation being done behind closed doors. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images) — It's saved! We have to get everyone to use it!

The first two weeks of open enrollment in Affordable Care Act in plans in 2018 lagged behind the first two weeks of last year, 1.2 million sign-ups now as opposed to 1.5 million sign-ups last year. It did include an extra day last year, but one day isn’t going to account for 300,000 enrollments. Enrollments have just been happening at a slower pace than last year.

Since the first two weeks this year coincided with the last week of the midterm elections, it’s kind of understandable that people were distracted. But now that Democrats have won the House and saved the nation from more Obamacare repeal (provided Republicans don’t have one final “Fuck you” in them during the lame duck), it’s safe to sign up! There’s not a ton of time left, either. The deadline for most states is December 15.

Please help get the word out. There are some great tools to help you or people you are helping figure out what options are available all across the country. Now that the election is done and the holiday rush hasn’t yet begun, it’s a great time to get out there and get people signed up for Obamacare. It’s your second chance to give Trump and the Republicans the finger.

You know where to go, right? Healthcare.gov, because even Trump hasn’t been able to blow it up.

A historic 2,000+ women will be in office this coming year—almost entirely from one political party

Walter Einenkel

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday November 15, 2018 · 5:30 PM PST

2018/11/15 · 17:30

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: Protesters walk during the WomenÃ•s March on Washington, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, on January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Large crowds are attending the anti-Trump rally a day after U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th U.S. president. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

When conservatives scoff at the progressive slogan “The Future is Female,” they are usually responding to the insecurity that comes with knowing, deep down inside, you are in the wrong. The strides that women, people of color, and the LGBT community have made in organizing around the 2018 midterm elections is staggering. It’s absolutely terrifying to the Right, and you are seeing desperate and craven attempts to bully and suppress the levels of democracy they’ve inspired. In January of the last two years, beginning on Donald Trump’s inauguration day in 2017, Women’s Marches have taken over the streets across not just the United States, but the world. These marches were not simply a public protest of our current misogynist in chief; they were a call to organize and take back our government.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: Protesters gather near the White House during the Women's March on Washington January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. The march is expected to draw thousands from across the country to protest newly inaugurated President Donald Trump. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) — Women’s March

The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers compiled statistics on how historic the results of this election were and will continue to be for women.

A tally by the Center for American Women in Government at Rutgers University shows at least 1,743 women won state legislative seats in last week's midterm elections. That number will grow; 185 races with at least one woman still in the running have yet to be called .

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