Yeah, maybe not the best weekend, knowing that the GNR founder is taking a little break for personal reasons, but we wish her the best and hope she gets stuff sorted out but soon. In the meanwhile, me and the rest of the GNR team will soldier on. So without further ado..
A prominent Republican critic says President Donald Trump should be challenged in 2020 by a candidate who opposes tariffs and objects to Trump's full-throated attacks on political opponents and the media.
Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona holds those views and he says he is aware that such a campaign "would be a tough go" because the GOP "is the Trump party right now."
But Flake says "that's not to say it will stay that way." He is retiring from the Senate and has not ruled out a run for president.
Flake also chided Trump for attacking the press at a political rally Saturday night in Pennsylvania.
Uh oh, looks like the Tariff thing may have been a bridge too far for some GOPers. Wonder if Flake has the spine to actually try and Primary Trump?
A CNN commentator on Sunday confronted former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, questioning whether he believes paying off a porn star is "presidential."
Scaramucci defended President Trump, saying the president is "obviously very presidential," but that the panelists on CNN's "State of the Union" just don't like his style.
Liberal commentator Bakari Sellers then shot back at Scaramucci.
"If Barack Obama paid off a porn star $130,000, if he cheated on three wives. I mean, listen the list goes on and on and on," he said.
"If he had a handful of advisers that were either indicted or pled guilty, then there would be pitchforks in front of the White House. Presidential is not something that's associated with President Trump."
Scaramucci predicted Trump would win again in 2020, in keeping with a comment Trump made Saturday night at a campaign rally where he said his supporters would be bored if he were always presidential.
"But you can't rebut anything that I've said about being presidential," Sellers said. "Paying off a porn star is presidential?"
Nice to see the News commentator not taking any of the Trump Administration (or former in this case) bullcrap on stuff like this.
Net neutrality is not dead; it’s not even dying. Bureaucrats and lobbyists picked a fight with the internet but, by the time we’re done, they’re going to wish they hadn’t.
The Federal Communication Commission’s repeal of net neutrality hasn’t yet gone into effect, but Washington state just became the first state to enact its own strong law ensuring an open internet despite an onslaught of telecom lobbyists armed with misleading talking points. The bill soared through the state legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support. Dozens of other states are considering similar bills, while several governors have issued executive orders in defiance of the FCC.
The news out of Washington state comes just hours after major tech companies like Etsy and Kickstarter announced that they’re joining public interest groups and taking the FCC to court to fight for net neutrality. If successful, these lawsuits would force the FCC to reverse its decision and restore protections that prevent internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T from controlling what we can see and do online with censorship, speed-throttling and new fees to access content.
Net Neutrality is not finished by a long shot. Every day more and more groups join the fight. Pai doesn't stand a chance.
GRAPEVINE, Tex. — Carol Rains, a white evangelical Christian, has no regrets over her vote for President Trump. She likes most of his policies and would still support him over any Democrat. But she is open to another Republican.
“I would like for someone to challenge him,” Ms. Rains said, as she sipped wine recently with two other evangelical Christian women at a suburban restaurant north of Dallas. “But it needs to be somebody that’s strong enough to go against the Democrats.” Her preferred alternative: Nikki R. Haley, the United Nations ambassador and former South Carolina governor.
One of her friends, Linda Leonhart, agreed. “I will definitely take a look to see who has the courage to take on a job like this and do what needs to be done,” she said.
While the men in the pulpits of evangelical churches remain among Mr. Trump’s most stalwart supporters, some of the women in the pews may be having second thoughts. As the White House fights to silence a pornographic actress claiming an affair with Mr. Trump, and a jailed Belarusian escort claims evidence against the American president, Mr. Trump’s hold on white evangelical women may be slipping.
According to data from the Pew Research Center, support among white evangelical women in recent surveys has dropped about 13 percentage points, to 60 percent, compared with about a year ago. That is even greater than the eight-point drop among all women.
Every day more and more of Trumps base realize how slimy he is and back away.
Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg returned to cable television Sunday, following a Friday appearance before special counsel’s Robert Mueller’s grand jury, with a simple message for the President: Cooperate.
“The President is going to have to explain, and the President has to do an interview, I would say,” he told MNSBC’s Alex Witt in an interview Sunday, before referring to the President’s decision to fire then-FBI Director James Comey. “I would highly suggest that he does.”
The Sunday interview represented a 180-degree turn for Nunberg. In November of last year, he advised Trump not to cooperate with Mueller. And last week he made a show, in several televised interviews, of promising to defy the special counsel’s subpoena for his communications with several campaign officials, including Roger Stone, who Nunberg has called his mentor.
Hey, remember last week when Nunberg was puffing his chest out and refusing to cooperate with Mueller? My my what a difference a few days make.
Anyways, that’s all for now. Keep strong everyone, we are winning.