***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[whywesteppin]

he is literally this guy

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[IATT]

How is this dude still allowed to operate on twitter?

 

[nazdrowie]

for the foreign policy junkies

 

[elpablo21]

Those NYT mentions

 

[aepps20]

Has anyone confirmed if aepps20 is his ghostwriter?

I do a little bit of writing on Twitter.

 

[Belgium]

It's unbelievable how insecure this senile manchild is
I'm not sure if I should be laughing or shaking my head at this, perhaps both. Makes you wonder what world leaders are thinking when they read these pathetic tweets.

 

[Belgium]

Dapper Don will also host his very own awards soon.

The winners will be the libbies of course, as Don is gracious enough to share what winning feels like. Yet the libbies are showing disrespect. You'd expect them to be more than happy with another free handout

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[leavemeglazzies]

That news "bomb" that the FBI was still investigating those e-mails 10 days prior to the election definitely changed the outcome of the election. I couldn't believe how much it affected the polls and how much people bought into the media's exaggerated reports that there could be anything in those e-mails. They've spent a year investigating the e-mails without finding anything, but that new investigation was somehow supposed to change that.

 

[gry60]

 

[gry60]

And while people are laughing at the presidential buffoonery, this is the real stuff that's happening in the background:

In June 2011, the North Carolina legislature hired Thomas Brunell, a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Dallas, to produce a report that would help defend the state’s new redistricting maps. The maps, approved by the Republican-controlled legislature, concentrated black voters, who tended to vote Democratic, into as few districts as possible in order to maximize the number of safe Republican districts. Under the Voting Rights Act, North Carolina had to get Justice Department approval for any voting changes, and so it asked Brunell to provide a justification for the maps.

Brunell argued that clustering black voters into a few districts was necessary to maintain their political influence. Though North Carolina was a racially integrated swing state, where black officials represented majority-white districts and vice versa, Brunell’s report found “there is clear evidence for the presence of statistically significant racially polarized voting” in North Carolina, necessitating majority-black districts. When the maps were challenged in court, state Republicans paid Brunell $300 an hour for research and $500 an hour for testimony as an expert witness.

The strategy worked—for a time. With the new maps in effect, Republicans controlled 10 of the state’s 13 congressional districts after the 2014 election and had a supermajority in the legislature. But in 2017, federal courts struck down two of North Carolina’s congressional districts and 28 state legislative districts, calling the state maps “among the largest racial gerrymanders ever encountered by a federal court.” A unanimous three-judge court in North Carolina said Brunell’s “generalized conclusions regarding racially polarized voting” demonstrated a “misunderstanding” of the Voting Rights Act and “fail to demonstrate a strong basis in evidence justifying the challenged districts as drawn.”


According to multiple reports, Brunell will be appointed deputy director of the US Census Bureau and de facto leader of the 2020 census, which is constitutionally mandated to count every person in America. The census determines the level of representation for state and federal districts, and how $600 billion in federal funding is allocated to states and localities. (In addition to Brunell, the Trump administration has hired Kevin Quinley, a former research director for Kellyanne Conway’s polling firm whose clients included Breitbart News, as a special adviser to the Census Bureau.)

The deputy director of the Census Bureau has historically been a nonpartisan career civil servant. Brunell, a registered Republican, has no prior government experience and a deeply partisan background. He has testified or produced expert reports for Republicans in more than a dozen redistricting cases and has defended new voting restrictions passed by Republicans. His 2008 book, Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America, argued that extreme partisan gerrymandering should be the norm because, he claimed, ultra-safe blue or red districts offered better representation for voters than competitive ones.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics...al-gerrymandering-and-voter-suppression-laws/

They're extra blatant with this **** now.

 

[gry60]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[hand2handking]

Doug Jones Hires African-American Chief of Staff

Doug Jones (pictured) will be the only Senate Democrat to have an African-American chief of staff once Dana Gresham comes on board. | Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images

https://www.politico.com/story/2018...n-american-chief-of-staff-dana-gresham-320117

Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has hired former transportation official and congressional aide Dana Gresham as his new chief of staff.

Jones will be the only Senate Democrat to have an African-American chief of staff once Gresham comes on board. Two Senate Republicans, Sens. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Jerry Moran of Kansas, have black chiefs of staff.

Gresham previously served as assistant secretary for government affairs at the Department of Transportation, and before that was chief of staff to then-Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.). A graduate of Georgetown University, Gresham is an Alabama native: A tweet Tuesday by Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) referred to him as "Birmingham's own stand out."

Jones has made hiring a diverse staff a priority since he staged an upset win over Republican Roy Moore in last month's special Senate election in Alabama.

Jones' office announced Gresham and a number of senior staff hires on Tuesday. Mark Libell, formerly an assistant congressional liaison for the Federal Reserve Board who also worked for Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and former Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), will be legislative director. Ann Berry, a deputy chief of staff to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), is transition advisor. Katie Campbell, another veteran congressional aide who served as an adviser to Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) and as policy director for the Blue Dog Coalition, will be deputy legislative director.

 

[gry60]

 

[Belgium]

Fixed

Might wanna watch out for secret service instead

 

[Mr.Guy]

Might wanna watch out for secret service instead

They prob already watching me

 

[big panda]

I'm pretty sure with as many death threats trump gets on a daily and adding to the fact that he's stretching Their budget thin you should be good on a secret service visit, now FBI I can't say on that

They prob already watching me

 

[Nike Jordan]

"Proof there are Republicans who care about our country."

Yeah, all two of them.

 

[IATT]

 

[EddieDoyers]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Trump the Bernie Madoff of politics

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

for a second there I thought Sarah was wearing a wolf t-shirt.

@mplsdunk

 

[whywesteppin]

I don't think anyone has told that to trump.

I don't think they tell him anything actually.

 

[hand2handking]