10 thoughts on “2018-19 #TrumpShutdown Day 27 Open Thread”

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   Dear Nancy,

   I will gladly make Mexico pay for a wall tomorrow, for 5,00,00000.000 hamberders today?

   Let’s mack a deely!

   Your good brain stable genius Presdibent,

   Donnie McT

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2. Since about August, 2016 I've had one bumper sticker on my car: "NeverTrump"

   I've ordered an additional bumper sticker that I'll put next to the "NeverTrump"sticker.  The new one says, "NeverRussia".

   Interestingly, I could be mistaken for a Republican since the Never Trump movement started in the GOP (especially with CO RNC delegates).  And, in the not too distant past, the GOP was known for being against Russia. 

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3. A little something to help you start your day.

   Michael Cohen spent Trump's money on a Twitter account talking about how hot Michael Cohen is, and the results are incredible. https://t.co/c6PYVuC9I9 pic.twitter.com/ehHTHWpsyJ

   — Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 17, 2019

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   1. TrumptyWorld is almost like a script from a Coen brothers’ movie . . . 

      Michael Cohen Acknowledges Payments to Boost Trump in Online Polls

      The Journal reported that in early 2015, before Mr. Trump declared himself a candidate for president, Mr. Cohen gave $12,000 to $13,000 in cash stuffed in a Walmart bag to John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions, who also works for Liberty University. The money was in exchange for help boosting Mr. Trump’s name in two online polls.

      Mr. Cohen was supposed to pay Mr. Gauger $50,000 for the work, the man told The Journal, but the full amount was never paid out. However, Mr. Cohen billed the Trump Organization $50,000 for technology services, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who referenced the amount in a charging document.

      https://nyti.ms/2HkJc5M?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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4. We have a by-election coming up.

   "Tom Marino, who just began his fifth term in the U.S. Congress, has announced his resignation effective Jan. 23…. the 12th Congressional District of Pennsylvania"

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   1. Marino is jumping to the private sector, apparently. Sadly, Cook's report has the district itself as R+17 territory … 4 points more than the unexpected D win in Utah, 5 points more than MN-07, 14 points more than another PA district that went Democratic in 2018.

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      1. We need to look at the change in the margins when the by-election occurs.

         This is interesting
         https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PPP_Release_NC_10919.pdf

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      2. There's alot of sparsely populated land up there, and a few small cities. Some of it us old PA hard coal country, which was in decline even back when I lived in the state. Conservative in the main, but they're not getting any real results from Trump, either.

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5. Scandinavia and the World did a two panel comic about what is going on in America. It amused me. In a bleak sort of way.

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6. https://nypost.com/2019/01/17/melania-trump-reportedly-heading-to-mar-a-lago-on-government-jet/

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