Wednesday Open Thread

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1. This will make life slightly less unpleasant for Chuck Schumer.

   Matt Rosendale to Run for Senate in Montana, Igniting Republican Fight – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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   1. Schumer will find a way to wimp out and send everyone home. Yes, he is one of my senators and he is no Speaker Pelosi.

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2. This headline on CNN at the moment is perfect

   Republicans demanded border security be part of the bill but are now rejecting it after pressure from Trump, who is making the border a campaign issue

   The GOP is fucking stupid and cowardly.

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3. It seems that at least half the potential voters do not follow ANY news.  Polsters find that about half of respondents are completely unaware that Trump has 91 indictments and multiple criminal trials in process.

   a YouGov survey of 1,000 adults, conducted Jan. 30-Feb. 1, found that almost half of all voters are not yet fully aware of the 91 felony counts Trump has been charged with.

   YouGov found that 45 percent of respondents were either unaware of or uncertain that Trump had “been charged with falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, a porn star” and that Trump “had been found liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.”

   Joe Trippi, a Democratic operative who managed Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential bid and Doug Jones’s two Senate campaigns in Alabama, told me in a phone interview that his major concern is that the Biden campaign should take the threats posed by third-party candidates “more seriously.”

   “If Trump wins in November, it will be because of third parties getting a significant number of people,” Trippi argued. “No one who is a MAGA Trump supporter is going to vote for a third party. Most of it comes off Joe Biden.”

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4. Ah, the quotable Mae West. Here's another appropriate for today:

   “JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?

   MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.”
   ― Mae West

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