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May 31, 2017 07:09 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Life is one crisis after another.”

–Richard M. Nixon

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    2. If the family and members of the Sad!-ministration can't take away his (unsecured) phone to end the tweeting after midnight, could they at least turn on the auto-correct feature?

  2. More excellent insights into Trump (and his toadies AC and Moldy on this site) from David Leonhardt from the NY Times:

    Three decades ago, the philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote an essay that would eventually become widely read — and that today offers insight into President Trump. The work was called, “On B.S.” (Well, not quite, but this is a family newsletter.)

    Matthew Yglesias of Vox published a long reflection on Frankfurt and President Trump yesterday, and it began like so: “Donald Trump says a lot of things that aren’t true, often shamelessly so, and it’s tempting to call him a liar. But that’s not quite right.”

    A lie is a conscious effort to mislead someone, usually in the service of persuasion. But Trump often isn’t trying to persuade. He is instead creating a separate language meant to distinguish his allies from his enemies. A Trump lie, Yglesias writes, is “a test to see who around him will debase themselves to repeat it blindly.”

    It’s a smart essay, and I encourage you to read it. But I do think the B.S. Theory of Trump gives short shrift to one aspect of his lies.

    Even if they are not meant to persuade, they are typically intended to distract people from reality. That is, his untruths about the House’s health care bill aren’t merely intended to distinguish his supporters from his opponents. They are also intended to obscure the reality that the bill would deprive millions of people of health insurance.

  5. Equal Pay Act

    ahem.

    "Women in the corner office at the biggest American firms made more money than men in six of the past seven years, though the gap has narrowed since 2014. The trend reflects strong performances by S&P 500 businesses run by women—and the fact that superstar women tend to land such top jobs, according to executive-pay and leadership experts."

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/women-ceos-dont-get-paid-less-than-men-in-big-business-they-make-more-1496223001

    1. I assume that the study matched industries, experience, company size, etc. to properly isolate the effect that gender has on CEO pay.

      Never mind–I see its another piece of shit piece from the WSJ that's bouncing around the right-wing looney corner.

    2. So 21 women make more than their 300+ S&P male counterparts, but we don't need an Equal Pay Act for the 70+million women in our domestic workforce who we know are paid less than theirs?  

    3. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

      Women's earnings 83 percent of men's, but vary by occupation

      In management, which is the field you and the WSJ are talking about, most women still make 77.5% of male earnings.

      In my field, education, we make 78.6% of what men earn.

      In the very bottom minimum wage pay categories, (food service,  personal care, cleaning) women actually make more than men do – but they're only earning $375 – 600 for a 40 hour week.

      So yes, the Equal Pay Act is still necessary. Your boy Buck hasn't had a chance to vote on it, although he voted against spending government funds to fight discrimination against LGBT folks. Buck also voted against all government regulation, and to cut funds in the Civil Rights Division's pursuit of discrimination cases. He's also voted to "disapprove" the Human Services rule about funding Title IX programs which promote gender equality on campuses across the country.

      No friend to women, your guy Buck.

       

  6. The Loneliness of Donald Trump 

    "….The man in the white house sits, naked and obscene, a pustule of ego, in the harsh light, a man whose grasp exceeded his understanding, because his understanding was dulled by indulgence. He must know somewhere below the surface he skates on that he has destroyed his image, and like Dorian Gray before him, will be devoured by his own corrosion in due time too…."

  7. Republicans have a difficult decision ahead of them — or maybe the majority of them already have made it:

    In the United States of Bullshit, anything can happen

    For Trump, the constant bullshitting serves as a highly effective filter. Senators like John McCain and Ben Sasse, who’ve overwhelmingly voted with Trump when it counts, have nonetheless refused to echo his bullshit — proving their integrity to the world and their disloyalty to Trump. But formerly obscure figures such as Lord and Nunes who’ve proven their subservience to Trump are on the upswing, while other longtime players in conservative politics are debasing themselves on Trump’s behalf.

    “Since his selection as vice president,” Abby Phillip writes at the Washington Post, “[Mike] Pence has been unflagging in his loyalty and deference to Trump. But in return, the president and White House aides have repeatedly set Pence up to be the public face of official narratives that turn out to be misleading or false.”

    The upshot is a conservative movement and a Republican Party that, if Trump persists in office, will be remade along Trumpian lines with integrity deprecated and bullshit running rampant. It’s clear that the owners and top talent at commercial conservative media are perfectly content with that outcome, and the question facing the party’s politicians is whether they are, too.

    The common thread of the Trumposphere is that there doesn’t need to be any common thread. One day Comey went soft on Clinton; the next day he was fired for being too hard on her; the day after that, it wasn’t about Clinton at all. The loyalist is just supposed to go along with whatever the line of the day is.

    This is the authoritarian spirit in miniature, assembling a party and a movement that is bound to no principles and not even committed to following its own rhetoric from one day to the next. A “terrific” health plan that will “cover everyone” can transform into a bill to slash the Medicaid rolls by 14 million in the blink of an eye and nobody is supposed to notice or care. Anything could happen at any moment, all of it powered by bullshit.

      1. Everything I've read shows that Christian is a right wing religious fanatic, and one who really needs psychiatric counseling.

  10. Americans are losing patience with  the Trump Reality TV show:

    An increasing percentage of voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump — even if they don't think Trump has committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires.

    Forty-three percent of voters want Congress to begin impeachment proceedings, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, up from 38 percent last week.

  11. House Russia investigators subpoena Flynn, Cohen

    The House intelligence committee issued subpoenas Wednesday to former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as part of the probe into Russian activity during the 2016 election.

    The subpoenas, the first from the House panel, seek their testimony, as well as documents from their

    I hope these guys have their covfefe in order.

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