Do you think the ratio of one more Dem:Repub isn’t worth it just as a matter of public perception? I think that’s important if he’s voting Republican anyway. An insignificant but not meaningless impact, but then you could counter with the insignificant but not meaningless impact of having a Dem on the roster who is Dem in name only. That’s demoralizing.
Yeah 
STRONGLY considering.
…can we get this guy to testify before the Senate?
Remember, your whole way is going to be filled with difficulties, and sometimes they are going to be unbearable.
All your loved ones will die. All your plans will be thwarted. There will be times when you will be lied to and abandoned. And you won’t be able to run away from death. Life is suffering. Deal with it.
But once you are reconciled with these things, once you are reconciled with the inevitability of suffering, still take your cross on your shoulders and follow your dream because if you do not do it everything will only get worse.
Become an example, become someone who people can rely on. Do not obey despots, fight for the freedom of body and mind, and for the political system of the country in which your children will be able to become happy.
Trump has proffered supposed legal arguments…that his closest White House advisers are “absolutely immune” from testifying about even the most serious presidential crimes
Bill Clinton initially invoked the executive privilege in response to demands for the testimony of several witnesses… but—after Starr asked the Supreme Court to hear the case on an emergency basis—Clinton withdrew his effort to quash the subpoenas.
According to Starr and Kavanaugh, the privilege assertion was itself impeachable, because it was purportedly meritless and Clinton had managed to use the privilege litigation to delay Starr’s investigation.
I’m sure Brett will have a mind-blowing legal argument for why this applied to Clinton but not Trump.
Peter Daou’s face turn is one of the best plot twists of this whole show.
Although your question is tongue in cheek (I think) the behavioral analysis shows that when you conduct bad actions openly in public then people are instinctively wired to assume that it must not be that bad. By contrast, anything you do secretly, even if it is altruistic or benevolent, will cause people to instinctively think it must be bad because you’re hiding it. So doing bad things openly is a good tactic for getting away with stuff, even though that is counterintuitive.
LOL @ flagging my comment. And you guys wonder why WAAF.
If this isn’t already called the Trump Effect it should be.
Good call, this version is even better. Not sure if it will stay up though. I feel like I probably forgot some obvious clowns though. All I can think of is Ty Cobb with his clownish handlebar mustache.
Last version of Send in the Clowns.
Hmmm
Keanu Reeves’ private foundation seeks to fund research into cancer, supporting both children’s wards and kids’ hospitals. He actually never tried to claim credit for any of it, nobody even knew he was doing this.
Reeves said to the Ladies’ Home Journal back in 2009: ” I have a private foundation that’s been running for five or six years, and it helps aid a couple of children’s hospitals and cancer research.
I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does.”
He gave away millions from his earnings from the Matrix to crews that were employed working with the trilogy. Some people even estimate that Reeves simply gave away between $75 million and $100 million to people who worked on the movies from behind the scenes.
MONSTER!
Obviously tongue-in-cheek and I generally agree with your point.
OMG hahahahahaaha I’m dying
They first sing SEND IN THE CLOWNS as Lindsey’s face comes up hahahahaha
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Well yeah you gotta sell your expensive car, buy a POS car, use the money you made to buy food, then when you run out of that that food they’ll give you food stamps. We can’t have people with any worldly possessions have free food.
Onion (Trump doesn’t “complain”, doesn’t know Elizabeth Warren’s real name, doesn’t know what “counter” means in this context, and for sure has never used the term “populist mantle” in his entire life).
