Section: Daily Kos (USA)
Trump says he’d never do bad things in hotels because he, as hotel guy, knows hotel rooms are bugged
One of the more surreal moments of the truly bizarre Trump performance we just were subjected to—which was akin to watching a drugged-up bear pretend to ride an imaginary unicycle while juggling imaginary flaming bowling pins—was our actual, honest-to-God President-Elect denying that he would be stupid enough to hire prostitutes to pee on him on...
Rex Tillerson confirmation hearing for secretary of state liveblog #4
Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing continues. x YouTube Video Wednesday, Jan 11, 2017 · 5:08:59 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner …read more Source: Daily...
Rex Tillerson confirmation hearing for Secretary of State: Live Blog #1
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson is Trump’s pick for Secretary of State. The Senate is getting an early start this morning on talking about Tillerson, and we’ll be following along. You can watch the hearing here: x YouTube Video At the moment, Ted Cruz is doing the “fellow-Texan” lovefest, with a side order of how terrible things are...
What the classified report says Russia wanted from Trump, is exactly what he’s tried to deliver
What’s in that report circulating about Trump? While much of the attention that’s going to be generated by this report will focus on the disgusting nature of the “kompromat” the Russians generated on Trump, the really shocking item? What the Russians asked of Trump. They wanted Trump to weaken the US position on the Ukraine, and...
Tim Kaine: Why does Trump repeatedly act as Putin’s defense lawyer?
Yesterday’s Senate hearings on the extensive Russian efforts to get Donald Trump elected U.S. president produced a lot of good sound bites, and much-needed pushback against the right-wing propaganda machine’s bizarre efforts to legitimize WikiLeaks at the expense of the entirety of U.S. intelligence networks. But I kept thinking those...
This map shows whether the left or the right is in power in every European democracy
Daily Kos Elections has been publishing our monthly International Elections Digest covering major foreign election developments throughout 2016. We put that knowledge to use making the above map that shows—very generally speaking—whether “the left” or “the right” wields political power in Europe, since nearly every country there is relatively...
Blueprint for the #Resistance: How to use tea party tactics to block the Trump agenda
Now that the Electoral College has spoken and completed the installation of President Drumpf, we need to focus on the goal of totally and completely blocking and opposing his agenda and administration, which includes but is not limited to the following items: His nominees for cabinet and key positions need to be vigorously opposed, exposed and...
Obama boxes in Trump with sanctions on Russia
When President Obama ejected 35 Russian operatives from the U.S. and placed sanctions on two Russian intelligence services Thursday, it was more than just an effort to publicly rebuke Russia for meddling in the 2016 elections. It saddled the incoming Trump administration with anti-Russian policies that will force Trump’s team to actively...
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Obama’s sanctions on Russia box Trump in
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial in support of the new sanctions against Russia: While it is definitely too late, and may also be too little, there should be no doubt about the correctness of President Obama’s decision to retaliate against Russia for hacking American computers and trying to influence...
Ryan calls new Russia sanctions ‘overdue,’ but fails to call for more aggressive investigations
House Speaker Paul Ryan was curiously quick to chastise President Obama for taking too long to sanction Russia for meddling in the 2016 elections. x.@SpeakerRyan: ” today’s action by the administration is overdue” pic.twitter.com/FhURqIyY3M— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 29, 2016 Fascinating, Obama’s actions are...
