Fri
Jan 25 2019
02:39 pm
Trump blinks, Pelosi wins
By: R. Neal

Trump announces deal for government to reopen for three weeks, ending longest shutdown; no money for his border wall

Maybe it had something to do with this...

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Rachel's picture

I think it may have had more

Submitted by Rachel on Fri, 2019/01/25 - 3:00pm.

I think it may have had more to do with east coast airports starting to shut down this morning. But whatever, Trump's five-week shutdown accomplished precisely nothing. We were here before Christmas.

bizgrrl's picture

And the 14,000 IRS workers

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2019/01/25 - 3:25pm.
(in reply to Rachel)

And the 14,000 IRS workers that did not show up when called back to active duty without pay.

So many reasons. Either way, he blinked.

jbr's picture

The optics of empty Super

Submitted by jbr on Fri, 2019/01/25 - 3:51pm.
(in reply to Rachel)

The optics of empty Super Bowl seats, folks unable to get flights, would have been interesting

Somebody's picture

Location, location, location

Submitted by Somebody on Fri, 2019/01/25 - 3:56pm.

Trump has debilitating narcissistic personality disorder. This is about getting to do the State of the Union address from the House chamber. In this case, Nancy Pelosi has the keys to the one thing Trump craves more than anything: everyone’s attention. Doing that speech “on location” is worth more than $5.7 billion to Donald Trump.

R. Neal's picture

Also, Roger Stone. Took his

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2019/01/25 - 4:15pm.

Also, Roger Stone. Took his arrest right off the front page.

Knoxoasis's picture

Sending a dozen heavily armed

Submitted by Knoxoasis on Sat, 2019/01/26 - 9:50am.

Sending a dozen heavily armed FBI agents (apparently working for free God bless 'em) to arrest an old man in his pajamas with CNN on the scene was a nice touch.

I guess they were right. With Trump as President, we ARE living in a fascist police state.

jmcnair's picture

Well.

Submitted by jmcnair on Sat, 2019/01/26 - 12:30pm.
(in reply to Knoxoasis)

I'm not sure you understand what we're dealing with here. Stone is a major long-term rat-fucker (with Nixon's image tattooed on his back) and we're getting very close to hundreds of millions of dollars in oligarch (foreign and domestic) money.

I trust these guys to know what they might be up against. (To their credit, some were working without pay.) And it's not like they gave him a rough ride as though he were a POC.

Andy Axel's picture

Scream into your pillow.

Submitted by Andy Axel on Sat, 2019/01/26 - 4:24pm.
(in reply to Knoxoasis)

Scream into your pillow.

mjw's picture

It's about the search, not the arrest

Submitted by mjw on Mon, 2019/01/28 - 1:38pm.
(in reply to Knoxoasis)

The FBI did a pre-dawn arrest with a dozen agents because they didn't want to give Stone a chance to destroy evidence. The far more important thing they did Friday morning was to execute simultaneous search warrants at all of Stone's properties:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/opinion/roger-stone-indictment-mueller-investigation.html

Knoxoasis's picture

He was ROR'ed. That's what

Submitted by Knoxoasis on Sat, 2019/01/26 - 12:49pm.

He was ROR'ed. That's what they were dealing with. An old man indicted for lying to Congress. He aint Tony Montana.

AC's picture

Is it an oasis? Or just a

Submitted by AC on Mon, 2019/01/28 - 9:36am.
(in reply to Knoxoasis)

Is it an oasis? Or just a mirage?

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