Stephanie Anderson

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pro life, pro Israel, Christian, sane Democrat, socialist, anti-environmentalist.

Joined June 2016

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Occupy Democrats

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3 days ago

BREAKING: “YOU FIND THE VOTES!” Republican Senate leader John Thune fires back at Trump over his complaints they can’t pass his election-steal bill. A full-blown Republican civil war burst into the open after the White House publicly attacked Senate Majority Leader John Thune over President Donald Trump's stalled voter suppression bill, only to have Republican senators line up behind their leader and admit Trump's top legislative priority will never have the votes to pass. The extraordinary public feud erupted after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned reporters that Trump's "patience is running out" with Thune over the Senate's failure to advance the SAVE America Act, a voting measure Trump has demanded Congress pass before the August recess. Thune didn't hide his irritation with KKKaroline. "She or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes, right?" Thune shot back. "So instead of pointing the finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the people who are stopping it on the floor, which is the Democrats. And if there are Republicans that they think are gettable, get on the phone. Let's get them to 'yes.'" But the real shock came when Republican senators openly contradicted the White House and acknowledged that Trump's demands simply aren't possible. "We just don't have the votes, and so there's nothing that Senator Thune can do to change that," Sen. John Cornyn said. "This idea that he can just command members of the Republican Conference to get in line is just a fantasy." Cornyn warned that someone had badly misled Trump about the bill's prospects. "I don't know who it was that sold the president on this idea that this was attainable, but it's creating a circular firing squad for Republicans," he said. "Here we are, what, 103 days before the midterm elections, and this is not a great place for us to be." Other Republican senators echoed the same message, making clear that Trump's pressure campaign cannot overcome the basic math in the Senate. "Everybody wants to talk about 60 votes. We don't have 51 votes," Sen. John Hoeven said. Sen. John Kennedy defended Thune while delivering one of the day's most memorable lines. "John's doing the best he can, but John can't put a gun to people's heads and make them vote a particular way. When you're [the] majority leader, you take a lot of the spears and the arrows. That's his job." Even Sen. Rick Scott, one of the SAVE America Act's biggest supporters and a frequent critic of Thune, acknowledged the difficult position both men find themselves in. "It's hard being leader," Scott said of Thune. "I'm sure if I was the president of the United States, I'd be frustrated if everything I wanted didn't get done." The increasingly public clash comes after Trump has spent months demanding action on the SAVE America Act, a proposal that would require proof of citizenship for voter registration, stricter voter identification requirements and major new restrictions on mail voting. For months, Trump has insisted Republicans simply need to "get it done." Now his own party is publicly admitting that's fantasy. The votes don't exist, the White House can't bully them into existence, and Trump's latest pressure campaign has accomplished something he never intended: exposing a growing Republican schism for everyone to see.

OccupyDemocrats's tweet photo. BREAKING: “YOU FIND THE VOTES!” Republican Senate leader John Thune fires back at Trump over his complaints they can’t pass his election-steal bill.

A full-blown Republican civil war burst into the open after the White House publicly attacked Senate Majority Leader John Thune over President Donald Trump's stalled voter suppression bill, only to have Republican senators line up behind their leader and admit Trump's top legislative priority will never have the votes to pass.

The extraordinary public feud erupted after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned reporters that Trump's "patience is running out" with Thune over the Senate's failure to advance the SAVE America Act, a voting measure Trump has demanded Congress pass before the August recess.

Thune didn't hide his irritation with KKKaroline.

"She or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes, right?" Thune shot back. "So instead of pointing the finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the people who are stopping it on the floor, which is the Democrats. And if there are Republicans that they think are gettable, get on the phone. Let's get them to 'yes.'"

But the real shock came when Republican senators openly contradicted the White House and acknowledged that Trump's demands simply aren't possible.

"We just don't have the votes, and so there's nothing that Senator Thune can do to change that," Sen. John Cornyn said. "This idea that he can just command members of the Republican Conference to get in line is just a fantasy."

Cornyn warned that someone had badly misled Trump about the bill's prospects.

"I don't know who it was that sold the president on this idea that this was attainable, but it's creating a circular firing squad for Republicans," he said.

"Here we are, what, 103 days before the midterm elections, and this is not a great place for us to be."

Other Republican senators echoed the same message, making clear that Trump's pressure campaign cannot overcome the basic math in the Senate.

"Everybody wants to talk about 60 votes. We don't have 51 votes," Sen. John Hoeven said.

Sen. John Kennedy defended Thune while delivering one of the day's most memorable lines. "John's doing the best he can, but John can't put a gun to people's heads and make them vote a particular way. When you're [the] majority leader, you take a lot of the spears and the arrows. That's his job."

Even Sen. Rick Scott, one of the SAVE America Act's biggest supporters and a frequent critic of Thune, acknowledged the difficult position both men find themselves in. "It's hard being leader," Scott said of Thune. "I'm sure if I was the president of the United States, I'd be frustrated if everything I wanted didn't get done."

The increasingly public clash comes after Trump has spent months demanding action on the SAVE America Act, a proposal that would require proof of citizenship for voter registration, stricter voter identification requirements and major new restrictions on mail voting.

For months, Trump has insisted Republicans simply need to "get it done." Now his own party is publicly admitting that's fantasy.

The votes don't exist, the White House can't bully them into existence, and Trump's latest pressure campaign has accomplished something he never intended: exposing a growing Republican schism for everyone to see.

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Occupy Democrats

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9 days ago

BREAKING: PAVED PARADISE! Trump is putting a giant granite helipad smack in the middle of the White House lawn so he can use a bigger helicopter – paid for by the company that sold it to him! Donald Trump is transforming one of America's most recognizable green spaces into a permanent black granite helipad so his newer, more powerful version of Marine One will no longer scorch the grass where it used to land. Even better for Trump, the project isn't coming out of his pocket or even directly from taxpayers: it's being financed by Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor that manufactures the helicopter. Previous administrations considered the problem but always found solutions that left the historic White House grounds intact. Not Donnie the Builder. He thinks it's his house, not the people’s. Construction crews are now installing a 100-foot-wide granite landing pad just steps from the White House itself, permanently altering grounds that have remained largely unchanged through generations of presidents. In a remarkable arrangement, the company that builds the helicopter is paying to modify the White House grounds so the helicopter can operate there more easily, and deliver Trump to his front door like some kind of fake royalty. Lockheed Martin, the country’s biggest defense contractor with more $75 billion in sales to the government last year, insists the donation complies with all ethics rules and says it was made through the National Park Service. Still, the optics are difficult to ignore. Trump recently remarked that "there's no harder zoning thing to get" than approval for a helipad. For ordinary Americans, that might be true, but for Trump, he just does it. (He can’t be denied approval if he didn’t ask for it, right?) The project also appears to have bypassed the kind of scrutiny that is supposed to accompany major changes to historic federal property. Nobody asked Congress to approve it, and the White House says review by the Commission of Fine Arts was not required. For generations, Marine One landed on temporary pads that could be rolled away after each flight. That was sufficient for presidents from both parties. Not for Trump, of course, who thinks not of history or posterity or beauty, but only of himself. The South Lawn of the White House is one of the most recognizable public spaces in the United States, the front yard of a house that belongs to the American people. Joni Mitchell once sang about paving paradise. The White House has survived for more than two centuries because presidents understood they were caretakers, not owners. They occupied it for a few years and then passed it on to the next elected resident. Trump’s radically different attitude about his stewardship of the presidency. From the Rose Garden to the ballroom/bunker, this new outrage of paving the heart of the White House lawn to deliver him directly to the front door, he’s leaving projections of his ultra-tacky aesthetic all over the place, no doubt to be removed later by a more thoughtful leader. To Trump, tradition matters only when it serves him, and history only when it flatters him. Long after Donald Trump is gone, the White House will still belong to the American people. The question is how well we can stop him from destroying it bit by bit.

OccupyDemocrats's tweet photo. BREAKING: PAVED PARADISE! Trump is putting a giant granite helipad smack in the middle of the White House lawn so he can use a bigger helicopter – paid for by the company that sold it to him!

Donald Trump is transforming one of America's most recognizable green spaces into a permanent black granite helipad so his newer, more powerful version of Marine One will no longer scorch the grass where it used to land.

Even better for Trump, the project isn't coming out of his pocket or even directly from taxpayers: it's being financed by Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor that manufactures the helicopter.

Previous administrations considered the problem but always found solutions that left the historic White House grounds intact. Not Donnie the Builder. He thinks it's his house, not the people’s.

Construction crews are now installing a 100-foot-wide granite landing pad just steps from the White House itself, permanently altering grounds that have remained largely unchanged through generations of presidents.

In a remarkable arrangement, the company that builds the helicopter is paying to modify the White House grounds so the helicopter can operate there more easily, and deliver Trump to his front door like some kind of fake royalty.

Lockheed Martin, the country’s biggest defense contractor with more $75 billion in sales to the government last year, insists the donation complies with all ethics rules and says it was made through the National Park Service. Still, the optics are difficult to ignore.

Trump recently remarked that "there's no harder zoning thing to get" than approval for a helipad. For ordinary Americans, that might be true, but for Trump, he just does it. (He can’t be denied approval if he didn’t ask for it, right?)

The project also appears to have bypassed the kind of scrutiny that is supposed to accompany major changes to historic federal property. Nobody asked Congress to approve it, and the White House says review by the Commission of Fine Arts was not required.

For generations, Marine One landed on temporary pads that could be rolled away after each flight. That was sufficient for presidents from both parties.

Not for Trump, of course, who thinks not of history or posterity or beauty, but only of himself.

The South Lawn of the White House is one of the most recognizable public spaces in the United States, the front yard of a house that belongs to the American people.

Joni Mitchell once sang about paving paradise.

The White House has survived for more than two centuries because presidents understood they were caretakers, not owners. They occupied it for a few years and then passed it on to the next elected resident.

Trump’s radically different attitude about his stewardship of the presidency. From the Rose Garden to the ballroom/bunker, this new outrage of paving the heart of the White House lawn to deliver him directly to the front door, he’s leaving projections of his ultra-tacky aesthetic all over the place, no doubt to be removed later by a more thoughtful leader.

To Trump, tradition matters only when it serves him, and history only when it flatters him.

Long after Donald Trump is gone, the White House will still belong to the American people. The question is how well we can stop him from destroying it bit by bit.

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The Halfway Post

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14 days ago

BREAKING: A federal judge says it makes zero sense to prosecute anyone for taking pieces of the Reflecting Pool's peeled off paint until Donald Trump is prosecuted for driving 10 SUVs down the entire length of the pool before the sealant was fully cured.

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