House Judiciary Committee authorizes subpoenas for Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions and 10 others

"Democrats say the subpoenas of high-profile individuals associated with President Trump go to the heart of obstruction of justice allegations; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports from Washington".

http://video.foxnews.com/v/6058031325001/#sp=show-clips

Analysis: Trump pattern is create a crisis, retreat, move on

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was defiant and declarative Friday, with all the hammer-on-anvil subtlety that has charted a now-familiar pattern of his presidency: create a crisis, retreat, declare victory, move on".

http://apnews.com/e1c74a65f9354387afd2e78e96cc3150

Paul Ryan’s public support of Trump masked GOP struggle

"WASHINGTON (AP) — What’s so stunning about former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s new admissions regarding President Donald Trump is that his story is now so ordinary.

Ryan decided to leave Washington, as relayed in a new book, “American Carnage,” by Tim Alberta, rather than endure two more years of the Trump presidency.

The disclosures portray the once rising GOP star as deeply conflicted in the age of Trump, saying one thing in public but thinking another in private, as he tried — and ultimately failed — to serve alongside the president.

“I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government,” Ryan says in the book. “I wanted to scold him all the time".

http://apnews.com/761b14ceeeae456fb75f8c8a86e0d654

Pence tour of migrant center shows men crowded in cages

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities on the Texas border Friday, including a Border Patrol station where hundreds of men were crowded in sweltering cages without cots".

http://www.apnews.com/b86e9b1944b84a729ccdb77f59d356d3

There’s been no increase in the number of people trying to cross the border. The only difference is that instead of just turning them around, Trump is unnecessarily spending tons of taxpayer dollars on putting them in cages and holding them against their will.

Trump faces uphill battle to keep financial records from Congress after lawyers clash in appeals court

"WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appeared to be facing an uphill battle to keep Congress from obtaining his financial records after his lawyer faced more than an hour of skeptical questioning Friday over his arguments that lawmakers don't have the power to investigate the president".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/12/appeals-court-argument-subpoena-trump-financial-records-from-mazars/1676465001/

Wow, his lawyers don't even read the Constitution. Congress has EVERY right to investigate Presidential wrongdoing through the power of impeachment and the information gathering necessary to justify whether impeachment is warranted.

Is he an American citizen or not? If he is, the House has the right to get his tax records. There is no exemption because he is President. Nowhere does it say that he doesn't have to give them to the House? Why would he be exempt from prosecution if he actually committed crimes or engaged in corrupt practices while in office? The law is very precise in it's meaning and his lawyer's interpretation isn't it.

Another twisting of the truth on the President's tax returns.
Read this for clarification: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/9/18296806/trump-tax-returns-congress-legal-experts

"There’s been no increase in the number of people trying to cross the border." Maybe not since last month! I believe the facts are that more people have been arrested per month than anytime in the previous 10 years! When illegals try to cross at the border stations, they are sent back. Those who illegally cross and are arrested, get locked up as criminals.

How has he got away with so much that is very wrong for so long? When will the law makers take action?

I've got a big bag here of popcorn. It'll go stale if we don't get some good TV to watch sometime soon

Yes sir. And that's Trump's stupidity. Some of that odd logic that only he and his supporters have. What they don't seem to understand is these people are ignorant to Trump and his ways. All they are thinking about is staying alive and keeping their families alive. They leave one oppression for another.

But even with Trump's clear racism they still will come here. They are that desperate. If Trump really wanted to do something about the problem, He would quit fu$^ing around with Iran and pay attention to what is causing the flood of people at our back door. Deal with them so their people can stay in their homes. Instead of dealing with what's causing all the immigrants to leave their country, he wants to keep poking at Iran. Just more of that Trump stupidity and bassassards thinking.


More far-right insanity.

Man dead after attacking immigration detention facility in Washington state: police

"(Reuters) - A man armed with a rifle attacked an immigration detention facility in Washington state early on Saturday, throwing incendiary devices at the building and cars in the parking lot before dying after police opened fire, authorities said.

An employee at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma reported one vehicle on fire and said the suspect was also attempting to ignite a large propane tank outside the facility, the Tacoma Police Department said in a statement. "

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-attacks-immigrant-detention-center-washington-state-found-dead-after-n1029571

Planned ICE raids show Trump runs the U.S. like his business — with no idea what he's doing

"If all goes as threatened, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin conducting nationwide raids on Sunday aimed at arresting thousands of undocumented immigrants. Many people have been resisting this idea, including, reportedly, a lot of people who work for ICE. Plans for executing the raids remain frighteningly “in flux,” and mass protests are planned against the roundups in 10 major cities".

http://news.yahoo.com/planned-ice-raids-show-trump-runs-the-us-like-his-business-220201627.html

President Trump ripped the mainstream media on Thursday and explained what he considers “free speech.”

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-blasts-media-saying-not-134454563.html

Free speech you know like they have in Russia and North Korea!

Free speech media should be State-run media in Trump's mind.

In this story he sounds like the head of the aluminum foil hat brigade. Sure his middle name isn't "Hitler"? Only certain ones back then were "true" Germans. Only the best Trump supporters deserve free speech.

President Trump Says Only Trump Supporters Deserve Free Speech

"President Trump held a confab at the White House Thursday to promote his Orwellian notion of “free speech” online. It confirmed yet again the president’s implacable hostility to basic liberal freedoms.

Trump has repeatedly accused Facebook, Google, and Twitter of carrying out a secret agenda against him and his supporters, by hiding the president’s tweets and covertly banning his supporters. Trump presented his position as a defense of free speech against some secretive form of censorship, and warned, “I’m directing my administration to explore all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech and the free speech rights of all Americans."

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/trump-free-speech-twitter-google-facebook-authoritarianism.html

THE GOVERNMENT'S NUMBERS SHOW INCREASING BORDER ARRESTS. DOES THAT MEAN THE U.S. IS FACING AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRISIS?

"According to new data released by Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol arrested 98,977 people in April—more than in any other single month since 2007.

April has historically been one of the busier months for illegal crossings of the United States–Mexico border, and, in past years, the numbers have dipped during the summer months. But at the current rate of apprehensions, 2019 is on pace to see over a million arrests. This could mean that, after years of remaining at historic lows, border apprehensions are returning to high levels".

http://psmag.com/news/increasing-border-arrests-is-the-us-facing-an-illegal-immigration-crisis



It's basically the same amount of people. It's just more arrests. Just more Trump stupidity. Before he came along we just turned them around at the border. Now, because of Trump's crazy policies, we are holding them. While they suffer in the detention centers and live off of the American taxpayer. This is ALL Trumps fault and doing. No one, not even the Democrats can be blamed for this. All this came from Trumps muddled up mind.

The "Democrat" way of dealing with it may have not been the best of ideas. But Trump's way is a lot worse. Worse to the immigrant and worse on the taxpayer.

Brit Ambassador Charged That Trump Killed Iran Deal Because It Was Obama's: Report

"Britain’s now former ambassador to the U.S. was convinced last year that President Donald Trump scrapped the Iran nuclear pact in part simply because it was forged by Barack Obama, according to another leaked diplomatic memo.

Sir Kim Darroch declared that Trump’s actions amounted to “diplomatic vandalism,” the Daily Mail reported on Saturday, quoting the cable".

http://www.yahoo.com/news/kim-darroch-trump-diplomatic-vandalism-barack-obama-063452411.html

With Census Citizenship Battle Over, Republicans Gear Up For A Redistricting Fight

"President Donald Trump still wants to dramatically reshape the electoral map ― he’s just no longer pushing to use a citizenship question on the census to do it".

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-redistricting-based-on-citizens-130000589.html

The GOP, would do well to figure out a model in which they can actually win the popular vote in elections, rather than rig the system. Every demographic and most peoples values are turning against them. This is like trying to hold back a tidal wave. It will not work in the long run.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-else/201902/are-conservatives-healthier-liberals




It's a beautiful day in TrumpLand.

Interesting article. Backs up what I had thought about people, and what I've seen by observing them.

Can they be more conservative by their actions? To a point, yes. If it's illegal drugs, almost all are liberal. Alcohol use, no, I see an even split. But it's legal. A slim, self driven person is more likely to be conservative. But that is not written in stone.

Like, people who are more emotionally unstable are more often liberal. I know they can be sold a bill of goods pretty quickly. If it sounds good, they will buy it. Then get mad because others aren't as gullible as they are. Classic example of that one is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She gets all flustered because people won't accept her views without question. What she hasn't learned, however, is that youth and exuberance, will never beat old age and treachery.

Same way I won't accept the liberal snow job. They promise everything, deliver on nothing. We had 8 years of that. What makes me laugh about them, is that they have convinced themselves that they have the upper hand. Keep on thinking that way.

In 2016, I found a way to actually predict outcome. Actual vote, dem/ republican, from the primaries. Total up turnout, compare numbers. More dems out to vote than republicans, a dem state, and vise-versa. People turning out for rallies, signage, ads on the tube and social media, it all made the difference. Trump braved the msm waters plenty of times. kill-liar-ry paid Fox no mind, and she paid for it in the end. Libs can gripe endlessly about Fox News. MSM viewership numbers don't match up to Fox News numbers.

But then, who am I? Just one of the deplorables, those smelly WalMart people, that stab, then turn. We love the dems screaming.

We only need to look at California to understand what the popular vote does to politics. The California minority is basically locked out of the state's governing process. One of the basic principles of our constitution is to prevent the majority from being able to forcibly rule the minority. Unfortunately we have allowed laws to be passed that do exactly that in the name of "public good".

President Trump's War Power Delusions

"Donald Trump claims that he has the right to unilaterally and irresponsibly go to war at his discretion. His aides appear to be creatively justifying that stance".

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/president-trumps-war-power-delusions-66957

The war powers act is very clear. The resolution also sets down reporting requirements for the chief executive, including the responsibility to notify Congress within 48 hours whenever military forces are introduced “into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances.” Additionally, the law stipulates that Presidents are required to end foreign military actions after 60 days unless Congress provides a declaration of war or an authorization for the operation to continue.

Trump Should Go Back to Where He Came From

"So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came? Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!".

http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/trump-should-take-his-own-twitter-advice/593941/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo

Trump 2020 Official Claims People Are ‘Lying’ About Trump's Racist Twitter Rant

"The media misled Americans when it reported that President Donald Trump ordered progressive congresswomen of color to “go back” to their “crime-infested” hellhole countries, a Trump 2020 re-election campaign official insisted Sunday. According to Matt Wolking, Trump did say that, but he didn’t say forever. The president pointed out that they could return to the U.S. after they help “fix” things in the other countries he imagines they’re from".

http://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-campaign-racism-lies-congresswomen-come-back-014105528.html

Republicans Silent On Trump's Racist Remarks To Congresswomen

"Presidents Donald Trump’s urging of Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to the countries they came from on Sunday has drawn widespread condemnation, with congressional Democrats declaring his rhetoric racist, xenophobic and bigoted".

http://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/republicans-silent-racist-trump-remarks-222057758.html

Data show Trump is right, fewer people like his tweets now

"US president Donald Trump spent a lot of time during a White House’s “social media summit” this week complaining that his tweets don’t get the same engagement that they used to".

http://qz.com/1665059/data-show-trump-is-right-fewer-people-like-his-tweets-now/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo


Data show Trump is right, fewer people like his tweets now

"US president Donald Trump spent a lot of time during a White House’s “social media summit” this week complaining that his tweets don’t get the same engagement that they used to.

“It used to go up, it would say 7,000, 7,008, 7,017, 7,024, 7,032, 7,044, right? Now it goes 7,000, 7,008, 6,998,” he said. “Does anyone know what I’m talking about with this? I never had that before. I used to watch it. It would be like a rocket ship when I put out a beauty".

http://qz.com/1665059/data-show-trump-is-right-fewer-people-like-his-tweets-now/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo

Reaction to Trump telling liberal lawmakers to leave US

"President Donald Trump on Sunday criticized a group of non-white Democratic congresswomen in tweets and said they should leave the U.S. and go back to the countries "from which they came." The four women are American citizens and all but one was born in the U.S.

A sampling of reaction to Trump's tweets".

http://www.yahoo.com/news/reaction-trumps-tweets-telling-dem-192519935.html

Trump tells progressive freshman congresswomen to 'go back' to their 'broken and crime infested' countries

"President Trump, in a Sunday Twitter thread, called out Democratic Congresswomen, saying, “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” Trump tweeted".

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-unleashes-racially-charged-tweets-aimed-at-democratic-congresswomen-tells-them-to-go-back-to-broken-and-crime-infested-countries-150950003.html

'Fox & Friends' Hosts Fawn Over Trump's Racist Rant Against Dem Congresswomen

"President Donald Trump’s bigoted and nonsensical attack on progressive Democratic women in Congress on Sunday drew praise from the hosts of his favorite morning cable news show.

Jedediah Bila, co-host of the weekend edition of “Fox & Friends,” along with “Fox & Friends” correspondent Todd Piro and Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, laughed it up over the president’s tweets calling on the congresswomen to “go back” to other countries".

http://news.yahoo.com/fox-and-friends-trump-tweets-163246148.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index

‘They're well cared for’: Mike Pence defends Trump administration’s treatment of migrants on tour of detention centers

"US vice president Mike Pence has defended the Trump administration's treatment of migrants on a tour of detention facilities at the country's southern border.

Mr. Pence visited two detention centers on Friday following reports of inhumane conditions.

He started with a border station in Donna, a vast collection of air-conditioned, interconnected tents built in May to temporarily handle 1,000 migrants and currently holding 800.

Later in the day, the US vice president visited an outdoor portal at the McAllen border station, where 384 single men were being held in cages with no beds".

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-migrant-detention-centers-visit-border-camp-trump-mexico-a9003346.html


What Is Happening at Migrant Detention Centers? Here's What to Know

"In light of recent reports of overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at migrant detention centers run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies, top Democrats have summoned the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the acting Secretary of Homeland Security to testify before the House Oversight Committee".

http://time.com/5623148/migrant-detention-centers-conditions/


Trump calls children's detention centers 'well run and clean,' despite shocking reports from Pence visit

"President Trump defended conditions of crowded migrant detention facilities after Vice President Mike Pence offered mixed reviews following a tour at the border he completed last week.

“Friday’s tour showed vividly, to politicians and the media, how well run and clean the children’s detention centers are,” Trump tweeted. “Great reviews!”

“The adult single men areas were clean but crowded — also loaded up with a big percentage of criminals,” he continued. “Sorry, can’t let them into our Country. If too crowded, tell them not to come to USA, and tell the Dems to fix the Loopholes - Problem Solved! "

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-calls-childrens-detention-centers-well-run-and-clean-despite-shocking-reports-during-pence-visit-174821879.html

Again, we didn't have this problem. Not to this degree. This is all Trump and his policies. Catch and release may have not been the greatest idea, but at least it didn't bring on shyt this deep. Do away with Trump and his policies and this problem will go back to normal. We aren't getting much more or less crossing the border. It's just now we are arresting them and putting them in cages. That was Trump's idea.

Leaked UK memo says Trump axed Iran deal to spite Obama

"LONDON (AP) — A U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador's blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite predecessor Barack Obama.

In the May 2018 cable published by the Mail on Sunday, U.K. Ambassador Kim Darroch called Trump's decision to abandon the international accord "an act of diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons" because the pact "was Obama's deal".

http://www.apnews.com/7894d6dc1d1c4a3b9747558553ddcdbf

Isn't the administration we vote into office supposed to do what's best for its people instead of doing things out of spite?

The right of journalists to publish leaks when they're in the national interest? Journalists need to have the right to publish leaks, period. If the CIA is planning to rig a foreign election or is paying for the assassination of a foreign politician, and someone leaks this information, it goes without saying that it needs to be published. The legal changes currently underway would have made the publication of The Pentagon Papers a criminal act - Nixon tried to block publication, but the Supreme Court affirmed the New York Times' right to publish. The Pentagon Papers revealed the U.S. government to have targeted the American population for a systematic campaign of lies and deception about the nature of the Vietnam War. If publishing leaked documents that "harm the national interest" is a crime, it means that when a government wants to commit atrocities, it gets its intelligence service to commit - or pay for - the crime, make any related documentation of it classified, and punish with prison anyone who makes the information public. That's the precedent that the criminalization of WikiLeaks is setting.

An Analysis of Trump Supporters Has Identified 5 Key Traits

"The lightning-fast ascent and political invincibility of Donald Trump has left many experts baffled and wondering, “How did we get here?” Any accurate and sufficient answer to that question must not only focus on Trump himself, but also on his uniquely loyal supporters. Given their extreme devotion and unwavering admiration for their highly unpredictable and often inflammatory leader, some have turned to the field of psychology for scientific explanations based on precise quantitative data and established theoretical frameworks".

http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/analysis-trump-supporters-has-identified-5-key-traits?page=1

Anatomy of a Trump Supporter

"A farmer in the Midwest, a Donald Trump supporter in 2016, complained last week that his farm was in danger of going bankrupt owing to the combined effects of climate change and the tariff-wars, initiated by Trump, that have caused corn and soybean prices to collapse while increasing the costs of necessary Chinese chemical and aluminum goods. Asked if this has made him regret his vote, he replied, “Absolutely not. I’ll stand by President Trump till the end".

http://www.tikkun.org/anatomy-of-a-trump-supporter

Trump tries to deflect claims of racism, says Dem congresswomen 'hate our country'

President Trump sought on Monday to deflect criticism that tweets he wrote over the weekend about four Democratic congresswomen of color were racist by asserting that the women “hate our country".

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-deflects-racist-tweets-says-dem-congresswomen-hate-country-180634349.html

GOP largely silent on Trump telling Democrats to 'go back' to their 'broken and crime infested' countries

"It’s been more than 24 hours since President Trump attacked four Democratic congresswomen of color, tweeting that they should “go back” to their “broken and crime infested” countries, even though all but one were born in the United States. And few Republican members of Congress have publicly criticized Trump for tweets widely regarded as racist.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to address Trump's attack, telling reporters he'd "address whatever questions" they have for him at his regularly scheduled press conference on Tuesday".

http://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-largely-silent-on-trump-telling-democrats-to-go-back-to-their-broken-and-crime-infested-countries-162021216.html


Trump Says ‘Many People’ Are Racist Like Him… and He’s Right

"Those are the words of an American president, spoken from the steps of the White House this morning. Even for someone like Donald Trump, a man with a long history of bigotry and racism, the scene was breathtaking. This is who he is, and who his supporters are".

http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-many-people-are-racist-like-him-and-hes-right

Trump says congresswomen he insulted should apologize to him

"President Trump apparently called on four newly elected congresswomen of color to apologize to him after he said they should “go back” to their “broken and crime infested” countries. The comments were widely condemned as racist — and three of the four were born in the U.S.

“When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said,” Trump tweeted Monday. “So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions!"

http://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-congresswomen-he-insulted-should-apologize-to-him-132250027.html

Trump thinks his supporters are the most gullible people on earth. Are they really?

"I’ve got the perfect slogan for President Trump’s reelection campaign: “Promises Made, Promises Not Kept, But I’m Betting My Voters Are Too Stupid to Notice.”

Let’s take stock:

Trump promised to build a wall along the 2,000-mile southern border, with the cost of the “big, beautiful” barrier to be borne by Mexico. Trump made this pledge dozens of times in a call-and-response ritual at his campaign rallies. “Who’s going to pay for the wall?” he would demand, and the cheering crowds would yell the answer: “Mexico!".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-thinks-his-supporters-are-the-most-gullible-people-on-earth-are-they-really/2019/03/07/1e79a4c4-4119-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.285ee012ffd6

President Donald Trump

"Since the campaign that led to his 2016 election, Donald J. Trump has defiantly flipped the presidential script, with chaos and deliberate combativeness a new mark of White House operations, manifest in hostile briefings, high rates of staff turnover, and in cultural exchanges that appear aimed at dividing the nation. The U.S. is even divided about the degree to which Trump is directly or indirectly accountable for changes in civil discourse, with some citing his rhetoric and policies as a spur to hate crimes and others claiming he is being unfairly demonized by the press".

http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/president-donald-trump

This would be so easy to fix if only Trump had the brains of a billy goat. All these men and women coming here trying to get away from certain death. Why not train them to be soldiers? Train them, arm them with the best weapons we have and then send them back to there country to fight for it with a complete backup from the USA. That would cure our problem right there. But instead, Trump's racist approach.

Trump moves to effectively end asylum at the southern border

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Reversing decades of U.S. policy, the Trump administration said Monday it will end all asylum protections for most migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border — the president's most forceful attempt to block asylum claims and slash the number of people seeking refuge in America".

http://www.apnews.com/6bef9ed6c48b4c2ea203cbbea3ccacad

Our national media has, once again, misquoted President Trump with regards to the congressional gang of four. I've copied and pasted the Presidents statement word for word. Notice the misquoted second paragraph that I've underlined. The national news outlets that I've heard never quote the second sentence. This is deceptive journalism.

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So interesting to see "Progressive Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they evem have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth how our government is to be run.

Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly,

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The term racism is being used to polarize our nation on purpose. When bandied about for political reasons the term looses it's sting when real racism takes place. What is so hypocritical is the gang of four are so anti-Semitic themselves.

My guess is they won't last the 2020 election.

Such hypocrites.