On today’s BradCast: Despite the New England Patriots’ amazing, come-from-behind overtime victory at the Superbowl, it was yet another very rough weekend for Donald Trump. [Audio link to show follows below.]
More startling insider reports continued to pour out from the leakiest White House ever over the weekend, as a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush temporarily blocked Trump’s entire Muslim immigration and refugee ban on Friday, and then refused to reinstate it late on Saturday, despite an emergency motion by the Administration.
Moreover, more than 100 major corporations told the court they opposed the ban on Sunday, and a bunch of very senior former security and intelligence officials and cabinet secretaries (mostly Dems, but also a number of Republicans) filed a brief with the court on Monday explaining why Trump’s order makes the U.S. less, not more, safe.
All of that took place before John Yoo, the GOP lawyer who penned the infamous “torture memos”, arguing in favor of brutal and sweeping executive powers on behalf of the Bush Administration, announced in an op-ed today that even he thinks Trump has gone too far. As if all of that wasn’t bad enough for Trump, even conservative members of parliament from one of our oldest and best allies are now announcing they want nothing to do with him, following what they describe as his racism and disrespect for the judiciary after his weekend Tweets blasting the federal judge who stayed his travel ban.
But one thing didn’t suck for Trump this weekend, the “gobsmacking” victory by his friend Tom Brady and the Patriots over the Atlanta Falcons, who managed to lose despite a 25-point margin. The Falcons’ stunning loss — grasped from the jaws of what seemed like certain victory — had a disturbingly familiar ring for many Democrats watching the game. But Lindsay Gibbs, sports writer at Think Progress, joins us for some much-needed perspective for progressives on the politics surrounding and, at times, overtaking Sunday’s big game.
“With Trump, everything is political these days. There’s no escaping our reality right now,” argues Gibbs. “These days, even saying stuff like ‘America is Beautiful’ is seen as a politically charged statement.” But, she notes, citing many of the surprisingly progressive and not-sexist-as-usual ads aired during the game (including the stunning spot from 84 Lumber, which Fox would not allow to run in full), “the fact that all these ads were touting these progressive values, or were openly mocking Trump, does say that right now companies think inclusiveness sells.”
Finally today, another disturbing update from the still-insanely-warm-and-getting-warmer Arctic.
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Oral arguments in State of Washington v. Trump can be watched live here.
Also, the title of the case seems rather fitting. A state named after a man who led the fight for independence from a British monarchy is pitted against a “president” who thinks his office makes him a tyrannical king with unlimited power. #NichtMeinFuhrer
I was an optician for a quarter of a century. Trump has hyperopia; an inability to see near objects. He is too vain to wear eyeglasses which would enable him to read.
He is signing Steve Bannon’s directives with abandon.
Thank God this idiot can’t read the nuclear codes!
An excellent point, also made by the Governor of Virginia in response to the ban. He reminded the gentleman from New York that the Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces defeated those of King George III in the climatic battle at Yorktown. And now we are putting the imitation king on notice that we took an oath to uphold the Constitution–and not to him, which is one of those small differences between a monarchy and a republic.
as demomrats circle the toilet
Here’s ur open border.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/11/08/sheriff-ms-13-gang-brings-machetes-rape-scalping-texas/
ps your bamn and other commies are not ready for a real fight.