JoanofArgh
JoanofArgh's Journal" we expected to have a media narrative last night, and we don't."
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1224681938809651201?s=21With the benefit of a nights sleep... a lot of the handwringing about the Iowa results feels overwrought. In 2016 it took a month for California to count up its primary ballots. A month!
The bigger issue is that we expected to have a media narrative last night, and we dont.
"I've seen two coin tosses and now we have name-pulling out of a hat"
https://twitter.com/politicalmiller/status/1224531778490314752?s=21@marksalter65 FYI 3 way tie at the end btwn Biden, Bernie and Warren. Picked a name out of a hat. Biden won.
At Drake University in Des Moines, first alignment:
https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1224514278788562949Uncommitted: not viable
Tulsi: not viable
Yang: not viable
Biden: 131
Warren: 212
Klobuchar: 140
Sanders: 129
Buttigieg: 172
Common Cause has filed a formal complaint against Our Revolution with the FEC.
Common Cause has filed a formal complaint against Our Revolution with the FEC. It is not easy for a Democratic candidate to get on the wrong side of Common Cause: Our view
THE EDITORIAL BOARD | USA TODAY | 13 hours ago
This year brings a new chapter in the story. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has created, and is the beneficiary of, a new kind of dark money group called Our Revolution.
What makes Our Revolution different is that it is designed to advance Sanders cause against other Democrats in the primaries, rather than against a Republican in a general election. Its one thing to say you have to play the dark money game because the other side surely will. It is quite another to be first off the mark in bringing its corrosive powers into a new area.
Sanders has long been a big critic of money in politics, often criticizing political action committees and the candidates who benefit from them. To then go out and found a group like Our Revolution is hypocritical.
Our Revolution claims to voluntarily report all donors who give more than $250. But it doesn't file documents with any agency, provide identifying information about individuals or specify how much they gave.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/02/02/bernie-sanders-campaign-dark-money-our-revolution-editorials-debates/4556051002/
A big weakness for Sanders
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1224001063054970881
A big weakness for Sanders is that hes only polling at 9% among 2016 Clinton primary voters, who make up about half of Democrats
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1224000564738056193
The Economists polling with YouGov finds that on the eve of the Iowa Caucus, Sanders is only winning 41% of the voters who cast ballots for him in the 2016 primary nationally
This says it all really
Trump's Middle East peace plan expected to offer Palestinians conditional statehood
President Trump said he will release details of his Middle East peace plan Tuesday, and the long-awaited package is expected to propose a dramatic remapping of the West Bank while offering Palestinians a pathway to statehood if they meet a set of tests.No Palestinians attended the White House preview of what is described as a highly detailed proposal for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that dates from Israels founding in 1948.
The package is expected to propose a redrawn border between Israel and the West Bank that would incorporate large Jewish settlements into Israel proper, while continuing some forms of Israeli security control over the territory Israel seized in 1967 and has occupied since, according to two people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the proposal has not been released.
It is expected to offer limited autonomy to Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that would increase over about a three-year timeline if Palestinian leadership undertook new political measures, renounced violence and took other steps in negotiation with Israel, the people familiar with the plan said.
The 50-page plan developed by Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to include proposals addressing each of the major issues that have scuttled past peace efforts, including competing land claims and the administration of holy sites in Jerusalem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-mideast-peace-plan-expected-to-offer-palestinians-conditional-statehood/2020/01/27/ccaa8696-4120-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html
I think this will fail. And why not include Palestinians in negotiations?
Radio Interview with Noel Casler, ex-Apprentice staffer , on Trump's drug use. Everybody knew
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/ex-apprentice-staffer-noel-casler?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=25433Adderall is Trump's maintenance high. For special occasions, like at the after parties, drug dealers would show up with harder stuff.
When you get time, listen to the interview. It's horrifying.
Iranian Americans are being illegally detained at our borders
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1213914708782309379BREAKING: US CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION NATIONALLY HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO DETAIN & "REPORT" ALL IRANIANS ENTERING THE COUNTRY DEEMED POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS OR "ADVERSARIAL" REGARDLESS OF CITIZENSHIP STATUS. 60+ Iranis held last night at the US/Canada border for 11+ hrs / thread
The Non Detention Act (passed in the aftermath of Japanese internment) prohibits the detention of U.S. citizens without congressional authorization
https://www.cair.com/breaking_cair_wa_assisting_iranian_americans_detained_u_s_border
https://twitter.com/KatieNicholson/status/1213896186354184195
Council on American-Islamic Relations release cites a CBP source that (DHS) "issued a national order to CBP to report and detain anyone with Iranian heritage entering the country who is deemed potentially suspicious or adversarial, regardless of citizenship status."
Department of Homeland Security says it is working on a response to allegations made in CAIR release.
CBP spokesperson has issued the following statement: "Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian-Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false. Reports that DHS/CBP has issued a related directive are also false."
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