News you DID need

[pdrake]

it was a photo op.

http://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/26/15442140/north-korea-white-house-senate-briefing

[mo]

  x 10

[random axe]

All bluster and no luster.

[pdrake]

CNN's report on it. auto play video

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/27/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-senators-meeting/

[random axe]

Yes, "Libertarians", and why people don't take them seriously:

Libertarian candidate for US Senate proposes giving homeless people shotguns

“Frankly I think the ideal weapon would be a pistol,” he told the Guardian, “but due to the licensing requirements in the state we’re going to have a hard enough time getting homeless people shotguns as it is."

Ellison, a former soldier who has served in Iraq, said he decided to run for office “just to try and make a difference”.

The homeless people would not be forced to carry pump-action shotguns, Ellison said.

“The first thing that we’re gonna do is ask them if they think this is something that would benefit them. We’re certainly not trying to force anything on anybody.”

Ammunition would be provided with the shotguns, probably in five- or six-shell magazines, Ellison said.

More shells would be provided if the owners legitimately used their guns to defend themselves, however, if people spent their ammunition “shooting cans in somebody’s private property” then they would not be given more shells.

Ellison said he did not think the plan was dangerous.

Here in Michigan, I might add.

It's possible (per the article) that he's trying a little incoherently to make a satirical point about the police being excessively armed, but . . . if so, he's not doing a good job.  I've seen three articles about him, and he just sounds like a loon.

[random axe]

Mueller's going after Erik Prince.

Ostensibly this is part of going after Trump, and, I mean, sure, yes.  Traitors of a feather wet each others' nests.  But if Mueller could take down that tin Wackenhut once and for all, that would be spectacular.

If any other of the DeVos parasites could go down in the same fire, it'd be a hell of a good day for the US and for the human species in general.

[mo]

My pessimism meter is pegged. I can't get excited about anything in government. I suppose there are some signs worthy of optimism, but I feel like anything positive that may happen will just be washed away like an act of Obama.

 

[random axe]

For all their many faults, the Dems try to play by the rules, quietly and politely, and the GOP tries anything they can get away with.  It's an idiot's game, and the Dems play it so very badly.

[flipper]

Make Authoritarians Guillotineable Again!

Please let history repeat itself

[random axe]

It'd just be nice to see the Dems say, "Oh, you're going to go so against American principles that you're going to steal a Supreme Court seat?  Well, we're going to obstruct every single process until you do your jobs right, and we're going to savage you in the press every single day."

[flipper]

I'm at the point of wanting the bloodlust