Month: November 2017
Haberman: Trump Is ‘Unleashed’
“Something is unleashed with him lately. I don’t know what is causing it. I don’t know how to describe it.”
— New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, quoted by Newsweek, on President Trump’s recent behavior.
Alabama Accuser Attacks Moore in Letter
“What you did to me when I was 14-years old should be revolting to every person of good morals. But now you are attacking my honesty and integrity. Where does your immorality end?”
— Leigh Corfmann, in an open letter to Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore (R), published by the Birmingham News.
Big Millennial Majority Wants a Third Political Party
71%
A new NBC News/GenForward poll finds a strong majority of millennials — 71% — say the Republican and Democratic parties do such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed. “Sixty-three percent of millennials disapprove of the way President Trump is handling his job as president. But millennials also hold a variety of political institutions in poor regard, and 65% think the country is on the wrong track overall.”
Report: 800 Million Will Lose Jobs to Automation by 2030
800 million
A new McKinsey study says massive government intervention “will be required to hold societies together against the ravages of labor disruption over the next 13 years. Up to 800 million people—including a third of the work force in the U.S. and Germany—will be made jobless by 2030,” Axios reports.
Democrats Seeking 50,000 Candidates
50,000
“The National Democratic Training Committee, which makes a free online candidate training program, plans to spend $4 million in 2018 in the hopes of getting 50,000 Dems to use their services to run for office,” Axios reports. “The digital approach could help the party attract younger candidates — ultimately helping address the Democrats’ old-people problem.”
Florida Has Paid Out $11 Million to Settle Sex Suits
$11 million
The state of Florida has paid more than $11 million over a 30-year period to settle hundreds of cases that alleged that state workers were sexually harassed by supervisors and co-workers, or were forced to work in a hostile work environment, reports the Associated Press.
Tweet Trips Shutdown Talks
The scent of bipartisanship was, as usual, fleeting,
As the Tweeter-in-Chief could, as usual, not stop tweeting.
So Democrats Nancy and Chuck
Told Trump to take a flying f**k,
And just blew off the White House government shutdown meeting.