Ed Gillespie went from potential vindicator of Trumpism to cuckservative in the space of a couple of hours. https://apple.news/AvfNtzLAzQcm6mjMxvooopQ As of last week, Gillespie looked to be gaining on Ralph Northam fast (I thought he had a good chance to win). Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, the self-declared keeper of the Trumpist flame, believed Gillespie had cracked the code by fashioning a “Trumpism without Trump.” He managed, per Bannon, to close the enthusiasm gap “by rallying around the Trump agenda,” and Democrats needed to be “very, very worried.” At least that was the party line until the race was called soon after the polls closed at 7 p.m. Then, Gillespie became an establishment tool who had betrayed Trumpism and the president. A Bannon spokesman blasted Gillespie for allegedly having no message and being inauthentic, which is quite the charge coming from people who will change what they are saying on a dime, depending on the imperatives of the political spin of the hour
But here’s the main reason it stuck with me. Colwin is not some small-time lawyer with her own shingle. She’s a boss at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, one of the country’s largest law firms, where she serves as the New York office’s managing partner. According to the National Law Journal, Gordon & Rees has 667 U.S. lawyers across dozens of offices, making it the 59th biggest firm in the U.S. by domestic headcount. And yet, Colwin still felt it was appropriate to go on TV and suggest that greedy women regularly fabricate stories about harassment, while actual victims are practically unicorns. Maybe she really believes this; maybe she’s just repeating a line her clients like to hear, and that she prefers jurors to believe. But either way, she was sending a chilling message on national TV, a message that keeps women who are abused and harassed from coming forward in the professional world—and especially in notoriously abusive industries like corporate law.
“Under the Republican plan, corporations are still allowed to deduct state and local taxes,” California Rep. Mark Takano, a Democrat, said in a Facebook post on Monday. “Workers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct business expenses. Teachers are not.” https://apple.news/AiUHMWkOJQ36au1JjIDyFnQ
'These Are Not The Actions of an Innocent Man' - The Atlantic https://apple.news/AfirzJuy2TA2vcO0DxKwYLA “Beyond a reasonable doubt” is the standard for criminal justice. It’s not the standard for counter-intelligence determinations. The preponderance of the evidence ever-more clearly indicates: In ways we cannot yet fully reckon—but can no longer safely deny—the man in the Oval Office has a guilty connection to the Russian government. That connection would bar him from literally any other job in national security except that of head of the executive branch and commander- in-chief of the armed forces of the United States
