Update: Nancy Pelosi does have one supporter who believes she should stay...
I certainly hope the Democrats do not force Nancy P out. That would be very bad for the Republican Party - and please let Cryin' Chuck stay!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017
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Authored by Kristin Tate, op-ed via TheHill.com,
One of the pillars of democracy erodes before our eyes. The ability to disagree with the politically different disintegrates under red and black flags, and hooded rioters obscuring their faces. It’s not Donald Trump’s secret police. It’s not something out of a dystopian novel. It’s the very real culture of permissive violence exploding from today’s left. Bit by bit, this sort of behavior becomes quickly normalized (in the parlance du jour) and escalated.
On Friday evening, in previewing Trump's upcoming "war room" effort in response to the escalating media reports about Russia, the WSJ reported that one of the contemplated changes was a drastic cut to Trump's Twitter privileges, with lawyers allegedly tasked to comb through and preapprove the president's social media outbursts, to wit:
Authored by Matt Taibbi via RollingStone.com,
Democrat Rob Quist was beat by Greg Gianforte in Thursday's special election in Montana
The story of Greg Gianforte, a fiend who just wiped out a Democrat in a congressional race about ten minutes after being charged with assaulting a reporter, is déjà vu all over again.
As the country and world at whole are largely focused on the current circus that many believe is the 2016 Presidential race, a lesser known race is turning out to be just as – if not more than – interesting…and creepy. When you throw in Nazis, Canada’s border patrol, a bottle filled with urine, and Aleister Crowley – you are in for quite an interesting congressional race that seems almost unbelievable.