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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
xp1337 08/28/18 1:26:06 AM #65:	Some news roundup for the day on some stories of interest I saw that I don't think have come up here (brace for NEWS): ~~~ https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1034205856001392640 https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1034208232128966659 Federal Court rules that NC's Congressional map is unconstitutional and throws it out. It's possible the court will order that the 2018 midterms be held under new map. If so, Silver thinks it's probably about +2 to Dems in the House but cautions that the margin for error is high since it's such a late development. Speaking of that, that itself is full of irony because the NC GOP cancelled primaries in some elections thinking it would help them in 2018 so the court in its ruling was like, "Yeah, this is a late development but this is consistent with the General Assembly's actions. They didn't think primaries were necessary." Not a done deal at all, among other things, an emergency stay will certainly be requested, but SCOTUS could split 4-4 on issuing one and so... not grant it. Etc. ~~~ https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1034186365792079872 Looks like there will be a Ronan Farrow story breaking soon that Stone told Trump in October 2016 that Wikileaks had and would dump Podesta's E-Mails. Stone himself admitted such a story is coming to it so it sounds like it's at the "reached out for comment stage." To make things even more interesting, Farrow himself then retweeted an earlier tweet from himself that essentially states, "I don't comment on stuff I'm doing before its released so if you see someone who has an angle to spin an upcoming story you're probably not getting the full or complete story" so uhhh... sounds like there may be a lot more to this given that's what we got from Stone himself. ~~~ Article (WSJ Paywall strikes me again): https://www.wsj.com/articles/manafort-sought-deal-in-next-trial-but-talks-broke-down-1535404819 Tweet: https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1034198222707732480 Manafort's defense team went to Mueller looking to make a plea deal for the upcoming DC Case but talks broke down. ~~~ Okay, not really a story per se, but this struck a chord with me because I recall a good number of topics earlier ago in a discussion stating my lack of trust in Greenwald when used as a source and while I didn't go much further into it at the time, this does a good job of illustrating much of why that is. The article in the tweet itself is massive but this tweet says a lot in a lot less: https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1034114663666081792 Simultaneously implies the Russian influence on the election is overblown and then says "Even if it's all true it's 'standard **'." ~~~ Then more standard, unsurprising stuff like Trump still bringing up pardoning Manafort despite his General Counsel going "noooooooooo dude" and floating the idea of bringing in a new lawyer to draft it if he won't. And refusing to comment on McCain and just staying silent on at least four different occasions where he was asked by the press. GOP Senator (Inhofe) saying McCain is "partly to blame" for the WH flag stuff. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:907669247] in Politics C... [t:76941241]...</cite> <quote>Some news roundup for the day on some stories of interest I saw that I don't think have come up here (brace for NEWS): ~~~ https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1034205856001392640 https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1034208232128966659 Federal Court rules that NC's Congressional map is unconstitutional and throws it out. It's possible the court will order that the 2018 midterms be held under new map. If so, Silver thinks it's probably about +2 to Dems in the House but cautions that the margin for error is high since it's such a late development. Speaking of that, that itself is full of irony because the NC GOP cancelled primaries in some elections thinking it would help them in 2018 so the court in its ruling was like, "Yeah, this is a late development but this is consistent with the General Assembly's actions. They didn't think primaries were necessary." Not a done deal at all, among other things, an emergency stay will certainly be requested, but SCOTUS could split 4-4 on issuing one and so... not grant it. Etc. ~~~ https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1034186365792079872 Looks like there will be a Ronan Farrow story breaking soon that Stone told Trump in October 2016 that Wikileaks had and would dump Podesta's E-Mails. Stone himself admitted such a story is coming to it so it sounds like it's at the "reached out for comment stage." To make things even more interesting, Farrow himself then retweeted an earlier tweet from himself that essentially states, "I don't comment on stuff I'm doing before its released so if you see someone who has an angle to spin an upcoming story you're probably not getting the full or complete story" so uhhh... sounds like there may be a lot more to this given that's what we got from Stone himself. ~~~ Article (WSJ Paywall strikes me again): https://www.wsj.com/articles/manafort-sought-deal-in-next-trial-but-talks-broke-down-1535404819 Tweet: https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1034198222707732480 Manafort's defense team went to Mueller looking to make a plea deal for the upcoming DC Case but talks broke down. ~~~ Okay, not really a story per se, but this struck a chord with me because I recall a good number of topics earlier ago in a discussion stating my lack of trust in Greenwald when used as a source and while I didn't go much further into it at the time, this does a good job of illustrating much of why that is. The article in the tweet itself is massive but this tweet says a lot in a lot less: https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1034114663666081792 Simultaneously implies the Russian influence on the election is overblown and then says "Even if it's all true it's 'standard **'." ~~~ Then more standard, unsurprising stuff like Trump still bringing up pardoning Manafort despite his General Counsel going "noooooooooo dude" and floating the idea of bringing in a new lawyer to draft it if he won't. And refusing to comment on McCain and just staying silent on at least four different occasions where he was asked by the press. GOP Senator (Inhofe) saying McCain is "partly to blame" for the WH flag stuff. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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