We Are All Deplorables Now: Trump is president because he gets it.

 

This was a neo-Bolshevik show trial where the defendant was presumed guilty and due process meant digging up dirt from his school days to smear and break him.

Four days after he described Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as a “very credible witness,” President Donald Trump could no longer contain his feelings or constrain his instincts.

With the fate of his Supreme Court nominee in the balance, Trump let his “Make America Great Again” rally attendees in Mississippi know what he really thought of Ford’s testimony.

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General Westmoreland Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show

Via David

In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon B. Johnson, according to recently declassified documents cited in a new history of wartime presidential decisions.

The documents reveal a long-secret set of preparations by the commander, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, to have nuclear weapons at hand should American forces find themselves on the brink of defeat at Khe Sanh, one of the fiercest battles of the war.

With the approval of the American commander in the Pacific, General Westmoreland had put together a secret operation, code-named Fracture Jaw, that included moving nuclear weapons into South Vietnam so that they could be used on short notice against North Vietnamese troops.

More @ The New York Times

MDPS releases statement regarding Forest Hill band performance at Brookhaven High School, calls it “highly inappropriate”

Via Bryan

Pictures of the Forest Hill High School halftime band performance during their game against Brookhaven High School are going viral on social media.

Many are saying the performance depicted students dressed as doctors and nurses holding SWAT team members at gunpoint.

Two Brookhaven police officers were killed in the line of duty responding to a shots fired call last week.

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From 1865 to 2018 Part 3

Via Al

 

 It should come as no surprise that Edwin M. Stanton sought to manipulate the civilian court trial of John Surratt Jr. I suppose he felt that being Secretary of War gave him certain “prerogatives” not usually available to mere mortals.

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Tet '68

Via Quan Nguyen Thanh

 

South Vietnamese soldiers stand near bodies of a South Vietnamese commander of a training camp and command center and members of his family after the camp was retaken from the Viet Cong. The commander, a colonel, was decapitated and his wife and six children were machine gunned.

  

February 6, 1968. Mourners line the grave site of South Vietnamese Col. Nguyen Tuan, his wife and five children in Saigon. Tuan was beheaded by the Viet Cong when he refused to support them in their attack on Saigon. His wife and children were killed in a bomb shelter that was fired and grenaded.

Beer drinking fish!?

Via Dale

Cook Political Report shifts three Senate races toward Republicans

The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, shifted three Senate races in favor of Republicans as well as one Senate race toward Democrats less than five weeks out from the midterm elections.

Cook moved Senate races in Montana, Nebraska and New Jersey all in favor of Republicans. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) faces one of the most competitive race this cycle, which was shifted from "lean Democratic" to "toss-up." Tester is running against state auditor Matt Rosendale (R) in a state where President Trump won by double-digits in 2016.

More @ The Hill

US Capitol Police CLEAR ENTIRE FLOOR from Dirksen Senate Building After Speech by Senator Collins

Via Billy

51-49 Split Holds, But Steve Daines Should Keep The Plane Ready

Maine senator Susan Collins announced on the Senate floor Friday that she plans to vote YES on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation, which is likely to be held Saturday evening.

Collins talked about how she was forced to watch “special interest groups whip their followers into a frenzy by spreading misrepresentations and outright falsehoods” about Kavanaugh.

More @ Big League Politics

Trump's tax returns found

Via Stephanie Pippin Sauls