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Bad To Worse For Trump: Michael Cohen Reportedly Cooperating With Robert Mueller | Deadline | MSNBC
"An open floodgate" [6 minutes]
MSNBC relays reports from ABC News and the Wall Street Journal that Michael Cohen has spent hours talking with Robert Mueller about Russia and the Donald Trump operation.
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CNBC - Trump's attack on Kavanaugh's accuser creates a nightmare scenario for the GOP
The president shifts into full-blown attack mode against a woman who alleges that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school.
But the prospect of Trump on the warpath against Christine Blasey Ford creates a nightmare scenario for Republicans in Congress.
Republicans "had a strategy, which was to keep [Trump] under wraps," says a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. They "don't have a strategy" anymore.
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SBS News - Accuser of Trump court pick Kavanaugh agrees to testify to Senate committee
The woman whose sexual assault allegation threatens to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee has agreed to testify in the Senate, her lawyers said Saturday.
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CNN - Donald Trump's global insignificance is about to be exposed
Trump is a master of New York-style showmanship. The United Nations General Assembly, therefore, should be his finest hour: hosting world leaders in his town.
Instead, he is likely to be relegated to an irrelevant sideshow.
When the UN General Assembly kicks off on Tuesday, the depths of America's descent will be on full display.
Despite currently holding the presidency of the Security Council, the US will struggle to influence the course of events. ...
Weary from his past attacks and antics, other world leaders would just as soon avoid crossing paths with President Trump.
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I don't think there is ever a bad time to talk about how absurd war is, how old men make decisions and young people die. - George Clooney
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kingdragonfly:
"What Is Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising?"
"DTCPA can be defined as an effort (usually via popular media) made by a pharmaceutical company to promote its prescription products directly to patients.
The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow DTCPA that includes product claims."
This is true.
There is a LOT of money in selling overpriced and often unnecessary drugs directly to consumers.
Fortunately NZ gets fewer drug ads than the US, with less extravagant claims of benefits.
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The Guardian - Land of the free? How Trump has put America’s identity in peril
Extracts from a long article - a highly recommended read ...
Some 20 months into his term Trump has been pretty much the president we expected: loud, boastful, bullying, reckless, ruder than the worst-bred minor royalty, tetchy as a wolverine in heat. The main thing to note is the very most main thing: he’s still going. ...
Is there anything left to say that would stop it? Think of the hundreds of millions of words that have been thrown at him the last three years, every kind of rhetorical tool and tack has been brought to bear, and still he powers on. Fact-based argument, rational analysis, empirical proofs haven’t stopped him, nor have stark demonstrations of his laughably obvious lies. Appeals to Christian morality as expressed in the Beatitudes haven’t worked. The dry language of the law has been just as useless, the sworn testimony, the jury verdicts, the admissions of guilt from disgraced former advisers and operatives. Satire, derision, insult, scorn, all these bounce off his bones of steel like so many ping-pong balls.
It’s not even that he’s Teflon to all this; he thrives on it. Trump is a new breed of political Superman who eats kryptonite for breakfast; his enemies pile it on and he just gets stronger. ...
We, America, elected Trump. Putin didn’t do it, nor the trolls in St Petersburg with their zillions of busy bots. They may well have plucked certain strings in the national psyche – played us like a dimestore ukulele – but we were keen to be plucked.
But give Trump this: he offered one fierce, consistent truth over the course of his campaign. The system is rigged! And God knows Hillary Clinton was probably the least likely Democrat in the land to fix it, but then and now many millions of Americans seem perfectly willing to consign their fates to the billionaires and centi-millionaires who spent the past several decades rigging the system, which included corralling us into wage peonage in the name of the almighty free market.
We didn’t have to be corralled. Rare is the army or police force strong enough to force that. For it to happen we had to revert to the psychology of the serf who’s too brainwashed or lazy to conjure something better. ...
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