I’d say it’s less cultural and more political - he didn’t understand, fully, the stark difference public and private power. He misjudge what 45 could and couldn’t do, and how much push back he’d get, once he was ensconced in, and attempting to destroy, a bureaucracy loyal to the state and not Donny Two-scoops.

Yep - he never realized just how incompetent Trump was. This is his first step in backing away slowly..before launching his Molotov into the mix.

But..but...the definition of “Equality” in the dictionary! This is so like you SJWs! After all, one woman-only showing of a movie is obviously on par with thousands of years of gender based discrimination and exclusion - not only is it exactly like it, but it disproves it too! Just like that black man who called me a…

She’s like any of the Twitter story peddlers - she’s right sometimes, but wrong a lot of times. Nature of the beast.

I was going to say: Lawyers.

Ted Lieu*. He’s been all over Kushner the last few days.

Well, if the FBI loses their chance to break the GOP/Russia connection, it wouldn’t have stopped in 2018. Or 2020. Or 2022...and we still have no ‘guarantee’ HRC wins anyway.

Absolutely, true: No one thought the checks and balances were so vulnerable.

I imagine he viewed the election as the battle and the foundation of the republic as the war.

Try this (seriously, that is one mis-leading headline CNN):

Not if you want the next person up the ladder and to gather evidence on the people those foreign agents were working with (Spoiler: It’s Russia and Team Trump, respectively)

Try this (seriously, that is one mis-leading headline CNN):

I volunteer for a non-profit and one of the employees is from some small ass town in MT and went to Montana (and who has Grizzly branded everything on her desk).

One word: Guns. He made the only promise they care about - no federal laws ‘restricting’ the right to bear arms. That’s all they need to be “done right by”. They probably didn’t even listen, much less care about, the other stuff.

So...he knowingly lied on his SF86, which, btw is a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison (and you know, LE was told to give the maximum sentence where possible...).

@Bencjacobs of the Guardian is reporting that Gianforte, the Republican candidate “bodyslammed” him and Jacobs has been taken to the hospital...

Obama, always Obama.

Huh. *reads again* No mention of crafting a bill that helps America and Americans. Just one that gets 50 votes. It’s like they aren’t even trying any more.

My congressional rep Ted Lieu (re)tweeted this:

He looked terrible 24 years ago. Fortunately it was the early 90's so no one noticed.