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Trump's "move on, nothing to see here" tweet seems very telling.

 

The Senate can adopt whatever operational rules they want by simple majority vote in the first days of the new session.

They will completely eliminate the filibuster on everything -- nominations, sending legislation to the floor and deciding its fate -- and they will empower the majority leader to suspend debate on any matter at any time and call for immediate voice votes. The decision of the majority leader is final on all voice vote dispositions.

Just watch. The ALEC game plan in state legislatures is the tipoff. They've got the gun in their hands; they're going to use it.

They're not going to allow debate or discussion on any of this stuff.

 

May Day 2017:

 

Interesting and frightening at the same time: Vlad taking the high road.

 

He's setting it up for Trump to reverse the order.

 

The Russians are willing to wait and sacrifice for hundreds of years to try to win history. What's 21 days for this little spat?

 

Which was set up in turn by Obama's order. Thereby making Trump look even more like Putin's lapdog.

Chicago's finest.

 

You're hilarious.

 

Not kicking out the diplomats might also be Putin's way of saying "You're damn right we did it."

 

It's not #FakeNews! We're just bad at out job.

(And, the fact that our stories, based on "limited information" always seem to advance narrative we're interested in advancing, is just a coincidence.)

Amanda Terkel, the Huffington Post senior editor who authored the website's story on the Jewish couple fleeing town, also dismissed the notion that politics were to be blamed for the circulation of misinformation.

Terkel said it was wrong to conflate fake news articles that are wholly fabricated with stories that end up being incorrect because the reporter was operating on limited information.

"There is a difference between reporters misinterpreting a source or needing to correct a story versus what's now happening with fake news," she told Business Insider.

"There will always be corrections, clarifications, and additional reporting needed in stories as new facts come out," Terkel said. "To conflate that with fake news doesn't help the problem of real fake news."

The left's emerging 'fake news' problem

 

"It"

You mean successfully phished John Podesta and the DNC, and released their emails?

That's what you mean, right?

 

I mean "successfully played a role in electing Trump."