Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[Broken_Erika]

Lemme guess, the only way to prevent violent Shootings is to remove all restrictions on gun ownership and introduce stand your ground laws?

[Kidlicious]

Former President Barack Obama reacted Tuesday to the news that Mayor Rahm Emanuel decided not to run for re-election for a third term.

“Chicago is better and stronger for his leadership,” Obama wrote in a statement emailed to reporters, praising Rahm Emanuel’s service as his first White House Chief of Staff, as a congressman, and as the Mayor of Chicago.

“I’ve decided not to seek re-election,” Emanuel said on Tuesday. “This has been the job of a lifetime, but it is not a job for a lifetime.”

The former president recalled Emanuel’s “wise counsel” at a “particularly perilous time” for the United States.

Obama praised Emanuel for improving job growth and employment numbers as well as his efforts to improve the schools in Chicago by implementing universal pre-Kindergarten and debt-free community college.

“I’ve been blessed to call Rahm my friend. Whatever he chooses to do next, I know he’ll continue to make a positive difference, just as he has throughout his career in public service,” Obama said. “And Michelle and I wish Rahm and Amy all the best as they consider this next phase in their lives.”

The president did not address Emanuel’s questionable record on preventing violent shootings in the City of Chicago.

[Aeson]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...crisis/569443/

David Frum (and it really galls me to cite someone this conservative) points out that this will probably push the paranoid POTUS to a new level of crazy.

[Kidlicious]

The NYT.

[Uncle Sparky]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/this-is-a-constitutional-crisis/569443/

David Frum (and it really galls me to cite someone this conservative) points out that this will probably push the paranoid POTUS to a new level of crazy.

[Lorizael]

So basically the argument is he's unfit and instead of following the prescription of the constitution they're gonna perform a silent coup because "Hey look, lower taxes and we can hate on minorities again!"?

25th requires VP and a majority of the cabinet. If the "resistance" doesn't have that, they have no constitutional remedy.

[Uncle Sparky]

The GOP successfully covered Trump's disgusting alien genitals...

[Broken_Erika]

Must be Hillary using an electrical tower/mind control ray channeled through Obama's Network of Spy-Microwaves!

[-Jrabbit]

My guess is Kelly.

[Kidlicious]

The government is using cyborg cats to spy on you. They've already admitted it. It's all documented.

[JohnT]

So basically the argument is he's unfit and instead of following the prescription of the constitution they're gonna perform a silent coup because "Hey look, lower taxes and we can hate on minorities again!"?

[JohnT]

[pchang]

Melania has spent all her brain power memorizing all the credit card numbers. Not much left to consider actual policy.

[JohnT]

Naw, it's not the Communist. The writer knows too much of Republican positions to be the Communist.

[Giancarlo]

Think closer to home. Think soon to be exwife.