@kenklippenstein  I mean, I'm not sure what the other options are, it kinda is what it is, but it's all been "what if there was a way to have Manchin and Sinema *not* have their stated views " and no one has found the answer yet because it's possible there isn't one. The point of the McCain example

@kenklippenstein  Sure. It's probably worth calling them out, see if that works. But for this entire year there's been this effort to find some leverage over two people that no one really has leverage over. The entire legislative strategy has been to assume a can opener.

is that it was a very similar situation!

Anyway the sheer toxic stupidity of this entire “theory” was so embarrassing even the Fox talent reportedly rebelled behind the scenes when Detective Carlson turned it into a special multi-part series.

I kept thinking this true and reporting it out and finding…no

The Mosby indictment looks bad for the accused, but also makes me wonder what a US Attorney would have done with a Baltimore City Council member who was recorded on the phone trying to intimidate an election official to cough up enough votes for reelection.

I think we know!

@ron_cassie  @JoyAnnReidTo  be clear; I’m not really whatabouting. I think it seems like a strong case (also the strength of the feds case here is not really related to her record as prosecutor, which there are obviously tons of critics of)

@ron_cassie  @JoyAnnReidMy  point is that politicians *do* sometimes get indicted for crimes like lying on official statements to banks and/or insurance companies and there’s seems a *pretty* damn strong case for that in Trump’s case.