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December 8, 2015
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The 5 Backroom Deals To Watch As Congress Rushes To Wrap Up 2015
The Gist: The big, convoluted must-pass budget bill allows for the inclusion of provisions that might be politically difficult or unpopular as standalone measures.
Trump Can’t Say Whether He Would’ve Created Japanese Internment Camps
The Gist: The GOP presidential candidate said he “would have had to be there at the time” to know if he’d have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II.
Fox News Suspends Contributors For Profane On-Air Comments About Obama
The Gist: Fox’s Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash were suspended for calling Obama a “pussy” and saying he “could give a shit” about terrorism, respectively.
From The Reporter’s Notebook
While discussing blocking Syrian refugees from resettling in Nevada, Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore said that she was prepared to “ fly to Paris and shoot ‘em in the head myself.” Fiore has made headlines before for her pro-gun stance and shocking suggestions. TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal notes that she once told female students to carry guns on campus to prevent rape, and has proposed “chemical castration or straight-up castration” of “pimps” in order to stop sex trafficking.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall writes that Donald Trump’s suggestion that we ban all Muslims from entering the US proves that he is conducting a national version of the infamous Milgram experiment: an epic social psychology experiment in which he exploits his status as an authority figure to see how far the public will let him go.
Say What?!
“What–are you kidding me? I’m about to fly to Paris and shoot ‘em in the head myself!”
– Nevada senator Michele Fiore said she was willing to travel to Paris to kill Syrian refugees.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “We are still screwed because Heller remains so expansive and the contours so ill defined. The solution to this problem is far off in an America we can only dream about. It might take 30 to 50 years of demographic change to remove the dominance of the class of people who support an expanded presence of firearms in society. I got rid of my last firearm a month ago because I wasn’t using it and didn’t want to anymore. None of my kids wanted the weapon (including my conservative middle son who was on his college ROTC rifle team). That made me kind of happy. I then offered it to my conservative brother-in-law as a political peace offering. (Well I did require him to take all the other leftovers I had like odds and ends in reloading supplies and cleaning equipment and supplies.) Society is changing little by little and over time I expect gun sanity to win. But I will not be alive to see it unless I really beat the life-expectancy stats.”
Related: Remember when Sen. Charles Grassley asked whether the right to bear arms came straight from God?
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What We’re Reading
A mayoral race in Maine could help define one city’s future amid an influx of Somali refugees. ( The New York Times)
With the show ‘Transparent,’ Jill Soloway is determined to change how we think about gender. (The New Yorker)
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