Dagny

I bet Hillary does. I bet most of her staff do. I bet that she probably prepared several white papers on her goal for the Energy Department and upgrading decades (scores?) old tech that controls our nuclear weapons. I bet the group never asked about it because they railed about how stupid she was for paying attention to policy issues and not servers.

Remember 8 years ago when everyone was going on about how Obama HAD to work with the Republicans and create a a team of rivals that will work for the greater good. Why hasn't the group brought in Doris Goodwin to comment on the Trump administration? Have they really not mentioned how many Goldman Sachs people Trump has tapped?

Finally a topic I know a little bit about. I thought it was weird that Sherlock went after the contractor who builds the plant first as the culprit. This just teals me that Sherlock (and the writers) have never seen a design-bid-build or design-build project in their life. If there ever is going to be a billion dollar plant, everyone is going to be sniffing at it: first the engineers (planning, designs and making sure the contractors install it correctly), then the contractors, then the 1MG filter manufacturers, the DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation) manufacturers, etc. There is always heavy competition between all of the groups for the projects. Way too much work for a bug that won't be killed by UV or chlorine.

Remember back when, Joe thought that it was splendid that Trump was going to play with the One China Policy? China isn't playing and Taiwan wants to play.

When it was revealed that Diane googled sex, I was a little disappointed becaue it was easy. I wanted it to play more on everyone's fear that she is going to be a mad power-broker when she gets older.

"Why are your neighbors in the story?" "White people look all alike to Jessica" Heh. I like the call back.

Rand Paul was on and talked about how they want to allow people to buy crap insurance that doesn't cover anything. That is what caused lots of people to go into bankruptcy back in the day. No one called him on it.

But didn't they mention on the show that this guy's stock went up 6% overnight? The reason the market is going crazy is that the traders think that all restraints are gone and its time to jack the workers and prices. ETA - Did the group bring up that Bob Dole/firm was paid $140k by the Taiwanese government as a lobbyist? That Bob Dole has been meeting with Trump? The Bank of Trump has been open.

Joe also thinks that messing with Taiwan is a way to poke China to do something about N Korea. Joe doesn't realize that there are many things that China can mess with that will piss the US off.

They group was discussing who was in the running for Time Person of the Year. Mika kept wondering why Beyonce was on the list. The group mostly ignored her. Her deadpan delivery, I think, left most of them wondering if she was serious or not. Kasie Hunt finally supplied that she released an album, "Lemonade"... Yet still Mika asked why she was on the list. Dammit, give us a clue if you think her being on the short list is a joke, you think Beyonce is over rated, WHAT!?!

I tried. Things that stuck: Mika was snitty Joe was overbearing There was no consensus about Trump being a brilliant strategist or going to blow up the world. There was consensus that the world won't trust anything he tweets and is not above letting the SoS hang out to dry.

When Joe & Mika were poo-pooing how misogyny could play into Hillary losing, I liked how Katie then asked Ed Redell how many women have been elected in PA for higher offices (Gov, Senators, etc) - 1 total.

If you are paying 55% in tax, you are raking in most of your money in salary, not investments. At those rates you are also getting paid a gross sum of money. Joe- if people getting paid $10 an hour can make it and live thing their budget, so can you. Side note, when Ross Perot ran for president in 1992, he railed against government spending but had most of his money in government bonds because of the lower taxes. That is how much of in imprint it made on me.

I am starting to catch up on this show. I love how everyone was impressed when Martha said she was struck by lightning three times and it made her stronger, not prison, lightning bitches.

I lasted 5 minutes before Mika was commenting on the rise in Trump's popularity by saying that everyone knows he's a great guy. Out!

She's married to my mayor. ITA. She'll be the token "democrat" on the cabinet. I tried to make it through one hour, but Mika's smugness drove me away. The other thing that almost had me throwing something at the TV was the NYT guy who wanted Trump to have a signature infrastructure project. "Obama didn't have a signature project". He had the (weird acronym project) that was lots of small project. Dude has no memory. The Republicans wouldn't pass any infrastructure other than the first one. They wanted him to fail and tried for 8 years! Our infrastructure needs small. but expensive repairs. Think of it is your standard work clothes that have become threadbare, they need to be mended or replaced. The dude want a fancy fur coat which won't help with your normal work clothes that is in your closet and you still use!

The group brings up Reagan and Nixon. Does no one remember what happened during those administrations? How many resignations and indictments. If everyone knew what a piece of work Rudy was, why didn't they bring it up during the campaign and complain

Oh Tom Cotton, you snivelling blowhard. Yup, keep on believing that Iran was so afraid of Reagan that they gave back the hostages when he took office. "Afraid", not some sort of Russian type hack or behind the scenes deal to get rid of Carter. And the panel just let him do his talking points for 5 minutes straight with no challenges. ETA - did they not mention Gwen Ifill's passing? I didn't catch it.

Aw, Lawson's. Does anyone know if Lawson's is more prevalent in one area of Japan versus 7-11? I'm glad they showed the custard. Its a part of Japan that you really only see in Japan.

After this segment, they had a talking head discuss how blacks in Michigan didn't turn out in numbers and no one bought up what Michael Moore just said.

But it would add more to Joe's repertoire. "Back when I was in the WH..."

Heh. Back in 2012, when I realized that Obama was going to win, I immediately turned to Fox. They did not disappoint. Wednesday is going to be so much fun.

Of course Joe had to go on and explain that he didn't hear the dog whistle and neither did 100 of his closest friends. Ana Marie Cox pretty much jumped in and asked if they were all white. Joe then went on a 5 minute bender about how pro Israel he was and defended his hearing. I don't think that AMC is going to be asked to be on the show for a while. Heh.

I FF through that part. Gah, he sounds like he is talking with a mouth full of marbles.

I guess that Dr Z is the only one with a pair that Joe is too afraid to shout down. I would have thrown my coffee at Joe if he kept screaming "Let me talk!" after bogarting the conversation.