Glorious Leader just tweeted out a screencap of fawning Drudge Report headlines, including one that refers to him as “Teflon Donald.”

That one, of course, is a take on the media nickname bestowed upon notorious mafia kingpin John Gotti, who had managed to escape imprisonment despite multiple trials.

CNN political commentator and former Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) press secretary Symone Sanders said today he probably shouldn’t be doing his own State of the Union response after Stacey Abrams.

Abrams is giving the official Democratic response. Sanders will be giving his own response to the president’s address online following her rebuttal.

Jake Tapper noted on today’s The Lead that some Democrats aren’t happy about this. Symone Sanders said that it’s probably not the best move for him:

“If Senator Sanders is somebody that’s thinking about throwing his name… in the ring for president, and he knows he has an issue with people saying that they don’t think he supports and uplifts the voices of black women, of people of color, do not step on Stacey Abrams. Do not give more fodder to the people that are already going to be critical of you in the first place.”

Jacob Rees-Mogg has a message for the Common People

During the discussion, the author of Winner Takes All, Anand Giridharadas, sent in a question to Schultz asking if he agreed that 'billionaires had too much power in American public life?'

The 65-year-old billionaire from Brooklyn didn't quite agree with this sentiment and instead said that he'd prefer billionaires to be called something different.

The moniker 'billionaire' now has become the catchphrase. I would rephrase that and say that 'people of means' have been able to leverage their wealth and their interest in ways that are unfair, and I think that speaks to the inequality but it also speaks to the special interests that are paid for 'people of wealth' and corporations who are looking for influence.

Polling data from The Morning Consult show’s Northam’s net approval has dropped by about 41 points since the emergence of the KKK and blackface photo in his yearbook profile. The Virginia governor’s disapproval rating currently stands at 48 percent, reflecting an 18 percent bump in disapproval from Democrats, and a 25 percent jump among independent voters.

It was some time ago. Neeson had just come back from overseas to find out about the rape. “She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way,” Neeson says. “But my immediate reaction was…” There’s a pause. “I asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.

“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could,” another pause, “kill him.”
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All three of us know – Neeson, Bateman and I – that this is a distressing admission. “I come from a society – I grew up in Northern Ireland in the Troubles – and, you know, I knew a couple of guys that died on hunger strike, and I had acquaintances who were very caught up in the Troubles, and I understand that need for revenge, but it just leads to more revenge, to more killing and more killing, and Northern Ireland’s proof of that. All this stuff that’s happening in the world, the violence, is proof of that, you know. But that primal need, I understand.”