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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 27, 2020, 05:48:36 PM »
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 23, 2020, 09:06:43 PM »
It becomes a law in ten days, if the POTUS refuses to sign. Congress can appoint agents, so that the holiday adjournment will not prevent Congress from accepting the return. Trump could take it to scotus, I guess, but that hasn't been working too well for him. Especially a scotus that likes the Framers, eh?
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 23, 2020, 09:01:36 PM »
The Framers rejected any power of absolute veto. So the court tends to frown on the use of pocket veto to sneak in such a power. Congress has the right to muster a two-thirds majority and override any veto.
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 23, 2020, 12:35:41 PM »http://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp5qx/trump-is-finally-realizing-that-the-gop-is-abandoning-him
You know it's over when you start calling John Thune a RINO.
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 23, 2020, 12:33:30 PM »
Phoenix’s unshaded tent city is called “The Zone” by its inhabitants. Some of them call it “Trumpville,” an echo of Depression-era shantytowns named “Hoovervilles” after President Herbert Hoover, who was accused of not doing enough to keep people sheltered.
The Zone’s hundreds of residents are packed together - often not wearing masks, with many living just in sleeping bags or on a tarp. Without running water or plumbing, simple pandemic health protocols, like handwashing, are difficult. Although the city has posted portable toilets and washing stations along the perimeter, feces and garbage litter the property. In some spots, the stench is overwhelming....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-homelessness-i-idUSKBN28X19Y
The Zone’s hundreds of residents are packed together - often not wearing masks, with many living just in sleeping bags or on a tarp. Without running water or plumbing, simple pandemic health protocols, like handwashing, are difficult. Although the city has posted portable toilets and washing stations along the perimeter, feces and garbage litter the property. In some spots, the stench is overwhelming....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-homelessness-i-idUSKBN28X19Y
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 23, 2020, 12:32:14 PM »https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/fbi-white-supremacists-plotted-attack-on-us-power-grid/2518441
Another topic on which our "law and order" posters have been silent.
It's only law and order when you're ordering people of color, the homeless, drug users and refugees/immigrants.
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 22, 2020, 03:32:38 PM »
So far as Trump election overthrow rhetoric is concerned, at this stage it may be time to start channeling Malcolm Tucker.
Or maybe Kirk Douglas in 7 Days in May.
Or maybe Kirk Douglas in 7 Days in May.
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Movies / Re: Movies
« on: December 22, 2020, 03:23:15 PM »
Pretty dull. Less than the sum of its well crafted parts IMO.
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 21, 2020, 11:19:41 AM »
Meanwhile, where real relief is needed, judges find loopholes in the CDC eviction ban so that landlords can throw people in the streets....
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/20/947992198/why-the-cdc-eviction-ban-isnt-really-a-ban-i-have-nowhere-to-go
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/20/947992198/why-the-cdc-eviction-ban-isnt-really-a-ban-i-have-nowhere-to-go
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 20, 2020, 07:53:34 PM »
I will say it's odd that "ancestral Democrats" vote Republican, right after the year they turned out for Andy Beshear. And if ES&S somehow stopped the Senate from flipping, that would be some trick, and thanks Trump for stirring up enough doubt and wasting enough of everyone's emotional energy that people might let this go from sheer fatigue.
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 20, 2020, 07:43:18 PM »http://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/
I have to eat my hat now. 2020 voter fraud has been found. It’s illegally given 5 seats to republican candidates in the Senate and moved at least two states from Biden’s to trump’s column making the race seem much closer than it was. ES&S not Dominion was the guilty outfit. Organized crime supporting the party of by and for organized crime.
Hope we can maintain the same standards of evidence that courts had for Trump's claims. Some of the mismatch could relate to (nonfraudulent) Independent voters who didn't like Trump but were willing to vote McConnell back in. Some of the figures in the article just use Dem and GOP numbers, and don't factor in Indies.
The mismatch between registered voters totals and citizen populations is weird. Could be sloppiness rather than hijinks. Worth looking into the rolls.
The Mystery of Alvin Greene 2010
I don't follow. McGrath was a GOP stalking horse plot?
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 17, 2020, 06:45:09 PM »Just a quick note from the planet Earth....vaccines don't alter your DNA.You don’t read all the posts, obviously.
So three people have read the Politico smoking gun story, two have posted it, and exactly zero Trumpistos have offered any comment. Yeah, I might hide from that one, too, if I were a red hat.
So yours and Kid's response to the Trump admin deliberately wanting to infect as many Americans as possible was... what? Somehow I missed where you actually made a cogent and thoughtful case for letting 1.5 million people die on purpose so we could goose the economy.
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 17, 2020, 06:36:16 PM »
For those of you who care about journalism, this article from two years ago is worth reading.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/post-advertising-future-media/578917/
It was advertising that led to the demise of the party press. Ads allowed newspapers to become independent of patronage and to build the modern standards of “objective” journalism. Advertising also led to a neutered, detached style of reporting—the “view from nowhere”—to avoid offending the biggest advertisers, such as department stores. Large ad-supported newspapers grew to become profitable behemoths, but they arguably emphasized milquetoast coverage over more colorful reader engagement.
As the news business shifts back from advertisers to patrons and readers (that is to say, subscribers), journalism might escape that “view from nowhere” purgatory and speak straightforwardly about the world in a way that might have seemed presumptuous in a mid-century newspaper. Journalism could be more political again, but also more engaging again.
That’s already happening.
For example, in just the past few decades, The New York Times’ revenue has shifted from more than 60 percent advertising to more than 60 percent reader payments. As its business model has changed, so has its coverage. “Look at The New York Times in 1960 vs. 2010; the reportage is more interpretive,” observed the late James L. Baughman, the communications theorist and University of Wisconsin professor...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/post-advertising-future-media/578917/
It was advertising that led to the demise of the party press. Ads allowed newspapers to become independent of patronage and to build the modern standards of “objective” journalism. Advertising also led to a neutered, detached style of reporting—the “view from nowhere”—to avoid offending the biggest advertisers, such as department stores. Large ad-supported newspapers grew to become profitable behemoths, but they arguably emphasized milquetoast coverage over more colorful reader engagement.
As the news business shifts back from advertisers to patrons and readers (that is to say, subscribers), journalism might escape that “view from nowhere” purgatory and speak straightforwardly about the world in a way that might have seemed presumptuous in a mid-century newspaper. Journalism could be more political again, but also more engaging again.
That’s already happening.
For example, in just the past few decades, The New York Times’ revenue has shifted from more than 60 percent advertising to more than 60 percent reader payments. As its business model has changed, so has its coverage. “Look at The New York Times in 1960 vs. 2010; the reportage is more interpretive,” observed the late James L. Baughman, the communications theorist and University of Wisconsin professor...
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 15, 2020, 09:02:17 PM »https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-representative-mike-johnson-thinks-that-the-election-isnt-over
This guy actually seems reasonable and smart, which is what makes the interview so surreal to me. He truly believes Trump is all about protecting the Constitution and our election process.
Smart, he seems. Reasonable he does not.
He talks about the need to be intellectually honest, but when he talks about all the lost lawsuits, he mentions that in some they lost on standing... but he fails to address that in the bulk of them, which were tried on merits, there was no evidence of fraud or error or anything and even that in many of them no accusation of fraud was ever made!
This is not about inadequacy of lawyers, but lack of any (meaningful) evidence of fraud.
He talks about the Texas suit, but ignores the point that Steve Bullock made that if this was really about the constitutionality of the process, rather than the loss by Trump, the suit would have included places like Montana and California, where the result is not in doubt, but according to the Texas description the process was.
And he fails to acknowledge that the powers wielded were given to those various bodies by the legislatures and if those legislatures had not wished those bodies to retain that power, they could have taken it back... which they did not.
The PA lawsuits come to mind.
Agree, hence my calling it "surreal."
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 15, 2020, 08:54:11 PM »
Only Larry would see someone encouraging him to cope and get help for his anger issues as a threat.
I've worked as a counselor. What you're doing is neither encouraging nor helping, but rather engaging in a passive-aggressive attack that condescends. And asserts your sense of superiority. The technical term is "being an asshole."