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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[LarryBnDC]

Good stuff.  It's unfortunate that Amash is contemplating leaving the GOP to become a Libertarian.....GOP could certainly benefit from a non-sheep member.   



Regarding McGahn...

Imagine if Obama or Clinton had mused about witness tampering.  You're spot on re the national numbness to painful levels of perfidy.

Cohen testified to Congress that Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for our "President" acting in his interests, instructed him to lie in his testimony about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations.  That is one step removed from the President directly tampering with witness testimony, on an issue that is central to their investigation of Russian interference in our elections.

And the news covered it for what, a day?  Half of one?  And what has Congress's response been to that testimony?

Almost every single day there are new revelations that would be bombshells in any other administration.  We've become numb to it.  Our Democracy is dying by a thousand cuts (more like gashes) and its becoming increasingly clear that the Democrats elected to protect it aren't up to the task.

GOP covered Trump’s ass for two years but because he ain’t out the door in five months of Democratic control of one half of one branch the Dems ain’t up to the job?

Trump and Co. are under attack on multiple fronts:

House committee investigations, NYAG, SDNY and NYS legislature etc.

Trump and the GOP are toast, it’s a matter of WHEN and not IF.

It’s up to the citizens to keep the GOP from burning down the crib in the meantime.

[oilcan]

Humorist and National Lampoon alum PJ O'Rourke takes on the billionaire teeshirt....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-make-rich-people-uncomfortable-again/2019/05/20/8f7856b2-71a6-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?utm_term=.1c45e7fdbbfe

There was a time when wealth was distributed far less equitably, but we weren’t as resentful of the rich. We resented our poverty, but we were relieved that we didn’t have to put on striped pants and spats to have breakfast.

Being rich looked very uncomfortable. Rich people’s clothes were stiff and starchy, and they wore lots of them. Rich men were choked by tall collars and pinched by high-button shoes. Rich women were corseted to the point of kidney failure, constrained in so much crinoline and brocade that they might as well have been wearing off-the-shoulder burqas, and encumbered by bustles large enough that they couldn’t turn sideways without knocking over a footman and the parlor maid.

Now we have Jeff Bezos in a New Kids on the Block bomber jacket, Bill Gates outfitted in Mister Rogers’s sweaters and Gloria Steinem’s old aviators and cutting his own hair, Elon Musk smoking pot on a live Internet show, and Richard Branson looking like the guy at the end of the bar muttering lines from “The Big Lebowski.” That’s not counting the various plutocrats caught in Us and Star magazines wearing nothing much at all....

Wish I shared Larry's conviction that Trump & Co. are toast.  DT is horribly good at running out the clock.  I agree with Maxine Waters, that whatever we do, it's gotta be sooner than later.  And it has to be done with finesse so that Trump doesn't get booted while achieving martyr status among his chromosome-challenged base.   

[bodiddley]

Bart, I saw your message and have just been busy and forgot about it.  No worries.  Not a problem at all. 

Outside of 2 or 3 of the most sensitive topics, you can mostly do as you please and speak your mind here. 
Check this out: https://tinyurl.com/y5bh6ptc
The past two weeks they've been installing a lot of extra surveillance cams all over downtown SH.  I've been meaning to ask someone if they know what it's all for.  I assume it's in the news since it's all in public and installed during the daytime.  But have been busy and keep forgetting.

[kiidcarter8]

Good stuff.  It's unfortunate that Amash is contemplating leaving the GOP to become a Libertarian.....GOP could certainly benefit from a non-sheep member.   



Regarding McGahn...

Imagine if Obama or Clinton had mused about witness tampering. You're spot on re the national numbness to painful levels of perfidy.

Don't kid yourself

[barton]

Bart, I saw your message and have just been busy and forgot about it.  No worries.  Not a problem at all. 

Outside of 2 or 3 of the most sensitive topics, you can mostly do as you please and speak your mind here. 
Check this out: https://tinyurl.com/y5bh6ptc
The past two weeks they've been installing a lot of extra surveillance cams all over downtown SH....

Thanks, and yikes.   I didn't really think your posts in Politics would bring the po-po to your door, but hearing some of these hair-raising stories does give me a residue of paranoia. 

Sounds like the Chinese authorities think we westerners just don't get it, as far as the social credit system is concerned.  That's true, in one sense, but not at all true in that we grasp the totalitarian dynamic, and the fear that engenders. 

[barton]

Good stuff.  It's unfortunate that Amash is contemplating leaving the GOP to become a Libertarian.....GOP could certainly benefit from a non-sheep member.   



Regarding McGahn...

Imagine if Obama or Clinton had mused about witness tampering. You're spot on re the national numbness to painful levels of perfidy.

Don't kid yourself

How so?  You saying Bill and Barry engaged in the kind of obstruction detailed in the Muelller report?  I have a feeling you or Red would have alerted us to that at some point.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.vox.com/2019/5/21/18633783/russia-2020-election-racial-violence-nbc

Red and Kiid will dance however their puppet masters direct them. Their words will reflect whatever hand is moving their lips.

[josh]

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-percent-west-antarctic-ice-unstable.html

Yeah.

The world gets colder and it gets hotter.

Man has nothing to do with it.

Man can do nothing about the consequences and shouldn't bother to try.

I hope you deniers (and minimizers who deny being deniers) are among the first to go, but none too swiftly.

[REDSTATEWARD]

First dem to express her stance on immigration.

Gillibrand Says She Would Not Detain Illegals at All — Just Release Them into the Community

https://www.lifezette.com/2019/05/gillibrand-says-she-would-not-detain-illegals-at-all-just-release-them-into-the-community/?utm_source=below-article-related

Brilliant! Liberal elitist run amok. Little chance of winning the nomination why not make a splash?

Nothing like a Laura Ingraham internet 'zine as a source for accurate information.  Particularly on Immigration!

Trash masquerading as news is a serious problem, though curiously, not for the people who complain the most about it.

Your citation was an accurate description of Gillibrand’s position.

[josh]

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/2019/05/iceland-fines-people-36-for-claiming-evolution-isnt-true/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FBCP-ATH&fbclid=IwAR3m6Q_pCDh7YCwwymA1UXx0vk6F2h1zEkYT-TEuTKrAatr0icdqGDOxP9Q

[kiidcarter8]

heh

https://twitter.com/Cocoa_Bean10/status/1130918326111297536

[REDSTATEWARD]

Bernie  Sanders says we need  more regulations on existing charter schools and a moratorium on federal funding for new ones.

‘The proliferation of charter schools has disproportionately affected communities of color.

True ,but for the better not to the detriment of black kids.
 
What Bernie doesn’t get  was reflected in a in a poll released earlier this month by Democrats for Education Reform, 58% of black party primary voters expressed a favorable view of charter schools, while 31% opposed them. Among Hispanics, the breakdown was similar—52% to 30%.
But among white Democratic primary voters, only 26% supported charters, while 62% viewed them unfavorably. The same divide exists if the question substitutes vouchers for charter schools.

Consider the close Florida Governor’s race where democrat candidate, Andrew Gillum, campaigned on closing charters and ending a tax-credit program that allows underprivileged kids to attend private schools. He lost to republican Ron DeSantis, who supported school choice.

According to the  James Madison Institute, a state think tank, it was the backing of tens of thousands of black school-choice supporters that helped put Mr. DeSantis over the top.

Remember that  Obama’s education secretaries, Arne Duncan and John King, were vocal proponents of charter schools who now have been succeeded by an even stronger school-choice proponnent , Betsy DeVos.

Bernie Sanders was far from a darling of black voters in 2016.
His views on school choice won’t help him with blacks in 2020;

[arafura]

downunder had a federal election last Saturday;

Labor Party = Left/Far Left...colour RED

Liberal Party = Right/Centre Right...colour BLUE   [actually Liberal party/National party[rural areas] coalition]...LNP or 'The Coalition'.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/morrisons-quiet-australians-are-the-voters-labor-rejected/news-story/b6b5a323eacd0deeb8631c3aaa29ef1c

Morrison’s “Quiet Australians” are the voters Labor rejected

As a man, Scott Morrison is nothing like Donald Trump, but his victory was positively Trumpian.

Like the Trump election in 2016 and the UK’s Brexit vote, the Coalition defied every opinion poll, almost every media commentator and the betting markets to win Saturday’s election.

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So certain that the election was going to be won by Labor...the bookies paid out on a Labor win last week, before the election.  LOL
What bookies with any sense pay out before the race is won?

[arafura]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/morrisons-quiet-australians-are-the-voters-labor-rejected/news-story/b6b5a323eacd0deeb8631c3aaa29ef1c

Miranda Devine

About the only person Morrison didn’t surprise was himself. “I have always believed in miracles,” he said on Saturday night.

His victory was an emphatic repudiation of Labor’s politics of division and identity and it has shaken leftists to their core, as they struggle to realise that their vision of an increasingly progressive, atheist Australia was a mirage.

In his victory speech on Saturday, Morrison paid tribute to “the quiet Australians”. This was the “Shy Scomo” vote that didn’t show up in polls.

Sick of being derided as morally inferior if they didn’t embrace Labor’s divisive cultural agenda and socialist economics, they staged a precision strike at the ballot box.
Shorten called them “knuckle draggers” and “cave dwellers” if they didn’t agree with his utopian climate agenda……..

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/Cocoa_Bean10/status/1130918326111297536