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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

[bambu-wisdom]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/15/pale-stale-males-blamed-brexit-trump

Pale, stale males are the last group it’s OK to vilify

My cohort already faced routine contempt. Now we find ourselves blamed for Brexit and Donald Trump

I am hideously white, and not a man but “male”. Being over 50, I suffer the added failing of being disgustingly old. Such are the routine humiliations of my group. The BBC was called hideously white by its former boss Greg Dyke, and the West End stage hideously white by Andrew Lloyd Webber. This week the Football Association was dismissed by critics as a bunch of “old white men”. Note that it is not the BBC or the theatre that is hideous, but their whiteness.

Fashion in collective abuse seeks comfort in crowds. In choosing “pale, stale males” (PSMs) for ritual contempt, identity politics has found a target that it hopes will confess its “guilt”. More recently the epithet “failed” has been added to explain the Brexit/Trump voters. These PSMs are further damned by being uneducated “left-behinders”, and therefore also dumb. They were thought so dumb it was suggested they vote again on Brexit, for having got it wrong first time.

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Ah yes, ye olde "Dumb, uneducated, left-behinders"

Yes, if you're a PSM you don't have to sexually harass anyone to be persecuted everywhere in society today.

[josh]

That link doesn't work for me...extra 'url' and bracket wrong or something.

Try again.

But in general, Bambi, if you copy the URL, you can paste it in your browser and it will get you there.

Or not, if it is too complicated.

[kiidcarter8]

White guys are gritty.

As long as they are not PITHY

(shout out to O'Reilly)

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1046925327958708226

There he goes again - exaggerating his crowd size.

[josh]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1046925327958708226

There he goes again - exaggerating his crowd size.

There he goes, campaigning instead of running the country.

I suppose I should be grateful.

[kiidcarter8]

From West Wing

"Really you're talking about 18 months.  Then you are running for reelection..."

 - Leo McGarry to running mate Matt Santos

[josh]

From West Wing

"Really you're talking about 18 months.  Then you are running for reelection..."

 - Leo McGarry to running mate Matt Santos

And look where it got Leo McGarry.

[kiidcarter8]

Had to know we would see something like this

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/30/us/cristiano-ronaldo-rape-allegations-lawsuit/index.html

[josh]

Had to know we would see something like this

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/30/us/cristiano-ronaldo-rape-allegations-lawsuit/index.html

What percent of major sports superstars do yoh think have seen such allegations, Kiid?

[REDSTATEWARD]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1046925327958708226

There he goes again - exaggerating his crowd size.

There he goes, campaigning instead of running the country.

I suppose I should be grateful.

If you think about it you should be. Economic growth has been revised upward to over 3%: unemployment rate is at 3.9 and headed down t o 3, inflation is well under control, wages are up,
Consumer confidence is through the roof, and Americans are buying steak again.
After 8 years of meandering through the haze of the disaster known as ObamaNomics the GOP has given us all something to be proud of.

[josh]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1046925327958708226

There he goes again - exaggerating his crowd size.

There he goes, campaigning instead of running the country.

I suppose I should be grateful.

If you think about it you should be. Economic growth has been revised upward to over 3%: unemployment rate is at 3.9 and headed down t o 3, inflation is well under control, wages are up,
Consumer confidence is through the roof, and Americans are buying steak again.
After 8 years of meandering through the haze of the disaster known as ObamaNomics the GOP has given us all something to be proud of.

"Wages are up."

And here's what the White House says:
Average earnings rose from $894.06 in January 2017 to $937.02 in August 2018. That suggests impressive gains of $42.96 weekly over the 20-month period and $30.02 weekly over the past year!

It's all true.

However, here's what the Bureau of Labor Statistics says: quarter-by-quarter numbers show that median weekly earnings of all workers rose from $865 in the first quarter of 2017 to $876 in the quarter ending June 30, 2018. The typical working American's earnings increased $11 weekly over 18 months, barely more than one-quarter of the economic progress touted by the White House.

But still up, right?

The significance of what people earn lies in what they can do with their earnings, and inflation eats away at what any of us can purchase or save. As a result, serious earnings analysis is always framed in inflation-adjusted, or "real," terms. From January 2017 to June 2018, inflation totaled 3.77 percent, while the $11 increase in unadjusted weekly earnings over those 18 months represented gains of 1.27 percent.

The result: $876 in June 2018 had the same value as $848.20 in January 2017. In real terms, the weekly earnings of a typical working American fell $16.80, or 1.9 percent, during Donald Trump's first 18 months as president.
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All data from the sources given (BLS, White House), via the Washington Post. Information verified from their sources. Text is 95% WaPo.
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So, you are right, Redd. I should be grateful Trump is out campaigning and not running the country. Thank you for agreeing with me.

And you can keep ignoring (a) the prior adminstration to Obama's, (b) what the Obama economy looked like coming into this one, and (c) the federal deficit and the cost of debt service and what that will do our economy!

[josh]

[LarryBnDC]

[josh]

GOP = the Party of the Uneducated.

[josh]

Kavanaugh was asked, under oath, if he’d ever gotten aggressive while drinking. His response was: “I think the answer to that is basically no.”

Apparently, throwing beer in another man's face while drinking and then being in a brawl, such that you got questioned for it by the police qualifies as "basically no."

Good to know, Judge Kavenaugh.


Kiid, like I said: he's a liar.