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Sunday, March 28, 2021 7:24 PM

They're just going to move the site if they unionize.

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Monday, March 29, 2021 12:52 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is considering putting a $15 minimum wage into the next reconciliation package, which will be focused on infrastructure, multiple sources familiar with the New York senator’s thinking told The Intercept.

Senate Democrats attempted to include the wage hike in President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 relief package, but the Senate parliamentarian ruled it was out of order, and Senate Democrats allowed that ruling to stand. An effort to overturn the ruling, which required 60 votes, garnered just 42.

Schumer has suggested to progressive groups that there is a glimmer of hope that the parliamentarian would rule differently this time: The new legislation is focused on infrastructure, and setting wages is directly related to the budget impact of any infrastructure spending. If there’s even a small chance of it working, he reasoned, it’s worth the fight.

Schumer, though, is encountering resistance from some backers of increasing the minimum wage, who argue that attempting to include it is doomed to fail just as it did last time, and in the process it will trigger another wave of indignation from the public at the failure.

The Senate still needs to lock down 50 votes in support of hiking the wage, however. Of the eight Democrats who voted no last time around on overruling the parliamentarian to enact a minimum wage, most are assumed to be gettable in a clean vote, though doing so could mean giving ground on the tipped minimum wage, a key priority of the National Restaurant Association. That would still leave Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., but there is hope that a package of small business tax credits, which would subsidize the wage increase, could get them there.

To bypass Democratic Senators Manchin and Sinema, could two Republican Senators vote for $15 per hour? Not a chance.

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/29/minimum-wage-senate-chuck-schumer/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, March 29, 2021 7:28 PM

Welcome to Day 69.

Today in one sentence: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warned of "impending doom" as Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths rise throughout the U.S.; Biden announced that 90% of adults will be eligible to get a coronavirus vaccine starting April 19; the Biden administration expects the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border to increase from more than 16,000 currently to as many as 26,000 by September; and Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to Trump's Homeland Security chief and members of the department’s cybersecurity staff, who were responsible for identifying threats from foreign countries.
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Trump giving Putin what he wants, 'til the last.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 7:38 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Now Is the Perfect Time to Stream the Movies of Preston Sturges. The writer-director’s comedies show how to live in a nation of hucksters and dupes.

The Trump years are over, the pandemic is winding down, and as Americans slowly return to what’s left of our normal lives, many of us are carrying a lot fewer illusions about the nature of our national character. A country where Donald Trump is possible is not a country you can trust, and the same goes triple for its residents. And yet we’ve still got to live here. It would be nice if there were a way to reconcile the knowledge that our society is a series of interlocking scams with some kind of happiness.

Unlike most of America’s ongoing problems, however, this one was solved 80 years ago, by screenwriter and director Preston Sturges. In an extraordinary run of seven films Sturges wrote and directed at Paramount from 1940 to 1944, he mapped out a way to be clear-eyed about the hucksters, hustlers, and horse’s asses that make up our great nation, while somehow loving it anyway. Taken together, these cynical comedies add up to an essential user’s manual for life in these United States, and the Criterion Channel is currently streaming all seven of them, plus 1948’s Unfaithfully Yours, so now is the perfect time to watch them. Here’s where to start.

The Lady Eve

Barbara Stanwyck plays Jean Harrington, a con artist working the card room of an ocean liner who sets her sights on the biggest mark on the ship: Charles Poncefort Pike (Henry Fonda), the exceptionally naïve heir to a brewing fortune. Naturally, Jean falls for Pike, complicating her plans to fleece him. “Couple falls in love under false pretenses” plots are a dime a dozen, but Sturges sprints through the obligatory plot points (deceit-to-love-to-revelation-to-rejection) in the first half of the movie. The usual payoff, in which the mark realizes over the course of a sad montage that he is still in love with the person who deceived him and races to the airport or takes her to the prom or whatever, is a non-starter in a Sturges movie, because a couple learning to be honest with each other is anathema to his vision of romance. Instead, Charles drops Jean cold when he realizes she’s not who she said she was.

That leaves Sturges with half the movie to fill, and he does so by repeating the love-under-false-pretenses plot nearly beat-for-beat. Jean tracks Charles down in Connecticut, where she reintroduces herself with an even more ridiculous fake identity: Lady Eve Sidwich, an Englishwoman visiting the United States who just happens to look exactly like Jean Harrington. Finding a satisfying ending for a romantic comedy with one plot is hard enough; Sturges has to resolve two at once, while sticking to his basic premise that no couple ever solved anything by sitting down face-to-face and being honest. No spoilers here, but the ending is perfect.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210330112527/https://slate.com/culture/2
021/03/preston-sturges-movies-lady-eve-streaming-criterion-channel.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 8:53 AM

Fuck Slate.

I already knew I couldn't trust people like you, and I didn't need some two bit shill website to tell me to think that.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 1:27 PM

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Fuck Slate.

I already knew I couldn't trust people like you, and I didn't need some two bit shill website to tell me to think that.

Tell us the names of the sites you trust.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 1:27 PM

Mitch McConnell Terrified because Republican Voters LOVE Democrats' Voting Rights Bill

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 8:16 PM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Mitch McConnell Terrified because Republican Voters LOVE Democrats' Voting Rights Bill

No they don't.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:29 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Slate.

I already knew I couldn't trust people like you, and I didn't need some two bit shill website to tell me to think that.

How do you feel about the Christian Science Monitor? This article is from there:
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2021/0329/If-you-can-keep-it-Where-next
-for-a-strained-democracy

There are four tests to determine whether a democracy is under threat. For the first time in its history, the U.S. meets all four.

The great machine of governance established by the Constitution in 1788 has long been beset by underlying problems such as partisanship, gridlock, and disinformation. Then in November 2020 an incumbent president threw a match on this tinder: a false claim that the election was stolen, and that despite certified counts electing his opponent, in fact he had won.

This lie has since rooted itself in part of the nation’s body politic, drawing support from hundreds of elected Republican officials. A mob smashed into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the purported “steal.” Former President Donald Trump’s evidence-free assertion about the election was a dangerous seed that can no longer be unplanted – a little over a third of U.S. voters, and three-quarters of Republicans, say they don’t think President Joe Biden won legitimately, according to one recent poll.

That false belief endures despite more than 60 court cases heard by more than 90 judges, including Trump appointees, and despite Trump administration officials, including the attorney general and the top cybersecurity official, saying the elections were secure and there was no credible evidence of widespread fraud. One of the most vocal boosters of the lie, lawyer Sidney Powell, is defending herself against billion-dollar libel lawsuits, saying “no reasonable person” would believe her “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims.”

An American coup d’état in 1898, not 2021

White supremacists powered the mob. They were angry about the demise of the world as they had known it, including a loss of political power they felt rightfully theirs. Their leaders called on them to take it back. So they planned something that could only be called a coup d’état and attacked a citadel of their opponents.

The year was 1898, not 2021, and the place was Wilmington, North Carolina. But the similarities between the 19th-century insurrection, in which a mob of white men overthrew an elected biracial government in Wilmington, and the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the counting of Electoral College votes, are inescapable, says Suzanne Mettler, professor of American institutions at Cornell University.

That’s what she kept thinking while watching scenes of the Capitol riot. “There are so many parallels,” Professor Mettler says.

The most obvious similarity is the refusal to accept an election. President Trump’s unwillingness to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 presidential vote, and his months long effort to overturn the results, were “among the most abnormal and important events of the Trump presidency,” according to Bright Line Watch, a group of experts that monitors U.S. democratic practices.

This denial was clearly anti-democratic. “Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections,” according to a pithy definition from New York University political scientist Adam Przeworski.

Another similarity between the events of 1898 and 2021 is the extensive planning involved in operations. While some organization took place at the grassroots, it was political leaders in both cases who rallied and aimed the crowds at their destination. At least a dozen Capitol rioters facing federal charges have said they stormed the building because their president told them to.

Race was also a driving factor in both events. It was more central to Wilmington, but white supremacist symbols, signs, and supporters were present in Washington as well.

Democracy survived past sieges

These are the book’s four threats, which separately or in concert are inimical to the building of democracy:

The first is political polarization – in Adams’ time, Federalists and Republicans so disliked one another that they often lived in different neighborhoods and attended different churches. Second is the question of who is a full member of society, which touches directly on the racism and nativism that have stained American history. Third is economic inequality, which has weakened belief in democracy from the Gilded Age to today. Fourth is growing Presidential power, which strains the Constitution itself.

Sometimes it takes only one of these factors to threaten American democracy, according to Professors Mettler and Lieberman. Sometimes a number of them combine to deepen a crisis, as they did in the 1850s and 1890s.

But now they’re all present in the country to one degree or another, says Professor Mettler.

“We’ve never had all four threats together at the same time. It says to me democracy is really endangered now,” she says.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210330124452/https://www.csmonitor.com/U
SA/Politics/2021/0329/If-you-can-keep-it-Where-next-for-a-strained-democracy

Download the free book Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
https://libgen.unblockit.buzz/search.php?req=Four+Threats+The+Recurrin
g+Crises+of+American+Democracy

Most Americans assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present.

In Four Threats, Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound - even fatal - damage to the American democratic experiment. From this history, four distinct characteristics of disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power - alone or in combination - have threatened the survival of the republic, but it has survived - so far. What is unique, and alarming, about the present moment in American politics is that all four conditions exist.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:37 AM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Mitch McConnell Terrified because Republican Voters LOVE Democrats' Voting Rights Bill

No they don't.

Funny, mail-in voting was used more by Republicans than Democrats before 2020. They didn't mind it then, since, as all the evidence shows, there is no fraud.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:39 AM

Texas' voter suppression bills are fueled by millions in corporate cash
https://popular.info/p/texas-voter-suppression-bills-are?token=eyJ1c2V
yX2lkIjo2ODg1MzEsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM0NTY5ODA3LCJfIjoidFlaVHoiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTcxOTQwMTksImV4cCI6MTYxNzE5NzYxOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE2NjQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.95-VU0r2Mixh4-fnQXQ-yYyHOW7XjEgMQqedGQ9ySd8

Texas already has the most restrictive voting laws in the country. But with the state trending blue, Governor Greg Abbott (R) and Republicans in the Texas legislature are pushing a series of draconian bills that would make it even harder for Texans to cast a ballot. An investigation by Popular Information reveals that the elected officials in Texas advocating for these voter suppression measures are backed by millions from corporations that purport to support voting rights.

The Brennan Center has identified a dozen bills introduced in the Texas legislature to restrict voting. But omnibus voting legislation in the Senate (SB 7) and House (HB 6) have the most traction. These are expansive, complex bills that would limit voting in a variety of ways.

Texas does not have no-excuse absentee voting and did not even allow it last year during the pandemic. SB 7 would create additional hurdles for voters in future elections seeking to vote absentee due to a disability. These voters would need to submit either: (1) Documentation of their disability from the Social Security Administration or the Department of Veterans Affairs, or (2) Certification of their disability on a form completed by a licensed physician, chiropractor, or Christian Scientist. Under SB 7, local election officials would be prohibited from mailing an absentee ballot application to anyone who doesn't explicitly request it. The bill also bans the use of drop boxes to return absentee ballots.

Notably, SB 7 would also require all countywide polling places to have approximately the same number of machines. Why is this important? It would effectively prohibit the use of sports arenas as mega-voting locations. Last year the arenas for the San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks, and Houston Rockets were all used for voting.

SB 7 would prohibit mobile, outdoor, and drive-through polling locations. Last year Republicans unsuccessfully sued to invalidate 127,000 votes cast in drive-thru polling locations. The bill would guarantee that poll watchers have "free movement" inside of polling locations and end the prohibition on poll watchers filming voters, including inside of a voting station. Anyone who "obstructs" a poll watcher could be charged with a crime. Combined, these measures are a recipe for voter intimidation.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 9:04 AM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Mitch McConnell Terrified because Republican Voters LOVE Democrats' Voting Rights Bill

No they don't.

Funny, mail-in voting was used more by Republicans than Democrats before 2020. They didn't mind it then, since, as all the evidence shows, there is no fraud.

Do not conflate absentee ballots with mail-in ballots. They only sound the same if you're an easily manipulated idiot.

Get rid of absentee ballots too except for people serving overseas in the military and people who are tied to their bed in a hospital or on hospice.

I've always said that of absentee ballots.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 10:11 AM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:

Funny, mail-in voting was used more by Republicans than Democrats before 2020. They didn't mind it then, since, as all the evidence shows, there is no fraud.

Do not conflate absentee ballots with mail-in ballots. They only sound the same if you're an easily manipulated idiot.

Get rid of absentee ballots too except for people serving overseas in the military and people who are tied to their bed in a hospital or on hospice.

I've always said that of absentee ballots.

Abesentee ballots, like mail-in ballots, are also proven reliable and fraud-free.

But, don't let facts stand in the way of your delusions. That's not your style.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 2:34 PM

The Media Must Stop Demonizing Immigrants
Before someone else “having a really bad day” decides to pick up a gun in response to their lies.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/media-demonizing-immigrants-
border/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%2003.31.2021&utm_term=daily

Over the past several weeks, we’ve all heard the news about what is happening at the border. Most of the headlines and commentary in the media have painted a picture of a “surge” of migrant children crossing the border on their own. They talk about this “security crisis” at the border over and over again. After hearing these news stories, it’s hard not to think that the United States is being invaded by brown children. Which we know is not the reality, but with the amount of coverage this issue gets and the type of narrative that the media focuses on, it’s hard for the public to see it through a different lens: through the lens of humanity.

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:19 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Why Can’t Republicans Be Populists?
The establishment has been routed, but its economic orthodoxy rules.

By Paul Krugman, March 29, 2021

President Biden’s American Rescue Plan is incredibly popular, even among Republican voters. We don’t have details yet on the next big Democratic initiative, but we can expect it to poll well, because we know that it will combine major infrastructure spending with tax hikes on corporations and the rich — which are all popular things.

But like the rescue plan, the next plan probably won’t get a single Republican vote in Congress. Why are elected Republicans still so committed to right-wing economic policies that help the rich while shortchanging the working class?

Fair warning: I’m not going to offer a good answer to this question. The point of today’s article is, instead, to argue for the question’s importance.

I ask why Republicans are “still” committed to right-wing economics because in the past there wasn’t any puzzle about their position.

Like many observers, I used to have a “What’s the matter with Kansas?” model of the G.O.P. That is, like Thomas Frank, the author of the 2004 book with that title, I saw the Republican Party essentially as an enterprise run by and for plutocrats that managed to win elections by playing to the cultural grievances and racial hostility of working-class whites. Bigotry, however, was mainly a show put on for the rubes; the party would go back to its pro-rich priorities as soon as each election was over.

The classic example came when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America’s defender against gay married terrorists, then followed his victory by announcing that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security. (He didn’t.)

But that feels like a long time ago.

Billionaires may have started the Republican Party on its march toward extremism, but they’ve clearly lost control of the forces they conjured up. The G.O.P. can no longer put intolerance back in the closet after each election so as to focus on the real business of tax cuts and deregulation. Instead, the extremists are in charge. Despite a lost election and a violent insurrection, what’s left of the old Republican establishment has abased itself on the altar of Trumpism.

But while power in the Republican Party has shifted almost completely away from the conservative establishment, the party is still committed to an economic ideology of tax and spending cuts. And it’s not obvious why.

When Donald Trump rolled over establishment candidates in 2016, it seemed possible that he would lead his party toward what some political scientists call “Herrenvolk democracy,” policies that are genuinely populist and even egalitarian — but only for members of the right racial and ethnic groups.

South Africa under apartheid worked that way. There were limited gestures toward whites-only populism in the Jim Crow U.S. South. In Europe, France’s National Front combines hostility to immigrants with calls for an expansion of the nation’s already generous welfare state.

As a candidate, Trump often sounded as if he wanted to move in that direction, promising not to cut social benefits and to begin a large infrastructure program. If he had honored those promises, if he had shown any hint of genuine populism, he might still be president. In practice, however, his tax cut and his failed attempt to repeal Obamacare were right out of the standard conservative playbook.

The exception that proves the rule was Trump’s farm policy, which involved huge subsidies to farmers hurt by his trade war, but managed to give almost all of those subsidies to whites. The point is that there was nothing like this on a broader level.

Was Trump’s continuation of unpopular economic policies simply a reflection of his personal ignorance and lack of interest in substance? Events since the election suggest not.

I’ve already mentioned lock-step Republican opposition to Biden’s relief package. Rejection of economic populism is also apparent at the state level. Consider Missouri. One of its senators, Josh Hawley, has declared that Republicans must be “a working-class party, not a Wall Street party.” Yet Republicans in the state’s legislature just blocked funding for an expansion in Medicaid that would cost the state very little and has already been approved by a majority of voters.

Or consider West Virginia, where another unfulfilled Trump promise, to revive the coal industry, resonated with voters. Coal isn’t coming back; so the state’s Republican governor is proposing to boost the economy by … eliminating income taxes. This echoes the failed Kansas tax cut experiment a few years ago. Why imagine it would work any better in Appalachia?

So what’s going on? I suspect that the absence of true populism on the right has a lot to do with the closing of the right-wing mind: the conservative establishment may have lost power, but its apparatchiks are still the only people in the G.O.P. who know anything about policy. And big money may still buy influence even in a party whose energy comes mainly from intolerance and hate.

In any case, for now Republican politicians are doing Democrats a big favor, clinging to discredited economic ideas that even their own supporters dislike.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210331004234/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/03/29/opinion/republicans-populism.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:05 AM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
The Media Must Stop Demonizing Immigrants

The Media blows them constantly.

The Media and everyone else needs to call them what they are.

They aren't demons. They are foreign invaders.

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:24 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
The Media Must Stop Demonizing Immigrants

The Media blows them constantly.

The Media and everyone else needs to call them what they are.

They aren't demons. They are foreign invaders.

That's quite an opinion. Could you back any of it up with some sort of facts?

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:26 AM

Only After Boycott Threat, Delta CEO Reverses Praise Of Georgia’s Voter Suppression Law
Ed Bastain had some very kind words for SB 202 less than a week ago.
https://newsone.com/4119999/delta-ceo-reverses-praise-groegia-voting-l
aw/?omcamp=es-n1-nl&cx_medium=sailthru&cx_brand=no&cx_delivery=NewsOne&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NAT%20-%20NewsOne%20-%20Daily%20Dynamic%20Send%202021-04-01&utm_term=NewsOne%20Subscribers%20-%20SEND%20TO%20ME

fter threats of a boycott and being the target of other proposed protests against Delta Air Lines, its CEO is doing an about-face on the controversial topic of Georgia’s new law restricting voting access that is expected to disproportionately affect Black and brown communities.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian previously praised the new law — SB 202 — as recently as last week. But on Wednesday, he conveniently had a change of heart after the prospects of losing business during a time when the travel industry has already been crippled because of the pandemic.

After describing SB202 as having “improved” existing election laws, Bastain said Wednesday it was “unacceptable.” He suggested his words in a company statement were taken out of context and said he was finally setting the record straight about his opinion on the matter, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“I need to make it crystal clear that the final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta’s values,” Bastain wrote in an internal memo sent to Delta employees.

That didn’t match the same energy Bastain had when he selectively glossed over SB 202 provisions such as barriers to mobile voting, preventing volunteers from handing out water and other line-warming activities, and additional restrictions placed on absentee voting. Bastian’s previous statement also fed into claims that SB 202 promotes greater election security when there is no evidence that warrants a genuine concern of election integrity and security.

Bastain addressed that in his memo on Wednesday.

“The entire rationale for this bill was based on a lie: that there was widespread voter fraud in Georgia in the 2020 elections. This is simply not true,” Bastain wrote. “Unfortunately, that excuse is being used in states across the nation that are attempting to pass similar legislation to restrict voting rights.”

But Gov. Brian Kemp said Bastain was all-in on the bill leading up to it being signed into law.

“Today’s statement by Delta CEO Ed Bastian stands in stark contrast to our conversations with the company, ignores the content of the new law, and unfortunately continues to spread the same false attacks being repeated by partisan activists,” Kemp said in a statement.

Bastain’s updated thoughts on SB 202 fell in line with civil rights and voting activists who called the law what it was: racist voter suppression.

“There’s no acceptable version of this bill partially because the entire premise is a lie,” Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, previously told NewsOne.

Calls for an economic boycott spread across social media after the passage of SB 202. Corporate accountability in democracy organizing has become a major topic after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Voting rights groups have been pushing back on Delta, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and other Georgia-based corporations that were exposed for donations to elected officials who supported voter suppression and Trump’s big lie. Demanding corporate support for HR 1 and HR 4 could be the next major push in this ongoing accountability effort.
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Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:39 AM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
The Media Must Stop Demonizing Immigrants

The Media blows them constantly.

The Media and everyone else needs to call them what they are.

They aren't demons. They are foreign invaders.

That's quite an opinion. Could you back any of it up with some sort of facts?

Why do you need somebody from the Media to tell you that people who are trying to come here illegally and leech off of our economy are invaders.

That's the real question. That's the only question.

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 10:24 AM

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Outdated filibuster rules allow a small minority of the US population to hold the rest of the country hostage

Right now, the 50 Senate Democrats represent roughly 61% of the country’s population, according to census data. The filibuster rules allowing 41 senators to halt legislation effectively empower a group of Republican senators representing just 22% percent of the population to gridlock the government. Again, considering that it only takes 50% of the state's vote to get elected to the Senate, the filibuster means that about 11% of America's voting-age population could successfully elected Republican senators who can theoretically block anything that polls show the overwhelming majority of the country might want.

As everyone from President Joe Biden to the conservative Democratic senator Joe Manchin to liberal groups now push to reform the Senate’s rules, the defense of the filibuster goes something like this: by design, our nation is a republic, not a direct democracy, and therefore we must create institutional obstacles to empower a minority of Americans to prevent the whims of the majority from being too hastily enshrined in legislation. By this logic, we must keep the Senate’s cloture rule, which requires 60 of the Senate’s 100 members to end a filibuster and move a bill to a vote.

Those who make this case seem to love sounding like erudite constitutional scholars steeped in the grandeur of American history, and they purport to be pluralists worrying about minority rights.

“Letting the majority do everything it wants to is not what the founders had in mind,” said the Senate Republican whip, John Thune, in a floor speech defending the filibuster this week. “The founders recognized that it wasn’t just kings who could be tyrants. They knew majorities could be tyrants, too, and that a majority if unchecked could trample the rights of the minority … so the founders created the Senate as a check on the House of Representatives.”

But an inconvenient fact undermines Thune’s argument and should set pluralists at ease: even if the filibuster were eliminated and bills could advance on a simple majority vote, the Senate would still be giving a minority of the American population enough Senate representation to block legislation supported by the majority of the country.

In the debate over the filibuster, then, the question is not whether you believe the majority should rule. Instead, the question is this: how small a minority should be given legislative veto power over the rest of the country?

More at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/26/just-how-severe-
will-americas-minority-rule-become

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 11:34 AM

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Why do you need somebody from the Media to tell you that people who are trying to come here illegally and leech off of our economy are invaders.

That's the real question. That's the only question.

The profound racism and ignorance you once again freely demonstrate here would be laughable, if it weren't so pathetic.

You don't know a single fact about any of it. Not one.

I could attempt to educate you, but you are incapable of learning. That's why you did so poorly in school. It's one of several mental defects you possess.

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 2:10 PM

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This year, over 100 bills have been introduced across the country targeting trans people, mostly youth, and they have moved aggressively through state legislatures and been debated with vitriol and cruelty.

This wave of anti-trans bills is based on model legislation written by extraordinarily well-funded right-wing think tanks, like the Heritage Foundation; the Eagle Forum, which was founded by religious right icon Phyllis Schlafly; and the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is a designated hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The legislative attacks, and the ferocity with which Republicans are pushing for them, work to produce a convenient target for moral panic and right-wing identity formation. Harkening back to the moral panic of Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schafly, this moment is part of a long tradition of consolidating fear and disgust of the unknown to leverage political power. The right wants to conjure a frankly lurid obsession with children’s bodies.

Conservatives are obsessed with nonexisting children. This is nothing new: The paranoia is a central tenet of the modern American right. They worry about a zygote or embryo as if it were already a child (it is not). Then there was the whole generation of nonexistent children whose brains turned to fried eggs on marijuana. The murderous Satanic children. The Black “superpredator” children were a powerful racist fantasy.

The right has taken up the cause of another sort of nonexisting child: the children who are coerced into becoming trans; the so-called biological male children who pretend to be girls to play sports, and the other little girls on the team who are devastated by this; the children getting gender-affirming surgery or other irreversible medical interventions; and several variants on these nonexisting kids.

None of these categories of children actually exist, even if a number of children are wrongly described in these terms by conservatives and their anti-trans allies. People who don’t exist are far better suited to cynical political manipulation and prurient psychological projection than are living, breathing children.

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/04/01/trans-kids-rights-arkansas-gop/

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 2:51 PM

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The Conservative Movement Is Rejecting America

A recent essay in a prominent right-wing outlet gives an unusually clear window into the modern right’s anti-democratic worldview. The American Mind — a publication of the Claremont Institute, an influential conservative think tank based in California — published an incendiary essay arguing that the country has already been destroyed by internal enemies.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-claremont-institute-is-not-cons
ervative-and-you-shouldnt-be-either/

“Most people living in the United States today — certainly more than half — are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term,” Glenn Ellmers, the essay’s author, writes. “They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.”

These seditious citizens are opposed, according to Ellmers, by “the 75 million people who voted in the last election against the senile figurehead of a party that stands for mob violence, ruthless censorship, and racial grievances, not to mention bureaucratic despotism.” (74,222,958 voted for Trump. 81,283,098 for Biden.)

If Trump voters and conservatives do not band together and fight “a sort of counter-revolution,” then “the victory of progressive tyranny will be assured. See you in the gulag.”

What exactly this counter-revolution entails is unclear, but Ellmers has some tips. “Learn some useful skills, stay healthy, and get strong,” he writes. “One of my favorite weightlifting coaches likes to say, ‘Strong people are harder to kill, and more useful generally.’”

Ellmers’s essay has been widely discussed in American media and intellectual circles, due to its bracing honesty about the modern right’s worldview and the prominence of the outlet that published it. Claremont is an influential institution of the right; one of its publications, the Claremont Review of Books, published the notorious “Flight 93” essay arguing that the 2016 election was a choice between Trump and national extinction. (“2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die,” that essay declared in its opening line.)

Minutes before the January 6 assault on Capitol Hill, former President Donald Trump told his assembled supporters that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” In a 2019 speech, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warned that “we have come again to one of the great turning points in our national history, when the fate of our republican government is at issue.” In a 2020 Facebook post, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared that “Democrats want to defund, destroy, and dismantle our country.”

Ellmers’s essay should be taken seriously because it makes the anti-democratic subtext of conservative discourse into clearly legible text. And it is a clear articulation of what the movement has been telling us through its actions, like Georgia’s new voting law: It sees democracy not as a principle to respect, but as a barrier to be overcome in pursuit of permanent power.

More at https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/4/1/22356594/conservative
s-right-wing-democracy-claremont-ellmers

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Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:16 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Why do you need somebody from the Media to tell you that people who are trying to come here illegally and leech off of our economy are invaders.

That's the real question. That's the only question.

The profound racism and ignorance you once again freely demonstrate here would be laughable, if it weren't so pathetic.

It's not racism. It's NATIONALISM.

Do not conflate the two. You look like an idiot when you do.

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Friday, April 2, 2021 10:19 AM

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Add a $2.25 trillion infrastructure bill to a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill and what do you get? How about a massive economic infusion equal to roughly 20% of overall U.S. GDP. To be clear, the infrastructure spending won’t happen all in one year, more like eight years if all goes according to plan.

Bidenomics Is as American as Apple Pie. Big spending on infrastructure goes back to the Erie Canal.

The era of big government investment and high taxes on the rich coincided, not incidentally, with the U.S. economy’s greatest generation — the postwar decades of rapidly rising living standards.

But the story of public investment and progressive taxation in America goes back much further than the ’50s.

We’ve relied on government infrastructure investment to jump-start economic growth ever since the construction of the Erie Canal between 1818 and 1825. Unlike the privately owned canals that had proliferated in 18th-century Britain, the Erie Canal was built by the government of New York State, at a cost of $7 million. This may not sound like a lot, but the economy was vastly smaller then, and prices much lower too. As a share of state G.D.P., the canal was probably the equivalent of a $1 trillion national project today.

And a big public role in infrastructure continued down the generations. Land grants were used to promote railway construction and higher education. Teddy Roosevelt built the Panama Canal. F.D.R. brought electricity to rural areas. Eisenhower built the highway network.

So when Republicans denounce the American Jobs Plan as an “out-of-control socialist spending spree,” remember, large-scale public investment is the American way.

More at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/opinion/biden-infrastructure.html

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Friday, April 2, 2021 1:29 PM

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It's not racism. It's FASCISM.

Do not conflate the two. You look like an idiot when you do.

Fixed. And yes, you're racist as fuck, and always were. Your nationalism IS racism (and fascism). You're just using a slightly different word.

Every fascist in the world calls themselves a nationalist. Idiot.

https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/

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Saturday, April 3, 2021 8:45 AM

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Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is right about the GOP before Trump

Opinion by Charlie Dent, former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who served as chairman of the House Ethics Committee.

During Donald Trump's presidency, many of his critics argued that he was the cause of so many problems plaguing the country and the Republican Party. While Trump was far from innocent, as a former member of Congress and lifelong Republican, I have never bought the simplicity of that argument.

Instead, Trump was a consequence of the shifting dynamics in the United States -- and specifically within the GOP -- that allowed an anti-establishment candidate to rise to power and act on his worst impulses while in office.

In simpler terms, Trump was gasoline on the proverbial fire.

Former House Speaker John Boehner, in excerpts from "On the House: A Washington Memoir," provides clear evidence that the Republican Party was already struggling with its identity and ideology long before Trump was a serious candidate for political office.

In the 2010 midterm elections, when the Tea Party-affiliated candidates gained a number of seats in Congress, Boehner wrote, "You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name -- and that year, by the way, we did pick up a fair number in that category."

Unfortunately, those Boehner labeled "morons" gained an outsized voice within the House GOP conference, bringing their extreme views and conspiracy theories to Congress. They pushed for legislation that had no chance of passing -- including defunding Obamacare while President Barack Obama was in office and Democrats controlled the US Senate -- and attempted to obstruct the raising of the debt ceiling, which would have led to fiscal Armageddon.

Their views were further amplified by a right-wing media ecosystem eager to support these congressmen. As Boehner notes, Fox News talent, like Sean Hannity, and Fox News leadership, at the time Roger Ailes, were all too willing to provide those fringe members primetime placement every evening. After all, giving a public forum to those members to rant about their latest contrived outrage was good for ratings -- and the network's bottom line.

What made a number of these Tea Party members -- many of whom formed the Freedom Caucus -- so difficult to work with was their seeming lack of interest in actually governing. Instead, many of them were consumed with developing their media personas. Former US Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, first elected in 2006, was one such example. Boehner writes that her political rise was emblematic of conservative media's ability to make "people who used to be fringe characters into powerful media stars." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann#113th_Congress Bachmann left a legacy of political missteps and lots of incendiary rhetoric — often loaded with false accusations and wild exaggerations.)

Rather than laying out policy plans to address issues facing everyday Americans, the rejectionist wing of the GOP was more interested in airing grievances, stoking anger and settling political scores. In contrast, I spent most of my days focused on doing my committee work, serving my district's interests and largely avoiding national media attention.

More at https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/opinions/john-boehner-right-gop-pre-tru
mp-dent/index.html

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Saturday, April 3, 2021 8:53 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

It's not racism. It's NATIONALISM.

Do not conflate the two. You look like an idiot when you do.

And yes, you're racist as fuck, and always were. Your nationalism IS racism (and fascism). You're just using a slightly different word.

Every fascist in the world calls themselves a nationalist. Idiot.

https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/

I'm sure my step-dad, who's MEXICAN parents moved here legally and worked their asses off are racists too.

You're an idiot.

That's the problem with all you virtue signalling white idiots. You think you speak for everybody.

I assure you that you don't.

You are an enemy of America, and of all Americans of any ethnicity.

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Saturday, April 3, 2021 9:36 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I'm sure my step-dad, who's MEXICAN parents moved here legally and worked their asses off are racists too.

You're an idiot.

That's the problem with all you virtue signalling white idiots. You think you speak for everybody.

I assure you that you don't.

You are an enemy of America, and of all Americans of any ethnicity.

There is a place in Texas I know well called Barrett Station. The demographics have not been updated for 2020 to show an influx of Hispanics and it doesn't get mentioned in the Wikipedia, but the blacks are secretly contemptuous of the Mexicans. You might call it racism. And the Mexicans are secretly contemptuous of the blacks. Could be called racism. And the white man second is amazed at how foolish people are in secret about racism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett,_Texas#Demographics

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Saturday, April 3, 2021 4:14 PM

"Virtue signaling." -Another Nazi tell. To the Nazi's twisted mind, anyone who stands up for anything is "virtue signaling," because in their world, no one is capable of caring about anyone else.

GOP: break your Keurig, burn your Nikes, don’t watch CNN, MLB, NBA, NFL, or NASCAR, don’t shop at Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, Nordstrom, or Macy’s, don’t drink Pepsi or Starbucks, don’t watch HBO or Netflix and don’t eat Oreos.

Also GOP: Let’s talk about how cancel culture is bad.

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 4:39 AM

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This is the most important chart in all of national politics. Read it carefully. Absorb it. Only then can you begin your journey toward lasting insight.

https://jabberwocking.com/chart-of-the-day-politics-in-a-nutshell/
Also, none but Biden faced an intractable, block-everything opposition party. LBJ had the rump of the Dixiecrats to deal with, but in the mid-Sixties those clowns were still in our circus until switching to the GOP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 9:13 AM

A lawsuit names Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell and alleges actions sinister even by his standards
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article250316759.html

Leaked video of horrific mass execution has drawn attention to bloody crisis unfolding in Ethiopia, where civil war over territory erupted in recent months. Video shows dozens of unarmed prisoners surrounded by heavily armed men with Ethiopian flags emblazoned on their shoulders.
https://www.news.com.au/world/africa/footage-shows-soldiers-killing-un
armed-men-on-cliffside-in-ethiopian-civil-war/news-story/50197b7af59289863a3e7b99e8d454c8

Noah Green Facebook Posts Show Nation of Islam Ideology

Capitol cop killed by 'Nation of Islam' knife-man who mowed him down

his FB page promptly gets wiped

How a college football star became Jihadi? became an Afro-Centrist islamist, conspiracy follower and devout Nation of Islam follower

Noah Green, US Capitol attacker, was a supporter of ‘Nation of Islam’. Here's all you need to know
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/noah-green-us-capitol-attack
er-was-a-supporter-of-nation-of-islam-101617468479317.html

Louis Farrakhan Silent After Noah Green Linked to Nation of Islam
https://www.newsweek.com/louis-farrakhan-silent-after-noah-green-ident
ified-nation-islam-follower-1580842

What is the Nation of Islam?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14539205/nation-of-islam-louis-farrakhan
-noah-green/

LIVE UPDATES: Capitol attack suspect identified as Noah Green, a Farrakhan and Nation of Islam follower
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/live-updates-capitol-locked-down-arme
d-suspect-in-custody

What do we know about Capitol attack suspect Noah Green?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/noah-green-capitol-attack-nation
-of-islam-what-we-know-b927712.html

Suspect's Nation of Islam ties thwart progressive narrative on Capitol attack
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/2/noah-green-nation-isla
m-ties-thwart-progressive-na/

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 9:23 AM

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"Virtue signaling." -Another Nazi tell. To the Nazi's twisted mind, anyone who stands up for anything is "virtue signaling," because in their world, no one is capable of caring about anyone else.

No. We just know that YOU, specifically, are incapable of caring about anyone else.

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 9:25 AM

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Louis Farrakhan Silent After Noah Green Linked to Nation of Islam
https://www.newsweek.com/louis-farrakhan-silent-after-noah-green-ident
ified-nation-islam-follower-1580842

Well... I guess we should look on the bright side.

Somebody finally found a way to shut that loud-mouthed racist fucker up.

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 9:27 AM

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This is the most important chart in all of national politics. Read it carefully. Absorb it. Only then can you begin your journey toward lasting insight.

https://jabberwocking.com/chart-of-the-day-politics-in-a-nutshell/
Also, none but Biden faced an intractable, block-everything opposition party. LBJ had the rump of the Dixiecrats to deal with, but in the mid-Sixties those clowns were still in our circus until switching to the GOP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

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We're lucky.

Only have to weather this storm for about another year and a half.

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 10:51 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
This is the most important chart in all of national politics. Read it carefully. Absorb it. Only then can you begin your journey toward lasting insight.

https://jabberwocking.com/chart-of-the-day-politics-in-a-nutshell/
Also, none but Biden faced an intractable, block-everything opposition party. LBJ had the rump of the Dixiecrats to deal with, but in the mid-Sixties those clowns were still in our circus until switching to the GOP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

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We're lucky.

Only have to weather this storm for about another year and a half.

It could be less than 1.5 years if any Democratic Senator pulls a Sen. Ted Kennedy -- that means becoming too ill to vote in the Senate, yet refusing to resign and be replaced with a Democratic Senator that actually does the job of voting for Democratic laws. In that case, the Senate becomes deadlocked with 50 Republicans and 49 Senators caucusing with the Democrats plus 1 more Democrat, the V.P. Kamala Harris who would normally be the tie-breaking 51st vote. (Bernie and Angus King of Maine are Independents caucusing with the Democrats.)

Kennedy lived for 15 months after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma, slightly longer than the average of one year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy#Aftermath

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 3:06 PM

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No. We just know that YOU, specifically, are incapable of caring about anyone else.

Projection. Another Nazi tell. ^

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 4:33 PM

You realize that every dumb thing that you say can easily be turned right back on you and you exhibit the behavior where any rational person would agree, don't you?

You are without a doubt the worst person I've ever met in my life. Pure trash. Absolute waste of carbon.

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Sunday, April 4, 2021 4:35 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
This is the most important chart in all of national politics. Read it carefully. Absorb it. Only then can you begin your journey toward lasting insight.

https://jabberwocking.com/chart-of-the-day-politics-in-a-nutshell/
Also, none but Biden faced an intractable, block-everything opposition party. LBJ had the rump of the Dixiecrats to deal with, but in the mid-Sixties those clowns were still in our circus until switching to the GOP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

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We're lucky.

Only have to weather this storm for about another year and a half.
It could be less than 1.5 years if any Democratic Senator pulls a Sen. Ted Kennedy -- that means becoming too ill to vote in the Senate, yet refusing to resign and be replaced with a Democratic Senator that actually does the job of voting for Democratic laws. In that case, the Senate becomes deadlocked with 50 Republicans and 49 Senators caucusing with the Democrats plus 1 more Democrat, the V.P. Kamala Harris who would normally be the tie-breaking 51st vote. (Bernie and Angus King of Maine are Independents caucusing with the Democrats.)

Kennedy lived for 15 months after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma, slightly longer than the average of one year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy#Aftermath

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Ted Kennedy was a mindless zombie the last 10 years he "served". Democrats did him dirtier than Ginsberg.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 5:05 AM

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Why Republicans are the party of the White working class

Take a look at the Cooperative Election Study, which is a large academic survey of voters taken after each election, to better understand how little income matters to White voting patterns. https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/

Non-college White voters wanted no part of voting Democratic in 2020 House races, regardless of their income levels. White voters without a college degree favored Republicans by about a 26-point margin, if their family income was below the median. They voted Republican by a 31-point margin if their family income was above the median.

Among all White respondents, the Democratic margin increased by 39 points when respondents had a college degree. The House margin among all White respondents shifted by 5 points toward the Democrats, when their family income was above the median compared to below.

It's not that higher income makes White voters more Democratic, but rather that education is such a powerful pull and more educated voters tend to be wealthier. This is why we see wealthier White areas trending Democratic and poorer areas trending Republican in recent years. The latter tend to be filled with less educated voters, while the former tend to have more educated voters.

In other words, income matters very little among White voters. Education means everything.

But in 2006, it was very different. White voters without a college degree actually favored Democrats by a 3-point margin, if their family income was below the median. White voters favored Republicans by a 13-point margin, if their family income was above the median.

In fact among all White respondents, the Democrats' margin increased by 14 points depending on whether their family income was below or above the median. It increased by just 5 points, depending on whether they had a college degree.

That is, income seemed to have a greater effect on voting patterns than did education levels in 2006, which is very different from 2020. When you had districts that had below-average education levels and income levels, there was a decent shot they'd vote Democratic, just like Iowa's 2nd and Ohio's 18th Districts did in 2006. This isn't the case today.

Back in 2006, Democrats could rightly argue they had a lot of support by at least one definition of the White working class.

Today, Republicans can rightly claim to have the support of the White working class based on either an economic- or education-based definition.

More at https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/04/politics/republicans-white-working-clas
s-education/index.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, April 5, 2021 7:28 AM

Hunter Biden tries to suppress his laptop scandal
https://www.weeklyblitz.net/world/hunter-biden-tries-to-suppress-his-l
aptop-scandal/

Twitter's Jack Dorsey calls it a 'total mistake' that New York Post got blocked over Hunter report
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9403861/Twitters-Jack-Dorsey-
calls-total-mistake-New-York-Post-got-blocked-Hunter-report.html

Hunter Biden: I Smoked ‘Parmesan Cheese’ During Battle With Addiction

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-biden-says-he-smoked-parmesan-che
ese-during-battle-with-addiction?via=twitter_page

Hunter Biden was suspected of smoking crack inside a strip club where he dropped “thousands of dollars” during multiple visits — at the same time he held a seat on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural-gas company
https://pagesix.com/2019/11/26/hunter-biden-suspected-of-smoking-crack
-in-dc-strip-clubs-vip-room/

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Monday, April 5, 2021 8:16 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-biden-says-he-smoked-parmesan-che
ese-during-battle-with-addiction

Joe Biden's long experience dealing with crazy son has toughened and strengthened Joe for dealing with crazy GOP:

Hunter Biden, who dives into his long-running battle with drugs and alcohol in his upcoming memoir Beautiful Things, also recounted how his father staged an intervention while he was binge-drinking vodka and smoking crack. “He came to my apartment one time, and this was when he was in office as vice president, he ditched the Secret Service and figured out a way to get over to the house,” Biden recalled. “And I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ And I said, dad, I’m fine. And he said, ‘You’re not fine.’”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, April 5, 2021 10:29 AM

Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-disinformation/half-of
-republicans-believe-false-accounts-of-deadly-u-s-capitol-riot-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN2BS0RZ

Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists “trying to make Trump look bad,” a new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found.

Six in 10 Republicans also believe the false claim put out by Trump that November’s presidential election “was stolen” from him due to widespread voter fraud, and the same proportion of Republicans think he should run again in 2024, the March 30-31 poll showed.

Since the Capitol attack, Trump, many of his allies within the Republican Party and right-wing media personalities have publicly painted a picture of the day’s events jarringly at odds with reality.

Hundreds of Trump’s supporters, mobilized by the former president’s false claims of a stolen election, climbed walls of the Capitol building and smashed windows to gain entry while lawmakers were inside voting to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory. The rioters - many of them sporting Trump campaign gear and waving flags - also included known white supremacist groups such as the Proud Boys.

In a recent interview with Fox News, Trump said the rioters posed “zero threat.” Other prominent Republicans, such as Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, have publicly doubted whether Trump supporters were behind the riot.

Last month, 12 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against a resolution honoring Capitol Police officers who defended the grounds during the rampage, with one lawmaker saying that he objected using the word “insurrection” to describe the incident.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll shows a large number of rank-and-file Republicans have embraced the myth. While 59% of all Americans say Trump bears some responsibility for the attack, only three in 10 Republicans agree. Eight in 10 Democrats and six in 10 independents reject the false claims that the Capitol siege was “mostly peaceful” or it was staged by left-wing protestors.

“Republicans have their own version of reality,” said John Geer, an expert on public opinion at Vanderbilt University. “It is a huge problem. Democracy requires accountability and accountability requires evidence.”

The refusal of Trump and prominent Republicans to repudiate the events of Jan. 6 increases the likelihood of a similar incident happening again, said Susan Corke, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.

“That is the biggest danger – normalizing this behavior,” Corke said. “I do think we are going to see more violence.”

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Monday, April 5, 2021 10:31 AM

Fake mail-in fraud election was fake.

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 10:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fake mail-in fraud election was fake.

Do you have any evidence of your claim?

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Monday, April 5, 2021 10:47 AM

Restaurant Chains Debunk Their Lobbyists’ Arguments Against A $15 Minimum Wage
While restaurant lobbyists tell lawmakers it’s the “wrong time” for a wage hike, companies they represent
are telling investors they can afford to pay higher wages.
https://www.dailyposter.com/p/restaurant-chains-debunk-their-lobbyists
-f03?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2ODg1MzEsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM0Nzc5NTQ3LCJfIjoidFlaVHoiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTc2MzM5NzUsImV4cCI6MTYxNzYzNzU3NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3Nzc4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.g7C_0ntd2WKESIItLMf5ZrdTscxPr6VfIgrFhzCSQ-4

As corporate lobbying groups in Washington fight plans for a $15 minimum wage and warn lawmakers it's not the right time to make companies pay their workers more, big restaurant chains are telling investors a national minimum wage hike wouldn’t be a big deal.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 10:47 AM

Yup.

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup.

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

So, you have zero evidence, just like your cult leader.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 11:05 AM

Sidney Powell: Pro-Trump lawyer tells court no ‘reasonable person’ would listen to her in bid to get Dominion suit thrown out
Powell seeks dismissal of the defamation suit on grounds that her rights were protected under First Amendment
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-la
wyer-sidney-powell-dominion-lawsuit-b1820886.html

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Sidney Powell has submitted in court that her assertion about voter fraud after the 2020 US presidential election was opinion, and not a statement of fact.

Ms Powell is seeking dismissal of the $1.3 billion lawsuit against her by Dominion Voting Systems, which has alleged that the conservative legal firebrand defamed the election voting technology company with conspiracy theories in the weeks following the polls.

Ms Powell, who is notable for saying her lawsuits challenging the election were akin to “releasing the Kraken,” made Dominion Voting Systems the centre of her legal challenges to the 2020 election results.

The lawyer claimed that agents from Iran and China had compromised Dominion’s voting machines so that they would change the votes for Trump to those for Joe Biden.

Ms Powell, who was later disavowed by the Trump campaign, submitted before the federal court in Washington that “it was clear to reasonable persons” that she was sharing her “opinions and legal theories on a matter of utmost public concern.”
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The Tucker Carlson defense.

Jesus, dude, the people who lied you into the cult don't even believe their own bullshit.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 6:12 PM

Welcome to Day 76.

Today in one sentence: A record 4 million people in the U.S. received a coronavirus vaccine on Saturday; nearly 200 companies signed a joint statement against proposals that threaten to restrict voting access in dozens of states; Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for a global minimum corporate tax rate; the Trump campaign refunded 10.7% of the money it raised online in 2020; and 55% of Republicans believe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was led by left-wing activists "trying to make Trump look bad."

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