It's not possible to overstate how stupid it sounds when the Undisputed Champions of Hypocrisy & Intolerance try to turn that shit around.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 1, 2018
Jul 1, 2018
Today's Tweet
It's not possible to overstate how stupid it sounds when the Undisputed Champions of Hypocrisy & Intolerance try to turn that shit around.
The Othering Of LatinX
Trying to dispel some of the myths regarding MS-13.
(spoiler alert: 45* gets it wrong)
Jose Miguel Cruz, WaPo:
The Trump administration’s campaign against immigration conflates the flow of undocumented immigrants from Central America with the growth of MS-13 — the brutal transnational street gang. The president and the attorney general frequently say that stopping the former means stopping the latter. Information about the four-decade-old gang, formally named Mara Salvatrucha, is scarce, but we know enough to dispel some of the misconceptions that have grown up around it.
(spoiler alert: 45* gets it wrong)
Jose Miguel Cruz, WaPo:
The Trump administration’s campaign against immigration conflates the flow of undocumented immigrants from Central America with the growth of MS-13 — the brutal transnational street gang. The president and the attorney general frequently say that stopping the former means stopping the latter. Information about the four-decade-old gang, formally named Mara Salvatrucha, is scarce, but we know enough to dispel some of the misconceptions that have grown up around it.
(here are the big 5 lies)
- MS-13 was created by Salvadoran ex-guerrillas.
- MS-13 is well-organized and controlled from El Salvador.
- Illegal immigrants are coming to the U.S. to expand the gang's reach.
- To combat MS-13, stop immigration from Central America.
- MS-13 is a threat to communities all over America.
As always, there's nothing that says we should simply ignore the threat of gangs and the violence that gangs always bring with them.
Also always, we should never buy into the bullshit rhetoric of a Daddy State dick like Donald Trump.
Those Wacky Canadians
Amy Wang, reporting at WaPo:
Like a Charlie Chaplin film, modern-day surveillance videos can unspool a story without making a sound.
I especially liked the part at the beginning when the guy tries to make his escape by shoving his girlfriend at the cop. Quite the gentleman.
And in the case of an attempted criminal activity at a convenience store in Canada, footage from that incident tells . . . quite the tale.
I especially liked the part at the beginning when the guy tries to make his escape by shoving his girlfriend at the cop. Quite the gentleman.
Jun 30, 2018
Today's Tweet
You don't have to follow orders
No more torture at our borders
'We have no moral right to be comfortable when the price of our comfort is injustice.' — This man decided he'd rather quit his government job than pass information to ICE #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/0d6ptRNWij— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 30, 2018
Today's Quote(s)
― Samuel Adams
- and -
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams
There's No Tea Party
...never was - that was the GOP rebranded.
And there's no Tea Party Of The Left - because there's no fucking Tea Party.
It is not the responsibility of "the left" to help the Obama-to-Trump voters get their shit straight and find their way home.
"No - grow the fuck up and vote like an adult human being."
Some goodly quotables this week from ProLeftPod
And there's no Tea Party Of The Left - because there's no fucking Tea Party.
It is not the responsibility of "the left" to help the Obama-to-Trump voters get their shit straight and find their way home.
"No - grow the fuck up and vote like an adult human being."
Some goodly quotables this week from ProLeftPod
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Jun 29, 2018
Today's Tweet
I'd make one small change and call it "Presumed but Counterfeit Herd Immunity".
But yeah - that's pretty much it.
Political herd immunity has nearly killed American democracyhttps://t.co/EWll9JCBoc@frangeladuo @StephMillerShow pic.twitter.com/2muZSK8Joq— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) June 29, 2018
Service
You don't have to wear a uniform and carry a gun to serve your country.
In case you were wondering what that occasionally looks like, here's the front page of The Capital Gazette (Annapolis, MD) the morning after some asshole with a gun and a grudge murdered 5 people because he felt aggrieved, and blamed the newspaper for his troubles.
Fuck yeah they published the next day. The bad shit people do to each other never takes a day off - so the news can't take a day either. Way to go, guys.
I bitch a lot about Press Poodles. I'm not sorry for most of that - sometimes I show my love by poking you with a stick - but that's got nothing to do with what happened yesterday in Annapolis.
Every day we get a new batch of horrors. It's not unreasonable to attribute some of them directly to Cult45, while others have a more tenuous connection.
Sometimes though, out of these horrors, we get a new hero.
Selene San Felice (Capital Gazette survivor) is that hero. Because the truth must be spoken.
About That Anthony Kennedy Thing
This whole mess just gets worse.
Josh Marshall, TPM, cites an email he got from a former federal public corruption prosecutor …:
Consider that the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide, for example, whether the President can pardon himself or others to protect himself, whether a sitting President can be indicted, whether a sitting President can be compelled to testify before a federal grand jury, whether the appointment of the Special Counsel somehow violated the Appointments Clause (as some conservatives absurdly assert), and whether a President can ever obstruct justice. Even beyond the Mueller investigation, the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide whether the President’s acceptance of significant foreign funds through his businesses violates the Emoluments Clause. We have no idea how Justice Kennedy would have ruled on these questions (he hasn’t exactly distinguished himself in the last two days). But we have no doubt how a Trump appointee will. Never before has the selection of a Supreme Court nominee been so thoroughly compromised by the President’s profound personal interest in appointing a judge the President can count on to protect the President. This is DEFCON 1 for the rule of law in this country.
Democrats in the Senate seem to have missed this point, or are too feeble to effectively prosecute the basic conflict of interest case. Instead, they have fallen back on the “McConnell rule” as a justification to delay a vote. Make no mistake, the treatment of Judge Garland and the theft of President Obama’s nomination power was an outrage and a terrible precedent. But Democrats should not endorse it. They should not let McConnell’s mendacity become the norm. It should stand on its own in history as the flagrant abuse of power that it was. In any event, Democrats have a much stronger case to make: no vote should be taken until after the Special Counsel has submitted a report to Congress, or closed the investigation of the President. A President under federal criminal investigation for stealing an election should not be able to nominate the person who may decide his fate. There will be a cloud over the legitimacy of this nomination unless and until the cloud of the Mueller investigation has been lifted.
Wondering why Trey Gowdy and Jim Jordan (et al) are trying so hard to turn up the heat - trying get Mueller to wrap it up right now, &/or branded as the bad guy?
Then there's this too - Say Hello to Your Boy. A Special Guy.
The Times has a fascinating article tonight on the Trump White House’s courtship of Justice Anthony Kennedy, building a relationship and rapport to make Kennedy comfortable retiring on Trump’s watch and ahead of the 2018 midterm election. One particular detail grabbed my attention: Justice Kennedy’s son Justin was the global head of real estate capital markets at Deutsche Bank and a key lifeline of capital to President Donald Trump.
Here’s how the Times tells it …
But they had a connection, one Mr. Trump was quick to note in the moments after his first address to Congress in February 2017. As he made his way out of the chamber, Mr. Trump paused to chat with the justice.
“Say hello to your boy,” Mr. Trump said. “Special guy.”
Mr. Trump was apparently referring to Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr. Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with knowledge of his role.
During Mr. Kennedy’s tenure, Deutsche Bank became Mr. Trump’s most important lender, dispensing well over $1 billion in loans to him for the renovation and construction of skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at a time other mainstream banks were wary of doing business with him because of his troubled business history.
Wondering why Trey Gowdy and Jim Jordan (et al) are trying so hard to turn up the heat - trying get Mueller to wrap it up right now, &/or branded as the bad guy?
Then there's this too - Say Hello to Your Boy. A Special Guy.
The Times has a fascinating article tonight on the Trump White House’s courtship of Justice Anthony Kennedy, building a relationship and rapport to make Kennedy comfortable retiring on Trump’s watch and ahead of the 2018 midterm election. One particular detail grabbed my attention: Justice Kennedy’s son Justin was the global head of real estate capital markets at Deutsche Bank and a key lifeline of capital to President Donald Trump.
Here’s how the Times tells it …
But they had a connection, one Mr. Trump was quick to note in the moments after his first address to Congress in February 2017. As he made his way out of the chamber, Mr. Trump paused to chat with the justice.
“Say hello to your boy,” Mr. Trump said. “Special guy.”
Mr. Trump was apparently referring to Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr. Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with knowledge of his role.
During Mr. Kennedy’s tenure, Deutsche Bank became Mr. Trump’s most important lender, dispensing well over $1 billion in loans to him for the renovation and construction of skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at a time other mainstream banks were wary of doing business with him because of his troubled business history.
As many of you will remember, Deutsche Bank isn’t just any bank. As I noted in the first post I wrote about Trump’s ties to Russia and Vladimir Putin back on July 23rd, 2016, by the mid-90s, every major US bank had blackballed Donald Trump. as the Times put it in 2016, “Several bankers on Wall Street say they are simply not willing to take on what they almost uniformly referred to as ‘Donald risk.'” None would do business with him. With one big exception: Deutsche Bank.
So it may not be quite as sinister as I'm prone to think it is, but we're constantly learning about shit going on that Cult45 needs to hide, and that justifies a pretty high level of cynicism, if not outright paranoia.
So it may not be quite as sinister as I'm prone to think it is, but we're constantly learning about shit going on that Cult45 needs to hide, and that justifies a pretty high level of cynicism, if not outright paranoia.
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