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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Monday, June 17, 2019
The Supremes
SCOTUS comes up big on a couple.
The case has implications for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is facing charges in New York State that are similar to the federal charges for which he has been tried.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
This should be good news, but it's worrying because it pressures 45* to amp up his theme of calling for vigilante-style violence to keep him from having to leave office.
June 17 at 10:50 AM
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the challenge to a lower court’s findings that some of Virginia’s legislative districts were racially gerrymandered, saying that House Republicans did not have legal standing to challenge the decision.
The decision could give an advantage to the state’s Democrats. All 140 seats in the legislature are on the ballot this fall, and the GOP holds two-seat majorities in both the House (51 to 49) and the Senate (21 to 19).
Democrats have been hoping that a wave of success in recent Virginia elections will propel them to control of the legislature for the first time since 1995.
The party that controls the General Assembly in 2021 will oversee the next statewide redistricting effort, following next year’s census — potentially cementing an advantage in future elections.
Oddly, Gorsuch and Thomas sided with Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan on this one.
Last Week Last Night
John Oliver - Impeachment
Pelosi is playing the FDR card: "Sounds like a great idea - now go out and get the support we need to make me do it."
And she's not wrong.
To reiterate: Pelosi is in charge of The House. That's no small thing, but it's 1 part of a 6-part machine and the Repubs control majorities in all of the other 5 parts (ie: Senate, Executive, Judicial, State Governments and the Big Money Donors).
And again, she's playing a pretty strong game (so far) with a pretty weak hand.
And also too, I can't presume to know everything she knows, so I have to presume she's working in the context of information I know nothing about.
That said, there's nothing wrong with keeping up the pressure. We just have to be a little careful not to express our frustrations in terms of "she's stupid" and "she's incompetent" and "she's not doing her job", etc. We can't afford to get suckered again.
Because this is not about "those bumbling dumbass Democrats".
We're in this pickle because of the GOP - because of Republican policies in service to the 40-year project of Radical Libertarians to shitcan our little experiment in self-government and replace it with plutocracy.
Don't fall for that shit.
Pelosi is playing the FDR card: "Sounds like a great idea - now go out and get the support we need to make me do it."
And she's not wrong.
To reiterate: Pelosi is in charge of The House. That's no small thing, but it's 1 part of a 6-part machine and the Repubs control majorities in all of the other 5 parts (ie: Senate, Executive, Judicial, State Governments and the Big Money Donors).
And again, she's playing a pretty strong game (so far) with a pretty weak hand.
And also too, I can't presume to know everything she knows, so I have to presume she's working in the context of information I know nothing about.
That said, there's nothing wrong with keeping up the pressure. We just have to be a little careful not to express our frustrations in terms of "she's stupid" and "she's incompetent" and "she's not doing her job", etc. We can't afford to get suckered again.
Because this is not about "those bumbling dumbass Democrats".
We're in this pickle because of the GOP - because of Republican policies in service to the 40-year project of Radical Libertarians to shitcan our little experiment in self-government and replace it with plutocracy.
Don't fall for that shit.
Today's Tweet
But it didn't keep a jagoff like Tom Cotton from calling for a "retaliatory strike" against Iran.
Is it just me, or has the Gulf of Trumpkin incident receded from the top of the news unusually fast? It's almost as if they figured out that this dog won't wag, and moved on— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 16, 2019
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Today's Keystone Kops
...except it's not fuckin' funny - not when people can and do get killed over some "issue" that's almost never anything more than a fews dollars worth of goods or the result of some ignorantly incompetent cops.
What happened in Phoenix is another example - in a long list of examples - of how shitty things have gotten, and how much shittier they're likely to get.
Justin King:
And here's the video he refers to:
What happened in Phoenix is another example - in a long list of examples - of how shitty things have gotten, and how much shittier they're likely to get.
Justin King:
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Today's Tweet
Betty kills it
Reminder to All “Straight” Men Who Selflessly Devote Their Lives to Thinking About Gay Men Having Sex:— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 15, 2019
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Friday, June 14, 2019
AKA: Trumponomics
I always called it The Blondie & Dagwood Marketing Strategy.
If I'd known the GOP was going to adopt it as their main policy, I woulda kept my fuckin' mouth shut.
If I'd known the GOP was going to adopt it as their main policy, I woulda kept my fuckin' mouth shut.
How Great I Art
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball is a good place to get a look at what's going on - and coming up - in electoral politics.
Larry Joseph Sabato is an American political scientist and political analyst. He is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he is also the founder and director of the Center for Politics, which works to promote civic engagement and participation. The Center for Politics is also responsible for the publication of Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online newsletter and website that provides free political analysis and electoral projections.
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Today's Beau
Beau Of The Fifth Column - aka: Justin King
"I sat there and watched these scars of history burst open in front of me."
"I sat there and watched these scars of history burst open in front of me."
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