Apr 032021
Rachel Maddow with an unusual take on McConnell – I hope she’s right.
Robert Reich – How to Tax a Billionaire
Al Franken’s first video! Longish – about 10 minutes – but a milestone.
Founders Sing – “Matt Gaetz Is Standing There”
Beau – Foreign Policy – this seems really obvious to me, but I’m sure he’s correct that it isn’t – not to most people. So let’s go ahead and put it into words.
Keith from last night
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RM: I hope she’s right too.
Founders: Hilarious, but not for Gaetz.
KO: He knocks it out of the ballpark.
Thank you, Joanne for post.
Ooops – I got a transcript of Keith but was hoping that he’d put up CC – then I forgot to check.
This is Olbermann versus Confederate Georgia. Great- now boycott the Masters. Not only has major league baseball, unexpectedly, done exactly the right thing by moving its all star game out of atlanta, but it has just as importantly opened the floodgates and put a target on the back of every major sports event, every major non sports events and every corporation doing business with georgia. As an aside when baseball announced this, thank goodness, I was at a checkup in my cardiologist’s office. The next big opportunity to do the right thing is thursday, the masters golf tournament. It’s not likely they are going to move it out of augusta, Ga – the course were segregated there until nineteen Ninety, The double meaning in a former slavestate of masters, is also no coincidence. They will play that tournament, but that does not mean that has to count for anything or that it has to be shown on t v. The p g a tour, should declare that the masters is not an official event and will not be recognized as a major tournament, and ESPN and cbs should not televise it, nor in canada should the t s n network. Baseball acted quickly and decisively and in so doing saved its celebration of jackie robinson day on the fifteenth. People behind the masters don’t give a damn about any of that, but the tv networks and the sponsors have to It is against them that the pressure must build. More importantly, the light bulbs must tonight go off over the heads of many different groups – Georgia lawmakers, george or corporations still trying to talk their way out of this, like delta and coke atlanta based corporations, who have said almost nothing. Like: u p s, home depot, Arby’s. Indeed, everybody opposed to the georgia apartheid voting laws everybody must realize now This is economic war. The goal now is to keep american money out of georgia until the state repeals these laws and the tones for them, because georgia is where the forces of fascism have chosen to start this fight. Laws like there’s, have now been proposed by trump acolytes in forty two other states. These monsters cannot be appeaced, they must be broken. The next battlefield is augusta, Ga, april eighth Boycott the Masters.
Rachel: Wonnerful! Wonnerful!
RR: John Dillinger, when asked why he robbed banks,mass, simply, “Because that’s where the money is.” Well, now it’s with the super wealthy, because they’ve been robbing the gov’t
Franken: Wonnerful! Wonnerful!
FS: Wonnerful! Wonnerful!!
Beau: “…should be the goal of foreign policy.” Maybe the meta-goal has been peace, something like the Roman “Pax Romana,” whee they controlled the world, and so there was a form of peace.
Keith: Segregated until 1990! Wow! My youngest child is older than that. He does knock “it out of the ballpark,” indeed! Gov. Kemp, who stole the election in true Jim Crow style, says he will not back down. I say drive him to the wall.
C&L: I hope Democrats take their cue from Rachel, bicker/perfect this bill among themselves and leave the GQP to stew in its own juices (Dutch proverb).
RR: Reich has written the scenario of all your next tax steps, Democrats. Now to work.
Franken: Good to see him back. I hope his experiment worked out for him and we’ll see more of his videos with well-thought-out comments on political issues in Washington.
FS: Gaetz turns out to be a creep who is full of himself, but so insecure in his manhood that he has to pay underage girls to sleep with him. And even they find him immature. It wouldn’t surprise me when one of the ‘conquests’, he goes around showing photos of, drags him into court on rape charges.
Beau: There must have been something in comments he got to set Beau off on this speech but I didn’t see much point to it either, Joanne.
Keith:
I think the point Beau was trying to make was that, when people identify citizens in other countries with their government, bad things happen. Case in point was all the messages coming from OFM about the “King Flu” and “Wuhan Flu” were really (false, granted) messages about the Chinese government, not the people, but still led to violence against Asian-Americans.
Thanks JD.
I’ll try to reply to some.
I hope Rachel is right too, but I fear that many Democrats will form a circular firing squad.
The Reich on the left, Robert Reich is right. This time lets take BACK from the rich ay give BACK to the 99.9%, not the Republicane way!
Amen Keith!