Yesterday,I did the lst odds and ends of preparing for the drive.I sllao colected little advance material. Then I got to bed early. I will definitely pass greetings to Virgil today, I will drive carefully, and I will let you know I got home safe – it may not be the instant I get in the door as I’ll be eager to change clothes, but as soon as I get to the computer.
Cartoon –
Short Takes
Wonkette – When Will We Finally Accept That Trumpism Was Never About Economic Anxiety?
Quote – The Tea Party was a white, middle-class movement, and while not overtly violent, it was the product of racist backlash to Obama’s election. Republicans exploited the backlash, tip-toeing around the racism, for their immediate political gain. They cocked the weapon and handed it over to Trump, but we give him too much credit when we assume that if he hadn’t won in 2016, the problem would have gone away. (We can only imagine the violent backlash against Hillary Clinton.) A reported six out of every seven January 6 insurrectionists charged with crimes had no previous affiliations with extremist groups, such as the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, or the Three Percenters militia. This wasn’t a surprise to University of Chicago historian Kathleen Belew, who told Gellman: “January 6 wasn’t designed as a mass-casualty attack, but rather as a recruitment action.”
Click through for more. I’ve often thought that, had Hillary won, her Presidency would have been much like Obama’s, only with more backlash, because misgyny is deeper and stronger than racism. That doesn’t mean I don’t wish she had won – I do wish that, with all my heart. But it would not have derailed Trump**.
Crooks and Liars – Kelloggs To Permanently Replace 1400 Striking Workers
Quote – The decision follows months of bitter disagreement between the company and the union. The rejected offer would have provided cost of living adjustments in the later years of the deal and preserved the workers’ current healthcare benefits. But workers say they deserve significant raises because they routinely work more than 80 hours a week, and they kept the plants running throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Click through. I don’t knowingly cross a picket line. Thankfully, one of the comments included a link to an article of everything they own.
Mother Jones – Baristas in Buffalo Just Formed the First Starbucks Union in the United States
Quote – In a watershed moment for the recent wave of pandemic-inspired labor organizing, workers at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, voted [December 9] to form the coffee chain’s first union in the United States. Despite months of opposition from party leadership, 19 workers at the Elmwood location in Buffalo voted in favor of unionizing in the election, conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. Only eight opposed.
Click through for story – If I had had to guess way in advance where this wou;d happen … Buffalo would not have been my first guess. But whatever. More power to them!
Food for Thought –
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Hi, and hope that you have a very good time/visit/day today, Joanne.
Cartoon: re: R’s – What a typical negative reaction to a normally happy day back then.
Wonkette: Re: TOT – Very scary when he was on board and as president in the WH. A liar and sneak to this day.
C&L: How cruel that they are not re-hiring any of their workers. Will not be buying any Kellogg’s products, at all.
MJ: Awesome news!
FFT: Good Grief!
TJI: “President Biden is the most pro-labor, pro-transit president in American history.” ~ The Democrats~
2. “Remembering Pine-Eleven: The Attack on the Fox News Christmas Tree.” ~ The Daily Show ~
3. Reporter: “What do you say to critics who see travel bans on African nations as racist given that the omicron variant is in dozens of other countries?” Psaki: “That is not the intention. This was the recommendation of experts. This is not meant to be permanent or a punishment.” ~ Yamiche Alcindor ~
4. “Do not be misled: President Trump is trying to hide what happened on January 6th and to delay and obstruct. We will not let that happen. The truth will come out.”~ Rep Liz Cheney ~
5. “Some of these Republicans are running explicitly on the promise of overturning elections.”~ Molly Jong-Fast~
TJI #6 – “I am deeply troubled by reports of Kellogg’s plan to permanently replace striking workers. Permanently replacing striking workers is an existential attack on the union, and it’s member’s livelihoods. I strongly support legislation that would ban that practice.” ~ President Joe Biden ~
TJI #1 – There’s a Titus video (with Trae as a guest) in today’s thread which suggests that growing up in a dysfunctional family can lead to developing empathy. Well, it can and clearly did for those two. But from all account’s President Joe’s family was not dysfunctional, and he clearly has no empathy deficiency.
TJI #2 – From all accounts it was a homeless man, and it would not surprise me if he were as interested in getting warm as in making a pretty blaze. But that’s not good enough for Faux, It has to be WAR ON CHRISTMAS !!!!
TJI #3 – Was that Baby Dooce? Does whoever it was think South Africa is the ONLY country with a temporary travel ban right now?
TJI #4 – Liz makes me remembetr the days when one could disagree with EVERY thought a Republican had but still discuss things with him or her – because they had honor. That’s when America was greatest. I don’t expect to see that happen again in my lifetime.
TJI #5 – Which mens that anyone who votes for them is a traitor. But that is still not a reason for anyone else to know how anyone voted except him or her self.
TJI #6 – I gather there is already law that prevents them firing strikers, but not from replacing them. The more you think about that the less sense it makes.
TJI#1: It’s nice having one that cares for the People and for the country.
TJI#2: Darn it could of been their faux newsroom.
TJI#3: I swear these critics make up all sort of lies and reasons that don’t pertain to the real reasons why there’s a ban for travelling to Africa. It’s not racist reasons, it’s to protect the people from Covid-19 you fools.
TJI#4: You tell them Rep. Liz Cheney. You and the rest of the committee are going to find everything piece if evidence against tRump and his buddies and prosecute them and hopefully put them away behind bars for a very long time.
TJI#5: Hope these rotten R’s are voted out of office. The people have to realize by now that they’re not for them or the country. If they remain in office, we’re screwed.
TJI#6: I agree with President Biden. These workers deserve their jobs and Kellogg’s needs to work with satisfying their request.
Wonkette: tRumpy was for himself only. How so many people ended up being true followers of his all talk no action plans. He turned our country upside down with all of his evil tricks.
C&L: Shameful what Kellogg’s corporation is doing to their current employees. These employees have been working all these years even through this awful year with Covid-19. I like Pat will stop buying their products.
Mother Jones: Good for these Starbuck employees. Wishing them the best.
Food for Thought: Crazy chose?? I’d think they’d care more about their own health and safety and get the vaccine to protect themselves, their families and even others. Plus, normally when you quit, you say bye bye to your health benefits too.
Sounds to me that you were all ready for today’s visit with Virgil Again I pray that it went nicely and that your drive to and from went well too. Will be looking forward to hearing that you made it back safely.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
Just like two weeks ago, I pulled into the driveway just about at sunset, which was two minutes earllier than is was two weeks ago. But it took me a while to get to the computer. More tomorrow.
Comment from Mitch –
‘Toon: Achtung! Jawohl, mein SOB’s, You would be speaking German, und be still more practiced in the “Big Lie.”
Hitler, in “Mein Kampf,” about the malleability of people: “In the primitive simplicity of their minds they are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones.” From Lepore, “These Truths,” pg. 489
An Obama there would never have been, und ein Hillary vould haff been unthinkable. And, your architecture would have been ugly, just like you.
Wonkette: I do not know that 1/6 was designed to be a recruitment action, but it certainly seems to have become one. I mentioned that escalator ride, earlier today, when responding to another blog. No, it clearly was not related to economics, and that’s what the whole flap about CRT shows. More Big Lie!
C&L: Screw Kellogs!
MJ: Excellent!
FFT: Perfect! I just learned, if it is true, that a Ph.D. psychologist cousin, and her husband are anti-vaxxers. It’s hard not to say, “Are they stupid, or what?” but I’ve learned that intelligence is not a guarantee of constant ratioanlity. The most recent lesson had to do with “Why Do Intelligent People Do Stupid Things,” a preaentation at “The Skeptical Inquirer,” wherein it was mentioned that Some Nobel Laureates have championed silly stuff. One such was Linus Pauling, whose schtick about vitamin C curing/preventing cancer had no grounding in fact, whatsoever.
Mitch
A whole lot of experts can be really stupid outside their own field And foor a scientist, that means outside their own narrow bit of science. I wonder whether they maybe think, or rather feel (because serious thought would dispel the idea pretty quickly) that, because the think rigorously within their field, having been trained to do so, they are therefore immune to Dunning-Kruger outside it? There are many examples. Conan Doyle believed in spiritualism (interestingly, Sherlock holmes didn’t. Freud was a genius as a psychotherapists, but “Moses and Monotheism” is llame. I would not go this far myself, but some have said that no one is easier to decieve than a “great mind.”
“No one is easier than a great mind” might just be spot-on. Hubris plays a big part in this, I expect.M.
LOVE the cartoon!