Open Thread November 5, 2022

 Posted by at 6:52 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Nov 052022
 

Yesterday, it was pretty quiet, but I didn’t have alot of ambition. Previouslt I had made up the cartoons needed through the 10th, and update the one for the 15th because that was simple, but I still need to make them for the 13th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 27th, 28th, and 29th. i have the content ans artwotk, I just have to put them all together, but I really didn’t feel up to it. Oh well, there’ll be time next week. Today, of course, I have an opera to listen to, and will get ready to go see Virgil tomorrow.

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Short Takes –

Daily Beast – Republicans Are Bad for the Economy. Here’s Why.
Quote – The poll indicated that concerns about the economy and inflation are “much more likely to drive voters towards Republicans.” But that impulse is not only ill-considered, every bit of available evidence makes clear that the GOP is the wrong party to which to turn if you seek better U.S. economic performance in the future. In fact, it is not close. When it comes to the economy, the GOP is the problem and not the solution. If anything, it is a greater obstacle to our economic well-being today than it has ever been.
Click through for article. It drives me crazy that this is not obvious to every man, woman, and child in America. I learned it at mo mother’s knee (Yes, it’s been true that long.)

Robert Reich – Why I still think John Roberts is the worst Chief Justice since Roger Taney
Quote – I do not expect this Court to uphold affirmative action, notwithstanding the clear precedent for doing so. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — the conservative least likely to champion dramatic change in the court’s precedents — has for his entire legal career opposed what he has called the “sordid business” of dividing Americans by race, including affirmative action As Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the Reagan Justice Department, Roberts argued that affirmative action was bound to fail because it required the “recruiting of inadequately prepared candidates.”
Click through for full opinion. Taney is infamous for the Dred Scott decision. But that wasn’t all.

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Video Thread 10/31/22

 Posted by at 11:52 am  Open Thread, Politics
Oct 312022
 

Glenn Kirschner – How federal law enforcement should respond to the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi

Farron Balanced – January 6th Committee Gives Georgia Prosecutors Evidence That Could Sink Trump

MSNBC – Pelosi Home Invasion Comes After Years Of Trump Targeting The Speaker

Really American – Chip Franklin EXPOSES Republicans abundance of hate and absence of solutions

Rocky Mountain Mike (for Hallowe’en) – Ivana’s Casket (with CC) and if you miss the original – https://youtu.be/yuy2fA6alfE

Beau – Let’s talk about the exit strategy for Ukraine….

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Open Thread October 27, 2022

 Posted by at 6:55 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 272022
 

Yesterday, the weather report said (my paraphrase of a graph) “There might be snow tomorrow [today now], but don’t hold us to that; it might just be a little rain.” Snow for Hallowe’en in Colorado used to be like rain at 5:00 pm on a Florida summer day – you could practically set your watch (time or calendar) by it. But that hasn’t been true for a while now. So we’ll see. Otherwise, a quiet day.

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Letters From An American – October 23, 2022
Quote – In 1876, “Redeemers” set out to put an end to the southern governments that were elected in systems that allowed Black men to vote. “Rifle clubs” held contests outside Republican political rallies, “Red Shirts” marched with their guns in parades. Their intimidation worked. Democrats took over the South and created a one-party system that lasted virtually unbroken until 1965. Without the oversight that a healthy multiparty system provides, southern governments became the corrupt tools of a few wealthy men, and the rest of the population fell into a poverty from which it could not escape until the federal government began to invest in the region in the 1930s.
Click through for full letter. I learned about “Reconstruction” in school, but I never heard the word “Redemption” in that context. That they should use that word for what they actually did seems to me blasphemous. “Redemption” means “buying back.” Buying involves paying a price. They paid no price – they extorted a price from the powerless.

The Daily Beast – Florida Puts Raging MAGA Moms on Book-Banning Council
Quote – In the name of “curriculum transparency,” Florida’s Republican-controlled state government has appointed several anti-gay and anti-mask conspiracy theorists to take charge of a new effort at public schools: banning books. This hastily assembled censorship council—tasked with retraining public school librarians to abide by new restrictions—is the latest ploy in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade to upend the state’s education system. But the council was also staffed under suspicious circumstances, with the state Education Department ignoring its own call for official candidates from local school districts and instead filling most of the slots with right-wing activists who have a history of proposing book bans. One was even nominated by a religious activist with close ties to the DeSantis administration a week before the department publicly called for candidates, according to government emails, hinting at secret coordination between them.
Click through for details. You can read or listen, your choice. Should Florida just change the name of its high schools to “Hitlerjugend” and be done with it?

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Video Thread 10/21/22

 Posted by at 11:47 am  Open Thread, Politics
Oct 212022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Judge David Carter rules Trump KNOWINGLY filed false documents in court, lying about election fraud

Meidas Touch – Marco Rubio HUMILIATED on live TV in VIRAL debate MOMENT OF THE YEAR

The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party — October 18, 2022

MSNBC – Trevor Noah On American Racism Vs. Overt Racism In South Africa

Liberal Redneck – Trashin’ Alabama for Three Straight Minutes

Beau – Let’s talk about two cars in Jacksonville and being a man…. ( did read about this. I recommend a hanky. I won’t write about it because I can’t express anger constructively as well as Beau can.)

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Video Thread 10/15/22

 Posted by at 11:53 am  Open Thread, Politics
Oct 152022
 

Glenn Kirschner – New evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed felony obstruction of justice

Meidas Touch – MAGA Republicans repeat BLATANT RACISM at Arizona Trump Rally

The Lincoln Project – America or MAGA

MSNBC – Maddow: Humans Have A Muscle For Authoritarian, Fascist, Anti-Semitic, Racist Wedge Politics

Armageddon Update – Death Walker of Democracy

Beau – Let’s talk about DOD changing the cars you see….

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Video Thread 10/14/22

 Posted by at 11:59 am  Open Thread, Politics
Oct 142022
 

Glenn Kirschner – DOJ files compelling brief with Supreme Court in Trump stolen classified documents case

Meidas Touch – MAGA Candidate for Arizona Governor VACUUMS TINY RED RUG for Trump at Rally

The Lincoln Project – Flaunting Their Racism

MSNBC – The Trumpiest Time In American History Before Trump’

It Took Years To Get This Feral Dog Inside A House

Beau – Let’s talk about Haiti and the world’s EMT…. (Could State do this? Wasn’t the Peace Corps under State?

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Video Thread 10/11/22

 Posted by at 11:55 am  Open Thread, Politics
Oct 112022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Trumps tries to swap stolen documents for info he wants; FBI investigates Trump Tower and Bedminster

The Lincoln Project – Ukraine

MSNBC – DeSantis Auditions For Role Of Green M&M In White Boots

Robert Reich – Organizing a Key Battleground State with @New Georgia Project Action Fund

Brent Terhune – black little mermaid

Beau – Let’s talk about Georgia and the Herschel Walker situation….

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Open Thread October 10, 2022

 Posted by at 6:54 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 102022
 

Yesterday, I went to see Virgil. I set my alarm a bit earlier than I had been on days I was going to see him, and that turned out to be a mistake. We live and learn. So I’ll switch it back (after I set it for Thursday’s hearing, of course.) Virgil appreciates and returns all your greetings. The weather was fine and the drive both ways was uneventful. Also, I thought I had enough sleep Saturday night. However, I still felt pretty tired upon return.  Oh, yes, and Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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HuffPost – What The Weird Conservative Fixation On Electric Vehicles Says About Their Politics
Quote – The Biden administration has made support for EVs a top priority. The Inflation Reduction Act, the spending bill that Biden signed over the summer, included new tax credits for people who purchase EVs as well as businesses that open up charging stations. Greene has been critical of this effort from the get-go, and in February posted a 21-part tweetstorm calling the Biden plan ― which, at that point, was still under discussion ― “a one way ticket to hell.” Greene isn’t alone in making these sorts of arguments. On the contrary, the list of Republican officials who have attacked the Biden administration’s EV agenda in similar terms is long and includes everybody from Florida Sen. Rick Scott to Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
Click through for three reasons why anyone with a functioning brain and who doesn’t hate Democrats could be expected to be ebthusiastic about EVs. But, Republicans … What do you want to bet that20 or even 10 years from now they will be all in favors of EVs, and will never admit they weren’t always.

CPR News – As the reparations debate continues nationally, some Denver organizations are stepping up now
Quote – Risë Jones is walking around TeaLee’s, her three-year-old tea shop in Denver’s historically Black Five Points neighborhood. Soft jazz plays in the main seating area with about 10 tables, and in the basement is a bookstore with some hard-to-find titles by Black authors…. Jones is among several Black business owners in Denver who have received grants from groups raising private funds to pay reparations for the centuries of abuse of Blacks forced into slavery…. Jones received an $8,500 reparations grant to open the shop, one of several that have been distributed…. There are several organizations that do precisely that kind of work. One of them is BRIC (Black Resilience in Colorado) a non-profit organization that officially opened on Juneteeth (June 19) of 2020.
Click through and scroll down for the article – it’s below a podcast and the picture. Hey, they’re a radio outfit, of course they like podcasts. But they like articles too. There is so much in it for me as a Coloradan to be proud of (and that TomCat would have loved.)

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