Video Thread 11/15/22

 Posted by at 11:50 am  Open Thread, Politics
Nov 152022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Trump sues J6 committee to keep from testifying. His lawsuit is bogus but his goal is delay. [Donald Trump** is a living, breathing, walking, talking “unwarranted intrusion upon the office of the Presidency.”]

MSNBC – Michael Cohen: “Donald Has A Fragile Ego So There’s Not A Diaper Big Enough For Him”

Robert Reich – What the Democrats Must Do If Republicans Take the House

John Fugelsang – Both Sides Do It! (/s)

Watch What Happens When A 14-Year-Old Dog Finally Leaves The Shelter

Beau – Let’s talk about CEOs “destroying the planet”….

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Video Thread 11/7/22

 Posted by at 12:14 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Nov 072022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Oath Keeper Elmer Stewart Rhodes testifies that the election was “unconstitutional” and “invalid”

The Lincoln Project – Never

Meidas Touch – Furious White House Reporter tells us TRUMP IS to BLAME for MAGA GOP VIOLENCE

MSNBC – Mallory McMorrow: GOP Is Invoking Violence As A Political Strategy

Robert Reich – 3 Lies Republicans Are Using This Election

Beau – Let’s talk about a voting PSA….

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Video Thread 9/27/22

 Posted by at 11:54 am  Open Thread, Politics
Sep 272022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s secret grand jury litigation to stop aides from incriminating him & why it won’t work

Meidas Touch – BREAKING: Federal Court CITES Trump case and IMMEDIATELY DENIES Mike Lindell Search Warrant Motion (It takes Ben a while to get to the lede, but when he does, it’s delicious)

The Lincoln Project – How a Democracy Falls

Robert Reich – The Truth Behind “Self-Made” Billionaires

Armageddon Update – IMMIGRATION NATION!

Beau – Let’s talk about how Game of Thrones can change the world…. [Call me crazy, but I would recommend detective fiction – not what I would call crime fiction where the focus is on the crimes, but detective fiction where the focus is on analyzing and deducing to restore order.)

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Open Thread September 24, 2022

 Posted by at 7:12 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 242022
 

Yesterday was chilly again. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Oh well, it’s Colorado. Eventually, it did warm up.  Also, a new Betty Bowers video came out (It’ll be in tomorrow’s video thread) and by a strange coincidence, the answer to the Wordle was “Glory!” I am having plumbing issues, but can’t get a plumber unti Monday. Sigh. These things happen.

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Robert Reich – The Truth I’m telling Congress today (Part II) [A continuation from yesterday’s article. We seldom get such a quick response.]
Quote – This is the process, folks. The media begin to change how they report on a public problem such as inflation, because the current facts don’t square with the older view. This starts to reframe the debate. The reframing educates the public, and encourages lawmakers to talk differently about the problem. Which in turn encourages the media to further reframe it in line with current realities.
Click through for article. In his email he also refers to a New York Times article (sorry I don’t have a gift link) which also carries the message. Good news.

The Daily Beast – Donald Trump Tells Hannity He Can Declassify Docs Just by ‘Thinking About It’
Quote – When Hannity asked about the declassification process, Trump replied: “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. Different people see different things. But as I understand it, there doesn’t have to be. If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it,” he asserted. “It doesn’t have to be a process. It can be a process but it doesn’t have to be. You’re the president. You make that decision. So when you send it [to Mar-a-Lago or “wherever”], it’s declassified. We—I—declassified everything,” Trump insisted, even though his lawyers have not made that claim in court.
Click through for more, including a video if you can stand it (I didn’t even try.) This is so FRIKKEN ridiculous you have probably already heard it.

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Open Thread September 23, 2022

 Posted by at 6:55 am  Open Thread, Politics
Sep 232022
 

Yesterday was the day which was expected to be the coldest in months, and I must say it did not disappoint.  I put the quilt back on the bed the night before, and was not a bit too warm (the blanket had alreadt been on the bed for a couple of weeks).)  The quilt stayed lest night – it may come off tonight – but the blanket is probably there to stay until next June.  I grabbed a sweater early and kept it on all day.On the bright side, I did receive confirmation to visit Virgil Sunday.

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Daily Beast – AOC Rival’s Family Caught in Drug and Gun Bust
Quote – But what Forte has failed to mention is that her family’s beverage distribution warehouse was at the center of a federal drug and gun bust in 2019—which culminated in guilty pleas by her husband and son, both of whom are serial offenders. In a 2020 Facebook post, Forte placed her business at an address on the Bronx’s Stillwell Avenue, and in her financial disclosures to the House Clerk’s office she stated her husband’s income derived from a company incorporated in this same building. It was this exact location that a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent identified as the site of the crimes of Joseph “Joey Snapple” Galdieri—to whom Forte is married, according to records in suburban Rockland County, where the pair own a home well outside the congressional district’s borders—and their son Joseph Galdieri Jr.
Click through for story. Life would be better if Republicans named Tina would just stay out of politics (JK – at this point life would be better if ALL Republicans would just stay out of politics.)

Robert Reich – The truth I’m telling Congress today about inflation
Quote – Well, now I get a chance to tell Congress why this is insane…. My aim is to state as clearly as possible that the underlying problem is not wage-price inflation. It’s profit-price inflation. And the Fed’s continuing rate hikes will hurt average workers by slowing the economy — making it harder for workers to get wage increases and causing many to lose their jobs…. I’m going to add my testimony to this post right after I testify this morning — and fill you in on what happened.
Click through for article and summary of the hearing. The article is also available as a podcast, and the hearing is probably on YouTube by now. Of course the Reich on the left is right, as usual.

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Open Thread September 14, 2022

 Posted by at 6:53 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 142022
 

Yesterday, Lindsey Graham introduced a bill in the Senate to ban abortion at the federal level. This irritates me… but it doesn’t alarm me, because if they really wanted to pass it, they would wait until they have a majority in both houses, and some of them think that is going to be soon. This is political theater. And it is more likely to backfire than not. Also I need to give you all an update on James. the amputation has happened (he didn’t say anything about the process, so I’m going with “No news is good news.”) He is already confident that he made the right choice. Now the recovery begins.  Incidentally, I have an appointment myself today – just for an annual checkup.  Oh, and one other thing – the candidate running against Boebert is Adam Frisch.  I’m not hopefull of beating Buck or Lamborn, bothe of whom are well established, but I think Boebert might be beatable.  If you check Adam out, let us know what you think.

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Robert Reich – Who will bear the pain?
Quote – Get ready. The war on inflation is about to get ugly…. Who will bear this pain? Not corporate executives. Not Wall Street. Not big investors. Not the upper-middle class. The draftees into the war on inflation will be — already are — lower-wage workers. As the economy cools due to interest rate hikes, they will be first to be fired as the economy plunges and the last to be hired. The Fed is obsessing about a “wage-price” spiral — wage gains pushing up prices — when it should be worried about a profit-price spiral.
Click through for full article. All of this could be avoided if we used a different benchmark for the economy than the stock market. Usng the stock market is a little bit like doctors using the health of peole’s genitals as an indicator of their overall health. Not really representative.

AP News – Ken Starr, whose probe led to Clinton impeachment, dies
Quote – Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment and put Starr at the center of one of the country’s most polarizing debates of the 1990s, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier. He said Starr had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit in Houston for about four months.
Click through for full obit. Please don’t dance in the streets. It’s tacky. And if you have any Republican neighbors you could be putting yourself in harm’s way.

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Video Thread 9/10/22

 Posted by at 11:59 am  Open Thread, Politics
Sep 102022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Bannon indicted again; DOJ appeals “special master” ruling; former US Attorney exposes Trump & Barr (the sound is so poor on this that everyone will need the CC. Not only is thevolume about half or less of usual, bu ther’s a slight echo. I realize they are tweaking the studio … andhave invited comments on that … so if anyone is a YouTube member, you might just comment on the sound.

Meidas Touch – Texas Paul RESPONDS to legend Dan Rather’s question about the GOP with the PERFECT answer

The Lincoln Project – Sucker

Robert Reich | How We Can Make Manchin and Sinema Irrelevant

If Mattress Commercials Were Honest | Honest Ads

Beau – Let’s talk about the other Las Vegas…. {It’s a sweet little town, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, but not that far from Santa Fe by western standards.}

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Open Thread September 7, 2022

 Posted by at 6:58 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 072022
 

Yesterday, I received a fund raising email from Adam Schiff. That’s not unusual, but I usually don’t read them. This one drew me in with the subject line, and it turned out to be mostly about his daughter, Alexa, with a photo from when she was four. She’s now 24 and getting established in a career in fashion (Adam stresses that her fashion sense is and always was far superior to his.) Of course it gets more serious, but it’s very well written, and put a smile on my face.  I also puttered arond a bit trying to organize more.  And started on a new bag for the next pickup … which I have not scheduled, wanting to be under less pressure this time.  Finally, yesterday, the first public servant since Reconstruction was disqualified under the 14th Amendment.  He was a County Commissioner in New Mexico who took part in Jan. 6. But even though he wasn’y a Senator or a House rep, it’s still a BFD.  Cheers for New Mexico!

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Robert Reich – For Labor Day: My “we-they” test for good places to work
Quote – In honor of Labor Day, I want to give you a simple way to test for a good workplace. I came up with it years ago when as secretary of labor I visited workplaces all over America. I call it the “we-they” test. Ask a front-line worker a general question like “how is it work here?” or “how’s your job?” or “how would you describe this workplace?” Then listen for the pronoun. If workers describe the company as “they” or “them,” it’s a tipoff that workers regard the company and its executives as being on a different planet.
Click through for examples. I sure wish I’d known this when I was twenty.

NPR – Fox producer’s warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit
Quote – The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims. The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump’s lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.
Click through for story (read or listen, or both.)  This is definitely going to undermine any chance of theit claiming not to know any better.

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