Politics, Everyday, All day... morning, noon and night....II

[Simon of the Playa]

there's this thing, called "the cloud", rudy...

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[Simon of the Playa]

rep. tim ryan spittin' truth:


https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/sta ... 89378?s=20

[Simon of the Playa]

House Republicans are now firmly in the grip of a deeply anti-democratic right-wing populism. Almost all have now essentially pledged to "support and defend" Donald Trump and Trumpism rather than the Constitution of the United States. They no longer are constrained by once inviolate norms or even by observable facts. If these radicals control the House on 1/6/25, and if a Democrat has won the Electoral College vote, it now seems completely possible that Republicans will instead confirm their own choice as president of the United States. If that happens, the world’s greatest democracy will come to an end.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 191699001/

[Simon of the Playa]

Mitch Spittin' Truth...

[Simon of the Playa]

from Heather Cox Richardson:

"Today, more than 100 scholars who study democracy issued a letter warning that “our entire democracy is now at risk.” The letter explains that the new election laws in Republican-led states, passed with the justification that they will make elections safer, in fact are turning “several states into political systems that no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections.”

If we permit the breakdown of democracy, it will be a very long time before we can reverse the damage. As a nation spirals downward, the political scientists, sociologists, and government scholars explain, “violence and corruption typically flourish, and talent and wealth flee to more stable countries, undermining national prosperity. It is not just our venerated institutions and norms that are at risk—it is our future national standing, strength, and ability to compete globally.”

The scholars called for federal action to protect equal access to voting and to guarantee free and fair elections. Voting rights should not depend on which party runs the state legislature, and votes must be cast and counted equally, regardless of where a citizen lives. They back the reforms in the For the People Act, which protects the right to vote, ends partisan gerrymandering, and curbs the flood of money into elections.

They urged Congress “to do whatever is necessary—including suspending the filibuster—in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want. Our democracy is fundamentally at stake.”

“History,” they wrote, “will judge what we do at this moment.”

[Simon of the Playa]

https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/ ... 06947?s=20

[some seeing eye]

The world can't wait until the Koch's exit the policy stage:

Today: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/joe-man ... s-him.html

March: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... -a-century

2014: https://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/ ... ros-105570

[The Rod]

“bLaMe MaNcHiN”

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[Simon of the Playa]

Mr Tucker left the supermarket after the verbal duel with the cashier without making any purchase. But police say he returned immediately.

“Tucker walked directly back to the cashier, pulled out a handgun and shot her.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 65961.html

[Simon of the Playa]

Political newcomer and unabashed socialist India Walton is on the verge of defeating Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in a Democratic primary on Tuesday night. It would be a stunning loss for one of the most prominent figures in New York’s Democratic establishment.

If Walton holds onto her lead and goes on to win the general election, she would become the first socialist mayor of a large American city since Milwaukee's Frank Zeidler, who left office in 1960.

https://www.politico.com/states/new-yor ... rs-1386839

[some seeing eye]

'The Tea Party to the 10th power': Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory

Republicans aren’t coy about what they are trying to do. It’s not just about changing curricula. It’s about taking back Congress.

Former top aides to President Donald Trump have begun an aggressive push to combat the teaching of critical race theory and capitalize on the issue politically, confident that a backlash will vault them back into power.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/2 ... ory-495712

[lucky420]

'The Tea Party to the 10th power': Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory

Republicans aren’t coy about what they are trying to do. It’s not just about changing curricula. It’s about taking back Congress.

Former top aides to President Donald Trump have begun an aggressive push to combat the teaching of critical race theory and capitalize on the issue politically, confident that a backlash will vault them back into power.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/2 ... ory-495712

there’s a lot of ignorance and fear about what this actually is. If people would calma tus tetas, they might learn something

[Simon of the Playa]

"Now, I understand the disappointment many feel about the last election," he said. "I can relate. I was on the ballot. But you know, there's more at stake than our party and our political fortunes in this moment. If we lose faith in the Constitution, we won't just lose elections -- we'll lose our country."

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstorie ... index.html

[some seeing eye]

‘We are all victims’: How Republicans became the party of the persecution complex

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... n-complex/

[BBadger]

The Republican party is the party of narcissism, and greed. Seen through that lens, every action and "contradiction" actually makes sense.

[Simon of the Playa]

watch the sedition.

see it with your own eyes:


https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politi ... rters.html

[some seeing eye]

North of Nevada are Oregon and Idaho. Politically on the map "greater Idaho" is Trump-Tea Party and the upper left hand side, where the people are, is blue.

We did have a bad dream in the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation led by the younger Bundy who is now running for governor of Idaho.

Ammon Bundy seizes on housing shortage in new bid to take public lands in Idaho

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/st ... le-housing

As with most Republican populists, there is a tiny twist of truth that leads down Alice's rabbit hole of funny mirrors and hallucinogenic potions which are FOX News.

[Simon of the Playa]

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evidently there's one born every minute...

[Simon of the Playa]

"I don't care man. You are the worst human being known to man, I want you to know that. To this state, to the United States, to everyone else in this world," the man said. "What you have done to families, what you have done to everybody else in this world."

https://www.newsweek.com/video-man-tell ... es-1612817

[lucky420]

I wouldn’t be surprised if lawsuits start being file against fucker/Murdoch/Fox News in relation to the false covid info they’ve been spewing …

[some seeing eye]

Peter Thiel made a lot of money off PayPal and Facebook and no doubt has early stakes in pre-IPO Uber etc. worth billions.

He did fund a proposed floating Waterworld city free of the reach of government https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ating-city and bought his way into having a bunker in New Zealand https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... days-there.

Now he is turning his money to fund candidates for the US Senate. One is this gem, JD Vance, who has $10M so far from Thiel.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/24/se ... s-country/

TL:DR Only parents with children should be allowed to vote, and they get additional votes, one per kid, which they vote on behalf of the kids.

No doubt this bro has more wacky ideas.

[Simon of the Playa]

see the sedition. hear it.

watch it.

watch all of it.

with your own eyes.

then get back to me on what happened on jan. 6th.


https://youtu.be/j0slfwAXc2k

[Simon of the Playa]

bernie stops the evictions

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIGRcjBrWE/

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Simon of the Playa]

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"In recent weeks, DeSantis has veered further to the right by reiterating his disdain for Covid-19 restriction measures. He held a secret meeting with anti-mask medical professionals, signed an executive order that gives parents the final decision on whether their children will wear masks in school and promised to cut off state funding to any school district that forces children to put on face coverings."



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... n-desantis

[Simon of the Playa]

https://mobile.twitter.com/meidastouch/ ... 7410832389

[Simon of the Playa]

Deaths are running at over 1,100 a day on average, turning the clock back to mid-March. One influential model, from the University of Washington, projects an additional 98,000 Americans will die by the start of December, for an overall death toll of nearly 730,000.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-deat ... ed-states/

[Simon of the Playa]

what are you so afraid of, Kevin?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/202 ... 674059001/

[Simon of the Playa]

Plot Coups Much?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsole ... in-brazil/

[Simon of the Playa]

Trump ended his statements by saying that "our culture is being destroyed and our history and heritage, both good and bad, are being extinguished by the Radical Left." He closed by saying that if we had Robert E. Lee leading our troops in Afghanistan, then "that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-if- ... ry-1627286