DramatistDreamer

Jelani Cobb goes in on Cornel West.

Jelani Cobb brings receipts

Last time Track Palin was charged with domestic abused, Sarah Palin blamed Obama. Will it be Hillary this time?

Court records show Track Palin is charged w/burglary & assault in Saturday incident, working to learn more @ktva https://t.co/MPM0tp3t00

— Daniella Rivera (@RiveraDanie) December 17, 2017

Has this been posted? A tribute to Kathryn Hays.

BREAKING: CBS News has learned Republican @SenJohnMcCain will not be on hand for the final vote on the GOP tax passage expected for early this week; he is returning home to Arizona after spending several days in a Maryland hospitalhttps://t.co/UAXiQkiqVM

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 17, 2017

1 hour ago, JaneAusten said:

So I just read in California they are working on legislation that will allow homeowners to donate their state and local taxes to a state centered charity, giving folks the chance to continue to deduct them as charitable contributions if they exceed the cap on state and property tax deduction of 10,000, which is likely if you are a homeowner in California. If legal, a clever way around the issue.

CA seems to be the launching pad of quite a few clever tactics these days.

Have you seen their ideas on how to get around the repeal of the Net Neutrality rule?

A year or two ago, I had been reading about some pilot programs in Brooklyn, NY that were constructing community-run Intranets and I wonder if this is an idea that they may end up expanding, in defiance of the Net Neutrality repeal. 

The thing is, the people who can potentially come up with ways around the government's repeal are often more skilled, focused and dedicated than the ones in the government enforcing the repeal.

We'll see how this all shapes out.

3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

I have to admit I wonder if part of the bill design was an FU to those voters, as many are liberal. 

Well, look at the stats of Long Island, NY and you will see that they got the biggest FU and I'd say that the majority of the L.I./Westchester NY area were Trump supporters.

I don't feel sorry for them one bit though.

Meanwhile, Great Britain's "Leave" ways are coming back to bite them hard.

Exodus of Foreign Workers Leaves British Employers in the Lurch

If passed, most of the homeowners who will be negatively impacted by this Poison Pill Tax Bill will be on the East Coast, particularly the Northeast. 

There are CA homeowners and homeowners in Texas will be negatively affected as well.

I just saw a list of the 11 most negatively affected cities/regions by passage of the tax bill and let's just say that those Trumpists in Long Island, NY will be most unhappy with that list.

Well, according to Kathy Griffin, isn't Andy Cohen also a Republican?

Griffin had some hard things to say about Cohen (as well as Harvey Levin of TMZ).

I don't watch any of his shows but Griffin seems to have a point about how Cohen basically makes the lion-share of his money from his exploitation of women, including Black women.

1 hour ago, JaneAusten said:

So the Jared rumor was started by Russian bots. This was a misinformation effort to try and further discredit Mueller and drum up hope for those who want to see the investigation incorporate more. Remember whenever an indictment or plea has happened, it has been a shock with no warning ahead of time so be skeptical. There have been no leaks from Muellers team.

Unfortunately since the use of bots and misinformation clearly had an impact during the 2016 election, it is quickly becoming the "go to" tactic, particularly for rabid Trumpists.

I don't know how civic engagement will recover after this administration.

Since this is the case of a political candidate, not Hollywood, I posted the article in the Politics thread. 

It is an interesting article because it involves a woman who drops out of a Congressional race after a sexual harassment allegation surfaces.  Apparently, she blames the Democratic Congressional Committee for its 'zero tolerance policy' for her withdrawal from the race. 

Here's the link to the thread where I posted it.

https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/28724-the-politics-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1547465

A candidate has decided to end her Congressional quest after sexual harassment allegations had surfaced. 

Apparently she blames the Democratic Congressional Committee's 'zero tolerance policy' for dropping out of the race.

Accused of Sexual Harassment, Andrea Ramsey Ends Kansas Congressional Run

Is this going to be similar to Trump's bogus election fraud commission or just one big pyramid scheme/donation black hole/slush fund?

JUST IN: Roy Moore asks for donations to "election integrity fund" after refusing to concede Senate race https://t.co/C2Ftw2B28d pic.twitter.com/C6bFdnpDPs

— The Hill (@thehill) December 15, 2017

By the way, people know that Tillerson has done a complete 180 on North Korea, right? Just as I knew he would.

This administration has no coherent policy, the words that they vomit out are cheap, as their word means absolutely nothing.

One thing you can rely upon, is that Trump Inc. will hurl insults and start another food with one of the government's own agencies--he's back to the FBI now.

This is the man we're all supposed to regard with civility? Ha!

2 hours ago, dragonflies said:

I feel for this woman so much

 

 

There are some truly awful people in this country. I'm also reminded of the insults and conspiracy theories that the Newtown families have had to endure.

It's all so disgusting thinking about how these people are being treated. They cannot even get to try to mourn in peace and try to put their lives back together!

Pro?  These sound like arguments from those who are against Net Neutrality, those that are in favor of doing away with it.

I'm not sure whether this is still up on Wikipedia but

Never forget the amazing editors over at Wikipedia. #NetNeutrality pic.twitter.com/gddI6fj2j8

— LucidFoxx (@LucidFoxx) December 14, 2017

CNET gives a summary of the yesterday's vote at the FCC as well as gives a prediction on what we can expect from the gutting of the Net Neutrality rule.

Yeah, I've been reading quite a bit lately about fake comments on the FCC's website, all in support of undoing Net Neutrality.

With this lying administration, should this surprise anyone?

Susan Sarandon is getting her ass dragged all over Twitter. The catalyst? A "Thank You" tweet to African Americans for the special election results in Alabama. 

God, what a tone-deaf person she is!  The sub-tweets are a scream though!

VoteVets just filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to uncover the truth surrounding the deaths of service members in #Yemen and #Niger. Our suit seeks records surrounding the Administration's unclear and contradictory public response to the failed military operations. pic.twitter.com/acR2vLTJUS

— VoteVets (@votevets) December 14, 2017

18 minutes ago, Vee said:

Now the fight goes to the courts.

Just like everything else with this administration of the damned.

Just disgusted and weary by the bare-faced greed of this administration.

Two members, who also happen to be women, were the only ones trying to save Net Neutrality. 

14 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

Yeah, but because so many people have seen him there - PBS will still be associated with him. This isn't coming out right. Am I making any sense?

I'm not questioning the decision by PBS to cut Rose and Smiley loose, at all. It was the correct decision.

What I'm questioning are the people who blame PBS for being an incubator of sexual deviance.  

Both men produced their own shows. PBS acted as the distributor.

Rose moved out of the PBS flagship headquarters well over a decade ago. In fact, he moved his personal office out of the Bloomberg building where the show had moved, to his house, which is why he had so much time and space to harass his assistants. By that time, he'd pretty much fired almost all the staff he'd had during the early years of his show.

Walmart, which is the main sponsor of Smiley's show has yet to make any type of statement on the entire affair. I guess Walmart would rather hide behind PBS and let the broadcaster take the heat.

8 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

This has not been a good past few weeks for PBS. First Charlie Rose, now Tavis Smiley? Yikes. 😨

 

If these allegations are true, this guy was a coward right to the end:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/13/kentucky-lawmaker-who-was-accused-of-molesting-a-teenage-girl-likely-killed-himself-coroner-says/

FWIW, PBS didn't produce Smiley's show, they distributed it. Because he produces his own show, technically he could try to bring it somewhere else, though I don't know who would want to distribute his show at this point since he's practically radioactive now.

Johnson's suicide note was posted on social media. I read it and came away with the impression that it was written by someone with a very messed up mind.

4 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Oh wow @DramatistDreamer. I thought I'd offended people and I was on ignore lol. Thanks for letting me know there's an issue.

 

I just use the auto embed functionality for Twitter URLs because it pops up an image and text, but maybe I'll just post links to the stories moving forward.

I assumed it was just my browser or something. Ordinarily I use Firefox but with SON, I use Chrome. Perhaps my settings are doing this but it's just your tweets that I am seeing like this, so I wondered whether you were copying and pasting the entire tweets.

But you're using the Embed function? Do you use the Source feature?

You should probably ask if anyone else has this issue. Perhaps it's just my settings in Chrome.