2 hours ago, JaneAusten said:

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Thoughts? I wonder why this guy is being categorized as a populist?

 

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/03/populists-are-on-the-march-in-the-south-bernie-backed-insurgent-randall-woodfin-defeats-birminghams-incumbent-mayor/?comments=1#comments

 

The Berners are desperate for a win and they love to take credit for other people's work.

 

 

2 hours ago, JaneAusten said:

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Thoughts? I wonder why this guy is being categorized as a populist?

 

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/03/populists-are-on-the-march-in-the-south-bernie-backed-insurgent-randall-woodfin-defeats-birminghams-incumbent-mayor/?comments=1#comments

 

Looks like a 'quiet' attempt to dip into a more "centrist" strategy by the Our Revolution folks.

 

Bernie and his cohort are certainly not above being calculating, despite what the purity ponies claim. He's a politician who has been in office for decades, likely backed by a cohort of other politicians and no matter how well their intentions all are, they function as politicians. 

 

Every day, it's a burning trash fire with Trump Inc. So much so that it's now become an entire garbage dump.

How Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment

 

 

Tillerson tries to talk around this but he still has yet to deny that he said it.

WATCH: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to resign, referred to Trump as a “moron” after a meeting at the Pentagon in July pic.twitter.com/3voE47ghwk

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) October 4, 2017

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Good article by Ari Berman on the case in front of the Supreme Court on gerrymandering.

 

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/anthony-kennedys-questioning-suggests-extreme-partisan-gerrymandering-could-be-in-danger/

 

 

And when people want to claim Jim Crow is over, just another version of a "poll tax". discounting thousands from the ability to vote

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/04/alabama-voting-poll-tax?CMP=share_btn_tw

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3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Looks like a 'quiet' attempt to dip into a more "centrist" strategy by the Our Revolution folks.

 

Bernie and his cohort are certainly not above being calculating, despite what the purity ponies claim. He's a politician who has been in office for decades, likely backed by a cohort of other politicians and no matter how well their intentions all are, they function as politicians. 

 

The Berniacs are trying to change the narrative because Bernie is being dragged to hell for being bought and paid for by the NRA.His pro-gun votes are getting a lot of scrutiny right now.

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3 hours ago, JaneAusten said:

So interesting article on the gerrymandering case being take up by the Supreme Court. Gorsuch is even a bigger grandstander than Scalia but it's refreshing to see Ruth Ginsburg slap this fool back into silence. And the reports on this yesterday is encouraging as Kennedy's questions in particular seemed to lead to the gerrymandering from his position possibly being a violation of the first amendment. But of course no decision. At the end of the day it would be great to see this lead to what Schwarzenegger did in California.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ginsburg-slaps-gorsuch

 

I'll probably get into some trouble for saying this, but speaking as someone who (unfortunately) toiled for a season at Gorsuch's alma mater, Columbia University, it REALLY doesn't surprise me to see him grandstanding.  Students at Columbia have a tendency to grandstand.

The media obsession over Tillerson calling you know who a "moron" reminds me again just how useless and harmful the circle jerk of the press often is. 

WaPo: Trump is upset at "Tillerson's habit, according to W.H. officials, of neglecting to return phone calls." https://t.co/T8IedIO4ZH

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 5, 2017

"Trump believes Tillerson was more concerned with what the world thinks of the USA than with tending to the president’s personal image" https://t.co/3jTxHFBIuY

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 5, 2017

At least the odds of us all choking on methane gas has been reduced again with this ruling.

 

BREAKING: Federal judge reinstates Obama-era methane rule, rebuffing Trump administration.

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 5, 2017

Why do mass shootings always bring out the anti choice loons? Someday I'll learn not to debate with the nutjobs on the internet.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/aclu-launches-nationwide-voting-rights-campaign-in-the-backyard-of-its-biggest-nemesis/

Pro-Life Congressman Asks Mistress to Get Abortion

 

Boy have I heard it all...

It's almost like watching an old episode of Y&R, isn't it?

1 hour ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:

Pro-Life Congressman Asks Mistress to Get Abortion

 

Boy have I heard it all...

I can't even pretend to be surprised. These guys are hypocrites almost down to a man.  How many times have gay bashing congressmen been caught having sex with a man? How many times have "family values" congressmen been caught having an affair or worse yet leaving a wife with cancer? Even John McCain is said by some to have left his first wife because she was disfigured in a car accident. He cheated on her first of course.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

 

2 hours ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:

Pro-Life Congressman Asks Mistress to Get Abortion

 

Boy have I heard it all...

 

That's nothing new. I used to work for an abortion rights group so I occasionally visited abortion clinics for work. I can't tell you how many times people protesting have come into clinics to get their own abortion then were right back out there protesting in a few weeks later. I went to one where a nurse said "Two of the women out there have been patients."

Cognitive dissonance. Some people are so committed to this.

 

I liken this to the raging homophobes who are then caught 'tapping' signals in the men's bathroom stall.