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Pelosi "pretty pose"

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 at 11:25:44 PM EST
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Best part of the evening was when the female Democratic Representatives jumped-up and started clapping and high fiving each other.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 at 10:41:31 PM EST
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"How I Lost by Hillary Clinton," a Book Review

How I Lost By Hillary Clinton is a collection of the DNC and Podesta emails published by Wikileaks in 2016, introduced and annotated by Consortium News Editor Joe Lauria, with a foreword by political prisoner Julian Assange. Believe it or not, you don't have to buy it from Amazon unless you want to toss a few more dollars into the bursting coffers of Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, who says his only business option now is to search for new markets in outer space.
Instead you can order a paperback, e-book, or both from OR Books and dive back into the election year that just won't die.

MSNBC | MADDOW interviews SOTU "brides" AOC and Ana-Maria Archila, a a sexual assault survivor, community organizer, and activist who confronted Jeff Flake in an elevator

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Feb 8th, 2019 at 03:03:27 AM EST
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Re: Trump STYLE BAZAAR (none / 1)

Clinton lost because she is a lousy politician, ran a crappy campaign, and wouldn't listen to "The Little People" in the states and outside of her DLC bubble when they told her she was losing.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Feb 10th, 2019 at 05:52:05 PM EST
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That's a complex explanation for the loathing she envokedin some people. Other people are rather certain homicidal mania is a desirable feature of a good politician, a fabulous campaign, and an affinity with deplorables outside the D.C. beltway.

What do you get out of pretending that no questions HRC's morality?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Feb 10th, 2019 at 10:03:57 PM EST
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What part of "ran a lousy campaign" is unclear?

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Mon Feb 11th, 2019 at 05:39:57 PM EST
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"What part of 'ran a lousy campaign" is unclear?"
The part that does not examine Hillary Clinton's exclusive part in it, that being subject of the campaign's purpose.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Feb 11th, 2019 at 06:10:28 PM EST
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History maps its own course ... we are just witnesses and have the ability to bemoan the event in hindsight. Some clearly raised alarm bells during the campaign.

The Democrats are just unlucky for it would have been better for a HRC win in 2008 and a more mature and experienced BHO to win in 2016 and clear the mess Hillary would have left behind.

The Democrats lost out from the backlash of the success of the first African-American president. It spirited the racist and white-supremacist minority waiting for such an opportunity. The Republicans weren't capable to field a regular crooked politician, it had to be an outsider, a nobody in the bubble called Washington DC & Environs (WDCE).

Have a peaceful cultural summer

by Oui (Oui) on Mon Feb 11th, 2019 at 06:23:20 PM EST
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HR 1 Cuts Green Party Campaign Funding, Sics Homeland Security and Political Police on the Left

HR 1 which deputizes the intelligence, police and prison establishment and their contractors to produce an annual report on the threats posed to the security of the US electoral system posed by Americans who might be under the influence of foreign powers.
[...]
HR 1 is surgically aimed to eliminate federal matching funds for [third party] candidates by raising the qualifying amount from its current level of $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000 in 20 states. HR 1 would cut funding for a [third party] presidential candidate in half, and by making ballot access for a Green presidential candidate impossible in several states it would also guarantee loss of the party's ability to run for local offices.

H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019

archived Don & Nancy
"We're capitalists and that's just the way it is."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Feb 8th, 2019 at 03:21:23 AM EST
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slow-learners' pep rally

.@AOC speaks out against ICE and CPB: "We are standing on Native land, and Latino people are descendants of Native people. And we cannot be told and criminalized simply for our identity and our status." https://t.co/QIKelB4HSF pic.twitter.com/EupRdAYWj3
— The Hill (@thehill) February 7, 2019

The Hill's link is pretty funny.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Feb 10th, 2019 at 11:01:06 PM EST
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The Hill's link is pretty funny, because The Hill's story abandons its lede from twitter.

AOC's histrionic appeal to justice for Spanish-speaking "descendants of Native people" from ancestral lands in central and south America flies in the face of futile attempts by "descendants of slaves" and "descendants of Native people" and "Latinos" resident in this, ancestral land to attain "status" for legitimate grievances due reparations in the business for US gov--

It has been duly noted: A Tearful Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says "We are Standing on Native Land". And I'm pretty damned certain this act has done nothing but remind "and minorities" everywhere how Ms Warren exploited an extremely tenuous relationship to injustice in order to hoist herself into "elite" corridors of power. Jess when the virgin class of "progressives" had dispelled rumors of disharmony in the Women's March. I can scarcely imagine how much more trivial the purposes of the 14th Amendment can be expressed; but I'll give it a minute. Good going.

archived
We're Finally Going To Have Native American Women In Congress
RECAP: HISTORIC class STORMS Capitol, race baiting apace

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Feb 11th, 2019 at 09:51:09 PM EST
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reference (none / 0)

I'm reading it again, in case I did not fully comprehend the meaning of banality in the context of one's responsibilities in personal and public life.

Eichmann in Jerasalem

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Feb 11th, 2019 at 09:57:22 PM EST
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de jokes, (none / 0)

The bullshit is flying.

The opportunity for Booker's parents 2 even climb the corporate ladder was made possible by programs like affirmative action. And courts (gov't) and Black politics made his life possible in a white community. Continue that. #AmericanDOS #BloodEquity pic.twitter.com/DAdZhx6Vw4
— BreakingBrown (Yvette Carnell) (@BreakingBrown) February 1, 2019

"In their own quiet way the Bookers were freedom fighters." < wipes tears > This is your Talented Tenth, Greatest Generation, minute in The Civil Rights Era with Oprah and "Uncle" Carey (RIP) and "Aunt" Carolyn. My dad got to be assistant AG, NY, Rockefeller admin after a spell in NLRB in Ike's admin. Now he's dead, too. What of it, Oprah?

archived
Kappa, Link, or Jack and Jill

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Feb 5th, 2019 at 04:29:07 PM EST
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Kamala!? rents a baby. 28 January 2019

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 at 02:27:27 PM EST
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from Santa Monica, CA
Proposition 14, Proposition 57

As a U.S. Senator and now a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. President, Kamala Harris receives some serious security and protection from "nonviolent" criminals like Gadlin.
But what about the rest of us?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Feb 8th, 2019 at 03:55:32 AM EST
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Democratic presidential candidate @CoryBooker to Judicial nominee Neomi Rao: BOOKER: "Have you ever had a LGBTQ law clerk?" RAO: "I've not been a judge so I don't have any law clerks."
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) February 5, 2019

Feel the earth trembling yet? That's the "BFF Betsy Devos" charter school express heading his way. Hold on to your scarves and hats, ppl.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Feb 8th, 2019 at 05:15:04 PM EST
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Warren launches White House bid with call for 'structural change'
"End the corruption."

archived
Warren proposes 'wealth tax' on assets over $50M

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sat Feb 9th, 2019 at 09:31:32 PM EST
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I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the State of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/mNmvFQOJ5V
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) February 10, 2019

It's time, America!

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Feb 10th, 2019 at 09:31:14 PM EST
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A Trip to the Woodshed

STRETCH: So, Senator, we comply with all applicable law. In terms of disclosure going forward we made an announcement last week that we drew on some of the ideas from the ah Honest Ads Act which Senator Klobuchar had introduced ah intended to ah bring ads' transparency um really into the political realm, creating a repository of searchable ads, providing innovative ways to for advertisers to meet their disclosure requirements, and requiring documentation and information so that we can ensure that advertisers are not running political ads on Facebook in violation of federal election law.

archived
convoluted 18th Century language
"A surprising amount of that cumulative work product is defective for the simple reason one provision ahhh chained to another contradicts itself."
Free Speech

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Feb 10th, 2019 at 09:49:15 PM EST
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Republican senators heap praise on Klobuchar as she enters 2020 race: "She's the whole package" https://t.co/NEeSVHHjU3 pic.twitter.com/ML7bSWfzu2
— The Hill (@thehill) February 11, 2019

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Feb 12th, 2019 at 05:16:00 PM EST
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"The Senator Next Door," a nasty badass?
pedal faster, right through that ceiling, baby

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Feb 18th, 2019 at 07:44:48 PM EST
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Re: Trump (none / 1)

"A 2018 Economist poll found that 46 percent of men believe Israel is an ally, compared to only 29 percent of women.The poll also found that white people and older people were far more likely to see Israel as an ally than youth and black and Hispanics" https://t.co/fHSaDE45W5
— asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل (@asadabukhalil) February 5, 2019

NSS, "Women and minorities" Edition.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 at 12:14:55 AM EST
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Re: Trump (none / 0)

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 13th, 2019 at 12:28:20 AM EST
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Re: Trump (none / 0)

"We're working on our response but thank you." ... "I don't think so, I mean we're the superpower in the world." ...

"Part of the Russian agenda is to undermine democracy ..." ... "I think we need to support the Mueller commission." ... "That's my issue. My issue is financial services."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 at 12:37:34 AM EST
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Re: Trump (none / 1)

Venezuelan authorities uncover arms shipment believed to be bound for right-wing opposition groups
huddled behind starving children. In Syria.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 at 07:56:18 PM EST
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Re: Trump (none / 1)

NEW script! Places everyone.
Independent.uk |Trump's secretary of state Pompeo says Hezbollah is active in Venezuela
"'The Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America'"
Foreign Policy | Hezbollah Is in Venezuela to Stay
"Regime change in Caracas won't change the country's problematic relationship with the terrorist group."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Feb 10th, 2019 at 08:58:26 PM EST
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CRISIS escalates in Virginia; top 3 Democrats UNDER FIRE
(I'm beginning to accept the high probability that US reporters have little to no control over their own mania.) Gov. Ralph Northam (Klan photo, 1984), AG Mark Herring (rapper impersonation, 1980), Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (sexual assault, 2004)

Vanessa Tyson, the California woman whose sexual assault allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax surfaced earlier this week, put out a detailed statement saying Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex on him in a hotel room in 2004 during the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
The Associated Press typically does not identify those who say they were sexually assaulted, but Tyson issued the statement in her name.
Tyson, a 42-year-old political scientist who is on a fellowship at Stanford University and specializes in the political discourse of sexual assault, said, "I have no political motive. I am a proud Democrat."

Woman details sex accusation roiling Virginia politics
< pick teeth, suck vigorously >

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 at 10:56:05 PM EST
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Video resurfaces of Joy Behar saying she dressed as 'beautiful African woman'
neurotic
< pick teeth, suck vigorously >
Idly awaiting the season to "shame" dudebro ritual Hallowe'en cross-dressing across US college campuses since I don't even know when. Odds are 50:50, #MeToo hags award blessings (to favored sons) for "normalizing" gender sensitivity.

until the "greek" rapes "surface"

archived stigmata, no pain ("passion")
Megyn "$20M Survivor" Kelly
" 'You get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface [?] for Halloween. Like -- when I was a kid that was OK as long as you were a character.' "
Bette Midler apologizes for controversial 'women, are the niggers of the world' tweet

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 at 03:14:02 PM EST
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Gucci apologizes for sweater resembling blackface, stops selling balaclava jumper

meanwhile in the "global south" ...

archived neurotics
Atonement as Activism and
Frank Snowdon's research into Blacks in Antiquity[: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience] (1970)

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 at 03:27:05 PM EST
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Miz Warren, however, is still on The Cross of Cultural, or Ethnic or Racial, Appropriation. You can look it up.

To complete the mythic cycle, I do believe, her own death at the tip of a spear held by a profane tyrant is expected before transmogrification may commence.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 at 04:16:03 PM EST
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Re: Trump CRISIS (4.00 / 2)

More serious that all this nonsense about Warren is the fact that she fell for Uber's propaganda.

Uber and Lyft, two ride‐sharing platforms came onto the scene about five years ago, radically altered this model, enabling anyone with a smartphone and a car to deliver rides.... The result was more rides, cheaper rides, and shorter wait times.

She seems to be unaware that the cheaper rides are due to a subsidy which results in Uber losing billions of dollars.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 at 06:35:16 PM EST
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yeah. no.

I guarantee, Miz Warren will not be nominated for the POTUS. The reason will not be that she "fell for Uber's" advertising. She's supposed to know better, right? And if she doesn't, she has staff to think for her. And if they haven't do that ...

Like many, not all of her colleagues in the congress, Warren crossed her D-K limit long ago. Being a prop on the Congressional Oversight Panel of the TARP was the first clue her understanding of American SOP was academic. The actual legislation says it all. But that performance and those which followed (like kissing HRC's ass) is going to haunt her claim to "champion of the little guy". She's been coasting on woulda coulda shoulda since she got to D.C. and has no constituency now, except DNC PACs.

Watch.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 at 11:18:30 PM EST
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Another accuser has just come forward to accuse Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax of raping her in college pic.twitter.com/8HSBT3rq4B
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 8, 2019

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Feb 8th, 2019 at 11:55:31 PM EST
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As Good as It Gets (1997)
MEMORABLE QUOTE: Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get?

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The Nation front page, 12 Feb

Virginia's Top Male Democrats Made a Mess, and Virginia's Women Are Cleaning It Up
The progressive women who surged to victory in November 2017 are now stuck dealing with the fallout
from blackface revelations and sexual-assault charges--instead of passing legislation.
- Joan Walsh -

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Roll Call front page, 12 Feb

Trump calls on Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign
Criticism of Omar's tweet was amplified when Democratic leaders
released a statement condemning it as 'deeply offensive'
- Emily Kopp & John Bennett -

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Feb 12th, 2019 at 10:23:40 PM EST
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Re: Trump NEUROTICS (none / 0)

Turns out Trump is "technically obsese." Informed social commentators of a nation teeming with "technically obese" people pause to formulate socially acceptable recognition of Trump's patent disqualification, or not, to hold office.

Digression ensues to rationalize confirmation of Wm. Barr to office of US attorney general, while former-acting-AG Whittaker retires to another floor, same building.

Democrats MULL border-fall 'oversight' agenda for the week of 4 March, read the $1T, 1,000 pp 2019 FY budget that they helped enact, possibly Articles of the US Constitution, and provisions of the Patriot Act.

Accordingly, the rate of simile suicides is rising to provoke dignity of Women's Month.

And, no. "mammy" is not in any lexicon of African American dialects which with I'm acquainted.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Feb 15th, 2019 at 06:23:01 PM EST
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