PDittie
PDittie's JournalThat was precisely the moment when
the gallery erupted -- some moment between 11:45-11:50 pm -- and they did not cease yelling until the last of them were dragged out by the DPS troopers, around 12:15 am.
The turning point. The tipping point. When the first domino lost its balance and started a chain reaction. The actual moment when you knew Texas was turning from red to blue.
The picture I took note of was this one:
Look at that toad in the black dress and Cinderella slippers. You cannot. make. this shit. up.
Yes. Hers is that
benign racism that pervades the South (and exports poorly). I have known people like her all. of my. life. Fellow Southerners tend to excuse her "truth", repeating a variation of 'everybody I know talks like this, that's why there's nothing wrong with it'. Low expectations have NOTHING on soft bigotry like actual 21st century bigotry. It's like buttah, smeared all over her just like it is her recipes.
The classic question -- at least for me -- was when Chris Rock was asked by a white lady why it was OK for black people to use the N-word and not white people. His response?
"Why do you want to use it?"
Extremely doubtful
for a generation or two. But Texas CAN be won much sooner, and when that happens, the South -- and with it, the GOP -- are immediately irrelevant. I would think this scenario is particularly important to accomplish if the SCOTUS strikes down the VRA.
#PaulasBestDishes
http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2013/06/paulasbestdishes-best-twitter-hashtag.htmlScroll down for the Twitter hashtag bomb from yesterday (no, you don't have to go to Twitter)
These aren't liberals.
These are neoliberals. Which are closer to being neoconservatives than they are to actual liberals and progressives.
Very important distinction
Greenwald mentioned in yesterday morning's segment (where he got inot it with Mika B) that 'probable cause' has been revised to 'reasonable basis', and that is why, of the 1079 FISA warrants requested by NSA recently, only one was declined.
This is not oversight, it's a rubber stamp.
I have empathy for them
and it is also accurate that many of them must begin voting consistently, and they must also vote for people who don't want to just watch them suffer and die.
This seems intrinsic, but it is not.
They could have fired the
four corporate executives who came up with this idea and perhaps saved even more. Which demonstrates once more how incompetent newspaper managers are. They took a business where they earned 30% profit margins for decades and screwed the pooch.
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