Mayberry Machiavelli
Mayberry Machiavelli's JournalCan Atlanta or Georgia DUers explain how a Mayor race there has only an 800 vote margin?
I know it can't be only the usual GOP vote suppression, there must be more going on.
Video of Police Shooting of Daniel Shaver: He didn't play "Simon Says" right and was killed for it.
The cop could have had the guy lay perfectly still once he was prone, and gone up to him and cuffed him or had his partner do it. Instead he gives him complicated instructions, all the while telling the bawling man terrified for his life that any error will result in his death.
This policeman was just acquitted and NOW the judge releases the video.
Does anyone know whether the video was shown to the jury? I assume so but I don't see that mentioned specifically in the news articles I've read.
No attempt was made to deescalate the situation, if anything the issuing of extra instructions including telling the guy to rise from a prone position and crawl towards the officers simply increased the risk of this killing many fold because of the possibility the guy might screw up some element of the many instructions under pressure.
People talk about how risky the cops' jobs are, but these incidents show them putting all the risk on the citizen. If the cop doesn't like something about the way you twitch you are dead, they don't have to value your life at all and endure any of the risk themselves to make you, the citizen, safer.
A Sikh, an atheist and a trans woman walk into a bar.
https://twitter.com/AllenCMarshall/status/928437992892649472They all had a drink together to celebrate their election victories!
What's the situation with LePage and the Maine Medicaid expansion referendum?
Is such a referendum binding?
If so, is the governor able to veto? Is that what he's doing?
If not, what is it, just a tantrum?
Va voters to Democratic Party and 2018 Candidates: IT'S ABOUT DONALD EFFING TRUMP, STUPID.
Do you think this message can be received and internalized in time for next year?
You will not convert Republican voters to vote for Democrats. Their voters are their voters. Our voters are ours. They are too Fox Newsed. The best you can hope for is that their turnout will be depressed. And our voters will turn out.
Northam outperformed polls because the GOP voters turnout was depressed and the Dem turnout, with no particular thanks to the candidate or certain former Dem officials, was SUPER ENERGIZED.
The reason the Dem turnout was SUPER ENERGIZED, resulting in a wave that may yet even flip a gerrymandered state house, is the Cheeto Golem in the White House.
Not mealy mouthed statements about sanctuary cities or other claptrap.
Now learn that lesson and apply it going forward!
Google Chrome: I can't log into DU on this browser. Help!
It tells me to enable cookies, but cookies are enabled. No other instructions forthcoming. There are no instructions specifically for Chrome. Does the site just not play well with Chrome?
Trump apparently handed Merkel a BILL for "money owed" for NATO.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-dismisses-white-houses-intimidating-300bn-bill-for-defence-dl7dk629kDonald Trump handed the German chancellor Angela Merkel a bill — thought to be for more than £300bn — for money her country “owed” Nato for defending it when they met last weekend, German government sources have revealed.
The bill — handed over during private talks in Washington — was described as “outrageous” by one German minister.
“The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocations,” the minister said.
... more at link
So.. wait just a minute here.
Have any of the big media, or prominent Democratic officeholders, called BS in plain language on the President being able to make wild charges out of thin air against anyone (much less his predecessor) and expect to gin up a Congressional witch hunt out of it?
Either to distract from his own mess, to persecute his political enemies, or both at the same time?
"Get Out" - everyone go see this movie now.
One of the best horror movies I've seen in quite a while.
Awesome director's debut for Peele of Key and Peele.
The main character was also a standout in one of the "Black Mirror" episodes, also.
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