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Saviolo's JournalGorillaz release first new song in 6 years, unapologetically anti-Trump: Hallelujah Money
Keep an ear out for lyrics about walls matching KKK marches in the imagery behind.
We should not be surprised about Trump's nominations, but angry
I've seen a few posts expressing surprise and concern over how unqualified Betsy DeVos is for Dept. of Education, or about the conflict of interests regarding Sec. of State nominee Rex Tillerson.
Just to be clear: This is not a bug, this is a feature of these nominees. It is exactly what the GOP intended. They have very few explicit goals for their time in office, and they come down to two different categories:
#1: Nominees like DeVos. These are people who are massively unqualified for the role that they have been nominated for. They are dogma driven, uninformed, and incapable of managing a complex portfolio. Again, this is intended. These nominees are selected in order to cause the department they are heading to buckle and crumble so that the small gov't Tea Partiers and GOP hard line can point at it and say, "Yup, see? Gov't can't do this, let's privatize it and leave it to free enterprise. Business can do this better than government." We're going to see attacks on many departments such as the department of Education, EPA, Housing and Urban Development, NEA, etc... All of those departments that the right loves to hate, many of which just happen to assist poor and at-risk segments of society.
#2: Nominees like Tillerson. These are the foxes guarding the henhouse. Their main job is to loot the larders and make way for big business. They will be super-efficient at their jobs, and they will plow through regulations like a hot knife through butter. We will see taxes fall for corporations in the name of "job creation." They will remove environmental protections and any regulations that may get in the way of businesses doing exactly what they'd like, and we'll see, again, that mostly it is at-risk communities that will be put in further risk so that the profit motive goes unhindered.
This really should surprise no one, it's been the stated goal of the Tea Party since its inception. Don't be surprised, be angry. Call your representative and let them know you wish for them to stand up against corporate control of major gov't departments. Take the fight to Trump and his new band of deplorable nominees.
Did Trump drain the swamp? He had to, he brought his own swamp with him, and it's bigger and better than the swamp that was there before. The best swamp. Believe it.
This has got to stop
Bernie would have beat Trump in the general!
How could he win in the general if he didn't win the primary?
DNC cheated in favour of Hillary!
Bernie isn't a Democrat!
It's all a big circular argument and it goes round and round and round and round and please, everyone, let's leave it behind, okay? Please? That part's done, now. The time has come for the fight to move forward. Hillary talked some really good policy during her campaign (not that you'd know it from the news coverage or anything), and she and Bernie both put forth progressive platforms. But the whole process has demonstrated that there are some serious shortcomings in the DNC and the Democratic party's approach, and that liberals and progressives have got to come together and figure out what to do next.
There are going to be lots and lots of fights over the next four years, but those fights have to be in the direction of the PEOTUS and his new cabinet. Not even in power yet and we're already looking at defunding Planned Parenthood, repealing Obamacare, dismantling the EPA, dismantling the department of education, etc... This is BEFORE THE INAUGURATION. Let's imagine the first 100 days. Now is the time for resistance and liberals and progressives and Democrats need to come together to put up resistance to the potential fascists taking power.
Bernie's been making lots of noise, which is great. He's an elected official and he's standing up for progressive causes. Hillary has done great work, and she's taken some time off after a brutal election season. She's not an elected official, and she'll continue to do the great work with the Clinton Foundation. But now everyone who is against Trump needs to just be against Trump. He doesn't have any political will of his own, so he's written a blank cheque for every regressive policy that the GOP has been dying to put through for decades. Say goodbye to protections for women, people of colour, LGBTQ, immigrants, the poor, etc... Newspapers are already bowing down to Trump's obvious lies. Now is the time to make a ton of noise. Call your representatives, call your congresscritters, call everyone who will take a call.
(Note: I had originally posted this in General, but it was locked as off-topic because it was thought it should go here. So, I'm reposting it here)
This has got to stop
Bernie would have beat Trump in the general!
How could he win in the general if he didn't win the primary?
DNC cheated in favour of Hillary!
Bernie isn't a Democrat!
It's all a big circular argument and it goes round and round and round and round and please, everyone, let's leave it behind, okay? Please? That part's done, now. The time has come for the fight to move forward. Hillary talked some really good policy during her campaign (not that you'd know it from the news coverage or anything), and she and Bernie both put forth progressive platforms. But the whole process has demonstrated that there are some serious shortcomings in the DNC and the Democratic party's approach, and that liberals and progressives have got to come together and figure out what to do next.
There are going to be lots and lots of fights over the next four years, but those fights have to be in the direction of the PEOTUS and his new cabinet. Not even in power yet and we're already looking at defunding Planned Parenthood, repealing Obamacare, dismantling the EPA, dismantling the department of education, etc... This is BEFORE THE INAUGURATION. Let's imagine the first 100 days. Now is the time for resistance and liberals and progressives and Democrats need to come together to put up resistance to the potential fascists taking power.
Bernie's been making lots of noise, which is great. He's an elected official and he's standing up for progressive causes. Hillary has done great work, and she's taken some time off after a brutal election season. She's not an elected official, and she'll continue to do the great work with the Clinton Foundation. But now everyone who is against Trump needs to just be against Trump. He doesn't have any political will of his own, so he's written a blank cheque for every regressive policy that the GOP has been dying to put through for decades. Say goodbye to protections for women, people of colour, LGBTQ, immigrants, the poor, etc... Newspapers are already bowing down to Trump's obvious lies. Now is the time to make a ton of noise. Call your representatives, call your congresscritters, call everyone who will take a call.
'Irresponsible' populism: Lisa Raitt slams Kevin O'Leary, Kellie Leitch
Conservative leadership candidate Lisa Raitt waged a frontal assault against potential rival Kevin O'Leary today, accusing him of using Donald Trump-style tactics and theatrics that would kill any chance of the party's return to power.
Raitt, a former cabinet minister under Stephen Harper, held a news conference to officially launch her new website www.StopKevinOLeary.com, a pre-emptive strike against the businessman and reality show celebrity who has not yet officially entered the race.
She also took aim at fellow contender Kellie Leitch for ripping from the president-elect's playbook and pinning the country's problems on immigrants.
"Kevin O'Leary and Kellie Leitch are both taking lessons from what we just saw recently in the U.S. election, and they're embracing a style of negative, and I would say irresponsible, populism," she said.
Raitt is the latest in a string of candidates who have lashed out at O'Leary.
On Tuesday, Andrew Scheer called on him to "fish or cut bait," and make a decision on whether to run before the Jan. 17 French language debate in Quebec City. O'Leary, who does not speak French, has tasked an "exploratory" team and launched his own website to drum up public support.
Leitch issued a statement in response to Raitt's attack, saying her Conservative rival drew a line in the sand and showed she "stands with the Liberals and media elites."
"She does not think it is important to ensure that the people we welcome into our country share our historic Canadian values of hard work, generosity, freedom, and tolerance," she said."The choice is clear: I am the only candidate in this race who will screen newcomers to Canada for those Canadian values."
Long-time Conservative strategist Chad Rogers said O'Leary is under attack because candidates are trying to drum up donations and membership by appealing to those "repelled" by him. He said Conservatives have also learned from other recent leadership races where name recognition has played a significant factor.
"We look south of the border at Mr. Trump, we look here in Canada at Justin Trudeau, on the front end of their campaigns people didn't take it seriously and they underestimated the value of starting the race with dramatically higher name recognition with average Canadians than other politicians," he said.
I'm happy to watch the right in Canada eat its own tail for as long as it likes. Also, I'll be extremely happy if Leitch and O'Leary in particular are left forgotten and irrelevant by the time this is all over. Go ahead, conservative party! Tear yourself apart trying to follow in Trump's slimy shit-stained populist footsteps!
Trump has been a joke for decades!
I was watching "Scrooged (1988)" on Christmas and was reminded of this little scene:
And Aaron Sorkin took a shot at him in the first episode of 2006's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip":
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Looks like there was once a supercut here:
http://www.crushable.com/2015/09/08/entertainment/donald-trump-movie-supercut-jokes-video/
But the video maker has made the video private.
Poking fun at him doesn't do much good politically, but it sure makes me feel better, and you can bet that he has a thin enough skin that anyone making fun of him will cut him right to the core! But yeah, Scrooged is almost 30 years old, and way back then was comparing Trump Tower to a sewer.
This Twitter thread is a must read:
Someone retweeted this on my timeline today. From Twitter user Ross A. Lincoln (https://twitter.com/Rossalincoln) and I'm just going to merge the whole twitter essay into a big paragraph:
but here's the thing: Hill's campaign seriously erred in ignoring key swing states. But she still is getting a historic pop vote margin pushing 3 million more votes than Trump got. Possibly going to have gotten more votes than Obama got in 2012. by any reasonable standard of judgment, clear majority of voters did not want Trump in office and most of those voters wanted Hillary. Trump literally won only thanks to a technicality. And yet everyone is trying to push this idea that liberal votes don't really count. we're told *we* live in a bubble. But as other ppl have noted, Los Angeles looks a hell of a lot more like America than Sapulpa, OK. before anyone accuses me of being a snooty coastal elite, I am from Sapulpa, OK. if Dems reacted to winning E.C. but not pop vote by saying OK isn't a real place and doesn't count, there'd be riots and impeachment. That's literally what is happening to liberals. But we didn't just win the pop vote b/c of a quirk. We won it BIG. There are more of us. if anything, we're the ignored majority. Not conservatives, who literally cannot win fair and square. that is why we keep bringing up the pop vote. We have to keep hammering the fact that we are NOT outliers. We are not "elites". we have to keep reminding people whose default setting is to surrender that clearly they problem isn't that Dems are too liberal. Not to mention the fact that in most of the swing states, Trump's margin of victory is smaller than # of votes Stein got. calls for Ds to abandon core constituencies and core projects are bad and should be ignored. In summary: we should do more of what we've done not less unless we wanna lose forever. THAT's why we keep bringing up the pop vote. FIN
Addendum: As if to prove my point, this is the kind of BS we have to deal with on the regular: https://twitter.com/politico/status/806321124275617792
So, that's just a quick and dirty cut'n'paste of the whole Twitter essay. To read it in its natural environment, please see the link here: https://twitter.com/Rossalincoln/status/806553976527126528
Joe Biden on Colbert talking about the "Cancer Moonshot"
What a quietly eloquent man. Well spoken, obviously intelligent, and clearly astute and caring. Kudos to Colbert for just letting him talk in this interview:
Also, I'm totally down to watch that basketball game!!
Toon: This Modern World DIY Funnies Predicts the Election Result
From Tom Tomorrow, hosted at DailyKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/7/1592144/-Cartoon-DIY-funnies
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‘Deplorable’ suspect draws blood from poll worker by hiding box cutter blades in Trump-Pence sign
Source: RawStory
An election worker in Plano, Texas was reportedly injured by box cutter blades that were hidden in a Trump-Pence campaign sign.
According to KTVT, the sign was placed where the suspect knew that poll workers would have to remove it. And after a precinct official ordered the sign taken down, a volunteer was sliced open by the hidden box cutter blades. The blades drew blood but luckily the cuts were not serious.
County Democratic campaign chair Steve Spainhouer told KTVT that the incident was “deplorable.”
The Texas Rangers were reportedly investigating the incident at the request of precinct officials. Collin College said in a statement that all signs on campus were being inspected for sharp objects.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/deplorable-suspect-draws-blood-from-poll-worker-by-hiding-box-cutter-blades-in-trump-pence-sign/comments/#disqus
Video at link, as well.
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