Picaro
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I live in the Dallas area. That the Dallas Cowboys, self styled as "America's Team", just took a knee with the owner is a pretty big deal.
Jerry Jones is one of the oligarchs--a big,big deal in the NFL and in American business. Regardless of what you think of him he has always been a strong supporter of all that is status quo. He is one of "them".
That he has gone against Trump because of Trump's attack on black athletes in the NFL and the NBA is revealing. Trump's actions have provoked a surprising backlash.
Again, I live here. I couldn't have predicted this.
Things are getting weirder every day.
I'm so tired of this shit.
Trump would sign it if they could get it to his desk
The man has no identifiable ideology. He believes in money, sex, and power. He is also addicted to winning.
If somehow this could get through the legislative meat grinder I'm confident he'd sign it.
I think in that little lizard brain of his he has started to realize that the Republican agenda is a loser with the country. He hates losing.
Look at the deal he struck with Pelosi and Schumer. He knew the other path was a long drawn out slog through the mud and that, in the end, he'd have to force Ryan and McConnell to capitulate to the Democrats.
I think the timing on this is good.
She lived her life well
There is no way to make the pain go away. Indeed, it will surge into you later--unanticipated and uninvited--when some random thing triggers your memory.
But you describe a rich life and a parting from that life chosen rather than imposed.
I don't know you, but I've felt loss before and can sympathize and I offer my heartfelt condolences.
Bless you and bless her.
That comment reminds of Barbara Bush
No one seems to have brought this up yet...but this particular comment very much echoes Barbara Bush's comments during the Katrina evacuation about the mega center in Houston that in thousands.
There is a certain base cluelessness that only those born rich can have. They can look on these poor unfortunates and think that this is a great result.
As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them." (This is clipped from the New York Times article from September 7, 2005)
It is not so much cruelty or heartlessness so much as the inability to relate because of a total lack of having experienced any sort of deprivation in their lives.
As Nick from The Great Gatsby said--the rich are not like you or me.
I'm sorry. What am I missing here?
He is a "3rd generation US citizen" and he can be subject to deportation?
So, because his grandparents came from Mexico and he has committed crimes he can be deported to Mexico?
Can someone with a background in law explain this one to us all?
Even his own party leadership thinks he's on the Russian take
Our system of Government has a very obvious weakness. Apparently there is nothing in our Constitution or our legal system that allows us to charge members of Congress that are clearly on the take from a foreign power with a crime. Dana Rohrbacher is so blatantly in the pocket of the Russians that it is absolutely mind-boggling. He doesn't even seem to be all that ashamed of it. I mean hell why should he be? It's working for him.
But what really blows me away is the fact that there's doesn't seem to fuck all we can do about it.
The same is true of Trump. He has pretty much trashed everybody and everything but if you ask him to say something negative about the Russians he backs off in a hurry. He just won't do it. He scared shitless of the Russians and specifically of Putin.
The thing that is really just absolutely blowing me away is that our system of government has absolutely no answer for this. Because we've granted immunity to our governmental officials – – with good reason – – there is absolutely nothing we can do.
Dana Rohrbacher cannot be arrested for what he is doing. Trump can't be arrested for what he's doing. It looks like our founding fathers designed a system that was pretty good as long as everybody was working together in good faith. But if somebody just decides they don't want to follow the rules they are actually relatively immune from any sort of prosecution while they are in office.
What an incredible cock up this is!
Heard this on NPR on the way home
of course, Ken Paxton has the deckaref this to be absolutely outrages and he's going to appeal. Texans never seems to tire of paying for this crap. The Voter ID law was so discriminatory in its intent that it really kinda boggled the mind.
So, when they lost the first case in nothing flat they decided that they would just modify the long little bit and I hope that worked. It didn't. The new law was only slightly less discriminatory.
I often wonder how many simultaneous appeals we have that are winding their way up to the Supreme Court.
Texas doesn't have enough money to build roads that don't require a toll, educate their poor citizens, and actually provide some level of environmental oversight-- but they always have plenty of money to file these appeals and fight them to the bloody end. And then when they lose they go back to the drawing board.
What Texas will never do is admit that they were wrong and do something that is actually right. I'd say that this was the worst state government that I've ever lived under but I moved down here from Missouri so I'm kinda used to it at this point.
Unprecedented
I've seen a lot of administrations and this is the only one where people are continually resigning in protest.
This one has the added virtue of being very clever.
I like it.
Correction noted
I really found my mind sliding off what was happening on my television. I had to switch channels to preserve my sanity...
I'm sure you are correct. But my choice of appropriate songs stands.
I flipped over to The Golf Channel and they were airing "The Caddy" in honor of Jerry Lewis. That was way easier to stomach.
The music playing Trump in at the Phoenix rally was off
I was watching Lawrence O'Donnell last night on MSNBC and he played a clip of Trump's Nuremberg Phoenix rally. I noticed that the song that played him in was "You can't always get what you want" by the Rolling Stones.
It would have been far more appropriate if it had been "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" by Linda Ronstadt. They could've followed that one with "Lord it's Hard to Be Humble (when you are perfect in every way)" by Mac Davis.
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