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August 29, 2020
Based on these state polls.
https://www.270towin.com/2020-polls-biden-trump/
270 To Win August 29 Electoral Map
https://www.270towin.comBased on these state polls.
https://www.270towin.com/2020-polls-biden-trump/
August 28, 2020
I see you all regardless
I know what lies are like
I might've been born yesterday, sir
But I stayed up all night
I see you all regardless
I know these times of fright
We might've been born yesterday, friends
But we stayed up all night, right
I'm a young man, I'm unhappy
We deserve that, dream collapsin'
I'm just one man, so damn angry
Truth confusion, scared with truthers
Hide your foil, hide your face
Say hi horsemen, higher stakes
Hi again, well, how about that?
Well, how the fuck else can I react?
I see you all regardless
I know what lies are like
I might've been born yesterday, sir
But I stayed up all night
I see you all regardless
I know these times of fright
We might've been born yesterday, friends
But we stayed up all night, right
Hell you're too preachy, you don't reach me
Right and wrong's hard, you say easy?
Okay maybe, I was normal
On some rap shit, up raw backspin
Paws collapsin', back to windmill
Innocent thrill, some old-fashioned
Moral D-Ray, I'm no different
I wish my whole still existed
From the blades, necessitate shit
Lifespan program, final digits
You're my daddy, you'll protect me
I need guidance to live correctly
I can't fight you, fear of the ether
I'm the servant, you're the teacher
What the fuck man? Oh, so sorry
That's the implant talking for me
I see you all regardless
I know what lies are like
I might've been born yesterday, sir
But I stayed up all night
I see you all regardless
I know these times of fright
We might've been born yesterday, friends
But we stayed up all night, right, right, right
Another nice warning to MAGATs
I see you all regardless
I know what lies are like
I might've been born yesterday, sir
But I stayed up all night
I see you all regardless
I know these times of fright
We might've been born yesterday, friends
But we stayed up all night, right
I'm a young man, I'm unhappy
We deserve that, dream collapsin'
I'm just one man, so damn angry
Truth confusion, scared with truthers
Hide your foil, hide your face
Say hi horsemen, higher stakes
Hi again, well, how about that?
Well, how the fuck else can I react?
I see you all regardless
I know what lies are like
I might've been born yesterday, sir
But I stayed up all night
I see you all regardless
I know these times of fright
We might've been born yesterday, friends
But we stayed up all night, right
Hell you're too preachy, you don't reach me
Right and wrong's hard, you say easy?
Okay maybe, I was normal
On some rap shit, up raw backspin
Paws collapsin', back to windmill
Innocent thrill, some old-fashioned
Moral D-Ray, I'm no different
I wish my whole still existed
From the blades, necessitate shit
Lifespan program, final digits
You're my daddy, you'll protect me
I need guidance to live correctly
I can't fight you, fear of the ether
I'm the servant, you're the teacher
What the fuck man? Oh, so sorry
That's the implant talking for me
I see you all regardless
I know what lies are like
I might've been born yesterday, sir
But I stayed up all night
I see you all regardless
I know these times of fright
We might've been born yesterday, friends
But we stayed up all night, right, right, right
August 28, 2020
Strip down police departments. Make all police re-apply. Include background -- social media and policing records -- checks. Local governments must make all police EARN qualified immunity status.
Two more links on the story of Charleston's Henry Earl and his 1,500 arrests:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200825/20283045184/time-to-start-dismantling-one-nations-oldest-racist-institutions-law-enforcement.shtml?fbclid=IwAR3fkONTsHZkHDbjnaiXYnVOlePrcQY6qjm7zrvlkCfvSwF28jFnb3njeB8
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/the-abolition-movement
No more white power sickness.
Given That Courts Support Qualified Immunity, It's Time For Govts To Dismantle Police Depts.
No more white supremacists in blue uniform. No more "back the blue" murders. No more stigmatizing and threatening the lives of 1A protesters and their allies.
Restore justice, peace and tranquility.
It's Time To Start Dismantling One Of The Nation's Oldest Racist Institutions: Law Enforcement
Those opposed to defunding police departments (that's most police officials and officers) say it can't be done without ushering in a criminal apocalypse. Police departments demand an inordinate amount of most cities' budgets but law enforcement officials refuse to agree money should be steered away from them even as cities prepare to redirect some calls cops normally handle to other city services.
Cops believe they're the "thin blue line" between order and chaos. They believe they're the only thing standing between good people and criminals. But that's just something they say to make themselves feel better about the babysitting and clerical work that consumes most of their working hours. Josie Duffy Rice's excellent article about the long racist history of American law enforcement brings the receipts. What's standing between us and supposed chaos is barely anything at all...
Charleston resident Henry Earl becoming a late night talk show punchline and the subject of nationwide ridicule. Earl was arrested more than 1,500 times -- almost always for public intoxication. Every two or three days, cops would pick up Earl and toss him in jail for three to five days. This happened over and over again for fifty years. And for what? What was the societal net gain of arresting the same man 1,500 times for a low-level violation? Well, it kept the cops paid and they got to look like they were doing something to earn their paychecks.
This is how the "thin blue line" actually operates. And it bears no resemblance to the lofty statements they make in defense of their own profession. Most police work is busywork. But in this nation, the busywork tends to negatively affect certain people the most...
Cops believe they're the "thin blue line" between order and chaos. They believe they're the only thing standing between good people and criminals. But that's just something they say to make themselves feel better about the babysitting and clerical work that consumes most of their working hours. Josie Duffy Rice's excellent article about the long racist history of American law enforcement brings the receipts. What's standing between us and supposed chaos is barely anything at all...
Charleston resident Henry Earl becoming a late night talk show punchline and the subject of nationwide ridicule. Earl was arrested more than 1,500 times -- almost always for public intoxication. Every two or three days, cops would pick up Earl and toss him in jail for three to five days. This happened over and over again for fifty years. And for what? What was the societal net gain of arresting the same man 1,500 times for a low-level violation? Well, it kept the cops paid and they got to look like they were doing something to earn their paychecks.
This is how the "thin blue line" actually operates. And it bears no resemblance to the lofty statements they make in defense of their own profession. Most police work is busywork. But in this nation, the busywork tends to negatively affect certain people the most...
Strip down police departments. Make all police re-apply. Include background -- social media and policing records -- checks. Local governments must make all police EARN qualified immunity status.
Two more links on the story of Charleston's Henry Earl and his 1,500 arrests:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200825/20283045184/time-to-start-dismantling-one-nations-oldest-racist-institutions-law-enforcement.shtml?fbclid=IwAR3fkONTsHZkHDbjnaiXYnVOlePrcQY6qjm7zrvlkCfvSwF28jFnb3njeB8
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/the-abolition-movement
No more white power sickness.
August 27, 2020
1. Some thoughts:
The power that fascism promises is appealing. But it's a false freedom, which is why fascists don't run nations for long. Fascists never last for a good reason -- Antifascists -- liberals who allow live and let live governance -- appeal to the drives of the most humans for just freedoms, not "conferred" freedoms.
Humans always resist dominators.
Evolution does not support fascists' domination. Evolution supports liberal cooperation.
Deep down, humans know who the enemies of humanity are.
2. Today's skirmishes:
Friend-of-a-friend's tweet on the appearance of where things stand in Kenosha.
My Liberal response:
Liberals know that fascism is an ideology and an abstraction.
Liberals know when they face fascists.
To be antifa, liberals know to be anti-fascist, not anti-fascism.
Liberals DO attack access to the tools of fascists.
So this criticism is bogus.
Liberals have lasted longer than fascists for a lot of fucking good reasons. Knowing how to live and let live is only one of them.
Seattle friend's FB post:
My Liberal response:
This skirmish came from insurgents who seek power over justice, and use an unjust killing to put on a "show" of power.
Real thinkers know how to control insurgencies so that they don't develop into civil war.
Politics is civil -- as in civilized -- war.
It is how the players play that affects the outcome of the game: win-win (both without too much loss of face) or win-lose (killing off competition of ideas and the people who produce them).
One side really wants freedom, justice and empowerment for everyone; the other side really wants freedom only for themselves, unjust order and power for the few.
Actual weapons are the refuge of the stupid and fearful. Those who think better than they can beat them and their weapons.
Yes, Kenosha government has more thinking to do. No flaws are "fatal."
3. Why Liberals Outlast Fascism
Momentum only appears to be toward civil war in the U.S. Don't believe the hype. These skirmishes are provocations.
The Liberals' homework preparation, openness and consistency of their accomplishments are what people prefer to the secrecy and unpredictability of mad power abusers.
Human momentum is still toward LIB, the base meaning of FREE.
Liberals read Sun Tzu and prefer reality. Fascists don't read and prefer stories.
A Closer Look at Liberalism, and Why Liberals Last For Centuries and Fascists Don't
1. Some thoughts:
The power that fascism promises is appealing. But it's a false freedom, which is why fascists don't run nations for long. Fascists never last for a good reason -- Antifascists -- liberals who allow live and let live governance -- appeal to the drives of the most humans for just freedoms, not "conferred" freedoms.
Humans always resist dominators.
Evolution does not support fascists' domination. Evolution supports liberal cooperation.
Deep down, humans know who the enemies of humanity are.
2. Today's skirmishes:
Friend-of-a-friend's tweet on the appearance of where things stand in Kenosha.
" Love that the liberal takeaway from the Kenosha shootings is "Nobody needs an AR-15" rather than "oh my fucking god the police are working with and protecting militia members."
You guys are utterly helpless in the face of fascism."
You guys are utterly helpless in the face of fascism."
My Liberal response:
Liberals know that fascism is an ideology and an abstraction.
Liberals know when they face fascists.
To be antifa, liberals know to be anti-fascist, not anti-fascism.
Liberals DO attack access to the tools of fascists.
So this criticism is bogus.
Liberals have lasted longer than fascists for a lot of fucking good reasons. Knowing how to live and let live is only one of them.
Seattle friend's FB post:
The Kenosha government’s fatal flaw is thinking they can appease these people.
Nope.
It means now they own you, and if you ever want to gain control again you’re going to have to take severely drastic measures.
Kenosha police and government have made a grave error.
This is a small early skirmish in what is clearly a civil war already underway.
Unlike the last civil war, this one is going to drag on for decades.
Just like our wars in the Middle East.
Nope.
It means now they own you, and if you ever want to gain control again you’re going to have to take severely drastic measures.
Kenosha police and government have made a grave error.
This is a small early skirmish in what is clearly a civil war already underway.
Unlike the last civil war, this one is going to drag on for decades.
Just like our wars in the Middle East.
My Liberal response:
This skirmish came from insurgents who seek power over justice, and use an unjust killing to put on a "show" of power.
Real thinkers know how to control insurgencies so that they don't develop into civil war.
Politics is civil -- as in civilized -- war.
It is how the players play that affects the outcome of the game: win-win (both without too much loss of face) or win-lose (killing off competition of ideas and the people who produce them).
One side really wants freedom, justice and empowerment for everyone; the other side really wants freedom only for themselves, unjust order and power for the few.
Actual weapons are the refuge of the stupid and fearful. Those who think better than they can beat them and their weapons.
Yes, Kenosha government has more thinking to do. No flaws are "fatal."
3. Why Liberals Outlast Fascism
Momentum only appears to be toward civil war in the U.S. Don't believe the hype. These skirmishes are provocations.
The Liberals' homework preparation, openness and consistency of their accomplishments are what people prefer to the secrecy and unpredictability of mad power abusers.
Human momentum is still toward LIB, the base meaning of FREE.
Liberals read Sun Tzu and prefer reality. Fascists don't read and prefer stories.
August 26, 2020
1. Police kill a black person -- cameras, guns
2. BLM and/or allies protest the police abuse -- no cameras, no guns
3. Armed white supremacists hijack protests with breaking and burning -- media, guns
4. Trump sends in militias -- campaign ads
5. Fearful voters vote for Trump
The Battleground State Formula -- 270 to Win
Right now it's Wisconsin.1. Police kill a black person -- cameras, guns
2. BLM and/or allies protest the police abuse -- no cameras, no guns
3. Armed white supremacists hijack protests with breaking and burning -- media, guns
4. Trump sends in militias -- campaign ads
5. Fearful voters vote for Trump
August 26, 2020
Fascists vs Protesters of Fascism
If you don't know when you see video of police giving water and appreciation to an armed far-right militia guy who’s about to shoot and kill black men protesting police killing an unarmed black man in front of his kids... Now you know.
https://twitter.com/randomanne/status/1298505513764782080
August 26, 2020
A Closer Look At Fascism, MAGA Fascism, Fascist Rhetoric, Fascist Propaganda, And Being Alarmist
August 25, 2020
The crime bill of 26 years ago -- the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act -- was a product of its time, when Clinton oversaw the nation’s longest peacetime economic expansion since the Eisenhower era. The Black Caucus in the days of Clinton clamored for the crime bill, including former Panther Bobby Rush.
What was then the biggest bipartisan spending bill on law and order, now gets revised by the Republican line that Biden "spearheaded" and is solely to blame for what was actually Clinton's push to be as "tough on crime" as the Gingrich Republicans, Republicans who started "their way or the highway" politics -- the racist Willie Horton fearmonger politics they now veil today with nazis, militias and Cuban ethnic racists. The old playbook: fear of a black planet.
Today, the Republicans cast themselves and Trump as the only hope to save this country from "falling apart in anarchy and anger in a radical Democratic state of America" that will leave no one standing. The old playbook: Democrats will always be weak on ____, and Republicans will always be strong.
Michelle Alexander lays out the most accurate history of the Clinton Crime Bill and its time in The New Jim Crow. Republicans need to read it.
The Old playbook: never apologize, never regret. Drive the playbook and back the boss.
In days ahead, they will cast Democrats in general as the old playbook "takers," "debt makers" and "tear-downers" because Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi with her spending demands for all those radical socialists that don't want to work.
Today's language veils the old Republican political playbook. Which deserves a harder look.
The campaign isn't about Biden and Trump. It's about their comparative achievements, their party package, their world view, the people they bring with them.
There are playbook lines. We ought to list them. It's a history lesson playing out in the next 70 days.
A Look At Their Pasts & Who Will Make the Future -- Trump's People or Biden and The People
The crime bill of 26 years ago -- the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act -- was a product of its time, when Clinton oversaw the nation’s longest peacetime economic expansion since the Eisenhower era. The Black Caucus in the days of Clinton clamored for the crime bill, including former Panther Bobby Rush.
What was then the biggest bipartisan spending bill on law and order, now gets revised by the Republican line that Biden "spearheaded" and is solely to blame for what was actually Clinton's push to be as "tough on crime" as the Gingrich Republicans, Republicans who started "their way or the highway" politics -- the racist Willie Horton fearmonger politics they now veil today with nazis, militias and Cuban ethnic racists. The old playbook: fear of a black planet.
Today, the Republicans cast themselves and Trump as the only hope to save this country from "falling apart in anarchy and anger in a radical Democratic state of America" that will leave no one standing. The old playbook: Democrats will always be weak on ____, and Republicans will always be strong.
Michelle Alexander lays out the most accurate history of the Clinton Crime Bill and its time in The New Jim Crow. Republicans need to read it.
The Old playbook: never apologize, never regret. Drive the playbook and back the boss.
In days ahead, they will cast Democrats in general as the old playbook "takers," "debt makers" and "tear-downers" because Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi with her spending demands for all those radical socialists that don't want to work.
Today's language veils the old Republican political playbook. Which deserves a harder look.
The campaign isn't about Biden and Trump. It's about their comparative achievements, their party package, their world view, the people they bring with them.
There are playbook lines. We ought to list them. It's a history lesson playing out in the next 70 days.
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