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chocolatpi's JournalBiden's singular advantage, as a candidate,
is his support in the AA community. Black women are crucial for a Democratic get out the vote effort. Their efforts in the "rust belt" could very well determine the outcome of the 2020 elections.
It is my opinion that Senator Elizabeth Warren is our best qualified candidate. I have no doubts that she can excite and deliver turnout in the 2020 election. There are 3 candidates who will most likely still be standing when the primaries occur, Warren, Biden, Sanders. It seems possible that our votes could end up with each at or close to one third of the total vote.
Senator Warren is running a fantastic ground game. She needs the support of POC voters. If the goal of all Democrats is to defeat the current freeloader, I think she, not Joe Biden, is the person most likely to deliver.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-recalling-68-asks-audience-to-imagine-obamas-assassination/ar-AAGeYwB
The New York Times via MSN
Joe Biden, Recalling ’68, Asks Audience to Imagine Obama’s Assassination
Trip Gabriel and Isabella Grullón Paz
HANOVER, N.H. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Friday took a series of unusual rhetorical detours at the end of a town-hall-style campaign event nominally dedicated to health care, speculating about how a political assassination of Barack Obama might have affected the country in 2008 and recalling that he was accused of being gay because of his support of women’s rights in the 1970s.
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Mr. Biden, 76, was making the point that events of the late 1960s and early ’70s raised his political awareness and propelled him into a political career. He ran successfully for the United States Senate in 1972 at age 29.
A campaign spokesman said Mr. Biden had previously drawn an analogy between an Obama assassination and the political killings of 1968 when speaking to younger audiences not alive at the time.
In 2008, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton drew criticism when she referenced the political assassinations of 1968 as she defended staying in the long primary battle against Mr. Obama. She noted first that Bill Clinton had not wrapped up the nomination until June 1992, and then added, “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”
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Statistics by state on hate crimes
Arizona, where I live, is rated 9th on the list. It's something to consider if you are considering moving here or considering the state for business opportunities. Politicians who contribute by their rhetoric and/or material support to these groups should be outed and defeated at the polls.
Those of us who live in these states should take action to reverse these trends or ingrained bigotry in the population, businesses or political figures using division to win elections.
https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/fbi-arizona-has-one-of-the-highest-rates-of-hate-crimes-in-the-nation
FBI: Arizona has one of the highest rates of hate crimes in the nation
Posted: 6:37 PM, Aug 06, 2019 Updated: 8:15 AM, Aug 07, 2019
By: Melissa Blasius
From white supremacist graffiti on mailboxes to violent attacks, Arizona has one of the highest rates of hate crimes in the nation, according to FBI statistics.
FBI data shows that Arizona had 264 reported hate crimes in 2017, with the 9th worst rate, based on population, compared to all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress last month about growing concerns of domestic terrorism from white supremacists.
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In the past nine months, the FBI reports arresting as many domestic terrorists as those influenced by foreign terrorist organizations.
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https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/hate-crime-statistics
FBI Releases 2017 Hate Crime Statistics
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Single Bias Incident Bias Motivation by Category
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Bias Motivation Categories 2016 2017
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry 3489 4131
Religion 1273 1564
Sexual Orientation 1076 1130
Gender Identity 124 119
Disability 70 116
Gender 31 46
Bias Motivation Categories for Single-bias Incidents in 2017: This is a pie chart showing the percentages of bias motivation categories for single-bias incidents in 2017. They are as follows:
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry 58.1%
Religion 22.0%
Sexual Orientation 15.9%
Gender Identity 11.7%
Disability 1.6%
Gender 0.6%
"Job growth in Trump Land is dead in the water."
For those candidates who are running in the States or for President, I think attacking the current resident on what he thinks is his strong suite, the economy, would be wise. This applies for all elections state or federal, imo. Let me know if it belongs in the Primary threads.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/job-growth-in-trump-land-is-dead-in-the-water-2019-08-02?&mod=mw_theo_homepage
Opinion: Job growth in Trump Land is dead in the water
Published: Aug 2, 2019 11:17 a.m. ET
Rex Nutting Columnist
Almost all of the job growth is in big cities, while rural America is listless
(author leads with a color coded map, stats and links)
Along with climate change and racial justice, economic development is America’s biggest challenge over the next few decades. Inclusive growth is a must, or else our society will fall apart.
But job growth isn’t being spread evenly across the land. Most of the new jobs have been located in a just a few dozen large and dynamic cities, leaving slower-growing cities, small towns and rural areas — where about half of Americans live — far behind.
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The problem: No one — certainly not President Trump — has found the magic wand that will bring back jobs to rural and small-town America.
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Trump’s appeal to the despairing
Anyone who’s been paying attention to the political map will recognize that the growth is mostly occurring in places that vote for Democrats, while the stagnation is mostly in places that vote for Republicans.
Donald Trump has appealed to those who are the most fearful, the most resentful and the most despairing, but the situation hasn’t gotten any better since his election. Rural America is older, sicker, poorer and more dependent upon state aid than it was before.
Read: Tim Mullaney says Trump is pushing manufacturing toward a recession
Lots more info, links
Trump ramps up China trade war as he heads to Ohio rally
Source: MarketWatch
Trump ramps up China trade war as he heads to Ohio rally
Published: Aug 1, 2019 3:11 p.m. ET
Robert Schroeder White House Reporter
Proposed 10% tariffs would come on top of other levies
TARIFF THREAT
Trump said in a series of tweets that the U.S. would slap 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods starting Sept. 1. The move immediately rippled across financial markets, sending stocks DJIA, -0.86% down more than 200 points and causing the yield on the 10-year Treasury TMUBMUSD10Y, -6.17% to slump to its lowest level since November 2016.
Trump’s language, however, suggested that he could hold off on imposing the levies. He said trade talks were continuing and that “We look forward to continuing our positive dialogue with China on a comprehensive Trade Deal, and feel that the future between our two countries will be a very bright one!”
Opinion: Trump trash-talks China, gets basic economic facts wrong.
If the duties are imposed they will come on top of 25% tariffs on $250 billion worth of goods from China. Trump’s announcement followed a round of U.S.-China talks this week that didn’t yield meaningful results
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-ramps-up-china-trade-war-as-he-heads-to-ohio-rally-2019-08-01?mod=mw_quote_news
In closing, the author says trash-talker gets basic facts wrong.
Dow down by 280 points at 3:05 PM, another reaction to the current remarks and trade war
bumbling by our national disgrace, poorly disguised and poorly attired loser in chief. imho
The revival of the Death Penalty
For the record:
I have been opposed to the death penalty because innocent people have been executed. If, as most conservatives and liberals would say, life is precious. If you are a Christian, it is covered by "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-trump-administrations-revival-of-federal-executions-is-a-cynical-election-year-move/ar-AAERtcQ
Rolling Stone via MSN
The Trump Administration’s Revival of Federal Executions Is a Cynical Election-Year Move
July 26, 2019
Andrew Cohen
The only surprising part of the Trump administration’s choice to restart federal executions is that it took the president this long to make it. As a matter of pure politics, Donald Trump would probably like nothing more than to have a national debate over the next year about what sort of justice ought to be meted out to convicted murderers. Such a dialogue during the primary season will likely rile his base, track his “American carnage” motif, and distract reporters away from coverage of the administration’s malfeasance and the president’s own legal troubles.
The Trump administration quietly until now has been increasing the rate of federal capital cases, a policy entirely consistent both with Trump’s own odious views of the death penalty and the views of both of the attorneys general who have served in this administration. Like Trump, Jeff Sessions pushed to begin killing federal death row inmates again last year and famously suggested that capital punishment was applied too restrictively; that drug dealers, too, should be executed.
William Barr, the current attorney general, now simply is implementing what Sessions started. The feds say they will not fight in court, as so many capital states have, over the efficacy of a three-drug lethal injection cocktail or other deadly brew. Instead, following the lead of capital punishment states like Missouri, the Bureau of Prisons will try to kill condemned prisoners using a single drug: pentobarbital. And so the feds announced Thursday that five federal inmates at the death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, already have been issued their death warrants.
It doesn’t matter to Trump, or to Barr, that violent crime rates are down in America and at generational lows in many jurisdictions. It doesn’t matter that, as more states abolish the death penalty, executions are down across the country and that the imposition of death sentences in murder cases also is waning for good and practical reasons. It does not matter to this administration that conservative opposition to capital punishment has grown significantly over the past decade or so. Or that the American people, slowly but surely, are turning away from it as well, with less than half of Americans saying that the death penalty is applied fairly……
Entire article available at link
Change the narrative
Why do we allow others to make this election about immigration? If we had a functioning White House and patriotic, Republican Congress members, they would be focused on the best interests of all Americans. Republicans, please stop playing a zero sum game. It's unAmerican and ugly to encourage a civil war.
It's Friday, gearing done with a song
Enjoy the weekend, it's ok to point out that I'm political even during my trips into music appreciation.
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Was Shakespeare a Woman?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/who-is-shakespeare-emilia-bassano/588076/?utm_source=pocket-newtabUpdated at 6:33 p.m. ET on June 7, 2019.
Was Shakespeare a Woman?
The authorship controversy has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford. Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia Bassano.
On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our memories of the play’s best lines. I pulled up Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy on my iPhone. “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” I read, thrilled once again by the incantatory power of the verse. I remembered where I was when I first heard those lines: in my 10th-grade English class, startled out of my adolescent stupor by this woman rebelling magnificently and malevolently against her submissive status. “Make thick my blood, / Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse.” Six months into the #MeToo movement, her fury and frustration felt newly resonant.
Pulled back into plays I’d studied in college and graduate school, I found myself mesmerized by Lady Macbeth and her sisters in the Shakespeare canon. Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing, raging at the limitations of her sex (“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace”). Rosalind, in As You Like It, affecting the swagger of masculine confidence to escape those limitations (“We’ll have a swashing and a martial outside, / As many other mannish cowards have / That do outface it with their semblances”). Isabella, in Measure for Measure, fearing no one will believe her word against Angelo’s, rapist though he is (“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, / Who would believe me?”). Kate, in The Taming of the Shrew, refusing to be silenced by her husband (“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, / Or else my heart concealing it will break”). Emilia, in one of her last speeches in Othello before Iago kills her, arguing for women’s equality (“Let husbands know / Their wives have sense like them”).
I was reminded of all the remarkable female friendships, too: Beatrice and Hero’s allegiance; Emilia’s devotion to her mistress, Desdemona; Paulina’s brave loyalty to Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; and plenty more. (“Let’s consult together against this greasy knight,” resolve the merry wives of Windsor, revenging themselves on Falstaff.) These intimate female alliances are fresh inventions—they don’t exist in the literary sources from which many of the plays are drawn. And when the plays lean on historical sources (Plutarch, for instance), they feminize them, portraying legendary male figures through the eyes of mothers, wives, and lovers. “Why was Shakespeare able to see the woman’s position, write entirely as if he were a woman, in a way that none of the other playwrights of the age were able to?” In her book about the plays’ female characters, Tina Packer, the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, asked the question very much on my mind.
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Mr. Mueller, betrayal
I remember your days in previous Republican administrations. Many like me were willing to give you the benefit of doubt. I no longer consider you an honorable public servant.
Rot in hell, you have betrayed your obligation to the Rule of Law and our fragile republic. You are just another partisan hack. May history record the betrayal of your oath and disgusting behavior while in public office.
Russia on the Ritz
Vlad is a fan of western music. He plays the piano and our resident.
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