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BeckyDem's JournalIS QANON THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
( With the GOP headed by a narcissist con man and Mitch McConnell his happy accomplice, then yes.)
Guest host Ryan Grim discusses the past, present, and future of the bizarre conspiracy theory.
Deconstructed
August 28 2020, 6:00 a.m.
QANON IS A far-ranging conspiracy theory that alleges, among other things, that a patriotic Trump supporter (or supporters) embedded in the highest levels of the U.S. government has been using internet forums to send coded messages to the American public about a secret plan to arrest and/or execute a global cabal of child-torturing, blood-drinking, satan-worshipping pedophiles. Despite its self-evident implausibility, the mantle of QAnon has been taken up by a huge number of mostly right-wing Americans, including a shocking number of Republican politicians. Guest host Ryan Grim talks to Aída Chávez and the Daily Beasts Will Sommer about the future of Q.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/28/is-qanon-the-future-of-the-republican-party/
Rand Paul
Go to hell. He can't even be a fucking libertarian who would stand up to Trump and recognize a civil rights struggle that is in his face. No, not him, just another lackey for Trump and the police.
Following the incident, Paul tweeted: "Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob."
https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-white-house-incident-1528220
Contested future: What next for the west?
Globalisation has, for many, undercut wages and jobs and fuelled populism. Can three new books unpick an issue that so divides us?
Edward Luce
16 HOURS AGO
Whats the matter with the west? Your answer will largely depend on what you mean by the west.
If you are Jeffrey Sachs, a distinguished but controversial Ivy League economist, the west has been a productivity machine that gave the world the industrial era and now the digital age. The wests half a millennium of dominance is now closing. Sachs perspective, in other words, is technical and somewhat bloodless. If you are Pankaj Mishra, a London-based India-born writer, the response is very bloody indeed. Mishras west gave the world colonialism, destruction and slavery. It is now sinking under the weight of its greed and hypocrisy. He too sees western hegemony coming to an end. If you are Thomas Frank, a Washington-based journalist and historian, your horizons are essentially American. The heyday of Americas spirit came in the populist era of the 1890s and early 1900s, and during Franklin Roosevelts 1930s New Deal. Americas only hope is to recover the egalitarian temper of those times.
Whichever view you take, the fate of the west is also on the ballot in the coming US general election. One candidate, Joe Biden, promises to revive Americas western alliances. The other, Donald Trump, would continue to put America first. There are reasons to be sceptical of whether the voting public cares deeply either way.
Were you to poll the average American, Franks perspective would come closest to reflecting their worldview. The rest of the world barely rates a mention in his new book except where globalisation is treated as elite project. The People, No is nevertheless a rousing book part history and partly a call to arms against the plutocratic elites of both Americas main parties.
Franks real strength lies in his energetic optimism, which is a rare commodity nowadays. He makes two cases, the first highly semantic, the second central to the challenge of our times. His first is that the word populism has been hijacked. The term, an American original, now stands for what used to be meant by Jacksonian resentful of those above you (the bankers and intellectuals) and cruel towards those below (the slaves and native Americans). In fact, Frank reminds us, the origins of US populism were very different. The prairie populists of the 1890s were in favour of racial integration, womens emancipation and opposed to the robber baron capitalists. They gave birth not only to the term populist but also to the Peoples Party, which briefly threatened to realign US politics. Its legacy carried into the progressive era that helped tame American capitalism, enshrine fiat money, create income taxes and launch trust busting.
https://www.ft.com/content/8a4dfeef-eb91-4ab5-b1f2-073373baee78
Rep. Barbara Lee: Without accountability, police violence against Black people will continue
We MUST end qualified immunity and put the #JusticeInPolicingAct into law.
Jacob Blakes life matters. #BlackLivesMatter.
https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1298992693498933249
Category 4 Laura strengthens, may bring 'unsurvivable' storm surges in Louisiana and Texas
Get out and stay safe! This damn thing keeps getting stronger. Rita was a category 3, just for perspective.
https://www.wnem.com/category-4-laura-strengthens-may-bring-unsurvivable-storm-surges-in-louisiana-and-texas/article_86309db8-61f4-5eee-ace0-842d47ad97ca.html
Love this!! : Breaking: The Thunder and Rockets are also boycotting Game 5
https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1298726645646450688Sen. Mike Gianaris @SenGianaris: When Trump glorifies one, we inevitably get the other.
If you dont see how uplifting the McCloskeys emboldens people like Kyle Rittenhouse then youre not paying attention.
https://twitter.com/SenGianaris/status/1298691486700249093
Thank goodness for our side.
Cressman stating the obvious: Note that police didn't shoot Kyle Rittenhouse seven times in the back
https://twitter.com/DerekCressman/status/1298694065559543808
Can people please stop saying the cops need to be better trained. They need to stop hiring racist animals.
@RepBarbaraLee: 40 million people face the threat of eviction (UNACCEPTABLE)
https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1298678702381961217
No one at the cult RNC will mention these people.
U.N. Security Council president dismisses U.S. sanctions move on Iran
( This is good news and fuck Trump and his wacko supporters. )
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The president of the U.N. Security Council, Indonesia, said on Tuesday it was not in the position to take further action on a U.S. bid to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Iran because there is no consensus in the 15-member body.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-un/un-security-council-president-dismisses-us-sanctions-move-on-iran-idUSKBN25L23T
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