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NotNowNotEver https://www.dailykos.com/user/NotNowNotEver/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:09:23 +0000 Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:09:23 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Deplorables on the Run - GNR for Bluesday, July, 13th https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/7/13/2039270/-Deplorables-on-the-Run-GNR-for-Bluesday-July-13th <p>Greetings. fellow resisters.  Happy 13th of the month.</p> <p>Are you fed up with the endless strident attacks on our foundational principles of democracy?  In their quest for unfettered power, republicans have cursed themselves with a terminal case of political idiocy.  You have to be permanently nose blind to put up with the stench that emanates whenever they open their mouths.  Revulsion is probably the tamest emotion they inspire among anyone with more that three functioning brain cells.</p> <p>Turn over any rock in our political garden and you are likely to find a republican operative doing something vile to the democratic process.  It who they are and what they do.  They are too far gone to be able to find a way back, so they just keep upping the crazy.</p> <p>Today’s republican party is like a gas station sushi rack, sitting outside in the sun, next to the pumps, soaking up the fumes and marinating in the heat.  No matter what style of republican you pick, they are likely to make you violently ill (especially the anti-vax variety).</p> <p>Their messaging is generated by creeps, collusionists and crooks.</p> <p>Covid and climate are the albatrosses wrapped around their big orange albatross.</p> <p>In the last few weeks, some of the inmates in the Reich wing silo have started chewing on each other with wild abandon.  This is more pronounced than their normal snapping and bickering.  Legal exposure has a lot to do with it.  They are worried and it shows.  I think some of them have realized that they can run, but they can’t hide.  We’ll see more and more of them try to scramble out of their basket and pretend they hadn’t spent the last five years wallowing there.</p> <p>Of course, now that our indictment fantasies, lurid as they are, are finally being fulfilled,  we need to talk about the dangers of post-indictment bliss.  Sure, we share a warm feeling of accomplishment.  We deserve it.  Indictmentgasms take a lot of effort.  That doesn’t mean we should stop.</p> <p>We can work to make republican indictments a regular part of our lives.  I think several times a week would be ideal.  Those who advocate for a continuous orgy of indictments are in danger of diminishing the special relationship between an informed electorate and its justice system.  Moderation is the key.  Well, that and a really heavy book to throw at the bastards.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter">(we continue to resist the ongoing depredations of the Reichwing)</p> <p>Last night, Colbert, when discussing one of the current Covid-19 Delta variant outbreaks, said, “Branson, Missouri — The tourist mecca for people who are afraid of Mecca.”  I’m still chuckling.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=IM4Qy1dkAVo" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IM4Qy1dkAVo" data-width="1214" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>How about we check out the news.</p> <p><strong>Hi, Allen.  I’m Your Bus.  Please Lie Still</strong></p> <p>To flip or not to flip, that is the question.  Shall he be a burnt pancake or a lightly browned piece of toast.  Only Allen knows for sure.  What will push him over the edge?  Stay tuned and watch as he gets closer and closer to becoming the next Michael Cohen.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/politics/weisselberg-trump-organization-removed-officer-subsidiaries/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>Indicted Trump Organization CFO removed as an officer from several company subsidiaries</em></a></p> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>(CNN)The Trump Organization has removed Allen Weisselberg, its chief financial officer, from officer positions at several of its subsidiaries, including Mar-a-Lago, after he and former President Donald Trump's namesake business were indicted for allegedly running a 15-year tax fraud scheme.</p> <p>Weisselberg's role and title at the Trump Organization could change, but he will remain at the company, a source close to the Trump Organization told CNN. The source described Weisselberg's removal from the positions as "prudent corporate governance."</p> <p>Weisselberg has pleaded not guilty to 15 state charges, including grand larceny.</p> <p>Other subsidiaries that he has been removed from as an officer include the Trump Payroll Corp., which was also named in the indictment, Trump National Golf Club, Trump International Hotels Management and the Trump International Golf Club in Scotland, according to publicly filed corporation documents.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <p><strong>et tu, Faux News?</strong></p> <p>Are those dirty Fauxers worried about getting sued for all the lies they promote?  It sure looks like it.  I wonder what will happen to Faux, once Dominion Voting Systems takes ownership.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7e5ev/trump-got-slapped-with-a-fact-check-on-fox-news-yes-fox-news" target="_blank" title="">Vice News:  Paul Blest:  <em><span>Trump Got Slapped With a Fact-Check on Fox News. Yes, Fox News.</span></em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>Fox News has apparently decided it doesn’t need to be sued yet again for boosting false election claims.  </span></p> <p><span>On Sunday, the network carried live coverage of former President Donald Trump’s headlining speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). To the surprise of no one, the former president repeated a bunch of falsehoods about how he actually won the election, and Fox News had to perform some legal ass-covering in real time. </span></p> <p><span>“I got more votes—75 million—than anybody in the history of the presidency,” Trump, exaggerating his actual vote count, which was 74,216,156, and casually omitting the fact that 81,268,924 people voted for President Joe Biden. Trump also said he “lost,” using air quotes.</span></p> <p><span>Later, after Trump shifted topics to the subject of 2024, Fox News <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/during-donald-trumps-cpac-speech-fox-news-adds-disclaimer-that-voting-systems-companies-have-denied-his-election-fraud-claims/" target="_blank">ran an all-caps chyron disclaimer under him saying</a>: "The voting system companies have denied the various allegations made by President Trump and his counsel regarding the 2020 election." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>They Are Krakening Up and Falling Apart in Michigan</strong></p> <p>It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of sleazy treasonweasels.  They’ve got two weeks to come up with something more effective than holding their breath and stamping their feet, while claiming the aliens made them do it.  After that — welcome to Sanction City.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-blasts-ex-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-over-lawsuit-overturn-us-election-2021-07-12/" target="_blank" title="">Reuters:  <em>Judge eyes sanctions on pro-Trump lawyers who claimed voter fraud</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday appeared likely to reprimand Sidney Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Donald Trump, and other attorneys over a lawsuit they filed in Michigan seeking to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit suggested the pro-Trump lawyers should have investigated the Republican former president's voter fraud claims more carefully before suing.</p> <p>"Should an attorney be sanctioned for his or her failure to withdraw allegations the attorney came to know were untrue?," Parker said during a court hearing via video conference. "Is that sanctionable behavior?"</p> <p>She said she thought affidavits in the case had been submitted in "bad faith."</p> </blockquote> <p>Lin Wood, one of the lead liars staring at sanctions, couldn’t even wait an hour to violate a gag order.</p> <p><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lin-wood-deletes-telegram-post-that-may-have-violated-court-order" target="_blank" title="">Talking Points Memo:  <em>Lin Wood Deletes Telegram Post That May Have Violated Court Order</em></a></p> <p>It doesn’t end in Michigan</p> <p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/07/12/its-not-just-michigan-all-the-places-sidney-powell-lin-wood-and-pro-trump-attorneys-could-be-punished-for-kraken-lawsuits/?sh=66238e9654e9" target="_blank" title="">Forbes:  Alison Durkee:  <em>It’s Not Just Michigan: All The Places Sidney Powell, Lin Wood And Pro-Trump Attorneys Could Be Punished For ‘Kraken’ Lawsuits</em></a></p> <p><strong>And the <s>Hits</s> Lies Just Keep Coming</strong></p> <p>Don’t believe your lying eyes is the core republican message these days.  That only works on people who are already delusional.  [I was unable to find a copy of the video to share, so I’m linking to a story about it instead.  Sigh.]</p> <p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/videos-of-capitol-riot/" title="">Raw Story:  Chilling supercut contrasts Trump's lies about 'love' at Capitol riots with brutal violence of his supporters</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Former President Donald Trump over the weekend blatantly lied about the actions taken by his supporters at the January 6th Capitol riots by saying that his supporters were "peaceful people" who were filled with "such love."</p> <p>MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan on Monday showed a supercut video that contrasted Trump's description of his supporters with brutal footage of the rioters beating police and vandalizing the Capitol.</p> <p>As footage of the deadly riots played, Trump can be heard falsely claiming that the doors to the Capitol were opened up to his supporters, despite the fact that footage shows Trump fans breaking through windows to get access to the building.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Take that, foul Abbott</strong></p> <p>In Texas, their purple-faced blowhard of a poor excuse for governor is currently in danger of hospitalization for apoplexy.  Poor fellow can’t seem to get his voter suppression initiative passed into law.  His MAGAhole supporters can’t decide whether to whine piteously or spit bile — so they are spitting out their whines.  I can’t wait for Texas to go blue, so we can watch the door slamming into them on their way out.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-democrats-leave-state-voting-bill_n_60ec79e4e4b01f1189518a28" target="_blank">HuffPost:  Lydia O’Connor:  <em>Texas Democrats Leave State In Effort To Block Restrictive Voting Laws</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Texas’ Democratic lawmakers left the state Monday in order to deny <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party">Republicans</a> a quorum during a special legislative session, blocking a vote on a restrictive elections law and several other contentious GOP bills, several media outlets have reported.</p> </div> <div> <p>At least 51 of the state’s <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/democratic-party">Democrats</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/us/politics/texas-democrats-voting-bill.html" target="_blank">fled Austin</a><strong> </strong>on Monday, with most of them heading to Washington, D.C., on a pair of chartered planes. They could need to stay there for up to several weeks, until the special session called by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) comes to a close.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;A couple dozen activists have shown up at the airport to support Texas Democrats leaving the state to block debate on a GOP-backed elections bill. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jason Guidangen (in hat), 23, said, “I like to think of this as gloves off, fun politics.” &lt;a href="https://t.co/7iJ1CCWQDw"&gt;https://t.co/7iJ1CCWQDw&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#txlege&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/ToFzKFOY8h"&gt;pic.twitter.com/ToFzKFOY8h&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Lauren McGaughy 🌟 (@lmcgaughy) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1414681653956554752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;July 12, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>A couple dozen activists have shown up at the airport to support Texas Democrats leaving the state to block debate on a GOP-backed elections bill. <br><br>Jason Guidangen (in hat), 23, said, “I like to think of this as gloves off, fun politics.” <a href="https://t.co/7iJ1CCWQDw">https://t.co/7iJ1CCWQDw</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/ToFzKFOY8h">pic.twitter.com/ToFzKFOY8h</a></p>— Lauren McGaughy 🌟 (@lmcgaughy) <a href="https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1414681653956554752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div> <div> <p>Without those Democrats present, Republicans won’t have the quorum of two-thirds of lawmakers that the Texas Constitution requires for conducting any legislative business. That means a pair of voting measures that Republicans have been rapidly advancing in the past few days won’t be able to move forward.</p> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>I’ll take Broken Brains for $800, Alex</strong></p> <p>I don’t have a clue as to how the culture warriors decide on which molehill battles to fight.  I’m pretty sure there’s a hell of a lot of stupidity involved.  Probably some envy, too.  I’m kinda surprised they haven’t called for all books to be burned, because literature and education makes them look bad.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/captain-americas-dream-has-always-been-the-conservative-nightmare" target="_blank">Wonkette:  Stephen Robinson:  <em>Captain America’s Dream Has Always Been The Conservative Nightmare</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Conservatives are still upset that Captain America isn't one of them. However, Captain America is fictional and unlike modern conservatives, he has character. Steve Rogers questions "the American Dream"  in the new mini-series  <a href="https://comicyears.com/comics/the-united-states-of-captain-america-1/" target="_blank">"The United States of Captain America,"</a> and the very concept disturbs conservatives who haven't read the book or apparently any Captain America stories from the past 60 years.</p> <p>Rogers, who literally fought Nazis, is wary of "the white picket fence fallacy that, if we're not careful becomes nationalism, jingoism." He states:</p> <p>“That dream isn't real. It never was. Because that dream doesn't get along nicely with reality, other cultures, immigrants, the poor. The suffering people easily come to be seen as “different" or “unAmerican." The white picket fence becomes a gate to keep others out. We're our best when we keep no one out. A good dream is shared. Shared radically. Shared with everyone. When something isn't shared it can become the American lie.”</p> <p>Republicans predictably responded as if Steve said all this in Chinese while burning a flag. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton said Cap deserved a "demotion to lieutenant for that speech," which Fox News anchors shared with him during an outrage segment.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Depression Might End on a High Note</strong></p> <p>I know you’ve been wondering why hippies are so much happier than the rest of the population (and maybe smarter too).</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/psychedelic-spurs-growth-of-neural-connections-lost-in-depression-yale/" target="_blank" title="">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>Psychedelic Found in Magic Mushrooms Spurs Growth of Neural Connections Lost in Depression, Landmark Study Finds</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The psychedelic drug psilocybin, a naturally occurring compound found in some mushrooms, has been studied as a potential treatment for depression for years. But exactly how it works in the brain and how long beneficial results might last is still unclear.</p> <p>In a new study, Yale researchers show that a single dose of psilocybin given to mice prompted an immediate and long-lasting increase in connections between neurons.</p> <p>“We not only saw a 10% increase in the number of neuronal connections, but also they were on average about 10% larger, so the connections were stronger as well,” said Yale’s Alex Kwan, associate professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience and senior author of the paper.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Your Tuesday Palate Cleanser</strong></p> <p>After reading about republican failed attempts to destroy the world, we all need a positive finale.</p> <p><a href="https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4324/This-Doctor-Has-Been-Showing-Up-After-Weddings-To-Bring-Back-Flowers-To-Patients" target="_blank" title="">sunny skyz:  <em>This Doctor Has Been Showing Up After Weddings To Bring Back Flowers To Patients</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>A medical student at VCU School of Medicine founded The Simple Sunflower, a service that delivers flowers - regifted from weddings - to patients at VCU Medical Center.</p> <p>Eleanor Love found a way to make wedding bouquets special twice — not just for the couple's family and friends on the wedding day, but for patients in hospital beds.</p> <p>The idea for The Simple Sunflower came after Love spent a year working in a flower shop part time while volunteering with the National Health Corps in Philadelphia providing health care to underserved populations.</p> <p>"I think that's where my love of flowers and the idea that I could actually make a beautiful arrangement stemmed," Love said.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <div class="AlignCenter"><span><span>You may say I'm a dreamer</span><br> <span>But I'm not the only one</span><br> <span>I hope someday you'll join us</span><br> <span>And the world will be as one</span></span></div> <div></div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=bvFLKyAGzzI" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bvFLKyAGzzI" data-width="1214" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <div> <div> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev</p> <p>>>>>>>Yesterday was Federal Court Sanctions Day in Michigan, where Lin Wood and Sidney “Kraken” Powell had to appear (via Zoom) before federal Judge Parker. The City of Detroit sent their city attorney to weigh in on what these 2 clowns were saying about his city in particular and his state in general during the last Presidential Election. By all accounts, Judge Parker was thorough, careful and firm----which of course meant that Wood & Kraken got put through the wringer. The judge had the temerity to actually READ OUT some of the affidavits used in support of those “Steal the Vote” law suits. One of these was (and I nearly quote verbatim) “I heard somebody say they understood something was off” in the vote counting. (The Detroit DA noted sharply that a trial judge had already labeled this a TRIPLE HEARSAY----and Judge Parker agreed.) End of the day: Parker gave Wood & Kraken 2 weeks to read today’s transcript and file briefs in response---AND the briefs are to be brief, no more than 25 pages. A week after that Judge Parker will RULE, so we will know something solid in penalties around August 1.</p> <p>Nice diary <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/12/2036971/-the-Big-Lie-Kraken-got-loose-fell-on-its-face-as-sanctions-come-to-Michigan-election-fraudsters?utm_campaign=trending" target="_blank">HERE. </a>Stupid move by lawyer Sidney Powell <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/12/2039499/-Sydney-Kraken-Powell-compares-herself-to-Thurgood-Marshall-during-Michigan-sanctions-hearing" target="_blank">HERE.</a>  And on a related note, Lawrence Tribe weighs in <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/12/2039486/-Constitutional-scholar-reveals-how-Trump-can-face-criminal-charges-for-starting-Jan-6-insurrection?utm_campaign=trending" target="_blank">HERE</a> with a Constitutional and legal angle that could hang the Jan. 6 Coup legally around DJT’s neck (thanks to a law on the books from the Grant Administration! That man Grant keeps marching on to save the Union, doesn’t he?!)</p> <p>>>>>>>Bad News for Trumpers is Good News for Us Dept. We already know there is rising bad blood between the Mango Menace and Ron DeSantis over the 2024 GQP nomination. Good. Let them fight with each other. But now comes <a href="https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215617493" target="_blank">WORD</a> that Michael Flynn (still un-arrested, un-court-martialed, un-jailed) is making some moves to a) put Trump on the shelf as a political has-been and b) hijack the MAGA-deplorables for himself and his own ambitions. May they fight and tear each other apart while we stand back and egg them on……</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>July 13ths from the past that nonetheless look forward one more month to August 13th (a Friday!) for that major political Goofy called “Reinstatement Day”, all while unleashing various Good and Goofy moments from other July 13ths to jump up and down on My Pillow, Your Pillow, Our Pillow as the History Corner for today.</strong></p> <p><strong>           1568</strong>   London.  <em>The 4<sup>th</sup> of July, 1776.  The Battle of Hastings, 1066. The Muslim conquest of Spain in 711. Yes, these  are standout dates, but they all tug the forelock and bow to this one, right?</em> <strong>All hail Alexander Nowell!</strong> He was the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral <em>(so an ordained sort…says the Wine REV!) and</em> on this day he<strong> perfected a way to bottle beer! </strong><em>Out in the parking lot everyone let down the tailgate on the oxcarts, waved pennants, heard from the coach that in the big game they would beat the Catholics and bring home the bacon (on the hoof!)  and celebrated, and we have ever since.</em></p> <p><strong><span><span>                1608</span></span></strong><span><span>   Graz, Holy Roman Empire (now Austria)  Birth of <strong>Ferdinand Ernst,</strong> composer, politician. Ferdinand was third in line for various thrones, but 2 older bothers died while he was a tweener and a teen, so he moved to the head of the line. Excellent Jesuit education and spoke multiple languages. At age 29 succeeded his father as Holy Roman Emperor----for the last 10 years of the Thirty Years War <em>(a major, bloody European war between Catholics and Protestants.) </em>Being King of Bohemia, King of Hungary and Ferdinand III, HRE, he had his hands full his entire adult life with matters of state, war, peace, negotiations, raising 6 children, etc. BUT also enjoyed taking music lessons from an Italian master <u>Valentini </u>and German keyboard master<u> Froeberger.  </u>Composed several Masses, motets and other church works but also several secular pieces and some of these gave an important push to the rise of secular theater and watered the roots of opera as a genre. <em>A lot of composers had a side job to support themselves, but rarely a side job like this!</em></span></span></p> <p>                  <strong>1787</strong>   Philadelphia  The <u>Confederation Congress</u> (still a couple months before the Constitutional Convention) <strong>today passed the Northwest Ordinance</strong>, finally getting things organized “out West” <em>(you know, beyond Pittsburgh?)</em> Instructions were laid out for sectioning the land, determining boundaries, declaring <u>that at least 3 but no more than 5 states would be formed</u> from the Territory, the population requirements for statehood <u>AND holding of slaves declared illegal</u>. Laid the basis for the admission of the Great state of<strong> Ohio. <em>(</em></strong><em>That’s O-H and I-O, getting full value out of each letter and syllable; home of Gambrinus and Wiedemann’s beer and the MIGHTY Cleveland Browns) and some of those other states full of “I”s in their names or waterlogged by Great Lakes.</em></p> <p><strong><span><span>               1832</span></span></strong><span><span>   West-Central Wisconsin Territory, (now Minnesota) a good 100 miles northwest of the settlement at St. Paul (one day a state capital.)  American explorer <strong>Henry Schoolcraft</strong> has paddled and bush-whacked his way to yet ANOTHER lake in this endless forest (“There must be 10,000 lakes in this land…”) but finally succeeds in a quest that has eluded others. He is the first of European descent to discover the <strong>source of the Mississippi River</strong>. It was the outflow of (yet another) lake, rather than some rill or bubbling artesian gusher. Living up to his surname, Schoolcraft showed off his education and wanted to call the place <em><u>Veritas Caput</u></em><u>,</u> Latin for "true head” (since there had been many other claims over the years that had all been shown to be mistaken.) Some pioneers in the area thought Latin was too fancy, but other thought it gave the place a bit of class. They settled for running <em><u>“Veritascaput”</u></em> together as one word, then lopping off the ends. To this day it is <strong>Lake Itasca</strong>. <em>(A nice place; I’ve been there and crossed the Mighty Mississippi on a single log footbridge. You can too….)</em> </span></span></p> <p><strong>               1835  </strong> New York City. Steam boilers are being fitted with steel wheels on rails and called “locomotives”. They are also being mounted aboard ships and linked to paddles, either to port and starboard (“sidewheelers”) or, like many of the river steamers, mounted aft (“sternwheelers.”) Swedish immigrant <strong>John Ericsson</strong> had a better idea and this day received a patent for his design <strong>for a bladed propeller that would turn like a screw completely underwater</strong> and push a ship. In the 1840s Ericsson’s designs were being tested and the <em><u>“hull leaking at the propeller shaft issue</u></em>” had been solved. Ericsson kept refining his propeller designs (and earning more patents) and the principles he discovered and laid down in <strong>the field of fluid dynamics are still in use,</strong><u> both in water and in the air</u>. <em> (In 1861 Ericsson designed the <u>USS Monitor</u>, a Union ironclad ship with a revolving turret that battled the CSS Virginia/Merrimack to a draw. The <u>Monitor</u> had twin screw propellers that gave her a top speed of almost 14 mph, vs. her opponent’s lumbering 5 at full steam. In the fight the <u>Monitor</u> literally ran circles around the <u>Virginia,</u> giving her 15-inch diameter shot and shell from a distance of 25 feet (srsly!). The <u>Viriginia’s</u> iron plates held (barely) but many of the crew were half-unconscious or bleeding from the ears from the concussions that close.)</em></p> <p><span><span>              <strong>1889</strong>   St. Remy, France <strong>Vincent van Gogh</strong> is in an asylum, receiving medical treatment and gentle nursing care as he recovers from a mental breakdown. On this day he painted a famous canvas: <u>"Moonrise."</u>  Oddly enough, we know<u> today</u> is <strong>the exact date he painted it,</strong> not from information in 1889 <em><u>but by calculation.</u></em> <strong>In 2003</strong> a physicist used a computer with astronomical data of the moon’s orbit, moon data from the painting, and the longitude and latitude of St. Remy to say today was THE day.</span></span></p> <p><strong>             1923</strong>   Gobi Desert, Mongolia <em>(A RARE Location marker!)</em><span> American explorer <strong>Roy Chapman Andrews</strong> discovers some very unusual rocks which were later identified as the <strong>world’s first discovery of dinosaur eggs</strong>.</span></p> <p><strong><span>              1940, 1942, 1944, 1946</span></strong><span>   <em>(Not quite sure if this is 1 History Corner entry….or 4…)</em>  In a very odd sequence of <u>July 13 birthdays</u>, there is this series at exactly 2 year intervals: <strong>1940,</strong> Mirfield, UK <strong>(Sir)</strong> <strong>Patrick Stewart</strong> (Future Captain….far future)/ /<strong>1942, </strong>Chicago, <strong>Harrison Ford,</strong> (Hollywood carpenter, hot rod greaser, Future Captain….long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far, away….and, like Jean-Luc Picard, an archeologist…..)// <strong>1944</strong>, Budapest, Hungary, <strong>Erno Rubik</strong>, professor of architecture and inventor (of his own Cube, Rubik’s Cube…..)// <strong>1946,</strong> Los Angeles, <strong>Richard Anthony Marin,</strong> stand-up comedian, going by a stage name of <strong>“Cheech”</strong> and teaming up with Tommy <strong>“Chong”</strong> produced several, erm….. “<em><u>chemically-enhanced</u></em>” comedy albums and the 1978 movie <em>“Up in Smoke.” </em></span></p> <p><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></p> <p><span>Shalom.</span></p> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <p><strong>REDACTED</strong> shared this story (and most of today’s memes) with me.  Thanks, <strong>REDACTED</strong>.</p> <div>A king wanted to go fishing, and he asked the royal weather forecaster the forecast for the next few hours. The palace meteorologist assured him that there was no chance of rain. So the King and the Queen went fishing.</div> <div></div> <div>On the way, he met a man with a fishing pole riding on a donkey, and he asked the man if the fish were biting. The fisherman said, “Your Majesty, you should return to the palace! In just a short time I expect a huge rain storm."  </div> <div></div> <div>The King replied: "I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an educated and experienced professional. Besides, I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him." So the King continued on his way. However, in a short time a torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were totally soaked. Furious, the King returned to the palace, and gave the order to fire the meteorologist.  </div> <div></div> <div>Then he summoned the fisherman and offered him the prestigious position of royal forecaster. The fisherman said, “Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my donkey's ears drooping, it means with certainty that...it will rain."  </div> <div></div> <div>So the King hired the donkey. And thus began the practice of hiring dumb asses to work in influential positions of government. The practice is unbroken to this date...   <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="GoodOneMark76.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965622/large/GoodOneMark76.jpg?1626144564" title="GoodOneMark76.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="GoalsMark630.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965621/large/GoalsMark630.jpg?1626144564" title="GoalsMark630.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;A group of wolves is called a pack and a group of rich racists is called a CPAC.&lt;/p&gt;— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1365281703867088896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 26, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>A group of wolves is called a pack and a group of rich racists is called a CPAC.</p>— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1365281703867088896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="lolMark74.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965615/large/lolMark74.jpg?1626143799" title="lolMark74.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="ImagineMark77.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965620/large/ImagineMark77.jpg?1626144157" title="ImagineMark77.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Funny2Mark72.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965616/large/Funny2Mark72.jpg?1626143800" title="Funny2Mark72.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="IfMark712.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965619/large/IfMark712.jpg?1626144156" title="IfMark712.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="WishMark79.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965618/large/WishMark79.jpg?1626144154" title="WishMark79.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="FunnyMark72.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965614/large/FunnyMark72.jpg?1626143798" title="FunnyMark72.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="NotVotingMark710.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965611/large/NotVotingMark710.jpg?1626143690" title="NotVotingMark710.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="tRumpMark710.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965612/large/tRumpMark710.png?1626143695" title="tRumpMark710.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="MyfatherinlawMark73.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965613/large/MyfatherinlawMark73.jpg?1626143797" title="MyfatherinlawMark73.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="tRumpMark74.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965608/large/tRumpMark74.jpg?1626143685" title="tRumpMark74.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="UnderstandMark77.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965609/large/UnderstandMark77.png?1626143686" title="UnderstandMark77.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="GopMark629.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965623/large/GopMark629.jpg?1626144565" title="GopMark629.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="BodyLanguageMark72.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965624/large/BodyLanguageMark72.jpg?1626144567" title="BodyLanguageMark72.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> </div> <blockquote> <p>If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. — Mark Twain</p> <p>Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. — Eminem</p> <p>The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. — Dalton Trumbo</p> <p>If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation. — Ursula K. LeGuin</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <p>Pressley made a new friend the other day.  Dogs are getting bigger and bigger, aren’t they?</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="210711_Pressley_024.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/965598/large/210711_Pressley_024.jpg?1626142132" title="210711_Pressley_024.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Pressley’s Picks</h2> <p>First, the news:</p> <p>For those of you in the TL/DR crowd — Dogs rule and wolves drool.</p> <p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wolves-raised-by-humans-cant-understand-people-like-dogs-can/" target="_blank" title="">Scientific American:  Tess Joosse:  <em>Wolves Raised by Humans Can’t Understand People like Dogs Can</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>You and your dog no doubt have a special bond. But it’s deeper than all those scraps from the table or trips to the dog park. Something far in the shared evolutionary past of dogs and humans has linked the two species, making our canine companions especially good at understanding when we want to help or communicate with them. Point in the direction of wayward kibble on the kitchen floor, and your dog likely will follow your guidance to gobble it up. That is a skill that not even our closest relative in the animal kingdom can match.</p> <p>“Chimpanzees can run circles around dogs on so many things,” says Brian Hare, <a href="https://scholars.duke.edu/person/b.hare" target="_blank" title="">who studies the evolution of cognition at Duke University</a>. “But they’re not particularly good at understanding cooperative communicative gestures.” Hare and his colleagues are interested in the so-called domestication hypothesis: the idea that in dogs, the ability to comprehend human gestures is an evolved inherent trait rather than something learned by individual animals as they mature. Previous studies had shown conflicting results regarding whether both dog and wolf puppies are instinctively able to read human gestures.<strong> </strong>So Hare’s team put a group of young dogs against their wild cousins to test the question out.</p> <p>...</p> <p>The scientists put 44 dog and 37 wolf puppies, all between five and 18 weeks old, through a slate of tests and challenges. In one task, researchers placed a treat in one of two bowls, then pointed a finger at the bowl containing the snack three times. The dog puppies were twice as likely to understand where to go even though they had experienced far less human contact, results that held up when the researchers made sure the pups were not just smelling the morsel of food. And in a separate test, the dogs were 30 times more likely to approach an unknown human and made significantly more eye contact with people than the little wolves, the <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.051" target="_blank">researchers report today in <em>Current Biology</em></a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>I’ll bet you a bag of Pupperoni you didn’t know this:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Yoda is actually a corgi &lt;a href="https://t.co/HWC3wtgknJ"&gt;pic.twitter.com/HWC3wtgknJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— ᴘᴀᴠʟᴏᴠ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀɢɪ 🐶 (@PAVGOD) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PAVGOD/status/1390376486612344832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 6, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Yoda is actually a corgi <a href="https://t.co/HWC3wtgknJ">pic.twitter.com/HWC3wtgknJ</a></p>— ᴘᴀᴠʟᴏᴠ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀɢɪ 🐶 (@PAVGOD) <a href="https://twitter.com/PAVGOD/status/1390376486612344832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p>Why don’t more of you treat us like this?  You know we deserve it.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;People: I would never let my dog on the sofa.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Me: &lt;a href="https://t.co/Y5sKWtb2Db"&gt;pic.twitter.com/Y5sKWtb2Db&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. (@TDogsLife) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TDogsLife/status/1414045689378639875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;July 11, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>People: I would never let my dog on the sofa.<br><br>Me: <a href="https://t.co/Y5sKWtb2Db">pic.twitter.com/Y5sKWtb2Db</a></p>— 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. (@TDogsLife) <a href="https://twitter.com/TDogsLife/status/1414045689378639875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p>Hell, if we have to, we’ll even work for it.  Just remember carrots are not treats.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;that&amp;#39;s Friends sharing🙂😘 &lt;a href="https://t.co/6ZCP8jaKKq"&gt;pic.twitter.com/6ZCP8jaKKq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Dogs Funny (@DogsFunni) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/DogsFunni/status/1279115656030498817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;July 3, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>that's Friends sharing🙂😘 <a href="https://t.co/6ZCP8jaKKq">pic.twitter.com/6ZCP8jaKKq</a></p>— Dogs Funny (@DogsFunni) <a href="https://twitter.com/DogsFunni/status/1279115656030498817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p>Bonus pick submitted to Pressley’s Picks by buglady.   For those of you who only care about cats — we care for them all the time.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Well this is the most adorable thing I’ve seen all week 🤗 &lt;a href="https://t.co/4GA5GkhSQp"&gt;pic.twitter.com/4GA5GkhSQp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Theo Shantonas (@TheoShantonas) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TheoShantonas/status/1393999628350234627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 16, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Well this is the most adorable thing I’ve seen all week 🤗 <a href="https://t.co/4GA5GkhSQp">pic.twitter.com/4GA5GkhSQp</a></p>— Theo Shantonas (@TheoShantonas) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheoShantonas/status/1393999628350234627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div> <div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  Your country needs you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/12/2039481/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-DAY173-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---DAY173---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>We’ll close out with a reminder that, Insurrection Twins excepted, men are bringing up the rear.  Here’s a 1989 cover of a Harry Belefonte song with Bobby on lead vocal of a song always guaranteed to get the crowd up and dancing.  This was also once covered by Ricky Ricardo and his wife Lucy on their TV show.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=mqun85HYsVk" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mqun85HYsVk" data-width="911" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  They know it.  We know it.  They did it.  Consequences are rolling down the road, taking up both lanes and most of the berm.</em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) CaptainAmerica Colbert FauxNews Flowers GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead GregAbbott JohnLennon LinWood PlayingforChange Politics Poll Pressley PressleysPicks Psilocybin Recommended Roundup SidneyPowell Texas trump WineRev _2039270 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:04:42 +0000 I Wish They'd Stop Trying to Tell Us Old Wack Donald Is Relevant - GNR for Bluesday, June, 29th https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/6/29/2036883/-I-Wish-They-d-Stop-Trying-to-Tell-Us-Old-Wack-Donald-Is-Relevant-GNR-for-Bluesday-June-29th <p>Because our corporate media has spent years honing their skill at comparing apples to oranges, they’ve lost the ability to explain context and nuance.  Instead, they’ve started to find equivalence between apple pies and road apples.  Just because a prominent spokesclown spouts some fertilizer class bunkum, doesn’t mean it needs to be taken seriously.</p> <p>I find it depressing that dozens upon dozens of Reichwing operatives are freely given megaphones to spread their lies and hate.  Listening to some chickenshit chickenhawk squawk about honor and patriotism — two concepts completely foreign to their governing philosophy — is a tuning fork for cognitive dissonance.  I can’t help but compare them to con artists try to pass counterfeit US currency with pictures of dead serial killers instead of dead presidents.</p> <p>Ridiculous pronouncements from The Former Guy should be clearly labeled as bullshit.  The chyron running under interviews with people like Kayleigh McEnany, Devin Nunes, Louie Gohmert, Mitch McConnell or any of the rest of the usual suspects should read, “THIS PERSON IS LYING” in flashing letters so no one misses the warning.</p> <p>Even though he’s clearly toast, one of the Orange Gasbag’s lawyers, is bleating that his client is not going to be indicted in the currently imminent indictment of the tRump<sup>1</sup> Organization.  This is not news.  We already knew that TFG wasn’t going to be named in the first set of indictments.  Yet, parts of the media, are trying to sell this as if it means Jabba the Gut<sup>2</sup> is going to walk away unscathed.</p> <p>I’m fairly certain Rachel Maddow could spend 16 hours a day, in 5 minute segments, exposing blatant republican corruption and not repeat herself once between now and the end of the year.  There really is enough republican corruption to go around.  All or our serious journalists (and pretend journalists) should be covering this stuff.  When the focus on the Mr. Potato Head manufactured controversy escaped from the propaganda machine and spread across the rest of our media landscape, we were deprived of real news coverage while talking heads blathered about insipid nonsense.</p> <p>We don’t have to take it.  Vote with your eyeballs.  If the media are going to insist on putting a criminal cabal who only care about themselves on the same plane as people who are trying their damnedest to make this country a better place for everyone.  Is you see bothsiderism, false equivalences, or lies presented as truth look for other sources for your news, and let that source know you are leaving.  If you see Fox being played in a waiting room, ask to have the channel changed.  Call out propaganda.  We can make a difference.</p> <p>A large part of Dick a L’Orange<sup>2</sup>, the Man for All Treasons<sup>2</sup>’, support would evaporate if they weren’t fed a constant diet of lies about their erstwhile savior, Little Caught Red-Handed<sup>2</sup>.  Donald is no longer relevant.  He is yesterday’s news.  What he says no longer matters (the only reason it ever mattered was because of the office and not the man).  The sooner that point is driven home to his base, the faster we can accelerate our work at repairing the damage.</p> <p><sup>1</sup>The ‘t’ is silent.</p> <p><sup>2</sup>h/t Stephen Colbert’s HeWhoShallBeNamed hashtag</p> <p><strong>Stray thought</strong>:  All proceeds collected by the Congressional Republican Widows and Orphans fund are actually spent on throat lozenges for Gym Jordan.  All that yelling takes a toll.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter">(we continue to resist the ongoing depredations of the Reichwing)</p> <p>In case you missed it, Stephen Colbert has saved you the trouble of watching the whole thing by reviewing The Former Guy’s rally in Ohio.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=1XJlAQscVbI" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1XJlAQscVbI" data-width="1214" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>If you are still in need of video insights, John Oliver went after <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFetFqrVBNc" target="_blank" title="">Health Care Sharing Ministries</a> on Last Week Tonight this week.</p> <p>Moving on — Hark! What news through yonder media conglomerate breaks?</p> <p><strong>Is that a Spine I See Over There in (R) Country?</strong></p> <p>It looks like you can count the number of republican senators with spines on the fingers of one finger.  The rest of them don’t have a single vertebrae to share between their entire worm farm.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitt-romney-snarks-at-trump-pushing-the-big-lie-this-is-like-wwfits-not-real?ref=wrap" target="_blank" title="">DailyBeast:  Justin Baragona:  <em>Mitt Romney Snarks at Trump Pushing the Big Lie: ‘This Is Like WWF...It’s Not Real’</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-mitt-romney-booed-at-utah-gop-convention-but-avoids-censure-over-trump-impeachment-votes" title="">Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)</a> blasted former President Donald Trump for continuing to peddle the big lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, likening the ex-president’s rhetoric to professional wrestling while noting that nothing Trump says is “real.”</p> <p>...The senator reiterated that the “election is over” and “it was fair,” adding that Trump was already “crying foul” about the results before Election Night.</p> <p>“The question is what were his sources of information?” Romney rhetorically asked. “Where did he hear that the election had been fraudulently carried out? Did he hear it from the Justice Department? No. Did he hear it from the intelligence community? No.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Clang! Clang! Goes the Cell Door</strong></p> <p>This one might turn into a case of “the family that perjures together throws each other under the bus together.”  While involuntarily lying with every breath they take is a clear component of the family DNA,  there are serious consequences when they do it under oath.  In order to avoid possible jail time, we are likely to see some of the spawn become more cooperative with prosecutors.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/documents-show-ivanka-trump-didnt-testify-accurately-in-inauguration-scandal-case/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  David Corn:  <em>Documents Show Ivanka Trump Didn’t Testify Accurately in Inauguration Scandal Case</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The Trump family has trouble with depositions. In 2007 testimony, Donald Trump was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-lies/" title="">repeatedly shown</a> to be a liar. In February, Donald Trump Jr. was deposed in the Trump inauguration scandal lawsuit, and on several key points, under oath, he <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/in-sworn-testimony-in-inauguration-scandal-case-donald-trump-jr-made-apparently-false-statements/" title="">provided false testimony</a>. A review of documents filed in that case and other material obtained by <em>Mother Jones</em> shows that Ivanka Trump also testified inaccurately during her <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20791493-ivanka-trump-deposition">deposition</a> in this lawsuit.</p> <p>The inauguration probe was launched last year by Karl Racine, the attorney general of Washington, DC. He has alleged that Trump’s inauguration committee misused charitable funds to enrich the Trump family. As Racine <a href="https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-racine-sues-presidential-inaugural-committee">put it</a>, the lawsuit maintains “that the Inaugural Committee, a nonprofit corporation, coordinated with the Trump family to grossly overpay for event space in the Trump International Hotel… The Committee also improperly used non-profit funds to throw a private party [at the Trump Hotel] for the Trump family costing several hundred thousand dollars.” In short, the attorney general accused the Trump gang of major grifting, and he is seeking to recover the money paid to the Trump Hotel so those funds can be used for real charitable purposes.</p> <p>During a December 1 deposition—in which she swore to tell the truth—Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of Donald Trump who was an executive at the Trump Organization before becoming a White House adviser to her father, was asked if she had any “involvement in the process of planning the inauguration.” She replied, “I really didn’t have an involvement.” Ivanka testified that if her “opinion was solicited” regarding an inauguration event, she “would give feedback to my father or to anyone who asked my perspective or opinion.” And that was as far as her participation went.</p> <p>But this wasn’t accurate, according to the documents, which indicate she was part of the decision-making for various aspects of the inauguration, including even the menus for events.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>More from the Fraudit Follies</strong></p> <p>Republicans are giving a master class in how to further discredit their already discredited fraudit.  Arizona’s insane republican senators are in desperate need of heavy medication if they think this fiasco is going to serve any purpose other than making them look like the idiots they so clearly are. </p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-logan-cyber-ninjas-arizona-vote-recount-conspiracy-film_n_60d92ee2e4b06c8105d74a56" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  Mary Papenfuss:  <em>Cyber Ninjas CEO Running Arizona Recount Is Mystery Voice On New QAnon Film</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>The CEO of the Cyber Ninjas firm running the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/arizona" target="_blank">Arizona</a> GOP’s sham election audit is the mystery voice in a twisted new election conspiracy film.</p> </div> <div> <p>Doug Logan, whose private company is in charge of an ongoing audit of 2.1 million votes in Maricopa County (including Phoenix), is the altered voice of the shadowy entity “Anon” who calls for “election integrity” in the film “Deep Rig,” organizers revealed at a showing over the weekend. The movie spouts baseless conspiracy theories and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/qanon" target="_blank">QAnon</a> talking points that the presidential election was rigged.</p> </div> <div> <p>“Just think about that for a minute,” Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts wrote Sunday. “The man in charge of auditing Maricopa County’s election ... is now <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2021/06/27/arizonas-election-auditor-deep-rig-movie-oh-come/5364348001/" target="_blank" title="">appearing in a film chock full of conspiracy theories</a> backed up by nothing more than QAnon crazies and wishful thinking.”</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>There Aren’t Any Rails Left to Jump Over in Rudyland</strong></p> <p>That suspended law license isn’t the only problem swirling around Rudy.  Folks in his circle keep running into legal problems (remember Lev & Igor).  From the Ukraine to California, getting involved with Rudy does not bode well for anyone looking to avoid federal scrutiny.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/rudy-giulianis-ukrainian-friends-keep-getting-sanctioned/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  Dan Friedman:  <em>Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian Friends Keep Getting Sanctioned</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>On June 18, Ukraine’s government slapped two of the country’s oligarchs, Dmytro Firtash and Pavel Fuks, with sanctions for allegedly corrupt business dealings. One thing they have in common: Rudy Giuliani.</p> <p>Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council accused Firtash, a controversial tycoon who first got rich shipping Russian natural gas, with supplying the raw materials for titanium to the Russian military, which invaded Ukraine in 2014 and currently supports separatists waging war in the country’s eastern Donbas region. Fuks, who amassed his fortune as a Moscow real estate developer, was sanctioned for illegally obtaining oil and gas licenses via the kleptocratic and Putin-aligned regime of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.</p> <p>Giuliani, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/rudy-giuliani-trump-ukraine-warrant.html">faces</a> a criminal investigation resulting from his 2019 effort to dig up negative information on Joe Biden in Ukraine, has ties to both oligarchs. (A New York appellate court <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/24/rudy-giuliani-suspended-from-practicing-law-in-new-york-due-to-trump-statements-.html" title="">suspended</a> Giuliani’s law license on Thursday over another matter, citing “demonstrably false and misleading” statements he made in court and elsewhere about the 2020 election.)</p> </blockquote> <p>But wait, there’s more.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/the-fbi-searched-the-home-of-a-rudy-giuliani-associate/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  Dan Friedman & Russ Choma:  <em>The FBI Searched the Home of a Rudy Giuliani Associate</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>FBI agents on Tuesday searched the California home of George Dickson III, a marijuana entrepreneur who last year partnered with Rudy Giuliani <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/rudy-giuliani-is-looking-for-10-million-to-finance-a-ukraine-biden-film/" title="">to line up financing</a> for a never completed documentary aimed at advancing the former New York mayor’s bogus claims about Joe and Hunter Biden and Ukraine.</p> <p>Asked about a search at Dickson’s address in Aptos, California, a spokesperson for the FBI’s San Francisco office on Thursday said they could “confirm the FBI was present at that location on Tuesday, June 22 to conduct court-authorized law enforcement activity.” The spokesperson declined to comment further “due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.”</p> <p>...Dickson last year worked with Giuliani, then Trump’s personal lawyer, to secure investors for what they pitched as a documentary about Hunter and Joe Biden’s actions in Ukraine. One source familiar with the project said Giuliani envisioned the film as the culmination of his efforts and a possible “kill shot” to Biden’s presidential campaign. Tim Yale, a California Republican operative and fundraiser with ties to Roger Stone, the longtime Trump adviser and dirty trickster, and to former California GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, was also involved with the film effort. Yale did not respond to phone and text messages.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Faux News Stumbles and Asks a Good Question</strong></p> <p>Usually Faux News can be expected to distort or deny any bit of real news to the benefit of their autocratic masters.  Mostly they don’t practice journalism — they produce propaganda.  Chris Wallace is about the only one left in their entire organization that ever gives them any credibility. </p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/28/chris-wallace-republicans-defunding-the-police-fox-news-congressman-jim-banks" target="_blank" title="">The Guardian:  Martin Pengelly:  <em>‘Republicans are defunding the police’: Fox News anchor stumps congressman</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/fox-news" title="">Fox News</a> anchor Chris Wallace made headlines of his own on Sunday, by pointing out to a senior Republican that he and the rest of his party recently voted against $350bn in funding for law enforcement.</p> <p>“Can’t you make the argument that it’s you and the Republicans who are defunding the police?” Wallace asked Jim Banks, the head of the House <a href="https://rsc-banks.house.gov/" title="">Republican study committee</a>.</p> <p>...“Congressman Banks, let me finish, and I promise I will give you a chance to answer. The president is saying cities and states can use this money to hire more police officers, invest in new technologies and develop summer job training and recreation programs for young people. Respectfully, I’ve heard your point about the last year, but you and every other Republican voted against this $350bn.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Remember This Jackass?</strong></p> <p>If Cancun Cruz had as much sense as God gave linoleum he’d just shut up and try to keep his head down.  Instead ...</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-gaslighting-tweet_n_60dab717e4b0360565caddf6" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  Ed Mazza:  <em>Ted Cruz’s ‘Brazen Gaslighting’ Message Backfires Spectacularly On Twitter</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Sen. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" title="">Ted Cruz</a> (R-Texas) on Monday accused White House press secretary <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/jen-psaki" target="_blank">Jen Psaki</a> of “brazen gaslighting.”</p> </div> <div> <p>But given his own history, it didn’t go well.</p> </div> <div> <p>Cruz shared a video of Psaki saying <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party">Republicans</a> are essentially defunding the police since they <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00110" target="_blank">voted against</a> the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-signs-covid-19-relief-bill_n_604a5918c5b6cf72d094d3a4" target="_blank" title="">COVID relief</a> <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/american-rescue-plan" target="_blank" title="">American Rescue Plan</a>, which included $350 billion for local law enforcement agencies.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;How convenient for you to finally remember this word. Now do “traitor” and “coward”.&lt;/p&gt;— Jonathan Goldman (@akjakalope) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/akjakalope/status/1409649036877991939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 28, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>How convenient for you to finally remember this word. Now do “traitor” and “coward”.</p>— Jonathan Goldman (@akjakalope) <a href="https://twitter.com/akjakalope/status/1409649036877991939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Return of the Schittzenpantzen Files</strong></p> <p>In the fertile ground of comeuppance, far, far beyond the fields of schadenfreude, lies the realm of the Schittzenpantzen.</p> <p>With the start of indictment season a day or possibly just a few hours away, there’s a sense of panic in the halls of Faux News.  Congressional republicans are skittering and slithering about in aimless dread of what’s to come.  Mitch McConnell has retreated into his neck wattles.  The Former Guy and his demon spawn are getting ready for a big family under-the-bus reunion.</p> <p>There’s even a new song, celebrating the event (apologies to Dean Martin):</p> <p class="AlignCenter">When the shit hits the fan,<br> And you’re badged by the man<br> That’s comeuppance<br> When the world grins and smiles,<br> At your troubles and trials<br> That’s comeuppance.</p> <p>Each concrete revelation rips away another fig leaf from the republican party’s ability to cover their naked lust for power (and the lucre that comes with it).  If they had any socially redeeming qualities I’d almost feel sorry for them.  But they don’t and I don’t.</p> <p>Competing in the imminent indictment lottery were:  Rudy “I got no license” Giuliani, Matt “The Molester” Gaetz, The Former Guy, The Former Guy’s adult road apples, Matt “Squid pro quo” Calamari, Alan “The Gonif” Weisselberg, Roger “Il Douche” Stone and various people known only as unindicted co-conspirators.</p> <p>And the winner is — The tRump Organization.  Oh My.  There’ll wailing and gnashing among the shareholders, employees and hangers-on tonight.  Indicting the company has some implications:</p> <ul> <li>Corporate assets can be seized or frozen</li> <li>Other companies are less likely to do business with a company under indictment.</li> <li>Lenders are less likely to grant load extensions.</li> <li>Corporate officers can be found culpable for the actions of the company (in addition to their own individual crimes).</li> <li>RICO style statutes can be used open up crimes expired by the Statute of Limitations to prosecution because of the ongoing criminal enterprise exceptions.  Going the route of indicting the company makes a pretty strong case for the whole organization being an “ongoing criminal enterprise.”</li> <li>Desperate people are more likely to make mistakes, digging them into an even deeper hole.</li> </ul> <p>There’s even been a tiny bit of media coverage and punditure on the subject.</p> <p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/former-trump-organization-executive-weighs-070354156.html" target="_blank" title="">Yahoo:  Peter Weber: <em> Former Trump Organization executive weighs Trump's odds of avoiding indictment and jail</em></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210629-threat-of-indictments-looms-large-for-trump-organization" target="_blank" title="">France 24:  <em>Threat of indictments looms large for Trump Organization</em></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/trump-organization-criminal-charges-prosecutors" target="_blank" title="">Vanity Fair:  Bess Levin:  <em>Report: The Trump Organization Has Until Today to Beg Not to Be Hit With Criminal Charges</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>One of the most enraging things about <strong>Donald Trump</strong> is that for essentially his entire life, he’s escaped any and all consequences for being what legal scholars define as a “corrupt piece of shit.” Whether it was inciting <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/donald-trump-capitol-hill-siege" target="_blank" title="">an attack on the U.S. Capitol</a>, trying to <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/white-house-emails-ukraine-aid" target="_blank">extort Ukraine</a>, allegedly <a title="">directing his lawyer to break</a> campaign finance laws, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/donald-trump-bob-woodward-covid-19-lies" target="_blank" title="">lying to the public about COVID-19</a>, or allegedly <a title="">stiffing</a> hundreds of Trump business contractors, the man has somehow consistently avoided repercussions, save for a few financial settlements <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/trump-university-lawsuit-settlement" target="_blank" title="">here</a> and <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/donald-trump-charity-scam" target="_blank">there</a>. But five months after leaving the White House, that luck may be running out—and not just for Trump, but for his entire family business.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/06/28/roger-stone-urges-trump-to-dump-weak-kneed-lawyers-in-the-face-of-likely-indictment/" target="_blank" title="">Salon:  Zachary Petrizzo:  <em>Roger Stone urges Trump to dump "weak-kneed" lawyers in the face of likely indictment</em></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-organization-manhattan-da/" title="">Raw Story:  Bob Brigham:  <em>Indictment could be 'almost a death blow' to Trump Organization: Impeachment counsel</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>… Goldman explained the significance of the reporting during a Friday appearance on MSNBC.</p> <p>"It's interesting to me — and it doesn't seem to be coming from the Manhattan DA's office — but it's interesting and not surprising they would approach the Trump Organization to tell them that they're considering to charge them, because that would be almost a death blow to the Trump Organization," Goldman said.</p> <p>"Every single bank would call their loans if the Trump Organization is indicted. No bank will ever do business with an indicted company and there's no way the Trump Organization has enough capital to pay off all their loans. So they would be in default of their loans and would almost certainly have to go into bankruptcy," he explained.</p> </blockquote> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;I can’t underscore enough how devastating an indictment would be to the Trump Org. Every lender would call their loans and no way Trump Org can pay them all, likely leading to bankruptcy. Weisselberg may not cooperate without more serious charges, but any charge will doom the TO. &lt;a href="https://t.co/Zu9ksiVUBl"&gt;https://t.co/Zu9ksiVUBl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1408560174525263875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 25, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I can’t underscore enough how devastating an indictment would be to the Trump Org. Every lender would call their loans and no way Trump Org can pay them all, likely leading to bankruptcy. Weisselberg may not cooperate without more serious charges, but any charge will doom the TO. <a href="https://t.co/Zu9ksiVUBl">https://t.co/Zu9ksiVUBl</a></p>— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) <a href="https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1408560174525263875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p><strong>Andy Borowitz for the Win</strong></p> <p>I’m glad Andy is on our side.  He’s very accurate with those skewers he wields.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/mitch-mcconnell-warns-that-voting-bill-would-bring-us-to-brink-of-democracy" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  Satire from the Borowitz Report:  <em>Mitch McConnell Warns That Voting Bill Would Bring U.S. to Brink of Democracy</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Blasting the For the People Act, Senator Mitch McConnell claimed that the bill’s passage would bring the United States “to the brink of democracy.”</p> <p>“The Democrats can dress this bill up any way they want, but their real agenda couldn’t be clearer,” the Senate Minority Leader said. “They want to turn the United States of America that we love and cherish into a democracy.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Beating Up on the Big “C”</strong></p> <p>As long as we aren’t red-hatted neanderthal medicine deniers, the almost daily advances we see in the areas of prevention, detection and treatment should go a long way to lessening our overall anxiety levels.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/simple-blood-test-that-can-detect-50-types-of-cancer-is-accurate-enough-to-be-rolled-out/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  Andy Corbley:  <em>Simple Blood Test That Can Detect 50 Types of Cancer is Accurate Enough to Be Rolled Out</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Whereas a cancer screening requires making an individual appointment with a physician, this simple blood test can screen for 50 separate cancers and detect them at an above-average rate.</p> <p>Aimed at individuals who are 50+, the ease and thoroughness of the test process can help detect difficult-to-diagnose cancers when they’re in their early stages such as some blood cancers, ovarian, head and neck, and pancreatic cancer.</p> <p>Developed by a U.S. biotech company called Grail, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/25/blood-test-that-finds-50-types-of-cancer-is-accurate-enough-to-be-rolled-out?utm_term=4b05d25fc1503368651f3f011f240981&utm_campaign=USMorningBriefing&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=usbriefing_email" title="">trials of around 3,000</a> people looked for small leaks of altered DNA that seep from tumors into the bloodstream. It uses machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, to look for changes in DNA “methylation.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Palate Cleanser</strong></p> <p>If the New York freakin’ Yankees can do something this classy, it gives me some hope for the rest of us.</p> <p><a href="https://www.today.com/news/yankees-fan-serve-bat-girl-60-years-after-being-turned-t223991" target="_blank" title="">Today:  <em>Yankees fan will be bat girl 60 years after being told girls don't belong in dugout</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>It’s a field of dreams come true.</p> <p>On Monday, Gwen McLoughlin, 70, will serve as bat girl for the New York Yankees when they play the Los Angeles Angels, 60 years after she was rejected when she wrote a letter to the team as a 10-year-old girl asking if she could serve in the role.</p> <p>In 1961, McLoughlin, then Gwen Goldman, received a response from Roy Hamey, who was general manager of the team.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <p>Bob Dylan first recorded this in 1973, but I’ve always preferred Joan Baez’s cover version from 1976.  The second verse (bolded) has been resonating with me these last several years.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>May you grow up to be righteous<br> May you grow up to be true<br> May you always know the truth<br> And see the light surrounding you<br> May you always be courageous<br> Stand upright and be strong<br> And may you stay<br> Forever young</strong><br>  </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=-4UoJ47SzjA" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-4UoJ47SzjA" data-width="911" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>In case you missed it, Joan was one of the Kennedy Center honorees this year.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=MWqBU2iwZLY" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MWqBU2iwZLY" data-width="1214" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <div> <div> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev</p> <p>>>>>>Bad News for Fossil Fuels is Good News for the Planet. Wyoming and Idaho have a lot of coal, which companies mine to pollute the air. These 2 states are lightly populated, so they can hardly use any of it, so the way to make money on it is to export the stuff to some of THOSE COUNTRIES who will pollute their air…..out of sight, out of mind. Well the 2 states and their corporate overlords want to build a huge coal loading dock system on the Pacific coast at the end of a rail line to export the stuff.</p> <p>That would be Washington state, who in many and various ways has told the land-locked Wyoming and Idaho, “Nothing doing.” So naturally, their corporate overlords made those 2 states (!) sue Washington state to help them pollute. Well, states suing states are a fairly rare thing, and guess who has jurisdiction over these suits? The Supreme Court. And yesterday the Supremes <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-montana-wyoming-washington-global-trade-173c144d577e8c7b9af078b37739220a" target="_blank">RULED</a> the <strong>suit could not go forward</strong>. “Take your coal and leave it in the ground.” Fossil fuel people are having a sad, but the rest of the planet is literally breathing easier.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>June 29ths that know this day is just great for a full bathroom remodel (like here at WineRev Manor, where your author is house- and cat- sitting for my sweetie SageHagRN), which is already a Goofy thing, but they finish today, which will be a Good thing, so here’s hoping your Good and Goofy moments today don’t mean changing floors to use the plumbing at 3 in the morning but are light hearted and thoughtful.</strong></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>              1738</span></strong><span>   Jettenhofen, Germany   Birth of <strong>Constantin Reindl</strong>,  composer. Although German-born he spent much of his life in neighboring Switzerland. Grew up in a devoutly Catholic household and eventually became a Jesuit priest, mostly serving in the area in and around Lucerne. Found time and had the ear to compose, and loved music well enough and with enough talent he eventually became the city music director (and as a priest. Even then, a fairly odd combination.) Several Masses and solemn oratorios, as might be expected, yet somewhere inside was a much lighter side. Wrote a couple dozen cantatas and other vocal works that have a decidedly sunny flavor to them <em>(“The Village Schoolmaster”, “The Village Shepherd.”) </em>Also best recalled for some sinfonias and violin concertos, some comic operas and light operettas. Obviously a rather popular priest with that sort of output. </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>              1897  San Francisco   </span></strong><span>Birth of<strong> Kazue Togasaki,</strong> physician. Kazue’s family (of 9 children) were Japanese immigrants; her father was a merchant and her mother was from a family of merchants. While Kazue was 2<sup>nd</sup> born she set the tone for her siblings. Kazue graduated from Stanford in 1920, then after many application tries, was accepted at Women’s Medical College of PA, <strong>becoming one of the first Asian women to receive a medical degree.</strong> <em>(Inspiring her siblings? 2 other sisters became MDs, another became a psychiatrist with the VA, and two more sisters became RNs.)</em> After graduating with honors she had trouble getting established due to broad prejudice against Asian-Americans, as well as disapproval from other Japanese and Asians who disapproved of women practicing medicine. In a major karmic reversal, the interning of Japanese-Americans in camps proved her opportunity: she was a godsend in the camps, providing medical care and delivering dozens of babies. After the war she was considered a hero and an icon in the Asian community and practiced medicine until the mid-1970s. </span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1905</span></span></strong><span><span>    New York City  <em>(Sweet baseball #1)</em> The Giants are playing a home game today and have a big lead. Time to see what the kid can do, so they send in the rookie as a later-in-the-game substitute. <strong>Archibald (later “Moonlight”) Graham</strong> fulfills a boyhood dream, grabs his glove, and heads into right field. Things are quiet both innings he’s out there, not a ball hit his way, but now Giants are up to bat. Archie is on deck….but the batter ahead of him makes the 3<sup>rd</sup> out, so he never gets to the plate, then or ever<strong>. It was Graham’s only professional game.</strong>  Recognizing reality, Graham, (a smart guy) goes back to school (playing varsity baseball and football) and 3 years later gets his medical degree from the University of Maryland. He becomes a family doctor in Chisholm, Minnesota, (on the Iron Range) and provides medical care and free eyeglasses for children for 50 years. His “career” is forgotten…..until <u>W.P. Kinsella </u>came across his story and wrote him into his 1982 novel……which <u>Philip Robinson</u> wrote into a screenplay and then directed as a 1989 movie. In <em>“Field of Dreams”</em> Archie finally got his turn at bat…..and saved a little girl’s life…. </span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>             1922</span></strong><span>    Vimy Ridge, France  During World War I Britain called upon her Empire for manpower. Canada answered, and regiments came from Quebec. The relation between these soldiers and civilians was warm (<em>as both found the other’s form of French fascinating and endearing.)</em> <em> </em>The Canadians spent much of the war on <strong>Vimy Ridge</strong>, fighting both in defense and offense, suffering and dying for their new civilian friends, and the civilians were deeply grateful. A few years after the war, on this day, France shows her gratitude in a deep, yet charming way: she <strong>grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge</strong> <u>"freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."</u> <em>Vive la France!  (I wonder if there’s a Mountie walking post, in full dress reds…...would also make for an interesting plot twist in a legal thriller as the heroine from, say, Calgary, during a deadly chase through northern France, steps onto Canadian soil to stymie a villain….)</em></span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>              1937</span></span></strong><span><span>  Valcourt, Quebec, Canada   30 year old <strong>Joseph-Armand Bombardier</strong> had been an inventive lad: at age 15 he strapped a Ford Model T engine between two wooden sleds, mounted a long wooden propeller on the shaft and started it up. The propeller paddled and moved the sleds, engine and Joseph through the snow. His father made him dismantle it because of the danger of the propeller. He was sent to seminary, but dropped out after a year and spent 2 years in Montreal studying mechanical engineering. He then married and moved back to Valcourt with his wife. In 1934 his 2-year-old son developed peritonitis and died because in winter there was no way to transport him to a hospital on unplowed rural roads. Bombardier went back to tinkering and on this <strong>day received a patent for his “snowmobile” <em>(une autoneige)</em></strong><em>.</em></span></span> It was a 7-passenger thing with an enclosed cabin running on caterpillar tracks and became widely popular in rural areas as an all-weather school bus and was adapted for use by the Canadian military and also the Mounties. The Bombardier Company later invented and patented smaller, lighter, open snowmobile models (like you know today) and since the late 1960s has had international success in <u>designing and selling private jets as well as commercial regional models</u> for passengers between mid-sized markets.</p> <p><span><span><strong><span>            1956    </span></strong><span> Washington DC Back in 1919 <strong>Dwight Eisenhower</strong> (already in the Army as a junior officer) was part of an Army cross-country convoy to investigate how motorized vehicles could help Army logistics in the US. The report was awful because the roads were so bad and so badly marked. In the 1930s the state of Pennsylvania built a cross-state turnpike with limited access and multiple lanes. A few years later the Germans used Pennsylvania’s ideas to build autobahns (with ramps for left turns!) and make road transportation equal to rail for military movement. Now on this day <u>President Eisenhower</u> signs the <strong>US Federal Defense Highway Act.</strong> It authorized 42,500 miles of 4 lane interstate highways linking major cities….for defense purposes (why all the markers are in the shape of a shield.) Since these were for national defense, a national responsibility, the federal government would pay 90% of the cost, with states and localities kicking in the remaining 10%. Politicians rushed to sign up for a 9 to 1 funding match.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span>              <strong><span>1974</span></strong>      <span><span>Toronto, Canada    The ballet is in town, and not just any ballet: the <u>Kirov Ballet</u>, with their headliner superstar <strong>Mikhail Baryshnikov.</strong> </span></span><span> During the Cold War there were these “cultural exchanges” of the artistic sort between West and East, but the Soviets were always nervous. Not for reasons of art (they were confident about that) but because of politics. Today a nightmare came true for the USSR: Baryshnikov goes “over the wall”; <u>he defects and asks for asylum in Canada</u>. (Granted.) It was a nasty blow to Soviet prestige <em>(always a good thing among us East European types)</em> so even if we weren’t ballet fans, we cheered heartily anyway….and then we learned to become ballet fans….WOW that man can dance! <em>(even alongside Gregory Hines in “White Nights”….)</em></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>            1975</span></strong><span>   Cupertino, California   Steve Wozniak, the OTHER Steve and partner at Apple Computer, on this day tests his <u>first working prototype</u> of <strong>the Apple I Computer.</strong> GUI interfaces and Motorola CPU chips yet to come…..</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span>             <strong><span>1990 </span></strong><span>  Toronto, Canada AND Los Angeles  <em><u>(Sweet baseball #2. Some history in YOUR lifetime!)</u></em> Since the formation of the American League in 1901, until 2021 there have been thousands of major league baseball games. In all those thousands, only 269 times has a pitcher been strong enough, clever enough and lucky enough to throw a no-hitter: all strikeouts, fly ball outs and grounders relayed to first base IN TIME! Maybe, if you’re really good and have a lucky night, you might, just might, throw one ONCE in your career. Today was one for the books: in Toronto the visiting Oakland A's <strong>Dave Stewart</strong> <em><u>pitches a no-hitter</u></em> against the Blue Jays. A few hours later, in front of the breath-holding and then wildly cheering hometown fans, the Dodger’s <strong>Fernando Valenzuela</strong> <em><u>no-hits the St Louis Cardinals</u></em>, <strong>the 1st time (and still the only time) for two no-hitters on the same day, and</strong> <strong>one in each league.</strong> </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>May all your news be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side<sup>*</sup></h2> <p><sup>*</sup>Note — most of the memes are sent to me by my friend <strong>REDACTED</strong>.  <strong>REDACTED</strong> is a proud citizen of <strong>REDACTED</strong>, living at <strong>REDACTED</strong> in the <strong>REDACTED </strong>area of <strong>REDACTED</strong>.  [If you are a republican operative and interested in doxing my friend, you can try covering your screen in lemon juice and then holding it up to a flame to reveal the pixels beneath the <strong>REDACTED</strong> sections]</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="InvestigateMark626.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961484/large/InvestigateMark626.jpg?1624948981" title="InvestigateMark626.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="OutrageousMark626.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961483/large/OutrageousMark626.jpg?1624948981" title="OutrageousMark626.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="LeonardPittsMark62.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/956979/large/LeonardPittsMark62.jpg?1623752594" title="LeonardPittsMark62.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PeelHalfMark623.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961116/large/PeelHalfMark623.jpg?1624825498" title="PeelHalfMark623.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;first they came for Rudy Giuliani&amp;#39;s law license, and I did not speak out- because I was laughing so hard that I couldn&amp;#39;t catch my breath. also, fuck that guy&lt;/p&gt;— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1408089168635478021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 24, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>first they came for Rudy Giuliani's law license, and I did not speak out- because I was laughing so hard that I couldn't catch my breath. also, fuck that guy</p>— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1408089168635478021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="donnieMark615.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961115/large/donnieMark615.jpg?1624825447" title="donnieMark615.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="BorowitzMark617.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961107/large/BorowitzMark617.jpg?1624824871" title="BorowitzMark617.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="PreyMark521.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/952581/large/PreyMark521.jpg?1622543965" title="PreyMark521.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ForYouMark615.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961109/large/ForYouMark615.jpg?1624824872" title="ForYouMark615.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="RepMark616.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961121/large/RepMark616.jpg?1624826642" title="RepMark616.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;All you need to know about American politics is that Joe Biden is 100% focused on stopping folks from dying of Covid, and Mitch McConnell is 100% focused on stopping Joe Biden&lt;/p&gt;— Ben Wexler (@mrbenwexler) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/mrbenwexler/status/1390409924807512064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 6, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>All you need to know about American politics is that Joe Biden is 100% focused on stopping folks from dying of Covid, and Mitch McConnell is 100% focused on stopping Joe Biden</p>— Ben Wexler (@mrbenwexler) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrbenwexler/status/1390409924807512064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="QMark62.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/956974/large/QMark62.jpg?1623752380" title="QMark62.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Truer words were never tweeted.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;To be fair, very few words are. &lt;a href="https://t.co/skRSdoLAYc"&gt;pic.twitter.com/skRSdoLAYc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1325975211125088266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;November 10, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>To be fair, very few words are. <a href="https://t.co/skRSdoLAYc">pic.twitter.com/skRSdoLAYc</a></p>— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1325975211125088266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="LOLMark615.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961117/large/LOLMark615.jpg?1624825659" title="LOLMark615.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ConvicttrumpMark617.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961114/large/ConvicttrumpMark617.jpg?1624825445" title="ConvicttrumpMark617.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="LoveItMark620.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961118/large/LoveItMark620.jpg?1624825659" title="LoveItMark620.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="RacistMark63.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/956975/large/RacistMark63.jpg?1623752382" title="RacistMark63.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="BidenMark615.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961108/large/BidenMark615.jpg?1624824872" title="BidenMark615.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero</p> <p>When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions. — Calvin Coolidge</p> <p>When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy. — Neil Steinberg</p> <p>We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them. — John F. Kennedy</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="180501_Precious_034.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/961102/large/180501_Precious_034.jpg?1624824302" title="180501_Precious_034.jpg"> <figcaption>Dude!  It was a good joke, but it wasn’t that funny.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Pressley’s Picks</h2> <p>Before we get started, there’s some news that has been talk of the dog park this last week or two.  In Texas, taking a lead from the disreputable, dog-hating Former Guy, Greg #HeTorturesDogs Abbott vetoed bi-partisan legislation that would have stopped various forms of dog torture and abuse.  Representatives of all the other animal lobbies and support groups (except cats, who mostly still can’t be bothered) have strongly condemned his action.</p> <p>Here’s just a sampling of the reactions from around the country.</p> <blockquote> <p>Until you fix this, you’ll get no more nuzzles and doggy kisses from us — Texas Police and Service Dog Union (an affiliate of the AFL-CIO and the AKC)</p> <p>In a unanimous vote, Worst in Show goes to the governor of Texas — Westminster Kennel Club</p> <p>Remember spay or neuter your republican — The Bob Barker Foundation</p> <p>First they came for our immigrant children.  Then they came for our dogs.  — The <span>Niemöller Legacy and Municipal Dog Park</span></p> <p><span>You think I bit that Secret Service holdover from The Former Guy? —  Wait till I get my teeth into Abbott’s fat ass.  — Major Biden</span></p> <p><span>Fuck that guy — NotNowNotEver</span></p> </blockquote> <p>I could look this unbearably cute too (if I weighed like a gazillion pounds).</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Big dogs can be cute too.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dogs?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#dogs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dogsoftwitter?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#dogsoftwitter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dogsofinstagram?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#dogsofinstagram&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/RUbIf3b8nc"&gt;pic.twitter.com/RUbIf3b8nc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Dog fans (@funnydo25814387) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/funnydo25814387/status/1407026369066942468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 21, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Big dogs can be cute too.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dogs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dogs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dogsoftwitter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dogsoftwitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dogsofinstagram?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dogsofinstagram</a> <a href="https://t.co/RUbIf3b8nc">pic.twitter.com/RUbIf3b8nc</a></p>— Dog fans (@funnydo25814387) <a href="https://twitter.com/funnydo25814387/status/1407026369066942468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>You should keep a dog with you at all times.  You never know when you’ll need an emergency flotation device.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Today I learned that corgi butts can float. Not sure what to do with this info, other than share it with you. 14/10 what a good buoy &lt;a href="https://t.co/An7OC6nXJs"&gt;pic.twitter.com/An7OC6nXJs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/1404174912332308480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 13, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Today I learned that corgi butts can float. Not sure what to do with this info, other than share it with you. 14/10 what a good buoy <a href="https://t.co/An7OC6nXJs">pic.twitter.com/An7OC6nXJs</a></p>— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) <a href="https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/1404174912332308480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>People have been complaining that my picks are too dog-centric.  Here’s a cat to help you understand why my picks are dog-centric.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Them: Yeah my cat is completely happy being vegan&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cat: &lt;a href="https://t.co/syg3u8tKOP"&gt;pic.twitter.com/syg3u8tKOP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— unmehlievable ⚓ (@unmehlievable) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/unmehlievable/status/1403694157995167745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 12, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Them: Yeah my cat is completely happy being vegan<br><br>Cat: <a href="https://t.co/syg3u8tKOP">pic.twitter.com/syg3u8tKOP</a></p>— unmehlievable ⚓ (@unmehlievable) <a href="https://twitter.com/unmehlievable/status/1403694157995167745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p>If that wasn’t enough for you, here’s some important reporting about the danger of the gravity well around cats sucking all matter into themselves.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Seems legit LOL &lt;a href="https://t.co/bNnxB5GoJq"&gt;pic.twitter.com/bNnxB5GoJq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Cole &amp;amp; Marmalade (@ColeTheBlackCat) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ColeTheBlackCat/status/1405259035868372995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 16, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Seems legit LOL <a href="https://t.co/bNnxB5GoJq">pic.twitter.com/bNnxB5GoJq</a></p>— Cole & Marmalade (@ColeTheBlackCat) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColeTheBlackCat/status/1405259035868372995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  Your country needs you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade: <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/28/2037531/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-DAY159-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---DAY159---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>We’ll finish out today’s festivities with a tasty rendition of Playin’ in the Band from 1991.  This is from the lineup that featured two keyboardists (Vince and Bruce) in addition to the two drummers and two guitarists.  I wonder if Phil was feeling lonely on the bass?  By the way, the opening act that day were the Violent Femmes.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=xEVCkcZbJTk" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xEVCkcZbJTk" data-width="911" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  Not everyone who wears a red hat is an idiot, but if it has the letters MAGA emblazoned across the front, you’ve got a reliable indicator.</em></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) BoozePie Cancer CancunCruz EmmylouHarris Fraudit giuliani GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GOPDefundsPolice GregAbbott GretefulDead IvankaTrump JoanBaez MaryChapinCarpenter MittRomney NewYorkYankees Politics Poll PressleysPicks Recommended Roundup TheLighterSide trump tRumpOrgIndictments _2036883 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:01:14 +0000 The Chickenhawks Are Coming Home to Roast - GNR for Bluesday, June, 15th https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/6/15/2033333/-The-Chickenhawks-Are-Coming-Home-to-Roast-GNR-for-Bluesday-June-15th <p>With every new scandalous revelation; with every new breach of public trust exposed; with every new bit of corruption uncovered, the full criminality of the previous administration becomes more clear.  As the evidence grows more damning, the apologists explanations become more strained.  We are watching as sickophants, near and far, are deeply implicated.  Some of the rats are in full scurry (looking at you John Demers).  Formal investigations are popping up like dandelions.  It’s a good time to be a Democrat.</p> <p>Our momentum is building.  The arc of history is bending in the direction of justice.  The ride may be bumpy, as the malefactors are not likely to go quietly.  But, we are riding a steamroller.  There is no political base for corruption (except among co-conspirators).  As history tells us, everything The Former Guy touched turned to shit.  The republican party is no exception.</p> <p>Parts of the republican party has now embraced violence to achieve their political goals (MTG and Eric’s wife being the two most recent proponents).  Yet, most of their stormtrumper brigades are comprised of chickenhawk cosplayers who whine about the personal consequences of their actions.  They romanticized their deluded fantasies into action and are busy recanting now that they’ve been arrested.  The idea that these pathetic insurrectionists have the strength of will to destroy the country is ludicrous.  Their sense of pampered entitlement will keep almost all of them on their couches, yelling at the television.</p> <p>Remember, the world is a wonderful place — except for all the ways it isn’t.  It was more wonderful 100 years ago than it was 500 years ago (except for the pollution).  It’s more wonderful today than it was 100 years ago (except for the pollution and the republicans).</p> <p>There is a vast gap between being resigned to our world’s impending heat death when the sun goes nova and not having the patience to wait for the microwave popcorn to finish popping.  I expect republicans to fly off the handle any time they think doing so will further their duplicitous goals.  I am disappointed when liberals start frothing at the mouth because progress isn’t happening fast enough.  In the case of Garland versus Sessions/Barr/seat filler, I will take Garland every damn time.  LIkewise, with Manchin versus Capito, I’m going with Manchin just as often.</p> <p>As Joe Biden said, “C’mon man.  It’s only been 120 days.  Gimme me a break.”</p> <p><strong>Stray thought</strong>:  In India they have caste called the Untouchables.  Here, in America, we have one called the Unteachables.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter">(we are resisting the ongoing depredations of the Reichwing)</p> <p>Al Franken had a bit of time on his hands, so he kindly volunteered to stand in for Mitch McConnell in this paid political advertisement.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=QaClrvN0NnA" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QaClrvN0NnA" data-width="1214" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Now that we’ve got that out of our systems, let’s take a look at the news, shall we?</p> <p><strong>There’s Another Scandal ‘a Brewin (and It’s Getting Scalding Hot)</strong></p> <p>The delightful smell of fresh ink on subpoenas for corrupt functionaries at the Department of Justice is spreading throughout Congress.  I’m not sure how long the ink will take to dry, but there’s sure to be Congressional hearing rooms installing extra-uncomfortable hot seats while we wait.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/top-doj-national-security-official-resigns-amid-fallout-over-seizure-n1270723" target="_blank" title="">NBC:  <em>Top DOJ national security official resigns amid fallout over seizure of Dems' records</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The top national security official at the Justice Department is resigning as the department grapples with the fallout over its <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schiff-calls-inquiry-after-report-trump-doj-targeted-democrats-congress-n1270432" target="_blank" title="">subpoena of the phone records of members of Congress</a> and reporters during the Trump administration, a Justice Department official confirmed Monday.</p> <p>Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced an overhaul of the Justice Department's procedures after it was revealed that the agency seized Democratic lawmakers' communication records.</p> <p>John Demers, who has been the head of Justice Department's national security division since 2018, plans to step down at the end of next week, the Justice Department official told NBC News.</p> <p>The departure of Demers, who was likely to have been briefed about decisions to subpoena phone records linked to reporters and members of Congress, was planned, and it is not related to the controversy, the official said. Demers had been asked to stay on for a time by John Carlin, the No. 2 official in the deputy attorney general's office, but it was always expected that he would leave during the summer, the source said.</p> </blockquote> <p>A deeper perspective (albeit aligned):</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/trump-doj-leak-investigation-explainer/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>The scandal over Trump's leak investigations keeps getting worse</em></a></p> <p>But wait, there’s more:</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/republican-split-doj-subpoenas/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>Top Senate Republicans split on need to investigate secret DOJ subpoenas of Democratic lawmakers</em></a></p> <p>Spoiler:  McConnell is against it (no surprise) and Thune is for it (I’m pleasantly surprised).</p> <p><strong>The Fall of a Nutty Yahoo</strong></p> <p>You would think Israel would be averse to any forms of fascism.  The past twelve years of hard right, increasingly authoritarian, rule certainly put that theory to the test.  Finally, a coalition of the far left to the far right got together to rid themselves of their would be king.  It’s refreshing.  Zack Beauchamp, over at Vox, took a deep dive into what Sunday’s ouster means as Israel moves forward.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/6/13/22464927/benjamin-netanyahu-prime-minister-vote-naftali-bennett" target="_blank" title="">Vox:  <em>The fall of “King Bibi”:  How Netanyahu’s ouster could change Israel.</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, having held the job continuously since 2009. Now, finally, the reign of “<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-king-bibi-wasn-t-the-only-big-myth-shattered-in-israel-this-week-1.9871622">King Bibi</a>” — a moniker earned by his lengthy stay in office and authoritarian inclinations — has come to an end.</p> <p>On Sunday, Netanyahu’s opponents in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/EXT-LIVE-israel-s-new-government-set-to-be-sworn-in-today-ending-netanyahu-s-12-year-rule-1.9899971#7012931111">voted to replace him</a> with a “change” coalition: a group of diverse parties from across the Israeli political spectrum united only by their interest in pushing Netanyahu out. The new prime minister is Naftali Bennett, from the far-right Yamina party — though Yair Lapid, from the centrist Yesh Atid party, <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-new-government-netanyahu-explained">will have a veto over his decisions</a>.</p> <p>Netanyahu’s downfall is, more than anything else, the result of his own hubris.</p> <p>Over the past 12 years, Netanyahu has dominated Israeli politics. He’s not only successfully implemented a series of right-wing policies, such as entrenching Israel’s presence in the West Bank, but also consolidated a dangerous amount of power in his own hands. He is currently <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55949391">on trial for corruption charges</a> stemming from, among other things, his attempt to buy off media outlets.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>And We’re Back</strong></p> <p>The Reichwing thugs will try to spin this as a bad thing.  It’s not.  It’s a much needed sea change.  It’s a welcome global repudiation of TFG.</p> <p>The world is a small place and getting smaller.  Statistics like this mean we will be able to continue to squeeze theocrats, autocrats and fascists back under their slimy rocks.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;🇺🇸🌎 Not surprising, still stunning &amp;amp; important to remember just how much more positive President Biden is viewed around the world than his predecessor. Key now to make something out of it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Difference:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;🇸🇪 Sweden: +70&lt;br&gt;🇩🇪 Germany: +68&lt;br&gt;🇫🇷 France: +63&lt;br&gt;🇮🇹 Italy: +59&lt;br&gt;🇬🇷 Greece: +42 &lt;a href="https://t.co/LLdN7H5o4L"&gt;pic.twitter.com/LLdN7H5o4L&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Michael Knigge (@kniggem) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/kniggem/status/1403041216728637445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 10, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>🇺🇸🌎 Not surprising, still stunning & important to remember just how much more positive President Biden is viewed around the world than his predecessor. Key now to make something out of it.<br><br>Difference:<br><br>🇸🇪 Sweden: +70<br>🇩🇪 Germany: +68<br>🇫🇷 France: +63<br>🇮🇹 Italy: +59<br>🇬🇷 Greece: +42 <a href="https://t.co/LLdN7H5o4L">pic.twitter.com/LLdN7H5o4L</a></p>— Michael Knigge (@kniggem) <a href="https://twitter.com/kniggem/status/1403041216728637445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>A Tale of Two Administrations</strong></p> <p>What a difference an election makes.  As we continue to sweep corrupt hold-overs to the curb, it does us proud to reflect on just how much of an improvement our new cabinet secretaries are.  Zinke was one of several members of the previous administration who was forced to resign for reasons of blatant corruption.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deb-haaland-interior-pride-flag_n_60c79fcee4b097a589eabd30" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  <em>Ryan Zinke Flew His Own Special Banner. Deb Haaland Flew A Pride Flag.</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p><span>Within weeks of being confirmed as former President <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" title="">Donald Trump</a>’s first interior secretary, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/ryan-zinke" target="_blank" title="">Ryan Zinke</a> revived </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interior-department-ryan-zinke-flags-stuffed-animals_n_5a0369d7e4b0937b510f5554" target="_blank"><span>an obscure military tradition</span></a>,<span> insisting that a security staffer raise and lower a special secretarial flag above the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., every time Zinke entered or exited the building.</span></p> </div> <div> <p><span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/deb-haaland" target="_blank" title="">Deb Haaland</a>, President <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a>’s interior secretary, has opted for a far more inclusive approach. On Monday, Haaland went to the building’s roof to raise a <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/features/producers-picks/progress-pride-flag-creator-from-portland-celebrates-global-recognition/283-1c03133a-1acc-45d3-b64b-13cae809c0e3" target="_blank" title="">Progress Pride Flag</a> to mark </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/voices/topic/pride" target="_blank" title=""><span>LGBTQ Pride Month</span></a><span>. It is the first Pride flag ever to fly above the agency’s headquarters.</span></p> </div> <div> <p>“The Department of the Interior is committed to telling the rich, diverse story of America and lifting up underrepresented peoples and communities,” Haaland said in a statement. “Despite many hard-fought victories, there is still a long way to go to ensure full liberation, peace, and equality for the LGBTQ+ community.”</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Proof Is in the Puddinghead</strong></p> <p>When your party’s poster persons are as preposterous as Gohmert, Greene, Boebert, Hawley, Paul, Graham, Nunes and the Former Guy, you are working at a serious disadvantage.  It’s like Politics ‘R Us had a fire sale on dead albatrosses and the republican party bought them all to use as necklaces going into 2022. </p> <p>In my view, Louie Gohmert is far too stupid to be permitted to sit in public office.  Hell — he’s too stupid to be permitted to sit in a public toilet.  His presence alone, is enough to insure that Texas 1st is, collectively, the stupidest district in the United States.</p> <p>In 2015, Gohmert ran to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House.  That demands a compliment for a republican — At least Paul Ryan was not Louie Gohmert.</p> <p>Anyhow, last week Gohmert thoroughly extinguished himself (again).</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/louie-gohmert-jus-wondrin-if-kicking-earth-off-axis-into-outer-space-might-fix-climate-change" target="_blank">Wonkette: <em> Louie Gohmert Jus' Wondrin' If Kicking Earth Off Axis Into Outer Space Might Fix Climate Change???</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Louie Gohmert is working hard to reclaim the title of Dumbest Republican Congressman from Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/clay-higgins" target="_blank">WHAR BOXES guy.</a></p> <p>Which, look. He should never be worried. One of them says a thing, he can always say a thing about <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rep-louie-gohmert-is-talking-about-caribou-sex-in-congress" target="_blank">caribou sex.</a> Or how you can cure the coronavirus by getting misted in a tent with <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/coronavirus-got-you-down-sprinkle-it-away-with-louie-gohmerts-magic-german-covid-sprinkle-powder" target="_blank">Magic German Sprinkle Powder.</a> Or that gays in the military are a bad idea because of <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/louie-gohmert-why-is-obama-forcing-troops-to-gay-massage-each-other" target="_blank">all the gay massages</a> gay soldiers gonna give each other.</p> <p>He's fine. He'll always be the stupidest. Always.</p> <p>Gohmert was <a href="https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/06/09/during-climate-hearing-rep-louie-gohmert-of-texas-asks-if-agencies-can-change-the-earths-orbit" target="_blank">worried about</a> climate change in a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee yesterday, sort of. At least he knows federal agencies are worried about it. He's not himself concerned about such dangerous myths. But he <a href="https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1402388019420741633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1402388019420741633%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sacurrent.com%2Fthe-daily%2Farchives%2F2021%2F06%2F09%2Fduring-climate-hearing-rep-louie-gohmert-of-texas-asks-if-agencies-can-change-the-earths-orbit" target="_blank">has an idea</a> that might make everybody happy and solve this question once and for all. Could the federal agencies just bang on the moon a little bit, or maybe change the entire Earth's orbit, to get it away from the solar flares? Maybe if they just grunted real hard and tipped the Earth off its axis? He does not know, he is just askin' science questions, tryin' to solve the problems. He might even lend the government his steel-toed Texas cowboy boots if those are good for kickin' planets off their axises!</p> </blockquote> <p>Best Comment on the Wonkette article (from reader Munsi):</p> <blockquote> <p>We can argue over who's the dumbest Republican, or the meanest, or the angriest, but I think we can all agree: Louie Gohmert is the MOST Republican in congress.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Help, She’s Lying and She Can’t Stop</strong></p> <p>Word has just reached us that McNinny is polishing her lying chops to prepare for her role in a reboot of Rawhide to be retitled Raw Lies.  In it, she’ll wander around the branding pen telling anyone who’ll listen about how the branding iron does not hurt and that the cows are really just crisis actors.  The series will also star Alex Jones as a branding iron and Devin Nunes as a cow.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayleigh-mcenany-faith-lies_n_60c6d987e4b08ecb9afb1330" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  <em>Kayleigh McEnany Cooks Up Most Outrageous Claim Yet To Explain Her Lies</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Former White House press secretary <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/kayleigh-mcenany" target="_blank" title="">Kayleigh McEnany</a> insists she never lied when she worked for then-president <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" title="">Donald Trump</a> and suggested she can’t because of her faith.</p> </div> <div> <p>In comments made at a Sunday event that were <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/kayleigh-mcenany-lies/" target="_blank" title="">posted online by Raw Story</a>, she said: </p> </div> <div> <p>“As a woman of faith, as a mother of baby Blake, as a person who meticulously prepared at some of the world’s hardest institutions, I never lied. I sourced my information, but that will never stop the press from calling you a liar.”</p> </div> <div> <p>McEnany took the job in April 2020 with her <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayleigh-mcenany-will-never-lie_n_5eac6ec5c5b67046c7b60536" target="_blank" title="">now-infamous vow</a> to never lie. However, she had such a <a href="https://www.indy100.com/offbeat/kayleigh-mcenany-white-house-press-secretary-trump-lies-9718356" target="_blank" title="">long and extensive</a> history of <a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/09/10006484/kayleigh-mcenany-white-house-press-conference-lies" target="_blank">falsehoods</a> that CNN’s Jake Tapper <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-kayleigh-mcenany-lies-reliable-sources_n_5fe92d38c5b66809cb322e31" target="_blank">refused to have her on his show</a>, saying McEnany “<a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/9/23/21451585/kayleigh-mcenany-white-house-press-briefing-lies" target="_blank">lies</a> the way that most people breathe” and “can’t acknowledge reality.”</p> </div> <div> <p>Out of seven McEnany claims <a href="https://www.politifact.com/personalities/kayleigh-mcenany/" target="_blank">reviewed by PolitiFact</a>, just three were rated as “mostly true.” The rest were listed as either “half true,” “mostly false,” “false” or “pants on fire.” Last year, for example, she claimed Trump “never downplayed the virus” despite audio of him admitting to doing exactly that, in those exact words.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>Learning from the Past</strong></p> <p>This is more a feet meet fire story.  A cautionary tale, for pushing back against the “Let’s just move on” approach the republicans are trying to sell.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cjr.org/analysis/why-journalists-must-continue-to-investigate-trump-era.php" target="_blank">Columbia Journalism Review:  Lesley M. M. Blume:  <em>“Over and Forgotten”: Why journalists must continue investigating the Trump era</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>IN MARCH 1945,</strong> <em>New Yorker </em>co-founder and editor Harold Ross sent a letter to Janet Flanner, a war correspondent who had just filed a piece from Cologne about atrocities inflicted by Germans on their POWs. Ross was proud of Flanner’s reporting, and he feared that many other equally important events were not being covered—and might even be in danger of being lost forever in the chaos.</p> <p>“The war is going to be over and forgotten before any number of real atrocity stories are printed, I’m afraid,” he told her. “Unless the <em>New Yorker</em> gets around to doing something.”</p> </blockquote> <p>The article goes on to catalog the early lack of serious reporting on the events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, before tying it back to today.</p> <blockquote> <p>The media appears to be moving on once again, too, and we are in danger of leaving major stories of the Trump era under-investigated and perhaps even forgotten. One White House correspondent friend of mine likened the last four years to being in a series of car crashes, after which everyone walked away each time as though nothing had happened.</p> <p>A host of major stories desperately need additional reporting. Significant investigations into the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection—arguably one of the most traumatic watershed moments in American history—will be more crucial than ever, given the GOP’s blockage in the Senate of legislation to create an independent commission investigating the attack. We also need to learn about what happened to intellectual property stolen during the attack, and the roles that Trump White House principals and various members of Congress may have played in preparations for the assault. Also falling by the wayside: investigations into the Trump administration’s relationships with various dictators—including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan—and how those relationships may still compromise our national security. In addition, we need further reporting on the fallout from the Trump administration’s denial and downplaying of the threat of COVID-19 from late 2019 onward.</p> </blockquote> <p>I think we can have an impact on how these stories are tracked.  We can use our voices to call them out for trying to sweep transgressions committed during the last administration under the rug.  Hell, they don’t make rugs big enough for everything the republicans are trying to hide.</p> <p><strong>Food for Thought</strong></p> <p>Or, maybe a better section title —  Thinking About Food.  I recently ran across Andrea Sachs’ magazine, <a href="https://www.theinsider1.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Insider</em></a>, subtitled, <em>For People Sheltering in Place</em>.  This is a sample of the kind of eclectic writing you’ll find there.  This particular article also features some <s>nice</s> tasty plant pictures.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theinsider1.com/post/weed-it-and-reap-some-musings-on-edible-landscaping" target="_blank">The Insider:  <span><span>Victoria Rolfe:  <em>Weed It and Reap: Some Musings on Edible Landscaping</em></span></span></a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>I’ll bet if you ask anyone if they are a gardener of vegetables or flowers, they will say one or the other, or might even say both, but they would not mean both together in one garden. In many minds, gardening is divided into two main categories. There is landscaping or flower gardening, and there is vegetable gardening. The vegetable garden is usually out back somewhere sight-unseen, with regimented rows of edibles, if there even is a veggie garden at all.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>This divide of different gardens is the result of  the typical mindset that there are plants grown for beauty and plants grown for food, and never the twain shall meet. To this I say, Poppycock! A beautiful plant is a beautiful plant, whether you can eat it or not. And if you can eat it, then you’ve got an added bonus to your gardening efforts. Vegetables are not ugly. In fact, some of them are gorgeous. They deserve to be admired for their looks as well as their deliciousness and nutrition. </span></p> <p><span>Some folks, who will readily grow plants around the foundation of their home and maybe an additional flower garden or two, say that they don’t have the time or money or space for a vegetable garden. Au contraire! If you have the room for any plants at all, and you are putting in the effort to maintain and keep them alive and happy, then you can quite easily grow at least a few vegetables, herbs, or fruits. </span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Andy Borowitz Ripens</strong></p> <p>This is an older edition of the Borowitz report (from May 10th).  I somehow missed it the first time around,  It’s only grown better with age.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/gop-claims-biden-is-artificially-inflating-job-approval-rating-by-displaying-competence?itm_content=footer-recirc" target="_blank">The New Yorker:  Satire from the Borowitz Report:  <em>G.O.P. Claims Biden Is Artificially Inflating Job-Approval Rating By Displaying Competence</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—With a new Associated Press poll showing Joe Biden garnering a sixty-three-per-cent general-approval rating, Republicans are accusing the President of “artificially inflating” that number through “blatant displays of competence.”</p> <p>“Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider, and he knows how to game these polls,” Senator Rand Paul said. “If you want to get a high approval rating, all you have to do is do a job that people approve of.”</p> <p>Senator Ted Cruz agreed. “Joe Biden is so desperate to have a high approval rating that he’s been using every day in office to deliver results to the American people,” he charged. “I for one find this behavior beneath contempt.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>End the News on a High Note</strong></p> <p>Pressley was being a bit of a smartass about it, claiming, “I’ve been sniffing out disease for years — it’s why I bark at republicans.”  I, on the other hand, am impressed.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ai-device-sniffs-out-hard-to-detect-cancer-in-blood-with-95-accuracy/" target="_blank">Good News Network:  <em>Researchers Create AI Device to Sniff Out Cancer in Blood Samples With 95% Accuracy For Hard to Detect Types</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.</p> <p>The findings suggest that the Penn-developed tool — which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to decipher the mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitting off cells in blood plasma samples — could serve as a non-invasive approach to screen for harder-to-detect cancers, such as pancreatic and ovarian.</p> <p>“It’s an early study but the results are very promising,” Johnson said. “The data shows we can identify these tumors at both advanced and the earliest stages, which is exciting. If developed appropriately for the clinical setting, this could potentially be a test that’s done on a standard blood draw that may be part of your annual physical.”</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <p>The night before the Rolling Thunder Revue opened its tour stop in Toronto some of the performers were hanging out at Gordon Lightfoot’s house.  According to Joni, she wrote <em>Coyote</em> on November 25, 1975 - somewhere between Hartford, Connecticut and Augusta, Maine.  Its first public performance was August 26th, in Augusta.  The song was undergoing a lot of revisions as the tour progressed.  Here’s a performance captured offstage — Joni Mitchell w/ Bob Dylan on rhythm guitar (commentary by Roger McGuinn), November 30th, 1975.  </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=zeaO5UZ5OcI" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zeaO5UZ5OcI" data-width="1214" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>As a bonus, here’s a sweet reminder of what we were missing for four long years.  I can’t conceive of this ever happening in the vicinity of TFG.  I expect it in Joe’s White House.  Welcome back, class.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=rSXoM0WIUUg" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rSXoM0WIUUg" data-width="1214" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <div> <div> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev.</p> <p>>>>» The President of the United States is abroad, representing the great country the way it should be represented. GO JOE! Lots of reporters are along for the tramp around Europe and they are getting their questions in. Biden is NOT calling them ‘enemies of the people’ and handling the queries with aplomb. So much aplomb that you just might have missed him throwing MAJOR shade on the American GQP. He’s on a foreign trip but he let loose on domestic politics in <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/15/2035322/-Biden-said-this-after-he-slammed-Trump-s-Phony-Populism-amp-a-derelict-GOP-at-NATO-Summit?utm_campaign=recent" target="_blank">no uncertain terms</a> and yet did not disturb his grandfatherly/avuncular image at all. How its done…..by a political master.</p> <p>>>>>>>There have been 100s of arrests and indictments from the January 6 Coup Attempt, but now we see the first CONVICTIONS. A couple from Virginia had 4 counts lodged against them. Yesterday they pled guilty to one count, a federal misdemeanor. The other 3 were dropped…..because of a plea deal <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/14/virginia-couple-pleads-guilty-capitol-riot-494355" target="_blank">(THEY FLIPPED)</a>. On the one hand, because they co-operated, they got a lesser charge (and we’ll see more of these as we go along this summer and fall). On the other hand, the feds STILL insisted they plead to at least one count (up to 6 months/ up to a fine of $5000; sentencing coming later.) Let the speculation begin who they flipped on and what they said as the roll up begins in the courts.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>June 15ths that, on the one hand, have made it half way through June, and yet, on the other hand, have been so warm and sunny that every Good and Goofy moment wonders how can summer just be starting?</strong></p> <p>          <strong>1215</strong>    Windsor, England  There is a meadow outside of town with the head-cocking name of <u>Runnymede</u>. On this day King John and a large gathering of English nobles gather. Under some duress King John <strong>signs the</strong> <strong>Magna Carta</strong>. (“The Great Charter”) It protects churches, keeps barons and earls from illegal imprisonment, limits payments to the Crown, and promises swift justice. In coming years it was often honored in the breech by both monarchs and nobles BUT it DID deal a body blow to the idea of the divine right of kings and started <strong>the idea of <u>extending and ensuring basic rights and freedoms,</u></strong> first to the nobility and <u>later to commoners.</u> <em>(Yay, us!)</em>  And while John is a VERY common English name, (although this one was the first to become King of England) he is still known simply as King John, without any Roman Numerals after his title to set him apart from later Kings named John. <u>There haven’t been any!</u> Partly because of the Magna Carta’s restrictions on Royal power, no ruling house in England has ever named a son “John” in 800 years<em>. (That is one Royal grudge……)</em></p> <p><strong>            1219</strong>    Lyndanisse <em>(now Tallinn),</em> Estonia<em> (then, and now again, with 700 years of occupiers in between)</em> The Danes came a-conquerin’ to Estonia. They are having a battle and they are losing to the pagan Estonians. According to legend a red flag with a white cross fell from the sky on Danish troops and they rallied to win the battle and take over the territory. The design <em>(Dannebrog)</em> became the <strong>oldest national flag in continuous use in the world.</strong> The Danish camp had a town grow up around it. The local folk <em>(speaking that really offbeat Finno-Ugric local language that somebody will someday call Estonian)</em> reverse the name of the camp. ‘Lyn’ (later spelled ‘lin’) is <u>town/city.</u> The conquerors are the Danes, which all good Estonians call the ‘DAH-need’ (plural Dane), so ‘DAH-nee-lyn’. The opening “D” sound gets softened in Estonian to a gentle “T” (not as explosive as in English), and the middle syllable loses force: “Taanelinn”. This elides (!) and evolves into <strong>“Tallinn”, Estonia’s capital city</strong> and leading seaport (which is why those sailing Danes wanted the spot in the first place.) <em><u><strong>When</strong> you visit</u> for your Bucket List, and you absolutely should (some of the best-preserved 14<sup>th</sup> century(!) architecture anywhere) you will see lots of tourist trinkets marked <strong>1219 as the date of the city’s founding.</strong></em></p> <p><strong>            1763</strong>  Schwetzingen, Germany   Birth of <strong>Franz Ignaz Danzi,</strong> composer and lover of the letter “Z”. Son of Innocenz Danzi, a professional cellist from Italy (whom <u>Mozart</u> admired), Franz’s older sister Franzeska (told you they loved “Z”) was a renowned professional singer. Franz learned music at home, and the cello. At age 20 he succeeded his father as lead cellist at the Royal orchestra in Munich. He had a fine career as a performer and later as a conductor of several orchestras. He composed one symphony but mostly wrote for smaller ensembles. We have several dozen pieces featuring the cello, naturally, but he also composed an impressive body of trios, quartets and quintets for various combinations of woodwinds. He is often remembered for these (especially the quintets), as he had a knack for featuring each woodwind to best advantage by turn through the work.</p> <p><strong>          1775</strong>  Philadelphia    It’s not just those Boston hotheads! What England is doing to them affects all of us! And so all of us need to work together. Yesterday, the Continental Congress adopted the mass of militia and other armed civilians hemming in the land side of Boston as the <u>Continental Army</u>.  To drive home the point of joint action, Congress today appoints “a certain gentleman <u>from Virginia</u>” , a different part of the continent <em>(and the 6 foot two delegate modestly ducked out of the room, with every eye on him)</em> as General and Commander in Chief, <strong>George  Washington.</strong> He accepts.</p> <p><strong>           1842</strong>  Kansas (or Kaw) River, Kansas Territory  Nearly 40 years ago Lewis and Clark took an expedition all the way out to the Oregon Territory to explore what President Jefferson had bought from France. There have been other explorers and over the years, word has filtered back that the Territory on either side of the Columbia River is good for farming. But how to get there? On this day <strong>John C. Fremont</strong> (“the Pathfinder”; later, the first Presidential nominee of the new Republican Party in 1856) and legendary guide <strong>Kit Carson</strong> set off to survey and mark a trail to the Northwest…..soon to be called the <strong>‘Oregon Trail’</strong> <em>(leading to wagon trains, settlements, and the first computer game my kids played…..)</em></p> <div> <p><strong><span><span><span>              1851</span></span></span></strong><span><span><span>   Baltimore   Just in time for the summer heat, local dairyman <strong>Jacob Fussell</strong> has secured a firm supply of milk, cream, sugar, rock salt and ice (cut last winter and preserved in (insulated, and often underground) ice houses. He has also set up machinery in a large shop or factory and this day begins producing product for enthusiastic citizens: <strong>America’s first ice cream factory</strong>. Let the licking begin!<em>(Mechanical refrigeration would take another 30 years, mightily helped by the invention and wiring of electricity, and these would help the industry big time, but Fussell started today…..)</em></span></span></span></p> </div> <p>            <strong>1864</strong>   Washington DC   When the Union army began accepting black soldiers in the ranks, Congress decided that such privates would be paid $10/month in pay, vs. $13/month for white recruits. Rather than accept the slight, black troops refused all pay and called on Congress to do the right thing. <strong>On this day Congress DID do the right thing, passing legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers the same as white soldiers. </strong>The law went further,<strong> </strong>paying black soldiers <u>back pay</u> at $13/month from their date of enlistment, and <u>paying the same rate</u> to survivors of those who had been in the ranks and had been killed in action. <em><u>Good move, Congress!</u></em></p> <p><strong>         1869</strong>   Albany, NY   Petroleum is being produced in steady and increasing amounts, and people are experimenting with it. On this day <strong>John Wesley Hyatt</strong> receives a patent for his tinkering, something he calls <u>“celluloid”</u> <strong>the world’s first plastic.</strong>  This proves a mixed blessing <em>(see the Earth’s oceans)</em> but has certainly provided a plethora of developments and has almost overwhelmed modern life.</p> <p><strong>       1877 </strong>  West Point, NY   Not only did Congress in 1864 equalize pay in the Army between black and white soldiers, they also recognized there was real military talent out there, regardless of skin color. It took a few years after the Civil War ended, but on this day <strong>Henry Ossian Flipper</strong> becomes <strong>1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy.</strong></p> <p><strong>            1934 </strong>  Washington DC   Back in 1872 <u>President Ulysses Grant</u> signed a bill creating <em>Yellowstone </em>National Park as a national Park, <u>the first in the world</u>. The idea caught on around the world. Since then in the US, several other Parks have been created, nearly all of them in the western US. But today, <u>President Roosevelt</u> is pleased to dedicate a National Park much closer to the American population centers, the <strong>Great Smokey Mountains National Park. </strong>As the country fights off the Great Depression, people may well save up to take a vacation to recharge, and now a grand one is only an overnight train ride away.</p> <p><strong>           1938</strong>   Brooklyn, NY   One by one the owners of baseball teams are putting up steel poles around their stadiums and are starting to play night games. Tonight, the Dodgers flip the switch for their first ever game under the lights.  The <u>Cincinnati Reds</u> are in town to provide the opposition and they spoil the party for the hometown fans, winning 6-0. But if you’re going to lose, being part of history might be the way to do it. You see, when Reds’ pitching ace <strong>Johnny Vander Meer</strong> was on the mound last week, he threw a no-hitter. Tonight, <u>he does it again</u>, <strong>the first time in major league records a pitcher has back-to-back no-hit games. </strong></p> <p><strong>             1976   </strong>Houston, Texas<span>   Playing baseball at night has been going on for decades. After all, the Brooklyn Dodgers did it today back in 1938. Baseball stadiums have come a long way since then, and one of the real wonders is the <strong>Houston Astrodome</strong>, complete with a giant roof over everything. Not only is the place air-conditioned against the ridiculous Texas summer humidity, the roof means when you read the sports pages, you’ll never see the notation that Houston has had a home game postponed due to rain…….<u>On this day, the Astros have a rained out game…..at home.</u> </span>No, it wasn’t a roof leak, but it poured down rain so heavily in the late afternoon that <u>the visiting team and the umpires could not get from their hotels through all the flooded streets to the A’dome</u>.  <strong>So, the game, in a roofed, enclosed stadium, was postponed on account of rain. </strong></p> <p>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</p> <p>Shalom.</p> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="OpponentsMark525.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/953103/large/OpponentsMark525.jpg?1622738666" title="OpponentsMark525.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div 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href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1403435325184225293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 11, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Please stop calling undocumented people who pay taxes “freeloaders.” A freeloader is a centibillionaire who pays $0 in federal income taxes and claims a $4,000 tax credit for his kids.</p>— Robert Reich (@RBReich) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1403435325184225293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="PrisonMark529.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/953101/large/PrisonMark529.jpg?1622738424" title="PrisonMark529.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="GrossMark62.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/956978/large/GrossMark62.jpg?1623752590" title="GrossMark62.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Tara the Antisocial Social Worker ninjaed my use of this tweet in her comment in oldhippiedude’s <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/13/2033941/-Tweets-of-the-Week-Jun-6-12-2021">Tweets of the Week Jun <span>6-12</span> 2021</a>.  I liked it too much to take it out.  If you haven’t already checked it out, go over to see the Volatile Mermaid tweet I did end up cutting.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;⁦&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Rogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@Rob_Rogers&lt;/a&gt;⁩ couldn’t have nailed this any harder if he had used the hammer ofThor. &lt;a href="https://t.co/9XK7VdMuOg"&gt;pic.twitter.com/9XK7VdMuOg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Leonard Pitts, Jr. (@LeonardPittsJr1) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/LeonardPittsJr1/status/1403694501659562002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 12, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Rogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Rob_Rogers</a>⁩ couldn’t have nailed this any harder if he had used the hammer ofThor. <a href="https://t.co/9XK7VdMuOg">pic.twitter.com/9XK7VdMuOg</a></p>— Leonard Pitts, Jr. (@LeonardPittsJr1) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeonardPittsJr1/status/1403694501659562002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p>Ok, here, by popular demand (AlpineBob and WolverineForTJatAW), is an encore presentation of a tweet used by oldhippiedude in his <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/13/2033941/-Tweets-of-the-Week-Jun-6-12-2021">Tweets of the Week Jun <span>6-12</span> 2021</a></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="und"&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/eXnVAnTFSS"&gt;pic.twitter.com/eXnVAnTFSS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Eric Williams (@Eric_Williams_1) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Williams_1/status/1403730255303618566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 12, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p> <a href="https://t.co/eXnVAnTFSS">pic.twitter.com/eXnVAnTFSS</a></p>— Eric Williams (@Eric_Williams_1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Williams_1/status/1403730255303618566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>A GNR conundrum:  How many thanks can 2thanks thank, if 2thanks thanks to/too/two thanks?</p> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges</p> <p>People will say you cannot get a job in a down economy. People will say you cannot get a job that you love that will pay you well. People will say you can’t do good and do well. They’re wrong, that’s idiotic advice. People will tell you that you cannot change the world. They’re wrong too. — Soledad O’Brien</p> <p>In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. — Thomas Jefferson</p> <p>Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain</p> <p>Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. — John D. MacDonald</p> <p>The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence. — Billy Graham</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="210529_Pressley_019.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/956967/large/210529_Pressley_019.jpg?1623749421" title="210529_Pressley_019.jpg"> <figcaption>Hello, I need you to support our community treat bank.  With you generous support, no dog will be forced to beg at the table.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <h2>Pressley’s Picks</h2> <p>I like the idea of a stick library.  We should have one in every park.  I like the idea of a treat cafeteria even more.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="und"&gt;&lt;a href="https://t.co/VA5qKDqpII"&gt;pic.twitter.com/VA5qKDqpII&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/WholesomeMeme/status/1397990997263482881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 27, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://t.co/VA5qKDqpII">pic.twitter.com/VA5qKDqpII</a></p>— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) <a href="https://twitter.com/WholesomeMeme/status/1397990997263482881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Those damn cats will do anything to get themselves into the picture.  Nicolai, the Sammy, told doglebrity interviewers after the session about how Fluffy, the hat, was inspired by George Clooney’s notorious photobombing prowess.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;when u have a nice hat &lt;a href="https://t.co/wRzKGYyDgZ"&gt;pic.twitter.com/wRzKGYyDgZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— ᴘᴀᴠʟᴏᴠ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀɢɪ 🐶 (@PAVGOD) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PAVGOD/status/1397960453368606721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 27, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>when u have a nice hat <a href="https://t.co/wRzKGYyDgZ">pic.twitter.com/wRzKGYyDgZ</a></p>— ᴘᴀᴠʟᴏᴠ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀɢɪ 🐶 (@PAVGOD) <a href="https://twitter.com/PAVGOD/status/1397960453368606721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p>I can pawsitively help Bailey.  She just has to bark out the words phonetically.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Reading is important but I’m not very good at it &lt;a href="https://t.co/uhAGn8Uuq5"&gt;pic.twitter.com/uhAGn8Uuq5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bailey Warren (@FirstDogBailey) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/FirstDogBailey/status/1398041239874936833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 27, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Reading is important but I’m not very good at it <a href="https://t.co/uhAGn8Uuq5">pic.twitter.com/uhAGn8Uuq5</a></p>— Bailey Warren (@FirstDogBailey) <a href="https://twitter.com/FirstDogBailey/status/1398041239874936833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  Your country needs you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/14/2035282/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-DAY145-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---DAY145---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>I think we’ll end this extended intro to the comment section with a fine cover of Bobby Womack’s <em>It’s All Over Now</em> (also famously covered by The Rolling Stones).  Recorded on New Year’s Eve 1978, during one of those famous New Year's shows at the Winterland, this version features Bobby on lead vocals and Jerry picking his damn ass off.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=4FEmAVwJ-zA" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4FEmAVwJ-zA" data-width="1002" data-height="683" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  Regardless of his plaintive denials, any bits of text in this roundup that strike you as incontinent drivel were planted by republican operatives under the direction of Rod Rosenstein.</em></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) AlFranken AndyBorowitz Cancer Corruption DebHaaland ElvisCostello Gardening GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead JoeBiden JohnDemers JoniMitchell kayleighmcenany LouieGohmert Politics Poll PressleysPicks Recommended Roundup RyanZinke theFormerGuy TheLighterSide _2033333 Tue, 15 Jun 2021 11:00:12 +0000 Where, Oh Where Has the Media Gone, Where, Oh Where Can They Be? - GNR for Bluesday, June, 1st https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/6/1/2031535/-Where-Oh-Where-Has-the-Media-Gone-Where-Oh-Where-Can-They-Be-GNR-for-Bluesday-June-1st <p>Most of us wake up every day and start slogging through our to-do lists.  Some of it is fun.  Some is tedious.  At some point, we get around to checking out the news and that’s when the media fan blows a load of frantic the-sky-is-falling crap right in our faces.</p> <p>Our mainstream media has shown us the need to view them with several large salt shakers, in continuous liberal use, to help offset their commerce driven need to fill up every cycle with more scary stuff in a day than happens in a year.  Stories about the imminent return of the Former Guy; the disturbed ravings of science deniers; white supremacists on parade; or any of the other mountain of click-bait content they assail us with, serve no purpose, except to drive ad revenue.  They end up giving airtime and encouragement to the extreme fringe of the lunatic fringe.  Their person on the streets interviews do not reflect what any moderately rational person is thinking.  Nor does their content help to address real problems that affect us all.</p> <p>The pressures of a 24/7 news cycle, along with the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of Faux News and its kissing cousin, Hate Radio, have together, partially corrupted and to some extent broken a significant piece of what we used to call journalistic integrity.</p> <p>One thing we know for sure:  much of the Fourth Estate is really lousy at doing their job.</p> <p>Fortunately for us, fewer and fewer Americans are falling for the fetid bilgewater masquerading as news. While we can’t entirely escape being inundated with nonsense, it looks like big lies don’t hold up all that well against video evidence.  One of the best things we can do is to continue to loudly call out BS whenever we encounter it.  We can also make it a point to support good journalism when we encounter it.</p> <p>Railing against an ineffective media, of course, begs the question of what the devil all those those republican spokesweasels are actually trying to accomplish?</p> <p>Are they engaged in:</p> <ol> <li>the mindless antics of robotic lemmings, programmed by Vladimir Putin to destroy the planet?</li> <li>playful, mischievous shenanigans committed by rabid sociopaths who can’t tell the difference between dreadful cruelty and compassion?</li> <li>selfish actions of highly spoiled people (I don’t want to disparage children by making a reference) short-sightedly looking out for Number One by making number two on everyone and everything?</li> <li>some sort of misguided and cultish religious fervor, inspired by charlatans in clerical collars.</li> </ol> <p>Regardless of their motivation, ours is clear.  As long as we stay engaged we can reduce and often eliminate the damage inflicted by cynical politicians catering to their demented and deplorable base.</p> <p><strong>Stray thoughts</strong>:  If republicans really believed in “death before dishonor” they would have gone extinct decades ago.</p> <p>I don’t know why there is such an uproar over Flynn’s call to arms.  It seems perfectly treasonable to me.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter">(we are resisting the ongoing depredations of the Reichwing)</p> <p>I haven’t featured Samantha Bee at the top of a roundup for a very long time.  I apologize.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=NLxWP-uUgVQ" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NLxWP-uUgVQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Even though yesterday was a holiday, there is some news to share, although most of it happened before yesterday.</p> <p><strong>Remember the Climate Crisis? </strong></p> <p>You know.  It’s that existential threat to humanity that republicans insist is a hoax.  The one where they hired shills to lie about the science.  Sometimes it seems like they create republican scandals just to distract us from doing anything about it.  It looks like we are making progress in spite of the BIg Oil Party and the Murdoch Lie Factory.</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57257982" target="_blank" title="">BBC News:  <em>Shell: Netherlands court orders oil giant to cut emissions</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <div> <p><strong>A court in the Netherlands has ruled in a landmark case that the oil giant Shell must reduce its emissions.</strong></p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>By 2030, Shell must cut its CO2 emissions by 45% compared to 2019 levels, the civil court ruled.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>The Shell group is responsible for its own CO2 emissions and those of its suppliers, the verdict said.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>It is the first time a company has been legally obliged to align its policies with the Paris climate accords, says Friends of the Earth (FoE).</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>The environmental group brought the case to court in 2019, alongside six other bodies and more than 17,000 Dutch citizens.</p> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/dutch-court-orders-shell-set-tougher-climate-targets-2021-05-26/" target="_blank" title="">Reuters:  <em>Shell ordered to deepen carbon cuts in landmark Dutch climate case</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>A Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to drastically deepen planned greenhouse gas emission cuts on Wednesday, in a landmark ruling that could trigger legal action against energy companies around the world.</p> <p>Shell said it was "disappointed" and plans to appeal the ruling, which comes amid rising pressure on energy companies from investors, activists and governments to shift away from fossil fuels and rapidly ramp up investment in renewables.</p> <p>Judge Larisa Alwin read out a ruling at a court room in The Hague, ordering Shell <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/RDSa.L" target="_blank">(RDSa.L)</a> to reduce its planet warming carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels.</p> <p>"The court orders Royal Dutch Shell, by means of its corporate policy, to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 with respect to the level of 2019 for the Shell group and the suppliers and customers of the group," Alwin said.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>There Is Another Financial Crime Cluster for Us to Follow</strong></p> <p>There hasn’t been much coverage of the investigation into the corruption at the core of the Former Guy’s inaugural committee.  Add this into all the rest of the investigations into all things Orange and you can see he’s being squeezed in a barbed vise, while shoes rain down on his head.  If you believe the arc bends toward justice, this is good news.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/emails-tie-trump-exec-allen-weisselberg-to-inaugural-scandal-racine/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  David Corn:  <em>Emails Tie Top Trump Exec Allen Weisselberg to Yet Another Trump Financial Scandal</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Allen Weisselberg is in the hot seat—and that’s bad news for Donald Trump and his family. Assorted news reports have identified Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, as a key figure in the criminal and civil investigations of the Trump business being conducted by the New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney, who recently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-investigation-grand-jury/2021/05/25/5f47911c-bcca-11eb-83e3-0ca705a96ba4_story.html">empaneled</a> a grand jury to review evidence against the Trump company, its executives, and possibly Trump. Moreover, the <em>New York Times</em> recently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/nyregion/trumo-ny-ag-taxes.html" title="">reported</a> that Weisselberg himself is being criminally investigated for possible tax fraud, raising the prospect that investigators are looking to flip the longtime Trump executive into a cooperating witness. Now there’s more trouble for Weisselberg and Trump World. Previously unreported emails attached to a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20791811-opptotrumporgmtd" title="">little-noticed court document</a> filed last year show that Weisselberg is tied to another Trump financial scandal: the Trump inauguration case, which is currently being investigated by the attorney general of Washington, DC.</p> <p>In 2020,  Karl Racine, the AG in the nation’s capital, filed a <a href="https://oag.dc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-01/Trump-PIC-Complaint.pdf" title="">lawsuit</a>  against Trump’s inauguration committee and the Trump Organization, asserting that the inauguration committee, a nonprofit corporation, misused charitable funds to enrich the Trump family. The complaint, as the attorney general <a href="https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-racine-sues-presidential-inaugural-committee">put it</a> in a statement, accuses the Presidential Inauguration Committee (known as the PIC) of coordinating “with the Trump family to grossly overpay for event space in the Trump International Hotel.” The lawsuit notes that the PIC struck a contract with the Trump Hotel for $1.03 million, an amount that was allegedly <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20691048-dc-vs-trump-inaugural-committee-statement-of-undisputed-facts">far above</a> the hotel’s own pricing guidelines. (At the time, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a top producer for the PIC, raised concerns with the president-elect, Ivanka Trump, and others about the prices the Trump Hotel was charging the inauguration committee for events to be held there. But according to Racine, the PIC still paid the Trump Hotel inflated fees.)</p> <p>Racine also alleges that the PIC improperly used nonprofit funds to host a private party at the Trump Hotel for the Trump family that cost several hundred thousand dollars. The attorney general has essentially maintained that the Trump crew and its company exploited the 2017 presidential inauguration to engage in significant grifting. and he is looking to recoup the money the PIC paid to the Trump Hotel so these funds can be directed to real charitable purposes. (Federal prosecutors have also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/20/politics/trump-inaugural-prosecutors-new-york/index.html" title="">examined</a> the committee’s financing. It is not clear if their inquiry has concluded.)</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>There Is a Hard Landing on the Way in Rudy’s Future</strong></p> <p>One of the last barriers to squishing Giuliani like a grape in a legal press has been removed.  He’s sure to whine about it.  But, vintage 2021 is turning out to be a very bad year for Rudy’s sour grapes schtick.</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/28/court-special-master-giuliani-materials-491321" target="_blank" title="">Politico:  <em>Court to name special master to examine materials seized from Giuliani</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>A federal judge has denied a request from President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani for the return of a trove of digital information the FBI seized in a raid on his Manhattan home and office last month as part of an investigation into potential violations of laws on lobbying for foreign entities.</p> <p>However, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Oetken said in <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20792627-giulianisearchrlg052821" target="_blank">a written order Friday</a> he will appoint an outside lawyer as a so-called special master to oversee the process of making sure investigators don’t get access to attorney-client privileged materials they are not entitled to.</p> <p>“The Court agrees that the appointment of a special master is warranted here to ensure the perception of fairness,” Oetken wrote.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>It’s Just So Hard for Bigoted Asses to Run a Business These Days</strong></p> <p>I feel so sorry for this poor business owner.  How can a small businesses succeed if bigotry by its owner isn’t encouraged.  Asking people to curb their instincts to be offensive, boorish and crass is not something unfettered capitalism supports.  Taking a moral stand goes against everything the republican party stands for.  We have to draw a line.</p> <p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/nashville-hatwrks-not-vaccinated-star-david-patches.html" target="_blank" title="">Slate:  <em>Brands Cut Ties With Nashville Store Selling “Not Vaccinated” Star of David Patches</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The owner of a hat store in Nashville has apologized after sparking an uproar over selling <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/29/us/demonstrators-nashville-hat-store-not-vaccinated-badges/index.html" title="">patches of the yellow Star of David</a> that read “not vaccinated.” The store, hatWRKS, at first defended the patches, which it had announced <a href="https://twitter.com/RMTiede/status/1398420988061179910">were for sale at $5 each</a>. After protesters gathered outside hatWRKS and brands cut ties with the store, it took down the post advertising the patches, which had an eerie resemblance to the badges that Jewish people were forced to wear under the Nazis. The post, which included an image of store owner Gigi Gaskins wearing the patch, had promised that “we’ll be offering trucker caps soon.”</p> <p>The apology was not immediate. When the initial post announcing the sale of patches was taken down, hatWRKS put up another post that questioned why there was so much outrage over the patch and not about what was going on in the world. “People are so outraged by my post? but are you outraged with the tyranny the world is experiencing? if you don’t understand what is happening, that is on you, not me,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPbbGlchCX4/" title="">reads the post</a>. The store doubled down on the defense, writing another post justifying the patches saying that those who aren’t vaccinated are victims. “At the least, all unvaccinated people will be segregated from society, marked & must wear a mask,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPcM8mdhug7/" title="">reads the Instagram post that is still up</a>. “What comes next?”</p> <p>A group of demonstrators gathered <a href="https://fox17.com/news/local/brands-start-dropping-hatwrks-after-controversy-store-posts-apology-to-instagram">outside the store Saturday</a> with signs that read, “No Nazis in Nashville” and “Nashville condemns hatWRKS.” The store later posted an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPeee3MBk5T/" title="">apology message</a> on Instagram but that didn’t stop several hat brands from announcing they had cut ties with hatWRKS, including Stetson. “As a result of the offensive content and opinions shared by HatWRKS in Nashville, Stetson and our distribution partners will cease the sale of all Stetson products,” <a href="https://twitter.com/StetsonUSA/status/1398772331619643392" title="">Stetson said on Twitter</a>. Other brands, including <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tulahats/posts/10165428367055154" title="">Tula Hats</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPeUWAHLPrU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" title="">Kangol Headwear</a>, also said they were no longer going to sell their products to hatWRKS. “We feel strongly that we were right to give Gigi Gaskins at hatWRKS Nashville the chance to change,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPeUWAHLPrU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" title="">wrote Kangol Headwear on Instagram</a>. “We did that. However, her further posts indicate to us that she is not sincere in her apology, nor has she removed offensive posts from her feed.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Crack in the Facade</strong></p> <p>Overheard, plaintively repeated, from a locked bathroom, protected by the Secret Service, somewhere in the bowels of Merde a Lie Home, “You too, Fox News?<sup>*</sup>”</p> <p><sup>*</sup>No way the Great Orange Putz could mangle the actual Latin quote.  He thinks Julius Caesar is a salad with orange juice and Parmesan cheese.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/juan-williams-republican-extremism_n_60b4e609e4b0ead2796b4a04" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  <em>Juan Williams: ‘Extremism Among Republicans Is Paralyzing Congress’</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/juan-williams" target="_blank" title="">Juan Williams</a>, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/fox-news" target="_blank" title="">Fox News</a>’ left-leaning political analyst who departed “The Five” talk panel last week, took another defiant step away from his network’s right-wing attitude.</p> </div> <div> <p>In a Memorial Day essay <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/556121-juan-williams-gop-extremism-is-poisoning-the-nation?rl=1" target="_blank" title="">for The Hill</a> titled “GOP Extremism Is Poisoning The Nation,” Williams blamed <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" title="">Republicans</a> for fueling the nation’s divisiveness and halting progress in Congress.</p> </div> <div> <div> <p>While recent hate attacks and mass shootings reflect the country’s deep divisions, the many Republicans still believing <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" title="">Donald Trump</a>’s “big lie” that the election was stolen exacerbate the tension, according to Williams.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>“How can so many Republicans still believe the ‘Big Lie,’ almost five months after President Biden was inaugurated following Congress certifying Biden’s national victory by 74 electoral college votes and more than seven million popular votes?” he wrote. “And why do 57 percent of Republicans think of Democrats, their fellow Americans, as their ‘enemies,’ according to a February CBS/YouGov poll?”</p> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>You Just Can’t Make Stuff This Up</strong></p> <p>Lindsey Graham, in a bid to bond with another political boat anchor, is sucking up to Netanyahu.  His fetish for attaching himself to stronger personalities has turned him into a caricature of the cartoon he’s always been.  Benny the Gonif is about to be forced into court for corruption, so Lindsey needed to get in one more opportunity to kiss some disgraced ass.</p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/556213-graham-meets-with-netanyahu-in-jerusalem" target="_blank" title="">The Hill:  <em>Graham meets with Netanyahu in Jerusalem</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Israeli Prime Minister <span><a href="https://thehill.com/people/benjamin-bibi-netanyahu" title="">Benjamin Netanyahu</a></span> and Sen. <span><a href="https://thehill.com/people/lindsey-graham" title="">Lindsey Graham</a></span> (R-S.C.) traded praise Monday during a meeting in Jerusalem to discuss the current violence between Israel and Hamas.</p> <p>Netanyahu hailed the Republican South Carolina senator, thanking him for his support during a press conference, where the two stood side-by-side.</p> <p>"No one has done more for Israel than you, Senator Lindsey Graham, stalwart champion of our alliance and we have no better friend," Netanyahu told Graham.</p> <p>He went on to thank Graham for the work he's done on Israeli defense, security and Iran.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p><strong>Traveling into the Future</strong></p> <p>I hope this really takes off.  Ok, now that I have that out of the way, green(ish) air travel is something I’ve been pining for.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/airships-for-city-hops-could-cut-flyings-co2-emissions-by-90" target="_blank" title="">The Guardian:  <em>Airships for city hops could cut flying’s CO2 emissions by 90%</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>For those fancying a trip from Liverpool to Belfast or Barcelona to the Balearic Islands but concerned about the carbon footprint of aeroplane travel, a small Bedford-based company is promising a surprising solution: commercial airships.</p> <p><a href="https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/" title="">Hybrid Air Vehicles</a> (HAV), which has developed a new environmentally friendly airship 84 years after the Hindenburg disaster, on Wednesday named a string of routes it hoped to serve from 2025.</p> <p>The routes for the 100-passenger Airlander 10 airship include Barcelona to Palma de Mallorca in four and a half hours. The company said the journey by airship would take roughly the same time as aeroplane travel once getting to and from the airport was taken into account, but would generate a much smaller carbon footprint. HAV said the CO2 footprint per passenger on its airship would be about 4.5kg, compared with about 53kg via jet plane.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Alas Poor Eric, He Was Not Just a Coffee Boy</strong></p> <p>Here’s your Borowitz fix.  Hello Mr. Bus.  I’d like to introduce you to this person I barely know, named Eric.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/as-grand-jury-convenes-trump-changes-name-of-his-company-to-eric-trump-organization" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  Satire from the Borowitz Report:  <em>As Grand Jury Convenes, Trump Changes Name of His Company to Eric Trump Organization</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>NEW YORK (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—After news broke that the Manhattan District Attorney was convening a grand jury, Donald J. Trump changed the name of his company to the Eric Trump Organization.</p> <p>The former President made the announcement in a press conference at his signature Manhattan building, the newly renamed Eric Trump Tower.</p> <p>“Changing the name of the company is no big deal,” he said. “It’s going to be the same company that it’s always been—with Eric Trump running the show and me just following his orders.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Anchovies, They Aren’t Just for Pizza</strong></p> <p>Thirty-some years ago, when I lived in Spain, I was introduced to several different ways to prepare anchovies.  Maybe now we’ll start to see high quality anchovies become more available in the US.  I’ve missed them.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dr-shakuntala-thilset-wins-world-food-prize-for-work-with-sardines-and-anchovies/" target="_blank" title="">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>Why This World Food Prize Winner Wants You To Reconsider Anchovies</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Anchovies and sardines are, as it turns out straight superfoods—especially for kids.</p> <p>Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted was recently awarded the 2021 World Food Prize—described as the Nobel Prize for food and agriculture—for her work integrating small fish into developing nations diets: primarily she focused on this because of the incredible nutrient density of small fish, and the imperative role it plays in brain development in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, as well as in pregnant and nursing mothers.</p> <p>Anchovies, sardines, and in fact many small fish species are rich in the unsaturated fats omega 3 and 6 also known as EPA and DHA, which are <a href="https://www.worldatlarge.news/function-health/2019/8/13/why-do-we-take-fish-oil-supplements-and-could-there-be-something-better" title="">critical for brain health. </a>Since sardines only eat plankton, they also contain only very low levels of mercury.</p> <p>There’s also evidence they help prevent aging, and <a href="https://www.worldatlarge.news/function-health/sardines-protect-against-diabetes-in-spanish-trial" target="_blank" title="">can reduce inflammation</a> in a variety of organs. They also contain vitamin B12, a nutrient <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015033/#:~:text=Vitamin%20B%2D12%20is%20essential,outcomes%2C%20including%20impaired%20cognitive%20development." target="_blank">found most often in meat</a> and particularly seafood, but that’s almost absent in all other food groups.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Something to Ponder, Instead of Politics</strong></p> <p>Let’s end the news section on a way out there note.  Science or science fiction.  Who knows?  Maybe this is how the Kardashians got here.</p> <p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wormhole-tunnels-in-spacetime-may-be-possible-new-research-suggests/" target="_blank" title="">Scientific American:  <em>Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>In the early days of research on black holes, before they even had that name, physicists did not yet know if these bizarre objects existed in the real world. They might have been a quirk of the complicated math used in the then still young general theory of relativity, which describes gravity. Over the years, though, evidence has accumulated that black holes are very real <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/black-hole-scientists-win-nobel-prize-in-physics1/" title="">and even exist right here in our galaxy</a>.</p> <p>Today another strange prediction from general relativity—wormholes, those fantastical sounding tunnels to the other side of the universe—hang in the same sort of balance. Are they real? And if they are out there in our cosmos, could humans hope to use them for getting around? After their prediction in 1935, research seemed to point toward no—wormholes appeared unlikely to be an element of reality. But new work offers hints of how they could arise, and the process may be easier than physicists have long thought.</p> <p>The <a href="https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73" target="_blank">original idea of a wormhole</a> came from physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. They studied the strange equations that we now know describe that unescapable pocket of space we call a black hole and asked what they really represented. Einstein and Rosen discovered that, theoretically at least, a black hole’s surface might work as a bridge that connected to a second patch of space. The journey might be as if you went down the drain of your bathtub, and instead of getting stuck in the pipes, you came out into another tub just like the first.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <p>Recorded in celebration of Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday (May 24th)</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=bmPFlF4Tojs" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bmPFlF4Tojs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <div> <div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <div> <div> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev!</p> <p>>>>>>After his call for the <u>armed overthrow of the American government</u> , Michael “Arrest this Man” Flynn has been suspended from Twitter. Now this is a good thing, and shows corporations can be nimble (although it took Twitter 4 endless years to suspend the Mango Menace; maybe they are (oh so slowly) learning?)  And yes, I know “the wheels of justice turn slowly” and “prosecutors want to make a case as airtight as possible” etc. BUT….DAMN IT…...lead this guy away in cuffs! And do it in front of his howling supporters…...and arrest every last one of them in the hall as CO-Conspirators. Put them in a “border crossing detention facility” in dog cages on concrete……..downwind from a cattle feed lot in Greeley, Colorado. Let them be treated according to the ICE Handbook for Compassionate Detention (Stephen “Forehead” Miller autographed edition) down to the last comma of “procedure.” Let them wait THERE while “the wheels of justice turn slowly” and “prosecutors make a case as airtight as possible.” And let there be tours…...and tickets sold…...for people to come and look, and point, and tell there children “this is what a traitor looks like. You don’t want to be like them, do you?” I am SOOOOOOooooooooo tired of waiting for justice to be done……</p> <p>Needed to get that off my chest…..</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>June 1sts that have been scented with sunscreen and the happy, Good and Goofy sounds of school children counting down the last, LAST days of school before summer vacation, as they take in the Good and Goofy moments of history class before lacing on their Red Ball Jets sneakers for phys. ed. class in the gymnasium that is also the lunchroom.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>         1495 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Edinboro, Scotland   The Exchequer Rolls (Treasury Department) of Scotland note on this date a written entry for <strong>Friar (monk) John Cor</strong>, who made a payment to the Treasury (likely a tax of some kind). The good Brother was a distiller, and this is the <strong>first record of Scotch Whiskey</strong>. </span></span></p> <p><strong>       1804    </strong>Novosspaskoye, Russia <em>(Now THERE is the name of a town to be from!)</em>  Birth of <strong>Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka</strong>, composer. Born into a wealthy family (with some roots in nobility) Glinka was something of a sickly child (and his health was a life-long issue). Nonetheless he received a private education and an interest in music. His father wanted him to join the Foreign Ministry and while he landed in a different governmental agency, he was able to travel to Italy for a few years. Received music instruction for a string of personal teachers and began composing in his 20s. Noted for some grand operas (establishing the form in Russia) and considered the father of Russian classical music. Firmly an exponent of the Romantic period, his use of dissonances paved the way for certain themes of Modernism. Some of his songs have been used as the Russian or Soviet national anthems (with rather different lyrics, depending….)</p> <p><span><span>         <strong> 1836</strong>    New York City   <strong>John Jacob Astor</strong> has made it big in the fur trade. Now he turns to a classic wealthy pursuit: real estate. On this day the doors of the luxurious <strong>Astor House hotel</strong> open to the public. Astor is new to the trade but he knows what he likes: the Astor is a near copy, but on a grander scale, of the earlier, fashionable <u>Tremont House in Boston</u>. In fact, Astor hired Tremont <u>designer Isaiah Rogers</u> to create the Astor. <em>(In the next year the Panic of 1837 would be bad for the hotel business and Astor used the collapse in prices to buy up whole blocks of adjoining properties. Starting about 1839 he began selling these to new buyers, often for 10 or 15 times what he had paid for them during the Panic. One buyer also went into the upscale hotel trade, <u>Henry Waldorf</u>. Several years later the two outfits merged, becoming the famous <u>Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.)</u></em></span></span></p> <p><strong>          1862</strong>   Virginia Peninsula. On May 31, Confederate Army Commander <u>General Joseph Johnston</u> was wounded in the throat at the Battle of Seven Pines. After learning Johnston would eventually recover, <u>Confederate President Jefferson Davis</u> decides to appoint his personal military advisor as general of the army. On this day <strong>Robert E. Lee takes command</strong>, renames his force the Army of <em><u>Northern</u></em> Virginia and sets to work to relocate the war from the outskirts of Richmond to the outskirts of Washington. He succeeds, and the War will now be long.</p> <p> <strong>          1880</strong>   New Haven, CT   You know, it’s only been 4 years since <u>Alexander Graham Bell</u> got his patent for the telephone. He set up a company that he named after himself to promote it and to make some money.  On this day Bell goes for the cash in a very direct way: the <strong>first pay telephone service</strong> in the United States is installed in a local hotel. <em>(It would be a few more years until lines would be installed all the way to New York City, so that call to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel would have to wait a bit longer.)</em></p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>           1889</span></span></strong><span><span>   Paris   At the east-side train station (<em>Le Gare de L’Est</em>; Paris had/ has several) on this day, a luxurious string of train cars pulls out, the <strong>first non-stop train to Istanbul</strong>. <em>(The train's eastern terminus became Varna in Bulgaria, where passengers could take a ship to Constantinople.</em></span></span><em>) </em>Like great trains in those years it carried a name, the <strong>first run of the famous “Orient Express.”</strong> <em>(Paging Agatha Christie and many a writer of European luxury, charm and intrigue.)</em></span></span></p> <p><strong>              1908</strong>   Portland, Maine   Covid-19 changed a lot of habits for a lot of people. One of the upsides has been that a LOT more people are walking, to get fit, stay fit, lose weight, and otherwise get out of the same four walls and maybe mingle at a social distance. (And the masks had a nice side effect of keeping your cheeks warm during the winter.) But 113 years ago…..well, there’s walking…..and then there’s walking. 35-year-old <strong>John Krohn</strong> sets out this morning to win a bet (for $1000! 2021 value: $29,000) with his Portland neighbors. He walks past a few houses, waves to the neighbors, and keeps pushing his wheelbarrow down the sidewalk, across the streets, and out into the country. The bet is that he can <strong>walk around the perimeter of the United States</strong> in less than 400 days. <strong>He did it in 357</strong>. He also dressed in Colonial garb (breeches, knee socks, tri-corner hat) and called himself “Colonial Jack.” (Instead of backpacking he used the wheelbarrow for his belongings.)  Full, funny article <a href="https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/colonial-jacks-9024-mile-walk-around-america/" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p> <p><strong>            1916</strong>  Washington DC  Following nomination by <u>President Woodrow Wilson</u> and confirmation by the US Senate, on this day <strong>Louis Brandeis</strong> is sworn in as an associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. He breaks ground: Brandies is <strong>the first Jewish member</strong> of the High Court.</p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>           1944  </span></span></strong><span><span>    London   Every day as part of the news broadcasts, the <strong>British Broadcasting Corp</strong>. delivers a set of “personal messages.” These are understood to be code to various Resistance groups but after 4 years of war, the disguises and cover stories are pretty good and the Germans are in the dark. On this day the <strong>BBC</strong> broadcast a line of poetry by the 19th century French poet <u>Paul Verlaine</u>: <em><u>"The long sobs of the violins of autumn."</u></em></span></span> Across Occupied France a flurry of plans go into action. The decoded meaning was, “Invasion imminent.” <em>(And D-Day came June 6…..accompanied by the broadcast line: “John has a long moustache.”)</em> </span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>              1974</span></span></strong><span><span>   Across medical waiting rooms. If you were waiting to see the doctor this day, listening to Muzak versions of disco, you might have idly picked up a magazine or two. If you’d picked up the new issue of <em>Emergency Medicine, </em>you would have been among the first to read about Dr. Heimlich’s <u>“anybody can learn to do this easily/ one weird trick to save someone’s life”:</u> stand behind a choking victim, make fist and put it under the rib cage in front, cover with your other hand, and jerk suddenly. <strong>The Heimlich Maneuver</strong> goes public today. <em>(You’re welcome……and chew your food better…..)</em></span></span></span></span></p> <p>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</p> <p>Shalom.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=SEoxj45Kc_4" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SEoxj45Kc_4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div 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the best compliment she could muster about him. <a href="https://t.co/0OIuDt0069">https://t.co/0OIuDt0069</a></p>— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1395395338236796928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;More people were killed in the capitol riot than were killed in Benghazi. I’m sure all of the Republicans who voted against investigating it will have to testify for 11 hours about this.&lt;/p&gt;— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1395383744526266369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 20, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>More people were killed in the capitol riot than were killed in Benghazi. I’m sure all of the Republicans who voted against investigating it will have to testify for 11 hours about this.</p>— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1395383744526266369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="ForYouMark55.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/948949/large/ForYouMark55.png?1621628683" title="ForYouMark55.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="HerdStupidityMark511.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/948941/large/HerdStupidityMark511.jpg?1621627939" title="HerdStupidityMark511.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. — Gaylord Nelson (US Senator from Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day)</p> <p>Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. — Martin Luther King, Jr.</p> <p>You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. — John Wooden</p> <p>The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. — Albert Einstein</p> <p>This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="210530_Pressley_029.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/952563/large/210530_Pressley_029.jpg?1622538422" title="210530_Pressley_029.jpg"> <figcaption>If you are going to wake me up like this, there damn well better be treats involved.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Pressley’s Picks</h2> <p>In this section I present some relief from the constant news about the ankle-biters in red hats.  NNNE told me I had to cut down on the politics, so I’m not going to make comments about how just how badly republicans need to be spayed, neutered and muzzled.</p> <p>My cousin is just too cool for words (h/t BeeD).</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=1iHjx9MD2Hc" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1iHjx9MD2Hc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I’ve been telling NNNE, they were just odd dogs for years now.  Maybe now he’ll let me play with them.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=XdvUxdPe-A0" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XdvUxdPe-A0" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Whoever said cats are subtle, wasn’t paying attention.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;I&amp;#39;ve decided to subtitle pictures of my cat so people know what he&amp;#39;s thinking. &amp;nbsp;🤣🤣🤣 &lt;a href="https://t.co/1vElT2RUrv"&gt;pic.twitter.com/1vElT2RUrv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Dave (@SpotTheLoon2010) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SpotTheLoon2010/status/1397415245455392770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 26, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I've decided to subtitle pictures of my cat so people know what he's thinking.  🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/1vElT2RUrv">pic.twitter.com/1vElT2RUrv</a></p>— Dave (@SpotTheLoon2010) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpotTheLoon2010/status/1397415245455392770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Would you believe it if I told you I woke up at 6:30AM and got all this put together by the time it went live at 7AM?  Neither would I.  But if you know someone susceptible to that kind of bushwah, chances are they’ve been targeted for brainwashing by republican operatives.  Deep canvassing can help deprogram some of your village idiots.  Please support any deep canvassing efforts in your community.</p> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  Your country needs you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/31/2033025/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-DAY131-Evening-Shade-Sunday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---DAY131---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Sunday</span></a></p> <p>Today, we’ll close with a Scarlet Begonias from 1974, performed at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.  Aside from being a very tasty rendition, this is also notable for the scat singing, by Donna, during the instrumental bridge.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=3QlxSBquv5s" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3QlxSBquv5s" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are singularities that suck the truth out of their surroundings.</em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) anchovies Blimps Borowitz ClimateCrisis davidkorn giuliani GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead hatWRKS InaugurationScandal JuanWilliams LindseyGraham MainStreamMedia PlayingforChange Politics Poll Pressley Recommended Roundup SamanthaBee Weisselberg wormholes _2031535 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:59:42 +0000 Don't Let Them Defend Their Delusions - Good News Roundup for Bluesday, May, 18th https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/5/18/2030874/-Don-t-Let-Them-Defend-Their-Delusions-Good-News-Roundup-for-Bluesday-May-18th <p><strong>Death, Donald and Deliberate Dumbfuckery</strong>:  Whether you class them as deplorable, despicable, demented or downright depraved, one thing is clear:  they deserve all the disgust and disdain you can deliver.  They’ve done a disservice to democracy and democratic norms by debasing honest debate,  Their constant denial of science does damage to our civilization, directing us on a descending path toward deep disorder.  They don’t allow dissent and disavow diversity.  Theirs is a recipe for disaster.  Deifying an incompetent dumbass destabilized the entire planet.  Death and destruction follows wherever they manage to delude enough citizens.<strong><sup>*</sup></strong></p> <p>And the question is why does this happen?</p> <p>I’ll tell you.  The media acts like a megaphone for any crackpot conspiracy theory or unhinged opinion.  Keeping their viewership in a constant state of panic has become the goal of our media conglomerates.  They are more concerned about page views and click-throughs than about actual reporting of news.  Everything is not a crisis.  A bald-faced lied endlessly repeated (R) is not the same as an “oops, we got that wrong” (D).  The media have, for the most part, become lazy.  They allow issues to be framed and distorted by propagandists without doing any of the actual research a real group of journalist would do.  How many hours were spent talking about Potato Heads instead of uncovering and publicizing the mountain of criminal acts committed by the death cult of deadend defenders of the Former Guy?</p> <p>If you listen to the current crop of complaints from the wrong wing about Joe Biden, you’ll note they are so astonishingly vapid as to make their traditional icon of stupidity, Sarah Palin, look well-informed.  Or, their symbol of cray-cray escaped from the institution, Michelle Bachman, look sane(ish).  Former Guy didn’t need to sleep?  And that’s why Joe isn’t doing a good job?  C’mon man, give me a break.</p> <p>The best way to shut up republican talking points is to ask why they worked so hard to kill more than half a million American citizens.  They have no answer — because there is no answer.</p> <p>There is only one denial I support for republican miscreants — denial of bail.</p> <p><strong><sup>*</sup></strong>This part of the introduction was brought to you by the Electric Company and the letter ‘D’.</p> <p><strong>A Stray Thought Before Moving On</strong>:  Republicans are working hard to embrace new (at least for them) technologies.  It has been incredibly difficult for them because they’ve made denial of science a core principle of their philosophy.  That’s probably why they are having so much trouble with the concept of “live streaming.”  Based on who they’ve chosen to feature, In the most recent rollout of their streaming platform they are exclusively engaged in live urine streaming — they are pissing on the constitution, civil rights, decency, honesty, integrity, mom and apple pie.  Do you think they are preparing us for the eventual release of the pee-pee tapes by making us accustomed to everything they touch reeking of urine?</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter">(we are still resisting the ongoing effects of the Former Guy and his meddlesome minions)</p> <p>Tee hee hee. Chuckle. Chortle.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=5vfcEaBAdbc" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5vfcEaBAdbc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Michelle Obama and Stephen Colbert play trash can hoops.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=2avl_XsJzrk" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2avl_XsJzrk" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Ok, now let’s look at the news.</p> <p><strong>Regarding the Fraudit in Arizona</strong></p> <p>The fissure in the foundation of the GOP widens. </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maricopa-county-election-officials-denounce-grift-disguised-as-an-audit" target="_blank">DailyBeast: <em> Maricopa County Election Officials Denounce ‘Grift Disguised as an Audit’</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The GOP-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors blasted <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizonas-cyber-ninjas-usher-in-new-era-of-insane-ballot-attacks">the controversial recount of the county’s 2020 presidential election results</a>, calling for <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2021/05/17/maricopa-county-supervisors-plan-refute-election-auditors-claims/5121465001/">the Republican-led state Senate to end the “grift disguised as an audit” on Monday night.</a> The five-member board, which is composed of four Republicans, said the audit that has been cheered on by former President Donald Trump is a “spectacle that is harming all of us.”</p> <p>“It is time to make a choice to defend the Constitution and the Republic,” the board <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maricopa-county-2020-audit/2021/05/17/28292932-b74a-11eb-a6b1-81296da0339b_story.html">wrote in a lengthy letter to Senate President Karen Fann</a>. “We stand united together to defend the Constitution and the Republic in our opposition to the Big Lie. We ask everyone to join us in standing for the truth.”</p> <p>Also signing the letter was Republican County Recorder Stephen Richer, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-in-charge-of-arizona-recount-calls-trump-unhinged">who called Trump “unhinged”</a> for falsely claiming that the county’s election database had been deleted. The board further laid into private contracting firm Cyber Ninjas, whose CEO has parroted Trump’s lies that the election was stolen. “They don’t know what they’re doing,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers said of Cyber Ninjas’ claim that files were missing. “And we wouldn’t be asked to do this on-the-job training if qualified auditors had been hired to do this work.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>On the World Stage</strong></p> <p>It’s nice to get back to doing good in the world.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/17/politics/vaccines-global-sharing-biden-administration/index.html" target="_blank">CNN:  <em>Biden announces US will share more vaccines globally: 'Our nation is going to be the arsenal of vaccines'</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)President Joe Biden said Monday his administration would share millions more doses of Covid-19 vaccines with other countries in addition to the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/26/politics/astrazeneca-vaccines-us-share/index.html" target="_blank">60 million doses</a> of the AstraZeneca vaccine <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/06/politics/vaccine-diplomacy-joe-biden-administration/index.html" target="_blank">he has already committed to sharing</a> by July 4.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>Biden said the US would share at least 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of next month, totaling 80 million doses that are set to be sent abroad. Those additional 20 million doses will consist of Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines as well as AstraZeneca, which has to be approved by federal regulators before being shipped overseas. That effort is underway.</div> <div></div> <div>"We need to help fight the disease around the world to keep us safe here at home and to do the right thing helping other people. It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the strong thing to do," Biden said in remarks delivered at the White House.</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <p><strong>Three Cheers for All Us Little Guys</strong></p> <p>Do the big technology companies frustrate your inner McGuyver when they hold you hostage to their expensive “it’s a sealed box” approach to fixing those devices that fail 2 days after the warranty expires? </p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/ftc-report-tech-right-repair-iphone-ifixit/" target="_blank">Mother Jones:  <em>Big Tech Doesn’t Want You Fixing Your Gadgets. This Federal Agency Is Calling BS.</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>For the past several years, as state legislators across the country have held hearings to consider “right-to-repair” bills that would make it easier for consumers to <a href="https://grist.org/article/could-letting-consumers-fix-their-own-iphones-help-save-the-planet/">fix their electronic devices</a>, lobbyists representing manufacturers have shown up to repeat the <a href="http://technet.org/state-policy/privacy-security">same arguments</a> over and over: Letting people fix their own stuff is too dangerous. It creates cybersecurity risks. It infringes on intellectual property. It <a href="https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2021R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/9098">won’t help</a> reduce electronic waste.</p> <p>But while it remains to be seen whether these arguments will win over any of the dozen state legislatures currently considering a right-to-repair bill, one authoritative body isn’t buying them at all: the Federal Trade Commission.</p> <p>Last week, the FTC <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/05/ftc-report-congress-examines-anti-competitive-repair-restrictions">released</a> a long-anticipated <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/nixing-fix-ftc-report-congress-repair-restrictions/nixing_the_fix_report_final_5521_630pm-508_002.pdf">report to Congress examining the repair restrictions facing consumers</a>, along with a summary of arguments for and against those restrictions. Its conclusion was stark: There’s “scant evidence” to support manufacturers’ justifications for restricting repair, while the solutions repair advocates have proposed are “well supported” by their testimonials. Advocates say that compelling companies like <a href="https://grist.org/technology/apple-finally-admits-its-products-are-difficult-to-repair/">Apple</a> and <a href="https://grist.org/politics/tesla-want-to-fix-your-own-massachusetts-just-made-it-easier/">Tesla</a> to release parts, manuals, and diagnostic information needed for repair will make fixing broken devices faster and more affordable. Ultimately, this will encourage us to maintain our stuff instead of replacing it, resulting in less environmental harm and electronic waste.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>This Loser Is Losing, Bigly</strong></p> <p>It couldn’t happen to a more deserving weasel.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/05/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-plea-deal" target="_blank">Vanity Fair:  <em>Report: Matt Gaetz Should Be Weeping, Rocking Back and Forth in Fetal Position Right Now</em></a></p> <p>The background (from WaPo):</p> <blockquote> <p>A Florida politician considered key to the investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz formally pleaded guilty Monday to sex trafficking of a minor and a host of other crimes, agreeing to cooperate fully with prosecutors and testify in court in hopes of leniency for himself. Appearing in court Monday, <strong>Joel Greenberg</strong>, a former tax collector for Seminole County, Fla., repeatedly said, “I do” or “yes” in response to questions from magistrate judge <strong>Leslie Hoffman</strong>, affirming what he had already admitted in a written plea agreement made public last week. Wearing navy blue jailhouse clothes and a mask, he appeared pale and splotchy, and turned around several times to look back at the small crowd who had come to watch the hearing. His plea and deal to cooperate is a potentially ominous sign for Gaetz (R-Fla.), as it signals prosecutors have lined up a critical witness while they continue to investigate the congressman. Gaetz has vigorously denied wrongdoing.</p> </blockquote> <p>The implications:</p> <blockquote> <p>Now, we‘re no lawyers, but it certainly seems as though one would have to bring something big—like, say, evidence a member of Congress committed a host of crimes—to get prosecutors to whittle one’s charges down from 33 to just 6. According to the <em>Post,</em> the government also agreed to recommend other potential sentencing breaks, wherein a judge could choose to ignore the minimum required sentence, and Greenberg could get less than 12 years. That is, if he is determined to have provided “substantial assistance.”</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Joel Greenberg got 33 charges reduced down to 6 and his plea deal mentions a "downward adjustment" at the time of sentencing. Translation: he&amp;#39;s snitching on everyone and Matt Gaetz is royally fucked.&lt;/p&gt;— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1393317776299859972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 14, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Joel Greenberg got 33 charges reduced down to 6 and his plea deal mentions a "downward adjustment" at the time of sentencing. Translation: he's snitching on everyone and Matt Gaetz is royally fucked.</p>— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) <a href="https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1393317776299859972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>While the plea agreement did not identify Gaetz by name, it laid out how Greenberg paid women for sex not just with him but unnamed “others.” According to <em>The Washington Post,</em> Gaetz <a>repeatedly boasted</a> of the “access to women that Joel provided him.” And as <em>The New York Times</em> <a>reported</a> back in March, the Department of Justice only began to look into allegations that Gaetz had compensated women for sex and slept with a minor, who he also allegedly transported across state lines, as it was investigating Greenberg, whom Gaetz met in 2017. At that point, the duo proceeded to allegedly commit a bunch of <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-confession" target="_blank">sex crimes</a> together, for which they seemingly left a digital paper trail <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-venmo" target="_blank">on Venmo</a> and <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/matt-gaetz-doj-investigation-nude-photos" target="_blank">other online payment platforms</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Remember This Other Loser</strong></p> <p>Among the various wackadoodle nutjobs the Former Guy relied to to spread his messages of discord and disunion, no one name stands out — they were all odious dishonest hucksters of the lowest order.  However, Lin Wood was certainly firmly ensconced in the upper echelon of grade F batshitiness.  Things haven’t been going to well for Mr. Lin “Rotten” Wood recently.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/lin-wood-understands-his-election-loss-is-all-part-of-trumps-mysterious-4d-chess-plan" target="_blank">Wonkette:  <em>Lin Wood Pretty Sure Election He Personally Lost Part Of Trump's Mysterious 4D Chess Plan</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>This weekend, attorney Lin Wood lost his bid to head up South Carolina's Republican party to incumbent Drew McKissick, who will now be serving his third term as the party's chair. Adding some salt to the wound was the fact that Wood's hero and the man he basically torched his life for, Donald Trump, actually endorsed McKissick on three separate occasions.</p> <p><em>Or so you would think</em>.</p> <p>But in a post on Telegram, Wood — who previously <a href="https://www.kabc.com/news/trump-endorsed-sc-gop-chairman-3-times-over-lin-wood/" target="_blank">questioned the veracity of reports</a> that Trump had endorsed McKissick — explained that he understands that Trump, in his great genius, knows exactly what he is doing here and accepts that this is all part of his plan.</p> <p>        President Trump is a genius. He plays chess at a level we will never fully understand.</p> <p>        I was honored by his description of me as a "strong and talented" opponent. Upon further reflection, I understand his endorsement of my opponent, Drew McKissick.</p> <p>        My faith in President Trump has never wavered. He is doing God's will for our country.</p> <p>        I support President Trump 100%.</p> <p>        P.S. The SCGOP is a swamp. In time, the RINOS will be defeated. Watch it happen.</p> <p>Oh, for sure. It all makes sense now. His loss was all part of Trump's plan and had nothing to do with the fact that he was going around saying crazy shit like that Trump is still president, and that if the military has to nuke someone, he's the one they'll go to for the nuclear codes:  </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Winning Hearts and Minds the Republican Way</strong></p> <p>Republicans are really good at running through pastures without forgetting to step on a single cow pie.  It’s their superpower.  None of these governors is doing their constituents any favors.  None of this type of action does anything to grow their support.  As long as they keep moving to shrink their base, they will continue to move the Overton Window further to the left.</p> <p><a href="https://slate.com/business/2021/05/republicans-states-unemployment-insurance-labor-vaccines-schools.html" target="_blank">Slate:  <em>The GOP Governors Kicking People Off Unemployment Are Doing a Crap Job Vaccinating Their States</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Republican governors have collectively decided it’s time for their residents to return to work—whether they’re ready or not. So far, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unemployment-benefits-2-million-lose-federal-enhanced/">19</a> <a href="https://wpta21.com/2021/05/17/indiana-ending-pandemic-related-unemployment-benefits/">states</a>, all with GOP leaders, have said they plan to opt out of the federal unemployment programs created in response to the coronavirus crisis some time this summer, well before their scheduled expiration in early September. Echoing the complaints of business owners, they argue that the aid, which provides an extra $300 a week on top of what states typically offer and is available to the long-term unemployed who’ve exhausted their normal benefits, is creating severe labor shortages in their states, because people are choosing to collect a government check instead of finding a job.</p> <p>...At the same time, there are other obvious reasons it might be taking a while for the labor market to rev back up to full strength. The pandemic, after all, isn’t actually over: Cases are declining, but the totals are still nearly as high as they were last summer. Given that many people have yet to be vaccinated, health concerns may be keeping some people like the immunocompromised on the sidelines of the labor market. Also, schools are only partially reopened in much of the country, meaning parents still have significant child care responsibilities that may keep them from working. According to the the <a href="https://www.returntolearntracker.net/">Return to Learn Tracker</a>, a project by the American Enterprise Institute and Davidson College that monitors school reopenings, as of May 3 just 50 percent of the nation’s school districts were offering fully in-person instruction, meaning that “all grade levels can attend school in buildings five days per week, though families can opt for fully remote instruction or a hybrid model.”</p> <p>Notably, most of the states that have chosen to opt out of federal unemployment programs have done a lackluster job with their vaccine rollouts and are still leaning on some amount of remote learning. As of this weekend, all but two of them—Iowa and New Hampshire—had vaccinated less of their residents than the national average of 47 percent, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html">New York Times’ tracker</a>. (New Hampshire’s impressive 85 percent figure may require an asterisk: The state reported a large bump in the number of fully vaccinated residents on May 16 that the Times says might be an error; before then, about 60 percent of the population had reportedly received one shot.)</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Some Satire from Andy</strong></p> <p>What a dilemma?  I couldn’t decide which bit of Andy’s satire I liked the best so you get them both.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fauci-says-nausea-and-splitting-headache-are-symptoms-of-talking-to-rand-paul" target="_blank">The New Yorker:  <em>The Borowitz Report:  Fauci Says Nausea and Splitting Headache Are Symptoms of Talking to Rand Paul</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Anthony Fauci has revealed that nausea and a splitting headache are two common symptoms of talking to Rand Paul.</p> <p>The esteemed virologist disclosed that he had taken part in a clinical study that required him to converse with the senator from Kentucky several times in a one-year period.</p> <p>In addition to nausea and headaches, those who come in contact with Paul’s voice may experience “a sensation of wanting to be anywhere but there,” Fauci said.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/stefanik-solemnly-swears-to-defend-trump-from-constitution" target="_blank">The New Yorker:  <em>The Borowitz Report:  Stefanik Solemnly Swears to Defend Trump from Constitution</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In a solemn swearing in as the new House Republican Conference chair, Representative Elise Stefanik vowed to defend Donald J. Trump from the United States Constitution.</p> <p>With House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy officiating, Stefanik raised her right hand and rested her left on a first edition of “The Art of the Deal.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>End the News on a High Note</strong></p> <p>This administration is doing so much good stuff, it’s even making it into the Good News Network feed.  You never saw that with the Former Guy.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/biden-administration-close-to-reinstating-migratory-bird-protections/" target="_blank">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>Biden Administration Takes Steps to Reinstate Migratory Bird Protections After Trump Rule Struck Down by Court</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>As bird-lovers celebrated World Migratory Bird Day on May 8, new science had already determined that in the last half century around 3 billion birds in North America had been lost, and that two-thirds of the continent’s feathered friends today are at risk due to climate change.</p> <p>That’s why the Biden administration this month began a new rulemaking process to formally withdraw the Trump administration action that removed “incidental take” protections from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.</p> <p>According to the Audubon Society, the Biden team in March rescinded the “M-Opinion” implemented by the Trump administration, which was struck down in federal court last August, a decision that unequivocally upheld the most effective bird conservation law on the books.</p> </blockquote> <p>How About an Even Higher Note?</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ucla-gene-therapy-breakthrough-children-no-immune-system/" target="_blank">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>New Hope For Babies Born Without Immune System as Gene Therapy Breakthrough Looks Like Cure</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated 48 of 50 children born with a rare and deadly inherited disorder that leaves them without an immune system.</p> <p>Severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency, or ADA-SCID, is caused by mutations in the ADA gene that creates the enzyme adenosine deaminase— which is essential to a functioning immune system.</p> <p>For children with the condition, even day-to-day activities like going to school or playing with friends can lead to dangerous, life-threatening infections. If untreated, ADA-SCID can be fatal within the first two years of life.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <p>This is the latest offering from the folks over at Playing for Change</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=tk9KTAyJwCc" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tk9KTAyJwCc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And here’s a little bit of nostalgia from 52 years ago.  This was their last impromptu concert held on the roof of Apple Studios.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=CRD1xft-RHM" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CRD1xft-RHM" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <div> <div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>Take it away, WineRev!</p> <p>>>>>>>The FCC is giving Big Tech the stink eye about the “right to repair” their stuff. That’s good. Now when are they going to address “deliberate obsolescence.” After all, I was 18 years with Verizon with a 3G phone that featured a physical keyboard. Nope, can’t use it anymore. “We will no longer support such stuff so you have to buy a new phone that has endless crap on it that you will never use.” I do not WANT Internet access on my phone (that’s why I have a laptop.) I believe a phone is for phone calls. I am willing to accept a cellular phone should have texting AND, IF IT DOES, I want to push physical buttons to put in letters and symbols. (And NO, I do NOT think putting the period and question mark as well as numbers 1-9 on the SECOND PAGE of a virtual screen (base page, iPhone SE), along with parentheses and apostrophes, should be legally available for sale.) This would be MY consumer choice, for a feature-poor environment, with simpler options and choices…….so, Big Tech, why can’t I have it from you? (And no, a Consumer Cellular flip-phone with a keyboard that says 1=ABC, 2=DEF, etc. DOES NOT COUNT. I don’t want to go back to the 90s. I want to be in this century!)</p> <p>>>>>» Eva’s idea for the Reality show? A CEO living at the wage they pay their lowest employees? I’m all in. IN fact, I’ve been advocating for several years that the Securities and Exchange Commission make this a Thing. “No publicly traded company on any public exchange anywhere on the planet may compensate its highest paid employee (counting salary, liar loans stock options, liar loans to family members, use of the executive washroom or the company luxury skybox at the local arena/stadium, travel allowance, use of company owned transportation, value of platinum-plated health plan premiums, etc.) at a rate of more than 40X its lowest paid employee, including independent contractors and vendors (and their employees) hired for their services (IOW, Isabel and Lao Ping vacuuming floors at 3 am would be the base pay for figuring the 40X number.)”  We have a working example in the real world <a href="https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pay-mean-more-growth.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, so lets do it!</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>May 18ths that have gently noted aquavit hangovers from May 17th Good and Goofy moments in the Norwegian National Day celebrations, and who invite your Good and Goofy moments today to play with them, but quietly, and softly, and even a little slowly.</strong></p> <p>             <strong>1830  </strong>The Midlands, England  <strong>Edwin Beard Budding</strong> worked in a clothing factory which used a large, rotating blade to make cuts in the cloth. He had an idea, made some adaptations and on this day signed an agreement for the manufacture of his invention, a <strong>rotary lawnmower</strong>. Engines came later, but Saturdays in the suburbs have never really recovered.</p> <p>            <strong> 1852  </strong>Boston<strong>  </strong>On this day<strong> Massachusetts</strong> becomes the <u>first US state</u> to enact <strong>a compulsory school attendance</strong> law for children. Also required every village and town to operate a public school with public funds. Caught on in several states across the North and many counties in the Midwest. Slower adoption in the South. Last US state to require school attendance: Mississippi…..in 1918.</p> <p><strong>           1854 </strong>  Amsterdam, Holland    Birth of <strong><span><span>Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus</span></span> Zweers,</strong> music teacher and composer. His family were book sellers and his father an amateur singer and part-time piano tuner. When Bernard started showing interest in music the family disapproved, so he mostly had to teach himself. Traveled some and in 1881 was present in Berlin for the premier of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen. His family relent and that fall he was accepted to the Leipzig Conservatory. Was good enough at it he was admitted to the faculty of the Amsterdam Conservatory about 10 years later. Composer of a broad set of choral pieces cherished in Holland but rarely heard elsewhere, along with 3 impressive symphonies, among other works.  Renowned for a sense of humor. Dutch composer Huyschenruyter’s <u>Concerto Overture</u> and Zweers’ <u>2<sup>nd</sup> Symphony</u> were on a concert program. As Wikipedia recounts:   <em>Just before the concert, Huyschenruyter approached Zweers to tell him how much he’d enjoyed his symphony (in rehearsal). After a moment’s silence, Zweers responded: “Sir, I have not heard your overture, but I am certain that my symphony is on a higher level”. Dumbstruck by this display of artist’s arrogance, Huyschenruyter stood silent until Zweers burst out laughing: “Of course, this is because your overture is in D, and my symphony is written in E flat!”</em></p> <p><strong>                1860</strong>   Chicago   The 6-year-old Republican Party <em>(alas. How far down they have fallen!)</em> goes through several ballots for a<strong> nominee for President</strong>, and in a surprise, nominates local Illinois favorite son <strong>Abraham Lincoln</strong>. Adopts a platform Lincoln is comfortable with, including LIMITING slavery to the states where it currently exists. (Abolition is still seen as a fringe position.) The Southern states warn darkly that this is just a stalking horse for abolition and if Lincoln is elected “we’ll have to do something about that.” He was, and they did, and then he saved the nation and freed the slaves. Definitely Good News but a hard road to travel.</p> <p><strong>               1863  </strong>Vicksburg, Mississippi<strong> </strong>  Part of that hard road to freedom for the slaves and preserving the country took a turn here. 2 years after secession, Fort Sumter, the organizing of armies, the establishing of a blockade, and several bloody battles showing some real defects in Union generalship, this day one of those Generals turns a corner and takes the war with him. After a daring overland campaign from the Mississippi River to Jackson and back to the River, <strong>Ulysses Grant’s Army begins the siege of Vicksburg</strong>, Grant’s army is supplied by the river steamboats (that the Confederates cannot stop) from Union warehouses in Memphis. Inside Vicksburg the Confederates were shelled daily and slowly starved. Civilians lived in their basements or in caves along the river (complete with carpets, furniture, dining rooms and china.); so many that Union troops called it “Gopherville.” Finally surrendered six weeks later on July 4. The result gave the Union Navy control of the entire River from source to mouth, <strong>splitting the Confederacy</strong> in two. Mississippi held a grudge; the state government did not officially recognize July 4 as a holiday again until 1946.</p> <p><strong>             1869</strong>   Cambridge, Massachusetts Everyone can officially “open wide and say, ‘aww’……or maybe ‘aaa.’” On this day Harvard School of Dentistry (one of the early college based professional schools) holds graduation. In the class moving his tassel is <strong>Robert Tanner Freeman, the</strong> <strong>1st African American</strong> to become a college-educated dentist.</p> <p><strong>             1933  </strong> Washington DC   The beat goes on: the first 100 days of the <u>Franklin Roosevelt</u> Administration continues economic recovery, uplift for the poor and combines it with the cutting edge idea of spreading electricity to rural America. On this day Roosevelt signs the <strong>Tennessee Valley Act</strong> (TVA) Act to build several dams along the Tennessee River for flood control, navigation aid and bring electricity to a huge swath of the upper South. At its peak the project provided 28,000 jobs in one of the poorest areas of America.</p> <p><strong>              1953</strong>    Rogers Dry Lake, CA (a testing ground.) Just 6 years after Pilot Chuck Yeager did it the first time, piloting an F-86 fighter jet herself, <strong>Jacqueline Cochran</strong> becomes the <strong>first woman to break the sound barrier.</strong></p> <p><strong>              1991</strong>   London AND Kazakhstan AND Earth Orbit   There are contests and there are contests, and the grand prize takes several forms. In 1989, then 25-year-old <strong>Helen Sherman</strong> is the winner from among 13,000 entries at her favorite radio station. Tickets to a concert? Dinner with a favorite celebrity? Fabulous vacation? Well, she goes into intense physical, mental and even linguistic training for 18 months (like learning how to speak Russian from scratch). On this day <strong>Helen </strong>is part of a group of cosmonauts launched into orbit at the <u>MIR space station</u>. She spends 7 days there, <strong>the first Briton in space.</strong></p> <p>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</p> <p>Shalom.</p> <h2><strong>On the Lighter Side</strong></h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FunnyMarkt55.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947925/large/FunnyMarkt55.jpg?1621336963" title="FunnyMarkt55.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="HeSaidMark55.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947923/large/HeSaidMark55.jpg?1621336961" title="HeSaidMark55.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="InterestingMark59.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947926/large/InterestingMark59.jpg?1621336963" title="InterestingMark59.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="gashoarders.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947918/large/gashoarders.jpg?1621336902" title="gashoarders.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="EisenhowerMark415.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947920/large/EisenhowerMark415.jpg?1621336905" title="EisenhowerMark415.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="BraveryMark513.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947921/large/BraveryMark513.jpg?1621336905" title="BraveryMark513.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Stabler. Unstabler. &lt;a href="https://t.co/iRSzeFx1gO"&gt;pic.twitter.com/iRSzeFx1gO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1393975604702294023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 16, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Stabler. Unstabler. <a href="https://t.co/iRSzeFx1gO">pic.twitter.com/iRSzeFx1gO</a></p>— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1393975604702294023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="RadicalMark52.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947927/large/RadicalMark52.jpg?1621337049" title="RadicalMark52.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="RealityShowMark57.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947928/large/RealityShowMark57.jpg?1621337050" title="RealityShowMark57.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ResponsibleMark513.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947929/large/ResponsibleMark513.jpg?1621337050" title="ResponsibleMark513.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="StainMark52.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947930/large/StainMark52.jpg?1621337051" title="StainMark52.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="TellRandPaulHesAJerkMark5145.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947931/large/TellRandPaulHesAJerkMark5145.jpg?1621337051" title="TellRandPaulHesAJerkMark5145.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="TrueMark517.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/947932/large/TrueMark517.jpg?1621337052" title="TrueMark517.jpg"></figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. — Benjamin Franklin</p> <p>Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. — Henry A. Wallace</p> <p>Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. — Edward Kennedy</p> <p>If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Pressley at full speed" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/853634/large/180427_Pressley_094.jpg?1599560904" title="Pressley at full speed"> <figcaption>Ok, let’s get this show on the road.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Pressley’s Picks</h2> <p>This is why you should always love us.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;When ur human says "who&amp;#39;s a good boy" and you already know it&amp;#39;s you &lt;a href="https://t.co/yYt0TtoF8k"&gt;pic.twitter.com/yYt0TtoF8k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— DogsOverDudes (@Dogsoverdude) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Dogsoverdude/status/1284596431810998273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;July 18, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>When ur human says "who's a good boy" and you already know it's you <a href="https://t.co/yYt0TtoF8k">pic.twitter.com/yYt0TtoF8k</a></p>— DogsOverDudes (@Dogsoverdude) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dogsoverdude/status/1284596431810998273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>This why you shouldn’t tease us.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;So I Pretended To Throw A Ball… - &lt;a href="https://t.co/3S6QP8KEMR"&gt;https://t.co/3S6QP8KEMR&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/L028p14IDK"&gt;pic.twitter.com/L028p14IDK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— FunnyAnd (@FunnyAndcom) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyAndcom/status/759721441541648384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;July 31, 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>So I Pretended To Throw A Ball… - <a href="https://t.co/3S6QP8KEMR">https://t.co/3S6QP8KEMR</a> <a href="https://t.co/L028p14IDK">pic.twitter.com/L028p14IDK</a></p>— FunnyAnd (@FunnyAndcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/FunnyAndcom/status/759721441541648384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2016</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Stuff you should never do:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Would you let your &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dog?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#dog&lt;/a&gt; go out dressed like this? &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ILoveDogs?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#ILoveDogs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/funnydogs?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#funnydogs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/4kD80UwVGy"&gt;pic.twitter.com/4kD80UwVGy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— J-B Pet Oakland (@jbpetoakland) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jbpetoakland/status/1051540744891236353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Would you let your <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dog?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dog</a> go out dressed like this? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ILoveDogs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ILoveDogs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/funnydogs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#funnydogs</a> <a href="https://t.co/4kD80UwVGy">pic.twitter.com/4kD80UwVGy</a></p>— J-B Pet Oakland (@jbpetoakland) <a href="https://twitter.com/jbpetoakland/status/1051540744891236353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  Your country needs you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/17/2030928/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-DAY117-Evening-Shade-Monday">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---DAY117---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>From a 1988 performance at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, this song is not just music — it’s medicine for the troubled soul.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=59zrtumhD1g" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/59zrtumhD1g" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <p><em>Disclaimer:  Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene did not approve of this roundup — and that’s a good thing.</em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) AndyBorowitz Fraudit GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead ImmuneDeficiency JoeBiden LinWood MattGaetz MichelleObama PlayingforChange Politics Pressley Recommended Roundup Satire StephenColbert TheBeatles _2030874 Tue, 18 May 2021 11:01:12 +0000 May the Farce Be with You - Good News Roundup for Bluesday, May the Fourth https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/5/4/2028727/-May-the-Farce-Be-with-You-Good-News-Roundup-for-Bluesday-May-the-Fourth <p>Oh, my goodness!  The spring holiday season is fully upon us.  May Day, when we dance with wild abandon around maypoles that signify either the axis mundi or oversized penises, hit us three days ago.  International Mayonnaise Appreciation Day will spread itself out tomorrow (Cinco de <strong>Mayo</strong>).  Memorial Day is coming at the end of the month.  I’m sure there are other holidays I’ve overlooked.</p> <p>However, today is celebrated around the world, as we pause and take a moment to remember Luke blowing up the Deathstar <span><span>a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away</span></span>.  It is a time to rejoice in a lucky shot that saved the universe from the nasty fascists.  As we know from all the sequels, prequels, books and other collateral records, fascists are awfully persistent.</p> <p>Even today’s celebrations are under siege from the unrepentant minions of Darth Former Guy and Not So Supreme Council of Morans.  Stormtrumpers are out and about, flaunting their entitled whiteness and forceful embrace of the Dark Side.</p> <p>It’s like the old Lay’s Potato chip ad — when it comes to republicans, I bet you can’t loathe just one.</p> <p>The committed republican base has traded competence for rabid tribalism; rational thought for blind obedience; and their moral/ethical cores for braindead cult membership.</p> <p>Their leadership appears to be a bunch of clown car rejects who share one feeble brain between the entire sorry lot of them.  They are more interested in stoking fear in their base than in actually protecting those peoples lives.  The constant cycle of stupid from Gohmert to Jordan to Greene to Gaetz to Cruz to Hawley to Carlson to Hannity to Giuliani to Junior to Junior’s Dominatrix Mistress (and coke dealer) to Paxton to Abbott to McNinny to DeSatan to Noem to Reynolds to Graham to McConnell and to all the rest of the usual suspects is a national embarrassment.  Hell — it’s an international embarrassment.  It’s a universal embarrassment.  Most of these disappointments shouldn’t be allowed out in public, let alone given positions of responsibility.</p> <p>In honor of the day:  May the farce be as far away from you as possible.  Let’s keep kicking the republican bottom feeders into obscurity and onto the political ashheap (assheap?) of history.  Onward!  As long as any of them retain power, we have work to do.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p>John Oliver took a deep dive into Covid vaccine hesitancy.  He gives Tucker Carlson a richly deserved beatdown for the crap the “scrunch-faced fear baboon” spews as a public face of Antiva. [24:27]</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=gPHgRp70H8o" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gPHgRp70H8o" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And now, it’s time to look at the news.</p> <p><strong>There’s Trouble in Crazytown</strong></p> <p>By Hill standards, this is a long article.  I’ve excerpted what I think is the ‘money’ quote.  The rest of it details the internecine warfare that exists between the semi-rational republicans and the fully delusional republicans.  It ain’t pretty.  I hope they keep it up.  Maybe when they succeed in cutting off the limb Cheney is sitting on, the rest of the tree will fall down.</p> <p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/551261-gop-frustration-with-liz-cheney-at-a-boiling-point" target="_blank" title="">The Hill:  <em>GOP frustration with Liz Cheney 'at a boiling point'</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Cheney allies, few as they may be now, are praising the 54-year-old mother of five, saying that she’s one of the few voices in the party willing to call out Trump and hold him accountable for lying to his supporters that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen.  </p> <p>“If a prerequisite for leading our conference is continuing to lie to our voters, then Liz is not the best fit,” Rep. <span><a href="https://thehill.com/people/anthony-gonzalez">Anthony Gonzalez</a></span> (R-Ohio), who also voted to impeach Trump, said in a phone interview Friday.</p> <p>“Liz isn't going to lie to people. Liz is going to say what she believes. She’s going to stand on principle. And if that's going to be distracting for folks, she's not the best fit. I wish that weren’t the case.”</p> <p>If her foes force another vote, Gonzalez said he will support Cheney again</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Noose Got a Little Tighter</strong></p> <p>So far three of the Former Guy’s personal lawyers have had their electronic devices seized and their offices raided.  Some lazy googling tells me no other president has had any of their personal lawyers raided.  This proves he really is good at something — getting lawyers on the fast train to disbarment.  (He’s not a particularly good liar, just insanely persistent.)</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/02/giuliani-trump-legal-trouble-485186" target="_blank" title="">Poliltico:  <em>Giuliani’s Legal Trouble Is Trump’s Too</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>You don’t need to be a lawyer to know that when federal agents knock on your door with a search warrant and seize your electronic devices, you’re in big trouble. Ever since that happened to former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, he has tried to downplay the peril he is in, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-30/giuliani-says-feds-raided-his-icloud-as-well-as-apartment" target="_blank" title="">saying whatever evidence</a> is on his phones proves that “the president and I…are innocent.”</p> <p>But it sure looks like he has a long legal battle ahead of him, and his best defense will likely put him at odds with his former boss. If Trump doesn’t voluntarily protect his one-time counsel, Giuliani may have no choice but to point the finger at his former client. (Their <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-isolated-impeachment/2021/01/13/0595675a-55b6-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html" target="_blank" title="">relationship was tested</a> in January when Trump reportedly refused to pay Giuliani for his unsuccessful work trying to overturn the November election results.)</p> <p>The saga of one-time Trump legal fixer Michael Cohen, who turned on his boss after he pleaded guilty for election finance violations and fraud, is instructive here. Despite Cohen’s assertion that Trump knew of the violations, the president was protected from prosecution while he was in office under Department of Justice guidelines. Now that Trump is a civilian, those guidelines do not protect him, and he has to be concerned about his own liability going forward.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Another Voice in the Republican Wilderness</strong></p> <p>I remember how upset I was when the Former Guy got the split decision over Hillary.  It was depressing and reeked of corruption.  But, I didn’t try to overthrow the government.  I got involved and worked very hard to make sure the corruption didn’t steal another 4 years.  Voices of reason, like McCain’s, are far too scarce.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/cindy-mccain-trump-arizona-audit-election-is-over/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones: <em> Cindy McCain to Republicans: “The Election Is Over”</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Cindy McCain wants Republicans to get over Donald Trump’s 2020 loss. When asked on Sunday about an ongoing <a href="https://apnews.com/article/elections-election-2020-business-government-and-politics-arizona-a56ee7c8214ecc876424ee3428e3ab72">Republican-backed election audit</a> in Arizona, the wife of late Republican Sen. John McCain called the ordeal “ludicrous.” “The election is over. Biden won,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper on <em>State of the Union</em>. “I know many of them don’t like the outcome. But, you know, elections have consequences.”</p> <p>McCain’s distaste for Trump is no secret. She endorsed Biden in 2020—the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cindy-mccain-arizona-election-biden-trump/2020/11/16/f4f29be4-2850-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html">first time she’s ever voted for a Democrat</a>—saying she had “had enough” of Trump’s insults, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cindy-mccain-arizona-election-biden-trump/2020/11/16/f4f29be4-2850-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html" title="">specifically citing</a> reports that he had called injured and fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers.” The former president also repeatedly attacked her husband before <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705598385/among-false-claims-trump-attacked-mccain-for-failing-veterans">and after</a> his death.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Not Only Does He Cheat at Golf, He Cheats at Golf Courses Too</strong></p> <p>In one of the most predictable stories I’ve seen this year, as the Former Guy lounges around in his personal swamp the water is coming up to a boil.  Prediction:  He will be asked to return the money he scammed and he will not be able to do so.  Hello default and bye bye money laundering Scottish golf courses.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-organization-scottish-golf-resort-job-subsidies_n_608f3deae4b02e74d228a542" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  <em>Trump’s Scottish Golf Resorts Took $800,000 In Taxpayer Funds To Save Jobs, But Cut Workers</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" title="">Donald Trump</a>’s two Scottish golf resorts collected up to $800,000 in subsidies from the British government to protect jobs during COVID-19 but fired “scores” of workers, a top union complained Sunday.</p> </div> <div> <p>Union officials called the money grab a “scandal” and are calling for a government investigation.</p> </div> <div> <p>Trump’s SLC <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/trump-turnberry" target="_blank" title="">Turnberry</a> Ltd received as much as <a href="https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7054092/donald-trumps-turnberry-500k-furlough/" target="_blank" title="">$700,000 in taxpayer funds</a>, while his resort in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, was paid <a href="https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7054092/donald-trumps-turnberry-500k-furlough/" target="_blank" title="">up to $100,000</a> in just two months, according to government documents, reported the Scottish Sun. (The amounts are reported in ranges.)</p> </div> <div> <p>Some other golf resorts collected as much or even more. But the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers complained to The Scotsman that the Trump Organization <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trumps-firm-claims-up-to-ps500000-via-covid-19-job-fund-despite-axing-staff-3221186" target="_blank" title="">“hoovering up” public money</a> while cutting staff <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trumps-firm-claims-up-to-ps500000-via-covid-19-job-fund-despite-axing-staff-3221186" target="_blank" title="">made a “mockery”</a> of a program specifically designed to save jobs.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>But Wait, There’s More</strong></p> <p>Don’t you just love the pitter-patter of all those shoes that just keep on dropping.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-salacious-tapes/" title="">Raw Story:  Americans mortified to learn there may be compromising Trump sex tapes: 'Please. No. Yuck'</a></p> <blockquote> <p>The former MI6 spy <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/08/07/uk-encourages-russian-adversaries-displaying-wholly-inadequate/" target="_blank">Christopher Steele</a> produced a second dossier for the FBI on Donald Trump while he was in the White House, sources told The Telegraph. Mr Steele filed a series of intelligence reports to US authorities during the Trump presidency, including information concerning alleged sexual exploits," the British newspaper <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/03/mi6-spy-christopher-steele-produced-second-dossier-donald-trump/" target="_blank" title="">reported</a> Monday evening.</p> <p>"Mr Steele's continued involvement supplying intelligence to the FBI appears to give credibility to his original dossier, which sparked a Special Counsel investigation by prosecutor Robert Mueller into Russian interference into the 2016 US presidential elections," the newspaper noted. "The second dossier contains raw intelligence that makes further claims of Russian meddling in the US election and also references claims regarding the existence of further sex tapes. The second dossier is reliant on separate sources to those who supplied information for the first reports."</p> <p>"The fact the FBI continued to receive intelligence from Mr Steele, who ran MI6's Russia desk from 2006 to 2009 before setting up Orbis, is potentially significant because it shows his work was apparently still being taken seriously after Mr Trump took hold of the reins of power," the newspaper explained. "The suggestion it includes further details of Mr Trump's sexual exploits will infuriate the former president. On Twitter he has called the allegations a 'pile of garbage.'"</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Some More Positive Insurrection News to Tide You Over</strong></p> <p>All those yahoos who descended on DC to try to topple the government had been working to disrupt their states as well.  The forces of justice are cracking down on them back at home too.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/oregon-gop-rep-charged-with-letting-rioters-into-capitol-like-its-a-crime-or-something" target="_blank" title="">Wonkette:  <em>GOP Oregon State Rep Charged With Letting Rioters Into State Capitol, Like It’s Some Kind Of Crime</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>On December 21, just a few weeks before the MAGA mob stormed the US Capitol, another group of miscreants breached the Oregon statehouse during a legislative session. They weren't Antifa, either. These specific dummies had gathered to protest Governor Kate Brown's COVID-19 restrictions, and Republican state Rep. <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/oregon-rep-escorts-armed-anti-maskers-right-into-capitol-building" target="_blank">Mike Nearman kindly let them inside.</a> They were unmasked, angry, and ready to rumble.</p> <p>Surveillance video clearly showed Nearman opening doors in a stairwell and letting in representatives from the mob. They didn't even have an appointment. State Police had to push them back out again, but they couldn't keep the door shut because so many creeps were trying to force their way inside. Nearman had wandered off by this point. Presumably, his work was done.</p> <p>Chillingly, at least <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/10/oregon-washington-protest-insurrection-david-anthony-medina-tim-davis/" target="_blank">three of the far-right demonstrators</a> in Salem would travel to the US Capitol for the January 6 siege. Disaster was narrowly averted in Oregon, but that doesn't absolve Nearman of his recklessness. Marion County District Attorney Paige E. Clarkson announced Friday that Nearman has been charged with misdemeanor counts of first-degree official misconduct and second-degree criminal trespass.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Little Bit of Andy</strong></p> <p>As the former guy becomes more and more irrelevant every day, Andy has found new things to poke fun at.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/thousands-of-presidential-fact-checkers-laid-off-in-bidens-first-hundred-days" target="_blank" title="">New Yorker:  Satire from the Borowitz Report:  <em>Thousands of Presidential Fact Checkers Laid Off in Biden’s First Hundred Days</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In an employment trend that industry leaders are calling “dire,” thousands of Presidential fact checkers have been laid off during Joe Biden’s first hundred days in office.</p> <p>Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of the American Society of Presidential Fact Checkers, said that Biden has single-handedly destroyed the employment picture for many of the group’s members.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Eat the <s>Rich</s> Plastic</strong></p> <p>A trash munching boat has hit the waves.  Hooray!  It’s great that we have one and sad that we need it.  I’m hoping they come up with something to take care of the excessive trash located at Merde-a-Lie-Go and in the Senate republican cloakroom.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/yacht-the-manta-generates-power-by-melting-waste-it-gathers/" target="_blank" title="">GoodNewsNetwork: <em> ‘Manta’ Sailing Yacht Designed to Feed on Plastic Waste for Power–While Cleaning Oceans</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="Manta.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943213/large/Manta.jpg?1620066807" title="Manta.jpg"> <figcaption>This catamaran is cleaning the biggest litter box, er… ocean we have.</figcaption> </figure> <p>A professional yacht racer, annoyed by the constant sightings of floating mats of plastic garbage in the seawater, has created an ocean cleaning sailboat that is powered by the waste it collects.</p> <p>The 56-meter (184 feet) Manta is the first offering from racer Yves Bourgnon’s <a href="https://www.theseacleaners.org/" target="_blank" title="">SeaCleaners Project</a>, and would be one of the largest waste-collecting vessels on the seas, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/france-seas-boat-idUSL8N2K15WA" target="_blank">Reuters</a>.</p> <p>At the end of the film <em>Back to the Future, </em>Dr. Emmet Brown has famously managed to replace his plutonium-powered generator with one which uses ordinary garbage. Like the DeLorean in the movie, the Manta uses garbage to power an electric motor that works in conjunction with the sails to propel the large catamaran.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Let’s Make Them Regret Not Getting Pricked</strong></p> <p>Since we are mostly all vaccinated now, let’s run out and get some free stuff so we can show Antiva what they are missing.  I’ve excerpted out the entries for the breakfast they lust after over there in MAGAt land.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/business/vaccine-freebies/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  </a><em><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/business/vaccine-freebies/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold" target="_blank" title="">Got vaccinated? Here's all the free stuff you can get</a></em></p> <blockquote> <div> <h3>Budweiser</h3> </div> <ul> </ul> <div>Now through May 16, or while supplies last, Budweiser is giving a free beer to anyone 21 years old and up -- who provide their proof of vaccination on ABeerOnBud.com. Bud fans first have to first register at the company's <a href="https://www.mycooler.com/en/login.html" target="_blank">mycooler.com </a>website.</div> <div> <h3>Krispy Kreme</h3> </div> <div>You can get one <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/business/krispy-kreme-free-donuts-covid-vaccination-trnd/index.html" target="_blank">free glazed doughnut</a> every day if you take your vaccination card to any Krispy Kreme location in the US, the company said in a press release. The card must show one or two shots of any Covid-19 vaccine to qualify, and the offer must be redeemed in store. And no, you don't need to purchase anything to get your daily free doughnut.</div> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude (Extended)</h2> <p>Music makes the world go round and Playing for Change takes the music around the world.  This first entry is built on top of one of Dr. John’s last know recordings.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=zwMuRu6m_aY" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zwMuRu6m_aY?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I think I used this before, but I don’t really care, do you?</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=cAcVpaNZ6W4" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cAcVpaNZ6W4?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away WineRev!</p> <p>>>>>>Well the Lincoln Project teased that yesterday would be another bombshell day of Bad News for Turmpers (akin to the search warrant on Rudi and pals from last Wednesday.) Unless I’m too befuddled this morning (or too giddy from the MN Wild’s 6-5 win last night from a 2 goal deficit) I didn’t see it. Mind you, that NEW Christopher Steele story might get legs (as in the “Steele Dossier” that DJT was at pains to suppress, derail, deride and otherwise stop.) We will see as the days go on….</p> <p>>>>>>The History Corner has grown to include a daily birthday introduction to a composer----some famous, some not so much. One of our regular musical commenters tossed off the line yesterday that I “tee up the entry and [they] hit it down the fairway.” Brought back fond memories of my golfing days (I haven’t played in years, but I always liked it until money for greens fees got tight and my weight got out of hand…..but now the diet is working and spring is here…..). Just a hint: 2 music related entries today and one of them is playing off the ladies’ tees……</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>May 4ths that have been Good, Goofy and Galactic for years, for centuries, for eons, reaching back to days of Force-ful heroism in the face of long odds, yet “its still the same old story/ a fight for love and glory/ a case of do or die…...the fundamental things apply, as time goes by” for your Good and Goofy day.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>             1626  </span></span></strong><span><span>  Manhattan Island, New Amsterdam Harbor (now New York)    Dutch explorer <strong>Peter Minuit</strong>, also director-general of New <em>Netherlands (not a lot to direct just now; they really only need a director-corporal)</em>, on this day had an involved transaction with <strong>Chief</strong> <strong>Seyseys</strong>. They struck a bargain: <u>60 Dutch guilders worth of cloth and buttons for the whole Island.</u> (60 Dutch guilders= about $24 in 1839 when the story picked up circulation, and about $1100 in 2018.)  Minuit walked away happy, figuring he got a bargain for some good farm land <u>(which continued in the city limits until the 1850s)</u> and a good port. Seyseys went away happy too: not only had he picked up some excellent goods, he and his tribe of<strong> Canarsees</strong> (there are New York place names to recall this tribe) didn’t actually control or own the Island. It was mostly run by the tribe of the <strong>Weckquaesgeeks</strong> <em>(which nobody has tried to spell or name anyplace after, and it’s too long a name for a gang identifier. But it does end in ‘geeks’, so…..)</em> Showing a) Native peoples were willing to throw chaff at other tribes, and b) shady real estate deals on Manhattan Island go WAY back.)  The site of the deal was later marked by <u>Peter Minuit Plaza</u> at South Street and Whitehall Street.</span></span></p> <p><strong>              1655</strong>   Padua, Italy    Birth of <strong>Bartolomeo Cristofori</strong>, instrument maker. His early life is a blank, but at 33 he is hired by <u>Frederico d’Medici</u>  (the 17<sup>th</sup> Century 1%! Frederico was wealthy; some of his family had been Popes.) Medici was a lover of both music and clocks. He hired Cristofori to maintain and tune Medici’s collection of instruments (which provided background and entertainment at receptions and dinners, both public and private.) Cristofori was a craftsman and beyond tuning and maintaining the house, he also also <u>built instruments</u>: harpsichords, a spinettone, an oval spinet, a clavicytherium. In 1700 he invents what he calls the <strong>“Arpicembalo”</strong> literally “harp-harpsichord” with two sets of strings that, depending on pressure from a clockwork-like set of keys, <u>allowed the instrument to be both soft and loud in volume,</u> in Italian both<em> piano</em> and <em>forte</em>.  It had a wood frame borrowed from the harpsichord, but the <u>strings were struck</u>, (not plucked) and the <u>volume was proportionate to the striking,</u> both distinct, non-harpsichord features. So Cristofori is credited being <strong>the inventor of the piano</strong>. <em>So if you tickle or plunk the 88 ivories, today you might wish Cristofori a little Buon Compleanno!</em></p> <p><strong>             1744</strong>  Vienna  Birth of <strong>Marianna Martines,</strong> singer, composer. Her family descended from a Spanish soldier stationed in Naples. Her father became a <em>major-domo</em> (chief of staff) for the papal <em>nuncio</em> (ambassador) to Vienna. She was a native speaker of Italian and German, and fluent in French with good English to boot. Marianna was born into a mid-level life, literally: in a multi-story house, a wealthy, titled widow lived on the first floor, a respected singing teacher on the 2<sup>nd</sup>. The Martines <em>(Germanic version of “Martinez”)</em> were on the third floor and rented a bedroom to an Italian poet, <u>Metastasio.</u> The “starving artist in the attic” was a struggling musician, <u>Joseph Haydn</u> (!). Marianna benefitted from all of these: the singing teacher gave her singing lessons while Haydn (12 years her senior) earned a few coins playing harpsichord during her lessons (and working on librettos with Metastasio.) In Marianna’s teens, the wealthy widow on the first floor introduced her at court where she performed regularly for the <u>Empress of Austria</u>, both voice and at the <u>(Cristofori!)</u> keyboard. When Metastasio died (1782), he left his estate to her and she used part of it for weekly musical gatherings at the house (musicians having fun): <u>Haydn, Salieri</u>, that new kid from Bonn: <u>Ludwig Beethoven,</u> et. al. <u>Mozart</u> (12 years her junior) attended frequently, and he composed 4-handed piano pieces for he and Marianna to play together at these. Martines composed a fair body of sacred music, including 4 Masses and 6 motets. She also composed several oratorios, sacred and secular cantatas, 3 keyboard sonatas and a symphony. <em>(Once again for me, a remarkable life of someone I had never heard of before these History Corner items.)</em></p> <p><strong><span><span>               1776  </span></span></strong><span><span> Providence,  Rhode Island  Rhode Island is going to lead this parade! They have already backed up their neighbors to the north around Boston by sending 2 regiments of Rhode Islanders, fully equipped, led by the rising star <u>Nathaniel Greene.</u> But they are also going to lead politically. On this day <strong>this colony declared Independence</strong> from England. It would take another 2 months for that Congress meeting in Philadelphia to do the same for everybody else (although they did put out a great Declaration; that Virginia man Jefferson can turn a phrase!)</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>             1864 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Washington DC    </span></span>Since the Civil War began 3 years ago, <strong>President Lincoln</strong> had been trying to get his generals to agree with his own observation: “We have more men, but they can move theirs faster to places of weakness. We must make our advantage overmatch theirs.”  He finally gets an overall commander of the Union military who thinks the way he does. After months of preparations in every single regiment in Blue, regardless of where stationed, on this day <strong>Commanding General US Grant</strong> orders all Union forces on the Continent to advance and engage the Confederates. While there are several side operations, the two major operations would be, in the words of <u>General William Sherman</u>, “I would go for (Joe) Johnston, and Grant would go for Lee.” Grant rides with General Meade across the Rapidan to bring Lee to battle and, hopefully, to bay. Civilians in Washington and 100 miles south in Richmond all hold their breath at the impending clash. Grant promised Lincoln “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer” and that there would be no retreat (except tactical maneuvers.) This day a reporter asked Grant how long he thought it would take him to reach Richmond. “Four days,” Grant replied. In stunned amazement the reporter echoed, “Four days?” Grant took the cigar out of his mouth. “If General Lee is party to the agreement.” <em>(Actually took 11 months; General Lee was emphatically NOT party to the agreement.)</em></p> <p><strong><span><span>             1932</span></span></strong><span><span>     Atlanta, Georgia   After years of pulling strings, buying off officials, judges, lawmen, knocking off rivals, lots of legal stonewalling, outrageous public statements, high-handed arrogance, corruption, various state, local and federal violations, on this day <s>Donald Trump</s> mobster <strong>Al Capone,</strong> convicted of income-tax evasion, enters a federal penitentiary in Atlanta. <em>(Capone was later transferred to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay</em></span></span><em>.) We all here fervently hope history this time doesn’t just rhyme, but truly repeats right down to the key turning in the cell door……</em></p> <p><strong><span><span>             1942</span></span></strong><span><span>   Near New Guinea, South Pacific  On this day  the <u>Battle of the Coral Sea</u> began between Japanese and US naval forces. While it ended inconclusively in something of a draw, it was notable being the first naval clash <strong>fought entirely with carrier aircraft</strong>.</span></span> Neither navy had any of its ships spot an enemy vessel and then call for ramming speed in the galleys of the trireme, hang out shields before throwing spears, coming to port or starboard and opening gunports for a broadside, or even raising 13-inch guns in their pivoting turrets. The <strong>first ever naval battle where the ships themselves did not engage with each other.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>              1998 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Washington DC   The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this day gives final approval for the <strong>first commercial surgical glue</strong> for medical use, “<strong>Tisseel”</strong> (a coinage of ‘tissue’ and ‘seal’.) Wider use has led to fewer sutures and less surgical sewing, less fatigued surgeons, and smoother healing wounds and incisions. <em>(23 years of surgical glue guns!)</em></span></span></p> <p><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring…..<em>and May the 4th be with you!</em></span></span></p> <p><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></p> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="DumbassMark430.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943415/large/DumbassMark430.jpg?1620118789" title="DumbassMark430.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FunnyMark51.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943419/large/FunnyMark51.jpg?1620118900" title="FunnyMark51.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="TreasonMark52.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943427/large/TreasonMark52.jpg?1620119097" title="TreasonMark52.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Um....okay. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@thedavidcrosby&lt;/a&gt; Any questions? &lt;a href="https://t.co/rMqxOWrMc3"&gt;pic.twitter.com/rMqxOWrMc3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Lynn Taylor (@JehseaLynn) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JehseaLynn/status/1378833788248154123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 4, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Um....okay. <a href="https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thedavidcrosby</a> Any questions? <a href="https://t.co/rMqxOWrMc3">pic.twitter.com/rMqxOWrMc3</a></p>— Lynn Taylor (@JehseaLynn) <a href="https://twitter.com/JehseaLynn/status/1378833788248154123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PoliceFundsMark420.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943425/large/PoliceFundsMark420.jpg?1620119035" title="PoliceFundsMark420.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ForYouMark424.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943424/large/ForYouMark424.jpg?1620119035" title="ForYouMark424.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FuneralHomeMark420.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943421/large/FuneralHomeMark420.jpg?1620119033" title="FuneralHomeMark420.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PolioMark430.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943423/large/PolioMark430.jpg?1620119034" title="PolioMark430.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FunnyMark422.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943420/large/FunnyMark422.png?1620118917" title="FunnyMark422.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="GaetzMark420.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943417/large/GaetzMark420.jpg?1620118896" title="GaetzMark420.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="StainMark52.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943428/large/StainMark52.jpg?1620119097" title="StainMark52.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="DesantisMark420.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943413/large/DesantisMark420.jpg?1620118787" title="DesantisMark420.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="GunTaserMark420.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943416/large/GunTaserMark420.jpg?1620118892" title="GunTaserMark420.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Biden&amp;#39;s child care plan MUST be stopped. It will eradicate the American tradition of parents having to quit jobs to care for kids — a tradition that helped so many learn about bankruptcy and malnutrition — and it will harm our most vulnerable: the wealthy.&lt;a href="https://t.co/39AmdyskgN"&gt;https://t.co/39AmdyskgN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RexHuppke/status/1388139142253617155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 30, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Biden's child care plan MUST be stopped. It will eradicate the American tradition of parents having to quit jobs to care for kids — a tradition that helped so many learn about bankruptcy and malnutrition — and it will harm our most vulnerable: the wealthy.<a href="https://t.co/39AmdyskgN">https://t.co/39AmdyskgN</a></p>— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) <a href="https://twitter.com/RexHuppke/status/1388139142253617155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine</p> <p>It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. — Mike Royko</p> <p>Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. — Leo Rosten</p> <p>You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people. — Cornel West</p> <p>You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="200704_Pressley_007.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943254/large/200704_Pressley_007.jpg?1620071677" title="200704_Pressley_007.jpg"> <figcaption>My tongue is bigger than your tongue.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Pressley’s Picks</h2> <p>Now that he has me doing this every time he sits down to write a GNR, I don’t understand why he complains about politics so much.  There’s all kind of great doggy content out there to share.  If you humans would just stop biting at each other’s tails, you’d see how easy it is to be happy and amused.</p> <p>I don’t know why I can’t do this with my ears.  I’m going barking mad trying to do make it happen.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Cc9PIPpLbbc" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Cc9PIPpLbbc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>We were settled down for some serious ear skritching while watching the TV box on Sunday and this showed up.  I want one.  As you are all aware, NNNE is not responsive enough to my needs.  I’ve been nipping at him about it and he has ordered some of the recordable buttons.  I guess that means I’ve got him fairly well trained already.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=MTHktun5vKc" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MTHktun5vKc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>My buddy Major (I’d recognize his butt anywhere) has been getting chewed up by the press.  They’ve been trying to cancel him for biting anything that smells of the Former Guy.  Now they’re acting like he’d be mean to a cat.  Hey, he watches cats on the internet just like the rest of us.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/major-biden-cat/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>Major Biden receives special training to prepare for new White House cat</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="MajorRescueDog.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/943278/large/MajorRescueDog.jpg?1620077167" title="MajorRescueDog.jpg"> <figcaption>This is not the face of a cat molester.</figcaption> </figure> <div><strong>(CNN) —  </strong> Some Major news at the White House: Major Biden has made<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/politics/biden-dogs-back-white-house/index.html" target="_blank"> his return</a> to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/politics/major-biden-training/index.html" target="_blank" title=""> after training following two biting</a> incidents, but he may soon have to adjust to another furry friend.</div> <div></div> <div>To prepare for a new cat at the White House, Major received special training to see how he would do with a new resident at the White House.</div> <div></div> <div>“He’s back,” first lady Jill Biden said of Major in an interview with NBC News that aired Friday.</div> <div></div> <div>“We were going to bring him in to see you,” President Joe Biden said, as the NBC reporter joked that that may not be a prudent idea.</div> </blockquote> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  Your country needs you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/3/2028814/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-DAY103-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---DAY103---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>As a group, The Dead only played this live 4 times (all in 1991).  This is the final performance.  The song first appeared on the Jerry Garcia Band album <em>Cats Under the Stars</em> in 1978.</p> <blockquote> <p><em><span>Rueben Rueben tell me truly true,</span></em><span><em>I feel afraid and I don’t know why I do</em></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=INk1IswODfE" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/INk1IswODfE" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  Whether you call him Rudy Colludy or Ghouliani the Braindead, he’s still one of the biggest idiots in the republican universe.  </em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) AndyBorowitz Garbage giuliani GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead JohnOliver PlayingforChange Politics Poll Pressley Recommended Republcans Roundup SongsAroundtheWorld trump _2028727 Tue, 04 May 2021 11:01:37 +0000 Stoners of the World, Unite - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, April 20th, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/4/20/2026520/-Stoners-of-the-World-Unite-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-April-20th-2021 <p>Back in 1971, a group of high school kids in San Rafael, California used to meet every afternoon at 4:20PM, next to a statue of Louis Pasteur, to get high.  They called their meeting the “4:20 Louis.”  That shortly morphed into using four-twenty as a general code for getting baked.  Being stoners, the relationship between hours/minutes and months/days is mostly immaterial.  That’s how we ended up with a daily meeting becoming a yearly occasion.</p> <p>The serendipitous aspect of this is that stoners are helping to rehabilitate an otherwise notorious day.  When my mother was about to bring my brother into the world, she held off until after 4/20 so my brother wouldn’t share a birthday with infamy.</p> <p>But stoners and my mom aside, this is a day celebrated throughout the entire Reichwing as a day of yearning.  This is when they dream of turning the clock back to when they could kill their political opponents, scapegoats and straw-men with impunity and wild abandon [Somehow they have collective amnesia about the karmic force visited on their last fascist paradise].</p> <p>Today, their chief mystics (Lindell, Taylor-Greene, Jordan, Carlson, Cruz, et al) will cavort about the country, festooned with the traditional chickenhawk entrails, while yammering ceaselessly about their heroes (Former Guy & the Failed House Painter) both having the same number of letters (11) in their names.</p> <p>Back in the day, Keith Olbermann used to close out his program with a segment called, <em>The Worst Person in the World</em> (Bill O’Reilly was a frequent winner).  If he produced that segment today, he’d have to call it <em>The Worst People in the World</em> and focus it exclusively on the republican brainless trust.  Whether you call them Putin’s Pedophiles or the RNC doesn’t make much difference.  They are collectively responsible for more cruelty, pain and suffering in the United States than all other causes combined.  They have blessed us with bad wars, bad science, bad medicine, bad faith and bad hair.  They are champions of racism, misogyny, homophobia, inequality, inequity and halitosis.</p> <p>It is long past time to brush them from the world stage and get back to making the world a better place for everyone.  Please stay involved and committed to our shared future.  We are counting on each other.</p> <p class="AlignCenter">Up the Resistance</p> <p>In honor of this being National Poetry Month and our brand new tradition of starting off roundups with an inspirational poem, here’s something topical from John Oliver:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=wQ_I274K0fE" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wQ_I274K0fE" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>There’s some news to share.</p> <p><strong>Opening Up the Correct Way (There’s Nothing Rightwing About It)</strong></p> <p>He gets a vaccine.  She gets a vaccine.  Everybody gets a vaccine!  In other news, the entire vaccine averse republican party has qualified for the largest group Darwin award in history.</p> <p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/adults-now-eligible-covid-19-vaccines/story?id=77163212" target="_blank" title="">ABC News:  <em>All US adults now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>All adults in the United States are eligible for <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/health/coronavirus" target="_blank" title="">COVID-19</a> vaccines starting Monday, with all 50 states and Washington, D.C., meeting the April 19 deadline President Joe Biden had set for opening eligibility.</p> <p>Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont were the last states to open eligibility to everyone age 16 and older on Monday. The April 19 deadline had been moved up from the May 1 goal Biden initially set for all adults to qualify for vaccination.</p> <p>… In the meantime, half of adults in the United States have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 33% of adults are fully vaccinated, <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations" target="_blank" title="">according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Goodbye, Walter</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;“WELL, MY TIME HAS COME.” Here’s the email Walter Mondale sent 300+ staffers and associates over the weekend. He noted how he looked forward to seeing his late wife, Joan, and late daughter, Eleanor. “Never has a public servant had a better group of people working at their side!” &lt;a href="https://t.co/bIRLBpSZde"&gt;pic.twitter.com/bIRLBpSZde&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ed O&amp;#39;Keefe (@edokeefe) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1384326472337346560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 20, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>“WELL, MY TIME HAS COME.” Here’s the email Walter Mondale sent 300+ staffers and associates over the weekend. He noted how he looked forward to seeing his late wife, Joan, and late daughter, Eleanor. “Never has a public servant had a better group of people working at their side!” <a href="https://t.co/bIRLBpSZde">pic.twitter.com/bIRLBpSZde</a></p>— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) <a href="https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1384326472337346560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Methinks They Dost Protest Too Much</strong></p> <p>The Reichwing standard bearers of Conservative American Regressive Policies are complaining they just can’t catch a break.  That’s just too damn bad (and also appropriate).</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/oan-employees-real-sorry-about-brain-poisoning-your-nana-can-you-quit-calling-them-nazis-now" target="_blank" title="">Wonkette:  <em>OAN Employees Real Sorry About Poisoning Your Nana's Brain, Please Stop Calling Them 'Nazis' Now?</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>"We're not Nazis," a One America News producer <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelAbramsNY/status/1383841808002600973?s=20" target="_blank">told</a> the <em>New York Times</em>. "Just, like, everyday people." Because if you think about it, the real victims here are the poor OAN staffers, cruelly misjudged when they're just following orders.</p> <p>In this case, those orders come from the network <em>fuhrer</em> himself, Charles Herring, the owner of OAN, who insists his employees scrape up all the sticky bits from floors of wingnut chat rooms and call it "news."  </p> <p><em>Times</em> reporter Rachel Abrams <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/business/media/oan-trump.html" target="_blank" title="">writes</a></p> <p>Assignments that the elder Mr. Herring takes a special interest in are known among OAN staff as "H stories," several current and former employees said. The day after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, Mr. Herring instructed OAN employees in an email, which The New York Times reviewed, to "report all the things Antifa did yesterday.</p> <p>That would be a short report, since Antifa did <em>nothing</em> on January 6 when Trump's maniac supporters were sacking the seat of government.</p> </blockquote> <p>  </p><p><strong>Gym Jordan Is Good at Getting Ratioed</strong></p> <p></p> <p>If I was even 10% as stupid as Gym Jordan, I’d listen to Auntie Maxine and keep my mouth shut.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-jordan-masks-question_n_607adadce4b001abc4dcaa60" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  <em>Jim Jordan Asked A Snarky Question About Masks And Twitter Users Did Not Hold Back</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Rep. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank">Jim Jordan</a> (R-Ohio) received a series of stinging rebukes for his latest attempt at politicizing <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/coronavirus" target="_blank" title="">coronavirus</a> pandemic public health precautions.</p> </div> <div> <p>“How many masks are we supposed to wear this week?” Jordan, a <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" title="">Donald Trump</a> sycophant, snarkily asked on Twitter Monday.</p> <p>Many critics reminded Jordan of the guidance ― and of the 567,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Enough so that no one can hear you whining. &lt;a href="https://t.co/fksz90NCDR"&gt;https://t.co/fksz90NCDR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AuthorKimberley/status/1384147071649804306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 19, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Enough so that no one can hear you whining. <a href="https://t.co/fksz90NCDR">https://t.co/fksz90NCDR</a></p>— Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) <a href="https://twitter.com/AuthorKimberley/status/1384147071649804306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>Some Background on How We Got Here</strong></p> <p>The Teabaggers have much to atone for.  This is an in depth look inside the cesspit’s history.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/how-a-feud-between-2-tea-party-leaders-helped-lay-the-groundwork-for-the-capitol-insurrection/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>How a Feud Between Two Tea Party Leaders Helped Lay the Groundwork for the Capitol Insurrection</em> — Stephanie Mengimer</a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>“Hello, deplorables!”</span></p> <p>That’s how Amy Kremer greeted the thousands of Trump supporters she had helped gather at the Ellipse in Washington, DC, on January 6 to “stop the steal.” Resplendent onstage in a bold leopard-print shawl, with the White House rising up behind her, the former flight attendant had come a long way since she and another Georgia woman, Jenny Beth Martin, became known as the “founding mothers” of the tea party movement back in 2009.</p> <div> <div></div> </div> <p>During the heyday of the grassroots conservative movement that had sprung up to oppose President Barack Obama, Kremer had headlined cross-country bus tours stumping for candidates like <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/10/05/130353168/-i-m-not-a-witch-republican-senate-candidate-christine-o-donnell-says-in-new-ad" title="">Christine (“I’m not a witch”) O’Donnell</a> and fighting against the Affordable Care Act. The tea party had helped elect hardcore conservatives who blew up immigration reform and took down former Republican House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for insufficient conservatism.</p> <p>But six months into the life of the movement, the two women split up, and this was before a bitter legal dispute—over tactics and money and salacious rumors—that lasted for years. As the Republican Party absorbed and institutionalized their movement, Martin successfully embedded in the Washington GOP establishment while Kremer kept trying to recapture the outsider energy of those early glory days.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It</strong></p> <p>In honor of 4/20 Day (the good one) here’s some news about just how mainstream pot has become.  Oh my, how the times have changed.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22388005/marijuana-weed-products-lighters-cannabis-rolling-tray" target="_blank" title="">Vox:  <em>Stoners just don’t need this much stuff</em> — Beca Grimm</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Stoners have long had the reputation for ingenuity. We’ve honed the ability to turn almost any object into a smoking device (see the iconic <a href="https://welcometosummer.land/products/fruit-fantasy">apple-as-pipe</a>, here in ceramic form), and are well-versed in using common items, like straightened-out bobby pins to clear the bowl in said pipe or a mortar and pestle to break up sticky icky, before grinders became widely available. Rolling joints in Bible pages — although not recommended — became a trope because it became so common. Smoking was illicit, and solutions were homemade. For a long time, marijuana enthusiasts weren’t a desirable market, and we got by.</p> <p>It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when cannabis and the people who smoke it became so mainstream. Maybe it was when <a href="https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/marijuana/legal-marijuana-use-colorado#:~:text=In%20November%202012%2C%20Colorado%20legalized,64%20to%20the%20Colorado%20Constitution.&text=The%20laws%20regarding%20use%20and,to%20pass%20even%20stricter%20laws." title="">Colorado and Washington legalized weed in 2016</a> or maybe it happened even earlier in 2008, when the queen of commercial clean <a href="https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a27055720/snoop-dogg-martha-stewart-friendship/" title="">Martha Stewart publicly befriended Snoop Dogg</a>, a rapper and weed business bro considered reefer royalty. By 2018, you could cop artisanal hemp kombucha from your city’s bougiest bodega as well as tincture for <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/1/18024806/cbd-oil-vape-hemp">CBD</a> (a non-psychoactive cannabinoid found naturally in the plant, credited with aiding everything from body pains to insomnia) from the local 7-11.</p> <p>Marketers and anyone else looking to cash in on the green rush saw the writing on the wall and by spring 2021, there isn’t an everyday product or service you can think of that doesn’t have a stoner-specific iteration available for purchase — like <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=nOD/rLJHOac&mid=2417&u1=[]vx[p]22152046[t]w[r]vox.com[d]D&murl=https://www.sephora.com/product/emerald-cbd-adaptogens-deep-moisture-glow-oil-P442564?om_mmc=aff-linkshare-redirect-OHlcvPYhHQM&c3ch=Linkshare&c3nid=OHlcvPYhHQM&affid=OHlcvPYhHQM-ZYGLhogwcvkPsTmnjwxF7Q&ranEAID=OHlcvPYhHQM&ranMID=2417&ranSiteID=OHlcvPYhHQM-ZYGLhogwcvkPsTmnjwxF7Q&ranLinkID=10-1&browserdefault=true" target="_blank" title="">$58 Herbivore Emerald CBD + Adaptogens Deep Moisture Glow Oil</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shine-Gold-Rolling-Papers-Sheet/dp/B00SZ2UUA0/ref=sr_1_1?ots=1&slotNum=0&imprToken=9cbc773e-50d3-b24a-584&dchild=1&keywords=shine%20papers&linkCode=sl2&linkId=b7f2dcb74a4d47cd3722082eab8aa799&qid=1618603085&sr=8-1&ascsubtag=[]vx[p]22152046[t]w[r]vox.com[d]D" title="">rolling papers that shake out to ~$7/pop</a> (quite the gamble if you’re not the most prolific roller), <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=74968X1562278&xs=1&url=https://www.milkmakeup.com/hydrating-face-mask.html?cgid=new&sref=https://www.crfashionbook.com/beauty/g27079155/marijuana-cbd-beauty-products-420-shopping/&xcust=___vx__p_22152046__t_w__r_vox.com__d_D" target="_blank" title="">a sativa seed hydrating face mask</a> going for $24 each, a spacy-yet-posh <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https://www.shop-tetra.com/collections/ashtrays-1/products/24k-gold-ashtray?variant=7010619075&referrer=vox.com&sref=https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22388005/marijuana-weed-products-lighters-cannabis-rolling-tray&xcust=___vx__p_22152046__t_w__r_vox.com__d_D" target="_blank" title="">$2,000 24-karat gold ashtray</a>, or a <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=nOD/rLJHOac&mid=13816&u1=[]vx[p]22152046[t]w[r]vox.com[d]D&murl=https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/product/edie-parker-table-top-lighter-0400013076381.html" target="_blank" title="">$450 Edie Parker Table Top Lighter</a> with its weighty emerald marble base and sterling silver functionalities. You can spend as much or as little as you want on cannabis-related and -tangential products.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Your Dose of The Borowitz Vaccine</strong></p> <p>Maybe they should bar people who a clinically brain-dead from Congress.  This is just too easy.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-for-the-development-of-anglo-saxon-space-lasers" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  Satire from the Borowitz Report:  <em>Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for the Development of Anglo-Saxon Space Lasers</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a leading member of the new America First caucus, is calling for the development of what she called “Anglo-Saxon space lasers.”</p> <p>“Anglo-Saxons have for too long ceded space-laser superiority to the airborne laser beams of foreign banking élites,” she said. “This shall not stand on my watch.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>And You Thought It Was All About Covid-19</strong></p> <p>If this keeps up (remember the cancer vaccines in the pipeline), it will be hard to tell the difference between humans and pincushions (unless we’re talking about republican deadenders who would rather die than admit to being wrong).</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/human-vaccine-trial-to-prevent-hiv/" target="_blank" title="">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>First Human Trial of HIV Vaccine Produced Immune Response in 97% of Volunteers</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>A phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental vaccine primed the immune system using a unique approach in order to prevent HIV.</p> <p>The promising results, announced in February by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Scripps Research, the vaccine showed success in stimulating production of rare immune cells needed to generate antibodies against the fast-mutating virus—and the targeted response was detected in 97 percent of participants who received the vaccine.</p> <p>“We showed that vaccines can be designed to stimulate rare immune cells with specific properties, and this targeted stimulation can be very efficient in humans,” said William Schief, PhD, a professor and immunologist at Scripps Research and executive director of vaccine design at IAVI’s Neutralizing Antibody Center, whose lab developed the vaccine.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude (extended)</h2> <p>I had a lot of trouble narrowing it down to just one song.  So I didn’t.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=dcLhrHHekC4" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dcLhrHHekC4?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHOqrw3Jks" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZVHOqrw3Jks?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="BidenMark46.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939294/large/BidenMark46.jpg?1618916805" title="BidenMark46.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ConservativesMark416.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939293/large/ConservativesMark416.png?1618916516" title="ConservativesMark416.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="VoterIdMark410.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939292/large/VoterIdMark410.png?1618916515" title="VoterIdMark410.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CokeMark413.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939289/large/CokeMark413.jpg?1618916506" title="CokeMark413.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CoolMark45.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939296/large/CoolMark45.png?1618916812" title="CoolMark45.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="gaetz2Mark46.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939295/large/gaetz2Mark46.jpg?1618916806" title="gaetz2Mark46.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="IQTestMark46.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939286/large/IQTestMark46.jpg?1618916408" title="IQTestMark46.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PickAKneeMark46.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939287/large/PickAKneeMark46.jpg?1618916407" title="PickAKneeMark46.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FaithHealersMark49.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939284/large/FaithHealersMark49.png?1618916354" title="FaithHealersMark49.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="EisenhowerMark46.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939281/large/EisenhowerMark46.jpg?1618916230" title="EisenhowerMark46.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <p>Lest you think it started with Boebert, Greene, Cruz & Gaetz</p> <blockquote> <p>The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. — H.L. Mencken</p> <p>Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson</p> <p>Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. — Jerry Falwell</p> <p>Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America. — Rick Perry</p> <p>I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. — Michelle Bachman</p> <p>I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people. — John Ashcroft</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="DoubtsMark41.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939282/large/DoubtsMark41.jpg?1618916231" title="DoubtsMark41.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p>and the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on ...</p> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="200704_Pressley_008.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/939270/large/200704_Pressley_008.jpg?1618911525" title="200704_Pressley_008.jpg"> <figcaption>I have a lot to talk about.  Check it out below.  Also, it’s kind of wet out here.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Pressley’s Picks</h2> <p>We all know I’m the more tailented writer here at the NNNE Institute.  That’s why I’ve decided to chase my tale-telling opportunities.  I’ve been working to get NNNE to sit up and beg for my help and he’s finally learned the trick.  In my bi-weekly Pressley’s Picks, I plan to bring you video treats I’ve devoured and enjoyed.  I sniff them out all over the web.  Enjoy.</p> <p>Us dogs are way more diverse than you guys.  Check out my cousin.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=6a7vtm3iqFE" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6a7vtm3iqFE" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Sometimes you guys are really cruel.  This really raises my hackles:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nGeKSiCQkPw" data-width="460" data-height="280" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  We need you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/19/2026665/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-Day89-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---Day89---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>Dylan wrote it.  Hendrix made it his own.  And the Dead took it into Space.  Today we’ll close out the festivities with an absolutely fierce version of <em>All Along the Watchtower</em> from 1993 —  “There must be someway out of here / said the joker to the thief / There’s too much confusion / And I can’t get no relief.”</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=tFAz3snr4bU" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tFAz3snr4bU" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  Matt Gaetz is still a giant, useless asshat.</em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Politics Recommended Roundup _2026520 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:08:25 +0000 The Implosion Continues Good News Roundup, Bluesday, April 6th, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/4/6/2024431/-The-Implosion-Continues-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-April-6th-2021 <p>It looks like the republican party has stopped pretending they stand for anything.  Sure, they’re still all in on their goosestep march of meaningless distractions — Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, Jill’s leggings, Joe’s stumble, Major’s mouth.  And they’re still working hard to create manufactured controversy (the border, the vaccine, the insurrection).  But, underneath it all, there’s no coherent reason for them to exist as a political movement.  They sacrificed all their long held policy positions and credibility at the altar of the Former Guy.</p> <p>Their base is being reduced to the gullible, the complicit and the criminal.  It’s not a recipe for long term success.  Most of can see that the republican leadership is transparently acting against the best interests of the United States of America and its citizenry.  Their recalcitrance, obstruction and denial of the pandemic and our response, climate change, structural racism, income inequity, public safety, etc ad nauseum is a clear case of political malpractice.  Hell, they don’t even have enough of a moral core to rid themselves of their most odious extremist criminal members.</p> <p>The republican collapse is accelerating.  They keep nominating candidates who are all vice and no virtue.  Their playbook is about gaslighting the populace rather than working to solve problems.  Their messaging strategy based on FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Division).  More and more people are waking up to the fact that they stand between us and a better future.  None of what they are doing bodes well for their future.  I look forward to the time when I can say, “Good riddance to bad cess.”</p> <p>Robert A. Heinlein wrote a book, <em>Glory Road</em>, wherein one of the antagonists is vanquished when the hero feeds his foot further and further into his mouth, progressing up the foe’s body, rolling him up until all that’s left is a little bit of grease that the hero wipes off onto his pants.  The republicans are doing this to themselves, except they aren’t using their feet or their mouths.</p> <p>It’s gotten so bad in right wing la la land that they are planning to amend the republican Bible and add the line, “And Fred beshat Donald who is come among us to make it all grate.” to Deuteronomy.  They will also be removing all references to tolerance, charity and compassion from any part of the New Testament.</p> <p>Even the Original Orange Man, John Boehner is dumping hard on his fellow republicans.  Under current conditions, the republican party is, just like Matt Gaetz, toast.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;The six stages of toast. &lt;a href="https://t.co/wEFCUOAatU"&gt;pic.twitter.com/wEFCUOAatU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/HNTurtledove/status/1378412412093689863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 3, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The six stages of toast. <a href="https://t.co/wEFCUOAatU">pic.twitter.com/wEFCUOAatU</a></p>— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) <a href="https://twitter.com/HNTurtledove/status/1378412412093689863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p>h/t to Ice Blue for sharing this in Sunday’s comment section.</p> <p>Among other things, Stephen Colbert spent part of his monologue talking about the Other Florida Man.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=pHkrn0n3k34" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pHkrn0n3k34" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>In case you haven’t seen it yet, Randy Rainbow dropped another sharpened missive for the GQP.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=YSSx5DXAO5I" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YSSx5DXAO5I" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Well, I guess it’s time to look at the news.</p> <p><strong>Filibuster, Schmilibuster</strong></p> <p>There are a lot of republican diapers overflowing up on Capitol Hill.  If Democrats succeed in passing landmark legislation without republican support, more and more people will see through the cloud of lies the republicans have been showering us with for the last 60 years.  They find themselves on a fast train to irrelevance, and that’s a good thing.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-schumer-filibuster-senate-parliamentarian_n_6067250dc5b6832c79366f9e" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  <em>Senate Democrats Gain Filibuster Workaround After Parliamentarian Ruling</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s attempt to give <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/democratic-party">Democrats</a> more opportunities to pass legislation with a simple majority of votes has been granted by the Senate parliamentarian, according to his office.</p> </div> <div> <p>The favorable ruling by Elizabeth MacDonough, who oversees Senate procedure, means the New York Democrat will have an extra chance to pass a bill with 51 votes this year. The ruling is good news for Democrats’ agenda, much of which faces fierce GOP opposition.</p> </div> <div> <p>“This confirms the Leader’s interpretation of the Budget Act and allows Democrats additional tools to improve the lives of Americans if Republican obstruction continues,” a Schumer spokesperson said in a statement. “While no decisions have been made on a legislative path forward ... and some parameters still need to be worked out, the Parliamentarian’s opinion is an important step forward that this key pathway is available to Democrats if needed.”</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>Pushback Hard</strong></p> <p>Kristi Noem is not the sharpest spoon in the GQP drawer.  Like most of the intellectually stunted members of the insurrection party, she makes a lot of extraordinarily stupid statements.  Secretary Buttigieg is a potent antidote to the “burn it all down as long as we can keep power” corps.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/you-need-water-to-live-pete-buttigieg-explains-infrastructure-to-republicans/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>“You Need Water to Live”: Pete Buttigieg Explains Infrastructure to Republicans</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The GOP governor of South Dakota had complained that Biden’s infrastructure plan would fund “housing and pipes.”</p> <p>There are people out there who are apparently confused about the meaning of the word “infrastructure,” so let’s help them out, shall we?</p> <p>According to dictionary.com, there are three definitions of “infrastructure,” which is a noun. There’s “<span>the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.” There’s “</span>the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.” And there’s “the military installations of a country.”</p> <p>To help explain the concept, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made the rounds on the Sunday political shows. “There’s a lot more than roads and bridges that are part of infrastructure,” <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1378721086590828552" title="">he told</a> George Stephanopoulos, who had asked him about the widely repeated Republican talking point that “only about 5 percent” of President Joe Biden’s new infrastructure proposal “goes for traditional roads and bridges.”</p> <p>“I heard the governor of South Dakota recently saying, ‘This isn’t infrastructure—it’s got money for pipes,'” Buttigieg said. “Well, we believe that pipes are infrastructure, because you need water to live, and too many families now live with the threat of lead poisoning.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Undoing the Damage Caused by Four Years of Mismanagement</strong></p> <p>It will take time, but we’ll get there.  Every step helps.  I think I have a few more platitudes to spout.  But, bottom line — we can’t undo all four years by snapping our fingers.  It takes an effort and we are making that effort.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/politics/blank-spaces-immigration-applications/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>Biden administration announces end to Trump-era rule that rejected certain immigration applications with blank spaces</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)The Biden administration announced Thursday it will not automatically reject certain applications for asylum or immigration benefits when a blank space is left on the forms, a reversal from a Trump-era policy that critics said was a blatant attempt to further crack down on legal immigration.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>During the Trump administration, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/uscis-immigration-citizenship-furlough/index.html" target="_blank" title="">US Citizenship and Immigration Services</a> rejected applications for certain immigration benefits, including asylum and relief for victims of certain crimes, based on parts of the form being left blank, meaning the application would be sent back to the applicant.</div> <div></div> <div>The Trump-era rule increased the likelihood of rejections amid <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/uscis-new-fees/index.html" target="_blank" title="">other policies</a> that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/trump-legal-immigration-coronavirus/index.html" target="_blank" title="">choked off legal immigration</a>, like suspending much of family-based immigration amid the pandemic and gutting asylum.</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <p><strong>Um, Remember All That Crap We’ve Been Saying for Years — Forget It</strong></p> <p>Now, if only the neanderthals they’ve been purchasing to represent them manage to notice.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ceos-admit-minimum-wage-raises-have-actually-been-good-for-business" target="_blank" title="">Wonkette:  <em>CEOs Admit Minimum Wage Raises Actually GOOD For Business!</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Last year, the National Restaurant Association spent $2.6 million on lobbying, much of which was directed against the Raise the Wage Act.</p> <p>For years, the primary narrative coming from business owners has been that if we raise the minimum wage, employers won't be able to afford to pay workers, and either people will lose their jobs to robots, or hamburgers will cost eleventy million dollars and only the wealthiest people will be able to afford Happy Meals.</p> <p>...In some recent earnings calls, when asked about what a minimum wage increase might mean for their business, CEOs and top executives of several major chains <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-other-ceos-tell-investors-15-minimum-wage-wont-hurt-business-1580978" target="_blank">shared that</a> they are actually doing just fine in states with higher minimum wages — and in many cases, they are doing even better. You know, because people have actual money to spend.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>More Trouble for the Former Guy</strong></p> <p>This is one person who I have less than zero fellow feeling, respect or compassion for.  I’m not even the teeniest bit guilty about it, either.  The article points out that all this started in 2014 when tRump was fighting with Jon Bon Jovi’s investor group while trying to purchase the Buffalo Bills.  The excerpt jumps ahead to the comeuppance part.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7am44/trumps-war-on-jon-bon-jovi-could-smash-his-empire" target="_blank" title="">Vice News:  <em><span>Trump’s War on Jon Bon Jovi Could Smash His Empire</span></em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>… The AG’s office recently gathered personal financial records of the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg,<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-attorney-general-weisselberg/2021/04/01/cbd98728-9302-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html" title=""> the Washington Post reported last week</a>, to see whether Trump’s company inflated its assets while attempting to score loans or insurance contracts, or deflated them when it came time to pay taxes. Trump and the Trump Organization deny any wrongdoing and claim that AG Letitia James is just running a witch hunt. </span></p> <p><span>The probe started after Trump’s former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, testified in 2019 that Trump provided Deutsche Bank with an inflated financial statement while seeking a loan for his failed attempt to buy the Bills. In August, the AG’s office said in court filings that it’s examining multiple Trump Organization properties in New York City, Chicago, upstate New York, and Los Angeles.  </span></p> <p><span>While the probe is civil in nature, the AG could hand over any evidence of wrongdoing to criminal prosecutors. And she could utilize the state’s Business Corporation Law and file a lawsuit seeking to dissolve Trump’s family business, depending on the evidence she turns up. Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham University Law School, has argued<a href="https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/8736-attorney-general-james-should-sue-to-dissolve-the-trump-organization" title=""> she should do precisely that</a>. </span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Ok, I Know You’ve Been Waiting for It, So Here’s Some News About the Soon to Be Other Former Guy</strong></p> <p>Republicans have, aside from Gym Jordan and the QAnon Lady, been mostly silent about Gaetz.  They haven’t rushed to call for investigation or even made the required, “I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked” statements either.  Even his supporter, and otherwise complete moron Marjorie Taylor Greene, is scrubbing selfies taken with Gaetz from her Facebook profile.  Things are not looking good for one of the contenders for Most Punchable Face in Politics.</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/06/trump-matt-gaetz-lifeline-479126" target="_blank" title="">Politico:  <em>Trumpworld has no lifelines it wants to throw Matt Gaetz</em></a></p> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) built a public profile as an unapologetic, unambiguous, omnipresent booster of President Donald Trump.</p> <p>But as his own political career skids toward disaster amid allegations that he had sex with a minor and paid for sex with women of legal age, neither Trump nor anyone in the ex-president’s orbit is rushing to Gaetz’s defense. A group that often instinctively decries any such charge as part of some nefarious, coordinated witch hunt from deep-state operators has, instead, said virtually nothing at all.</p> <p>“Not a lot of people are surprised,” said one person involved in Trump’s post-presidential operations.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>In the days since news broke that the Department of Justice was looking into whether Gaetz had violated sex trafficking laws — an allegation he denies — no Trump aide or family member has tweeted about the Florida congressman. Nor have almost any of the most prominent Trump surrogates or Trump-allied conservatives and media personalities, including Sean Hannity, Dan Bongino, Charlie Kirk or American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp, at whose annual CPAC conference Gaetz had recently appeared.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>It gets better.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-nate-nelson/" title="">Raw Story:  <em>Ex-staffer says he can't 'provide any evidence' to clear Matt Gaetz at press conference promoted by Gaetz</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>A former aide to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Monday struggled to defend the congressman against sex trafficking allegations.</p> <p>At a press conference promoted by Gaetz, Nate Nelson said that he had been interviewed by the FBI but did not have any evidence that could clear the controversial Republican.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <p><strong>A Little Bit of Andy</strong></p> <p>I can’t seem to get through a roundup without including something from Andy Borowitz.  Why is it that these satires are so damn believable?</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/rand-paul-claims-bidens-infrastructure-plan-infringes-on-bridges-right-to-crumble" target="_blank" title="">New Yorker:  Satire from the Borowitz Report:  <em>Rand Paul Claims Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Infringes on Bridges’ Right to Crumble</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Senator Rand Paul said that he is opposing President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan because it “infringes on bridges’ constitutional right to crumble.”</p> <p>“Decay, deterioration, and collapse are all a part of the natural process of entropy,” Paul said. “It is not the job of government to play God and interfere with that.”</p> <p>Warning of the “slippery slope of government overreach,” Paul said that the Biden plan is “threatening our infrastructure’s precious freedom to disintegrate.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Science/Technology to the Rescue</strong></p> <p>Our continued existence is a slap in the face to the science deniers among us.  Without the scientific advances that make modern life possible most of us wouldn’t be here.  Our resources wouldn’t support it.  Case in point:</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fog-catching-towers-in-lima-peru-as-part-of-lima-2025/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  <em>Fog-Catching Towers Could Supply Water to the World’s Driest Megacity Using The Ocean Air</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="portada-tower-2010-fog-cathing-tower-rendering-albertofernandez-696x493.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/934423/large/portada-tower-2010-fog-cathing-tower-rendering-albertofernandez-696x493.jpg?1617623552" title="portada-tower-2010-fog-cathing-tower-rendering-albertofernandez-696x493.jpg"> <figcaption>A fog catcher.</figcaption> </figure> <p>How can a megacity find water for 10 million people if it exists in the desert? Fog-catching nets, erected on hills over the city of Lima could solve the city’s water shortages for good.</p> <p>A twenty-meter high (60 feet) tower of spiraling nets will be unveiled this summer in the city as a solution to the threat which a warming climate poses to the shaky foundations of water availability in Lima.</p> <p>Aside from glacial runoff from the Andes, and water from the stressed Rímac River, Peru’s capital city accumulates just one inch of rain a year. The city sees high annual temperatures, and water consumption rates, despite being located in a desert, are higher than world averages.</p> <p>However, a unique feature of Lima’s weather offers a way of relieving some of this demand. Situated on the coast, Lima’s surrounding hills are constantly bathed in waves of fog coming off the Pacific Ocean, and the moisture captured by plants ensures they stay green year-round.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=cAcVpaNZ6W4" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cAcVpaNZ6W4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I can ‘t find any translation for this next song.  From what I can understand it’s a heartfelt celebration of women.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Yd1Ms1Jd7bs" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yd1Ms1Jd7bs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev!</p> <div> <div> <p>Good morning to the Pressley staff AKA NotNowNotEver and all the other 4-paw staffers out there in Gnuville. Your ever-lovin’ WineRev knows what all the 2-footed Gnus in Gnuville are up against; I have been house-sitting for a while with three cats, the youngest of whom is 16. I too rise evey day to my sacred task of the 3Bs (not Bach, Beethoven & Brahms) but that of Bowl, Bath and Biffies. (The one good thing about spring allergies and their nose-stuffiness is that it makes cleaning the litter boxes a bit easier.) Fortunately, the Felines take care of their own bathing, ALLOWING me to take care of hairballs---so an interesting trade off.</p> <p>>>>>>>The President gets to sit at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. The boy-usurper got to sit at the Toy Desk for an immortal photo-op last year. But now the Seabees have landed! These are the Navy’s Construction Battalions <em>(acronym C.B.---and spoken aloud comes out “Sea-Bee”)</em> that one American general in WWII in the Pacific remarked in admiration “The Seabees could erect the Pyramids on a beach if it would serve a military purpose.”</p> <p>Well in <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/05/navy-seabees-build-vp-kamala-harris-desk-out-of-wood-uss-constitution.html" target="_blank">THIS</a> ultra-cool story, at the Washington Navy Yard a team of Seabees built and now have delivered to <strong>Vice President Kamala Harris</strong> a new desk. The wood? From the oldest warship still in commission, the <u><em>USS Constitution</em></u>! Parts of some of the drawers are steel…..from the <em><u>USS Arizona. </u> </em>All of us woodworkers and cabinet-maker wannabes want a National Geographic special on this RIGHT AWAY.</p> <p>>>>» In the US Senate “the budget reconciliation process----for getting honking big spending bills through by a simple majority-----can only be used once a year”. The Received Wisdom. Law, right? Nope. Senate Rule? Nope. Custom? Yep…… Now after Chuck Schumer became Majority Leader this year word started circulating: “Ya know? Even if (not conceding this either!) budget reconciliation can only be used once a year, in 2020 the GQP Senate was SO incompetent and disorganized that they didn’t use it AT ALL. So there’s one extra in the locker. So if we use it to pass the America Rescue Act in March, we still have another shell to load…..” That has given progressive types hope good things can keep happening.</p> <p>But the news late yesterday is then stunning. Schumer got to announce that after making a case with the Senate Parliamentarian (whose rulings can be over-ridden by a simple majority anyway), she has ruled “actually, given the argument you’ve made, reconciliation can be used 3 MORE TIMES here in 2020.”  As you can tell, this is a wise and brilliant decision and I for one move to sustain the ruling of the Parliamentarian…….   Hope just got hope-ier……</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>April 6ths that have been playing in April showers in Good and Goofy ways for centuries so that as you are out with your Good and Goofy moments today jumping through puddles, know that you are honoring tradition.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>              610 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Cave of Hira, Mount of Jabal al-Nour, Mecca (now Saudi Arabia) <strong><u>Lailat-ul Qadar</u></strong>: The Night of Power, or Night of Decree. In a dream <strong>Mohammad</strong> has a vision of the angel Gabriel, who teaches him the opening words of the <strong>Quran</strong>, the Islamic sacred text. Mohammed understands himself from this point to be a prophet from and for God. This night is considered a night of blessings, forgiveness of sins, revelations, supplications are made and accepted, and that the mercies of God are spread.  </span></span></p> <p><strong>              1652</strong>   Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Dutch sea captain and sailor for the Dutch East India Company <strong>Jan Van Riebeek</strong> establishes a resupply base camp. The settlement that grows up around it eventually becomes the city of <strong>Cape Town.</strong></p> <p><span><span><strong>             1660 </strong>  Geising, Germany  Birth of <strong>Johann Kuhnau,</strong> composer, music theorist. Talented from an early age he was sent at age 10 to a boarding school for budding musicians. Later continued in Leipzig, where he earned a doctorate in law. Joined the army for a few years as an officer and engineer and took up composing in his off hours. Resigned his commission after a few years and returned to Leipzig to  becoming chief organist at the Thomaskirche Cathedral. He set a very high standard for the organ and for composing----and upon his death was succeeded in the post by rising star <u>Johann Sebastian Bach</u>. Kuhnau wrote a number of sacred works and several hymns still used among Protestants.  Chiefly recalled for some collections of keyboard sonatas (“Biblical Songs”) where he uses surprising passages and instrumentations to express the emotional content of several Biblical scenes. Unusual, even experimental on several levels. </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>                1862</span></span></strong><span><span>  Shiloh, Mississippi    After defeats and retreats going back to early February at Fort Henry, at dawn this day <strong>Confederate Gen. Albert Johnson</strong> catches <strong>Union General Ulysses Grant</strong> by surprise. Johnston has assembled all the men he could from as far as New Orleans to try and hold the Confederate West and turn back the Yankees. The Confederates push the Federals back steadily all day long. Grant and his fellow generals had not ordered entrenchments as they did not believe Johnston was able to attack. <strong>William Sherman</strong> took 2 minor wounds and had 3 horses shot out from under him during the day but steadied the defense all day. <strong>Benjamin Prentiss</strong> and about 4000 men lodged in a saucer-shaped depression later called the “Sunken Road” as a natural trench and held off at least 9 separate Confederate charges for nearly 4 hours before the last 2200 surrendered. Grant was everywhere and stitched together a long line of artillery near sundown and dared the Rebels to try his men and those guns. They didn’t, and fighting died down, waiting for morning. Grant and Sherman found each other and bedded down for the night under a large tree. Sherman recounted some stuff he’d seen and summed up saying “Well Grant, we’ve had the devil’s own day, haven’t we?” He was stunned in the dark as Grant pulled his coat around his shoulders, closed his eyes and said, “Yep. Lick ‘em tomorrow though” and fell asleep. And they did…….dooming the Confederacy in half their territory.</span></span></p> <p><strong>               1866</strong>   Decatur, Illinois   Formal formation this day of the <strong>Grand Army of the Republic</strong> (The G.A.R bronze marker you can still see in many old cemeteries. ) THE veteran’s organization for Union soldiers and sailors. <u>An integrated organization (rare for its time)</u> they cared for war widows and orphans and lobbied for veteran’s pensions from the federal government <em>(for Union men; former Confederates were not eligible and had to rely on state pensions.) </em>The GAR was so successful that during <strong>President Benjamin Harrison’s</strong> administration (1888-1892) Union pensions for veterans and their survivors made up <u>1/3 of the entire federal budget</u>. The last member to die was <strong>Albert Woolson</strong>, a New York man who finally passed away at the age of 109 (verified) in Duluth, MN in <u>August of 1956</u>. <em>(Fought in the Civil War, Union drummer boy at Appomattox, lived to see x-rays, radio, jet airplanes, motorcars, penicillin, movies, air conditioning, atomic power.)</em>  </p> <p><strong><span><span>              1889</span></span></strong><span><span>   Rochester, New York    Owner <strong>George Eastman</strong>, head of a camera company, is proud to place the <strong>Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time</strong>.</span></span> You’d buy the camera, take your pictures, then mail the whole camera to Rochester. Kodak had special tools to open it, remove and develop the film into prints, then reloaded the camera with a fresh roll and mailed it and your pictures back to you. <em>(A few years later there was enough business and improvements that you only had to mail in the roll of film.)</em></p> <p><strong><span><span>               1924</span></span></strong><span><span>   Seattle, Washington  Congress made a war department appropriation last year for an experiment to the <strong>Douglas Aircraft</strong> corporation. They carefully built <strong>four open-cockpit biplanes</strong> with the money. On this day the 4 planes (8 pilots) took off for a <strong>round-the-world flight</strong>. Two of the planes made it all the way (no crashes), which provided the engineers all sorts of information for improvements. It took them 175 days, averaging 77 mph.  They flew 26,000 miles in 363 hours of flying time. </span></span></p> <p><strong>              1925</strong>   Somewhere over the Weimar Republic (now Germany) Speaking of flying, aviation is taking off, even passenger aviation. On this day on one such flight (featuring an “enclosed cabin for passenger comfort”) a Lufthansa flight debuted <strong>the first in-flight movie</strong>, a silent-reel short. (Likely could not have heard a soundtrack (not until 1927) over the pair of engines; cabin sound insulation was just getting started.)</p> <p><strong><span><span>               1930</span></span></strong><span><span>  Schiller Park, Illinois   Canadian-born baker and executive <strong>James Dewar</strong> is bothered that several strawberry crème machines for making shortcake at the <u>Continental Baking Company</u> stand idle several months of the year when strawberries are out of season. He comes up with an idea and this day uses the machines to inject <strong>banana crème into a small sponge cake. He calls the product the “Twinkie.”</strong> It is a hit…..in World War II bananas are rationed and Continental can’t get any. Dewar changes over to <strong>using vanilla crème</strong>, which proves to be an even more popular. Even when bananas were available again, they were only sold occasionally.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1966</span></span></strong><span><span>   Washington DC   Out at the DC stadium the Washington Senators (the ball team, not the politicians) are hosting an early season game against the Cleveland Indians. They play the National Anthem and then home plate <strong>umpire Emmett Ashford</strong> yells, “Play ball!” Almost 20 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball, Ashford breaks it again, becoming <strong>the first African-American major league umpire. </strong>Highly regarded in his 4 years in the majors, the man umpired with style, trotting after foul balls to make a call, and behind the plate dressing in pressed suits, cuff links and freshly polished shoes, with a dynamic and distinctive style of calling balls and strikes.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></p> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="RepMark43.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/934337/large/RepMark43.jpg?1617588638" title="RepMark43.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div 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src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/934394/large/RepKoolAidMark325.jpg?1617619037" title="RepKoolAidMark325.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Parenting During the Pandemic</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ho3IFJiBzrY" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ho3IFJiBzrY" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. — H. P. Lovecraft</p> <p>We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. — Abraham Lincoln</p> <p>The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. — Henry A. Wallace</p> <p>There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” — Isaac Asimov</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <p>Pressley has been a bit full of herself since <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/4/2024307/-Pressley-Is-Sitting-in-for-2thanks-and-NNNE-2-Polls-Bill-s-Your-Ouchie-Sunday-Good-News" target="_blank" title="">Sunday</a>.  She’s parading around the house with her snout up in the air and giggling about Pawlitzer Prizes and Peebody Awards.  She’s taking pleasure crowing about the emails she’s getting telling her she’s a much better writer than I am.  She even did this to me in a recent conversation.</p> <p>Monday morning, we were out on one of our daily nature walks.</p> <p><strong>Pressley</strong>:  I can jump higher than that flower.</p> <p><strong>Me</strong>:  I know.  I’ve seen you do it.</p> <p><strong>Pressley</strong>:  I can jump higher than that bush.</p> <p><strong>Me</strong>:  Well, you’ve got some serious hops.  I suppose you could do it.</p> <p><strong>Pressley</strong>:  I can jump higher than that tree.</p> <p><strong>Me</strong>:  C’mon, Pressley.  No way you can do that.</p> <p><strong>Pressley</strong>:  Silly human, of course I can.  Flowers, bushes and trees can’t jump.</p> <p>That led to this picture.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="200523_Pressley_048.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/934592/large/200523_Pressley_048.jpg?1617670094" title="200523_Pressley_048.jpg"> <figcaption>I did not need that bath.  You are a monster.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Thanks for slogging on through to the end of another Roundup.  Remember to stay active and involved, while also looking out for your health.  We need you!</p> <p>hpg keeps on keeping on.  Last night’s Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/5/2024568/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-Day75-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---Day75---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>Let’s finish up with an “I was there” moment.  The lads used to cover a lot of Dylan songs.  I much prefer Phil’s voice (limited though he is) to Dylan’s.  Although, at this show, I still remember being blinded by Phil’s legs.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=lUQprzzIv6U" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lUQprzzIv6U" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  No teenagers were interviewed across state lines during the preparation of  this Roundup.  </em>Obscenely rich people don't have a handle on what's important to the rest of us.</p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) Filibuster gaetz GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead LimaPeru PlayingforChange Politics Poll RandyRainbow Recommended Roundup StephenColbert StevieWonder trump _2024431 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:01:15 +0000 Pressley Is Sitting in for 2thanks and NNNE. ☼ 2 Polls: Bill's + Your Ouchie? ☼ Sunday Good News https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/4/4/2024307/-Pressley-Is-Sitting-in-for-2thanks-and-NNNE-2-Polls-Bill-s-Your-Ouchie-Sunday-Good-News <p><strong>Top Image:</strong><span> Starhawk created this image and gave it to the members of the Good News Roundup group (Gnusies)! Thank you, Starhawk! This is a quite detailed sketch of a gnu drawn in brown, green, and black. A happy and dynamic gnu dances on its left hind leg in a rampant heraldric pose. Joyful letters prance above and behind the mane: “Happy Dance.” Signature: Nick Korolev, 2021.</span></p> <h2>Ruminations from the Guest Host</h2> <p>2thanks is still having internet issues.  He asked NNNE to make sure there was a GNR today.  But, NNNE is busy avoiding working on Tuesday’s roundup so he asked me to slap something together.  Since Markos refuses to give me my own account just because I don’t have opposable thumbs,  I’m posting this under NNNE’s byline.</p> <p>My name’s Pressley, and I spend most of my time working to keep NNNE from melting into his couch.  When I’m not doing that I’m in charge of direct outreach to our republican neighbors.  Here I am encouraging NNNE to get a move on.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="210331_Pressley_122.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/934071/large/210331_Pressley_122.jpg?1617530120" title="210331_Pressley_122.jpg"> <figcaption>Hurry up.  My GNR is not going to type itself.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>To give you a little background:  After I got my degree in barkaeology I worked with a team refining Skritch and Sniff technology.  I didn’t enjoy being a part of the rat race.  I’ve always felt that the dog eat dog philosophy espoused by corporate America was repugnant and an insult to canines everywhere.  So, I dropped out and joined a political commune with Bark Obama (I shih tzu not). </p> <p>That experience gives me the pawthority to talk a bit about today’s republican party.  Republicans are like a dog with a boner.  Their sole pawpose  in life is to screw everything they can — up, down and sideways.  They are absolutely shameless about it (I was going to say they made no bones about it, but that phrase has a slightly pawsitive connotation and there is nothing pawsitive about the republican party anymore).</p> <p>I also know something about digging holes.  I am in awe at the ability of Cancun Cruz, Marjorie Crazy Greene. Lauren Gunz Boebert, the Former Guy’s demon spawn, Josh Sedition Hawley, the Oath <s>Breakers</s> Keepers, and the rest of the GQP to keep digging while the sides of their excavations are collapsing down on top of them.  While I’m a big fan of rolling around in the mud, these guys have taken it to unbelievable extremes.  They are making naked mud wrestling look like a wholesome family activity.</p> <p>Having said all that, there’s one republican who has made an effort to stand out from the pack.  He’s gone barking mad to the point he’s frothing at the mouth.  The rest of his litter mates are all just rolling over and showing us their bellies (not a pretty sight).  I haven’t seen so many tucked tails since that skunk incident at the dog park.  Matt “The Big Sleaze” Gaetz is scooting* right across the upturned muzzles of the republican contingent in Washington.  We’ve heard nary a snarl from republicans.  Which is odd, as even my notoriously unconcerned feline friends are hissing with meowtrage.  Gaetz has taken sole pawsession of second place in the least housebroken republican sweepstakes.  The case against Gaetz is so strong, we don’t need a Sherlock Bones to help unravel it.  Gaetz is unraveling all by himself.</p> <p>I’m liking it, because NNNE gives me a treat every time there’s a new revelation.</p> <p>Here’s some Twitter gnus concerning my friend Major.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Republicans came down harder on Joe Biden for having a minor Major problem than they did on Matt Gaetz for having a major minor problem.&lt;/p&gt;— Andrea Junker ® (@Strandjunker) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1377318371264450577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 31, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Republicans came down harder on Joe Biden for having a minor Major problem than they did on Matt Gaetz for having a major minor problem.</p>— Andrea Junker ® (@Strandjunker) <a href="https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1377318371264450577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p><sup>*</sup>For those of you unfamiliar with the word ‘scoot’, this is what scooting looks like:</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="scoot1.gif" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/784963/large/scoot1.gif?1585526414" title="scoot1.gif"> <figcaption>Mattie Boy is doing this to the republican party</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Right.  I can hear you going eww, that’s gross.  Damn you and your opposable thumbs!  Anyhow, here’s another picture of me to make it all better.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="210209_Pressley_090.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/934072/large/210209_Pressley_090.jpg?1617530380" title="210209_Pressley_090.jpg"> <figcaption>I’ve just spotted a Red Hat in the field and am eager to take a bite out of his white ass pride.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Back when NNNE did Sunday roundups he used to include the cold open from SNL.  He told me it would be ok if I added some SNL links too.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=vU1AWcT1cps" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vU1AWcT1cps" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=5hoEQnH8KDI" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5hoEQnH8KDI" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Ok.  What follows is mostly what I think 2thanks might have written had his computer cooperated.  Since he’s being hounded by growling gremlins, this will have to do.  I hope my doing this will get NNNE moving on renegotiating the terms of my leash.</p> <p><strong>Talk About Barking Mad</strong></p> <p>Proof that republicans couldn’t find a treat no matter which hand it was in.  Roger Stone’s dog just don’t hunt.</p> <p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/03/roger-stone--no-stranger-to-indictment--offers-matt-gaetz-potentially-disastrous-advice/" target="_blank" title="">Salon:  <em>Roger Stone — no stranger to indictment — offers Matt Gaetz potentially disastrous advice</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Republican operative and pro-Trump dirty trickster <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/01/29/six-degrees-of-sedition-was-master-trickster-roger-stone-behind-the-capitol-riot/" target="_blank">Roger Stone</a>, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/12/23/trump-helps-his-corrupt-cronies-again-roger-stone-paul-manafort-and-jared-kushners-dad-pardoned_partner/" target="_blank" title="">a man well acquainted with indictment</a> (in his case for lying to Congress and witness tampering), is urging Rep. <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/03/31/rep-matt-gaetz-under-investigation-for-sexual-relations-with-teenager--he-claims-extortion/" target="_blank">Matt Gaetz</a>, R-Fla., the charismatic Trump ally <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/02/gaetz-probed-on-alleged-payments-for-sex-and-taking-ecstasy-said-to-share-pics-on-house-floor/" target="_blank" title="">now embroiled in seemingly bottomless scandal</a>, to potentially incriminate himself further by going on "offense" and continuing to appear on cable news.  </p> <p>"He needs to go on offense, this is right upfront in<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uIx8UAeZHs" target="_blank" title=""> Stone's Rules</a>," Stone told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his Infowars program. "The left-wing, non-journalist, fake-news media are the most vicious, malicious, dishonest people that I have ever come across," the GOP operative continued. "All of these stories that are maligning Matt Gaetz today are based on leaks. Where is the beef? Where are the facts? I don't think there are any facts. I think this is a good old-fashioned smear." Later in the segment, Stone encouraged Gaetz to stay in the public eye, not hide in a "hole," and make additional TV appearances. "He [Matt Gaetz] should not go hide in a hole, he should be out there, like he was on Tucker [Carlson] last night," Stone added.</p> <p>As additional allegations about Gaetz continue to surface, Stone has kept on defending him enthusiastically, despite a <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/02/gaetz-probed-on-alleged-payments-for-sex-and-taking-ecstasy-said-to-share-pics-on-house-floor/" target="_blank" title="">Thursday night CNN report</a> that Gaetz showed off nude pictures and videos of women he had sex with to fellow lawmakers on the House floor. "CNN Doesn't identify the lawmakers making these FAKE allegations against Gaetz because they have no evidence or documentation. Loathsome bottom feeders," Stone wrote on Parler after the story broke.</p> <p>Stone didn't return multiple requests for comment from Salon as to why he continues to back Gaetz. The veteran GOP operative has refused to speak to this reporter after learning he now works for Salon, claiming that this site isn't a "legitimate news organization."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Republicans Are Howling at the Moon</strong></p> <p>No matter how much they snap and snarl, they don’t really have anything to say.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/republicans-plan-to-sink-joe-biden-infrastructure-bill-lots-of-whining-no-solutions" target="_blank" title="">Vanity Fur:  <em>Republicans’ Plan to Sink Biden’s Infrastructure Bill: Lots of Whining, No Solutions</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The plan of attack, as usual, is to negotiate in bad faith—i.e. without real desire to reach a compromise. Luckily, Biden’s chief of staff has indicated that the administration has a very low tolerance for Mitch McConnell’s shenanigans.</p> <p><strong>Barack Obama</strong> built his first campaign for president on a theme of national unity. “I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time,” he <a>said</a> on the trail, “unless we solve them together.” But that bipartisan dream ran into a brick wall when he assumed office, thanks to a Republican party that would barely treat him as a legitimate president, let alone work with him. Obama didn’t “make Republican outreach a priority,” former House Speaker <strong>John Boehner</strong>, the president’s friendly foe on Capitol Hill in those years, recalls in his forthcoming memoir, an <a>excerpt</a> of which appeared in Politico Friday. “But on the other hand—how do you find common cause with people who think you are a secret Kenyan Muslim traitor to America?”</p> <p>More than a decade later, in a country even more divided, facing an even more radical GOP, Obama’s vice president, <strong>Joe Biden</strong>, took office with his own <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/democracy-has-been-tested-in-stirring-inaugural-address-joe-biden-calls-for-an-end-to-americas-uncivil-war">promise of unity</a>—one that sounded nice, but also naive. <em>Did he learn anything</em>, many in his party wondered as he campaigned, <em>from the eight years he spent watching Republicans obstruct Obama? From the last four years watching them follow <strong>Donald Trump</strong>?</em> The answer, it seems, is yes. Biden continues to talk about working together and uniting as a country, but it has become clear, as he works to dismantle his predecessor’s legacy through executive order, delivers his $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill over Republican lawmakers’ objections, and throws his momentum behind bold plans like the infrastructure package he proposed this week, that he means something very specific when he speaks of unity. Six dozen days into his presidency, Biden has sought to change the tone in Washington, but he has also put a condition on his offer of compromise: that all sides are arguing in good faith.</p> </blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <h2>Science</h2> <p>NNNE is getting his second shot at the end of this week.  This news has him all excited, so I thought I’d share it with the rest of you (and take up the Science slot 2thanks has been using).</p> <p><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-moderna-pfizer-transmission-disease" target="_blank" title="">Science News:  <em>Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines may block infection as well as disease</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Vaccines against COVID-19 are about 90 percent effective at blocking coronavirus infections, real-world studies of health care workers, firefighters, police, teachers and other essential workers suggest.</p> <p>Even after just one dose of the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, the vaccines  <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7013e3.htm">reduced the chance of getting infected with SARS-CoV-2,</a> researchers report March 29 in <em>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report</em>. “We clearly showed in our study that if you were at least 14 days out from your first shot, you had 80 percent protection” from infection, says Jeff Burgess, associate dean for research at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The study is part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that the vaccines not only reduce the risk of getting seriously ill with COVID-19, but can prevent catching the virus in the first place.</p> <p>“If you can’t get infected, you can’t infect anyone else, which means the vaccines can reduce transmission as well as the disease,” says Marm Kilpatrick, an infectious diseases researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study.</p> </blockquote> <h2><span>Poll #1: Who Won the Week? </span></h2> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>Gnusie Bill in Portland Maine lets 2thanks repeat the results of his research. He arrayed the following items in his popular<span><span><span><span> </span></span></span><strong>Who Won the Week?<span> </span>poll</strong><span><span><span><span> </span>in<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/2/2023846/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Rum-and-Marshmallow-Peeps-FRIDAY" target="_blank" title="">Friday’s Cheers and Jeers</a></span>.<span><span> Many </span></span></span>people<span> already </span></span>voted in that poll. </span><span><span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Bill%20in%20Portland%20Maine/history" target="_blank" title="">Please enjoy Bill’s on-point analysis and wit</a>,<span> </span></strong>vote in his poll,<span> </span></span>Rec his diaries, get on his bandwagon,<span> </span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/8/1730417/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Monday" target="_blank" title="">send him a donation</a>,<span> </span></strong>and earn<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1807122/71790682#comment_71790682" target="_blank" title="">his blessing</a><strong>.</strong><span><span> </span></span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> <p><span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Bill%20in%20Portland%20Maine/history" target="_blank" title="">Cheers and Jeers archive and future editions here</a>.<span> </span></strong></span><span><span>Way, way<span> </span></span>more than 2<strong> </strong>thanks to The One, our Wicked Wizard of Wit and writer of Who Won the Week, Willhelm von kosland!</span></p> <ol> <li>LGBTQers, as Sec. of State Blinken scraps Trump's ban on U.S. promotion of LGBTQ (and reproductive) rights abroad, and the Pentagon officially ends the ban on trans servicemembers</li> <li>West Chester, OH councilman Lee Wong, who addressed anti-Asian American violence by doffing his shirt during a town meeting to reveal his war wound scars: "Is this patriotic enough?"</li> <li>The New Yorker's Jane Mayer, who got secret recordings of Koch operatives horrified to learn that research shows the H.R. 1 voting rights bill is hugely popular, even among conservatives</li> <li>The pot legalization juggernaut, as New York's legislature passes a progressive legal cannabis law, including expunging the felony drug records of tens of thousands of people</li> <li>Injured Capitol Police Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby, who are suing Donald Trump for encouraging/inciting the GOP insurrection on January 6</li> <li>Students, as clinical trial results of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine show 100% efficacy and tolerance among 12 to 15 year olds</li> <li>Team Biden-Harris: releases jaw-dropping infrastructure plan; 75% public approval on vaccine rollout; executive actions on anti-Asian hate; 1st POTUS to honor Transgender Day of Visibility</li> <li>Sec. of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, for firing dozens of Trump holdovers on the DHS's advisory council, including creepy Ken Cuccinelli</li> <li>Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), for signing a statewide voting rights act that'll protect voters against suppression, discrimination, and intimidation</li> <li>The engineers, tugboat captains, full moon, and that lowly lone backhoe operator, for getting the Ever Given container ship free in the Suez Canal</li> </ol> <p>Well, who do you think won?  I’ll give you a hint.  His initials are Joe Biden.  Even poll results are getting boring during the new administration.</p> <div> <h2><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tygO225m0HHX9z-arUb27JWkW853LUwc&usp=sharing" target="_blank" title="">Sunday, Mapday: Pin Dropping</a> </strong></h2> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="Two maps of the United States, one above the other. Both maps indicate the approximate locations of members of the Good News Roundup community of Daily Kos. The lower map contains many more blue pin-markers than the upper map. Upper image: A map of Gnuville from February 15, 2019 with fewer than 50 pins. Lower image: A map of Gnuville from March 21, 2021 with 582 member worldwide pins. Tags: Good News Roundups Gnusies maps members pinned" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/929491/large/GnuvilleFeb2019-Mar2021.png?1616361678" title="Two maps of the United States, one above the other. Both maps indicate the approximate locations of members of the Good News Roundup community of Daily Kos. The lower map contains many more blue pin-markers than the upper map. Upper image: A map of Gnuville from February 15, 2019 with fewer than 50 pins. Lower image: A map of Gnuville from March 21, 2021 with 582 member worldwide pins. Tags: Good News Roundups Gnusies maps members pinned"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p><span><span><span><strong><span><span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1tygO225m0HHX9z-arUb27JWkW853LUwc&ll=27.611871857298503%2C-104.43123344999992&z=4" target="_blank" title="">Our map of Gnuville</a>:<span> Almost 590 </span></span></span></strong></span></span></span>of us have shared our global locations!</p> <p>To leave your mark, please drop a comment or send one of the following a kosmail:<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/newthread/tljdk" target="_blank" title="">tljdk</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/newthread/silverfoxcruiser" target="_blank">silverfoxcruiser</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/newthread/keepiru" target="_blank">keepiru</a>. Please include <span>city and state<span> </span></span><strong>only</strong><span>,<span> </span></span><strong>NOT</strong><span><span> </span>street number and street. (Please persist, we are volunteers.)</span></p> <p><span>Thanks to Kluger2 for our new map image!</span></p> <p><strong>Image:</strong> Two maps of the United States, one above the other. Both maps indicate the approximate locations of members of the Good News Roundup community. The lower map contains many more blue pin-markers than the upper map. Upper image: A map of Gnuville from February 15, 2019 with fewer than 50 pins. Lower image: A map of Gnuville from March 21, 2021 with 582 member worldwide pins.</p> <p>If you join us regularly, are you Following us?</p> <p><strong>Pressley here</strong>:  C’mon man.  We need just a few more pins to crack through the magical 600 gnusie number.  With six hundred pins we can form a brigade and ride on into the valley.</p> <h2>Tech Talk for Kosacks</h2> <ul> <li>Got a Daily Kos tech question? Let us know.</li> <li>Solved a tech question recently? Please feel free to repeat in the comments.</li> </ul> <h2>Where Ever is Herd</h2> <p><strong>Morning Good News Roundups at 7 x 7: These Gnusies lead the herd at <span>7<span><span> </span>a.m. ET, 7<span> </span></span></span>days a week:</strong> </p> <div> <ul> <li>The <span>Monday GNR Newsroom (</span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Jessiestaf/history" target="_blank">Jessiestaf</a>, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/8/2019929/-Monday-Good-News-Roundup" target="_blank">Killer300, and Bhu</a>). With their five, we survive and thrive.</li> <li>Alternating Tuesdays: <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/NotNowNotEver" target="_blank">NotNowNotEver</a><span><span><span> </span></span>(with memes) and<span> <span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/arhpdx" target="_blank">arhpdx</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.</li> <li>Wednesdays: <span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/niftywriter/history" target="_blank">niftywriter</a></span>.</li> <li>Thursdays: <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/pucklady" target="_blank">pucklady</a> the 1st Thursday, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Mokurai" target="_blank">Mokurai</a> the 2nd, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/oldhippiedude" target="_blank">oldhippiedude</a> the 3rd, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/MCUBernieFan" target="_blank">MCUBernieFan</a> the 4th, and <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Mokurai" target="_blank">Mokurai</a> the 5th (when there is one).</li> <li>Fridays: <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/chloris%20creator/history" target="_blank">chloris creator</a>. Regular links to the <strong><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/" target="_blank">White House Briefing Room</a></strong><span>. </span></li> <li>Saturdays: <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/GoodNewsRoundup/history" target="_blank" title="">GoodNewsRoundup</a>. Heart-stirring and soul-healing introduction and sometimes memes to succumb to.</li> <li>Sundays: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/user/2thanks/history" target="_blank">2thanks. </a>A brief roundup of Roundups, a retrospective, a smorgasbord, a bulletin board, an oasis, a watering hole, a thunder of hooves, a wellness, a place for beginners to learn the rules of the veldt.</li> </ul> <p><span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/hpg/history" target="_blank">hpg</a> posts Evening Shade diaries at 7:30 p.m. ET every day!</strong> After a long day, Gnusies meet in the evening shade and continue sharing Good News, good community, and good actions. In the words of NotNowNotEver: “hpg ably continues the tradition of Evening Shade</span>.<span>”</span> Find <span>Evening Shades </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Good%20News/history" target="_blank">here</a><span>. </span></p> <p><span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/oldhippiedude/history" target="_blank" title="">oldhippiedude</a> posts Tweets of the Week on Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m. ET. </strong>Our first regular afternoon Gnusie outpost! In search of a TOTW diary? Look <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/oldhippiedude/history" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/group/Good%20News" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p> <p><span>For more information about the Good News group, please see our detailed Welcoming comment, which is usually the first comment in our morning diaries.</span></p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <h2><strong>The 6 R’s of the Resistance</strong></h2> <div> <div> <p><span>Joe Biden is now our President. We’ll need to stay vocal and active, we’ll need to keep pulling Joe to the left, and we’ll need to keep resisting the GQP.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <ol> <li><strong>Refresh and Rest:<span> </span></strong>Take care of you, the hero: Eat well, exercise, and rest.</li> <li><strong>Resist:<span> </span></strong>Protest on the streets, call senators and representatives, etc.</li> <li><strong>Rebel:<span> </span></strong>Run for office, GOTV (Get Out The Vote), support a progressive.</li> <li><strong>Revolt:<span> </span></strong>Change the laws, change the culture, build your communities.</li> <li><strong>Rely:<span> </span></strong>Trust that millions of others are fighting the good fight.</li> <li><strong>Rejoice:<span> </span></strong><a href="https://www.aestheticsofjoy.com/2019/11/joy-is-an-act-of-resistance-how-celebration-sustains-activism/" target="_blank">Joy promotes resilience and gives rise to hope</a>.</li> </ol> </div> </div> <div></div> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2><span>How to Resist: </span><span>Do Something …</span></h2> <blockquote> <p>Are you looking for a new focus now that we have good people in charge?  <strong>Fighting voter suppression might be for you!</strong><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Nothing is as important!</p> <p><strong>What can you do?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Contact your local representative NOW to encourage them to pass the For the People Act.  <a href="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5950/c/10065/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14034&_gl=1*vjd5hn*_ga*ODk5MDQ0OTguMTYxMTkzMzQ0Ng..*_ga_DDCEP0D6KM*MTYxMTkzMzQ0NS4xLjEuMTYxMTkzNDEyMi4w&_ga=2.171487200.1387862167.1611933446-89904498.1611933446" target="_blank"><strong>This link makes it easy to do!</strong></a></li> <li>The ACLU plays a key role in filing lawsuits that often stop voter suppression.  Get<span> </span><a href="https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression" target="_blank"><strong>involved with them at this link.  </strong></a></li> <li>The League of Women Voters<strong><span> </span></strong><span style="text-align:start">work year-round to combat voter suppression through advocacy, grassroots organizing, legal action and public education.<span> </span></span> <strong><a href="https://www.lwv.org/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression" target="_blank"><span> </span>You can get involved with them at this link</a></strong></li> <li>Volunteer with Black Votes Matter<a href="https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/take-action/" target="_blank"><span> </span><strong>at this link</strong></a>.   They have on the ground work in 10 states and people from other states can write postcards, phone bank, fundraise, and text.</li> <li>Spread The Vote works to get voters IDs before voting begins.  <strong><a href="https://www.spreadthevote.org/volunteer" target="_blank" title="">You can volunteer with them at this link.  </a></strong></li> <li><strong>Finally, when it comes time to pass HR1 (the new voting rights act) the Democrats will have to end the filibuster to do it.<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/democrats-biggest-decision-nuking-filibuster/617854/" target="_blank"><span> </span>It will not pass without that</a>.  10 Republicans will not vote for it.  So, when the time comes, you will need to call, call, call and call your Senators to push them to do this. If you live in Arizona, Montana, or West Virginia, you may want to put in for some vacation time to really devote yourself to it.  It will be the only option.  Get ready!<span> </span></strong>[GoodNewsRoundup]<strong> </strong></li> </ul> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <div> <p><strong>On Daily Kos:</strong></p> <div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><strong>Postcards to Voters: </strong></li> <li><span style="text-align:start"><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/4/1832194/-I-Have-Some-Ideas-If-You-re-Interested-Hope-You-ll-Take-a-Look" target="_blank">Yosef 52</a></strong>:<span> </span></span>Great ideas.<span> </span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Yosef%2052/history" target="_blank">Many diaries</a></strong>.</li> <li><span style="text-align:start"><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Mrmuni12/history" target="_blank">Mrmuni12</a></strong>: Popular comments in Roundups as well as<span> </span><strong><span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Mrmuni12/history" target="_blank">diaries</a></span></strong>.</span></li> <li>The<span> </span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Black%20Kos/history" target="_blank" title="">Black Kos Community</a><span> </span></strong>posts diaries on Tuesdays and Fridays at 5 p.m. ET.<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/user/Black%20Kos/history" target="_blank">Diaries here</a>. This white guy is very, very grateful to the Editors and commenters of The Porch!</li> <li>How to find Kosacks near you: The<span> </span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dogged" target="_blank">persistent<span> </span></a>mettle fatigue provides:<span> </span><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/17/1961398/--x1f4be-New-DK-Groups-11-Kentucky-Mask-Making-Racism-Environment-and-DK-s-Open-Threads-Grps" target="_blank" title="">Where the Daily Kos Groups Are: Links to Daily Kos’s 280+ Local, In-Real-Life, Political, and Geographic Groups, Organized by State and Beyond, 2011-2020</a></strong></li> </ul> <div> <h2>… Say Something</h2> </div> <p>We welcome comments in<span> </span>Roundups every day regarding:</p> <ul> <li><strong>National or local Good News.</strong></li> <li><strong>Links, stories, music, videos, quotes, tweets</strong>. (No tweets or images of the saffron chlamidiot, please.)</li> <li><span><strong>Your<span> </span></strong>resistance activity</span><span>.</span></li> </ul> <p>In my Sunday smorgasbord Roundups, I<span> </span><strong>especially </strong>welcome the following types of comments:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Who won YOUR week?</strong></li> <li><span><strong><span>Q</span>uestions </strong>about Daily Kos tech issues or our map.</span></li> <li><strong>Good News Roundups and you.</strong></li> <li><strong>How are you resisting? </strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Top Image:</strong><span> Starhawk created the top image of the rampant gnu and gave it to the members of the Good News Roundup group (Gnusies)! Thank you, Starhawk! This is a quite detailed sketch of a gnu drawn in brown, green, and black. A happy and dynamic gnu dances on its left hind leg in a classic rampant heraldric pose. Joyful letters prance above and behind the mane: “Happy Dance.” Signature: Nick Korolev, 2021.</span></p> <div> <div> <div> <h2><span>The Roundup is almost open!</span></h2> <p><span>Thank you for fighting for truth and justice with all us Gnusies! <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/20/1827780/-The-Week-in-Review-This-is-definitely-theSunday-Good-News-Roundup" target="_blank">40% of our<span> </span></a></span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/20/1827780/-The-Week-in-Review-This-is-definitely-theSunday-Good-News-Roundup" target="_blank">R</a><span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/20/1827780/-The-Week-in-Review-This-is-definitely-theSunday-Good-News-Roundup" target="_blank">eaders don’t visit every day</a>, 50% of us do, and 10% are here for the first time! We all do what we can. </span>For 3-1/2 years, we’ve shared positive news, laughed, organized, resisted, rebelled, revolted without being revolting, relied, rested, mentored, created, crossed rivers, chewed our cud, puffed methane out both ends, and laughed. Here’s looking at you, kid, and standing upwind!</p> <p><span>As always, please share more Good News than 2thanks or I can find or provide. </span></p> <p>This is a group diary, and by the power delegated by 2thanks I declare this Good Gnus Salo(o)n open!  Let the good-news sharing and community building begin!</p> <p><strong>Power with, not power over </strong>❤️ ✊ ❤️</p> <p><strong>Pressley for 2thanks </strong>(he, him)</p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-md align-left"><img alt="Black words &quot;Celebrate! Religious Freedom Day&quot; superimposed over a circle of free-form, dynamic, rainbow-colored dancing or flying figure-pairs on a white background. The color of each half pair is slightly different from the color of the other half. [Religious Freedom Day]" class="width-md" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/632521/large/Celebrate_Religious_Freedom_mug_%28available_at_Zazzle.com_-_Dovetail_Designs_-_Copyright_2019%29.png?1547556743" title="Black words "Celebrate! Religious Freedom Day" superimposed over a circle of free-form, dynamic, rainbow-colored dancing or flying figure-pairs on a white background. The color of each half pair is slightly different from the color of the other half. [Religious Freedom Day]"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>If you enjoy 2thanks’ work on Daily Kos, he’d appreciate a gnusie bump, large or small, via<span> </span><strong><a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/williamtutor" target="_blank" title="">PayPal</a> </strong>or <a href="https://cash.app/" target="_blank" title=""><strong>CashApp</strong></a> ($ipaywill). Gifts from supportive Kosacks help him pay for his wife’s medicines. If you’ve sent him a gift already, he is 2thankful!</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>.</p> <h2>Poll #2: Have you received your Fauci ouchie?</h2> <p>2thanks is keen to track our vaccinations, because he thinks our trends might encourage slow-to-decide readers to get vaccinated.<span>  I don’t care as much because I am a dog and can’t get the virus. </span><strong>And we now have trends!<span> </span></strong>Of course, the median age of Daily Kos readers is greater than<span> </span><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the-us-population/" target="_blank" title="">the median age of Americans</a>, and therefore 2thanks expects that we will receive our vaccinations before most Americans.</p> <p><strong>Thank you all for participating in 2thanks’ Fauci ouchie polls since 2/21!</strong></p> <p><strong>Results of the Vaccination Polls from Previous Sunday Good News Roundups (Percentages):</strong></p> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="table-wrapper"> <table> <tbody> <tr style="height:23pt"> <td style="vertical-align:top"></td> <td colspan="5" style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><strong><strong>Dates </strong></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:0pt"> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p><strong><strong>Vaccinations Received </strong></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><strong><span>2/21</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><strong><span>2/28</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><strong><span>3/7</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><strong><span>3/14</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><strong><span>3/21</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:0pt"> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p><strong><span>2 vaccinations (M/P)</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>17</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>25</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>29</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>33</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>39</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:0pt"> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p><strong><span>The first vaccination (M/P)</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>27</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>29</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>33</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>33</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>35</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:0pt"> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p><strong><span>The J&J vaccination</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>0</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>0</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>1</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>3</span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p style="text-align:center"><span>3</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p><em><span>M = Moderna, P = Pfizer, and J&J = Johnson & Johnson</span></em></p> <p><span><strong>Pressley here</strong>:  There is no data included for 3/28 because after looking at the results from last weeks poll, I got confused.  He’s been giving us percentages rather than raw numbers.  I can count — One, two, many … but percentages?  Sheesh.  I’m going to leave it to 2thanks to figure it out.</span></p> <p><span>Why don’t we close out with a song from my favorite album — <em>Bark Side of the Moon.</em></span></p> <ul> <li class="AlignCenter"><em><span>Breathe, breathe in the air</span></em></li> <li class="AlignCenter"><em><span>Don't be afraid to care</span></em></li> </ul> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=DLOth-BuCNY" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DLOth-BuCNY" data-width="1041" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) Gnus Gnusies Gnuville GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended Roundup _2024307 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:01:20 +0000 Open Thread GNR, Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/3/23/2022383/-Open-Thread-GNR-Tuesday-March-23rd-2021 <p>I was in the middle of preparing a very snarky intro for today’s GNR.  However, after the horrific event yesterday in Boulder, Colorado, I’ve been struggling with how to respond.  The continued senseless loss of life condoned and enabled by the gun policies of the republican party coupled with the continued senseless loss of life encouraged by the science denying credo of the republican party is something we, as a country, need to address in short order.  Insincere thoughts and prayers just don’t hack it.</p> <p>I’m so very, very tired of reading/hearing these stories of wanton destruction.  I suspect anyone who reads this feels the same way.  Yesterday’s atrocity together with all the recent violence perpetrated by domestic terrorists is a threat to our civil society.  One mass casualty event is one too many.  Seven in seven days (Atlanta, Georgia.  Stockton, California.  Gresham, Oregon. Houston, Texas.  Dallas, Texas.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Boulder, Colorado.) is far, far beyond too many.</p> <p>Gabrielle Gifford agrees, "This is not normal, and it doesn't have to be this way. It's beyond time for our leaders to take action."</p> <p>So, let us rise up and encourage our leaders to bulldoze right over the objections of those faux patriots who coddle and support insurrectionists, mass murderers and the other despicable icons of today’s republican ideals (like the Former Guy).</p> <p>I think the new republican motto should read, “No matter the issue:  We were wrong then.  We are wrong now.  We’ll still be wrong tomorrow.”</p> <p>Ok, that’s it from me for today.  I know there is also a lot of good news happening too.  Please share all the good news you have.  I just can’t go there quite yet.  My sense of overwhelming outrage won’t let me.  I hope you understand.</p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Recommended _2022383 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:00:11 +0000 Onward! - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, March 9th, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/3/9/2020153/-Onward-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-March-9th-2021 <p>I’m so very tired of hearing republican politicians and their promoters/enablers find different ways to articulate their guiding principle:</p> <blockquote> <p>God made be a greedy shit, and I intend to live up to my heritage. — Damn near every consequential Republican for the last 60 years</p> </blockquote> <p>From Joseph McCarthy to Marjorie Taylor Greene, it’s been one long descent into political hell.  The faces change but the song remains the same:</p> <blockquote> <p>We want power for the sake of power.  The only uses we have for it are corrupt and criminal, but we still want it more than anything. — The words republicans refuse to say out loud</p> </blockquote> <p>Democrats welcome the sunrise — The dawning of the new day; Hope; Progress; Change; Shining a light on our problems and working toward real solutions.</p> <p>Republicans, on the other hand, are all about sunset — Scurrying toward the night;  Divisiveness; Lies; Stagnation; Lurking in partisan shadows while ignoring any inconvenient problems.</p> <p>It’s a fundamental divide.  To further their ends, republicans manufacture scandals (emails, Benghazi), embrace the absurd (QAnon), promote cruelty (kids in cages), normalize boorishness (tRump, Jordan, Gohmert, Gosar, Cotton, Hawley, Cruz, ...), betray allies (the Kurds), and foment insurrection against the United States of America.</p> <p>Any good ideas conservatives have are completely masked by their decades of anti-social behavior.  They’ve worked so very hard to normalize aberrant behavior.  They upped the ante by telling repetitive systemic lies.  Sowing outright discord was not very far behind.  It was a small leap to supporting open cruelty and torture (remember officially sanctioned water-boarding?).  Now we have a party celebrating the graft and corruption of the former guy; a party that has coalesced around the message of bigotry, racism, misogyny, xenophobia and treason.</p> <p>They are a clear and present danger to the future of the world.  That’s why we need to stay committed to our principles.</p> <p>Today, the competition to take the mantle of corruption from the Former Guy is heating up.  The most stellar examples of the general republican’t lack of moral values are quietly vying to unseat their Golden Calf (I finally figured out why he paints himself orange).  There is no lie too heinous; no act too depraved; and no betrayal to despicable — They’ve learned their lessons well.</p> <p>So today’s message is to not let up.  We shall fight them in the voting booth.  We shall fight them on the stump speech.  We shall fight them with our pundits.  We shall never surrender — Not. Now. Not. Ever.</p> <p>Last night on A Late Show, Nicole Wallace had some very pithy things to say about the republican party.  Oh, my!</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=u0kvZvhjq_Q" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/u0kvZvhjq_Q" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And it’s on to the news,</p> <p><strong>It’s Women’s History Month, So Let’s Start It Right</strong></p> <p>Biden doing things like this, make me happy to be here again.  Elections do make a difference — this one more than any in my lifetime.  These recommendations were never sent to tRump, for fear he would reject them.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/08/politics/female-generals-nominations-biden/index.html" target="_blank">CNN:  <em>Biden nominates two female generals to 4-star commands after promotions delayed under Trump administration</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)<a href="https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/joe-biden-news" target="_blank">President Joe Biden</a> on Monday announced he has nominated two female generals to positions as 4-star combatant commanders after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/pentagon-delayed-female-nominations/index.html" target="_blank">their promotions had been delayed</a> under the Trump administration.</p> </div> <div></div> <div>The nominations of Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost of the Air Force to commander of United States Transportation Command and Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson of the Army to commander of United States Southern Command would make them the second and third woman to lead a Combatant Command if confirmed by the Senate.</div> <div></div> <div>Biden, during remarks on International Women's Day at the White House on Monday, called Van Ovost and Richardson "two outstanding and eminently qualified warriors and patriots."</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <p><strong>Creeping up the Food Chain</strong></p> <p>Can you say schadenfreude?  No, really can you say it?  It’s a tough word to pronounce properly.  It looks a lot like it’s also about to do a number dancing on Roger Stone’s corrupt pardon freedom tour.  This may even qualify as schadengiddy.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roger-stone-oath-keeper-roberto-minuta-arrest_n_6046d2bac5b6a973f9542177" target="_blank">Huffington Post:  <em>Oath Keeper Associate Of Roger Stone Is Arrested On Capitol Riot Charges</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>A member of the extremist <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/oath-keepers" target="_blank">Oath Keepers</a> seen <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roger-stone-oath-keepers-video-investigation_n_601e3cc3c5b6173dd2f63204" target="_blank">hanging out with longtime Donald Trump confidant</a> <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/roger-stone" target="_blank">Roger Stone</a> the day of the U.S. Capitol siege was arrested Monday on charges linked to the riot.</p> </div> <div> <p>Roberto Minuta, 36, of New Jersey is accused of <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20507888/minutaaffidicp.pdf" target="_blank">obstructing the formal counting</a> of presidential election votes, trespassing and attempting to cover up his crimes, according to the criminal complaint against him.</p> </div> <div> <p>Minuta, who owns a tattoo parlor in New York, traveled to Washington “equipped with military-style attire and gear, including apparel emblazoned with a crest related to the Oath Keepers,” and then stormed the Capitol, states an affidavit in support of the complaint. He was allegedly armed with a gun and bear spray.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>Fixing the Damage Wrought</strong></p> <p>After four years of political predators slaughtering protections, one endangered species is looking to make a comeback — regulations that protect us from predators</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2021/03/biden-title-ix-executive-order/" target="_blank">Mother Jones:  <em>Biden Takes the First Step Toward Undoing Betsy DeVos’ Title IX Rules</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>President Joe Biden has taken the first step toward dismantling former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ controversial overhaul of federal rules for how schools should handle allegations of sexual violence and harassment, issuing an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/08/executive-order-on-guaranteeing-an-educational-environment-free-from-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-including-sexual-orientation-or-gender-identity/">executive order</a> on Monday morning that lays the groundwork for newly confirmed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to roll back the Trump administration’s actions.</p> <p>The executive order specifically calls out DeVos’ Title IX regulations, which took effect last August, to be reviewed for potential suspension, revision, or rescission. It also directs Cardonas and the attorney general to review any regulations, policies, and agency actions that that might run counter to the goal of eliminating sex discrimination in schools—including discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation—within the next 100 days.</p> <p>In 2011, the Obama administration had issued Title IX guidance that expanded protections for student survivors who reported assault or harassment to their schools. During her tenure, DeVos rolled back the Obama-era guidance and issued new rules, which she portrayed as a way of making school discipline fairer by expanding the due process rights of students accused of sexual misconduct. Her changes were celebrated by Republicans as well as organizations promoting men’s rights or free speech, which had claimed men accused of sexual misconduct were frequently railroaded in anti-male “<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/earl-ehrhart-title-ix-lawsuit/">kangaroo courts</a>.” (Men’s rights activists had a hand in drafting DeVos’ regulations, an investigation by the <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/betsy-devos-title-ix-mens-rights/"><em>Nation </em></a>revealed last year.)</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Republican</strong></p> <p>In today’s bad news as good news, the republicans keep making themselves look like children who deserve a permanent time out, even the “reasonable” one.  Of course, the whole lot of them are proponents of the “It they’re for it, I’m agin it!” school of compromise and governance.  Voting against something supported by 70% of the population is not smart.  But then, no one has ever accused today’s republican politicians of being smart — sneaky, subversive, sleazy — yes.  Smart, no.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/gop-senator-lisa-murkowski-put-some-good-stuff-in-the-covid-relief-bill-she-voted-against-like-a-weird-person" target="_blank" title="">Wonkette:  <em>Lisa Murkowski Put Good Stuff In COVID Relief Bill, Voted Against It Like Weird Person</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Republican senators are very happy they <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senate-passes-covid-relief-bill-along-party-lines-because-republicans-dont-care-about-other-people" target="_blank">remained united against helping people.</a> They were worried about a potential defection from Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, but she ultimately voted against President Joe Biden's COVID-19 relief package. This means he's <em>failed</em> at bipartisanship and people can fret over that while cashing their generous stimulus checks and avoiding eviction.</p> <p>Senate Minority Whip John Thune from South Dakota <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541953-murkowski-joins-all-gop-senators-voting-against-biden-covid-19-bill" target="_blank">said,</a> "We don't pressure people, but I'm glad she found her way to be with the team because I think it's a very strong message that this was — as we suggested all along — a very partisan process and a product that reflects a rushed, hurried attempt to get $2 trillion out the door."</p> <p>Yes, the bill is partisan because Republicans deliberately withheld support, unlike Democrats who on past stimulus bills voted to keep the lights on in people's homes, even if it might've helped the previous White House squatter. Democrats also didn't pout and expect that a Republican president and Republican Senate would approve an overtly progressive bill. They understood elections have consequences, a concept Republicans still struggle to accept.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tom-cotton-relief-checks-prisoners-fox-news-1137718/" target="_blank" title="">Rolling Stone:  <em>Tom Cotton Blasts Relief Checks to Prisoners But Supported Them Under Trump</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>2021’s Senator <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/tom-cotton/" title="">Tom Cotton</a> must be really upset with 2020 Senator Tom Cotton.</p> <p>For days now, the Republican from Arkansas has been whining to anyone who will listen about “how crazy some of the Democratic ideas” made it into the <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares" target="_blank">Covid-19 relief package</a>. Specifically, Cotton has taken issue with the possibility that some prisoners, who’ve recently filed taxes, might actually receive a check.</p> <p>But what Cotton is leaving out in his complaint is his utter hypocrisy. The senator didn’t just vote for stimulus checks for prisoners once, he did so twice while Trump was in office.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Yapping on TV Doesn’t Help</strong></p> <p>That Shaman fool isn’t getting out of jail.  How sad.  You’d think they’d pick up on the STFU defense as a viable strategy.</p> <p>Raw Story:  <em><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-2650979956/" title="">Judge denies pre-trial release for QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley after 60 Minutes interview backfires</a></em></p> <blockquote> <p>In his <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20507832/3-8-21-jacob-chansley-opinion.pdf">32-page ruling</a>, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth pointed to a recent <em>60 Minutes</em> interview with Chansley as evidence that the defendant does not understand the severity of his actions. In the interview, Chansley claimed that his actions had been peaceful and that he had <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley/">prevented other rioters from stealing muffins</a>.</p> <p>"Defendant's perception of his actions on January 6th as peaceful, benign, and well-intentioned shows a detachment from reality," Lamberth wrote, citing the <em>60 Minutes</em> interview. "If the defendant does not understand the severity of the allegations against him, the Court finds no reason to believe he would not commit the same or similar actions again."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Watching the BFOT Descend into Irrelevancy</strong></p> <p>The infighting is glorious.  Even the RNC has decided it’s ok to ignore the wishes of the Former Guy.  Sure, they want to use him to stoke the base.  They just don’t want him around to mess it up.  The lockstep march keeps tripping.  Now, if only those Senate and House goose-steppers would fall down a few more times…  They’ve fallen and they can’t get up.</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/rnc-trump-cease-and-desist-474412" target="_blank" title="">Politico:  <em>RNC brushes back Trump team on 'cease-and-desist' demand</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The Republican National Committee is denying a cease-and-desist demand from Donald Trump’s attorneys, who asked the party organization to stop using the former president’s name and likeness in fundraising appeals.</p> <p>In a letter sent Monday afternoon to Trump attorney Alex Cannon, RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer asserted that the committee “has every right to refer to public figures as it engages in core, First Amendment-protected political speech, and it will continue to do so in pursuit of these common goals.”</p> <p>The letter is a brush-back to the Trump team, which sent a <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/03/06/scoop-trump-sends-legal-notice-to-gop-to-stop-using-his-name-492021" target="_blank">March 5 request</a> that the RNC “immediately cease and desist the unauthorized use of President Donald J. Trump’s name, image, and/or likeness in all fundraising, persuasion, and/or issue speech.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>From Schadenfreude to Schitzenpantzen</strong></p> <p>I want justice.  I want retribution.  I want tRump stripped of all his resources and jailed (along with all of his co-conspirators).  News like this makes me more and more confident it will happen.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/08/politics/trump-chicago-subpoena/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN: <em> NYC prosecutors' probe into Trump finances expands to include millions loaned for Chicago skyscraper</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>(CNN)The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/trump-taxes-manhattan-da/index.html" target="_blank" title="">Manhattan district attorney's office</a> subpoenaed documents from an investment company that loaned the Trump Organization millions of dollars for its Chicago skyscraper in a sign that the investigation into the former president's finances continues to expand, according to people familiar with the investigation.</p> <p>Prosecutors issued the grand jury subpoena to Fortress Investment Management late last year, the people said, as part of their wide-ranging investigation into former President Donald Trump and his company.</p> <p>Investigators' interest in how Trump and his company treated the Chicago loan is an expansion of an inquiry that encompasses multiple aspects of the Trump business.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Andy, Are You Sure This Is Satire?</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/new-qanon-theory-predicts-trump-will-return-in-april-as-easter-bunny" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  <em>New QAnon Theory Predicts Trump Will Return in April as Easter Bunny</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Issuing a bold new prediction, QAnon followers declared that Donald J. Trump would return on April 4th as the Easter Bunny.</p> <p>According to the theory, which has been spreading like wildfire on the Internet, on Easter Sunday, Trump will hop over the White House fence and begin hiding brightly colored eggs on the South Lawn.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Metal Fish?</strong></p> <p>Oh, I hope this isn’t a repeat (I haven’t been keeping up very well recently).  Start your day with some fortified soup.  Get all your nutrients the savory way — in soup (part of your balanced breakfast).</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lucky-iron-fish-5-year-supplement-from-gavin-armstrong/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  <em>To Fortify With Iron, Ingenious Metal Fish Soaked in Soup Provides Nutrition And is Much Cheaper Than Pills</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Many people have an iron deficiency—especially vegetarians. In fact, it’s the most common and widespread nutritional disorder in the world.</p> <p>Essentially no more than a specially-designed iron ingot in a whimsical shape, their <a href="http://luckyironfish.com/collections/all?rfsn=5458070.d105d0f" target="_blank">Lucky Iron Fish</a> provides a significant portion of the recommended daily amount of iron for an adult when boiled for 10 minutes.</p> <p>Iron, which is easily absorbed if you eat meat, but difficult to get from plants, is critical for blood circulation, and a lack of it in your diet can lead to dizziness and fatigue, as well as anemia.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude (Extended)</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=F2NuOVgQWt8" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/F2NuOVgQWt8" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=jWNEr4eHL18" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jWNEr4eHL18" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev!</p> <p>NotNowNotEver is welcoming all of us to the Tuesday Good News and there’s a bunch of it. Start with the Twin Cities may break a high temp. record for the day that has stood since 1879. (I know, I know, climate change, global warming, etc. etc. but still…..its nice to see the snow being routed thanks to solar plowing.)</p> <p>>>>>Bad News for a Trumper is Good News for US! They don’t come much worse than Roger Stone. And the Mango Menace granted him a pardon back in December.<em> Sigh.</em> But Stone is going to Stone. The FBI has arrested one of the Oath Keepers, who is apparently flipping, i<u>mplicating Stone directly as part of inciting the January 6 coup.</u> The Good News is that by the time 45* got around to signing Stone’s pardon, the crew left around him to write the pardons could barely read and write. It was a sloppy mess, and in particular, only covered offenses Stone had ALREADY committed, i.e. UP TO December. January was a whole new month in a whole new year…..and NOT COVERED. Sweat it, Roger, sweat it…..</p> <p>>>>>The House will vote TODAY or tomorrow on the America Rescue Act, the version that passed the Senate. IT WILL PASS. Biden will sign it while the printer ink is still warm….THIS WEEK. There are 1.9 Trillion reasons to consider this Good News…..</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>March 9ths that have shown signs of Spring Fever, only to be snowed in and snowed under by Good and Goofy quirks in the weather, so you can caution all your Good and Goofy moments today not to get too comfortable while they are giggling.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>              1562</span></span></strong><span><span>    Naples, Italy   A law was passed this day to ban public obscenity. There was a list of banned activities……including <strong>kissing in public</strong> …..by anyone: lovers, spouses, grandmothers with their grandchildren, etc. The outcry against this last was so loud and long the anti-kissing provision was repealed….<u>the next day</u>. <em>(Hope you can give your sweetie smooch…legally….and just because….you know…..)</em></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>              1745 </span></span></strong><span><span>  Gloucester, England   Following an order received in 1744 from the <strong>Old North Church</strong>, on this day <u>a set of bells were shipped to Boston</u>, the <strong>first carillon set cast for use in North America.</strong> (One bell of the set is inscribed </span></span><span><span>"We are the first ring of bells cast for the British Empire in North America, 1744”)</span></span><span><span> Not quite the instrument that plays melodies on bells, but sets of ringings called “changings” that the rope-pullers practice and play. (Thirty years later: <em>“On the 18<sup>th</sup> of April in ‘75/ Hardly a man is still alive/Who remembers that famous day and year”…..</em><u>and Paul Revere, across the bay in Charlestown? </u></span></span><em><span><span>But mostly he watched with eager search</span></span></em><em><span>/ <span>The belfry-tower of the old North Church, </span></span></em><span><span>THAT church tower, the one with the 30 -year-old bells…..”one if by land,  two if by sea”……and that night 2 lanterns were hung…..)</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>                1839 </span></span></strong><span><span>  Karevo, Russia   Birth of <strong>Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky</strong>, composer. Born into a wealthy, land owning family, his mother, a skilled pianist, began giving Modest lessons when he was 6. His talent showed and by 9 he was already playing compositions by Lizst (!). Entered a military academy at age 13 and upon graduation was enrolled in an elite regiment. In his spare time he became friends with other musicians and after discharge was able to begin composing. A member eventually of “The Five” (a casual circle of Russian composers) Modest’s works were innovative to the point of experimental. His goal was to establish Russian music as distinct from general European norms (he was down on Germany’s influence). His works include “Boris Godunov" and other operas, along with a cycle of piano sonatas under the title “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Best known in the West for his chilling “Night on Bald Mountain.”</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>              1862 </span></span></strong><span><span>    Hampton Roads, VA   Having destroyed 2 Union warships yesterday, the <em>CSS Virginia (Merrimac)</em> is ready at 6am to finish off the remaining blockading ships. A heavy fog delays things until about 8, when she comes creeping out of Norfolk in the deep water shipping channel and with the tide in to destroy the <em>USS Minnesota</em> (still hard aground on a sandbar despite a night of work to get her off.)  But after a few ranging shots with her 6-inch guns as target practice, as the <em>Virginia</em> draws within range, there is a change of plans. Out from behind the Minnesota the <strong><em>USS Monitor</em></strong> steams out nimbly between predator and prey. The Union ironclad, twice as fast as the <em>Virginia,</em> with heavier armor and a revolving gun turret amidships (a world’s first innovation), the “cheesebox on a raft” closes on the <em>Virginia</em> to 50 yards and lets fly with a pair of 11-inch shots from her revolving turret. There are dents in <em>Virginia’</em>s armor (91 of these by the end of the battle) and inside, men have noses and ears bleeding from the concussion. The <strong>world’s first fight between ironclads</strong> is on. It is a four-hour duel as neither can hurt the other. Around 1pm the <em>Virginia</em> draws off; she has a leak below the waterline pooling in her stern that is raising her bow; if it rises high enough, the <em>Monitor</em> will be able to open fire on her wooden under structure, with decisive results. (<em>She never came out to fight again; later that summer, with the Yankees on the Peninsula opposite Norfolk and looking like they were going to capture the city, the Confederates blew her up to keep her from capture. The Monitor was lost at sea off Cape Hatteras in December; re-discovered in 1974.)</em></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>                  1864</span></span></strong><span><span>   Washington, DC   Congress, after several days debate (and after nearly 3 solid years of civil war) has <u>revived the rank of Lieutenant General (3-stars).</u> Until now the only man to hold a rank that high was George Washington but the need for leadership and victory is dire. Given the authority, on this day <strong>President Abraham Lincoln</strong> officially commissions <strong>Ulysses S. Grant the first lieutenant general since George Washington </strong>and gives him <u>command of the entire Union war effort.</u> </span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><strong>               </strong><strong><span><span><span><span>1918</span></span></span></span></strong><span><span><span><span>    Brooklyn, NY   Birth of Frank Morrison Spillane, mystery writer whose pen name was <strong>Mickey Spillane. </strong>Wrote a lot of stories with the communists as the bad guys and used bad language in an era when censors still had clout<strong>.</strong> His Mike Hammer crime novels later sold over 200 million copies, including titles like “Kiss Me Deadly", “I, the Jury” and “The Erection Set." </span></span></span></span><em><span><span><span>"[Reading] Spillane is like eating takeout fried chicken: so much fun to consume, but you can feel those lowlife grease-induced zits rising before you've finished the first drumstick."</span></span></span></em><span><span><span>  <u>Sally Eckhoff</u><u>, The Village Voice</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>               1959 </span></span></strong><span><span>    New York City   The annual American Toy Fair is on, a trade show to let retailers see the new goodies and place orders in time for the upcoming Christmas season. <strong>Ruth Handler,</strong> co-founder of Mattel Toy Co., is there and is all smiles. Back in 1956 Ms. Handler had attended a toy show in West Germany and had picked out a striking figurine, the <u>Bild-Lilli doll</u>. She brought home a sample and asked toy designer <strong>Jack Ryan</strong> to come up with a version that American girls might like. He succeeded and the <strong>Barbie Doll debuted today</strong> and carried a retail price of $3. Orders poured in to the Hawthorne, CA plant; Barbie was a hit. (Back in 1994, a mint condition, still in the original box, Barbie sold at a collectors’ auction for $4000.) </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>                1964 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Detroit, Michigan   <em>Not quite the success story of the Barbie doll, but still</em>. Chevrolet a few years before had come out with a true sports car, the Corvette. It turned heads everywhere, but the high-priced two-seater was clearly a niche hit. Ford Motor turned to 39-year-old in-house designer <strong>Lee Iacocca</strong> to come up with an answer. Iacocca sketched some designs, rummaged through a fair number of the parts bins for the Ford Falcon (so a lot of the parts would fit both, holding down costs), and produced a long-hood, short rear deck model that could hold 4 (but was a lot more comfortable for 2) and was much more affordable. On this day the <strong>first Ford Mustang rolled off the Ford assembly line.</strong> Went on sale in April for $2368 base price (in a day when a LOT of cars were $3000 or more) and generated 22,000 orders the first weekend.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>                 1974 </span></span></strong><span><span>  Lubang Island, Philippines    It’s been 29 years since World War II ended, everyone knows that, right? Almost. On this day, <u>Norio Suzuki</u>, a Japanese adventurer, came out of the woods with a 52-year-old man wearing a tattered Japanese Army uniform that had clearly been patched many, many, times.  Officer<strong> Hiroo Onoda</strong>, an intelligence officer was the <strong>last Japanese soldier operating</strong> in the Philippines. <u>It was his birthday. </u>Asked why he had not surrendered in 1945 he said he was waiting for permission to do so from a superior officer<em>. (He was not sent to a POW camp but he was sent home. He got married two years later and finally died in 2014 at age 92.)</em></span></span></p> <p><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></p> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <p>Most organizations keep track of their history in their annals.  The republicans party has switched to using their anals.</p> <p>People are saying many fetuses (feti?), after learning their parents are tRump supporters, are choosing to self-abort.</p> <p>The republican party has reserved the entire crazy train for their personal use.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="ForYouMark34.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/925297/large/ForYouMark34.jpg?1615285982" title="ForYouMark34.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="RLimbaughMark227.jpg" 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class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="ShitholeMark34.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/925289/large/ShitholeMark34.png?1615285782" title="ShitholeMark34.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. — Martin Luther King, Jr.</p> <p>Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. — John F. Kennedy</p> <p>There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. — Ronald Reagan</p> <p>Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair</p> <p>Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions. — Fred Edwards</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="201227_Pressley_034.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/901180/large/201227_Pressley_034.jpg?1609761604" title="201227_Pressley_034.jpg"> <figcaption>I’m just licking my lips, waiting for those indictments to happen.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <div> <div> <p>Thanks for reading on through to the very end.  I’ve removed the best recovery wishes section this week, because I think it is in desperate need of an update.  If you have recently had a health or other issue, please tell us (not a royal ‘we’) in the comments and I’ll put together a new version for my next roundup.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>hpg ably continues the tradition of Evening Shade:   <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/8/2020095/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-Day47-Evening-Shade-Monday">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN---Day47---Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>We’ll let the lads play us out with a little bit of up-tempo fun to reflect the current direction of the country. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=3IMmBqFIzp8" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3IMmBqFIzp8" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  No tRumpublican has approved of this article (we wouldn’t publish it if they did)</em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) BrandiCarlisle GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead NicoleWallace PlayingforChange Politics Poll Recommended Roundup StephenColbert _2020153 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:01:03 +0000 Oops! - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, February 23rd, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/2/23/2017620/-Oops-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-February-23rd-2021 <p>Well, this is a bit embarrassing.  I’ve drastically overslept.  It’s now 5:23AM Tuesday morning and I’m just getting started.  I’ve been sleeping a lot lately.  It may be some kind of post stress decompression; the effects of isolation ennui; winter blues; or just plain laziness.  I don’t know.</p> <p>What I do know is that the primary focus for our monumental collective rage and disgust has just recently been neutered (70 odd years too late in my opinion).  It leaves a gap — a really, really welcome gap, but a gap nonetheless.</p> <p>I think it’s going to take a while to settle into our new and growing return to normalcy.  We still have an entire opposition party composed of raving lunatics, outright criminals and an awful lot of nitwits too brainwashed to distinguish between night and day.  I suspect a lot of the dedicated self-righteous wing would drown in rainstorms because they’d just stand there, mouths agape, looking up in amazement at all the free water their pastors had bestowed upon them.</p> <p>Clearly, we still have work to do.  Hawley, Cruz, McCarthy, McConnell, … are still around to cause trouble and stand in the way of necessary reforms.  There are federal seats and State Houses to flip, criminals to prosecute, conspiracy theories to debunk and at least one grave to dance/pee on.</p> <p>History marches on;  karma is calling; payback is a bitch<sup>1</sup>.  Justice, thy name is Garland.</p> <p>Speaking from the heart:  Please take care of yourselves.  It’s important to all of us.</p> <p>Due to my tardiness, this will be a grow-yer-own good news edition of the roundup.</p> <p><sup>1</sup> Pressley has oked the use of the word in this case, as she’s all about justice (and playing catch).</p> <p>Let’s get started with an image that makes me grin every time I see it.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="KamalaBarack.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920468/large/KamalaBarack.jpg?1614077479" title="KamalaBarack.jpg"> <figcaption>Best fist bump ever.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Colbert did a decent good news summary.  I think he was trying to make my job easier.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=TdSIA4G1ZtQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TdSIA4G1ZtQ" data-width="1134" data-height="638" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And now the news,</p> <p>Insert your top story here (actually in the comments).</p> <p>Ok, I got the rest of it together and am back to the news.  It’s 6:40AM.  We’ll see how much I can cram in in the next twenty minutes.</p> <p><strong>People Step Up</strong></p> <p>In the vacuum created by an ongoing, nearly state-wide gross dereliction of duty the basic humanity of most everyone not invested in current republican values has shown through.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/when-the-gop-left-texans-to-freeze-locals-stepped-up-with-mutual-aid/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  When the GOP Left Texans to Freeze, Locals Stepped Up With Mutual Aid</a></p> <blockquote> <p>As sweeping power outages and sub-freezing temperatures stripped <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2021/02/more-than-3-million-people-in-texas-are-still-without-power/" title="">millions of Texans</a> of fresh food or heat, causing an <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/19/texas-power-outage-winter-storm-deaths/" title="">unknown number of deaths</a>, Marco Lopez, an organizer with South Texas–based community organization La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), thought to call a woman he knew in the Linda Vista colonia, an unincorporated border community. As it turned out, she didn’t have light or water, and had been cooking on a makeshift stove she’d built outside. Her car had broken down, so she was stuck at home—and even if she could drive, the nearest Walmart was closed.</p> <p>“I was like, holy crap, I need to give her some food, pobrecita,” Lopez said. The two went to eat and buy tortillas, a pack of which she gave to the mechanic fixing her car.</p> <p>With many state and local politicians falling down on the job of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-sign-federal-disaster-aid-for-texas-snow-storm-11613756190" title="">disaster relief</a>, mutual aid networks and organizations like LUPE have been helping cold and hungry Texans. For Lopez, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-texas-during-winter-storm-blackouts" title="">helping residents in colonias</a> has been a top priority. He said the LUPE team has distributed food and gift cards in colonias like Linda Vista and Flaco Chiquito.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>He’s Not the Only One</strong></p> <p>The nation’s worst state attorney general followed the footsteps of his state’s worst senator (and the country’s second worst — after Hawley).</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-paxton-left-texas-storm_n_60349666c5b66da5dba3e185" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Also Left The State During Deadly Winter Storm</a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) traveled to Utah last week during the winter storms that claimed dozens of lives and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/power-outages-texas-winter-snow_n_602d8719c5b673b19b65c341" title="">knocked out power to millions</a> of residents, local media outlets reported on Monday.</p> </div> <div> <p>Paxton’s spokesperson, Ian Prior, said the attorney general flew to Utah with his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, as part of a “previously planned trip.”</p> </div> <div> <p>“While there, AG Paxton had a number of meetings with the Utah Attorney General over the course of several days,” Prior said.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>It Couldn’t Happen to a Bigger Schmuck</strong></p> <p>It looks like IOKIYAR is being repealed.  I rejoice.</p> <p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/539979-the-memo-trump-faces-deepening-legal-troubles" target="_blank" title="">The Hill:  The Memo: Trump faces deepening legal troubles</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Former <span><a href="https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump" title="">President Trump</a></span>’s legal problems deepened significantly Monday — and the trouble threatens to damage any future political ambitions he may harbor.</p> <p>On Monday morning, the Supreme Court extinguished Trump’s last legal hope of keeping prosecutors in New York from gaining access to his tax returns.</p> <p>Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance (D) is investigating Trump’s business affairs, apparently to see whether fraud has been committed.</p> <p>The former president, banned from Twitter, issued a counter-blast in a Monday afternoon statement in which he complained that the investigation was part of a “witch hunt.” He also insisted that “these are attacks by Democrats” and that he was the victim of “headhunting prosecutors,” whose approach he equated with “fascism.”</p> </blockquote> <p>The Scots Are Good at More than Insulting tRump</p> <p>If this doesn’t make you smile — you must be a conservative (I know, that’s just about the worst thing one can say in here, but I couldn’t help myself).</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scotland-held-a-snow-plow-naming-contest-with-hilarious-results/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  The Public Named Over 50 Snowplows in Scotland And They are Hilarious!</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Far from the disaster that was ‘Boaty McBoatFace’, Scotland has held a public drive to name the 50-strong fleet of salt and plowing trucks responsible for keeping the roads safe for motorists, and the results have been simply too funny.</p> <p>The contest was organized by <a href="https://swtrunkroads.scot/" target="_blank">Amey</a>, a road infrastructure company responsible for maintaining public roads and bridges, performing inspections, and keeping the roads clear from debris and snow.</p> <p>Running from December 23 to January 23, online submissions attracted a <a href="https://swtrunkroads.scot/winter-service/meet-our-gritter-fleet/" title="">record number of participants</a>, many of whom were inspired by the James Bond films in an obscure tribute to the late Sean Connery.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Scottishplows.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920491/large/Scottishplows.jpg?1614081689" title="Scottishplows.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <p>I’ve used this before, but it fits my mood today.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ph1GU1qQ1zQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ph1GU1qQ1zQ?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1134" data-height="638" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away WineRev</p> <div> <div> <p>Good morning to NNNE and all the Gnus sleeping in and just now reaching for tea, coffee, hot chocolate and practicing for 5 minutes how to pronounce <em><u>‘quinoa”</u></em> so they won’t appear as extras in a Progressive commercial and not turn into their parents.</p> <p>>>» The US Supremes said NY DA Cyrus Vance, lead singer for the band, the Grand Jury, gets to see the Mango Menace’s taxes and financials…..this week! Some of the easier crimes to prove (after all, Al Capone went to the slammer for tax fraud, not murder). Also, the Supremes refused to hear an election lawsuit from Wisconsin (bang the gavel loudly!) and another from Pennsylvania (bang it even louder.) PA Lt. Gov. Fetterman lit up the Twitter verse (again) by drolly noting the ruling and that means DJT won 100% of the ‘voting by dead relatives’ vote in PA----the only voter fraud found there, and the big bucks Fetterman is still waiting for from the Texas Twit who offered $1million rewards for each such case found in PA.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>February 23rds that have 3 out of 4 years celebrated the last February prime number in their Good and Goofy ways, and who invite your Good and Goofy events today to also resist division except by 1 and 23.</strong></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>           1455</span></strong><span>   Mainz, Germany   By tradition on this date <strong>Johan Gutenburg</strong> and his assistants finished printing the <strong>first copy of a Bible</strong> (in Latin); the <strong>first European use of moveable type for printing and book production.</strong> Records indicated they printed 36 copies using vellum for the pages and 12 using paper. 11 of these are known to still be in existence. THE beginning of printing, books, literacy, dictionaries and regularized spelling, the call for education for wider circles of people, libraries, and the reliable preservation and transmission of human information across time to coming generations. </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>           1685</span></span></strong><span><span>  Halle, Germany   Birth of <strong>George Freiderich Handel</strong>, composer.</span></span> Born the same year as Bach and Scarlatti, Handel’s keyboard prowess at an early age got him noticed and got him a formal music teacher starting at age 9. He began composing at that age, along with increasing chances to play the organ publicly. Able to attend University (at Halle), then lived in Hamburg. In 1714 the Elector of Hanover (which included Hamburg) became King George I of England. On his journey there he heard a new opera composed and conducted by Handel and invited him to move to London. The British weren’t sure about a King who barely spoke their language (and only with a heavy German accent) but they embraced Handel so enthusiastically many people to this day are surprised to discover he was NOT British. 42 operas, 18 concerto grossi, 12 organ concertos, dozens of chamber works and, of course, 25 oratorios, many on Biblical themes (most famously, <em>Messiah.)</em></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>             1778 </span></strong><span>  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania   <u>Benjamin Franklin’s</u> keen eye saw something in the unemployed <strong>Baron Von Steuben</strong> in Paris and knew he could help Washington’s Army. So Franklin gave Von Steuben a letter of introduction, claiming he was a baron <em>(true…..of a tiny German principality),</em> independently wealthy <em>(flat broke),</em> a General on the personal staff of Frederick the Great of Prussia <em>(actually a captain of engineers in one of Frederick’s brigades)</em>, offered the position as military advisor to the Holy Roman Emperor….but turned it down to help the American cause <em>(yeah, right.) </em>Franklin outfitted him with a gaudy blue cloak, high boots, oversized holsters for his pistols and sent him across the Atlantic. He reached <u>Valley Forge <strong>this day</strong></u><strong>,</strong> and Washington thought it over and mentioned something about a drillmaster. Von Steuben accepted. He was a natural; took 100 sergeants and drilled them 6 hours a day on the basics, like how to move as a unit at 75 steps/ minute and how this was different from 120 steps/ minute. Spoke about 10 words of English to start with, so he would shout a command in German. <u>John Laurens </u>or the <u>Marquis de Lafayette</u> shouted the command in French; <u>Alexander Hamilton</u> would shout the translation in English, and 100 men would turn “left, face!” After 6 hours of this Von Steuben would tell one of them, “Now, Hamilton, you curse them another hour, for I can curse them no more.” The men liked him, grew to love him. In a month he sent the first batch back to their units to train their men and started on a new batch. Trained officers up to colonel. Evenings wrote a new manual of drill from scratch. By spring, Washington’s army could fight toe to toe with the Redcoats, anytime, anywhere outside the range of the British Navy.  </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>           1868 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Great Barrington, Massachusetts   Birth of <strong>William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois,</strong> activist, sociologist and author.  First African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. Frenemy and successor to Booker T. Washington in the struggle for civil rights. Disagreeing with Booker on his “accomodationist” approach, DuBois led and organized a more pugnacious resistance. Founder of the <strong>National Negro Committee and its successor, the NAACP.</strong> Founder, and<strong> editor of liberationist magazine Crisis</strong> for years. Taught on faculty at University of Atlanta. In 1961 (at age 93!), dissatisfied at the progress in civil rights gathering steam in those years, renounced his American citizenship and spent his last (2) years as a professor in Ghana.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>            1886 </span></span></strong><span><span>   London   You’ve seen them in newspapers seemingly forever: some informative, some prosaic, some almost in some sort of code. Maybe you’ve run one yourself, or answered one. But it was only on this day that <em>The London Times</em> published <strong>the world's 1st classified ad.</strong></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>            1940</span></span></strong><span><span>    Across America.   In 1944 popular folk singer <strong>Woody Guthrie</strong> recorded one of his best-loved songs, <em><u>“This Land is Your Land.”</u></em> Catchy tune and sweet lyrics, it has become a standard. But Guthrie himself dated his song to four years earlier to this day. His original title was “God Bless America"</span></span> and it was 6 verses long, not 4. The 2 dropped verses chide the US about private property and note the hunger of the homeless waiting in Relief lines---both dating from Guthrie’s anti-war, say nice things about Russia, days. Once the US got into World War II and allied with Russia, Guthrie re-wrote things.</span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>            1945 </span></strong><span> Iwo Jima Island, Pacific  The US Navy put the Marines ashore 5 days ago; this rock could let American bombers fly over Japan with full bomb loads because of the closer range. This day a group of Marines break through to the high point on the island, Mount Suribachi. Photographer <strong>Joe Rosenthal</strong> snaps one of the iconic photos of the 20<sup>th</sup> century as <strong>they raise the US flag</strong> (was cast in life-sized bronze as a statue in Washington DC in 1954). There was cheering all the way down to the landing beaches, but the fighting took 36 bloody days to clear out resistance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>           1954 </span></strong><span>  Pittsburgh, PA   <strong>Doctor Jonas Salk</strong>, doctor and medical researcher, is on hand as the schoolchildren of the city line up in their schools. They are the <strong>first mass inoculation group of children against polio,</strong> using the <strong>Salk Vaccine</strong>. The terror of parents everywhere at the face of this disease clicks down about 5 notches, and iron lung machines begin a decline to becoming museum pieces. (Dr. Sabin developed an oral version a few years later.)   </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PetDogsMark214.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920481/large/PetDogsMark214.jpg?1614078884" title="PetDogsMark214.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CourageMark214.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920480/large/CourageMark214.jpg?1614078882" title="CourageMark214.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="IssuesMark210.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920477/large/IssuesMark210.jpg?1614078756" title="IssuesMark210.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="BoebertMark20.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920476/large/BoebertMark20.png?1614078685" title="BoebertMark20.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FiredFunnyMark217.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920479/large/FiredFunnyMark217.jpg?1614078879" title="FiredFunnyMark217.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="TaxReturnsMark222.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920473/large/TaxReturnsMark222.png?1614078621" title="TaxReturnsMark222.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="BenghaziUSCapitolMark211.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920472/large/BenghaziUSCapitolMark211.jpg?1614078621" title="BenghaziUSCapitolMark211.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="02Mark29.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920469/large/02Mark29.jpg?1614078579" title="02Mark29.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FDRMark216.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920478/large/FDRMark216.jpg?1614078758" title="FDRMark216.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Cruz10Mark220.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920475/large/Cruz10Mark220.jpg?1614078678" title="Cruz10Mark220.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="SucksMark22.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920471/large/SucksMark22.png?1614078588" title="SucksMark22.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CruzAocMark222-Copy.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920470/large/CruzAocMark222-Copy.png?1614078581" title="CruzAocMark222-Copy.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="TexasCruzMark218.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920483/large/TexasCruzMark218.jpg?1614079018" title="TexasCruzMark218.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="TexasMark219.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920484/large/TexasMark219.jpg?1614079019" title="TexasMark219.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2></h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Hillary2Mark211.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/920482/large/Hillary2Mark211.jpg?1614079017" title="Hillary2Mark211.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. — John F. Kennedy</p> <p>Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change. — Jane Goodall</p> <p>What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. — Kareem Abdul-jabbar</p> <p>People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy. — Narendra Modi</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <p>Pressley is laughing at me.  </p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="201227_Pressley_049.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/903346/large/201227_Pressley_049.jpg?1610192871" title="201227_Pressley_049.jpg"> <figcaption>It’s a good thing you type fast.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <div> <div> <p>Thanks for reading this slapped together at the last minute edition of the every other Tuesday GNR.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community.</p> <p>hpg ably continues the tradition of Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/22/2017562/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-Day33-MERRICK-GARLAND-HEARING-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN-Day33----MERRICK</span> GARLAND <span>HEARING----Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Today the lads will close us out with a performance of <em>Truckin’ </em>for the obvious reason.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=SlwMmfLIkVE" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SlwMmfLIkVE" data-width="851" data-height="638" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  No sleep was lost during the preparation of this GNR.</em></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) Colbert GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead PlayingforChange Politics Pressley Recommended Roundup TheBand _2017620 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:02:51 +0000 Happy Impeachment Day, Redux - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, February 9th, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/2/9/2014497/-Happy-Impeachment-Day-Redux-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-February-9th-2021 <p>It’s coming up on three weeks and I still marvel at the quiet.  Even with his impending trial, that omnipresent tedious whining soul-draining background of pointless idiocy isn’t there anymore.</p> <p>Sure, Greene and Boebert, Cruz and Hawley, and the rest of the motley crude are industriously trying to fill the vacuum with their deranged ranting.  Theirs is a pale (white) imitation; more dying echo than real continuation.</p> <p>The current crop of republican Tiki torch bearers are half cartoonish fools, half wannabe monsters-under-the-bed, and half fully engulfed flaming assholes (think Venn diagrams and the math will make more sense).  In the absence of the orange bigot spigot’s constant tirade of scandal and chaos, the mini-MAGAots are busy contending with each other for the title of Most Outlandish Danger to Democracy.  The thing is they aren’t getting any traction.  Mostly they are waffling between crash and burn or wither and wilt.</p> <p>The orange miasma of despair and doubt is steadily lifting (or has already completely lifted for the over-achievers among us).</p> <p>This leaves us with a potential loss of focus.  Lots of little fires but no unifying harbinger of doom to rail against.  It is important for some of us to rest and rejuvenate ourselves, while we get ready to work on curb stomping the remnants of tRumpism.</p> <p>There are hot spots that need immediate attention (Reynolds and DeSantis come to mind) as well as issues of criminal accountability that need to be relentlessly pressed forward.  Still, we must focus on the next cycle and retaining our majorities.  Reminding the electorate just how much the republican party bought into an attempt to end democracy should be pounded on the stump until the danger they present is made manifest to all.</p> <p>Our fight for the future is not over.  It has just begun anew.  Thank goodness we have the advantage of reality on our side.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the <s>Resistance</s> Administration</strong></p> <p>Randy Rainbow weighed in on the Riot Wing Nutjobs.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8ldD9wKmY" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jQ8ldD9wKmY" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Now, let us move onto the news.</p> <p><strong>The Impeachment of the Former Rezident, Part Deaux</strong></p> <p>Today will begin the formal process of the republican party making the republican party look even more pathetic than they looked yesterday.  They’ve been going through a very public acrimonious divorce from truth and reality.  This follows along after their previous breakup with decency.  It looks like there is zero chance of a reconciliation or even just a pretense of a civil relationship.  We expect Lindsey the Lickspittle to twist himself into one of Phrygian Gordium’s famous knots defending the indefensible.  There are no Alexanders in the republican caucus, so he’ll likely stay stuck that way.</p> <p>Folks are looking at the evidence.  It’s damning.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-rigged-stolen-capitol-riot_n_602188e2c5b6173dd2f88c4f" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post:  Trump Claimed Election ‘Rigged’ Or ‘Stolen’ Over 100 Times Ahead Of Capitol Riot</a></p> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Then-<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a> falsely claimed more than 100 times that <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/democratic-party" title="">Democrats</a> had “rigged” or “stolen” the 2020 election ahead of January’s deadly insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol, a HuffPost analysis found.</p> </div> <div> <p>In reviewing all of Trump’s tweets and speeches between Election Day on Nov. 3 and the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, HuffPost mapped out the rhetoric his followers absorbed as their defiance against President <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>’s win mounted.</p> </div> <div> <p>Over the course of those two months, Trump ― the most powerful politician in the country and, arguably, the entire world ― lied that the election was rigged at least 68 times and that it was stolen or in the process of being stolen at least 35 times. He made claims of voter fraud and ballot-counting irregularities more than 250 times, specifically making baseless claims that voting machines tossed or changed votes at least 45 times.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>The White House strategy is clear.</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/08/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-467734" target="_blank" title="">Politico:  Biden’s strategy for Trump’s impeachment: Sit back and STFU</a></p> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>Washington may be consumed by Donald Trump’s impeachment trial this week, but the White House has a decidedly different view of it: Impeachment? What impeachment?</p> <p>The Biden team has shut down question after question about where Biden stands on this week’s trial, even with its massive historical, constitutional and political ramifications. On Monday, press secretary Jen Psaki wouldn’t even say whether the president would receive daily updates on the trial’s progress.</p> <p>It’s a remarkable bit of messaging discipline driven by a simple political calculation. Biden’s presidency rests on whether he can drive down Covid numbers, reopen the economy and get kids back in schools. He needs his Covid relief package to do that, not the banishment of his predecessor from future public office.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>“[It] just makes no sense for Biden to weigh in on the impeachment,” said one source familiar with the White House’s thinking. “He’s already said that he thought [there] were grounds for impeachment but he has to stay focused on helping people in this crisis.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>The pundits are weighing in.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-trial/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  Trump's trial set to rock Washington and echo through the ages</a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)The simple question posed by <a href="http://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/president-donald-trump-45" target="_blank" title="">Donald Trump's</a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/politics/impeachment-latest-pretrial-briefs/index.html" target="_blank" title="">second impeachment trial</a> that begins Tuesday is whether a president who loses reelection can get away with a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/us-capitol-lockdown/index.html" target="_blank" title="">violent coup attempt</a> in a desperate bid to stay in power.</p> </div> <div></div> <div>The answer contained in the former commander-in-chief's likely acquittal for inciting a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/us-capitol-lockdown/index.html" target="_blank" title="">deadly mob assault </a>on the Capitol will echo through generations and may influence the outcome of some unknowable future test of US democracy.</div> <div></div> <div>But more contemporary concerns that do not depend on the verdict of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/politics/senate-impeachment-trial-day-1/index.html" target="_blank" title="">the Senate trial</a> -- like the consistent cowardice of Republicans who refuse to hold Trump to account and the effect of the evidence on the American public -- are also hugely consequential since they will shape the modern political age.</div> </blockquote> <div>There are even rational (although impractical) opinionscoming from the right.</div> <div></div> <div><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/537318-donald-trump-should-be-convicted-unanimously-by-secret-ballot" target="_blank">The Hill:  Donald Trump should be convicted unanimously by secret ballot</a></div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>… Since Trump has neither fact nor law on his side, he attempts to take shelter in the Constitution, arguing weakly that his speech is protected by the First Amendment or that an impeachment trial cannot be brought against a former officer. There is no precedential support for either proposition. Falsely yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is without protection, as is presidential provocation where lawlessness is imminent. With impeachment, the Framers provided for the republic to have a means of protection against a sitting president (ousting him) or a former one (keeping him from occupying office in the future). It would not be rational to think the Founders we so greatly revere would have protected us from one but not the other.  </p> <p>Yet, despite Trump having neither law nor fact nor common sense on his side, it is largely predicted that conviction in the Senate will lack the requisite two-thirds vote. When Trump faced the earlier impeachment, <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/480294-trumps-impeachment-trial-requires-a-secret-ballot" target="_blank">I urged that the Senate have the benefit of a secret ballot</a> like almost all jurors have in non-impeachment matters and that all of us enjoy in primary and general elections. The wisdom of a secret ballot is even greater because of the Jan. 6 riot, the continuing threat of violence against members of Congress, and in state capitals around the country.</p> <p>The Senate rules regarding the conduct of an impeachment trial, including ballot secrecy, require a simple majority (though a two-thirds majority is required for conviction). Yes, a provision (<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/article-i/clauses/760" target="_blank">Art. I, sec. 5</a>) authorizes either chamber in general lawmaking to make public the “yeas and nays” if one-fifth of those present so desire. This provision, however, is subordinate to the specific constitutional provisions on impeachment, including that the “sole power to try impeachments” belongs to the Senate.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div></div> </div> </div> <p><strong>This Is What Good Government Is All About</strong></p> <p>I love the idea of hearing real good news coming out of the administration.  It’s just so damn refreshing.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/biden-new-conservation-corps-new-deal" target="_blank" title="">The Guardian:  Biden's new conservation corps stirs hopes of nature-focused hiring spree</a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>Nearly a century ago, the US faced unemployment at <a href="https://www.fdrlibrary.org/great-depression-facts">25%</a> and environmental woes such as flooding along major rivers and extensive deforestation. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to tackle these emergencies simultaneously by creating the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of his New Deal.</span></p> <p>Through its nine-year existence, Roosevelt’s “Tree Army” put an impressive 3 million jobless Americans to work. All in all, CCC enrollees planted more than 3bn trees, paved 125,000 miles of roadways, erected 3,000 fire lookouts, and spent 6m workdays fighting forest fires. The artifacts from this ambitious effort – from trails and structures dotting the Grand Canyon national park or the Pacific Coast Trail – are beloved today.</p> <p>“In creating the Civilian Conservation Corps, we are killing two birds with one stone,” Roosevelt <a href="http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/050733.html">explained</a> in one of his early fireside chats. “We are conserving not only our natural resources but also our human resources.”</p> <p>Now, as the ongoing pandemic has wrought the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, Roosevelt’s public jobs programs are back in the spotlight. As part his recent <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/30/joe-biden-climate-change-action" title="">climate policy spree</a>, Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/27/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-executive-actions-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad-create-jobs-and-restore-scientific-integrity-across-federal-government/" title="">announced</a> the establishment of a “Civilian Climate Corps Initiative” that could harness the energy of the very generation that must face – and solve – the climate crisis by putting them to work in well-paying conservation jobs.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Hot Seat is Sizzling</strong></p> <p>If I was a professional conspiracy theorist (aka a republican), I would be afraid to sit down anymore.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/dominion-voting-mike-lindell-mypillow-oan-trump/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  David Korn:  Dominion Voting Lawyer Suggests OAN May Be Next for a Mega-Lawsuit</a></p> <blockquote> <p>One America News Network, the hyper-Trumpy rightwing media outlet, might have just won itself a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit.</p> <p>This week the beyond-Fox network <a href="https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/02/04/san-diegos-oan-in-crosshairs-of-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit-imminent/">aired</a> a pseudo-documentary made by the MyPillow Guy (a.k.a. Mike Lindell) that pushed the not-dead-yet false accusation that a diabolical cabal stole the election from Trump. But OAN broadcast the program as an ad paid for by Lindell and attached the mother-of-all disclaimers to it.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;OAN is airing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell&amp;#39;s documentary about how the election was stolen for twelve consecutive hours today.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here&amp;#39;s the disclaimer at the top indicating that it is paid programming, "opinion only," and OAN doesn&amp;#39;t endorse statements re: Dominion/Smartmatic. &lt;a href="https://t.co/pm4CaduJXc"&gt;pic.twitter.com/pm4CaduJXc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1357707616504406021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 5, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>OAN is airing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's documentary about how the election was stolen for twelve consecutive hours today.<br><br>Here's the disclaimer at the top indicating that it is paid programming, "opinion only," and OAN doesn't endorse statements re: Dominion/Smartmatic. <a href="https://t.co/pm4CaduJXc">pic.twitter.com/pm4CaduJXc</a></p>— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1357707616504406021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>The disclaimer stated that the program was not the “product of OAN’s reporting” and that the “views, opinions and claims expressed by Mr. Lindell…are not adopted or endorsed by OAN.” This was, according to the note, particularly true regarding Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic—the manufacturers of vote-counting machines that have been central to the conspiracy theories promoted by Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Lindell that claim massive election fraud occurred. (Trump cited phony allegations of irregularities with Dominion machines when he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html" title="">called</a> Georgia state officials after the election and pressured them to “find” votes for him.) The disclaimer emphasized that statements about these two companies in this program were “opinion.” But OAN did note that the 2020 election results “remain disputed and questioned by millions of Americans.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Andy Borowitz to the Satirical Rescue</strong></p> <p>Andy was on fire yesterday with two columns.  I couldn’t make up my mind — so:</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/giuliani-to-be-first-guest-of-lou-dobbs-total-landscaping" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  Giuliani to Be First Guest of Lou Dobbs Total Landscaping</a></p> <blockquote> <p>NEW YORK (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Lou Dobbs has selected Rudy Giuliani to be the first guest of his new media venture, Lou Dobbs Total Landscaping.</p> <p>Dobbs said that his new show will offer “more freedom” than his Fox Business show did, because there will be no cameras recording it.</p> <p>“Since it won’t be on television or the Internet, we can let it rip,” Dobbs said. “It’s just going to be me and my guest sitting on lawn chairs in the parking lot of a landscaping company, shouting at passersby. It’s a dream format for me.”</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/donald-trumps-lawyers-call-for-dismissal-of-trial-on-the-ground-that-they-will-never-collect-fees" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  Trump’s Lawyers Call for Dismissal of Trial on the Ground That They Will Never Collect Fees</a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Donald J. Trump’s lawyers have called for the dismissal of his impeachment trial on the ground that they will never get paid.</p> <p>Speaking to reporters in Washington, Trump’s lead attorneys, David Schoen and Bruce Castor, said that they had a “moment of lucidity” when they realized that their chances of Trump ever paying them were nil.</p> <p>“We were pulling an all-nighter rewriting this brief, and we kind of looked at each other and said, ‘We’re not gonna get paid for any of this, are we?’ ” Schoen said. “From that moment on, we felt like a couple of dopes.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Shout Out to the Birds</strong></p> <p>Far away from Washington, progress marches on.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/namibian-fishermen-use-bird-scaring-lines-to-save-albatrosses-from-bycatch/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  One Simple Change Cut Accidental Albatross and Seabird Deaths by 98%: ‘Absolutely amazing’</a></p> <blockquote> <p>An international task force of conservationists have proved that a remarkably simple method of deterring seabirds can save tens of thousands from accidental death.</p> <p>A<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320720309733" title=""> recent study</a> published about the Namibian fishery industry determined there was a 98% reduction in albatross and other seabird deaths after laws were passed requiring that fishermen attach colored streamers to the back of their boats, which deterred the birds from pilfering longline fishing nets.</p> <p>The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and BirdLife International’s Albatross Task Force (ATF) came together to help prevent endangered species like albatross from going extinct due to bycatch, a fishing term that describes animals caught but not targeted.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=8Lu41LulQos" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Lu41LulQos?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev</p> <div> <div> <p>Good morning Gnus in Gnuville and our scribe of the day, NotNowNotEver.  Slept in this morning as you can tell, so haven’t had much chance to scan the overnight news here on Impeachment II (The Trial). (Fans were really disappointed in the writers in Impeachment I, when the whole thing seemed to be building to a public trial, and then, apparently, the studio ran short on money and told them to cut the ending.)</p> <p>Well there have been rumors that Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg have been brought in for this re-make, so yes, there will be trial in this one (which is why the whole Impeachment section was crammed down to a run time of a few days on film, rather than the months in the original.) Will they coax John Williams out of retirement for the musical score? Call up Howard Shore? Maybe a Mile Post, “Law & Order” sort of gavel-banging snappy main theme? We will see, starting mid day today.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>February 9ths that have been Good and Goofy that KNOW for a fact they will welcome THIS February 9th to their ranks with a gleaming entry of Impeachment Trial, along with all your personal moments of Good and Goofy today.</strong></p> <div> <p><strong><span>          1741</span></strong><span><span>   </span>Wertheim, Germany<span>     </span>Birth of <strong>Henri-Joseph Rigel,</strong> composer. Born and raised as the son of a court musician for a German noble, he moved to France in his 20s and lived there the rest of his life. A celebrated harpsichordist and keyboard master, he composed several oratorios on Biblical themes, drawing inspiration from Handel’s <em>Messiah</em> and from several works by Gluck. Another of those composers who lived in the era and shadow of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.</span></p> <p><strong><span>            </span>1864 </strong>  Richmond, Virginia<span>    </span>Libby prison was an ordinary prison that was converted to wartime use, housing Union prisoners, several of whom were Pennsylvania coal miners before the war. They managed to get into a basement, into an abandoned kitchen called ‘Rat Hell’ that was covered with several feet of straw. It had a brick floor over dirt. When the bricks were taken up and the digging started the straw cleanly hid both (as well as some on the men sleeping between digging stints. After 17 days of work on the tunnel,<strong> on this night 109 Union POWs escaped</strong> through a tunnel. Since the prison was considered escape-proof, the men had a head start of nearly 12 hours before the alarm was raised. 59 made it Union lines, often drawing on mapwork and memories of the terrain from 1862 from campaigning in the area under McClellan. One of the largest successful prison breaks of the war.</p> <p><strong><span><span>             </span>1870</span></strong><span>  </span>Washington DC    <strong>President Grant </strong>(who listening to the urging of the director of the Smithsonian Institute) made a request to the Congress. On this day Congress passed a joint resolution (and backed it up with money, starting this year and renewed regularly). The <u>US Army Signal Corps</u> was directed and paid to establish a branch for “meteorological reporting” (using observations and regular telegraph reports), the <strong>establishment of the US National Weather Service.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>              </span>1895</span></strong><span>  </span>Holyoke, Massachusetts  <span> </span>A few years before, Canadian physical education teacher <u>John Naismith</u> had invented an indoor game with a bouncing ball and two hoops on opposite walls, <u>basketball.</u> Some found the game too demanding, so at the YMCA in town <strong>William G. Morgan</strong> did some thinking and came up with something different. Using the same court and one of those Naismith basketballs, Morgan stretched a rope about head high between the long walls. He called his invention “mintonette” (a step or two away from <em>“bad-<u>minton</u>”)</em> and the object was to hit the basketball over the rope while jumping so that it would hit the floor on the other team’s side. <strong>The beginning of volleyball</strong>.</p> <p><strong><span>              </span>1944</strong> <span>  </span>Eastonton, Georgia<span>  </span>    Birth of <strong>Alice Walker,</strong> author.   Suffered a childhood injury that left her blind in one eye, so became a voracious reader with the other. Top of her high school class, admitted to Spellman College, then transferred to Sarah Lawrence. Was composing poems in her teens and got a first set of them published in her late 20s. Active in the Civil Rights Movement and an ardent feminist (co-founder of Ms. Magazine with Steinem) Began writing novels in the 1970s and in the early1980s produced “The Color Purple”, which was so good she became <strong>the first African-American woman</strong> to win the <strong>Pulitzer Prize for fiction.</strong></p> <p><strong><span>             </span>1953  </strong> Across America<span>   </span>With a pistol shot, a drumroll, a diesel locomotive shooting by the camera and heroic music, the <strong>"Adventures of Superman"</strong> TV series, starring <u>Steve Reeves</u>, premiered in syndication.</p> <p><strong><span>             </span>1964 </strong>  Across America   Almost 74 million Americans (around 40% of the total population) united around TV screens to watch Ed Sullivan tonight. It was <strong>The Beatles</strong> 1<sup>st</sup> appearance.  To this day, the 29<sup>th</sup> highest ranking single show in TV history. Take out 18 Super Bowls and some Olympics, and the event is still #11 of all time. <em>(And the next week the burning question a tour elementary school was “Who do you like better, the Beatles or the Dave Clark Five?” Because we were up on our pop bands you know…..)</em></p> <p><strong><span><span>             </span>1971</span></strong> Cooperstown, NY   Less than 2 months ago, (Dec. 2020) major league baseball righted a long-standing wrong and declared records of teams and players of the Negro Leagues to be <u>major league records</u>. Far too late, but the right thing to do.<span>  </span>One of the signposts on the way to that repentance happened on this day 50 years ago: legendary pitcher <strong>Satchel Paige</strong> became the <strong>first Negro League player</strong> elected to the <strong>Baseball Hall of Fame.</strong> </p> <p>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</p> <p>Shalom.</p> </div> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CruzMark21.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/915731/large/CruzMark21.jpg?1612871681" title="CruzMark21.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="AlFranken2Mark127.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/915734/large/AlFranken2Mark127.jpg?1612871716" title="AlFranken2Mark127.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p 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The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility. — Michael Korda</p> <p>It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. — Josiah Stamp</p> <p>You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability...you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results. — Buck Rodgers</p> <p>It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi</p> <p>The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law. — Nelson Mandela</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="180427_Precious_085.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/907717/large/180427_Precious_085.jpg?1611057604" title="180427_Precious_085.jpg"> <figcaption>I stand here to tell you, “We should vote to convict.  Cowardice in the face of accountability is not an option.”</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <div> <div> <p>Well, we’ve come to the end of another every other Tuesday roundup.  I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it (at least the parts not included in the quote blocks).</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community.</p> <p>hpg ably continues the tradition of Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/8/2014813/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-Day19-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN--Day19--Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>Today the lads will close us out with a performance of <em>Terrapin Station</em> from the Fourth of July, 1989.  <em>Terrapin</em> puts forth a hopeful, yet sober message.  It begins:</p> <blockquote> <div><span><span>Inspiration, move me brightly</span><br> <span>light the song with sense and color</span><br> <span>Hold away despair</span><br> <span>more than this I will not ask</span><br> <span>Faced with mysteries dark and vast</span><br> <span>statements just seem vain at last</span></span></div> </blockquote> <div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=imsi0-SZIho" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/imsi0-SZIho" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p><em>Disclaimer:  The fools on the hill all wear (R) name tags so they can find each other without having to sniff each other’s foul and noxious breath.</em></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Politics Poll Recommended Roundup _2014497 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:06:00 +0000 Our New Day Is Here - Let's All Keep Working - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, January 26th, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/1/26/2011739/-Our-New-Day-Is-Here-Let-s-All-Keep-Working-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-January-12th-2021 <p>Well, hot damn!  We won. We’ve hit the trifecta.  I guess we can all retire to our couches and bask in the glow of a job well done.  I’m sure all those pesky republican insurrectionists will all just go away and stop lying, cheating, and scheming to destroy democracy.  Susan Collins is sure to tell us they’ve finally learned their lesson and want to partners in making America a better place for everyone.</p> <p>Laurel leaves don’t look all that comfortable as a resting place.  I’d rather admire them (or use them in a pasta sauce) and spend my time moving forward.  I’m ecstatic that tRump is gone.  Over the moon and all that.  The future is a hell of a lot brighter today than it was 6 days ago.</p> <p>Still, we’ve got work left to do.  Just like Covid, tRumpism won’t disappear all by itself.  We need to stay active and engaged.  We got complacent when we elected Barack Obama and thought that racism was quickly becoming a thing of the past.  Now that we’ve managed to put Joe Biden in the White House, we can’t afford to assume everything is going to be just fine.</p> <p>Right now the sniveling cowards in the leadership of the republican party are trying to normalize open insurrection and a failed coup as no big deal.  In the name of unity, they are asking us to let tRump off the hook.  Where was that call for unity when they were busy forcing policies and judges opposed by a majority of the country down America’s throat?  Why do republicans define unity as doing whatever republicans want to do and to hell with the rest of us?</p> <p>We need to move on from holding just tRump and his core sickophants accountable and insist on the shared culpability of all of his soft enablers and fellow travelers.</p> <p>tRump is done.  Let’s throw his ass in jail and move on to taking down the rest of them.</p> <p>Our vision for our country, for justice, for equality, for survival has just taken a big step forward.  Let’s make sure we keep it going.  tRump is thankfully, now, mostly in the rear view mirror.</p> <p>Although, I admit it, I can’t resist a parting shot or two.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=yRBe7DIS2q0" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yRBe7DIS2q0" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>and now, the News:</p> <p><strong>Another Bit of Open Republican Prejudice Undone</strong></p> <p>Joe Biden is not being timid about the need to address discrimination.  He’s already taken on white supremacists and gender bigots.  He’s only been president for 5 days.</p> <p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/biden-executive-order-trump-trans-ban.html" target="_blank">Slate:  <em>Biden Repeals Trump’s Trans Troops Ban in Sweeping Executive Order</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>President Joe Biden repealed Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service on Monday morning, signing an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/25/executive-order-on-enabling-all-qualified-americans-to-serve-their-country-in-uniform/">executive order</a> that eradicates discrimination against transgender people in the armed forces. Biden’s order constitutes a complete reversal of Trump’s anti-trans policies for service members, immediately permitting transgender people to both enlist and serve openly in the military.</p> <p>Biden promised to repeal Trump’s ban throughout his presidential campaign, and his executive order reflects staunch, unyielding support of transgender troops. It directs the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to “immediately prohibit” discrimination against service members on the basis of gender identity, including discharge and denial of reenlistment. It also allows transgender troops who were discharged under discriminatory policies the opportunity to reenlist if they “meet the current entry standards.” Moreover, the secretaries must correct the military records of transgender troops “as necessary to remove an injustice.”</p> <p>Crucially, Biden’s order also abolishes Trump’s ban on military <em>enlistment</em> for transgender people—not only his ban on open <em>service</em> for enlisted troops. It fully repeals the executive orders that prohibited trans enlistment, allowing transgender individuals to sign up for service once again. In a <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2481568/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-on-transgender-service-in/source/GovDelivery/">statement</a>, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin confirmed that transgender people may now enlist and serve openly in all branches of the armed forces. The Department of Defense “will immediately take appropriate policy action to ensure individuals who identify as transgender are eligible to enter and serve in their self-identified gender,” Austin wrote. “Prospective recruits may serve in their self-identified gender when they have met the appropriate standards for accession into the military services.” His comments dispel any confusion over the scope of Biden’s policy, which some initially thought might only apply to current service members.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>I’m Yellin’ for Yellen</strong></p> <p>The confirmation process is moving forward.  It should speed up now that McConnell finally got out of the way.  She’ll have a huge roll in implementing the upcoming stimulus package.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/25/janet-yellen-confirmed-treasury-secretary-first-woman" target="_blank">The Guardian:  Janet Yellen confirmed as first female treasury secretary</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first woman to head the US Treasury.</p> <p>The former chair of the Federal Reserve and noted economist was approved by the Senate on an 84-15 vote. She sailed through a congressional hearing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/19/janet-yellen-joe-biden-coronavirus-relief-package-treasury-secretary">last week</a> and had already been unanimously approved by the Senate finance committee and backed by all living former treasury secretaries.</p> <p>She faces a monumental task. Last week another 900,000 people filed for unemployment benefits – more than the population of San Francisco and four times the number of weekly claims made before the coronavirus pandemic struck.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Oh, By the Way</strong></p> <p>Not a big deal, just another nail in his political coffin.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/impeachment-article-senate-house/index.html" target="_blank">CNN:  <em>House delivers impeachment article to Senate, triggering only 4th impeachment trial of a president in US history</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)The House impeachment managers formally triggered the start of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial Monday evening after they walked across the Capitol and delivered to the Senate <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/house-articles-of-impeachment/index.html" target="_blank">the charge against Trump</a>, the first president in history to be impeached twice.</p> </div> <div></div> <div>Wearing black masks and walking two-by-two through the very halls where rioters had overtaken the Capitol earlier this month <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/index.html" target="_blank">in a deadly siege</a>, the impeachment managers were led into the Senate chamber by the lead impeachment manager, Rep. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/jamie-raskin-impeachment-manager/index.html" target="_blank">Jamie Raskin </a>of Maryland, who read the article of impeachment.</div> <div></div> <div>The contours of Trump's Senate trial are starting to take shape as the ceremonial elements got underway, with the Senate's longest-serving Democrat expected to preside over the trial and Democrats still weighing whether to pursue witnesses during proceedings that could take up a chunk of February.</div> </blockquote> <p><strong>One Down, 49 to Go</strong></p> <p>The party of sedition and insurrection will be losing another member.</p> <p>My feeling is they should all just resign, effective immediately.  They serve no useful purpose.  Just Sayin’</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/rob-portman-filibuster/" target="_blank">Mother Jones:  <em>Rob Portman Is Retiring Because of Senate Dysfunction He Spent Years Supporting</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) <a href="https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portman-statement-political-future">announced</a> Monday that he won’t seek reelection in 2022. One reason he chose to retire, he said in announcing his decision, is because “it has gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy.”</p> <p>But if Portman didn’t like partisan gridlock, he shouldn’t have spent years supporting it.</p> <p>A loyal Republican, Portman has been a reliable ally and backer of Mitch McConnell, his party’s leader in the Senate and a key architect of the Senate’s current dysfunction. When Barack Obama won the White House, McConnell attempted to make him a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/17/21368234/trump-republicans-covid-19-2020-democrats-senate-relief-stimulus-polls">“one-term president”</a> by rallying Republican Senators to block every one of his initiatives. Attempts by Democrats to work across the aisle failed; Obamacare limped across the finish line after the GOP refused to support it for a year. A graveyard of legislation passed by the House of Representatives piled up in the Senate, where McConnell reportedly didn’t mind his nickname of “grim reaper.” “Rarely has a political figure pinned his fortunes on accomplishing so little,” the <em>Associated Press </em><a href="https://apnews.com/article/c842a0bcecc840628a991092da3e7ce3">noted</a> of McConnell in 2019.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Evidence Mounts</strong></p> <p>I wonder what the most loyal boot licking senators(R-Riot Wing) will do when the witnesses explain why they did what they did.  Nah, I don’t wonder about that at all.  I wonder what the voters will have to say about it.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wgxa/capitol-rioter-tells-aoc-hes-very-sorry-for-that-assassinate-aoc-tweet" target="_blank">Vice News:  </a><span><em><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wgxa/capitol-rioter-tells-aoc-hes-very-sorry-for-that-assassinate-aoc-tweet" target="_blank">Capitol Rioter Tells AOC He’s Very Sorry for That ‘Assassinate AOC’ Tweet</a></em></span></p> <blockquote> <p><span>He released a statement Monday through his lawyer apologizing to Ocasio-Cortez and Capitol Police and claiming he was following the orders of former President Donald Trump when he participated in the riot. </span></p> <p><span>“While I never intended to harm Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez nor harm any members of the Capitol police force, I recognize that my social media posts were completely inappropriate,” Miller told VICE News in an email through his lawyer, Clint Broden. “They were made at a time when Donald Trump had me believing that an American election was stolen.”</span></p> <p><span>Miller said he left D.C. after Trump told the protesters to go home and said he now recognizes Joe Biden as the president of the United States, according to CNBC. “I want to publicly apologize to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and the Capitol police officers,” he reiterated. “I have always supported law enforcement and I am ashamed by my comments.”</span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>My Pillow Is Deflating</strong></p> <p>Twitter make another healthy improvement to their online experience.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/mypillow-twitter/">Raw Story:  <em>Twitter permanently bans My Pillow CEO for election misinformation</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>(Reuters) - Twitter Inc has permanently suspended the account of My Pillow chief Mike Lindell for repeated violations of the company's policy on election misinformation, the social media firm said late on Monday.</p> <p>Lindell, a devout supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, financed post-election protest movements in a bid to overturn the election win of President Joe Biden.</p> <p>Lindell used his personal Twitter account, which had nearly half a million followers before being suspended, and the company's account to spread unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>This Is One Dominion that I Am Behind</strong></p> <p>Since decency, honesty and even negative public opinion have no meaning to republicans, Dominion has taken the only approach that has proven to be effective — sue the shit out of them.</p> <p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-admits-biden-president-after-dominion-lawsuit-2021-1" target="_blank">Business Insider: <em> Rudy Giuliani admits Biden is president hours after being sued for $1.3 billion by voting-machine company</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Rudy Giuliani acknowledged for the first time Monday that Joe Biden won the 2020 US presidential election.</p> <p>"As far as this election is concerned, it's over," Giuliani said on his radio show on WABC-AM, <a href="https://twitter.com/Azi/status/1353815146913820672" target="_blank">according to the New York Times reporter Azi Paybarah</a>.</p> <p>"Biden's the president, she's the vice president," Giuliani added, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris.</p> <p>Giuliani's statement came hours after Dominion Voting Systems <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-sues-rudy-giuliani-13-billion-over-election-fraud-claim-2021-1" target="_blank">sued him</a> for $1.3 billion and accused him of defamation. The former New York City mayor spent months <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-witness-slammed-with-cease-and-desist-from-dominion-2020-12" target="_blank">peddling bogus conspiracy theories</a> alleging that the voting company engaged in widespread election fraud to deliver Biden the White House and "steal" the 2020 race from President Donald Trump.</p> </blockquote> <p>They’ve also got the Kraken lady in their sights</p> <p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/01/25/sidney-powell-releases-kraken--on-herself-with-new-super-pac-not-far-from-mar-a-lago/" target="_blank">Salon:  <em>Sidney Powell releases Kraken — on herself, with new super PAC not far from Mar-a-Lago</em></a></p> <p>Can the bloated orange poser be far behind?</p> <p><strong>A Little Andy to Tide You Over</strong></p> <p>The trouble with satire today, is that it’s just so damn believable.  Still, Andy continues to do a hell of a job.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/shrinking-qanon-to-merge-with-elvis-conspiracy-theory" target="_blank">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  <em>Shrinking QAnon to Merge with Elvis Conspiracy Theory</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>MEMPHIS (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—QAnon, which has hemorrhaged supporters since Inauguration Day, has announced that it is merging with the conspiracy theory that claims Elvis Presley is still alive.</p> <p>The announcement, made at a press conference in a parking lot across the street from Graceland, Presley’s longtime home, was seen as a bid to prevent QAnon from vanishing altogether.</p> <p>The overture to the Elvis conspiracy theorists came after QAnon proposed a similar merger with the National Rifle Association, which declined, citing difficulties of its own.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Dogs Are People Too (and Have Been Part of the Family for a Very Long Time)</strong></p> <p>Pressley insisted I include this story.</p> <p><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/ice-age-siberian-hunters-may-have-domesticated-dogs-23000-years-ago" target="_blank">Science:  <em>Ice age Siberian hunters may have domesticated dogs 23,000 years ago</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Sometime toward the end of the last ice age, a group of humans armed with stone-tipped spears stalked their prey in the bitter cold of northeastern Siberia, tracking bison and woolly mammoths across a vast, grassy landscape. Beside them ran wolflike creatures, more docile than their ancestors and remarkably willing to help their primate companions hunt down prey and drag it back to camp. These were the world’s first dogs. Their descendants flowed both west and east, populating Eurasia as well as accompanying the ancestors of Native Americans as they spread into the Americas.</p> <p>That’s the scenario laid out in a new study combining DNA data from ancient dogs and humans. The analysis, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, aims to end years of debate about where and when dogs were domesticated. It may even explain how wary wolves were transformed into faithful companions in the first place.</p> <p>“I <em>love</em> this study,” says Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and an expert on ancient people in the Americas. More genomes from ancient dogs and people will be needed to confirm the findings, she says, but already, “It’s amazing to see how the dog story and the human story match up.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Pressley was also adamant about this one.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/australian-shepherd-appears-to-outsmart-owner/" target="_blank">Good News Network:  <em>Clever Australian Shepherd Appears to Outsmart Owner, So He Can Get Two Treats</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>This dog’s owner says he wanted to do a test to see if his dog could resist taking a treat, even if he left the room.</p> <p><a href="https://rumble.com/embed/v9t8as/?pub=4" target="_blank">rumble.com/…</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Pressley says, “It’s about damn time.  4 years without a dog in the White House is way too long.”</p> <div> <div> <div><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/25/2011810/-Champ-and-Major-are-in-the-house">From chicgo minx at Daily Kos:  <em>Champ and Major are in the house</em></a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p><strong>Medicine Marches On</strong></p> <p>I know a lot of people with serious food allergies.  I wonder if they’d rather get this treatment or the Covid vaccine?</p> <p><a href="https://www.labroots.com/trending/immunology/19626/food-allergies-gone-nanoparticles-call-immune-ceasefire" target="_blank">Labroots:  <em>Food Allergies Be Gone: Nanoparticles Call for an Immune Ceasefire</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, fish, and shellfish—these foods top the most unwanted list for the tens of millions of people in the U.S. living with food allergies. Data shows that sensitivities to these and other food-based allergens are on the rise. A report by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention indicates that from 1997 to 2011, the prevalence of food allergies in children increased by a whopping 50 percent.</p> <p>“Huge numbers of people suffer from food allergies, amounting to billions of dollars in annual health care costs,” explained André Nel, nanotechnology expert and author of a recent publication outlining the potential for nanomedicines as countermeasures against food allergies.</p> <p>“Normally, asthma and anaphylaxis are treated with an EpiPen syringe as well as anti-inflammatory and immune-suppressive drugs that only provide transient relief. For the problem to go away long-term, we’re looking at the liver to reprogram the immune system to an actively sustained state of nonresponsiveness.”</p> <p>Nel and the team have developed a novel technique for reprogramming the overactive immune system in those with allergies by using a subset of anti-inflammatory lymphocytes called T regulatory cells.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude (Extended)</h2> <p>We use music to celebrate where we were, where we are and where we are going.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=3hGSqqhhokE" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3hGSqqhhokE?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=-UHHc7POovg" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-UHHc7POovg?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>The newest release from Playing for Change (January 22nd)</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=F2NuOVgQWt8" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/F2NuOVgQWt8" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev:</p> <p>>>>>>>While Schumer was on Maddow last night, Mitch McTurtle finally gave up whatever it was he was doing to stall things in the Senate. He put out a statement saying “Now that I’ve cut and pasted what Manchin and Sinema have been saying in public for the last 6 months and haven’t changed one single bit, I’m satisfied to let the organizing resolution go forward.” If that doesn’t add up for you, YOU ARE RIGHT…..its all fig leafing and face saving (and in the case of Mitch, why would he want to save THAT face?) Yes, the filibuster issue needs to be addressed and will be; it is now a hostage for the Democrats; but now stuff can get done and the filibuster gets dealt with as we go along.</p> <p>>>>>Eric Swalwell is one of the House Managers who will prosecute the Impeachment trial. He is eminently equipped to do so. Yesterday he pointed out that unlike last time, this will be a real trial with evidence and witnesses and such (almost a courtroom, but not quite; AND testimony and evidence at an impeachment CAN BE USED as such in a court of law.) Here’s the thing: Swalwell said they may well call certain Senators as witnesses (“Permission to treat as a hostile witness, your honor?”) But the Senate is sitting as a jury. OK legal eagles here at Dailykos: <strong><u>under NO legal theory I have ever heard of can a member of a jury be called as a witness and then continue (or even begin) to serve as a juror in the same case.</u></strong> </p> <p>So, if Hawley, Cruz, Johnson, Tuberville, Cornyn and say Thune all get called to testify, then by my reckoning, the jury has been reduced to 94, and a 2/3 to convict number has become a rounded off 62 instead of 67, right? Then if 10 more decide “I really can’t be party to such an injustice; I refuse to attend”, the jury is down to 84, and 2/3 to convict is 56…..and things get DAMNED interesting!</p> <p>>>>>>>>BTW, I have read that while by the Constitution at the impeachment trial of a President the Chief Justice presides BUT John Roberts has already notified the Senate that since the pResident in question is no longer pResident, only former and/or ex-, he will not preside. Schumer has taken this in stride and already named Senator Leahy to preside (as has been done in other, lower impeachments) (Leahy: Judiciary Committee; the other Vermont Senator; will be addressed during the trial as Judge Non-Mittens…..even by Mitt Romney…..)</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>January 25ths that have been Good and Goofy for 48 minutes of daylight longer at this latitude, so that you too can frolic in your own Good and Goofy ways in growing sunshine as well.</strong></p> <div> <p><span><strong><span><span>             1708</span></span></strong><span><span>   Gloucester, England    Birth of <strong>William Hayes</strong>, composer and organist. Early on was already assistant organist at the Cathedral in his hometown. Had the chance to go to university and eventually earn a doctorate in music while serving for decades as the organist at Oxford. A tremendous fan of <u>Handel</u> he took cues from his idol in arranging and writing choral pieces. Also composed with the Handel flair in genres Handel did not: chamber cantatas, works for choir and organ (naturally), more light-hearted pieces. Recalled for his organ work and oratorios such as the <em>“Fall of Jericho” </em>and<em> “Six Cantatas.”  </em>Both inspired by and rather overshadowed by his hero.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>          1802</span></span></strong><span><span>   Washington DC   By act of Congress this day the <strong>Library of Congress was established</strong> for members. <u>President Thomas Jefferson</u>, a wealthy man and voracious reader, personally donated over 6000 books to get it started. (After the British burned DC in 1814, including the Library, Jefferson made another multi-thousand contribution of books to re-establish it.)</span></span></span></p> <p><span>            <strong><span>1863</span></strong><span>   Boston, Massachusetts   <strong>Governor John Andrew</strong> has been a fiery supporter of the Union cause and leads a state full of abolitionists. Back on January 1 President Lincoln has issued his Emancipation Proclamation, which was met with fierce celebration across the state. Now the Governor has written to Secretary of War Stanton and received permission. Andrew publicly announces he and others will begin raising a new regiment for the Union Army, the <strong>54<sup>th</sup> Massachusetts</strong> has supplied. While the commissioned officers will be white, <strong>the enlisted men will all be black men</strong> (non-coms will be both races.) They are the first black regiment, fiercely proud of that fact, and won glory on several battlefields <em>(including Congress: Union privates earned $13/month, but Congress said black privates would only get $10/month. The 54<sup>th</sup> set the example by refusing all pay until Congress made the numbers equal. After several months, they did, retroactive to date of enlistment.) </em>See movie,<em> “Glory” </em>Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick.</span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>             1875</span></span></strong><span><span>   Kalamazoo, Michigan   Town dentist <strong>George Green</strong> has a good practice in town but feels the tools of his trade are practically medieval. He wants something modern. He has already been tinkering with pneumatic pumps but hits on a better idea. O this day Dr. Green received a patent for <strong>the first electric dental drill </strong>(which could be fitted with different heads to also saw, file, dress and polish teeth<em>.</em>)<em> So just relax, swish and spit, close your eyes and listen to the Muzak…..which was a live band or a saloon piano player back in 1875…...   </em></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>              <strong> 1892</strong>   Atlanta, Texas (NOT the Georgia one!)   Birth of <strong>Bessie Coleman,</strong> aviator. Born to a large but poor family she was Cherokee on her father’s side and African-American on her mother’s. The family (of 13 children) soon moved to Waxahachie as sharecroppers. Bessie walked four miles each way to her segregated school. Loved to read and was quite good at math. By saving up money her family was able to get her into a church high school and one year at (now) Langston University in Oklahoma. Moved to Chicago in 1915 to live with her brothers and worked as a manicurist at the White Sox Barbershop. Heard WWI stories about daredevil flyers over the trenches and decided she wanted to become a pilot. No pilot school would accept a woman, and none would admit blacks either, but the editor of the <em><u>Chicago Defender</u></em> (a black newspaper) wrote up her dream and asked for contributions. The paper raised enough for her to take a crash course in French and then sail to France, where she learned to fly. In 1921 she became the <strong>first black woman and first Native American to earn a pilot’s license</strong> from the<em> Federation Aeronautique Internationale. </em>Returned to the US but commercial aviation was still a decade away from hiring many pilots. The way to earn a living was flying exhibitions on barnstorming tours. Bessie became <strong>“Queen Bess”</strong> and became very popular. She used her position and popularity to insist audiences were integrated. Tried to start an American flying school for blacks, without success. Was killed in Orlando in 1926 in what might have been a sabotaged plane. She was buried in Chicago; while none of the white papers covered her funeral, the <em><u>Defender</u></em> did, noting over 10,000 people (both black and white) turned out for her funeral procession. Her eulogy was given by crusading reporter <strong>Ida Tarbell.</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>            1905</span></span></strong><span><span>   Cullinan, South Africa   At the Premier Co. #2 mine this day the <strong>largest gem-quality diamond</strong> in world history was discovered. It measured <strong>3106 carats</strong>. It was eventually cut into several large stones, many of which are part of the British Crown Jewels (since they ran South Africa at the time.)</span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>           1915 </span></span></strong><span><span>  Washington DC   Photographer and naturalist <strong>Enos Mills</strong> took a leaf (!) from john Muir in California and lobbied Congress for over a decade (at times using his own photographs.) Congress finally agreed with him and on this day so did President Woodrow Wilson. The Congressional Act and Signature set aside 415 square miles of Colorado as <strong>Rocky Mountain National Park</strong>. It isn’t that far from Denver, so lots of people traveled there to launch a tour. The first year the Park drew 31,000 visitors. </span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>            1962  </span></span></strong><span><span>  Buffalo, New York   Young people these days are just totally out of control. The Chruch should stand up for morality, and on this day <strong>Bishop Burke</strong> of Buffalo Catholic dioceses did. He declared <strong>Chubby Checker's</strong> "Twist" impure & banned it from all Catholic school dances<em>.</em></span></span><em> The “Twist” was never heard of again and the Bishop was promoted…..to Labrador and Baffin Island……(OK, I made that up……)</em></span></p> <p><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></p> <p><span>Shalom.</span></p> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <p>I am sorry to have to inform you that last Wednesday may turn out to be the largest super spreader event ever.  At 11:48AM the entire world exhaled at the same time. (h/t Edfor42)</p> <p>I bet you didn’t know this — There’s a new law that says any collection of memes will be rejected unless it includes at least two memes starring Bernie in his mittens.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="BernieMark125.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/910591/large/BernieMark125.jpg?1611655788" title="BernieMark125.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="MySpotMark123.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/910601/large/MySpotMark123.png?1611659924" title="MySpotMark123.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="YoungMark125.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/910604/large/YoungMark125.jpg?1611660036" title="YoungMark125.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div 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last time I did a roundup.  It’s now outdated, so consider this in hindsight.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="DrinkingMark114.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/910567/large/DrinkingMark114.jpg?1611655383" title="DrinkingMark114.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>A big h/t to my friend REDACTED, who sends me most of the memes.</p> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <p>On our new day in America</p> <blockquote> <p>One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — Andre Gide</p> <p>Every moment is a new beginning. — Elie Wiesel</p> <p>To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness. — Cecelia Ahern</p> <p>What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy. — Leonard Sweet</p> <p>Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi</p> </blockquote> <p>Some thoughts to share with certain recalcitrant senators.</p> <blockquote> <p>It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. — Josiah Stamp</p> <p>You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability...you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results. — Buck Rodgers</p> <p>A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine</p> <p>We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. — Ronald Reagan</p> <p>A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. — John Stuart Mill</p> <p>It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi</p> <p>To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. — Douglas Adams</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo (aka Pressley’s Corner)</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="200523_Pressley_047.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/909029/large/200523_Pressley_047.jpg?1611316892" title="200523_Pressley_047.jpg"> <figcaption>I’m not yet ready for my closeup, Mr. NNNE.  You are in a lot of trouble, buster!</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="180501_Precious_022.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/909026/large/180501_Precious_022.jpg?1611316689" title="180501_Precious_022.jpg"> <figcaption>I’m jumping for joy.  He’s gone!  He’s gone!  He’s gone!</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <div> <div> <p>This has been my first roundup of the Biden Presidency.  I am ecstatic.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community. </p> <p>hpg ably continues the tradition of Evening Shade:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/25/2011857/-PRESIDENT-JOE-BIDEN-Day5-Evening-Shade-Monday">PRESIDENT JOE <span>BIDEN--Day5--Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>Well, it’s time once again for the lads to play us out.  I was at this show.  This was one of Jerry’s favorite songs.  Bobby flubs a line (and 4:20) and Brent smiles and fills.  It was magical.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=KTEDpckHqk0" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KTEDpckHqk0" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  All those republicans bleating about unity can go pound sand</em></p> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) AncientDogs BetteMidler BobDylan Dominion DonaldTrump foodallergies GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead ImpeachmentPartDeux JanetYellen MikeLindell PlayingforChange Politics Poll Pressley Recommended RobPortman Roundup RudyGuiliani StevieWonder TransgenderBan _2011739 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:02:32 +0000 Eight Days or Less, with a Letter from Adam Schiff - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, January 12th, 2021 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/1/12/2007495/-Eight-Days-or-Less-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-January-12th-2021 <p>History changes direction incrementally.  We see very few seismic shifts in flow.  Last Wednesday was not, of itself, a global watershed moment.  It was just another brief stop on the ongoing disaster that is the tRump train.  They failed miserably and that relegates them to a footnote, or perhaps an exclamation point in tRump’s long record of failure.</p> <p>Remember, tRump has never had majority support.  tRump’s signature accomplishment at the Capitol was to further shrink his deluded minority and stiffen the resolve of his opposition.</p> <p>Whenever you encounter someone trying to defend of justify what tRump did, put on your very best askance look and say, “Since when has fomenting and abetting a criminal insurrection against the United States of America been a part of the duties of the President of the United States?”</p> <p>Yes, underneath the surface of the Kriminal Klown Konspiracy we saw violent extremists plucked from the SPLC’s Wall of Shame strutting about unsuccessfully performing their full pathetic mating display.  On the surface it looked like a badly staged reenactment of the Beer Hall Putsch re-imagined as the Beer-Belly Putz Parade.  Smearing shit in the halls is not an act perpetrated by a serious disciplined threat.  They did not field enough of their hardcore cosplay commandos to actually overthrow the government.</p> <p>In the grand scheme of things, the Administration’s botched response to COVID-19 is orders of magnitude more consequential than the death throes of the tRump regime.</p> <p>tRump is still the same flaming pile of excrement the republicans (and Putin) left on our national porch in 2016.  He is just as unfit and just as deserving of being kicked to the curb.  He hasn’t gotten worse — he is still the same evil deluded narcissistic ass he was when he condemned the Central Park Five — just fatter and stupider.</p> <p>Continuing support for tRump should be dispositive criteria in child custody cases.</p> <p>Stupid.  Idiot.  Dotard.  Feeble-minded.  Incompetent.  Vicious.  Petty.  Lazy.  Criminal.  Traitor.  Unfit.  These are all words used to describe tRump before he incited an insurrection.  He has only managed to etch them deeper into his headstone.</p> <p>To the people whining loudly about being the victims of Cancel Culture — tRump Culture deserves cancellation.  It is obscene in the sense that it has no socially redeeming qualities whatsoever.  Worshiping bigotry, mendacity and criminality is not a foundation for a culture or a recipe for progress — it is a sad attempt at social suicide.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the leadership of the republican party is still busily feathering its nest, while that nest is actively being transferred to the dungheap of history.  It looks like Pence is still too craven to step up and remove tRump, so we are impeaching him again.  Any republican with a tiny vestige of cognitive ability and a rudimentary instinct for self-preservation is running for the hills.  The rest, including the majority of republican congressional representatives (aka treason weasels) and their cohorts at the usual propaganda factories have released themselves from all of their remaining tenuous tethers to reality, and are busy trying to justify treason (or sedition for any pedants who think treason is narrowly defined).  The hypocrisy of the party of division and exploitation disingenuously calling for unity by ignoring their crimes is stunning.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <p>Seth provided us a fine rant in last night’s <em>Closer Look</em>.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=f-ohZpWD4y4" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/f-ohZpWD4y4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I have a hankering to include this parody before we move on.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=bOlIG8UUoDQ" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bOlIG8UUoDQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>On to the news,</p> <p><strong>But First, a Few Words from Adam Schiff</strong></p> <p>I received this email from the Adam Schiff.  His office has kindly given me permission to reproduce it here.   I can’t give you a link, so I’ve included the entire message.</p> <blockquote> <p>Before too much time passed, I tried to sit down and process what happened on <span>Wednesday</span>. Here are my thoughts:</p> <p>Now that the dust has settled, all too literally, on the events at the Capitol, I wanted to share a few thoughts on what it was like to be there, what it means to the country, and where we go from here. For the many of us that were present in Congress during 9/11, it brought back a flood of painful memories, but this time, the damage to our country was self-inflicted, and this time, we are far from unified as a result.</p> <p>The storming of the Capitol was an act of insurrection, intended to disrupt the most fundamental act of our democracy – the peaceful transition of power. Both Houses of Congress and the Vice President gathered in a Joint Session in the Capitol to perform our duty under the 12th Amendment, to certify and count the electoral votes cast by the States.</p> <p>In preparation for the Joint Session, and at the Speaker’s request, I had been working for months to study the Constitutional provisions and their history, to understand the role of the Vice President and Congress, to foresee any objections that might be raised and how to handle them, and to help manage our effort on the floor along with Representatives Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Raskin and Joe Neguse.</p> <p>Shortly after the reading of the states began, a large group of Republicans, joined by the leadership of their conference, Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, objected to counting the electors from Arizona and we divided into our respective houses to debate the matter.</p> <p>When I spoke on the House floor in opposition to this challenge to the votes of millions of Arizonans, I wanted to emphasize that these Republican objectors were violating their oaths to defend the Constitution, regardless of the outcome of their objection, and doing grave damage to our democracy:</p> <p>"Nor can we console ourselves with the intoxicating fiction that we can break that oath without consequence because doing so will not succeed in overturning the election. An oath is no less broken, when the breaking fails to achieve its end.</p> <p>"We must be mindful that any who seek to overturn an election, will do injury to our constitution, whatever the result. For just as the propagation of a dangerous myth about this election made this moment inevitable, our actions <span>today</span> will put another train in motion. This election will not be overturned, but what about the next? Or the one after that?</p> <p>"What shall we say when our democratic legacy is no more substantial than the air, except that we brought trouble to our own house, and inherited the wind."</p> <p>Indeed, although I did not know it, there was another train in motion only miles away. Nearby on the National Mall, the President of the United States was inciting a crowd of his supporters. He knowingly spread lies about fraudulent votes, suggesting that the election was stolen, and asserted that the Vice President could unilaterally overturn the results of a free and fair election in which 155 million Americans had cast their ballots. And then, he implored his crowd to go to the Capitol and do something about it. Trump even said he’d join them.</p> <p>And so they did.</p> <p>The scene was everything you have seen on television and more. I was on the House Floor taking notes for a rebuttal speech I would make later, when the Speaker was whisked out of the room by security, followed immediately by the Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer. The mob had broken into the Capitol, we were informed, and were headed our way. Police were discharging tear gas, there were reports of gunshots, and we were told to take out the gas masks under each seat and prepare to put them on. One of my colleagues, a veteran, was yelling instructions — “breathe slowly under the hoods or you will pass out.” That is when the mob reached the doors to the House chamber and started battering them and trying to break through. Capitol police pushed furniture in the way to barricade them out and drew their weapons. The mob broke the glass in the doors, and members were instructed by police to leave the chamber through the rear doors ASAP. We did.</p> <p>As bad as it was, it could have been worse. There were many in the violent mob who had every intent to attack people they judged to be their enemies, and several Democratic and Republican members told me to try to keep out of sight. As one Republican said, “I know these people and can talk to them. You are in a whole different situation.” I don’t think he meant that he literally knew people in the mob, who were still disembodied and angry voices banging to get through the doors, only that he knew people like them and what they were capable of.</p> <p>Capitol police ushered us to a secure location. On the way, one of the Republican members was carrying a large wooden stand he had taken from the House chamber, the hand sanitizer still attached to its top. I could tell he meant to use it as a club, if he needed to. “You that worried about your safety?” I asked him. “Yes,” he said, explaining that he had heard gunshots.  I didn’t recognize him and only knew he was a member from the pin on his lapel. “How long have you been here?” I asked, expecting him to tell me that he was in his second or third term in Congress. “72 hours,” he said. “I just got elected.” I wasn’t sure what to say to reassure him, and merely deadpanned, “it’s not always like this.”</p> <p>As we waited for police and National Guard reinforcements to arrive, I discussed with my colleagues what our next steps should be. I felt strongly that we needed to resume the proceedings as soon as it was safe to do so, that we could not let these thugs interrupt the transition of power any more than they had already. I was pleased to see that sentiment was widely held.</p> <p>When we did resume, now in the evening, we voted down the objections to the Arizona electors, but nonetheless an astonishing number of Republicans still sought to overturn the results. And after resuming the Joint Session, Republicans objected to counting the certificates from yet another state, Pennsylvania. It was incredible to me that after all this, after seeing the clear and violent implication of their conduct, these members were not finished with their oath breaking.</p> <p>Late in the evening, I spoke again on the floor. Remarking on the fact that Franklin Roosevelt had given his Four Freedoms speech exactly eighty years earlier, highlighting the dangers of “poisonous propaganda” to our democracy, I called on Republicans to stop. I emphasized the need for unity in the face of the attempted insurrection and a pandemic that is killing thousands of us every day:</p> <p>"This is the urgency that our new president must address, a virus that will claim more American lives than all our casualties during WWII. To meet that moment will require unity, not discord, will require an abiding faith in our country, in our democracy, in our government’s ability to function and provide for the needs of its citizens.</p> <p>"We cannot continue debating the merits of an election that was fairly conducted, and overwhelmingly won by Joe Biden.</p> <p>"Have we not brought enough damage to this House, to this country? It must stop!"</p> <p>But it didn’t stop. At around 3 am, we voted on the baseless objections to the Pennsylvania electors, and 138 members of the House (a large majority of the Republican Caucus and their leadership) as well as 7 Republican Senators, voted to reject the votes of millions of Pennsylvanians. Astonishingly, Republican members claimed that the ballots were fraudulent even though they had been elected on the very same ballots. Apparently, as I pointed out during the debate: “What value has consistency when measured against ambition?”</p> <p>On <span>Thursday</span> morning, I felt a mixture of sadness at what our country has gone through, embarrassment at how we appear in the eyes of the world, anger at the irresponsible actions of my colleagues who have spread lies about the election for months and brought this on themselves and the nation, fury over a president who instigated the rebellion, and a grave concern over the future.</p> <p>The actions of the mob and those who incited them, the President most of all, are despicable and outrageous, and those who committed crimes need to be held accountable. But we should not lose sight of the fact that what happened in the early hours of the morning, in a chamber with windows broken by bats and not far from statutes flecked with blood, was every bit as much an attack on our democracy as anything the mob tried to do. This assault on our Constitutional order was inspired by people wearing suits and ties, and cloaked in the genteel language of Congressional debate, but their purpose was no less ominous.</p> <p>Donald Trump lit the fuse which exploded <span>yesterday</span> at the Capitol. Every day that he remains in office, he is a danger to the Republic, and he should leave office immediately, through resignation, the 25th Amendment or impeachment. He should have been removed from office a year ago when the House impeached him and we proved in the Senate trial that he abused his power to cheat in the election. During the trial, we warned that if left in office, he would try to cheat his way into staying there. As I said at the time, the odds that he would do so again were 100 percent.</p> <p>And as much as I am pleased to see people resigning from his cabinet and former officials speaking out, where were they when they had a chance to stop this dangerous man from destroying the country, except by his side? As we read the sudden expressions of outrage from the likes of Bill Barr, Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney and others, let us remember that these enablers wanted four more years of Donald Trump as president and worked hard to make that so. Their statements now are less about saving the country and more about saving what is left of their shattered reputations.</p> <p>Donald Trump has been the worst president we have ever had and should be confined to the dustbin of history where he belongs — for this failed insurrection, and everything before it.</p> <p>Yet even when he’s gone, the evil he has perpetrated will live after him. We can fortify the defenses of the Capitol. We can reinforce doors and put up fences. But we cannot guard our democracy against those who walk the halls of the Capitol, have taken an oath to uphold our Constitution, but refuse to do so.</p> <p>The work to repair and defend our democracy has never been more urgent or daunting.</p> <p>But we must never back down from this sacred task. I know I won’t.</p> <p>Take care of yourselves.</p> <p>— Adam</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>21st Century Freedom Riders</strong></p> <p>Now that Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff heading to Washington, echoes of history have been reverberating down through the years.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/warnock-ossoff-georgia-civil-rights-history/index.html" target="_blank">CNN:  <em>How Warnock and Ossoff's victories evoked the history of the Black freedom struggle</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Washington (CNN)It was hard not to notice how <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/ossoff-perdue-georgia-election-news/index.html" target="_blank">Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff's Democratic victories</a> in Georgia's January 5 runoff elections evoked the history of the Black freedom struggle -- a continuing struggle, as evidenced by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-confederate-flag-fort-stevens/index.html" target="_blank">a Confederate flag-carrying mob's takeover</a> of the US Capitol on Wednesday.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>"When I think about the arc of our history, what Georgia did (on Tuesday) is its own message in the midst of a moment in which so many people are trying to divide our country, at a time we can least afford to be divided," Warnock told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday morning on "New Day," even before the assault on the US Capitol and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/multiracial-democracy-55-years-old-will-it-survive/617585/" target="_blank">multiracial democracy</a>.</div> <div>.</div> <div> <div>That a Black man and a Jewish man, both from the Deep South, are about to go to Washington as senators recalls a similar alliance from the civil rights era.</div> <div></div> <div>Consider that historians estimate that up to half of the White students who participated in Freedom Summer -- the 1964 campaign to ramp up the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi -- were Jewish.</div> <div></div> </div> </blockquote> <p>I think Rafael and Jon’s victory needs some musical accompaniment.  Rhiannon does a better job introducing this song than I ever could.</p> <blockquote> <p><span>I am a daughter of the South; of the white working class, of the black working class; of the Democrat, and the Republican; of the gay, and the straight; and I can tell you one thing—we are far more alike than we are different. We cannot let hate divide us; we cannot let ignorance diminish us; we cannot let those whose greed fills their every waking hour take our country from us. They can't take U.S. from US—unless we let them. I recorded this with Bhi Bhiman, all-American singer-songwriter from St. Louis, whose parents are from Sri Lanka. America's strength are her people, whether they came 4,000, 400, or 40 years ago, and we can't leave anyone behind. Let's walk down Freedom Highway together. Written by Pops Staples in 1965. — Rhiannon</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=5eFtU57vme4" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5eFtU57vme4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Rudy, Rudy, Rudy</strong></p> <p>And the hits just keep on coming.  The shoes keep dropping.  The rats keep deserting.  Oh hell, you get the picture.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/giuliani-allies-were-part-of-russia-linked-foreign-influence-network-us-government-says/" target="_blank">Mother Jones:  <em>Giuliani Allies Were Part of “Russia-Linked Foreign Influence Network,” US Government Says</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Rudy Giuliani is about to become the first presidential lawyer whose own actions helped lead to his client being impeached twice.</p> <p>The House is moving toward <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/08/us/draft-articles-of-impeachment.html">impeaching</a> Trump for inciting violence against the government of the United States at a rally in which Giuliani also called for “<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/watch-giuliani-demand-trial-by-combat-to-settle-election.html">trial by combat</a>,” and the New York State Bar association has <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2021/01/the-new-york-bar-says-it-is-investigating-rudy-giuliani/">indicated</a> that it is investigating the former New York mayor for his actions. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Monday offered a reminder of Giuliani’s role in the Ukraine scandal that led to Trump’s 2019 <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2019/12/the-house-just-voted-to-impeach-donald-trump-for-abuse-of-power/">impeachment</a>, announcing that several Ukrainians who <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-joe-biden-smear-efforts">assisted</a> Giuliani’s effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden were “part of a Russia-linked foreign influence network” that tried “to influence the 2020 US Presidential election.”</p> <p>Last September, Treasury <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-worked-with-an-active-russian-agent-to-discredit-joe-biden/">announced sanctions against</a> Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian parliamentarian who supplied Giuliani with misleading information about Biden in an effort to smear the then-Democratic candidate. Treasury said that Derkach has been “an active Russian agent for over a decade.” Giuliani <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/05/murder-story-involving-ukrainian-putin-who-just-met-with-rudy-giuliani/">met</a> in late 2019 with Derkach and other Ukrainians who pushed baseless allegations that Biden had acted improperly in 2016 when, as vice president, he joined an international push for the removal of Ukraine’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, due to suspected <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/14/transcript-kent-taylor-public-testimony-front-house-intelligence-committee/">corruption</a>. Derkach later <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/a-new-giuliani-like-effort-to-smear-biden-over-ukraine-falls-flat/">held</a> press conferences in Kiev during which he played a series of secretly recorded tapes of Biden speaking by phone with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Though the tapes <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/a-new-giuliani-like-effort-to-smear-biden-over-ukraine-falls-flat/">did not reveal</a> wrongdoing by Biden, Derkach claimed they bolstered Trump’s and Giuliani’s allegations about Biden.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Florida Man Whines and Spills Dumbass All Over His Best Bib</strong></p> <p>He might not be the stupidest man in Congress (looking at you, Louie), but he’s in the running for the biggest idiot.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-mocked-twitter_n_5ffcda7dc5b63642b6fe5839" target="_blank">Huffington Post:  <em>Rep. Matt Gaetz Mocked For Caring More About Twitter Bans Than Insurrection</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Rep. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-Fla.) has his priorities, and apparently, the fact that Twitter is <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-parler-reddit-youtube-crackdown-on-qanon-michael-flynn-steve-bannon_n_5ff90577c5b691806c4925d7" target="_blank">banning politicians who violate its terms of services agreement</a> angers him more than last week’s insurrection at the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/capitol-riot" target="_blank">U.S. Capitol.</a></p> </div> <div> <p>On Monday — after Twitter <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-twitter-ban_n_5ff733bbc5b61a92a8c08b8c" target="_blank">permanently banned</a> <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a>’s account, @RealDonald Trump, for inciting violence — the Florida congressman falsely suggested the social media platform’s terms of services violate the First Amendment.</p> </div> <div> <p>“We cannot live in a world where Twitter’s terms of service are more important than the terms in our Constitution and Bill of Rights,” he tweeted.</p> <p>Many Twitter users questioned the lawmaker’s priorities — and also his understanding of the First Amendment, whose free speech protections do not apply to private businesses.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Indictment Trains a Comin’ Round the Bend</strong></p> <p>This isn’t even close to being up to date.  Turns out, there are consequences.  Who knew?</p> <p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/attempted-murderer-lawmaker-arrest-records-shed-light-arrested/story?id=75139313" target="_blank">ABC News:  <em>An attempted murderer, a lawmaker, white supremacists: Police records shed light on those arrested in Capitol siege</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>An attempted murderer, a state lawmaker, and multiple self-proclaimed white supremacists.</p> <p>As prosecutors begin preparing charges against those responsible for Wednesday's <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/capitol-breached-protesters/story?id=75081629" target="_blank">deadly insurrection</a> at the U.S. Capitol, profiles of the accused are coming into sharper relief. An examination of police affidavits and arrest records and  depict a diverse cross-section of President <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/donald-trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>'s most fervent supporters -- and evidence that conspiratorial rumors about a left-wing false-flag operation are without merit.</p> <div></div> <p>In the 48 hours since mobs marched on the Capitol, authorities have combed through the same social media images that have ricocheted across the globe, hoping to identify additional suspects. On Thursday, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin said his office had already prepared more than 55 cases connected to the riots, but added, "This is just the beginning."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Pardon Me</strong></p> <p>This article originally appeared last July, right after tRump let Stone off the hook.  It has even more importance today, as its arguments should be used to contest any pardons tRump tries to push forward this last week.  My fervent wish is that tRump’s self-serving pardons will be successfully challenged.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/traditional-interpretation-pardon-power-wrong/614083/" target="_blank">The Atlantic:  <em>The Traditional Interpretation of the Pardon Power Is Wrong</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>… But there is a strong argument, rooted in the Constitution’s text, history, values, and structure, that in addition to banning the prevention or undoing of an impeachment, this phrase also bans a president from using the pardon and reprieve power to commute the sentences of people directly associated with any impeachment charges against him. This argument is not a partisan one. Whatever rule is applied today would necessarily apply to future presidents, Democrats as well as Republicans.</p> <p>The impeachment charges against President Trump focused mainly on his alleged withholding of foreign aid from Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian president into digging up dirt on Hunter Biden that could support Trump’s reelection campaign, and on his refusal to cooperate with the congressional investigation of this matter. But the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres755/BILLS-116hres755enr.pdf">articles of impeachment</a> also explicitly invoke his “previous invitations of foreign interference in United States elections” and “previous efforts to undermine United States Government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections.” According to our interpretation of the pardon clause, that would mean he can’t use the pardon and reprieve power to commute the sentences of those charged with crimes related to Russian interference in the 2016 campaign—including <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50438196">Stone, who was convicted of lying to Congress</a> and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/roger-stone/614068/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share">obstructing its investigation into Russian election interference</a>. This obstruction <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/roger-stone/614068/">impeded</a> the ability of Congress to gather information that could have been vital to the impeachment inquiry, benefiting Trump.</p> <p>Our interpretation stems, in part, from the fact that the Constitution’s Framers were deeply concerned about presidents abusing power to protect co-conspirators. As just one example, regarding treason, the Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_915.asp">voiced a concern</a> at the Constitutional Convention that “the prerogative of pardon in these cases was too great a trust. The President may himself be guilty. The Traytors may be his own instruments.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Little Bit of Andy</strong></p> <p>Have I ever mentioned just how much I enjoy Andy Borowitz?</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/deranged-trump-orders-eric-and-don-jr-to-hand-out-flyers-with-his-tweets-on-them" target="_blank">The New Yorker: <em>The Borowitz Report:  Deranged Trump Orders Eric and Don, Jr., to Hand Out Flyers with His Tweets on Them</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Driven over the edge by his expulsion from Twitter, a deranged Donald J. Trump ordered his two adult sons to hand out flyers with his tweets on them.</p> <p>The incident occurred at three o’clock Sunday morning, when Trump, wide awake and in a state of extreme agitation, had an idea for a tweet but no platform on which to broadcast it.</p> <p>Wearing his bathrobe, he summoned his adult sons to the Oval Office and scrawled his tweet on a piece of paper with one of the Sharpies that had served him well in the past.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fauci-says-immunity-from-trump-requires-two-doses-of-impeachment" target="_blank">The New Yorker:  <em>The Borowitz Report:  Fauci Says Immunity from Trump Requires Two Doses of Impeachment</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Full immunity from Donald J. Trump will require two doses of impeachment, Dr. Anthony Fauci has advised.</p> <p>“One impeachment was a good start, but it didn’t get it done,” the esteemed virologist said. “If you want to keep this terrible situation from coming back, you’re gonna need that second dose.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Building for the Future</strong></p> <p>Moving forward, it’s all about reducing the footprint, isn’t it?</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wooden-skyscrapers-called-plyscrapers-set-to-transform-the-construction-industry/" target="_blank">Good News Network:  <em>The New Green Building Revolution Uses Timber to Build ‘Plyscrapers’ That Save Tons of CO2</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Across the world, advancement in plywood technology is giving way to a slew of wooden skyscrapers aptly called ‘plyscrapers’.</p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="Wooden plyscraper" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/904868/large/norway-wood-skyscraper-released-woodify-as-vjus-as-696x339.jpg?1610448968" title="Wooden plyscraper"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>These innovative towers are beginning to top 200 feet, with one ambitious project in Norway reaching 280 feet, while also creating less carbon emissions, and requiring less time to build.</p> <p>The secret to these plyscrapers’ survival and success comes down to a new way to create plywood, and it involves laminating boards of wood together with glue at 90-degree angles before pressing them together under the immense pressure and steam of industrial wood presses.</p> <p>“This technology has changed the whole face of timber as a construction material,” said Roma Agrawal, the structural engineer who built The Shard in central London, to <em>The Economic Times.</em> “It’s a huge leap forward in terms of strength [paired with] massive advances” [in fire safety.]</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>News that Makes You Say, “What?” (Unless Your Name Is Amber Ruffin and You Already Say It Anyhow)</strong></p> <p>Whist putting together today’s roundup, I ran across a few articles that don’t count as good news, but were quirky enough that I couldn’t resist sharing them with you.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd5wp/headjobs-might-be-giving-you-cancer" target="_blank">Vice:  <em><span>Headjobs Might Be Giving You Cancer</span></em></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lasso-snakes-guam_n_5ffcd8a2c5b691806c4ba558" target="_blank"><span>Huffington Post:  </span><em>Oh Good, Scientists Discovered Snakes Can Turn Their Body Into ‘Lassos’ To Climb</em></a></p> <h2>Musical Interlude (Extended)</h2> <p>This version of <em>Imagine</em> was posted on January 7th, 2011, 10 years to the day before the beginning of our newest opportunity to make something good out of a tragic event.  Lennon’s message is timeless.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=bvFLKyAGzzI" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bvFLKyAGzzI?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I’ve used <em>The Weight</em> as one of my personal safe harbor songs for most of my life.  The uncertainty and stress of the last week has me playing it a lot.  Maybe it will help you too.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ph1GU1qQ1zQ" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ph1GU1qQ1zQ?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev</p> <p>Good Morning NotNowNotEver and Gnus of Gnuville bound and determined to hope for America, for better days to come, and for out nation to deal with these BASTARDS to the FULL EXTENT of the law.</p> <p>>>>This is a fine Round Up of resolute reasons to carry on with what we do here: comfort, encourage, sympathize, console, righteously rant, poke needles in the hot air balloons of the other side, practice shaudenfreude <em>(Ger. “to rejoice at someone else’s misfortune”)</em> even if we can’t spell it or pronounce it, cheer on patriots like Adam Schiff, Officer Goodman, et al.</p> <p>>>>>>Today the House votes its resolution calling on VP Flyhead to invoke the 25th Amendment, which he will ignore and not do. Why? Because he is Mike Pence…..a guy so useless that in 2016 the Indiana Republican Party top dogs came to him and asked him NOT TO RUN for a second (slam-dunk) term as governor. They rejoiced frantically when Trump/Manafort took him off their hands. How crappy a politician and human being do you have to be that the Indiana Republicans think you are useless!?  </p> <p>The only way you might…...might…...get him to move on the 25th is to be the History Whisperer: “Say, Mike? You want a legacy? To be remembered by history? Look, if you do the 25th Amendment, you’ll grab a spot on the top 50 Presidents of All Time (who are much better known that the Top 50 VPs of All Time.) Do this, and you’ll even knock William Harrison out of the #1 spot for shortest term in the top spot. But Mike? Do you want everlasting fame? A world record for political bad-assery that will take decades to be forgotten and centuries to be equaled? Do this: get the Guy to knuckle under to the 25th A, or to resign (works just as well), by telling him you will turn around and blanket pardon him for all his federal crimes. He could well go for that, you know. So he bites, you get the Big Job, and at 11:45 am on January 20th, up there on the platform where Biden is about to take the oath, you pull out your cellphone and call up Bunker Boy. Put it on speaker phone so everyone up there can hear and say, ‘Donald? Mike. You know how your goons wanted to hang me? Chased me through the halls? All those times you treated me like the furniture? Yeah…..well that pardon? I’m welching on the deal. Its off. Good bye.” Pulling a Pence becomes an instant meme…...</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>January 12ths that have previously put a dozen days of a new year behind them, some of them Good, some of them Goofy, so for dinner tonight you can also cross off a January 12th and decide how Good or Goofy yours was today.</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div> <p><span><strong><span><span>          1773</span></span></strong><span><span>   Charleston, SC    Thanks to the inspiration of <u>Benjamin Franklin</u>, the Charleston Library Society had been established a few years before. Now, further inspired by the recent establishment of the <u>British Museum,</u> the Library Society extends its reach to establish the <strong>Charleston Museum, the first public museum in the US</strong> (and still extant.)  In the 1850s <u>Louis Aggasiz</u>, a Swiss professor on loan to Harvard, praised the zoological examples as the finest of the time in America.</span></span></span></p> </div> <p><span><strong>           1804 </strong>  Paris   Birth of <strong>Hippolyte Monpou,</strong> composer. <em>(Anyone not Greek saddled with a first name of Hippolyte deserves an entry in the History Corner.)</em> Raised in a devout Catholic family, Monpou was an altar boy and then trained to become an expert organist. His skills had him playing in the Cathedral of Tours at age 16, but he resigned shortly after, afraid of the responsibility. He returned to school, strengthened his talent and resolve and became the organist at the Sorbonne. He composed several masses that were well received, which built his confidence. In this relaxed frame of mind, he toyed around with some romances and even light opera, which were instantly popular.<strong> Monpou</strong> became famous as a singer/songwriter, performing many of his own works while playing guitar and touring across France and beyond. Sort of a flash in the pan, but in the 1830s to his early death in 1841, he was the most loved musician in France, with comic operas, show tunes, and sold out events for most of 10 years. <em>(And all with a first name of Hippolyte……no word on T-shirt sales……)</em></span></p> <div> <p><span><strong><span>          1896</span></strong><span>   Davidson, North Carolina   <strong>Dr. Henry Smith</strong> and some of his graduate students at <u>Davidson College </u>have been reading of the work of <u>German physicist Walter Roentgen</u> and his mysterious rays that see through flesh and activate photographic plates. He and his students set up the equipment to generate the same sort of rays and then bring in a cadaver from the local morgue. With permission, Dr. Smith shoots a bullet into the hand of the cadaver, and then he and his students take several   photographic plates to locate it in the body. They succeed, <strong>the first X-Ray photographs produced in the United States</strong> and the marker pointing to its coming value in medicine. </span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>        1943 </span></span></strong><span><span>  Across the United States.  The <strong>Office of Price Administration</strong> also has the not-so-popular task of rationing civilians. In order to stretch the amount of meat available for the military, the OPA announced today that standard <u>frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners</u> would be replaced by a meat-and-soy combination and all these replacements would be called <strong>'Victory Sausages.</strong>'</span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span>          1948 </span></strong><span>    Washington DC   A very smart black woman, <strong>Ada Lois Sipuel</strong> (born 1924) had felt a call in her life: she wanted to be a lawyer in her home state of Oklahoma. Nothing doing, declared the University of Oklahoma: no blacks allowed. Sipuel hired a sharp black lawyer from Howard Law School named <strong>Thurgood Marshall</strong> and sued. The case bounced up the courts with the losing side each time appealing.  On this day the U.S. Supreme Court found UNANIMOUSLY in favor of Sipuel, that <strong>state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.</strong> Another step along the road!  <em>(Thurgood Marshall went on to be the lead attorney in a case in 1954 called <u>Brown v. Topeka Board of Education </u>you may have heard of. He still later broke the color barrier on the Supreme Court thanks to Lyndon Johnson. Perhaps Joe Biden will break the black woman barrier on that same Court in the coming months.)</em> </span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>           1949  </span></span></strong><span><span>Across America    NBC-Television had the idea that if they showed programs for children they would become viewers as adults too. On this day the Chicago-based children’s show <strong>"Kukla, Fran and Ollie", went national</strong>……..and they were right.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span>          1959</span></strong><span>    Detroit   On this day the multi-talented <strong>Berry Gordy Jr</strong>. founded the <u>Tamla Record Company</u> in his home town. His knack for a good beat, great tunes, a certain showmanship and being smart enough to change the name of the company soon to <strong>Motown Records</strong> meant we would all learn a whole new sound that you could sing to and dance to and buy 45s for your very own. <em>“And they were dancin’ in the streets…..”</em></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span>         1967 </span></strong><span>  Glendale, California   <strong> Dr. James Bedford</strong> dies, but in the interest of science for Alcor Life Extension Foundation, he becomes the<strong> first person to be cryonically preserved</strong> with intent of future resuscitation. <em>(Rumors that Tesla is readying a secret launch of a Space X rocket with a cryo-ship full of such patients named the Botany Bay, to be launched into deep space with their genetically superior leader Khan, are only rumors……)</em></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span>          1969</span></strong><span>   Across America   Football fans watch in amazement as the Broadway <strong>Joe Namath </strong>and the upstart <strong>New York Jets</strong> play the heavily favored <strong>Baltimore Colts</strong>, led by high-top shoed <strong>Johnny Unitas,</strong> for the league trophy in Super Bowl III. The Jets 16-7 upset shows this final game really can be Super, that the scrappy AFL can play with the established NFL on equal terms, and that this sport could become REALLY big in America.</span></span></p> </div> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>          1971 </span></span></strong><span><span> Across America    You know all those kids who grew up watching “Kukla, Fran and Ollie” and laughing at their antics and with Shari Lewis?  Well, we all grew up and could still use a laugh, and starting tonight, we got it, an edgy new show on CBS called <strong>"All In the Family."</strong> <em>“Here’s your bee-ah, Ahh-chie!” </em>so said Edith Bunker regularly. There were Mike and Gloria and that black family next door, the<strong> Jeffersons</strong> (who eventually <em>moved on up, to the East side, to that DEE-luxe apartment in the sky</em>…). And now and again the Bunkers would go visit Edith’s cousin<strong> Maude</strong>, who waited as Archie said something stupidly bigoted in her presence and answered memorably, “Still fighting mental health, I see…..”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></span></span></p> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="WallMark19.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/904887/large/WallMark19.jpg?1610452575" title="WallMark19.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="6C2F49DF-A619-4DA4-BDB9-40755D08399A.jpeg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/904001/large/6C2F49DF-A619-4DA4-BDB9-40755D08399A.jpeg?1610282199" title="6C2F49DF-A619-4DA4-BDB9-40755D08399A.jpeg"> 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alt="ScreenShot2021-01-09at8.10.39AM.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/903360/large/ScreenShot2021-01-09at8.10.39AM.jpg?1610197964" title="ScreenShot2021-01-09at8.10.39AM.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Trump told Nazis he loved them more times than he’s said that to any of his children that he doesn’t want to fuck.&lt;/p&gt;— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1347308804636078080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;January 7, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Trump told Nazis he loved them more times than he’s said that to any of his children that he doesn’t want to fuck.</p>— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1347308804636078080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-md"><img alt="beware-of-the-half-truth-you-may-have-gotten-hold-of-the-wrong-half-2947121.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/903859/large/beware-of-the-half-truth-you-may-have-gotten-hold-of-the-wrong-half-2947121.jpg?1610235727" title="beware-of-the-half-truth-you-may-have-gotten-hold-of-the-wrong-half-2947121.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Republicans are angry about how many followers they have lost over the last 24 hours. Democrats are angry about how many lives we’ve lost over the last 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;— Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/DGComedy/status/1348119976750714885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;January 10, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Republicans are angry about how many followers they have lost over the last 24 hours. Democrats are angry about how many lives we’ve lost over the last 24 hours.</p>— Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/DGComedy/status/1348119976750714885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2021</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace. — Tacitus</p> <p>There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad</p> <p>Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. — Arthur Miller</p> <p>When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. — Edmund Fuller</p> <p>Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. — Denis Waitley</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <p>A message from Pressley:</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="201227_Pressley_038.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/901183/large/201227_Pressley_038.jpg?1609761729" title="201227_Pressley_038.jpg"> <figcaption>Hey, traitors!  We’re coming for you and nothing is going to stop us.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <div> <div> <p>This will be my last roundup during the tRump Rezidency.  I say, good riddance to bad cess.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during the interregnum.</p> <p>hpg continues to do a heck of a job with the Evening Shade reins and following along with Joe Biden’s ascent:<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/11/2008360/-PRESIDENT-ELECT-JOE-BIDEN-Day66-Evening-Shade-Monday">  PRESIDENT ELECT JOE <span>BIDEN--Day66--Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>Let’s close out with the lads performing <em>Truckin’</em>, 40 years ago in the Big Apple</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=mSur0mFviT0" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mSur0mFviT0" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Ok, just one more for the road (and the country).</p> </div> </div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=MH8ObibNCoo" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MH8ObibNCoo" data-width="931" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  Lincoln was the Great Debater — tRump is the Great Debaser (and the clarion call for the dissolution of the republican party)</em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) AdamSchiff closerlook FreedomHighway GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead Humor Imagine Insurrection JohnLennon JonOssoff LighterSide Memes PlayingforChange Politics RafaelWarnock Recommended RhiannonGiddens Roundup SethMeyers TheBand TheWeight truckin _2007495 Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:02:24 +0000 Looking Back While Moving Forward - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, December 29th, 2020 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/12/29/2004063/-Looking-Back-While-Moving-Forward-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-December-29th-2020 <p>For me, the week between Christmas and New Years has always been a period of reflection.  This year is a bit different.  I can say, without doubt, this has been the shittiest year in my lifetime.  But, compared to 1860-1865, 1914-1920, 1929-1933, and 1936-1945 it’s been a cakewalk.  Sure, we’ve been saddled with the single worst president in American history (and his band of crooks & grifters), a global pandemic, a partial economic collapse, a looming climate crisis and increasingly strident mainstream bigotry and racism.</p> <p>None of the challenges we face are easy.  None of them are insurmountable.  We must work to find ways to heal some of the divisions in our society.  There are certainly people who are unreachable.  There have always been people who are unreachable.  Since I, personally, don’t want to wait for actuarial tables to shift our nation back to a full embrace of progressivism, let’s make a concentrated effort to deprogram the reachable ones.  With effort, we can educate the misguided and misinformed.  I argue that is our duty to try.  Anything else becomes just an endless Festivus Airing of Grievances.</p> <p>Way down at the other end of the reflective spectrum, we have Donald the Yawning Chasm of Id.  The man has never demonstrated any concept of restraint or moderation.  His idea of self-reflection is to spout endless streams of grandiose debunked self-puffery.  Now that some part of him realizes his world is collapsing, he isn’t just decompensating — he’s decomposing — and it’s an ugly spectacle.  Fortunately, there are only twenty-two days left for the Great Orange Blunder to continue making a mockery of Democracy from the heart of the government.  Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty can soon stop cringing with mortification at the stains he’s cast upon our national reputation due to his continued depredations.  The proverbial chickens are coming home to roost and they are spreading a lot of self-inflicted chickenshit all over his miserable orange face.</p> <p>The future is something we create together.  If we want to push for a particular path, we need to remain engaged.  I’m not talking about waiting anxiously for obituaries to celebrate.  It turns out keeping a democracy vibrant is hard work.  Talking to a wall is not fun, especially when the wall wears a red hat and subsists entirely on nonsense (Are red hat wearers the new red shirt guys?).  But it’s necessary.  Leaving them alone in their comfy delusions is like leaving a cancer to fester.  They got this way through a decades long diet of lies and tribal fearmongering.  The antidote is to expose the clay feet, ankles, shins, thighs, pelvises, torsos, spines, necks and heads of their idols.  A philosophy based on mendacity, fear and empty rhetoric is a fragile construction.  Sow one doubt and release a cascade.  All those 74 million tRump voters are not a monolith.  We just need to keep chipping away at them.</p> <p>If you are struggling with this last year, Vice has an article on coping with the public trauma that calls itself 2020:  <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8xmb/how-to-process-" target="_blank"><span>How to Process All the Bullshit That Happened in 2020</span></a></p> <p>The late night folks are all off celebrating.  So here’s Sam Bee on Georgia from a couple of weeks ago, featuring Jon Ossoff to get us started.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=tiyAGDhgCCw" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tiyAGDhgCCw" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>We have a little more Georgia encouragement to share.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=B-7nqahDOKs" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/B-7nqahDOKs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Ok, how about we check out some news?</p> <p><strong>The Top Story — Donnie Gets Spanked Hard by the House</strong></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="DoneMark1215.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/899159/large/DoneMark1215.jpg?1609236005" title="DoneMark1215.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>I broke down and watched a couple of House votes yesterday.  There was a bit of drama in the first</p> <p>one, where the $2000 stimulus bill was passed 275 to 134 (with another 26 republicans unwilling to vote on the measure).  Over half of the republicans voted against the president’s demand.</p> <p>In the vote to override the Donnie’s veto of the Defense Authorization act, the final count was 322 to 87 (with 20 republicans still too scared to vote).  Once again more than half of the republicans voted against the president.</p> <p>Because of Covid-19, members were allowed to vote remotely.  I heard a lot of “Madame/Mister Speaker.  As the member designated by [Name goes here], pursuant to House Resolution 965, [Name goes here again] will vote Yea/Yes on HR 6395 over the objection of the president.”  Surprisingly, it didn’t get old.</p> <p>So, <strong>what’s the takeaway?</strong>  tRump has lost the firm support of more than half of congressional republicans.  Color me giddy — republicans are in disarray.  The votes are a popular news topic, although the articles I sampled haven’t concentrated on what it means that he lost half his party twice on the same day.</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/defense-veto-override-trump-451696" target="_blank">Politico:  <em>House votes to override Trump veto of defense bill</em></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-passes-2000-stimulus-checks-covid-19_n_5fea565ac5b6acb5345a45ec" target="_blank">Huffington Post:  <em>House Passes $2,000 Coronavirus Stimulus Check Legislation</em></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/house-override-trump-veto-defense-spending-1108196/" target="_blank">Rolling Stone:  <em>The House Just Voted to Override Trump’s Veto of Defense Spending Bill</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>After <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-controlled-house-passes-bill-to-increase-stimulus-checks-to-2000-1108188/">passing legislation</a> that would increase stimulus checks to $2,000, the House overrode President Trump’s veto of the $740 billion defense funding bill. This move by the House sends the bill to the Republican-controlled Senate where a two-thirds majority is needed to officially override Trump’s veto, which would be a first for his administration.</p> <p>Trump had vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act because he said it did not repeal Section 230, which shields social media companies from liability for the content their users post, and which has little to do with defense spending. But the House voted Monday 322-87 to override Trump.</p> <p>When he issued his veto last week, Trump told Congress <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-veto-message-house-representatives-h-r-6395/" target="_blank">in a statement</a> that he believes the law “facilitates the spread of foreign disinformation online, which is a serious threat to our national security and election integrity.” But Trump’s opposition to Section 230 is likely a personal vendetta because social media companies have implemented fact-checking on political content — including of<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/11/trump-tweets-flagged-by-twitter-for-misinformation/" target="_blank"> his own tweets</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Hmmm?</strong></p> <p>Donnie may be in denial, but if appears someone in his close orbit is admitting to a sliver of reality.</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-dc-hotel-unblocked-hotel-rooms_n_5fea192cc5b6e1ce833bafe5" target="_blank">Huffington Post:  <em>Trump’s D.C. Hotel Appears To Concede Election By Unblocking Hotel Rooms</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank">President Donald Trump</a> has yet to concede the election to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank">Joe Biden,</a> but it looks like his Washington, D.C., hotel is no longer holding its breath ― er, rooms.</p> </div> <div> <p>The Trump International Hotel had blocked rooms from being booked during Jan. 16-20, presumably in anticipation of his inauguration, <a href="https://www.1100pennsylvania.com/p/did-trumps-hotel-concede-his-defeat" target="_blank">according to 1100Pennsylvania.com</a>, a newsletter by investigative journalist Zach Everson that details goings-on at the hotel.</p> </div> <div> <p>But according to Everson, those rooms <a href="https://be.synxis.com/?adult=1&arrive=2021-01-05&chain=12157&child=0&currency=USD&depart=2021-01-07&hotel=65834&level=hotel&locale=en-US&room-adult=1&room-child=0&rooms=1&whereto=Trump%20Washington,%20D.C." target="_blank">were unblocked this past weekend</a> and are now available for between<span> $886 and $2,225 a night.</span></p> </div> <div> <p>The room rates are notably cheaper than the ones for Jan. 5–6. Trump has teased an event for Jan. 6,<strong> </strong>the day the Electoral College votes will be counted in Congress.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>More Evidence that tRump Is Fading Fast</strong></p> <p>It would have been nice it they had stood up during the impeachment hearings, wouldn’t it?  We need to see more of this from the republican cowards cringing in their bunkers, waiting to emerge on January 21st hoping tRump doesn’t have a shadow.  Too little too late and all that — but still welcome.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-hit-the-sunday-news-shows-blast-trump-1107832/" target="_blank">Rolling Stone:  <em>Republicans Hit the Sunday News Shows to Blast Trump</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Two Republicans, Sen. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/pat-toomey/">Pat Toomey</a> (R-Pa.) and Rep. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/adam-kinzinger/">Adam Kinzinger</a> (R-Ill.), blasted the outgoing president on Sunday morning, one going so far as to call out his own party, along with the president for possibly driving people to “violence” over bogus claims of voter fraud.</p> <p>Kinzinger, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1342837753466281985?s=20" target="_blank">one of the few</a> current Republican lawmakers who are unafraid to speak out against the president, addressed Trump’s refusal to sign the Covid-19 relief bill, even after the White House was part of the negotiations, saying it seems their aim is to merely cause chaos.</p> <p>“To play this old switcheroo game, which is just kind of like, I don’t get the point. I don’t understand what’s being done, why? Unless it’s just to create chaos and show power and be upset because you lost the election. Otherwise, I don’t understand it because this just has to get done. Too many people are relying on this,” Kinzinger told CNN.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>What Do You Do When You Find Some Obstruction in Pardon’s Clothing?</strong></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="20toLifeMark1219.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/899160/large/20toLifeMark1219.jpg?1609236005" title="20toLifeMark1219.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>Our already impeached and disgraced brazen scofflaw, Donnie the Incompetent, doesn’t do very well with anticipating consequences of his actions.  By pardoning his most implicated  full on dingleberry buddies, he’s cementing the certainty of a multi-count obstruction of justice case against his malfeasance.  There’s a clean wind a comin’ to blow the stench away.  I suppose it’s a good thing that Donnie doesn’t have much of an imagination.  Just think how he’d behave if he could really see what’s coming for him on January 21st.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e73fdd69-1fee-4886-b299-959ce9647151" target="_blank">Financial Times:  <em>Lawrence Tribe:  </em></a><em><span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e73fdd69-1fee-4886-b299-959ce9647151" target="_blank">Donald Trump’s pardons must not obstruct justice</a></span></em></p> <blockquote> <p>If, as Alexander Pope reflected in 1711, “to err is human, to forgive, divine,” then the US Constitution’s pardon power — the prerogative of forgiveness — should be beyond reproach.</p> <p>Instead, a godless US president who appears incapable of forgiveness has seemingly perverted this instrument of mercy into another grave threat to the rule of law. Donald Trump’s recent twisting of the pardon power risks leaving a damaging legacy: a blueprint for manipulating this vestige of royal prerogative to place presidents and their cronies above the law. But a remedy exists: investigation and potential prosecution. We must treat any obstructions of justice we uncover as the crimes they are.</p> <p>…</p> <p>Mr Trump’s grants of clemency to close advisers Paul Manafort and Roger Stone belong to a distinct and far more dangerous category. These pardons appear to be the latest steps taken which may in effect have hindered inquiries into crimes that Mr Trump’s close associates have been convicted of committing. Put plainly, these pardons could potentially amount to criminal obstruction of justice or bribery.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Tis the Season to Make other Rich People Look Bad</strong></p> <p>By now, you’ve most likely heard about Jeff Bezos’ ex rubbing old Jeff’s nose in his bad citizenship.  Turns out, it’s not easy to give it all away.  She hasn’t asked for my help yet, but I can dream.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/giving-away-billions-of-dollars-is-hard-work-just-ask-mackenzie-scott/" target="_blank">Mother Jones:  <em>Giving Away Billions of Dollars Is Hard Work—Just Ask MacKenzie Scott</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Never mind the <a href="https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/1966-you-can-quote-them">old saying</a>, A person actually <em>can</em> be too thin—and too rich. Consider the opening lines of <em><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202273/just-giving">Just Giving</a></em>, an eye-opening book published earlier this year by Stanford political scientist <a href="https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/rob-reich">Rob Reich</a>:</p> <p>“Your fortune is rolling up, rolling up like an avalanche! You must keep up with it! You must distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it will crush you, and your children, and your children’s children!” So wrote Frederick Gates to sixty-seven-year-old John D. Rockefeller in 1906. Rockefeller was the founder of Standard Oil, a corporation that had generated a colossal fortune and made him the richest man in the world.</p> <p>Gates was Rockefeller’s trusted business and philanthropic<strong> </strong>adviser, who helped the tycoon incorporate one of the nation’s first general purpose charitable foundations, but he could easily have been delivering that warning to Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos—or perhaps the novelist-turned-philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who made headlines last week when she <a href="https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/384-ways-to-help-45d0b9ac6ad8">revealed on Medium</a> that she has spent the past four months giving away almost $4.2 billion to 384 organizations in the United States and Puerto Rico.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Kangaroos Are People Too (or at Least They Talk to Us)</strong></p> <p>Kangaroos are way up near the top of the animals I’d like to hang out with scale.  I wonder if they get along with cats and dogs?</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/australia/kangaroo-communication-intl-scli-gbr-scn/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold" target="_blank">CNN:  <em>Kangaroos can ask humans for help, new study shows</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="talkingkangaroo.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/897918/large/talkingkangaroo.jpg?1608912048" title="talkingkangaroo.jpg"> <figcaption>“C’mon, dude!  This is just cruel.”</figcaption> </figure> <p>(CNN)It may sound a bit "Dr. Doolittle," but it turns out <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/world/animals-lockdown-coronavirus-intl-hnk-scli/index.html" target="_blank">kangaroos</a> can communicate with humans.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>Researchers found that kangaroos "intentionally" communicated with humans -- a behavior that was previously thought to be reserved for domesticated animals, like dogs, horses or goats.</div> <div></div> <div>Experts from London's University of Roehampton and the University of Sydney set up a task, known as "the unsolvable problem task," where they presented kangaroos with food trapped inside a plastic container.</div> <div></div> <div>After trying, and failing, to open the boxes, the kangaroos turned their gaze on a nearby human -- and sometimes even nudged or scratched them to ask for help, researchers said.</div> </blockquote> <div><strong>Andy, What Do You Have to Say?</strong></div> <div></div> <div>Andy doesn’t mention it, but, he’s extra steamed because the college accepted his arch nemesis, Joe Biden instead of him.</div> <div></div> <div><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/horrible-student-rejected-by-college" target="_blank">New Yorker:  <em>Satire from the Borowitz Report:  Horrible Student Rejected by College</em></a></div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In a widely expected outcome, a horrible student was rejected by a college on Monday.</p> <p>The college’s decision to reject the student was unsurprising given his poor performance in such important subjects as science, math, history, and spelling.</p> <p>Although the student was reportedly taking his rejection badly, a college spokesperson said that the news should have come as no surprise.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>It’s Right There on the Tip of My Tongue</strong></p> <p>Hell with the vaccine, I want me some of this stuff.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/isrib-drug-reverses-age-related-mental-decline-within-days-in-mice/" target="_blank">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days, Suggesting Lost Cognitive Ability is Not Permanent</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Just a few doses of an experimental drug that reboots protein production in cells can reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice, according to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists.</p> <p>The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI), reverse cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome, prevent noise-related hearing loss, fight certain types of prostate cancer, and even enhance cognition in healthy animals.</p> <p>In the new study, published Dec. 1 in the open-access <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62048" target="_blank">journal <em>eLife</em></a>, researchers showed rapid restoration of youthful cognitive abilities in aged mice, accompanied by a rejuvenation of brain and immune cells that could help explain improvements in brain function—and with no side effects observed.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> </div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=t4sK8d48Exs" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/t4sK8d48Exs?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev:</p> <p>>>>» Well the $2000 rescue checks cleared the House yesterday, even though 21 GOPers voted to Not Vote. (Mind you, in a backhanded way it helped. Under the rule adopted to move this through quickly, to suspend the general rules required a 2/3 majority…...<u>of those voting.</u>  If all 435 members of the House vote that number is 290. Since those <em>“Brave, brave Sir Robins were running away and chickening out….” </em>their own absence reduced the “2/3 of those voting” to 273. And the bill got 274…..)  So it goes over to the Senate…...to the Majority Leader to call up to the Floor…….and we’ve seen this show before <strong>EXCEPT</strong></p> <p>>>>>>The House ALSO voted to over-ride Bunker Boy’s veto of the Defense bill, which every Republican has sworn in blood to vote for every day, every time, even if they are a member of the Library Board in Minot, North Dakota. So THIS bill/over-ride is ALSO sizzling on the Senate griddle. And now comes <strong>Senator Bernie</strong> Sanders to put old Turtle Butt on the flat top stove! Mitch wants to A) bring up the over ride FIRST and pass it, B) Go home. Bernie says if that’s the plan, he, as a member of the Senate, will FILIBUSTER the over ride, the old fashioned kind, standing there reading Das Kapital out loud, reciting poetry, declaiming about the items on his grocery list,<em> (“ A HALF POUND of gouda, a mere 8 ounces, NOT 3/4s of a pound…...which begs the question here in the Senate, WHY aren’t we on the metric system? After all….”) </em>etc., unless and UNTIL there is a vote FIRST on the $2000 relief checks. To get Bernie to quit required Cloture…...60 votes, and Mitch only has 52.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>The Days may be flittering down to a precious few here on the December 29th, but even so, Good and Goofy history was made this day, and YOU deserve to read some of it on YOUR December 29th!</strong></p> <p><strong>         1837 </strong>  Toronto, CA   Birth of <strong>Anderson Ruffin Abbott,</strong> doctor. Back in 1835 Anderson’s parents had escaped Alabama after their store was destroyed by white racists (who could not abide the idea of free blacks) and had made their way to Canada. His father began trading in real estate, with profit and success, so that Anderson was able to attend both public and private schools in both Canada and the US (Oberlin College) and he graduated from the Toronto School of Medicine at age 23. After a year of practical study under a surgeon he received his medical license, <strong>the first ever Canadian-born black doctor.</strong> In 1863 he went to Washington DC and applied to become an assistant surgeon in the Union Medical Corps but was refused. Undaunted, he re-applied to become the medical officer of a newly forming black regiment (USCT) and was accepted. His talent soon led him to be posted as a surgeon at several hospitals in the Washington area. In April, 1865 he was <u>one of the doctors summoned to Ford’s Theater to attempt to save Abraham Lincoln’s life </u>but all the doctors recognized the wound was mortal. Several months later <strong>Mary Todd Lincoln called on Abbott and presented him with a plaid shawl Lincoln had worn at his first Inaugural in gratitude for his efforts to save him.</strong> A couple years later Abbot moved back to Canada, married, and rose to prominence in medical circles. He did return to the US in 1894 to serve as <strong>surgeon-in-chief</strong> at Provident Hospital in Chicago, <u>the first US black-owned hospital</u>. He didn’t care for it, and after a year returned to Canada for the rest of his days.</p> <p><strong><span><span>        1848</span></span></strong><span><span>   Washington DC   At the White House, <u>President James Polk</u> got to bring the Executive Mansion into the high-tech age of the 1840s. On this night, he turned a little thumbscrew, and several of the rooms <strong>for the first time were lighted by burning gas</strong>, not candles. <em>(How cutting edge can you get?)</em></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong>            1850</strong>   Salamanca, Spain   Birth of <strong>Tomas Breton y Hernandez</strong>, composer. Not a prodigy, but a very good musical student; his family sent him to Madrid at age 16 to study, and 4 years later he was admitted to the Madrid Conservatory. Initially earned a living conducting and producing theatrical events, but eventually began composing them too. Considered in many circles as the <u>“father of Spanish Opera”</u>, he also tried his hand at symphonies, concertos, and putting the Spanish musical form <em>‘”zarzuela”</em> to a staged form, a sort of light opera or what we call a musical. </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>        1852</span></span></strong><span><span>    Boston   The city builds its reputation as being an odd combination of radical political ideas (abolition! atheism!) and a strait-laced primness. On this day <strong>Emma Snodgrass</strong> was arrested for offending the public….. <strong>for wearing pants</strong>.</span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>          1860    </span></strong><span> Plymouth, England   The day before yesterday the History Corner noted the 1922 launch in Japan of the <u>world’s first aircraft carrier, the Hosho,</u> as a watershed moment in the evolution of the world’s navies. Today we step back to another watershed. The British Navy this day launches <strong>the HMS Warrior.</strong> She is the first warship designed from the keel up to be <u>made entirely from metal (iron),</u> to be <strong>covered with armor plate</strong> that med her proof against rifle or cannon fire, and moved by a steam boiler that turned an <strong>underwater screw propeller</strong>. Every other warship on salt water became obsolete. <em>( The next year, the outbreak of the US Civil War, the <u>CSS Merrimack/Virginia</u> borrowed the idea of a screw propeller and an armor-plated citadel, but grafted this onto the body of a scuttled wooded warship. (The armor weighed so much the wooded body was completely submerged.) The <u>USS Monitor</u> which came from New York to Chesapeake Bay to challenge her was closer to the <u>Warrior</u>: screw propeller, iron hull and iron armor plate, but improved by adding the revolving turret.)</em>    </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span><span>            1885</span></span></strong><span><span>   Cannstadt, Germany     <strong>Gottlieb Daimler</strong> and <strong>Wilhelm Maybach</strong> both worked for the same firm, but a few years back left it to strike out on their own. In 1884 they demonstrate the <u>first successful gasoline engine, </u>with a carburetor, spark-less ignition and one (count ‘em!) cylinder. A couple months ago they mounted it in the oak wooden frame of a bicycle with wooden wheels, test drove it and on this day <strong>patented </strong>the “Reitwagen” (“riding car”), the <strong>world’s first working motorcycle.</strong>  Gearheads will want to know: 1, 4-stroke cylinder, 264 cc, ½ horsepower at 600 rpm let it cruise at 11 kph (just under 7 mph). At least for this day (like Daimler’s son Paul, who test drove it in November from Cannstadt to Unterturkheim; about 7 miles, and ended abruptly when the saddle caught fire from the heat of the engine) it was the very first day anyone could ….<em>”Get his motor runnin’….head out on the autobahn…..lookin’ fur Abenteuer……in whatever came his way”….</em> Inflated tires, shocks, springs, twisting handlebar controls (already invented), kick starting, and leather suits to fend off road rash all come later.  (<em>Daimler & Maybach abandoned further work on it next year as they were adapting the engine for a 4-wheeler. They would later form a partnership with Herr Benz…..as in Daimler-Benz……as in Mercedes</em>.)</span></span></span></span></p> <div> <p><strong><span><span><span>            1937</span></span></span></strong><span><span><span>   San Francisco   Airplane technology is improving: magnetic compasses, enclosed cabins, paved runways, radio links. Even though the best long-distance passenger aircraft still only sport two engines, on this day <strong>Pan Am</strong> begins scheduled air service (with several refueling stops) <strong>between San Francisco and Auckland, New Zealand.  </strong><em> </em></span></span></span></p> </div> <p><span><span><strong><span>              1949</span></strong><span>   Bridgeport, CT  Another one of those new-fangled television stations went on the air this day. And this one really was new-fangled. Until now all TV broadcasts were at Very High Frequencies in the broadcast spectrum. The FCC limited such broadcasts to channels 2 to 13 and that was plenty, even in a crowded urban metro. But <strong>station KC2XAK this day is the nation’s first UHF television station</strong> (Ultra High Frequency) to operate a daily schedule. <em>(Back in the day, my hometown of Columbus, OH had channels 4, 6 and 10, and Ohio State University had REALLY different programming on WOSU, channel 34. When we got the new Admiral TV with color it also included a UHF receiver. My European parents especially enjoyed the concerts and even some of the discussion panels on UHF.)</em></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong><span>               1952</span></strong><span>  Elmsford, New York   Back in 1947 the <u>Bell Telephone Research Labs</u> in New Jersey had made a major break through when they <u>invented and patented the transistor</u>. These circuits replaced all those vacuum tubes, ran at much cooler temperatures for far longer, only sipped at electric current, and were a couple orders of magnitude small and lighter. Everybody started designed new stuff using transistors. On this day <strong>the first hearing aid using transistors</strong> went on sale in town (The whole thing was half the size of pack of cigarettes and used a little battery called “A”). Audiologists finally had something practical and effective to help patients.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></span></p> <h2><strong>On the Lighter Side (with a Touch of the Sardonic)</strong></h2> <p>These things really pile up when you only share them every two weeks.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;The main difference between Al Capone and Donald Trump is that we&amp;#39;ve actually seen Al Capone&amp;#39;s taxes. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is substantial evidence to suggest that like Capone, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@realDonaldTrump&lt;/a&gt;, violated 26 U.S.C. §7201 and committed tax evasion&lt;/p&gt;— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1342869351389663234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 26, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The main difference between Al Capone and Donald Trump is that we've actually seen Al Capone's taxes. <br><br>There is substantial evidence to suggest that like Capone, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>, violated 26 U.S.C. §7201 and committed tax evasion</p>— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1342869351389663234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="LegoMark1221.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/899146/large/LegoMark1221.jpg?1609234220" title="LegoMark1221.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div 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We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action. — Lily Yeh</p> <p>I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now. — Cher</p> <div>In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. — Octavia Butler</div> <div></div> <div>Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. — Dalai Lama</div> <div></div> <div>I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti</div> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="201217_Pressley_153.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/896952/large/201217_Pressley_153.jpg?1608646257" title="201217_Pressley_153.jpg"> <figcaption>I’m running toward January, 20th just as fast as I can.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div> <div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> <p>Well, we’ve come to the end of my last roundup for 2020.  I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a much happier New Year.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during the interregnum.</p> <p>hpg has done a heck of a job taking over the Evening Shade reins and been following along with Joe Biden’s ascent:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/28/2004586/-PRESIDENT-ELECT-JOE-BIDEN-Day52-Evening-Shade-Monday">PRESIDENT ELECT JOE <span>BIDEN--Day52—Evening-Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p>Let’s close out with the Dead covering Traffic’s <em>Mr. Fantasy</em> in July of 1989.  Listen for the coda to Hey Jude.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=QwaKQvwMIe8" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QwaKQvwMIe8" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;JERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL &lt;a href="https://t.co/aaZQoVqewZ"&gt;pic.twitter.com/aaZQoVqewZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1342452238900490241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 25, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>JERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL <a href="https://t.co/aaZQoVqewZ">pic.twitter.com/aaZQoVqewZ</a></p>— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1342452238900490241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  No matter what the Orange Judas wants you to think, the election is over.</em></p> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Humor kangaroos MackenzieScott Obstruction PardonPower Politics Poll Recommended Roundup _2004063 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:01:09 +0000 Stick a Fork in Him, He's Done - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, December 15th, 2020 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/12/15/2001889/-Stick-a-Fork-in-Him-He-s-Done-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-December-15th-2020 <p>Yesterday afternoon at 2:26PM, Pacific Time, the newly elected secretary of the California College of Presidential Electors, Shirley Weber, announced the results of California’s electoral vote for president.  It was 55 aye votes for Joe Biden to zero no votes.  Those votes formally made Joe Biden the President-Elect.  They also made tRump pop a gasket.  He tweeted out Billy Barr’s departure from the Justice Department within minutes of the California news.  I am so looking forward to tRump’s impending ban from Twitter.</p> <p>By the way, it took another 5 minutes, until 2:31PM for Kamala Harris to become the official Vice-President elect. </p> <p>I offered to address the nation about the situation, but they haven’t responded, so I guess I’ll just include my address here:</p> <blockquote> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>The NNNE Address to the Nation (undelivered, apologies to FDR)</strong></p> <p>Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:</p> <p>Yesterday, December 14th, 2020—a date which will live in glory—the United States of America was overwhelmingly and deliberately saved by electors and security forces of the various states.  The United States was at war with a contingent of idiots and, at the solicitation of tRump, was still in denial about the outcome of its election looking toward the usurpation of the will of the people.</p> <p>Indeed, one hour after the final votes were tallied in Hawaii, the spokesperson for the current president of the United States and her colleagues delivered to our nation a nonsensical reply to the recent American election. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing attempts to overturn the election, it contained threats and hints of war or of armed attack.</p> <p>It will be recorded that the consistent divergence of tRump’s claims from objective truth makes it obvious that the attack on Democracy was deliberately planned many days or even months ago. During the intervening time, the tRump government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued time in office.</p> <p>The ruthless republican attack on our voting system has caused severe damage to American faith in the electoral process. I regret to tell you that very many American minds have been lost. In addition, American exceptionalism been reported torpedoed by the nihilists of the Freedom Caucus.</p> <p>Yesterday, the House republicans also launched an attack against honor.</p> <p>Last night, the House republicans again attacked truth.</p> <p>Last night, the House republicans again attacked decency.</p> <p>Last night, the House republicans again attacked the American Way.</p> <p>And this morning, the tRump Administration attacked the Justice Department.</p> <p>tRump has, therefore, undertaken a futile offensive extending throughout the entire country. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.</p> </blockquote> <p>Ok, we’ve got 36 more days to put up with the Orange Ass.  We can do it.  Think of it as working to scrape out the nasty burnt bits from the bottom of a pan that was left on the stove far too long.  The pan isn’t shot, we just have to spend a little time to fix it up.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Tyrannis sedito. Sic semper tyrannis.</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p>Colbert was in full throat last night (up until the inline google commercial). [17:41]</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=EHzKkwVDkgk" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EHzKkwVDkgk" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>and the interview with Melania [4:56]</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=-7aW8JLxcnw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-7aW8JLxcnw" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Let’s go ahead and look at some news, shall we?</p> <p><strong>The Vaccine Is Here</strong></p> <p>In today’s real top story, the Pfizer vaccine is being rolled out.  Contrary to a notorious loudmouth’s opinion, this has been accomplished in spite of tRump.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/covid-d-day-arrives-vaccine-set-arrive-all-50-states-n1251074" target="_blank" title="">NBC News:  <em>Covid 'D-Day': ICU nurse in New York among first in country to receive vaccination</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>With the prick of a needle, the battle against Covid-19 took what could be a decisive turn Monday as the first federally approved coronavirus vaccine was injected into the arm of an American.</p> <p>Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care unit nurse who has been on the front lines of the battle against <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/how-america-gave-up/index.html" target="_blank" title=""> a virus</a> that's killed more than 300,000 people in the United States alone, joined in the applause moments after the first dose was injected into her left arm.</p> <p>"I feel hopeful today, relieved," Lindsay, who works at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in the New York City borough of Queens, said after the historic moment was <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1338488030416388098" target="_blank" title="">livestreamed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo</a>. "I feel the healing is coming. I hope this marks the beginning of the end of the very painful time in our history."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>By the Way</strong></p> <p>In case you missed it (or just want to revel in the moment):</p> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-trump-victory-speech_n_5fd7f072c5b663c3759904a7" target="_blank" title="">Huffington Post: ‘<em>THEY KNOW NOW’: BIDEN OFFICIALLY SECURES ELECTORAL VOTE</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Shortly after he <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-electors-46th-president_n_5fd7d5f0c5b62f31c1ff8809" target="_blank">officially</a> secured enough Electoral College votes to become the next president of the United States, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" title="">Joe Biden</a> delivered a fiery speech calling on Americans to move past <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" title="">Donald Trump</a>’s monthlong failed crusade to overturn the election results.</p> </div> <div> <p>“If anyone didn’t know it before, they know now,” Biden said from Wilmington, Delaware. “What beats deep in the hearts of the American people is this: democracy, the right to be heard, to have your vote counted, to choose the leaders of this nation, to govern ourselves.”</p> </div> <div> <p>Electors <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-electors-46th-president_n_5fd7d5f0c5b62f31c1ff8809" target="_blank">confirmed</a> Biden’s victory earlier on Monday, pushing him past the 270-vote threshold. This stage of the election doesn’t typically make headlines, since election projections, state certifications, recounts and, in Trump’s case, numerous lawsuits have already made the winner clear. But Trump has still not conceded the race to Biden and is instead plowing forward with baseless accusations that widespread voter fraud cost him reelection.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>Who’s the Biggest Loser?</strong></p> <p>Ok, yeah, I know — we are, for letting the BFOT anywhere near the reins of power in the first place.  But after that?  Yep, no one loses with less grace and style than our very own wannabe king.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Trump has the worst losing record in the post-election of any president ever:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;✅3 recounts.&lt;br&gt;✅59 court losses.&lt;br&gt;✅Court losses in 7 states.&lt;br&gt;✅2 SCOTUS losses&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Really, a staggering record of losing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please don&amp;#39;t share this &amp;nbsp;It might embarrass him.&lt;/p&gt;— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1338328149566820353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 14, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Trump has the worst losing record in the post-election of any president ever:<br><br>✅3 recounts.<br>✅59 court losses.<br>✅Court losses in 7 states.<br>✅2 SCOTUS losses<br><br>Really, a staggering record of losing.<br><br>Please don't share this  It might embarrass him.</p>— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1338328149566820353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p>They want to make it 60</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Trump and his allies lost 59 cases in the post-election and want to make it a round 60. &lt;a href="https://t.co/zQ3aVTkiOh"&gt;https://t.co/zQ3aVTkiOh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1338622277282394114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 14, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Trump and his allies lost 59 cases in the post-election and want to make it a round 60. <a href="https://t.co/zQ3aVTkiOh">https://t.co/zQ3aVTkiOh</a></p>— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1338622277282394114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p> <strong>How About a Little Slightly Premature Postmortem?</strong></p> <p>tRump did a lot of damage.  I think it is important to remember it and remind our fellow citizens of just what a pathetic president he was.  He worked very hard to displace Baby Bush and Buchanan as our worst ever president.  He succeeded beyond our wildest expectations.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/" target="_blank" title="">The Atlantic:  <em>A Political Obituary for Donald Trump —The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>T<span>o assess the legacy</span> of Donald Trump’s presidency, start by quantifying it. Since last February, more than a quarter of a million Americans have died from COVID-19—a fifth of the world’s deaths from the disease, the highest number of any country. In the three years before the pandemic, 2.3 million Americans lost their health insurance, accounting for up to 10,000 “excess deaths”; millions more lost coverage during the pandemic. The United States’ score on the human-rights organization <a href="https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores" title="">Freedom House’s annual index</a> dropped from 90 out of 100 under President Barack Obama to 86 under Trump, below that of Greece and Mauritius. Trump withdrew the U.S. from 13 international organizations, agreements, and treaties. The number of refugees admitted into the country annually fell from 85,000 to 12,000. About 400 miles of barrier were built along the southern border. The whereabouts of the parents of 666 children seized at the border by U.S. officials remain unknown.</p> <p>Trump reversed 80 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html" title="">environmental rules and regulations</a>. He appointed more than 220 judges to the federal bench, including three to the Supreme Court—24 percent female, 4 percent Black, and 100 percent conservative, with more <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/committees/federal_judiciary/ratings/" title="">rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association</a> than under any other president in the past half century. The national debt increased by $7 trillion, or 37 percent. In Trump’s last year, the trade deficit was on track to exceed $600 billion, the largest gap since 2008. Trump signed just one major piece of legislation, the 2017 tax law, which, according to one study, for the first time brought the total tax rate of the wealthiest 400 Americans below that of every other income group. In Trump’s first year as president, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/trump-750-taxes.html">he paid $750 in taxes</a>. While he was in office, taxpayers and campaign donors <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ballrooms-candles-and-luxury-cottages-during-trumps-term-millions-of-government-and-gop-dollars-have-flowed-to-his-propertiesmar-a-lago-charged-the-government-3-apiece-for-glasses-of-water-for-trump-and-the-japanese-leader/2020/10/27/186f20a2-1469-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html" title="">handed over at least $8 million to his family business</a>.</p> <p>America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, deeper in debt, swampier, dirtier, meaner, sicker, and deader. It also became more delusional. No number from Trump’s years in power will be more lastingly destructive than <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3">his 25,000 false or misleading statements</a>. Super-spread by social media and cable news, they contaminated the minds of tens of millions of people. Trump’s lies will linger for years, poisoning the atmosphere like radioactive dust.</p> <p><span>Presidents lie </span>routinely,<span> </span>about everything from war to sex to their health. When the lies are consequential enough, they have a corrosive effect on democracy. Lyndon B. Johnson deceived Americans about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and everything else concerning the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon’s lifelong habit of prevaricating gave him the nickname “Tricky Dick.” After Vietnam and Watergate, Americans never fully recovered their trust in government. But these cases of presidential lying came from a time when the purpose was limited and rational: to cover up a scandal, make a disaster disappear, mislead the public in service of a particular goal. In a sense, Americans expected a degree of fabrication from their leaders. After Jimmy Carter, in his 1976 campaign, promised, “I’ll never lie to you,” and then pretty much kept his word, voters sent him back to Georgia. Ronald Reagan’s gauzy fictions were far more popular.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>When Is a Fraud a Farce?</strong></p> <p>When republicans allege it, of course.  The only fraud here is the one being perpetrated by the republican claims of fraud.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/a-pro-trump-voting-expert-was-questioned-about-his-data-it-did-not-go-well-for-him/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>A Pro-Trump Voting “Expert” Was Questioned About His Data. It Did Not Go Well for Him.</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Matt Braynard, a onetime Trump campaign operative, has produced analyses of the 2020 vote in swing states that claim<strong> </strong>massive amounts of illegal votes were cast. He has <a href="https://www.ntd.com/arizona-public-hearing-on-election-integrity_534660.html" title="">testified alongside</a> Rudy Giuliani, as the the personal lawyer for Donald Trump crusades to overturn the election. Braynard’s work has been cited in a number of GOP lawsuits seeking to nullify the election in key states. He has raised <a href="https://givesendgo.com/voterintegrity">nearly $700,000</a> for his so-called “Voter Integrity Project,” and he has been paid handsomely to serve as an expert witness on voting data in several of the court cases. But on Thursday morning, he and his research were eviscerated by a Georgia state representative during an “elections investigative hearing” mounted by Republicans in the state House of Representatives.</p> <p>...</p> <p>At first, the hearing went smoothly for Braynard, who has the professional presentation of a data specialist. But then came state Rep. Bee Nguyen, a Democrat from Atlanta. It turns out she had been doing her own research. Citing an exhibit filed by Braynard that listed people who had voted but who supposedly had registered in Georgia and another state, she pointed out that several names were duplicated on the list. Then she said that she had looked up the first 10 names on the list and had found eight of these people listed in Georgia property records as residents. She reached one of them on the phone, she said, and he confirmed that he lived and voted only in Georgia. Nguyen said she verified this person’s voting record.</p> <p>Taking another name from this list—a woman allegedly registered in Georgia and Arizona—she confirmed this person’s residence and voting record in Georgia, and she found another voter with the exact same name listed in the Arizona voter rolls, born in the same year but with a different birth date. She also identified another person on the list in a similar situation: same name, different birth dates.</p> <p>In rapid-fire fashion, Nguyen continued on. She turned to the Braynard list of voters who he said had registered with postal boxes “disguised” as residences. She recognized one of the addresses as being around the corner from her home—a condo complex with a FedEx center on the first floor. (Some apartment buildings use a postal box-like system for their addresses.) A friend in the building sent her a list of residents of the complex. They were all on Braynard’s list, she said. And the same was true, she had discovered, for another condo complex with a FedEx center. On her own, she said, she had discovered that 128 names on this list—more than 10 percent of Braynard’s total number—were errors.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Good Riddance to Bad Cess</strong></p> <p>All hail!  The Dirty Barrstard is no more (as of December 23rd).  The one thing tRump excels at is getting rid of flunkies.  Now that he’s flunked out of the electoral college, I guess he wants to make his record of administrative churn unassailable.  We’ll be able to undo most everything else he’s done (except the killing people part).</p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/attorney-general-william-barr-resign-trump-election-1103745/" target="_blank" title="">Rolling Stone:  <em>Attorney General William Barr Is Quitting as Trump’s Election Crusade Fizzles Out</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Even for a loyalist like Attorney General William Barr, there was only so far he would go to support Trump’s assault on the rule of law and reality.</p> <p>On Monday evening, as Trump’s doomed attempts to steal the 2020 election fizzle out, the president announced Barr would step down from his post next week. “Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/bill-barr/" title="">Bill Barr</a> at the White House,” Trump tweeted. “Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family…”</p> <p>He was accused of political interference when senior Justice Department officials overruled line prosecutors and sought a more lenient sentence for Trump adviser Roger Stone, who was convicted of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. (A former DOJ lawyer who worked on the Stone case later wrote that the department had “put political patronage ahead of its commitment to the rule of law.”) He tried to spin the findings contained in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on the eve of the report’s release, appearing to play defense for Trump. He called for an antitrust investigation into several cannabis companies because he “did not like the nature of their underlying business,” <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/elias_written_testimony_hjc.pdf" target="_blank" title="">according to a Justice Department whistleblower</a>. He bungled the firing of the top prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, arguably the most powerful U.S. attorney’s office in America. He revived the use of the death penalty. By and large, he stood steadfastly by while the Trump White House trampled one democratic norm and traditional after another.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>An Attempt to Save a Reputation</strong></p> <p>So why didn’t you vote for his impeachment, you putz?</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/paul-mitchell-quits-gop/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent,"<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/read-paul-mitchell-republican-party-letter/index.html" target="_blank" title=""> and to notify GOP leaders in a letter</a> that he is withdrawing his "engagement and association with the Republican Party at both the national and state level."</p> </div> <div></div> <div>"This party has to stand up for democracy first, for our Constitution first, and not political considerations," Mitchell said on CNN's "The Lead."</div> <div></div> <div>"Not to protect a candidate. Not simply for raw political power, and that's what I feel is going on and I've had enough."</div> </blockquote> <p><strong>More Attempts to Save Reputations? (Followup on the Frivolous Texas Suit)</strong></p> <p>Whatever their reasons, the Senate did not climb all the way onto the tRump train this time.  It’s good for the country that they didn’t, as it makes tRump’s endgame pretty much non-existent.  I don’t think they’ll get many brownie points for recognizing Biden’s win.  There is just so much evidence of them kissing tRump’s ass for this to be a free pass to never-tRump status.</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/11/republicans-lawsuit-overturn-election-444601" target="_blank" title="">Politico:  <em>Senate Republicans shun House GOP bid to overturn the election</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Not a single GOP senator signed a “friend of the court” brief for the long-shot Texas lawsuit to throw out other states' results in a bid to keep President Donald Trump in power. And there was no coordinated effort to get Republicans on board, according to interviews with more than a half-dozen Republican senators before the Supreme Court rejected the case Friday night.</p> <p>“They signed onto an amicus brief in the House. There’s no version of that in the Senate,” said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. “Amicus briefs can be important, but on a matter of this magnitude, I think the Supreme Court is going to make its decision whether or not it’s going to take the case based on the Constitution.”</p> <p>Some Senate Republicans actively criticized the effort. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska said it looked like “a fella begging for a pardon filed a PR stunt rather than a lawsuit,” a reference to the federal probe of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who spearheaded the push. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said the Senate GOP’s distance from an effort that was so popular in the House “reflects skepticism about the legal theory about whether one state or a group of states can challenge state elections.”</p> <p>“I'm surprised,” added Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. “Even more so, I was really disappointed that this is continuing in this way.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Little Bit of Andy</strong></p> <p>Here’s a double dose of the most recent skewering of our very worst president, evah.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/horrible-student-rejected-by-college" target="_blank" title="">New Yorker:  <em>The Borowitz Report:  Horrible Student Rejected by College</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In a widely expected outcome, a horrible student was rejected by a college on Monday.</p> <p>The college’s decision to reject the student was unsurprising given his poor performance in such important subjects as science, math, history, and spelling.</p> <p>Although the student was reportedly taking his rejection badly, a college spokesperson said that the news should have come as no surprise.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-orders-space-force-to-discover-other-planets-with-courts" target="_blank" title="">New Yorker:  <em>The Borowitz Report:  Trump Orders Space Force to Discover Other Planets with Courts</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In a sign that he is not ready to give up his legal challenge to the 2020 election, Donald J. Trump has ordered the United States Space Force to discover other planets that have courts.</p> <p>With his legal options on this planet dwindling, Trump is placing all of his hopes on identifying another planet that might have intergalactic jurisdiction over Earth.</p> <p>On the heels of his Space Force announcement, astronomers expressed deep skepticism that a planet with a functioning legal system could be located before the Electoral College casts its votes on Monday.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Real Good News</strong></p> <p>There’s more good news from the healthcare front.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/7-million-malaria-deaths-averted/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  <em>This is How Close We Are to Eliminating Malaria – 7.6 Million Deaths Averted in 20 Years, Thanks to Generous Nations</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The mortality rate has dropped by almost 60% in the last two decades, and 1.5 billion malaria cases have been averted globally in the period between 2000 and 2019. Together, the various organizations have achieved 7.6 million fewer deaths from the mosquito-born disease.</p> <p>The 2020 edition of the World Malaria Report takes a look back at key events and milestones that helped shape the global response to the disease over the last 2 decades—a period of unprecedented success in malaria control.</p> <p>Malaria is preventable and treatable, and with generous support by these and other nations and nonprofits, the mortality rate has dropped from 24.7 per 100,000 people in 2000 to just over ten deaths per 100,000 in 2019.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Saving a Tree</strong></p> <p>It may be a little thing, but just remember — trees are people too!</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/torontos-oldest-tree-is-saved-thanks-to-council-decision/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  <em>Toronto’s Oldest Tree Will No Longer Be Cut Down Thanks to Last-Minute Decision By City Council</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="Concept Drawing of the Oak Tree parkette" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894384/large/concept-drawing-of-oak-tree-parkette-Toronto-council-released-696x446.jpg?1608024095" title="Concept Drawing of the Oak Tree parkette"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>One of the oldest trees in Canada, a towering red oak believed to be more than 250 years old, was facing the axe when a new homeowner bought the property. But now, thanks to a last-minute vote by the city, the tree will be saved for future generations.</p> <p>On November 26, the Toronto City Council voted to preserve this mighty oak by authorizing the purchase of the property for the creation of a mini-park.</p> <p>Due to its size, age, beauty, and cultural significance, the magnificent tree is already recognized as a heritage tree under Forests Ontario’s Heritage Tree Program.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Sc8t6BZUSJs" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sc8t6BZUSJs?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>But wait, there’s more:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ddLd0QRf7Vg" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ddLd0QRf7Vg?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div> <div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev.</p> <div> <div> <p>Good morning NotNowNotEver and all the little Evers that today have ever so much more to be satisfied about. Yes…...Electoral College Day! Yes, the uniforms were as plain as Penn State’s but they tackled the issues well, blocked when they had to (like the police captain in Lansing who told the GOPers “The members of the Electoral College are already checked in.” <em>(“And that group does NOT include you”---said in a whisper after the whistle as the players un-pile.)</em> Stephen “Forehead” Miller’s “alternative electors” meeting in “alternative sites” to cast “alternative ballots” were met with epic jeering from the entire national stadium. And finally all the scores added up: the 3 vote field goals from Vermont and DC and Delaware, (which offset those field goals from the Dakota brothers and Montana for instance.) That FG and safety for 5 out of West Virginia was neatly set off by the 4 + 4 from New Hampshire and Maine, etc.</p> <p>And it was Biden Harris for the win…….whew!   And Yay!</p> <p><em><u>PS for the History Corner today I am exercising author’s personal privilege for the 1923 entry.</u></em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>December 15ths have all those Good and Goofy past years always turn heads, carrying their ½ month banners, but they are not wrong; so you can wear yours on THIS December 15th</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <div> <p><strong><span>           </span>1593</strong><span>   </span>Spanish Netherlands<span>   </span>The Province of Holland grants the first <strong>patent on a windmill with a crankshaft</strong> that shows promise in pumping water out of low places <em>(like the whole country.) </em>A convenient marker for the beginning of a national icon.</p> <p><strong><span>         </span>1654   </strong><span>Tuscany, Italy<strong><span>  </span></strong> </span>Somebody should keep track of these things! Was it cold? Hot? How much snow did we get? Did it hail? How many days long was that drought? On this day a meteorological office was <strong>established to begin recording daily temperature readings</strong>. <em>Now celebrated as the beginning of the Weather Channel.</em></p> <p><strong><span>               </span>1657</strong> <span> </span>Paris ,France<span>    </span>Birth of <strong>Michel-Richard Delalande,</strong> organist, composer. Delalande held perhaps the cushiest musician’s job of the 17<sup>th</sup> century, Royal composer for Louis XIV. (Also was music teacher to various princesses and princes.) Since the King liked big, vocal pieces with lots of grandeur and pomp, Delalande delivered: he is remembered for his <em>Grand Motets</em> and <em>Petit Motets,</em> superb examples of the form. Oddly enough, while he was praised everywhere for his talent on the organ, nothing is from his pen. The prime example of the French form of the Baroque period, and since stuff in palaces tends to have a longer shelf life ,we have scores of his scores we can listen to.</p> <p><strong><span>           </span>1791 </strong><span>   </span>Philadelphia, PA    The <u>University of Pennsylvania</u> opens <strong>the first United States School of Law</strong> for the training of lawyers and jurists. <em>(Since the Constitution was only two years old, and there hadn’t been much time for federal law to be passed or court tested, I suspect the course on ‘Federal Law and Precedents’ was likely held over three afternoons in a local tavern.)</em></p> <p><strong><span>          </span>1811  </strong>  New Madrid, Missouri  It was only 22 years since the Constitution went into effect and settlements west of the Appalachians were thin and few. Up the Ohio, Cincinnati was establishing itself as a river port. There was an old settlement at St. Louis dating back to French days (as did New Orleans, much further south.)<span>  </span>But it was a good thing there were so few people around. On this day a<strong> major, 7.3 Richter Scale earthquake</strong> struck along a fault line under the village of New Madrid. Hundreds of square miles of trees were knocked down. The Mississippi River <em><u>reversed course</u></em> for several hours, flowing NORTH, causing enormous flooding in present day Missouri, Kentucky and Illinois that took over a week to drain away. Aftershocks kept everyone on tenterhooks all night and all the next day. Perhaps the strongest quake in American history but with remarkably little damage and light loss of life. <span> </span></p> <p><strong><span>           </span>1854</strong><span>   </span>Philadelphia, PA   Like every large city in this horse-drawn age, crossing the street (especially in summer) is an exercise careful stepping, nose holding and avoiding the rear end of all that horsepower clopping down the streets. Prisoners at the local jail serving small crimes are often issued shovels and led out by constables to do their best to take care of the worst. The city of Philadelphia today makes a valiant attempt to deal with the worst of “things” in a different way; today they <strong>use the 1st street-cleaning machine in US</strong>…..which of course is, um, horse-drawn. The beginning of street sweepers…..</p> <p><strong><span>             </span>1923</strong><span>   </span>Tartu, Estonia  In this ancient university town a couple got married at the end of World War I and on this day have their first born, a son, <strong>Pere WineRev.</strong> After two younger sisters are born the family moves to the capital of Tallinn where Grand Pere WineRev is a grocery store manager. Pere WineRev gets through most of high school before World War II erupts. In 1939 the Red Army stationed troops here, in 1940 they overthrew the government and in 1941 they retreated like whipped scum. From 1941 to 1944 Pere WineRev and other skilled classmates were forced to repair Luftwaffe planes. In 1944 the Red Army comes back, and the Germans take skilled forced laborers (and their families) with them on retreat. The rest of the family goes to a refugee camp in Augsburg but Pere WineRev is back to fixing planes in Berlin. In 1945 Red Army is arriving AGAIN and the Luftwaffe is out of planes, and soon, out of mechanics (against orders.) Pere WineRev “obtains” civilian clothes and “obtains” a bicycle (the verb he always used) and started pedaling west. He was 2 days and about 20 km west of the Elbe River when word came that the Russian tanks had pulled up on the east bank of the Elbe and stopped, as decided at Yalta. After the war, Dad meets Mom in the Displaced Persons camp for Estonians. They get married here and produce WineRev <em>(who eventually starts writing books and History Corners) </em>and Sis-of-WineRev. Dad spent 40 years as a structural engineer before he and Mom retired to Florida. There, 5 miles from the beach, he painted, they traveled, and just after his 84<sup>th</sup> birthday we said goodbye the last time. Miss you, Dad, and thanks! <em>(PS. Came across a joke he would have loved: The pessimist sees the glass as half empty. The optimist sees the glass as half full. The engineer sees the glass twice as large as it needs to be for the volume of liquid. </em><em><span>😊</span></em><em>)</em></p> <p><strong><span>             </span>1939 </strong><span>   </span>Seaford, Delaware    At the<strong> DuPont</strong> factory works (THE major employer in the state) the company put its newly received patent into production: the <strong>1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn</strong>. Light, strong and sheer, the product took off as a replacement for silk. Women’s hosiery industry was transformed. As World War II ignited and America began turning to war production, civilian uses for nylon were restricted. The military ordered parachutes by the thousands for its airmen, first for the RAF and then US forces and other Allies. (To this day among fliers, if they have to bail out, their phrase recalls nylon’s predecessor: a pilot “hits the silk” to ride his or her parachute to the ground.)<span>  </span><em><u> DOUBLE HEADER DATE   Also this day in Atlanta, GA</u></em>   While most Hollywood movie premieres in this era were in New York or Los Angeles, today was an exception. Atlanta hosts the <strong>world premiere of “Gone with the Wind”,</strong> Margaret Mitchell’s slanted book brought to an over-saturated color film epic. (One of the few films built with an intermission; the Technicolor absolutely dazzled people and added to the film’s appeal.) Named <u>Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards</u> and a career film for stars <u>Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.</u> Has not aged well as its racist tropes have offended more and more younger generations but a marker for where race relations stood in the US at the end of the 1930s.</p> <p><strong><span>          </span>1964 </strong><span>  </span>Ottawa, Canada  <span> </span>Canada’s flag lately has been a mostly red banner with some devices on it showing its historic connection to England. On this day Canada's House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve a new national banner, the red <strong>Maple Leaf Flag.</strong></p> <p>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</p> <p>Shalom.</p> </div> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="DanRatherMark124.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894388/large/DanRatherMark124.jpg?1608030844" title="DanRatherMark124.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ApparelMark121.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894387/large/ApparelMark121.jpg?1608030843" title="ApparelMark121.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="MaskMark125.jpg" class="width-xl" 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class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="KidsMark127.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894398/large/KidsMark127.png?1608031066" title="KidsMark127.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PrisonMark124.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894399/large/PrisonMark124.jpg?1608031068" title="PrisonMark124.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Time’s person of the year should’ve been white male fragility&lt;/p&gt;— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1338190775025360896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 13, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Time’s person of the year should’ve been white male fragility</p>— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1338190775025360896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="BidentRumpMark1030.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894404/large/BidentRumpMark1030.jpg?1608033269" title="BidentRumpMark1030.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="if-its-ever-over.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894405/large/if-its-ever-over.jpg?1608033268" title="if-its-ever-over.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="scissors-beats-paper.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894403/large/scissors-beats-paper.jpg?1608033269" title="scissors-beats-paper.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FatLadyMark1115.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/889068/large/FatLadyMark1115.jpg?1606815593" title="FatLadyMark1115.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="200523_Pressley_020.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/894401/large/200523_Pressley_020.jpg?1608032486" title="200523_Pressley_020.jpg"> <figcaption>That orange chucklehead said there was voter fraud.  I’ve been looking everywhere, but I can’t find it (and I’m really good at sniffing out shit).</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Today’s Quote(s)</h2> <blockquote> <p>It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare</p> <p>He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. —  Mark Twain</p> <p>The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window. —  Jean Baudrillard</p> <p>Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them. — Shirley Chisholm</p> <p>Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery</p> </blockquote> <div> <div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during the interregnum.</p> <p>hpg has done a heck of a job taking over the Evening Shade reins and been following along with Joe Biden’s ascent:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/14/2002027/-PRESIDENT-ELECT-JOE-BIDEN-Day38-Evening-Shade-Monday-THE-ELECTORIAL-COLLEGE-VOTES-BIDEN-SPEAKS" title="">PRESIDENT ELECT JOE <span>BIDEN--Day38--Evening-Shade-Monday---THE</span> ELECTORIAL COLLEGE <span>VOTES-BIDEN</span> SPEAKS</a></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Today, we’ll let the lads close it out with an old hippie anthem from a performance from Giant’s Stadium in 1991.  Kinda sums up the last four years.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=G0iCMfc_X3s" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G0iCMfc_X3s" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  The shortage of fat ladies available for other events is the responsibility of one person and his horde of enablers.  Please expect scheduling conflicts until January 20th as they are all needed for the ongoing serenade at 1600.</em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) AndyBorowitz BillBarr Covid-19 ElectoralCollege GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead Malaria MarcElias MattBraynard News PaulMitchell PlayingforChange Politics Poll Pressley Recommended Roundup SavingTrees StephenColbert trumploses Voting _2001889 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:01:02 +0000 Fifty Days with an A Hole - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, December 1st, 2020 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/12/1/1999098/-Fifty-Days-with-an-A-Hole-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-December-1st-2020 <p>Hi everyone!  Welcome to December.  We know the republicans will continue to try to poison the country against incoming President Joe Biden.  We’ll continue to resist their depredations.  But, for the most part December will be all about counting down the days until sanity, coherence, empathy, honest, sobriety and pets return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</p> <p>The whiner-in-chief is still behaving badly.  This will continue.  Ho hum.  He becomes more and more irrelevant every day.  Arizona certified its vote yesterday.  All the swing states have now certified their votes.  The only thing tRump has succeeded at doing is displaying just how much of a petulant, selfish, boorish person he has been since his father first withheld affection.  Of course, he’s trying to shoehorn in a few bits of last minute grifting that hopefully will include some extra indictments down the road.</p> <p>The other thing going on in the NNNE household is we’ve got Georgia on our minds.  I’ve sent Raphael and Jon a few rubles to help counteract the dirty money lined up behind the the shady traders (or traitors if you prefer).  Perdue and Loeffler epitomize entitled snots who think they are exempt from following rules or ethical guidelines (Sound familiar?).  Without tRump to drag the MAGAots off their couches and out of their meth labs, I’m guessing a lot of the republican carrion feeders will be staying home.  We’ve still got a decent shot to emasculate McConnell this cycle.  I wonder if Jone Ernst would be willing to do the honors.  She’s bragged a lot about having the relevant experience.</p> <p>Now that the media (including Fox) is making fun of tRump’s claims of voter fraud, the high anxiety or the last four years is dissipating even more.  We’ll still have to work hard to undo the damage, but we’ve taken the first step to making our country whole again.  Rest up a bit.  Try to relax.  Keep paying attention, but don’t let it consume you.  In <strong>fifty days</strong> the world will be a much better place.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Tyrannis sedito. Sic semper tyrannis.</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p>Let’s take a quick look a how a real president sounds while we wait for one to return to office.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=SeM5IJiOTqE" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SeM5IJiOTqE" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Ze9tXvt9GUk" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ze9tXvt9GUk" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Let’s look at some headlines</p> <p><strong>On Wisconsin</strong></p> <p>Biden is becoming the winningest president in US history.  He won on November 3rd and he’s reeled off a 39 and 1 record since.  He’s got a better record in Pennsylvania than the Steelers and Eagles combined (although the Steelers are at this moment undefeated).  He’s now won more often in Michigan than Ohio State.  And so on...</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/trump-campaign-spends-millions-to-confirm-biden-won-wisconsin/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>Trump Campaign Spends Millions—to Confirm Biden Won Wisconsin</em></a></p> <p>  </p><blockquote> <p>The presidential election may be over, but the Trump campaign is fundraising like it’s 2019. Over the past 24 hours, 13 different email appeals from the campaign have flooded my inbox. In the weeks since the election, they’ve arrived almost like clockwork every two hours. Sometimes they offer a mystery gift. Other times, they criticize me for my lack of loyalty to the campaign, like this one from Eric Trump:</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Fundraiser.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/889086/large/Fundraiser.jpg?1606820067" title="Fundraiser.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>The appeals are frantic, desperate calls to help fund the campaign’s legal efforts to “defend the election from the radical left, the FAKE NEWS media, and BIG TECH.” Of course, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/13/trump-fundraising-pac-recount/" title="">most of the money</a> raised through such appeals will go to helping Trump retire campaign debt, of which he had more than $1 million as of October 14. But even if some of it really does go to Trump’s doomed efforts to overturn the election through litigation and recounts, potential donors might want to think twice about how the campaign is spending its resources before sending any money.</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p><strong>A View from the Right</strong></p> <p>I never thought I’d link to the National Review.  But, what the hell, even the seat of what passes for conservative wisdom doesn’t think very much of Donnie’s shenannigans.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/trump-election-fraud-disgraceful-endgame/" target="_blank" title="">National Review:  <em>Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>P</span><span>resident Trump</span> said the other day that he’d leave office if he loses the vote of the Electoral College on December 14.</p> <p>This is not the kind of assurance presidents of the United States typically need to make, but it was noteworthy given Trump’s disgraceful conduct since losing his bid for reelection to Joe Biden on November 3.</p> <p>...</p> <p>Almost nothing that the Trump team has alleged has withstood the slightest scrutiny. In particular, it’s hard to find much that is remotely true in the president’s Twitter feed these days. It is full of already-debunked claims and crackpot conspiracy theories about Dominion voting systems. Over the weekend, he repeated the charge that 1.8 million mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania were mailed out, yet 2.6 million were ultimately tallied. In a rather elementary error, this compares the number of mail-ballots requested in the primary to the number of ballots counted in the general. A straight apples-to-apples comparison finds that 1.8 million mail-in ballots were requested in the primary and 1.5 million returned, while 3.1 million ballots were requested in the general and 2.6 million returned.</p> <p>Flawed and dishonest assertions like this pollute the public discourse and mislead good people who make the mistake of believing things said by the president of the United States.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Another One Gone</strong></p> <p>Good riddance to bad cess.  May all the other charlatans, frauds, grifters, crooks, racists, bigots and (R)s not already mentioned currently befouling the halls of our government follow suit immediately.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/scott-atlas-resigns-trump-administration-coronavirus-task-force/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>Dr. Scott Atlas resigns from Trump administration</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Washington  (CNN)Dr. Scott Atlas, a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/atlas-stanford-coronavirus-michigan/index.html" target="_blank" title="">highly controversial member</a> of the White House's coronavirus task force, has resigned from his post in the Trump administration.</p> </div> <div></div> <div>A source familiar with what happened told CNN that Atlas turned in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump on Monday. As a special government employee, Atlas had a 130-day window in which he could serve and that window was technically coming to a close this week.</div> <div></div> <div>Atlas tweeted out a photo of his resignation letter later Monday. In the letter, he said his "advice was always focused on minimizing all the harms from both the pandemic and the structural policies themselves, especially to the working class and the poor."</div> <div></div> <div>"I sincerely wish the new team all the best as they guide the nation through these trying, polarized times," he wrote, apparently referring to President-elect Joe Biden's incoming coronavirus team.</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <p><strong>Remember This Asshole?</strong></p> <p>There’s a real chickens coming home to roost vibe about what’s happening at the NRA.  From my point of view they can’t implode fast enough.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nra-chief-lapierre-illicit-gains-report-1096433/" target="_blank" title="">Rolling Stone:  <em>NRA Chief Pays Back $300,000 in Illicit Gains: Report</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>National Rifle Association CEO <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/wayne-lapierre/" title="">Wayne LaPierre</a> has returned nearly $300,000 to the gun group, in repayment of illicit personal gains, according to an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-irs-disclosure-990/2020/11/25/50521108-2d34-11eb-9c71-ccf2c0b8d571_story.html" target="_blank" title="">explosive report</a> in the <em>Washington Post. </em>The <em>Post </em>details new tax filings, obtained from the <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/nra/">NRA</a>, in which the gun group reportedly admits to a “significant diversion of its assets” — including in the form of “excess benefits” paid out to LaPierre and a handful of other officers. According to the <em>Post, </em>that term is used by the IRS “to describe executives’ enriching themselves at the expense of a nonprofit.”</p> <p>The money returned by La Pierre reportedly covers personal travel expenses from 2015 to 2019 that were billed to the gun group. The documents do not detail the specific trips in question nor when LaPierre paid the money back. Despite the eye-popping six-figure sum, a spokesperson for the NRA made clear that LaPierre’s overall travel budget was much larger, and insisted “the vast majority of Mr. LaPierre’s travel was undertaken in strict compliance with NRA policy.”</p> <p>The new NRA disclosures appear to constitute a formal admission of financial mismanagement, which the gun group had denied under months of mounting pressure. In August, following a lengthy investigation, Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, filed a civil suit seeking to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-lapierre-ny-attorney-general/2020/08/06/8e389794-d794-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html" target="_blank">dissolve the organization,</a> alleging the NRA had grown rotten from “a culture of self-dealing, mismanagement, and negligent oversight.” To James’s mind, LaPierre’s repayment represents a drop in the bucket. She told the <em>Post</em> that the $300,000 is<em> “</em>just a fraction of the millions he personally profited from,” and she accused LaPierre and his deputies of having raided “NRA coffers to fund lavish lifestyles that included private jets, pricey vacations, expensive meals and no-show contracts.” The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> recently <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-investigating-nras-wayne-lapierre-for-possible-tax-fraud-11601923467" target="_blank" title="">reported</a> that LaPierre is being investigated by the IRS for “possible criminal tax fraud related to his personal taxes.” LaPierre declined to comment to the <em>Post.</em></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Little Bit of Andy</strong></p> <p>It wouldn’t be an NNNE GNR without some sarcasm from Andy Borowitz.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-tries-to-prove-he-is-fitter-than-biden-by-playing-fetch-with-pence-on-white-house-lawn" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  <em>Trump Tries to Prove He Is Fitter Than Biden by Playing Fetch with Pence on White House Lawn</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In an attempt to demonstrate that he is in better physical condition than President-elect Joe Biden, Donald J. Trump spent part of Monday morning playing fetch with Mike Pence on the White House lawn.</p> <p>The press corps was invited to the event, at which Trump, seated on a golf cart, hurled tennis ball after tennis ball at his Vice-President, who obediently retrieved them.</p> <p>At one point in the demonstration, Pence paused to praise his boss’s “amazing stamina.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Real Good News</strong></p> <p>This is just plain great news.  I hope they can bring it to the masses soon.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/crispr-based-genome-editing-system-destroys-cancer-cells-tel-aviv/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  <em>Revolutionary CRISPR-based Genome Editing System Destroys Cancer Cells ‘Permanently’ in Lab</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Researchers at Tel Aviv University have demonstrated that the CRISPR genome editing system is very effective in treating metastatic cancers, a significant step on the way to finding a cure for cancer.</p> <p>In a paper published this week, the researchers demonstrated a novel lipid nanoparticle-based delivery system that specifically targets cancer cells—and co-author Prof. Dan Peer said it’s the first study in the world to prove that the CRISPR/Cas9 can be used to treat cancer effectively in a living animal.</p> <p>“It must be emphasized that this is not chemotherapy. There are no side effects, and a cancer cell treated in this way will never become active again,” said Peer, the VP for R&D and Head of the Laboratory of Precision Nanomedicine at the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research.</p> </blockquote> <h2><strong>Musical Interlude</strong></h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHOqrw3Jks" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZVHOqrw3Jks?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=6vT_7AX06UQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6vT_7AX06UQ?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away, WineRev!</p> <div> <div> <p>Good Morning NNNE and thanks 4 bringing the GNR to DK on this DEC. 1. You’re right, only 50 days to go. Its a gloomy prospect but looking back to Election day we knew it would be a 78 day transition, so we’ve made it better than 1/3. More importantly the Bunker Boy has utterly wasted 1/3 of his time left to rant, rage and fund-raise ($170 million???) off of his post-election antics, whining, complaints and conspiracy theories. (For complete lunacy, I liked the one wacko who said the REAL reason Trump is re-instating the firing squad for executions is so WHEN he arrests Hillary, Chelsea, Joe, Jill, Hunter, Nancy, Chuck, the LT. Gov. of PA, and the entire Georgia cabinet, he can run them through their show trials and get them stood up against a wall before January 20th…..when he starts his 2nd term.  TOLD YOU it was lunacy…...)</p> <p>All the time 45 has wasted on that means he has NOT started a nuclear war, painted the White House gold, appointed Melania Chief Compassion Officer, or gotten in the way of the vaccine roll outs. These are all GOOD THINGS (albeit of a negative character) and we’re still safe and here. Now lets NOT point this out to him and tiptoe to the end of this week and take a few more days off the calendar……</p> <p>>>» The Biden campaign announced they would like to have Neera Tanden serve as director of OMB (Office of Management and Budget). She is (of course) well-credentialed, competent and experienced and has some well-thought out plans of how we can move toward universal health care in the US (her keyword is ‘Medicare Extra’ (a public option with lots of muscular additions.) Naturally, this means GOP Senators already say they will vote against her confirmation. Unnaturally, this means vocal members of the political Left already say since it doesn’t enact every jot and tittle of ‘Medicare For All’ on January 21st of 2021, and that it leaves health insurance companies in existance (just like in Japan, Germany, France, England, Switzerland, etc.) that they too oppose Tanden’s nomination. SIgh…….there are days…….</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>December 1st, freshly minted for your enjoyment and sprinkled with Good and Goofy days like snowflakes from prior December 1sts.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>           1135 </span></span></strong><span><span>   London  King Henry I (Beauclerc) of England died. He had decreed that the standard linear measure of <strong>one foot</strong> be <strong>a third the length of his arm which was 36 inches</strong>. <em>(Dang. If only he’d have been taller, so his arm would have been 3.37 inches longer and then divided by 100, we could have moved the metric system centuries ago.)</em> He was also the <strong>1<sup>st</sup> known English king able to read. </strong><em>(Latin? French? Lord knows how mangled written English might have been 70 years after the Norman invasion…..)</em></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>          1709    </span></span></strong><span><span> Hollescahu, Moravia (now Czech Republic)   Birth of <strong>Franz Xaver Richter</strong>, composer. Recalled as <strong>Frantisek</strong> in Czech and <strong>Francoise</strong> in France, was a versatile a composer as his forms of first name. Noted for his church music (Mozart heard one of his masses and called a “charming work”----a very unusual adjective for a Mass), he was classically trained in Vienna, although by whom and where has never been accurately determined. But at about age 30 he received a post in the village of Kempten as <em>kappelmeister</em>. Somewhere in there he traveled to Paris and had 12 of his symphonies published, moved to Mannheim as a singer, then still later to Strasbourg in France. Produced over 80 symphonies in all (of the shorter, Haydn-style), several church pieces and a body of chamber music, all more popular in England, France and Holland than in German quarters. </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>           1870</span></span></strong><span><span>    Near San Francisco.  With a regular rotation of every 30 seconds, the <strong>Point Reyes Lighthouse</strong> came on station. It was built on <strong>the foggiest point of the entire Pacific coast</strong>, and guided ships safely to San Francisco. Stayed in service until 1975.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>         1887 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Across England.  As was customary, the <u>Beeton’s Christmas Annual</u> came out today, with the typical collection of stories and advertisements. One of the short stories included today was from the pen of <strong>Mr. A.C. Doyle.</strong> It was a something of a mystery entitled <u>“A Study in Scarlet”</u> and featured an intrepid detective named <strong>Sherlock Holmes</strong>. It was the first appearance in print for both Doyle and Holmes. Received enough notice that in 1891 a London magazine called <em>‘The Strand’ </em>began publishing more of Holmes’ adventures, making the detective into a phenomenon. </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1891 </span></span></strong><span><span>    Springfield, MA   At the YMCA in town <strong>Dr. James Naismith</strong>, a Canadian and a teacher of physical education at a local academy, brought his charges in to try out a <u>new game Naismith had invented</u>.  A janitor had been unable to find fruit boxes as Naismith had requested and instead had hung a peach basket ten feet up on each end wall. So instead of being christened ‘boxball’ the game and sport has <strong>come down to us as ‘basket-ball.’</strong> <em>(After each successful shot the game stopped while someone climbed a ladder to get the ball out the basket. A few weeks later they knocked the bottoms out to give the game some flow.)   </em></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1903 </span></span></strong><span><span>   Menlo Park, New Jersey   Motion pictures had been around for a few years and the very earliest newsreels were getting started. Still, once the novelty of seeing things captured in motion and reproduced wore off, interest flagged. On this day <strong>Edwin Porter</strong> changed all that. He was a cameraman for Thomas Edison’s photographic studio. He put together a 12-minute film that featured 3 key elements combined for the first time: editing, a chase scene, and Western costumes: <u>"The Great Train Robbery,"</u> Porter shot many of the scenes in one go along with several close-ups and pairs of actors, but then cut and spliced them for certain effects. This let him develop multiple plot ideas <em>(Will the robbers get the money? Will the railroad men fight them off? What about the damsel in distress? Is that handsome young man really a hero who might save the day?)</em> One clip showed an outlaw in close-up pointing his pistol right at the camera lens. Audiences screamed in fright that they were being shot as he pulled the trigger. An industry (Nickelodeons went from dying to thriving) and an art form were born. </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>             1929 </span></span></strong><span><span>  Atlanta, GA   Although versions of a game called ‘lotto’ go back to Italy in the 1500s, the French started playing a game in the mid-1700s with cards with boxes on them arranged in 3 rows and nine columns, with numbers printed on some of the spaces. A caller would call out numbers. By the 1920s in America <u>Hugh Ward</u> of Pittsburgh had designed a typical 5 x5 card with a free space in the middle. On this day <strong>Edwin Lowe</strong> went to a carnival in Atlanta and was amazed how people would by <strong>bingo cards</strong> for a nickel apiece and sit down, hoping to win a kewpie doll or other silly item. He printed up packs of 12 or 24 cards and sold them as ‘lucky’, spreading the game far and wide. Church basements and American Legion posts would never be the same.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>             1955  </span></span></strong><span><span>    Montgomery, Alabama   After rising racial tensions across the South, the nascent Civil Rights movement executes a plan. 42-year-old <strong>Rosa Parks</strong>, a seamstress and secretary as well as a member of the Montgomery NAACP, boards a city bus driven by <u>James Blake.</u> She deliberately sits down in the “white section” of the bus and despite a request from a white, male passenger and then orders from Blake and some passengers, refuses to move to the back and sit in the “colored” section. She is arrested, then bailed, then tried under a city segregation ordinance. Touches off <strong>a year-long bus boycott</strong> by the black community (over 1/3 of the ridership) that shatters the finances of the bus company and wreaks havoc with the city budget. (Resurrects the Reconstruction-era streetcar boycotts that swept the South in the 1870s & 1880s, resulting in reserved seats by race in the first place.) <strong>Watershed victory for Civil Rights</strong> and a long stride forward for America to live up to her ideals and live down her shame.   </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>               1987  </span></span></strong><span><span>  Shores of the English Channel. With bands playing and speeches and appropriate pomp and style and ceremonial shovels, French and British officials on this day, <strong>break ground for the “Chunnel</strong>”, a train and road tunnel to connect England to Europe. (This to overcome the last effects of the last Ice Age.) The project as an idea has been around for centuries, but it took until now for both the politics and the engineering ability to align. <em><u>Double Header Date and Same Entry</u></em>.   <strong>1990</strong>   After three solid years of digging to this day, British and French workers finally meet under both water and ground. They knock through a passage in a service tunnel large enough to walk through and shake hands. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>May all your News be good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></p> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="GlassMark1122.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/889078/large/GlassMark1122.jpg?1606815803" title="GlassMark1122.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRumpWhinesMark1113.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/889067/large/tRumpWhinesMark1113.jpg?1606815588" title="tRumpWhinesMark1113.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="VolunteersMark1115.jpg" 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To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.  ― <span>Orson Scott Card, <em>Ender’s Game</em></span></p> <p>I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. ― <span>Muhammad Ali  </span></p> <p>Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat. ― <span>Adolf Hitler</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="StupidityMark1119.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/889091/large/StupidityMark1119.jpg?1606822695" title="StupidityMark1119.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="100430_untitled_001.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/549150/large/100430_untitled_001.jpg?1527992213" title="100430_untitled_001.jpg"> <figcaption>I’m looking down on creation and urging you to get a move on.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during the interregnum.</p> <p>hpg has done a heck of a job taking over the Evening Shade reins and been following along with Joe Biden’s ascent:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/30/1999138/-PRESIDENT-ELECT-JOE-BIDEN-Day23-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT ELECT JOE <span>BIDEN--Day23--Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p><span>Let’s close it out with a High Time from 1990.</span></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=XHtpqkfliPM" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XHtpqkfliPM?list=PLAxT_DkSwQLuq9R351Vp9kVGbE4TiMzQ6" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  It ain’t over till it’s over.  — Yogi Berra</em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) BarackObama Bonhoeffer Borowitz Cancer Election GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead LaPierre NationalReview PlayingforChange Politics Recommended Roundup ScottAtlas StephenColbert trump VoterFraud _1999098 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:01:29 +0000 He's Melting! He's Melting! - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, November 17th, 2020 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/11/17/1996092/-He-s-Melting-He-s-Melting-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-November-17th-2020 <p>A couple of weeks ago we threw water on the Wicked Witch of the West Wing and he melted down just like we expected.  The not-a-surprise surprise is that the remaining puddle of stale testicular sweat refuses to evaporate.</p> <p>It’s surreal.  We have a clear winner and an obvious loser.  That fact is becoming more and more immutable.  Yet, the whining from the bigliest loser becomes increasingly strident the closer he comes to irrelevance.  His Million MAGgot March consisted of twenty or thirty thousand knuckle dragging Redhats dressed up in their finest Confederate and Nazi regalia, marching in support of their shared “My like sucks, so let’s burn down the country” philosophy.  It was not a good look.</p> <p>The frivolous lawsuits are being tossed almost as fast as they are filed.</p> <p>The lying tweets now come with a warning label.</p> <p>However, we still have two months to go and the Don of Denial is flailing about, concocting new grifts and continuing to push all the old ones that his feeble mind can still remember.  He is a spiteful ugly soul with buckets of bile left to spew.</p> <p>On the other hand, Tish James and Cy Vance are drooling in anticipation of indictments to come.  All of the potential Attorneys General for the incoming Biden administration are planning for some very uncomfortable deposition sessions for outgoing tRump aparatchiks.</p> <p>There is a feeling of almost freedom in the air.</p> <p>The last time I wrote a GNR was on the morning of election day before any of the results were in.  I asked for your help in deciding what to call his most typical behavior pattern.  The consensus tells us, he’s having another tRumper tantrum.</p> <p>We’ve put up with this crap for three years and ten months.  We can continue to resist the depredations for another two months.  We’ve got this and then comes the reckoning.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Tyrannis sedito. Sic semper tyrannis.</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <p>Stephen Colbert had a lot to say last night</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=h4c-44Cyogs" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h4c-44Cyogs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Let’s take a look at the news,</p> <p><strong>Digging Into the Fraudulent Fraud Claims</strong></p> <p>Hi ho.  Hi ho.  A debunking we will go.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/trump-dominion-fraud-oann/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>Trump’s Latest False Fraud Claim Came From an Anonymous Internet Poster</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>On Thursday, Donald Trump posted a tweet falsely claiming a computerized voting system vendor had switched or deleted millions of his votes. The unfounded allegation appears to have originally been concocted by an anonymous poster on a pro-Trump forum, illustrating</span><span> a common chain of right-wing disinformation: A baseless conspiracy theory is posted anonymously, a right-wing blogger cites it, a conservative news outlet picks it up, and, next, the president of the United States spreads it as supposed fact. </span></p> <p><span>In this instance, Trump sourced his information to a “report” from One America News Network, a right-wing cable network with a penchant for <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/" title="">pumping out </a>propaganda and completely made-up conspiracy theories. </span><span>In doing so, Trump helped them boost another one.</span></p> <p><span>The anonymous forum poster alleges that the supposed irregularities took place on Dominion voting machines and that the company worked to steal the election from Trump. <span>The</span><em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/technology/no-dominion-voting-machines-did-not-cause-widespread-voting-problems.html" title=""><span>New York Times</span></a></em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/technology/no-dominion-voting-machines-did-not-cause-widespread-voting-problems.html" title=""><span> has debunked this,</span></a> reporting how Dominion software neither caused widespread voting problems nor affected the final counts. Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security released a <a href="https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1327024504330186752" title="">statement</a> late on Thursday saying there “is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”</span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong><span>Turns Out, You Can’t Just Say Whatever</span></strong></p> <p><span>Ranting and raving like a lunatic only works if you are orange and played a giant asshole on TV (not actually acting).</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/us/virginia-wesleyan-dean-resigns-biden-posts/index.html" target="_blank" title=""><span>CNN:  </span><em>Dean at Virginia university resigns after alleged Facebook post calling Biden voters 'anti-American' and 'anti-Christian'</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)Paul Ewell, the now former dean of the <a href="https://www.vwu.edu/" target="_blank" title="">Virginia Wesleyan University </a>Global Campus, resigned from both his deanship and his faculty post after allegedly writing a Facebook post on his since-deleted account that referred to voters for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/15/trump-tweet-acknowledges-biden-win-ip-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/" target="_blank">President-elect Joe Biden</a> as "anti-American" and "anti-Christian."</p> </div> <div>When asked for additional comment and whether he stood by his words in the post, Ewell told CNN in an email he "apologized profusely" and had "nothing left to add." Ewell did not acknowledge CNN's inquiry as to whether his resignation from VWU came in response to the post.</div> <div></div> <div>Ewell's alleged post, a screenshot of which was originally reported in <a href="https://www.pilotonline.com/news/education/vp-nw-wesleyan-dean-resigns-20201116-3lcaxoxb3vginkstipg4b7tbzm-story.html" target="_blank" title="">The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, </a>implored any Facebook friends who may have voted for Biden or are Democrats to unfriend him on the social media platform. CNN has not independently seen or verified the post.</div> <div></div> <div>"If you were ignorant, anti-American, and anti-Christian enough to vote for Biden, I really don't want to be your social friend on social media," the alleged post said. "I wouldn't hang out with you in real life, I don't want to hang out with you virtually either. You have corrupted the election. You have corrupted our youth. You have corrupted our country. I have standards and you don't meet them. Please remove yourself."</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <p><strong><span>What Is Happening in Evangelical America?</span></strong></p> <p><span>Not all of the evangelical leadership is mired in the tRump slop trough.  Maybe, just maybe, there some room for positive change.  I’m not terribly optimistic, but I’m hopeful some sanity will return.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/andy-stanley-evangelicals-trump/617103/" target="_blank" title=""><span>The Atlantic:  </span><em>The Evangelical Reckoning Begins</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <div> <p><span>Andy Stanley’s evangelical megachurch</span> was empty on Election Night, with only a few cars in the Disney World–style parking lot out front. North Point Community Church and its nine satellites in the Atlanta area have been mostly closed since the coronavirus pandemic began in March. When Stanley decided to cancel in-person worship until at least early 2021, dozens of families were so unhappy that they decided to quit his church. “Never once did I hear, ‘We’re upset because we miss coming to church,’” he told me, leaning back in a heather-gray wingback chair. The vibe of his church offices is tasteful and inoffensive, as if his decorator was trying to channel that magic <em>Fixer Upper </em>quality of looking distinctive while appealing to almost everyone. “What I heard was, ‘We’re upset because you bought into a political agenda. We’re upset because you believe the Democrats’ narrative.’”</p> <p>Stanley has spent his career in ministry deliberately avoiding this kind of politicization in his church. The 62-year-old pastor is a child of the religious right: His father, Charles Stanley, is a televangelist and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention who wrote the devotional that President George W. Bush used to read each morning. “I grew up in a family that was very, very right-leaning,” Stanley said. “I saw the hypocrisy there.” He yearned to reach people beyond the conservative Christian world, to make the story of the resurrection irresistible to the unchurched. So he rejected his culture-war inheritance and struck out on his own, and now the son has arguably surpassed the father: Andy Stanley leads a congregation of more than 37,000 adults and children each Sunday, second in size in the U.S. only to Joel Osteen’s Houston empire, <a href="http://hirr.hartsem.edu/cgi-bin/mega/db.pl?db=default&uid=default&view_records=1&ID=*&sb=3&so=descend">according</a> to some estimates. He’s written roughly two dozen books, mostly Jesus-y self-help, including one that came out in October <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085XNKPGW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">called </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085XNKPGW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" title=""><em>Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets</em></a>. North Point has a network of roughly 90 churches around the world, and young Christian leaders flock to the church for<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CatalystLeader/"> </a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CatalystLeader/">guidance</a> on how to expand their influence. Sam Collier, a Black pastor and friend of Stanley’s who is about to open Atlanta’s first branch of Hillsong, the Australian mega-ministry network, told me North Point is like “the Christian Gap.”</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>The rise of Donald Trump, however, has made it harder than ever to separate evangelicalism from politics. Exit polls <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html" title="">suggest</a> that three-quarters of white, self-described evangelicals who voted chose Trump in 2020—a slightly smaller share than in 2016, but still an overwhelming majority. “To his credit, he’s figured out how to leverage that group,” Stanley said. “I mean, he’s not evangelical. But he owns them. And they’ve loved him.” The pastor likened the relationship to a lyric from Bob Seger’s “Night Moves”: “I used her, she used me, but neither one cared.” Soon, Trump will be gone, he said, but the conservative judges and justices he appointed will be in place for a long time. “It’s like: ‘Got what we wanted!’”</p> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong><span>An Interesting Guy</span></strong></p> <p><span>I think John would make a fine replacement for PA Senator Pat Toomey (R-retiring).  I’ve met him a couple of times on the campaign trail and he’s someone to watch.  He has strong opinions about why tRump did so well and a prescription for progressives moving forward.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-democrat-1089672/" target="_blank" title=""><span>Rolling Stone:  </span>Big John Fetterman Can Save the Democratic Party — if the Democrats Let Him</a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/pennsylvania/" title="">Pennsylvania</a> and one of the more intriguing figures in the Democratic Party, sounds exasperated. </span></p> <p><span>He’s exasperated that Democrats saw a blue wave in 2020 and underestimated the enduring appeal of Donald Trump. (“I call him the </span><em><span>Bulworth</span></em><span> president. [He] has created a brand loyalty that is really unprecedented.”) </span></p> <p><span>He’s exasperated that Republicans will defend imaginary claims of voter fraud at the expense of democracy itself. (“When you understand how grossly disingenuous every last thread of their argument is, you can’t help but be outraged by it, because there isn’t one true sentiment, idea, concept, accusation coming out of their mouths.”)</span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong><span>Lift a tRump Rock; Find a MAGgot</span></strong></p> <p>Jasper Craven at Mother Jones took a deep dive into the corrupt practices of the leadership of The Independence Fund (TIF).  I’m betting he had to take a lot of showers to wash off the Verdado-tRump stench.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/the-independence-fund-donald-trump-veterans/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>Trump’s Favorite Veterans Charity Has Been Very Good for Its CEO. What Now?</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>On June 23, 2017,</span> Sarah Verardo, now the CEO of a veterans’ charity called the Independence Fund, and her husband, Mike, a two-time Purple Heart recipient and double amputee, attended a White House bill-signing as Donald Trump’s guests of honor. Mike, a former infantryman in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, told the crowd that a “new day” had dawned under the president. Minutes later, Trump cited the Verardos’ experience while he promised sweeping changes to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Then he signed the <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/at-the-va-a-law-meant-to-discipline-executives-is-being-used-to-fire-low-level-workers/" title="">VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act</a> into law and gave his pen to Mike, who beamed.</p> <p>...</p> <p>But according to internal charity documents and interviews with 30 current and former board members, staffers, and volunteers closely involved in the group’s operations, TIF’s positive public image obscures years of improper spending and dubious charity work. (Twenty-two of the 30 TIF officials I interviewed requested anonymity, citing either fear of retaliation or the nondisclosure agreements they signed.) After reviewing TIF’s publicly available tax documents, Stephanie Kalivas, an analyst at the watchdog group CharityWatch, described some of the group’s accounting practices as “suspect at best,” adding, “I’ve never seen such inconsistent 990 reporting from one charity.”</p> <p>...</p> <p>Trump’s failed reelection could put the Verardos’ influence over veterans’ issues into flux—and possibly bring further scrutiny to TIF’s practices. In February 2019, McKellips, then still TIF’s chief flack, wrote to Sarah with concerns that the charity might “sometimes go too far into the lobbying space.” “The IRS won’t mess with our 501c3 status as long as Trump is in office,” he wrote, characterizing TIF as being “tied-at-the-hip with Trump/Pence.” “But during the next Democrat administration? Who knows.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Little Satire to While Away the Day</strong></p> <p>Today you get a double dose of Borowitz, helping to prepare you for the double doses of vaccine in our futures.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/giuliani-arrives-in-ukraine-to-look-for-more-votes" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  <em>Giuliani Arrives in Ukraine to Look for More Votes</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>KYIV (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Now the mastermind of Donald J. Trump’s post-election strategy, Rudolph Giuliani, has travelled to Ukraine in search of more votes for his client.</p> <p>Speaking to reporters at the Kyiv airport, a highly animated Giuliani said that he expected to return to the United States with “bags full of votes” for Trump.</p> <p>“Joe Biden is leading Trump by about sixty thousand votes in Pennsylvania,”  the former mayor of New York said. “The population of Ukraine is forty-three million! You think I can’t find sixty thousand votes in this country? Get out of here! Get out of here!”</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-offers-to-read-his-book-aloud-to-trump" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  <em>Obama Offers to Read His Book Aloud to Trump</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Saying, “It’s the least I can do,” former President Barack Obama has offered to read his new book aloud to Donald J. Trump.</p> <p>“There’s a lot in there about democracy, governmental norms, and the rule of law,” Obama said of “A Promised Land,” which is being published this week. “I think he’d get a lot out of it being read to him.”</p> <p>Obama said that he had thought about sending Trump the audiobook version, but then realized that “there would be no one to help him when he got to a word he didn’t understand.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Pressley Approves</strong></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="Dogs, dogs and more dogs." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884278/large/Ricardo-Pimentel-Cordero-w-dogs-fb-Page-696x416.jpg?1605607060" title="Dogs, dogs and more dogs."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>Pressley has requested some input into the article selection process.  Here’s her choice for today.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ricardo-pimenetel-opens-home-to-shelter-300-dogs/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  <em>Man Opens Up His Home to Shelter 300 Dogs From a Hurricane: ‘It doesn’t matter if the house is dirty’</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Ricardo Pimentel may not have had an ark to ride out the storm, but he’s being hailed as something of a modern-day Noah nonetheless.</p> <p>As deadly hurricane Delta bore down on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula tearing a path of destruction directly to his door, Pimentel herded hundreds of animals—including more than 300 dogs, numerous rabbits, chickens, and even a hedgehog—inside his home to shelter them from the storm. (A flock of sheep huddled for safety on the patio.)</p> <p>Although his house took a beating, inside and out, the entire menagerie survived. “It doesn’t matter if the house is dirty, it can be cleaned,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/religion-animals-mexico-media-storms-0a785fec7c3d5727c772e605b2f295a3" target="_blank">Pimentel told AP</a>. “The things they broke can be fixed or bought again, but what’s beautiful is to see them happy, healthy and safe, without wounds and with the possibility of being adopted.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Palate Cleanser</strong></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="Shakespeare and Company storefront" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884276/large/shakespeare-and-co-bookstore-CC-shadowgate-696x390.jpg?1605606440" title="Shakespeare and Company storefront"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>I made it a point to visit this bookstore anytime I was in Paris.  I haven’t been there this century, so I’m really glad to see they are still in business and weathering the pandemic.  It’s one of those delightfully quirky places that make travel worthwhile.</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/shakespeare-and-co-flooded-with-book-orders-covid-19/" target="_blank" title="">Good News Network:  <em>Iconic Paris Bookstore Gets So Many Orders After Pleading With Fans, They Had to Shut Down Website to Catch Up</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>What happens when a world-famous independent bookshop finds itself in dire straights due to the global pandemic? It gets creative, of course.</p> <p>As with other struggling bookstores<a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/strand-bookstore-flooded-with-orders/" target="_blank" title=""> like New York City’s venerable Strand</a>, landmark Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company experienced a devastating drop in revenue as the COVID-19 lockdown forced them to drastically change the way they did business.</p> <p>“We’ve been [down] 80% since the first confinement in March, so at this point, we’ve used all our savings,” second-generation proprietor Sylvia Whitman <a href="https://www.afar.com/magazine/famed-paris-bookshop-shakespeare-and-co-appeals-for-help" target="_blank" title="">said in an interview with Afar</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;2 weeks ago we told you sales were 80% down &amp;amp; you lovely folk responded so hugely you crashed our site! Today we launch a new way to support us, giving access to exclusive content &amp;amp; the chance to get one-off artwork from &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/neilhimself?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@neilhimself&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; Dave Eggers. More: &lt;a href="https://t.co/eBsIN9g2h8"&gt;https://t.co/eBsIN9g2h8&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/vqZs0PsbhT"&gt;pic.twitter.com/vqZs0PsbhT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Shakespeare&amp;amp;Company (@Shakespeare_Co) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Shakespeare_Co/status/1326805391485919232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;November 12, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>2 weeks ago we told you sales were 80% down & you lovely folk responded so hugely you crashed our site! Today we launch a new way to support us, giving access to exclusive content & the chance to get one-off artwork from <a href="https://twitter.com/neilhimself?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@neilhimself</a> & Dave Eggers. More: <a href="https://t.co/eBsIN9g2h8">https://t.co/eBsIN9g2h8</a> <a href="https://t.co/vqZs0PsbhT">pic.twitter.com/vqZs0PsbhT</a></p>— Shakespeare&Company (@Shakespeare_Co) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shakespeare_Co/status/1326805391485919232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <p>I couldn’t choose, so you get them both.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=mxEd_8Bv7XQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mxEd_8Bv7XQ?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=nQ1gHm8v3ek" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nQ1gHm8v3ek?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he’s posted it in the comment section.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away WineRev,</p> <p>>>>>>The GA Secretary of State is making a strong bid to win <u>The Last Honest Republican in America Award. </u>The news that Lindsay Graham asked him point blank to throw out LEGAL VOTES in Georgia and the SOS refused is a big deal in a lot of ways. After January 20th, with a new AG, The Hoop-skirted One may found out just HOW big a deal. (Especially if there is a full blown probe into how Lindsay went from a nip-and-tuck Senate race to a 10 point win in mere days; smells like a dead rat behind the wainscoting to me…..)</p> <p>>>>>Over in Wisconsin, 2 items. A) The Scotty Walker Recount Law (YESSS! Irony lives! Petard Hoists are just through that door on the right…...) specifies if a candidate wants a recount outside a paper-thin difference, they have to PAY FOR IT up front, cash or certified check. Hard deadline just announced for the 20,000 vote LOSER in the WI Presidential Race: TOMORROW, 5:00pm local time. If Trump wants a Recount, he needs to sign for it before then. Estimated cost: $7.9million, payable by TOMORROW, 5:00pm. If it costs MORE than that, candidate owes the difference before official results of the recount are released. If it costs LESS than that estimate, the state of Wisconsin will refund the difference. So we will see if that crack Legal Team meets THIS deadline (and the issue may be more, do they have the money?)</p> <p>B) Back in the spring, Donald repeatedly said, in different venues and events, Covid-19 was a hoax, or a Democratic hoax. The media printed it and a liberal SuperPac paid a media firm to create a 30 second spot of Trump saying it repeatedly. The Trump campaign sued (of course) various media outlets (New York Times, Washington Post, AP, etc.) that reported this “fake news”…..including the (count ‘em, one) TV station in Rhinelander, Wisconsin that ran the 30-second spot per their contract. (Very bully-like behavior; pick on the small kid when you can.) Yesterday the Trump legal team announced they were dropping the suit against the TV station, so I’m sure the owners are letting out a sigh of relief.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>November 17ths that have prime numbered their Good and Goofy way across the timelines of history so that this blazing 17th of November may keep you and friends warm and cozy.</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div> <p><strong><span><span><span>           1734</span></span></span></strong><span><span><span>    New York City   Newspaper editor <strong>John Peter Zenger</strong> was arrested. He was accused of printing libel against the New York Colonial governor, <u>William Cosby</u>. When a grand jury refused to indict Zenger, Cosby ordered the New York Attorney General to bring charges and prosecute the case. At his 1735 trial Zenger’s lawyer came out of retirement and made a ringing case that printing <u>the truth was an ironclad defense against libel</u>. Zenger was acquitted.<u> Andrew Hamilton’s</u> closing address arguing for freedom of the press was so stirring, the Zenger case and trial are THE American taproot for Freedom of the Press.</span></span></span></p> </div> <p><strong><span><span>          1790</span></span></strong><span><span>  Schlupforta, Germany   Birth of  <strong>August Ferdinand Möbius</strong>, mathematician, astronomer, inventor.  A direct descendant of Martin Luther, Möbius was home-schooled until age 13. Attended a local college and then was admitted to the University of Liepzig, studying under Professor Carl Gauss. He discovered the Möbius strip (a 2-dimensional object in 3-dimensional space; you can make your own with scissors and tape) and after that, the Möbius plane, the Möbius inversion formula. In numbers theory, among other discoveries (as Wikipedia notes it: </span></span> <em><u><span><span>“the first to introduce homogeneous coordinates </span></span></u></em><em><u><span><span><span style="text-align:start"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>into projective geometry.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="text-align:start"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> He is recognized for the introduction of the Barycentric coordinate system.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>)</u></em><em> </em>While <u>GNusie Mokurai</u> will have to stop by and unpack this for us mere mortals, I say anyone who introduces the barycentric co-ordinate system will always hold a special place in all our hearts.)</p> <div> <p><strong><span><span><span>            1800  </span></span></span></strong><span><span><span> Washington DC  The <strong>US Congress,</strong> having started out in 1789 holding its sessions in New York City while its new house (and city to go with it) is being carved out of the District of Columbia; an area known locally as Foggy Bottom Swamp), <strong>this day holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. </strong>The Capitol Building is incomplete, (although it does house the US Supreme Court,) and will not be finished until the dome is completed and the statue of Justice hoisted into place during the Civil War.</span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span><span>          1836   </span></span></span></strong><span><span><span>Rotterdam, Holland   Birth of <strong>Wilhelmus Antonius Coenen</strong>, pianist and composer. From a  very musical family, Willem learned piano from an early age and was already playing professionally by age 18. At age 20 he moved to Dutch Guyana (Surinam) in South America, earning a daily living as an organist and making significant extra income from<u> piano concerts in Surinam, French Guyana and the Netherlands Antilles. </u>He made an American tour with his (musical) brother in 1860, playing on the stage in Boston. In 1862 he migrated to London and became instructor of piano at <u>Guildhall School of Music and Drama </u>for the next 40 years. He wrote a number of cantatas and fantasies, especially for the piano, along with some concertos. When we injured his right hand and was slow healing, he afterwards composed several piano pieces for the left hand, including a famous<em> Fantasie</em>.</span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span><span><span>          1842   </span></span></span></span></strong><span><span><span><span> Boston, MA   A Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the US Congress already back in 1793. In the last weeks, a mulatto man, <strong>George Latimer</strong>, is the first fugitive slave ever caught in the state of Massachusetts. Abolitionism has taken root in New England and now has a case in their front yard. This night an abolitionist meeting was held in Marlboro Chapel, Boston. Four hundred dollars was collected to buy Latimer’s freedom, (which his Virginia owner accepted) and, failing that, plans were made to storm the jail to secure his release that way. A massive petition was got up, “The Great Massachusetts Petition” that collected over 65,000 signatures from Massachusetts voters (about 18% of the eligible voting age men in the state) that in 1843 resulted in MA enacting the Personal Liberty Law (nicknamed ‘Latimer’s Law’), Massachusetts authorities were banned from assisting in capturing fugitive slaves and no state property (like jails) could be used to hold such. Seems the Abolitionists weren’t kidding; neither were the slaveowners, and one day it would likely come to war.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span><span>          1869 </span></span></span></strong><span><span><span>  Egypt.   After several years of construction by a French & British collaborative enterprise, on this day <strong>the 100-mile Suez Canal opens</strong>, linking Mediterranean and Red seas. While in ancient times there was also a canal, it connected an arm of the Red Sea to the Nile, and shipping would pass through the delta into the Mediterranean. This was a full-scale canal that <u>reduced the distance (and fuel costs, and days at sea) between Europe and Asia by 4000 miles</u></span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span><span>           1873 </span></span></span></strong><span><span><span>  The Middle of Hungary   Two rival cities on opposite banks of the Danube River, <strong>Buda</strong> and <strong>Pest,</strong> finally agree to end centuries of rivalry and <strong>merge into one city</strong> with a merged name: <u>Budapest</u> (now the national capital.)  </span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span><span>          1913</span></span></span></strong><span><span><span>   Panama   After 10 years on a massive engineering project, the Boston-built steamer for both cargo and passengers, the SS Ancon, becomes <strong>first ship to sail through the Panama Canal,</strong> which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.</span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span><span><span>        1928   </span></span></span></span></strong><span><span><span><span>South Bend, Indiana   Its football season, and every college fan has heard of Notre Dame. They are a long-time powerhouse in the sport and its been that way for a LONG time. On this day Notre Dame took a homefield loss. So? It was the first time Notre Dame had <strong>lost a home game since 1905…..23 years before</strong>. <em>Talk about a home field advantage!</em>   </span></span></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span><span><span>        1970   </span></span></span></span></strong><span><span><span><span>Menlo Park, California   In 1967 <strong>Dr. Douglas Englebart</strong> had applied for a patent for an invention he and grad student <u>Bill English</u> developed, a palm-sized wooden box, open on the bottom, with wheels and wires inside. On this day, 3 years later, <strong>the patent was issued</strong> for </span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span>an "X-Y position indicator for a display system."</span></span></span></span> Because the connecting cord to the computer came out the back, Doug called the gizmo <strong>a ‘mouse.’ </strong>On-screen computing just took a big step forward<span><span><span><span>. <em>(Englebart didn’t make any money off the design;  Stanford Research Institute held the rights and was thrilled a few years later to finally get some money for them: $40,000 to use the design from two guys both named Steve in a garage with a computer named for a fruit, Apple.)</em> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspring.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></span></span></p> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="RiotersMark116.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884296/large/RiotersMark116.png?1605611435" title="RiotersMark116.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="DicksMark114.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884287/large/DicksMark114.jpg?1605611071" title="DicksMark114.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="HatingMathMark116.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884289/large/HatingMathMark116.png?1605611088" title="HatingMathMark116.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="UninstallingMark1110.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884294/large/UninstallingMark1110.jpg?1605611420" title="UninstallingMark1110.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="WallMark116.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884295/large/WallMark116.jpg?1605611422" title="WallMark116.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PickedMark1110.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884293/large/PickedMark1110.jpg?1605611418" title="PickedMark1110.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CaughtMark116.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884288/large/CaughtMark116.png?1605611084" title="CaughtMark116.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ForBidenMark117.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884286/large/ForBidenMark117.jpg?1605611072" title="ForBidenMark117.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CountingVotesMark114.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884285/large/CountingVotesMark114.jpg?1605611070" title="CountingVotesMark114.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="StopthecountMark1110.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884290/large/StopthecountMark1110.jpg?1605611157" title="StopthecountMark1110.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="MoversMark119.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884291/large/MoversMark119.jpg?1605611158" title="MoversMark119.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FirstLadyMark119.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884292/large/FirstLadyMark119.png?1605611174" title="FirstLadyMark119.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="FunFactMark119.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/884297/large/FunFactMark119.png?1605611435" title="FunFactMark119.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <blockquote> <p>I would prefer even to lose with honor than to win by cheating. — Sophocles, <em>Philoctetes</em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. — Sarah Dessen, <em>Along for the Ride</em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. — Muhammad Ali, comment after losing to Ken Norton, Mar. 31, 1973</p> <p>One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. — Samuel Butler, <em>Samuel Butler's Notebooks</em></p> <p>Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch</p> <p>One picture is worth 1,000 denials. — Ronald Reagan</p> <p>The only atheism is the denial of truth — Arthur Lynch</p> </blockquote> <h2><strong>Required Pet Photo</strong></h2> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="100303_DogsSnow_032.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/554329/large/100303_DogsSnow_032.jpg?1529220544" title="100303_DogsSnow_032.jpg"> <figcaption>Don’t look!  The Big Fat Orange Thing is still there.</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div> <div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during the interregnum.</p> <p>hpg has done a heck of a job taking over the Evening Shade reins and been following along with Joe Biden’s ascent: <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/16/1996233/-PRESIDENT-ELECT-JOE-BIDEN-Day9-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">PRESIDENT ELECT JOE <span>BIDEN--Day9--Evening</span> <span>Shade-Monday</span></a></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>We’ll let the lads close us out with something to remind us to look forward to, while we look back to Alpine Valley in 1989.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=GzigR99mcuw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GzigR99mcuw" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  tRump is still a putz.  He was born a putz and he’ll die a putz. </em></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) DownByTheRiverside GoodNews Goodnewsroundup GratefulDead LetTheGoodTimesRoll Love PlayingforChange Politics Recommended Roundup _1996092 Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:04:45 +0000 Staycation Announcement - Evening Shade, Wednesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/11/4/1992774/-Staycation-Announcement-Evening-Shade-Wednesday <p>Hi folks.  I feel like the really burnt part of a toast briquet.</p> <p>I absolutely need to decompress for a bit.  My plan is to take the time between now and my next scheduled GNR (November 17th, I think), to avoid politics and writing as much as possible.</p> <p>After that I hope to continue writing Shades, albeit at a more sedate pace.  For the last month or so, writing them everyday had become an increasing strain.  I feel the quality of content suffered significantly from hurriedly pushing them out every day.  After the emotional wringer of the last 24 hours, I have become quite numb.  Jokes and quips are temporarily out of my reach.</p> <p>I am convinced it was a personally positive step to challenge myself like this, and I’m quite happy I hit my goal of making it through election night.  But, I really need to recharge whatever creative juices I have left, and then moving forward, take the time to edit and polish my work, rather than slapping it out like links from a sausage factory.</p> <p>I want to thank everyone who has bothered to read my offerings and support this little corner of DailyKos.  It has been an honor to provide you with whatever you’ve been able to enjoy or use from the Evening Shade series.  I love you all.</p> <p>{{{{Hugs and Kisses for everyone}}}}</p> <p>See you all soon, -NotNowNotEver</p> <p>PS — If anyone has an interest in becoming an occasional Evening Shade author, please send me a Kosmail.  I tried to recruit other dedicated snarkologists several months ago, to limited success.  And, even though I currently resemble a tissue after a run through the dishwasher, writing these has been a lot of fun.  Perhaps this time, we’ll get a wider response.  I might not respond in a timely fashion as I really intend to drastically limit my time online for the next couple of weeks.  Please bear with me.</p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Recommended _1992774 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:30:14 +0000 Election Edition, A Report from the Front Lines - Evening Shade, Tuesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/11/3/1992279/-Election-Edition-A-Report-from-the-Front-Lines-Evening-Shade-Tuesday <p>Ok, I’ve just scrapped what I had written last night.  It’s now 2PM on election day and I’ve just spent the last 6 hours standing in front of two different precincts (3 hours each) in my more than a little bit red town in Western Pennsylvania.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="You know what grinds my gears? Rural county voters complaining about being ignored by the political process when everything from the electoral college to gerrymandering and more is designed to give them the advantage in elections." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878255/large/gears.jpg?1604433905" title="You know what grinds my gears? Rural county voters complaining about being ignored by the political process when everything from the electoral college to gerrymandering and more is designed to give them the advantage in elections."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>I’ve had a few extended and civil conversations with tRump voters about how they are viewing the likely outcome of the election.  I see some of them as being quite resigned to losing and understanding just how polarizing tRump is.  They are hopeful that tRump can pull it out.  I’ve been suggesting to the most reasonable sounding tRump voters that we should all continue a dialog after the election to identify policy priorities that we can agree on.  I’ve been getting some positive responses to the suggestion.</p> <p>I’ve also spoken to some deluded people who think tRump will get 350 electoral votes and that he’s doing an amazingly good job.  I am stunned at some of what these people told me (for the most part I let these go unchallenged as confrontation is not why we are there):</p> <ul> <li>Biden is a racist, not tRump.</li> <li>Biden is senile, not tRump.</li> <li>tRump is a great businessman.</li> <li>tRump had a great GNP third quarter and it’s unconscionable that the media isn’t giving him more credit for it (I got a laugh when I said.  They don’t need to, he’s giving himself way more credit that he should for it already)</li> <li>tRump has done great things (I ask them to tell me about them and I get, “mumble, mumble, economy, mumble).</li> <li>CNN isn’t being fair to tRump (I counter with Fox makes up for that by being tRump State TV and get a bit of a grimace).</li> <li>Don’t believe the polls.  They were wrong in 2016 and this one guy that said tRump was going to win in ‘16 is sure he’ll win even bigger this time.</li> <li>I ask what about all the lies?  Either, “I don’t pay attention to any of that.” or “What lies?”</li> </ul> <p>That’s just some of it, but it’s indicative of just how warped the world view is over on the dark side.</p> <p>None of them think the militias will become violent if tRump loses.  They are all worried about antifa burning down the cities if tRump wins.</p> <p>Pressley has been a big hit and drawn in a lot of people who would normally ignore us completely.  I think if we engage these people and try to draw them into the process at the local level we’ll be better able to avoid them putting forward another tRump.  But, oh dear lord, there are a lot of whackadoodles in my neck of the woods.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting  (There’s no new parody today.  So while we wait for returns...)</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=8Lu41LulQos" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Lu41LulQos" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Thanks to NeoVid for sending us this meme!</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="suggestions.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878242/large/suggestions.jpg?1604432504" title="suggestions.jpg"> <figcaption>Meme submitted and created by NeoVid</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt=""We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests." - Franklin D. Roosevelt" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878248/large/FDRMark111.jpg?1604433487" title=""We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests." - Franklin D. Roosevelt"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="I have no idea what the fuck I am dong - Donald J tRump" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878247/large/ForYouMark111.jpg?1604433486" title="I have no idea what the fuck I am dong - Donald J tRump"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Bannon admits tRump" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878246/large/BannonMark111.jpg?1604433391"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=xtnho8uTUi4" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xtnho8uTUi4" data-width="1234" 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<p>Yosef 52 is still plugging away:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/3/1992123/-Do-Whatever-You-Can-Today-and-LET-S-WIN-THIS-THING" title="">Do Whatever You Can Today and LET'S WIN THIS THING</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1992279 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:30:06 +0000 It's Here! It's Election Day! - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, November 3rd, 2020 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/11/3/1991508/-It-s-Here-It-s-Election-Day-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-November-3rd-2020 <p>Today is Election Day.  The Election Day.  The one we’ve been waiting for, for the last four years.  The day we dump tRump.  The day we finally take the country back.  No biggie.  Just another Tuesday in November.  We are done with that whiny never-ending lame excuse on a loop.  It’s time to reclaim the color orange from the dark side.</p> <p>There’s not much left to say.  All the profound words have been spoken.  All the rage has been vented (well, mostly).  All the pleading with dumbass relatives has been pled.  There’s still some anxiety and mystery about some states, about the final margins, and about what’s happening down ballot.  But, the outcome at the top is locked in.  tRump failed to make his case and he no longer has time to shift enough of the electorate to make a difference.  The fat ladies’ chorus is backstage doing their vocal exercises.</p> <p>Yeah, ok, I won’t fully relax until tRump is fitted with his new jumpsuit and takes up permanent residence in his new home at Dannemora.  We still have to be vigilant and work hard to stamp out the pernicious influences of tRumpism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia and general assholeitude.  But, we are taking a big step today.  I’m going to enjoy it.</p> <p>Even though more than 100,000,000 people (100 million!) have already voted these last 15 hours are still important.  Please call around to your circle and make sure everyone you know that leans toward truth and justice has voted, and if they haven’t ask if you can do anything to help them get to the polls.  The wider we can make Joe and Kamala’s winning margin, the stronger the message we send.</p> <p>By the time you read this, I’ll be gone — to the polls to attempt, with Pressley’s help, to convince a few more soft tRump supporters that any vote for tRump is a vote against America.  We’ll be masked and socially distanced, politicking (in Pressley’s case, pawliticking) right up until the polls close this evening</p> <p>You can help me with one other thing.  Which of these terms should I use to describe tRump’s upcoming reaction to his loss?</p> <ul> <li>tRumper tantrum</li> <li>temper tRumptrum</li> <li>tRumper tRumptrum</li> </ul> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Tyrannis sedito. Sic semper tyrannis.</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter"><strong>GOTMFV</strong></h3> <p>Here are some warm up acts to get you going.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=07ZR7LMAgFc" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/07ZR7LMAgFc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=9qkucY_oJk8" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9qkucY_oJk8" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=WuZjdA1H8Ks" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WuZjdA1H8Ks" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And it’s on to the news (I’m avoiding horse race coverage as it’s mostly a ratings/clicks ploy rather a reflection of what the numbers are telling us — besides you’ll get enough of that everywhere else),</p> <p><strong>The First Returns Have Come In</strong></p> <p>The rout is on.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/dixville-notch-2020-results/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  <em>Joe Biden takes all 5 votes in tiny township that is one of the first to announce results on Election Day</em></a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden took all five of the votes cast for president in Dixville Notch, a tiny New Hampshire township along the US-Canada border that is among the first places in the country to make its presidential preference known.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>The ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight, becoming some of the first cast and counted on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020" target="_blank" title="">Election Day</a>.</div> <div></div> <div>By tradition, all eligible voters gather in the storied "<a href="https://thebalsamsresort.com/vision/legendary-property/" target="_blank" title="">Ballot Room</a>" at The Balsams resort in Dixville Notch to <a href="https://twitter.com/DixvilleVote/status/1323286412809129986" target="_blank" title="">cast their secret ballots</a> once polls open at midnight. Once every ballot is cast, votes are tallied and results announced -- hours before anywhere else, making it a favored spot for reporters and observers eager for any hints of what is to come on Election Day.</div> </blockquote> <p><strong>David Corn Sums It up Nicely</strong></p> <p>His ultimate comeuppance lives in out votes.  Our votes will set us free.  We’ve got this.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/biden-got-it-right-the-2020-race-is-about-the-soul-of-the-nation/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>Biden Got It Right: The 2020 Race Is About the Soul of the Nation</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>It always sounded hokey, but it was an accurate description of the 2020 election: a fight for the nation’s soul.</p> <p>Joe Biden adopted this as his catchphrase when he entered the campaign. But whether he were in the race or not, this shorthand would have aptly framed the contest. Since moving into the White House, Donald Trump, the first reality-show president, has debased the country with his bigotry, divisiveness, and demagoguery. And to make literally everything worse, his brazen incompetence, willful ignorance, and pathological narcissism shaped an inept response to a national disaster that has resulted in over 230,000 American deaths and widespread economic calamity affecting millions. The driving question of 2020 had to be: would the voters of the United States accept this? What would it say about the country if they did?</p> <p>Trump has been a power-abusing, corruption-embracing, mean-spirited, racist president who has sought to inflame partisan anger and anxiety. He has ruled by resentment. He has governed by grievance. He has whipped up hatred. He has lied constantly and excessively. He has exhausted the country. His list of offenses can and does full entire books. Our individual memories are insufficient to hold the full catalogue of outrages. Praising the “very fine people” at a white supremacist rally. Attacking journalists as the “enemy of the people.” Aiding and abetting Vladimir Putin’s attack on American democracy. Retweeting a “white power” video. Pardoning accused or convicted war criminals. Encouraging violence. Inciting fear. (Hordes of immigrants, Antifa, BLM protesters, low-income folk—take your pick—are invading the suburbs!) Promoting nepotism. Exploiting and personally profiting from government service. Covering up conflicts of interest. Trashing transparency and avoiding accountability. Violating the Constitution (see the emoluments clause). Demanding the arrest of political foes. Obstructing investigations. Undermining the legitimacy of elections.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>I’ll Be Talking About This at the Polls</strong></p> <p>He doesn’t cross lines.  He lives on the other side.  Fifteen hours and then some time for counting.  Bye Don!</p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-brags-about-supporters-harassing-biden-bus-1084613/" target="_blank" title="">Rolling Stone:  <em>Trump Brags About Supporters Harassing Biden Campaign Bus</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>With his devoted cult-like followers cheering him on during a Sunday rally in Michigan, Trump reveled in an incident in which his supporters in cars and trucks <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/video-trump-supporters-tried-to-run-biden-bus-off-road-1084484/" title="">dangerously harassed</a> a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas, prompting an FBI investigation.</p> <p>The president mocked the Friday incident to the glee of rally-goers by saying the trucks and cars littered with Trump flags were “protecting” Biden’s campaign bus.</p> <p>On Saturday night, the president tweeted, “I LOVE TEXAS!” along with a video of his supporters in their vehicles with Trump flags waving apparently attempting to surround Biden’s bus.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>I Might Mention This as Well</strong></p> <p>tRump is literally killing his followers to massage his ego.  He makes yet another damning indictment of himself.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mmxm/trump-rallies-linked-to-more-than-30000-covid-cases-and-700-deaths-study" target="_blank">Vice:  </a><span><em><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mmxm/trump-rallies-linked-to-more-than-30000-covid-cases-and-700-deaths-study" target="_blank" title="">Trump Rallies Linked to More Than 30,000 COVID Cases and 700 Deaths: Study</a></em></span></p> <blockquote> <p><span>The coronavirus has infected millions of Americans, resulted in almost 330,000 coronavirus-linked deaths in the U.S., and ground the world to a halt, but President Donald Trump has insisted on holding big campaign rallies. Those rallies may have led to more than 30,000 cases of COVID-19 and the deaths of more than 700 people, <a href="https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=523068119001022117011109068090081024031014039074069003068002070098007066064112099024025103012043047102119064078106101093107077044001045019044066020023028008048040103025064088019078122008103077001097066096089006102119096103073098009029086068&EXT=pdf" title="">economists from Stanford University concluded in a new paper</a>.</span></p> <p><span>Economists built a statistical model to estimate the effects of 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and September 22 in cities including Phoenix and Pittsburgh. Three of those 18 rallies were held indoors. They analyzed the demographics, policy measures, and levels of COVID-19 in the counties where the rallies occurred, compared to similarly situated counties.</span></p> <p><span>The working paper, which has not been peer reviewed, estimated that the rallies “increased subsequent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by more than 250 per 100,000 residents.” The people who died of Trump-linked coronavirus cases were not necessarily rally attendees, according to the paper.</span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>And There’s Still More Being Uncovered</strong></p> <p>Look for this one to get some heavy attention after he loses.  The smell of corruption is heavy in the brisk Scottish air.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/we-asked-finance-experts-to-explain-trumps-odd-business-methods-in-scotland-they-were-mystified/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>We Asked Finance Experts to Explain Trump’s Odd Business Methods in Scotland. They Were Mystified.</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The <em>New York Times </em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/donald-trump-taxes-guide.html" title="">series</a> based on Donald Trump’s tax returns has revealed a lot about the president’s finances, but so far it has yet to illuminate one of the biggest mysteries of Trump’s business empire: his Scottish golf courses.</p> <p>The clubs—one at Turnberry, located outside Glasgow, and one in Aberdeenshire, situated on a remote stretch of coastline along the North Sea—have been a main focus of the Trump Organization over the past decade. Trump has poured more money into these properties than any other part of his business. Yet neither club <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/the-biggest-trump-financial-mystery-where-he-came-up-with-the-cash-for-his-scottish-resorts/" title="">has ever turned a profit</a>. In fact, together they have lost as much as $6.2 million annually over the past 14 years. Trump has other failed investments, but he rarely sticks with a losing venture for so long.</p> <p>That’s not the only strange thing. Instead of putting money into the business, in exchange for equity, the way an investment usually works, Trump has been lending himself the cash needed to develop the properties and keep them afloat. And he has dramatically overvalued the courses—and not just in his typical braggadocios way, but in detailed corporate filings made annually in the UK.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Karma Has a Wicked Sense of Irony</strong></p> <p>I’m not crying even one tiny tear for this bigoted cretin.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/guy-who-wanted-to-kidnap-whitmer-over-covid-19-restrictions-now-worried-he-will-get-it-in-jail" target="_blank" title="">Wonkette:  <em>Guy Who Wanted To Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Over COVID Orders Scared Of Getting COVID In Jail</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>In early October, Kaleb Franks was one of several "Wolverine Watchmen" militia members arrested for plotting to "Liberate Michigan" by kidnapping Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. It was one of several planned governor-nappings thwarted last month, because apparently it is just a widely held belief among Republicans that if you kidnap the governor of your state, all of the COVID-19 restrictions they put into place become null and void. Especially if you <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/pretend-ohio-governor-who-sought-to-kidnap-real-ohio-governor-has-ties-to-republican-legislators" target="_blank" title="">declare yourself the Governor of Ohio</a> before doing so. Then it's <em>really</em> official.</p> <p>US Magistrate Judge Salley Berens <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/13/kaleb-franks-denied-bond-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-case/5969544002/" target="_blank" title="">said at the time</a> that Franks posed a danger to the community and denied him bond based on his participation in staking out Whitmer's home; his statements that he was "in for anything as long as it's planned"; and his participation in procuring illegal and untraceable firearms. Franks was one of the men who thought he was going to pick up explosives and tactical gear only to find themselves arrested by the FBI in a sting operation.</p> <p>But last week, Franks's lawyer filed court documents arguing he should be let out of jail because he's not a <em>real</em> threat and "has diabetes and high cholesterol, takes insulin daily and fears contracting COVID-19 in jail."</p> <p>To be clear — this guy and his friends were going to <em>kidnap</em> <em>the Governor of Michigan</em> because they were mad about the COVID-19-related restrictions she was enacting. They were <em>so mad</em> at Whitmer for trying to keep people from getting COVID-19 that they were plotting to go to her vacation house and kidnap her, a thing they had to know was a crime. And now this guy wants to not be in jail because he has underlying conditions and is afraid he will get COVID-19.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Takin’ Out the Trash</strong></p> <p>I really, really, really hope someone told Donnie about this.</p> <div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-tussauds-berlin/madame-tussauds-in-berlin-dumps-trump-before-u-s-election-idUSKBN27F2BA?il=0" target="_blank" title="">Reuters:  <em>Madame Tussauds in Berlin dumps Trump before U.S. election</em></a></div> <div></div> <blockquote> <div>BERLIN (Reuters) - The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations of next Tuesday’s presidential election.</div> <div></div> <p>In what seemed a further calculated insult, the statue of his predecessor and nemesis Barack Obama, who counted Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel among his closest allies, remained in place, beaming and besuited.</p> <p>“Today’s activity is rather of a symbolic character ahead of the elections in the United States,” said the museum’s marketing manager Orkide Yalcindag. “We here at Madame Tussauds Berlin removed Donald Trump’s waxwork as a preparatory measure.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>A Little Bit of Andy to Settle the Nerves</strong></p> <p>I don’t know about the rest of you, but satire is one of my opiates.  I want to be like Andy when I grow up.  Have you started drinking yet?</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/poll-shows-most-democrats-have-taken-advantage-of-early-drinking" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  <em>The Borowitz Report:  Poll Shows Most Democrats Have Taken Advantage of Early Drinking</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report">The Borowitz Report</a>)—A new poll indicates that the vast majority of Democratic voters have taken advantage of early drinking ahead of the 2020 election.</p> <p>In contrast to 2016, when many Democrats did not begin drinking in earnest until well into Election Night, the poll indicates that these same voters started consuming alcohol days and even weeks before November 3rd.</p> <p>“By the time I started drinking in 2016, it was too late for me to fully anesthetize myself,” Harland Dorrinson, an Arizona Democrat who started drinking last Thursday, said. “That’s why I went for the early-drinking option.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Finally, a Use for My Lawn</strong></p> <p>It will be wonderful to get back to a science based approach to the future, won’t it?</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/spanish-startup-bio-makes-soil-microbe-powered-batteries/" target="_blank" title="">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>Natural Organisms in Soil Can Power Lights With This Bio Battery, Which May Be World’s Most Disruptive Technology</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Described as the world’s most disruptive startup in 2016 by Google, <em>Bioo (pronounced Bee-oh)</em> creates batteries that utilize soil microbes to generate electricity in a simple yet ingenious way.</p> <p>When the ground in which the battery is set is irrigated or receives rain, nutrients and microbes in the soil that feed on decaying plant matter leach into the battery where their feeding activity creates protons and electrons. When combined with oxygen flowing in through holes in the battery, the process generates enough electricity to power lights, screens, or small appliances.</p> <p>The goal of <a href="https://www.biootech.com/" target="_blank" title="">Bioo</a> is to scale up their technology until their soil-powered units could generate power for an entire house, which might not be so difficult since the manufacturing doesn’t require any toxic or rare earth minerals like some PV solar panels do.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Extended Musical Interlude</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=-1pYKdqD1ls" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-1pYKdqD1ls?list=PLQ0MD_LixLZKHqM1_1ELy5tUusk9QlHa_" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=-nGh_2HEPIc" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-nGh_2HEPIc?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=YWYtUabfzRY" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YWYtUabfzRY?list=PLf9gPu0sgHGTFfPLcQmqcmsq16i9JD262" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=i9YvB9FmR3E" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i9YvB9FmR3E?list=RD0ZmR-T0jilA" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I get back from the polls for a quick lunch break and chance to thaw out.  Until then look for it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away WineRev</p> <p>>>>>>>>That story from Berlin? The Wax museum putting the Trumpfenveruckt  Wachspuppe into Der Dumpsterhoffen? (I love practicing my German (although my German friends are either hiding under rocks or can’t stop laughing.) I saw that the other day and if I caught the story right not only did they Dump(ster) Trumpf, they brought the dumpster around front by the entrance…..subtle as a Tiger Panzer…….well-played, Herren und Frauen, well played!</p> <p>>>>>>» Day ZERO. At last. (I know, a 78-day coda but I’ll start grappling with that tomorrow (“flee into exile” has an oddly attractive scent to it) 95 million already voted.</p> <p><u>WineRev’s predictions:</u> Democrats gain +15 net new seats in the House/ Democrats flip the Senate from 53-47 GOP to AT LEAST 53-47 Democratic/ Electoral Votes: 350 baseline for Biden. Total turnout (“There’ll be time enough for countin’, when the dealin’s done”) I’m sticking with my summer prediction: 160 million (up from 2016’s 137 million.)</p> <p>In a landslide (and this will be) the close calls mostly fall one way (like NC, GA, FL, OH, TX). There are (pleasant) surprises, both Presidential and Senatorial: (My picks: GA, TX, KS, MT, AK) and at least one more “something” west of the Mississippi. Invoking the “Putin Rule” (AKA “close enough to steal by cheating”) GA is a prime candidate, along with FL (Fortunately, Biden doesn’t need either one.) In 2016 45* got 62 million in the popular vote; will he go over or be under this? I am leaning toward UNDER, due to everyone he’s alienated so savagely offsetting the trickle of “hell, yeah” beard-faces drifting to him in those stupid car parades.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>November 3rds of the Good and Goofy in the Past that may pale into insignificance once THIS November 3rd goes into the history books…..and YOU were part of it TODAY, my Friends.</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>           1503</span></span></strong><span><span>  Florence, Italy   <strong>Francesco del Giocondo</strong> was a well-to-do Florentine and very much in love with his wife, <strong>Lisa Gherardini</strong>.  She had borne him two children and so, when she was 23, Francesco wanted to always remember her like this. On this day he commissioned a local artist with a good reputation to paint her portrait.  <strong>Leonardo DaVinci</strong> began work; X-Rays reveal he painted her in three different poses until he was satisfied by the fourth layer in about 1507. DaVinci moved to Paris and may have worked on the <strong>portrait of Mona Lisa</strong> as late as 1517. It was later acquired by French<u> King Francis I</u> and has hung in the Louvre since 1797.</span></span></p> <p><span><span><strong>              1587</strong>  Halle, Germany   Birth of <strong>Samuel Scheidt,</strong> composer. A very skilled organist, trained in Amsterdam, he stayed in Brandenburg most of his life, despite the interruption called the Thirty Years War. Northern Germany was Protestant, while the southern sections remained Catholic and organ styles emerged along this line as well. In the south there was still a heavy Italian influence, but in the north Scheidt developed a very different, trend setting style that paved the way for<u> Bach</u> in particular and <u>helped invent the entire Baroque period</u> in music. Many works for organ and many chorales as well.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1801</span></span></strong><span><span>      Essen, Germany   Birth of <strong>Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker,</strong> author and publisher. He came from a line of publishers and booksellers. In the 1830s he established himself in Koblenz, on the Rhine, which was acquiring a rising tourist trade. While there had been earlier versions of ‘traveler’s guides’ both in German and English, Baedeker decided to try his hand. His <em><u>“Travel on the Rhine” </u></em>(1835) was written so a traveler could get everything they needed from the guide: routes, transportation, accommodations, places to eat, tipping customs, sights, theaters, museums and places to visit, walks and prices. It was a smashing success and he invented a new genre; the Michelin guides, Frommer’s ‘Europe on $10 a day’, the backpacker’s “Let’s Go Europe”, all owe something to Baedecker.  </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>           1817</span></span></strong><span><span>   Montreal    Canada’s oldest chartered bank, the <strong>Bank of Montreal</strong>, opened this day.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>          1838</span></span></strong><span><span>   Bombay, India     Under British rule this day sees the first issue of a broadsheet newspaper called </span></span><em><span>The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce</span></em><span>. It grows into The Times of India, becoming the <strong>world’s largest circulation newspaper in English.</strong></span></p> <p><strong><span>           1892</span></strong><span>   LaPorte, Indiana    You know how you pick up your phone and dial/punch in/ tap a set of 7 or ten numbers and in a few seconds your call rings through? (And goes straight to voicemail, but that’s something else.) When phones got started, you rang up the operator, gave them the number and they put through the call. On this day <strong>Almon Strowger’s invention</strong> goes into service, <u>the first automatic telephone,</u> the start of dialing your own calls and pushing your own buttons.</span></p> <p><strong><span>             1908 </span></strong><span>  Detroit, MI   <u>Henry Ford</u> is putting America on wheels. His company started using an assembly line to build the “Model T” and it looks like automobiles are here to stay. More important, there’s money to be made. On this day, Ford picks up a legendary competitor: <strong>William Durant</strong> sees the advantage of mass production and economies of scale, and several smaller automakers lack these. Durant assembles <u>Chevrolet</u> Motor Car, <u>Oakland </u>Motors (which built a model called <u>Pontiac</u>), RE <u>Olds Motors </u>and <u>Cadillac</u> under the umbrella name of <strong>General Motors.</strong></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1936   </span></span></strong><span><span>Across America</span></span><strong><span><span>. </span></span></strong><span><span> <strong>President Franklin Roosevelt</strong> was re-elected for second term in the greatest landslide of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.  Republican challenger, Kansas governor <u>Alfred M. "Alf" Landon</u>’s platform called FDR’s deficit spending, and alphabet soup agencies as a “wrong-headed" economic program. Roosevelt received 60.8% of the popular vote and carried 46 of the 48 states (Vermont & New Hampshire). <em>(Kansas reacted by swearing never to elect a Democrat to the Senate again……a vow they’ve kept for 88 years. Go Bollier! Break the curse!)</em></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1992 </span></span></strong><span><span>    Springfield, IL    On this day the Illinois Secretary of State’s office announced that Democrat <strong>Carol Moseley-Braun</strong> had won election to the United States Senate. She became <strong>the first black woman</strong> to be a member of that body. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>May all your News (ESPECIALLY TONIGHT!) be Good, comforting, inspiring, and relieving.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></p> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="trumpkin.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877041/large/trumpkin.jpg?1604236093" title="trumpkin.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Is he gone yet?" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877040/large/GoneYetMark1031.jpg?1604236093" title="Is he gone yet?"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt=""What day is today," asked Pooh. "It" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877042/large/MyFavoriteDayMark1031.jpg?1604236255"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Grab him by the ballot" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875060/large/BallotMark1023.jpg?1603838460" title="Grab him by the ballot"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Because I" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878011/large/OrangeMark111.jpg?1604396725"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="I Voted and it sure as hell wasn" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878010/large/NotFortrUmpMark103o.jpg?1604396725"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRump Smoke Detectors - They stay silent so you don" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/878009/large/tRumpSmokeDetectorsMark111.jpg?1604396724"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="A mask is not a political statement. It" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877044/large/IQTestMark1029.jpg?1604236453"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Make this pledge: I will never vote for another fucking republican as long as I live!" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877046/large/ForYoumark1030.png?1604236457" title="Make this pledge: I will never vote for another fucking republican as long as I live!"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="The year 2045: "Grandpa, how did president tRump even get elected?: "Well, we were a bit distracted back then. That was the year adult coloring books came out."" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876785/large/distracted.jpg?1604181930" title="The year 2045: "Grandpa, how did president tRump even get elected?: "Well, we were a bit distracted back then. That was the year adult coloring books came out.""> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="MasksMark1027.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877047/large/MasksMark1027.jpg?1604236810" title="MasksMark1027.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt=""And Jesus said suffer the little children unto me, and I will take them from their parents an put them in internment camps" - Republican Standard Version" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877043/large/RepVersionMark1030.jpg?1604236451" title=""And Jesus said suffer the little children unto me, and I will take them from their parents an put them in internment camps" - Republican Standard Version"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ml67DCwaO2w" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ml67DCwaO2w" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="When women get a certain age, they start accumulating dogs. This is known as many paws" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877045/large/ManyPawsMark1028.jpg?1604236455" title="When women get a certain age, they start accumulating dogs. This is known as many paws"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Today’s Quote(s)</h2> <blockquote> <p><span>Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don’t vote.<strong> </strong>—<strong> George Jean Nathan</strong></span></p> <p><span>The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. — <strong>Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court</strong></span></p> <p><span>We are not helpless. The fire is still burning. Please go out and vote this November. Too many people have died and sacrificed so much for us to have our voice, we have to use it. Get in formation. Use our voices to do something great for our children. — <strong>Beyoncé</strong></span></p> <p><span>A man without a vote is a man without protection. — <strong>Lyndon B. Johnson</strong></span></p> <p><span>Can’t wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it’s taking to vote. — <strong>Stephen Colbert</strong></span></p> <p><span>If you don’t vote, you lose the right to complain. — <strong>George Carlin</strong></span></p> <p><span>Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. — <strong>Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court</strong></span></p> <p><span>Talk is cheap, voting is free; take it to the polls. — <strong>Nanette L. Avery</strong></span></p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <p>You’ve seen this one before, but it’s my favorite.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="190331_Pressley_006.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/673067/large/190331_Pressley_006.jpg?1557161279" title="190331_Pressley_006.jpg"> <figcaption>I see a new day coming!</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during the interregnum.</p> </div> </div> <p>Yosef 52 has been working very hard to keep track of all the ways we can help to get out the vote and end the tRumpmare.  Here are some last minute tips from the eve of the election:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/2/1991651/-The-Last-Day-Here-s-What-You-Can-Do" title="">The Last Day: Here's What You Can Do</a></p> <p>Last night the Shade : <em> </em><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/2/1991892/-All-Hell-Breaks-Loose-Eve-or-NOT-Evening-Shade-Monday" title=""><em> </em>All Hell Breaks Loose Eve (or NOT)<span> - Evening</span> Shade, Monday</a></p> <p>There will be a Shade tonight.  It is already mostly written and queued.  I won’t be back from the polls until well after it goes live.</p> <p>The lads played this up in Goodie’s neck of the woods back on Independence Day, 1989.  It’s been one of my rocks these last four years.  It was pretty much the only song I considered for closing out the GNR today.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=0ZmR-T0jilA" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0ZmR-T0jilA?list=RD0ZmR-T0jilA" data-width="925" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  It ain’t over till it’s over — but it’s over.</em></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) Election GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Politics Roundup _1991508 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:01:05 +0000 All Hell Breaks Loose Eve (or NOT) - Evening Shade, Monday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/11/2/1991892/-All-Hell-Breaks-Loose-Eve-or-NOT-Evening-Shade-Monday <p>A few things to keep in mind before we move on to our regularly scheduled Shade:</p> <p>Roving bands of Boogaloo Bois and their Proud Buddy Bois will not invade our cities and wreak (reek?) widespread havoc on our election.  Voter intimidation is illegal and no sitting mayor will stand by and let it happen in their city.  Most of the bois know this and won’t risk mussing up their cosplay soldier uniforms.  Any lone worm<sup>*</sup> attacks will be put down quickly.  In the rural backwaters where our domestic terrorists fester away their time, they won’t do any damage as they don’t feel the need to stop their neighbors from voting.  They think all their neighbors agree with them. </p> <p>Scientific polling has Biden up from 8 to 10 points nationally and in enough states to win the electoral college.  Some garbage polls (using a fudge factor for “shy” tRump voters) have actually brought those averages down.  Biden will win the election.</p> <p>tRump needs the election to be close for any of his desperation schemes to even have a remote chance to work.  It will not be close enough for that to happen (see previous point).</p> <p>So, please breathe!  We need you all around to help undo the damage after tRump takes up permanent residence at Dannemora.</p> <p><strong>Important</strong>:  If you still have your mail-in ballot, do not mail it.  Go to the polls or your local elections office and drop it off directly.</p> <p>If you know anyone who hasn’t voted yet (and they are at least Biden leaning), remind them to go to the polls and vote.  Every extra vote against tRump is another middle finger waggled around in front of the saggy orange jowls of the worst president this country has ever been cursed with.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="jowls.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877702/large/jowls.jpg?1604345681" title="jowls.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Ok, now that we have that out of the way.  One of our Deep State agents has infiltrated Derp State and found that even the members of the Fraudulent, Utterly Criminal, Kakistocratic, Incoherent, Noodle-headed, Greedy, Arrogant, Short-Sighted, Heralds Of Lousy Election Strategy like Billy Boi Barr and Murky Meadows are resigned to seeing their Turd King get flushed.</p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="derranged.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877717/large/derranged.jpg?1604348793" title="derranged.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>We know that republicans have, with the advent of tRump, become even more deranged, deluded, degenerate, demented, decadent, depraved, deceptive, despotic and dehumanized.  We know they are about to be declared defeated and dethroned.  Parts of our government will need to be deloused, deodorized and decontaminated.  Some of the detestable, despicable offenders will be decommissioned, detached, denounced, demoted and detained.  They will be desolate, despondent, depressed and deflated.  Democracy will win.  It will be deliriously delightful.</p> <p>After all the ridicule heaped on tRump’s head for his recent laughable attempts to dance to YMCA, his ultra-sensitive ego has pushed him to attempt to actually learn a dance.  He’s working very hard on the Headless Chicken.  It’s fairly easy, all he does is hobble drunkenly around the stage waving his arms, clenching his tiny hands into tiny impotent fists, while screeching about how a Biden win will mean the end of the world.</p> <p>We’ve finally figured out what tRump means whenever he talks about the greatest “witch hunt” in history.  It looks like he has vertical dyslexia and confused “M” with “W.”  He’s been talking about a Mitch hunt.  The Democratic House aren’t the only ones McConnell is ignoring.</p> <p><sup>*</sup> They don’t deserve to be compared to wolves.  Apologies to worms.</p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 98.1 million people have already voted (207% of the 2016 early vote & 71% of the total vote in 2016). 9.7 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today.  All 50 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016.  39 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016 (TX, HI and MT are over 100%.  WA, OR, NV, NM, CO, TN, NC, GA and FL are over 90%.  UT, AZ, and NJ are all over 80%) (sourced from Washington Post).</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=iZKZDgsjwAo" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iZKZDgsjwAo" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=vLk-dxZyp1Q" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vLk-dxZyp1Q" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="The liberal plot to make republicans look stupid, also known as "Operation Just Let Them Speak," is working splendidly." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877756/large/RepLookStupidMark111.jpg?1604355328" title="The liberal plot to make republicans look stupid, also known as "Operation Just Let Them Speak," is working splendidly."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="The only thing easier to buy in America than a gun is a republican." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877753/large/BuyMark111.jpg?1604354879" title="The only thing easier to buy in America than a gun is a republican."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="We need to stop measuring "The 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Olbermann:  The Worst Person in the World</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=i58Hh07OMt4" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i58Hh07OMt4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I didn’t notice Keith posted something on Sunday.  My bad.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=HGYPRs5co7M" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HGYPRs5co7M" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> </div> </div> <p>Jessiestaf did a great job of handling election eve duties for the GNR community:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/2/1991690/-Monday-Good-News-Roundup-On-the-eve-of-the-finale" title="">Monday Good News Roundup: On the eve of the finale</a></p> <p>Goodie summarized her excellent series, distilling 100 days worth of reasons to put an exclamation point on why we should vote for Joe:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/2/1987578/-100-reasons-to-love-Joe-Biden" title="">100 reasons to love Joe Biden!</a></p> <p>Yosef has some last minute suggestions:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/2/1991651/-The-Last-Day-Here-s-What-You-Can-Do" title="">The Last Day: Here's What You Can Do</a></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1991892 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:30:21 +0000 Say Goodnight, Disgracy - Evening Shade, Sunday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/11/1/1991578/-Say-Goodnight-Disgracy-Evening-Shade-Sunday <p>You can call them fascists or theocrats or white supremacists or any of dozens of other authoritarian ‘ist’s and ‘crat’s. Let’s just go ahead and cut through the pigeon coop (with all the pigeonholes) and assign them to their proper category — fucking disgraces.</p> <p>In their quest for the absolute power to tell us what to do with our bodies, minds and souls they have moved away from the even acknowledging the concept of democracy.  Their naked attempts to seize and hold power fly in the face of free and fair elections.  They have disgraced themselves, their party, their faith, their country, their humanity and their planet.</p> <p>Their putintative leader is to a common disgrace what the Atlantic ocean is to a glass of water.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Colin Powell on despicable Donald - "tRump is Nuts ... a national disgrace and an international pariah"" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877156/large/powell.jpg?1604256323" title="Colin Powell on despicable Donald - "tRump is Nuts ... a national disgrace and an international pariah""> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>By openly ignoring honesty and decency they have disgraced themselves individually.</p> <p>By championing outright voter suppression, gerrymandering and judicial overreach they have disgraced their party.</p> <p>By running away form the central teachings of their religion they have disgraced their faith.</p> <p>By allowing their incompetent leader to abrogate their international responsibilities they have disgraced their country.</p> <p>By permitting children to be caged they have disgraced their humanity.</p> <p>By denying the science of climate change they have disgraced their planet.</p> <p>The republican party has forfeit their claim to be a part of the responsible governance of our country.  Begone foul stench.  Begone!</p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 93.8 million people have already voted (198% of the 2016 early vote & 68% of the total vote in 2016). 9.7 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today.  All 50 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016.  37 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016 (TX and HI are over 100%.  WA, MT, NV, NM, TN, NC, GA and FL are over 90%. OR, UT, AZ, CO and NJ are all over 80%) (sourced from Washington Post).</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=_oCS-1w-OdU" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_oCS-1w-OdU" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Kelly on president tRump - "... though it" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877216/large/KellyMark1031.jpg?1604263558"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Make Lying Wrong Again" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877212/large/LyingMark1031.jpg?1604263404" title="Make Lying Wrong Again"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Lose 244 lbs in just 10 days! VOTE." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877211/large/Lose244lbsMark1031.jpg?1604263404" title="Lose 244 lbs in just 10 days! VOTE."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Same Mentality - Different generation" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/877039/large/SameMentalityMark1031.jpg?1604236094" title="Same Mentality - Different generation"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=vIKHnHCqn1g" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vIKHnHCqn1g" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" 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there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>2thanks, our Sunday salo(o)n keeper kept our eyes on Tuesday’s prize:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/1/1991196/-Biden-Abides-Trump-Crumps-Part-3-Who-Won-The-Week-Poll-Have-You-Voted-Sunday-Good-News" title="">Biden Abides, Trump Crumps, Part 3 ☼ Who Won The Week? ☼ Poll: Have You Voted? ☼ Sunday Good News</a></p> <p>We still love it when Goodie tells us why she loves Joe:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/1/1989696/-Biden-knows-how-to-get-things-done" title="">Biden knows how to get things done!</a></p> <p>oldhippiedude brought us some smiles:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/1/1989624/-Tweets-Of-The-Week-Oct-25-31-2020" title="">Tweets Of The Week Oct <span>25-31</span> 2020</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 gives us some information to spread around to any fence sitters we might know:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/1/1991490/-The-Final-48-hours-Time-to-Pull-in-the-Last-of-the-Deciders" title="">The Final 48 hours: Time to Pull in the Last of the Deciders</a></p> <p>Mokurai’s regular series is focused on getting out the vote:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/1/1991477/-Grokking-Trumpists-Vote-Like-You-Mean-Business" title="">Grokking Trumpists: Vote Like You Mean Business</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1991578 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:30:05 +0000 The Lies Don't Have It - Evening Shade, Saturday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/31/1991333/-The-Lies-Don-t-Have-It-Evening-Shade-Saturday <p>There is one thing, above all others, that republicans excel at — lying.  They’ve learned much from their mentors Richard Nixon, Charles Ponzi, Benedict Arnold and  Josef Goebbels.  One of their dark princes, Rupert Murdoch, has been successful enough to bamboozle almost a third of the population of the United States [Republicans make up only about a quarter of the population. Add in some non-affiliated citizens and you get to around a third of the country].</p> <p>Fortunately, their current standard bearer, Donnie Boi tRump, is not a very convincing liar.  He has loads of tells (e.g. when his mouth is open).  Most of his lies are poorly constructed and transparently implausible.  He is the world’s most glaring example of intellectual flatulence.  He is so totally full of it that, not only does it drip out of his ears, eyes, nose, mouth and other orifices; it, quite literally, is exuded from his pores.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRumpers won" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876784/large/scooppoop0.jpg?1604181927"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>If you are ever having trouble trying to decide if someone is a republican, look for these signs:</p> <ul> <li>Constant excretory diatribes.</li> <li>Policies redolent of the worst excesses of the greediest one percent.</li> <li>Inability to tell the difference between what they believe in and shinola.</li> <li>Widespread need to pollute our cities with their racist crap.</li> <li>Need a special 10-15 flusher to help them finish the job.</li> <li>Say or do anything as long as it smells of corruption.</li> <li>Break any oath or betray any commitment as long as it stinks to high heaven.</li> <li>Shatter any norm or debase any convention as long as the stench sticks.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The Senate</strong>:  These republican senators are in danger of losing their seats — Perdue, Loeffler, Graham, Tillis, Collins, Ernst, Cornyn, Gardner and McSally (Hyde-Smith, McConnell and wannabe senator Tuberville if it’s a full rout).  We only need four of them to take control of the Senate.</p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 89.8 million people have already voted (190% of the 2016 early vote & 65% of the total vote in 2016). 9.7 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today.  All 50 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016.  37 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016 (TX and HI are over 100%.  WA, MT, TN and NC are over 90%. OR, NV, AZ, NM, CO, NJ, GA, and FL are all over 80%) (sourced from Washington Post).</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=wz1d72IeYWQ" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wz1d72IeYWQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Because money can" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876821/large/HappinessMark1031.jpg?1604185343"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="We should pass a women" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876819/large/HeartbeatMark1031.png?1604185127"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="I put on a mask and literally within seconds, I am struggling to breathe. - Bill Mitchell The Surgeon who wore a mask for six hours to reconstruct my knee thinks maybe you" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876818/large/DramaQueenMark1031.png?1604185127"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Donald J. tRump - POTUS (Pile Of Totally Useless Shit)" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876782/large/potus.jpg?1604181926" title="Donald J. tRump - POTUS (Pile Of Totally Useless Shit)"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Calling him un-American would be an insult to un-Americans. 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href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1322569017412997122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 31, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Who let all these people into my basement? <a href="https://t.co/E17SPqmXib">pic.twitter.com/E17SPqmXib</a></p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1322569017412997122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>The Plan</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=dBvhDL7jbrc" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dBvhDL7jbrc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> </div> </div> <p>It’s the Saturday before the election and Goodie gave us a rockin’ good GNR today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/31/1990980/-Your-Top-Twelve-Election-Day-Worries-and-Why-They-Shouldn-t-Be-Worrying-You-Saturday-s-GNR" title="">Your Top Twelve Election Day Worries and Why They Shouldn't Be Worrying You: Saturday's GNR</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 summarized some good news yesterday (and I missed it):  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/30/1991165/-Fox-News-Poll-Biden-52-Trump-44-Indies-22-for-Biden-Seniors-10-for-Biden-Plus-More-Polls" title="">Fox News Poll: Biden 52, Trump 44. Indies +22 for Biden, Seniors +10 for Biden (Plus More Polls)</a></p> <p>After that Yosef came to visit me here in PA:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/31/1991243/-Pennsylvania-is-the-Ballgame-Folks-Let-s-HIT-IT-HARD-and-BRING-IT-HOME" title="">Pennsylvania is the Ballgame, Folks. Let's HIT IT HARD and BRING IT HOME!</a></p> <p>WYgalinCali has opened the jukebox:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/31/1987471/-Another-Saturday-Night-Trick-or-Treat" title="">Another Saturday Night<span> - Trick</span> or Treat?</a></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1991333 Sat, 31 Oct 2020 23:30:08 +0000 They Blow Hot and Cold (plus Randy Rainbow) - Evening Shade, Friday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/30/1991081/-They-Blow-Hot-and-Cold-plus-Randy-Rainbow-Evening-Shade-Friday <p>We’ve all noticed that the tRump campaign has been running hot and cold recently.  It’s been a bit puzzling to all of us.  First they tried to induce a hyperbolic rise in their popularity, but ended up with hypothermia instead.  Then they used fiery prose to help proselytize their position and came away with heat prostration for their trouble.  They can’t seem to get the enthusiasm for their candidate much past lukewarm.</p> <p>Having a blithering idiot bark nonsense at knuckle-dragging crowds of “low IQ individuals” has passed it's tRumpian expiration date.  Apparently killing or disabling his followers infecting by them with COVID-19 at his signature superspreader events is no longer enough to support the cruelty entwined with his fragile ego.  He now wants to cook or freeze them to death too.  With Donald tRump, <strong>THERE! IS! NO! BOTTOM!</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="The Omaha rally would be fun! They said. Best transportation for tRump" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876393/large/rallyomaha.jpg?1604094384"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>tRump is a hot mess with a dark, cold abyss where his heart should be.  That might explain the variance in the different ways he is trying to kill his followers.  However, if we apply the tRumpian view of the world to his callous disregard for the health of his constituency, I can’t see any transactional benefit he gains by killing, maiming and disabling his base.  He is working against his own self interest.  Can he be that incompetent?  Oh, wait … never mind.</p> <p>We’ve just received a message from one of the survivors in Omaha:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Woman stranded at MAGA rally in Omaha says Trump wanted to teach them a lesson &lt;a href="https://t.co/SvqYw5MnOZ"&gt;pic.twitter.com/SvqYw5MnOZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1321394578952495105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 28, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Woman stranded at MAGA rally in Omaha says Trump wanted to teach them a lesson <a href="https://t.co/SvqYw5MnOZ">pic.twitter.com/SvqYw5MnOZ</a></p>— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) <a href="https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1321394578952495105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>As a side effect of writing 350 (today is the 350th) of these Shades, starting last November 9th, I’ve ended up learning a great deal more about Donald tRump than I ever wanted to know.  Words like unsavory, unscrupulous, unethical, unsuitable, and ‘un’ everything good and decent fountain up whenever I think of tRump.  I am so very tired of having the single best argument I’ve ever seen for abortion, squatting on the neck of our country while we fight to breathe.  tRump and his toadies, treasonweasels, lickspittles, ass-kissers and fellow criminals need to be removed from proximity to our government.  They are a toxic infectious pustule, situated prominently on the country’s buttocks, awaiting their November 3rd lancing at the hands of the electorate.</p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 84 million people have already voted (171% of the 2016 early vote & 60% of the total vote in 2016). 9 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today.  49 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016 (CO isn’t there yet).  32 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016 (TX is at 100%.  WA, OR, MT. AZ, NM, TN, GA, FL and NC are all over 80%) (sourced from Washington Post).</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting (The pace is picking up)</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=gnca1VxL7eI" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gnca1VxL7eI" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=9BucPqTPVvs" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9BucPqTPVvs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=2T6XotDbCuU" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2T6XotDbCuU" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="The only thing worse than COVID-19 is tRump-20" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876384/large/WorseMark1030.jpg?1604093996" title="The only thing worse than COVID-19 is tRump-20"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRump logic: It would have been less freezing at the tRump rally in Omaha if there were fewer thermometers." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876385/large/ThermometersMark1030.png?1604093995" title="tRump logic: It would have been less freezing at the tRump rally in Omaha if there were fewer thermometers."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Two weeks ago, Joe Biden spent hours after the cameras were off talking to voters at his town hall. Last night, tRump left thousands of his supporters in freezing cold temperatures walking miles with no transportation as dozens sought medical attention. That" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876390/large/Bus2Mark1030.jpg?1604094141"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="You call yourself a Texan and you" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876387/large/NoMoreChiliMark1029.png?1604094063"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Who wore it better? -- Ana Navarro-Cárdenas" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/876388/large/WhoworeItBetterMark1030.jpg?1604094076" title="Who wore it better? -- Ana Navarro-Cárdenas"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day (Don’t miss the Hank Gilbert ads at the end of the list)</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=4obV-AuZPBQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4obV-AuZPBQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=d1Kwr1eJQMw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d1Kwr1eJQMw" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Dsl8LcI7HVQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dsl8LcI7HVQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=JQUdMjBGCYA" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JQUdMjBGCYA" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=vEV0q1SWkrs" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vEV0q1SWkrs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=U888dNja_s8" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U888dNja_s8" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=N2yId3Lv4UI" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2yId3Lv4UI" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Thanks to WYgalinCali for spotting this one.  It’s not on the Lincoln Project YouTube channel yet.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;"I stand for truth over lies." Gregg Popovich&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/fZPXruWN2o"&gt;pic.twitter.com/fZPXruWN2o&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1321943414821171201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 29, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"I stand for truth over lies." Gregg Popovich<br><br> <a href="https://t.co/fZPXruWN2o">pic.twitter.com/fZPXruWN2o</a></p>— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1321943414821171201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=bUaflao61l4" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bUaflao61l4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=xU7ixt-_lR0" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xU7ixt-_lR0" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=rp_gPzrMJMM" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rp_gPzrMJMM" data-width="660" data-height="371" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=lCmQ3DZ54l8" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lCmQ3DZ54l8" data-width="660" data-height="371" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Samuel L. Jackson 🔥 ad for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris...&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vote?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Vote&lt;/a&gt; Damn It &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vote?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Vote&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;a href="https://t.co/cCADBQV1iw"&gt;pic.twitter.com/cCADBQV1iw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/FirenzeMike/status/1320413624012242950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 25, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Samuel L. Jackson 🔥 ad for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vote?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Vote</a> Damn It <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vote?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Vote</a>! <a href="https://t.co/cCADBQV1iw">pic.twitter.com/cCADBQV1iw</a></p>— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) <a href="https://twitter.com/FirenzeMike/status/1320413624012242950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=cU_p3_hDK48" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cU_p3_hDK48" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Keith Olbermann:  The Worst Person in the World</strong></p> <p>Keith counts down the 50 worst people in the tRump administration (DeVos only made it to #26).</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=PSx26olKXDM" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PSx26olKXDM" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>A Message from the Boss</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;We are lost. We&amp;#39;ve lost so much in so short a time.&lt;br&gt;On November 3rd, vote them out.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hear more: &lt;a href="https://t.co/ZacuLReNRu"&gt;https://t.co/ZacuLReNRu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/jEbT0wP3Ee"&gt;pic.twitter.com/jEbT0wP3Ee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/springsteen/status/1321507795150106624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 28, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We are lost. We've lost so much in so short a time.<br>On November 3rd, vote them out.<br><br>Hear more: <a href="https://t.co/ZacuLReNRu">https://t.co/ZacuLReNRu</a> <a href="https://t.co/jEbT0wP3Ee">pic.twitter.com/jEbT0wP3Ee</a></p>— Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) <a href="https://twitter.com/springsteen/status/1321507795150106624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> </div> </div> <p>chloris creator graced us with another of her excellent GNRs today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/30/1989628/-Good-News-Roundup-for-Friday-October-30-2020-Let-s-Swarm-the-Finish-Line" title="">Good News Roundup for Friday, October 30, 2020: Let's Swarm the Finish Line!</a></p> <p>Goodie continues to make the case for voting for Joe:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/30/1989699/-18-Reasons-That-Joe-Biden-is-EXACTLY-the-Right-Person-for-this-Unique-Moment-in-American-History" title="">18 Reasons That Joe Biden is EXACTLY the Right Person for this Unique Moment in American History.</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 is still working to get out the vote.  Can we do any less?:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/30/1990951/-The-Last-Few-Days-Are-CRITICAL-There-is-Still-Time-to-GOTV-PA-Voters-Don-t-Mail-Your-Ballot" title="">The Last Few Days Are CRITICAL. There is Still Time to GOTV.(PA Voters: Don't Mail Your Ballot)</a></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1991081 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 23:30:03 +0000 The Ugliest American (with new Sarah Cooper video) - Evening Shade, Thursday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/29/1990739/-The-Ugliest-American-with-new-Sarah-Cooper-video-Evening-Shade-Thursday <div> <div> <p>After the Second World War, Americans walked the world stage with a bit of a swagger.  We were proud of who we were, what we accomplished and what we stood for.</p> <p>Some of us were a little too proud, running around the planet like we owned it.  The original Ugly Americans — the ones who just raise their voices when the person they are speaking to doesn’t speak English, like that would help — gave us an international reputation as being somewhat buffoonish, clueless and unsophisticated, but never heartless.  Until now.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Ugly Ameerican" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875915/large/ugly0.jpg?1604006836" title="Ugly Ameerican"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>That’s all changed with tRump.  You can add cruel, thoughtless, petty and evil to the description.  tRump is the Ugliest American.  Let us review:</div> </div> <div></div> <ul> <li>tRump mocked and ridiculed a disabled reporter on live TV.</li> <li>tRump mocked American prisoners of war.</li> <li>tRump spread baseless and racist claims that Barack Obama was really a Kenyan.</li> <li>There is audio of tRump bragging about explicitly sexually assaulting women.</li> <li>tRump mocked a Gold Star Family who had lost their son, a soldier who died in battle trying to save his fellow troops.</li> <li>tRump instituted a travel ban against people based solely on their religious affiliation.</li> <li> tRump mocked John McCain, who was dying of cancer at the time and is generally regarded as an American hero by the entire country.</li> <li>tRump called white supremacists who had just murdered someone “very fine people.”</li> <li>tRump has repeatedly referred to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas.  That is both sexist and denigrating to her as well as Native Americans.</li> <li>tRump ordered the kidnapping, imprisonment and caging of innocent children.</li> <li>tRump mocked a victim of sexual assault by his Supreme Court nominee and belittled her trauma on live TV.</li> <li>tRump has referred to predominantly non-white nations as “shithole countries.”</li> <li>tRump promoted the false and harmful lie that vaccines cause autism.</li> <li>tRump refused to take significant action to stop the spread of COVID-19, and has continuously lied about his response.</li> <li>tRump sent federal thugs into Portland and Seattle to snatch people off the street. </li> <li>tRump is actively trying to strip affordable access to healthcare away from tens of millions Americans who are most most vulnerable.</li> <li>tRump has repeatedly used his platform to stir up hatred against Asian people and blame them for causing the pandemic.</li> <li>tRump attacked Joe Biden’s stutter and mocked him for having one.</li> <li>tRump ordered chemical weapon usage against peaceful protesters outside the White House because he wanted a photo op.</li> <li>tRump attacked Hunter Biden on live TV and ridiculed his addiction struggles.</li> <li>tRump has openly stated his intent to suppress voting, and ignore the outcome of the election attempting to remain President in violation of the Constitution.</li> </ul> <p>This list is horribly incomplete.  tRump has committed or authorized thousands of despicable actions since he became president.  There is a festering ugliness at his core that only death will extinguish.  Fortunately, we can at least remove him from office and begin to undo the damage he has wrought.</p> <p>Voting for this excremental example of the worst this country has to offer is one of the least patriotic things a person can do.  I am appalled at the number of people who are so deluded that they think us socialist, libtard, commie, antifa, kumbaya lefties are so much of a danger to the country, that they are willing to leave a deceitful, corrupt criminal in the White House.  Even though he was elevated by a minority of voters, tRump reflects on all of us.  I don’t want to cover my mirrors.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>I’m Ridin’ with Biden!</strong></p> <div></div> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 79.1 million people have already voted (167% of the 2016 early vote & 57% of the total vote in 2016). 8.4 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today.  48 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016 (NV and CO aren’t there yet).  28 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016 (TX is at 94%.  WA, OR, MT. NM, TN, GA and NC are all over 80%)</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=x8pleNeQIiM" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/x8pleNeQIiM" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Well it" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875929/large/Day278Mark1027.jpg?1604008839"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-md"><img alt="Hey Donnie, I don" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875851/large/HeyDonnieMark1026.jpg?1603998449"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="To put things in perspective for those of us feeling a bit stir crazy already -- Anne Frank and 7 other people hid a a 450 sq, ft. attic for 761 days, quietly trying to remain undiscovered to stay alive. We can all do our part to keep everyone safe and spend a few weeks at home. " src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875848/large/AnneFrankMark1023.jpg?1603998268" title="To put things in perspective for those of us feeling a bit stir crazy already -- Anne Frank and 7 other people hid a a 450 sq, ft. attic for 761 days, quietly trying to remain undiscovered to stay alive. We can all do our part to keep everyone safe and spend a few weeks at home. "> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="I probably don" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875845/large/ChineseAcctMark1023.png?1603998065"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day (there were more ads than would fit, again)</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=KkCvwvcT1zE" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KkCvwvcT1zE" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=2qX6c4mfsLw" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2qX6c4mfsLw" data-width="1234" 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did retweet this bit of news:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Maddening that this drops less than a week before the election. This is the kind of corruption we’ve always suspected: Trump auctioning off US security to his business partners. Oh well, I’m sure media will compensate by covering it wall-to-wall, right? &lt;a href="https://t.co/HBQVRhJGbe"&gt;https://t.co/HBQVRhJGbe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Will Stancil (@whstancil) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1321816520020746240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 29, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Maddening that this drops less than a week before the election. This is the kind of corruption we’ve always suspected: Trump auctioning off US security to his business partners. Oh well, I’m sure media will compensate by covering it wall-to-wall, right? <a href="https://t.co/HBQVRhJGbe">https://t.co/HBQVRhJGbe</a></p>— Will Stancil (@whstancil) <a href="https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1321816520020746240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p>Looks like the test results came back negative.  Keith is back.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=-HZqN2gm-Ug" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-HZqN2gm-Ug" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Sarah’s Back</strong></p> <p>After Kelly Loeffler told folks she hadn’t heard the Access Hollywood tape, Sarah decided to help her out.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;How to billy bush &lt;a href="https://t.co/TDacBB2FAG"&gt;pic.twitter.com/TDacBB2FAG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1321919554621231105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 29, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>How to billy bush <a href="https://t.co/TDacBB2FAG">pic.twitter.com/TDacBB2FAG</a></p>— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1321919554621231105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong>  Today’s Shade is based from a list that was emailed to me without attribution to the original author.  So here’s a hat tip to Anonymous (not Miles Taylor) for the inspiration.</p> <p><strong>Another Note:</strong>  A very special shout out to Getting1 for sending me a link to tonight’s pie.</p> <p>Mokurai made the case for a big shift in today’s GNR:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/29/1985120/-Good-News-Thursday-They-Smashed-the-Overton-Window-to-Flinders">Good News Thursday: They Smashed the Overton Window to Flinders</a></p> <p>Goodie is making a hell of a closing argument:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/29/1989695/-Biden-is-a-Good-Decent-Honest-and-Honorable-Human-Being">Biden is a Good, Decent, Honest, and Honorable Human Being</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 is working to get out the vote.  Let’s help him:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/29/1990605/-Keep-Fighting-for-a-DEMOCRATIC-Victory-GET-OUT-THE-VOTE-And-DON-T-Mail-Your-Ballots">Keep Fighting for a DEMOCRATIC Victory! GET OUT THE VOTE! (And DON'T Mail Your Ballots!)</a></p> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1990739 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:30:15 +0000 Democracy Means Listening to the Other Guy - Evening Shade, Wednesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/28/1990285/-Democracy-Means-Listening-to-the-Other-Guy-Evening-Shade-Wednesday <p>We live in a democracy.  I think that means is that we should make the attempt to listen to voices from the opposition.  Admittedly it’s difficult, when the opposition hasn’t said anything remotely sensible in around 60 years.</p> <p>Because we still believe in democracy, we found some discarded red hats in a local landfill, had them dry cleaned and passed them out to the dedicated staff at the NNNE University Translated Jerk Off Butthead Statements Or Never Pretending A Republican Actually Deserves Empathy™ department.  After several rounds of psychological counseling and massive doses of stomach calming medication we sent our team out to interview the greatest thinkers, sharpest minds and guiding lights in the spoon drawer that is all that is left of the republican party.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="republicansusedto.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875475/large/republicansusedto.jpg?1603927113" title="republicansusedto.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Before we get to the results of the interviews, we made a startling discovery.  Every person we interviewed had one of those QR codes tattooed on their necks.  We followed the link and this is what we found:</p> <blockquote> <p>This meat puppet is controlled by a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch, Adelson, Mercer, Murdoch, Smith, bin Salman & Putin (aka the republican party).  It is prohibited by contract from having any opinions, thoughts or eureka moments without the express consent and prior authorization of the ownership group or their designated representative — Louie Gohmert.  In case of a contractual violation, please carefully package the puppet up an a large box and send it to RNC Staffing Headquarters in False Idol, Kentucky, for reprogramming and attitude adjustment.</p> </blockquote> <p>We asked everyone that we managed to contact the following question:  What are the greatest, most important accomplishment of the tRump administration or the republican party?</p> <p><strong>Mike Pompeo</strong>:  We did a great job of fulfilling all the precursors to the End Times prophecies.</p> <p><strong>Stephen Miller</strong>:  We stopped those filthy immigrants at the border.</p> <p><strong>“Moscow” Mitch McConnell</strong>:  We packed the court and made those dirty libtard’s heads explode.</p> <p><strong>Elaine Chao (aka Mrs. Mitch)</strong>:  We’ve made you yellow dog imperialist capitalist pigs suffer.</p> <p><strong>Mike Pence</strong>:  Neither Charles, Sheldon, Robert, Rupert, David, Mohammad or Vladimir haven’t told me what my answer is yet.  But as soon as I know I’ll get back to you.</p> <p><strong>Wayne LaPierre</strong>:  We pushed our new interpretation of the Second Amendment and that has led to our gun toting, pretend patriot friends terrorizing communities of color, giving a big boost to my holding in Smith & Wesson.</p> <p><strong>Tucker Carlson</strong>:  We gave psychopaths, sociopaths (like me), perverts, thieves, con artists, and nutjob conspiracy theorists a place to call home.</p> <p><strong>KKKayleigh McNinny</strong>:  We gave America Donald tRump.</p> <p><strong>William Barr</strong>:  We have almost succeeded in turning the United States into a monarchy.  We just need a few more years.</p> <p><strong>Rudy Giuliani</strong>:  I was not hitting on that woman.  It was Hunter Biden.</p> <p><strong>Mark Meadows</strong>:  I cherish the time I’ve been able to spend with the first family.</p> <p>While none of tRump’s demon spawn are considered to be shining lights, or even dull glows, we decided to interview the extended tRump clan anyway.</p> <p><strong>Lara tRump</strong>:  My father-in-law thinks I’m hot, just like his daughter.</p> <p><strong>Eric tRump</strong>:  Can I have some more paste?</p> <p><span><span><strong>Kimberly Guilfoyle</strong>:  Junior does everything I tell him.  It’s so refreshing.</span></span></p> <p><strong>Don Junior</strong>:  My book sold a lot of copies and no one noticed who drugged out I am most of the time.</p> <p><strong>Ivanka tRump</strong>:  We’ve gone great things for Goya Foods.</p> <p><strong>Jared Kushner</strong>:  I love watching my father-in-law and wife when they are together.</p> <p><strong>Melania tRump</strong>:  I don’t like questions.  How about I give you blowjob instead?  I need to get taste of Meadows out of my mouth.</p> <p><strong>Donald tRump</strong>:  Person, man, woman, camera, … uh … wait … I know this … Just a minute … Jared, get in here.  What’s that last word?  I have to prove my geniushood and I can’t screw this up.</p> <p>After their ordeal, because of our careful preparations, none of our interviewers suffered any permanent mental anguish, although everyone wants to shower every 30 minutes or so.</p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 73.3 million people have already voted (143% of the 2016 early vote & 53% of the total vote in 2016). 8.2 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today.  46 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016.  27 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ldVH7AuOwA0" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ldVH7AuOwA0" data-width="660" data-height="371" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=VcXHjIKuSCY" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VcXHjIKuSCY" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="WhatHeSaidMark1026.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875482/large/WhatHeSaidMark1026.jpg?1603927265" title="WhatHeSaidMark1026.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="LiberalMark1026.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875479/large/LiberalMark1026.jpg?1603927164" title="LiberalMark1026.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="sneak.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875477/large/sneak.jpg?1603927162" title="sneak.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ridiculous.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875476/large/ridiculous.jpg?1603927161" title="ridiculous.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" 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Till then here&amp;#39;s "Olbermann Vs Trump #1" laying out HOW Trump is a terrorist. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;15 minute version: &lt;a href="https://t.co/0QyxdKMKwC"&gt;https://t.co/0QyxdKMKwC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;The fastest 2 minutes edition: &lt;a href="https://t.co/OQE6Qid3qc"&gt;pic.twitter.com/OQE6Qid3qc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1321580000743624704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 28, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>THE VIDEO MITT ROMNEY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE!<br><br>I’ve got some minor symptoms so I'm staying home until the test comes back. Till then here's "Olbermann Vs Trump #1" laying out HOW Trump is a terrorist. <br><br>15 minute version: <a href="https://t.co/0QyxdKMKwC">https://t.co/0QyxdKMKwC</a> <br>The fastest 2 minutes edition: <a href="https://t.co/OQE6Qid3qc">pic.twitter.com/OQE6Qid3qc</a></p>— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1321580000743624704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>arhpdx got my day off to a great GNR start:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/28/1986784/-Good-News-Roundup-for-October-28-2020-A-BIG-BLUE-BOUQUET-OF-THANKS" title="">Good News Roundup for October 28, 2020<span> — </span>A BIG BLUE BOUQUET OF THANKS!</a></p> <p>Now that Goodie has finished her 100 reasons, she’s not stopping:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/28/1989698/-Fixing-the-Nation-Joe-Biden-s-Presidency-in-30-Amazing-Steps" title="">Fixing the Nation —  Joe Biden’s Presidency in 30 Amazing Steps</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 speaks to us from the bottom of his heart:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/28/1990261/-A-Statement-for-the-Middle-of-the-Night" title="">A Statement for the Middle of the Night</a></p> <p>And then he climbs up and gives us more ways to GOTV:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/28/1990264/-If-You-re-Looking-for-Places-to-Help-GOTV-Take-a-Look-Here" title="">If You're Looking for Places to Help GOTV, Take a Look Here.</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1990285 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 23:39:42 +0000 They Are All Bottom Feeders, the Whole Lousy Lot of Them - Evening Shade, Tuesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/27/1990125/-They-Are-All-Bottom-Feeders-the-Whole-Lousy-Lot-of-Them-Evening-Shade-Tuesday <p>I have come to the conclusion that republicans have become bottom feeders.  No, not that kind.  Eww.  Well, ok, I guess maybe the inner circle are probably that kind.  But, what I’m referring to is  the fact that they don’t aspire to anything meaningful or substantial.  Using, “Hate that guy because he looks different,” or “Hate that gal because she’s a nasty she.” are not statements made to improve anyone’s lot in life.  They do not support either the common good or any rational individual goal.  Maintaining power through diminishment and exclusion are not governing strategies — they are suppression strategies.</p> <p>Their “government is the enemy” cannard is, like trickle down economics, a large barrel of bullshit distilled down to its core and pushed far and wide as a big fat Goebbelsian lie.  “I would be a great success if the government only got out of the way” leaves out the rest of the sentence — “and let me pollute the planet, ripoff my employees, cheat on my taxes and rob my customers.”  Nadir predators do not belong in government office; yet brutal nadir predators<sup>*</sup> are the only candidates put forth by today’s republican party.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="GOP style diversity- All deplorables welcome - anti woman, anti child, anti middle class, anti people of color, pro predator, pro pedophile party." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/875040/large/gopdiversity.jpg?1603834256" title="GOP style diversity- All deplorables welcome - anti woman, anti child, anti middle class, anti people of color, pro predator, pro pedophile party."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>While Donnie “The Spreader” tRump has continued to serve as a nexus for all the shame that rains down on the republican party, he is a product of all the deception practiced by the republican party.  He is, simply, the worst they have to offer.  He is the culmination of years spent assiduously dumbing down their base into a red-hatted consortium of knee-jerk nutjobs.  Standing on rabid single-issue voters, brainwashed into slavering and slobbering over the incompatible ideas of guns and fetuses, are the foundation from whence they launch their predations.</p> <p>They come in a few flavors:</p> <p><strong>The Sexual predators</strong> — Moore, Meadows, Bowen, Jackson, Caputo, Henry, Guilfoyle, tRump, et al.</p> <p><strong>The Racial predators</strong> — Miller, Kushner, Sessions, Gorka, Neilsen, tRump, et al.</p> <p><strong>The Fiscal predators</strong> — pretty much all of them, especially tRump.</p> <p><strong>The Religious predators</strong> — Graham, Falwell, DeVos, Mercer, Pence, Barr, White, Reed, et al.</p> <p>One thing is clear.  It’s keister kicking time and the keisters to kick all carry prominent (R)s in their CVs.  Notice, by the way, that claims of being the “Chose One” aside, the only group tRump doesn’t actually belong to are the religious predators, because no sane person on the planet buys the lie that he’s even a tiny bit religious.</p> <p><sup>*</sup> Brutal nadir predator — a brutal nadir is <span><span>an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything.  This phrase is used to contrast the typical republican predator with the apex predator.</span></span></p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 67.8 million people have already voted (143% of the 2016 early vote & 49% of the total vote in 2016). 7.8 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today.  44 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016.  21 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=PzJlQKxhC4g" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PzJlQKxhC4g" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned 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BRING 'EM HOME!</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1990125 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:34:12 +0000 Some Short Takes - Evening Shade, Monday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/26/1989767/-Some-Short-Takes-Evening-Shade-Monday <p>The tRumpian cohort are finally working on infrastructure.  They are all producing bricks with great abandon.  Of course, being republicans, they are doing a really shitty job of it.</p> <p>The wild hair up tRump’s ass has taken control.  Things are getting awfully hairy in tRumpland.</p> <p>Mr. Super Business Failure is using his Mr. Superspreader notoriety to cement his reputation as Mr. Political Failure.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="I can make America as great as my businesses." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/874679/large/failures1.jpg?1603750529" title="I can make America as great as my businesses."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>A  mind is a terrible thing to waste.  A closed mind is fertilizer for terrible things.</p> <p>Letting Donald tRump run the country is lot like letting a litter box make dinner.</p> <p>If you crossed a giant asshat, a leaky douchebag and a Nazi, you’d get Donald tRump’s smarter, more compassionate, more coherent brother.</p> <p>Republican philosophy is fully realized in the maxim:  The more we get, the less we care — and we want it all.</p> <p>We used to have a presidency — now we have a malignancy.</p> <p>Donald tRump is a true constipational scholar.</p> <p>Donald tRump never met an idea — that’s it, he never met one, not ever.</p> <p>Susan Collins is very concerned she might not get reelected.  This is because most of us agree she’s a disingenuous liar of the first order and hope she’s booted to the curb in recognition of all the principals she’s betrayed.</p> <p>I wonder if there is a clinical reason that vocal trump supporters are so glaringly stupid.  Look at their smirking, supercilious expressions of smug satisfaction when they spring a supposed gotcha moment that took weeks of convoluted illogic to construct, only to have it blow up in seconds when the 268 obvious inconsistencies are pointed out and they revert back to their normal blank glassy stares and repeat whatever they just said in hopes it will be less ludicrous the second time around.</p> <p>How many crimes would a tRump crook do if a tRump crook could be charged according to DOJ guidelines and an end to obstruction?</p> <p>Donald tRump is like a goldfish  with ADHD.  He’s got a poor memory, inability to learn, no patience and a non-existent attention span.  That’s on top of the malignant narcissism, persecution complex and slack-jawed stupidity.</p> <p>If it walks like a tRump, talks like a tRump, lies like a tRump, smells like a tRump — it’s TREASON<sup>*</sup>.</p> <p>* That’s litte ‘t’ treason, not big ‘T’ hot war treason as defined in the constitution.  So if you really need to let your pedant flag fly, you can explain how a corrupt quid pro quo is bribery and withholding aid to force a corrupt quid pro quo is extortion.</p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 61.4 million people have already voted (130% of the 2016 early vote). 7.4 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today or any votes at all from Pennsylvania or Connecticut.  34 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016.  16 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=88dnAXU0HT4" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/88dnAXU0HT4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Although COVID spreads mostly through the mouth & nose, scientists now conclude the greatest risk comes from assholes." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/874694/large/AssholesMark1024.jpg?1603754090" title="Although COVID spreads mostly through the mouth & nose, scientists now conclude the greatest risk comes from assholes."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Do what you feel in your heart to be right - 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get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>Jessiestaf started another week for us:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/26/1989607/-Monday-Good-News-Roundup-One-week-to-go-DO-NOT-PANIC" title="">Monday Good News Roundup: One week to go, DO NOT PANIC!</a></p> <p>99 reasons for lovin’ Joe on the wall.  Take one down and Goodie gives us them all:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/26/1988651/-Joe-Biden-is-respected-around-the-world-Day-99-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Joe Biden is respected around the world: Day 99 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 has been traveling.  First he went to Texas:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1989127/-Texas-is-TIED-And-There-s-a-BIG-Senate-Race-Get-Out-the-Vote-and-BRING-IT-HOME" title="">Texas is TIED! And There's a BIG Senate Race. Get Out the Vote and BRING IT HOME!</a></p> <p>Then it was off to Arizona:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/26/1989623/-Arizona-is-CLOSE-And-There-s-a-BIG-Senate-Race-GET-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Arizona is CLOSE. And There's a BIG Senate Race. GET OUT THE VOTE!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1989767 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:30:05 +0000 Inside the Meltdown - Evening Shade, Sunday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/25/1989447/-Inside-the-Meltdown-Evening-Shade-Sunday <p>The control rods have been removed.  The reactor is overheating.  tRump is melting down.  He’s radiating increasingly dangerous levels of toxicity.  There is a distinct possibility that he will reach critical mass soon and explode into a mushroom cloud of even more ridiculous conspiracy theories.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="meltdown.gif" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/874348/large/meltdown.gif?1603661653" title="meltdown.gif"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>The investigative staff at the Societal Oversight Division for Overseeing Failures and Frauds™, have managed to infiltrate an agent into the tRump brainless trust.  Not at all surprisingly, all it took was a red hat and our agent making sure to breath through their mouth.</p> <p>Donald’s Outlandish, Underhanded, Cockamamie, Ham-fisted Effort at Becoming America’s Godking is leaking badly.  Lot’s of rats, cockroaches and opportunistic thieves have already abandoned ship.  The remaining crew has been reduced to people to stupid to even try to get away from the steamroller.  They are more than desperate — they are clutching at splintered straws.</p> <p>Due to the collapse of the Hunter Biden attack smears with the disintegration of Rude Rudy, the Antique Masturbater, all of the other prominent spokesweasels will be introducing new absurd conspiracy theories throughout the week.  Our agent has been able to give us some advance warning of what to expect.</p> <p><strong>Sean Hannity</strong> will tell us that Joe Biden paid Osama bin Laden to attack the World Trade Center so that Donald tRump’s building would temporarily become the tallest building in New York and make tRump look bad when he mentioned this in the immediate aftermath of the attack.</p> <p><strong>Tucker Carlson</strong> is going to use his column at Daily Storm Trooper to complain that we’ve never seen Joe Biden’s birth certificate and that he’s probably from Iran, or maybe Kenya.</p> <p><strong>Laura Ingraham</strong> can’t quite get with the program.  She is telling her audience that LeBron James is too dumb to appreciate the greatness of Donald tRump and that’s why he’s supporting Joe Biden.</p> <p><strong>Steve Doocy</strong> is making the accusation that Joe Biden has been egging his house every night during hell week.</p> <p><strong>Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt</strong> were too busy sexually abusing each other to manage to do anything but nod and smile during their program.</p> <p><strong>Jeanine Pirro</strong> is claiming that Joe Biden is the person who got her hooked on wine boxes.</p> <p><strong>Lou Dobbs</strong> says he has evidence that Hunter Biden is Don Jr’s cocaine dealer.</p> <p><strong>Stephen Miller</strong> will accuse Joe Biden of being a Hispanic black Jewish Muslim woman and tell everybody that he doesn’t matter.</p> <p><strong>Rudy Giuliani</strong> will try to make the case that it was Joe Biden, wearing a Rudy Giuliani suit, who was filmed while trying to seduce Maria Bakalova.</p> <p><strong>KKKayleigh McNinny</strong> will gibber incomprehensibly, just like always.  The words “Hunter,” “Joe,” and “Biden” will be distinguishable somewhere in the word salad.</p> <p><strong>Mark Meadows</strong> is trying to convince us that tRump went easy on Biden during the debates because he didn’t want to embarrass the old guy.</p> <p><strong>tRump</strong>, not wanting to be outdone, is going to claim that Joe Biden used his China connections to help design the coronavirus and then was personally responsible for bringing it to the US, just so he could make Donald look bad.</p> <p><strong>Voting Update</strong>:  At least 58.6 million people have already voted (124% of the 2016 early vote). 7.2 million people have already voted in Texas.  The numbers don’t include any votes that were cast today or any votes at all from Pennsylvania, New York, or Connecticut.  30 states have surpassed their early vote total from 2016.  11 states have already surpassed half of their total vote from 2016.</p> <p><strong>Breaking News</strong>:  tRump has finally set up a website to showcase<a href="https://trumpcovidplan.com/" target="_blank" title=""> his plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.</a></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Rq71tm81nLw" title="" 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data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p><strong>Keith Olbermann:  The Worst Person in the World</strong></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>2thanks is the Sunday GNR sal(o)on keeper:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1989355/-Biden-Abides-Trump-Crumps-Part-2-BiPM-s-WhoWonTheWeek-Poll-Sunday-Good-News" title="">Biden Abides, Trump Crumps, Part 2 ☼ BiPM's WhoWonTheWeek? ☼ Poll ☼ Sunday Good News</a></p> <p>I’ve run out of (temporarily, I hope) snappy ways to introduce Goodie’s Lovin’ Joe diaries:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1986999/-Biden-has-done-this-before-Day-98-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden has done this before: Day 98 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Mokurai is back with another episode of his ongoing series:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1989328/-Grokking-Trumpists-Pogo-s-Jack-Acid-vs-John-Birch-Tea-Parties-and-Qanon" title="">Grokking Trumpists: Pogo's Jack Acid vs. John Birch, Tea Parties, and Qanon</a></p> <p>oldhippiedude fought gremlins and illness to bring us his weekly feature:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1987645/-Tweets-Of-The-Week-Oct-18-24-2020" title="">Tweets Of The Week Oct <span>18-24</span> 2020</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 wandered off to Georgia today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1989380/-Georgia-is-TIED-And-There-Are-TWO-Winnable-Senate-Races-LET-S-GO-GET-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Georgia is TIED! And There Are TWO Winnable Senate Races! LET'S GO! GET OUT THE VOTE!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1989447 Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:30:29 +0000 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a Review - Evening Shade, Saturday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/24/1989286/-Borat-Subsequent-Moviefilm-a-Review-Evening-Shade-Saturday <p>The Rudy Giuliani “hands in his pants” stills got me.  I broke down and watched <em>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</em> last night.  Having invested the effort to watch the movie, I thought I’d go ahead and share my impressions.  Being a responsible reviewer, I will only include minor spoilers associated with Giuliani’s appearance, since that’s what I’m sure most anyone who reads this will want to have clarified.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="RudysHandintheCookieJar.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/872215/large/RudysHandintheCookieJar.png?1603314848" title="RudysHandintheCookieJar.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Sacha Baron Cohen’s work is not for everyone.  His satire doesn’t use a broad brush — it uses a sledgehammer and blasting caps.  I don’t think the concept of subtle exists in Cohen’s Borat universe.  The movie is rude, crude and socially unacceptable.  It’s also very funny.  Some scenes are excruciatingly painful to watch because of the merciless way in which Cohen skewers his victims.  Others are pure slapstick hijinks, albeit R-rated.  Many of the scenes use the kind of biting sarcasm that almost certainly leaves deep scars.</p> <p>The film stars Cohen as Kazakh reporter, Borat Margaret Sagdiyev and Maria Bakalova as his daughter, Tutar Sagdiyev.  It begins with Borat being released from prison where he had been languishing for being the cause of the great embarrassment suffered by the nation of Kazakhstan due to the release of <em>Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.  </em>We quickly find out Borat has been chosen to deliver a present to Mike Pence in order to redeem Kazakhstan in the eyes of America.  The rest of the setup appears in an earlier title of the film (which appears as a title slide early on), <em>Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan.</em></p> <p>Look for the appearances by Pastor Jonathan Bright, the Hillsborough Republican Women’s Club, Mike Pence, the attendees at a gun rally in Olympia, Washington and, of course, Rudolph Giuliani.</p> <p>So what about Rudy?</p> <p>Giuliani's "How can he be such a fucking idiot?" quotient went right through the root and on up into the stratosphere.  The Tutar character managed to secure an interview with Giuliani during which Rudy simpers and flirts like a really creepy old man, with a heavy emphasis on creepy.  He also spouts a bat shit crazy conspiracy theory about China manufacturing and releasing the virus on purpose.  Watching Rudy behave like a horny teenager on the make was one of those painfully excruciating scenes I mentioned.  After the interview, Tutar invites Rudy into the bedroom and helps him remove his microphone, after which Rudy leans back and plays around with his shirt and clearly sticks his hand down into his pants for a beat or two longer than he needed to if he was just fixing his shirt tails.  At that moment Borat bursts in to defend Tutar from Rudy’s attentions and Rudy scurries away into the night.  In my opinion, Giuliani, in addition to being an bloody idiot, bad liar, Russian tool and drunken fool, is also a really, really sleazy piece of shit.</p> <p>Hopefully, we’ll get to see scenes that were cut from the movie that include appearances by Donald tRump, Donald tRump Jr and Sid Miller (R—Texas Agriculture Commissioner).</p> <p><strong>Election Update</strong>:  At least 56 million people have already voted.  That’s 119% of the total early vote for 2016.  6.9 million people have already voted in Texas.  The total vote in Texas in 2016 was 9 million votes.  We have 10 days to go and these numbers don’t include votes cast today.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=cB6sFz7zvms" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cB6sFz7zvms" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Three dictators that gassed their own people and hid in a bunker. -- Hitler, Hussein, tRump" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/873955/large/DictatorsMark1024.jpg?1603580331" title="Three dictators that gassed their own people and hid in a bunker. -- Hitler, Hussein, tRump"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Obama: tRump" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/873954/large/ReversingMark1024.jpg?1603579952"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt=""Who does the president owe $421,000,000 to? 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My father-in-law thinks my wife is not."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day (Juice Media has a new ad, Oh My!)</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=gigFXCjoSYg" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gigFXCjoSYg" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=JVPj7DlQAys" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JVPj7DlQAys" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 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data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SqlYNWTT-4Y" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>Goodie did another great job making the case for Joe Biden in today’s GNR:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/24/1988946/-Twelve-Areas-in-Which-Biden-Accomplished-Great-Things-During-His-Long-Career-Saturday-s-GNR" title="">Twelve Areas in Which Biden Accomplished Great Things During His Long Career: Saturday's GNR</a></p> <p>And if that wasn’t enough, Goodie gave us another reason for loving Joe: <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/24/1987369/-Biden-s-plan-for-free-public-college-would-pay-for-itself-Day-97-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden's plan for free public college would pay for itself: Day 97 of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Youffraita gave us something besides pie to fill our gullets:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/24/1989174/-Arepas-for-breakfast" title="">Arepas for breakfast?</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 heads to another swing state:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/24/1989158/-North-Carolina-Biden-Leads-But-It-s-CLOSE-And-There-s-a-BIG-Senate-Race-GET-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">North Carolina: Biden Leads, But It's CLOSE. And There's a BIG Senate Race. GET OUT THE VOTE!</a></p> <p>Janesaunt is sitting in for WYgalinCali over at the jukebox tonight:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/24/1987855/-Another-Saturday-Night-guest-DJ-edition-let-s-do-some-happy-songs" title="">Another Saturday Night<span> - guest</span> DJ edition; let's do some happy songs!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1989286 Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:30:09 +0000 Murdoch Throws in the Towel - Evening Shade, Friday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/23/1989034/-Murdoch-Throws-in-the-Towel-Evening-Shade-Friday <p><strong>Dateline:  New York, New York, October 23rd, 2020</strong></p> <p>Sourced from information obtained from the tapp placed inside Rupert Murdoch’s microwave.</p> <figure class="image-captioned width-md"><img alt="Fox New$ - News so fake it" class="width-md" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/873035/large/foxnews1.jpg?1603487768"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>In an attempt to salvage his and his network’s reputation, Rupert Murdoch has involved himself in a new project that will attempt to rewrite history and portray Faux as a leader in the anti-tRump resistance movement.  Having seen the writing on the wall, Murdoch is planning to shamelessly uphold and applaud Faux and the remains of the republican party for their mythical Herculean efforts to remove tRump from office (and incidentally monetize tRump’s many failures, setting up Murdoch to make a tidy profit).</p> <p>Murdoch is well aware that Faux has become a laughingstock, lacking in credibility among any except the already addicted mush-brained right wing cult members.  That demographic is shrinking because of tRump’s criminal handling of the pandemic.  Not just because of all the watchers who have died from taking Covid too lightly, but also because some of their watchers, with half a brain, can begin to see just how badly Faux has misled them over the years.  </p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="Fox News - We were fake news before it was cool - Middle Age Riot 2017" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/873037/large/foxnews.png?1603487772" title="Fox News - We were fake news before it was cool - Middle Age Riot 2017"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>Murdoch has committed significant resources to his, probably futile, attempt to leave a legacy by lying about his culpability.  The new series has been tentatively titled, <em>We Aren’t Sinclair, Believe Us</em>. Each episode of the upcoming docudramedy will take a deep dive into one of tRump’s many failures:  as a politician, businessman, father, husband and human being.  Based upon an accounting of tRump’s full history of depraved actions, the current estimate is that there is enough content to produce two episodes a week until sometime long after hell freezes over.</p> <p>It will be narrated by that guy who does all those scary voiceovers about how our cities are on fire and only super-patriotic groups like the American Bund and the republican Party can save us from utter destruction and stop the rot.  It will feature a <em>Who’s Who</em> of republican operatives and office holders desperate to rehabilitate their images by showing off their anti-tRump, anti-corruption credentials during the post tRump era.  Kevin McCarthy, Gym Jordan, Doug Collins, Joni Ernst, Susan Collins and Kelly Loeffler have already signed up to appear.  Inquiries about participation have been made by all currently serving republican politicians, except Louie Gohmert who just wants to know what Rudy Giuliani was doing with his hand in that Sascha Baron Cohen video.</p> <p>The episodes will be themed around all the different ways tRump has flopped, crashed, face-planted, burned, exploded and thoroughly embarrassed himself.</p> <p>The premiere episode, working title: <em>Sweating Flop</em>, will cover the Superspreader event in the Rose Garden where tRump more virus, infecting more people than have been infected In New Zealand all year.  Sean Hannity will claim he tried to talk tRump out of it and that he [Hannity] had asked everyone to please wear masks.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube 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push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>chloris creator led the GNR choir today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/23/1987937/-Good-News-Roundup-for-Friday-October-23-2020-Time-for-Demo-Cats-to-Charge" title="">Good News Roundup for Friday, October 23, 2020: Time for <span>Demo-Cats</span> to Charge!</a></p> <p>Goodie getting to the end of the list and the reasons are still great:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/23/1986991/-Joe-Biden-is-an-Optimist-Day-96-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Joe Biden is an Optimist: Day 96 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 has us concentrating on Iowa today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/23/1988855/-Iowa-is-TIED-And-It-Has-a-Big-WINNABLE-Senate-Race-GET-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Iowa is TIED! And It Has a Big, WINNABLE Senate Race. GET OUT THE VOTE!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1989034 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:30:11 +0000 tRump's Comeback Trail Is Likely to Be Bumpy - Evening Shade, Thursday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/22/1988715/-tRump-s-Comeback-Trail-Is-Likely-to-Be-Bumpy-Evening-Shade-Thursday <p><strong>Dateline: NNNE Network Headquarters, Somewhere Else, USA, October 22nd, 2020</strong></p> <p>reporting by NNNE Network staff and stringers.</p> <p>Donald tRump is becoming increasingly desperate.  Yesterday he made several claims that served as tiny explosive charges, destroying the preserved hinges he had been storing in his Chinese safety deposit box (along with some random stuff he was laundering).  He is now completely without hinges.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Desperate publicity stunts are coming" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/872592/large/desperate.jpg?1603403969" title="Desperate publicity stunts are coming"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Donald has finally realized he needs to grow his base outside of Nazis, white supremacists, bigots and greedy corporate thieves.  He’ll probably try to sound rational for the first few minutes during tonight’s debate — then he’ll go full tRump because he can’t help himself.  The greatest chance of him moving any voters tonight is that he’ll manage to drive a few more voters away from him.  That means he’ll get even more desperate and we can look forward to some really weird stuff aimed at gaining support.</p> <p>Donnie is looking to siphon off some Bernie Sanders supporters.  We wants all of Bernie’s people to know that his best friend in the whole world is a Commie pinko socialist just like Bernie.  He’s planning on releasing pictures of himself and his bestie Vlad hanging out with their friend Jeff and some of Jeff’s special “nieces” just to prove his point.</p> <p>His bid to attract Elizabeth Warren’s voters is to claim he is of Native American descent.  He is telling reporters that his great grandparents on his fathers side were named Shitting Bull and Crazy Arse.  His story is that they took time out of their tour of the continent to cuckold tRump’s official paternal great grandfathers, the village idiot and town drunk.  Complicating the issue, tRump says he can’t release his DNA to prove his claim because of his ongoing court case with E. Jean Carroll.</p> <p>In order to appeal to the Buttigieg demographic, tRump is planning to divorce Melania, referring to her as, “just another sorry piece of ass, now well past her prime.”  He is planning to marry longtime sickophant, Stephen Miller, in a reichtious ceremony on the steps in front of the Holocaust Museum.</p> <p>tRump is also going to tell seniors planning to vote for Biden that almost as old an in a lot crappier physical and mental condition, so he can relate to being old and infirm a lot better than Joe can.</p> <p>That leaves Donnie’s wideranging problems with women in general.  It turns out that Donnie is deathly afraid of strong women, making this the most difficult demographic group to address.  He’s been trying to claim that all the stupid, insulting, degrading and otherwise awful things he said about (and done to) women over the last 70 years are just silly jokes, harmless flirting, and run of the mill locker room talk.  The problem he faces is that, like everything else in his life, his interactions with women have all been transactional.  He’s either directly paid for services rendered or used his status to impose his will and desires on people with less power.  He has cultivated his reputation for being a dick to women since before puberty.  His advisors have made it clear that the only way he can atone for all the misery he’s caused over the years is to agree to a public castration.  As of our publication deadline, tRump had still not agreed to the procedure, although senior members of his staff have been reinforcing the idea that it’s the only way for him to win back some of the women’s vote.  People are saying, he doesn’t have much to lose.</p> <p><strong>Food for thought</strong>:  At least fifty-million people have already voted.  The partisan breakdown of the the turnout so far has skewed dramatically Democratic.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=up5vduqxSJI" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/up5vduqxSJI" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="A "Loser" is someone who supported tRump in 2016. 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href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/22/1988435/-Good-News-Round-Up-for-Thursday-Take-a-Breath-Center-Yourself" title="">Good News Round Up for Thursday:  Take a Breath.  Center Yourself.</a></p> <p>Goodie is bringing it home:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/22/1988425/-Biden-knows-how-to-provide-comfort-Day-95-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden knows how to provide comfort: Day 95 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 took the GOTV tour into Wisconsin today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/22/1988533/-Biden-Leads-by-5-in-Wisconsin-LET-S-GET-OUT-THE-VOTE-AND-BRING-WISCONSIN-HOME" title="">Biden Leads by 5 in Wisconsin. LET'S GET OUT THE VOTE AND BRING WISCONSIN HOME!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1988715 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:30:17 +0000 Beneath Contempt - Evening Shade, Wednesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/21/1988329/-Beneath-Contempt-Evening-Shade-Wednesday <p>Until the last few years we didn’t know just how spacious the area beneath contempt really is.  Thousands upon thousands of republican apparatchiks have move in and not a one of them has complained of overcrowding.  This is quite odd, as in lieu of any pretense at governance, republicans main activity is whining and complaining.  The only things they haven’t complained about are the sex being too good (because, as people are saying, they very rarely make it to adequate — let alone good) and living conditions in the hole beneath contempt they’ve dug for themselves.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="My contempt - you are beneath it" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/872226/large/contempt2.jpg?1603315589" title="My contempt - you are beneath it"> <figcaption>What republican politicians see when they look in my eyes.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>I guess that makes some sense.  The next logical place for them to move into during their descent into irrelevancy is “down in the dumps” with the rest of the rotting effluvia of our consumer society.  Trash, garbage and a mountain of discarded copies of the <em>National Review</em> have filed suit in federal court to prevent republicans from moving in and destroying the unity of the dump community.</p> <p>There really is no place for them to go.  So, most of them will continue to follow their orange albatross on their mutual road to political extinction.</p> <p>Speaking of the albatross, tRump sees himself as the hero in some grand Wagnerian production, when he’s really just some greasy schlubb in a Winerian flop.</p> <p>When tRump crossed the line that was drawn after his most recent line crossing he finally attained one of his most anticipated presidential goals.  tRump has now crossed over one-thousand lines since being sworn in.  He is no longer entitled to be sworn in, only sworn at.  In case you were wondering. this line was the one where he suggested that Adam Schiff should be put away.</p> <p>As of this writing, no Washington republicans had denounced tRump’s newest call for violence on a political opponent.  Besides being beneath contempt, their behavior is unconscionable.  It is time for them to evicted from political conversations and removed from the national stage.</p> <p><strong>Late News</strong>:  Rudy Giuliani, fountain of obviously false accusations of pedophilia against Hunter Biden, was captured on film, with his hand in his pants grabbing at his tiny tRump stick, attempting to have sex with someone whom he thought was a fifteen year old girl.  Now we know why Rudy talks about pedophilia so much.  He’s projecting just like his boss.  He just jumped into that place beneath the contempt of people who are already beneath contempt.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=YjvlYlGZ9Xw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YjvlYlGZ9Xw" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="At tonight" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/872230/large/IDontKnowMark1017.png?1603315856"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="When Donald tRump is finally gone and republicans act like they knew he was a liar and a traitor and a criminal all along, each and every one of them should be sat down in front of a congressional committee and asked, "Why didn" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/872231/large/SaySomethingMark1018.jpg?1603315856"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Election Biden Harris 2020 - Make it hurt in November. Make it painful. Leave no doubt that Donald tRump and his tenure have been resoundingly rejected by the American people. His defeat needs to be overwhelming and seared in the public memory for all time - Vote Blue" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/872229/large/MakeItHurtMark1018.jpg?1603315853" title="Election Biden Harris 2020 - Make it hurt in November. Make it painful. Leave no doubt that Donald tRump and his tenure have been resoundingly rejected by the American people. His defeat needs to be overwhelming and seared in the public memory for all time - Vote Blue"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="We never had to worry about a corrupted election, until we had a corrupt president." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/872234/large/CorruptMark1014.jpg?1603316345" title="We never had to worry about a corrupted election, until we had a corrupt president."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=bCwrcQ6fN0E" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bCwrcQ6fN0E" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div 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work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>karij created another excellent GNR today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/21/1988156/-Can-you-see-it-Can-you-see-the-blue-wave-Wednesday-Good-News-Roundup" title="">Can you see it? Can you see the blue wave? Wednesday Good News Roundup</a></p> <p>Goodie is really good at sharing reasons:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/21/1985619/-Joe-Biden-is-an-amazing-friend-Day-94-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Joe Biden is an amazing friend: Day 94 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 has given us a timely <span>exposé</span> of tRump and China including the late breaking news of tRump’s Chinese bank account:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/21/1988233/-Trump-and-China-Another-Chapter-of-Trump-Corruption" title="">Trump and China: Another Chapter of Trump Corruption</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 also moved on the contest in Michigan:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/21/1988186/-Michigan-538-Biden-51-Trump-43-BRING-IT-HOME-BY-GETTING-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Michigan (538): Biden 51, Trump 43. BRING IT HOME BY GETTING OUT THE VOTE</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1988329 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 23:30:12 +0000 The Podpublican Big Tent - Evening Shade, Tuesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/20/1988105/-The-Podpublican-Big-Tent-Evening-Shade-Tuesday <p>The republicans want us know they have a Big Tent too.  Or, maybe they don’t want us to know.  You can never be sure with the pod people.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Pod people" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871865/large/pod-people.jpg?1603226742" title="Pod people"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>They’ve been talking about their Big Tent strategy for several years now.  We’ve noticed how they’ve attracted racists, homophobes, xenophobes, misogynists, gun fetishists and religious cultists.  We’re just about certain those aren’t the only tent dwellers they are talking about.</p> <p>After an hour long in depth investigation by the NNNE Fascism Wreckers™ we have determined that their Big Tent is more of a Big Tenement.  They want to force out the current residents, turn it into a collection of shoddy condos and use it to launder Russian mob money and the spare change from Putin’s couch cushions.</p> <p>We have learned just exactly who have major stakes in the Podpublican Big Tent.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="GOP" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871867/large/gops-big-tent.jpg?1603226916"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <ul> <li>Big <strong>H</strong>ealthcare — These are the bean counting healthcare folks who put profit above quality of care.</li> <li>Big <strong>E</strong>nergy — This group is all about extracting every dollar they can, regardless of any effect their practices have on he climate.  Big Coal was a big player in this space, but now it the Freakin’ Frackers.</li> <li>Big <strong>M</strong>oney — “Profit is our god and we shall not sacrifice any of it” is the motto here.  Banks, stockbrokers, arbitragers, money managers and the like worship at the altar of profit over everything.</li> <li>Big <strong>O</strong>il — Closely allied with Big Energy, but large enough to destroy the environment by themselves, their greasy tentacles reach from OPEC right into the halls of congress.  They chose profit over staving off planetary destruction.</li> <li>Big <strong>R</strong>eligion — A bit of an outlier in the tent, these folks worship profit over God and are willing to pervert the belief system they espouse in order to gather as much filthy lucre as they can steal or coerce from their flocks of eager <s>suckers</s> believers.</li> <li>Big <strong>R</strong>eal Estate — Profit over safety is the catchphrase here.  Cut the corners.  Eliminate oversight.  Cheat on taxes.  They demonstrate a lot of what is wrong in the world today.</li> <li>Big <strong>H</strong>ate — For profit hate.  Who’d thunk it?  Limbaugh, Hannity, Carlson, et al have become quite wealthy pushing hatred of everyone who isn’t just like them.  They’ve given cove to all the Boi militias and other nutjob cosplay hate clubs.  This jerks do damage to society on a daily basis.</li> <li>Big <strong>O</strong>piods — Part of the pharmaceutical industry wants people to become addicted to their products.  They don’t care about the outcomes as long as the dollars roll in.  After all, there are always more victims to addict.  They put their profit over the health of our communities.</li> <li>Big <strong>I</strong>nsurance — These leeches want us to pay for care they they will only grudgingly allow.  Their profit over appropriate care is the reason we rank so low in the global health rankings.</li> <li>Big <strong>D</strong>eath — We have card carrying nihilists like the Teabaggers and End Times cultists like Pompeo and Barr all over our government.  It’s not clear what they seek to gain except chaos and destruction.</li> <li>Big <strong>S</strong>upremacists —  We’ve mentioned them before. They are the foot soldiers of the Big Tent owners.  They are the dwellers in the 8chan forums; the readers of Breitbart and Daily Caller.  They are Amon Bundy’s army.  They are all the bois dressed in camo and waving assault weapons.  They are racists and, yes, Nazis parading around with their Tiki torches.  They are a blight on the planet.  And the asshole in the White House loves them.</li> </ul> <p>As you can see the republicans have worked hard to fill their Big Tent with a consortium of bigness.  Over the last 60 years it has become infused into their DNA.  If it is short-sighted, ill-advised or downright stupid, they they are all for it.  Their Big Tent is bigly messed up.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=4JwDP2AHrbM" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4JwDP2AHrbM" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="I can only bow my head in shame at what tRump and the republican party have done to our nation" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871875/large/BowMyHeadMark1014.jpg?1603228782" title="I can only bow my head in shame at what tRump and the republican party have done to our nation"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Helping the enemy used to be called treason. 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class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=H6r22S0421Y" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H6r22S0421Y" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Keith Olbermann:  The Worst Person in the World</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Lw8kgXOWcXA" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Lw8kgXOWcXA" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>Tonight in addition to the included nacronym, we created a new form.  Introducing the doubly layered nacroacronym (eg. Failing Usurpers Begin A Retreat).</p> <p>Today’s GNR was slapped together at the last minute by serial procrastinator, NotNowNotEver.  Read it to assuage his fragile ego (and maybe catch some good news):  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/20/1987866/-The-Countdown-Continues-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-October-20th-2020" title="">The Countdown Continues<span> - Good</span> News Roundup, Bluesday, October 20th, 2020</a></p> <p>Goodie marches on.  She’s very energetic:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/20/1966188/-Biden-will-create-jobs-in-clean-energy-Day-93-out-of-100-Days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden will create jobs in clean energy: Day 93 out of 100 Days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 is dialed in on Ohio today.  It doable, so let’s do it:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/20/1987951/-RECORD-EARLY-VOTING-IN-OHIO-Trump-and-Biden-Are-TIED-There-Let-s-Get-Out-the-Vote-and-GRAB-IT" title="">RECORD EARLY VOTING IN OHIO. Trump and Biden Are TIED There. Let's Get Out the Vote and GRAB IT!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1988105 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:30:16 +0000 The Countdown Continues - Good News Roundup, Bluesday, October 20th, 2020 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/20/1987866/-The-Countdown-Continues-Good-News-Roundup-Bluesday-October-20th-2020 <p>Two week to go.  Fourteen days.</p> <p>Thirty million votes already cast.  Twenty percent of the predicted total have already voted.</p> <p>We are seeing polling gaps widen.  Almost all polling is well outside the margin of error.  This is not the ghost of 2016.</p> <p>The window for republicans to alter the outcome of this election is closing rapidly.  it is very nearly closed already.</p> <p>Efforts to smear Joe Biden with manufactured and obviously dubious dirt are gaining no traction.</p> <p>tRump continues to unravel into a puddle of rancid fear sweat.</p> <p>I’m not gonna stick my fork in it yet, but I’ve got it out of the drawer and I’ve been sharpening the tines, so it’ll sink right in when the time comes.</p> <p>Parts of the media are still trying to sell a horse race.  Faux Noise is still the official propaganda arm of the republican party.</p> <p>This is not the time to get complacent.  This is the time to redouble our effort.  Let’s work to help all those “It’s too much trouble” voters get out and turn this into a rout for the ages.  Check to make sure your tRump despising friends and neighbors all have a plan to vote.  Let’s remind them and do everything we can to make sure they go to the polls.</p> <p>If you are ok with the state of the race for president, there are some Senate races to jump on.</p> <p>The deeper we bury tRump and the tRumpism, the easier we make it for Joe Biden to govern.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Tyrannis sedito. Sic semper tyrannis.</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Up the Resistance</strong></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter"><strong>GOTMFV</strong></h3> <p>How about a little scathing derision to warm you up?</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=we-LBylpYII" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/we-LBylpYII" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=XcxRs_9IZBs" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XcxRs_9IZBs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And it’s on to the news,</p> <p><strong>A Refresher Course</strong></p> <p>As the countdown to dumping the Drumpf moves into its final fortnight, the fine folks over at Mother Jones put together a nice review of all the unanswered questions tRump is staring at.  I think tRump’s plan is to let the questions outlive him.</p> <p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/a-long-list-of-shady-financial-mysteries-trump-still-refuses-to-explain/" target="_blank" title="">Mother Jones:  <em>David Corn & Russ Choma:  A Long List of Shady Financial Mysteries Trump Still Refuses to Explain</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>It seems that Donald Trump’s closing message for his reelection campaign during a time of pandemic and economic crisis is this: Hunter Biden. In recent days, he has jumped on a misleading <em>New York Post</em> story about the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son—an allegation promoted by Rudy Giuliani and <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/giuliani-and-the-new-york-post-are-pushing-russian-disinformation-its-a-big-test-for-the-media/">linked to a Russian disinformation</a> operation—and <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/trump-biden-family-treated-the-vice-presidency-as-a-for-profit-corporation/" title="">slammed</a> the Bidens as a “corrupt family,” claiming “Joe Biden personifies the selfish and corrupt globalists.” At campaign rallies, he has led largely mask-free crowds in chants of “lock him up,” referring to Biden. And Trump has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hunter-biden-emails-smoking-gun" title="">called on</a> Biden to release “all” records related to his family’s business dealings, including any activity involving Russia and China.</p> <p>Stone, meet glass house. For years, Trump and his family—including his three adult children, Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka—have been implicated in questionable endeavors that raise concerns regarding corruption and possible criminal conduct. Some of the sleazy antics are well known, such as <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-university-fraud-lawsuit-deposition-full-video/">Trump University</a> (which prompted lawsuits alleging fraud that Trump settled for $25 million) and the Trump family foundation (which was <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/donald-j-trump-pays-court-ordered-2-million-illegally-using-trump-foundation">shut down</a> by New York State authorities after Trump was caught making illegal use of its charitable funds). But there are many significant mysteries about the Trump family’s financial shenanigans, and Trump has refused to provide answers. He has famously and steadfastly resisted releasing his tax returns, trampling on a long-established norm for presidents and presidential candidates. Moreover, Trump has not explained many of his clan’s business actions that seem sketchy, shady, or worse. After almost four years of his presidency and two presidential campaigns, huge question marks remain. So if Trump is going to insist that Joe Biden release information about his son’s business activity, then it’s only fair that Trump do the same about his and his family’s own wheeling-and-dealing. As a public service, here’s a list—only a partial list—of questionable activities that Trump and his business-partner kids have not addressed.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Reviewing the Damage</strong></p> <p>We all know tRump is a disaster.  tRump’s enablers know he’s a disaster.  The only people still enamored of tRump are full on cult members.  Donald tRump has betrayed his oath, his country and any pretense of humanity.  Wilentz articulately lays out the case against tRump.  I use articles like this one as a great resource for debunking tRump.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-sedition-william-barr-1073455/" target="_blank" title="">Rolling Stone:  Sean Wilentz:  <em>The Sedition of Donald Trump</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Before <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a></strong> got himself infected with the <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/coronavirus/">coronavirus</a>, he had firmly secured his place as the worst president in American history. Now, after mocking Joe Biden at their first debate for mask wearing, Trump has proved to be a reckless superspreader, risking the lives of donors at a New Jersey fundraiser and the Secret Service agents sworn to protect him by demanding a bizarre motorcade photo op outside of Walter Reed hospital. One aide and associate after another of those exposed to him — and his wife — have fallen victim to the virus. Trump’s coronavirus policy, or rather the absence of it, had already been shown to have morbid consequences. Herman Cain, the former pizza king, could testify about that had he not died due to complications from the virus after attending Trump’s ill-fated Tulsa rally crammed with shouting, barefaced fanatics.</p> <p>After demanding to be released from the hospital, Trump put on a display worthy of Charlie Chaplin in <em>The Great Dictator,</em> except that it wasn’t a parody. Clearly struggling for breath, the president first told the nation that <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/covid-19/">Covid-19</a> was no big deal — “Don’t be afraid” — playing the he-man while spewing the deadly virus. The next day, Trump tweeted that there would be no further talk about a bill to stimulate the economy until after the election. The New York Stock Exchange averages immediately collapsed. But this unhinged performance is in keeping with the president’s attitude toward the contagion from the beginning, a toxic mixture of denial and presumed invulnerability.</p> <p>Since Covid hit, Trump’s refusal to call the pandemic a siren-howling public-health emergency, coupled with his know-nothing disparagement of medical science, has led directly to the soaring death count, now well over 210,000 Americans, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The escalating number of fatalities of Americans from the coronavirus outstrips the number of U.S. combat deaths in World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and every war since <em>combined.</em> However Trump fares with the virus, whether he suffers its symptoms for months or recovers, his legacy is already written in stone as one of catastrophic and lethal failure.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>tRump Trashes Fauci</strong></p> <p>Donnie just has to play the bully.  It’s in his nature.  He’s not getting any extra votes from saying crap like this.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-coronavirus/index.html" target="_blank" title="">CNN:  Trump closes his campaign by insulting Fauci for telling the truth</a></p> <blockquote> <div> <p>(CNN)<a href="http://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/president-donald-trump-45" target="_blank" title="">President Donald Trump's</a> election endgame argument, far from bristling with new solutions to a pandemic that has killed 220,000 Americans, on Monday devolved into a campaign of insults against <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/politics/anthony-fauci-deborah-birx-coronavirus-trump/index.html" target="_blank" title="">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a> -- for telling the truth about the disease.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-coronavirus/index.html" target="_blank" title="">Trump ridiculed Fauci as a "disaster" and an "idiot"</a> who has been around for "500 years" -- trashing one of the nation's best hopes of easing the pandemic along with his recommendations to quell an alarming Covid-19 surge.</div> <div></div> <div>His personal warfare against Fauci on a frenzied day on the campaign trail, while indecent and questionable from a strategic political perspective, revealed how the US government effort to beat the pandemic has been suppressed in the service of Trump's reelection.</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <p><strong>Rudy’s Plane Crashed and Burned on Impact</strong></p> <p>Mr. Noun Verb & 9/11 is changing his name to Mr. Number One Russian Stooge.  The republican October Surprise, authored by Giuliani, has turned out to be such a giant display of poorly constructed idiocy that QAnon is adding it to their deplorable conspiracy schtick.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/tfw-even-fox-news-wont-swallow-your-senile-russian-disinfo-bullsh-t" target="_blank" title="">Wonkette:  <em>TFW Even Fox News Won't Swallow Your Senile Russian Disinfo Bullsh*t</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Wonkette's Liz Dye has been <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rudy-and-the-colludy-crew-freshen-up-their-biden-smear-with-q-themed-pedophilia-allegations" target="_blank" title="">ably curating</a> the hilarious story of the Russian disinformation campaign that blew its wad a little too late, the caper of Hunter Biden and the laptop he allegedly abandoned thousands of miles from home, and ... yeah, we don't have the energy to rehash it all right now. It's a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rudy-and-the-colludy-crew-freshen-up-their-biden-smear-with-q-themed-pedophilia-allegations" target="_blank" title="">Rudy Giuliani Special,</a> which means it was debunked in record time, and now all these <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/no-collusion-no-collusion-you-are-the-laughably-obvious-collusion-with-russia-to-ratf-ck-another-election" target="_blank" title="">stories are coming out</a> about how US intelligence warned Trump LAST YEAR that Russian spies saw Roodles as the easiest mark, and ... yeah.</p> <p>Here is just a fun cherry on top of that story. The <em>New York Post</em>, of course, was the only vaguely newspaper-shaped object willing to post Rudy's bullshit, and even there, journalists in the newsroom didn't want their bylines on it. Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-fox-news-passed-on-hunter-biden-laptop-story-over-credibility-concerns/" target="_blank" title="">reports</a> that Rudy shopped it to Fox News, and even they were like <em>ummmmmmmmmmm OK no</em>. They came with their friends, they are not leaving with you, Rudy Giuliani, and no, they do not want to buy any of your Kremlin-laced Girl Scout cookies.</p> <p>”Mediaite has learned that Fox News was first approached by <strong>Rudy Giuliani</strong> to report on a tranche of files alleged to have come from <strong>Hunter Biden's</strong> unclaimed laptop left at a Delaware computer repair shop, but that the news division chose not to run the story unless or until the sourcing and veracity of the emails could be properly vetted.”</p> Yeah, when even Fox News? That's it, that's the joke. (Of course, it's lost on no one that both these entities are owned by Rupert Murdoch. It's just that one of them is clearly dumber and worse at journalism than the other, and it <em>isn't the one we were expecting</em>.</blockquote> <p><strong>We Aren’t Done with You Yet, Rudy</strong></p> <p>The president’s drunken lawyer has become such a creepy hack that his own daughter can’t take it anymore.  She supported Hillary in 2016, but has become even more vocal this cycle.  Too bad the demon spawn (Uday, Qusay and the daughter wife) are too damaged to follow Caroline’s lead.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/10/rudy-giulianis-daughter-on-voting-for-biden#intcid=_vanity-fair-right-rail_b7e95a94-6915-406b-913d-7832b29bfef9_popular4-1" target="_blank" title="">Vanity Fair:  Caroline Rose Giuliani:  <em>Rudy Giuliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>I have a difficult confession—something I usually save for at least the second date. My father is <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/rudy-giuliani-daughter-caroline-democrat" title=""><strong>Rudy Giuliani</strong></a><strong>.</strong> We are multiverses apart, politically and otherwise. I’ve spent a lifetime forging an identity in the arts separate from my last name, so publicly declaring myself as a “Giuliani” feels counterintuitive, but I’ve come to realize that none of us can afford to be silent right now. The stakes are too high. I accept that most people will start reading this piece because you saw the headline with my father’s name. But now that you’re here, I’d like to tell you how urgent I think this moment is.</p> <p>To anyone who feels overwhelmed or apathetic about this election, there is nothing I relate to more than desperation to escape corrosive political discourse. As a child, I saw firsthand the kind of cruel, selfish politics that <strong>Donald Trump</strong> has now inflicted on our country. It made me want to run as far away from them as possible. But trust me when I tell you: Running away does not solve the problem. We have to stand and fight. The only way to end this nightmare is to vote. There is hope on the horizon, but we’ll only grasp it if we elect <a title=""><strong>Joe Biden</strong></a> and <a><strong>Kamala Harris</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p>Around the age of 12, I would occasionally get into debates with my father, probably before I was emotionally equipped to handle such carnage. It was disheartening to feel how little power I had to change his mind, no matter how logical and above-my-pay-grade my arguments were. He always found a way to justify his party line, whatever it was at the time. Even though he was considered socially moderate for a Republican back in the day, we still often butted heads. When I tried to explain my belief that you don’t get to be considered benevolent on LGBTQ+ rights just because you have gay friends but don’t support gay marriage, I distinctly remember him firing back with an intensity fit for an opposing politican rather than one’s child. To be clear, I’m not sharing this anecdote to complain or criticize. I had an extremely privileged childhood and am grateful for everything I was given, including real-world lessons and complicated experiences like these. The point is to illustrate one of the many reasons I have a fraught relationship with politics, like so many of us do.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Prominent Condemnations Continue</strong></p> <p>Every person of prominence who comes out against tRump is another nail in this administration’s political coffin.  Halpern stuck it out to ensure the prosecution of Duncan Hunter was completed.  His statement on what Barr has done to the Justice Department should be included in Barr’s indictment.</p> <p><a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2020-10-14/william-barr-department-of-justice-doj" target="_blank" title="">San Diego Union Tribune:  <em>Philip Halpern Commentary: I won’t work in Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department any longer</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>After 36 years, I’m fleeing what was the U.S. Department of Justice — where I proudly served 19 different attorneys general and six different presidents. For the last three-plus decades, I have respected our leadership regardless of whether we were led by a Republican or a Democrat. I always believed the department’s past leaders were dedicated to the rule of law and the guiding principle that justice is blind. That is a bygone era, but it should not be forgotten.</p> <p>Maybe I should’ve seen this coming, but like many of my colleagues, I fervently hoped that Attorney General William Barr’s preemptive misrepresentation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was an honest mistake or a solitary misstep — rather than a deliberate attempt to conceal potential presidential misconduct.</p> <p>After all, Barr has never actually investigated, charged or tried a case. He’s a well-trained bureaucrat but has no actual experience as a prosecutor.</p> <p>Unfortunately, over the last year, Barr’s resentment toward rule-of-law prosecutors became increasingly difficult to ignore, as did his slavish obedience to Donald Trump’s will in his selective meddling with the criminal justice system in the Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Roger Stone cases. In each of these cases, Barr overruled career prosecutors in order to assist the president’s associates and/or friends, who potentially harbor incriminating information. This career bureaucrat seems determined to turn our democracy into an autocracy.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Conspiracy Theorist-in-Chief</strong></p> <p>Even though his demented conspiracy-addled base is sucking this stuff up, it’s having an adverse effect on his overall popularity.  tRump is hemorrhaging support because, to quote Lindsey Graham, “He’s a kook.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/qanon-trump-town-hall-conspiracy-theory-1076535/" target="_blank" title="">Rolling Stone:  <em>Trump Was Asked, Once Again, to Denounce QAnon. Once Again, He Refused</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Time and again, President Trump has been pressed to denounce <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/qanon/">QAnon</a>, the baseless far-right conspiracy theory positing that he is the right’s savior from a deep state ring of leftist pedophiles and child traffickers. And time and again, he has refused.</p> <p>So it shouldn’t have surprised anyone when, after Savannah Guthrie asked him to denounce QAnon during his NBC town hall Thursday night, the president explicitly refused to do so, even going so far as to claim that he knew “nothing” about the conspiracy theory.</p> <p>This is not the first time Trump, who has<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/fbi-calls-qanon-domestic-terror-threat-trump-has-amplified-qanon-supporters-twitter-more-20" target="_blank" title=""> retweeted QAnon accounts at least 258 times</a>, has been asked directly about QAnon. Back in August, he was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/14/asked-about-qanon-trump-declines-denounce-conspiracy-theory/" target="_blank">asked to denounce QAnon</a> when pressed about his support of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a GOP congressional candidate who has publicly espoused the movement. Later that month, he was asked specifically about QAnon in the White House briefing room. “I don’t know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate,” he said at the time. (QAnon followers, who hang on to the president’s every word and view them as an implicit endorsement of their movement, were absolutely elated by the shoutout.)</p> <p>During the town hall, Guthrie also asked Trump about a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/riggleman-trump-qanon/2020/10/15/f3437446-0ee5-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html" target="_blank" title="">retweet amplifying a QAnon account</a>. Trump retweeted to his 82 million followers a baseless conspiracy theory that Vice President Joe Biden orchestrated the murder of members of the SEAL Team 6 unit that killed Osama Bin Laden. “I know nothing about it,” Trump claimed of the tweet. “That was a retweet — that was an opinion of somebody. And that was a retweet. I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>He Has Once Again Proven, He Is an Idiot of the First Order</strong></p> <p>tRump took it seriously and retweeted this story.  The world is full of fools and idiots, and then there’s tRump.</p> <p><a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-shuts-down-entire-network-to-slow-spread-of-negative-biden-news" target="_blank" title="">BabylonBee:  <em>Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a last-ditch effort to stop negative stories about Joe Biden and his family from spreading, Twitter shut down its entire social network Thursday.</p> <p>After seeing account after account tweet out one particularly bad story, CEO Jack Dorsey realized he had to take action. Dorsey smashed a glass box in his office reading "Break In Case Of Bad Publicity For Democrats." Inside the case was a sledgehammer for smashing Twitter's servers.</p> <p>"Red alert -- shut the servers down! Shut them all down!"</p> </blockquote> <p>The actual tRump tweet is still up:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News &lt;a href="https://t.co/JPmjOrKPcr"&gt;https://t.co/JPmjOrKPcr&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@TheBabylonBee&lt;/a&gt; Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe &amp;amp; Big T&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1317044556328730625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 16, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News <a href="https://t.co/JPmjOrKPcr">https://t.co/JPmjOrKPcr</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheBabylonBee</a> Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe & Big T</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1317044556328730625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p><strong>My Borowitz Fix</strong></p> <p>I love me some Andy Borowitz.  I want to be just like him when I grow up.  My only problem is he steals all my ideas before I have them.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-accuses-new-zealands-prime-minister-of-competently-handling-the-coronavirus-to-get-reelected" target="_blank" title="">The New Yorker:  The Borowitz Report:  <em>Trump Accuses New Zealand’s Prime Minister of Competently Handling the Coronavirus to Get Reëlected</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>JANESVILLE, WI (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" title="">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Calling New Zealand’s Prime Minister “crooked and rigged,” Donald J. Trump accused Jacinda Ardern of competently handling the coronavirus pandemic in order to get reëlected.</p> <p>Speaking at a rally in Wisconsin, Trump called Ardern’s use of public-health measures to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on her nation “a sleazy  political move like you wouldn’t believe.”</p> <p>“This woman wanted to get reëlected, so she decided to go after the coronavirus and beat it,” he said. “This woman is a disgrace.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>The Palate Cleansing Moment — Pressley Is Looking Out for Me with All This Walking</strong></p> <p>I wonder if Pressley knew about this when she pushed me into longer and longer walks?</p> <p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/exercise-in-mornings-stave-off-cancer-says-study/" target="_blank" title="">GoodNewsNetwork:  <em>Exercise in the Morning May Stave Off Cancer, As Opposed to Later in the Day, New Study Says</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>The time of day we exercise could affect the risk of cancer, according to a new controlled study conducted with almost 3,000 Spanish people.</p> <p>Studies have shown that one potential cause of cancer is circadian disruption, the misalignment of environmental cues—such as light and when you eat—and the internal, biological circadian rhythms.</p> <p>It is established that regular physical activity throughout your lifetime can reduce cancer risk, but this protective effect could be the most beneficial when physical activity is done in the morning, according to a recent study coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), together with the Department of Epidemiology at the Medical University of Vienna.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=i9YvB9FmR3E" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i9YvB9FmR3E?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Bonus Song</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=di8Y4kMrqCU" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/di8Y4kMrqCU?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <h2>WineRev’s History Lesson</h2> <p>Our resident history professor’s always interesting history lesson will appear here as soon as I notice he has woken up and posted it in the comment section.</p> <p>Take it away WineRev</p> <p>>>>><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/19/1987843/-Rick-Wilson-Trump-s-Base-is-Slipping-Women-Tsunami-Hunter-Emails-Fail-vs-2016" target="_blank">This brief diary</a> has clips from an interview with Rick Wilson, one of the big wheels inside the Lincoln Project. You know how the national polls have been stuck at about a 8-9 point Biden lead since about like forever? At the state level there’ been more movement, which is why DT keeps visiting the slipping-away Wisconsin and the Biden folk are putting resources and visits into AZ, GA, OH, etc? One underlying chunk of that has been American women. They have favored Biden by 20 points than men have. ….But in just the past two weeks (after Debate 1 and the Covid Comes to the White House Show) the national numbers are ticking up for Biden and some of the swing states are starting to prefer sapphires over rubies. According to Rick Wilson and the LP soundings, this is because in (big like CA) state after (swing) state women are moving to favor BIden by <strong>27 points. </strong>Will it hold? T’wll tell the tale for sure, by my own feeling is yes, it will hold…..and keep growing!</p> <p>>>>>>Political scientists and their stat-crunching grad students are giddy with data these days: America is early voting/absentee voting/mail-in voting in historic numbers, giving these people lots of new numbers to crunch every day and to record for posterity. <em>(“Yes, I remember having to enter numbers every day for Professor Hamilton. We still used keyboards on our tablets back then, way before voice command algorithms, you young whippersnappers…...”). </em>The nugget is as of a day or so ago, 14 million US women had already voted, vs. 11.4 million US men. Of those 14 million women, <u>3 million (22%!) did not vote in 2016.</u> And in that same pool of 14 million, 672,000 are first time voters.  Ponder those possibilities!</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>October 20ths that in previous years have also crouched 14 days away from November 3rd, waiting like Good or Goofy frogs to leap and capture lunch flying by and burping up the background music for This October 20th</strong></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1632 </span></span></strong><span><span>   East Knoyle, England  Birth of <strong>Christopher Wren</strong>, astronomer, architect. Born into a family with royal connections and income, the Puritan Civil War starting in 1640 made for a tense childhood. Still, Wren received a good education. He showed real talent in drawing and some of his anatomical works became medical textbook standards for years. Made contributions to astronomy and studies on geomagnetic properties of the earth that could be adapted for navigation. In the early 1660s St. Paul’s Cathedral had fallen into disrepair. Wren visited Paris to view Notre Dame and met several Italian architects visiting there at the same time. The Great Fire of London of 1666 destroyed better than half the city and did St. Paul’s no good at all. Wren was hired by the crown to oversee the rebuilding, especially of churches and public buildings. The <strong>current St. Paul Cathedral was his design</strong>, finished in 1711, as were 51 other churches around London.  </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>             1864</span></span></strong><span><span>      Washington DC  After a Presidential proclamation the year before, urging the observance of the (heretofore mostly New England) holiday of <strong>Thanksgiving</strong>, this day <u>President Lincoln</u> proclaims it again, this time setting the <strong>fourth Thursday in November</strong> as the annual day.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>            1866 </span></span></strong><span><span>      Washington DC   <strong>Pierre Lallemont</strong>, a mechanic from France, legally protects an idea he has developed for the velocipede, the 2-wheeled “long stepping” contraptions young men would straddle on a center beam, steer with a pivoting front wheel, and propel by taking long steps on either side. Lallemont this day was granted a US patent for a velocipede that featured <strong>a rotary crank near the bottom, connected by an oiled chain to a rear hub, and driven by foot pedals.</strong></span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>          1874 </span></span></strong><span><span>    Danbury, CT   Birth of <strong>Charles Ives,</strong> composer. From a prominent family, his father had been a Union Army band master and taught instruments, theory and conducted various musical groups. Charles graduated from Yale, and then was a church organist for a few years. He then worked for an insurance company, and later set up his own firm for the rest of his life. Had creative financial ideas and almost single-handedly invented the field of estate-planning for ordinary people. Produced symphonies, songs, and “Three Places in New England" and dozens of ”tone poems” all between 1908 and 1927. One morning in ’27 he came downstairs with tears in his eyes and said to his wife, “I can’t compose anymore. I can’t hear any music.” Not another note that last 27 years of his life.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>         1885 </span></span></strong><span><span>     New Orleans, LA   Birth of <strong>Ferdinand Lamenthe</strong>, jazz pianist, composer and singer. Jazz and blues have tangled roots and several claimants as the key person in this genre. <u>WC Handy</u> was one such figure, rivaled only by Lamenthe. Ferdinand could play piano at an early age and had the ear and talent to use classical melodies and tunes and improvise them to acclaim in saloons, brothels and other non-concert hall settings. During World War I and into the 1920s and 1930s, the <em><u>Red Hot Peppers</u></em>, led by Lamenthe (stage name <strong>Jelly Roll Morton</strong>) invented the early jazz practice of re-orchestrating and ad-libbing on well-known standard works.   </span></span></p> <p><strong><span><span>        1944</span></span></strong><span><span>       Leyte Beach, Philippines.  2 ½ years earlier a Japanese invasion had overwhelmed American forces in the colony, and <strong>General Douglas MacArthur</strong> has been spirited away. He famously promised, “I shall return.” On this day MacArthur makes good his promise. He comes ashore to the cameras, flanked by <u>president-in-exile Sergio Osmena</u>, and <u>Philippine General Carlos Romolo,</u> who later became foreign minister after independence in 1946.  </span></span></p> <div> <p><span><strong><span><span><span><span>      1973</span></span></span></span></strong><span><span><span><span>   Sydney, Australia   In 1957, after an international architectural design competition, <strong>Jørn Utzon,</strong> a 38-year old Dane was declared the winner. After controversy, funding issues and then 11 years of construction, Australia welcomes <u>Queen Elizabeth II</u> for a state visit. On this day, she dedicates <strong>the Sydney Opera House</strong>. The striking, interlaced shell design has become the iconic signature of the Sydney skyline.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>Shalom.</span></span></span></span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> <h2>On the Lighter Side</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Maybe hiring someone with 7 bankruptcies to run the country was a bad idea" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871690/large/7BankruptionsMark1014.jpg?1603191160" title="Maybe hiring someone with 7 bankruptcies to run the country was a bad idea"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="CriminalIndictmentsMark1019.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871689/large/CriminalIndictmentsMark1019.png?1603191162" title="CriminalIndictmentsMark1019.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="ACBMark1019.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871688/large/ACBMark1019.jpg?1603191159" title="ACBMark1019.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Because in America, racists, homophobes, xenophobes and misogynists get a voice too." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871682/large/FoxNewsMark1019.jpg?1603187235" title="Because in America, racists, homophobes, xenophobes and misogynists get a voice too."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="PillowMark1018.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871681/large/PillowMark1018.jpg?1603187231" title="PillowMark1018.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="MeThePeopleMark1018.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871680/large/MeThePeopleMark1018.jpg?1603187231" title="MeThePeopleMark1018.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ltjBT_TuUVA" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ltjBT_TuUVA" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;He had to go undercover so he brought his kids to party with Epstein. Of course that’s what’s happened here. Am I right Q? &lt;a href="https://t.co/CxJ3uG5qTp"&gt;pic.twitter.com/CxJ3uG5qTp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Operation MAGA (@OperationMAGA) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OperationMAGA/status/1318416171943698433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 20, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>He had to go undercover so he brought his kids to party with Epstein. Of course that’s what’s happened here. Am I right Q? <a href="https://t.co/CxJ3uG5qTp">pic.twitter.com/CxJ3uG5qTp</a></p>— Operation MAGA (@OperationMAGA) <a href="https://twitter.com/OperationMAGA/status/1318416171943698433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message. &lt;a href="https://t.co/TuRZXPE5xK"&gt;pic.twitter.com/TuRZXPE5xK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1307491919384260609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;September 20, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message. <a href="https://t.co/TuRZXPE5xK">pic.twitter.com/TuRZXPE5xK</a></p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1307491919384260609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <h2>Quote(s) of the Day</h2> <p>Reading between the Lees</p> <blockquote> <p>With great power there must also come ... great responsibility! — Stan Lee</p> <p>Being responsible is an enormous privilege.... It's what marks anyone a fully grown human. — Barack Obama</p> <p>The Buck Stops Here. — Harry S Truman</p> <p>The price of greatness is responsibility. — Winston Churchill</p> <p>Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. — Noam Chomsky</p> <p>Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich</p> <p>There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity. — Bruce Lee</p> </blockquote> <h2>Required Pet Photo</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="100303_DogsSnow_032.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/554329/large/100303_DogsSnow_032.jpg?1529220544" title="100303_DogsSnow_032.jpg"> <figcaption>Don’t look.  tRump is on TV again.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2>Closing Notes</h2> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during this time of uncertainty.</p> </div> </div> <p>Yosef 52 has been busy.  He has been drilling down in the swing states.  Here are his latest guides to getting out the vote:</p> <p><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1986659/-Keep-Fighting-and-GET-OUT-THE-DEMOCRATIC-VOTE-Cause-It-Ain-t-Over-til-It-s-Over" title="">Keep Fighting and GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE! ('Cause It Ain't Over 'til It's Over.)</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1987459/-Florida-Polling-from-538-Biden-49-Trump-45-BRING-IT-HOME-BY-GETTING-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Florida Polling (from 538): Biden 49, Trump 45. BRING IT HOME BY GETTING OUT THE VOTE.</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/19/1987673/-Pennsylvania-Polling-from-Civiqs-Biden-52-Trump-45-BRING-IT-HOME-BY-GETTING-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Pennsylvania Polling (from Civiqs): Biden 52, Trump 45. BRING IT HOME BY GETTING OUT THE VOTE</a></p> <p>Last night the Shade took a look at tRump’s promise to leave the country if he loses:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/19/1987470/-Bye-Don-Evening-Shade-Monday" title="">Bye Don<span> - Evening</span> Shade, Monday</a></p> <div> <div> <div> <p>For those of you who think the Evening Shade is only a recurring attempt to be snarkily funny, it also a source for links to many (maybe most) of the daily deluge of political ads put out by organizations working to elect Joe Biden, as well as new anti-tRump parody songs (Randy Rainbow, Parody Project, etc) and the daily diatribe from Keith Olbermann.  It’s also an evening place for Gnusies to gather and continue the day’s conversations.</p> <p>Someone asked me why I close out these roundups with music from the Grateful Dead.  I’ll  let Jerry answer for me:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Whatever it is, it invented us, we didn’t invent it. The audience thinks we’re providing more than music, but we don’t let on what we’re providing, intentionally. We’re elliptical. Someone once wrote that we’re a real cheap vacation to Bermuda, which is kind of right. But insofar as we’re providing a safe context to be together with a lot of people who aren’t afraid of each other, which is real valuable in New York, I’d guess, we’re important.” — Jerry Garcia, September 1991</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=45jf-DHtZqA" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/45jf-DHtZqA" data-width="1041" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em>Disclaimer:  It ain’t over til it’s over.</em></p> </div> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) ChristineRoseGiuliani DonaldTrump GoodNews Goodnewsroundup PhilipHalpern Politics QAnon Recommended Roundup RudyGiuliani _1987866 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:01:04 +0000 Bye Don - Evening Shade, Monday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/19/1987470/-Bye-Don-Evening-Shade-Monday <p>Donnie recently threatened to leave the country if he loses.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRump may leave the country if he loses the election. If you can take your cult with you that would be great." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871514/large/takethemwithyou.jpg?1603142590" title="tRump may leave the country if he loses the election. If you can take your cult with you that would be great."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>That tremendous roar you heard last Friday, when he first offered to leave the country, was the combined sound of the entire congregation of sane(ish) voters in the country, screaming loudly enough to cause minor earthquakes, “DO IN NOW, YOU WORTHLESS #&%$@&!^%.”</p> <p>Thus offer presents a new problem for tRump (aside from his existing problem of never keeping promises in the first place).  No one is willing to take him.  If you think tRump’s polling numbers suck in the United States, take a look at his numbers overseas (and over borders).</p> <p>Advanced nations have seen what he’s done to us and want no part of it.  Additionally, they have no interest in being at the epicenter for whatever cosmic revenge karma might have in store for Liddle Donnie.</p> <p>Less advanced nations stated that they have no time for coddling a pompous orange gasbag and have categorically refused him entrance, just like he has refused entrance, into the US, for their citizens.</p> <p>The least advanced nations have noted that tRump’s presence would turn them into “shithole” countries, just like he’s done to the United States.  Further, the money needed to isolate tRump from the more vulnerable members of their population would be better spent on growing food or buying spinners to distract their populations from chronic privations.</p> <p>Putin can’t take him as that would be a direct admission of Vlad’s collusion in the 2016 elections.  The puppet master must disown the puppet or face even greater repercussions when Joe Biden takes office.  tRumpinocchio is going to be very hard pressed to lie himself back into Putin’s good graces now that their little plot to take over the world has exploded in their faces.</p> <p>Even Donnie’s other ruthless dictator buddies won’t take him unless they can publicly display him as their very own personal dunk tank prisoner, helping to prop up their dubious claims to power.  While Donnie is expert at bringing public ridicule upon himself, he won’t accept giving someone else the power to do so.</p> <p>The citizens of Donner Island were open to the idea until they got a close look at Donnie and rejected him as being far too fat for their refined palates.</p> <p>Even the most commonly suggested site for tRump’s relocation isn’t having it.  The owners of Hell’s Half Acre have no intention of allowing tRump entry and have promised to honor any and all extradition requests should he manage to push his way in.</p> <p>That means tRump’s only real choice will be between accepting State or Federal incarceration.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>:  Paula White is considering granting tRump sanctuary in the basement of her church if he’s willing to look after the other snakes.  The ring of pedophile human traffickers currently occupying the space are planning to relocate the Jerry Falwell, Jr’s property at Liberty University as they are need room to grow with all the republican ex-congressmen needing to find work.</p> <p><strong>Bonus coverage</strong>:  When presented with the huge gap in financial support between him and Joe Biden’s campaign, he’s saying crap like, “I could have raised more money if I wanted to.”  He could just as easily (and more honestly) have said, “I would be doing better if I hadn’t supported Parscale’s and my bilking most of a billion dollars from the campaign.” </p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=XWNabWsUvJ4" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XWNabWsUvJ4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Let this sink in: The president of the United States is doing more to stop us from voting than he is to stop us from dying." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871553/large/DoingMoreMark1018.jpg?1603148404" title="Let this sink in: The president of the United States is doing more to stop us from voting than he is to stop us from dying."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion. - Nelson Mandela" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871548/large/MandelaMark1017.jpg?1603148152" title="Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion. - Nelson Mandela"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Portrait of notorious antifa terrorist, Woody Guthrie, 1940" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871547/large/AntifaTerroristMark1018.jpg?1603148151" title="Portrait of notorious antifa terrorist, Woody Guthrie, 1940"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="M.A.G.A. My Ass Got Arrested" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/871546/large/MagaMark1017.jpg?1603148151" title="M.A.G.A. My Ass Got Arrested"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day (we are close to being caught up after yesterday’s Shade used only one ad)</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=LZ_YlTThaOc" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LZ_YlTThaOc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=jUE4nSbqGw0" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jUE4nSbqGw0" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6FY7avuv4" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kf6FY7avuv4" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=vBlyqXmzDFQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vBlyqXmzDFQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>I originally thought this bar was fairly near my house.  Turns out it’s in Michigan.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" 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data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3F66Wy58QxY" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=AHZoKf2yDSY" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AHZoKf2yDSY" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=e_AluqvHcEA" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e_AluqvHcEA" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message. &lt;a href="https://t.co/TuRZXPE5xK"&gt;pic.twitter.com/TuRZXPE5xK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1307491919384260609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;September 20, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message. <a href="https://t.co/TuRZXPE5xK">pic.twitter.com/TuRZXPE5xK</a></p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1307491919384260609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Good dog. &lt;a href="https://t.co/kvQ2OSuZBl"&gt;pic.twitter.com/kvQ2OSuZBl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1316806752558489602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 15, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Good dog. <a href="https://t.co/kvQ2OSuZBl">pic.twitter.com/kvQ2OSuZBl</a></p>— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1316806752558489602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Keith Olbermann:  The Worst Person in the World</strong></p> <p>“Donald tRump is a terrorist who must be stopped.”</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=48a4VBWz9-A" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/48a4VBWz9-A" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p><strong>Today’s frustration</strong>:  After finishing the first version of the snarky part of the text for this Shade and before saving my work, Mr. Computer decided to crash.  The earlier version was much better.  I’m sorry we’ll never see it.  But it illustrates a democratic ideal:  Get knocked down.  Get back up and keep going.  Don’t let the bastards get you down.</p> <p>Jessiestaf started our GNR week again.  I guess Mondays are for Jessie:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/19/1987640/-Monday-Good-News-Roundup" title="">Monday Good News Roundup</a></p> <p>Goodie is down to less than 10 reasons to go.  The days have flown by quickly during the longest year of our lives:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/19/1986100/-Biden-s-battle-with-stuttering-made-him-a-better-man-Day-92-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden's battle with stuttering made him a better man: Day 92 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 stopped by my neck of the woods to help lead the charge in Pennsylvania:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/19/1987673/-Pennsylvania-Polling-from-Civiqs-Biden-52-Trump-45-BRING-IT-HOME-BY-GETTING-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Pennsylvania Polling (from Civiqs): Biden 52, Trump 45. BRING IT HOME BY GETTING OUT THE VOTE</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Memes PoliticalAds Poll Recommended shade Snark _1987470 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 23:30:05 +0000 Oops - Evening Shade, Sunday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/18/1987600/-Oops-Evening-Shade-Sunday <p>After a very busy day, including a couple of unplanned favors and no mid-morning nap, I have just awoken from an inadvertent late afternoon nap.  It is already 7:18PM Eastern.  I don’t think I’ll be able to accomplish very much in the next 11 minutes (it just turned 7:19), so I’m not going to try.</p> <p>I’ve manged to get the Poll (including pie), the diary links together, a song and an ad together.  I think we should call this a Shade lite.</p> <p><strong>A joke</strong> (unattributed and unedited) that I received in an email to tide you over.</p> <div>A fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their parents do for a living. All the typical answers came up - mechanic, business, sales, doctor, engineer... and so forth.  </div> <div></div> <div> However, little Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his parents, he replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes to music in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money."  </div> <div></div> <div> The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and took little Justin aside."Is that really true about your father?"  </div> <div></div> <div> "No," the boy said, "He works for the Republican National Committee and is trying to get Trump re-elected, but it's too embarrassing to say that in front of the other kids.”  </div> <div></div> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music to Resist By</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=IgbqFeXngPw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IgbqFeXngPw" data-width="1248" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Ad of the Day (just one today as I’ve got about a minute left to finish putting this together)</strong><span></span></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=wpAEgxIidn0" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wpAEgxIidn0" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p><span></span></p> <p>2thanks gave us today’s GNR:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1987246/-Biden-Abides-Trump-Crumps-WhoWonTheWeek-Poll-Sunday-Good-News" title="">Biden Abides, Trump Crumps ☼ WhoWonTheWeek? ☼ Poll ☼ Sunday Good News</a></p> <p>Goodie still loves Joe:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1985638/-Biden-on-9-11-01-showed-he-ll-be-a-great-leader-in-bad-times-Day-91-of-100-Days-of-Loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden on 9/11/01 showed he'll be a great leader in bad times: Day 91 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>oldhippiedude is still scanning Twitter:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1985718/-Tweets-of-the-Week-Oct-11-17-2020" title="">Tweets of the Week Oct <span>11-17</span> 2020</a></p> <p>Mokurai is still working on understanding the other side:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1987445/-Grokking-Trumpists-Authoritarian-Nightmare" title="">Grokking Trumpists: Authoritarian Nightmare</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 is using the good news out of Florida to inspire our GOTV effort:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1987459/-Florida-Polling-from-538-Biden-49-Trump-45-BRING-IT-HOME-BY-GETTING-OUT-THE-VOTE" title="">Florida Polling (from 538): Biden 49, Trump 45. BRING IT HOME BY GETTING OUT THE VOTE.</a></p> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Pie Poll _1987600 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:30:04 +0000 Republicans, an Indictment - Evening Shade, Saturday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/17/1987339/-Republicans-an-Indictment-Evening-Shade-Saturday <p>We’ve been saying this, in one way or another, for quite some time now.  tRump is a symptom of the malaise<sup>1</sup> that has come to permeate the republican party since Eisenhower was president.  There is a clear line of descent from the vitriol of Joseph McCarthy to the bombast of Donald tRump.  Their shared history of civic destruction is not based simple resistance to change or the application of coherent policies.  It because the powers that be in the republican party have demonstrated a willingness to prostitute themselves to rich assholes whose only goal is to become richer assholes.  They have allowed the whims of people like Koch, Adelson and Mercer to dictate the direction of their priorities.  Guns and fetuses are just manufactured distraction created to keep the country divided into partisan camps.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="First they create the mess. They they do everything possible to keep others from fixing the mess. Then they blame others for the mess they created. Then they propose the same policies that created the mess in the first place as the way to fix the mess they created." src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870836/large/createthemess.jpg?1602969706" title="First they create the mess. They they do everything possible to keep others from fixing the mess. Then they blame others for the mess they created. Then they propose the same policies that created the mess in the first place as the way to fix the mess they created."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Watching tRump flush himself may be satisfying, but it doesn’t address the underlying rot.  It should have been impossible for tRump to be elected.  After being elected, he should have been removed for cause almost immediately.  The reason we were stuck with him is not the cheating and dishonesty of the 2016 election.  The reason we were stuck with tRump is the cheating and dishonesty of the republican party across the last 60 or 70 years.  Where once there was honesty, all we have today is the cynical manipulation of large swathes of the population using the language of honor and justice in the service of deceit and injustice.</p> <p>We are all so heartily sick of the debasement of our society by faux Xtians who would probably applaud a reincarnated Christ dying at the hands of our out of control police, or by befuddled workers celebrating today’s robber barons working to eliminate their chances to receive a fair wage.  It’s painful to watch their idiocy and even more painful to endure their successes.</p> <p>Many of us, probably most of us, are or are becoming immune to the fundamentally misanthropical entreaties of the party that has embraced mendacity as a core principal.  That’s a good thing.  It’s a pity we didn’t manage it four years ago.</p> <p>So what happens now?  What are our options?  Well, we keep shouting from the rooftops.  We keep making our arguments for a sane society.  And most of all we VOTE.  We get our friends and acquaintances to VOTE.  We make sure our fellow citizens can VOTE.  And we don’t fucking back down from the people who are trying to change us into a tinpot dictatorship with an orange buffoon at the top of the criminal enterprise that is all that's left of the republican party.</p> <p>As you might have noticed, I didn’t feel particularly funny today.  Hopefully this <s>essay</s> rant strikes a chord with you and helps you to dig up some energy to help you through the push to November 3rd.  I hope to be back to my normal snarky self tomorrow.</p> <p><sup>1</sup> Malaise is used as an homage to Jimmy Carter, someone whose shoes tRump is not worthy of shining.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=WrTNhZ5bYvw" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WrTNhZ5bYvw" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="I" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870869/large/BidenMark1013.jpg?1602975607"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Failure - It" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870801/large/trump-failure.jpg?1602963483"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt=""Waiting in line for hours to vote should be considered less a story on voter enthusiasm and more a story on voter suppression. No one should have o wait hours to vote." - Dan Rather" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870865/large/VoterSuppressionMark1016.png?1602975412" title=""Waiting in line for hours to vote should be considered less a story on voter enthusiasm and more a story on voter suppression. No one should have o wait hours to vote." - Dan Rather"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Let" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870866/large/FarewellTourMark1015.png?1602975421"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=bfaf0R0Folo" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bfaf0R0Folo" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=nWyPPQs4fVY" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nWyPPQs4fVY" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Sdh609AQuUw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sdh609AQuUw" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=VBUAR9U52PQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VBUAR9U52PQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=vRr5HWj1Gkg" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vRr5HWj1Gkg" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=hOttHcPRpig" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hOttHcPRpig" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life. perfidy</p> <p>Good did double duty today.  First she gave us a hell of a roundup:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/17/1987016/-I-am-so-proud-of-you-Saturday-s-GNR">I am so proud of you: Saturday's GNR</a></p> <p>and then she gave us another reason to love Joe:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/17/1985632/-Joe-Biden-believes-that-abuse-of-power-is-a-cardinal-sin-Day-90-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Joe Biden believes that abuse of power is a cardinal sin: Day 90 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>BeeD has some good news to share:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/16/1987215/-Michigan-to-ban-open-carry-on-Election-Day">Michigan to ban open carry at polls on Election Day!</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 is refining the resource to concentrate on the places that are most in need of a push:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/17/1987229/-Focus-on-Victory-in-the-Swing-States-THE-LET-S-WIN-DIARIES" title="">Focus on Victory in the Swing States: THE LET'S WIN DIARIES</a></p> <p>WYgalinCali’s Saturday night jukebox is open for business:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/17/1985641/-Another-Saturday-Night-Theme-Songs-and-Soundtracks-pt-2" title="">Another Saturday Night<span> - Theme</span> Songs and Soundtracks (pt. 2)</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup NoSnarkToday Poll _1987339 Sat, 17 Oct 2020 23:30:06 +0000 Is He Actually Good at Anything? - Evening Shade, Friday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/16/1987086/-Is-He-Actually-Good-at-Anything-Evening-Shade-Friday <p>Well, last night we had another non-debate debate.  This time it was a modern rendition of Dueling Townhalleos.  Biden’s performance approached virtuosity.  Unfortunately for tRump, he doesn’t know how to play a townhall, he can’t carry a tune, and is the most terribly discordant political player in the country.</p> <p>Tonight I had thoughts of burdening you with a list of all the other things tRump is bad at, but I don’t think I’ll live long enough to complete that list, so instead let’s look at the things tRump does well.  It’s a hell of a challenge, but I’m going to give it a shot.</p> <p>tRump is a prolific liar.  He’s not particularly good at it, as most of his lies are easily exposed, but he keeps trying.  Were he better at lying, it would count as a skill.</p> <p>tRump is an accomplished bully.  He has a true flair for childish name-calling, holding grudges and cowering when confronted. His innate and broad cruel streak does help him plan out his petty revenges.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Number don" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870237/large/trumplies0.jpg?1602884750"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>tRump does excel at failure.  On top of all his failures at business, by running for president, tRump has ensured that he will also fail at being a criminal.  All of his frauds and thefts will be exposed because of the extra attention he has managed to bring to bear on himself.  When he was just a loud-mouthed, bigoted asshat, he wasn’t worth the serious investigative effort he currently invites.</p> <p>I suppose the thing he’s been best at is getting away with serial sexual assault and living down to his middle name at exorbitant cost.  All bad things must end and it looks like he has some comeuppance heading for him down this avenue as well.</p> <p>That’s it.  That’s all.  His whole life he’s been at the focus point of a lens designed for concentrating all things pathetic.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=h0xSJQDRH2Q" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h0xSJQDRH2Q" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="It turns out the tRump can" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870249/large/OnlyCandidateMark1016.png?1602885677"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="HitlerMark1016.gif" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870204/large/HitlerMark1016.gif?1602879721" title="HitlerMark1016.gif"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="New Yorker Cover - Graham, Barr & McConnell shining tRump" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870201/large/NewYorkerMark1016.jpg?1602879556"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Make America intelligent again - Dump tRump" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/870202/large/MaIaMark1016.jpg?1602879557" title="Make America intelligent again - Dump tRump"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=VUIEiPyQQ9M" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VUIEiPyQQ9M" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=VlJqf_9YYj0" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VlJqf_9YYj0" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=HkpPHFK-tgc" title="" 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Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>chloris creator led the charge today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/16/1985844/-Good-News-Roundup-for-Friday-October-16-2020-Have-You-Done-All-You-Possibly-Can" title="">Good News Roundup for Friday, October 16, 2020: Have You Done All You Possibly Can?</a></p> <p>Goodie’s love knows no bounds, and rightfully so:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/16/1986681/-Joe-Biden-is-creating-labor-liberalism-for-the-21st-century-Day-89-of-100-Days-of-Loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Joe Biden is creating labor liberalism for the 21st century: Day 89 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 is asking for our help.  Let’s make sure we give it:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/16/1986957/-So-in-These-Final-Days-What-Should-Be-Our-GOTV-Priority-I-Need-Your-Opinions-Please" title="">So, in These Final Days, What Should Be Our GOTV Priority? I Need Your Opinions. (Please!)</a></p> <p>Here’s Yosef’s most recent GOTV resource:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1986659/-Keep-Fighting-and-GET-OUT-THE-DEMOCRATIC-VOTE-Cause-It-Ain-t-Over-til-It-s-Over">Keep Fighting and GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE! ('Cause It Ain't Over 'til It's Over.)</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1987086 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:30:08 +0000 Breaking News Is Broken - Evening Shade, Thursday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/15/1986811/-Breaking-News-Is-Broken-Evening-Shade-Thursday <p><strong>Broken News</strong>:  Washington, DC and Elsewhere, October 15th, 2020</p> <p>Our news media is so addicted to clicks that they no longer provide much in the way of judgement about what constitutes news.  As long as it will draw eyeballs with some over the top breathless fact free raving of a lunatic in orange, they’ll put it up unfiltered and expect us to decipher just how many lies per minute we’ve been exposed to.  It is a disservice to the concept of journalism and to the mental health of the nation.  Calling out a lie is not a matter of opinion — it’s a matter of truth.</p> <p>We’ve gathered some random headlines from Washington, DC and around the nation to illustrate just how broken the news has become.  All of these stories deserve more investigation and coverage.  Instead we just move on without ever pausing to digest what just happened.  The broadcast media has been moving in this direction for a generation.  With tRump it has accelerated, which fits in with the theme that tRump breaks everything he touches.</p> <p>But first, don’t miss Olbermann (last video link below).  Oh, my!  Ben Sasse (R-NE) trashes tRump and doesn’t immediately disown his remarks when they are made public.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Broken tRumpet" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/869747/large/brokentrumpet.jpg?1602800216" title="Broken tRumpet"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>tRump breaking the news</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>tRump Is Broke, Deeply in Debt</li> <li>tRump’s Brain Is Broken, Gibberish Spills Out Polluting the Stage.</li> <li>tRump Breaks Quarantine, Supporters Infected</li> <li>tRump Administration Breaks Record for Most Corrupt Administration in US History</li> <li>tRump Breaks Away from All Restraint —  Can Article 25 Be Far Away?</li> <li>tRump Breaks Off More than He Can Chew — Chokes on Past Statements</li> <li>tRump Breaks Bad — Now He’s Hooked on Steroids</li> <li>tRump Breaks Foot While Trying to Stick It in His Mouth So He Can Chew on It</li> <li>tRump Breaks Bank — His Favorite Lender, Deutche Bank, Is in Deep Trouble</li> <li>tRump Breaks Marriage Vows — Again and Again and Again…</li> <li>tRump Breaks Lindsey’s Heart with Nasty Blackmail</li> <li>tRump Breaks Laws Against Pretty Much Everything</li> <li>tRump Breaks Through 20,000 Lie Goal to Become Bigliest Liar in US History</li> <li>tRump Breaks with NATO So He Can Coddle Putin</li> <li>tRump Refuses to Break for Decency and Runs Over Honor</li> <li>tRump Finally Breaks Camel’s Back with Full Bale of Bullshit</li> <li>tRump Breaks into Cold Sweat Contemplating Remainder of Life in Jail</li> <li>tRump Aids and Abets Jailbreak for Roger Stone</li> <li>tRump Breaks Bread with Dictators Preferring Their Company to That of Allies</li> <li>tRump Will Not Break the Habits of a Lifetime to Become Sane or Reasonable</li> <li>tRump Caught Breaking and Entering into the National Treasury with Emoluments on His Mind</li> <li>tRump Never Met a Rule He Wouldn’t Break</li> <li>tRump Has Broken All Ten Commandments, the List of Deadly Sins and the Golden Rule</li> </ul> <p><strong>Republicans breaking the news</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Republican Party Is Nearly Broke — Can’t Afford to Compete in Tight Races</li> <li>Republicans Break Out Trickle Down Defense — Pissed at tRump for Piddling Away Support</li> <li>Republican Party Breaks Down and Declares Moral Bankruptcy</li> <li>Republicans Break Word — Word Comes Back to Bite Them in the Ass</li> <li>Republicans Break Economy — Again</li> <li>Republican Party Breaks Faith — Voters Notice</li> <li>Republican Spokesperson Breaks into Another Gish Gallop — Ears Bleed</li> <li>Republican Leader Takes a Short Break from Packing Court to Laugh at Covid Relief Package</li> <li>Republican Party Breaks Wind in County’s Face — Voters Notice</li> <li>Republicans Broke the Senate — Voters Will Break Republicans</li> <li>Republican Talking Points Are Just a Broken Record of Broken Promises</li> <li>If a Republican Ever Told the Whole Truth About Their Motives All Hell Would Break Loose</li> <li>Republicans Are Flat Broke as Far as Having Any Trust Left in the Bank</li> </ul> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=6g5xLTRM8Qo" title="" 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me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>oldhippiedude broke away from monitoring Twitter so he could give us one hell of a GNR:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1986255/-Turn-Off-The-Damn-TV-and-GOTV-Good-News-Roundup-Oct-15-2020" title="">Turn Off The Damn TV and <span>GOTV--Good</span> News Roundup Oct 15 2020</a></p> <p>Goodie love for Joe is rubbing off on the rest of the country:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1985565/-When-the-going-gets-tough-Biden-gets-going-Day-88-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">When the going gets tough, Biden gets going: Day 88 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Early signs are good.  Let’s put our pedals to the medal and power through to the end.  Share Yosef 52’s guide as far and wide as you can.:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1986659/-Keep-Fighting-and-GET-OUT-THE-DEMOCRATIC-VOTE-Cause-It-Ain-t-Over-til-It-s-Over" title="">Keep Fighting and GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE! ('Cause It Ain't Over 'til It's Over.)</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1986811 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:30:05 +0000 Those Red Hands Are Bleeding into the Cookie Jar - Evening Shade, Wednesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/14/1986535/-Those-Red-Hands-Are-Bleeding-into-the-Cookie-Jar-Evening-Shade-Wednesday <p>There is something very childlike about tRump.  No, not the cute child who looks angelic and makes everyone smile.  tRump is the little bratty shit, whose mother regrets bringing to term.  He’s the one that tortured animals and ended up on a list of potential serial killers.  tRump is the two-year-old who never outgrew his “me me me” phase.  tRump has never once given a damn about anyone besides tRump.  He isn’t just asocial — he’s antisocial (which goes along with his role as an antichrist).</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRump caught with hand in the cookie jar! Warning: Ingredients: Collusion, Obstruction of Justice, Foreign Campaign Donation, Criminal Conspiracy" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/869413/large/cookiejar.jpg?1602712748" title="tRump caught with hand in the cookie jar! Warning: Ingredients: Collusion, Obstruction of Justice, Foreign Campaign Donation, Criminal Conspiracy"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>When tRump is caught with his hand in the cookie jar, he reacts just like the fearful child who will do anything to avoid the consequences for his actions.  The difference is that tRump’s claims are more ridiculous than those of the child.  And, unlike the child, who eventually admits culpability, tRump never will.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>tRump’s Most Common Cookie Jar Excuses (can be adapted for all occasions)</strong></p> <ul> <li>That is not my hand.</li> <li>That is not a cookie jar.</li> <li>The cookies were already gone.</li> <li>That nasty dog made me do it.</li> <li>Cookies should be free.  It says so right in the Constipation.</li> <li>Prove it.</li> <li>I’m going to make sure every American gets all the cookies they need (just as soon as I learn to farm & harvest the ingredients, construct an oven from scratch and teach myself to bake).  I’ll have them ready next week, or sometime in 2046, whichever comes last.</li> <li>The perfect cookies came to me and asked me to eat them.</li> <li>Why do you care about cookies, when I’m giving you all the crumbs you can sweep up?</li> <li>Deep State took the cookies.</li> <li>I was looking to see if Joe Biden ate a cookie.</li> <li>These Russian cookies are all mine already.  What are you complaining about?</li> <li><s>Crooked Hillary</s> , er <s>Obama</s><sup>1</sup>. er Sleepy Joe did it.</li> <li>My pet ferret<sup>2</sup> did it.</li> <li>Article 2 says I can eat as many cookies as I want.</li> </ul> <p>He’s got the rest of the republican party doing the same thing, especially the spokesweasels.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Republican’s Most Common Cookie Jar Excuses</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Tucker Carlson:</strong>  Cookies are only for white people.</li> <li><strong>Rush Limbaugh:</strong>  These are not cookie crumbs all over the counter.  These are Brussels sprouts cuttings.  Be glad we ate them for you.</li> <li><strong>Laura Ingraham:</strong>  We don’t want any dirty immigrants putting their hands in our cookie jars, so we moved all the cookies to our stomachs.</li> <li><strong>Alex Jones:</strong>  Be glad I ate the cookies instead of you.  Better get me more cookies.  I’m still hungry.</li> <li><strong>Sean Hannity:</strong>  This cookie thing is being taken all out of proportion.  We should really be focused on Hillary’s emails and Hunter Biden.</li> <li><strong>Lou Dobbs:</strong>  The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the cookie supply of many Americans.</li> <li><strong>Dana Loesch:</strong>  I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of the cookies.'</li> <li><strong>Jeanine Pirro:</strong>  Now listen up! Yeah, I’m talking to you—you keep your mouth shut. Don’t act so pompous—you’re wrong. You disgust me. You’re the stupid one. Are you schizo? Who <em>are </em>you? You bozo namby-pamby pathetic loser! You’re a cheat, wimp, swamp scum demon-rat. What don’t you get? Have you flipped your lid? You’re so clueless, you don’t even know you’re being used. You’re nothing but a shill. <em>You’re</em> the pig, you lying, pretentious, disingenuous, self-absorbed liar! And a pathological one at that! Shame on you! Are you still schizo?<sup>3</sup></li> <li><strong>Steve Doocy:</strong>  I like cookies.  Who took my crayon?</li> <li><strong>KKKayleigh McNinny:</strong>  He didn’t say it.  He didn’t mean it.  It doesn’t matter.  Is this over yet?</li> </ul> <p><sup>1</sup> tRump appears to be afraid to give Barack Obama a disparaging nickname.  He did try out Cheatin’ Obama briefly in April of 2018, but hasn’t been using it much since.</p> <p><sup>2</sup> tRump doesn’t like people to talk about the badly coifed ferret that lives on his head, so he would only say this if he was absolutely desperate to weasel out of a predicament of his own making.</p> <p><sup>3</sup> Actual quote, no alterations involved.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=oyT_mHulMeM" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oyT_mHulMeM" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Imagine a world where "pro-life" efforts included feeding hungry children." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/869451/large/ProLife2Mark1014.jpg?1602717124" title="Imagine a world where "pro-life" efforts included feeding hungry children."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="If you don" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/869417/large/LyingMark1014.jpg?1602714059"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Mommy! 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Loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 did a little research on Mr Fake President’s fondest desires:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/14/1980234/-Trump-the-Wannabe-Dictator-and-the-Dictators-Best-Friend" title="">Trump, the Wannabe Dictator, and the Dictators' Best Friend</a></p> <p>And then he gave us the most shareable get out the vote resource available:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/14/1986373/-Make-the-Blue-Wave-Happen-GET-OUT-THE-DEMOCRATIC-VOTE" title="">Make the Blue Wave Happen. GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1986535 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:30:14 +0000 It Looks Like At Least One Flyover State Doesn't Like tRump Either - Evening Shade, Tuesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/13/1986228/-It-Looks-Like-At-Least-One-Flyover-State-Doesn-t-Like-tRump-Either-Evening-Shade-Tuesday <p>I don’t feel like writing about Amy Covid Barrett, so...</p> <p>Mother is furious that a lot of the country spent the tail end of last week staring at Mike Pence’s fly.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="When you spend the day with your head up someone" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/869066/large/asshead.jpg?1602624937"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>CNN is reporting that in the aftermath of the fly declaring its vigorous support for the Biden candidacy, it has been deluged with death threats as the republican party tries to swat it away, calling it just another fly in their ointment.  Fortunately for the fly, they are too incompetent to coordinate that effort either.</p> <p>As with the plots to kidnap Democratic governors, the death threats have all originated at the top of the republican’s brainless trust at Mount Manuremore.</p> <p>We’ve collected a few of the statements that have been made public and forwarded them on the FBI to help with their investigation of wrong wing terrorism.</p> <p><strong>Donald tRump:</strong>  “I’ve instructed my personal attorney general Barr to declare flies as enemies of the state and arrest them along with Hillary and Obama.”</p> <p><strong>Sean Hannity:</strong>  “This flies in the face of our glorious leader’s number two.”</p> <p><strong>Rush Limbaugh:</strong>  “That fly needs to go down.  In fact all the flies need to go down.”</p> <p><strong>Tucker Carlson:</strong>  “Black flies don’t matter.”</p> <p><strong>KKKayleigh McNinny:</strong>  “President tRump never said that and he also didn’t mean it either.” (this appears to be playing on an endless loop in her head).</p> <p><strong>Lindsey Graham:</strong>  “You won’t see any flies on the President.  Send me money and fly spray.  I’m drowning.”</p> <p><strong>Mike Pompeo (while violating the Hatch Act again):</strong>  “The fly was clearly coordinating with the Biden campaign.  I’ve got some old emails as a counterargument.”</p> <p><strong>Kevin McCarthy (captured on a hot mike during an aside with Kenny Marchant (Ranking member of the Ethics Committee):</strong>  “I can’t believe the flies are turning on us.  Now all we have left are the rats and the Russians.  I hope they have my dascha ready by January.”</p> <p><strong>WIlbur Ross:</strong>  “I don’t see a problem.  I have flies on me all the time.  The spiders take care of it for me.  Now, let me get back to my nap.”</p> <p><strong>Gym Jordan</strong> devolved into one of his typical incoherent “fly off the handle” rants:  “WE FLY IN THE TEETH OF KITES AND FLAGS.”</p> <p><strong>Louie Gohmert (after hearing Gym’s statement)</strong>:  “What?  I think they should go climb a kite.”</p> <p>There were some other comments worth repeating.</p> <p><strong>The Ghost of John McCain:</strong>  “I’m having a really good day.”</p> <p><strong>The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln:</strong>  “And this too shall piss the snowflakes off.”</p> <p><strong>The Ghost of Dwight Eisenhower:</strong>  “I think the fly on the wall had enough.”</p> <p><strong>Jordan Klepper:</strong>  "Other than not answering any questions, having Covid pinkeye, having insects nest in his brain while he carried water for a clown, I'd say Pence did pretty well." (actual tweet)</p> <p><strong>Nancy Pelosi:</strong>  <span>“The election is fly-ing by. Make sure to make a plan to vote.” (actual tweet)</span></p> <p><strong>Random Democrat on the streets:</strong>  “They’ve been flying blind for years.  That patriotic fly was just trying to help.”</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=aYSkqstXz5w" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aYSkqstXz5w" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRump: Boss, I lost the debate and I" class="width-xl" 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href="//youtube.com/watch?v=BJb_OCETP9s" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BJb_OCETP9s" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>niftywriter gathered together a cornucopia of good news for us today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/13/1986000/--We-shall-not-flag-nor-fail-We-shall-go-on-to-the-End-October-13-Good-News-Roundup" title="">"We shall not flag, nor fail. We shall go on to the End."<span> - October</span> 13 Good News Roundup</a></p> <p>Goodie was driving an efficient Joe Biden EV today:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/13/1966185/-Biden-has-big-plans-for-the-auto-industry-Day-86-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden has big plans for the auto industry: Day 86 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 sets an example for us all.  Let’s share his work:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/13/1986071/-A-TIDAL-WAVE-of-Early-Votes-is-Coming-In-Let-s-Make-It-a-BLUE-WAVE" title="">A TIDAL WAVE of Early Votes is Coming In! Let's Make It a BLUE WAVE!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1986228 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:30:03 +0000 Looking Back to Look Ahead - Evening Shade, Monday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/12/1985944/-Looking-Back-to-Look-Ahead-Evening-Shade-Monday <p>In early 2017, after I finally unfurled from the fetal position I’d been stuck in since the election, I watched an idiot prance around, immensely proud that he had farted noisily during his job interview, and still managed to leverage Russian interference, targeted voter suppression efforts, and a largely complicit media into a case of a minority of voters subverting democracy with another electoral miscarriage.</p> <p>At the time, in addition to being appalled like never before, I thought tRump would quickly hemorrhage support a be reduced down to a base of 20-25% of registered voters.  Every time he did something stupid, cruel or illegal (pretty much a daily occurrence) I was convinced the ongoing public magacide would drain enough of his support to force a resignation of successful impeachment.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Republican KoolAid ingredients: Lying, stealing, cheating, racism, sexism, despotism" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868727/large/koolaid.jpg?1602539667" title="Republican KoolAid ingredients: Lying, stealing, cheating, racism, sexism, despotism"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>It didn’t happen that way because of the pervasive influence of Faux News, Sinclair Media and I Hate Radio.  Their collective penchant for promoting lies knows no bounds.</p> <p>It didn’t happen because of the spineless perfidy of republican office holders who chose complicity over country.  They have turned the words “honor” and “republican” into mutually exclusive terms.</p> <p>It didn’t happen because too many of my fellow citizens can’t be bothered to pay actual attention to what’s been going on.  Critical thinking and civic engagement are, unfortunately, not practiced by most of our compatriots.</p> <p>If we ever put together a full bill of tRump’s “high crimes and misdemeanors,” it would run to several hundred charges.  They’d need a lot more than a handcart to deliver it to the Senate.  I wouldn’t object if they happened to run over a certain fake turtle while making the delivery.</p> <p>tRump was in serious trouble before COVID-19 arrived.  During his entire rezidency he never made it in to positive approval territory.  I guess being a miserable, grabby, traitorous shit is not the best way to sway and win over voters.  After COVID-19 arrived, tRump’s political trajectory has only pointed further downhill.  Post infection he is cratering.</p> <p>Now, if we were republicans we’d just laugh maniacally and say, “Good riddance.”  But, we aren’t.  So I struggled mightily to come up with some things tRump could do to raise his standing with voters.  I had originally hoped to end up with a full David Letterman style top 10 list, but I couldn’t figure out how to hook the text up to a drum set.  There were barely enough concrete things he could do to start digging out of the hole he’s managed to excavate for himself to get to ten.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>10. </strong>Go into full quarantine for the next 3 weeks.</p> <p><strong>9.</strong> Order William Barr to investigate and then arrest himself.</p> <p><strong>8.</strong> Stop obstructing justice and release all the records we’ve been trying to access for the last four years.</p> <p><strong>7</strong>. Stop licking Putin’s ass (publicly or privately).</p> <p><strong>6.</strong> Stop lying.</p> <p><strong>5.</strong> Stop tweeting.</p> <p><strong>4.</strong> Stop talking.</p> <p><strong>3.</strong> Resign, effective immediately.</p> <p><strong>2.</strong> Give up his US citizenship and go into silent exile.</p> </blockquote> <p>And the number one thing tRump can do to raise his popularity with voters.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>1.</strong> Plead guilty and report to jail for the rest of his life.</p> </blockquote> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=vgXfiu5yM1I" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vgXfiu5yM1I" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="The tRump presidency began as a bad smell that rapidly turned into a disgusting rotten stink and now reeks with the sickening wretched stench of corruption and filth." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868722/large/StinkMark1012.jpg?1602539094" title="The tRump presidency began as a bad smell that rapidly turned into a disgusting rotten stink and now reeks with the sickening wretched stench of corruption and filth."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="If you don" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868721/large/GunMark1012.jpg?1602539091"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Super Spreader" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868720/large/SS2Mark1011.jpg?1602539093" title="Super Spreader"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Don" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868702/large/cheatmoney.jpg?1602536078"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=4X8r1TTXRo0" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4X8r1TTXRo0" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=fBcbwzghQiE" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fBcbwzghQiE" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=t14ReIryx3Q" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t14ReIryx3Q" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Donald Trump is running TV ads taking Dr. Fauci out of context and without his permission.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, here’s a message from the President in his own words. &lt;a href="https://t.co/WCYbIfrQLR"&gt;pic.twitter.com/WCYbIfrQLR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315768958742491136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 12, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Donald Trump is running TV ads taking Dr. Fauci out of context and without his permission.<br><br>So, here’s a message from the President in his own words. <a href="https://t.co/WCYbIfrQLR">pic.twitter.com/WCYbIfrQLR</a></p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315768958742491136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;Listen up. It&amp;#39;s time to vote! Go to &lt;a href="https://t.co/0yzHjJV1f8"&gt;https://t.co/0yzHjJV1f8&lt;/a&gt; to find out how you can drop your ballot in the dropbox like it&amp;#39;s hot, and make your voice heard. I&amp;#39;m voting for the first time come join me ✊🏾 &lt;a href="https://t.co/Rwxkmvz2Ck"&gt;pic.twitter.com/Rwxkmvz2Ck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SnoopDogg/status/1315685491967098882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 12, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Listen up. It's time to vote! Go to <a href="https://t.co/0yzHjJV1f8">https://t.co/0yzHjJV1f8</a> to find out how you can drop your ballot in the dropbox like it's hot, and make your voice heard. I'm voting for the first time come join me ✊🏾 <a href="https://t.co/Rwxkmvz2Ck">pic.twitter.com/Rwxkmvz2Ck</a></p>— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) <a href="https://twitter.com/SnoopDogg/status/1315685491967098882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;FOX is Trump TV &lt;a href="https://t.co/HskGgtSgZW"&gt;pic.twitter.com/HskGgtSgZW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1315781622210473985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 12, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>FOX is Trump TV <a href="https://t.co/HskGgtSgZW">pic.twitter.com/HskGgtSgZW</a></p>— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1315781622210473985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>And Monday comes around again.  It’s time for Jessiestaf to give us a GNR:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/12/1985764/-Monday-Good-News-Roundup" title="">Monday Good News Roundup</a></p> <p>Goodie keeps on lovin’ Joe:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/12/1982795/-Experts-Biden-s-plans-will-lead-to-a-stronger-economy-Day-85-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Experts: Biden's plans will lead to a stronger economy: Day 85 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 is working hard.  First we get a riveting <span>exposé</span>:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/12/1985244/-Trump-and-Deutsche-Bank-A-Vast-Criminal-Enterprise" title="">Trump and Deutsche Bank: A Vast Criminal Enterprise</a></p> <p>and Yosef 52 isn’t done.  Next we have the resource (with new stuff):  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/12/1985802/-POUR-IT-ON-Get-Out-the-DEMOCRATIC-Vote-NEW-STUFF-TODAY" title="">POUR IT ON. Get Out the DEMOCRATIC Vote. (NEW STUFF TODAY!!)</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1985944 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:30:05 +0000 This Shade Has Been Cancelled - Evening Shade, Sunday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/11/1985684/-This-Shade-Has-Been-Cancelled-Evening-Shade-Sunday <p>Oops.  Sorry.  I meant to say, this weeks presidential debate has been cancelled.  The Incredible Imploding Orange Mistake, down significantly in the polls, has opted out of a debate because he’s afraid they’ll mute his mic, when he is supposed to be keeping that fountain of bullshit between his lips shut.</p> <p>He’s walking away from a shot at the national stage while we are seeing increasing dissension in the wrong wing ranks — The Podpublilcans vs The Stepford Party is coming soon on pay-per-view.  The stress between the Newt Gingrich wing (greedy old-timey pols), the Charles Koch wing (greedy oligarchs), the Paula White wing (crazy faux Xtians), the Ted Cruz wing (Zodiac killers), the Mitch McConnell wing (greedy treasonweasels), the Wayne LaPierre wing (gun fetishists) and the Donald tRump wing (whackjobs in orange pancake) is showing.  Those (ass)cracks are getting wider and wider.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="The "Stepford" Wife - Batteries not included." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868338/large/stepfordwife.jpg?1602454459" title="The "Stepford" Wife - Batteries not included."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>We’ve been told that people are wondering how one chickenshit party can have 7 wings.  They’ve undergone some serious mutations since they started attending the Putin Conferences at Chernobyl in 2015.  These days all that the different wings have in common is extremely low moral character and unquenchable greed.  We have not seen this much disagreement within the ranks of the group thinking goose steppers before.</p> <p>Biff and Muffy, of the Stepford Party, aren’t happy.  tRumpism and the insistence on demonizing immigrants is messing with their access to cheap undocumented labor.  People who were born in this country generally refuse to do menial labor.  The absence of immigrants makes it difficult for the country club set to find workers to exploit.  They’ll tell you tax breaks for the filthy rich are to be lauded, but there will be hell to pay if they can’t find anyone to walk Rover or change Binky’s diaper.</p> <p>Podpublicans Filthy Pete and his old lady, Butter Butt, aren’t happy.  After losing their jobs and having their unemployment coverage expire, they are down to whatever they could make selling oxy.  But no one can afford to buy any so they are running low on beer money.</p> <p>The only wrong wing folks showing any signs of happiness are the pretend Christians, with their crusade for a theocracy moving right along, and the cosplay militias, who get to run around acting like tough guys.</p> <p>tRump is a gibbering mess.  He is rapidly shifting between crying and crowing with no justification for either extreme.  His followers are suffering from whiplash trying to keep up.  It’s probably to his advantage to avoid the debate as he would only embarrass himself further.</p> <p>Today’s republican party has become a set of Stupefyingly Heartless, Insipid, Treasonous, Standard-bearers Holding Our World For Ransom And Undermining Democratic Society.  Their membership is principally composed of Arrogant, Stupid, Sleazy, Horrid, Oafish, Lawless, Evil, Republican Yesmen.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=IXcX6muM5HI" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IXcX6muM5HI" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="GOP logic: You MUST have an ID to vote... but you don" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868342/large/voteid.jpeg?1602454571"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Orange Lies Matter" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868341/large/orangeliesmatter.jpg?1602454570" title="Orange Lies Matter"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt=""Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers. Then we know who owns them." - Robin Williams" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868340/large/jackets.jpg?1602454570" title=""Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers. Then we know who owns them." - Robin Williams"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-lg"><img alt="I have the hoax" class="width-lg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/868339/large/havethehoax.jpg?1602454569" title="I have the hoax"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=N0DMpKeH8bQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N0DMpKeH8bQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=OKq0pn6fdZI" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OKq0pn6fdZI" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=3BmFkB1_vN8" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3BmFkB1_vN8" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;In January, I said President Trump was the worst possible leader to deal with a public health crisis. And everything we’ve been through in the months since has proven that to be true. &lt;a href="https://t.co/twcy3Ql0Xc"&gt;pic.twitter.com/twcy3Ql0Xc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315389206991122432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 11, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>In January, I said President Trump was the worst possible leader to deal with a public health crisis. And everything we’ve been through in the months since has proven that to be true. <a href="https://t.co/twcy3Ql0Xc">pic.twitter.com/twcy3Ql0Xc</a></p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315389206991122432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;There is no excuse for President Trump’s reckless behavior. &lt;a href="https://t.co/ooUh6pxRDt"&gt;pic.twitter.com/ooUh6pxRDt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315311696022437888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 11, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>There is no excuse for President Trump’s reckless behavior. <a href="https://t.co/ooUh6pxRDt">pic.twitter.com/ooUh6pxRDt</a></p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315311696022437888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;If Trump had been regularly tested in the last 3 months we would’ve gotten a sound byte like this every other day &lt;a href="https://t.co/dXJJ2dYEni"&gt;https://t.co/dXJJ2dYEni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1314684858938142720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 9, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If Trump had been regularly tested in the last 3 months we would’ve gotten a sound byte like this every other day <a href="https://t.co/dXJJ2dYEni">https://t.co/dXJJ2dYEni</a></p>— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1314684858938142720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p><strong>Extra Bonus Stuff</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=xI_lxFv203I" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xI_lxFv203I" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=k3lV4BzOVZg" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3lV4BzOVZg" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>2thanks was busy serving drinks in the Sunday GNR salo(o)n:<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/11/1985486/-Biden-s-Stars-Rise-Trump-s-Slip-Below-WhoWonTheWeek-Poll-Sunday-Good-News" title="">  Biden's Stars Rise, Trump's Slip Below ☼ WhoWonTheWeek? ☼  Poll ☼ Sunday Good News</a></p> <p>Goodie’s found another reason:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/11/1966191/-Biden-will-be-a-champion-of-sustainable-farming-Day-84-out-of-100-days-of-Loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden will be a champion of sustainable farming: Day 84 out of 100 days of Loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>oldhippiedude delivers, again:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/11/1983362/-Tweets-of-the-Week-Oct-4-10-2020" title="">Tweets of the Week Oct <span>4-10</span> 2020</a></p> <p>Yosef 52 shared the Washington Post-ABC post poll results.  I guess they were worth it:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/10/1985542/-Wash-Post-ABC-Poll-Biden-54-Trump-42" title="">Wash. <span>Post-ABC</span> Poll: Biden 54, Trump 42</a></p> <p>And then he put out the GOTV stuff that we need to keep sharing:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/11/1985676/-Victory-is-in-Sight-Let-s-Get-Out-the-DEMOCRATIC-VOTE" title="">Victory is in Sight. Let's Get Out the DEMOCRATIC VOTE.</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1985684 Sun, 11 Oct 2020 23:30:10 +0000 Endless Excuses and Dark Money - Evening Shade, Saturday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/10/1985421/-Endless-Excuses-and-Dark-Money-Evening-Shade-Saturday <p>There is no excuse for the man who is all excuses to continue in his current role.  Responsibility is calling.  He’s not listening.  But, WE ARE!</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Wonder what it will land on today?" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867844/large/excuses.jpg?1602369005" title="Wonder what it will land on today?"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>tRump is the only person I can recall who had to make excuses for his excuses.  He has become prolific at recursive excuse making using one of those irrational sequences and involving a lot of imaginary numbers.</p> <p>The right wing is a misnomer.  There is nothing right about them.  Rather than referring to the right and left wings, we should refer to the bad and good wings.</p> <p>One thing to remind the conservatives in our midst:  The founders of this country were radical liberal revolutionaries.  The were most certainly not conservative.  If today’s republicans were around back then, they’d have all fought to remain a British colony.</p> <p>Our founders built a nation on a set of ideals.  We (and they) haven’t always lived up to them, but we have generally tried to grow and move forward.  That’s not true of today’s conservative party.  They have gone down on both knees for the one thing they respect — and it’s not our flag.</p> <p>We can illustrate one of the ways the republican party has abdicated their responsibility to the nation by looking at the alacrity with which they’ve kowtowed to the interests of just one industry.</p> <p>Republicans are heavily funded by the worst corporate polluters on the planet.  Exxon, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Conoco Phillips are all in the top 20 industrial polluters in the world.  The Oil & Gas industry give most of their political donations to republican (75% or more every cycle since 1996, 85% this year — from a total of just over $87 million donated in 2020).  <span>According to <a href="https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1499691240" title="">a 2017 report</a> by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), 71 percent of global industrial atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 1988 have been the direct responsibility of just 100 companies.  All of the big polluters are major republican donors.  There’s more if we cast our net a little wider.  First, we have their good buddies over at the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) who are responsible for 4.5% of worldwide corporate emissions all by themselves.  Then there’s </span>Gazprom OAO,  the Russian company that McConnell and tRump are trying to exempt from the sanctions imposed on Russia for the Crimean invasion.  They are responsible for 3.91%.  No wonder they want to relax environmental laws.  They are getting paid a hell of a lot of money to make it happen.</p> <p>It appears the reason we think of republicans as oily and greasy salesmen of unpopular positions has something to do with the barrels of crude they’ve been bathing in for the last half century.  The crude really shines through.</p> <p>If there was a pro-cancer lobby they would give all their money to republicans (just like the barrels full the tobacco industry used to send).</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=H369_S1f0cU" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H369_S1f0cU" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="KamalaMark109.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867848/large/KamalaMark109.jpg?1602369958" title="KamalaMark109.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="They say you can" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867853/large/QuarantineMark1010.png?1602369969"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Just a joke; He Misspoke; Sarcasm; Media twisted what he said; Not what he meant. With your excuses combined, I am not responsible for anything." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867845/large/notresponsible.jpg?1602369056" title="Just a joke; He Misspoke; Sarcasm; Media twisted what he said; Not what he meant. With your excuses combined, I am not responsible for anything."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Excuse me, excuse me, I" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867846/large/trump-excuse-lie.jpg?1602369057"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=mJPEwfT7BIQ" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJPEwfT7BIQ" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=qq1gw0ouNcE" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qq1gw0ouNcE" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=jS8SUqqZD5k" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jS8SUqqZD5k" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=n4XMtODFsTc" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n4XMtODFsTc" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=nd4gvgE7V2o" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nd4gvgE7V2o" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=jkn6eH7j8jw" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jkn6eH7j8jw" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=LAcmNlWDwCU" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LAcmNlWDwCU" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=72NUGM8GWMs" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/72NUGM8GWMs" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=CN4vIolEBX0" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CN4vIolEBX0" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;If you&amp;#39;re sick, struggling, or worried about how you&amp;#39;re going to get through the day — know you are not alone.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We&amp;#39;re all in this together. And together, we&amp;#39;ll emerge stronger than before. &lt;a href="https://t.co/ztiKctOcHW"&gt;pic.twitter.com/ztiKctOcHW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1314949308194729985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 10, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If you're sick, struggling, or worried about how you're going to get through the day — know you are not alone.<br><br>We're all in this together. And together, we'll emerge stronger than before. <a href="https://t.co/ztiKctOcHW">pic.twitter.com/ztiKctOcHW</a></p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1314949308194729985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content="&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr" lang="en"&gt;How to drugs &lt;a href="https://t.co/S51U2iKasn"&gt;pic.twitter.com/S51U2iKasn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1311835475196473344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 2, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;"><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>How to drugs <a href="https://t.co/S51U2iKasn">pic.twitter.com/S51U2iKasn</a></p>— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1311835475196473344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2020</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>It’s Saturday and that means Goodie is in the GNR driver’s seat:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/10/1985067/-Are-You-Addicted-to-Doom-Scrolling-Through-Panic-Porn-Help-is-on-the-way-Saturday-s-Good-News" title="">Are You Addicted to Doom Scrolling Through Panic Porn?  Help is on the way: Saturday's Good News</a></p> <p>Some news from the Good News stream:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/10/1985411/-GREAT-NEWS-out-of-PA-Integrity-Commission-dropped-Trump-lawsuit-kicked-out-by-Trump-judge" title="">GREAT NEWS out of PA: "Integrity Commission" dropped, + Trump lawsuit kicked out by Trump judge.</a></p> <p>Yosef is a master of vote getteroutering.  Let’s all get involved:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/10/1985343/-Let-s-Finish-the-Job-in-the-Next-24-Days-GET-OUT-THE-DEMOCRATIC-VOTE" title="">Let's Finish the Job in the Next 24 Days. GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE.</a></p> <p>WYgalinCali has opened the doors and the Jukebox is available:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/10/1983377/-Another-Saturday-Night-Soundtracks-and-Theme-Songs">Another Saturday Night<span> - Soundtracks</span> and Theme Songs</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1985421 Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:30:07 +0000 A Nightmare at the Movies (with links) - Evening Shade, Friday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/9/1985144/-A-Nightmare-at-the-Movies-with-links-Evening-Shade-Friday <p>A couple of days ago we looked at 50-60’s television through the pink-eyed vision<sup>1</sup> of Der Space Kapitan GropingFury.  We overlooked his cinematic ambitions.  In his later life he achieved some deserved scorn for his wooden cameo in <em>Home Alone</em>, where he was cast to type as a New York real estate douche.  He followed up with limp cameo portrayals, also cast to type, of a sleazy man about town in a couple of sort-core T&A extravaganzas.</p> <p>Donnie has never been satisfied with being a mediocre version of his father.  He’s always striven to take his mediocrity right down to the basement and become the absolute worst that he could be.  Donnie will tell anyone willing to listen how he, “could’ve a been a star or a bartender or something.  People are telling me:  Sir, you should have been in the movies or maybe jail.  I don’t remember.”</p> <p>What would have happened had Donnie gone into film?  First off, his father would have had to finance all the pictures, as we all know Donnie wouldn’t have made it on his own.  What kind of movies would he have made?</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="tRump declares war on humanity" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867098/large/waronhumanity.jpg?1602273987" title="tRump declares war on humanity"> <figcaption>Now you know why he needs all that makeup</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Breathless</strong> — 45 minutes<sup>2</sup> — Donnie tries to sing, Cry for Me Argentina from the White House balcony, but runs out of breath a couple of bars into his attempt.</p> <p><strong>All the President’s Flunkies and Lickspittles</strong> — 45 minutes —  A modern day take on what would happen if the Watergate scandal unfolded under the watchful eye of Mitch McConnell.</p> <p><strong>Do the Wrong Thing</strong> — 45 minutes — A retrospective of every decision Donnie ever made.</p> <p><strong>Raging Bullshit</strong> — 45 minutes — Donnie complains about how he was conspired against by the other members of his high school class so that he always got the lowest scores, unless he paid someone to to the work for him.</p> <p><strong>Apocalypse Now</strong> — 45 minutes — Donnie plays the president of the US and screws everything up. (Based on a true story).</p> <p><strong>Taxi Flagger</strong> — 45 minutes — Follow Donnie around Manhattan as he makes payoffs to various corrupt officials to overlook his building code violations.</p> <p><strong>Shafted</strong> — 45 minutes — Donald, in blackface, negotiates to have prostitutes spank him with rolled up photos of Richard Roundtree.</p> <p><strong>His Girls Friday</strong> — 45 minutes — Donnie runs a modelling agency and abuses the staff.</p> <p><strong>In the Mood to Pay for Love</strong> — 45 minutes — Donald wanders the red light district looking for someone who will take his money.</p> <p><strong>The Texas Coronavirus Massacre</strong> — 45 minutes — At Donnie’s urging the Texas governor unleashes a plague on his citizens.</p> <p><strong>Eternal Darkness of the Useless Mind</strong> — 45 minutes — A deep psychological study of a very shallow mind.</p> <p><strong>Alien Ban</strong> — 45 minutes — Follow along as Donnie flouts the Constitution, US laws and various international treaties.</p> <p><strong>Touch of Evil </strong>— 45 hours — Donnie is deposed by all the women who have accused him of assault.</p> <p><strong>Enemy of the State</strong> — 45 minutes — Donnie’s self-portrait in film.</p> <p><strong>Raiders of the Federal Treasury</strong> — 45 minutes — Watch Donnie and his friends steal billions in the greatest heist of all time.  The sequel, <em>Donnie Doin’ Time</em>, is due in late 2021.</p> <p><strong>Space Captain Donald Armsweak Clusterphuk at the Battle of Little Tinyhands</strong>  — 45 minutes — Donald attempts and fails to open various jars of pickles, tomato sauce and peanut butter but fails because of inability to get his stubby fingers all the way around the lids.</p> <p><sup>1</sup>Pink-eye is sometimes a symptom of COVID-19.  We think it is masking his normal jaundiced vision.  Do not be surprised if you see orange-eye tomorrow as he continues to widen the coverup of his actual health status.</p> <p><sup>2</sup>Donald is incapable of maintaining interest in anything, except for Donald, for more than 45 minutes.  Many of these films and his other projects are unfinished because of this debilitatiing quirk of personality.</p> <p><strong>A Question for the Ages</strong>:  Donald tRump, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, William Barr, Charles Koch, Sheldon Adelson and Stephen Miller are accidentally stranded on a desert island.  There is only enough food to sustain one of them.  Who survives? — The United States of America</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=1odd2yscP8Y" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1odd2yscP8Y" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Memaliciousness</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="TIM201019_Trump.Covid_.Cover_.FINAL_.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/866834/large/TIM201019_Trump.Covid_.Cover_.FINAL_.jpg?1602247392" title="TIM201019_Trump.Covid_.Cover_.FINAL_.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="Biden/Harris" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867128/large/MyCousinsDog2ForYouMark106.jpg?1602276794" title="Biden/Harris"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="It" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867127/large/209000Mark106.jpg?1602276790"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="This is Donald. Donald didn" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867126/large/WearAMaskMark104.jpg?1602276788"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="I always knew Melania was an illegal alien in disguise." class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/867099/large/disguise.jpg?1602273988" title="I always knew Melania was an illegal alien in disguise."> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><strong>Ad(s) of the Day (I guess we should call it the Friday ad dump)</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=6yJa3b6lrdA" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6yJa3b6lrdA" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div 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center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=nyRzdIoy9Gg" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nyRzdIoy9Gg" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>:  There is a nacronym tonight.</p> <p>chloris creator created some nice warm good positive feelings with today’s GNR:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/9/1983089/-Good-News-Roundup-for-October-9-2020-the-new-greatest-generation" title="">Good News Roundup for October 9, 2020: the new greatest generation?</a></p> <p>The election must be approaching.  There are less than 20 reasons left before we get to 100:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/9/1984885/-Joe-Biden-Loves-Strong-Women-He-Isn-t-Scared-of-Them-Day-83-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Joe Biden Loves Strong Women; He Isn't Scared of Them: Day 83 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef 52’s latest collection of resources for getting out the vote just cries out to be shared:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/9/1984885/-Joe-Biden-Loves-Strong-Women-He-Isn-t-Scared-of-Them-Day-83-out-of-100-days-of-loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Joe Biden Loves Strong Women; He Isn't Scared of Them: Day 83 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1985144 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:30:14 +0000 What Did We Learn Last Night? - Evening Shade, Thursday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/8/1984814/-What-Did-We-Learn-Last-Night-Evening-Shade-Thursday <p>For a few minutes last night, we were reminded that ranting like an orange lunatic is not normal debate behavior.  The debate was still chock full of all the standard republican lying points, but the spittle-flecked juiced-up abominable con man was noticeably absent.</p> <p>He did embark on one of his patented twitter tirades shortly thereafter, conclusively disproving most of the lies just promulgated by Pence.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>What did we learn last night?</strong></p> <p>Mike Pence cemented his reputation as a calm, confident, accomplished liar without an ounce of remorse for repeating many of tRump’s Pinocchio level smears.  Rugs are envious.  Deflect, deny, dissemble, distort and debase are the foundation of the Pence method.</p> <p>Pence has located a source for fireproof pants.</p> <p>We are all familiar with, “Man bites dog.”  This is the first time I’ve ever seen, “Fly swats man.”</p> <p>Republicans are ignoring a precedent set by Abraham Lincoln regarding the Supreme Court.  We shouldn’t be surprised — they ignore just about everything he stood for.</p> <p>Republicans have flip-flopped.  They used to be against late term <s>abortions</s> nominations.  Now they are all in on late term <s>abortions</s> nominations.</p> <p>It is clear Mike Pence has never met a lie he wouldn’t tell.</p> <p>There is no doubt whatsoever that flies are attracted to bullshit.</p> <p>Mike Pence must have a serious hearing problem.  He did not directly answer any of the questions asked of him.  He didn’t acknowledge any of the several dozen times Susan Page told him he had overrun his allotted time.  He is either extremely deaf, or he’s just another rude, boorish republican stooge.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="bidenfly.jpg" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/866543/large/bidenfly.jpg?1602183524" title="bidenfly.jpg"> <figcaption>Patriotic Fly claims virgin territory for the Biden campaign.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>We now know why Mike Pence can’t kneel for the national anthem — He’s already on his knees for tRump.</p> <p>I’m almost certain the fly brought along a lie swatter.</p> <p>Some words that came to mind while watching Mike Pence dishonor his parents with his constant lies:  smarmy, sanctimonious, unctuous, oily, dishonest, disingenuous, morally repulsive, evasive, soulless, conscienceless, deplorable, despicable, mendacious, toadie, lickspittle, henchweasel)</p> <p>You can look at tRump as the whoopee cushion and Pence as the itching powder — a couple of tired old practical jokes that need to be retired.</p> <p>Rug and carpet showrooms all over the country are in absolute awe at Pence’s ability to lie.  A throw rug in Padukah exclaimed, “We are out of a job.  They are going to change the idiom to ‘lie like a Pence’.”</p> <p>Among all the mountain range of reasons to vote for Biden/Harris, you can add, “Kamala Harris is no Mike Pence, thank God!”</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=K4DgOdEKUiE" title="" 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<a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=hUkmsSpM-sU" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hUkmsSpM-sU" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=CB_3vefuf_g" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CB_3vefuf_g" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Olbermann:  The Worst Person in the World</strong></p> <p>“tRump can be and must be expunged.”</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=nzFtT4yKiZY" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nzFtT4yKiZY" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>Mokurai was today’s designated rounderupperer:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/8/1983642/-Good-News-Thursday-Cease-From-Evil" title="">Good News Thursday: Cease From Evil</a></p> <p>Good keeps finding reasons and Joe’s lead keeps growing.  Is there a cause and effect going on here.  I don’t know.  You’ll have to decide for yourself:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/8/1983783/-Biden-will-unite-us-listen-to-his-own-words-Day-82-out-of-100-days-of-Loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden will unite us<span> -- </span>listen to his own words: Day 82 out of 100 days of Loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef isn’t letting up.  Neither should we:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/8/1984853/-RECORD-Voter-Turnout-Predicted-GET-OUT-THE-DEMOCRATIC-VOTE" title="">RECORD Voter Turnout Predicted. GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE.</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll shade Snark _1984814 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:30:07 +0000 Living in a Past That Never Existed - Evening Shade, Wednesday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/10/7/1984448/-Living-in-a-Past-That-Never-Existed-Evening-Shade-Wednesday <p>Somewhere in that twisted maze of high capacity bile ducts and crippling fear of being exposed as a fraud, commonly referred to as tRump’s brain, he has a yearning need to regress back to a time when he still had the potential to be human.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl"><img alt="I believe Donald J tRump was sent by God. Why? Did he run out of locusts? " class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/866045/large/locusts1.jpg?1602106258" title="I believe Donald J tRump was sent by God. Why? Did he run out of locusts? "> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Before moving forward, a few facts to keep in mind are that Donnie isn’t very bright, accomplished or inquisitive (everybody says so).  Aside from his chronically duplicitous nature, Donnie is also dumb, dull, dickish and dreary.  His view of making America great involves turning the clock back to his faulty version of the 1950’s, a version that only exists in his feverish dreams of his own greatness.</p> <p>He wants a country sanitized of real history.  One where Brown v Board of Education never happened.  One where Billie Holliday never shared the horrors of <em>Strange Fruit</em>.  One where we didn’t invest in rebuilding Europe and Japan.  One where the sacrifices made to vanquish fascism weren’t made by “losers and suckers.”</p> <p>Instead, Donnie’s world is one where the simplistic fantasies portrayed on television are a true and accurate portrait of the “real” America of the time.  Even his vision of that America is twisted into something unrecognizable by his internal overlay, forced by his burgeoning multitude of failures and flaws.  When people say, “Somethin’ ain’t right with that boi,” they are understating their case by several orders of magnitude.  He wasn’t right then and he’s only gotten worse — lot’s worse.</p> <p>Listen to Donnie for only a few moments, and one thing becomes clear — he lives in a fantasy land where he is the star of everything.  He is the center of the universe and nothing else matters.  Not the health of his servants, protectors, toadies or family.  He really doesn’t care.</p> <p>These are some of his favorite TV programs filtered through the distorted memory of the juvenile Donald.  The one he never successful grew out of.  This is the world he’d be trying to recreate if he was in the least bit competent and had an attention span longer than a gnat’s.</p> <p><strong>The Legal Stranger</strong> (1949) — Young Donnie flaunts the law.</p> <p><strong>Truth or No Consequences</strong> (1950) — Young Donnie lies with impunity.</p> <p><strong>Crime with Father</strong> (1951) — Young Donnie helps his father commit fraud and other crimes.</p> <p><strong>American Grandstander</strong> (1952) — Every week Donnie takes credit for an accomplishment, like curing polio or inventing television.</p> <p><strong>The Adventures of Stupidman</strong> (1951) — Donny is presented with various extremely simple puzzles to solve.  Hijinks ensue as Donnie struggles mightily.</p> <p><strong>Make Room for Donnie</strong> (1953) — Donnie starts working to cut his siblings out of their inheritance.</p> <p><strong>Father Knows Everything</strong> (1954) — Donald pontificates and pontificates and pontificates…</p> <p><strong>Bossie</strong> (1954) — Donald saves the day by sending Timmy off to do his schoolwork for him.</p> <p><strong>Buttsmoke</strong> (1955) — Donnie and best bud Brett ‘boof’ around town.</p> <p><strong>Grab It, the Beaver</strong> (1957) — That Access Hollywood tape isn’t the only time he shared his tips for social interaction.  Donnie has always been hard on the beaver.</p> <p><strong>Have Gun — Will Kill Unarmed Black People</strong> (1957) — Early indications of Donnie’s views on police reform and racial justice.</p> <p><strong>Batty Masterson</strong> (1958) — Crazy Donnie talks about how wonderful his father was.</p> <p><strong>The Naked City</strong> (1958) — Donnie’s dreams of lust and abandon.  (Banned in Alabama, Mississippi, Teas and Tennessee)</p> <p><strong>The Defectives</strong> (1959) — Portraits of members of the tRump family.</p> <p><strong>My Three Sins </strong>(1960) — Every week Donnie violates three different commandments.</p> <p><strong>The DIckish Vain Dickhead Show</strong> (1961) — Donnie invents reality TV</p> <p><strong>Bewitchhunted</strong> (1964) — Donnie whines about being framed for stealing other kids lunch money.  He never admits to the thefts even though he is filmed committing them.</p> <p><strong>Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel</strong> (1964) — Donnie works at staffing his father’s companies with, “only the best people.”</p> <p><strong>That Escort</strong> (1966) — Donnie dreams about his future wives.</p> <p><strong>Shame</strong> (1966) — Donnie commits increasingly shameful acts and shows no sign of remorse.</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Sic semper tyrannis</em></p> <h3 class="AlignCenter">GOTMFV</h3> <p><strong>Up the Resistance!</strong></p> <p><strong>Music for Resisting</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=5AoY6RRfMZM" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5AoY6RRfMZM" data-width="503" data-height="283" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> 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The Worst Person in the World</strong></p> <p>He’s back.  I’ve missed him.  “The President of the United States is the leading cause of death in this country.”</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=rE-GxWyhw_Q" title="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rE-GxWyhw_Q" data-width="1234" data-height="694" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Evening Shade appears every evening at 7:30PM Eastern (unless I get lazy or distracted).</p> <div> <div> <p><strong>Cut and Paste Department</strong>.  This is the regularly scheduled plea for readers.  I’ve still only had to make three memes.  You have it within your power to make me work.  If you spread the word about Evening Shade and your spreadee announces themselves in the comments, you will become eligible to receive your very, very <strong>special noprize of a meme of your very own</strong>.  All you have to do is jump up and get out there and start carnival barking, cajoling, proselytizing (or pimping, if you are of an irreligious bent).  You could even pester and push.  Procrastination is not an option — it’s a way of life.</p> <p>niftywriter pulled off another GNR Wednesday tour de force:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1974559/-27-Days-To-Go-and-Pubs-in-a-Panic-Wednesday-Good-News-Roundup" title="">27 Days To Go and Pubs in a Panic<span> - Wednesday</span> Good News Roundup</a></p> <p>We are in the home stretch 4/5ths of the way to 100.  Goodie does not disappoint:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1958395/-Biden-is-a-progressive-in-the-true-sense-of-the-word-Day-81-out-of-100-Days-of-Loving-Joe-Biden" title="">Biden is a progressive in the true sense of the word: Day 81 out of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden</a></p> <p>Yosef does all this work for us.  We can use our energy to get out the vote.  Share this widely:  <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984317/-Fight-for-Both-Biden-Harris-AND-a-DEMOCRATIC-SENATE-A-RECORD-Turnout-is-Expected" title="">Fight for Both <span>Biden-Harris</span> AND a DEMOCRATIC SENATE! A RECORD Turnout is Expected!</a></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (NotNowNotEver) EveningShade GoodNews Goodnewsroundup Poll Recommended shade Snark _1984448 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:30:05 +0000