@AdamSerwer No, the best thing about it is that it's completely unrealistic and doomed to fail.
— billmon (@billmon1) July 2, 2013
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@AdamSerwer No, the best thing about it is that it's completely unrealistic and doomed to fail.
— billmon (@billmon1) July 2, 2013
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What is best in life?…
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eemom
What, no answer to my question? Quelle surprise.
mdblanche
From the people who brought you the GOP rebranding effort comes the GOP space program.
kuvasz
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc
Hill Dweller
The wingnuts in the NC state senate passed a crazy anti-abortion bill last night, without any warning. It mirrors the bills in OH and TX.
Coupled with their rush to implement mass voter suppression, they look like a radical party, even by Republican standards.
Who are these policies supposed to attract? Are they that confident in the gerrymandered congressional districts?
John O
Billmon rules.
Chris
It’s simple. We, ah, we kill the Batman.
mai naem
@Hill Dweller: I think we are effectively going back to pre-Roe v. Wade in 2/3 of US states. The only legal option a lot of women are going to have pretty damn soon is going to be going to California/Wash/Ore if you live in the Western part of the US or go to the NE if you live elsewhere. When we get to that, then the dumbass people, esp. women, who thought it was okay, will wake up when their daughters need an abortion and they have to go through all the extra hassle and expense. Just wondering when they’ll start with prosecuting women who go out of state to have abortions.
The prophet Nostradumbass
A really good show to see some whiny Confederate butthurt is History Detectives on PBS. The hosts push back, too, which makes it even better.
Roger Moore
To kick the Governator to the curb, re-elect Governor Moonbeam, and have 2/3 Democratic majorities in both houses of the California legislature.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Roger Moore: that is pretty awesome. The GOPers’ redistricting trick backfired on them in a huge way, and I laugh at them for it.
AxelFoley
To crush the GOP, see them driven before you, and hear to the lamentations of Fox News.
Roger Moore
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
I’ll admit that I’m happy to see the California Republican party in such disarray, and to see serious signs that they’re not going to recover to statewide relevance any time soon, but it makes me worry about states where the Democrats are in a comparable position of irrelevance. I can easily imagine the Democrats in those places going into the same kind of death spiral, and it worries me what the Republicans are going to do in those places.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Roger Moore: the thing I like about it the most is that it is entirely self-inflicted. They tried the same sort of chicanery they do everywhere, but it backfired on them here.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
I’ll go all in with Basie and his orchestra performing an elegant, lush tune penned by a young Quincy Jones. It just don’t get better.
PeakVT
Doomed to fail over where and over what time period?
Origuy
This might fit better on one of Tom’s threads, but I don’t want to wait:
Dutch Flashmob Recreates the Night Watch
OK, it’s from April, but I hadn’t seen it before.
Botsplainer
The puppy soiled his crate again. I fasted him from 7 pm forward, and didn’t drop him in till midnight. Just took cleaser to the thing with the idea to kill lingering odor that may trigger more pooping.
I suspect, however, that certain teens free fed him through the early afternoon. I also found a nondigested candy wrapper in the mix.
Anybody got any clues or hints besides banishing the teens to the poopy crate?
raven
Who the fuck is Bilmon and why am I supposed to give a shit?
raven
@Botsplainer: Take the pup out every hour like the Monks of New Skete say.
SRW1
Great stink in Europe over Snowden: Plane of Bolivian president Morales departing from Moscow was prevented from using French and Portuguese airspace and forced to land in Vienna over rumors that it had Snowden on board.
Rumors apparently not true. South American governments non-plussed, European governments (France, Portugal, Spain, Italy) red-faced.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Billmon ran the Whiskey Bar blog around 2003-2005, really good writer. One of my regular reads in those days.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: Ah, well, getting old sucks. Met up with my LA family in Nashville this weekend and then they headed out on a tour of Cincinnati and Ft Wayne. Serious culture shock!
raven
Full throat wingnut freakout on the delay in the healthcare component.
Mark S.
Waking up at 4am and not getting back to sleep.
Oh wait, that’s actually shit times.
raven
This fucking bitch Nicole Wallace is making me crazy.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: I think that Cole should set up a pool on how many times the house votes to repeal ObamaCare before the midterms. We’re at what, 37, 38?
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: 37
Narcissus
I miss billmon
Hill Dweller
@raven:
Because they wanted to run against it in ’14.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: She seems to have a home business that has more than 50 employees? She seemed very concerned about the delayed start of ObamaCare for small businesses. Oh wait that’s for businesses over 50 employees.
TR
@raven:
Seriously? Are you 12?
CorbinDallasMultipass
Kathleen Parker concern trolling on Wendy Davis
It’s like I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant was a made up television show.
aimai
@CorbinDallasMultipass: @CorbinDallasMultipass: What a bitch Parker is. Not only do some women not know they are pregnant at 20 weeks–especially lower income women without access to good health care, younger women who are not seeing a doctor regularly, and others with irregular menses but most/many genetic prenatal testing isn’t done until the 18th week leaving you just two weeks to make momentous decisions about the entire future course of your life and your family’s life.
Suffern ACE
@aimai: two weeks to figure out how to get to the 2-5 clinics in Texas, if there will be any, and find a place to stay for 48 hours for the wait period.
CorbinDallasMultipass
@aimai: right, it is as if she chose to speak about a topic she is not at all educated on, clearly obvious because she cites no medical statistics on pregnancy or abortion.
clearly it is the people who speak out in favor of Wendy Davis who are out of line, not Kathleen Parker.
raven
@TR: Why, because I don’t know who some blogger is?
CorbinDallasMultipass
@aimai: Further, I just found this gem:
Bobby Thomson
@raven: Because Billmon isn’t “some blogger.” He was widely considered to be the best blogger around.
gene108
Fell asleep with the TV on and it was set to BBC America. Woke up to BBC World News.
They had a piece on proposed legislation in the U.K. that is aimed to crack down on medical tourism, by having doctors at the NHS charge $300 for things like ER services for people, who have stayed in the UK over six months.
The doctors were not pleased, because they feel they are forced to play border patrol.
In short, this proposed legislation is relatively controversial.
I laughed, because in the U.S. of A we think getting charged $300 for ER a good deal.
Also, too look what happens when Empires die…they turn into fucking socialist emo-pussies…
cvstoner
Actually, it’s “we can win with only white votes and their servants“
gnomedad
Via LGF commenter Lidane
SteveM
Billmon is wrong. Arizona is 30% Hispanic already — the magic number Dems are counting on to turn the country Democratic in the near future. How’s that working out for Dems in Arizona?
The evisceration of the Voting Rights Act plus Republican congressional intransigence preventing a recovery plus Obama corporatism preventing a recovery plus innovations like the rejiggering of electoral-vote apportionment (yes, they’re going to start doing that again soon) plus Citizens United (outside groups funded by wingnut billionaires will learn how not to make bad ads sooner or later) means Republicans will stay competitive for the foreseeable future. Maybe they won’t win the White House in 2016, but if they control the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and most of America’s governors’ mansions and state legislatures, what’s not to like?
HinTN
@raven: Billmon worked in the State Department or some reasonably high level foreign economics posting. His writing was superb, insightful and captivating for the time he was willing to share. Can be found occasionally at the Great Orange Satan.
raven
@Bobby Thomson: Well big fucking deal. I didn’t know who this “Sully” asshole was either and my life continued. I will, however, check bill out.
raven
@HinTN: Cool, thanks.
raven
@HinTN: Whoa, I see
Mea Culpa
gene108
The ruling class maintained disproportionate control via restricting voting access for most of this country’s history, through things like poll taxes, literacy tests and general intimidation of the the wrong sorts voter.
It was only a relatively recent development that voting access became more accessible.
The Republicans can very well hang on to power over the next several decades by discouraging the wrong sorts from voting, by 21st century methods like Voter ID laws, long lines in precincts the wrong sorts of people tend to vote, and gerrymandered districts that favor their candidates.
People who think the demographic shift is going to make a big difference are clinging to a belief, which may or may not materialize.
The reality is the GOP is in a very strong position, even in Presidential elections.
Romney got 47% of the vote and won 20+ states. The Republicans will start off with 190 EV, they just need to be able to win a few more battleground states than the Democratic candidate, who will start off with 200+ EV. It’s a harder task than the Democrat, but not insurmountable.
Obama’s victories were not the beat down Reagan and Bush, Sr. dropped on their Democratic opponents in the 1980’s, when the Democrat barely won 10 states and the Republican candidate got 400+ EV.
Suffern ACE
@SteveM: yep. And those bills to split electoral college votes where states that vote dem statewide but who currently have republican legislatures and congressional delegations…those have not actually gone away. I expect them to be back shortly.
lol
@SteveM:
Arizona would’ve been in play in 2008 if McCain wasn’t from there.
Part of the challenge is voter registration and getting the community organized. The other challenge is that the latino vote skews younger which means they don’t vote as reliably. That can be fixed in the short term with more GOTV and in the long term, it’ll fix itself to a certain extent. The demographic apocolypse for the GOP isn’t just ethnicity related – it’s age related.
mai naem
@SteveM: AZ has five Dem congressional reps and four Repubs and the last guy who ran for Senate came pretty close to beating Flake. IMHO Flake is Mormon which combined with Romney, really helped turn out the Mormon vote for both of them. Also, McCain was the home state candidate in 08 which also helped him win the state. If McCain decides to run again for the Senate, I think he’ll have a tough race.
Capri
@mai naem: There’s a big difference between now and pre-Roe vs. Wade. There’s now a well-established medical way to induce abortion, although the surgical method still gets all the press. Two prescription drugs taken at the right time does the trick.
Some anti-abortion people mention this – making it more difficult to get the drugs or trying to limit their use to strictly on-label uses. But the fact is, a woman can go to a MD and get the drugs needed to induce abortion.
gbear
@Hill Dweller:
It doesn’t matter, they’re designed to shut out from voting anyone who’s not attracted to these policies. It might work, and I’m feel really crappy about what might happen in 2014.
GregB
Oh moon of Alabama, we now must say goodbye….
Nutella
@Origuy:
Wow. Horses, guns, pikes, people running and jumping around in weird outfits. If that had happened in an American shopping mall half a dozen citizens with concealed-carry would have put a messy stop to it.
Steve M.
@lol:
But then why wasn’t it in play in 2012?
Gex
@Botsplainer: Make them clean up the mess that results from feeding the dog candy.
jon
Arizona is at least eight years an d a redistricting process from being turned by Hispanic demographic changes.
The GOP Is being less suicidal under the leadership of Brewer than it would otherwise be, though the next governor could take them off in a Tea Party heading.
mai naem
@Steve M.: Because Arizona has the largest Mormon population after Utah and Mitt Romney was the first Mormon candidate to have a legitimate shot at winning the presidency and that was a big thing in the Mormon community. Also Flake who was running for the open Senate seat is Mormon as well.
Paul in KY
@Roger Moore: That is fine if you’re in Cali!
NotMax
@mai naem
Untrue. After Utah is Idaho, so far as percentage of population who are Mormon.
Julia Grey
They think they can win with white votes only. Okay.
Is that OLDER white votes only?
Is that white MEN only?
See, the thing is, they are not only limiting their constituency by race, the things they are doing are alienating youth and women as well, so maybe if their new strategy is to forget about the Hispanic vote by kicking immigration reform to the curb, they should at the same time lay off the stuff that leads to ADDITIONAL voter attrition. Because it all adds up, y’know?
Their demographic problems don’t begin and end with immigrants and their ethnic allies.
sherparick
@kuvasz: Given the character in the scene (definitely looked like Mongols), the scriptwriters took it from one who really knew:
“The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”
Somewhat misogynist, but what can you expect from a 13th Century war lord.
Opie_jeanne
@CorbinDallasMultipass: oh gee, I think that’s about when we found out we were expecting our last one.
Opie_jeanne
@aimai: it took my doctors nearly a month to decide that my heart murmur was PROBABLY benign. I was we’ll past the 20 weeks at that point.
sherparick
When you read Trende, besides saying double down on the white vote, he argues that the Republicans should adopt an economic populist position. Yeah, good luck with the party of the .01% adopting that point of view. As we can see in the states, the Republicans seem intent on attaching and satisfying that part of the white working and middle classes attached to the Evangelical churches and who have a real strong tribal sense of being “White,” e.g. white southerners and northern Copperheads who identify with White Southern culture (hence the Confederate Party is the real name of the Republican Party). Besides tribal, racial identity politcs, they also have a strong sense of deference to their betters (hence the Kochs and their like find this a comfortable fit) and willingness to use thuggish force to defend private property.