Local knowledge is invaluable. As might be expected, refugee from Little Britain Oliver has STRONG OPINIONS.
Late Night Open Thread: John Oliver on BrexitPost + Comments (84)
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Local knowledge is invaluable. As might be expected, refugee from Little Britain Oliver has STRONG OPINIONS.
Late Night Open Thread: John Oliver on BrexitPost + Comments (84)
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This is now the background of every electronic device I own. #ImWithThem pic.twitter.com/Gv8gwCjjWI
— Nicole Merchut (@nicolemerchut) June 27, 2016
Let’s see if this CNN clip will work (looks fine on my screen, but who knos the ways of FYWP?). Just in case, here’s the link.
Separate videos (where I saw this first) available at Mother Jones:
Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren took a little trip to Ohio today to see the sights, do some antiquing, and eviscerate Donald Trump…
They have a pretty good buddy cop situation going on here. Maybe Clinton will make her VP after all?
Sigh. Why must y’all keep trying to steal my senior Senator? (Yes, I will most certainly reconcile myself if necessary, but I’d love to see Senator Warren leading the Senate under President Clinton.)
Local news outlet Cleveland.com:
… Standing under large art deco murals of workers at Cincinnati’s Union Terminal, Clinton and Warren called for regulations on Wall Street, punishing companies that send jobs overseas, making college debt-free and raising taxes on the rich…
“We’ve got to go big and we’ve got to go bold,” Clinton said to a crowd of hundreds, their loud cheers amplified in the cavernous terminal lobby. “We need to take the frustration, the fear, the anxiety and yes, the anger. And after we have vented it, we’ve got to work together.”
Clinton pledged: “I will not raise taxes on the middle class. But we are going to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy.”
Elizabeth Warren & Hillary Clinton in CincinnatiPost + Comments (191)
by Betty Cracker| 209 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Assholes
Donald Trump, tiny-fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret-wearing shitgibbon,* retweeted this from an unhinged follower:
"@JimVitari: @ABC @washingtonpost we know they're fake just like poles during primary. I'm sure u will crush #CrookedHillary in general"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2016
Of course, as Trump well knows, the polls during the GOP primary accurately reflected his lead all along. We know he knows that because approximately 80% of his primary stump speeches consisted of Trump crowing about how he was crushing it in the polls.
What the unhinged follower is wrongly remembering as inaccurate “poles” were pundit predictions that Trump couldn’t win the nomination. And that was because the idea that a ludicrous tangerine ballsack* like Trump winning a major party nomination — even the gun-humping, god-bothering, austerity-sucking racist idiot party’s — just seemed absurd at the time, polls be damned. We’ve learned otherwise now.
Still, interesting that Trump is pulling the old switcheroo by retweeting a reference to skewed polls now that he’s trailing in general election matchups. The entire Donald J. Trump for President bid is a fraudulent enterprise on damn near every level.
Was just watching Tweety Matthews on MSNBC. Ambulatory cream cheese sculpture Hugh Hewitt was on. Tweety practically humps hard hats and lunch boxes whenever a topic that touches on the white working class arises, and both men were seeing portents for the US in the UK’s Brexit vote.
Hewitt seems to have suggested that if a woman who is standing for office in the UK (didn’t catch the name) wins, Hillary will prevail. But if Emo Trump Boris Johnson wins in the UK, Trump will prevail. Is that as dumb as it sounds?
Open thread!
[*H/T flying UK Twitter insult squad]by DougJ| 197 Comments
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I have a hard time understanding politics in other countries. Politics is mostly about star-bellied sneeches and nostalgia ’bout the good old days and if you won’t live there, you don’t which sneeches have stars or what people believe about the country’s past.
This Brexit summary from Carl Diggler makes some sense to me:
After David Cameron made a highly understandable mistake of caving to a perpetually drunk racist demagogue in Nigel Farage, he made another completely reasonable error of putting the EU referendum up for a vote. Compounding this, the UK media made a multi-decade long mistake of stoking anti-immigrant fears, which played in hand with existing English dislike of the EU.
But there’s a side of it that I don’t understand at all: what was Boris Johnson’s play here? He was mayor of London so he knows the banks are shitting their pants about Brexit. He knows that the EU won’t let the UK continue to have access to the common markets unless it keeps immigration and worker movement policies more or less as is, and the main rationale for the referendum was that these should be changed.
Did he think the thing would never pass and that he’d just get mileage from supporting Brexit after it failed? Or is there some other angle here.
by Randinho| 92 Comments
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I love Cinderella stories and I hope Iceland’s continues.
Euro 2016 Round of 16 England v Iceland Open ThreadPost + Comments (92)
by Randinho| 27 Comments
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A repeat of the 2012 Championship. Who comes out a winner this time?
Euro 2016 Round of 16 Italy v Spain Open ThreadPost + Comments (27)
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THE BURDEN IS UNDUE! pic.twitter.com/FAPZE4CvAE
— Planned Parenthood (@PPAWI) June 27, 2016
You may now go about your day.
Obligatory Texas Abortion Ruling ReactionPost + Comments (198)