Hillary Clinton is coming to Wisconsin in November. pic.twitter.com/UzpH96gpiX
— Jessie Opoien (@jessieopie) August 28, 2017
She’s also coming to Boston, on November 28. (I signed up for pre-sale ticket notification, but I’m not yet sure whether I’ll be able to attend.) From her publisher Simon & Schuster’s website:
… Visit www.HillaryClintonBookTour.com beginning today to see what cities she will be visiting and how to get tickets. To find out where she will be signing books, visit www.hillaryclintonmemoir.com/events.html#book-signings
Appearances in Fort Lauderdale, New York and Canada, are on sale as of today. Washington, DC, will go on pre-sale August 29 and on sale to the public August 30.
Additional events in Ann Arbor, MI; Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; Seattle, WA; and Portland, OR, will go on sale on September 18. Special Presale tickets will be available to only those with private presale codes officially beginning September 6; and tickets for the general public are on-sale September 18.
From today, August 28, through September 4, anyone interested in purchasing the Special Presale Tickets can register at www.HillaryClintonBookTour.com, to receive an invitation along with the presale password to purchase tickets before the September 18 general public are on sale…
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Apart from party planning (maybe folks will want to do a meet-up before or after some book signings?), what’s on the agenda for the day?
Baud
It would be cool if she drew larger crowds than Trump.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Her only appearance in California is in Davis? Really? Glad I voted for Baud instead of her.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You can offer suggestions on the web page.
ETA: “Additional cities to be added as confirmed”
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Nah, I’m going to bed. Yesterday was hot and I had a sick YorkiePom(she wasn’t eating).
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh no. My dog has been fasting more than I would like also.
Sweet dreams.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: She’s been OK since their 4pm vitamin, hope yours eats OK. It’s going to be worse today since it’s not cooling as much tonight and I have stuff to do later today.
Phylllis
I sent her a thank you note after the election and received a lovely response a few weeks ago. I’m sure it was done by staff, but still a gracious gesture.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Welp, back to not reading here on my mobile. I now have a choice between the pie filter and a font of readable size. Hope autocorrect hasn’t made too much of a mess of this between not being able to read what I’m typing and having the flyout to the next post engage when I try to select something in the edit box.
Amir Khalid
You just know it’s going to happen: when her book tour starts, there’s going to be the usual crew howling, “Why is Hillary hogging the limelight now?“
Baud
@Amir Khalid: It’ll be interesting to see who protests her.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid:
Oh, the usual crew of HRC-haters are already busy complaining about the tour, just as they complained about the book behind the tour. This is not the time to “awaken” the sleeping giant of “all those normal decent voters who hate HRC almost as much as we do!!!”
Heck, I’m waiting for the tongue-firmly-in-check op-ed congratulating HRC for taking the burden of negative publicity upon herself, so that the ‘bros will be distracted from attacking Chelsea for a brief respite.
different-church-lady
@Amir Khalid: “Illegitimi non carborundum” ought to be our motto.
Quinerly
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Now she goes to WI? Three visits to Canada? I should have voted for Baud!?
Baud
@Quinerly: To be fair, Canada would have chosen her over Trump.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Canada would have chosen a damp dish towel over Trump.
Baud
@different-church-lady: Canadians are good people.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: So that’s the difference.
Tokyokie
@Baud: I was thinking the exact same thing!
Amir Khalid
Interesting, this: there’s a Huffington Post story on a group in Austin, Texas that wants Robert E. Lee Road renamed to honour music legend (and former Austin resident) Robert Plant.
Quinerly
@Amir Khalid:
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satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?!
@?BillinGlendaleCA: @Baud: hope both your little buddies get their appetites back soon.
debbie
@Baud:
Or, for her opening line: “Wish I’d come here sooner.”
bystander
Morning, everyone.
I’ve decided I’m ok with federal assistance for flood relief. But I still want to use the opportunity to shame Cornyn and Cruz. Is that so wrong?
Baud
@debbie:
Fixed.
different-church-lady
@Amir Khalid: He’s British. Didn’t we fight a war against them?
Baud
@satby: Thanks, satby.
Baud
@different-church-lady: We also fought a war against Confederates.
bystander
Won’t people be surprised when Clinton just recycles her supersecret, off the record, quid pro quo-laden bankster speeches? Hillary is a master criminal and won’t pass up the opportunity to rip people off.
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
And then, the Hillary voters should just swarm down on them and tell them to shut the entire phuck up.??
debbie
@bystander:
Can’t see because I won’t unblock my ad blocker. Are they saying that there was zero truth to Cruz and Cornym’s claims?
debbie
@Baud:
Much better. Thanks!
rikyrah
@bystander:
Not wrong at all
I want them to have to grovel for the money.
different-church-lady
@Baud: That’s my point!
Who haven’t we gone to war with… France? Iceland? Antartica?
OK, maybe we can name it after a geological rock formation… no, wait, we’re currently at war with science…
different-church-lady
@bystander: “SHE’S TOO CLOSE TO WALL STREET! Here, buy this hat Trump was wearing in the situation room the other day…”
Kay
Really striking to compare political media’s approach to covering Trump in a crisis and Obama in a crisis:
They have a lower standard for Trump. There are all these demands Obama “take responsibility” for the disaster response and they started almost immediately. Compare with Trump, who wasn’t even in DC for the hurricane response.
I know it doesn’t matter and it isn’t going to change but I feel like it’s important to look at it and note it- to stay tethered to the reality of what we’re in here- we’re in some Trump-created world where the standards are lower.
bystander
@debbie: A detailed refutation of their assertions of a pork-laden bill. Three Pinnochios!
@rikyrah: I was pleased to see Katy Tur get in Cruz’s vile mug.
Betty Cracker
@bystander: Not wrong at all — they should absolutely be shamed for their hypocrisy by their senate colleagues. Saw that Cruz interview at the WaPo link yesterday, and I knew the sumbitch was lying about the Sandy bill. That should also be rubbed in his face — Cruz went on TV and told bald-faced lies to excuse his inexcusable and hypocritical behavior. The Democratic senators should bring charts and graphs and video clips onto the senate floor and expose these lying pricks.
Baud
@Kay:
There’s a credible critic.
OzarkHillbilly
This long but very good read has been up at the Guardian since Sunday, meant to post it yesterday.
Well worth it to read it all.
Kay
It’s really stunning, the difference. Here’s the usual Obama “damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t ” analysis.
You just don’t hear any of this for Trump. A coupla Tweets and a visit is plenty, more than anyone expected really, so he gets an A+++ just for checking in.
debbie
@bystander:
Thanks.
Baud
@Kay:
Fixed
different-church-lady
@Kay: The difference is the framing: with Obama, they always framed it as “he’s right on the edge of doing something wrong.” With Trump, it’s always, “He’s right on the edge of doing something right!”
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: IOKIYAR
Baud
@Kay: Obama should have left it to the free market to fix the leak.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I’ve long believed that public education in this country should be federalized, with schools being fully funded nationally and the curriculum uniform throughout the country. You know, like other first world countries do it.
OzarkHillbilly
@different-church-lady:
And yet, somehow someway he never gets there.
bystander
@Kay: IIRC people saw through the media-bashing about the oil spill. I remembered thinking, “If only Obummer had been a better petroleum production engineer, this would have never happened.”
The coverage during the Ebola outbreak was equally reprehensible. If only Obama knew better than all the experts in epidemiology, he would have seen that all travel from Africa needed to be halted, according to epidemiology expert Joe Scarborough.
Kay
@Baud:
They did this crazy comparison, where they compared Obama’s actions to Jindal’s as if Obama was supposed to be tooling around for weeks in a boat. One is a governor and the other is the President. It’s two completely different jobs.
Have you seen any comparisons between the governor of Texas and Donald Trump? How he’s much more “engaged” than Trump?
I think whoever challenges Trump in 2020 has to grapple with this- I don’t know how to do it but they’ll be operating in a completely different metric. It’s a real dilemma. Your opponent will have no standards he’s measured by and you’ll have the ordinary very high standards. It’ll become apparent almost immediately because whoever challenges Trump will release their tax returns and it’ll just go from there. As a contest it’s a dilemma. Two sets of rules. I suppose it can be managed but it’s different.
rikyrah
@Kay:
The curve for unqualified White Men is REAL ?
Baud
@Kay: This is why division on our side hurts so much more than the mere numbers would suggest — because we start off operating on an uneven playing field.
Kay
@bystander:
The ebola coverage was arguably worse because they were stoking fear, but I agree. I remember watching Campbell Brown (before she got fired) complaining that Obama hadn’t distributed flu vaccine in NYC. She had a public health person on as a guest who patiently explained to her how government works- that there’s federal distribution down to state down to county then to city. Brown was looking to the wrong level- she has to call her county health department if she wants flu vaccine distribution in her neighborhood.
There was this insistence on “accountability!” that Obama be “held responsible” as if they started with this assumption that he would be given a pass, that they were enforcing high standards. There’s just none of that with Trump. The standards have gone out the window.
Quinerly
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/how-the-swamp-sold-its-soul-to-donald-trump
“Your heart tells you that he’s bad for the country. Your head looks at polling data among Republican primary voters you see how popular he is…….It would be malpractice not to advise clients to attach themselves to that popularity.”
Kay
@Baud:
It’s seriously an issue now though. It’s 2020 and the Democratic challenger tells a lie. Say it’s a minor lie- an exaggeration, the ordinary kind of campaign lie. What happens? Outrage? A 3 day news story? How is that presented? Trump lies every day, several times a day. It became clear yesterday that he blatantly lied about Russian contacts during the election. That’s not a small lie! How do they hold his opponent accountable for an exaggeration when the President tells lies like this on a daily basis? It will be laughable. They’ll be breathlessly covering some “gaffe” of his opponent and Trump will be traveling the country spewing lies and hatred.
mai naem mobile
You guys are assuming he ll be around for 2020.I doubt it. I think Pence will survive even though I think he’s caught up in the Russia thing. I think there may be a political decision made for government stability to have him survive. I mean stability for the economy so the world doesn’t go into another major recession.
Quinerly
For the Alexander Hamilton fans: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/29/546741423/i-saved-every-letter-you-wrote-me-the-library-of-congress-digitizes-hamilton
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: There’s a reason education is financed the way it is in America. Jim Crow has many faces in many locales.
mai naem mobile
@Kay: Campbell Brown is married to Dan Senor and as big a wingnut as he is,and very anti Obama.
Baud
@Kay: What if our candidate accurately calls bigots deplorable?
What if our candidate has actually earned his three Purple Hearts in Vietnam?
What if our candidate never claimed to have invented the internet, but did a lot to help its development?
Not sure why you are looking to the future like there will be something new.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
We taking bets on whether Deadbeat Donnie shows up to Texas in that poorly fitted blue sack suit and red tie, along with a bullshit trucker hat?
Kay
@Baud:
Imagine a slightly hinky or suspect business loan uncovered re: Trump’s opponent. Can they cover that as a 3 day scandal? They don’t even know what Trump owns or what he owes. It will be a ridiculously uneven playing field. The rules will apply to only one of two in the race.
germy
@Kay: Campbell Brown had a definite agenda: “Criticize Obama”
Republican mole. Charter school advocate. etc.
Wikipedia: “In an August 2008 article, Brown addressed charges that her marriage to Senor, who at the time was working as an advisor for the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, represented a conflict of interest for her as a journalist. “
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Morning to Poco, Ivan and John Lennon ?
different-church-lady
@Kay: And they’ll exaggerate that one lie out of a sense of “fairness” — like a basketball ref trying to even out the foul count late in a game, except they’ll do it from the start of the game. It will be utterly perverse because they’ll feel like they need to even out the coverage, so a hundred Trump lies will get the same amount of cumulative air time as that single Democratic candidate’s lie.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I agree, and not just Jim Crow; keeping those dirty non-WASP immigrants out of schools attended by the elite was and continues to be why people so vociferously defend local control. For wealthy areas, it’s more of the typical Republican IGMFY.
Kay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I don’t know why people listen to him. It’s a waste of time to listen to liars. Nothing he says is credible and he’s always telling the same story- I’m great, everyone else sucks, things are going great. What’s the point of him speaking at all? It’s all self-aggrandizing bullshit and it’s always the same.
different-church-lady
@Kay:
With one candidate they covered it as a 30 year scandal
satby
@Baud: exactly, the wildly different standard is not new at all.
lapassionara
@Kay: Thank you, Kay, for reminding us of the way the press treated Obama. It is easy to forget the flack he took because he was so gracious and humane, no matter the circumstances.
Kay
@different-church-lady:
It feels like a collapse to me, that some lower level has been breached and there’s no going back. I don’t know how you go UP from here. How that works, as a practical matter.
Kay
@different-church-lady:
I’m not panicking, I’m not saying blood will run in the streets, and I’m not giving up- I’m helping with a state political event tonight, but I feel it’s important to think thru how bad this is, the loss of any kind of standards. It’s bad. We’ll pay for this. It’s bedrock damage- deep.
Betty Cracker
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: My guess is he goes with his “Top Gun” ensemble: he’ll replace the baggy suit coat with a flight jacket featuring the presidential seal and “CiC” embroidered in gold, topped off with a blocky MAGA or USA ball cap (only $40 dollars at his campaign site!). He wore a similar get-up at the launch of a Navy ship a while back. Looked like the mean old drunk everyone avoids at the VFW fish fry.
rikyrah
@mai naem mobile:
Flynn is.up to his eyeballs in the Flynn mess.
No way Dolt45 is going down without taking Pence with him
Another Scott
@Kay: That’s a perfect illustration of what Mara does. It’s not about a Democratic President transferring information to the People, it’s about what he’s “trying” (but not succeeding), or his “goal” (but unable to accomplish), but nobody believes him (because he’s a liar), etc., etc. She (almost) always tries to attach a loser stink to a Democratic politician in her stories. It’s so automatic with her that she might not even realize she does it…
Grr…
I refuse to listen to her now and change the channel for a couple of minutes whenever she’s giving her commentaries/wisdom on NPR in the morning.
Cheers,
Scott.
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
Right back at you!
Kay
My oldest son and his wife are picking up an exchange student today. They live in Chicago so this Danish 17 year old will live in Chicago for the equivalent of his junior year in high school. My son is panic-buying breakfast foods. He seems to have decided that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. He says he’s “going” to the kid’s first day of school. I just told him he can’t “go”- he can’t follow a 17 year old class to class all day but I love the mental picture of him as hovering helicopter parent to this nearly-grown Danish person.
Baud
@Kay: If the Danes are like the Germans, they believe that lunch is the most important meal of the day.
clay
@Kay: That’s Mara Liasson. She would “both sides” a mirror.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: I was just in Germany for a couple of weeks. Beer is the most important meal of the day.
clay
@rikyrah:
Heh. Well… yeah!
Weaselone
@Gin & Tonic:
Doner is the most important meal of the day.
satby
@Kay: oh, they’ll have fun! My first exchange student was a girl from Denmark, 26 years years ago, who I still am in contact with. The girls last year were my 29 and 30th exchange students (several years I had two at a time). Can’t recommend it enough!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
He can’t go wrong with mueslix, skyr and smoked fish.
Another Scott
@Baud: When I was growing up, my great aunt explained that “dinner” was the big meal of the day and when they were on the farm “dinner” was around noon. In that case “supper” was the evening meal (and usually was little more than a snack).
Dunno what the Danish kid will expect. At 17 he probably has a hollow leg and will be able to eat everything put in front of him no matter the time of day. I expect he’ll tower over most of his classmates, also too.
Cheers,
Scott.
rikyrah
@Kay:
that is so cute, Kay :)
Patricia Kayden
@Amir Khalid: That’s okay. If she can be of any encouragement to the resistance, that would be a great thing as we move into 2018 elections. Ditto President Obama and VP Biden. All hands on deck, so to speak.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@clay: More like Mara LIARsson.
Baud
@satby:
In the cosmic quest for balance, I am freeloading off your karma.
Kay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
His wife is Danish so they’re making an effort to expose him to ‘Merica. I told him the kid’s actual parents trusted him enough to put him on a plane to Chicago so my son has to be at least as brave as they are, and let him go to high school by himself. It should be interesting for him- it’s a solid public high school – a fairly good city school- they live in a nice neighborhood, but it’s an urban school and this kid is from the suburbs. The kid plays soccer so that will help- sports really are universal.
Patricia Kayden
@Kay:
Hell, Trump is able to throw the standards out the window himself. Look at how he is violating the Emoluments Clause with zero push back from the MSM or even the opposition party. When Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any support, he wasn’t just talking about his awful supporters.
rikyrah
@Kay:
No. Not a small lie in the least. It goes to the heart of his campaign.
This is why I do appreciate Maddow and her long azz opening segments of background. Yesterday’s was instructive, as always. With this Russia story, she always tries to connect as many dots as possible.
Often, while I watch these segments, and my blood pressure rises at the disgust I feel….
I say..
” What if 44 had done this?”
You say that the bar has been lowered Kay, and I never disagree with you. I just put it under:
“the curve for unqualified White Men is REAL!”
Because, I listened to Maddow last night, as she linked story after story of banks and the Trump Crime Family…..
and, I just sigh…thinking about what would have happened if JUST ONE of these stories had come up during the time of 44.
JUST.ONE.
THIS is why they have to go to jail. The entire lot of them. Not only will their vote for this clown be held against any Dolt45 voters…we must be able to snidely and with condescention, tell them, that they are bad judges of character. I have no interest in ‘moving on for the sake of the country’.
Uh uh.
These people must be beaten over the head with the Dolt45 club.
The Maddow segment:
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/28/17
Trump sought Moscow business deal while campaigning for president
Rachel Maddow reports on the myriad ties between Donald Trump and Russia that have come to light in contradiction of Trump denials, with the latest being the pursuit of a real estate deal backed by a state-run Russian bank while Trump was campaigning for president.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
This is us paying for it.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/28/17
Trump Moscow deal pushed as asset to campaign
Carol Leonnig, staff writer for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new revelations that Donald Trump was pursuing a business deal in Moscow while campaigning, and why his aides saw a Russian deal as an asset to the campaign.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/28/17
Trump exposed to new obstruction charge over Arpaio queries
Rachel Maddow looks at legal opinions on whether Donald Trump’s inquiries into dropping the case against Joe Arpaio would constitute yet another act of obstruction of justice for which Trump might be legally exposed.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/28/17
Hatch would vote yes on release of dossier testimony transcript
Rachel Maddow reports breaking news that Senator Orrin Hatch has told TRMS that he would vote in favor of releasing the transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson on the Trump dossier.
MomSense
@Kay:
I heard Nooners on MSNBC (spit) say yesterday after the presser that it was helpful to Dolt45 because he stayed calm. Jesus. All that asshat has to do is stay calm and not shit himself or go off in an unhinged rant to be successful. It’s pathetic.
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
I KNOW
I KNOW
gene108
@Patricia Kayden:
Trump, in part, just overwhelms the senses with all the lies. But saying the media is overwhelmed by all the lies does not excuse the media.
The media can decide how they critically frame a politician for viewing by the public. They could very easily just set the framing as Trump is lying until proven otherwise, but they don’t. They keep giving him the benefit of the doubt that no other person on the planet is given.
Jeffro
@OzarkHillbilly: Great article, thank you. I have long thought that suits need to be brought against states and localities that severely shortchange their students, not just in terms of facilities but by not spending what it takes to train, recruit, and continue to develop a professional teaching force. Until the courts determine that students’ and parents’ rights are being violated and set amounts that states – not communities – must raise and spend on their education systems, not much is going to change.
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
It really is like spending Thanksgiving with a raging alcoholic’s family where they’re grateful that Daddy passed out drunk, because last year he threw the turkey out into the street and pissed on it because he got mad that they made sourdough stuffing instead of cornbread.
Jeffro
Btw a good quick read here: Houston is Drowning In Its Freedom From Regulations
Want some basic security and common sense in a fast-changing world? Better vote for the Democrats, up and down the ballot
Speaking of which, NoVA folks (specifically Fairfax County residents): GET OUT AND VOTE TODAY! We have a chance to pick up a formerly R school board seat with a solid D, Karen Keys-Gamarra. Go Karen!
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
It really is like the whole country is suffering through an abusive relationship. Sadly, most of the pundits and just under half the country are enabling this abuse.
rikyrah
WHERE are the military boats in Texas?
Why do we continue to see just ordinary people with their boats.
Jeffro
@MomSense:
and it wasn’t just her, the whole panel – including Lawrence Frickin’ O’Donnell – agreed with her and thought it was awesome that Orangemandias wasn’t acting out.
rikyrah
What Trump doesn’t understand about his own border wall idea
08/29/17 09:23 AM
By Steve Benen
Over the weekend, Donald Trump, who continues to insist that Americans pay for a giant wall along the U.S./Mexico border, said that the Mexican government will eventually “reimburse” us for the cost of the project. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said soon after, “Our country will not pay, under any circumstances, for a wall.”
Which, naturally, led the American president to again say yesterday, “One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the wall…. We may fund it through the United States, but ultimately, Mexico will pay for the wall.” I assume Mexican officials will respond in kind again soon.
But while the back and forth is tiresome, especially about a project Congress is highly unlikely to approve, Trump also explained why, exactly, he thinks the wall is so necessary.
No, it won’t. Perhaps the president hasn’t had time to read up on his signature issue, but there’s no reason to believe the wall would serve as some kind of anti-drug barrier. “A wall alone cannot stop the flow of drugs into the United States,” Christopher Wilson, the deputy director of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center, recently told Vox.
A Washington Post report added, “[E]xperts on the drug trade say a border wall, even one as big and beautiful as Trump promised, would be near-impotent in stemming the supply of illegal drugs.”
MomSense
@Jeffro:
Lawrence was all pissed that the Marc Rich pardon opened the door for justifying bad pardons with bad pardons or some bullshit. This is why my neighbors periodically ask me if I’m ok. They have seen me in my car yelling at my radio a few too many times.
rikyrah
Texas Republicans have a new perspective on federal disaster aid
08/29/17 08:00 AM—UPDATED 08/29/17 08:15 AM
By Steve Benen
It’s hard to blame New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) for blasting Texas Republican as “hypocrites.” The Republican governor, reflecting on Texas GOP lawmakers’ opposition to relief aid after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, hasn’t forgotten how his state was treated.
“We were the disaster that was the longest, in waiting in terms of getting federal aid, and I hope that that’s not what happens to the folks in Texas with Harvey,” Christie said yesterday.
On MSNBC yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Katy Tur that his vote against disaster relief four years ago was justified.
The Washington Post ran a detailed fact-check piece on Cruz’s defense, and found that the senator’s argument is plainly untrue.
Nevertheless, Cruz is not alone. When it came time to approve emergency aid for areas affected by Sandy, most Senate Republicans – including both of Texas’ GOP senators – voted against the bill. In the lower chamber, most House Republicans – including 20 Texas Republicans – also opposed the disaster relief.
schrodingers_cat
DACA will be rescinded today is the rumor on the immigration Twitter feeds I follow.
rikyrah
Trump turns back the clock on police access to military equipment
08/28/17 03:32 PM—UPDATED 08/28/17 04:05 PM
By Steve Benen
The 2014 crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, shook the nation in a variety of ways, but as regular readers may recall, one of the lasting debates focused on the militarization of local law enforcement. Many Americans weren’t just shocked by the unrest; they were also surprised to see police officers carrying weapons of war while confronting American civilians on domestic soil.
In the wake of the violence, there was considerable interest on Capitol Hill about reforming the Pentagon’s “1033” program that makes military equipment available to police departments. Though most of the support for changes was spearheaded by Democrats, even some Republican lawmakers agreed it was time to take another look at the policy.
Congressional action never materialized, but the Obama administration followed through, banning the transfer of at least some types of military weapons to local police.
Donald Trump has turned back the clock.
The new policy takes effect immediately.
Immanentize
@Kay: I have the same concern. And I think Baud has said it too. There really is no recovery from this — at least not in the spring-back to what was (even with it’s flaws) way. There is no media to police the borders and really no institution willing to do so. I suspect the Gorsuch court will just add to this collapse.
The one thing that might help reset (as far as possible) really is public-backed prosecution with serious prison consequences. It really could work.
Oops, I just fell over laughing at my own naivite.
schrodingers_cat
DACA works, this Twitter feed explains how.
rikyrah
The Republican Party’s Forty-Year Assault on Civil Rights
by Nancy LeTourneau
August 29, 2017
………………………………..
The first real assault on the ability of the Civil Rights Division to enforce these laws came with the Reagan administration in the 1980’s. As has been the case with Republican presidents, he nominated someone who had no experience in this area, William Bradford Reynolds. Here is how the New York Times described him at the time:
In writing about John Robert’s tenure at DOJ, Ari Berman said this about Reynolds’s tenure at the Civil Rights Division:
In that description you can hear the groundwork that was laid during the Reagan administration for the kinds of attacks we hear on civil rights enforcement to this day. It was chronicled in a book by Raymond Walters titled, “Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights.”
Once that had been accomplished, Republicans became emboldened to fight the expected return to enforcement via the smearing of Clinton’s nominee to run the division, Lani Guinier. It is worth noting that the strongest Republican opposition to presidential nominees, other than Obama’s naming of Merrick Garland to fill a position on the Supreme Court, has come in their response to potential leaders of the Civil Rights Division—both Guinier during the Clinton administration and Debo Adegbile during the Obama administration.
Following strong leadership from both Deval Patrick and Bill Lan Lee during the Clinton administration, the Bush years brought us back to a decimation of the division that had begun under Reagan. It was under the leadership of Alexander Acosta (who is now the Sec. of Labor) that this happened:
Bradley Schlozman is the guy who once said that he wanted to “gerrymander all of those crazy libs right out of the [voting] section.” It was within the Civil Rights Division during the Bush years that the focus changed from promoting voting rights to voter suppression via allegations of fraud. Here is what Joseph Rich, former head of the voting rights section of the division wrote about that:
In order to refocus the division back on its mission to enforce civil rights laws, Barack Obama and Eric Holder initially turned to Tom Perez and then Vanita Gupta (who served to the end of Obama’s term as acting director after Republicans blocked the nomination of Debo Adegbile).
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Disaster relief in New Jersey and New York is by definition pork.
satby
@Baud: help yourself, but remember I’m not telling the demon satby stories here ?
Patricia Kayden
@Jeffro:
Freedom!!!! Key word for American patriots.
schrodingers_cat
@satby: Did you see that T wants to drastically cut down the exchange visitor visas?
Patricia Kayden
@schrodingers_cat: Wow. Trump is going all out for his White Supremacist aka “economically anxious” supporters, ain’t he? He has zero interest in appealing to anyone but his narrow racist base.
cmorenc
@Jeffro:
Unfortunately, this exact issue was decided by SCOTUS against your proposition in San Antonio vs Rodriguez (1973) with one of Nixon’s appointees (Lewis Powell) writing the opinion. And the five members of the conservative faction on the 1973 edition of SCOTUS were far less extreme than the five members of the 2017 version. The chances of the current version of SCOTUS revisiting this issue and overturning the San Antonio decision are only slightly better than the prospects for success of a project to terraform Mars into a habitable planet within the next couple of decades.
rikyrah
NEW VIDEO: Arpaio Pardon and tweeting about The Wall during Harvey proves it. Trump meant “Make America WHITE Again” pic.twitter.com/fk6S3LtcR2
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 29, 2017
rikyrah
The Trump/Russia revelations just keep coming… https://t.co/2J1knjRCkO pic.twitter.com/wRyTehQT0x
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 29, 2017
rikyrah
Congratulations, Internet — you helped @JoelOsteen learn the teachings of Jesus. https://t.co/EeeIKqcRgm
— Bill Prady (@billprady) August 29, 2017
rikyrah
Houston prosperity gospel preacher Joel Osteen is under fire today for staying closed during Hurricane Harvey. https://t.co/ohuPLPiyEE
— Ruth Graham (@publicroad) August 28, 2017
rikyrah
If you’re a member of the disability community affected by Harvey, you can call 800-626-4959 for assistance with evacuations.
— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) August 28, 2017
Immanentize
And in Harvey news, my in-laws are still holding strong in Richmond, Texas. The slough is still moving water away from their house to the Brazos. For the moment, it has stopped raining there.
The Brazos is normally a meandering creek of a river, at something like 13 ft. It is forcast to peak on Thursday near Richmond at 59.
ETA. Of course this means no cancer treatment for my MIL this week.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: The police are being given carte blanche to assault minority protesters. We saw how they stood back while White Supremacists attacked anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville and that they’ve only now made a few arrests because of videos. We also saw how many scores of protesters were arrested in Ferguson, including members of the media and how Native Americans protesting the pipeline in the Dakotas were brutalized. Sessions is making it plain whose side he is on.
rikyrah
Texans: be sure to file for #Harvey relief before Sept 1. #TXlege passed a bill making it harder to dispute weather-related property claims.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 28, 2017
Filed my ins. claim & FEMA assistance from my phone while evacuating. Special Session is needed before Republicans hurt more Texans. #Harvey
— Nerds on the Left (@NerdsOnTheLeft) August 28, 2017
rikyrah
List of shelters currently open in Houston. Pease retweet for those who may be in need. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/RT44RcmR0O
— Waltrip Cheerleading (@waltripcheer) August 28, 2017
schrodingers_cat
@Patricia Kayden: Everything old is new again. That’s exactly how the colonial police force under the British treated non-violent protestors. They were beaten with batons and sometimes even shot at. People died from the concussions they received from the lathi (lathi = long stick) charges. The stuff you saw in the movie, Gandhi was mostly tame stuff sanitized for western audiences.
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
yep.
You don’t lie.
Those camera videophones are important for so many reasons. Yes, they just stood there as that racist pulled out the gun on the protestors. JUST STOOD THERE.
And, let’s not get into the beating of that young man.
MomSense
@cmorenc:
Fucking Powell. He wrote the fucking memo that inspired the vast right wing conspiracy. Asshole.
rikyrah
@schrodingers_cat:
Those poor young people.
Just rotten.
Jeffro
@cmorenc: ‘s okay, I’m always good with tilting at windmills ;)
It’s one of those issues that’s worth pounding the table about constantly while continuing to bring suits and win elections/nominate judges until the right thing is done for these kids.
rikyrah
$53 billion Finnish pension fund is cutting its exposure to U.S. stocks, due to concerns about Trump’s behavior. https://t.co/BPcHW5U5kO
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 29, 2017
schrodingers_cat
In other news, Mumbai is deluged with a torrential downpour, 30cm in 8 hours, people are stranded, trains derailed, roads are flooded. My SIL is stuck in her lab but safe.
Steve in the ATL
@debbie:
Or, “I hope the Russian bots who swung the election are buying my book”
Steve in the ATL
@schrodingers_cat: I assume Mumbai is a suburb of Houston?
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: I know that Congress was working on a legislation to make their status permanent, the bill even had many R sponsors.
schrodingers_cat
@Steve in the ATL: Funny man. It is where I was born, and a place I still have deep ties to. Mumbai, on the west coast of India.
Steve in the ATL
@schrodingers_cat: is it near Bombay?
j/k!
schrodingers_cat
@Steve in the ATL: In the words of a famous child of Mumbai.
Mother of Cities to me,
But I was born in her gate,
Between the palms and the sea,
Where the world-end steamers wait
Are you in Austin?
Gelfling 545
She’s coming to Buffalo too!?
different-church-lady
@rikyrah:
Hillary was made to seem unelectable because she gave a speech to bankers. BY OUR OWN DAMN SIDE.
different-church-lady
@MomSense:
This is the same kind of rationalization victims take towards abusers: “At least he didn’t hit me today.”
PS: Now that I’ve read further down through the thread, I see a lot of us picked up on that same thought.
schrodingers_cat
@different-church-lady: BS is not on our side and never was.
Steve in the ATL
@schrodingers_cat: on my way. My sources tell me that the weather is fine there.
Talked to me nephew in Houston. They live on high ground, but he and his dad went to a friend’s house to watch the fight, and the friend lives across a bayou from them. Bad idea! Took 24 hours to get home, but in their defense nobody was expecting the fight to last 10 rounds so they thought they would beat the rain.
Betty Cracker
@Betty Cracker: Ha! I was right!
satby
@schrodingers_cat: yes, it’s already having an effect on applications from foreign students to come to universities here. My girls last year had both won highly competitive State Department scholarships that were designed to build bridges between our country and Muslim countries and I have no idea if they’re even doing that program this year. And if I were a parent in a predominantly Muslim country, I doubt I’d allow my high-schooler to come to this country. Imagine how we look to someone considering sending their child here for a school year!
satby
@Immanentize: keeping them and you and the Immp in my thoughts, hope they’re able to get past the worst of the storm. They’ve really gone through so much.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Not sure I have ever seen you quote Kipling with approbation ;-)
Cheryl from Maryland
Sec Clinton’s appearance at the 1,800 seat Warner Theater in DC is already sold out. Suck it, Trump. Tickets were gone the movement I found out about them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
Melania wears 4″ stilettos to visit a FLOOD??? Wow.
SiubhanDuinne
@Cheryl from Maryland:
The Fox Theatre in Atlanta seats 4,665. There isn’t a scintilla of doubt in my mind that every one of them will be filled on November 13.
different-church-lady
@Betty Cracker:
“…WH Staff changes locks on Oval Office”
Citizen Alan
@mai naem mobile:
What’s in the wedding of Campbell Brown and Dan Senor that Bush was attending in California while Katrina was happening? I know there was some incident where Bush blew off some national crisis just for the wedding of those two assholes.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: I do not like the man but he does have a way with words. Even I can see that.
Michael57
Say, if any Balloon Juicers are in New Hampshire, Hillary will be visiting Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord on Dec. 5. Tickets go on sale next Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 9 AM, on this page: http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/hillary This will be a straight booksigning, not a talk.
Neldob
@Kay: I’m going to borrow some of your ideas and write a few letters to different eds. This fries me if I think on it too long. Arg!
MoxieM
@Baud: And breakfast is sandwiches!
Mandarama
@OzarkHillbilly: Thank you so much for sharing this article. I grew up in MS, and was a lame product of its dubious school system. I forwarded this to my sister and brother, and we all instantly could picture the sense of superiority the white people at the wealthier school are enjoying–and yet, the better-off ones are still crappy schools in a crappy system! It is still Mississippi. I am so happy to see those young mothers being activists and I hope their case makes headway… but I still wish I could tell the white assholes in my home state* that my kids’ diverse urban high school is kicking their little enclaves’ asses daily. Not one school from back home can hold a candle to the one my kids go to now, and we are in freaking Tennessee.
* I mean, I guess I could tell the white assholes that, if I went back on Facebook. But I gave it up because of all the white assholes I know. ?
Ruckus
@Kay:
Fixed for you.