Hillary Clinton at the Selma Breakfast calls for a "21st Century civil rights movement devoted to claiming, enforcing, and defending the right to vote once and for all." pic.twitter.com/H9KQVabgoD
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 3, 2019
Good Morning from Selma, Alabama where @hillaryclinton is receiving the 2019 Unity Award & being inducted into the National Voting Rights Museumâs Womenâs Hall of Fame. #SelmaJubilee
— Opal Vadhan (@OpalVadhan) March 3, 2019
"We aren't going to win every fight," says Clinton. "Take that from me. But history teaches us that the times when the struggle feels the hardest are the times when marching forward is most important."
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 3, 2019
Matt Viser, at the Washington Post:
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls came here to a resonant remembrance of one of the bloodiest moments of the civil rights movement on Sunday, with Sen. Cory Booker talking emotionally about being a descendant of slaves and others urging a renewed defense of voting rights…
Booker hinted at the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to draw attention to what he depicted as a resurgence of racial animosity.
âThe dream is under attack. The dreamers are in danger,â Booker said. âAnd we need each other more than we realize in this country.â
Selma has become an annual pilgrimage site for Democratic politicians, culminating with a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where on March 7, 1965, marchers advocating for voting rights were attacked by police in a day that has become known as Bloody Sunday. The Voting Rights Act was signed the same year. This year, the events marking one of the most searing moments of the civil rights movement took place over four days, including a Jubilee Golf Tournament on Friday and a âbattle of the bandsâ on Saturday.
The main event, Sundayâs march across the bridge with linked arms, call-and-response, and gospel songs, was nearly derailed by thunderstorms. But the weather cleared enough for thousands to make the walk.
A trio of potential presidential candidates â Sanders of Vermont and Booker of New Jersey, who have announced their campaigns, and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who is considering a bid â were here along with Clinton during the dayâs events…
Sundayâs events provided a forum for the belief among many African American leaders that the GOP has been launching a renewed fight against voting rights, with such measures as voter ID laws and the curtailment of early voting.
âMake no mistake: We are living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy,â Clinton said. âThere may not be, thank God, tanks in the streets. But whatâs happening goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.â…
Brown, who told reporters that he will decide on a presidential bid by the end of March, also circulated among the mostly African American attendees, asking about their lives.
Asked how he could compete in a diverse field of candidates, and with an increasingly diverse electorate, Brown said he would let his record speak for itself.
âIf I run, Iâll be the only Democrat on that stage who voted against the Iraq War. Iâll be the only Democrat on that stage who supported marriage equality 20 years ago. Iâll be the only person on that stage who has a longtime F from the NRA,â Brown said. He pointed to his face. âI can change a lot of things, but I canât change this part of me, right?â
I don’t think Sherrod Brown will end up as our Democratic nominee (although plenty of people on twitter have suggested he’d be a great vp for Kamala Harris), but I am very interested in seeing what he’ll be saying over the next few months!
JGabriel
Anne Laurie @ Top:
Maybe, but I doubt Harris, or any nominee, would pick Brown for VP. With such a tight margin in the Senate, I don’t think any Democratic president would pick a Senator from a swingy state like Ohio to be their VP.
That said, I like Brown and he’s still in my top tier, along with (in non-committal alphabetical order) Gillibrand, Harris, and Warren.
Patricia Kayden
What a time to live in when one major political party does everything in its power to prevent huge swaths of citizens from voting. And of course theyâve elected a President with authoritarian tendencies. Sigh.
hells littlest angel
I like Sherrod Brown a lot. I especially like him a lot in the Senate.
Since it’s way too early to speculate about anything, I like to speculate about Kamala Harris choosing a woman as her running mate. Whaddaya think — too outlandish?
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
Traitors ALL ???
OzarkHillbilly
0 degrees. Blech.
ola azul
@hells littlest angel:
Long’s it ain’t Tulsi, am totally down with double-double-X chromosomal representation at the top o’ the tix.
(Makes me laugh, people’s childish reactionary fears on this kinda thing. Not saying that’s you, course, just that so many folks — and not just the misogynist incel douches from whom a double-fem ticket would naturally excite this sort of hyperventilating bedwetting existential ragegasm — generally are so reflexively infantile and risk-averse about this sorta thing. What, like two women might be some kinda oooh-scaaaary! governmental disaster like, you know, we’re actually pastey-white-male-privilege-governing-by-freeper-comment-section suffering under?)
Some peeps may reach adulthood, but they never do grow the fuck up to say nothing of wake the fuck up.
Personally, I like the contrast (should Twitler survive his manifold crimes to run in 2020) of two women slaying the bloated-orange-ass-is-a-dragon and Mother’s Obedient Boy.
I look at it this way: If two strong competent women cannot beat Trump/Pence in 2020, it sez more about us and the corrupt thoroughgoing rot that plagues this country than it does about the women running, and it prolly means this country prolly can’t be saved.
Go for it, sez I.
OzarkHillbilly
NotMax
Boxing day on TCM. Not a genre I normally gravitate toward but will point out that the gem of the lot being aired today is The Set-up, to be shown at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Tightly wound noir tale, using ‘real time narrative’ (years before High Noon employed the same device) to have everything take place in a little over an hour, the same as the film’s running time. Keep your eyes peeled for the clocks, if you can take them off the charismatic Robert Ryan long enough to do so.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
Given what has already come out, I think we all kind of doubt that. Besides, Mueller’s people don’t leak. How does Kennedy know?
ola azul
@Amir Khalid:
Cuz he’s not working on behalf of the United States either?
Q.E.D.!
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: Methinks you misread the joke. He said no one in the trump admin has been found to be “secretly working for the United Statesâ
ola azul
The jokes, they right themselves!
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
I, um, knew that, I was just playing along.
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly:
Minus 18.
Yik.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: WHOOOOOSHH!!! Right over my head.
OzarkHillbilly
The Hanoi summit was an abject failure becauauauauause…. DEMs were mean to trump that day.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Since trump has access to information about the investigation, I hope that the level of craziness in the weekend tweets indicate that he is concerned about his future. The only other explanation is that
he is batshit insane.
satby
@JPL: Both. Both works here.
@rikyrah: Good morning rikyrah ?
Quinerly
Must read Jane Mayer piece
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house?currentPage=all
danielx
NOT a good start to the day when the spousal unit and I are both awakened by the crash of something breaking downstairs, sit up and say simultaneously “what….was that?”. I was betting on a vase of roses, but no – turned out to be a small bowl of M&Ms, knocked on the floor along with a box of Girl Scout cookies.
Yes, cats can look guilty.
OzarkHillbilly
Defiant women and dying children: Isis’ desert legacy
Hmmmmmm… “The lack of preparation for what comes after…” Where have I heard those words before?
OzarkHillbilly
@danielx: Let me guess, your cat’s name is Grace?
eta missing r
danielx
@OzarkHillbilly:
That would be Natasha in this case, the tuxedo cat.
OzarkHillbilly
@danielx: Sweet. Is her pal Boris?
CliosFanboy
@ola azul: In Soviet Russia, jokes write YOU!
debbie
“We aren’t going to win every fight.” But we have to fight every fight as if it’s our very last chance at survival.
japa21
So I am reading that because she called out the gutting of the Voting Right Act, Clinton is whining and blaming her loss on the Supreme Court. What a bunch of hogwash.
debbie
@danielx:
Is chocolate bad for cats like it is for dogs?
germy
@debbie: Yes
Sab
@danielx: Of course it would be the tuxedo cat.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Quinerly: That article is horrifying, Even though I knew most of it before, seeing it all laid out like that is depressing.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
Please tell me there’s video of him pointing to his dick when he said this.
debbie
@Baud:
Sure, if that’s where his ego is.
JPL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @Quinerly: I just finished the article and agree with Dorothy. How do we get the people who are being used and brain washed by Fox to read it.
Baud
@debbie:
That’s where every male ego is.
debbie
@Baud:
Good point, sir.
Betty Cracker
@Quinerly: Read that earlier this morning and was considering putting up a post on it. Mayer is a terrific reporter. Fun fact about her that I recently discovered on Twitter: decades ago, when she was on assignment somewhere, Mayer’s then-boyfriend dumped her for wingnut Fox bot LAURA INGRAHAM, who moved into the house Mayer used to share with the boyfriend. The two refused to return Mayer’s dog, so Mayer waited until they weren’t home and squeezed through the pet door to retrieve her dog.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: IIRC, it was Sherrod Brown who said that and he was pointing to his face in response to a question about how he can relate to an ever more diversifying DEM party
Yep:
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Lucky dog.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Missed opportunity to generate buzz.
Sab
So we had our entire slate of presidential hopefuls in a tornado watch/warning zone for all of yesterday? It’s important to remember the Selma march, but yikes.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Seeing as men think with one head but the other does all our talking he could have just put the mic to his dick and cut out the middleman.
OzarkHillbilly
@Sab: 23 dead and counting, the youngest was 6 iirc.
Baud
The fact that he doesn’t want to run makes me want to vote for him.
satby
Sherrod Brown doesn’t impress me the way several other candidates in this primary do, so I hope he doesn’t run. The field is getting too crowded anyway, even immediately discounting Wilmer and Gabbard as contenders, because for me they aren’t.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: No kidding.It makes me deeply grateful, and I like Eric Holder.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Damn, that’s a lot for a storm.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: He’s doing the Lord’s work fighting gerrymandering and voter suppression for the Dems.
satby
@Sab: should they all avoid California because there might be an earthquake?
sherparick1
@japa21: WTF??? Actually, vote suppression did hurt her in Wisconsin and Michigan. But I think she was just trying to make the point that Republicans are launching a full scale attack on the rights of all POC and women. Bernie bros wonder why so many Democrats hate their guy, and the reason is shit like this (also, notice again Bernie’s tone deafness with the Black vote in the South by him not showing up at this event). A
On a completely different topic, if we want to blame the “Establishment Democratic” Party for something substantial, the complete neglect, and lack of criticism of Democratic senators running for Presidents in states with Republican Governors, or potential senators in Red/Purple states running for President (looking at you Beto), you would think they were running a Scott McConnell protective society. Warren, Sanders, and Brown all represent states with Republican Governors. If they are on the ticket and win, their replacement will be a Republican. If they take a cabinet job, their replacement will be a Republican. If there is a special election, particularly in Brown’s case, the replacement has a substantial chance of being a Republican. A question that could be asked is whether McConnell would allow a Republican Senate to approve any Democratic President nominees to fill the office’s of his administration, particularly the State Department, EPA, Justice, or HHS. Regarding judicial nominations, you can ferggitaboutit. Bernie does not even want to abolish the filibuster! All these men and women should be asked what they think they can get done with a Republican Senate run by Scott McConnell. Its a question that the political journalists of the theater criticism style of journalism never ask.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Video.
Baud
@sherparick1:
The article says he was there.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
@sherparick1:
Now this guy is the real asshole.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/03/never-mind-senate-heres-bullock
Dorothy A. Winsor
Mr DAW just sent me a link to a NYT opinion piece about Trump and RICO in SDNY which I am not going to read. I’m sick of speculation. Let me know when someone is charged.
OzarkHillbilly
@sherparick1:
Which event are you referring to? He was in Selma.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Cripes. Who are all these delusional people?
Betty
@sherparick1: It has been explained to me that the Governor of Massachusetts does not pick the replacement. They hold a new election.
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Starting to think that most of them are using running to build war chests for something else.
Or, in Wilmer’s case, because without a campaign his sweet, sweet grifting drops and the bank account goes dry.
Betty Cracker
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That’s where I am these days. Don’t wanna hear about until there’s a damned perp walk.
Quinerly
@Betty Cracker: Jane Mayer is my new spirit animal. Thanks for that little tidbit. (I think Laura I. also dated Keith Olbermann at on point. He also dated Katy Turr awhile ago when she was very, young)
plato
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Yup, with all the
slapsgentle taps in the wrist for all the traitorous thuggish perps so far, except may be manafort who blew his chance with the judge’s generosity, I have been losing hope steadily.OzarkHillbilly
It appears that even FOX has limits: After Fiery Hamburger Speech At CPAC, Fox News Parts Ways With Seb Gorka Who’da thunk it?
Matt McIrvin
@Betty: If I recall correctly, the governor does pick a very short-term replacement, but there’s a special election that happens pretty quickly (not even the next November). Of course, these oddly scheduled special elections can be treacherous things, because turnout is low absent extraordinary efforts. We got Senator Scott Brown when he beat Martha Coakley in the special election in early 2010. Warren beat him in the regular general election in 2012.
rikyrah
So, Bernie never voted UNTIL IT WAS TIME TO VOTE FOR HIMSELF?!???
https://twitter.com/ThomboyD/status/1102337729222737920
MomSense
It is snowing here. School is canceled. I have to try to get to work but my street hasnât been plowed yet so if I donât get out soon, they will plow all that snow up at the end of my driveway.
I can barely stand to watch Hillary speak. It still breaks my heart that she is not our president. She would have been a damn fucking great president. Guess what Iâd vote for her again if I could.
I donât want to talk about Wilmer ever again and I resent that we have to. He is not fit to be president as evidenced by his complete lack of grace and diplomacy at the Selma event. We need leaders who know how to work with others and thatâs something he has never been able to do.
JR
@OzarkHillbilly: They can only endure so much embarrassment
rikyrah
@MomSense:
I feel everything you just wrote???
Luthe
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Do we know if Popehat has read it?
schrodingers_cat
Is it just me or does it look like T’s checking out Kristjen (sp?) Neilsen’s ass.
He is such a gross human and a disgusting human being.
OzarkHillbilly
Looking at the 2020 Senate races, I think we’re gonna need some luck in addition to really good candidates to win back the Senate.
MattF
@OzarkHillbilly: Fiery hamburger sounds tasty!
More seriously, Gorka appears to have no positive qualities. Less than zero.
plato
Great tweets to that scummy cowardly pos, dershoshitz.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: I agree. It is going to be close, very close. Unless our top of the ticket efforts really kick into high gear to add a little umph to the whole project. In that case, we might even keep Doug Jones.
germy
The Midnight Lurker
Sunday morning, child molester enabler, Jim Jordan tweeted this:
I’m pretty $ure thi$ i$ anti$emati$im.
And 10:30 a.m., Jim? Shouldn’t you be in church?
satby
@rikyrah: here’s the entire thread unrolled:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1102337729222737920.html
Brachiator
On Brown
I really don’t care about purity declarations. It’s nice, but meaningless. Guess it works with some voters.
Kay
@plato:
I think he scares people by threatening to sue them. One of Americas “constitutional scholars” hides his sleaziness by threatening people to remain silent. Good Christ.
Everyone talks about Trump voters but there’s an enormous amount of rot in our elite ranks. They’re disgusting people. Venal, cynical, think they are entitled to special treatment. Voters may be uninformed/racist/easily conned but our “elite” ranks are really fucking low quality themselves.
plato
germy
@The Midnight Lurker: Maybe he’s tweeting in church.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Also, our media. I saw Washington Week on PBS this weekend, Susan Page called T charismatic and charming on a one-on-one basis.
Eewww. My opinion about her had been pretty neutral up to that point, now I won’t take a word that comes out of her mouth, seriously.
plato
Of course, it was all projection, assholes. These ‘journos’ are wilfully short of common sense and basic integrity.
Lyrebird
@Baud: Wish you could be Solomon in the place of our modern-day Nero!!
Immanentize
@MomSense: The snow is just wrapping up here, north of Boston. Looks like 8 or 10″ of heavy sticky stuff. The Immp’s school was cancelled. My University closed until noon. I am working up the courage (and the right degree of caffeination) to at least shovel from the front door to the street. I’ll let you know if I crap out and lie down to die in a snow bank.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
Why not? You should just ignore all his public statements and actions and trust Susan Page. She can vouch for him.
They do this all the time. “I know him”. Oh, okay. I guess we all 400 million of us have to personally meet him before forming an opinion. What they’re doing with this is putting us in a subordinate position- we have to guess about public figures. We have to read tea leaves and guess at motives. It’s the attitude of “the help” towards the master.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Unless the AL GOP renominates Moore, I’m pretty sure Jones is toast.
Immanentize
@satby: hi Satby. Do you or anyone here know who called Sanders the “Last living civil rights hero?”. Mentioned in that thread….
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: I sadly agree, but Alabama kept sending up Roy Moore time and again to run — even after he was kicked off the Supreme Court. So, that may happen.
Kay
@plato:
Of course he did. They need to re-do the debates. Media fucked it all up and it’s corrupt and useless. Throw it out and start over. It’s sucked for almost 20 years, since the commercial entities took it over. Time for a new idea. Put someone else in charge and start from scratch.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: They are so servile where Rs are concerned. Whory Woodruff is the same way. Tough questioning when she has D guests, which I approve of, I want politicians feet to be held to fire, but soft balls for R guests. And “experts” like Kobach to discuss immigration issues. Your so called liberal media.
ETA: Many of them are no better than the servile Rs in Congress.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Twice.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: There’s a part of me that thinks if nominated, he could win this time. Christian forgiveness and all that. And yes, Ala-fucking-bama.
BC in Illinois
@japa21:
If they are pushing that line, then they didn’t watch the speech. (High level of probability)
She alluded to the effects of the decision on the 2016 race, but her prime example of voter suppression was from “the state next door,” — Georgia, where Stacey Abrams should rightfully be governor. Stacey Abrams’s continuing work on voters’ rights was the example of what people need to be doing, to carry on the spirit of the Selma march.
I am always impressed by how low-key and indirect her references to her own race can be. Clear-eyed and wistful, rather than bitter and angry.
schrodingers_cat
@OzarkHillbilly: Doug Jones won when no one was expecting him too. And T is not getting more popular in the next two years. So he could well hold on to the seat. We will see.
schrodingers_cat
@BC in Illinois: MSM would rather worship the demented T who demonizes and targets journalists than say one nice word about HRC.
satby
@Immanentize: an obvious troll factory account. Google search results here: https://www.google.com/search?q=sander+“last+living+civil+rights+hero”&oq=sander+”last+living+civil+rights+hero”&aqs=chrome..69i57.19806j1j4&sourceid=silk&ie=UTF-8
Excuse me while I go shower now.
Edit: you’re probably going to have to Google the query I did, because the link isn’t landing on the search.
Immanentize
@satby: ha! Only part of your link was linkable without cut and paste — and what I got was power hand Sanders! I have one already, but that made me smile wide.
“Sanders — what a tool!”
MomSense
@Immanentize:
Well, as it turns out the snow was too deep to drive through on the street so I had to wait for the plow – which meant tackling the mountain at end of the driveway. Kid would have stayed home sick today anyway so I didnât ask him for help.
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodingers_cat: It certainly is possible, but…. Ala-fucking-bama. ;-)
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Barack Obama’s last speech to the nation is still on my Tivo, unwatched, because I can’t bear to watch it. It will break my heart. I am saving it for when the dumpster fire is no longer present.
Brachiator
@Kay:
The political parties control the debates. They are not giving up power to make the debates more useful to voters.
ETA: I also would not be surprised if Trump ducked out on any debates with a Democratic Party challenger.
ruemara
@OzarkHillbilly: He left before the actual event. He went to give his speech at the lunch honoring HRC and left before the full event marking the walk across the bridge. Which is pretty insulting. Especially since he went to one of the few mostly white areas of Chicago, stacked the stands behind him with black people for his mostly white crowd and then decided he had Barack Obama’s life story, where he was a formed through his work in Chicago.