Good Morning All,
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)| 12 Comments
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Good Morning All,
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
This post is in: 2020 Elections, Dog Blogging, I'm With Her, Immigration, LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights, Nature & Respite, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for President 2020, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome
Hey, at least these two are having fun running in circles!
Indy has met her match pic.twitter.com/2CDNPStVvF
— Ned Pyle (@NerdPyle) July 27, 2019
Elsewhere…
In honor of #Stonewall50, @RepDebHaaland and I teamed up with @NOH8Campaign to stand up against hate and show our support for the full spectrum of the LGBTQ+ and two-spirit community. pic.twitter.com/2bB02hUta7
— Rep. Sharice Davids (@RepDavids) June 28, 2019
Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Google. She's also getting more donations from Google employees than any other Democrat, and Sanders, who is also in favor of break-up, is second.
Turns out a lot of Google employees think a break-up would be just fine: https://t.co/vlDOWdoV22 pic.twitter.com/IelmKUq1X9
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 30, 2019
Crucial new finding from Quinnipiac.
Majority favors *releasing* migrants, rather than caging them in bad conditions, *even if* they might not show up for hearings.
Restrictionists say they have the winning side of this argument. Nope.
New piece:https://t.co/hy4uNaPYZp
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 30, 2019
?? 10 out of the 40 vulnerable freshmen @HouseDemocrats have now publicly called for an #ImpeachmentInquiry to begin.
They're gonna need LOTS of help next year…show you have their backs by donating today!*
*(you can also donate to the other 30!)https://t.co/w21aAjGiAD
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) July 31, 2019
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Detroit RespitePost + Comments (225)
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Look, he's at best Jabba. pic.twitter.com/gnTNGQ8cSO
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 31, 2019
Ooo, shiny! Our Modern Media celebrities have the attention span of an ADD three-year-old on a Red Bull binge. If (when) the American Experiment crashes into Armageddon, its epitaph will be But Think of the Ratings!
All of you deserve a Biden presidency. https://t.co/zGEBIIM1CB
— DSA DNC Caucus (@agraybee) July 31, 2019
My Twitter friend named Marianne Williamson Chakra Con.
If he shows up to take credit, you can thank him.
It's the best thing to happen all evening.
— Brave Black Woman (@Wonderbitch81) July 31, 2019
(They actually call themselves the #orbgang. No, srsly.)
Anybody remember Lily Tomlin’s Tasteful Lady character from SNL? Mrs. Earbore was from Grosse Pointe, as Ms. Williamson claimed to be, and the Earbore decendents are Marianne’s natural… voters. The packaging has changed, but the absolute removal from normal human experience remains the same.
Saying stuff other candidates are afraid to say, but that people are dying to hear.
That ability coming from a general ability to be shameless.
Using that shamelessness to also promote toxic ideas that endanger others.
Man, that kind of sounds familiar.
— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) July 31, 2019
Marianne Williamson is the Chauncey Gardner of Jill Steins #DemDebate
— Fred. (@freeloosedirt) July 31, 2019
FYI
Wasn’t particularly easy to get in, but was free, & candidates got tixWilliamson is only one w recent Detroit ties; she headed a new age mega church in ‘burbs in the ‘00’s
She had a contingent clustered in the balcony
She rented the theater next door for a free afterparty
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 31, 2019
Ringfenced for Sanitation Debate Recap: The Dark Psychic Forces PromoterPost + Comments (21)
by Betty Cracker| 130 Comments
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I wonder who at CNN decided it should be the Delaney vs Warren show. Warren should send that person a fruit basket.
CNN making it Warren vs Delaney: pic.twitter.com/61cC7hVs1T
— Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) July 31, 2019
What did y’all think?
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Time for a new thread.
Oh yay, finally a question about climate change. Badly posed, to stay consistent.
Detroit DNC Debate, Night One, Thread TwoPost + Comments (190)
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Guardian liveblog here.
CNN’s no-subscription-required livestream (which just crashed my browser, sigh) is here.
Let the commentoring begin!
ETA: Strong start!
Warren: Trump “disgraces the office of president every single day”
Elizabeth Warren came out strong with a denunciation of the Oval Office’s current occupant. “Donald Trump disgraces the office of president every single day,” Warren said.The Massachusetts senator emphasized that any of the Democrats onstage would make a better president than Trump and slammed his as the beneficiary of a rigged system…
When you can’t be smart, be veryveryvery EARNEST!!
Jake Tapper has so far been vigilant about keeping candidates to the time limits that CNN is trying to enforce.
That technique may help each candidate receive a more proportionate time of camera attention, but it has also made for a choppy debate with candidates repeatedly being cut off mid-point.
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It took over 100 people eight days to build the set for CNN’s Democratic debates. Nine 53-foot semi-trucks were needed to haul in all the equipment. pic.twitter.com/vc3o2nXurY
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 30, 2019
About 3500 people are expected in attendance at the Fox Theatre. Audience is made up of members of the community, and guests from the various campaigns and DNC.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 30, 2019
(Well, at least it’s amortized across two nights.)
Tonight’s candidates, as they will appear on stage, per CBS: Marianne Williamson, Tim Ryan, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, John Hickenlooper, John Delaney, Steve Bullock.
I’ll probably be ‘watching’ through the Guardian’s ever-excellent liveblog. More options here, per NYMag.
How’d you deal with McConnell?
WARREN: Win the majority and eliminate the filibuster
BIDEN: Work with him he’ll be better when Trump’s gone
BENNET: Defeat him
INSLEE: Ax the filibuster
GILLIBRAND: Confront him
HICKENLOOPER: Repeat his words back to him so he feels validated
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 27, 2019
On CBSN, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offers advice to Democratic candidates on the upcoming debate in Detroit: “People in Michigan don’t care about the president’s twitter feed” https://t.co/H9n7JJUntx pic.twitter.com/NYpAxYioMr
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 29, 2019
See y’all around 7:45pm EDT, Murphy the Trickster God willing…
This week’s debate rules: Interrupt if you have to, talk longer than the allotted minute if you must, and above all, seek a controversy-stirring moment that cable television will play for days afterward. A preview of Detroit, from me and @waposean: https://t.co/boEUWuMU5G
— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 29, 2019
Tonight’s debate is in Rashida Tlaib’s District
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 30, 2019