In a world full of Donald Trumps, be a Joe Biden.
— Jon Cooper ???? (@joncoopertweets) July 26, 2021
Every one of these is good for Democrats, so of course it's reported this way. https://t.co/YWH2axFj7H
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) July 26, 2021
Alternate framing: After we told everybody that Biden would shut out progressives and empower the Lincoln project guys, progressive groups are being given a seat at the table to effect policy… which is also bad, somehow. https://t.co/bBZWSM8UC8
— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) July 26, 2021
More than any other election in my lifetime, the 2022 midterms elections are going to be a conflict between what is actually happening and what people believe is happening. https://t.co/2WRVxNmODj
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 26, 2021
Voting in Georgia https://t.co/sumTW8weO8
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 26, 2021
OK from now on no one whose last name begins with the letter 'G' can serve in Congress.
Apologies in advance to those this will unfairly impact, but a line must be drawn people. https://t.co/BpsN5oEbUU
— Schrödinger's Sneech Belly (@RTodKelly) July 26, 2021
Well, Kathryn, some of us had a lot more friends "across the political spectrum" until their party threatened us and ruined my husband's career. Enjoy your sanctimonious privilege. https://t.co/AKKPobFPeY
— Rachel Vindman (@natsechobbyist) July 26, 2021
Sometimes they’re so close to getting it. pic.twitter.com/ibXsukyWLY
— Salome Strangelove (@salstrange) July 26, 2021
debbie
Hey, GHoles: They’re being treated far better than traitors should be treated. ?
JPL
Somedays, it is difficult to act like Joe. just saying
satby
Rachel Vindman is my Twitter hero!
MagdaInBlack
@satby: Not one to be messed with, is she? Unless you want your head handed to you. ?
Baud
Some people want to move beyond their teenage years and act like adults.
Baud
I wonder how many of Kathryn’s friends are communists.
OzarkHillbilly
Not. They will never get it.
Geminid
. That’s a promising Morning Consult poll: Democrats leading in “confident” and “excited” Republicans leading in “angry” and “frustrated.” I bet a lot of the Republicans’ anger and frustration is directed towards their own party and it’s leaders. I don’t see that changing much by next November.
Matt McIrvin
Confidence about the midterms is BAD. We need to be fucking terrified. So fucking terrified.
raven
@Matt McIrvin: Take a walk.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Maybe people are confident because they are terrified.
Baud
Simon Biles out of team competition. Ouch.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
JPL
@Baud: That is so sad.
Geminid
@raven: But the sky might be falling!
rikyrah
@Matt McIrvin:
We are always terrified
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Punchy
@Baud: any info? They announced this on the TV but not the reason why…..injury?
Baud
@Punchy:
Nothing solid. They’re assuming an injury.
Spanky
@Baud: “Left with medical staff” and came back in sweats. Damn.
Baud
@Spanky:
I’m watching a few minutes behind live coverage.
debbie
@Spanky:
Talking about the group competition, NPR reported she grimaced when her foot came down off the mat. They assumed she was peeved at that infraction, but it seems they were wrong.
Geminid
@Matt McIrvin: More seriously, these confident Democrats know what’s at stake. No one in Virginia is relaxing now that it has turned blue, and Democrats are as motivated as ever for this year’s state elections. Not over confident, but determined.
MJS
Anyone know when the 1/6 hearing starts today? I have a relatively light workday and want to tune in.
debbie
@MJS:
I think I saw it started at 9:30 am.
MomSense
@Baud:
Oh no! She is always flying sooooo close to the sun. She terrifies and amazes me and I just wish her every good thing in this world.
MJS
@debbie: Thanks.
Baud
@MJS:
Kay
@Geminid:
I knew it was focused on Virginia. Three of the four leaders on the Koch-funded CRT panic org – Parents Defending Education- are Right wing Virginia-based education people. It’s a “national” org so that’s weird.
Baud
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I have to say the amount of pronouncements about 2022 election being a done deal for the Republicans is quite remarkable considering it’s a year and half out.
Baud
Politico
Baud
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Gotta keep their spirits up.
Baud
NotMax
FYI.
Baud
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: About fucking time.
Gin & Tonic
@MomSense: That young woman has lived under pressure that would ruin most of us, and with immense grace. If she ever wants to say “fuck you all, I’m going home” she’s fully entitled, IMO.
Kathleen
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Beltway Political Propatainment Complex is hoping that saying it enough times will bring Trump back as President with a Rethuglican House and Senate. Eyes closed and fingers crossed.
Baud
@Kathleen:
Think of the ratings!
raven
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: It’s never to early to wet your pants.
Immanentize
@MomSense:
Nothing But the Truth by Procol Harum
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Anyone who ever competed in that sport knows you are a blink of an eye from being done.
Kathleen
@Baud: Come for the ratings and stay for the shiny black jack boots.
Nora
It takes a special kind of perspective to look at those bar charts, see the democrats leading in most of the indicators, and focus on the one line where the republicans have the edge.
debbie
I had yesterday off. First thing I see this morning is an email confirming someone tested positive back on July 15. One, thanks for the timely notice. Two, glad I’ve applied for a medical accommodation.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: My daughter competed (not at that level, of course) up through high school. Going to meets was a weird mixture of boredom and terror.
Geminid
@Kay: A lot of “movement” consevatives bought properties in Loudon County back in it’s exurban days, and I think it has been a magnet for right wingers since. I wasn’t surprised when they made a show of force at the school board meetings.
Youngkin is somewhat of a hybrid Republican, trying to straddle the divide between the establishment and radical wings of the Virginia party. He is quite outspoken about the dangers of CRT and teachers unions, but very reticent when it comes to issues like women’s rights and gun safety.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: Isn’t everybody entitled to say that?
Geminid
@Nora: It’s not even an edge, when you consider how much of that anger is focused on other Republicans. There is a lot of centrifugal force in that party.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Yea, my high school was huge in “boys” gymnastics and two of my best friends got scholarships to ASU and Oklahoma. This is Andy throwing a handstand on the ship going over.
he was small but so strong he ended up humping a 60 and didn’t make it home.
citizen dave
@NotMax: As far as the electric side there are already significant, mandatory cyber standards and practices. The natural gas industry needs some cyber standards for sure, along with maybe independent operators, etc. Back in the 2014 polar vortex we learned that a lot of the gas industry in Houston simply didn’t work on weekends, even during such extreme events.
Kay
@Geminid:
That’s interesting. I hear compliants a lot here from conservatives that their children are more liberal than they are – when I took my oldest child to look at colleges the conservative parents at one school we looked at said it outright at a meeting for prospective students, that colleges were liberal and that concerned them. I was annoyed because I thought the admissions person let them take over the meeting- we spent half of the hour and a half alloted listening their complaints which were always phrased as fake questions, which drives me fucking crazy. Just pontificate. Don’t stick a quesiton mark at the end.
A lot of the anecdotal “proof” that CRT is being taught in schools is accounts from conservative parents that their children tell them “that’s racist” or “you’re a racist”.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Kathleen: Yeah NPR’s coverage of the 1/6 Committee was pretty discouraging this morning – they spent a ton of time “discussing” Gym Jordan’s BS framing. Like everything Republicans say, no matter how obviously untrue, self serving and ludicrous, always gets treated as though there were a legitimate point hiding in there somewhere that we can tease out if we just give it enough air time. I mean, why not just not interview anyone who is obviously operating in bad faith? That’s an option you could implement but never do.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
The story doesn’t say whether the bike involved was a bicycle or a motorcycle. That’s a pretty big detail to leave out.
Baud
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:
Because that would be cancelling, of course.
tom
@raven:
I’m not sure what “humping a 60” means. The results from a Google search were … interesting. Please enlighten, thanks!
OzarkHillbilly
1995 Million Man March, Not One Single Person Stormed the Capitol.
Geminid
@Baud: There is a very disturbing cluster of thyroid cancer cases among children in Iredale County, North Carolina. It likely is related to coal ash from a Duke power plant on Lake Norman, but this is as yet unproven. For years, the ash was given to anybody who wanted it it for fill. One local middle school has playing fields leveled off with several hundred truckloads of coal ash.
An Iredale mother blew the whistle. Her daughter had surgery for thyroid cancer. Then the mother started meeting other kids with scars on their necks. She was able to crowd fund a study that showed there was an abnormal cancer cluster in her county, but not what caused it. She has since moved her family to Florida.
zhena gogolia
@Amir Khalid:
I couldn’t read the story (some kind of paywall), but in American newspaper parlance “bike” means “bicycle.”
Amir Khalid
@tom:
Here you go.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: Frustrates the hell out of me when they do that.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
OzarkHillbilly
@zhena gogolia: Not always, especially in a local rag.
NotMax
@citizen dave
Ah, much like the Swiss Air Force in that same year.
It’s only very recently that has changed.
Chris Johnson
@Matt McIrvin: No. The word you want is ‘determined’, and I think that’s a reasonable expectation.
Immanentize
@zhena gogolia: It was a BIG ass motorcycle. Miles he dragged it. Construction dudes across the divided saw it and it was putting out sparks making huge noise.
ETA. Oops. Too many Bikes in the news, I thought you were talking about the Pennsylvania pol who liked someone on the road! Sorry!
Kathleen
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Not surprising. I find that my liberal friends who rely only on NPR, NYT and MSNBROC for political coverage are woefully uninformed. They always buy into the anti Dem framing
Brachiator
@Baud:
I guess it will all come down to turnout and how much of a circus the election becomes. The goobers who hate Newsom are currently more motivated than Newsom supporters. I would think that voters with even half a brain in their heads understand how important it is to keep the Republicans stifled, but if election fever takes over, all kinds of craziness becomes possible. This is what happened last time when we got the Guvernator.
Amir Khalid
@zhena gogolia:
“Bike” can mean either of the two. My Malaysian newpaper editors would have insisted that I disambiguate.
Immanentize
@raven: I’m in a kind of a thin veil place. Your comments about Andy always seem to hit me like hammers. Kid fooling around on deck. Kid in jungle in front of burning huts. A man dies.
Baud
@Brachiator:
California has developed a good reputation with many people. I hope they don’t trash it.
Immanentize
@Kay: I saw that yesterday! Some woman was complaining that her son had come home from highschool and started saying “That’s racist Mom” when she said things about race. Uhhhh. Maybe not what he’s learning but what you are saying?
???
Soprano2
Here at work the mask mandate for people who won’t show their supervisor they’re vaccinated started, and I was surprised to see how few people are unvaccinated. Maybe some of them wore disguises and got the shot to get the incentives. LOL That story about people in MO wearing disguises to get the shot doesn’t surprise me at all. The woman who ran our local abortion clinic (before the state lege made sure we couldn’t have one here anymore) told me that a woman who spent every Saturday morning picketing the clinic came and asked her if she could come in the back door of the clinic because she wanted an abortion! She told the woman no, you come in the front door like everyone else or you don’t come it. I don’t remember what happened next, but I would guess that the woman went to another city rather than have her fellow picketers find out she got an abortion.
tom
@Amir Khalid: Thanks!
NotMax
@Baud
California is good on emission standards.
When it comes to petition standards, though….
;)
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
The Guardian certainlydidn’t get the story from their own on-scene reporter. If they picked it up from an agency, with The Star-Tribune‘s ambiguous wording, that “bicycle” could well be just an editor’s guess.
Betty
@Amir Khalid: It was a bicycle.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: To their credit, the local reporters who covered Gov. DeSantis’s anti-CRT crusade asked for examples of CRT being taught in K-12 to justify the law banning it. He could not cite an example but says he hears from “concerned” parents a lot. I’ll bet he does.
It’s nothing new. My dad once told my husband that the University of Florida “ruined” me! Nope — it was actually my dad’s hippie ex-wife, i.e., my mom, who was the liberal influence! I just finally got the nerve to argue with him after I was no longer under his direct control. :)
O. Felix Culpa
@tom: I think it refers to a large, heavy weapon. Andy was one of raven’s best buddies in Viet Nam and was killed there. Breaks my heart with every mention, especially (like Imm said) seeing a photo of the kid fooling around on the deck and knowing what he’ll be robbed of.
ETA: Aaand, I see Amir answered the question at #61. Moar coffee, please.
prostratedragon
Just the other day was talking to my brother about all the Gs Congress could do without. We couldn’t figure out what it is.
raven
@tom: Carrying an M-60 machine gun.
PST
@Baud: I don’t want to be morbid about the death of Mike Enzi, but I am suspicious of early conclusions in cases like this. Sometimes when the first reports are that someone fell and died, the actuality is that they died and fell. Or more accurately, that they suffered a fatal cardiac or cerebral event that, incidentally, caused a fall. This can be true even if death is delayed and the fall causes serious injuries. (Enzi reportedly suffered a broken neck and ribs and died in a hospital.) I can think of well publicized cases of this, like Dave Goldberg, a death in my own family, and cases from my experience with medical malpractice claims that hinged on whether a stroke caused an accident or an accident caused a stroke.
raven
@Immanentize: 108 Marines died in Meade River.
raven
@O. Felix Culpa: I shouldn’t have started with that but whenever I think of gymnastics. . .
Amir Khalid
@Betty:
Okay.
O. Felix Culpa
@raven: Oh, it’s ok. I just feel terribly sad about your loss and the losses of so many others
ETA: And I’m glad you remember Andy and share his photos from time to time.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Gotta update the proverb.
Mind your Gs and Qs.
;)
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@debbie: gs up hoes down while you muthafuckas bounce to this!
hueyplong
@Geminid: Duke Energy’s work in other parts of the state leave no doubt in my mind about coal ash in Lake Norman. It will be interesting to see this play out because it’s one of those relatively rare instances in which the potential victims are affluent owners of expensive property.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Baud: if those communist friends are defector-dot-com staff, still zero.
prepschool kool kid drew magary & his merry band of wankstas are cosplay trotskyists.
Capri
Aren’t the people in jail for storming the capital in the same jails as other criminals? Is there any validity to the claim that they are being kept in inhumane conditions? Is their situation any worse than others that are being held?
Is it like Thomas Wolfe wrote (paraphrased) – A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged, and a liberal is a conservative who just got sent to prison.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@OzarkHillbilly: could we not consider million man march attendee barryhusseinosama becoming sen. kenya in 2005 a delayed violent storming of the capitol by black supremacists?
Amir Khalid
@Capri:
It’s hard to imagine that any of the insurrectionists would have accepted substandard pre-trial detention accommodations without
whiningcomplaining loudly. Didn’t that shaman guy demand, and get, an organic-only diet?Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Amir Khalid: there are jails, and then there are jails
Booger
@Geminid: Loudoun has long been cursed with the likes of Eugene DelGaudio and the odious Mike Farris. I’ll bet Farris is an accessory to countless instances of child abuse through his Home School Legal Defense Association.
Booger
@Gin & Tonic: Better than swim meets, which are a fraught mix of boredom with, well, more boredom.
rikyrah
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) tweeted at 7:00 AM on Tue, Jul 27, 2021:
Joe Biden’s approval rating hasn’t moved in six months.
It’s been the most stable for any president since the end of World War II. https://t.co/TUWqEaDJib
(https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1419990956862894082?s=03)
J R in WV
I have to say, people talking about the 1/6 Committee hearing before it even starts is a little bit much. How about we wait to discuss a hearing until the hearing has happened?
Regarding the former senator and his bike accident, a friend of mine in NYC was on his bike in central park, going V fast down hill when a stooping hawk flew into his front wheel. He was lucky enough to have recoverable injuries, but was hospitalized for some time. Hawk was instantly fatal and J. went over the handlebars head first. Is a very athletic guy, which probably saved his life.
My bike accident involved being hit by a sports car, a Sunbeam Alpine, T-boned into my left thigh. I did ride again, a little, but the joy was gone. The driver was the son of a prominent litigator, I was probably lucky not to get sued. Still suffer from lingering effects of that accident in 1972. At the time I thought you recovered from accidents if they didn’t kill you, not so much, actually. I was in great physical shape, which probably saved my life.
rikyrah
Yeah, I noticed that too:
Post-Moderna Man (@OpnMndExtLeft) tweeted at 9:00 AM on Mon, Jul 26, 2021:
Fascinating how much unsolicited advice white people have for Black people who want to stop being brutalized by police.
Nothing but shoulder shrugs and “what can ya do’s” for their fellow white people endangering others by refusing to get a vaccine though.
(https://twitter.com/OpnMndExtLeft/status/1419658857765277696?s=03)
rikyrah
Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) tweeted at 9:09 AM on Mon, Jul 26, 2021:
SCOOP: Police all over America are regularly asking Shotspotter, the AI-powered microphones that “detect gunshots” to fabricate gunshots from thin air for court proceedings, according to court records we obtained. This is horrifying and nuts
https://t.co/vUvux0wfOu
(https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1419661153278513157?s=03)
Geminid
@hueyplong: A lot of middle class and poor people too. The woman who sounded the alarm seemed middle class to me. But it’s a story that would strike fear into any parent’s heart. I think the hurdle now is proving the scientifically the causation that is obvious intuitively.
I first heard of the Iredale story when I was traveling in South Carolina New Years Day, 2019. I listened to Charlotte radio station WBT. They had a year-in-review show, and one of their reporters discussed the Iredale cancer cluster, said the story could be very consequential. Not a lot has happened since, but that could change.
rikyrah
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Enjoy your best life.
ENJOY YOUR BEST LIFE!!!
Obama setting up big bash to celebrate his 60th
Former President Barack Obama is planning a big bash for his 60th birthday in Martha’s Vineyard, sources tell The Hill.
The former president, who has spent recent weeks at his home on the posh island, is expected to be joined by dozens of friends at his oceanside abode, set on nearly 30 acres.
“It’s going to be big,” said one source.
It’s unclear who will be in attendance but one source said many A-listers and friends of the Obamas, including Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney, scored invites.
Guests are being asked to have a COVID-19 test before attending the soiree at the seven-bedroom, nearly 7,000-foot mansion the Obamas purchased for $11.75 million in 2019.
Obama turns 60 on August 4th.
The former president has a history of celebrating large milestone birthdays. When he turned 50 in 2011, he hosted a coterie of guests at the White House to celebrate, including musicians Jay-Z and Stevie Wonder, actor Tom Hanks, comedian Chris Rock and basketball legends Charles Barkley and Grant Hill.
The party — which featured performances in the East Room by the likes of Ledisi, Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder — was said to carry into the following day with guests eating barbecue and dancing.
Obama’s spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/564944-obama-setting-up-big-bash-to-celebrate-his-60th
hueyplong
@Geminid: Totally agree about other demographics being hurt, but it’s rare for the affluent also to be caught up in a toxic dumping situation. Waiting to see if a generally GOP demographic suddenly gets religion on environmental issues.
artem1s
Can we get a running post on the Jan 6 hearings or at least a notice when there are significant testimony? are any of the front pagers following it regularly? Rather discuss that than whatever Rose Twitter has it bloomers in a bunch about today.
thx!
Geminid
@hueyplong: North Carolina is now purple, maybe trending blue. Republicans have been in control the past few decades, though, at least until Roy Cooper was elected Governor in 2016. Republican politicians clearly bear responsibility for the slack regulation of coal ash, hog wasteponds, and other hazards. Hopefully this hurts them among suburban voters, who are now a battleground demographic in North Carolina and nationwide.
Immanentize
@raven: that is a whole bunch of lives and futures, etc. Somehow today, 108 is just an unbearable number. Like if you said, “about a hundred” that would have seemed abstract enough to handle….
Immanentize
@raven: @O. Felix Culpa:
All of what O. Felix said.
Immanentize
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Like Amir said — like every other prisoner. Terrible! But the norm. Boo hoo white boys.
Citizen Alan
@Brachiator: This scares the shit out of me. A bullshit recall that turns into a circus and leads to a Republican governor. And then Diane Feinstein kicks it, and a Republican gets to appoint a GOP senator from California and they retake the senate.
Citizen Alan
@Brachiator: This scares the shit out of me. A bullshit recall that turns into a circus and leads to a Republican governor. And then Diane Feinstein kicks it, and a Republican gets to appoint a GOP senator from California and they retake the senate.
Immanentize
@J R in WV: I am NOT belittling your injuries and accident, but a Sunbeam Alpine? There was a forty percent chance you could have prevailed in that encounter….
Matt
Remember: no matter what the cost, punching hippies is the only goal.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Donald trump is a hippie now?
@artem1s: see the front page, the thread went up about an hour ago
Baud
@Citizen Alan: Yep. I hope our CA voters take this seriously.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: metal card: revoked.
Geminid
@Booger: All those Loudon County conservatives thought they had a nice red county. Then a bunch of yankee normies move in, and there went the neighborhood. Now all the conservatives can do is splutter.
rikyrah
@Brachiator:
Who is the GOP candidate for Governor?
O. Felix Culpa
@rikyrah: Caitlyn Jenner. I don’t know if there are other GOP candidates running too.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@O. Felix Culpa: Murdoch-type media got very excited about Larry Elder last week, under the theory that Black people will vote for the Black guy and destroy Newsome
FelonyGovt
@rikyrah: In addition to Caitlyn Jenner, who’s gotten the most press, there’s Larry Elder and Kevin Faulconer (former mayor of San Diego) and a large group of others (although not as many as the last recall).