Originally posted by anton pulisov
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Packing the court is at least now being discussed as an idea in the media. It's always brought up with "now the left is just as bad as the right, they are talking about packing the court if a Democrat wins in 2020," but it's at least getting out there. -
Fucking hell: that was cheerful. Hundreds of years of cunts for a bright new dawn when we aren't here?
Yeah, ok. I'll bring batteries for the torch. And a torch. And you know, guns.Comment
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I think I'd be less concerned by a predictably awful judge being predictably confirmed by a Republican Senate than by the overshadowing of the NYT's Trump tax story. I don't (usually) subscribe to the nostalgic view of media coverage in the past, but that is a hell of a lede to bury.Comment
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They buried their own story, in their round up of the week.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1048712247432957953
If you need some cheering up (and who doesn't) here's 96 year old Jerry Rosenblum' song for Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1048602291455107072
Last edited by Nefertiti2; 07-10-2018, 09:10.Comment
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Presently we can only really cling to the projected demographic shifts and write this decade off as a total disaster, although we did manage to sneak gay marriage in before the SCOTUS was destroyed for a generation, and Obamacare still exists in some form for now. That's no comfort for blacks and women, to name just the most obvious groups who will now see many their civil rights gains since 1963 disappear or be diluted until a future regime can reverse what's about to happen.
2020 might be a new dawn or the start of an even darker decade. It starts to look like an even more crucial year than 2016: start the repair or watch the ship of liberal democracy sink. The midterms are possibly fucked for the same reason that the NYT felt unable to speak truth to power about the last 7 days.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 07-10-2018, 12:31.Comment
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The "midterms" are comprised of more than 450 individual races on the federal level alone. I find it massively unhelpful to view them as an amorphous mass influenced in all places to the same degree by the same forces. There really are profound differences between hundreds of individual contests and a nationwide election based on party lists.Comment
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Trump's got his wins, the Democrats are fucked because they consistently bring a stick of broccoli to an RPG fight and have absolutely no idea what the fuck they are doing.Comment
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A tangent, but as a non-American I had to look up the states and first names of some of the senators referred to in this thread by their surnames, so I was wondering how many current senators anyone here could name by heart.Comment
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I think I could get 50, but there's no way in the world that I would get close to 100.
I believe that there are polls that demonstrate that a majority of Americans cannot name the two Senators representing their state.Comment
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I could easily get 50-60 or more. W/ just two to a state I tend to remember them well, especially (Leahy, Hatch, Grassley, McConartist, Feinstein, Imhofe) as so many have been in power for decades.Comment
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Eliot Weinberger in the LRB
Ten typical days in Trump's America
An extract.
As dozens of lagoons of pig waste overflow in North Carolina, President Trump says that Hurricane Florence is ‘one of the wettest we’ve ever seen, from the standpoint of water’. (In North Carolina 9.7 million pigs produce ten billion gallons of manure a year.)
President Trump says: ‘I hope to be able put this up as one of my crowning achievements that I was able to expose something that is truly a cancer in our country.’ He is referring to the FBI.
Pornography star Stormy Daniels provides a detailed description of Donald Trump’s penis. Although Trump had bragged about the size of his member in the primary debates and in campaign speeches, Daniels, based on her professional expertise, laughingly refutes this.
Hurricane Florence causes basins containing more than two million cubic yards of coal ash – enough to fill a large sports stadium – to spill into the Cape Fear River and the surrounding lowlands. (The many hundreds of coal ash basins in the US were regulated under Obama and have been deregulated under Trump. Coal ash, the residue from burning coal, contains lead, mercury, selenium, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and boron, and is known to lead to cancer, neurological conditions and reproductive problems in humans, and bizarre deformities in fish. Among those promoting the deregulation was Andrew Wheeler, for many years a lobbyist for Murray Energy, the US’s largest coal-mining company. He is now the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. In his first speech in his new position, Wheeler said: ‘I get frustrated with the media when they report I was a coal lobbyist.’)
It is revealed that President Trump told a visiting group of Spanish ministers that Spain should build a wall across the entire Sahara desert to keep out refugees.Last edited by Nefertiti2; 07-10-2018, 20:02.Comment
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I've just spent a while trying to name senators, and got 65.
Missed a couple of obvious ones- Warren, Booker. And indeed a couple of entire states- Nebraska, South Dakota.
A few were completely new. Jerry Moran? John Hoeven?Comment
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Quite sure that would put you in the upper portion of the 99th percentile of Americans.Comment
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Thanks very much.
Shame I can only name 1 of my 4 MEPs really. And that 1 I know I only know because he's UKIP and makes an arse of himself in the media.Comment
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I know none of my MEPs. And probably about six US senators.Comment
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Sullivan, Murkowki
Inhof
The other 3 I didn't get.Comment
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The ones you got are all dirt balls. You missed another dirt ball Lankford (OK), but Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall (NM) are both on the Good Side!Comment
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I remember being impressed with a senator from New Mexico recently, but couldn't remember his name.Comment
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I think it was him, but another occasion, more recent than that.Comment
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Ha! Glorious!Comment
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