11/15 News Roundup & Open Thread
Bernie Sanders was on SOTU this morning. Here’s one clip, via Twitter;
"Trump will have the distinction of doing more than any person in the history of this country in undermining American democracy."
– Sen. @BernieSanders on the lack of a transition from the Trump administration to the Biden-Harris administration.https://t.co/BN2w4GIqgS pic.twitter.com/rHP8YBrS93
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) November 15, 2020
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T&R, Benny!
Trump doesn’t concede but admits he doesn’t have the votes.
oh. my. god.
my exact reaction.
People arrested for whatever – mostly trivial shit – and held because they simply couldn’t make bail. The bail system needs to go! It costs poor people all kinds of grief that the rich walk away from. Even the middle class. Look at that one guy in Michigan that got his bond reduced to $75K, and he’s already on the streets. Yet, some poor person can’t make a $1K bond and they rot for months – sometimes years.
The right wing loves cash bail. Along with the bigot police, it’s their favorite instrument of persecution.
dystopian
From the article:
As long as the stock market is booming, “the economy is roaring back”. Those in power don’t care about the people who don’t have $400 for an emergency.
if only the msm would spend their days finding the people who’ve been evicted and following their lives. the people who’ve lost jobs forever. people who don’t have health insurance anymore, coming soon, as cobra runs out.
Republicans reject a big stimulus package. $2.2 million package has already passed the House
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/coronavirus-aid-stimulus-bill/index.html
https://www.al.com/news/2020/10/second-stimulus-check-house-passes-stimulus-bill-is-second-payment-dead.html
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/15/to-truly-recover-us-needs-400-more-coronavirus-relief-than-mcconnell-is-offering-economists-say/
Too bad Old Scratch stopped going to restaurants. Maybe it’s time to start picketing his house again.
Wonder who the 18 DINOs were?
bread and circus.
The only upside to sports is that it allows some POC to become wealthy. A great many of them also become philanthropists.
true, but i bet we could find another way. or maybe make it not so important for anyone to become so wealthy. for now, tho…
Sports is a distraction and nothing more. How it has gotten so corrupted is beyond belief.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/14/why-cant-inner-ring-democrats-just-say-no-billionaires
“Unless Biden unites the people against the oligarchs who dominate the nation,” adds Guardian analyst George Monbiot, “the people will remain divided against each other.”
tbh, i don’t know how anyone can say this with a straight face.
Biden will do no such thing. The platform was to ensure that there was not a mass defection by the left, not a statement of what Biden was going to do. He TOLD us what he was going to do, but a lot of people don’t listen well, “Nothing will fundamentally change.”
I concur.
Liz 🐍 Warren is still treated like some sort of progressive which she is not. She is a GOPuke Lite. Sick of reading about her.
me too, but i’d rather have her in there than the ones Joe is picking.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/incoming-biden-chief-staff-warns-transition-delay-puts-vaccine-distribution-n1247860
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-lives-matter-beat-police-unions-criminal-justice-los-angeles_n_5faf0cb0c5b6c5f3d2f75b29
Delicious.
i like this much better coming from the Squad, since they were the ones who really energized the poor.
In other words—–PROGRESS.
Building out a progressive base. Increasing our numbers.
This is the only hope we have for meaningful change in our country.
More AOC’s wearing out their sneakers awakening their neighbors and less DNC mismanagement.
If we do this (highly unlikely) we can win the 2 Senate seats in GA.
and less Joy Reid, who works against us. i think jcb is just goading me, at this point. luv ya, jcb. :O)
Well the Poor Peoples Campaign is not affiliated with Joy. It is affiliated with Rev. Barber though. Because Joy tweeted about it doesn’t make it bad. And for the record, I have little use for Joy. 🤮
i stay away from her like the plague. She was awful to Bernie.
Not to mention she never fully apologized to the LGBTQ community.
This tweet is the truth.
We are a brainwashed, overwhelmed and poorly informed country.
The best way to right our listing ship is by energetic grassroots action.
Which is what we have manged to do with astonishing success in New York City.
Not that you’ll hear about it in your media, but we have M4A in NYC. Everybody can sign up with a personal physician and get regular care, including referrals if specialists are required. Free. You are supplied with a card stating your access. No more humiliation for poor people or undocumented people who need care. We have all of our backs.
Really!?! wow! is there an income limit?
Not as far as I know.
It is for people who don’t qualify for any other program.
We are on our own down here in “god’s” country aka Floridumb. 💩🤮
that’s great!
if more people could survive and stay in their home without working, the zones would be even more effective.
still, 💗
This probably means that Bruno Latour’s Biennial’s exhibit, in Taiwan will be open to the public
I have mentioned before his fictional planetarium to describe that we don’t live on the same planet
The 12th Taipei Biennial Tackles the Big Questions: In Conversation with Co-curators Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard
another short article with some visuals
Taipei Biennial 2020
You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet
November 21, 2020–March 14, 2021
so wonderful.
My county count:
Thursday 482
Friday 504
Saturday 520
Sunday 526
Holding steady at 13 deaths for the last week.
14K population, and little regard for masks/social distancing. Not North Dakota, by any means, but still spiking too much for a small county with not that much going on.
Stay safe! Today I was wearing a mask with a filter (not the N95, but a light layer) as it’s been picking up in my community.
you stay safe, too, Benny!
you can get something called KN95 from Honest PPE. They were involved in Bernie’s drive of yore, iirc. When i got them, they were $2.95 a piece. i got a small package 10 or 20.
https://honestppe.supply/
plus they just have ear loops, which i find much easier. i wear a washable hat, too–recommended by some doctor.
family biz. :0)
T and R to a most excellent usual suspect, Ms. Benny!! 🙂 Thanks for all you do with hosting the OTs and our Nest. 🙂
Beginning to at least identify the top.
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1328031969960071168?s=20
would Bernie have won if nominated?
I have been operating on that assumption for months
In an ongoing interaction with articles and phone calls with my historian friend who lives in rural WA state, he reminds me that north of him is a armed, vigilante group. He points out that I don’t understand where Trump supporters are. 70 million or so, more than 2016 voted for him
and here in the USA, the label Socialism is still linked to communism and government control which limits freedom
Maybe I don’t understand where Americans are
The effects of Fox News, right wing radio, along with the fact that elites figured out that globalization won’t work, so throw the public under the bus and create confusion to keep the masses uninformed
examples are everywhere
destroy education
support rampant capitalism that destroys lives and Gaia, and protect capitalism at all costs
provide multi billion dollar advertising effort that works wonders on people’s heads and turns people into “smart” consumers who know how to figure out the “truth” . Proof that manipulation works.
cover up the existential crisis of Gaia — they can’t understand anyway.
and I could go on on…
but forgot one of the big ones
use the almost a thousand military bases, and troops in the majority of countries in the world, to spend the country into collapse following the experience of other empires.
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so could Bernie have won if nominated?
would the dem establishment support Bernie?
if he won the nomination, would he have been assonated?
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in the mean time, he has been the most important politician in decades
and he continues his great work
Bernie would have won. I wonder if your friend ever saw one of his rallies–small ones with coal miners and vets or big ones with a whole lot of New Yorkers.
Bernie had what people are literally dying for: honesty, sincerity, and ability to work hard for everyone. irresistible when reported on honestly and not subtly and not so subtly demeaned and slandered.
Charles Booker is so much like Bernie, and probably the reason I just fell in love with him, LOL. I so hope he can rise to a place of national prominence. He has the policies AND the charisma to take on Bernie’s work.
agree.
Yes, Bernie would have won, plus he would have had the all important coattails.
https://twitter.com/ClimateAxnNow/status/1328007894340550657?s=20
Here’s a diary and thread that might interest you PB
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/15/1995892/-Am-I-the-only-one-here-who-thinks-the-election-was-rigged
Absolutely. Down races should never have been called, as long as those huge outstanding numbers were there. And it may not be just Rs that are ok with that. Ds don’t want any chance of real reform, either, imho. the more downstream Rs there are, the more the donors are happy and the more they can blame the progs.
I agree. If this is any evidence of delayed voter ballot …? I received 2 birthday cards in the mail yesterday, Nov14; one was from my sister in AZ which was postmarked October 27. One was from a friend in MD which was mailed Nov 2. My birthday was Nov 4. I wouldn’t be surprised if voter ballots are still being delivered today.
happy birthday! my dad was a Scorpio–good people. :O)