4/15 News Roundup and OT
Good Mornin’ birdies! Let’s get started with an interview of Charles Booker on Medhi Hassan’s show.
More news, videos, tweets, etc in the comments. Sure happy it’s Thursday!
Good Mornin’ birdies! Let’s get started with an interview of Charles Booker on Medhi Hassan’s show.
More news, videos, tweets, etc in the comments. Sure happy it’s Thursday!
Fire away…
ICYMI.
IMOP we should have left the day after Bin Landen was shot. to me the mission was over and since then our troops died needlessly
Ex-officer in shooting of Daunte Wright faces manslaughter charge
I was surprised to see a pix of her in an orange jumpsuit TBH
Revenge of the nerd: Across the divide, Bernie Sanders breaks through
telling that more independents favor m4a (or similar) than dems.
Actually Dems favor M4A way more than indies. 80% favor it according to the Kaiser poll in the fall
https://files.kff.org/attachment/PublicOpinionSinglePayerKFF.pptx
my bad. read too fast and thought the 53% was dems and 58% was independents. should’ve known that didn’t make sense.
Nice trick, ignoring that he got cheated in both 2016 and 2020. The author may have just caught up to Sanders, but much of America was there well ahead of him. What a snarky, shitty piece of writing.
T and R, Ms. Benny, and the rest of the usual excellent TPW suspects!! ☮️😊👏
Will Biden’s presidency break the grip of Reaganism on US politics?
The good thing right now (and in the past not so good) is that Biden is not that ideological. He positions himself in the center of current Dem thinking and runs with that. Now that Bernie has pushed the Dem center to the left, Biden has also moved in that direction. The emergency of the pandemic has accelerated that.
One caveat again, this applies to only domestic policy. Foreign policy doesn’t appear to have changed too much from the Obama presidency. It will be better than Trump, but that’s a very low bar. Getting out of Afghanistan will be a big achievement. Trump promised that for May, but he had four years and didn’t do it. Why should anybody believe that noted liar that it was going to happen after he was re-elected?
also no expansion of Medicare, as Bernie and the Squad were pushing for.
idk, he seems pretty idealogically ensconced with the corpses, to me. yes, he’s doing some good things, but he knows he basically has to if dems are to have any chance in the future. people dying and all. i’m sure Bloomberg, et al, have signed off on almost everything he does.
Remember, even Clinton was saying she would lower the age.
What Clinton said and what she actually would have done may have been quite different. Right now we do know that Biden and the Dems did pass a huge 1.9 trillion bill that mostly helped regular people, and which was enthusiastically supported by Bernie. He is aiming to pass a huge infrastructure bill, which includes lots of stuff for regular people and financed at least partly by taxes on corporations. Obviously, we can debate what should get in and what comes out, but none of this would be happening with Republican control of the Senate (or the House or the presidency). No way Clinton would be doing this in 2016
yes, we are in the middle of a pandemic and i said he did some good things. whether clinton would’ve passed lowering the age to 60 or not, at least she said she would. biden has always opposed anything in this direction. that seems idealogical to me. agree to disagree.
God only hopes. 🙂
Actually, Clyburn had a good statement on this about understanding Tlaib’s frustrations. Obviously, there has to be some policing and some incarceration though she’s definitely right about militarization. Again Twitter is not always a politician’s best friend.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/548356-bernie-sanders-says-he-disagrees-with-tlaibs-call-for-no-more-police
Bernie is 79 y.o. Where is his successor in the Senate?
Maybe Fetterman if he wins?
I had thought Peter Welch would follow Bernie, but he’s 73 yo. The question is who will follow any of the three from VT?
Warren is probably the closest we have at present, but we know she’s only partially progressive. Padilla and Warnock have potential though. Fetterman favors fracking, which is why I think he’s not quite the successor to Bernie.
I wish Katie Porter would run for senate in 2024 but I think she takes corporate PAC money. I don’t think Feinstein will run again, despite having filed to run.
If Booker could win over Paul in KY, he would also be a natural successor.
I also thought Clyburn’s statement was good. Kind even.
Climate Change is the major threat we face. WWIII, you bet.
Good news
https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-ap-top-news-jobless-claims-unemployment-coronavirus-pandemic-847d7a5ef85bea2cbbfcce0866595084
With COVID on the rise again, I think this will continue to fluctuate.
I think it will be a rollercoaster for a bit as well
Best news in a long time. Very exciting
Racist Republicans at it again
No big surprise about who shows up here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/anti-asian-hate-bill-republicans-b1831757.html?utm_source=reddit.com
I expected more R’s to vote against
Me too.
Also, Tom Cotton is awful!
Remember Arkansas Birdie phatkhat’s comments about Cotton? I sure hope she is well. humphrey, too, tho I know he’s been hanging out at c99.😊
That GND “debate” would be 🤣🤣🤣
Just another reborn Christian GQP nut job
Even a bill to form a study committee on this subject is controversial.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/15/reparations-bill-committee-historic-vote-481811
https://morningconsult.com/2021/04/14/biden-ghost-guns-stabilizing-braces-polling/
Put the ban back on assault heat while you’re at it, joe.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/daunte-wright-death/
Republicans will never agree to anything that raises any taxes so this will have to be done through reconciliation.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/infrastructure-corporate-taxes-most-reject-gop-position-n1264178