8/4-5 News Roundup and Open Thread
The infrastructure deal was passed.
Numerous senators and house members have purchased millions in infrastructure stocks BEFORE the deal was announced.
Includes $BLNK, $TSLA, $OSK, $PLUG, and many others.
What did they know?
Link: https://t.co/raMqfkXmWj pic.twitter.com/Djch9OkoAy
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 4, 2021
Last night’s special election was indicative. Shontel Brown will likely become a member on that list.
More news, tweets, perspectives, etc in the comments. See you there.
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That seat comes up for election in 14-15 months. If Nina is serious, she will continue her campaign.
I was thinking about that. Not sure what she will do. Probably depends on what happens with the reconciliation bill. If moderates succeed in blocking or gutting it, she will have more ammunition.
She is damned lucky she lives in one of the top dumbest, entrenched politically corrupt states. Believe me. 💩🤮
bree newsome, iirc, had the right idea. give the money straight to landlords and renters alike.
With the Nina bad news, at least we in NY can look forward to getting rid of Cuomo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/nyregion/cuomo-toxic-workplace.html
I think it turned out a lot of Lincoln Project types. I’m wondering if the GOP candidate, who only got 3500 votes, will be seeing a big infusion of cash.
Shaker Heights has lots of older Jewish voters for whom DMFI’s message might resonate.
I actually don’t think there are many Republicans in this district. It was designed to be a gerrymandered Dem vote sink. Brown will have no problem winning the general so I don’t think Republicans will waste money here.
A lot of Repukes already get it. They know the low voter turnout in these special elections, so guess what? They showed up for the yahoo Brown.
Hey Brianna, you bozos sided with Jimmy Dore’s group. Screw you.
It is not a government of the people anymore it is a government of the corporations and their minions.
I hope the kids know what they’re doing, because we are being pummeled all over the globe.
also notice where he goes to lock it down. voting system. this is known.
anyone have a graph showing the amount of money spent on shontel, including the superpacs, v. nina? the khives and corpodems are all tweeting that nina outspent shontel, and i don’t want to argue until i have the receipts.
looks to me like a purposeful meme being pushed by that crowd.
nm here it is.
I’ve read reports that it was almost a wash.
hmmm. doesn’t look like it in that graph, but maybe nina had grassroots support to match it. i’d better quit arguing. waste of time anyway. not like they care about the truth.
walked my dog with the liberals, as always. didn’t bring it up. it was sort of relaxing that way. dog walking and friendship trumps my bad mood and anger at liberals.
At the end with all the DFMI and Third Way money, Brown was way outspending Nina who spent more earlier. As much as her bowl of shit comment may have been justified, I do think it hurt her in a Biden loving district. Also for many reasons, Bernie’s endorsement is not a real plus with older black voters.
agree. but folks don’t remember it was the primary and Biden PACS were throwing all kinds of sh__ lies at Bernie. guess it doesn’t really matter in the age of Super Pacs, MSM, and short as hell memories.
the anger, it burns. taking a break for a while.
She’s about as Jewish as I am. 💩😂
Whole thread is worth a glance. Some interesting insights.
i rt’d it. prolly lose some followers
T and R, Ms. Benny!! ☮️😊👍 I tried to delete my OT, but could not edit the headline. Oh well, not a cyber/high tech nerd. 🙄
How wonderful! I’ll be watching this one’s career closely. Likely will be a boring back bencher and vote for the establishment.
I’m sure Shontel like Cori will be at the front lines battling 🙄
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1422803542184579072?s=20
Nina was/is a threat to Clyburn when it comes to actually representing POC, and he/they will do all they can to stack committees with more people like Brown who ‘owe’ them.
Imagine if Nina had said she should get any specific committee assignment because ‘senator Sanders being in such a powerful position’ instead of actual merits.
LD: you need to show up on here more often. Nina has got to run again for this seat if she is for real. ??
Im rying orl, had to take some time to try and get life in order, figure out career/life decisions, etc. Still in the middle of it actually, but will gradually be back more and more.
Ill save most for a long post but to sum it up our house we rent is being sold and we dont wamt to rent anymore in dallas, and were still in the process of getting colorado land which puts us on a bind. Weve mostly decided i will quit my job while JD is able to work remote. In that time we’ll be doing a ‘van life’ of sorts and travelling the country for 3-6 months , so ill be back to full time blogging, mixed between politics and photography/travel stories. Hoping to be able to take tpw on the road and visit progressive offices/politicians around the country, cover protests, pow wows and a mix of my other interests.
Its throwing a lot of caution to the wind but we are so terribly unhappy in Texas that rapid, rash decisions are pretty preferable.
Aug 20 we depart dallas for our first destination of Pittsburgh for a week or so.
Stay tuned!
Good luck! I was just in Pittsburgh a few weekends ago for a wedding.
Ill have wayyyyy more time for writing!
Don’t mean to rag on you, but you started this site 6+ years ago and I look up to you. So what if I’m old enuff to be your grandma. 😊☮️😂😂👍
Wish you and JD success on your new venture in life!!!!
Oh bloody hell! She sounds like Hillary saying yah, I went along to get along so where’s my prize!
(am talking about 2008 of course)