Elections; 2024

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THG

Thursday, July 20, 2023 3:48 AM

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Is Tennessee a Democracy?

A question that Democrats always ask when they don't like the results of elections after people wake up and vote against their policies that ruin lives.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's words used against her in Biden campaign ad

THG

Thursday, July 20, 2023 6:51 AM

Game over

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 20, 2023 11:37 AM

LOL

Fuck Maddow.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

SECOND

Thursday, July 20, 2023 5:13 PM

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LOL

Fuck Maddow.

Trump has a plan to become America's Julius Caesar. He is preparing to massively expand the power of the presidency.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-plans-to-massively-expand-exec
utive-power-if-elected-report-says

Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount review

A needle-sharp book about political liabilities from Julius Caesar to Donald Trump

Wed 19 Jul 2023 07.00 EDT

One by one, the toxic giants have come crashing to earth. In the last month or so Boris Johnson has quit, Donald Trump has been arraigned on felony charges, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi has died, and even Vladimir Putin looks significantly weaker than he did. It’s sorely tempting to conclude that the chaotic ride of recent years is finally over, and life might return to something more like normal.

But that, according to Ferdinand Mount’s absorbing tour of populist rogues through the ages, would be a rookie mistake. It may be comforting to think of so-called Caesars – a type of leader defined by what Mount calls his (and it’s mostly, though not invariably, his) “relentless egotism, his lack of scruple, his thoughtless brutality, his cheesy glitz” and above all his loathing of democratic checks and balances – as freakish aberrations from a generally orderly norm. But trace the line from ancient Rome to Oliver Cromwell, from Napoleon Bonaparte to modern-day strongmen, and it becomes obvious that they are a regularly recurring phenomenon for which nations just as regularly fall, and from which they don’t recover overnight. “These ill-starred comets,” Mount writes, “leave a long trail of debris.” But they also have something to teach us about stopping the next Caesar early.

Few are better qualified to take the long view than Mount, the sort of Tory who has done everything – run Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit, been political editor of the Spectator – and knows everyone, without feeling the need to go on about it endlessly. He is also the sort of Tory who voted remain, believes in rules-based world order, and writes skilfully enough to get away with comparing Julius Caesar’s public agonising over whether to cross the Rubicon – and thus start a war that risked destroying the Roman empire – with Johnson’s famous writing of two articles on Brexit, one for and one against. (The original Caesar, he argues, never seriously wobbled; he just wanted to suggest that he’d been nobly wrestling with his conscience when in reality he was always going to do what suited him best, ditto our former prime minister. One can’t help feeling the classicist in Johnson might have loved this book, were it not so rude about him.) For conventional politicians, Mount notes, charisma can be a useful communications tool. But in a Caesar’s hands, the ability to dazzle his way out of trouble becomes “a license to go beyond, to break the rules … he is beyond good and evil, and beyond a lot of other boring stuff too”. The true Caesar, Mount writes, feels “dangerously free”.

Admittedly, one or two of the historical comparisons feel like something of a stretch. But the power of this needle-sharp book lies in the acuity of its observations and in its ability to zoom out and see modern politicians in broader context, bringing something both fresh and timeless to an otherwise well-worn subject. When it first crossed my desk, I wondered if the world really needed another book on the dangers of populism. Then Johnson resigned and unleashed a Trumpian attack on the MPs who found him guilty of lying, and I wondered whether you can’t have too many. Every MP should be made to read its rousing final chapter, on the importance of a properly muscular and sovereign parliament in defending democracies against Caesarism.

For if the five acts he identifies as Johnsonian assaults on democracy – including attacks on the civil service, curbs on the right to protest and bringing in compulsory voter ID for elections, which Mount sees as outright voter suppression – haven’t ex

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 20, 2023 7:09 PM

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

THG

Friday, July 21, 2023 4:52 AM

Brutal New Poll Shows Trump Losing Big to Biden, Even With Third Party Spoiler

Anew Monmouth University poll suggests that former president Donald Trump would be easily dispatched by President Joe Biden in a 2024 rematch of the 2020 presidential election, even if Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) were to mount a third party bid that most analysts believe would hamper the Biden campaign.

In the national survey of 910 voters, 47% of voters said they would definitely or probably support Biden, while just 40% said they would back Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brutal-new-poll-shows-trump-lo
sing-big-to-biden-even-with-third-party-spoiler/ar-AA1e8d2Z?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1f7b598fb8d24b3180a3ada146e64827&ei=51

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SECOND

Friday, July 21, 2023 6:08 AM

Thanks to the Republican Party, Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People

The Florida Board of Education has approved shocking new standards for African American history, despite overwhelming backlash from the public.

By Allison Quinn, Published Jul. 20, 2023 8:31AM EDT

Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a “personal benefit” because they “developed skills.”

After the Florida Board of Education approved new standards for African American history on Wednesday, high school students will be taught an equally distorted message: that a deadly white mob attack against Black residents of Ocoee, Florida, in 1920 included “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

Dozens of Black residents were killed in the massacre, which was perpetrated to stop them from voting.

According to members of the board, that distorted portrayal of the racist massacre is factually accurate. MaryLynn Magar, a member of the board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, said at the board’s meeting in Orlando on Wednesday that “everything is there” in the new history standards and “the darkest parts of our history are addressed,” the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

The majority of the speakers who provided public testimony on the planned curriculum were vehemently opposed to it, warning that crucial context is omitted, atrocities are glossed over, and in some cases students will be taught to “blame the victim.”

“I am very concerned by these standards, especially some of the notion that enslaved people benefited from being enslaved,” state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando) said, per Action News Jax.

“When I see the standards, I’m very concerned,” state Sen. Geraldine Thompson said at the board meeting. “If I were still a professor, I would do what I did very infrequently; I’d have to give this a grade of ‘I’ for incomplete. It recognizes that we have made an effort, we’ve taken a step. However, this history needs to be comprehensive. It needs to be authentic, and it needs additional work.”

“When you look at the history currently, it suggests that the [Ocoee] massacre was sparked by violence from African Americans. That’s blaming the victim,” the Democrat warned.

“Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history, our history, is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” community member Kevin Parker said.

Approval of the new standards is a win for the DeSantis administration, which has effectively sought to create a new educational agenda that shields white students from feeling any sense of guilt for wrongs perpetrated against people of color. The Florida governor signed the “Stop WOKE Act” last year to do just that, restricting how issues of race are taught in public schools and workplaces.

In keeping with the administration’s crusade against “wokeness,” Education Commissioner Manny Diaz defended the new standards against criticism, saying, “This is an in-depth, deep dive into African American history, which is clearly American history as Governor DeSantis has said, and what Florida has done is expand it,” Action News Jax reported.

Paul Burns, the Florida Department of Education’s chancellor of K-12 public schools, also insisted the new standards provide an exhaustive representation of African American history.

“Our standards are factual, objective standards that really teach the good, the bad and the ugly,” he was quoted as saying Wednesday by Florida Phoenix. He denied the new standards portray slavery as beneficial.

Although education officials say teachers are meant to expand upon the new curriculum in the classroom, critics say teachers are unlikely to do that for fear of being singled out and possibly punished for being too “woke.”

The Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, called the new standards “a big step backward f

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, July 21, 2023 6:24 AM

Good on them, normally I think the party stupid but to give credit Republicans originally helped Free the Slaves and now they might even help tell the truth of it all.

Yup there is truth to it, every writing you dig up every historical archeological find you will see slavery has been a natural state of the human race for thousands of years, it seems cruel and uncivilized today but almost everywhere you look South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America one tribe beat the other and often took them as slaves, North African Arabs had slaves, the Jewish sold people, the Pagan Romans and Greek had slaves, the Shinto Japanese and Buddhist, the Hindu Indians, the Russians, Ottoman Turks everyone had slaves or took slaves

"Africans sold other Africans into slavery"

but when the truth becomes uncomfortable and politically incorrect it causes minds to go into cognitive dissonance and almost short circuit?

SECOND

Friday, July 21, 2023 6:34 AM

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but when the truth becomes uncomfortable and politically incorrect it causes minds to go into cognitive dissonance and almost short circuit?

Daughter: So, I started dating this guy...he seems to have a lot of money...

Mom: That's nice

Daughter: But he's got sexual assault accusations.

Mom: What?

Daughter: In fact more than 20.

Mom: WHAT?

Daughter: Well he's only been found guilty of one...

Mom: *speechless, sputtering*

Daughter: And he's declared bankruptcy 6 times.

Mom: WHY WOULD YOU DATE THIS MAN?!?

Daughter: Well, you voted for him for president...

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 12:05 AM

PA city demands Trump cough up thousands owed from 2018 rally before he returns again

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pa-city-demands-trump-cough-up
-thousands-owed-from-2018-rally-before-he-returns-again/ar-AA1eidsY?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f9307268b3d44a70911b8eecf1f30feb&ei=43

You can add deadbeat when describing Trump.

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