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House of Representatives: Democrats in da house!
fraurosena posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
Now that the Democrats have the majority in the House of Representatives, I think it would be fair to give the House its own thread. In it, we can post about all the many important investigations the House Committees will be holding in the coming months, and any other important news, like this: I'd like to know who those seven Repugliklans were. -
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We have a Spicer thread, but as we're seeing more and more of his replacement, SHS, I've started a separate thread for her. Although, with this latest tweet of hers I'm not sure this thread is going to be a long one, as none of us will know what she's saying if this is a prediction of future communications. covfefe, anyone?
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Political Memes, Comics, and other Shenanigans, Part 10
GreyhoundFan posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
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Here's a place to discuss the many consequential elections coming up for offices other than President. Continued from here:
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Continued from here: Junior needs to ditch the beard. It's not attractive and we can still see his face. "Donald Trump Jr. agrees to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee again"
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2020 Presidential Election 2: How Many People Are Still Running?
GreyhoundFan posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
Continued from here: "With primary’s first winnowing at hand, candidates face tough choice: Drop out or continue on ‘fool’s errand’" -
I.. I.. have no words.
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I've been thinking about starting a new thread about sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, corrupt A.G. Bill Barr and Trump, because, as noted in another post, they are all tied together. Bill Barr testified during his Senate confirmation hearing that he would recuse himself from anything related to Epstein. Now, he claims that he's consulted DoJ ethics lawyers and has decided not to recuse himself. Notably, he didn't share what those ethics lawyers actually advised, just that he wouldn't recuse. Not much question anymore that Barr was put in place as A.G. to protect Trump and further his agenda, but let's review the primary conflicts of interest. First, Donald Barr, Bill Barr's father, headmaster at the exclusive Dalton prep school in NYC, hired a 20-year-old Epsein (with no college degree) to teach at Dalton School. This would have been a target-rich environment for Epstein, who I speculate was already on his way to becoming an accomplished sexual predator. There's no background on how Epstein came to apply to teach at Dalton, but he taught math and physics. Second, Bill Barr's prior law firm handled the original Epstein case in Florida. As most know by now, Epstein got the sweetheart deal of the century in Florida, which also protected others. Someone on twitter noted today that possibly the Epstein deal was lenient because these girls were considered prostitutes rather than underaged victims. That plea deal also protected others who were implicated by sealing their identities. There are filings right now under consideration as to whether the original plea deal can be vacated. Note that the Public Corruption Unit is involved in the current charges. Trump has been the Teflon Don until now, but I feel certain that there could be bombshell evidence that Trump was implicated in the original case and in this current one as well, and that Barr will do everything in his power to protect Trump. A huge shout out to Julie K. Brown, an investigative reporter with the Miami Herald who did a blockbuster three-part series that ripped the Epstein case back open. And one more thing: Epstein's long-time ex-consort and possible procurer is a woman named Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father was a corrupt British politician (who may have been murdered on his yacht) with murky ties to bad people in Eastern Europe and possibly Russian oligarchs.
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"The Family" on Netflix- influential fundamentalist group
NakedKnees posted a topic in Quiver Full of Snark
Is anyone else watching The Family on Netflix? I'm only two episodes in, but in the first episode alone they touch on a lot of subjects I've seen come up here: very strict American fundie "gender" role expectations, resistance to The World™️, and what's so great about the story of David. I'm not big on the use of reenactments, but it's interesting to see this niche-ish interest of mine so explicitly on Netflix. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? -
Several ministers in the UK have resigned and it looks like a government crisis on the eve of Trump visit.
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I just wanted to have a thread for this classy lady. Tonight we learned about the Bowling Green Massacre. I just want to leave my condolences to everyone affected by this tragedy. I'm really hoping to hear from Fredrick Douglass regarding this event.
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Mike Pence: Almost as bad as Trump but he might not get us killed
RoseWilder posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
Since Mike Pence has his own controversies swirling around him, I thought I would start a thread for the slimy, hypocritical weasel: Pence insists that his email scandal is totally different from Hillary's: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/pence-says-his-private-email-use-was-not-the-same-as-clintons/ I hate that man so much. What a sleazebag. -
Pence 2: Obeys Mother And Trump (In That Order)
GreyhoundFan posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
Continued from here: Pence is definitely spouting the party line. Of course, he forgets about the impact all the Mango Moron's tariffs are having on average Americans. -
We haven't got a separate thread for European politics yet, so I thought I'd start one so we can discuss whatever is going on politically on this side of the pond. I'll start with today's big news from Italy: Italian PM Conte resigns Perhaps @laPapessaGiovanna can weigh in with more insight.
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Scaramucci, Scaramucci, can you do the Drumfdango?
fraurosena posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
Anthony Scaramucci has been appointed the new WH Communications Director, so I thought a new thread would be appropriate. Trump picks financier Scaramucci to head White House communications: official Scaramucci is quite the controversial character. He's been rejected for a WH office before because of ethical conflicts, but these don't seem to be a problem for this position. Sean Spicer has resigned over his appointment, which apparently wasn't run by Bannon (who reportedly is fuming) and Rancid Penis hates his guts. So, just another day in the office of the WH, as usual. -
Rufus, please let this be true: "The impeachment inquiry Trump has feared is here"
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Melania Trump:Looking for a platform, and a stylist.
GrumpyGran posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
I have to do this, so here it is. Let's talk about our most confusing First Lady. Last night as I was going to bed, I was very depressed about the Republicans' latest attempt to kill Americans and wondered if I would have trouble sleeping. But then appeared on my TV the Flotus making a speech while wearing a hot pink pool float! I laughed myself to sleep. There's so much to ponder about her. The marital handshake. What she does all day. Why she's even here. But the thing that really confounds me is how a woman of her means can continually miss the mark fashion-wise. She either looks like she's auditioning for the Top Gun remake or heading out for a formal soirée with some Manhattan high society muckety-mucks. She likes to hide her hands and only has flats or stilettos, there's no in between. She also seems to have some weird fetish about changing clothes on airplanes. Someone help her! -
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Why do you think people reject the need to act on the climate crisis, even in the face of evidence.
unsafetydancer posted a topic in Quiver Full of Politics
So, in the Brexit thread I expressed infuriation with the fact that, at least in my country, people often treat the idea of protecting our environment as a joke. I have some ideas as to why this is. Obviously, the overwhelming resistance from the people currently in power who massively benefit from the fossil fuel and motor industries as well as lax anti-pollution laws. It's like every time there is a step forwards the media will rush to portray the scientists and activists as pessimists or doom-sayers. It's annoying that people won't look at the evidence on their own and think beyond "it's annoying to have to separate my household waste" and see that we have to take this all the way to the very top to even begin to make a difference. People feel powerless and just give up when it's pretty bloody imperative to not give up in the face of mass extinction events and environmental collapse. I also wonder if it's down to science, nature and other connected topics being portrayed as "geeky" and "uncool". I think my generation suffered from a very aggressive kind of anti-intellectualism where we were taught that it was only "cool" to know just enough to get yourself into uni/a good job. This was especially true among girls in my age group. My father always valued education just for the sake of learning something so I was in a pretty small minority in my town (but then again, it had a large number of oil workers) in that I enjoyed learning about the world and how it all fits together. I remember being laughed at by a group of girls in my school because I asked for a recycling bin to put our bottles and cans in. Apparently, it's not cool to care. I think it's great that we now have young women like Greta Thunberg standing up and talking about all this in a very eloquent and well-informed way but they also come in for a horrific amount of abuse as a result. Some of this is possibly down to sexism and the idea that teenage girls should somehow be only interested in boys and other "acceptable" interests. I have also experienced first hand the reaction adults have to being questioned by young people when I was her age, equal parts horror and a sort of rage that you would even dare. I love the fact that young people, in general, seem to be starting to question adults more. Now all we need is to take these young people seriously and encourage them. This might be a very long time coming but I hope that my generation will at least be better at it than my parents'. I think a big part of the issue is fear of change. The fact is that everyone will have to make changes to their lifestyle to make this work. Even when you suggest to people that towns and cities be structured to prioritise public vehicles like buses and trams then you are met with a bunch of people telling you why it will never work. They are unable to imagine the idea that better and more available public transport might make cars obsolete in cities because they have always needed to take a car to get around or have never bothered to use public transport at all. Also, the idea of becoming a less wasteful society seems to make people angry or pessimistic. The biggest elephant in the room seems to be that our entire civilisation is now structured around cheap, replaceable stuff that we often only use once or twice then throw away. Everything from the fashion industry to electronics needs to make us want to just buy more and more stuff just so that their (terrible) business models can remain intact. On one hand, people will usually admit that it is utterly bonkers that Primark will sell you a shirt for £3 that will disintegrate after a few washes but on the other they will just shrug and head right out to buy more shirts that can only be worn a couple of times. Then right at the top, everything seems so impossible to change that people end up just bickering over the minutiae like plastic straws rather than campaigning for things like an end to fossil fuels. It's like how people in cities KNOW that diesel-fuelled engines are contributing to conditions like asthma and lung cancers but they don't see the point in putting pressure on the government to completely ban these vehicles. I once ended up talking to a taxi driver about how he knows the polluted air around city centre taxi ranks is damaging his health but he won't ever swap his diesel car and neither will any other taxi driver because then he will have to get used to a new car. It makes my head spin. I would like to believe that there is hope but it honestly feels like a losing battle. I know that in other European countries the environment is taken a little more seriously. Is this an education thing or is there something more to it? -
Since we have a dedicated thread for news about the various State Senates, I thought I'd get one going about the various State Houses of Representatives I'll start with someone from Iowa who's gone to the Steve King school of political discourse; kcrg.com/content/news/Iowa-GOP-legislator-taking-heat-for-comments-about-gay-men-417135443.html Rep Watts, Fornicate you.
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Alright, Updated list (that will expand and grow) of resources we have talked about in the What Now? thread. If you have something to add, please reply below, but let's try to keep discussion in the other thread. I'll keep editing useful information into this post as we go along. Contact your representatives: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ (House of Representatives) http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state (Senate) State level: https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/ (Or try the facebook page “Call your reps”) U.S. Senators on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gov/lists/us-senate?lang=en White House Press Contacts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kellyfincham/lists/white-house-corrs C-SPAN Lists of Twitters for Congressional Committees, Congress Members, Governors, etc.: https://twitter.com/cspan/lists Faxing Documents to Senators: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php Faxing Documents to Congress: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php What's coming down the legislative pipe: https://www.govtrack.us/ To find your local democraty party information: https://www.democrats.org/ If you believe your state is promoting unconstitutional legislation or if your rights have been violated, contact your chapter of the ACLU for assistance: https://www.aclu.org/about/affiliates Organisations doing good things that deserve our help / money: Civil rights: - The ACLU: https://www.aclu.org - The Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/ -League of Women Voters: http://lwv.org/ Reproductive Rights: - Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-involved - The Center for Reproductive Rights: https://www.reproductiverights.org/ LBGT Rights: - The Trevor Project: http://www.thetrevorprojecorg/ Immigrant and minority rights: - Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): https://www.cair.com/about-us.html - The Anti-Defamation League: http://www.adl.org/ - The Human Rights Campaign: http://www.hrc.org/ - The National Immigration Law Center: https://www.nilc.org/ -United we dream: http://unitedwedream.org/ Disability rights: - https://dredf.org/ Environmental resources: - The Environmental Defense Fund: https://www.edft.org/ - Natural Resources Defense Council: https://www.nrdc.org/ - Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ Other resources: Progressive scripts: -This is NC specific, but adaptable: https://progressivenationwnc.org/causes/ -This is ‘dad’ specific, but adaptable: http://www.scarymommy.com/what-i-need-to-tell-my-father-in-the-wake-of-the-election/ Show me the money! (boycotts and stellar company information): -List of all retailers that do business with Trump (#grabyourwallet) https://grabyourwallet.org/ -Businesses that have vowed to reduce carbon emissions regardless of politics: http://www.lowcarbonusa.org/ -Businesses that advertise on (or have ceased advertising on) breitbart (#Sleepinggiants): https://www.facebook.com/slpnggiants/ Other resources: Weekly Call To Action: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174f0WBSVNSdcQ5_S6rWPGB3pNCsruyyM_ZRQ6QUhGmo/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true# It has a few tabs. The first is scripts of what you can say. The second is Party Leadership Info. The third and fourth is all incumbents. The fifth is some extra tips. How to talk to your loved ones who voted for Trump: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nLEwmBR_ckC3DaDyLV2IKHAPE_dRGnzomGiTImr-eAI/edit It is open for anyone to suggest a change, but if you don't want to see all the suggested changes, you can click from "Suggesting" in the right hand side/corner to "Viewing." " Indivisible - A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DzOz3Y6D8g_MNXHNMJYAz1b41_cn535aU5UsN7Lj8X8/mobilebasic -The Sunlight FOundation is about transparency in government: https://sunlightfoundation.com/ -12 ways to disrupt Trump’s first 100 days: http://www.salon.com/2017/01/09/robert-reich-12-ways-to-disrupt-donald-trumps-first-100-days-as-president_partner/ -List of social justice resources: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/19/1601992/-Social-Justice-Resource-List-What-You-Can-Do-NOW-For-Yourself-and-Your-Family How to get a congressperson’s attention: Video: -I just got off the phone with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) - (202-512-5500) in support of Senator Warren's request to audit the President Elect's finances for conflicts of interest. I asked the person who answered what the most effective way to be sure my support counted. She said to email a new address set up specifically for this issue, as well as the two administrators. Their names are: Katherine Siggerud -email: [email protected] And Timothy Minelli -email: [email protected] As well as: [email protected] Suggested text of the emails is one sentence, though you can add or edit as you see fit: "I'm writing in support of Senator Elizabeth Warren's request for an audit of our incoming President Elect's finances, to prohibit conflicts of interest that would prevent him from carrying out the responsibilities of the office without corrupt influence." Information on the Women's March: Official site: https://www.womensmarch.com/ http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/politics/womens-march-on-washington-need-to-know/
