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Saw this on Facebook:
"So this gutless, guilty, godforsaken coward sued the U.S. Congress today for subpoenaing his business records? Like the government is some small business he can just litigate away. But just let that sink in: A sitting U.S. president is suing his own government."
Pretty damn wild, huh? Even worse are the far more gutless Republicans in Congress and beyond collectively sitting on their hands, doing the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" routine while letting Trump run roughshod over the Constitution. Makes you wonder what Trump is hiding that he's going to these lengths to keep his records secret.
Avatar: Here's to the late, great Steve Dillon. Best. Punisher. Artist. EVER!
Vermont’s Black Leaders: We Were ‘Invisible’ to Bernie Sanders
Back in 2006, the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, a Brattleboro-area civil rights organization, hosted a Candidate Night. The race for the open U.S. Senate seat between Bernie Sanders and Richard Tarrant, a Republican and one of the wealthiest people in the state, had grown increasingly acrimonious.
The audience of African-American activists and other Vermonters of color should have been a friendly one for the socialist congressman.
Instead, remembers Curtiss Reed Jr., the executive director of the group, it became something of a showdown. Sanders “was just really dismissive of anything that had to do with race and racism, saying that they didn’t have anything to do with the issues of income inequality,” Reed told The Daily Beast.
“He just always kept coming back to income inequality as a response, as if talking about income inequality would somehow make issues of racism go away.”
And since winning that race, Sanders’s approach toward Reed and his organization has been one of “benign neglect,” the activist added. “We are a major statewide organization. It would stand to reason that you would check in with your major constituents, but voters of color are simply not on his radar.”
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Ooooooh, looks like my representative is getting into some xenophobia.
What the hell is Duffy even doing at the border?! He's from Wisconsin; that's nowhere close!Several Republican congressmen on Wednesday visited the U.S.-Mexico border at Yuma, Arizona, a day after Mayor Douglas Nicholls declared an emergency in the city due the “imminent threat” that waves of migrants pose to the community.
Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., who was among those visiting the border, sympathized with Nicholls during an interview on Fox Business.
“You have hundreds of people who are coming across the border every single night and the Mayor of Yuma is right, his community can’t take the influx of people,” Duffy told Kennedy on Wednesday.
Duffy called on his colleagues across the aisle to help alleviate the problem.
“I think if more Democrats came [to the border], they would see the light and say ‘This is less about Donald Trump and more about American Security,” he said. “We’ve got to work with Republicans and find a solution to this massive problem.”
Duffy also praised Attorney General Bill Barr’s decision on Tuesday to deny bail to those migrants seeking asylum who cross the border illegally rather than through a port of entry.
Duffy said that the policy “takes away the incentive for the migrants to come to our border.”
When pressed on how border patrol agents can do a better job of assessing asylum claims, Duffy said they struggle because some migrants “don’t have legitimate claims for asylum.”
“Their lives aren’t threatened, they’re coming for the American dream,” he said. “They want a better opportunity in America as opposed to Guatemala or El Salvador or Honduras. That’s why they’re coming.”
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My big article on Mariko Tamaki's Hulk & She-Hulk runs, discussing the good, bad, and its creation.
My second big article on She-Hulk, discussing Jason Aaron's focus on her in Avengers #20.
I ranked Tulsi at the bottom initially, but I like her quite a bit now. I think she has 0 chance anyway.
I also like Seth Moulton a lot, generally, but he'd rank low for me as a prez candidate choice.
Biden running is kind of annoying. Obviously I will vote for him in the general.
It's frustrating because if he does get the nom, he is like the top candidate that a certain segment of the left is gonna be positive the DNC rigged this thing for and all that bullshit from 2016.
Everyone involved in 2016 needs sit this one out. Biden's time is passed, in my opinion. And Bernie did the best thing he could do, in shifting a lot of the policy to the left--and now a bunch of better candidates are running on those policies. They don't need to be in the candidadte pool.
But whatever. That Any Democrat 2020 sticker is accurate. I'll vote for any of 'em.
"He just always kept coming back to income inequality as a response, as if talking about income inequality would somehow make issues of racism go away.”
This is pretty common joke over on the minority issues thread, since black issues are often ignored on this thread, even when they are specifically (and almost inherently) political.
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Tulsi is awesome on foreign policy.
However this is a crowded as fuck field. Biden is the centrist favorite. Bernie is the progressive favorite. Warren and Harris are two compromises that lean slightly to one side. I really don’t see much room beyond those.
Here’s the problem. Whether you think they are old or not, Biden and Bernie are the two front runners so there is an appetite for them. And quite frankly the new fresh faces like Beto and Pete are looking to be some of the most policy devoid manufactured candidates in the race. I’d rather one of those two than rolling the dice on someone who looks good in a focus tests
We know Bernie is crazy popular, we know Biden has the Obama coalition, we know Warren and Harris are champions with ideas to get things done