All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[ed2962]

Whoever the Democratic candidate winds up being after all the sausage making is done, THE most important thing he (or she) will have to do is bring everyone together under one tent, assemble the various factions and sharpen their collective focus towards one goal and one goal only----beating Donald Trump in November. All these divisions and turf battles will do nothing but distract the party from the goal of winning back the presidency (and, hopefully, the Senate too). I feel pretty confident Biden and Warren can be uniters while Mayor Pete and Klobuchar will have to show me they can do the job, then there's Sanders, can he a uniter, and I'm not talking about in terms of specious bullshit like polls which are about as lasting as a fart in a windstorm. Can he bring men, women, blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, LGTBQ along with the alphabet soup of political factions together and get them all to play nice? Considering his reticence (or inability) to corral his most....overenthusiastic followers, can Sanders bring much needed order on a much larger scale? If he's the candidate, he damn well BETTER be able to, AND bring people to the voting booth, or the party's screwed, leading to Trump getting another term.

This will be his biggest challenge. Not winning women or minorities, etc over, but convincing status quo Democrats to come along as well. Class has come up more than once and some Democrats are quite well off and are nervous that they're going to have their money liquidated and given to people in trailer parks or something. Sanders is going to have to convince those people that fixing healthcare doesn't mean millionaries will be outlawed or that reducing student debt is about "punishing" success.

[worstblogever]

In 2015, in 2016, and in 2017, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of the former candidate for the U.S. Senate from Iowa, Sam Clovis, the runner up in the 2014 GOP Primary for the U.S. Senate seat from Iowa, placing second behind Joni Ernst, on the strength of her hog-castrating platform. Clovis’ own campaign web page accused the Obama administration of strengthening America’s enemies, as well as the age-old lie that the Affordable Cart Act has brought about “healthcare rationing”. Clovis promised to, if elected, block any judicial candidate that did not follow “Biblical law”, and claimed that the American government was “destroying our churches”. He also expressed his commitment to “finding out the truth about Benghazi” repeatedly, eventually going as far as to say that the only reason President Obama had not been impeached over it was that he wasn’t white. We noted in our second look at Clovis that he was one of the first campaign cuts by Rick Perry’s 2016 campaign, and Clovis jumped to the 2016 Donald Trump campaign, instead. E-mails leaked from Clovis’ time in the Perry campaign, where he was praising the former Texas governor for saying Trump was “a cancer on conservatism”, indicating that his big fat mouth still continues to get him in trouble. And with the Trump campaign, Clovis continues to be a bumbler, stumbling his way through a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper by saying he was “disappointed” that Cooper had brought up instances of Trump flip-flopping on the record on issues, which disappointment seems to the only alternative to irrational babbling that Trump pundits show when the media calls them on their bulls***. The biggest lie (but far from the only one) Clovis told while working on the Trump campaign (admittedly, he was overshadowed by ladies like Katrina Pierson, Scotty Neil Hughes, and Kellyanne Conway) included a ludicrouss claims that Donald Trump's tax plan would create, and we quote... "a 7 trillion dollar budget surplus" (Experts actually said it would ADD 1-2 trillion to the deficit, ANNUALLY), and he defended the comments from the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump boasting about committing sexual assault by saying that they occurred "before he made his recent faith journey". Honestly, we can't tell if Sam Clovis is constantly squinting or if his facial features are shrinking like he's some sort of Dick Tracy villain. For his service to his orange overlord, Clovis was offered a high-paying government job working in the USDA, which if you're paying attention to any Trump appointment, he was almost completely unqualified for. However, that job opportunity fell by the wayside once Clovis became a cooperating witness after ending up to his eyeballs in federal investigators for all of the colluding he may have done as a member of the Trump campaign’s foreign policy team back in 2016.



On this date in both 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Stephen Humphrey, a member of the Colorado House of Representatives since first being elected back in 2012. Humphrey is a conservative in the mold of Ted Cruz, by which, we mean he’s as wanted as most kinds of fungus. Humphrey is constantly trying to undo most of the gun control measures that help keep Colorado safer in the wake of the Aurora Massacre, opposes same sex marriage, and keeps sponsoring not just “religious freedom” laws to allow for discrimination against the LGBT community, but also sponsors Personhood regulation on the regular in Colorado, as well as laws to attempt to let a man have a say in a woman’s choice to have an abortion. If you’re still unclear on how much of a fanatical God-fearing Christian we’re talking about when we give Humphrey a profile, look no further than his first term in office, when he sponsored an “academic freedom” bill that was specifically worded so that Colorado’s schools could have political discussion about evolution, global warming, and human cloning. He actually tried lying and claiming his bill was in any way political, but there wasn’t a soul in Colorado to believe him. Meanwhile, he would also like you to believe that the government is hostile towards his religion as a Christian, and supports those “religious freedom” bills to allow him the right to discriminate against gay people. And before you stop and wonder if that’s the only proof he’s comfortable harassing the LGBTQ community, keep in mind we’re talking about a brain donor who also voted against a ban on “gay conversion therapy” on minors in Colorado. Currently, he’s even pushing a bill inspired by the anti-gay bakery in Colorado what wants to refuse to sell cake for gay weddings, because his priorities for the state are that out of whack. He’s continued his mad homophobic quest into 2018, still sponsoring “religious freedom” legislation as Colorado continues to become more LGBTQ-friendly, and other pro-bigotry measures that have zero chance of passing, but allow him to impotently rage at same sex couples.

We’re hoping that the good people of Severance, Colorado, choose to use their votes to give Humphrey a severance package when the 2018 elections come around, because it doesn’t seem like he has any intention of governing like a sane person, especially when he and his colleagues in Colorado seem content to spend their energy attacking Senator John McCain for not killing the Affordable Care Act.

Humphrey won re-election in 2018 with 67% of the vote, but is term limited in the Colorado House of Representatives in 2020. We’re expecting him to take a run for the Colorado State Senate or another higher office, and meanwhile he’s feuding with his fellow Republicans if they flinch from even the most conservative positions, like when he posted a flier of women being assaulted on the streets and claimed a GOP colleague, Cole Wist was fine with it happening because his stance on firearms was not completely to the right. That may have helped lead to Wist’s loss in 2018.

As 2020 approaches, Stephen Humphrey has become focused upon trying to legalize discrimination against the LGBTQ community based on religious motivations. We can only sincerely hope that such a focus will present him from being elected to higher office as he is term-limited in the Colorado House of Representatives, and will likely take a crack at the Colorado State Senate or other office.

[TheManInBlack]

It'll be our party soon.

Get used to it.

This post encapsulates why Trump will win 2020. A house divided cannot stand.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump expected to grant clemency to former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, ex-NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik





Why not just swing open the prison gates and let everyone out?

I find it highly interesting that Trump wants to grant clemency to Blagojevich, a DEMOCRAT. When last I checked, Democrats were the enemy to Caramel Caligula.

[PaulBullion]

I find it highly interesting that Trump wants to grant clemency to Blagojevich, a DEMOCRAT. When last I checked, Democrats were the enemy to Caramel Caligula.

He was on the Apprentice.

[The Darknight Detective]

He was on the Apprentice.

That and some guy named Comey was involved with the case.

[MacrossPlus]

If Sanders gets the nom, that's the hurdle for him. He needs everybody's support, he cannot afford to alienate anybody

[PaulBullion]

If Sanders gets the nom, that's the hurdle for him. He needs everybody's support, he cannot afford to alienate anybody

You're talking about Bernard Sanders. Alienating others is his brand.

[Superbat]

Major Latino group backs Sanders on eve of Nevada caucus

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...sanders-115712

LAS VEGAS — A prominent national Latino group is endorsing Bernie Sanders four days ahead of the caucuses in Nevada, a state with a significant Hispanic electorate.

Mijente, a grass-roots organization that mobilizes Latinx and Chicanx voters, decided to make its first-ever presidential endorsement in response to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies targeting Latinos. The endorsement adds to the growing collection of progressive groups coalescing around the Vermont senator, after earlier expectations they would be divided between him and Elizabeth Warren.

The organization will use its reach on social media, its roughly 1,000 dues-paying members and more than 300,000-person email list to mobilize Latinos to vote and hit the pavement for Sanders in Nevada and other states.

Marisa Franco, director and cofounder of Mijente, said the group’s members picked Sanders after a lengthy process that included sit-downs with multiple candidates. In January, its members voted on four options: endorsing Sanders, Warren, both of them, or no endorsement at all. In the end, 70 percent of its members voted to endorse Sanders.

Sanders’ economic justice platform and moratorium on deportations were key to Mijente’s members in addition to Sanders' exhaustive outreach to Latinos this cycle.

“Something that's very appealing to people is his consistency and the concept of palabra,” said Franco, “And what that means in our community is giving people your ‘word.’”

[PaulBullion]

Bernie Sanders National Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray just falsely claimed that "There have been 64 sexual assault allegations leveraged against Michael Bloomberg."

Those were actually harassment and discrimination allegations. Not sexual assault.

I hope Bloomberg sends his very expensive lawyers to sue her for slander if she does not retract that ASAP.

[PaulBullion]

I think it might actually be good news for Liz Warren that Bloomberg narrowly qualified for the next Dem debate. She is going to eat him alive and look fabulous doing it.

[Superbat]

Bernie Sanders National Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray just falsely claimed that "There have been 64 sexual assault allegations leveraged against Michael Bloomberg."

Those were actually harassment and discrimination allegations. Not sexual assault.

I hope Bloomberg sends his very expensive lawyers to sue her for slander if she does not retract that ASAP.

You actually want a guy that has been accused of sexual harassment to sue someone for fumbling the details?

Good on you for looking out for the sexist billionaire, I guess.

[Superbat]

And she correcte hers statement an hour ago.

[PaulBullion]

You actually want a guy that has been accused of sexual harassment to sue someone for fumbling the details?

Good on you for looking out for the sexist billionaire, I guess.

False accusations make it really hard for victims. And there is a difference between saying "I'd do her" and grabbing a woman by her pussy.

also, a whole lot of the 64 number where suits against the company, not Mike Bloomberg himself.

[PaulBullion]

And she correcte hers statement an hour ago.

Good for her. Do you have a link so I can see if it was a proper retraction or just some kind of non-apology?