All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.

WASHINGTON — Not long after the early 2017 publication of a notorious dossier about President Trump jolted Washington, an expert in Russian politics told the F.B.I. he had been one of its key sources, drawing on his contacts to deliver information that would make up some of the most salacious and unproven assertions in the document.

The F.B.I. had approached the expert, a man named Igor Danchenko, as it vetted the dossier’s claims. He agreed to tell investigators what he knew with an important condition, people familiar with the matter said — that the F.B.I. keep his identity secret so he could protect himself, his sources and his family and friends in Russia.

But his hope of remaining anonymous evaporated last week after Attorney General William P. Barr directed the F.B.I. to declassify a redacted report about its three-day interview of Mr. Danchenko in 2017 and hand it over to Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Graham promptly made the interview summary public while calling the entire Russia investigation “corrupt.”

The report blacked out Mr. Danchenko’s name and other identifying information. But within two days, a post on a newly created blog entitled “I Found the Primary Subsource” identified him, citing clues left visible in the F.B.I. document. A pseudonymous Twitter account created in May then promoted the existence of the blog. And the next day, RT, the Kremlin-owned, English-language news and propaganda outlet, published an article amplifying Mr. Danchenko’s identification.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It appears Trump has just lost his number one financial backer who was crucial to getting him elected in 2016, no Mercer's no Bannon....only a matter of time now.


https://www.businessinsider.com/insi...a-donor-2020-7

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/n...qvEYrQ0hm9zlN/

Which begs the question, who will fill that vacuum? The Kochs? Murdoch? Someone else?

[The Cool Thatguy]

The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.

Oh yay, breaking the promises of law enforcement.

[worstblogever]

Which begs the question, who will fill that vacuum? The Kochs? Murdoch? Someone else?

Murdoch maybe. Kochs.... one is dead. Another has vowed to get out of politics.

The Ricketts family out of Chicago would be my guess.

[Kuro no Shinigami]

https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronav...grande-houston

This article explains why Texas is losing the fight against the coronavirus and becoming the 4th worst-hit state.

Mask-wearing and reopening have become particularly politicized in Texas
Texas is a state that prides itself on individualism. In a pandemic that requires collective action to support everyone’s health and well-being, however, that has proved to be more of a vice than a virtue.

“It boils down to what kind of culture we have here. In the state of Texas, we have a very libertarian ‘me’ culture rather than a ‘we’ culture,” Terk said. “We have a tendency to be permissive for individuals to make their own choices and for more local determinations to burden the day. That’s not the case in places where good public health strategies have been articulated.”

Texans are not the only ones with a recalcitrant attitude towards authority.

Florida, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia, all states in the Deep South, have more than 1000 daily covid cases every day. Florida had over 12,000 covid cases in one day yesterday. It can perhaps be attributed to the Southerners' recalcitrant attitude towards government authority that dates back to the Civil War.


Yesterday's new cases in the USA
Florida: +12,444 cases
Texas: +8,552
Georgia: +4,813
North Carolina:+2,353
Tennessee: +2,091
Louisiana: +2,084
South Carolina: +2,001

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

The reason why daily cases are low in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan is because they value collectivism over individualism. Their culture encourages them to strictly follow the social distancing rules, stay at home orders and other anti-pandemic rules. They were more than willing to work as a community. To them, teamwork is more important than individuality.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Murdoch maybe. Kochs.... one is dead. Another has vowed to get out of politics.

The Ricketts family out of Chicago would be my guess.

Don’t the Ricketts own Sinclair Broadcasting which recently cranked out that insanely false **** about Dr. Fauci having created the coronavirus?

[PwrdOn]

Both are wrong.

"Both sides are bad but let's just support the objectively worse one and just pretend like all the problems are actually good things." - The entire sorry history of moderate liberals everywhere.

[skyvolt2000]

How soon can we start voting????

I need the circus out of Washington DC ASAP

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...185558775.html

McEnany said that President Donald Trump “is also appalled by cancel culture, and cancel culture specifically as it pertains to cops. We saw a few weeks ago that PAW Patrol, a cartoon show about cops, was canceled. The show Cops was canceled. Live PD was canceled. Lego halted the sales of their Lego City police station.”

She added, “It is really unfortunate, because I stand with, the president stands with, the 53% of Americans who believe police officers have the most important jobs in this country.”

A spokesperson for Nickelodeon, which airs the show, told Deadline that the show has not been canceled. The show later tweeted, “No need to worry. PAW Patrol is not canceled.”

The show was renewed by Nickelodeon earlier this year.

Last month, other networks did decide to cancel reality shows that told stories from the point of view of police. Paramount Network dropped Cops and A&E canceled Live PD, in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd. That spared a national conversation about systemic racism.

Lego did not discontinue sales of cop-themed toys, but it did stop some marketing efforts in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests.

[The no face guy]

Which begs the question, who will fill that vacuum? The Kochs? Murdoch? Someone else?

Murdoch maybe. Kochs.... one is dead. Another has vowed to get out of politics.

The Ricketts family out of Chicago would be my guess.

You peaked my curiousity, and I came up with Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. He appears to be a more traditional Republican, but invests heavily in Republican causes. He's donated 100 million to the re-election campaign of Donald Trump.

https://www.ibtimes.com/sheldon-adel...mpaign-3013877

Obviously he's pretty rich if he can throw a hundred million dollars down the drain. There sure doesn't seem to be a shortage of American billionaires supporting the GOP out there.

[Jack Dracula]

Which begs the question, who will fill that vacuum? The Kochs? Murdoch? Someone else?

Sheldon Adleson
Mohammad bin Salman
Russian Oligarchs
Coal companies

[Malvolio]

https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronav...grande-houston

This article explains why Texas is losing the fight against the coronavirus and becoming the 4th worst-hit state.



Texans are not the only ones with a recalcitrant attitude towards authority.

Florida, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia, all states in the Deep South, have more than 1000 daily covid cases every day. Florida had over 12,000 covid cases in one day yesterday. It can perhaps be attributed to the Southerners' recalcitrant attitude towards government authority that dates back to the Civil War.


Yesterday's new cases in the USA
Florida: +12,444 cases
Texas: +8,552
Georgia: +4,813
North Carolina:+2,353
Tennessee: +2,091
Louisiana: +2,084
South Carolina: +2,001

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

The reason why daily cases are low in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan is because they value collectivism over individualism. Their culture encourages them to strictly follow the social distancing rules, stay at home orders and other anti-pandemic rules. They were more than willing to work as a community. To them, teamwork is more important than individuality.

Yes, it all started with the Civil War. If you asked someone wearing a Blue uniform who he fought for, he'd say "The United States of America," but if you asked the same question to someone wearing a Gray uniform, he would not say, "The Confederate States of America." Rather he would say, "The free State of Alabama," or "The Free Commonwealth of Virginia." I think that's why they lost the War. They could never work together.

And today, their "rugged individualism" is more important than teamwork. I think for a lot of them, to paraphrase Dr. Leonard Hofstetter from Big Bang Theory, "They would rather lose and die as individuals than work together and win and live as a team."

[Malvolio]

I think the reason Trump "aced" that cognitive test is that, by sheer coincidence, "person, woman, man, camera, tv" is exactly how Mark Burnett pitched Trump on the premise for The Apprentice.

[Kuro no Shinigami]

Yes, it all started with the Civil War. If you asked someone wearing a Blue uniform who he fought for, he'd say "The United States of America," but if you asked the same question to someone wearing a Gray uniform, he would not say, "The Confederate States of America." Rather he would say, "The free State of Alabama," or "The Free Commonwealth of Virginia." I think that's why they lost the War. They could never work together.

And today, their "rugged individualism" is more important than teamwork. I think for a lot of them, to paraphrase Dr. Leonard Hofstetter from Big Bang Theory, "They would rather lose and die as individuals than work together and win and live as a team."

That is true, i agree. The southerners are living up to their reputation as "rebels" or "rebel states". They distrust their own government more often than the Northerners. You can't fix their rebellious attitudes.

Arkansas is the only Deep Southern state that doesn't exceed over 1,000 daily covid cases a day. Today, world o meters have recorded new today's cases. All the Deep South states except Arkansas have more than 1000 new cases today.

[worstblogever]

Don’t the Ricketts own Sinclair Broadcasting which recently cranked out that insanely false **** about Dr. Fauci having created the coronavirus?

The same.

You peaked my curiousity, and I came up with Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. He appears to be a more traditional Republican, but invests heavily in Republican causes. He's donated 100 million to the re-election campaign of Donald Trump.

https://www.ibtimes.com/sheldon-adel...mpaign-3013877

Obviously he's pretty rich if he can throw a hundred million dollars down the drain. There sure doesn't seem to be a shortage of American billionaires supporting the GOP out there.

Adelson is also a likely suspect.

[Mister Mets]

I think the reason Trump "aced" that cognitive test is that, by sheer coincidence, "person, woman, man, camera, tv" is exactly how Mark Burnett pitched Trump on the premise for The Apprentice.

It's unlikely those are the actual words, since the point of the test is to recall unrelated words.

https://twitter.com/Stargzr613/statu...93744095412226

As a certified Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant and a special education teacher for 46 years, I can tell you a memory test would NOT use the words “person, woman, man, camera, tv” because they are too closely related. They use words that have no connection to each other.

That is true, i agree. The southerners are living up to their reputation as "rebels" or "rebel states". They distrust their own government more often than the Northerners. You can't fix their rebellious attitudes.

Arkansas is the only Deep Southern state that doesn't exceed over 1,000 daily covid cases a day. Today, world o meters have recorded new today's cases. All the Deep South states except Arkansas have more than 1000 new cases today.

It might not be about rebel attitudes as much as people in hotter, southern states hanging out indoors where there's air conditioning.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-e...itioning-nexus

The numbers also suck in California.

Yes, it all started with the Civil War. If you asked someone wearing a Blue uniform who he fought for, he'd say "The United States of America," but if you asked the same question to someone wearing a Gray uniform, he would not say, "The Confederate States of America." Rather he would say, "The free State of Alabama," or "The Free Commonwealth of Virginia." I think that's why they lost the War. They could never work together.

And today, their "rugged individualism" is more important than teamwork. I think for a lot of them, to paraphrase Dr. Leonard Hofstetter from Big Bang Theory, "They would rather lose and die as individuals than work together and win and live as a team."

I've heard it a little differently, that neither the Northern or Southern states saw the nation as more important than the state until after the civil war.

https://www.archives.gov/publication...ingular%20noun.

The United States went to war in 1861 to preserve the Union; it emerged from the war in 1865 having created a nation. Before 1861 the two words "United States" were generally used as a plural noun: "the United States are a republic." After 1865 the United States became a singular noun. The loose union of states became a single nation. Lincoln’s wartime speeches marked this transition. In his first inaugural address he mentioned the "Union" 20 times but the "nation" not once. In his first message to Congress on July 4, 1861, Lincoln used the word Union 32 times and nation only three times. But in his Gettysburg Address in November 1863 he did not mention the Union at all, but spoke of the nation five times to invoke a new birth of freedom and nationhood.