All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[Superbat]

What, 3 of the four Hispanics that caucused in lily white Iowa went for Bernie? Alert the media!!

Nice erasure tho.

[PaulBullion]

Nice erasure tho.

That's gonna have huge predictive power on how well Bernard will do in Louisiana.

[numberthirty]

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/n...igieg-20200203

Bernie Sanders gets big support from Latino caucusgoers in West Liberty

WEST LIBERTY — Sylvia Gutierrez and her boyfriend, Kevin Fernandez, both 22, didn’t caucus four years ago. But this year, Fernandez’s grandmother, who is not a U.S. citizen, gave them a mission: Be her voice and caucus for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“I’m here because family members wanted a vote that can’t vote,” Gutierrez said. “He (Fernandez) convinced me, and so did his grandparents. His grandmother said to come and vote for her.”

The couple were among a large contingent of supporters for the Vermont senator at West Liberty’s second precinct on Monday night during the Iowa Democratic caucuses.

Iowa as a whole may be overwhelmingly more white than the rest of the country, but West Liberty is an exception to the rule. The community’s school district is one of only a handful in Iowa with a majority minority population. In 2019, about 55% of public school students were Hispanic, according to the Iowa Department of Education.

Gutierrez works at West Liberty Foods, a meat processing plant that is the largest employer in this Muscatine County town of about 3,700 people, just east of Iowa City on Highway 6. Fernandez works on a hog farm. For both of them, immigration was a central issue, but not the only one, that convinced them to support Sanders.

“I like his health care plan and his immigration plan,” Fernandez said of Sanders, mentioning his dismay with how migrant families at the Mexico border have been treated, particularly children. “We’re a big country, we should be able to help people out.”

[PaulBullion]

Oh good, you're back, #30.

You'll have time to educate yourself by reading my reply to you re: voter turnout.

[numberthirty]

That's one other aspect of Sanders talking about putting more focus on helping out rural communities that dude got caught red-handed changing what Sanders had actually said...

"Rural" places?

There's meat processing there. You're not being straight with yourself if you think those meat processing plants are full of white people.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

China’s Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses SARS, But New Cases Drop

The new virus outbreak has killed at least 811 people in mainland China.

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Nancy Pelosi Rips Republicans For ‘Normalizing Lawlessness’ In Scathing Op-Ed

The GOP-controlled Senate has ensured Trump remains “an ongoing threat to American democracy,” Pelosi wrote in a column for The Washington Post. So, while Trump shits on the Constitution, Republicans have their panties in a bunch over her ripping up a few sheets of useless paper.

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Trump’s Trade War Will Cost Average Family $1,277 This Year, Budget Office Reveals

The extra costs will effectively wipe out savings from the President’s tax cuts. The irony here is inescapable.

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Joe Biden Frustrates Supporters With Debate Comment Writing Off New Hampshire

His campaign insists they’re fully competing for the state, but his comments at the presidential debate seemed to signal defeat. I'll admit I have no idea what Joe is doing.

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Trump Retweets Unflattering Photo, Writes His ‘Hair Looks Good’

Twitter mocks the president’s makeup skills after a photographer shared a bright image revealing his two-toned face. Keep on telling yourself that, Donnie.

[PaulBullion]

[Billy Batson]

Thread https://twitter.com/iamhenrydavisjr/...00183090278403

[PaulBullion]

I'm not a Mayor Pete fan, but that is the guy who ran against him as mayor, as an independent. Not sure he is an unbiased source here.

[numberthirty]

If you're going to sit there and give me some nonsense about how the difference between 1.7 million and 1.4 million should get you off of that "Wall Street Pete..." hook?

You should be looking at your watch, and waiting for Balki Bartokomous to show up to hip you to that you are most likely being ridiculous.

https://nypost.com/2020/02/07/joe-bi...ng-data-shows/

Joe Biden leading Democrats in Wall Street funding, data shows

Biden has raised $1.7 million from Democratic donors within the securities and investment industry, while Pete Buttigieg — another Wall Street favorite — is second with $1.4 million based on federal election data through Feb. 3, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

[Billy Batson]

Funny

Trip Gabriel
@tripgabriel
Hello fellow IA caucus nerds. Tonight the IDP chair
@troymprice
sent an internal email that the party attorney says any re-examination of precinct results *cannot* change the results on caucus math worksheets, even if they are wrong. 1/2


Quoting the opinion of the IDP attorney:

"The incorrect math on the Caucus Math Worksheets must not be changed to ensure the integrity of the process...."
2/r'


"...Most importantly the Worksheet is the caucus chair and secretary's "certification" of the results as required by Iowa Code 43.4(2-3). It is the legal voting record of the caucus, like a ballot. "

3/3
Continues in the thread https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/stat...57866568863744

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" ran a profile of Tom Mullins, a Tea Party candidate who ran for Congress in 2010 to represent New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District. During his campaign, Mullins referred to Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme”, and talked about eliminating all Pell grants for college students and then allocating the money from them towards tax breaks for the rich. However, the real issue with Mullins perhaps that he went out of his way to say that Native Americans in his district were “two-faced”, and bemoaned the lack of “white faces” on the Kewa Pueblo. It became even harder for Mullins to dodge accusations of racism that followed when his suggestion to solving the immigration crisis was to set up a mine field on the U.S./Mexico border to discourage people from sneaking across. Mullins has not reappeared on the political scene in the past seven years, and for that we are grateful.



In both 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as in 2019, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published its profiles of Pat Garofalo, a man with a history of demonizing Democrats and liberals in general with highly partisan rhetoric, gleefully trolling the opposite side of the aisle to an extent that he has compared the Minnesota state legislature in which he has served since 2004 to pro-wrestling, and defining his own antics as those of a traditional “heel” wrestler. (Oh, if only Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would show up and brain this jagoff with a steel chair…) On social media, Garofalo seems to relish that role, where he has taunted liberal bloggers for having names that sound too similar for slang terms for vaginas, related environmentalists' distaste for mining companies to his own for Planned Parenthood, wished for a meteorite to hit a gathering of people watching cat videos to kill them all, and his most famous moment, perhaps, when he gave his humble opinion of what would happen if the NBA went out of business, "Let's be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime." He apologized for that last one after being widely criticized, insisting that he in no way meant for his statement to be racist, and himself is not racist (Sure...)

Now, just being an unflinching ***hole for his own entertainment isn't the only way that Pat Garofalo is an utter bastard... he also does so in terms of his policy suggestions and votes. Like say, the time back in April 2015 that he pitched the idea to lower the minimum wage for wait staff who get at least $4 an hour in tips, lying and claiming it was needed to save restaurants from going under after Minnesota voted to raise its overall minimum wage to $9.50 an hour. Heaven forbid the blue collar workers in the service industry get any kind of an increase in wages, right? I mean, especially after the countless times that Garofalo voted against minimum wage increases during the greatest period of income inequality our nation has seen in the past century. Maybe it's not the waiters he hates, though, and just the waitresses if you apply his vote against Equal Pay laws to grant women equal pay for equal work. He also keeps insisting the Dept. of Justice “investigate massive voter fraud”. (For the record, the Bush administration had its Department of Justice do the same thing, and found virtually none over a decade. Garofalo is effectively getting excited that taxpayer dollars will be wasted on something as useful as a unicorn hunt.)

In September of 2017, less than a month after Neo-Nazis terrorized Charlottesville and murdered Heather Heyer, members of Antifa turned up to face down a pro-Trump political gathering in Portland, Oregon. As tensions escalated, Garofalo, of course, only had a problem with the anti-Fascists, and put out the following suggestion on Twitter:

“1) Arrest them
2) Hold them for 72 hrs before posting bail
3) Give them alone time with Bubba in Appalachia.#EffectiveRehabilition"

Now, once some media outlets started reporting on Garofalo joking about hoping the anti-Trump protesters were raped in prison, he denied that’s what his statement meant. I suppose he had a completely innocent idea of what “Alone time with Bubba in Applachia” is, that isn’t referencing Deliverance or something? (Pat’s full of s***, moving on…)

In April of 2019, after Donald Trump canceled a foreign trip because he was sulking about the fact that Denmark wouldn’t sell him Greenland (that is a real thing that still happened), Pat Garofalo was ready to cash in on the potential publicity by offering Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to Minneapolis on a goodwill trip. Frederiksen, knowing a pathetic little fish when he sees one, kept swimming by.

By July 2019, Garofalo was again craving attention like a child whose parents never loved him enough, and decided to weigh in on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team during their World Cup run, and how the team was protesting over being paid less than the men even though they are far more dominant over the competition than their male counterparts. Garofalo’s take was, predictably, stupid and sexist, as he declared that the USWNT’s low wages “It’s not sexism. It’s MATH.”

People checked the math, and Garofalo’s claims about revenue, only to discover SURPRISE! The women were bringing in more revenue, too.

Minnesota's House of Representatives has no term limits, and District 58B is aligned to be conservative enough that Pat Garofalo still wins even in presidential years comfortably by double digits. In 2018, even with the Blue Wave pushing back, Garofalo still won re-election with 59% of the vote. Should he win re-election in November, it would be this troll’s tenth term in office.

To his district in Minnesota, we can only ask… why the hell would you do a thing like that? FOR TWENTY STRAIGHT YEARS?

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Nice erasure tho.

For some people here only POC’s who fit their narrative exist

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

I like how people in here have resorted to posting random tweets from known online trolls

[PaulBullion]

I like how people in here have resorted to posting random tweets from known online trolls

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