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

[worstblogever]

I think he was losing a lot of money on that hotel, so he figured he might as well sell it for some quick cash.

Trump Org. has big, big loan payoffs coming up wit China in 2022.

[worstblogever]

In undeniably good news coming out of a courtroom, Alex Jones has been found liable in the libel lawsuit brought forth by Sandy Hook parents.

[Gray Lensman]

Never got Beto-mania, still don't. I wish Texas the best of luck, but assume it's going to be another Republican if not Abbot (and only not him if he's exploring a run for President very early).

Beto went too far to the left as part of his primary run to ever be able to win a statewide Texas election, even of we discount suppression shenanigans. He was trying to show a difference between himself and the slew of centrist candidates, but I think at the cost of a future in Texas itself.

[Tami]

In undeniably good news coming out of a courtroom, Alex Jones has been found liable in the libel lawsuit brought forth by Sandy Hook parents.

I hope he gets hit hard with it.

[Xheight]

All fear tactics will be on the table. He will take all your guns, he will ban beef make you eat salads. He will open the border to all of South America and terrorists. Your kids schools will be teaching that all white people are bad! I mean every generic fearmongering nonsense will be tossed out and there are voters that will eat that up.

They already got rid of straight ticket voting here after 2020 When it was blamed for the GOP losses downballot from the "Beto effect" of turnout even though he lost the race the turnout was huge.

Fear of Inflation where you can only afford to eat salad, fear of actually using your gun to protect yourself, fear of lower wages because of illegal immigration keeps labor cheap, fear of schools where kids learn nothing but how not to be "mean" to each other....fear of reality is what you are saying.

[kidfresh512]

Fear of Inflation where you can only afford to eat salad, fear of actually using your gun to protect yourself, fear of lower wages because of illegal immigration keeps labor cheap, fear of schools where kids learn nothing but how not to be "mean" to each other....fear of reality is what you are saying.

I certainly don't need you to tell me what I am saying.

Troll elsewhere

[Xheight]

I hope he gets hit hard with it.

The thing of it is that he will still come off as a Hero on the Right not for anything to do with Sandy Hook but for standing up to a fishing expedition into his financials led by the courts.
Apparently the Judge stepped all over this by defaulting because of the refusal to turn over documents. I expect we will see the same from Bannon.

[Xheight]

I certainly don't need you to tell me what I am saying.

Troll elsewhere

Trolling would be someone who makes exaggerated claims and caricatures which to my POV is what you were doing. But you are right you should be able speak for yourself.

[Tami]

The thing of it is that he will still come off as a Hero on the Right not for anything to do with Sandy Hook but for standing up to a fishing expedition into his financials led by the courts.

Don't care, as long as he is pain, financially or otherwise, for as long as possible. People like him profit over the pain of others. It's long past time they reap what they have sowed.

If he still has supporters after this, then so be it. But the more of their 'Idols' get their due, eventually some among them will start having second thoughts about following their path of hate and intolerance.

[Tami]

The U.S. State Department confirms and condemns that Russia conducted an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) test in low Earth orbit.

[kidfresh512]

5 teens hospitalized after shooting at park in Aurora, Colorado

Five teenagers were taken to a hospital after multiple people were shot at a park in Aurora, Colorado, police said.

The teens are ages 14 to 17.

The shooting happened north of Aurora Central High School at Nome Park, and the school is on a secure perimeter.

A source briefed on investigation told ABC News that students from the high school are among those injured, but it is unclear if the injuries include gunshot wounds.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Fear of Inflation where you can only afford to eat salad, fear of actually using your gun to protect yourself, fear of lower wages because of illegal immigration keeps labor cheap, fear of schools where kids learn nothing but how not to be "mean" to each other....fear of reality is what you are saying.

Basically, the fear mongering that right wing media and GOP politicians sling to conservatives is working.

[Tami]

Parents protesting 'critical race theory' identify another target: Mental health programs

At a September school board meeting in Southlake, Texas, a parent named Tara Eddins strode to the lectern during the public comment period and demanded to know why the Carroll Independent School District was paying counselors “at $90K a pop” to give students lessons on suicide prevention.

“At Carroll ISD, you are actually advertising suicide,” Eddins said, arguing that many parents in the affluent suburban school system have hired tutors because the district’s counselors are too focused on mental health instead of helping students prepare for college.

“Some of these kids, they’re just trying to get through the day, get through compacted math, get through algebra, go to cotillion on Sunday,” Eddins said. “They are not thinking about these issues.”

Two days after Eddins made the remarks, Southlake Families PAC — a group that has fought to stop a diversity plan at Carroll — sent an email to supporters calling on the school district to “Leave mental health and parenting to parents.”

Christina Edmiston, a Southlake resident and mother of two, was outraged when she saw the email. Earlier that month, Edmiston had pulled her 12-year-old son out of the Carroll district after he reported thoughts of suicide after having been bullied by classmates for his sexuality.

[numberthirty]

Fear of Inflation where you can only afford to eat salad, fear of actually using your gun to protect yourself, fear of lower wages because of illegal immigration keeps labor cheap, fear of schools where kids learn nothing but how not to be "mean" to each other....fear of reality is what you are saying.

While I get that this is mostly a bit?

Citation needed.

[Mister Mets]

CNN has a profile of Kamala Harris' struggles. This is relevant with someone set up as the future of the party.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/polit...ent/index.html

With many sources speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the situation more frankly, they all tell roughly the same story: Harris' staff has repeatedly failed her and left her exposed, and family members have often had an informal say within her office. Even some who have been asked for advice lament Harris' overly cautious tendencies and staff problems, which have been a feature of every office she's held, from San Francisco district attorney to US Senate.

Biden aimed to model his relationship with Harris on his own vice presidency and directed aides early in his presidency to employ her in a similar fashion. He arranged weekly lunches, just as he'd held with Obama, and invited Harris to join him for his morning classified intelligence briefing. Harris, meanwhile, threw herself into proving her commitment to the President and the administration, using his relationship with Obama as her guide.

Even then, some White House aides questioned whether Biden's experience as vice president would easily translate to someone with far different qualifications and skills -- and to a much different moment.
After Harris became known in the first few months for often standing by Biden's side in the frame as he made big speeches, even after she'd introduced him herself, the West Wing appears to have overcorrected so she has been with the President noticeably less.

It's noted she has less Washington experience than any Vice President in generations (probably since Spiro Agnew.)

But that's not exactly how things had played out. While she had attended some meetings Biden hosted with key lawmakers, there were many more that she didn't attend -- to the point that it was noteworthy that she made an unscheduled drop-by one session in the final stretch. Harris had only been in Washington four years, and to the White House just one time before being sworn in as vice president. Missing out on those main meetings deprived her of an important aspect of presidential apprenticeship from a self-styled master of how to actually get deals through Congress.

There are some questions of unfair treatment within the White House, and whether others in the administration are treated too favorably.

Suspicion has sprouted out of the bitterness. Last month, White House aides leapt to the defense of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who was being hammered with outrage by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and like-minded online pundits for taking paternity leave after the adoption of his twins in September. Harris loyalists tell CNN they see in that yet another example of an unfair standard at play, wondering why she didn't get similar cover any of the times she's been attacked by the right.

"It's hard to miss the specific energy that the White House brings to defend a White man, knowing that Kamala Harris has spent almost a year taking a lot of the hits that the West Wing didn't want to take themselves," said a former Harris aide, reflecting conversations last month among several former aides and current allies.

Buttigieg, of course, isn't just a former 2020 Democratic primary rival; to many party insiders and suspicious Harris supporters, he is a likely challenger for the next open Democratic presidential nomination, whether that comes in 2024 or 2028.
White House aides say they weren't pitting one against the other. The difference in the responses, those aides think, was that Buttigieg hadn't done anything wrong by taking time to be with his new children. Buttigieg's leave was a conveniently timed reminder that Biden is pushing for a national paid leave law to be part of his social safety net package.

That's different from when Harris has created problems for herself, White House aides believe, such as when she didn't push back on a student who accused Israel of "ethnic genocide." West Wing aides weren't going to clean up after that. But even when Harris has faced her own manufactured outrage from the right, like when an innocuous tweet about enjoying the long Memorial Day weekend was said to be her insulting dead veterans, White House aides also remained virtually silent.