My old neighborhood, in New York, Jackson Heights will be rocking tonight: it’s filled with, among others, significant numbers of Colombian and Peruvian immigrants.
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by Randinho| 9 Comments
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My old neighborhood, in New York, Jackson Heights will be rocking tonight: it’s filled with, among others, significant numbers of Colombian and Peruvian immigrants.
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by $8 blue check mistermix| 250 Comments
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I’m about half past give-a-shit on Bernie v. Hillary, because as the X-ray clearly shows, this thing was broken long ago. Anything Bernie says now is not going to amount to much. If you want some evidence, look no further than the lede of a Guardian story titled Bernie Sanders: I will work with Hillary Clinton to stop Donald Trump:
Bernie Sanders has urged his supporters to look beyond the Democratic presidential nomination in a speech that stopped short of fully endorsing Hillary Clinton but made clear he was no longer actively challenging her candidacy.
In an anticlimatic speech that signalled the effective end of a 14-month campaign odyssey, the Vermont senator insisted his “political revolution continues” despite Clinton’s effective victory in the delegate race.
I think we can all agree that the Guardian got their 5 W’s and an H right on this one, and the second paragraph shows that every proclamation from Senator Sanders will be accompanied by a “but you lost” footnote. So it goes when you lose an election.
Compare this bucolic story of party comity and unity to the latest Post story on the coming 360° shitshow in Cleveland:
Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer’s party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP nominee.
Now there’s the top of an inverted pyramid that makes the Bernie v Hillary situation sound like a lavender-scented cotillion.
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NRA's "Freedom Cruise" on the Danube is scheduled to depart today. Features Newt, Ben Carson & top NRA officials. https://t.co/B5R2YpVL3h
— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) June 16, 2016
The Trickster God is a lousy novelist — he doesn’t even try for verisimilitude. Because their most fervent followers are the target market for such endeavors (old people with money, who want ‘luxury vacations’ involving rich food, gentle entertainment, and as little contact as possible with not-Americans who aren’t liveried servants), every year the NRA, Newt Gingrich, Ollie North and a fistful of fellow miscreants get together for a “Freedom Cruise.” So this year, as the rise of angry far-right revanchist movements on both sides of the Atlantic have led to an increasingly nervous skirting of Godwin’s Law… Per Bloomberg, back in April:
… The National Rifle Association annually invites donors on a luxury cruise where they can mingle with conservative notables. The 2016 Freedom Cruise in June will take participants along the Danube through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Aboard for policy discussions and private receptions will be the NRA’s top official, Wayne LaPierre; Oliver North of Iran-Contra notoriety; former Republican House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista; Reagan administration Attorney General Edwin Meese III; and Dr. Ben Carson, who until recently was seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination…
The NRA has invited members of its Ring of Freedom — “freedom-loving individuals, families or companies who make gifts of $1,000 or more per year to the NRA”. Staterooms for the weeklong excursion run from $4,895 per person for double occupancy to $8,795 for single occupancy. The cruise is co-sponsored by Freedom Alliance, a nonprofit founded by North in 1990 to promote military service and a strong national defense. North promises: “Your tour will be special from start to finish.”
But not as special as it might be. Strict European gun laws would, under almost all circumstances, prevent guests from carrying firearms.
Would I be committing a social solecism if I quipped, “Poland just breathed a sigh of relief”?
And apart from mockery, what’s on the agenda as we start the weekend?
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by Randinho| 11 Comments
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I don’t anticipate problems for Spain here. Do any of you?
by DougJ| 193 Comments
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The Trumpocalypse appeared first as farce, with Sarah Palin in 2008. There shouldn’t be any debate about that. Palin was everywhere for about five years, but now that her logical conclusion has come to pass, establishment media is acting like there was no precedent for Trump, that he came out of nowhere.
Every now and then, I like to go back and revisit the mash notes establishment journalists were writing to Palin before the disastrous interview with Katie Couric. I had thought “Sandra Day O’Palin” was the ne plus ultra of this genre, but it won’t surprise many of you that there’s a McArdle piece that’s even better (via LGM):
She slides the stiletto in without either losing her femininity or coming across as catty, and given that she’s married to an eskimo, it’s going to be hard to fit her into the narrative of conservative closet racists trying to perpetuate white domination.
[….]The Democrats are, as my colleague Clive Crooks notes, in trouble. Whatever you think of her as a potential president, she is a politically brilliant choice, and Democrats are going to have a very hard time finding traction to attack her.
[….]I have no reason to think that she would be a particularly bad president. Obama hasn’t any more relevant experience than she has; he’s simply been coaching for the thing longer. If he can get up to speed to be president in 18 months, presumably so can she, and I think its reasonable to expect McCain to live that long. We do not elect presidents because they are experts on everything that will come up during their presidency–they couldn’t possibly be. We elect them because we think they have good judgement and values that match our own. Contra my Democratic friends, I’m not sure that voters will see “But McCain really might die in office!” as a bug, rather than a feature.
Heh to the indeedy.
“Married to an eskimo” is a nice, if irrelevant, touch.
by Betty Cracker| 465 Comments
This post is in: Election 2016, I Can No Longer Rationally Discuss The Clinton Campaign, I Can No Longer Rationally Discuss The Sanders Campaign, Open Threads, Politics, General Stupidity, Get off my grass you damned kids
So, Bernie Sanders gave a speech last night. We’ve been talking about it. I’m sure some of y’all are sick of the entire discussion, which is fine — lots of other interesting threads below, or, if your scroll is sticky, there’s sure to be another up top soon.
But I’m one of those annoying assholes who believe the only way to work through a conflict is to get everything on the table. (The four scariest words in my family are “we need to talk…”)
It’s not that I enjoy picking at scabs (well, maybe a little). It’s that only in this way can we come together and move forward. Or decide that each other are irredeemable morons upon whom we should not bother to waste another pixel and look for other allies instead. Either outcome is progress!
by Randinho| 12 Comments
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I believe the Czechs will be a far greater challenge for the Croats. What do you think?
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