Debbie Wasserman Schultz sighting!
Don’t worry; it’ll get better. Here’s a crowd you wouldn’t see at a Trump rally:
They’ve repurposed the GOP convention’s “lock her up” chant, saying “lock him out” (of the White House). Here’s Charlie Crist:
Don’t worry; it’ll get better.
Must be a fairly large number of ex-cheerleaders in attendance; new cheers go up every few minutes. Here’s Bill Nelson:
Will post updates as I’m able!
UPDATE:
Tada! She gave a terrific speech.
Mike J
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gogol's wife
“Lock him out!” I like it! Hillary has some cleverness going for her this time.
Chyron HR
Christ, I thought we were finally rid of River Song.
gogol's wife
They have hate, we have love. They have smug stupidity, we have intelligence. They have resentment, we have hope. They are afraid, we are brave.
Keep the faith! I’m proud to be a Democrat!
Mike J
? Martin
Chipotle is a bad choice for VP. Must say I’m disappointed.
Baud
@gogol’s wife:
And Baud!
@Mike J:
I remember Chipotle-gate!
gogol's wife
@? Martin:
I thought there was some young Latino politician I hadn’t heard of. I don’t get the tweet.
Major Major Major Major
@? Martin: Did she get the guacamole?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@? Martin: I don’t even think Chipotle speaks Spanish. Very disappointing.
Felonius Monk
@Baud:
And some will never forget Baud-water.
NotMax
Gotta batten down the hatches later today/tonight in anticipation of tropical storm Darby, Gonna pass by very, very close. Winds well in advance of the storm already kicking up outside.
Pic 1 (area in yellow is Maui county) – – Pic 2 (full view of large storm heading west toward the state)
Emma
@NotMax: Gah. Be safe.
mike in dc
This is a death by a thousand cuts rebuttal.
dmsilev
So…. Betty, you’re the pick, right? Don’t worry, we won’t tell anyone until it’s official.
SiubhanDuinne
WTF happened to my nice harmless comment? No moderation, just swallowed up in the æther.
Okay, then, I’ll show you. I won’t post it again. So there.
singfoom
I think her laughter about the attacks on her at the RNC is the perfect tone. I don’t think anything will infurate Drumpf more than being laughed at. Though I don’t think most of Drumpf’s supporters care that much about the lack of solutions he offered. His airing of their grievances is enough.
CarolDuhart2
@NotMax: Stay safe, NotMax.
Mike J
@gogol’s wife: Chipotle is a fast food chain. You can sign up for coupons delivered via text.
Clinton had a sign up to get the VP name delivered to you via text, They were expecting a commercial text from Hillary, got one from fast food. Also, Clinton charges extra for guac.
daverave
Chipotle’s campaign promise: Taco bowls for everyone!
satby
@NotMax: Stay safe NotMax! That looks scary!
Erin in Flagstaff
@? Martin: Oh my. Thanks for the laugh!
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Yikes, NotMax! Stay safe, and send reassuring updates when and as you can.
dmsilev
Apparently Hillary has decided to out-dark Trump. I’ve obtained one of her new ads.
singfoom
@NotMax: Good luck,be safe.
Anne Laurie
We’ll see!
Run, Lillian!
@Mike J:
LOL! Not ten minutes ago I heard my phone ding in the other room and got all excited but it was just my sister texting me Saturday movie times for Ghostbusters.
Any minute, the real ding will happen!
Trollhattan
Is that Roger Sterling? Pence makes a bad Roger Sterling impersonator–sad–I support the real Roger Sterling.
Mike J
@daverave: Yesterday hillary tweeted:
Major Major Major Major
Hey, at least Chipotle’s from a swing state.
Trollhattan
@Anne Laurie:
Seems more compelling than “Will announce once Trump finally stops talking.”
Applejinx
Meanwhile, Twitter is trying like hell to block #DNCLeaks, a bunch of progressives are freaking out over what’s in there, but ALL that’s in there is exactly what I knew all along: the Clinton side fought Sanders super hard from day one, with the full cooperation of the DNC, just as I was always saying.
There’s like nothing actually newsworthy about DNCLeaks unless you actually believed the spin about how Clinton wasn’t trying to beat Sanders in every possible way. If that’s the best they’ve got, the worst it will do is shake naive Clinton people who didn’t think Hillary pulled all the strings.
As a Bernie supporter prepared to throw my vote behind Clinton on the grounds that she is an effective and ruthless politician with a seasoned team prepared to go up against the worst Republicans can throw against us, this changes nothing. Literally all it does is confirm a bunch of things I said here and got yelled at for.
She manipulated the DNC and went as close to the line as she dared to defeat Bernie, with their enthusiastic collusion, and she also controls the media as much as she possibly can. This is 2016 politics and you can’t reform it from in the middle of it. My hope is that the aside (also found in the leaks) about how she has to stay left and not tack to the center for fear of losing young voters, still holds. Most of what we claimed she/DNC was doing is now confirmed, and she’s still not Trump (and, for that matter, is still one hell of an opponent for anybody. Imagine her turning all that against Trump. Oh, wait, she probably already is)
I particularly like the ‘don’t email me that you’re using DNC funds for the Clinton campaign. Don’t be a dick.’ one. We are apparently not idiots. The Republicans in the same situation are idiots. Our side knows the line even when we break the law, and don’t take it for granted: there’s some wariness and caution which is warranted.
gogol's wife
She’s giving a good speech.
Miss Bianca
Yay, yay, yay for live posts!!
@NotMax: Oh, noes! Batten down the hatches and be safe!
aimai
@Mike J: that had me ROFLOL.
Iowa Old Lady
Does anyone spot Betty in the crowd????
aimai
@Applejinx: Oh, its arglbargle again.
Omnes Omnibus
@Applejinx: Yes, we get it. She is an evil bitch who will cut a motherfucker just for the hell of it.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: But that’s what makes her NinjaWomanPrez, so it’s cool, man, it’s cool. Just don’t get her – or the DNC – mad at you, K?
Technocrat
@Applejinx:
I love how WikiLeaks lets the RNC shitshow proceed uninterrupted, but wants to bring Clinton and the DNC down. They’re not even pretending at this point.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Dammit Omnes, I can only vote for her once.
Calouste
@Applejinx: Also, why would the DNC as an organization stay neutral in an election between someone who has been a member of and fundraiser for the party for four decades or so and someone who has been a member for less than a year?
Bill Arnold
@dmsilev:
Smile. Well played!
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
I think I see Baud! near the stage.
Now THAT would be a surprise, electrifying pick.
gwangung
@Technocrat: Um, did they just release emails with SSNs and credit card numbers unredacted?
Enhanced Voting Techinques
Interesting, that picture of Hilary. I can see why many people are meh on her since she doesn’t have the same physical presence as say Obama or Bill. On the other hand, she looks,.. authentic, so I can see the screams of horror that she has to be lying from the Right, which is has all become about theatrics and dogma quoting.
aimai
@Miss Bianca: There is nothing more important than a process argument which, in addition, smears the entire DNC as anti semitic (despite the obvious fact that DWS is herself, you know, a Jew) and releases the private information of thousands of innocent people. By all means let us all allow the russian hackers/wikileaks, etc…to fuck up our election so that Bernie’s dissapointed troops can circle jerk over the notion that Bernie wuz robbed.
SFAW
I was a little concerned about the Florida result in the General. But now that I see Charlie Crist campaigning, well, I know it’s in the bag. And, if Charlie remains true to form, he’ll have some heavy-duty backup — Bob Shrum is tanned, rested, and as ready as he ever is. And Mario Mendoza batting cleanup.
mike in dc
@Trollhattan:
I have already dubbed him “Shitheel Roger Sterling”.
Major Major Major Major
@Applejinx: How exactly is Twitter “trying like hell to block” it?
ruemara
@Applejinx: wikileaks? You mean the Russian funded fuckers who did a file dump of regular people’s credit card, social security numbers, addresses, emails, everything? All to ratfuck Clinton in an election against an honest to God neonazi fascist? Miss me with all your hyperbolic carp.
Mandarama
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh, I hope so! ?
bupalos
She is ripping this up. The themes are pitch perfect. I actually wish they had scheduled something like this last night,the fresher the contrast the better.
Run, Lillian!
I hope Hillary keeps the Cruz “Vote your conscience” line as a regular campaign theme, it will drive Donald nuts.
Omnes Omnibus
@ruemara: Are fish subject to exaggeration?
Cacti
@gwangung:
Bradley Manning handed the personally identifiable information of more than 70,000 US military personnel over to wikileaks, who dumped them online, and some of my progressive betters still insist that he was a whistleblowing hero.
SiubhanDuinne
“Love trumps hate.” Such an effective line.
gogol's wife
@Omnes Omnibus:
But you could stuff the carp and get some nice gefilte fish.
Miss Bianca
@aimai: Is THAT what fucking happened? Son of a beeyotch, with “friends” like this, who needs enemies?
I think I’ve decided that “progressives” who are doing their best to drag HRC down like this are just as much enemies of the Republic as Republicans. But they add the sin of hypocrisy and Philistine leftier-than-thou-ness to their ratfuckery, and so as far as I’m concerned, they’re even worse.
Major Major Major Major
@Cacti: I’m not a Manning fan, but I’ll still note that it’s ‘Chelsea’ and ‘she’.
aimai
@ruemara:
.
This should totally be a rotating tag line. But if it is we should probably all do more drugs to help it make sense.
The Dangerman
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
Invasion Of The Baud Snatcher?
ruemara
@Omnes Omnibus: they do tell a lot of tails. And I’m tired of autocorrect deciding I don’t mean what I typed.
HinTN
@dmsilev: This
aimai
@Miss Bianca: Yup. this is happening right now over at Dkos and the weeping proletariat victims of the world are celebrating and high fiving and discounting the damage done to actual people because, you know, they deserved it for interacting with the DNC. The amount of assholery over at dkos over this is just astounding, and yet not at all surprising. The Bernie Bros are always sure that they are the real victims, and therefor anything and everything done to everyone else, even the collatoral damage to innocents, is ok with them. If you head over to Raw Story you will discover tha tone of Wikileaks previous grand gestures, over the objections of Amnesty International and other international groups, led to the death of Afghans whose personal information was leaked, unscrubbed, in wikleaks attacks on the US government. But not to worry! Its ALWAYS the fault of the person who had the original information, not the hackers and leakers!
Cacti
@Major Major Major Major:
The crime was committed by PFC Bradley Manning.
Let’s not rewrite history.
joes527
@Mike J:
OK. That’s a deal breaker right there.
Fair Economist
@Applejinx:
Except that the leaks *don’t* say they were trying to beat Sanders in every possible way. They were *considering* it. But they didn’t.
mike in dc
@aimai:
It’s a fish asymptotically approaching infinity.
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Applejinx: Politics ain’t bean bag. LBJ, probably the most progressive President of the 20th century, stole elections outright.
You play to win, or you don’t play. You leverage every advantage you have available to you. You take it up to the line, and when nobody’s looking, you cross it. You twist the knife while smiling in the victim’s face. Along the way, you do some good for your constituents.
This is, has always been, and will always be politics. Bernie’s great failing was that he brought a knife to a nuclear weapons fight.
Shawn in Showme
@? Martin:
What’s disappointing about a corporate Democrat choosing a corporate Democrat as a running mate? It’s to be expected.
Major Major Major Major
@Cacti:
dr. luba
@ruemara:
So Putin is behind Wikileaks? God knows, Trump is his personal choice for president, and he’s doing all he can to get him elected.
Technocrat
@gwangung:
I haven’t seen the dump yet, and I’m considering ignoring it completely. But it wouldn’t surprise me if those assholes considered naked SSNs collateral damage in service of The Cause.
singfoom
That was a great speech. Drumpf and friends handed her some great material to respond to. The reference to revolting against the King was a nice touch.
Miss Bianca
@aimai: “You MADE me hit you! You started it, by just sitting there, provoking me, with your femaleness and your mainstream liberalism! You DESERVED it!”
Cacti
@Major Major Major Major:
Hey, that’s fantastic.
No transition had occurred at the time of the offense, charge, trial, conviction, or sentence. Inmate Manning can call herself whatever she wants to now. When it comes to the crime, I’ll use the name on the Court filings.
Run, Lillian!
So according to Bloomberg (via the Guardian), Trump is starting a super pac with the sole purpose of ruining the careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich. link
He says he will donate 20 million of his own money to the cause. I seriously wonder if every major life decision of his isn’t made out of spite.
FEMA Camp Counselor
@Applejinx: You know what, I lurk for the most part, but screw it.
I was a Bernie supporter too and I’m tired of this “collusion!” “We was robbed!” bullshit. Why is so impossible for people like you to accept that we fucked up? That we didn’t get enough minority votes? That we didn’t plan as well as we could and the much more seasoned operators took advantage of that? That Hilary didn’t go anywhere near as dirty as she could have and was a professional throughout?
If we want more progressive candidates to actually succeed , we need to take a step back and look at what we did right (online fundraising) and what we did wrong (minority outreach, training organizers). This endless fucking pity party that is going on is completely useless and is doing nothing but massaging bruised egos of people who should goddamn know better. And after this week I have no patience for it anymore.
It’s over. Accept it, learn from it, and move on with your life.
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: Who won the Olympic decathlon gold medal in 1976?
Baud
@Applejinx:
That’s pretty shocking.
Baud
@Run, Lillian!:
Hahahaha.
SFAW
@Miss Bianca:
(I think) I understand your purpose in writing that, but for some reason, it still depressed the crap out of me. I’m hoping that you don’t know the spiel from personal experience.
Mnemosyne
@gwangung:
Oh, goody, I guess I get to call my credit card company and make sure some asshole isn’t going to drain my account for the crime of donating to Hillary. What fun!
joes527
@Cacti: I think the stylebook says that to refer to her in the past you need to call her US Army private Manning who would later formerly go by the name Bradley.
pseudonymous in nc
Wikileaks = FSiBeaks
Major Major Major Major
@Gin & Tonic: Who beat Sonny Liston in ’64?
Villago Delenda Est
What a contrast to the past four days of scenes from Nürnberg without the close order drill in Cleveland
?BillinGlendaleCA
@srv:
You might want to have a medical professional look at that.
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
Y’know, you could always just say “PFC Manning” and “they/their” rather than being a dick about it.
Trollhattan
@aimai:
Have had my koi pond more than ten years and finally last week one of them jumped completely out of the water, pretending it’s a salmon or something. Startled the hell out of me since the biggest are well over ten pounds and Tweety is one of my biggest. Sometimes fish gotta jump–hyperbolic carpe diem.
The Thin Black Duke
@FEMA Camp Counselor: Thank you.
Emma
@srv: The bump begins? Trump’s pregnant? Is that why his bespoke suits fit so badly?
jibeaux
The Bernie or Bust guys are losing their shit over this Wikileaks emails of dumb DNC shit. And it is dumb DNC shit, it’s just meaningless of anything other than the DNC preferred HRC. Which is not a closely guarded secret, because they’re DEMOCRATS. But they’re freaking out about “they tried to smear him with secularism”, etc. Which is more accurately, trying to get a journalism to ask him about believing in God in the redneck markets, which didn’t happen, so they didn’t actually smear him with anything. GROAN.
Trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Who’s the man who’d risk his neck for his brother man?
SHAFT!
Villago Delenda Est
Oh, sure. Teh Donald is going to fund an anti-Cruz, anti-Kasich super pac with his own money.
Right. Sure. This is the guy who’s begging for funds to keep his cheeto-faced ass afloat right now after billing his entire primary campaign to his own corporate entities.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Trollhattan:
You must be a fan of Hardball.
joes527
@Anne Laurie: This is a bad call on Clinton’s part. Much too reminiscent of Trump’s roll out of Pence.
If Clinton can’t get public business done on days when shit is happening then she is going to have a rough 8 years.
Villago Delenda Est
@Emma: Ivanka got him in a family way. There. I said it.
Technocrat
@srv:
The hilarious thing about that is it seems to infer a 9-point bounce (12-3) for Trump, when they’re probably taking about two different polls.
The RCP Average has been Clinton +2.7 for the past week or so. The new poll is pretty much in line with that.
Trollhattan
@Emma:
Trump’s body sculptor: sad!
burnspbesq
HRC @ Pulse, earlier today
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: Cassius Clay did.
Cacti
@Mnemosyne:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m fine referring to the name of the actual perpetrator of the crime rather than one who didn’t exist at the time.
A thousand pardons for not being duly deferential to the felon.
SiubhanDuinne
@FEMA Camp Counselor:
Your nym is the very definition of awesome.
Baud
@joes527: FWIW, I disagree. No need to do it today.
rikyrah
Elizabeth Joh@elizabeth_joh
VA SCT rules against Gov McAuliffe restoring voting rights for 200K+ who completed their sentences http://www.courts.state.va.us/… …
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((Jake Laperruque)) @JakeLaperruque 20m20 minutes ago
Unbelievable. Virginia Supreme Court disenfranchised over 200,000 voters, majoriy minorities
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Ari Berman @AriBerman 26m26 minutes ago
Terrible news. 1 in 4 African-Americans in Virginia just lost the right to vote
The Thin Black Duke
@jibeaux: It’s nonsense like this from the “Bernie or Bust” guys that convinces me that no matter how awful Donald Trump is as a candidate, he still would have kicked the shit out of Bernie Sanders in November.
SFAW
@Trollhattan:
Right on.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@joes527:
I think you’re reading too much into this, they just don’t want the VP announcement competing with the Munich shootings for eyeballs.
Miss Bianca
@Emma: Wow – that’s going to be an even bigger story than Debbie Gibson and Mojo Nixon!
Calouste
@joes527: Except that is was widely said that Pence was the choice hours before the official announcement. Nothing like that happening with the Clinton campaign.
Major Major Major Major
@Gin & Tonic: Well, I’ll give you points for consistency.
joes527
@Baud: Not announcing today isn’t a disaster. Just an opportunity to differentiate herself from Trump missed.
Trollhattan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
All three share something in common: color! Here’s Tweety doing what she(? I think) does best–nom-nom-nom.
Tweety, however, never waxes nostalgically about Dutch and Tip cutting deals over Cutty shooters, so that’s one big plus for carpdom.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: Who Shot JR?
Villago Delenda Est
@Technocrat: srv, and his undisclosed source, is not above doing precisely that.
Cacti
@Technocrat:
If Trump’s post convention bounce only gets him to 38 percent of the vote, he’s really screwed.
Baud
@joes527: Sorry, but almost no one would notice that.
rikyrah
Arkansas man sues police officer for excessive force after getting Tasered for refusing to give cop his name
An Arkansas man was the victim of excessive police force when he was Tasered repeatedly for refusing to give an officer his name during an encounter on Fourth of July, a new lawsuit says.
Blytheville, Ark., police officer Stephen Sigman, the target of the lawsuit, charged Chardrick Mitchell with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct.
But shocking body cam footage of the exchange shows Sigman not telling Mitchell he was under arrest until he fired the Taser gun at the man’s back, who was casually walking away from the officer.
“At no time did Mr. Mitchell resist arrest, especially since he had already been tased when he was first told he was under arrest, even though he had at that point committed no possible criminal act,” the lawsuit, filed by Chardrick’s attorney James Harris, reads.
Emma
@Villago Delenda Est: ok, but don’t repeat it. My beautifully home-made stir-fried beef and peppers nearly made an uninvited projectile visit to my laptop.
Barbara
@Mnemosyne: The use of they can be somewhat confusing. My daughter refers to a transgendered friend as “they” and it took me a while to realize that she was only talking about one person. I am all for using “they” as the equivalent of a formal singular third person rather than “he or she,” but it is disorienting when “they” is used to refer to a particular person.
Trollhattan
@Miss Bianca:
Who, who wrote the book of love?
Mike J
@Miss Bianca: Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@joes527: Unless she tweets it out today and announces tomorrow, she’s already differentiated herself from the Republican nominee.
Emma
@Miss Bianca: Oy gevalt! What was that!?
joes527
@Calouste: “It is widely said”* today that Kaine is Clinton’s choice. I guess tomorrow will tell whether this is just people talking.
* weasel words.
Soylent Green
No chance. It’s his usual bullshit. The only thing he spends his own money on is tasteless crap painted gold.
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: And, speaking of 1964, that was the year Lew Alcindor led Power Memorial to the New York Catholic High Schools Athletic Association basketball championships.
Peale
@joes527: I agree. Though apparently, both sides do it. I could understand when it is something that happened in the US. But you can’t tell me that there would be a delay if this were another one of the endless bombings outside of Europe. It continues the myth that mattes or terrorism are the U.S. president’s responsibility to get on top of everywhere they happen.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Cacti: Yup, looking at Goldwater territory there.
Technocrat
@joes527:
It’s irresponsible not to speculate, some say.
Aimai
@joes527: fuck you.
Hal
@Cacti:
Chelsea Manning is trans. Whatever name she went by or gender identity she lived as for most of her life doesn’t negate the fact that she has always existed. They are not two different people.
Villago Delenda Est
@joes527: “Weasel words” = “Chuckles the Toddler words”
Mike J
@Emma: If you don’t know Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin.
Miss Bianca
@Emma: LOL! I would have thought it was self-explanatory! I hope the peppers and beef didn’t make a second appearance on your screen!
rikyrah
Cert petition says judge’s 89-page opinion was ghostwritten by prosecutors
POSTED JUL 21, 2016 07:00 AM CDT
BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS
An Alabama death-row inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal courts may defer to an 89-page judicial opinion that was entirely ghostwritten by prosecutors.
The state judge who adopted the ghostwritten opinion as his own didn’t even drop the word “proposed” from the title “Proposed Memorandum Opinion,” the Marshall Project reported in a look at the case in June. The cert petition (PDF) filed on behalf of the inmate, Doyle Lee Hamm, argues the case presents “the opportunity to rectify the problem of sham judicial opinions in capital cases.”
Though judges often rely on attorneys to draft routine orders, judges in both Alabama and Texas rely on ghostwriting for substantive opinions, the article reported.
Since that initial story, the Marshall Project says it received “a wave of emails from defense attorneys” who said judges have also relied on ghostwritten opinions in capital cases in Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Ohio.
Stephen Bright, president and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights, told the Marshall Project the problem of ghostwritten opinions in Alabama has lingered for decades. He believes appeals courts have never directly addressed the issue partly because judges don’t want to embarrass each other.
mike in dc
I’d like to see a final result of Clinton 55, Trump 35, with the third party candidates splitting the other 10 percent. I think 55 is probably the absolute ceiling for a Democrat and/or perhaps specifically our nominee. 35 is probably Trump’s absolute floor. But that’s a flip both houses, 400 EV type of outcome.
Peale
@Soylent Green: Yep. Please Trump. Continue to focus on those primary battles all the way through November.
Villago Delenda Est
@Peale: I’d ask “WTF is wrong with him?” but that would be just too easy.
Miss Bianca
@burnspbesq: Wow. Sad and cool at the same time.
Aimai
@joes527: uh…how stupid would you have to be if you cant tell hillary from trump?
Baud
@mike in dc: Yeah, Obama in 2008 got 53%.
joes527
@Aimai: What’s wrong? Am I being insufficiently pure fore you?
rikyrah
A Voting Rights Story
Injustice in North Carolina
By Sam Fulwood III |
Friday, July 22, 2016
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Voting rights in retreat in North Carolina—and across the nation
On its surface, this is a story about Mickey Michaux and his lifetime accomplishments. But in its full truth, this story is about a simple and basic American right: voting.
More specifically, it’s about North Carolina’s current effort to retreat from the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This landmark legislative tour de force played a significant part in moving this nation closer to its founding ideals of political self-governance for every citizen of the land.
Today, North Carolina is at the center of a national struggle to preserve what remains of the Voting Rights Act. In the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, the section of the Voting Rights Act that required all or parts of 15 states to get the approval of the federal government before making changes in voting law was effectively repealed. Since then, conservative legislators in the Tar Heel state have passed a set of laws that its proponents argue are needed to safeguard against voter fraud, but which actually rescinded voting rights in the state.
North Carolina is not alone: Several state legislatures are insisting voters show photo identification or imposing other restrictions. One onerous law in Texas could affect more than a half million voters who lack proper ID. In Arizona, lawmakers imposed rules for registering, early voting, and provisional voting, which resulted in widespread confusion and long lines in March’s presidential primary.
But in North Carolina, the new restrictions did more than just require voters to present photo identification. It ordered reductions in the number of early-voting days, ended same-day registration, and ended preregistration policies that allowed teenagers to qualify to register to vote before their 18th birthday. None of this would have been possible if the Voting Rights Act were still functionally in place.
“This is not a photo ID bill,” said the Rev. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, one of the lead plaintiffs suing the state. “The court ruled on the most sweeping, retrogressive voter suppression bill that we have seen since the 19th century and since Jim Crow and the worst in the nation since the Shelby decision.”
Miss Bianca
@Mike J: Who Are You?
Jibeaux
@The Thin Black Duke: yep. Bernie or Bust = Bust.
Emma
@Mike J: I guess I do at that. One of the places where the American zeitgeist passed me by.
@Miss Bianca: I was cackling, actually. Gobsmacked but cackling.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Aimai: Hillary has bigger fingers.
Baud
CNN
Trollhattan
@Miss Bianca:
And heaven forfend we forget this.
rikyrah
Dale Ho
@dale_e_ho
BREAKING – @ScottWalker will appeal WI voter ID ruling, seeks to eliminate safety net for voters w/o ID #LetPeopleVote @aclu @ACLUWisconsin
rikyrah
Dale Ho
@dale_e_ho
BREAKING: VA Sup Ct rules against @GovernorVA’s exec orders reenfranchising people who’ve completed their sentences; 200k+ disenfranchised
Baud
@rikyrah: That sucks.
ruemara
@FEMA Camp Counselor: thank you.
Major Major Major Major
@rikyrah: Well, I imagine that one will be escalating.
Run, Lillian!
@Hal:
Really well said and seconded.
And if people are trying to disrespect her by refusing to use her chosen name, understand that you are insulting other transgendered people as well.
Barbara
@Hal: Yes, understood, but words can lose meaning and history can lose context if you make it seem as if the name or publicly understood identity was always the same. I usually favor solutions like indicating that a person was “known as Bradley Manning at the time” to make it clearer. But if you were trying to look up the case on Pacer, you would need to know her prior name.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Not sure. I think it was a state law issue. US supreme Court won’t take it.
Emma
@Trollhattan: That can almost be haiku.
rikyrah
Why Have Leslie Jones’ ‘Ghostbusters’ Co-Stars Been So Quiet?
Mikelle Street
BY MIKELLE STREET
Since Leslie Jones went through 24 hours of hellish harassment, sparked by the tweets of the now permanently suspended conservative blogger Milo Yiannopoulos, there have been a flood of people rushing to back Jones up. Early on in the ordeal, Twitter user Marissa Rei, the same user who started #BlackOutDay, started the #LoveForLeslieJ hashtag in order to take a stand of support. Soon after, notables like Ghostbusters director Paul Feig and actresses Anna Kendrick, Jada Pinkett Smith and Margaret Cho flocked to it. Even yesterday, Viola Davis added a late addition to the movement. But surprisingly, none of Jones’ Ghostbusters co-stars leant their voices.
Of the four female co-stars, only Jones and Melissa McCarthy have official Twitter accounts. And while McCarthy’s latest Tweets stop a week ago and are mostly just auto-posts from Instagram, her favorites go up to this past Friday, acknowledging some fan love for the film. Since then, McCarthy, as well as Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig, who round out the cast, have been radio silent. For a group that appeared to band together and battle the backlash of the Ghostbusters reboot as a united front, it’s been strange to see Jones forced to face the abuse sans her co-stars. Especially considering the issue is seemingly so cut and dry. So what’s going on?
Emma
@burnspbesq: This is where I think she excels.She really is interested, she really wants to know. It shows.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I seem to recall that the state law was fairly clear, but I could be wrong/they could be partisan assholes. You can’t appeal from there if it’s a state law issue, right? Probably nothing in the VRA they could use?
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
Wait, you think a name change means that a completely different person comes into existence?
You must get very confused reading movie star biographies. Some of them changed their names more than once, even. Did you really not get that Norma Jean Baker and Marilyn Monroe were in fact the same person? Or think that Muhammad Ali couldn’t possibly be sent to jail for refusing to join the Army because, after all, it was Cassius Clay Jr. who actually refused, not this other guy named Ali?
rikyrah
Willona D. Woods @The_BKC
My friend just received his voter ID card. He’s never voted b4 & now I have to tell him it will be canceled b/c felon #VirginiaSupremeCourt
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Don’t know enough about it to say.
different-church-lady
Who recorded the 1995 album “The Gold Experience”?
lamh36
Humdog
joes527 and Aimai here may be an example of men and women not actually communicating. I, a woman, read joes527′ initial comment about Hillary failing by changing her scheduled VP announcement because of the ongoing situation in Munich as a really nit picky comment coming from a dude who never can pass up an opportunity to tell a woman she is doing it wrong. Then I realized that was an uncharitable reading of the comment that said more about me than what joe’s words spelled out. I think Aimai responded as I would if I hadn’t given a second thought and applied my aunt’s suggestion to lean towards the most generous reading when something is unclear. It saves aggravation at least until the meaning becomes more apparent. I can wait to get aggravated at least one refresh screen; it can only help with the blood pressure and keeping the thread friendly.
No offense to joes527 or Aimai intended, they simply seemed a clear example of what has been my latest attitude goal.
Mary G
@Applejinx: You get a lot of crap from olds, but I have appreciated your comments and sticking yo it. Hillary needs all hands on deck.
Kathleen
@Mike J: Who put the bop in the bop sha bop sha bop?
Smiling Mortician
@FEMA Camp Counselor: Beautifully executed de-lurk. If FEMA camps consistently employ counselors of your quality, I’m all in.
Patricia Kayden
Shocking video of police body slamming Black teacher in “liberal” Austin. Absolutely sickening.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/22/video-austin-police-body-slam-black-teacher-tell-her-blacks-have-violent-tendencies/?hpid=hp_rhp-morning-mix_mm-story-h%3Ahomepage%2Fstory#comments
Looks like the cops are going to get off because over 6 months have passed but the teacher is suing. Sigh.
Mike J
@Emma: That line was stolen
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Smiling Mortician:
If Trump wins in November, we will probably ALL be in.
Villago Delenda Est
A GOP Lifer calls it quits.
The kicker paragraph:
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est: Good for him or her.
Gin & Tonic
@Run, Lillian!:
That “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. While it’s no secret that Cacti is not a fan of Chelsea (neé Bradley) Manning, do you have evidence disrespect is intended? Am I disrespectful to Caitlin Jenner when I point out that Bruce Jenner won the men’s Olympic decathlon gold medal in Montreal?
dmsilev
@lamh36: Are you telling me that Mark Halperin is a gullible fool who believes anything that Trump claims? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Them.
Haven’t you been reading the thread?
Gelfling 545
@joes527: I think its called respect for the deceased and injured.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: I never realized that you’re so easily shocked.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
I have everyone in my troll filter.
Technocrat
@lamh36:
That can’t be real. Can that be real?
What does “take down” even mean in this context? Primaries aren’t a sport where you can run up the score.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: It’s so complete that you can’t even read your own posts!
gwangung
@Cacti: This makes you sound a trans-phobic asshole.
So, please proceed.
Cacti
@Gin & Tonic:
Yes, you pig.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est: Nor would I want to.
Miss Bianca
@Trollhattan: Dear Dog.
different-church-lady
@Baud: I have to admit pie is mighty tasty.
rikyrah
Why black men fear that any police encounter could go awry
Jul. 22, 2016 9:33 AM EDT
Charles Kinsey held his hands in the air and shouted to police that the autistic man sitting on the street next to him wasn’t dangerous. A few seconds later, he felt a bullet rip into his leg.
The therapist, who is black and works with people with disabilities, was rounding up a patient who had wandered away from a facility when he was ordered by police officers to lie on the ground. Kinsey imagined that “as long as I’ve got my hands up, they’re not going to shoot me. This is what I’m thinking. Wow, was I wrong,” he told a television station.
The shooting in Florida earlier this week illustrates the longstanding fear among black men that almost any encounter with police can go awry with potentially deadly results, even when a person follows every law enforcement command.
Police are known to pull their triggers “no matter how you follow their directions,” emphasized Isaial Murray, a black 28-year-old construction worker in Detroit.
joes527
@Technocrat: It all makes sense if you assume that Trump’s true aim is to leave a smoking crater where the Republican party once was.
Villago Delenda Est
@Technocrat: Drumpf can’t let go of the fact that some of his opponents have failed to roll over, expose their bellies, and beg for mercy. He wants utter submission. If he doesn’t get it, he goes ballistic, even though it has nothing at all to do with where he is now, and what he should be concentrating on.
Hillary is going to feast on his entrails in the debates.
different-church-lady
@Cacti: I guess that makes her the first woman to win the men’s decathlon.
[ducks]
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: So often the commands are contradictory. “Don’t move” and “Show your ID” can’t be both done at the same time. It’s simply not possible. But there are trigger happy cops out there who will use that as justification for deadly force.
Trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Today’s interview with Susan Faludi re. the book about her father’s sex reassignment (“In the Darkroom”) was instructive for me. She used time to inform whether to reference dad as he or she. Simple, really, if tricky heard in real time.
Major Major Major Major
As a general rule, when a member of a minority group of which I am not a part tells me that what I’ve said is offensive, I stop saying it. When it’s the majority of the members of that group, I definitely stop saying it.
What’s so hard with “Before she transitioned, …”
Is it the extra syllables?
EDIT: And yes, this is a general rule. In the case @Trollhatan mentions above–when there’s additional information–go with that.
sukabi
@Run, Lillian!: if this is run anything like his donating xxx$ to charity, it will take people hounding him for proof of where the money went… he may put up a webpage soliciting donations to help take cruz and kasich out, but the chances are great the $$ will flow into drumpfs own pockets.
Trollhattan
@Villago Delenda Est:
“Idiocracy’s” forearm bar code I.D.s are perfect. Cops can read them from a distance and they get to carry laser bar code readers–win-win!
Gin & Tonic
@different-church-lady: Sorry, ducks do not compete in the Olympics. You won’t catch me that easily.
Smiling Mortician
@rikyrah: This breaks my heart. IANAL, but here’s hoping there’s a way to appeal.
rikyrah
Judd LegumVerified account
@JuddLegum
GOP Congressman says, in Trump, they finally have a candidate that speaks to “white men”
Technocrat
@Villago Delenda Est:
Hey, I say it’s high time America had an easily-distracted President.
Make America Great Scott That Woman is Hot
aimai
@Humdog: Why take the most generous reading if I know, from reading his other comments, that this is exactly the sort of moronic thing he would argue? That amounts to believing that he is arguing something he isn’t arguing.
Trollhattan
@Miss Bianca:
What a friend we had in Willard. If the Republicans reallllly wanted the inverse of Romney this go, by god they knocked it out of the park and across the parking lot.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
I won’t get too vehement in defending it, but those costars may be on lockdown from the PR department since they’re actively promoting the film right now. Some of the most paranoid people in the universe are movie publicists, and actors usually have NDAs that they have to sign restricting what they can say while they’re being paid to promote the movie.
However, Sony/Columbia shouldn’t be sitting back and letting one of the stars of its big summer blockbuster be attacked without hitting back. They’re only hurting their own bottom line by not responding or allowing her costars and director to respond.
Cacti
@gwangung:
You should head over to wiki and correct the trans-phobic apes there who refer to the case as United States of America v. Manning, Bradley E., PFC.
When finished, you should lodge a protest with the Court of the United States Military District of Washington, that presided over the Article 32 and 39 hearings, and the court martial, for their failure to retroactively change the official record to reflect the subsequent desires of PFC Manning.
These grave injustices must not be allowed to stand.
dmsilev
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve lead a sheltered life. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I believe the croupier at Rick’s has my winnings.
Trollhattan
@Technocrat:
Heh! “The Big Book of Attention de…Hey Let’s Ride Bikes!”
Cacti
@different-church-lady:
Hi-yo!
WarMunchkin
@Applejinx: Having actually looked through the leaks, I found nothing damning. DWS doesn’t like the Sanders campaign. Big deal – of course she doesn’t. She was publicly criticized by the campaign, and so was the entire Democratic Party – but her frustration was kept private. The e-mails do not show any public action taken to block the Sanders campaign or any procedural manipulation, as far as I saw, that resulted in any action taken against Sanders, either publicly, procedurally or financially. I’d be happy to see specific evidence of something other than expressing private dislike.
Percysowner
@lamh36: Although I don’t think Trump will spend $20 million to take down Kasich and Cruz, I can see him being far more invested in vengeance than actually winning. For one, he believes that all he has to do is show up and he will win. Plus, he holds grudges like a mofo. I think he will go after Cruz and Kasich until his dying day, even if it doesn’t involve money.
aimai
@joes527: Purity has nothing to do with it. The idea that Hillary has to “differentiate” herself from Trump any more than she already does, every day, with her politics, her policies, her voters, her supporters, her goals is just totally moronic. I can’t even figure out what kind of person would think that this argument by querulous assertion made any sense at all. No one who could possibly be persuaded to vote for Hillary (either because they like her policies or because they hate Trump) could be persuaded to vote for Trump because Hillary didn’t announce her VP choice on Friday at 4: 30 but instead a day later.
rikyrah
A STORY ABOUT CHARLES KINSEY, MY NEW (WHITE) NEIGHBORS, AND THE RACIAL POLITICS OF CALLING THE POLICE
Damon Young, 7/21/16
……………………..
Adding to this diversity is a homeless shelter that sits a block away from my building. In fact, on a given day, I’d estimate that 10 to 20 percent of the people walking through this neighborhood are somehow connected to the shelter. Some live there, some lived there and still hang around because their friends live there, and some don’t live there but hang around the neighborhood because of the numerous food trucks and food banks and other charitable entities that provide food for the residents. And some just hang around because they don’t have anywhere else to go. A couple of them hang out in the coffee shop all day long; playing chess, reading the newspaper, and escaping the heat or the rain or the cold.
We’ve lived here for a year. And while the shelter definitely attracts some very colorful characters — and my wife and I are each asked for money (or a “ride downtown” or a bottle of water) at least once a week — we’ve never once felt in any type of danger. Partially because we’re both from similar types of inner-city neighborhoods and possess a certain level of learned street smarts. But mostly because these are not dangerous people. They’re mostly just people who happen to be going through some hard times.
Our building has two two-story loft units. Two weeks ago, a new couple moved into the second one. (A man and a woman.) They look to be in their late 20s or early 30s, they seem to be nice people, and they’re White. And although they’ve been here less than a month, they’ve already called the police on one of the homeless people loitering near the coffee shop. Which drew several cops to our shared ground-level door. And still, a week later, annoys the fuck out of me.
Baud
@WarMunchkin: Thanks. I figured if there was something really troubling, the Internet would show it to me rather than talk about it in the abstract.
@aimai: News still saying it’ll be tonight.
joes527
@aimai: If I could make out what you are accusing me of, I’m sure I’d have a response.
dmsilev
OK, so getting back to the nominal subject of this thread, any idea what time tomorrow Clinton will be announcing her VP pick? I assume she has a rally or two scheduled, or maybe a press event?
sukabi
@?BillinGlendaleCA: probably also want drumpf to continue stomping his own dick. I’m sure by tomorrow morning he’ll have said something even more odious and tasteless than he already has.
Run, Lillian!
@Gin & Tonic:
Yes, the comment at #105 sounded intentionally disrespectful to me.
And as an answer to this question:
Major, Major, Major, Major at #198, said it perfectly. What is so hard about saying, “Before she transitioned?”
Villago Delenda Est
@Technocrat: “Donald, that’s your daughter!”
“So?”
Chyron HR
@WarMunchkin:
Sh-shut up or I’m gonna get a true progressive to steal your credit card info and/or car.
Baud
@dmsilev: Well, it was probably Kaine, but now she has to find someone new because twitter said no.
Villago Delenda Est
@sukabi: Still waiting for a “pivot” that isn’t even further into right field.
joes527
@Baud:
Wait … so Clinton agrees with me?
ruemara
@WarMunchkin: Not loving Sanders is the first sin. Refusing to hate on HRC & DWS, that’s the second sin. I’m not an old and I’m quite sick of 3 paragraphs of bullshit conspiracy that amounts to insufficient adoration of the Sanders. Plus, sidestepping the issue of actual dumping of credit card info and social security numbers for the b.s. that the DNC conspired by preferring the democrat running for office, that demonstrates a rather shitty person.
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: Check out the photo at the top of this LG&M post. Just don’t do so soon after a meal.
Barbara
@Villago Delenda Est:
I can’t think of a more succinct statement of what has happened among Republican leaders over the last few months.
dmsilev
@Baud: Still waiting for the phone call?
aimai
@joes527: OK, well, if you don’t understand your own argument I don’t see why I should be expected to.
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est:
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
Your air of martyrdom would probably be going over better if your initial comment hadn’t been:
But, hey, if you want to continue looking like a transphobic dick, please proceed.
SiubhanDuinne
@Trollhattan:
I hope it’s not too late in the thread for a huge noisy golf clap and a resounding “Heh!”
Baud
@joes527:
Or news is wrong. She is supposed to announce by text, so it could come at any time.
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: The man is an asshole. You knew that, but I wanted to just state that for the record.
Baud
@dmsilev: If she really wants to differentiate herself from Trump, she knows where she can find me.
different-church-lady
@aimai: You don’t understand: some people on the internet made fun of Trump for delaying his announcement after Nice, and THAT MAKES CLINTON A HYPOCRITE!!!!
Technocrat
@WarMunchkin:
/r/sandersforpresident has completely lost their shit over it.
I’m still kind of baffled at WikiLeaks putting the thumb on the scale for the GOP. I’ve always thought they were assholes, but at least fairly neutral libertarianish assholes. This is next-level pro-Trump ratfvcking.
ruemara
@Technocrat: I’m serious about it be Putin involved operations.
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: Yeah, I’ve seen that one before. There are a number of others that are just as disturbing. Last night’s hip caress sort of had a “Daddy, not here!” vibe to it.
different-church-lady
@Technocrat:
They have any shit left to lose at this point? Their supply of shit must be limitless.
Cacti
@Run, Lillian!:
At some point, this starts to feel like the obligation to renounce the broccoli mandate (I’m against it).
Everything I spoke of was in the past tense, but to make sure it passes the language test for sufficient progressive purity, I need to include the utterly irrelevant aside that inmate Manning came out as a woman long after the fact?
Shall I also include that we have always been at war with Eurasia?
Baud
@different-church-lady: You know she did it just to make them look bad.
Villago Delenda Est
@different-church-lady: They seem to be using some of the surplus from Cleveland.
Cacti
@Mnemosyne:
Forgive me comrade.
I oppose the broccoli mandate.
joes527
@different-church-lady: Jeasus-fucking-christ. PUT. DOWN. THE. PEARLS!!!
I said that it was a bad call, not that she was the devil incarnate.
dmsilev
@different-church-lady:
New to the Internet, I take it?
(One of my favorite quotes about the Internet comes from the Olden Times of Usenet: “Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea — massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.”. Still true.)
Major Major Major Major
@Cacti: What the fuck is wrong with you? Show some respect for a fellow human being.
Mnemosyne
@Run, Lillian!:
People are so frickin’ weird about name changes (and I’m not even getting into the gender change side of it). I still can’t believe how many a-holes kept insisting that Muhammad Ali’s real name was Cassius Clay even though he’d changed his name at age 22 as was known as Ali for the next FIFTY years. Get the fuck over it, people!
Baud
@joes527:
Sellout.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: Baud may even be wearing pants.
sukabi
@Villago Delenda Est: I think (fingers crossed) there will be more and more r’s that start to denounce … of course they will be state legislators… our “esteemed” federal critters are “all in” with the dumpster fire.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cacti: I’m sure I’m not the first to request that you not deadname Chelsea Manning.
gwangung
@Cacti:
Don’t care. You’re responsible for your own behavior. You sound like a trans-phobic asshole.
If you care to confirm that, please proceed.
dmsilev
@?BillinGlendaleCA: He’s sold out and gone corporate then.
MomSense
@ruemara:
Yup. Misinformation campaign.
Baud
Just say Manning, people. We kmow you’re not talking about Peyton.
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
I know, it’s soooo hard to be respectful to other people. Why do black guys get to say the n-word to each other but get all pissed off when a white guy says it? Fucking politically correct bullshit, amirite?
Cacti
@Major Major Major Major:
Forgive me comrade.
I deeply regret my lack of sensitivity shown to the incarcerated felon Chelsea Manning, who was previously known as the thief Bradley Manning.
May her holy name be forever blessed within the sanctified walls of the United States Penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Grumpy Code Monkey: Fuck LBJ.
(Adding for raven because I think he and his bride have a regular Friday dinner gig)
different-church-lady
@Baud: How about if we just stop talking about “them” altogether?
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I guess Ficus just can’t help himself.
Baud
@dmsilev: Whatever it takes to defeat Trump. Even if it’s pants.
Cacti
@gwangung:
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Forgive my sins against the blessed one of Ft. Leavenworth.
Baud
GOS front page post just now
Cole may be getting the call soon.
Run, Lillian!
@Cacti:
It is about respecting someone’s identity and their journey. As liberals, I thought we were for that sort of thing.
Fair Economist
@lamh36:
Well, now that he’s getting funding from Putin’s cronies, he’s able to afford it.
Kathleen
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): OT, Bella, Still trying to get your email. Have not forgotten your question!
Villago Delenda Est
@Cacti: You’re not helping your cause. I happen to agree with you about what Manning did, but it’s not an issue of Manning being “the blessed one”.
Cacti
@Run, Lillian!:
I am deeply sorry for not respecting Chelsea Manning’s journey to prison, and the many days and hours for self-reflection that her 35-year sentence will provide.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That’s some sacrifice on your part, we knew you had it in ya Baud.
Villago Delenda Est
@Fair Economist: Putin is an actual billionaire, unlike Teh Donald. All that swag from Sochi.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cacti: You are just being an ass now.
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
It’s more than a little creepy that you seem to think we should only respect someone’s identity if we agree with their actions. How exactly does this make you different than the racists who insisted on calling Muhammad Ali “Cassius Clay” after he died?
Run, Lillian!
@Baud:
Even when things get tense here, you always, always make me laugh. Thanks for that. :)
Fair Economist
@Technocrat:
Probably not so much Wikileaks, as the Russian spies that got it for them. Wikileaks would probably have published RNC emails too, but the Russians didn’t hand them over.
different-church-lady
@Cacti: Can we sing Kumbaya now and just get it all the fuck over with?
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: It doesn’t. Doy.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: We all gotta do our part.
Librarian
@Mandarama: She also shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Cacti
@Omnes Omnibus:
Noticed did you?
But let’s be honest here, is Ms. Manning widely known for something other than her criminal activity?
throwaway
@Cacti
You are a piece of shit
Run, Lillian!
On a different note- we just aren’t going to see that VP announcement today, are we?
Fair Economist
@Villago Delenda Est:
Indeed, as are many of his cronies. There’s a lot of money to be made looting a country. Donald is undoubtedly hoping to copy here what they’ve done there.
gwangung
@Cacti:
No transphobic asshole, you’ve sinned against trans-people in general.
You obviously don’t get that, because you’re a trans-phobic, disrespectful asshole who doesn’t care you’ve disrespected not just Manning, but other trans-people.
So, please proceed, you trans-phobic asshole.
different-church-lady
@Run, Lillian!: All I know is if we do then Clinton is horrible because she’s insensitive to the German People, and if we don’t she’s a spineless hypocrite. And the person she picks will be the worst possible choice, no matter who it is.
Run, Lillian!
@Mnemosyne:
Perfect.
joes527
@different-church-lady: I really think you should cut Clinton a little slack.
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
I’m just wondering why Joe didn’t sign up for Hillary’s text messages if he wanted to be the first to know. They’ve actually been pretty low-key with them so far.
sukabi
@Villago Delenda Est: might be waiting for him to come out in shades, gold braiding, and lots of “I’m the Greatest” regalia.. figure that’s next.
Mnemosyne
Hey, Betty got a pretty close view of Hillary up there!
Also, I think it’s funny that Hillary has taken a page from QEII’s book and is wearing bright colors that make her easy to spot in a crowd. Why wear a boring navy suit if you don’t have to?
ETA: Google seems to show that Angela Merkel does something similar with her jackets. Makes sense!
Run, Lillian!
@different-church-lady:
I feel like after all of the Kaine floating of late, I have managed to reconcile myself to my least favorite choice. So I am ready to move on to the acceptance phase of this dance.
So, where’s my text message????
I bet it comes tomorrow while I am at Ghostbusters. :)
Cacti
@different-church-lady:
Apparently not.
I’ve not done adequate penance for the factual information previously posted.
So here goes: Chelsea Manning, I love you.
? Martin
Tim Kaine confirmed as VP choice.
Immanentize
Kaine. NYT alert… Fyi
Mnemosyne
@? Martin:
I dunno. My new BFF Jess from the Clinton campaign hasn’t texted to let me know yet.
Major Major Major Major
CNN reports that a “source” “says” it’s Tim Kaine.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Run, Lillian!: NYT is saying it’s Kaine. He wasn’t my least favorite choice, I think he’s better than Booker and a few others. Brown and Perez might have been better in my mind, but they each had problems.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne:
She should take further inspiration from the Queen and take up dog breeding as a hobby. Not corgis of course, you can’t follow too closely. Maybe standard poodles. It’d be kind of cool having a dozen or so of them running around the White House, and they’re arguably smarter than your typical WH Press Correspondent, so one could substitute as needed.
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
Whatever, Ficus.
Cacti
@Mnemosyne:
I’m afraid I can’t ask her to marry me, because I’m already spoken for.
Mnemosyne
@dmsilev:
I didn’t realize that our First Dogs here in California are both Corgis — Trollhattan linked me to their Twitter account. Clearly the top dog for Democrats!
Baud
I’m just happy that Joes527 is happy.
Immanentize
@? Martin: told ya?.
burnspbesq
@rikyrah:
To the extent you could tell from listening to the oral argument, and with all the usual caveats, North Carolina is in deep yogurt at the Fourth Circuit.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Kathleen: Thanks for the reminder! I’ll ask Adam to send it to you.
Irony Abounds
I can confirm from my sources that it is Tim Kaine. His camp is telling his inner circle.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: Funny; didn’t know that.
I did once see (from a distance) Bo Obama when the family made a trip back to Hyde Park. The Obamas did end up with some nice dogs.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Iowa Old Lady
@Fair Economist: Cruz isn’t even running for another 4 years. Donald doesn’t have that long an attention span.
joes527
@Baud: Happy? I’m vindicated! Clinton clearly saw my post and changed her plans accordingly.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Immanentize already told us hours ago, so I wasn’t waiting and wondering.
different-church-lady
I can hardly wait to find out how Tim Kaine is history’s newest greatest monster!
LanceThruster
To me, her speechifying is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
This silly season is going to be excessively painful.
Cacti
@Irony Abounds:
You’re part of an inner circle?
Impressive.
dmsilev
@different-church-lady: Try the comments section of the dKos front-page story.
Baud
@joes527: I should have made you my campaign manager.
different-church-lady
@LanceThruster: Well, now you know how we feel about your comments.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I hope you suffer the tortures of the damned.
Kay
We have a county Clinton organizer as of today. They’re looking for watch party hosts for the convention. I’m away on vacation next week but I gave them a likely prospect :)
Run, Lillian!
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
You know, I have read a lot of good things about Kaine today, including a spirited defense by Krystal Ball, a Bernie supporter in Virginia. Her piece is on HuffPo.
I am glad Hillary chose who she felt comfortable with and I am fully on board.
joes527
@different-church-lady: Not possible. He has been around a while an is one of History’s older greatest monsters.
History’s NEWEST greatest monster is currently forming a boy band.
Cacti
@LanceThruster:
Not every woman can speak in a pleasing baritone, like the late Bea Arthur.
Major Major Major Major
@joes527: history’s newest greatest monster will be Warren when she tweets about how serving in the senate with him has been a pleasure.
different-church-lady
@Run, Lillian!: You don’t think Hillary tarnished him merely by her selection of him?
Cacti
Can anyone give a quick rundown on how Kaine is a betrayal of progressives (other than his mere existence)?
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
He apparently signed a letter suggesting that small regional banks may not need to report in every day like the big banks do, which clearly makes him the worst government official since Pol Pot, or at least Robespierre.
Run, Lillian!
@different-church-lady:
See above. She tarnishes everything with that shrill, shrill voice.
/s
Mnemosyne
Still waiting for my text message. Is Jess on a coffee break? I’m starting to feel like we may not be besties after all!
scottinnj
Nice to have A Democratic Governor act like, you know, a democrat. VA governor McCauliff after the VA supreme court overruled his executive order allowing felons who had paid their debt to societies the right to vote:
The men and women whose voting rights were restored by my executive action should not be alarmed. I will expeditiously sign nearly 13,000 individual orders to restore the fundamental rights of the citizens who have had their rights restored and registered to vote. And I will continue to sign orders until I have completed restoration for all 200,000 Virginians. My faith remains strong in all of our citizens to choose their leaders, and I am prepared to back up that faith with my executive pen. The struggle for civil rights has always been a long and difficult one, but the fight goes on.”
– See more at: https://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=16047#sthash.Rg3jXARh.dpuf
joes527
@different-church-lady: Again with the negativity. You should really give Clinton a chance.
Immanentize
@Cacti:
He is decidedly not Bernie Sanders
different-church-lady
@Cacti: Well, for starters, he’s not Bernie Sanders.
Next, he’s not Elizabeth Warren.
After that the list gets kind of long and obscure.
different-church-lady
@joes527: I am giving her a chance — TO BETRAY EVERY GOOD AND DECENT PROGRESSIVE IN THIS LAND OF OURS!
Major Major Major Major
I’ve already got this copied for rapid deployment on the Facebook posts from my Bernfeeling friends:
“How dare she pick somebody she’s worked closely with in the past and has good rapport with to be her closest co-worker for the next five years.”
burnspbesq
@Cacti:
Because he supported a proposal to “deregulate the banks.” The fact that it was a proposal to slightly modify reporting requirements for small local banks and credit unions, that is also supported by Sen. Warren, doesn’t seem to matter over at Short Attention Span and Inability to Deal with Nuance Centeal.
burnspbesq
@scottinnj:
Wow. That should give some McAuliffe skeptics pause.
Riiiiight. Who am i kidding?
Mnemosyne
Jess finally texted me, so I feel better now.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: I usually click your links, but you talked me out of this one!
SiubhanDuinne
@different-church-lady:
QFT.
? Martin
@Immanentize: You did. Good work.
SiubhanDuinne
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Be very careful with that, BQ. I volunteered late last night to stand in for the absent Raven with a relevant and necessary “Fuck LBJ,” and was severely taken to task for my pains. Am only now emerging from that particular Slough of Despond.
SiubhanDuinne
Just checked my phone (have had it turned off) and Hillary messaged me at 8:20 p.m. (Eastern) to say “I’m thrilled to tell you this first: I’ve chosen Sen Tim Kai e as my running mate. Welcome him to our team, (SiubhanDuinne).”
I feel so proud. She told me first. FIRST!!
(Snark aside, I’m perfectly comfortable with the choice. I will work hard to elect the Clinton-Kaine team to the White House.)
WaterGirl
@scottinnj: I am really moved by that. Thanks so much for sharing the story.
jl
I’m looking forward to the Kaine-Pence debate.
Edit: will make what Biden did with Ryan look like a draw, and Kaine can be more vicious and undiplomatically direct, since he seems to do and say everything with very genuine good humor and a big smile.
PaulW
I envy you I had to be at work.
Feel sad Hillary didn’t go with Castor or Nelson (GO GATORS) but Kaine is a solid veep choice. He’s competent, and that ought to be the BEST SELLING POINT FOR DEMOCRATS AS THEY GO AGAINST THE CRAZY
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: I finally clicked*. There is something terribly wrong about Trump’s relationship with his daughter.
*but I did wait until 30 minutes after I had eaten.
jl
@PaulW: More I see of Kaine on youtube, I think he is very smart, very quick on his feet, very good in debate and spontaneous back-and-forth with other bigshot pols and ordinary voters.
Pence might be on his own, since Trump’s attention seems focused now on teaching the heels Cruz and Kasic a real lesson, and figuring out how to oligarch the world with Putin and his cronies.
WaterGirl
@jl: What did Kasich do to Trump, besides say no to VP and let people know that Trump plans to give the VP responsibility for domestic and foreign policy?
jl
Appears to be some debate about the quality of Kaine’s Spanish, but he seems very fluent even if accent is clumsy. And apparently he taught himself to speak and understand it so well on his own during a year working with poor kids on Honduras.
CNN Espanol: Senador Tim Kaine Discute La Autorizacion Para Accion Militar Contra El EI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzmLxSoGpi0
ruemara
@Fair Economist: you’re being far too kind
jl
@WaterGirl: What kind of question is that? Kasich was not nice to Trump. Not nice at all. Very rude. Sad!
That is a high crime in the age of Trump.
Apparently Trump spent his post-RNC sewer presser obsessing over the not-niceness of Cruz and Kasich. I don’t know the details. I can’t watch anything or anybody associated with that mess without flying into a rage. Was watching video of that vicious fool’s acceptance speech last night and was astonished and outraged. Hope Trump keeps it up though. I may stroke out before November, but Trump is acting like a loser.
Emma
@Cacti: Christ. You’ve pulled me into this thing, and I don’t really give a shit about it. Stop. Being polite won’t kill you. Or last least just… stop.
And the rest of you… stop too. He’s not transphobic, he just hates Manning’s guts.
satby
@FEMA Camp Counselor: well said!
Applejinx
@Grumpy Code Monkey: This. I never said I wasn’t still voting for her. Let’s give Trump hell: I know she can.
Applejinx
@FEMA Camp Counselor: This too. I saw stuff even in a brief glance-over of the leak that seems not to have been acted on. Some was, some wasn’t. Notably, I didn’t see any sign that they tried to play up Bernie as an atheist in the South, nor did they need to as Clinton did fine without it.
Don’t be over-precious. I just can’t help but be smug that my more cynical view won out. I think we can wipe out Trump, and what’s more: UNLIKE Bernie, I truly believe Hillary can put the primary behind her and build bridges where needed. By all reports she is strangely gifted at doing just this and it’ll be nice to see. I hope Bernie’s slow-arriving but seemingly earnest support leads to a forgiveness of his unsuccessful but fierce opposition: I want to be able to say ‘I’m with THEM’. We will need more than one powerful Democrat, more than a single lefty to get shit done.
Bill Arnold
@WarMunchkin:
Did you manage to download all of them somehow? I was only able to find some social security numbers (using search term “ssn”), which was pretty damning for wikileaks itself. Really? They did no redaction? A-holes. (Using a semi-secure laptop with Tor browser for this sort of thing.)
Hey, maybe they’re secretly angling for a Hillary Clinton win; the wikileaks thing boosts the easily-sold narrative of how the Russians are shamelessly working to boost the odds of a D. Trump win, expecting in return the Baltics and a weaker, isolationist America.
Bill Arnold
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Yeah, that was convincing enough that I spent the next 30 minutes reading the Tim Kaine wikipedia article. I see that it has now been updated with the news.
J R in WV
@rikyrah:
And so Gov McAuliffe announced that he will personally sign individual papers for each person he addressed in his sweeping commutation earlier. All 12,000 who have already registered immediately, the other 188,000 well before the election in November.
Fuq that right-wing vote-suppressing bunch of haters on the Va bench!
J R in WV
@Patricia Kayden:
That guy proved what a big brave man he is, beating up a tiny girl like that. Well, a woman, but small, and obviously no threat to him whatsoever.
She did mess up, by not paying attention to what an overlord told her to do, thought, right?//snark
Dude is a monster! In many other states that guy would have been fired long before she got to see a lawyer. I hope she isn’t disabled by her injuries. He beat her to the ground repeatedly. What a brave cop!
Applejinx
@J R in WV: That is AWESOME. Good on him. :)
Media coverage of his badass stand against disenfranchisement? Or is that too much to expect of America right now?
PaulWartenberg2016
Don’t forget, Floridians, get the DAMN VOTE OUT and help out the congressional campaigns. We need to win the Senate seat, and we need to win more House districts.
To all y’all in St. Pete/Pinellas County, back my boy Charlie Crist!
Procopius
“This is a crowd you won’t see at a Trump rally!” Why not? I was amazed. I did not see one black or brown face until the very last picture, where I finally saw one. One. I’m pretty sure there were more minority people than that. How did the photographer contrive to keep them out?