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  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    I am hearing there was tear gas deployed in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  And all kinds of towns and cities.

    How is this helping the Republicans one damn bit, if Trump agitates a race war based on demonstrated police brutality?  I suspect the Republicans’ cake is baked for this fall, assuming we can have a full and fair election.

    I wonder if there will be another attempt to remove Trump from office, to try to save some of the downballot.  I realize that everyone is afraid of Trump’s base of deplorables.

    Personally, I think there are less of them than are assumed, and they’re making enemies daily.

    Do people really want to see ugly white men in camo with assault rifles, hassling their state legislators?

    Most Americans are good with mask wearing.  Do we really want to get hassled for wearing one?

    This is going too far.

  3. 3.

    leeleeFL

    Never ceases to amaze, the Texas Two-step is a dance craze all over the Nation, occasionally!

    Lord, my rage is bit righteous and exhausting!

    Not sure if communal rage has reached a tipping-point, but it is beginning to feel that way?!

    Thoughts?

  4. 4.

    Elizabelle

    It’s startling that the very young (and dark-haired) Mitch McConnell looks a tad like Jared Kushner’s homelier brother.

  5. 5.

    feebog

    It’s a good ad.  But let’s face it, it will take a huge blue tsunami to get rid of the turtle.  That said, I like our chances to flip the senate.  AZ, CO, ME, NC all look like pickups for Dems.  IA, MT, GA, KS, all in play.

  6. 6.

    Tom Levenson

    I do not dare to allow myself to hope. It’s Kentucky.

    But if McConnell loses I will take second place to no one in my joy.

    And I’ll be on the phone, hard, to my senators and representative to expand the federal judiciary to whatever level needed to allow President Biden to reverse the long running GOP judicial coup.

  7. 7.

    Tom Levenson

    @feebog: I still hold out hope that the stench of Auburn will be enough to help Doug Jones to a full term in Alabama.

    Hope is probably too strong. A dream. A fantasy. A deeply desired outcome.

  8. 8.

    Brachiator

    Further confirmation why a November victory for Democrats is essential. From NPR

    The Supreme Court has rejected a California church’s attempt to overturn the state’s coronavirus restrictions on in-person religious services.
    In a 5-4 decision issued late Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court’s liberal bloc in upholding the state’s right to impose limits on congregations in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.

    The dissent, written by Justice Kavanaugh, is just flat out stupid.

    The court’s four reliably conservative justices — Samuel Alito Jr., Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas — dissented. Kavanaugh said the guidelines violate the First Amendment because they “discriminate against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses.”

    But, as Roberts noted

    In particular, the chief justice found that Newsom’s order was consistent in limiting not just religious services, but also various kinds of activities “where large groups of people gather in close proximity for extended periods of time.”

    Trump must be defeated. He cannot be allowed to install more idiot judges.

  9. 9.

    Redshift

    @feebog: It will, but we shouldn’t leave anything on the table. There are races in VA in 2017 and nationwide in 2018 that post-election analysis suggests we could have won, but the party didn’t think they were winnable and didn’t put resources into them.

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    trollhattan

    The 3rd Rail of California politics is Prop 13, which limited property tax increases and triggered vast changes to how government and services are funded. In tumultuous times, big unexpected changes sometimes occur.

    California voters this November will likely see an initiative that would undo part of a landmark law that has capped property tax increases for decades.

    The so-called “split-roll” initiative would change how California taxes properties, retaining a limit on tax increases for residential properties but allowing new assessments of commercial sites worth more than $3 million.

    California voters enshrined a strict limit on property tax in 1978, when they passed Proposition 13. It allows reassessments only when a property changes hands or undergoes redevelopment. It also restricts annual tax increases.

    For longtime corporate land owners like Disney, whose property value has risen since the 1970s, a split-roll initiative that removes Prop. 13 protections for commercial property could lead to a significantly higher tax bill. And even though the initiative provides exemptions for small businesses, opponents say those exemptions don’t go far enough.

    Funds collected from the higher taxes would go to schools and other local governments as soon as 2022. “That money would go a long way,” Alex Stack, a spokesman for the initiative, said.

    The initiative,supported by teachers unions and Democratic leaders, cleared its last hurdle to appearing on the ballot Friday, when it was certified by the Secretary of State for the November election. Proponents could still strike a deal with lawmakers to remove it from the ballot before a mid-June deadline, an option Gov. Gavin Newsom has expressed interest in brokering.

    It’s opposed by a network of business groups that argue the initiative would weaken the state’s popular cap on property tax increases, and eventually raise the cost of rent for small businesses.

    They also say businesses can’t afford the tax hike as they struggle for profit in a new recession.

    “We are going to have the largest tax increase in California history at exactly the wrong time in our economy to be able to afford it,” said California Business Roundtable President Rob Lapsley.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article243033991.html#storylink=cpy

    I can smell the sweat from here.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Tom Levenson: Back in the day, there was a saying about how Auburn got its name:

    Alabama Usually Beats Us ‘Round November.

    Let’s hope it’s true in the political as well as the football sense.

  13. 13.

    Redshift

    I missed the last thread, so I don’t know if anyone noted that Trump’s whine about the mayor of DC “wanting money” is about Trump stiffing DC (and every other city) on the security costs for his events, and turning it into a slanderous lie about not having the DC police protect him.

  14. 14.

    Ruckus

    @Brachiator:

    Never forget that the federal judges also require senate conformation – that’s moscow mitch at the ready, to install all the worthless, drunk, rapists as federal judges that he can find.

  15. 15.

    MattF

    McConnell will continue to support Trump for precisely as long as he can get away with it. An old friend— a former D House staffer who has no illusions about politicians—  calls McConnell a snake. I doubt that Trump sees McConnell as anything but subservient. But McConnell is probably already preparing right now for Trump’s fall.

  16. 16.

    Jinchi

    @Elizabelle: I wonder if there will be another attempt to remove Trump from office, to try to save some of the downballot.

    I used to wonder that too, but their moment has passed. Republicans will turn on Trump the day he leaves office and not a day sooner.

  17. 17.

    debbie

    This is the first non-Trump ad I’ve seen from the Lincoln Project. Good and may there be many more for the many other very deserving.

  19. 19.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Tom Levenson:

    I do not dare to allow myself to hope. It’s Kentucky.

    But if McConnell loses I will take second place to no one in my joy.

    It is very possible that http://PostcardsToVoters.org will be writing for McConnell’s eventual Democratic opponent later this year.

    I recommend signing up now (or soon), in order to try out their postcarding system – part of the sign-up process is to write one (1) postcard – and to be ready to jump in when the time comes.

    Signing up now will also ease the load on the PTV organizers; the sign-up process takes a bit of extra labor at their end.

    At a minimum, now is a good time to read through the information on their website, including the FAQ page. (They are very thorough, which I appreciate.)

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    debbie

    Huh, clashes on a lovely Saturday afternoon. The police here have started teargassing protesters, including U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty. This won’t end well.

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    Josie

    Attorney General Barr just made a statement in which he spoke of outside of state protesters who promulgated violence in Minnesota and other places.  Strangely, though, he listed anarchists and radical leftists, but he forgot to mention right wing radicals as possible violent participants.  Hmmmm, how could he have forgotten them?

  24. 24.

    Jinchi

    @WaterGirl: I think Trump will lose badly in November. Unfortunately, he’ll still be in office for nearly 3 months and I expect he’ll try to burn everything down. The real question is whether Republicans will allow him to get away with it. They could easily plant bombs in the economy set to go off during Biden’s watch.

  25. 25.

    debbie

    Huh. A black jogger just jogged past my building carrying a “Black Lives Matter” banner. Not many people are out, but there were scattered cheers.

  26. 26.

    Brachiator

    Here’s a disturbing story about the Corona Virus and the exploitation of farm workers:

    A fruit and vegetable farm in Tennessee tested its workers for the new coronavirus after one began showing symptoms earlier this week and found that all 200 employees were positive. Despite the rampant infections, only three staff members at Henderson Farms have reportedly shown symptoms. The Evensville, Tennessee, farm has quarantined the workers on site, News Channel 9 reported. The outbreak began after a group of seasonal workers arrived from Mexico and were housed in close quarters similar to college dorms. Employees are reportedly continuing to work despite the diagnoses. Rhea County had previously only diagnosed 13 people within its borders with the virus.

    Note that the 3 “staff” don’t have to keep working.

    These employers probably don’t care whether the farm workers take the virus back to their home country.

    Basic link for the story:

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/all-200-workers-at-a-henderson-farms-in-tennessee-test-positive-for-covid-19

  27. 27.

    Sab

    OT: child’s birthday party on the devil strip across the street from us. 2 kids about 8 years old. At least 10 adults. Not a mask in sight and no social distancing. Don’t they know how many dogs poop on that strip every day?

    Our local protest is by all accounts going on peacefully downtown. Started at the Safety Building (police headquarters, courts and jail) around the university and then back past city hall.

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    RedDirtGirl

    Speaking of republican venality, has anyone here mentioned this story about the actions of the republicans in the Pennsylvania legislature? One of their caucus tested positive for Covid and they didn’t share the information with the democrats working along side them.

  30. 30.

    Bill Arnold

    @Josie:
    Anyone who hasn’t at least skimmed the bellingcat[1] piece on /k/ and Boogaloo might want to have a look.
    The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think (May 27, 2020, Robert Evans and Jason Wilson)

    For now, Facebook chooses to allow the Boogaloo movement to flourish on their platform.
    Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.
    But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.

     

    [1] Belling the Cat
    “The fable concerns a group of mice who debate plans to nullify the threat of a marauding cat. One of them proposes placing a bell around its neck, so that they are warned of its approach. The plan is applauded by the others, until one mouse asks who will volunteer to place the bell on the cat.”

  31. 31.

    Calouste

    @Brachiator:

    “discriminate against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses.”

    A gaffe is accidentally telling the truth, right? Brett the rapist is giving the game away there with saying that churches are comparable to businesses. I’d say most churches are businesses.

  34. 34.

    Kathleen

    Cincinnati Police Chief says people outside of Cincinnati were involved in violence last night but is not saying any more at this time. 10 PM curfew in 4 neighborhoods tonight. I’m about 5 minutes from the protests last night. Protests were peaceful for 5 hours before violence started.

    I hope Le Compte’s daughter is OK.

    Ihttps://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/05/30/rioters-damage-over-the-rhine-businesses-jail.html?ana=e_ae_set1&j=90511591&t=Afternoon&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRBeE5tVXhNelkyT0dWbSIsInQiOiJiZG5YNk1KeTJSQ3NGTXp4MEVPc2VyUUxUYlpEY1FZNUMyYXJBNVdCMlB5SUF4Wk8yK2VreHdhMzVvdzVjWHBDQ3Q5MFd1U0RXNzdKaVF1VE4yaEFPRHY5QXFENmdxWE80eEx0OURYK3FQTmhTbnlnXC9BTDNHbnBST0tLUW9mSzhBK3Z2K3ZOYmxxZnlNeW1EbUh6czVnPT0ifQ%3D%3D

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @RedDirtGirl: It’s been discussed in the comments, and someone has asked for it to be front-paged.  I keep waiting for someone else to do it, but if not, I will put it up.

    It’s beyond appalling.  It’s amoral, and I think it should be criminal.

  38. 38.

    Tokyokie

    @SiubhanDuinne:

     

    Is this nugget about Tubberville well-known in Alabama? When Tubberville decided to leave Texas Tech for Cincinnati, he was hosting at a Lubbock restaurant a dinner for football recruits on official visits when he excused himself to take a phone call. On that call, he accepted the Cincy job.

    And he never returned to the table to tell the recruits what was up. It seems that level of treachery might be upsetting even to MAGAts.

  39. 39.

    J R in WV

    @Brachiator:

    Kavanaugh said the guidelines violate the First Amendment because they “discriminate against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses.”

    That’s far more stupid than I expected Bret Kavanaugh would be writing, the more fool me! What about asking for examples of “comparable secular businesses”???? I can’t think of a secular business comparable to a place of worship… help me out, Bret!

    Regarding Mitch McConnell, I still want to see his DD-214, which would perhaps show why he was discharged just a few months into at least a 2 year hitch in the Army. Draftees served 2 years back then, volunteers served 4 years, and I don’t know which McConnell was.

    But he was discharged under odd circumstances after just a few months in service, and hasn’t mentioned in his campaigns, ever, that he is a vet, which in a red state like KY seems so strange. No telling why the discharge, but I understand the defense department no longer has a copy of the particular DD-214, which is even more strange.

  40. 40.

    J R in WV

    @Calouste:

    Brett the rapist is giving the game away there with saying that churches are comparable to businesses. I’d say most churches are businesses.

    Certainly the megachurches are hotbeds of patriarchal theocracy turned into a money making machine for the head pastors, who cloud much of their income by having the church buy them a mansion, a Gulfstream Jet, fancy cars, pool boys, a for-profit university, etc, etc.

  41. 41.

    Ruckus

    @J R in WV:

    I would think that a senator, especially the senate majority leader would have zero issues making his DD214 disappear quietly and discretely. Doesn’t everything come down to who you know and is why the schlubs have a much harder time getting anything done?

  42. 42.

    evap

    I responded to a land-line poll  here in Georgia a few days ago and this prompted me to look at polling in Georgia.   There hasn’t been much, but the one I found has

    Biden 48% Trump 47%

    Ossoff  (D) 47%  Purdue (R) 45%  <–  this is the regular Senate race

    Warnock (D) 45%  Loeffler 32%  <– special election Senate

    !!!!!  It’s only one poll, and the first two are within the margin of error, but it’s still exciting to see it so close in Georgia!

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