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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / I tried to phone ya, but from Minnesota

I tried to phone ya, but from Minnesota

by DougJ|  September 12, 20202:49 pm| 57 Comments

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Let’s raise some money. I’m working on a House list and something more for North Carolina. Ih the meantime, I got requests for Tina Smith, the Democratic incumbent in Minnesota whose had some tight polling numbers recently, along with fan favorite Theresa Greenfield (Iowa) and Dan Ahlers (South Dakota).

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  1. 1.

    Mary G

    September 12, 2020 at 2:53 pm

    Donated to Tina and Dan. Already giving to Theresa.

  2. 2.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    September 12, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    OT

    Close to a million Wisconsin voters may get their absentee ballots later than planned, as Kanye West and the Green Party fight to get on the ballot.

    Two high-stakes legal battles over whether West and Green Party presidential nominee Howie Hawkins can appear on the ballot are creating havoc in the crucial swing state.

    Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court told local officials Thursday to stop mailing out absentee ballots while it rules on whether to allow Hawkins on the ballot. West is pursuing a similar lawsuit in a circuit court, after the Wisconsin Elections Commission ruled in August that both the rapper and the Green Party candidate did not properly make the filing deadline to appear on the ballot.

    Republicans in Wisconsin have openly talked about how the addition of West could sway the election in favor of Trump; West’s representative who dropped off his filing papers used to be counsel for the state GOP, and represented Trump’s reelection campaign in a state lawsuit. During the election commission hearing on Hawkins, a Republican commissioner suggested Hawkins take his case to the courts.

    h/t https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/wisconsin-ballot-green-party-kanye-200431311.html

  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    September 12, 2020 at 3:36 pm

    Kim Schrier for U.S. Congressional District 8 for Washington might need some love; I got a notice that she and her R opponent are nearly tied, but I can’t find that email or any polling at all right now. She’s a pediatrician, she’s a Democrat, even if she said impeachment was too divisive. Her opponent is a project manager for Amazon, says she’s too liberal. Duh.

    My own Congresswoman is very safe in our district.

  4. 4.

    LuciaMia

    September 12, 2020 at 3:36 pm

     have openly talked about how the addition of West could sway the election in favor of Trump;

    How? The man is so openly mentally challenged. Would he skim that many votes away? Course Im still thinking as if this is normal times

  5. 5.

    Eolirin

    September 12, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    @LuciaMia: If Biden were to do as poorly as Hillary did in WI, it wouldn’t take much. But I don’t think he will, so I’m not sure it’s going to matter that much.

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    September 12, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    @opiejeanne: We might need some H.E. Wolf action here. Maybe she has some insight although my understanding right now is everything on the wet side except for District 3 is pretty blue.

  7. 7.

    Geminid

    September 12, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    @Eolirin: West might not get many votes, but his candidacy provides a fulcrum to leverage propaganda in social media. In 2016 much of the propaganda out of St. Petersburg was intended not to win votes for trump, but to dissuade potential Democratic voters from voting. And a lot of those voters did stay home.

  8. 8.

    Jay

    September 12, 2020 at 4:04 pm

    A Clackamas County sheriff's deputy is now on leave after making "inappropriate statements" on video. This may refer to a video posted last night by @Cascadianphotog, where a CCSO deputy advises an armed group on how to avoid legal trouble while protecting the area from "antifa." https://t.co/FmxUckWY3M— PDX Frontline Alerts (@pdxfrontline) September 12, 2020

  9. 9.

    opiejeanne

    September 12, 2020 at 4:19 pm

    @Jay: OH, FFS!

  10. 10.

    2liberal

    September 12, 2020 at 4:32 pm

    where is tina smith getting tight poll numbers?  the latest I’m seeing is 9% lead.

  11. 11.

    Jay

    September 12, 2020 at 4:32 pm

    I just found out the @USPS is sending this postcard to every household and PO Box in the nation. For states like Colorado where we send ballots to all voters, the information is not just confusing, it’s WRONG. (Thread) pic.twitter.com/RoTTeJRJVl— Jena Griswold (@JenaGriswold) September 12, 2020

  12. 12.

    zhena gogolia

    September 12, 2020 at 4:50 pm

    @Jay:

    the postcard I got clearly indicated that people should check with their local election authorities.

  13. 13.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 4:53 pm

    @Geminid:

    That may have had a lot to do with Clinton being, rightly or wrongly, unpopular from years of propaganda, though

  14. 14.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca:

    Does anybody care to guess what the odds are that West and Hawkins will succeed in their lawsuits? I thought it was pretty clear cut that they (well, West at least) didn’t properly file

  15. 15.

    zhena gogolia

    September 12, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    This is an amazing video.

    They weren’t “suckers.” They weren’t “losers.” After 9/11, brave Americans answered the call so that such a tragedy would never happen again. We must honor our veterans’ sacrifice today and every day. pic.twitter.com/p4tIJyRguI— Renew Democracy Initiative (@Renew_Democracy) September 11, 2020

  16. 16.

    Teddys Person

    September 12, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    @opiejeanne: I live in this district and Schrier is the first Democrat elected to represent the 08th since the district was created in 1980 (it includes a bit of eastside Seattle then goes over the mountains toward Ellensburg).

    She won 52% to 48% in 2018. I suspect Republicans see this district as flippable.

  17. 17.

    James E Powell

    September 12, 2020 at 5:01 pm

    @Eolirin:

    I am not saying this to be a doom-sayer because I am hoping for the best and feeling like we are winning, but with the latest bullshit from their supreme court, Wisconsin scares me.

  18. 18.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I’m not sure that’s the best framing. It’s pretty much widely understood that the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars were bullshit and didn’t actually do anything to prevent another 9/11 from happening again

  19. 19.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    @James E Powell:

    I don’t think West and Hawkins have a case, do they? It’s pretty clear cut they didn’t make the deadline

  20. 20.

    James E Powell

    September 12, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    It’s not so much that they have a case as the supreme court is dragging it out, making the management of mail-in ballots difficult and confusing.

  21. 21.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    September 12, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    @James E Powell:

    Because of this bullshit from these assholes West and Hawkins, Biden has to run up the score in Wisconsin.  I fear this Election Day will be a motherfucking nightmare.

  22. 22.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I’m not sure that’s the best framing.

    Goku, I would ask you to think again.  I opposed the Iraq War.  And frankly, I agree somewhat with Ward Churchill’s characterization of “little Eichmanns” [where I diverge from him, is that I cannot believe that they deserved to die for that, because that is the belief of Mohammed Atta, but also of Ted Kaczynski; killing people for political beliefs isn’t something we should condone in a functioning, civilized society.]  We had to go into Afghanistan and get Bin Laden.  We.  Had.  To.

    What followed in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War, were massive own-goals and fuck-ups.  The Iraq War was a war crime and the Bush leadership are war criminals.  No doubt  And we should want to prevent future wars like that.  We should do everything we can, to stop sending weapons to kill people in other countries when it isn’t actually in our critical national interest.

    But this doesn’t change that we must honor the sacrifices that our soldiers made.  Someday, if you’re in a foreign country, and things go sideways, you’re going to want the Navy, the Marines to send a team in to get you and your family.  And they’ll do it, because you’re an American, because you hold an American passport, and for no greater reason than that.  They’ll put their lives on the line to get you out.  And we need to honor those American soldiers, Goku.

    That I can *condemn* the Bush administration’s conduct and their illegal wars, doesn’t change that we still honor our war dead, injured, and veterans.  And tbeir families.

  23. 23.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: A little more: I think it’s relevant that, unlike civilian life, the military is very much a command organization: disobeying orders comes with a heavy price, and recruits are chosen for their propensity to obey orders, molded into people who will do so.  When such fellow Americans make sacrifices on our behalf, we have to honor those sacrifices, even when we excoriate and hold in contempt the people who gave the orders that led to those sacrifices.  The two things are separate, and we need to keep them separate, in way that we do not in civilian life.

    In war, the fact that “the Cossacks work for the Czar” is less  of a reason to hold the Cossacks culpable, than in civilian life.  Because in war, *in practice*, the Cossacks don’t have the same level of moral agency — even if *in theory* they ought to.  This is just the way it is.

  24. 24.

    raven

    September 12, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: “recruits are chosen for their propensity to obey orders,”

     

    That’s a stretch

  25. 25.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 5:31 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    I meant in the sense that I don’t think it’s smart politics. Then again, I guess the anti-war emo left would’ve found another reason to not vote for “neoliberal warmonger Joe Biden”

  26. 26.

    debbie

    September 12, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    You’re looking at it from nearly 20 years later. Put yourself in their shoes, at that time, and then argue against their motivation.

  27. 27.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    @raven: It’s part of why they’re chosen young, no?  The older you get, the less you’re willing to obey orders b/c they’re screamed at you, no?  That’s all I meant, really.  That they get ’em young, for many reasons, not only b/c young == healthy and strong.

  28. 28.

    Geminid

    September 12, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld certainly screwed up the Afghan and Iraq wars, and the general “war on terror.” But they were warned about Bin Laden by the outgoing administration, and their biggest screw up was to let the 9-11 attack to happen in the first place.

  29. 29.

    raven

    September 12, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: When they don’t need bodies they are much more  choosy but, when the shit comes down and people start getting killed, they can’t be nearly as particular. After Vietnam they did “attrition” studies trying to determine effective recruitment criteria and found that regular HS grad were more likely to complete their tours that GED grads. They then tightened requirements and only took GED grads with a year of undergrad. When the shit started up in the ME they had to lower those criteria to fill their quotas. That’s also when they started using the Guard as a “backdoor draft” and instituted “stop loss” to make people stay in. Young people are certainly more malleable but as far as “following orders” I’d say sometimes. Take a look at “Project 100,000” fondly known as MacNamara’s Moron Corps. I was in that outfit.

  30. 30.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I don’t think it’s smart politics.

    Actually, I think it’s very, very smart politics.  This is a “Flight 93” election: for all the marbles.  All of them.  There are lots of Americans who honor our soldiers’ sacrifices, and those Americans would be turned-off by any politician who did *anything* to denigrate their sacrifice.  I’m one of those Americans, btw.  It’s a red line for lots of people, and for good reason.

    I remember going to the American Embassy to vote in 1992 in Paris.  Presenting my passport to the Marine (I think?) guard, so I could enter.  It was solemn, and full of great emotional power.  He was a symbol of American, of American power, here to protect me.  And I felt it.

    That video was -very- nuanced, and I thought it hit exactly the right note.  There comes an age, when respect for people who put their lives at risk, who give them up, to protect ours, is an inexcusable fault.

  31. 31.

    Fair Economist

    September 12, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Does anybody care to guess what the odds are that West and Hawkins will succeed in their lawsuits? I thought it was pretty clear cut that they (well, West at least) didn’t properly file

    I think it’s moot. The intent of the crooked Republican majority is to delay the decision until after the absentee deadline has passed, and then say it’s impossible to send out absentee ballots. They’ll probably approve at least one because that would require reprinting the already-printed ballots and further delay things.

  32. 32.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    @Fair Economist:

    They’ll probably approve at least one because that would require reprinting the already-printed ballots and further delay things.

    But how could they possibly justify that? It’s black and white. They didn’t file in time. End of story

  33. 33.

    raven

    September 12, 2020 at 5:47 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: All Embassy Guards are Marines.

  34. 34.

    Geminid

    September 12, 2020 at 5:49 pm

    @Geminid: Retired Marine Corps General Bernard Trainer and NYT chief military correspondent Michael Gordon recount warnings about Bin Laden given to the incoming Bush administration in the first chapter of Cobra II (2006), their account of the planning and execution of the Iraq invasion.

  35. 35.

    Frankensteinbeck

    September 12, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    @LuciaMia:

    Would he skim that many votes away?

    Kanye would skim more votes from Trump than Biden, but Republicans don’t grasp that because they’re obsessed with identity politics.  ‘Black rapper’ is all they assume blacks care about, not ‘heavily conservative’ black rapper.

  36. 36.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Kanye would skim more votes from Trump than Biden, but Republicans don’t grasp that because they’re obsessed with identity politics.  ‘Black rapper’ is all they assume blacks care about, not ‘heavily conservative’ black rapper.

    Perhaps that’s why they’re also trying to help the Green Party get on the ballot? I’m sure the delay to the mailing of absentee ballots is what they’re aiming for, as others have pointed out above

  37. 37.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 5:57 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    There are lots of Americans who honor our soldiers’ sacrifices, and those Americans would be turned-off by any politician who did *anything* to denigrate their sacrifice.  I’m one of those Americans, btw.  It’s a red line for lots of people, and for good reason.

    Unfortunately not for Trump’s voters. Though it remains to be seen if it will have an effect or not

  38. 38.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Unfortunately not for Trump’s voters.

    It’s funny thing.  You might be right.  But I’m not so sure.  I remember, going to grad school in Ithaca, NY, that during the Gulf War, the yellow ribbons started at the town line and continued out into Tompkins County.  [ETA: by which I mean, the town-dwellers were typically associated with the university; “townies” couldn’t afford to live in town, hence would live outside of town.]  Those voters are all Trump voters now.  But there’s a long tradition of military service there: I met a guy who worked in the towel/basket room at the gym, who’s father had served, he’d served, and his son was serving.  I dunno, it’s possible that this particular thing is a bridge too far.  I guess we’ll have to see.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    September 12, 2020 at 6:07 pm

    Holy Jesus. The Office Of Inspector General, responsible for holding Seattle Police accountable, has been tweeting Epstein conspiracy theories.It is stunning how inept and unqualified these people are.(It has since been deleted but there's a backup – https://t.co/dHHHsY9qNd ) https://t.co/JSDqCNjYxX— Spek (@spekulation) September 12, 2020

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 12, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Unfortunately not for Trump’s voters.

    We already know that the Trumpers are a lost cause.  There is also no point in trying to reach voters like those at Balloon Juice.  Ads should be aimed at shoring up soft Biden voters, persuading the seven people who are actually undecided, and demoralizing soft Trump voters.  If ads don’t seem persuasive to you, that’s fine.  Just show up and vote.

  41. 41.

    raven

    September 12, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: ding

  42. 42.

    Ian

    September 12, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:   We had to go into Afghanistan and get Bin Laden.  We.  Had.  To.

    Setting aside from the possibility of getting the Taliban from handing over bin Laden in 2001 (which they seemed willing to do), anything from economic and political sanctions to covert operations to hell, even just doing nothing, would have been better in the long run for the United States than our full force twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.

    Did the public pressure at home following 9/11 mean the Bush Administration had to invade, or was the simply the only option they decided upon that we are still paying the consequences of now?

  43. 43.

    PsiFighter37

    September 12, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: No doubt that the WI Supreme Court will do whatever they feel is most favorable to the GOP. That said, given how well Dems did on that screwed-up primary day, I feel a bit more confident about the state party navigating the skulduggery that may occur.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    September 12, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    Update: the suspended deputy isn't the one who instructed militia to frame people. That guy is still on the streets. The suspended officer is the one who claimed that "Antifa motherf***ers" were starting the fires. https://t.co/1i4FH9gQSc— PopMob (Popular Mobilization) (@PopMobPDX) September 12, 2020

  45. 45.

    zhena gogolia

    September 12, 2020 at 6:16 pm

    I didn’t mean to start a fight. I thought the man’s testimony was effective. I look at everything from the viewpoint of the squishy voters we need to get.

  46. 46.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    @Ian:

    would have been better in the long run for the United States than our full force twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.

    Oh, I think we shouldn’t have stayed.  And we also screwed-up getting Bin Laden (as has been thoroughly documented).  We should have gone in, gotten him, and gotten out.  Also, at least at the time, it wasn’t at all clear that the Taliban were going to cooperate and hand him over.  Maybe in hindsight it’s clear they would have, but back then?  Not so much.  I could be wrong about this, but that’s my recollection.

    Did the public pressure at home following 9/11 mean the Bush Administration had to invade, or was the simply the only option they decided upon that we are still paying the consequences of now?

    I think, yeah, we had  to invade.  We didn’t have to invade and fuck it up by immediately turning our attention to Iraq, nor did we have to establish yet another outpost of our Empire in Af-Pak.

  47. 47.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I didn’t mean to start a fight.

    I don’t think you did.  It’s a friendly discussion over the strawberry-rhubarb pie, is all.

  48. 48.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    You didn’t. Chetan Murthy has convinced me

  49. 49.

    Geminid

    September 12, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Every vote counts like another, whether it is cast by someone who hates trump with the heat of a thousand suns, or is cast by someone just got off the fence. trump has to be defeated, but a landslide would be the most consequential way to defeat trump, as well as bring in a sizable Democratic Senate majority.

  50. 50.

    zhena gogolia

    September 12, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: 
    My recollections coincide with yours.

  51. 51.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    September 12, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If ads don’t seem persuasive to you, that’s fine. Just show up and vote.

    Good advice. What do you think about the clusterfuck in Wisconsin involving West, Hawkins, and the WI Supreme Court?

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 12, 2020 at 6:44 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I think people in WI need to show up and vote.

  53. 53.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 12, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    [oops, wrong thread]

  54. 54.

    Jay

    September 12, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    Tulsi going QAnon is the least surprising thing to happen in 2020. https://t.co/9ZriBWrYJH— Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) September 12, 2020

  55. 55.

    J R in WV

    September 12, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    It’s pretty much widely understood that the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars were bullshit and didn’t actually do anything to prevent another 9/11 from happening again

    Yes, that’s so, because both Cheney and Bush picked idjits to run both wars. That doesn’t mean that the many thousands of people who volunteered for combat didn’t intend to prevent a subsequent al Queda attack.

    Of course, this time the attack was more carefully planned and executed, and currently they hold the White House!

  56. 56.

    J R in WV

    September 12, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    @Ian:

    Did the public pressure at home following 9/11 mean the Bush Administration had to invade, or was the simply the only option they decided upon that we are still paying the consequences of now?

    I will always believe that Cheney thought we could confiscate Iraqi oil forever more, and that his former company, Halliburton, could make billions of dollars by stealing a whole chunk of middle eastern oil fields. Which meant money for Cheney, himself.

    But he was too incompetent to manage Iraq after the war — because they didn’t guard the Iraqi armories after our forces passed them on their way to Bagdad, and for many other ineffectual reasons. So that was never really in the cards.

    But all those contractors were in line to take some of the money from the C-130s loaded with pallets of shrink-wrapped hundred dollar bills, which were never accounted for… Plus the museums and ancient sites which were plundered for artifacts worth millions.

  57. 57.

    RaflW

    September 12, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    Very much appreciate the Tina Smith ask. I think she’ll do OK, but the race is competitive, which makes me anxious.

    I just chipped in to Rita Hart’s race, to be neighborly!

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