NEWSOM SAYS GOP DESTINED FOR ‘WASTE BIN OF HISTORY’ June 17, 2019 at 10:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told Politico [Click] that the Republican Party is headed for the “waste bin of history.”
He noted that California Republicans were once a major force in his state, but have seen their power evaporate over the last two decades.
Said Newsom: “America in 2019 is California in the 1990s. The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.” [Emphasis added. Here’s hoping that the old chestnut about “the future happens first in California” proves true.] ======================================
Outrage after police threaten family over four-year-old taking doll from shop [Click] Doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been through the airport in Phoenix two or three times and it was like stepping back in time to the 1960’s—and not in a good way. I figure it is because of all those easterners flooding into the state and upsetting its ethnic and cultural balance.
Have to split up this oversize bunch of posts (my apologies for the size)
NEWSOM SAYS GOP DESTINED FOR ‘WASTE BIN OF HISTORY’ June 17, 2019 at 10:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told Politico [Click] that the Republican Party is headed for the “waste bin of history.”
He noted that California Republicans were once a major force in his state, but have seen their power evaporate over the last two decades.
Said Newsom: “America in 2019 is California in the 1990s. The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.” [Emphasis added. Here’s hoping that the old chestnut about “the future happens first in California” proves true.] ======================================
Outrage after police threaten family over four-year-old taking doll from shop [Click] Doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been through the airport in Phoenix two or three times and it was like stepping back in time to the 1960’s—and not in a good way. I figure it is because of all those easterners flooding into the state and upsetting its ethnic and cultural balance.
The New Yorker: Can Elizabeth Warren Win it All? [Click] A good exposition at length of Elizabeth Warren as Presidential candidate and her background, but I don’t see anything I didn’t know, or at least not much.
Elizabeth Warren’s… Plan to Fix the Dollar [Click] “[Senator] Warren and Donald Trump agree on at least one thing: America’s currency problems are hurting workers.” A good discussion of the over-valuation of the dollar and ways to fix it [hint: firing off tariffs right and left in an attempt to force other countries to the bargaining table isn’t her way]
Biden's Warren problem [Click] Biden’s operatives think he dodged a bullet by not having to confront her directly in the first debate. Their claimed satisfaction with the way things are going sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me.
NEWSOM SAYS GOP DESTINED FOR ‘WASTE BIN OF HISTORY’
ReplyDeleteJune 17, 2019 at 10:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told Politico [Click] that the Republican Party is headed for the “waste bin of history.”
He noted that California Republicans were once a major force in his state, but have seen their power evaporate over the last two decades.
Said Newsom: “America in 2019 is California in the 1990s. The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.”
[Emphasis added. Here’s hoping that the old chestnut about “the future happens first in California” proves true.]
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From the annals of technology: cat filter applied to politicians in press conference. [Click] It’s only a disaster if one doesn’t have a sense of humor, it seems to me—and the politician seems to be able to accept it as a joke.
BIG NEWS! SCOTUS Allows Virginia Map Redrawn To Fix Racial Gerrymander To Stand [Click] Not unusually for the SCOTUS, it was decided on a very narrow procedural basis.
Well, one takes one’s wins where one can.
In the non-news: We’re Less Prepared For The Next Recession Than We Were For The Last [Click]
Washington state takes step landmark on missing Native American women [Click]
Outrage after police threaten family over four-year-old taking doll from shop [Click] Doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been through the airport in Phoenix two or three times and it was like stepping back in time to the 1960’s—and not in a good way. I figure it is because of all those easterners flooding into the state and upsetting its ethnic and cultural balance.
Pete Buttigieg returns to South Bend after fatal police-involved shooting [Click]
Romanian immigrant elected German mayor after anti-AfD alliance [Click]
France to declare natural disaster after storms rip through crops [Click]
'I told my daughter I'd be home': 18-month ordeal ends for crew stranded at sea [Click]
High culture entry of the day: The best comic novel ever written? [Click] Can’t say as I have ever read it; maybe I should.
Why Britain’s rain can’t sustain its thirst [Click]
The poisons released by melting Arctic ice [Click]
India announces retaliatory trade tariffs against the US [Click]
DT thinks his supporters may demand he get to serve more than two terms. He thinks he at least deserves an extra two years to compensate for the Mueller investigation. He is apparently clueless that we have a Constitution.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-supporters-might-demand-that-he-serve-more-than-two-terms-as-president/2019/06/16/4b6b9ae2-9041-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html%3foutputType=amp
DT is actually afraid he will lose the election (and be taken to jail?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/17/trump-is-afraid-hell-lose-reelection-hes-fury-over-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.21b6b1b0c512
Have to split up this oversize bunch of posts (my apologies for the size)
ReplyDeleteNEWSOM SAYS GOP DESTINED FOR ‘WASTE BIN OF HISTORY’
June 17, 2019 at 10:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told Politico [Click] that the Republican Party is headed for the “waste bin of history.”
He noted that California Republicans were once a major force in his state, but have seen their power evaporate over the last two decades.
Said Newsom: “America in 2019 is California in the 1990s. The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.”
[Emphasis added. Here’s hoping that the old chestnut about “the future happens first in California” proves true.]
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From the annals of technology: cat filter applied to politicians in press conference. [Click] It’s only a disaster if one doesn’t have a sense of humor, it seems to me—and the politician seems to be able to accept it as a joke.
BIG NEWS! SCOTUS Allows Virginia Map Redrawn To Fix Racial Gerrymander To Stand [Click] Not unusually for the SCOTUS, it was decided on a very narrow procedural basis.
Well, one takes one’s wins where one can.
In the non-news: We’re Less Prepared For The Next Recession Than We Were For The Last [Click]
Washington state takes step landmark on missing Native American women [Click]
ReplyDeleteOutrage after police threaten family over four-year-old taking doll from shop [Click] Doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been through the airport in Phoenix two or three times and it was like stepping back in time to the 1960’s—and not in a good way. I figure it is because of all those easterners flooding into the state and upsetting its ethnic and cultural balance.
Pete Buttigieg returns to South Bend after fatal police-involved shooting [Click]
Romanian immigrant elected German mayor after anti-AfD alliance [Click]
France to declare natural disaster after storms rip through crops [Click]
'I told my daughter I'd be home': 18-month ordeal ends for crew stranded at sea [Click]
ReplyDeleteHigh culture entry of the day: The best comic novel ever written? [Click] Can’t say as I have ever read it; maybe I should.
Why Britain’s rain can’t sustain its thirst [Click]
The poisons released by melting Arctic ice [Click]
India announces retaliatory trade tariffs against the US [Click]
The New Yorker: Can Elizabeth Warren Win it All? [Click] A good exposition at length of Elizabeth Warren as Presidential candidate and her background, but I don’t see anything I didn’t know, or at least not much.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Warren’s… Plan to Fix the Dollar [Click] “[Senator] Warren and Donald Trump agree on at least one thing: America’s currency problems are hurting workers.” A good discussion of the over-valuation of the dollar and ways to fix it [hint: firing off tariffs right and left in an attempt to force other countries to the bargaining table isn’t her way]
Biden's Warren problem [Click] Biden’s operatives think he dodged a bullet by not having to confront her directly in the first debate. Their claimed satisfaction with the way things are going sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me.
DeleteGood analogy, Alan!
DeleteWhat do you want debate moderators to ask 2020 candidates?
ReplyDeletehttps://act.weareultraviolet.org/survey/2020-debate-question-survey?3&akid=s759939..7eVuiZ&t=8&fbclid=IwAR0slDCByCNPntJi3afPQK92M_ANNEncwpIiHvuIKwZaV6eoYKuPo_bdinY
Oh phooey. They just want us to choose between four lesser questions, and they don't leave us room to pose other questions. Dumb!
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