CunningCanuk
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The lead was actually 4-1 with 15 minutes left in the third period in ‘13. It sucked big time.
What has Trump done to this country?
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OK I'll go w/that my mem. is a little foggy w/all the shit going on these days. DAVE'TIGER'WILLIAMS one of the memorable hockey goons back in the day when players were held more accountable for dirty play.Nowadays the dirtiest players are all shielded up and won't drop the gloves I hate that but the game is so much faster now compared to old film from 70's
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Yep, looks like Trump's troubles are about to multiply with FBI interviews and grand juries for all involved, lying to either of them is a crime.
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U.S. Attorney's Office Distorted By Trump, Barr Gets New Acting Head In Rare Move By Biden
Rachel Maddow reports on President Biden's appointment of Channing Phillips as acting U.S. attorney for D.C., and reminds viewers of how that office was abused by Bill Barr in service of the goals and interests of Donald Trump.
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U.S. Attorney's Office Distorted By Trump, Barr Gets New Acting Head In Rare Move By Biden
Rachel Maddow reports on President Biden's appointment of Channing Phillips as acting U.S. attorney for D.C., and reminds viewers of how that office was abused by Bill Barr in service of the goals and interests of Donald Trump.
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captainmorgan
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I've always been able to find some silver lining and respect every pres. we've had since I understood things, starting w/ Ford I guess. This includes both sides of the aisle. Until 2016 when this deceitful,selfcentered,narcissistic,draftdodging,lying,manipulating,cameraloving,selfagrandizing,slandering,insulting,backstabbing,gaslighting,flipflopping Flaming Orange Dickhead took the reigns.ccguns
V256.420
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No one else is buying them........................let's turn them into "prayer" pillows!!
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The 2022 Senate map looks very good for Democrats
Democrats' stunning sweep of the two Georgia Senate runoffs in January may just be the beginning. In this latest episode of The Point on YouTube, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains why the 2022 map of Senate races looks very encouraging for the Democratic Party.
Democrats' stunning sweep of the two Georgia Senate runoffs in January may just be the beginning. In this latest episode of The Point on YouTube, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains why the 2022 map of Senate races looks very encouraging for the Democratic Party.
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'Toxic Masculinity': Obama Vet Slams GOP For Constant 'Culture Wars'
While most elected Republicans are publicly against Biden’s coronavirus bill, they are not taking extra steps to try to stop Biden’s top agenda item. In fact, the latest numbers show 59 percent of Republicans back Biden’s 2021 stimulus bill. MSNBC’s Ari Melber discusses this lack of resistance with Obama vet Chai Komanduri.
While most elected Republicans are publicly against Biden’s coronavirus bill, they are not taking extra steps to try to stop Biden’s top agenda item. In fact, the latest numbers show 59 percent of Republicans back Biden’s 2021 stimulus bill. MSNBC’s Ari Melber discusses this lack of resistance with Obama vet Chai Komanduri.
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Biggest real American political story of the year, if it passes.
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House Democrats pass HR 1, their massive voting rights bill - Vox
House Democrats just passed their massive voting rights bill HR 1
The bill still faces a steep climb in the US Senate.
House Democrats have passed HR 1, their signature anti-corruption and voting rights reform bill, for the second time in two years. But even though their party now holds the majority in the Senate, the bill has a tough road ahead of it.
As the numeral suggests, HR 1 and its Senate component S 1 — also known as the For the People Act — are Democrats’ first legislative priority. The sweeping democracy reform bill has been top of the list since House Democrats first took back the majority in the 2018 midterms and immediately set about expanding voting rights and getting money out of politics.
There’s a lot of ground covered in its nearly 800 pages, but some of its key points are creating a national system for automatic voter registration, putting in transparency requirements for political advertising, and instituting nonpartisan redistricting commissions to end partisan gerrymandering.
Polling back in 2019 and now shows the bill is broadly popular with the public, but it went nowhere in the Republican-led Senate in 2019. Even with the current slim Democratic control (a 50-50 Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker), it will be incredibly difficult to pass with the required 60 votes to skirt the Senate filibuster. The politics are even tighter this time; some moderate House Democrats who voted for the bill last time, for instance, pushed more aggressively for changes this time around.
The bill’s future in the Senate is also untested, as then-Majority Leader McConnell never allowed it to come to the floor in 2019.
“If Mitch McConnell is not willing to provide 10 Republicans to support this landmark reform, I think Democrats are going to step back and reevaluate the situation,” Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD), the author of HR 1, told Vox in a recent interview. “There’s all manner of ways you could redesign the filibuster so [the bill] would have a path forward.”
One path that’s being discussed is partially amending Senate filibuster rules to allow democracy reform legislation like HR 1 to advance on a simple majority vote and therefore potentially be able to pass on a party-line vote. That would be different from fully blowing up the filibuster, but it still could get pushback from Senate institutionalists even in the Democratic Party like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a staunch advocate of keeping the filibuster in place.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chair of the Senate Rules Committee, which will mark up the bill and move it forward, said she wants to bring the bill to the floor and see what the support for it is before she moves on to potential filibuster reform.
“We’ll go to the floor; that’s when we see where we are,” Klobuchar told Vox in an interview, saying her committee will look to see, “is there filibuster reform that could be done generally or specifically?”
Democrats are arguing that voting and democracy reforms are popular — and long overdue
Democrats are hoping the 2020 election gives them an argument for this bill. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans in many states were given more options and flexibility to vote through the mail or with in-person early voting. The results were a record 158.4 million ballots cast; 2020 presidential election turnout was about 7 percentage points higher than in 2016, according to Pew Research Center.
“We had more people vote in the November election than ever before,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told reporters on Tuesday.
HR 1, among other initiatives, would cement many of those temporary expansions. And recent polling from the progressive firm Data for Progress showed the bill more broadly is popular across parties and supported by a majority of Democratic, independent, and Republican voters. The poll found that 67 percent of national likely voters supported HR 1, including 56 percent of Republicans, 68 percent of independents, and 77 percent of Democrats.
Republican legislatures in multiple states, however, are moving in the opposite direction. Per the Brennan Center, at least 33 states have already introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 restrictive bills to re-tighten voting requirements, including Georgia — the state that gave Democrats narrow control of the Senate. The US Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments in an Arizona case that could further weaken the Voting Rights Act, limiting protections for minority voters around the country.
Klobuchar told Vox that in past years when parties lost national elections, they’d assess where they went wrong. Republicans, she added, are doubling down on restricting voting access.
“These guys, instead of doing that, are saying let’s just make it so less people vote, that’s how we do this,” Klobuchar said.
Newly proposed voting restrictions, taken with the fact that 30 state legislatures are controlled by Republicans — compared to 18 controlled by Democrats — mean that Republicans have more power to redraw congressional maps in the 2021 redistricting process. Absent nonpartisan redistricting commissions (which HR 1 contains), Republicans can once again redraw maps to give themselves the edge in the 2022 midterms and beyond.
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House Democrats pass HR 1, their massive voting rights bill - Vox
House Democrats just passed their massive voting rights bill HR 1
The bill still faces a steep climb in the US Senate.
House Democrats have passed HR 1, their signature anti-corruption and voting rights reform bill, for the second time in two years. But even though their party now holds the majority in the Senate, the bill has a tough road ahead of it.
As the numeral suggests, HR 1 and its Senate component S 1 — also known as the For the People Act — are Democrats’ first legislative priority. The sweeping democracy reform bill has been top of the list since House Democrats first took back the majority in the 2018 midterms and immediately set about expanding voting rights and getting money out of politics.
There’s a lot of ground covered in its nearly 800 pages, but some of its key points are creating a national system for automatic voter registration, putting in transparency requirements for political advertising, and instituting nonpartisan redistricting commissions to end partisan gerrymandering.
Polling back in 2019 and now shows the bill is broadly popular with the public, but it went nowhere in the Republican-led Senate in 2019. Even with the current slim Democratic control (a 50-50 Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker), it will be incredibly difficult to pass with the required 60 votes to skirt the Senate filibuster. The politics are even tighter this time; some moderate House Democrats who voted for the bill last time, for instance, pushed more aggressively for changes this time around.
The bill’s future in the Senate is also untested, as then-Majority Leader McConnell never allowed it to come to the floor in 2019.
“If Mitch McConnell is not willing to provide 10 Republicans to support this landmark reform, I think Democrats are going to step back and reevaluate the situation,” Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD), the author of HR 1, told Vox in a recent interview. “There’s all manner of ways you could redesign the filibuster so [the bill] would have a path forward.”
One path that’s being discussed is partially amending Senate filibuster rules to allow democracy reform legislation like HR 1 to advance on a simple majority vote and therefore potentially be able to pass on a party-line vote. That would be different from fully blowing up the filibuster, but it still could get pushback from Senate institutionalists even in the Democratic Party like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a staunch advocate of keeping the filibuster in place.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chair of the Senate Rules Committee, which will mark up the bill and move it forward, said she wants to bring the bill to the floor and see what the support for it is before she moves on to potential filibuster reform.
“We’ll go to the floor; that’s when we see where we are,” Klobuchar told Vox in an interview, saying her committee will look to see, “is there filibuster reform that could be done generally or specifically?”
Democrats are arguing that voting and democracy reforms are popular — and long overdue
Democrats are hoping the 2020 election gives them an argument for this bill. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans in many states were given more options and flexibility to vote through the mail or with in-person early voting. The results were a record 158.4 million ballots cast; 2020 presidential election turnout was about 7 percentage points higher than in 2016, according to Pew Research Center.
“We had more people vote in the November election than ever before,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told reporters on Tuesday.
HR 1, among other initiatives, would cement many of those temporary expansions. And recent polling from the progressive firm Data for Progress showed the bill more broadly is popular across parties and supported by a majority of Democratic, independent, and Republican voters. The poll found that 67 percent of national likely voters supported HR 1, including 56 percent of Republicans, 68 percent of independents, and 77 percent of Democrats.
Republican legislatures in multiple states, however, are moving in the opposite direction. Per the Brennan Center, at least 33 states have already introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 restrictive bills to re-tighten voting requirements, including Georgia — the state that gave Democrats narrow control of the Senate. The US Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments in an Arizona case that could further weaken the Voting Rights Act, limiting protections for minority voters around the country.
Klobuchar told Vox that in past years when parties lost national elections, they’d assess where they went wrong. Republicans, she added, are doubling down on restricting voting access.
“These guys, instead of doing that, are saying let’s just make it so less people vote, that’s how we do this,” Klobuchar said.
Newly proposed voting restrictions, taken with the fact that 30 state legislatures are controlled by Republicans — compared to 18 controlled by Democrats — mean that Republicans have more power to redraw congressional maps in the 2021 redistricting process. Absent nonpartisan redistricting commissions (which HR 1 contains), Republicans can once again redraw maps to give themselves the edge in the 2022 midterms and beyond.
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This isn't just a metaphor, it's an example of the larger issues of education and healthcare facing America. Many white people refuse to form a sharing community with the "other", they become antisocial and it harms themselves as well. Racists fuck themselves as well as everybody else, are easily lead and manipulated, Racism makes them stupid (many had a head start) and turns them into suckers.
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How racism harms White people, too - CNN
A drained swimming pool shows how racism harms White people, too
(CNN)If you're a White person who thinks racism only hurts people of color, the story behind an empty, abandoned swimming pool in Missouri might just change your mind.
The Fairground Park pool in St. Louis was the largest public pool in the US when it was built in 1919. It featured sand from a beach, a fancy diving board and enough room for up to 10,000 swimmers. It was dug during a pool-building boom when cities and towns competed to provide their citizens with public amenities that promoted civic pride and symbolized a perk of the American dream.
These public pools, of course, were for Whites only. But when civil rights leaders successfully pushed for them to be integrated, many cities either sold the pools to private entities or, in the case of Fairground Park, eventually drained them and closed them down for good.
These closures didn't just hurt Black people, though -- they also denied the pleasures of the pool to White people.
Heather McGhee tells the story of the Fairground Park pool in her powerful new book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." McGhee employs the metaphor of a drained, cracked public pool to make a larger point: White refusal to share resources available to all US citizens doesn't just hurt people of color. It damages their families and their future, too.
McGhee has a name for this pain. She calls it "drained-pool politics." If you want to know why the US has one of the most inefficient health care systems among advanced nations, some of the worst infrastructure and a dysfunctional political system, blame drained-pool politics, she says.
Those politics are built on a lie that many White Americans have bought for centuries: When Black or brown people gain something, White people lose.
"The narrative that White people should see the well-being of people of color as a threat to their own is one of the most powerful subterranean stories in America," McGhee writes in her book. "Until we destroy the idea, opponents of progress can always unearth it, and use it to block any collective action that benefits us all."
McGhee's book debuted last week at #3 on The New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list and is already so popular that her publisher is scrambling to keep up with demand. It comes less than a year after the George Floyd protests sparked a national racial reckoning.
But McGhee's book doesn't just make the familiar "White people are voting against their economic interests" argument that many of us have heard before. She fills it with personal stories from her life and the people she encountered during three years of visiting churches, union halls and small towns across America.
McGhee's book may soon be regarded as a classic in race literature and the phrase "drained-pool politics" could join "White fragility" in the lexicon people invoke when talking about race.
McGhee, a former president of Demos, a progressive think tank, recently spoke to CNN about her new book and this moment in America's racial history. Our conversation was edited for clarity and length.
How would you explain to, say, a White Trump voter motivated by racial resentment that racism has harmed him?
When you think about "Make America Great Again," that time period was a time when a White guy could walk into a factory and walk out set for life, when college was paid for the government, when a great middle-class house was subsidized by the government, when the minimum wage was high and when taxes were high.
That formula is a formula that you reject now when given the political choice between a strong middle class and the party that markets to your race but delivers economic benefits only to the wealthy.
You cite the 2008 housing market crash as a "fire" that started in Black and brown communities but eventually spread to White communities as well. Can you cite another example of something that was seen as a problem largely confined to Black people that ended up costing White people, too?
The pandemic itself is an example of a virus that hit the Black and Brown and indigenous communities first and worse. And then the illusion that it was only happening to blue cities and brown people allowed the Trump administration to take its eye off the ball and downplay the risks and turn it into a culture war, an "us vs. them" where Covid support shouldn't go to blue states, which was also signifying brown people.
That is an example of the fires raging in Black, brown and indigenous communities that were disproportionately exposed because of systemic racism. And then nine months later the highest rates are in (heavily White) places like South and North Dakota and West Virginia and then you realize that our fates are linked.
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How racism harms White people, too - CNN
A drained swimming pool shows how racism harms White people, too
(CNN)If you're a White person who thinks racism only hurts people of color, the story behind an empty, abandoned swimming pool in Missouri might just change your mind.
The Fairground Park pool in St. Louis was the largest public pool in the US when it was built in 1919. It featured sand from a beach, a fancy diving board and enough room for up to 10,000 swimmers. It was dug during a pool-building boom when cities and towns competed to provide their citizens with public amenities that promoted civic pride and symbolized a perk of the American dream.
These public pools, of course, were for Whites only. But when civil rights leaders successfully pushed for them to be integrated, many cities either sold the pools to private entities or, in the case of Fairground Park, eventually drained them and closed them down for good.
These closures didn't just hurt Black people, though -- they also denied the pleasures of the pool to White people.
Heather McGhee tells the story of the Fairground Park pool in her powerful new book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." McGhee employs the metaphor of a drained, cracked public pool to make a larger point: White refusal to share resources available to all US citizens doesn't just hurt people of color. It damages their families and their future, too.
McGhee has a name for this pain. She calls it "drained-pool politics." If you want to know why the US has one of the most inefficient health care systems among advanced nations, some of the worst infrastructure and a dysfunctional political system, blame drained-pool politics, she says.
Those politics are built on a lie that many White Americans have bought for centuries: When Black or brown people gain something, White people lose.
"The narrative that White people should see the well-being of people of color as a threat to their own is one of the most powerful subterranean stories in America," McGhee writes in her book. "Until we destroy the idea, opponents of progress can always unearth it, and use it to block any collective action that benefits us all."
McGhee's book debuted last week at #3 on The New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list and is already so popular that her publisher is scrambling to keep up with demand. It comes less than a year after the George Floyd protests sparked a national racial reckoning.
But McGhee's book doesn't just make the familiar "White people are voting against their economic interests" argument that many of us have heard before. She fills it with personal stories from her life and the people she encountered during three years of visiting churches, union halls and small towns across America.
McGhee's book may soon be regarded as a classic in race literature and the phrase "drained-pool politics" could join "White fragility" in the lexicon people invoke when talking about race.
McGhee, a former president of Demos, a progressive think tank, recently spoke to CNN about her new book and this moment in America's racial history. Our conversation was edited for clarity and length.
How would you explain to, say, a White Trump voter motivated by racial resentment that racism has harmed him?
When you think about "Make America Great Again," that time period was a time when a White guy could walk into a factory and walk out set for life, when college was paid for the government, when a great middle-class house was subsidized by the government, when the minimum wage was high and when taxes were high.
That formula is a formula that you reject now when given the political choice between a strong middle class and the party that markets to your race but delivers economic benefits only to the wealthy.
You cite the 2008 housing market crash as a "fire" that started in Black and brown communities but eventually spread to White communities as well. Can you cite another example of something that was seen as a problem largely confined to Black people that ended up costing White people, too?
The pandemic itself is an example of a virus that hit the Black and Brown and indigenous communities first and worse. And then the illusion that it was only happening to blue cities and brown people allowed the Trump administration to take its eye off the ball and downplay the risks and turn it into a culture war, an "us vs. them" where Covid support shouldn't go to blue states, which was also signifying brown people.
That is an example of the fires raging in Black, brown and indigenous communities that were disproportionately exposed because of systemic racism. And then nine months later the highest rates are in (heavily White) places like South and North Dakota and West Virginia and then you realize that our fates are linked.
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Loose ends
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Turmoil At U.S. Attorneys' Office In D.C. Complicates Jan 6 Investigations
Rachel Maddow looks at some of the loose ends at the U.S. attorneys' office in Washington, D.C. from the Bill Barr era that Merrick Garland will have to deal with once his nomination clears the Senate while those prosecutors are trying to deal with the sprawling January 6th investigations.
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Turmoil At U.S. Attorneys' Office In D.C. Complicates Jan 6 Investigations
Rachel Maddow looks at some of the loose ends at the U.S. attorneys' office in Washington, D.C. from the Bill Barr era that Merrick Garland will have to deal with once his nomination clears the Senate while those prosecutors are trying to deal with the sprawling January 6th investigations.
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Monologue: Give Me Liberty AND Give Me Death | Real Time with Bill Maher
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New Rule: National Chill the F**k Out Month | Real Time with Bill Maher
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Velshi: Expertise Without Honesty Is BS
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Ali Velshi Breaks Down Four Years Of The Trump Administration By The Numbers
During Trump’s four years in office, he’s rolled back hundreds of environmental protections, appointed three Supreme Court justices, and seen the deaths of over 330,000 Americans from a global pandemic. Ali Velshi breaks down the Trump administration by the numbers.
During Trump’s four years in office, he’s rolled back hundreds of environmental protections, appointed three Supreme Court justices, and seen the deaths of over 330,000 Americans from a global pandemic. Ali Velshi breaks down the Trump administration by the numbers.
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Chris Hayes: GOP Offers No Policy Ideas, Just Obstruction And Trolling
“Republicans understand they have no power right now—except to delay, and troll, and make things difficult for the Biden administration,” says Chris Hayes on bad faith obstruction from senators like Tom Cotton and Ron Johnson.
“Republicans understand they have no power right now—except to delay, and troll, and make things difficult for the Biden administration,” says Chris Hayes on bad faith obstruction from senators like Tom Cotton and Ron Johnson.
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I watch Joe quite a bit in the mornings, not too much lately as I'm not too interested in the details of much American policy. I make an exception for those things that strengthen liberal democracy and those things that weaken it, I wanna see the government and justice restored too. Joe is an example of the brains and college educated former base of the GOP, almost all have left the party and those who remain are fighting a losing battle with insanity. It's one of the reasons they are fucking themselves, the party is full of racist morons and about the only ones with brains are the evil conmen who manipulate them. Many of these cowardly assholes have come to the end of the path of perdition and are staring into the abyss, Mike Pence is a good example.Destroyed the GOP?
Yea, he did
Very fucking cool, indeed
I could be wrong and have been, but in 2022 the stars might be lining up for a real republican shit kicking. If the democrats drive through HR-1 and other voting rights laws, Trump and his minions go to prison and the scandals unfold along with the court cases. They are gonna step on the domestic disinformation system too, regulate cable TV and social media. The GOP has 20 senate seats up for grabs in 2022 and the democrats 14, many of those GOP seats are vulnerable. Win more in the senate and hold the house with a divided GOP descending into chaos, exploit your advantages to level the playing field and win even more.