Seldom Balanced – Usually Fair
Fox anchor unaware her video feed is active
We are all Sandra 😂
pic.twitter.com/8eBPyHIIyd— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 9, 2020
Fox News anchor Sandra Smith reacts to conservative Cleta Mitchell claiming election is undecided:
What? What is happening?
Trace, we’ve called it!
Continue reading “Gritty, Fox, War, Armistice, Veterans, Thanksgiving, COVID, Masks, Transition”
Startling if true
I’m a ballot observer at a table with a Republican lawyer who is objecting to ALL military absentee ballots to keep them from being counted.
Absolutely sickening.
— Roger Misso (@RogerMissoCNY) November 12, 2020
What makes this wrong (if true)
Military absentee ballots are not cast by those seeking to avoid going to the polls for health reasons.
They are primarily cast by those serving their country in outposts around the world.
I checked the local Auburn paper, The Citizen, near where I grew up. Misso is a U.S. Navy veteran who flew on combat missions in the Middle East. He is also a public figure who briefly ran for Congress against two fellow Democrats in rural New York. Works on veterans’ issues.
Does this fit a documented pattern?
Republicans have insisted that some military service people from Nevada be investigated for voting absentee from out of state, apparently unaware that they are allowed by federal law. Military families are encouraged to vote, especially when stationed at remote outposts. In the Nevada case Republicans included names and addresses in documents that were made public, exposing families to harassment by right-wing extremists.
Updates
Scottie has done more research and has updates. Apparently the Republican lawyer was real, but was eventually replaced. Military ballots were put back into count.
From John Scalzi at Whatever:
Yes, I do actually mean it. Trump is a virus and he infected our body politic, a body that the GOP spent four decades lowering its immune system so that it could receive just the sort moral and political sickness that Trump personifies. And it worked! We got very sick, and we’re very sick still.
But it turns out our antibodies were stronger than suspected. We rallied despite the best efforts of the virus. And now we have the opportunity to get better. It’s not a done deal; the GOP is still out there trying to get us sick again, and our viral load is still regrettably high. But now, at least, there is a chance to rout it and get our body politic healthy again. That works for me, today.
Wait. What?
WAIT. When asked about whether Joe Biden will receive access to intelligence briefings, Kayleigh McEnany says, “That would be a question more for the White House."
Kayleigh McEnany IS the WH Press Secretary, though she is appearing on FOX as a Trump 2020 adviser. pic.twitter.com/34gfs72fzE
— The Recount (@therecount) November 12, 2020
Just to clarify:
The question was whether Joe Biden will receive access to intelligence briefings.
And
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, speaking for the White House, replied, “That would be a question more for the White House.”
From Música para Despertar:
Read more about Marta C. González Saldaña (Marta Cinta)
It turns out that much of the story of her past does not check out.
Records, if they still exist, have been difficult to locate.
Certainly Marta C. González Saldaña was a dancer.
The video is genuine. The power of music in her life remains apparent.
But she was a woman with a mysterious personal history.
From Dave Dubya:
Let’s celebrate our limited victory, but be clear in this perspective.
We need to understand the Right will never stop their voter suppression. They will never surrender in their war on democracy. Fascism is always lurking in the resentments and anger of white nationalism. Corporate interests will always try to dominate our government. Hatred and division will always be stoked by Republicans and the far Right. As long as the Senate is controlled by Republicans we will have nothing close to a representative republic.
“Consent of the governed” is in the Declaration of Independence. The founders blew it with their compromise with slave states that produced the electoral college.
I was barely old enough to be dimly aware that Presidents are elected and that there is a difference between a democracy and a democratic republic. But I was old enough to be entranced by the candidate.
As the years since have become decades, and decades have become measurable as generations, John F. Kennedy has remained a sort of standard, for me, by which others are to be measured.
Democrat John Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon were not antagonists in the couple of years during which they were both in Congress. Some accounts had them as friends who enjoyed each other’s company. Nixon was elected Senator from California in 1950 after an extraordinarily vicious campaign against incumbent Helen Gahagan Douglas. If Douglas was not a communist, the Nixon campaign held, she was at least a fellow traveler. “Pink right down to her underwear” became part of that year’s ugly narrative.
In private, Kennedy defended Nixon when most observers held the new Senator in distain for his dirty tactics. The friendship continued through most of the 1950s as Richard Nixon became Eisenhower’s Vice President and John F. Kennedy was elected the junior Senator from Massachusetts.
Somewhere along the line things soured. It may have been in 1960 as both won party nominations for President and campaigned against each other.
A steady pattern of small incidents seemed to demonstrate a lack of Nixon class. The candidates held the first televised debates in American history. They talked with each other casually as television preparations occurred around them. Kennedy noticed that, at odd moments, Nixon’s demeanor would suddenly change for a few seconds. He would scowl and point his finger at Kennedy’s face while talking about some personal triviality. The pattern became clear. It happened whenever Nixon noticed some photographer about to snap a picture. He wanted to look tougher than his opponent.
Continue reading “60 Years and No Class Ago –
Compared to Today”
