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wvParticipant“It will be rigged, but not in the way you think”
September 7, 2020 at 11:25 am in reply to: Rams sign RB, Raymond Calais off TBay’s Practice Squad #120556wvParticipantIs he a Trung?
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipant….I agree that that benefits Trump at this point.
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Well, I am WORRIED that it will benefit Trump. I am worried because in many places, including America, all through history, a perception that chaos/riots are spreading very very often SCARES the bourgeoisie into leaning to the Right.
But…i dunno. America is a strange place today. Maybe things will be different this time. There are some encouraging signs, some encouraging polls. But who knows.
I just wish Mississipi, Alabama, Texas, South Carolina and Florida would secede and form their own RightWing-Evangelical-Libertarian country. Really. If the Kurds deserve a homeland, then the South deserves one too.
Abe Lincoln was wrong. Let’em go. Otherwise they are gonna drag us all to Hell.
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I dunno.I think W is right to be concerned about it. ANY violence by the ‘protesters’ is gonna fit nicely into a rightwing frame of Dem-equals-soft-on-crime.
Doesnt matter how big a pile of bullshit it is — Americans swallow shovels full of bull-shit everyday.
Having said that, it is what it is. The protests are not gonna stop. The pieces are in play. The die is cast. The protesters have…um…crossed the Rubicon. The game is afoot.
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wvParticipantThe “Trump said fallen soldiers were losers” thing sounds like a Dem-Smear tactic to me. Cut into Trump’s military following. Part of his base.
Wait a second….is it even possible to ‘smear’ Trump?
Surreal times.
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vwvParticipantI live in a city in the outskirts of the Philly suburbs and I can tell you that if anyone here has any enthusiasm for Joe Biden at all,it isn’t showing. This city is mostly Latino and the Democrats are failing somewhat miserably in engaging them at all…
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Good to see you again, PA.
Ive had several young college-students ask me if I thot there was going to be a ‘civil war’ soon. What do you think happened in the last ten years or so?
I guess we’ve always had this blue/red divide but somethin seems different now.w
vwvParticipantI share your concern W, but ‘activist’ covers a LOT of ground.
Also, ‘activists’ are not going to stop anytime soon. Whether its Neo-Nazi activists or Antifa-activists or BLM-activists or whatever.
If the polls are right, you and i can stop worry about the activists.
wvParticipantwvParticipantI think his main point is that making the election about Trump is a losing strategy. It should be about policy.
I agree that Biden should be crushing Trump in the polls. .
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Well, maybe in Portugal. Or Finland.
Not in Corporate-Capitalism-Central.
The System made too many Red-State versions of Idiots and Blue-State versions of idiots.
How could there be a landslide by either side on the planet-of-the-apes?
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vwvParticipantThis was an interesting race. Saagar’s question was interesting.
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wvParticipantI’m not sure this blog post belongs here, but..
—-In Donald Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last week, he talked about the “shadow people” he believes lurk behind Joe Biden:
INGRAHAM: Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former Obama officials?
TRUMP: People that you’ve never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows.Fifteen years ago, the Fox News personality was likely to be the one pushing the conspiratorial envelope. Glenn Beck playing with rubber frogs while railing about assassination plots or spinning elaborate tales connecting Barack Obama to both Hitler and Stalin represented the outward edge of crazy in mainstream discourse.
Today the Fox anchor is the voice of restraint, pleading with the President of the United States to stay on planet earth while cameras roll:
INGRAHAM: What does that mean? That sounds like conspiracy theory.
TRUMP: No, people that you haven’t heard of. They’re people that are on the streets. They’re people that are controlling the streets…
We’ve been living with Trump for so long, we’ve gotten out of the habit of asking the basic questions we normally ask, when a famous person says something odd. What is he thinking? Is he being serious? …
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Well see, this is where i part company with a Lot of people, including Taibbi, who i like as you know.
I dont think there is anything weird about Trump’s comment. I dont think its crazy-conspiratorial. I think its intelligent-conspiratorial.
There ARE mega-rich-corporate weasels behind Biden. As there were with Obama, and Clinton, and Reagan, and Bush, and on and on. There’s actually plenty of quotes about this BY past Presidents going all the way back to Jefferson.
There’s always the Politician-Front-Man, and then there’s the Money-People behind the scenes. Why does Taibbi think thats crazy-conspiratorial?
Isnt it also true about Trump? I dunno. Trump’s a billionaire-Narcissist-Ass-Clown. So, ironically, he may be the first President its NOT true of. I dunno.
This is all a minor point, but its just a thing with me. I hate it when MSM-types or Taibbi-types act like ALL talk of shadow-government-power is crazy talk. I wanna tell them grow up. Of COURSE there’s mega-money people in the shadows. Duh.
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vwvParticipantI assume this just means americans have other things on their minds. Or to restate that, they’ve had other things put into their minds.
—The federal budget deficit grew from $779.1 billion at the end of fiscal 2018 to $2.8 trillion at the end of July. Over roughly that same period, the share of U.S. adults calling the deficit a "very big problem" fell from 55% to 47%. https://t.co/mgvIIVuY9r pic.twitter.com/S25C8YWGjp
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) September 4, 2020
wvParticipantGaffigan is very well-known. He’s been posted here, numerous times, I’m sure.
wvParticipantSpent the week in a cabin near Ohiopyle Pennsylvania. Rural western Pennsylvania. Looks a lot like WV. Mountains, Pickup Trucks, curvy-roads, hunters, fishermen, pies, pitch-forks.
Saw five-gazillion Trump signs.
Not one single solitary Biden sign. I looked for em. It became a game. Find Biden Sign.
I’m not making too much of it, though. I’m sure there’s plenty of western pa folks who will vote for Biden. But they aint excited about him, apparently. Not excited enuff to put up a sign.
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vwvParticipant2020 election is like:
Trump's team: "Biden is a radical who'll give you healthcare, promote racial justice and fight the billionaires."
Biden: "I promise you I will do none of those things."
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) August 31, 2020
wvParticipantHakim is a smart young man. I agree with him on this (and many things),
but i also agree with R.Wolff. I think co-ops can be flawed and they can be restricted by all the surrounding shit-storm of Capitalism — but so what. They are still better than nothing. Better than nothing is…better…than nothing.
Even if co ops dont ‘lead to socialism’ — so what.wvParticipant====================
Sexual assault is a terrible thing, obviously, but the underlying crime really has nothing to do with it. Its not supposed to, anyway. I know it will in the public-mind.
All that matters is the question of ‘Was deadly force necessary?’ At the time.
Did he, or didnt he, have a knife in his hand. Was he swinging it at the cop?
A knife on the floor of the car is not an immediate threat to the cops.So far the media does not seem to have any of the critical facts.
But so far, it ‘looks like’ the cops over-reacted. Imho.
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vThe cop shot him SEVEN times. In the back.
How is this even up for debate?
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Well, if someone was ‘reaching’ for a gun, in a car, I can see a cop full of adrenaline, shooting over and over and over. Adrenaline. Fear.Will the cop ‘say’ the victim was ‘reaching for something that looked like a gun’ Or a knife? Was the victim ‘saying’ he was ‘going to get his gun and shoot’?
Etc, and so forth.It looks like an over-reaction ‘to me’, but again, there are some critical facts missing.
Its ‘possible’ to shoot someone in the back a lot of times, and still be justified, imho. But the facts would have to be really weird. But its…possible. Thats all im saying. Possible.
I havent seen the video, btw. I doubt if i watch it. I’m burned out on this shit. Capitalism shoots millions of people in the back everyday.
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vwvParticipantThis is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest
https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/
The cops involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake — which touched off a fresh wave of angry, anti-police sentiment across the country — were attempting to arrest him for violating a restraining order stemming from an alleged sexual assault, The Post has learned.
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
Blake, who was paralyzed in the shooting, had been handcuffed to his hospital bed due to the warrant, which was vacated Friday, according to a statement released by his lawyer, Benjamin Crump. His restraints were removed, but he is still facing the criminal charges, Crump said.
Blake is accused in the criminal complaint, which was obtained by The Post, of breaking into the home of a woman he knew and sexually assaulting her.
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
The officer who took her statement said she “had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”
The alleged victim said Blake “penetrating her digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without her consent” and she was “very humiliated and upset by the sexual assault,” the record states.
She told police she “was upset but collected herself” and then allegedly ran out the front door after Blake, the complaint says. She then realized her car was missing, checked her purse and saw the keys were missing and then “immediately called 911,” the complaint alleges.
The alleged victim told cops she has known him for eight years and claims that he physically assaults her “around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”
Police filed charges against him for felony sexual assault, trespassing and domestic abuse in July when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
On Sunday, within three minutes of responding to the 911 call, Blake was shot 7 times in the back as he attempted to get into his car.
Calls to Blake’s fiance, Crump and the Kenosha Police Department have gone unreturned.
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Sexual assault is a terrible thing, obviously, but the underlying crime really has nothing to do with it. Its not supposed to, anyway. I know it will in the public-mind.
All that matters is the question of ‘Was deadly force necessary?’ At the time.
Did he, or didnt he, have a knife in his hand. Was he swinging it at the cop?
A knife on the floor of the car is not an immediate threat to the cops.So far the media does not seem to have any of the critical facts.
But so far, it ‘looks like’ the cops over-reacted. Imho.
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vwvParticipantLeBron has done a lot. Hell, he opened a school, in his hometown of Akron(OH), paid money to those ex-Felons in Florida, those fees, so they can vote. Plus more. Whitlock is the real bigot.
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Whitlock sounds a lot like a moderate-republican a lot of the time. I listen to him to get their take on things. Yes, there are moderate-reps.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantThe Senate race in Kentucky is close. The lady-marine-pilot Centrist
vs the Thug.Unlikely the dem will win, but its interesting that its close.
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August 29, 2020 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #120145wvParticipantpaint it black:https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/black-paint-on-wind-turbines-helps-prevent-bird-massacres/
Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
The study ran for nine years at Norway’s Smøla wind farm.
Jonathan M. Gitlin – 8/25/2020, 1:43 PMSomething as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds that are killed each year by wind turbines. According to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla, changing the color of a single blade on a turbine from white to black resulted in a 70-percent drop in the number of bird deaths.
Wind power is surging right now, with more than 60GW of new generating capacity added worldwide in 2019. As long as you put the turbines in the right spot, wind power is reliably cheaper than burning fossil fuels. And most people would prefer to live next to a wind farm than any other kind of power plant—even solar.
Not everyone is a fan of wind turbines, however, because of their impact on local populations of flying fauna like birds and bats. Politicians with axes to grind against renewable energy say that we should continue to mine coal and extract oil because of the avian death toll, and US President Donald Trump has called wind turbines “bird graveyard
.” Estimates from the US Fish and Wildlife Service calculated that approximately 300,000 birds were killed by wind turbines in 2015 (which is probably two orders of magnitude fewer than die as a result of colliding with electrical power lines each year), and bird deaths from turbines are trending down as the industry moves to larger turbine blades that move more slowly…see linkwvParticipantYeah, thats rightwing-citizenry, Certainly in most of West Virginia, anyway.
65 days until the election.
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vAugust 28, 2020 at 8:45 pm in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #120121wvParticipantI dont remember hearing about this at the time.
Were the scientists bored? I dont see any reason to make glow in the dark bunnies.
Is there really a good reason to mix a Jelly-Fish with a Rabbit?
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….In a sane land, his disapproval numbers would be more than 99%. Even his own party would have rejected him after all the death and destruction on his hands. And he came into office as a truly odious human being, a serial sexual predator, liar, conartist, grifter, etc. etc….>============
Well, like with Football, its never just about how the One team played. Its about how the other team played, too. And part of the explanation for how we got trump — has nothing to do with Trump. It has to do with the Corporate-Democrats and their coronation of Hillary Clinton. Etc, and so forth.
Trump rode in on a Perfect Shit-Storm.
He’ll get the same votes this time. But can the Democrats do better? In a normal election year, one would think almost-certainly. But this is a Covid year. And a Voter-Suppression Year the likes of which we’ve never seen.
74 Days till the Election.
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