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“…They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”

Pelosi is right about this. It ‘is’ a very small group of leftists in the system.

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Yes, but it is gratifying at least to see that just those few people are making the establishment very uncomfortable.

For being a freshman congresswoman in her first 6 months of time on the hill, AOC has waaaayyyyy disproportionate influence on the national conversation. While it is true that the attention she receives does not directly translate into policy, it is at least giving mainstream daylight to some critical issues that can no longer be ignored. It’s progress (although it does feel like scoring a TD late in the 4th quarter to narrow the deficit to 42-17). So…yay to her and Omar (who has been abusively targeted for her religion, race, and gender – the trifecta).

Don Irwin, in the above tweet, left out Feinstein is his comment of regressive California Democrats. She’s considerably more right wing than even Pelosi and Harris. (Though what’s this about Harris receiving a donation from Trump? I knew about Mnuchin, but this is the first I’ve heard about Trump. I’m surprised he would donate to ANYTHING, let alone a bi-racial, female politician in the opposition party).

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I would say that I’d be a little skeptical that they’ll pull Kupp or Watkins off the field for one of the TEs on a regular basis unless one of the WRs get hurt again. (I could certainly be wrong!)

Personally, I will be shocked to see Watkins on the field for the Rams even once this whole season.

I happened to be watching that baseball game at the time, and the quake went on for – dunno – 20 seconds or something. And nobody in the stands reacted, and the players kept playing. The centerfield camera was wobbling like it was handheld.

Reminded me of the Steve Martin movie, LA Story. There’s a scene at a restaurant, I think, where a quake hits and all the dishes are bumping and sliding on the table, and the conversation continues like nothing is happening.

I’ve never been scared during a quake, but there is once when I should have been. San Francisco in 89. I was thinking, “Cool. Earthquake!” Then the house creaked, and plaster flew off the corners of the walls while water sloshed out of the teetering aquarium, and I started rethinking how cool it was, but it stopped abruptly.

This one in LA went on a long time.

Not only did they lead 70% of the time, they also never trailed. I don’t think. I don’t care enough to go back and look, but I don’t think so.

That goal by Lavelle was sweet. And Sauerbrunn. Good lord. She took a couple of brutal knocks to the noggin, and played through it.

Good team.

Quality.

And I agree with this assessment of Harris. I think she’s going to be a serious contender.

Kamala Harris Is Everything the Establishment Wants in a Politician

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California Senator Kamala Harris won the Democratic presidential debate Thursday night. It was not a close contest. She will win every debate she enters during this election cycle. If she becomes the nominee, she will win every debate with Trump.

Night two of the debates was just as vapid and ridiculous as night one. Candidates interrupted and talked over each other a lot, questions about foreign policy were avoided like the plague to prevent NBC viewers from thinking critically about the mechanics of empire, and Eric Swalwell kept talking despite everyone in the universe desperately wanting him not to. Buttigieg and Gillibrand did alright, Bernie played the same note he’s been playing for decades, and everyone was reminded how bad Joe Biden is at talking and thinking.

Biden has been treated kindly by polls and regarded as a “frontrunner” in this race exclusively because for the last decade he hasn’t had to do anything other than be associated with Barack Obama. Now that he’s had to step out of that insulated role and interact with reality again, everyone’s seeing the same old garbage right-wing Democrat who sucks at making himself look appealing just as badly as he did in his last two presidential campaigns. By the end of the night, even Michael Bennet was slapping him around.

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The moment everyone’s talking about was when Harris created a space for herself to attack Biden on his citing his collaboration with segregationists as an example of his ability to reach across the aisle and “get things done”. Harris had not been called upon to speak, and once given the go-ahead by moderator Rachel Maddow after interjecting went way beyond the 30 seconds she’d been allotted in tearing Biden apart. She skillfully took control of the stage and engineered the entire space for the confrontation by sheer dominance of personality, and Biden had no answer for it.

That’s the moment everyone’s talking about. But Harris had already been owning the debate prior to that.

The goal of a political debate is to make yourself look appealing and electable to your audience. You can do that by having a very good platform, or you can do it with charisma and oratory skills. It turns out that Kamala Harris is really, really good at doing the latter. She made frequent and effective appeals to emotion, she built to applause lines far more skillfully than anyone else on the stage, she kept her voice unwavering and without stammer, she made herself look like a leader by admonishing the other candidates to stop talking over each other, and she hit all the right progressive notes you’re supposed to hit in such a debate.

Unlike night one of the debates, night two had a clear, dominant winner. If you were a casual follower of US politics and didn’t have a favorite coming into the debate, you likely went away feeling that Harris was the best.

This wasn’t a fluke. Harris has been cultivating her debate skills for decades, first in the Howard University debate team where she is said to have “thrived”, then as a prosecutor, then as a politician, and she’ll be able to replicate the same calibre of performance in all subsequent debates. There’s more to getting elected than debate skills, but it matters, and in this area no one will be able to touch her.

Harris won the debate despite fully exposing herself for the corporate imperialist she is in the midst of that very debate. While answering a question about climate change she took the opportunity to attack Trump on foreign policy, not for his insane and dangerous hawkishness but for not being hawkish enough, on both North Korea and Russia.

“You asked what is the greatest national-security threat to the United States. It’s Donald Trump,” Harris said. “You want to talk about North Korea, a real threat in terms of its nuclear arsenal. But what does he do? He embraces Kim Jong Un, a dictator, for the sake of a photo op. Putin. You want to talk about Russia? He takes the word of the Russian president over the word of the American intelligence community when it comes to a threat to our democracy and our elections.”

Harris is everything the US empire’s unelected power establishment wants in a politician: charismatic, commanding, and completely unprincipled. In that sense she’s like Obama, only better.

Harris was one of the 2020 presidential hopefuls who came under fire at the beginning of the year when it was reported that she’d been reaching out to Wall Street executives to find out if they’d support her campaign. Executives named in the report include billionaire Blackstone CEO Jonathan Gray, 32 Advisors’ Robert Wolf, and Centerbridge Partners founder Mark Gallogly. It was reported two entire years ago that Harris was already courting top Hillary Clinton donors and organizers in the Hamptons. She hasn’t been in politics very long, but her campaign contributions as a senator have come from numerous plutocratic institutions.

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Trump supporters like to claim that the president is fighting the establishment, citing the open revulsion that so many noxious establishment figures have for him. But the establishment doesn’t hate Trump because he opposes them; he doesn’t oppose existing power structures in any meaningful way at all. The reason the heads of those power structures despise Trump is solely because he sucks at narrative management and puts an ugly face on the ugly things that America’s permanent government is constantly doing. He’s bad at managing their assets.

Kamala Harris is the exact opposite of this. She’d be able to obliterate noncompliant nations and dead-end the left for eight years, and look good while doing it. She’s got the skills to become president, and she’ll have the establishment backing as well. Keep an eye on this one.

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For those kids, self-control alone couldn’t overcome economic and social disadvantages.

Of course not.

They just have to work hard, and stop sucking off the nanny state.

For Lakers, I’d get JJ Redick and Patrick Beverley.

That’s affordable, and they’re done. Depth after that.

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Zooey wrote:

I think the Pelicans also had to take on LaVar Ball in the deal.

that’s funny…… that alone makes the trade worthy…..

BTW, who in the hell is AD? I thought that Adrian Dantley already had a stint with the Fakers…

just kidding, I was a big fan of Anthony Davis..until now…… I wonder how long it will take him to get sick of Lebron like Kyrie Irving did.

I don’t know the inside of this because I follow the Lakers, and when they are bad, I don’t follow basketball at all. Total Fair Weather Fan. But…Kyrie was unhappy with Cleveland, and he was unhappy with Boston. So if I’m a GM…is it the situation, or is it the player?

Wade and Bosh didn’t get sick of LeBron. Just sayin’.

I don’t know who AD is, except I keep seeing that he is a Top 5 player in the NBA.