Thanks for the link. I'll listen to it in its entirety over the next several days as time permits. I'm sure I'll find some interesting things I didn't know.

Awesome. She actually does address the question of "Should it be called something else/Should the name be changed" during the interview. I won't spoil it for you though.

Says the guy with a handle lifted from the makers of a bedding machine?

There's no problem with the name.

The problem lies with brainwashed FoxNews-watching rubes thinking that Black Lives Matter = No Other Lives Matter. Apparently, in their world, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is actually an announcement that anyone with stomach, throat, brain, thyroid, or bladder cancer can go **** themselves.

Yea this. They see Black Lives Matter and say "What about me!!!"

That's why All Lives Matter was created. So the stupid morons watching Fox would understand they weren't being singled out.

Some new demographic analysis of the election: Black turnout way down compared to 2012, white turnout up slightly

Check out MI and WI:

BLM supporters read it as black lives MATTER. BLM opposers read it as BLACK lives matter.

The optics of Democrat establishment politicians cozying up to Wall St is a factor in them losing elections. This isn't a "distraction" issue. It's a real issue!

From the get-go, I've liked Harris, Schultz, and Newsom. Garcetti is an interesting guy.

Brown, Dean, and Gore won't run. The ship has sailed already and is way out at sea.

As a NY'er, I can say unequivocally that Bill De Blasio would have less than zero chance to do any damage and would be one of these people who pulls 0.6% in Iowa then "suspends" his campaign an hour later.

Franken is a lousy public speaker and not all that funny anymore.

Cuomo likely will try and run, but I don't think his style play well nationally.

I love Gillibrand, who has a knack for pulling in votes from R's and I's. She's also an excellent fundraiser. Being a Democrat and winning Staten Island (!) by 28 points is no small feat.

Wisconsin’s laundry list of voter suppression laws challenged in court
http://americablog.com/2015/06/wisco...ged-court.html

Wisconsin may have lied to a federal court in order to get away with voter suppression
https://thinkprogress.org/wisconsin-...n-5e0379ee354c

From 2014:
Jim Crow Returns: Interstate "Crosscheck" Program Could Strip Millions of the Right to Vote
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/11...scheck_program

I'm not saying the problems of our current political climate are merely from the framing and messaging of BLM. I'm saying it's the framing of EVERYTHING. That if you're pro 2A you must be racist, because if you're pro 2A, then you must be pro-life, and if you're pro-life, then you must be a misogynist, and if you're a misogynist, then you must've voted for Trump, and if you voted for Trump then you're ta-da! A racist!

When in reality, it's possible to be pro 2A while being either some or NONE of what the stereotypical following. There is no middle ground is this political climate and it's mostly because progressives (not conservatives) are so quick to pigeon hole people into categories. You've got a poster here who is telling people which candidate they chose for Christ's sake, and it doesn't bother him in the least bit that he's dead wrong!

Because when you need to fix crime you don't worry about offending criminals. When you need to stop rape you don't worry about calling them rapists. When you want to stop cheating you don't worry about calling them cheaters.

When you want to stop racism STOP WORRING ABOUT CALLING RACISTS, RACIST.

Maybe worry about hundreds of years of slavery, Jim Crow and institutional racism, not the feelings of a bunch of scumbag racists.

Black live matter should really be called "**** you white cop scumbags, please stop shooting us" but FYWCSPSSU doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

black people don't turn out as well when a black person isn't running is total no **** sherlock stuff. Only thing MI/WI show is suppression made it more so there.

Anyway, trump did is standard THE REAL NEWS IS THE LEAKERS AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SURVEILLANCE tweet storm.

to me al franken seems like a smart guy, he sounds well-prepared when i see him on the tv, and i think he has great low key comedic timing but i hope the democrats frame 2020 as professional vs clown and not entertainer vs clown, but then i remember what happened in 2016 and i think that with trump so flawlessly portraying a villain already, that if we can just get tom hanks to ACT like the good guy trying to save the world, and instead of campaign commercials run movie trailers in every genre starring tom hanks vs donald trump, then middle america MIGHT just play along with our communist takeover plot

he said it wasn't included in the report he signed off on about the election tampering and he even explicitly clarified that ongoing investigations that were classified were kept out of that report, so this is a fake tweet.

I think the hearing went exceptionally well. Yates crushed it and Clapper did a good job. We expected to learn nothing and didn't for the most part, except for a couple of small details. The general public got a few important things confirmed and that's a plus. Trump & Co lost a couple of key excuses which is also a bonus.

I'm not sure why nobody pressed on Pence though. The entire hearing went by with the Veep framed as the patsy that Flynn betrayed. But proof exists from several sources that Pence knew the whole time and he was flat out lying. It changes the perspective of the story, especially from where Yates is sitting. Because if Pence lied, there's no guarantee that Flynn lied to him, no guarantee that he was fired for that reason, and no guarantee that the Russians knew he was able to be compromised. Unless there's another undisclosed reason Yates and other IC people knew all that.

Yah this didn't happen fortunately. They tried, but failed miserably.

I disagree. It depends on if your end goal is to fix the problem, or simply identify and stick labels on the perpetrators.

If you want to stop someone from say, stealing, you can go ahead and call him a no good dirty thief. But if you really want him to stop stealing, it might help to first figure out why he steals. Is it because he's hungry? Is it because he feels entitled to things that don't belong to him? Is it because he doesn't know how to acquire what he steals in a legitimate way? Is it because he doesn't have the tools or resources to do so?

Calling him a thief solves nothing. Teaching him how to acquire things in a legitimate way, might. And it might not. A certain percent will always remain incorrigible. But I'm willing to bet that most people can and even want to be rehabilitated. This is what our prison system was supposed to do, but instead, we've turned them into places for pure punishment and vengeance.

Yeah, I'm 100% with you here. But notice how there's no 'b' in FYWCSPSSU?

It's Oprah's gig if she wants it, imo. None of them stand a chance against her.

Here are the other fake tweets from this afternoon:


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...13233786404864
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...13823505494016
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...15019674910721

The hearing did not go well for the WH at all. He's clearly shook.

Dude, no. I've said this exact thing, that the names Black Lives Matter should have some more stank on it, like Black Lives Matter Comma F**k You, and only much later took a reverse position and and thought the BLM name was ideal, simple and elegant.

Like, nobody is labeling anybody a racist because they offer constructive criticism about marketing and branding.

Black Lives Rule White Lives Drool

No. I'm not sure if I missed a post but I don't think there is a "need for graft" at the current salary. The president should be paid more because the cost benefit analysis is clear:

If paying the president some amount more reduces the likelihood that they will favor capital in their governance than the increase in salary pays for itself many times over.

I took your post to mean "I don't like politicians/politicians are gross and therefore the thought of paying them more disgusts me." I understand the view but I don't think it's of any real importance here.

ok so lestat finally made it to my ignore list today, surprised he made it this long actually

clapper and yates testifying in senate intel committee and this ****ing white guy wants to nit it up on some all lives matter ****, COOL ****ING STORY THERE PAL

How much pushback was there surrounding Yates? First she catches onto Flynn, brings it to the White House in detail twice, and gets fired for it. Travel ban was just an excuse as confirmed today. Then Nunez runs all kinds of interference for them, blows up the House committee, and gets the original Yates hearing cancelled. Then he farts around the rescheduling until he's forced to recuse. Then Trump sends out this witness tampering/intimidating tweet this morning. Then the WH tries to get all the Republicans to cancel today. And now the tweetfest above.

Trump is hiding something TREMENDOUS in the Flynn/Russia story and everyone needs to keep the pressure on (until we push Trump to use WW3 as a deflection of course).