“Gunfight” author Ryan Busse details how gun culture has changed in the U.S. over the last few decades, makes his case for why the NRA is dangerous, and breaks down what we can do to reduce gun violence. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #RyanBusse
From the previous thread:
re: #276 jaunte
This has actually been calculated. If we used 50 state-level electoral colleges in 2020, where each county was awarded winner-take-all, the result would have been 378-160 Biden.WI would have flipped to Trump — but NC, FL, and TX would have flipped to Biden. https://t.co/0uGXy6ETdY
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) December 2, 2021
A state level EC is still a bad idea — the Republicans would immediately rejigger county boundaries to give maximum benefits to any Republican candidate.
Edit:
And they would do this for _every_ state wide election. The benefit of winner take all is that for state wide elections Democrats can win regardless of the gerrymandered boundaries. Would Democrats have one state wide elections in:
Kentucky, Georgia, Michigan, or Arizona, with Republicans in control of state legislatures?
Edit 2:
It’s the Republicans who always want to end direct elections for the Senate. That’s why. Don’t forget that the progressive Lincoln _won_ the popular vote in the Senate race against Douglas — it was the state legislature that voted to send Douglas against the wishes of the people.
because this seems so complicated for folks (i dont get it, it seems easy to me) the formulation is:
Republicans/conservatives want to [very short and concise version of the outcome of their action].
that’s it.— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 2, 2021
re: #1 aatharuv
From the previous thread:
A state level EC is still a bad idea — the Republicans would immediately rejigger county boundaries to give maximum benefits to any Republican candidate.
Edit:
And they would do this for _every_ state wide election. The benefit of winner take all is that for state wide elections Democrats can win regardless of the gerrymandered boundaries. Would Democrats have one state wide elections in:
Kentucky, Georgia, Michigan, or Arizona, with Republicans in control of state legislatures?Edit 2:
It’s the Republicans who always want to end direct elections for the Senate. That’s why. Don’t forget that the progressive Lincoln _won_ the popular vote in the Senate race against Douglas — it was the state legislature that voted to send Douglas against the wishes of the people.
They’re not going to redraw county boundaries. That would be a nightmare. At least here in Texas, counties are a state governing level with their own authority, resources, and relationship with the state government.
It isn’t ignorance. It’s malevolence. https://t.co/GteDmHqFoi
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 2, 2021
re: #279 Belafon
There is no way, no way, they would be able to shift county boundaries.
re: #3 Belafon
They’re not going to redraw county boundaries. That would be a nightmare. At least here in Texas, counties are a state governing level with their own authority, resources, and relationship with the state government.
The powers of counties vary — their power is purely an internal detail of a state’s government. The only federal government involvement that I can think of are
- a judicial rulings that state legislative seats need to be equal by population — no state Senate’s with equal numbers of seats per county.
- Administrative definitions of first level divisions of states for Census, and other administrative purposes
Alaska has county equivalents called boroughs, but most of the state (by land area) is not part of a formal borough. Hawaii has one school district for the entire state crossing all county boundaries, and one county which is governed by its state department of health (the only remaining colony for those with leprosy).
I believe that in Massachusetts, they’re vestigial, except for the courts, but I haven’t lived there in a very long time and don’t remember the details.
Say Foo county is at the urban/rural cutoff area — convert it into one 100% Urban county, and another 40% Urban 60% rural county. (They might want to make the Urban numbers lower to stave off Urbanization that’ll flip it back blue.
Depending on what the state’s constitutional amendment procedure is, it might not even need a governor to sign off on it, or if there’s already a Republican governor, it’s all the more easier.
From last thread re: Nutcake with shotgun in front of UN
re: #268 No Malarkey!
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The UN has been targeted before, with considerably more firepower.
NYT 12 December 1964:
Bazooka Fired at U.N. as Cuban Speaks; Launched in Queens, Missile Explodes in East River
United Nations Headquarters was fired upon yesterday with a 3.5-inch bazooka from across the East River. The attack coincided with a demonstration by anti‐Communist Cubans at the front entrance against the presence of Maj. Ernesto Che Guevara of Cuba.
A single shell from the bazooka, a portable rocket launcher used by, the Army, arced across the river from Queens and fell harmlessly about 200 yards from shore. The blast sent up a geyser of water and rattled windows in the headquarters just as Major Guevara, Havana’s Minister of Industry, was denouncing the United States.
Shortly before, a hysterical woman brandishing a hunting knife with a seven‐inch blade detached herself from 50 antiGuevara pickets and tried to force her way into the front entrance. The police subdued the leather‐jacketed woman, and later quoted her as saying she intended to assassinate Major Guevara.
And a week and half later…..
Three Castro Foes Arrested in Firing Of Bazooka at U.N
Three Cubans, understood to be opponents of the regime of Premier Fidel Castro, were arrested last night in the Dee. 11 firing of a bazooka shell toward the United Nations Headquarters.
Chief of Detectives Philip J. Walsh said eactt of the three was charged with endangering life maliciously by placing an explosive near a building, and with attempting to damage a building or a vessel, both of which are felonies. They were further charged with conspiracy, a misdemeanor..
If the Supreme Court reverses Roe v Wade, it will go down in history as the most corrupt decision since Dred Scott; a blatant violation of the Establishment Clause, because the motivations for doing this are purely religious.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 2, 2021
I finally read through the article about Black Oxygen Organics, and the company’s downfall wasn’t Health Canada, the FDA, anti-MLM people but…their payment processor. Visa and MasterCard hate chargebacks with the heat of a billion suns, and given that a lot of people in the US had ordered the dirt and hadn’t gotten it, their payment processor decided NOPE.
According to BOO President Carlo Garibaldi, they had weathered the FTC complaints, the FDA seizures, the Health Canada recalls and the online mob. But the “fatal blow” came when their online merchant dropped them as clients.
With no actual product in stock for the last two months, sellers had been urging customers to “preorder” BOO. Now, the throng of customers responding to the nonconsumable “reformulation” by asking for their money back had spooked their payment processor.
This is the same thing that happened to Jim Bakker’s scam last year after he ran into trouble for selling colloidal silver for Covid. He got cut off from credit processing and now you can only buy his “buckets of slop” with a check.
Child trafficking rings also require lots of unwanted children
— Paula Fagerberg (@PaulaFagerberg) December 1, 2021
I would love for folks mad right now to save at least some of the blame for the shitshow in our country for the Republicans who are acting like a legit monolith against the very concept of democracy, at least as much as they have toward Dems for not being a monolith. #JustSaying
— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) December 2, 2021
Crux of GOP position on funding the government: if you don’t make it easier for us to expose your young children to Covid we will shut down the government. https://t.co/5YJoj1sEv0
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) December 2, 2021
Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid
Utah’s safety net for the poor is so intertwined with the LDS Church that individual bishops often decide who receives assistance. Some deny help unless a person goes to services or gets baptized.
My only comment on this is that I had multiple friends who fell on hard times when I lived in Utah. Since they were Mormon, they went to their bishop to try and get assistance from the Bishop’s Storehouse. I heard more than one story about how awful it was to have the Relief Society president go through their cupboards to see if they were worthy.
Oh, and if you got assistance, you were still expected to tithe, and to volunteer to work in the church. Blergh. This article is NO surprise.
ETA: The largest church in Utah is sitting on at least $38 billion under management at Ensign Peak, and according to the Wall Street Journal, has in excess of $100 billion in assets. That there are poor and homeless in areas where the church formerly known as Mormon is dominant is shameful.
re: #3 Belafon
They’re not going to redraw county boundaries. That would be a nightmare. At least here in Texas, counties are a state governing level with their own authority, resources, and relationship with the state government.
You can’t distribute electoral votes by county anyway, because counties vary wildly in population, unless you are going to award fractions of electoral votes, which would be a nightmare. You would do it by congressional district, like Maine and Nebraska do, and congressional district boundaries are most definitely gerrymandered.
Decided to make room for a rolling workbench my neighbor is giving me. First thing I had to do was move a forty year old wooden bench out of the garage by myself. Will put it on nextdoor… Some reassembly required…
I was even able to move the couch my wife says will one day reupholster that was blocking the door all the way inside. It’s a nice couch, mid-century… But the cushions are totally shot.
re: #13 mmmirele
My only comment on this is that I had multiple friends who fell on hard times when I lived in Utah. Since they were Mormon, they went to their bishop to try and get assistance from the Bishop’s Storehouse. I heard more than one story about how awful it was to have the Relief Society president go through their cupboards to see if they were worthy.
Oh, and if you got assistance, you were still expected to tithe, and to volunteer to work in the church. Blergh. This article is NO surprise.
ETA: The largest church in Utah is sitting on at least $38 billion under management at Ensign Peak, and according to the Wall Street Journal, has in excess of $100 billion in assets. That there are poor and homeless in areas where the church formerly known as Mormon is dominant is shameful.
From the article above:
State employees then explicitly recommended to Bellamy that she ask for welfare from the church instead, she and her family members said in interviews.
*snipped*
Although maintaining a safety net for the poor is the government’s job, welfare in Utah has become so entangled with the state’s dominant religion that the agency in charge of public assistance here counts a percentage of the welfare provided by the LDS Church toward the state’s own welfare spending, according to a memorandum of understanding between the church and the state obtained by ProPublica.
Wow. It’s like they forgot about the separation of Church and State.
Anyone shocked at this:
Researchers at the U.K.’s Newcastle University have found that as many as seven in 10 cryptocurrency trades on popular exchanges worldwide may involve people purchasing from themselves to inflate prices artificially. The researchers studied trades of the four most popular cryptocurrencies—bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple—on 29 cryptocurrency exchanges from July to November 2019. The researchers uncovered large volumes of “wash trading,” in which investors sell and buy the same asset to create artificial interest in an investment, which generally distorts prices. They said such wash trading appeared to account for more than 70% of total trading volume on unregulated exchanges.
Just finished putting up the outdoor decorations—new LED strings. There were tons of warnings about electrical safety, not one word about fire ants. More regional bias, folks.
re: #16 aatharuv
From the article above:
Wow. It’s like they forgot about the separation of Church and State.
It’s Utah…what separation of church and state?
I don’t know man pic.twitter.com/YldkZEneKG
— 🆂🅼🅾🅺🅴 (@terrill) December 2, 2021
re: #16 aatharuv
From the article above:
Wow. It’s like they forgot about the separation of Church and State.
Or that they just don’t care about the separation of Church and State.
re: #21 Dread Pirate Ron
All the science fiction I’ve seen and read leads me to believe this will not end well.
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re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
All the science fiction I’ve seen and read leads me to believe this will not end well.
/
re: #20 mmmirele
It’s Utah…what separation of church and state?
Never been to Utah, the one time I could have gone there was when the airline tried to rebook me on a work trip to DC via a stop in SLC with no confirmed onward flight — I held out for rebooking to another East Coast airport and doing my first ever drive in either the dark or in snow instead, since well I had to be in DC for work ASAP.
It’s one thing to intellectually know they have crazy liquor laws, and it’s another thing to hear that the state is an adjunct of the church. Utah has a rep at being much better than the other red states at controlling poverty and homelessness, but that’s obviously even more than I thought due to the State working hand-in-hand with the Church.
*And yes, I know how many states have outsourced basic state services especially adoption agencies to private individuals.
Yet another talk radio host from Tennessee is dead of Covid. He didn’t learn a damn thing from the death of Phil Valentine. sorryantivaxxer.com
A Mom Anon:
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re: #25 jeffreyw
“SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES JEFF?!!??!!??? HUH?HUH?HUH?!!?!”
re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth
demands to speak with the manager…
re: #29 No Malarkey!
Yet another talk radio host from Tennessee is dead of Covid. He didn’t learn a damn thing from the death of Phil Valentine. sorryantivaxxer.com
I have no sympathy for these people anymore. NONE.
It will be a cold day in Hell before I take career advice from someone who spent 6 figs on a picture of a monkey in a hat. pic.twitter.com/3Zx3pXcAAH
— Fr-Hoe-zen Leopard (@Hoe_Leopard) December 1, 2021
Oh my God I forgot this
And part of his program was having a guy track all the adolescent & teen girls’ periods—remember that horror-story?
Ghoul kept a spreadsheet, noting if anyone’s menstrual cycle was late (pregnancy!) and reporting it up the chain.
We are so far into Handmaid’s Tale territory…🤮— Deborah, wishing you comfort and joy (@litbrit) December 2, 2021
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
I have no sympathy for these people anymore. NONE.
One can only hope that some of his listeners will learn from the death of him and his wife. If not, well that means even fewer GOP voters come November.
re: #30 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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Mohr Summer!!!
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re: #37 A Mom Anon
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In the meantime, Freeman could no longer answer her phone, inundated with harassment.
Twice, strangers went to Freeman’s home and attempted to perform a “citizens’ arrest.” When Freeman wasn’t home, strangers would then harass her neighbors. pic.twitter.com/CkmOcBAEuA— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 2, 2021
Somebody trying to “citizen’s arrest” me at my house would likely not survive the experience.
“I say to my Republican colleagues it’s time to show up to work and stop worshiping at the altar of Donald Trump for five minutes long enough to do your job” pic.twitter.com/hq1MBbDNQs
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2021
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
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#HappyHanukkah #Hanukkah #Hanukkah2021 5th Light pic.twitter.com/5NtUhMDi7n
— Liddle Blueberry Pie 🌈🍓🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) December 2, 2021
Vaccine update:
2.2 million doses reported administered today — the highest single day total in nearly 7 months.
If you haven’t already, get fully vaccinated and get boosted.— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 2, 2021
MrBWS’s daughter got her first dose today. She knows if she ever wants to see us again, she needs to be fully vaxxed, no excuses. (She tried to claim she was allergic to the flu shot, which I flat out told her was bullshit…a reaction does not mean allergic; also, she doesn’t have a problem scarfing deviled eggs…)
MrBWS also got a phone call this morning from the wife of his best friend since high school. Friend has been in the hospital for four weeks, is on a ventilator, and it’s not looking good.
dammit
Something for Ace-o-Aces:
There was no-one more important to the technical advancement of outdoor action sports photography than John C. Hemment, 1862-1927. Here is a spread of his work in Leslie’s Weekly featuring the 1897 champion Boston Beaneaters. pic.twitter.com/pJUWuF2srK
— The National Game (@TheNtlGame) December 2, 2021
TFG couldn’t beat up an egg white.
@MarkMeadows is really a dumb sack of shit! For one, #BLM protesters never tried getting to the White House, but if they had, they would’ve been shot automatically, unlike the #January6th insurrectionists. Also, Don couldn’t whip a 🪰! 🤷🏼♂️🖕🏻 https://t.co/ip5lcqyQnd
— Mark Tween (@MarkTween11) December 2, 2021
re: #37 A Mom Anon
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Men don’t need a reason for getting a vasectomy. Women don’t need a reason for choosing not to carry a pregnancy. https://t.co/9Mkm5JQM0C
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) December 2, 2021
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mohr Summer!!!
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Uh, no … Joe Biden is not lying. https://t.co/sZrQmFHyOi pic.twitter.com/ZrfyiKmOEZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 2, 2021
LIVE NOW: An update on the three companies we’ve selected to build commercial space stations in low-Earth orbit: https://t.co/z1RgZwQkWS pic.twitter.com/h0O0R6nbMu
— NASA (@NASA) December 2, 2021
And it isn’t the first time Jim Hoft and his hate site have been sued. https://t.co/xmYjSbyOla https://t.co/BApWyD6xhg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 2, 2021
Shots are never fun, but the kids I met at Kimball Elementary knew how important the COVID-19 vaccines are to keep our families and communities safe. Check out @ItsMadeToSave for more information about the vaccines, and make your appointment at https://t.co/k4jKpPT5qo. pic.twitter.com/sm3YRKZRyq
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 2, 2021
Today, I announced that health insurers must cover the cost of at-home COVID testing.
For those not covered by private insurance, we will make available free tests at thousands of locations like rural clinics and community health centers for folks to pick up and test at home.— President Biden (@POTUS) December 2, 2021
We have a border with South Africa?
Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.
Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa.
Biden is doing nothing to stop immigrants from South Africa entering illegally.
Pure politics and hypocrisy.— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 28, 2021
re: #53 Charles Johnson
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re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dear Ms. Fitch:
Bull to the shit.
(from 2018)
(Reuters Health) - - Women who want an abortion but are denied one are more likely to spend years living in poverty than women who have abortions, a new study suggests.
Carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term quadrupled the odds that a new mother and her child would live below the federal poverty line, researchers reported in the American Journal of Public Health…
The single most common reason women cite for wanting an abortion is because they cannot afford to raise a child, Foster said.
For women denied abortions, public-assistance programs failed to make up for the cost of a new baby and to pull households out of poverty, the study found.
re: #61 BeachDem
Anti-choicers lie all the time, just like every other major group in the GOP “big tent” of resentful degenerates.
Just can’t put my finger on what’s going on here. Seems like a news network with maybe a slight conservative bent perhaps. Unbelievable that Dr. Fauci won’t appear on this channel https://t.co/MeD7bHf1zH
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) December 2, 2021
re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Men don’t need a reason for getting a vasectomy. Women don’t need a reason for choosing not to carry a pregnancy. https://t.co/9Mkm5JQM0C
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) December 2, 2021
re: #59 sagehen
um…. 1973 was the Yom Kippur War. The Six-Day War was 1967.
Right, I just noted that too.
And because I know some swivel-eyed troll will probably try to make a thing out of it - in the video Biden does misspeak (as he tends to do) and says “six day war” when his Israel trip was actually right before the Yom Kippur war. This was not a lie, it was a mistake.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 2, 2021
re: #58 The Pie Overlord!
We have a border with South Africa?
I swear I thought that was a damn parody tweet at first.
HOUSE PASSES CR: 221-212
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 2, 2021
There’s some talk of trying to get the spending bill through the Senate tonight. Crazier things have happened but the deadline isn’t for 30 hours so I’m skeptical
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) December 2, 2021
Only one House Republican(Adam Kinzinger) votes to fund the government pic.twitter.com/TRHWrz4bm8
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2021
CR to keep the government going past Friday
Whether you like him or not, Tim Ryan could win an electoral college by giving speeches like this across the Midwest https://t.co/Hc5QmFyvvL
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) December 2, 2021
BREAKING: Judge Linda Parker has ordered the Kraken “strikeforce” to pay over $175K to Gretchen Whitmer, Jocelyn Benson, and the City of Detroit in the sanctions case against Sidney Powell, et al. https://t.co/vGu83jddaA
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) December 2, 2021
re: #40 Hecuba’s daughter
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NEW: @SamBraslow, staff writer for the Beverly Hills Courier, has had his account locked by @TwitterSafety because right-wing rallygoers reported his footage of public rallies in Los Angeles.
This policy is being abused to target mainstream reporters at established publications.— Chad Loder (they/them) (@chadloder) December 2, 2021
BREAKING: Researchers at @MIAagainstFash have had their account locked by @TwitterSafety simply for retweeting a photo of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio (currently in prison).
The retweeted photo is of a public figure, in a public setting, taken by a professional journalist. pic.twitter.com/qkdoMILWdO— Chad Loder (they/them) (@chadloder) December 2, 2021
It’s like the religion is baked right in. pic.twitter.com/4cIeeHyLJg
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 2, 2021
In September, 48/50 Democratic Senators signed a letter in support of the Women’s Health Protection Act. Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey was among the two holdouts. I asked his office today if yesterday’s at SCOTUS solidified his position. https://t.co/vIw7b0tqp2 pic.twitter.com/Qzhjdbb19a
— Abraham Gutman (@abgutman) December 2, 2021
I understand why someone might have personal religious discontent around abortion, but if they’re going to claim the moral high ground, I want them to start making actual moral arguments. Tell me why the fertilized egg matters more than the outcome for the pregnant person
— Magdi Semrau (@magi_jay) December 2, 2021
Wear a fucking mask, get your fucking vaccination and convince more of your shitbag, deadbrained, selfish followers to do the same. That’ll thwart Biden’s evil plan, you useless, gibbering demagogue. https://t.co/jqVPnuVNtb
— David Simon (@AoDespair) December 2, 2021
excellent invective i must say https://t.co/iN7mBT4i32
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 2, 2021
re: #75 Charles Johnson
David Simon doesn’t throw shade. He drops the building on them.
re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s an amusing gotcha, but a secular concern for the value of human life can be substituted for “sanctity” to evade it.
Which is why my go-to argument these days in the abortion wars is that I will not listen to lies from death cultists pretending they care about human life. Yes, it is a logically invalid ad hominem argument, but politically it is 100% valid.
Apparently
beauty pageant winner —> home ec major —> PR flack —> political operative —> Senator
is not a career path that delivers the best results for the nation.
They talk about morality all the time, but I just don’t see any real moral theories from anti-abortionists. If they were really concerned w/ morality, they would explain why they think a rape victim should be forced to undergo pregnancy, vaginal tearing, & anal distortion.
— Magdi Semrau (@magi_jay) December 2, 2021
re: #78 jaunte
Apparently
beauty pageant winner —> home ec major —> PR flack —> political operative —> Senator
is not a career path that delivers the best results for the nation.
Anything that ends up with Senator (R) or Representative (R) is a failure for the nation. The paths taken to reach these deplorable outcomes are remarkably irrelevant.
re: #77 EPR-radar
It’s an amusing gotcha, but a secular concern for the value of human life can be substituted for “sanctity” to evade it.
Which is why my go-to argument these days in the abortion wars is that I will not listen to lies from death cultists pretending they care about human life. Yes, it is a logically invalid ad hominem argument, but politically it is 100% valid.
My argument is:
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