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Meanwhile, New Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called-didn't-call-but-probably-did-call Lindsey Graham gay (how original) and now there's a whole thing about it.
Double meanwhile, Aaron Sorkin (TV person, creator of The West Wing and other worse shows nobody cares about like The Newsroom) is mad that Ocasio-Cortez et co are young and that they espouse LGBTQ+ rights as a major part of their platforms. Also, Aaron Sorkin was on CNN as a political commentator?
And this has nothing to do with his sexuality, which I couldn't care less about.
Well, he didn't significantly screw up in any of his speeches it seems so chalk this one up to a bonus strike (the clock strikes twice metaphor is hard to word with).
His clock moves randomly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/01/25/roger-stone-loves-dogs-his-indictment-says-he-threatened-steal-one/
TL;DR the dog is the pet of someone who might have cooperated with the investigators. Roger Stone threatened to "take that dog away from you".
By the way if a Starbucks billionaire becomes the next President of the US I will take it as confirmation that I'm just a super-bit character in a satirical novel about the actual real world.
I know this whole thing boils down to the Democratic party being terrified of having moderate votes siphoned away from them, but what I didn't know (or like, consciously understand given certain things) was that the Democrats were pushing more leftist policies like debt-free (or just like, free) tertiary education.
I mean, if I were looking to win a general election against certain people I'd just pick a super-centrist milquetoast anyways but what do I know.
Also, although Klobuchar is really popular here in MN (she's won every general election by a ton and is probably the most popular politician in the state), I wonder if all of these reports about her being a terrible boss have already basically sunk her candidacy.
> opposition forces you to read unrelated gigantic bill aloud, as stalling tactic
> bring out text-to-speech engines and crank up the speed to insane amounts
have to admit, this is clever
the whole thing is kinda wtf, but still amusingly clever
source: https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1841462/73237091#comment_73237091
Aside from anti-endorsing Tulsi Gabbard and probably Andrew Yang, I don't currently have an endorsement for Dem candidate for POTUS 2020.
The only thing I remember about Tulsi Gabbard is that her part of the initial "Everybody Apologizes for Everything to Get Ahead of Twitter Anger" tour was about her previous comments on LGBT rights.
In fact, oddly enough, this rift in the Democratic party seems to perfectly echo the GOP vs Tea Party thing that happened in the Republican party many presidencies ago. I'd be likely to believe that history was not repeating itself if the Democratic party hadn't seen the Republican primary of 2016 and gone "You know what that process needed? More bloating and noise!"
One pundit I read suggested this whole thing is a result of having Congress but not the Senate, so they can't really do anything and they need somebody to blame.
That person, unfortunately, is a fellow party member and not a Republican.
I had already commented to him, before watching it, that I tend to ignore political commentators, because a good amount of their commentary amounts to "be outraged by this!", as opposed to meaningful analysis. And sure enough, the video involved Mr. Carlson finding the wildest, most intentionally-speculative-in-a-specific-direction ways to react to the first set of recent Democratic POTUS primary debates.
Mr. Carlson first wasted some time expressing how insane he thought the Democratic Party had gotten, and then inevitable cherry-picking started with him highlighting a line from Julian Castro suggesting that women, including transwomen, should have a legal right to abortion services. Mr. Carlson then went on a repetitive tirade about wasting taxpayer money on "men dressed as women" who "biologically" can't even get pregnant. When I pointed out that this outrage contradicted itself, since if it were a biological impossibility, then no taxpayer funds would be used anyway, said acquaintance turned to defending this by claiming that this outrage was "normal" and based on "sanity", and stuck to this reasoning despite my pointing out that this same sort of emotion-based moral panic is responsible for a thing he dislikes -- censorship of violent and sexual content in videogames.
Mr. Carlson also made much logic-leaping hay out of a silly campaign stunt in which Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke attempted to say stuff in Spanish, which came out with mangled grammar/pronunciation in both cases. Mr. Carlson's objection was not to the quality of Spanish-speaking, however, but he instead started strawmanning liberals as considering the English language "racist" (somehow, despite no one saying anything of that sort, and despite the debate itself being conducted in English!), and then went on to speculate about the prospect of English becoming banned one day (which of course makes no sense in any reasonably foreseeable future since English is at present the common language by which basically all business is conducted in the United States, and is spoken by the vast majority of residents, and even if it became a minority language there's still no reason to ban it). Said acquaintance went on to talk about how he felt that the United States as an English-speaking country is something that feels right to him...despite not being from or in the United States himself.
I guess it's telling how right-wingers would ban languages they don't like, so they have this culture war delusion where others will ban things they feel are their norms -- even though no one actually would bother to ban them. (It's particularly ironic since, where I live, the Spanish literally got here before the English anyway.)
Oh, this was in addition to Mr. Carlson characterizing Mr. Booker and Mr. O'Rourke as the "whitest" candidates, which is of course patent nonsense since Mr. Booker is (rather noticeably) black.
(And there's more nonsense where all this came from, just that I stopped giving the guy a play-by-play analysis after a while.)
TL;DR I've now watched Tucker Carlson and have seen first-hand the style of bullshit he peddles
I'm quite confused as to if this guy means the stuff he says or he does but in that annoying 'Oh I'm just saying words they don't mean anything' way. Both are annoying, but a lot of these claims are too out there for him to sanely mean them.
I did hear that his wife was recently (maybe like, a few months ago?) badgered and harassed at her home by some activists. Honestly, his ideas aren't pretty, but that was way too far. I remember one of the Vox guys was all "I can't really feel sorry for her" but I think one of the most important things about modern society is allowing everybody and anybody to peddle their ideological nonsense without harm.
Does Tucker Carlson really like Cory Booker but can't stand the fact that he isn't white, and has therefore done some mental ninjitsu to make himself feel better?
Anyways this all reminded me of
If Tucker Carlson can at the very least put his casual racism away, what is Donald Trump actually capa-
Oh yeah, that thing that's going on right now. Forgot.
Also, badgering someone for something their spouse did seems dishonorable.
However, we were talking about amassing political power earlier in IRC with Naas and he wondered why people weren't concerned when political power in a non-hereditary system seemed to be spreading via hereditary lines.
Of course, right now Donald Trump is certainly getting a bit of that, but I wouldn't say anywhere near enough. I feel like Jared Kushner, especially, is getting a lot of latitude from the media.
My theories are:
Uh, yeah. I noticed the error earlier but I totally refreshed and it didn't seem to have posted before I posted again :P
I don't know this Tucker guy, but by the sound of his name alone I felt I wouldn't like to have anything to do with him.