Ninga
Ninga's JournalThey are really good at this. They know how to hammer away because WE
are the champions of all that is good and fair. They make us blink and doubt and eat our own and then watch with glee as we slay our own on the alter of righteousness.
I have so much self doubt about the 30 year hammering and outright lies HRC was subjected to, that I didn't do enough.
Voting for her wasn't enough to erase 30 years of injustice.
So, how do we,push back, make noise, and call into question he "outing" of Franken?
It either matters or not that Roger Stone foreshadowed yesterday's events in the middle of the night. Are they so bold, and think so little of our resolve that they can trot out any old kinards and we will bite at their bait?
I believe we miserably failed HRC by not exposing the witch hunt. Remember how the 2000 photo of the supposed "good people of Florida" storming the board of elections was exposed as being GOP operatives. It was STAGED!
Yes, Franken mugging for the photo was juvenile- what if he were giving her the middle instead of mock groping...?
You got yer serial abusers, you got yer pedophiles and
then you got yer assholes.
So there. The photo was stupid and tasteless, I do not see where he actually touched her, and then of course his mugging for the photographer is indicative of juvenile behavior.
He should not step down. There should be a hearing.
When people of good-will vote, people of good-will, win.
Just sayin.
The story for me was the massive voter turnout. We must make voting a cool thing to,do, not an eye rolling chore.
Voters need to know that the enemy of good is perfect, and perfect is not a reason to skip voting.
By the way, I also hope that last night results help some Democratic officials getting reacquainted with their balls.
Edited for clarity, or not!
Example of Mueller's chess game....
Apparently Manafort's former attorney will be compelled to testify...
Snip..
In a 37-page opinion dated Oct. 2 and unsealed this week, Judge Howell determined that Manafort and Gates’ former attorney could be compelled by Mueller “to testify before a grand jury regarding limited aspects of her legal representation of the Targets, which testimony the [special counsel’s office] believes will reveal whether the Targets intentionally misled [the Department of Justice] about their work on behalf of a foreign government and foreign officials.”
Snip..
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/why_a_judge_ruled_paul_manafort_isn_t_entitled_to_attorney_client_privilege.html
Joy Ann Reid analysis
The break down of 2012 voters leads to 2016 results. Her piece is not that long, it's impact undeniably hard hitting.
"What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things."
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/seeds-trump-s-victory-were-sown-moment-obama-won-ncna811891
Ignorance, small mindedness, and insular self-absorbed thinking is what got us Dotard.
Thank you DU.
I'm just trying to make myself feel better knowing thousands and thousand of people will now know how I really feel.
Love you All! (Well, mostly)..
Is it me? Or is the WH press corp a toothless tiger??
SHS has a pattern. She uses a stock answer for all difficult questions.
"the president wants to have a conversation about that"
" I can't answer that because we need to have a conversation about that"
"Until we have a conversation about that and learn more, I can't answer that"
If I were in that room I would ask
"What will the president learn in a conversation, that he already doesn't know about bump stocks?"
"Is there anything the president already knows, that doesn't require him to have a conversation with some one else?"
George Clooney.......
GEORGE CLOONEY'S 'PRAYER' POEM
I pray for my country.
I pray that we can find more that unites us than divides us.
I pray that our nation's leaders want to do the same.
I pray that young children like Tamir Rice can feel safe in their own neighborhood.
I pray for all our children.
I pray for our police and our first responders.
I pray for our men and women of the armed services.
I pray that dissent will always be protected in this great country.
I pray for a more perfect union. And when I pray, I kneel.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4922678/George-Clooney-pens-POEM-support-NFL-players.html#ixzz4tszOm7R4
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, Scholar, Attorney, Educator, Activist, and Pioneer.
it is the Pioneers who went first.
It is the Pioneers who forged uncharted territory.
It is the Pioneers who had arrows in their backs.....
This Ta-Nehisi-Coats essay...is one for the ages.
This is difficult reading. Am buying The Atlantic today, so I may yellow highlight darn near every word.
This resonates so much with me because Just yesterday I wrote here at DU, how "seasoned politicos know fully well that words used as weapons, matter."
Coats writes brilliantly that words used to polite-away the heart of Trump voters is to deny the on-going struggle for equality.
While his content is overwhelming to digest...somehow, it flows like a thirst quenching rushing river. I love this man and his gift.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
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