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Sex abuse allegations and complaints at the service academies?
jail, payback of all compensation
its the Academy!
and, football causes brain damage: eliminate it at the academies
Other people are noticing Sen. Cory Gardner.
Jennifer Rubin, in WAPO, explains Here’s why Cory Gardner and other Republicans deserve to lose in 2020
Ouch!! Rubin is a right leaning, fairly conservative, writer.
WOTD from Stacey Abrams via Vox: "Stacey Abrams’s new essay on identity politics reveals why she’s a rising star"
Interesting article about Stacey Abrams and the argument that politics of economic insecurity should be emphasized over identity politics.
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Gods. Why does anyone still listen to Fukuyama? He's not even a leftist, yet he wants to lecture leftists (and liberals) on how to be "properly" left wing? He's such a fucking joke.
Like, yeah, class politics is important, but the dichotomy between class and identity right wingers like Fukuyama push hide how closely tied together a system liberal capitalism is with race, economic class, gender, neuronormativity, imperialism, etc all being so closely tied that they can't be talked about separate from each other. It's a single, totalizing social system.
It isn't really about Fukuyama, it's about the argument he is defending, which you hear from a lot of "centrist" Democrats and pundits, namely that the D's should avoid "identity politics" in order to appeal to white working class voters. Or, at least try to avoid offending WWC voters by mentioning racial or gender issues… I don't know.
This argument has appeal on the one hand: Economic issues (wages, jobs, industrial collapse) cut across all interest groups. Also, the Democratic Party has historically been the Party that defends the working and middle class against big business and wealthy interests.
I think the flaw in the anti-identity movement is that
(1) Each person/all people have multiple identities.
(2) ALL politics is identity politics – you can't avoid it.
How you see economic issues is strongly filtered by your identity.
The Republican propaganda machine knows this full well, and targets rural and middle american White identities incessantly with narratives and stories about identity. What else are the memes about "latte swilling liberals", or "Urban Hell-holes" or "gang-bangers from El Salvador", if not an attempt to create a split between white/rural and urban identities?
In fact, Republicans constantly use identity politics to avoid speaking directly about WWC economic issues. When did you last hear a call for strengthening the unions? It's always about taxes and getting the government regulations out of your business.
I know it's not about Fukuyama. He just started it. I just wish he'd go away because he's constantly wrong about everything.
I mean, no, the Democratic Party has historically been the party that mediates compromise between certain parts of the capitalist class and varying elements of the poorest people in the country, for awhile representing collaborationism between the rural poor and rich white urban capitalists before they added union workers to their coalition, bringing in lots of people of color and slowly alienating the rich white urban capitalists and the rural poor.
Currently they represent a collaborationist politics between unionized labor and capitalists who derive wealth mostly from capital instead of from labor where the Republicans represent a collaborationist politics between the rural poor and capitalists who derive more of their wealth from their workers' labor instead of their capital..
Regardless, tho, there is definitely a need to engage in both economic and identity issues as they are not disconnected by aid each other.
Another quality candidate drops out of the presidential race.
What a tragedy. I'm reminded of when Story Daniels ran for the US Senate in Louisiana. And Larry Flynt ran for governor of California in the recall election.
This was on the Taegen wire today and makes me like Nancy Pelosi more every day.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “could move to block President Trump from invoking a national emergency to build a border wall, forcing Senate Republicans to choose between preserving congressional power and crossing the White House,” the Washington Examiner reports.
“The California Democrat, under a seldom-used statute, could put a binding ‘resolution of disapproval’ on the House floor to counter Trump should he claim constitutional powers to unilaterally build a border wall.”
Key takeaway: “The resolution would almost assuredly pass the Democratic House. Then, in a quirk of the law — the Congressional Review Act — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would essentially be forced to hold a floor vote, with only a simple majority required for passage rather than the customary 60 votes.”
Nice. But is it a law or a norm? McConnell could care less about norms.
That hole she is digging keeps getting deeper and deeper…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-cherokee-dna.html
Any takers on whether Ralph Northam is still in office on February 15?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/ralph-northam-yearbook-blackface.html
Please. Trump is president. He'll be in office.
Okay. 35 years ago, while a student, the now gov was in a gag photo purporting to show that with enough beer, even a klansman and a black man could be friends.
In the berserk politics of today, of course he can't survive.
Who among us has never done stupid shit in our 20s? Should we all resign our present jobs when it comes to light?
Should elected public officials be held to a higher standard? Is this all a roundabout (and futile) attempt to hold high level criminals like Trump to account?
Is it more critical that the KKK is a terrorist organization involved in many murders, vandalism, and other crimes? Is that what makes this offensive gag resignation-worthy 35 years later?
These are some of the questions I have about the Northam photo scandal.
For what it's worth, I see no malign intent in the photo. It shows a stereotypical blackface man and a klansman having a good time together because of the power of beer. Perhaps a plea for tolerance?
With his belief in beer, maybe trump will put him on the supreme court.
Brett Kavanaugh did stupid drunken shit while in college. Yet, there are those on the far left; to the left of MJ; who felt his stupid shit should disqualify him from being on the SCOTUS.
I wasn't a fan of Kavanaugh's nomination and thought his performance "on the stand" at his hearing was whiny. But………
Doing stupid shit is one thing. Sexual assault, even at 16, is quite another.
Kavanaugh is not qualified to be on the Supreme Court. That's even if one doesn't believe the multiple allegations of sexual assault . His possible perjury during the Bush hearings, for example, should have been at least investigated. And Kavanaugh pretty clearly does have an established pattern of forcing himself on women while drunk.
I'm not pleading tolerance or leniency for people with established patterns of coercive behavior. That includes Democrats, like John Conyers, a man whom I admired and donated to.
I guess what I'm wondering about is whether we're setting so high a bar for absolute driven-snow purity for elected officials that no one will ever want to run for elected office, lest their youthful misdeeds be dug up and used against them.
If something from 30, 40, 50 years ago can be found by diligent oppo researchers and force a resignation, why would anyone risk it?
I don't have any deep, dark criminal past. I've never forced sex on anyone. But there are things I did as a kid that I wouldn't want to be shared with the world, should I ever decide to run for office.
Should any candidate now have to to come clean about any possibly embarrassing incident, as they would for say, a security clearance? If so, should that then become part of the public record?
It seems to me that absolute truthfulness about one's past, owning up to crap fromt the past and no longer doing stupid racist, sexist, shit should be now a part of candidacy.
Perhaps Governor Coonman deserves another chance…
Well and wisely said, MJ.
This is the black man who sat alone while Virginia's state senate paid tribute to the traitor Robert E. Lee. He shares office space with Governor Northam. Lt. Governor Fairfax was sworn in with a copy of his great, 3x, grandfather's freedom papers in his pocket. One of these men shouldn't be coming into that office Monday.
You can have my Blazing Saddles DVD, when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
I ought to have marked this an a reply to M.J. above. I half-expect he'll quit. If he had done this when he was 18 he might be able to smooth it over and save his career, but he was 25 and in med. school. “It was a dumb kid thing to have done” ain’t gonna fly.
OK, kids. The SOTU is coming. Any takers on guessing just what WILL the state of the union be according to the Doofus in Chief?
I vote for…." Awesomely Strong"…
except for the southern border which I predict will be …. "Absolute disaster all because of MS13, Chuck and Nancy!"
I’ll mute out the Doofus speech, tune back in for the Stacey Abrams response.
We can all safely skip spin on how giving Putin yet another big wet kiss ( backing out of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty) is somehow MAGA,
The usual procedure in our house is that my wife watches it, while I listen from the kitchen. Kind of the Kennedy/Nixon, radio vs. T.V. thing. Then we compare notes. This year, we'll do as M.J.; skip the speech and watch the rebuttal. I can’t bear to hear Yammie-pie speak.
Too easy, Duke . . .
. . . I mean what else could it be??
I love it!