Politics Plus

It’s a lazy day, because, after the holiday weekend, news is scarce, but I filled the time with chores.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 5:10).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Democrats Work To Level Election Field, Undo GOP Gerrymandering

Anytime Scott Walker, Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan, takes it in the sphincter, TC does a one-legged happy dance. If we doing it across the country, so much the better. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: On Aug. 7, progressives have another chance to flip a key GOP-held House seat from red to blue in Ohio’s vacant 12th Congressional District, and Daily Kos is pleased to endorse Democrat Danny O’Connor in this special election.O’Connor has deep roots in Ohio and has served as Franklin County Recorder since 2016, where he swiftly instituted reforms to make the office more responsive to veterans (for whom his office provides ID cards) and the homeless, by implementing a plan to store birth certificates so that they can more easily apply for housing. And he practiced the progressive values he believes in by instituting the Recorder’s Office’s first paid family leave program.

His opponent, on the other hand, is an arch-conservative. Republican state Sen. Troy Balderson opposed expanding Medicaid in Ohio, even though it was backed by his own Republican governor and his GOP colleagues in the legislature. But of course, that’s not enough: He also supports repealing the Affordable Care Act altogether. And naturally, he’s voted to defund Planned Parenthood and has pledged to “build Trump’s wall.”

Danny O’Connor for Congress! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Alternet: A reporter for Breitbart News courted a black Bernie Sanders campaigner to switch allegiances to Donald Trump in 2016 — and then convinced him to work for the right-wing website and encourage his fellow African American voters to sit out the presidential election.

Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that Bruce Carter, the founder of Black Men for Bernie, revealed his story to the website after falling out with his former employers when they ceased paying him in the weeks following the 2016 election.  [emphasis added]

I wonder how many voters were fooled by this paid race-traitor. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Down with Fitzwalkerstan!

By way of explanation, my building takes several temporary RCP residents.  They are street people that have no place to go, when they are released from hospitals.  While they are here Central City Concern tries to get them into programming, but most care only about getting high.  After they are back on their feet, they move on.  Many are so addled that they have no idea how to live in decent facilities.  Most of the kitchen fires here come from RCP trying to cook when too loaded to do so.  Does that make it more clear?  WWWendy is due in 30 minutes.

WWWendy just left.  Chores all done.  She says Hi.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:24 (average 4:49).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): SAD WORLD (Parody of) Mad World (9/25/2017)

All that seems so mild compared to how much Trump has devolved since. RESIST!! VOTE!!

From Washington Post: Just before Christmas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled up to the massive Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, a California state prison complex in the desert outside San Diego that holds nearly 4,000 inmates. Kennedy was there to visit Sirhan B. Sirhan, the man convicted of killing his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, nearly 50 years ago.

While his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, waited in the car, Kennedy met with Sirhan for three hours, he revealed to The Washington Post last week. It was the culmination of months of research by Kennedy into the assassination, including speaking with witnesses and reading the autopsy and police reports.

“I got to a place where I had to see Sirhan,” Kennedy said. He would not discuss the specifics of their conversation. But when it was over, Kennedy had joined those who believe there was a second gunman, and that it was not Sirhan who killed his father.

“I went there because I was curious and disturbed by what I had seen in the evidence,” said Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and the third oldest of his father’s 11 children. “I was disturbed that the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father. My father was the chief law enforcement officer in this country. I think it would have disturbed him if somebody was put in jail for a crime they didn’t commit.”

In my opinion, one of the things that JFK, RFK and MLK have in common is that all were murdered by the Republican Reich. RESIST!! VOTE!!

From Crooks and Liars: Is the Republican National Committee offering wealthy Chinese investors access to Trump in exchange for campaign contributions?

Nooooooooo. I mean, why WOULD they? That would be improper. Illegal, even! Pay no attention to that letter with "the insignia of a real Republican committee raising money for the party and President Trump’s reelection campaign, it purported to offer a handshake and a one-on-one photo with the president for $100,000 — a “VIP” trip “to be remembered for a lifetime.” That’s all completely innocent, and the RNC knows nothing about that, they promise!

Also, completely innocuous is the upcoming fundraiser on May 31st! Ignore, if you would, the two Chinese companies charging two or three times the price of the campaign fundraiser’s ticket, promising access to and photos with the president of the United States. The RNC knows noooooothing about that.

And the emoluments march on. RESIST!! VOTE!!

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It’s time to fight the Nazis again!

It was supposed to be cloudy today, but the sun is on the wall.  61° outside.  78° in my chair.  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:57 (average 5:58).  To do it click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Things conservatives blame for mass school shootings instead of guns

Barf Bag Alert!!

It’s the guns, STUPID! RESIST!!

From Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump’s cancellation of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatens further strain on U.S.-China ties amid a trade dispute that had been intertwined with Beijing’s pressure on isolated Pyongyang.

The United States and China are also increasingly at odds in the disputed South China Sea. The Pentagon this week withdrew an invitation for China to take part in a major naval exercise in Hawaii, and Beijing has ramped up pressure on self-ruled Taiwan, armed by Washington but claimed by Beijing.

Trump on Thursday released a letter to Kim announcing his withdrawal from the planned June 12 meeting in Singapore, which would have been the first between leaders of the two countries.

Although Chinese state media called for continued engagement between Washington and Pyongyang, Trump’s move could mark a split between China and the United States over how to deal with North Korea and its nuclear weapons, experts said.

It also risks adding fuel to simmering trade tensions, just days after China and the United States pulled back from the brink of a full-blown trade war.

The Fuhrer never was never willing to negotiate and Kim knows it. Bolton’s Libya plan was clear. Trump mistakenly cancelled, because he thought Kim would, leaving Kim, another mad man, but smarter than Trump, the moral high ground. RESIST!!

From Think Progress: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) just tried to set gay rights back 20 years, lost a major endorsement as a result — and then made it clear he didn’t care.

“Every homeowner should be able to make a decision not to sell their home to someone [if] they don’t agree with their lifestyle,” Rohrabacher told members of the Orange County Association of Realtors last week when asked about extending federal protections to the LGBTQ community. It was a blatant endorsement of anti-LGBTQ housing discrimination, which has been illegal in California for nearly two decades.

The National Association of Gay and Lesbian Real Estate Professionals expressed outrage over the remarks, prompting the 1.3 million-member National Association of Realtors (NAR) to rescind its endorsement of Rohrabacher. The NAR code of ethics prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Kudos to the NAR. Discrimination of all kinds is standard for the Republican Reich, especially the ones with a wide stance! RESIST!!

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When will the next Bankster be convicted?

It’s another hot, busy day here at the CatBox.  I’m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my grocery order.  They are due any time now.  After I unpack and stow them, I’ll have lunch and finish here.  Next, I have a letter to write to the Parole Board on behalf of one of my guys.  This evening WWWendy comes to destink a very needy TomCat.  Happy Hump Day to all, but be warned.  The Psychiatrist General has determined that Trump Humping is hazardous to your brain.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 5:16).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): Beyond Trump: A Federal Jobs Guarantee

The Reich on the Left is right. The Reich on the Right is Republican. We need either Robert’s plan, or a guaranteed living minimum income. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Stacey Abrams Makes History With Georgia Win

Excellent! Not only is she a true progressive and an authentic Democrat, but also, she has the balls to RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he is “a-hundred-per-cent positive” that an F.B.I. informant infiltrated his 2016 campaign but that he has “absolutely no idea” who that mole might be.

“I’ve been trying to figure out who would have the opportunity and the motive to do something like this,” he said. “But I keep coming up empty.”

“Opportunity-wise, you’d need to be someone who’s in my inner circle and who could get close to me without raising suspicions,” he said. “But, then again, the person would have to be able to suddenly disappear for periods of time and report back to the F.B.I. I can’t think of anyone in a position to do that.”

Andy has a guess!

RESIST!!

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