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Video Thread 4/23/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 4:47 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 232021

The Lincoln Project – Well, this is interesting. I believe it’s called “stiring the s***.”

Meidas Touch – “Impressed?

Really American – Mo Brooks

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-fire-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy
Glenn Kirschner – I’m glad he’s taking this up … and has information on a petition (which I’ll spare you tracking down through Twitter)

Earth Day – “Trash TV” – Every time this video is watched, it will fund the removal of one piece of plastic from the ocean. I don’t know for sure if that is true for embeds, but you can always click through just in case.

LPLP – “Welcome home, Rattler! Michael “Rattler” Markus, “who served during the NoDAPL protests as an Akicita (defender), positioned between police and water protectors to keep everybody safe, was arrested in February of 2017. He subsequently accepted a plea to a civil disorder charge stemming from his presence on Oct. 27, 2016 — when law enforcement assaulted unarmed water protectors with sound cannons, tasers, bean bags, rubber bullets, and pepper spray.” Sprry about the spring plains wind, which can be heard throughiut.

5 Things Cats Do Better Than Humans!

Video Thread 4/21/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 2:32 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 212021

Tweet – POTUS and VPOTUS call to Floyd family after vrdict

President Biden and VP Harris call the Floyd family after the GUILTY verdict! Thank you @POTUS & @VP for your support! We hope that we can count on you for the police reform we NEED in America! ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/cg4V2D5tlI

— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) April 20, 2021

Republican Accountability Project

Really American – check for CC – also, this has been scrapped

Now This News – what you are not being shown

Lakota People’s Law Project

J Street recognizes Jimmy Carter with the Tzedek v’Shalom Award

Fugelsang – The Inadequate Dictator

Beau “Let’s talk about reaching your right wing family and posture statements” I don’t know how helpful this will be, but we should know about it.

Video Thread 4/20/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 2:28 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 202021

I do apologize for being late. I thought it was worth waiting for the verdict, which I immediately posted on the Personal Update. And was it ever worth while! I can’t stop crying but they are good tears.

The Lincoln Project

Glann Kirschner on Chauvin closing arguments. As of 4 pm EDT, there is a verdict. The Washington Post is covering it live. It is so fast that I am hopeful. And – YES

File under “No s***, Sherlock” – except that so many are ignorant of it.

Now This News – This happened in India. The mother is blind. It happened so fast, it loops four time in this one minute video (with no words.)

Beau exceeded 600K supporters yesterday, but still found time to post about the KKKaucus and its implications.

Video Thread 4/19/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 2:20 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 192021

The Lincoln Project – Another reminder video. Well, that’s what we need. Otherwise people forget.

Now This News generally has CC both enabled and built in. This has neither. I can only imagine the person who posted it needed a hanky too – so much so as to forget CC

Ring of Fire – Interesting news from Texas

Corey Ryan Forrester (not shouty for once) – Boilerplate Conservative Campaign Ad

Beau – Questions about Chicago (Adam Toledo). Credit to Beau for being able to speak in a controlled manner. I think I’d be shrieking. (Ck CC)

Video Thread 4/17/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:42 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 172021

The Lincoln Project – The silennce speaks for itself

Meidas Touch – Right.

Now This News – File under “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.”

John Fugelsang is REALLY on a roll. It’ll take me days to catch up.
Ted Cruz FOX audtion Part I

Ted Cruz FOX audition Part II

Puppet Regime

Beau – Chicago – Strobe lights. The boy’s name was Adam Toldeo.

Video Thread 4/14/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 10:48 am Open Thread, Politics

Apr 142021

As I type, it is only about 10:30 am in Portland – which would have been more than enough time for TC to have posted normally, but quite possibly not enough time for a computer tech to have arrived, or, having arrived, to have finished. I’m going to put up the video thread early and wait before putting up a placeholder.

I know I’ve been kind of pushing Glenn Kirschner, and his videos run longish (this one is 9 minutes), but he is so articulate and really knows the Constitution, I find every second I spend with him is educational and profitable. The Fourth Amendment, people.

Really American – “Teen Love”

Liberal Redneck J&J vaccine

John Fugelsang is really on a roll! “The Matt Gaetz Prison Podcast”

Parody Project (and TFT) respond to YouTube taking down their video not too long ago. Brilliant. Also, a link to a new location!

Beau – President Biden is nominating many extremely qualified people, including some whose credentials are not exactly expected (spoiler: and probably better than the usual.) This pick is a case in point.

Video Thread 4/9/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:33 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 092021

politicsrus – another one that has written narration and snippets of quotes but no CC.

[0:10] (MLK] Mind you, friends your vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have to create a more perfect union. On one occasion a man was asked to count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap. On another occasion a man was asked to count the number of jelly beans in a jar -to keep them from casting their ballot.
[0:30] [Stacey Abrams?] The Governoris signing a bill that affects more Georgians – why are they doing it in private and why do they try to keep elected officials representing us out of this process?
[0:48][Rev Warnock]The Georgia election was certainly free of any consequential fraud. We counted the village not once not twice but three times
[music]
[1:20][Warnock] They don’t like the outcome. So this is democracy in reverse where Politicians have decided that instead of voters picking their representatives, their representatives have a right to cherry pick the voters.
[1:36] Dozens of prominent black business leaders in America, calling for companies to fight against georgia’s controversial voter legislation. We’re asking corporate America to publicly and directly oppose any discriminatory legislation and all measures designed to limit America’s ability to vote.
[2:16] There’s work to be done.

Meidas Touch – Projection…

Now This News – Despite pockets of crazies, I am proud of my state … and certainly proud of out Secretary of State.

Now This News – This is at least promising. We will have to see to what degree the promise is kept.

Republican Accountability Project “Weekend at Mar-a-Lago”

The Lincoln Project – “Stain”

“Ye Old Karen Shanty” – can “Release the Karen” be far behind?

Video Thread 4/8/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:17 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 082021

Real Glenn Kirschner on Sixth Amendment Rights vs. Fifth Amendment Rights – about 13 minute but pertinent way betond just this trial.

politicsrus – “Justice on Trial” The narrative is all shown written, withe a music background. /there are a few speakers whose words are not captioned. I got a transcription of those quotes, and I’ll include time stamp where they occur.

[0:17] Our loyalty is not to South Africa; it is to South Africans. In the south, Africans are majority black and they are being excoriated.
[0:35] We are not going to [unintelligible]
[1:02] Check his pulse … check his pulse
[1:46] You cannot [keep people] deep down, marginalized, threatened, and kill people, and think we ain’t gonna stand up then eventually.

Now This News – it’s not on loop, it just repeats the intro at the end.

Republican Accountability Project

Ring of Fire – Yeah – state employees (including my bestie) have known for years this was going to happen – it was just a matter of when. But who listens to peons who actually know what they are talking about?

We really need to stop fooling with Mother Nature. She fights back aggressively.

Beau on Positional asphyxiation, police policy, and The Trial

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