Generally I am content to have politicians flail about at those mid 30 percent approval ratings, in a world of malcontents with contradictory demands, all of which is what makes the British political system a little hard to fathom.
Boris Johnson proceeds Liz Truss, and then follows Liz Truss. Good lird, when the Americans traded in Grover Cleveland for Benjamin Harrison and then went back to Cleveland, they gave Harrison a good four years!
Okay. Johnson isn’t that slam dunk as yet. But nobody is.
I am in the right, legally, to be walking into the middle of the street. I am in the right, safety wise, to pause as a pick up truck hurtles on. He would be better in the right to continue hurtling as opposed to making a screeching stop. As I make my way after this stop, he is in not in the right — in some frame of reference — t to shout curses out at me.
I flipped through some bs web talk during the baseball game yesterday. I saw a poster Houston Astros fan I assume, make a vulgar remark to all gleeful Mariners fans and assorted mockers as the team was up big that when the Astros win, would have to stick a part of their anatomy up the Astros anatomy apart, so get ready with the lubrication. At this point the Astros homerun victory becomes annoying not so much because of any emotional attachment to a sporting team — really, everything is met with a shrug by me — but because I encountered that guy in passing, and he will now proceed with a pile more anal sex cracks to make his good day complete.
I looked up the NFL scores during the late slate of games and, thought — hey! Neat! All the nfc west teams are losing! — but then saw that I miss saw and that the 49ers were winning. Which is just as well, as they are likely the best team there. But if everyone list, everyone would be 2-3 and I could smirkily consider — maybe another golden season for the Seahawks like 2010?
By sheer happenstance, I see the Twitter feed of an LA sports fan who… Contradicts herself depending in the fortunes of her teams. An up and down last season that resulted in a Rams championship and… who said LA football fans don’t exist? And… No one is giving this title team it’s due. Today, she bemoans that the stadium is always filled with opposing teams’ fans because LA football team fans don’t exist and, oh lord this tram sucks and last season was a fluke. And from there I begin extrapulating past her teams to wonder for sports ball fans: would you rather have five double digit division winning and make a conference championship game seasons, or four lousy seasons with one championship fluke season tossed in the mix?
And I guess for the Seahawks, we now enter the stage where everyone thinks Geno Smith’s prime years are being wasted by a lousy defense…
Oliver thinks there is a possibility that Walker may drop out of the race. “When there’s family involved, sometimes family takes precedence over things like politics. I think he should probably take a good long look at whether he wants to stay in this race or whether he wants to just get out of the race and start repairing the damage that’s been done by his campaign.” According to Georgia law, the deadline for substituting a candidate is 60 days before the general election, which would have been nearly a month ago.
If Walker drops out, voters will still have Warnock and Oliver to choose from. But if Walker had run for a House seat instead, voters would have had no other option than his Democratic opponent. That’s because Georgia law stipulates that for House races, third-party candidates must collect signatures from 5 percent of the registered voters in their district to get on the ballot—more than 20,000 in total. In nearly 60 years, no third-party candidate has successfully achieved that goal. Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to that law, leaving the restriction in place.
In Georgia, candidates need to surpass 50 percent of the vote to win outright and avoid a runoff. In 2020, Warnock secured his Senate seat by surviving a crowded special election and eking out a two-point victory over incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a January 2021 runoff. Oliver worries that the new revelations about Walker may “cause more people to not vote at all and maybe push Warnock over 50 percent.” Considering that Oliver is polling well enough to cover the difference between the two candidates, he hopes to prevent an outright win from either side and that enough Republican voters will abandon Walker “and maybe put me in the runoff” against Warnock.
He is a politician selling his chances. But if the Green Party candidate could make no headway against Democratic candidate Alvin Greene, the Republican voter isn’t jumping ship here. Heck, Gary Johnson barely made a dent with Donald Trump on the ballot and a theoretical bunch of “never” or close to that Trumpers.
Meanwhile, a familiar pattern in Pennsylvania. Fetterman OWNS social media in comparison with Oz. And his lead, predictably enough as the lead was always inflated and undecided Republicans were set to “head home”, is at the same time shrinking. He probably will win. But it won’t match his CRUSHing virtual landslide.
Sometime after reading a Rolling Stone hit piece against Betsy Johnson which, showing a divergence of politics only made Betsy Johnson look good —
— The problem with political discourse: you think you made a point, but the receptors of someone else with a different frame of reference and working against your assumptions and biases will feed in something else —
The YouTube algorithm kept feeding me a giant pile of Tina Kotek ads which… were aimed at someone not me and failed to do their job in making her an attractive candidate. As time has gone by the ads spit at me have greatly improved for a rather obnoxiously cynical reason: they are now negative ads aimed at Christine Dra. That being said, I encounter one weird problem with them — a visual which I assume ties her to the January 6 events of our nation’s capital, words blare across the screen — “Ties with extremists”. Shut off the volume and I assume it’s a Republican ad showing footage of the events before the Federal building two summers’ back in what the liberal weeklies gleefully charged as an ” uprising”. But I guess the ads are targeted well, and Kotek is playing the base strategy of sorts.
I suppose watching a close game where the defense falters — and the opponent seems to emerge as a marginal playoff probability — gets us …
Wait. The airspace was invaded by a drone! That’s the most exciting non playing sporting happening in a Seattle sports game since… an explosive device went off in a game in 1979.
Back to the game: Wow. Defense stinks. We have to turn back next week to see how they do against the preseason viewed as up and coming Lions team. Check out the ads on this sports ball site. Hm.
Are you horny and depressed? Well then! Got a psychographic down, I guess. Um. Exactly how does this depression treatment work?
OK. Check in on the Srahawks and Lions. Defense wins championships and things and all that! Hhow Did they do? Geno Smith has tremendous stats and looks like an all pro! But then again, so does Jared Goff. Wow. That was… Offense! Like, the 31st and 32nd best defenses in the league, I gather. And now everybody is claiming that Smith is better than Wilson, which…
… Wait. What the Heck just happened in that Broncos – Colts Thursday night classic?
Gavin Newsom has announced he is not running for president in 2024, in a statement parsed about to see if he is indeed running for president. Theoretically the logic of announcing no bid while keeping it open would be so his weird advertising in Florida, Texas, and stunting over Abortion might have more impact — more altruistic than political, the thinking be.
I give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest he has taken the pulse of the country and arrived at the obvious: not going to happen. He doesn’t really have a “California Story” to sell the nation — apart from claiming a national mantle on Abortion access and transgendered sports-ball allowances. The political moment and array of elected officials depresses me.
There are two things that interest me with Newsom’s latest statements. The first, the reason cited for staying out of a presidential exploration exploration — the recall election chastised him. That seems completely insane, given how utterly torpedoed that thing was. But, I guess, it may be a place to cite that makes him look good — the humble brag. The second statement concerns Biden — it was a shibboleth of liberal Democratic posturing, offering that the problem with Biden is he still believes in some noble period of bipartisan goodwill. It was a statement that comes across as a shuttle through the old rolodex — it will get unhappy unsatisfied liberals nodding, even as it has not a lick of sense to it and does not match up to anything in Biden’s presidency. There were times you could apply it to Obama and Clinton, if so desirous — and so positioned to judge fall outs. It is another manner of carping “we can’t get all we want and f everything” — or, I guess, instant memory robotics, sounding the speech in tone deafness.
Let’s see now. Nothing he said has anything to do with communism or the dictatorship of the proletariat. … being a “maga communist” is like trying to be healthy by eating massive amounts of sugar and exercising. the one thing kind of overrides all the benefits of the latter … He’s even modeling his vocal inflections after Tucker Carlson … What does he mean by “do away with” John Bolton (who already resigned under Trump)? (In theory, keep him out of the next Republican administration?) … “Yeah, I’m a libertarian communist conservative, because I’ve decided words don’t mean anything.” … i’m a Siddhartha Gautama Communist. I’m a Sadie Hawkins Communist. I’m a Flintstone’s Cocoa Pebbles Communist. I’m a Julius Caesar Communist. I’m a Mastodon Communist. I’m a Tuesday Communist. I’m a Realm-Between-Dimensions Communist. I’m a Pike’s Peak Communist. I’m a megalomani …
Geoff Young Point: We Dems are better re 2 issues: abortion rights & protecting the environment. Counterpoint from spacemegalarouche: Oh you mean the two biggest projects in global eugenics and imperialism today? Wow Geoff, the democrats are so awesome!
More friction between Larouchies and Geoff Young: Get this, the GeoffYoung4KY campaign field director… Is attacking us for organizing in NYC? How is it a bad thing for us to organize in the most populous city in our state? Geoff, get yah minions in your campaign under control! Shameful! Theoretically, isn’t Geoff Young trying to win an election within the state of Kentucky? Like, I saw here in Portland a yard sign for McGrath a couple years’ back. It didn’t do her any good.
The War Commences
“The Queen is worse than Hitler” … (At the long list of diatribes against Charles Manson — evil and not British –, Bertrand Russell, The Beatles, and … One Direction? That’s a new one!
Dear German citizens, I am grateful for your country’s help to Ukrainians in this war, but this video is what many Ukrainians who fled to your country because of the war are facing. I have a big request for you: help identify the people in the video. Such behavior is unacceptable. In my opinion, their employers should be aware of these views. They should be held accountable for their harassment of Ukrainian refugees and their xenophobic stance in denying Russia’s crimes, which have been documented by numerous organizations
@avaritiaprima if I am not confusing anything, you seem to deal with such cases, can you help here?
Madam, you are beautiful. Special respect for not switching to dog language with Muscovites. What kind of city is that?
The author of the video is very patient. I would not have the patience to speak to those people.
It is so unfair and painful that Ukrainians flee from Russian bombs from Ukraine and are forced to go through the moral torture of Russians already in other countries.I don’t even know which international organization I can tag, they are all morally bankrupt
BüSo, I’m not surprised. Political sect, one is more degenerate than the other.
I am very sorry about that! I am ashamed of the behavior of these people, they are only a minority, but that doesn’t make it any better
Is it possible? just stop talking to a woman who lost family members to a russian bomb?! The Russian in the vid just needs to keep her cheeks shut and show that she has a SPARK of empathy and decency!
The blond Russian woman says that the Ukrainian woman should go away because she lives on her tax payments and gets 1000€ a month
What an ignorant & shameless person. She herself takes huge advantage of the opportunity to stay & work in the EU, and her home country is not attacked & beeing destroyed. Thanks!
The leader of BüSo party according to wikipedia says this: Zepp-LaRouche wrote an article describing climate change as a “Satanic Oswindle”… she suggested the origin of the “swindle” is the British monarchy. I have a feeling *arguments* won’t work.
Oh god. What a bunch of absolute freaks. Ideally just avoid at all costs. If you know German WTF is this ?? Look at this video from the BüSo party. Why is the guy not in a mental asylum ???
Side note. The poster at the beginning of the video is by organisation that promotes “bridges” with Russia and China, obv where propaganda is reiterated on autopilot. So surprised but not surprised
büso is the german part of the larouche movement. they probably don’t even have jobs they only live for their cult. better to stay away from them they are brain washed and psychologically broken
When I worked in the Texas Legislature they were still around, and would drop off conspiracy fliers claiming LBJ killed JFK. So many odd conspiracy theories about water policy, too?
Not to sound too much like Jack Ryan, but I actually met LaRouche and his wife once (not at a party). Then, had one of his minions as a colleague for a while. Strange times.
I remember the LaRouche supporters, they’d try to sell you magazines like the Jehovah Witness Watchtower. Two difference: the Jehovah Witnesses hand their stuff out for free, and kept the leftovers for later attempts. The Larouchies handed their stuff out freely too, but then barked out a demand for payment — and also in the end left their merch in bulk at the nearest public garbage can to their card table location.
The Michigan GOP and “voter protection“. Haven’t seen LaRoucheniks in quite a while. At least not since a concentration camp survivor lost it and the old guy beat up the LaRouchenik behind the Obama as Hitler sign. These “Putin is our Friend” folks were Trumping before Trump.
Response: That they are now trying to deflect and force me into a debate about land bridge is hilarious. What is there to debate about LaRouche’s utopian hypothesizing about building a land bridge? What does it have to do with LaRouche’s fascist theory and practice? A debate about land bridge: “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we built a land bridge?” “Yeah, sure, I don’t know, maybe”
Dateline Boston: A roving UHub correspondent reports a gaggle of LaRouchies were out in front of the Park Street T station this morning alerting the public to the perfidy of evil old England. Kind of impressive considering ol’ Lyndon finally kicked the bucket in 2019.
Comments: Lyndon Larouche was a good example of what the supervillains and ultravillains of comics and movies would be like in the real world. Evil, megalomaniacal, exerting a terrifying degree of mind control over widespread minions, but also stupid, incompetent, and absurdly paranoid. This news sent me to nostalgically perusing his Wikipedia article, where I learned that he once shared a cell with Jim Bakker, who said of him, “to say LaRouche was a little paranoid would be like saying that the Titanic had a little leak.” I also learned that, according to Lyndon, the Beatles were “a product shaped according to British Psychological Warfare Division specifications.” Now I never would have thought of that.
It’s unfortunate that he never hooked up with David Icke, who could have told him that Elizabeth II is not just a drug dealer and international criminal, but a reptilian being from another dimension. Get with the program, Lyndon!
I haven’t seen the current crop, but in the recent past, whenever I have seen the LaRouchies I am always surprised at how young and fresh-faced they are, and how such youth could go for the ancient, outdated ideas of such a dried up, out of touch (and now deceased) ) fossil. Something keeps that machine chugging along. Because in my observation I see that, despite what the media tells you, most culties (not to mention drug addicts) are now generally middle aged. If you don’t believe me, go take a look at the North Station area or the Methadone Mile. Not a lot of “youth” or “kids” there.
let`s hope soon we will talk about that gaggle of trumpies at park st. The same way we admire the larouchy crazies now.
Standing in the way: It’s messed up because I tick most all the marks for being some infra LaRouchie weirdo (YIMBY who loves nuclear and hates degrowth) but I’m just like nah, civil rights are good, so the transformation remains incomplete. I mean A Lot of the LaRouche losers seem like their beliefs logically line up with YIMBYism but when it comes to housing they are, by far, some of the most insufferable online NIMBYs.
Lorg-er throws it down at LPAC: That roaring sound you hear is LaRouche spinning in his grave, watching you sell out while still fraudulently displaying his name.
Point: Trying to create a LaRouche map and losing my mind at how many different connections he has to the Hoffas He’s somehow on both sides of the murder Counterpoint: REMINDER: Your ideation of “Larouche Political- Mapping” is an overlay for another person’s shower curtain, and the longer you’re on Twitter, the more likely they’re gonna meet.
Canada’s Larouche Team trips up, Burke pounces: Steve Bannon is the enemy of #MAGACommunism. He has done everything is his power to steer Trump and the Trump constituency in the direction of hatred and fear of China. He is a leading political opponent of he World Land-Bridge. TPUSA serves the Great Reset. I am reasonably certain in all interviews with Bannon, — friendly or adversarial — the world land bridge does not come up.
Who the hell did that “flyer” because my 10 yr old could design a better one. The all lower case text in red? The typewriter font? The burning whatever? There isn’t a chance I’d trust these people with a credit card.
Right? With all this jerking off to Soviet aesthetics and whatnot, you’d think someone could put together a proper poster
I find it kind of hilarious that to them “gyms” are a top concern in the country and deserve its own bullet point.
He’s more like dollar store Limonov.
Not as entertaining and you can’t get into shouting matches with Hinklers while waiting for your Orange Julius and pizza dog.
At this point, I think he is doing an Andy Kaufman type bit. And I am glad. No one will even dare take red-brown alliance seriously ever again.
At least the original article had nunchucks
What’s your opinion on how organic this “movement” is? I’m not one to accuse others of being OPs but a whole network of these weirdos materialized basically overnight, some with massive followings, and Hinkle has been on OAN and Tucker recently. Seems real suspicious to me
LaRouche without the intellectual firepower (but, thus far, with fewer murders)
TBH I agree with 80% of the points. When I see “antifa street terrorism” and “patriotic education, end woke academia” I realise none of the good stuff is really on the menu.
Finally, a political leader who is willing to remove the red tape!
Mike Tracy — cautionary tale for contrarians, if you compulsively disagree with liberals whatever they say and are incapable of admitting error, then sooner or later you’ll wind up doing Hitler apologia. …. Every generation gets the Lyndon LaRouche it deserves
Burke during a thingy: Does a point produce circular action, or does circular action produce a point? Reply: Dec.17/78 (New York)* Dobbs: Lyn, have you ever noticed that the central feature of all machines is rotation? LaRouche: Now that’s a mouthful, Bob! I’ll have to think about such a sweeping generalization, but my first impression is it has the ring of fact. *may not have occurred
Mr. Train’s other oddball preoccupations that led to books included “remarkable words with astonishing origins,” “mots justes and indispensable terms” and “remarkable occurrences” (in 1895, for instance, only two cars existed in Ohio, and, Mr. Train claimed, they collided).
He treated his political interests less jokingly. A committed cold warrior, he wrote for The Wall Street Journal about military affairs. He became concerned that the conspiracy-monger Lyndon LaRouche was a “possible Soviet agent,” Mr. Train’s longtime assistant Sara Perkins said in a phone interview, and he convened meetings at his home for journalists, law enforcement agents and others in government to raise awareness about research he had done into Mr. LaRouche.
Mr. Train’s activism provoked a ferocious reaction from Mr. LaRouche’s followers, who accused him in 1991 of serving as “chief propagandist in the ‘Get LaRouche’ drive.” In 2007, Washington Monthly wrote that Mr. LaRouche had encouraged his followers to believe that “they were the victims of mass conspiracies” that were “usually perpetrated” by Mr. Train.
This guy’s commentary pops up on my YouTube algorithm. And to be sure, that’s because I occasionally watch it. A basic habit he has is to say “Now, I don’t really pay attention to Hollywood celebrities, but –“, as a preface for ranting on for ten minutes about the latest celebrity / political brohauhau feeding A lot of Twitter feeds..
I am not watching this one, and maybe he clarifies this and offers an opinion different from that which conservatives and Republicans did have with Jon Stewart, but Trevor Noah “destroy” ing The Daily Show does imply Stewart ran a fantastic ship. Did Trevor Noah make this show political? Or (gasp) is there some recognition on the nuances of Stewart’s political positioning — who get did burned a couple times in trying to be reasonable to his conservative entities and assuming good faith. (The Acorn sting video comes to mind.)
I have zero opinion on Trevor Noah, but his show looked successful enough, considering the glut Jon Stewart created. Maybe Comedy Central should look for a Craig Kilborn and let Colbert and Kimmel battle this liberal political fight.
Ronny Elliott "Mr. Edison's Electric Chair"
Bobby Short "Don't Bring Lulu"
TV On the Radio "Dreams"
Archers of Loaf "White Trash Heroes"
Murray Attaway "Fear of God"
Fountains of Wayne "I Want an Alien for Christmas"
The Divorce "Yes"
The Bluetones "Mudslide"
Black Box Recorder "Brutality"
Meat Puppets "Leaves"
Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"
Neil Young "Keep on Rocking in the Free World"
The Louvin Brothers "The Great Atomic Power"
