- Vagabond Scholar:
Step one is defeating Trump, but efforts can't stop there. I'm always in favor of outreach and discussion, but it's important to acknowledge that they might not work – some people will never be persuadable – especially if they're primarily driven by spite. We can't count on 'cooler heads to prevail' or 'the better angels of their nature' to hold sway for everyone. The conservative base hates many of their fellow Americans and will not be dissuaded. So while we're trying to convince the crowd charmed by the season's latest bigot or snake oil salesman to reconsider, it's essential to get out the vote in case such outreach fails. Voting is crucial, and sustained activism is even more so.
- Mr. Trump argues that a woman cannot be president, because that's never happened before.
Of course, there is precedent for having a crook in office... (Shareblue, Melissa McEwan, via Shakesville) - I really need to do a roundup about the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock; meanwhile, have some pictures. (Swiped from skippy the bush kangaroo)
- ugh at Obsidian Wings:
so, too, vote suppression is a long term GOP project that pre-dates and will post-date Trump. It may swing the Senate election in North Carolina, where according to the elections project twitter account it's the only southern state where African-American early voting declined.... UPDATE: Massive non-evidence of voter fraud!
- Ilana Novick, AlterNet, summarizing Paul Krugman:
Fox, Breitbart, and their ilk may have been outwardly spreading lies, but, as Krugman notes, the mainstream media "simply refused to report on policy issues, a refusal that clearly favored the candidate who lies about these issues all the time, and has no coherent proposals to offer."
Oddly, one pageview in the last day came via Dr. Krugman's NYTimes blog. I assume that was an accident.
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First, Clinton, against all possible odds, has run an excellent campaign, one whose relentless attacks would have felled lesser candidates in days. Second, if she does win, it will be "thanks to Americans who stood up for our nation’s principles—who waited for hours on voting lines contrived to discourage them, who paid attention to the true stakes in this election rather than letting themselves be distracted by fake scandals and media noise."
- Roleplay, unacknowledged . (Lance Mannion, too much to quote. Well, maybe a nibble: "Every answer she tried sounded like an evasion, because it was---she was evading saying 'Fuck off. I can't explain it. I wasn't paying that much attention to the details back then because it didn't occur to me I'd have to explain why I was doing what my predecessors did as a matter of course to a howling pack of shallow-minded, self-important, clueless hacks!'----but also because it wasn’t accepted or reported as an answer. It was just another excuse for another story about how there were still 'questions.'")
"Who discovered America?"Who is to blame for Trump? Conservative gibbering as reported by Yastreblyansky. Smaller families. Hah!- Zandar Versus The Stupid:
One of the big fights here in Cincinnati is over the Brent Spence bridge, which carries I-71/75 traffic across the Ohio River and is one of the busiest trucking bridges in the country. Republicans really, really want to turn it into a private toll bridge because it would be a massive profit generator for whoever got the bid. Voters really, really want to throw out whoever votes for such a plan in either northern Kentucky or southwest Ohio.
Trump vowed to fix the bridge with this plan on Friday at his rally in Ohio.
Trump did not announce how he planned to replace the Brent Spence or what he would do to cover those costs.
- ThinkProgress:
In other words, if it’s discrimination on the basis of race to treat an employee differently because of the race of their partner, then it should be discrimination on the basis of sex to treat an employee differently because of the sex of their partner. “Only because the Court finds the sex stereotyping rationale sufficiently compelling and dispositive, does it not examine fully the ‘association’ line of cases and how they would apply here,” Bissoon wrote.
*Yes, I know, The Fugitive. Les Misérables has entertaining descendants.
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