https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/03/progressives-virginia-loss-corporate-democrats-have-only-themselves-blame
Democrats always lose when they second guess what Republican voters want and then pander to that.
I’ll never understand this… the answer to what Republican voters want is… Republican politicians. There’s no way to appease that. They want to see and R and 95%+ of them don’t care about anything else.
ACA proved that. Obama went with a full appeasement strat: 1:1 introduce healthcare approach by top Repiblican candidate.
But because it was now a Democrat plan, states chose this hill to, in many cases literally, die on – rather than allow a black Democrat install republican policy on national level.… Continue reading
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-kinzinger-marjorie-taylor-greene-communist-infrastructure-highways_n_6187163ae4b0c8666bdd9f9d
She’s one of the worst extremist politicians out there. Everything Democratic is communism, every Democrat is a socialist, every bill not brought forth by Republicans is wasteful, illegal, blah blah blah. She insists on voting No on anything put forth by Democrats, just because it’s from Dems. Yet everyone knows if Republicans put forth the same bill, she’d be screaming for it to be passed. She is a grifter, a fearmonger, a hypocrite and a bigot.
If it had been Democrats who stormed the Capitol to try to disrupt the confirmation of Trump as President, she absolutely would be calling for the death penalty for all of them.… Continue reading
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nascar-brandon-brown-lets-go-brandon-corporations-marketability-tough
I feel absolutely gutted for this guy.
For those of you who don’t follow NASCAR, Brandon Brown competes in the Xfinity Series, which can be thought of as the second division of NASCAR. He raced for years at lower levels before starting his own team with his dad in 2019.
He has grinder his way up the ladder. Starting off with secondhand equipment and part-time sponsors, he’s slowly built his way up into a fairly consistent top-20 contender, despite having to employ as many as 25 different sponsors for a 33 race season.
This year, he became a feel-good story as his father has been battling cancer, and unfortunately couldn’t be at the track for the first time in Brandon’s career.… Continue reading
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-it-wise-bar-democrats-who-move-red-states-voting-1664155
On Wednesday, the Georgia congresswoman posted on Twitter that “brainwashed people” who move from California and New York need a “cooling-off period.” Her comment was in response to a Twitter user who wrote he supports discriminating against Democratic transplants, including restricting their ability to vote for a period of time. He also wrote that they should have to “pay a tax for their sins.”
Republicans are waging full scale war on our voting institutions. This isn’t some off hand joke, it’s a statement from an elected US official. She deadass believes this, and odds are good that swaths of republicans do as well.… Continue reading
We knew their infrastructure was crap when Harvey happened. Now this. My dad is still talking about “add DC and we will secede” and “Texas will have its own refinery and oil and jobs and wealth” and I clapped back that he better call his state representatives to pull that hand back for federal aid. One thing Texans always brags about is how they have their own independent power grid. How’s that working out?
Well, the point was to avoid regulations that would force them to do things like winterize their system.
So, exactly like intended?
It’s like trump gutting Obama’s pandemic system.… Continue reading
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/abs/long-shadow-of-slavery-the-persistence-of-slave-owners-in-southern-lawmaking/98B62393860C0F1B5A6E3A9F870F8C61
Cotton was still an important crop, even if they couldn’t produce at the same ridiculously high margins as when they had slaves working the fields. If you still had the cotton fields then you still had a means of accumulating wealth (and thus power). They also had the wealth accumulated during legal slavery, wealth creates more wealth. They had wealth to buy slaves and farmlands before ie they were wealthy to begin with. The georgia colony trustees didnt give out 5000 acre plots of land on the savannah river to colonists from english debtors prisons.
Here, the settlers would have to conform to Oglethorpe’s plan, in which there was no elected assembly.… Continue reading
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