It's about 8 months after the electoral college handed Dipshit Dumpsterfire Trump the presidency (With the help of Hillary Clinton and the DNC) and the Democratic Party is still whining. Yet for all that whining, they can't seem to shake the very tactics, non-policies and toxic identity politics that led to their loss to begin with.
Finally can we bury that old chestnut?
Perhaps in the darkest days of World War II, when so much was lost, when hope stood all alone, when many Americans stood up ready to die, perhaps then, in that moment, it meant something real and tangible. Maybe in a few brief instances since was an ideal and a nation actually one and the same.
America first has always been the reality, every action calculated for our own benefit.
Petitions were due yesterday afternoon to qualify initiatives to be on the ballot for the November election.
The anti-transgender group, Just Want Privacy, had been gathering signatures for proposed initiative 1552. But they needed 260,000 valid signatures to reverse a 2015 state regulation guaranteeing access to restrooms and locker rooms according to the gender a person lives with rather the sex assigned at birth. They say they came up 20,000 signatures short.
Once again I acknowledge that I am not a lawyer. But news is news.
In Wisconsin the Kenosha Unified School District is having a tough time digesting their loss at the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in the case of high school senior Ash Whitaker.
Don't blame Meteor Man. That's what The American Prospect decided to call a series of articles about the demographic voters the Democratic party needs to turn out if they ever want to win another Presidential election.
Assuming, of course, the Democratic party manages to stop Republican gerrymandering, purging voter rolls and hacking black box voting and the human species survives the Trump Presidency.
Of late, some of us have focused upon word usage; e.g., https://caucus99percent.com/content/liberals-must-not-say-liberal-left-p... (me) and https://caucus99percent.com/content/language-progressive-movement (gjohnsit).
Republicans are good at opposing things, but they absolutely suck at everything else.
That is becoming painfully obvious with the Obamacare repeal.
The news media are often slow on adopting correct terminology for phenomena with which they have insufficient experience.
Case in point:
Male fish are turning into females thanks to chemicals from birth control pills and makeup being flushed down drains, according to a new study.
