caucus99percent

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I'm seeing a disturbingly large number of progressives buying into Trump's bullshit.
I understand why - because we've already seen rigged elections.
However there is one huge difference - the rigged elections that we've seen were the Democratic primaries. Why is that important?

It has to stop. All of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this. It’s too much. Yes, fight for every legal vote. Go through your legal process. … Death threats, physical threats, intimidation, it’s too much. It’s not right. They have lost the moral high ground to claim that it is.

Sidney Powell, PC, famed Texas attorney, has Released the Kraken! The long-awaited cephalopod emerged from the depths Thanksgiving Eve and splashed down like month-old fish on a Cryptocaryon-infested deli counter.

Something/Someone Old

I found this today while Christmas shopping for a dear friend I don't see much. She's interested in maps, and she's from the Research Triangle, so I thought this might be nice:

Rage Against The Machine, that is.
RATM had some of the best, most politically explosive lyrics in music history.
I know that's a bold statement.
I say it with deference to Bob Dylan.

The Clash wrote such brilliant songs as Lost in the Supermarket and Clampdown. In Death and Glory was possibly the single greatest line in rock history: "He who fuck nuns will later join the church."

That was the prior expectation. No doubt Kate Aronoff and others expected Joe Biden's big contact with the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to head the Office of Management and Budget.