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US PoliERA 2018 |OT13| And now the fun starts
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Hey isn't that the guy from the adverts for the Playstation Store?
seriously I can't unsee it.
I'm always surprised when you see celebrities not doing just this.
Even if you don't believe any of it, it's clearly the best approach in terms of outcomes.
Don't they have PR crisis teams?
This does not seem like a super difficult puzzle to solve.
Who is he even trying to appeal to?
Jefferson Davis is not exactly a celebrated person in the racist southern circles.
To me, he looks more like Daniel Day Lewis going method for a role as an Irish mob boss.
Money and power buy you the ability to ignore people who tell you no.
Looks like he grew up in NC, that's probably what the Davis thing is about since it's pretty close in proximity to Richmond/VA and such in the wake of the revisionism. (We're going to finally be scrubbing his name off Jefferson Davis Highway here in NOVA pretty soon.)
TPM has the transcript for the Comey interview; just a lot of House GOP covering fire without the benefit of a TV audience:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/transcript-comey-testimony-house-committees
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/transcript-comey-testimony-house-committees
I've been thinking a lot about the issues of algorithmic curation and the harm it does. I think one of the huge problems is the way it's used to remove accountability. Whatever one may think of the old media landscape, the fact that you could point to the people who made decisions kept a lot of the worst impulses in check. TV stations and newspapers didn't blast out Neo-Nazi propaganda in part because they'd be held accountable for their decisions. But now you have Facebook's algorithms pushing fake news onto people's feeds. You have YouTube recommending extremist content or people gaming the system to get young kids to autoplay videos with titles like "Frozen Elsa Spiderman Hulk Paw Patrol Sofia Head Elephant Finger Family Colors Learn" (actual example) that range from cheaply produced and vaguely unsettling garbage to content that is completely inappropriate and traumatizing to children. The collective response is a shrug of the shoulders, "the algorithm did it," and either a vague promise to "fix" the algorithm or a lecture about the wonders of free speech. At no point does big tech seem willing to examine the underlying problems with algorithmic curation.
Is it worth a read, or is the typical GOP circle jerking themselves?
Well, that was a short reprieve. Just saw my first Chicago mayor campaign ad on TV.
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The Nebraska Democratic Party voted to return to a primary and abandon the caucus.
Poor Bernard.
Poor Bernard.
I think the investigation is still in progress? So we need to wait for that
My impression is that the general view of most neo-confederates and ~racist~ revisionist historians, is that Jefferson Davis was weak leader, a weak leader who through his weakness prevented Heroic Hero of Western Civilization and Greatest General Ever Robert E Lee from winning the war for the south.
But that's like, my impression, man.
Maybe people who grew up in the south can add some better sourced info here.
God I despise Gowdy. Why didn't House Republicans launch an investigation if they thought Strzok abused his powers to go after Trump? They won the presidency off of stupid bullshit like this.
Comey ordered an investigation into FBI NY because of public comments Giuliani made...no wonder they said nothing after that closed-door session.
Not sure if this was posted but Ammon Buddy quit the Militia movement altogether.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/...militia-movement-defends-migrant-caravan.html
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/...militia-movement-defends-migrant-caravan.html
Hacked thrice in one day?
Brilliant news! So the states that will still be using horribly outdated electoral systems in 2020 are Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, Washington, Wyoming and Utah?
I think this is specifically because of the nature of the group he was addressing, the United Daughters of the Confederacy were a group primarily dedicated to erecting monuments
This was of course part of the Jim Crow/Civil Rights surge in "Monuments as Warnings/Symbols" https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/5442...e-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future
And that resulted in this list of places named after that shithead- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_Jefferson_Davis
And I think what you might be seeing is a divergence here between the groups seeking to put up symbols (of which Davis is one of only a handful of hyper-prominent confederate names you can really use) vs the rank and file NeoConfederate grunts, who see him as their equivalent of Jimmy Carter for the Dems, a guy disliked because they think he fucked it all up for them, in the same way you see some of them slowly starting to turn on Trump.
At the rate Utah's turning purple I think the Nauvoo might be built when it actually happens.
Good for him though.
Yeah that makes sense.
I think there was a divergence in the view of Jefferson Davis between the aristocracy and the plebs even during the civil war.
I want to see this happen just for the absurdity.
Real Political Scandals:
Evidence of malfeasence -> Investigations into the allegations -> if guilt is true, then we have arrests/trials/convictions (and the gloating and flip opportunities for the other party!)
GOP "Scandals":
"Convictions" come about from demagogical electeds, PR firms, outside lobbyists, and crooked media types -> Investigations to grandstand -> "Evidence? You would stop this gravy train?"
It's all backwards. And, that evidence could show how it's exaggerated or even shines the light on any shenanigans on their side of the fence.
Gonna be funny when it turns out he wasn't even on the "they showed me what they got on him AND ME" tip.
If true of course.
God, I hope he does this when he releases the final report. I can't imagine seeing Mueller do this in real life. lol.
EDIT: Also, new thread title?
Gohmert and co. try to get to the bottom of Lisa Page's crimes against country, so...
Wow. Let's see how patriotic he really is when Trump calls him in to kneel.
Agree.
Such a weak word - connotes something out of Scooby Doo. "You meddling kids!"
We are two years out and know more than we did when the press started using the term.
It's not meddling when all of the evidence clearly points to some high-level of coordination.
Honestly, I'll take that over "attempted to meddle" like a lot of people still say for some reason.
Lmao, I know a Trump supporter from high school who loves the Bundys and fully defended them during that shit show. Would love to see what he thinks of this.
I'm sure he knows the "we want trump" video does not take place in France as well.
Dude was literally one of the Confederacy's biggest weaknesses. Couldn't even fathom that one of his maids just might be the one stealing his war documents.
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
Q: If Mueller were fired, how would that affect further investigations?
COMEY: "As an informed outsider ... you'd almost have to fire everyone in the FBI and the Justice Department to derail the relevant investigations, but I don't know exactly what the effect would be." P. 57
Q: If Mueller were fired, how would that affect further investigations?
COMEY: "As an informed outsider ... you'd almost have to fire everyone in the FBI and the Justice Department to derail the relevant investigations, but I don't know exactly what the effect would be." P. 57
It's too bad he didn't know to pull out the night Don Jr was conceived.
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