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Biden is a heavy favorite in South Carolina, with polls showing a major shift back toward him in the closing days. In the only three fully *post-debate* polls, which also reflect the Clyburn endorsement, he led Sanders by 17, 21 and 28 points.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 29, 2020
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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more thoughts from Nate:
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 7:31am
39% say health care #1 issue. But only 50% support Medicare for all, 44% against it!
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 5:22pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 5:34pm
Jim Clyburn tells CNN that Biden needs to "retool" his "mishandled" campaign
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 5:46pm
Apparently, Biden has only one office in California. Other candidates have multiple offices in the state.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 6:57pm
It's a little late to affect as much about California as in there might have been in the past as they have major changes in their system. The have early voting More than 2.7 million of 20.6 million registered voters had returned ballots in early voting as of Thursday, Secretary of State Alex Padilla said.
Also other major changes such as The transition to vote centers is huge, says Orange County Registrar Neal Kelley, and he worries he'll get calls from irate voters on Tuesday: “I’m standing in front of the garage I’ve voted at for the last 20 years — why is it not open?”
The results of competitive races, such as the presidential primary, likely won't be known Tuesday.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 10:42pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 10:29pm
Striking to me that the above synchs with the difference in the amount of conservatism shown in the green and yellow bar graph slightly upthread @ Sat, 02/29/2020 - 5:34pm. SC voters self-described as 51% liberal to 49% moderate/conservative, while in NV, IA and NH the percentage of liberals was much higher and the moderates/conservatives much lower. Southeast just more conservative! Doesn't cotton as much to liberal cultural and/or social warring except in hipster-fied urban areas, and a lot of it is rural.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 10:53pm
Same kind of conservatism/traditionalism exhibited in this discussion about which would be a better ticket, Biden/Stacey Abrams or Biden/Kamala Harris. As to the southeast:
Basically millenial style "progressivism" is seen as a bug, not a feature? Which also brings up the significant generational differences we have all been seeing in all kinds of polls that separate out "black voters". Dissecting voting habits by race makes less and less sense, and region and age and ideology more and more.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 11:12pm
MSNBC emphasized the generational differences of black voters in SC. Dissecting is important. In SC, the majority of Democrats are black. The majority of Republicans are white. Why hide the facts? Dissecting brings out the truth.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 8:47am
Huh? Because they're talking about the Democratic race right now.
Also, that most who identify as black also identify as Democrat applies to the whole country, is generally known. Not mentioning that all the time, it's called not treating your audience like absolute dummies?
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 9:53am
Huh?
You are the one who thinks of blacks as a tribe. Looking at the data on the black vote in SC shows that there were differences in the political priorities. Biden got a big lift from Clyburn. Sanders had his core of supporters. Actually listening to what black voters are saying is not the arena of dummies. In the past, Democratic candidates talked at black voters. That was dumb. This time, candidates are listening to black voters. Voter turnout for the SC primary reached historic levels.
There is a Republican attempt to suppress the black vote. Democratic candidates have to send a message to the black community that they understand this attack and will deploy countermeasures as President. Race is extremely important in 2020.
Ignoring race is stupid.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 10:30am
Uh, if Biden got a big lift from black voters because of a black leader throwing him his endorsement, that's pretty "tribal", dontchathink? In the future, candidates should just talk to Clyburn - will save them a lot of trouble.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 10:32am
About 25% of all South Carolina primary voters said the endorsement was important. A third of black voters said the endorsement was important most of the "tribe" was not moved.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/politics/south-carolina-exit-polls/index.html
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 11:29am
Jesus, 1/3 of all black voters is a helluva lot. I wasn't saying this was Germany 1937.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:21pm
You weren't saying much at all.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:51pm
I refuse to be totally misrepresented should any lurker be reading this thread some day.
It is YOU who consistently argues blacks are a tribe and should remain tribal for political benefit and practice identity politics.
And nearly everything I post on this site basically goes FOR THE OPPOSITE: that that is changing and that this country is becoming interracial and that in urban areas subcultures of people of color are actually shown preference, while the country's suburban areas and even rural areas are becoming more mixed racially. But not black vs. white, those simplistic divisions are breaking down. In the near future pollsters will not even be able to do polls and demographics like this as people more and more consider themselves mixed race and do not answer as black or white to pollsters nor census takers.
Not only that, you have shown a clear marked interest in the SC primary race. This suggests you have a lot invested in keeping to old timey paradigms where the country is stuck in old 20th century conservative divisions. They are becoming fewer and far between, but in states like SC, they remain. I dare say, SC is the outlier now, very old fashioned. It speaks less for the country than NH, IA and NV do. It's not at all like the huge west, or FL for example. Better than Mississippi, but not by much, mostly because of the influence of the growth of NC via snowbirds and international business development, and trying to keep up with NC, with which it shares a huge urban sprawl area on the border.
Case in point: GA is far more advanced, not so backward. And surprise, an endorsement of Bloomberg there by a major "black" politician.
Meanwhile, I do think it is of extreme import and interest that young people who currently still identify as "black" are beginning to show that they vote differently from their elders in socially and culturally conservative areas. To me that is further proof of the beginning of the end for identity politics as to race. And the sooner, the better, mho. Skin color has no business being a sign of anything except genetic heritage. That reinforces racism.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 11:17am
Voter suppression is not an old-time issue. Talking about race remains important, even though it seems uncomfortable for you.
I'm interested in the SC primary because it may have changed the trajectory for the Biden campaign.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 11:35am
p.s. I realize you have a lot invested in racism and racial tribalism. But if you keep thinking about keeping people with black skin united against the world, you are going to fade into just another old timer who doesn't get it: Voters are more complex now. Times are a changing. Unless you are like, a Hasid or Amish, devoted to living in the past, which includes voting as a bloc as the leader tells ya to. But even there, nearly everyone learns to read and write and use the internet these days and your vote is kept secret for a reason.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 11:46am
All the Democratic candidates are making specific appeals to black voters. Even Bernie Sanders is reaching out.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/politics/south-carolina-exit-polls/index.html
You remain in a bubble.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:00pm
The one defining and uniting feature of your interest in news and other stories is that they are about people with black skin, but I am the one in a bubble. You are like the definition of news bubble, you are limited to the black skin beat. I remember someone once trying to get you to talk about something else, anything else you might be interested in, but that. It lasted a day when you talked about wine. Otherwise it's black skin topics day in day out, in every area of human endeavor and interest.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:18pm
Nice diversion. Sanders talked about race and voter suppression.
I have posts up about Chris Mathews missing from MSNBC, Sanders NDA, and COVID-19.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:55pm
Your basic solution is that blacks become white. If they vote and act like whites, life would be perfect. Whites don't have to make any changes.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 9:23pm
Anyone can see I haven't said that anywhere.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 10:16pm
You voice that opinion all the time. You decide what black protest is worthy of consideration. You dismissed the protest about Confederate statues because it was not personally offensive to you. Similar dismissal of policing black hair. You find the protests unworthy. Older blacks in South Carolina voted their conscience. Now the state is "backwards".
Your words:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/politics/south-carolina-senate-lindsey-graham-jaime-harrison/index.html
For your information, Jamie Harrison, a black Democratic candidate, is in a close race against Lindsey Graham for the Senate in South Carolina. Backwards? Hogwash. You find some objection to the vote of older blacks, call the state stuck in the past, and hope for the days without "race". Those days will be the same as the old days. "White" will be the default. Vote like "whites" and life will be great.
The truth is that blacks in South Carolina, especially those "old-timey" folks, are fighting for the future. You say that South Carolina is less worthy than Iowa and its disastrous caucus and heavily white New Hampshire. All because you didn't like the way older blacks voted?
Your posts suggest that you think that you can set the criteria for what is correct. That is simply not the case. Albert Camus and Franz Fanon would call you out.
In Georgia, the state that you say is better than South Carolina, the Republicans openly used voter suppression to steal the Governorship from Stacey Abrams.
BTW, Bloomberg is buying black politicians all over the country.
You want to decide what blacks should do. Every post reeks of that.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 11:13pm
Cut the bullshit, she didn't say any such thing. Grow up
Thread closed.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/02/2020 - 1:16am
Wuh-wait, South Carolina's not woke?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:22pm
Yes I have this prejudiced view: many older SC people probably not very woke.
Caveat to what I am going to post: As Nate Silver has noted, many SC polls were notoriously inaccurate. So exit polls may have similar errors. That said:
from Reuters
As to Clyburn's endorsement. He doesn't just have black skin. He's a powerful Congressperson, two-time Majority Whip, in the House 27 years. Ya think maybe his endorsement mattered to some Democratic party voters with other colors of skin? Do the pollsters ask? Nope.
Edit to add: I have begun to wonder on exit voting, who decides to put the respondent in the "black" category, the pollster or the respondent? Just because someone has dark skin, just sayin'....in which category does Egyptian-American go? How about Pakistani-American?....is Somali-American black?
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 2:03pm
I used to hang out in Ethiopian-Somali eateries, and they had some distinct issues with the local black population, as one data point. No, it's not all homogenous.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 3:01pm
So young black SC voters are not "woke"?
Edit to add:
Biden only got 33% of the white primary vote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/exit-polls-2020-south-carolina-primary/
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 4:47pm
the opposite! do you have any reading comprehension (old: not woke. young: more woke) or don't you even try to read and just jump to your imaginary strawman?
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 7:07pm
Young blacks voted for Biden in the same percentage as white voters supported Joe Biden. Everybody is "woke"
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 9:11pm
Why did Beto even run - losing to Ted Cruz is not a qualification. Much of the pack never made sense.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 3:04pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:51am
Nate Silver to Josh Marshall on poll accuracy:
Edit to add, Nate's ranting on this, go to his feed for much more:
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:48am
And that has a huge effect on our political conversation and queering the next outcome. And then there's the question how Warren fits into that noisy landscape.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 4:13am
I think Warren stays a major national figure now even if she quits the race. No going back. And when you see it that way, you see Klobuchar is not at the same level. Though both could do the presidential managerial job just fine, mho. Not talking about that, talking about inspirational power. Klobuchar doesn't have "it." Maybe that's why Warren's not winning, actually? She's becoming like a Ted Kennedy figure?...running has just made her more famous and verified her power. Can't be labeled so easy anymore, she's got her own brand, so to speak, just Elizabeth Warren, not just another snowflake.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 10:23am
I think it was Nate Silver who deacribed how this works. You don't win by being #2 in multiple categories. You win by being #1 in at least one. Bernie's got the "break it up" vote, Biden's got the "safe old white dude/dudette". See how Bloomberg and Steyer gasped for air? If Warren had gunned for her own category, she might be ahead, though "competent qualified female who knows how to multitask and keep innovating and reforming" has its own set of hurdles historically. And America only accepts angry *white men*, and even that's limited.
PS - still happy to have Bloomberg involved, though think he and Steyer are more effective using their money and voice outside the ring. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/01/mike-bloomberg-tv-ad-cor...
PPS - flirting with the title "socialist" isn't terribly smart in US politics. Fine if you don't expect to win.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 12:31pm
heh
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 5:55pm
Affluent suburbs were where the GOTV was:
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 6:15pm
Southern women Convo?
https://digbysblog.net/2020/03/breaking-away-from-the-cruelty-and-the-ra...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 7:13pm
you betcha darlin honeychil
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 7:21pm