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Good insider piece, some very

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:04:26 +0000

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Good insider piece, some very complicated games going on here:

The vice president is going on the attack after the vulnerable West Virginia Democrat voted against Trump’s tax plan.

@ Politico.com, 02/07/2018 05:00 AM EST

[....] “This line of attack is something you’re going to see over and over,” said a national Republican strategist working to defeat Manchin.

Yet Pence may have done some damage to the institution he presides over as president of the Senate. Senators in both parties said they were upset with the burgeoning feud. After all, Pence may soon need Manchin's vote given the GOP's paper-thin 51-49 majority.

“I don’t think it's wise to alienate people who are willing to work with you,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

“That was done because Joe is up” for reelection, said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). “If Joe wasn’t up, they never would have done it.” [....]

Who would you vote for today?

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 20:02:13 +0000

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Who would you vote for today?

As of Feb. 03 ,2018, 42 percent of Americans said they would vote for a Democrat if a congressional election were held in their district today, while 38 percent would support a Republican.

@ Politico.com, overall national political snapshot, with lots of other interesting stuff like

National trends

Americans' level of trust in each party to handle policy issues has changed since the president took office. The net change below uses the trendline for each party to determine how many points one party has gained over the other since January 30, 2017. The result represents the zero-sum gain for Democrats or Republicans in terms of the public's confidence in each policy area.

National security, Economy, Immigration, Jobs, Energy, Education, Health care, Environment....

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:49:12 +0000

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Democrats are now up to 35 (!) red-to-blue state legislative seat flips since Nov 2016 after a win in eastern Missouri tonight. The 3-point win came in a district Trump won by 28 over Clinton just 15 months ago.
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) February 7, 2018

They're probably non

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:02:19 +0000

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They're probably non-intersectional feminists basking in their white privilege, no? or maybe not.

lucky for you you said you're

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:30:31 +0000

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lucky for you that you ID'd as gender fluid elsewhere on this thread, should a swarm of irony-impaired 4th wave feminists find this comment by googling

kids - they say the darnedest

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:56:18 +0000

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kids - they say the darnedest things...

gender fluid

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:38:32 +0000

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gender fluid
the fashionable choice, ever up on the latest trends.

I identify as a gender fluid

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:18:13 +0000

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I identify as a gender fluid Berber Macaque. Sometimes when I look in the mirror I don't even recognize myself, other times I see two of me.

Thanking them does no good -

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:12:03 +0000

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Thanking them does no good - women don't appreciate gratitude. Give 'em coupons instead - women like cutting things up - especially men. Oddly enough it makes them more loyal - original loyalty program, I'd say...

hey oceankat, just ran across

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:08:56 +0000

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hey oceankat, just ran across this fascinating NYT article, forget about those numbers being accurate for New Mexicans and surrounding area denizens who have heritage there before the mid 19th century. What they tell the census is probably not accurate, most of them don't know what they really are, probably mixed race Spanish and various Native American tribes because of such a long tradition of slavery until 1867:

Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It. By Simon Romero, Jan. 28

it's incredibly complex, the Spanish families took various Native Americans for slaves for centuries, the Comanche starting imitating them and taking slaves too, and then there's the Mexican indigenous and non-indigenous and Anglos mixing in. The U.S. basically didn't realize the slavery situation was going on in the territory until after the Civil War was over, WTF?

The trade endured even decades after the Mexican-American War, when the United States took control of much of the Southwest in the 1840s.

Seeking to strengthen the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865, Congress passed the Peonage Act of 1867 after learning of propertied New Mexicans owning hundreds and perhaps thousands of Indian slaves, mainly Navajo women and children. But scholars say the measure, which specifically targeted New Mexico, did little for many slaves in the territory

Just goes to show you how much skin color tells you. The article says DNA tests aren't even that helpful. because of the complexity of Native tribes in the area and intermingling with those outside

In this context, the census categories of "Hispanic" and "Native American" are. nonsensical. And the number for "two or more races" should be way higher than 1%.

Pointing to the breadth of the Southwest’s slave trade, some historians have also documented how Hispanic settlers were captured and enslaved by Native American traffickers, and sometimes went on to embrace the cultures of their Comanche, Pueblo or Navajo masters [....]

“There’s a conflation of race and tribe that’s infuriating, really,” said Ms. TallBear, a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe of South Dakota who writes about tribal belonging and genetic testing. “I don’t think ancestry alone is sufficient to define someone as indigenous.”

You are what sub-culture your immediate ancestors have taught you that you are, I guess. Who made it the rule you have to listen to them? Just pick one if we feel so badly that we have to tribalize that way.