dagblog - Comments for "For those still clueless, dense or myopic, a very nice chart! Go home. And Vote." http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/those-still-clueless-nice-chart-go-home-and-vote-32517 Comments for "For those still clueless, dense or myopic, a very nice chart! Go home. And Vote." en when noam chomsky has to tell http://dagblog.com/comment/291011#comment-291011 <a id="comment-291011"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/those-still-clueless-nice-chart-go-home-and-vote-32517">For those still clueless, dense or myopic, a very nice chart! Go home. And Vote.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">when noam chomsky has to tell you not to be an obscurantist dickwad <a href="https://t.co/qblmAgUsTP">https://t.co/qblmAgUsTP</a></p> — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) <a href="https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1315689578754453505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> <p>Priorities, stupid.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 13 Oct 2020 01:24:47 +0000 artappraiser comment 291011 at http://dagblog.com Kentucky is going to keep http://dagblog.com/comment/289712#comment-289712 <a id="comment-289712"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/289710#comment-289710">And here&#039;s an example of the</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Kentucky is going to keep Mitch in office because that is what the people of Kentucky want.</p> <p>In Kentucky, there appears to be a massive cover up of a police murder by the AG</p> <p>Kentucky says that it is legal for police to kill you in your home.</p> <p>Mitch will be at SCOTUS the week after the election trying to repeal Obamacare</p> <p>This is in the middle of a pandemic </p> <p>Did I mention that McConell will be re-elected by the citizens of Kentucky?</p> <p>Protest and they want you to die</p> <p>Don't protest and they want you to die</p> <p>It is not BLM, it is the citizens of Kentucky</p> <p>The citizens of Alabama will oust Doug Jones for a football couch</p> <p>That is not the fault of BLM, that is the fault of the citizens of Alabama </p> <p>Mike Espy is in a close Senate race against a Confederate in Mississippi </p> <p>BLM's fault?</p> <p>Jamie Harrison is in a close Senate race against liar Lindsay Graham</p> <p>BLM's fault?</p> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:31:01 +0000 rmrd0000 comment 289712 at http://dagblog.com Inkling of hope hear outside http://dagblog.com/comment/289711#comment-289711 <a id="comment-289711"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/289710#comment-289710">And here&#039;s an example of the</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Inkling of hope here outside of all the BLM idiocy (with gun toting on each side yet), David Hogg's March for Our Lives, sensible protest in front of McConnell's house today:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p>Yep <a href="https://twitter.com/AMarch4OurLives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AMarch4OurLives</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/WeDemandJustice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WeDemandJustice</a> did that<br /><br /> Shout out to demand justice and the MFOL Organzing staff that made this possible, y’all rock. <a href="https://t.co/YatZ1N5eQX">https://t.co/YatZ1N5eQX</a></p> — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1309919790568439811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2020</a></blockquote> </div> </div></div></div> Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:18:04 +0000 artappraiser comment 289711 at http://dagblog.com And here's an example of the http://dagblog.com/comment/289710#comment-289710 <a id="comment-289710"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/289698#comment-289698">Relax and try to enjoy</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>And here's an example of the sensible kind of protesting in Kentucky until Nov. 2. NOT AGAINST LOUISVILLE'S DEM MAYOR, giving him more grief, rather this is where the energy should go:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kentucky?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kentucky</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LouisvilleProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LouisvilleProtests</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Louisville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Louisville</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AmyMcGrathKY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@senatemajldr</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MitchMcConnellIsAHypocrite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MitchMcConnellIsAHypocrite</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoscowMitchMcConnell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoscowMitchMcConnell</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoscowMitchMcTreason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoscowMitchMcTreason</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoscowMitchTraitor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoscowMitchTraitor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoscowMitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoscowMitch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmyMcGrath2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmyMcGrath2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmyMcGrath?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmyMcGrath</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MitchMcConnell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MitchMcConnell</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DitchMitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DitchMitch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DitchMitch2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DitchMitch2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/cmwYMjSl3B">https://t.co/cmwYMjSl3B</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZRlhvMMi6Q">pic.twitter.com/ZRlhvMMi6Q</a></p> — Schism '20 - Biden Harris 2020 (@dk1821dk) <a href="https://twitter.com/dk1821dk/status/1310034763244343296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2020</a></blockquote> </div> <p>The screwed up priorities of most radicals still protesting  "BLM" are illogical hysteria and bored young people after lockdown with no jobs. Overall since the end of July it's out protesting bitterness against authoritarian "daddy" in the form of cops because boomers didn't leave them a socialist paradise?  Right now it's against a mistaken shooting of a lovely young black woman, <em>not even intentional,</em> one fucking mistaken shooting which has already been litigated in civil suit and paid! (Most who tragically lost someone from medical malpractice should be so lucky as to have a suit resolved so quickly!) It was not "brutality", it was a freaking mistake!  <span style="font-size:18px"> Vs. 200K deaths maybe 3/4 unnecessary, high percentage black. </span>I guess not pretty enough victims. Not done by mean stupid fearful white cops, just a totally uncontrolled little virus.</p> <p>Fiddling while Rome burns, that's BLM.</p> <p>Can only quote Keisha Lance Bottoms so many times: Go home! And vote! Mitch McConnell is their fucking Senator in Louisville, not ours. I blame them just as much as the rest of the citizens in Kentucky if he returns. They should be protesting against HIM.</p> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:11:50 +0000 artappraiser comment 289710 at http://dagblog.com And BLM protests are http://dagblog.com/comment/289699#comment-289699 <a id="comment-289699"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/289698#comment-289698">Relax and try to enjoy</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>And BLM protests right now are virtually exclusively attacking local governments run by Democrats as incapable of keeping "the black community" happy. Ergo, the message they are sending = don't vote for Democrats if you want "the black community" to be happy. It's really that simple. BLM protests right now are just sooooooo counter-productive. If they were active against Republican mayors and states, it would be a different thing, but they are not.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:38:52 +0000 artappraiser comment 289699 at http://dagblog.com Relax and try to enjoy http://dagblog.com/comment/289698#comment-289698 <a id="comment-289698"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/289697#comment-289697">And it would really help if</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Relax and try to enjoy believing we live in a unimpeachable paradigmatic democracy.  Where all citizens can vote,  all votes are counted, no demagogic president rules us while stoking hate, grievence and wild conspiracy theories.</p> <p>Republicans have plans. Republicans are the danger.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:25:16 +0000 NCD comment 289698 at http://dagblog.com And it would really help if http://dagblog.com/comment/289697#comment-289697 <a id="comment-289697"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/289695#comment-289695">You really want to protest</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>And it would really help if any BLM affiliates in Florida JUST ZIPPED IT ALLTOGETHER until Nov. 2, please and let these docs take over. Joe's trying to woo the Hispanics there and they couldn't give two cents about police abuse, because that problem was and is way worse wherever their family came from.  ICE, maybe-it depends there- but not cops.  And sorry, but seniors like having cops around, that's just the way it is.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:56:25 +0000 artappraiser comment 289697 at http://dagblog.com You really want to protest http://dagblog.com/comment/289695#comment-289695 <a id="comment-289695"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/those-still-clueless-nice-chart-go-home-and-vote-32517">For those still clueless, dense or myopic, a very nice chart! Go home. And Vote.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>You really want to protest right now? Here's showing you the way. Note it's a socially distanced method as well as being the priority message right now:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">As doctors, we can't let the grim milestone of 200,000 Americans dead from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> go forgotten. The Trump administration must be held accountable for their lack of a plan. We put this billboard outside Mar-a-Lago to remind them. <a href="https://t.co/N6dq48z03q">https://t.co/N6dq48z03q</a></p> — Committee to Protect Medicare (@cmteetoprotect) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmteetoprotect/status/1308486591825018880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:38:37 +0000 artappraiser comment 289695 at http://dagblog.com Trump himself is choosing to http://dagblog.com/comment/289683#comment-289683 <a id="comment-289683"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/those-still-clueless-nice-chart-go-home-and-vote-32517">For those still clueless, dense or myopic, a very nice chart! Go home. And Vote.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Trump himself is choosing to putting it all back on the radar for whypipple and black people--enquiring minds wondering how protesters will like them apples, including expressing sympathy for Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmed Arbery. He'd like everyone to talk about it more, you see? He's not an ogre, he tries real hard to help the black community. And for some reason, the protesters don't seem to appreciate it. Because blue cities don't know how to help black people, they are run like Afghanistan</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"It's really hurting the Black community" -- Trump on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/I1CeqTKQ3j">pic.twitter.com/I1CeqTKQ3j</a></p> — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1309581301012406272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p>"It's worse than Afghanistan" -- Trump on cities run by Democrats <a href="https://t.co/wcGojz94jH">pic.twitter.com/wcGojz94jH</a></p> — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1309580633040191495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2020</a></blockquote> </div> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/politics/donald-trump-black-empowerment-platinum-plan/index.html">Trump unveils 'Platinum Plan' for Black Americans</a></p> <p>By <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/maegan-vazquez">Maegan Vazquez</a>, CNN @Updated 10:33 PM ET, Fri September 25, 2020</p> <blockquote> <p>President Donald Trump unveiled a plan aimed at winning over Black Americans on Friday, less than two months before Election Day, largely expanding upon the existing economic-related initiatives the President established in his first term.</p> <p>The proposals include prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa as terrorist organizations, making Juneteenth a federal holiday and efforts to bolster Black economic prosperity.</p> <p>During an Atlanta event announcing what was deemed <a href="https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/president-trump-platinum-plan-final-version.pdf"><u>the Black Economic Empowerment "Platinum Plan,"</u></a> Trump sought to draw contrasts between his plan for the African American community and Joe Biden's proposals, arguing that the former vice president "inflicted" damage on the Black community over the last 47 years he's spent working in Washington [....]</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:15:26 +0000 artappraiser comment 289683 at http://dagblog.com seems almost like everyone http://dagblog.com/comment/289691#comment-289691 <a id="comment-289691"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/289690#comment-289690">J.J. McNab retweeted, I haven</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>seems almost like everyone with a thoughtful mind is thinking on the same thing:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"On the Urge to Violence..." is a beautifully written &amp; reasoned memoirist piece particularly relevant for our time; but might have been written in 1968, or in the 1950s when lynchings were (still, always) occurring in the South. all that is new in T***p Dark Age is the openness. <a href="https://t.co/c5bSg3r4Ut">https://t.co/c5bSg3r4Ut</a></p> — Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1309964627015593989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:10:04 +0000 artappraiser comment 289691 at http://dagblog.com