July 28, 2024
Gun Thread: Vacation Over Edition!
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Food Thread: Using A Coq Is A Cock Up!
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First World Problems...
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France Is Lost, And Just Proved It At The Olympics
The translation is of course: "You stupid Jesus-loving hicks just don't understand high culture and anal sex!" But it gets even better!
Actually, Thomas Jolly, you mincing little freakish fruit, your alternative interpretation of The Last Supper, away from a powerful representation of Catholicism is exactly what "subversive" means, so either stop using words you don't understand, or stop lying. A friend tells me that "It is Christ's last gathering with his apostles before Judas's betrayal. It's considered the first Mass, and the apostles were ordained as priests that night. He told them to do as he did and that was the institution of the Eucharist and the basis of the Mass." I'm offended, and I'm not even Christian, much less Catholic!
Well Tommy, you're doing it again...using words you don't understand. "Diversity" means variation, and has nothing to do with being together. Your use of post-modern jargon, with its attendant manipulation of reality is old hat. Get better at lying!
And there we have it! What metrosexual weirdo Tommy is saying, in his first and probably only truthful comment, is that he doesn't give a shit whether we are offended, because that was his intent. And French law protects him from the consequences of his disgusting libel. Too bad that cowardly Tommy didn't take a shot at Islam, because the growing Muslim population of France would come after him hammer and tongs. He is lucky that Christianity is failing in France (and Europe), because a few hundred years ago he would have been visited by rough men with swords. Should these sentiments be allowed? Of course. Free Speech is an absolute, and criticism of religion is part and parcel of that freedom. We may not like it, but them's the breaks. The problem is that it was funded by government, and that is completely inappropriate, and disgusting in its explicit message. Is the French government so rabidly anti-Christianity that it signed off on this pathetic display of hate? Yup. And that's why France is lost. They would rather piss on Christianity than deport the Muslim rapists and murderers in their midst. And that speaks volumes about who is ascendant in France. Sam Adams said it best:
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. (The opening ceremony) tried to celebrate community tolerance. We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.
The translation is of course: "You stupid Jesus-loving hicks just don't understand high culture and anal sex!" But it gets even better!
Our subject was not to be subversive. We never wanted to be subversive.
Actually, Thomas Jolly, you mincing little freakish fruit, your alternative interpretation of The Last Supper, away from a powerful representation of Catholicism is exactly what "subversive" means, so either stop using words you don't understand, or stop lying. A friend tells me that "It is Christ's last gathering with his apostles before Judas's betrayal. It's considered the first Mass, and the apostles were ordained as priests that night. He told them to do as he did and that was the institution of the Eucharist and the basis of the Mass." I'm offended, and I'm not even Christian, much less Catholic!
We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everybody.
Well Tommy, you're doing it again...using words you don't understand. "Diversity" means variation, and has nothing to do with being together. Your use of post-modern jargon, with its attendant manipulation of reality is old hat. Get better at lying!
In France, we have artistic freedom. We are lucky in France to live in a free country.
And there we have it! What metrosexual weirdo Tommy is saying, in his first and probably only truthful comment, is that he doesn't give a shit whether we are offended, because that was his intent. And French law protects him from the consequences of his disgusting libel. Too bad that cowardly Tommy didn't take a shot at Islam, because the growing Muslim population of France would come after him hammer and tongs. He is lucky that Christianity is failing in France (and Europe), because a few hundred years ago he would have been visited by rough men with swords. Should these sentiments be allowed? Of course. Free Speech is an absolute, and criticism of religion is part and parcel of that freedom. We may not like it, but them's the breaks. The problem is that it was funded by government, and that is completely inappropriate, and disgusting in its explicit message. Is the French government so rabidly anti-Christianity that it signed off on this pathetic display of hate? Yup. And that's why France is lost. They would rather piss on Christianity than deport the Muslim rapists and murderers in their midst. And that speaks volumes about who is ascendant in France. Sam Adams said it best:
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 07-28-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
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Daily Tech News 28 July 2024
Top Story
- Now you can go hiking without all that exhausting having to walk by yourself nonsense. (Tech Crunch)
There are many uses for powered exoskeletons, from restoring mobility to people with injuries, to giving rescue workers superhuman strength on demand.
But renting them to lazy people at tourist sites is certainly something.
- On the other hand, balloons in space is not an altogether bad idea. (Tech Crunch)
If your hazards are moving at sixteen thousand miles per hour it doesn't matter much if they hit sheet metal or a clever polymer fabric. They'll go straight through without even noticing. The key is what the material does afterwards. If it retains its integrity apart from the actual puncture, it's worth trying.
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July 27, 2024
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/27/24)
*****
The Saturday Night Joke
A man is laying in the hospital, waiting to be the first person in history to receive a brain transplant.
A doctor comes in and says, "Congratulations! But unfortunately, since this is a new procedure, your insurance isn't going to cover it all. So we're going to give you 3 choices for brains and you can decide which you can afford."
The man says to the doctor, "Okay, what are they?"
The doctor says, “Well, first there's the engineer brain, that's $100 an ounce. Then there's the astrophysicist brain, that'll cost you $200 an ounce. Finally, there's the politician brain. That's the most expensive at $1000 an ounce."
The man looks at the doctor, surprised… “that's absurd! Why is the politician brain so expensive?"
The doctor turns to him and says, “Sir, do you have any idea how many politicians it takes to get an ounce of brain?" (H/T Hrothgar)
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 07/27/2024 [TheJamesMadison]
Preston Sturges, his father's last name was Biden but he took the name of his step-father, was born to a theatrical mother who carted him around with her as she explored the theaters of Europe as a performer. Educated in different boarding schools across the continent, he was as fluent in French as he was in English, calling France a second home. He never found a professional home as an adult until 1928 when he suddenly became Broadway's biggest playwright, joining the army's air service and working in a store that his mother's fourth husband owned.
The play that changed the direction of his life was Strictly Dishonorable, a comedy on Broadway. It premiered on September 18, 1929. The stock market crashed on October 24, 1929. The people were in a mood for comic antics, and Sturges was right there at the right time to give it to them. His star was made overnight, and Hollywood quickly came calling. By 1932, he was working in Hollywood for several studios, writing scripts for movies like William Wyler's The Good Fairy and Mitchell Leisen's Easy Living. He wanted to direct, though, and, in 1940, sold a script to Paramount, The Great McGinty, for $10 with the understanding that he would direct.
The Great McGinty was a large success, and Paramount had a new golden-boy: the best paid writer (and later, at one point, the best paid person) in America. He directed eight films over the span of years from 1940 to 1944 including The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, and Hail the Conquering Hero. I don't think any writer/director has ever burned so brightly for so short a time, for Sturges was in constant battle with studio bosses at Paramount, mostly Buddy DeSylva, until Sturges broke with Paramount and entered a business deal with Howard Huges to form California Pictures. His part of the company lasted one film, the Harold Lloyd legacy sequel to The Freshman, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. He was beginning the filming of another film for the company when Hughes fired him over the phone (never go into business with Howard Hughes). He got hired by 20th Century Fox, a situation that led to two box office, duds, and he was released from his contract.
He would spend the rest of his life trying to pull funds together for more films, only getting one production off the ground again, The French, They Are a Funny Race, made in France with French money and filmed in both English and French (it's kind of bad). Always having a problem controlling his intake of alcohol, he died of a heart attack in 1959 while writing his autobiography, less than four years after his last film and fifteen since his last unfiltered financial success (Hail the Conquering Hero).
And yet, despite the very concentrated timing of his directing career (for all intents and purposes, it was only five years from 1940 to 1944), his films are surprisingly well known for being eighty years old. That's hard for comedies which have notoriously short shelf-lives. Why is that? Why does Sturges stand the test of time?
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges, his father's last name was Biden but he took the name of his step-father, was born to a theatrical mother who carted him around with her as she explored the theaters of Europe as a performer. Educated in different boarding schools across the continent, he was as fluent in French as he was in English, calling France a second home. He never found a professional home as an adult until 1928 when he suddenly became Broadway's biggest playwright, joining the army's air service and working in a store that his mother's fourth husband owned.
The play that changed the direction of his life was Strictly Dishonorable, a comedy on Broadway. It premiered on September 18, 1929. The stock market crashed on October 24, 1929. The people were in a mood for comic antics, and Sturges was right there at the right time to give it to them. His star was made overnight, and Hollywood quickly came calling. By 1932, he was working in Hollywood for several studios, writing scripts for movies like William Wyler's The Good Fairy and Mitchell Leisen's Easy Living. He wanted to direct, though, and, in 1940, sold a script to Paramount, The Great McGinty, for $10 with the understanding that he would direct.
The Great McGinty was a large success, and Paramount had a new golden-boy: the best paid writer (and later, at one point, the best paid person) in America. He directed eight films over the span of years from 1940 to 1944 including The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, and Hail the Conquering Hero. I don't think any writer/director has ever burned so brightly for so short a time, for Sturges was in constant battle with studio bosses at Paramount, mostly Buddy DeSylva, until Sturges broke with Paramount and entered a business deal with Howard Huges to form California Pictures. His part of the company lasted one film, the Harold Lloyd legacy sequel to The Freshman, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. He was beginning the filming of another film for the company when Hughes fired him over the phone (never go into business with Howard Hughes). He got hired by 20th Century Fox, a situation that led to two box office, duds, and he was released from his contract.
He would spend the rest of his life trying to pull funds together for more films, only getting one production off the ground again, The French, They Are a Funny Race, made in France with French money and filmed in both English and French (it's kind of bad). Always having a problem controlling his intake of alcohol, he died of a heart attack in 1959 while writing his autobiography, less than four years after his last film and fifteen since his last unfiltered financial success (Hail the Conquering Hero).
And yet, despite the very concentrated timing of his directing career (for all intents and purposes, it was only five years from 1940 to 1944), his films are surprisingly well known for being eighty years old. That's hard for comedies which have notoriously short shelf-lives. Why is that? Why does Sturges stand the test of time?
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Hobby Thread - July 27, 2024 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the horde. Do not adjust your interweb. This thread is blasting off to outer space. On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts returned to earth by spashing down in the Pacific Ocean. A 21 day quarantine period followed, but the mission ignited the imagination of the world. A spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a theme of rocketry for this week.
Did you build model rockets as a kid? Do you build model rockets as an adult? How did you get started? Do you have a box of Estes rocket parts and engines somewhere? How many rockets have you lost to trees, buildings and power lines? Do you remember the Apollo program? Were you watching when the Space Shuttle first launched? Have you seen a Space Shuttle return? Do you follow the modern private space launch companies like SpaceX and RocketLab? Do you dream of flying in space, walking on the moon, or going to Mars?
Let's not turn this thread into a debate about Elon Musk's personal life. We're here to talk about those who build and follow rockets. We'll leave astronomy for another thread another day, so keep your telescopes holstered for now. As usual, keep this thread limited to hobbies. Politics and current events can wait for other threads. Play nice. Don't feed the trolls.
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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 27
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, July 27
Hi KT! I’d like to say that I planned this and captured it due to photography skills. Truth is I got this with my iPad and it was sheer luck. The gladiolas are about done blooming, but this little guy found a good one for a nice snack. And yes, the railing needs work. I’ll get to it…eventually. Duke LowellHi, everybody! It's too hot to do much gardening here rignt now, and I don't remember where I got the photo of the gaillardia with the bumble bee below. But I appreciate that there are flowers like gaillardia that stay open for business during weather like this. We have lots of baby lizards and a snake sighting. The lizards mostly stay in the shade unless we walk nearby. How are things going in your garden and neighborhood? Harvesting anything? We have pomegranates sizing up.
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Things fall apart
Serene Moonlight in Arizona
How about those opening ceremonies?
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
I bet the coffee was anything but awful..............
Good morning Horde. Here we are again on another Saturday morning. Before we get to Annie's hard work with the Prayer Request List just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Kenosha)
I bet the coffee was anything but awful..............
Good morning Horde. Here we are again on another Saturday morning. Before we get to Annie's hard work with the Prayer Request List just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Kenosha)
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Daily Tech News 27 July 2024
Top Story
- Journalistic Lysenkoism: What a Kamala Harris presidency would mean for science. (Scientific American)
Starvation, slavery, misery, and death. Possibly not in that order.As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say.
The same type of experts caused millions of people to starve to death in the 20th century. Wikipedia:Lysenko claimed that the concept of a gene was a "bourgeois invention", and he denied the presence of any "immortal substance of heredity" or "clearly defined species" ... Instead, he proposed a "Marxist genetics" postulating an unlimited possibility of transformation of living organisms through environmental changes in the spirit of Marxian dialectical transformation...
Sound familiar? Sound like what gets thrown up by the mainstream media every single day?
There's a reason for that.
Back to the article:Health and science have been a part of Harris's life since an early age: her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who Harris cites as a major influence, was a leading breast-cancer researcher who died of cancer.
This is what led to Kamala atttending Stanford Medicine, passing near the top of her class, and becoming a star pharmaceutical researcher with a well-regarded blog spanning more than twenty years.
Oh wait, that's someone else.As senator, Harris co-sponsored efforts to improve the diversity of the science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) workforce.
Nothing to improve science. Everything to improve "diversity".
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July 26, 2024
There's No Place Like ONT
Friday night! Time to fill up on memes!
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Knockin' Off Early Cafe
a gull is unbothered by the weather
Mark Dobson/@wildseascapes
Barracuda attacks shark. Jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit is so 2022. Now we all jump off cliffs in wingsuits with a flare burning on our foot. Sniping pictures of animals. Oof -- race starts out with a big pile-up. Mountain rescue in the Alps. Elk plays soccer with kid. Radio-controlled plane battle. Transformer homes. Coming in a little low and a little hot. Surfin' penguin. USA! USA! USA! A river that empties into the sky. Simple pleasures.
a gull is unbothered by the weather
Mark Dobson/@wildseascapes
Barracuda attacks shark. Jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit is so 2022. Now we all jump off cliffs in wingsuits with a flare burning on our foot. Sniping pictures of animals. Oof -- race starts out with a big pile-up. Mountain rescue in the Alps. Elk plays soccer with kid. Radio-controlled plane battle. Transformer homes. Coming in a little low and a little hot. Surfin' penguin. USA! USA! USA! A river that empties into the sky. Simple pleasures.
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Facebook and Instagram Have Decided That Olympic Shooting Sports Are Dangerous and Glorify Violence
Fuck your leftwing thought-controlling Groomer Community, Facebook.
So no Olympic shooter can be shown with their guns.
Imagine Instagram blocking non-followers from seeing a post by Steph Curry because it featured a basketball, or a post from U.S. Olympic track star Noah Lyles that highlighted his running shoes. Absurd, right?
Yet that's exactly what happened to U.S. Paralympic athlete McKenna Geer, who was shadow banned by Meta after a post sharing her love of the shooting sports. Earlier this month, Ms. Geer shared a photo on Instagram of the air rifle she used to qualify for the Paralympic Games. The company flagged the photo as out of line with its guidelines and informed her that nonfollowers wouldn't be able to view her account or content in Instagram's search, explore suggested users or similar features. "Our Recommendations Guidelines help to promote content that fosters a safe community on Instagram," Meta wrote in its explanation of why it wouldn't promote her account. "I have always feared the day the media would censor my sport and speech just because I use firearms," Ms. Geer posted on Instagram on July 17. "That day has finally come." Meta initially blocked Ms. Geer's ability to appeal the decision, and her account remains shadow-banned while her appeal is under review with only a month to go before the competition. Meantime, the tech company is shielded from civil lawsuits under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. As USA Shooting board member Tim Rupli shares at the Wall St. Journal, Geer isn't the only competitive shooter to run afoul of Meta's ridiculous "community standards." U.S. Olympic shotgunner Conner Prince has been subjected to the same treatment, according to Rubli, who also shared that Facebook (another Meta property) "unpublished" the page belonging to the West Point Rifle Team "because Army West Point Rifle goes against our Community Standards."
Fuck your leftwing thought-controlling Groomer Community, Facebook.
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The DHS Refuses to Administer DNA Tests to Illegal Aliens, to Check to See If They're Wanted Criminals
Luke Rosiak:
Janet Napolitano, then the DHS, asked that the law be suspended for a while, then phased in gradually. Eric Holder allowed this. And the "phase-in gradually" became what it was always intended to be -- a "never phase-in at all" order.
The Department of Homeland Security has refused to follow a law mandating it take DNA samples from illegal immigrants taken into custody, which would identify violent criminals and child traffickers, employees told the U.S. Senate this week. Speaking to senators on Tuesday, three former WMD officials presented evidence that DHS and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had blocked their efforts to comply with a 2005 law, then retaliated against them when they sounded the alarm about the lawbreaking. "Given the enormous potential of DNA collection to facility solving crimes, we took our job seriously," Fred Wynn said. Law enforcement experts from CBP's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) unit were tasked with implementing a mandatory program to DNA-test illegals. But higher-ups at DHS were so opposed to the law that they continuously thwarted it, eventually disbanding the entire WMD division, the whistleblowers say. Disbanding the division may have opened the United States to a WMD attack, in addition to criminals crossing the border. The disbanding also allowed hundreds of thousands of children to stay with people who claimed to be relatives, but who may have been child labor or sex traffickers. DNA testing is the only reliable way to ensure that children aren't coming across the border with traffickers, or being taken to live with them by U.S. officials as "sponsors."
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Jones said the WMD team had its responsibilities stripped, and were told to come to work and simply sit and do nothing. In one case, one team member was told to report to a new desk that had no internet, phone, or power. "Certain senior officials were hell-bent on slow-rolling any process or pilot program that enabled DNA collection," he said. ...
Mike Taylor, the third WMD whistleblower, said the men have repeatedly reached out to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but have received no corrective action. Meanwhile, those who retaliated against the men have been promoted.
... The report points to an illegal immigrant who committed multiple sexual assaults in Arizona in 1997. Though the individual had the DNA of the perpetrator, they could not find a match, since the suspect was not in the system. The crime was only solved in 2019 because the suspect went on to go to prison for another crime, at which point he had his DNA taken.DHS then began punishing whistleblowers who called attention to this deliberate negligence to enforce a law. Read the article for that. Meanwhile: The Regime also refuses to prosecute the Hamas "protesters" who burned the American flag. Not their own flag -- they took down the flag that flew at Columbus Circle's memorial and burned that.
Julio Rosas
@Julio_Rosas11 From a DC law enforcement source: The charges against four people, including a 15-year-old, who were arrested for assaulting police officers during yesterday's riot were dropped.
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Matt Walsh Releases Follow-Up to "What Is a Woman?:" "Am I Racist?"
Plus: The Week That Was Woke
Paris gives the honor of being the last person to take the Olympic torch to, what else, a drag queen. What gender ideology did to one formerly attractive, formerly healthy young woman. I linked Childless Cat-Lesbian Randi Weingartner railing about fighting "fascism" and taking over parental responsibilities from (checks notes) parents, but she said so much more than that.
Plus: The Week That Was Woke
A trailer for the new movie is below. It looks hilarious.
Apparently he hired the "Race2Dinner" scamsters to give one of their White People Are Evil and Racism Is Bad speeches, so he was able to have cameras and microphones on the event. And he posed as waiter serving everyone. (Or maybe he hired actresses to pretend to be those women, to judge the reaction of the Liberal White Women attending the dinner.) Make sure you see the end, when he sits down to interview... "White Fragility" scam author Robin DeAngelo. She notes that you have to be careful of who you grant interviews to. LibsofTikTok publicized a failed Democrat office-seeker for having called her "a domestic terrorist." The leftwing ninny is claiming that LibsofTikTok got her "swatted." Apparently it's okay to call LibsofTikTok a domestic terrorist, but it's a dangerous provocation for her to publicize that slur. It turns out -- the woman lied. She was never "swatted." A single cop knocked on her door to conduct a social welfare check/wellness check. They always lie. They are always claiming they're getting "death threats" or "rape threats," but they never post these threats. That's because they're lying. If someone tells them "go f*** yourself" they claim that's a "rape threat" because the person is threatening to force them to f*** themselves. This is obviously absurd. RuPaul's Drag Show celebrates drag and sexualized behavior for children. And Kamala Harris just appeared on the groomer show. If you're in Ohio Education District 6-- make sure you vote against this groomish individual. You now have to worry about furries when you take your kids to the beach. Another leftwing judge allows another illegal alien to skate on criminal charges. The usual senseless murder ensues. Another parent grieving a child killed by an illegal alien.Paris gives the honor of being the last person to take the Olympic torch to, what else, a drag queen. What gender ideology did to one formerly attractive, formerly healthy young woman. I linked Childless Cat-Lesbian Randi Weingartner railing about fighting "fascism" and taking over parental responsibilities from (checks notes) parents, but she said so much more than that.
American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten has been ripped as an "unhinged lunatic" after she delivered a wild, political rally-style speech suggesting that former President Donald Trump was an "existential threat" to democracy. The teachers' union president screamed and shouted at her members as she warned of looming violence and fascism if Trump wins the 2024 election when she took the stage during the AFT's annual convention in Houston, Texas, on Monday. "The November elections will determine which path we take as a nation. Progress is indeed possible, but so is the eradication of the rights and freedoms we hold dear," the union boss declared in her lengthy speech. "Historians ... who study threats to democracy and how fascists come to power conclude that it is seldom a dramatic event or attack that lets fascism in the door. The violence comes later after they are voted in," she continued. "Voting is still our best defense against tyranny and fascism." At one point, a fired-up Weingarten appeared to jump up and down on stage as she continued to rant into the microphone. AFT to vote on controversial proposals -- including ending US military aid to Israel, protecting pro-Palestinian protesters "When the history books are written about this moment, let them record that we the people united, mobilized and voted down this existential threat to democracy and freedom," she shouted. "That we continued the march for progress, that we laid the foundation for a better future and that we sought to create a more perfect union. Progress is possible. Keep marching." Flailing her arms, Weingarten continued: "Imagine a country where hate has no harbor and freedom rings. The freedom to vote. To live, to breathe. The freedom to marry. The freedom for families to make reproductive choices. The freedom to read. The freedom to teach and the freedom to join a union."Which books are you opposed to "banning," Randi? You never want to say. Why is that? Is it because the only books being banned are gay pornography?
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Polls Are Made for Strippers But Then Again Who Doesn't Like Strippers?
to be the nominee.
In her Honeymoon period, when most people don't know much about her leftwing extremist politics, and have never heard her Idiot Cackling, Kamala has slightly improved on Biden's performance against Trump.
The likely 2024 presidential election campaign between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump begins with no clear leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS after President Joe Biden ended his bid for reelection. Trump holds 49% support among registered voters nationwide to Harris' 46%, a finding within the poll's margin of sampling error. That's a closer contest than earlier CNN polling this year had found on the matchup between Biden and Trump.Trump led Biden 49-45 in the same poll. So is she doing better? Well.... I mean, it's statistical noise. If Trump really is at 49%, that's game over. In a crowded field, you don't need 50%. Hell, Trump doesn't even need to be ahead in the national vote to win the electoral college by a bunch of votes. And this is a poll of registered voters, not likely voters. (Though the likely voter screen doesn't favor Democrats much any longer.)
The survey finds voters widely supportive of both Biden's decision to step aside and his choice to remain in office through the end of his term. Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters are broadly enthusiastic about Harris and willing to coalesce around her as the new presumptive nominee, even as they remain deeply divided on whether Biden's Democratic successor should seek to continue his policies or chart a new course.Whoops! Well that's a big problem the Democrats have, huh? It's 100 days until the election and they haven't figured out if they want to abandon and Repudiate Biden's policies, or double down on them.
And the new poll finds some critical movement in these early days of a Harris-Trump race. Harris hangs on to 95% of those who earlier said they supported Biden, while Trump retains the support of a slightly smaller 92% of his previous backers. Those who previously said they would support neither Biden nor Trump in a two-way matchup now split 30% for Harris and 27% for Trump, with the rest saying they'd vote for someone else or opt out of this year's election. ... About three-quarters of Trump's supporters (74%) say their vote is to express support for him rather than opposition to Harris. That's an increase in affirmative support for him compared with the June CNN poll (66%), which came before an assassination attempt on Trump's life and the Republican National Convention at which the former president formally accepted his party's nomination. The poll finds Trump's favorability rating ticking up to 43%, higher than it's been since 2020 in CNN polling.CNN's poll analyst Henry Enten says that the storyline about Harris doing better than Biden with young voters -- because young voters consider 59 to be the new 29, or something -- is just wishcasting, without support in the actual polling.
He noted that support for Trump is higher than it's ever been:
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Wednesday that support for presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is 'just not there' among young voters. CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten revealed on Wednesday that presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is struggling to gain traction among young voters despite a recent influx of internet memes. Referencing CNN exit polls, Enten noted that President Biden won voters under the age of 35 by 21 points in 2020, but Harris is leading former President Trump by "significantly less" as of Sunday (9 points). He said that Harris may be doing better than Biden among young voters before announcing he would not run for re-election. However, her numbers are still "way down" from many other Democrats in the 21st century. "If this is unique support among young voters, I would like to know what her non-unique support is. Is it even worse than this?" Enten said. ... "This idea, again, that the vice president has unique potential to dig in and get young voters to turn out--John, it's just not there in the numbers despite all the internet memes that are going around," Enten told anchor John Berman.
Enten continued to underline the fact that Trump is at his most popular.
"Yes, Democrats can make this switcheroo, but they're still going to have to beat Donald Trump, a Donald Trump who is stronger, Sara, than he has ever been before," he told anchor Sara Sidner. ... The network's data guru pointed to two recent national polls Tuesday morning, one from ABC/Ipsos and one from Quinnipiac University, showing the former president's popularity as it stands following the Republican National Convention last week. "We know that Donald Trump has historically been unpopular, but take a look now," he began. "After the Republican National Convention, in the ABC News/Ipsos poll, he recorded his highest ever favorable rating at 40%. That's not a one-off."
"We know that Donald Trump has historically been unpopular, but take a look now," he began. "After the Republican National Convention, in the ABC News/Ipsos poll, he recorded his highest ever favorable rating at 40%. That's not a one-off." Mentioning the other poll, he continued, "Take a look at the Quinnipiac University poll: 46%. That's the highest ever in that pollster." "The fact is, Donald Trump is more popular now than he ever has been before," Enten declared, summing up the new polls. Sidner then invited Enten to demonstrate how Trump would stack up against Harris compared to how he would match up against Biden in a presidential race. According to the reporter's aggregate numbers, Trump currently has the edge over Kamala in national popular vote polling, whereas he was polling below Biden during the 2020 Election, which he lost. Starting with Trump against Harris, he said, "If we take a look at the national average, what do we see? We see Donald Trump up by one. That's a within-the-margin race. That's a close race." He then turned to the Biden/Trump numbers from last election cycle. "So last time around, when Joe Biden barely won in the electoral college, he actually won the national popular vote by four points." "So at this point, Donald Trump is running five points better -- five points better -- than he was four years ago against Joe Biden," he said, adding, "... Whether you look at the favorable ratings, whether you look at the horse race polling, we see that Donald Trump is doing significantly better than he was doing four years ago at this point." Enten then provided a warning for Harris, who became the presumptive Democratic Party nominee following Biden suspending his campaign over the weekend. "Kamala Harris is going to have to do better than this of course if she wants to win the popular vote, but more than that if she wants to win the electoral college where she'll likely have to outperform how she's done nationally," the reporter added, though he did acknowledge that there hasn't been national polling on Harris since Biden ditched his bid over the weekend.
(((Harry Enten)))Despite not showing she's able to beat Trump, 76% of Democrats want her
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Here's what we have for voters under the age of 30 so far... CNN/SSRS: Harris +4
Reuters/Ipsos: Harris +14
NYT/Siena: Harris +21 Average so far: Harris +13 (I'll note Marist, not included here, had an under 35 & looked most like CNN)... Better than Biden 2024. Worse than 2020
to be the nominee.
"About three-quarters of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters (76%) say the Democratic Party should nominate Harris as its candidate for president, with only about 6% expressing support for any other specific person as the nominee," CNN revealed.One pollster, Reuters-Ipsos, puts Harris up over Trump by two points, 44 to 42. But a guest on Megyn Kelly said that Reuters polls have consistently showed Biden doing better than any other pollster. The guest said the Reuters poll had Biden down by only one slender point, while other pollsters had it at 4 or 5 points.
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