Bonnie Raitt: "Something To Talk About"
Daily Dose of Cute
[Content Note: The video below includes footage of Dudley making growly sounds and both Dudley and Zelly nipping and gnawing each other. They're just playing, but they are play-fighting, so if dog aggression is triggering or otherwise problematic for you, you should skip this video.]
I have tried to turn our dogs into ball-lovers (insert all the jokes here), but they are having none of it. They have fully rejected fetch, and they are totally indifferent to their Jolly Ball. All they want to do is play with each other, chase me around the yard, and snuggle.
Video Description: I roll a big blue ball toward Zelly, who is standing across the yard from me. She dodges it and runs happily toward me. Dudley saunters by the ball, completely ignoring it, and pauses to sniff the ground before walking toward me. [edit] The dogs tear around the garden together, dramatically play-bowing at each other, nipping and gnawing at each other, and chasing each other around. They leap and tumble, Zelly dodging Dudley with fast spins and gymnastic barrel rolls. "Puppies!" I say, and they stop and look at me. "Hey, who's the good puppies?" They shake themselves and look around. [edit] I kick the big blue ball toward Dudley, who jumps out of its way like it's radioactive. Zelly herds him away from it, then goes and nudges the ball and runs back toward me. Dudley yawns. [edit] I walk toward Dudley, who snorts like a horse. I laugh and scratch his head, saying, "Hey, snorts." He walks over to Zelly, who makes a playful move then runs away. Dudley looks around. I pan around to reveal Zelda standing directly behind Dudley. "Zelly!" I laugh. "What're you doing?" I scratch her head. "What a good girl," I tell her. Then to Dudz: "What a good boy."
Besties.
Shooting at Connecticut Elementary School
[Content Note: Violence; guns.]
There has been another shooting, this time at a public elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. There are several reportedly wounded; the shooter is dead. No other deaths have been reported or confirmed.
The alleged gunman at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., is dead, a state official briefed on the incident told NBC News.My heart is breaking for all the children who had to experience this terror. And the adults at the school, too, and all the parents—I can't even imagine the fear. I desperately hope there are no other casualties.
Two handguns were recovered from the scene. It was not clear if other adults were injured, the official told NBC's Jonathan Dienst. The official had no information about any children being hurt at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
A spokeswoman for nearby Danbury Hospital told NBC Connecticut that three people were taken there. The spokeswoman would not elaborate on the ages of the victims or their conditions.
The Newtown Bee reported that one child, apparently wounded, was carried from the scene by a police officer.
I don't know what else to say. I'm really angry that this keeps happening.
UPDATE: There are now reports of multiple deaths, including children. Maybe as many as a dozen. I hope that the reports are wrong, and fear that they aren't.
UPDATE 2: There were two gunmen, one of whom is still currently at large. "Multiple federal and state sources" have told ABC News that "more than a dozen people including school children are dead." I am without words.
UPDATE 3: "More than 20 people, most of them young children, killed in elementary school shooting, according to law enforcement sources." Per ABC's live update. Oh god.
UPDATE 4: ABC says as many as 25 dead. AP is currently reporting 27, 18 of whom are children. I feel sick.
UPDATE 5: There are reports one of the shooters may have been a father of one of the students at the school. ABC News is separately reporting, according to unspecified sources: "One shooter is 24-year-old, was armed with four weapons and wearing a bullet-proof vest." There is no information about whether that shooter was related to any of the students.
UPDATE 6: White House Spokesperson Jay Carney says today isn't the day to talk about gun reform: "I think it's important on a day like today to view this as I know the president, as a father does and I as a father and others who are parents certainly do, which is to feel enormous sympathy for families that are affected and to do everything we can to support state and local law enforcement and support those who are enduring what appears to be a very tragic event. There is, I'm sure, will be, rather, a day for discussion of the usual Washington policy debates but I don't think today is that day."
UPDATE 7: And this is where I lose it completely (Libor Jany is a NewsTimes reporter, who was tweeting from the scene):
9 y/o girl says that "police with big guns" led her classmates out of the building. Asked them to cover their eyes.
— Libor Jany (@ljanyNT) December 14, 2012
UPDATE 8: Per the police press conference, not all the families know yet. OMG. More information will be forthcoming about the shooter(s) and casualties once all the families have been informed. Sob.
UPDATE 9: Reports about two shooters are being revised, and it is now assumed that there was one shooter, a 20-year-old man. There are additional reports that someone associated with/related to the shooter has been found dead off-site.
UPDATE 10: Via the Guardian:
From AP, Richard Wilford, parent of a student at Sandy Hook who was not shot, said:UPDATE 11: The shooter has been identified as Ryan Lanza, a 24-year-old resident of "Hoboken, New Jersey with Facebook checkins in Newtown, Connecticut." He is reportedly a registered Republican. CBS is reporting that his mother was a teacher at the school, and that he killed students in her classroom.
"I could try to explain it, but I'm sure I would fail. There's no words that I could come up with that would even come close to describing the sheer terror of hearing that your son is in a place, or your child's in a place, where there's been violence. You don't know the details of that violence, you don't know the condition of your child and you can't do anything to immediately help them or protect them. It is a powerless and terrifying experience."
UPDATE 12: Apparently the wrong Ryan Lanza's FB profile is being circulated.
UPDATE 13: There is already SO MUCH "don't talk about gun reform" bullshit going on, even, as noted earlier, from the White House. Here is a good point:
You know who else isn’t talking about gun violence today? 27 people who were shot in Connecticut, because they’re dead.
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) December 14, 2012
UPDATE 14: To expand on a note in Update 11, Lanza's mother was apparently a kindergarten teacher, and most of the dead children were in her class. I am already dreading the inevitable blaming, the accusations that she should have done something to prevent this. She is going to get all the bad mother shaming imaginable, irrespective of whether she is alive or dead.
UPDATE 15: Per Think Progress, Lanza's mother was one of the people he killed. Along with most of her students. He really showed her, huh? Fucking piece of shit.
UPDATE 16: Further updates will be posted in comments here.
Quote of the Day
[Content Note: Rape culture; description of sexual violence.]
"I'm not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something: If someone doesn't want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage is inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case."—California Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson, during a case about "a man who threatened to mutilate the face and genitals of his ex-girlfriend with a heated screwdriver, beat her with a metal baton and made other violent threats before committing rape, forced oral copulation, and other crimes."
It was Judge Johnson's estimation that the victim "didn't put up a fight" during her assault, because her vagina wasn't "shredded," and he sentenced the attacker to only six years, "saying that's what the case was 'worth.'"
In response, the California Commission on Judicial Performance voted 10-0 yesterday to impose a public admonishment of Johnson.
He should be removed from the bench. For fuck's sake.
Good Morning! (Or Whatever!) I Am Going to Complain About Facebook! (Not Really.)
[Content Note: Christian Supremacy.]
I have a very tiny private Facebook account that I use to stay in touch with family and friends. And sometimes I love it, but sometimes I really hate it. For all the reasons people hate Facebook. But especially this reason: Because there are people who will share a picture of something sad and terrible, like a child with an illness or an injured animal, and it will be accompanied with this text:
Ignore = U don't care
These are my options? I can "like" it and indicate I'm "praying" for whatever sad thing needs my help and attention, or I can not "like" it and indicate I'm a black-hearted apathetic monster?
How about fuck off? How about that?
Setting aside the totally separate but legit discussion of how social media WHICH I LOVE WITH SO MANY HEARTS AS A KEY PART OF MEANINGFUL ACTIVISM has the capacity to make people feel like they're "doing something" when they're not with lazy reassurances that clicking "like" is sending up "10,000 prayers," I want to note that this is one of those little examples of Christian Supremacy (and although I have Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Wiccan, and other non-Christian spiritual friends on FB, it is only the Christians who post these things) that might sound cute to Christians but is totally hostile and alienating to atheists.
There are other ways of caring besides prayer—in fact, I would argue (and I suspect a lot of teaspooning Christians would agree with me), there are many better ways of caring besides prayer.
I rarely get truly offended by something (normally, as is well documented, heh, I am merely contemptuous), but I am offended by someone who knows me sticking that in a place where I'm going to see it, where they are signing on to the message that I don't care because I spend my days involved in activism, advocacy, and volunteering instead of clicking "like" to send "10,000 prayers" to a god in which I don't believe.
Atheists (and other non-Christians, to varying degrees) swim in a sea of these incessant little Christian slights implying that we are compassionless, apathetic, immoral, cold, fundamentally indecent people.
Which is to say nothing of the bolder attacks on our character and the assertions that our lives are pointless.
Shit gets old.
Having religion is not a shorthand for being a good person, but a lot of people treat it like it is. And thus they reflexively treat not having religion as shorthand for being a bad person. And oh the exceptionalism when I point out, hey, you know, I'm an atheist. "Not you! Of course not you! We didn't mean you!"
You're not like those other atheists.
You know what? Yes I am.
Question of the Day
Suggested by Shaker themiddlevoice: What is your favorite place, literal or metaphorical, to be in the world?
Ladies! Here Is Some Important Career Advice!
CNN asks: "Women: How do you plan to get ahead at work in 2013?"
[R]esearch from the American Association of University Women shows that full-time working women are still earning 23% less than men, and Catalyst 2012 Census of Fortune 500 tells us that women held only 16.6% of board seats in 2012, the seventh consecutive year of no growth.Is that a trick question? That feels like a trick question!
So, how can women change this?
Or maybe it's a riddle: How do women, with considerably less wealth and extraordinarily less power within a system that oppresses them, change that system by themselves?
Does the answer involve magic unicorns?! That would be exciting!
Career advisers tell women to be more forward in asking for promotions, pay rises and extra responsibility; to find a mentor; to join a networking group and to accept praise more readily.Oh ha ha sure. Of course. Obviously it's that women need to do more because it's our own failures holding us back.
I wonder what career advisers tell men about how they can change inequality in the workplace? Nothing, I bet!
Will these steps help overhaul your career in 2013? Or do you have a different way of achieving your goals?I have a different way of achieving my goals, CNN!
Aww, Chewy
Here is a nice story about a dog who found a forever home, thanks to the big hearts of an entire neighborhood.
This Is Not Iain
But I would understand if you thought it could be.
Video Description: A white man rides his unicycle down a Portland sidewalk, dressed as Gandalf and playing Lord of the Rings music on bagpipes.
An Important Note About Rape Culture
[Content Note: Sexual violence; rape apologia.]
There's a lot of stuff being written about the latest rape apologist bullshit going on at the cesspool known as the Good Men Project (and inexplicably reprinted by xoJane). I'm not going to give either of them traffic; you can find it via Google if you're so inclined.
I don't feel inspired or obliged to invest much energy responding to the GMP's insistent assertion (also given space by xoJane) that "good guys" can commit rape accidentally, aw gee shucks, without realizing what they're doing because our culture has failed to explain to them what consent is. Because fuck them and their gross rape apologia.
I do encourage you to go read Grace's excellent piece, "Who Needs a Good Rapist Project?", which explores the many problems with this whole "we need to humanize rapists (at the expense of humanizing victims but shhh)" approach.
And I just want to underscore this point: It is eminently possible to talk about rapists as complex human beings without talking about them (inaccurately) as "good people who just happened to do a bad thing." Rape is not an act that happens accidentally. Rapists, all rapists, are predators who are hostile to consent and spend plenty of time feeling out, as an explicit or unconscious strategy, how far they can push boundaries (sexual and otherwise) without consequence before they commit rape.
This absurd construct of a "good guy who just happened to rape someone because he hasn't been taught any better" is comprehensive bullshit. Rapists are predators. And that is true whether it's a serial rapist who carefully stalks specific victims, or whether it's a "good guy" who exploits an opportunity to rape an unconscious woman.
Either way, a rapist is looking for an opportunity to rape.
I have previously noted that there are two kinds of rapists, and the distinction is not, as the GMP and other rape apologists would have us believe, rapists who intend to rape and rapists who rape accidentally whoooooooops, but is in fact sadistic rapists, for whom the lack of a victim's pleasure isn't a bug but a feature, and opportunistic rapists, who are primarily sex-seeking rapists who coerce victims and/or exploit lack of consent by virtue of their victims having borderline or overtly impaired states of consciousness.
One type of rapist is not less worse than the other.
And all of this "good guy who didn't know what he was doing" dogshit is trying to create some sort of rapist hierarchy where sadistic rapists are bad people, but opportunistic rapists are good people who did a bad thing.
Which is exactly the sort of good will opportunistic rapists know they will have. After all, they spend their lives cultivating it among people who they are certain will defend them.
This is the worst part of the GMP's and xoJane's publication of pieces purporting to "help us better understand rapists"—they are instead abetting rapists.
They believe they are "moving beyond the usual conversations," but really all they're doing is letting themselves be used by cunning, manipulative predators who are exploiting intellectually and ethically void know-it-all dipshits the same way they exploit their victims.
In The News
[Content note: homopobia, transphobia]
Thursday News:
American Family Association spokesbigot Bryan Fischer says homosexuality could be a birth defect. Nice.
A poll running earlier today on the Yahoo! home page, asked visitors "Do you believe homosexuality is genetic?" Nice.
The second international intersex forum has called on the medical community and the UN to respect their rights.
A new poll found that 54 percent of Indianans surveyed oppose changing the state constitution to bar gay couples from marrying, while 38 percent support doing so.
Allan Fonseca, a gay man who works at the Macy's in Clackamas Town Center, reportedly guided scared, confused customers outside to safety during the fatal shooting on Tuesday.
Golden Globes
The Golden Globe nominations have been announced, and I will just tell you right now that they are terrible because Parks and Recreation was not nominated for Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical). You know what I have to say about that?
In good news, Amy Poehler, who is co-hosting the awards show with Tina Fey, was nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical). So:
There are not a ton of nominations about which I'm excited, since I haven't seen way more than I have seen (and much of the stuff I've seen doesn't deserve to be there).
But I am excited to see Life of Pi and its director Ang Lee nominated, because oh that film was so beautiful and so good. It is some real bullshit, though, that Suraj Sharma hasn't been nominated for Best Actor, because that movie couldn't be a best picture nominee without his remarkable performance. Boo.
Yay for Zooey Deschanel and Max Greenfield getting nominated for New Girl. Yay for the always-nominated Breaking Bad. Yay for Meryl Streep getting nominated for some movie I haven't seen that, if I'm honest, kinda looked like garbage. (Sorry, Meryl!)
Major boo for the AS PER USUAL overwhelming whiteness of the nominations. Seriously, that Kerry Washington isn't nominated for Scandal is absurd. Which is only the tip of the white iceberg.
Finally: I would like to say congratulations to Anne Hathaway on her nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Les Mis.
Matt Lauer did not receive any nominations.
Discuss!
Reproductive Rights Updates: Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, National
Not even the new session season yet and there's news, news, and more news.
So, recall last week where I wrote about Michigan and the onerous TRAP legislation as part of their end-of-session work? Well, it passed the Senate. It now heads back to the House for final review. Oh, Michigan legislators, many of you are terrible people.
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So while Michigan is going out with an anti-choice extravaganza, Texas is gearing up for (another!) extravaganza of their own in the coming legislative session:
One of the targets for abortion opponents in 2013 will be a crack down on abortion-inducing drugs.A signed contract from a second doctor? Because that's TOTALLY NORMAL for medical procedures, no less taking for medications, amirite?! It's TOTALLY NOT another ridiculous hurdle for accessing medical care!
Filed by State Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston), SB 97 includes language that would require drugs such as misoprostol and methotrexate be prescribed by a physician and accompanied by a signed contract with a second physician pledging to treat any emergency arising from the administration of the drug.
Texas will also see the introduction of a "pain-capable abortion act", oh wait, they're calling it the "Pre-Born Pain Bill". It's another one of those bills that attempt to use the debunked claim that fetuses past 20 weeks gestation can feel pain so, therefore, abortion past 20 weeks should be outlawed.
Also happening in Texas is Planned Parenthood fighting back in lawsuits, one of which is also with a patient of Planned Parenthood.
A Texas Planned Parenthood patient, Marcela “Marcy” Balquinta, filed suit against the state on Tuesday to ensure the provider is not left out of the women’s health program when the state takes it over on Jan. 1.---
Attorneys for Balquinta and Planned Parenthood, which is involved in the suit, claim Health and Human Services executive director Kyle Janek and the Texas Department of State Health Services do not have the authority to exclude Planned Parenthood from the program. [...]
"I love my job and work hard, but at the end of the day, like many women out there, I live paycheck to paycheck,” Balquinta said. “If I couldn’t go to Planned Parenthood, I don’t know where I’d turn. And there are tens of thousands of Texas women like me.”
This is the second state lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood. The first applied to the Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which provides Texas a federal match that pays for 90 percent of the program’s $35 million cost. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is withdrawing funds from the Women’s Health Program on Dec. 31 because it believes it is a woman’s right to choose her provider.
Planned Parenthood also filed a federal lawsuit today, challenging a ruling that allows Texas to exclude it from the state-funded program claiming the ruling places unconstitutional conditions on the provider’s eligibility to participate.
Take Your Boobs to the White House Watch
[Video removed. Can be viewed here.]
Here is Barbara Walters talking to Hillary Clinton, whom Walters chose as one of her most fascinating people of the year. There is a good paraphrase of the video with key transcriptions here [note: video may start playing automatically], which ABC has perfectly headlined: "Hillary Clinton Talks About Her Future, Politics and Hair."
It's understandable why Barbara Walters is considered one of the preeminent journalists of our time, since she managed to find out that Hillary Clinton has no current plans to run for president, is interested in exploring other ways to contribute, and wants to take a moment to breathe.
*that face*
Important End-of-Year Fundraiser
This is, for those who have requested it, your bi-monthly reminder to donate to Shakesville and/or to make sure to renew subscriptions that have lapsed.
It is also the time of year when I ask readers who visit this space and do not generally make donations (but can afford to) to please kick in to support Shakesville and the work we do here.
I cannot afford to do this full-time for free, but, even if I could, fundraising is also one of the most feminist acts I do here. I ask to be paid for my work because progressive feminist advocacy has value.
Women's service work, whether it's mothering, elder care, volunteering, philanthropy, social work, employment in any "pink collar" profession, or social advocacy, is gravely devalued, frequently to the point where it is unpaid work altogether.
And when I don't ask that my work be valued by the community, I'm feeding that narrative; I'm implicitly saying, "It's okay to expect this from me. It's okay to feel entitled to the product of a woman's work for nothing in return."—so, even though fundraising is not fun for me, not doing it is counterproductive to the work we do here every day. It's antifeminist.
This blog started as a hobby, a part-time interest into which I could put as much or as little time as I wanted. It's not a hobby anymore; it's a job. And regarding it thus is a feminist act.
Every donation is a feminist act, every donation a teaspoon.
My profound thanks to those who can and do financially support the space.
[Please Note: I am not seeking suggestions on how to raise revenue; I am asking for donations in exchange for the work of providing valued content in as safe and accessible a space as possible. I also want to reiterate that I don't want anyone to feel obliged to contribute financially, especially if money is tight. Aside from valuing feminist work, the other goal of fundraising is so Iain and I don't have to struggle on behalf of the blog, and I don't want anyone else to struggle themselves in exchange. There is a big enough readership that neither should have to happen.]
Today in Projection
"The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."—Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, in 1998.
Clinton said that during an interview with (of all people) Matt Lauer on the Today show, and she was roundly criticized and ridiculed for being a paranoiac. But of course she was right. There was a vast right-wing conspiracy then, and there is one now.
In the intervening years, conservatives traded on the initial snide dismissals of Clinton's observation by claiming instead that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy, which now underwrites the entire Fox News empire, the Tea Party, the imaginary War on Christianity, the actual War on Agency, and all manner of conservative conspiracy theories that have been directed at President Barack Obama, just for a start.
The "vast left-wing conspiracy" is another fine bit of projection, used to obfuscate a comprehensive coordination to turn the US into an undemocratic corporatocracy, at any cost.
Michigan's public workers are the latest victims in this genuinely diabolical scheme. And with every win, the conspirators are getting more brazen about their strategies—the conspiracy laid bare for all to see.
Ned Resnikoff at MSNBC—Right-Wingers Koch, ALEC, Pushed Michigan 'Right-to-Work' Laws:
The United Auto Workers were "blindsided" by Michigan's new 'right-to-work' legislation, union president Bob King told MSNBC Tuesday, shortly after Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bills into law. In fact, the union had entered what King described as amicable talks with Snyder only days before, and the governor—who had previously opposed right-to-work—offered no indication that his views had changed.Nick Carey and Bernie Woodall for Reuters—Insight: How Republicans Engineered a Blow to Michigan's Powerful Unions:
"We had made a lot of progress, which he and the staff, everybody, felt good about," said King. "But then all of a sudden, he flipped on us, and we heard that he was going to sign this bill."
Snyder's public position on right-to-work turned into a ringing endorsement, seemingly overnight. Suddenly, he was championing right-to-work as "Freedom to Work," calling it "pro-worker," and saying it would create "more and better jobs in Michigan."
To explain the shift, Snyder has said that the issue simply gained "critical mass." But lately, a well-funded conservative political machine, with ties to the Koch family and other wealthy backers, as well as to the notorious conservative lobby group ALEC, has been flexing its considerable muscle. What looked like a spontaneous shift in Michigan labor policy had been planned for months—and the success of the right-to-work push could foretell future efforts nationwide.
Rep. Tom Shirkey, a Republican, described the passage of right-to-work to MSNBC as a "big team effort."
"There's a long list of very public special interest groups and associations that have been advocating for labor freedom for a long time," Shirkey said in an interview Wednesday. "There's also a long list of people who would just as soon stay behind the scenes who have been very supportive. And I'm just privileged to be one small piece in this very big puzzle."
Republicans executed a plan - the timing, the language of the bills, the media strategy, and perhaps most importantly, the behind-the-scenes lobbying of top Republicans including Snyder.Felicia Sonmez and David A. Fahrenthold for the Washington Post—Groups Vow to Push 'Right to Work' in Other States: "The conservative groups that supported Michigan's new 'right to work' law—winning a stunning victory over unions, even in the heart of American labor—vowed Wednesday to replicate that success elsewhere."
They knew they would likely face an acrimonious battle of the kind they had seen over the last two years in the neighboring state of Wisconsin between Republican Governor Scott Walker and unions. Operating in plain sight but often overlooked, they worked to put the necessary building blocks in place.
...A group linked to the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, owners of an energy and trading conglomerate who are reviled by unions and Democrats, held three conferences in Michigan in early 2012 on right-to-work featuring renowned conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. Three Republican presidential candidates including Romney and some 1,500 activists attended the last conference on February 25 sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, four days before Breibart's death.
The right-to-work campaign gathered momentum when the activists linked up with Dick DeVos, the son of Richard DeVos, co-founder of Michigan-based Amway [who was listed as the 67th richest person in America by Forbes magazine in 2012 with a net worth estimated at $5.1 billion], and Ronald Weiser, former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and ambassador to Slovakia under President George W. Bush.
...The wealthy businessman and the political guru both worked to persuade wavering Republican lawmakers by assuring them they would have financial support if they faced recall elections over right-to-work, as happened in Wisconsin, Colbeck, Hoogendyk and other Republicans said.
Asked if he had promised campaign financial support to nervous Republicans, DeVos, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006, said in a telephone interview: "I am pleased if I was able to help encourage legislators to truly vote their conscience without fear of political retribution from the other side, which is known for its heavy-handed tactics."
ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is a corporate-funded entity leading the corporatocratic charge to steal control of the nation from its people. They are seating people in state legislatures in order to wage war on agency and workers' rights, and funding US congress members in order to wage war on the social safety net.
They will decimate the middle class until there is nothing left but a desperate underclass of cheap and powerless workers who can be easily exploited by the 1%.
That's not paranoia. That's their stated goal, rewritten with honest words.
It's a vast right-wing conspiracy to take over the US. And they operate with impunity as anyone who acknowledges the conspiracy is dismissed as a crackpot. Just like Hillary was.
Quote of the Day
"Republicans have run out of persuadable white voters."—Resurgent Republic pollster Whit Ayres and the conservative Hispanic Leadership Network's Jennifer Korn, in a memo outlining the results of a study they released yesterday. [Via TPM.]
Presumably someone paid for this study. I could have delivered the same results for free.
