My Own Private Idaho. Portland, 1980s.
https://youtu.be/2WoJ4GN5MaQ
Zero Effect. Portland, 1990s.
https://youtu.be/TF9YaxBAGyc
Animal House. Eugene, 1970s.
https://youtu.be/KWjtI6n5xWM
How To Beat the High Cost of Living. Eugene, 1970s.
https://youtu.be/9-77VpXSygs
I have friends who try to convince me to sing, I always tell them “Look, there’s only one song I can do and I guarantee they don’t have it…”
“Come on man, they have thousands of songs, they have to have it…”
“Fine, if they have it, I’ll do it. Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs.”
And man, they’ll run and look for that song… then they argue…
“I don’t think it’s a real song!”
“I know it is! I’ve heard of it!”
The song:
While Havana Syndrome is real, to my knowledge it’s not that refined. It should have impacted everyone in the room, Trump and the moderators included.
The known reports of the syndrome occupied entire floors of buildings. The idea that someone could use it and just target one guy is a little out there.
Munchkin Riot
No, nobody cares about green jobs.
It’s too soon for polling to reflect anything, re-check in 1-2 weeks.
As of right now:
Michigan - Trump +4
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/michigan/
Pennsylvania - Trump +4
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/pennsylvania/
Wisconsin - Tied, Biden +2, Trump +2-3 Tossup
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/wisconsin/
Georgia - Trump +5 to +10
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/georgia/
Arizona - Trump +6 to +10
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/arizona/
Nevada - Trump +3
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/nevada/
New Mexico - Biden +1 to +2
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/new-mexico/
North Carolina - Trump +3 to +8
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/north-carolina/
Minnesota - Biden +2 to Trump +1 Tossup
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/minnesota/
So, really, bad news for Biden across the board except for New Mexico which is just freshly getting polling data.
Oh, I never meant to bring Trump into it, just that Obama continued Bush’s drone program and in a perfect world it would have all been illegal… but not if the President does it. ;)
That’s the thing though, with the Republicans in charge there will NEVER be a vote on this. They won’t allow it.
She’s just grandstanding.
Impeachment starts in the House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans.
It goes to the Senate for conviction and removal, which, thanks to the Republican minority, requires a 60 vote majority to move anything forward.
This is why I’ve been saying since the Trump impeachments, we have to control the House and the Senate first, then we can talk impeachment.
House - 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, 3 vacancies.
https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown
*Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) resigned effective 3/22/2024.
*Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) died 4/24/2024.
*Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigned effective 4/25/2024.
Senate - 49 Republicans, 47 Democrats, 4 Independents that caucus with Democrats.
https://www.senate.gov/senators/SenatorsRepresentingThirdorMinorParties.htm
Joe Manchin III (WV)
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ)
Angus S. King, Jr. (ME)
Bernard Sanders (VT)
It protects any official action.
So, for example, the notorious drone strikes that Obama ordered which killed a bunch of innocent people.
As commander in chief, that’s an official act, he would have immunity.
Bush and Abu Ghraib torture? Same.
Other folks are just as active, I’m just more public about it for transparency reasons.
Missing the exclamation point, no wonder he lost!
Definitely… Someone with a doctorate applying at McDonalds is just looking for a stop gap and will be gone the instant something better comes along.
Well that’s true! :)
That’s the thing, for the executive branch, passing laws is not an official act. It’s outside that branch of government. That’s what the Legislative branch does.
It would be like Biden overturning a court ruling. That’s the Judicial branch, not your dance.
Fascism actually has a precise definition:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
“a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition”
So breaking it down:
“that exalts nation and often race above the individual” - Trump, not Biden.
“centralized autocratic government” - Trump, not Biden (or any Democrat, really, “centralized” isn’t their thing).
“dictatorial leader” - Literally Trump. https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
“severe economic and social regimentation” - I could see this one being argued “both sides”. The difference being Democrats want to use the regimentation to protect people and Republicans want to use it to oppress people.
“forcible suppression of opposition” - Definitely Trump, not Biden.
He CAN win Michigan, he won’t at this rate, but he still CAN. He just has to make a lot of changes that a) he doesn’t feel are necessary and b) isn’t wiling to do.
Like admit the economy sucks for a lot of Americans.
I got polled yesterday and was asked to write a winning line for Biden:
“In 2020, under President Trump, you didn’t know where your next roll of toilet paper was coming from! People were scalping it out of the backs of their cars in grocery store parking lots! You want to go back to that?”