Democratic presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke (Alex Moffat), Andrew Yang (Bowen Yang), Pete Buttigieg (Colin Jost), Elizabeth Warren (Kate McKinnon), Marianne Williamson (Chloe Fineman), Bernie Sanders (Larry David), Joe Biden (Woody Harrelson), Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) speak at CNN’s Impeachment Town Hall.
jack, wonderful selection for this moment in time. loved that combination, not only Judy & Barbra but the poignancy of those songs and the way they expressed it.
didn’t mean to diminish the mood with last night’s SNL. meant only to underline it. that tiny sliver of a silver lining.
happy days indeed may be here again. soon. or by nov. 2020 at the latest.
The Democratic chairwoman published the digest in piecemeal, with 57 tweets in all, including the foreign national prohibitions memo — all while calling out the commissioner who she said sought to block it from being widely publicized online.
“GOP FEC Commissioner Caroline Hunter took the altogether unprecedented step of objecting to its being added to the Digest and blocked publication of the whole,” Weintraub said, referring to the memo.
“I always thought these anti-regulatory people liked the First Amendment well enough,” Weintraub said in a follow-up tweet. “I guess they think it’s just for corporations. I’m not fond of anyone trying to suppress my speech.”
The digest itself was fairly routine and mostly included updates on civil penalties handed down for campaign law violations.
But Weintraub’s defiance is notable for its timing, as foreign involvement in the U.S. political system has turned the news cycle into a very focused dumpster fire.
[…]
Election integrity is a key focus for the FEC, and Weintraub has often raised the issue from her perch. Her memo focuses on financial contributions from foreign nationals for all U.S. elections, for which there are broad restrictions that she summarized in a June op-ed in The Post.
“I am gravely concerned about ongoing efforts by geopolitical adversaries to undermine our democracy,” Weintraub wrote. “It is critically important that everyone involved in U.S. politics understands the law, recognizes the threat, and confronts and contains it.”
Reached Saturday, Weintraub told The Washington Post: “It’s a straightforward summary of how the FEC has interpreted the foreign national ban over the years. I thought it would be helpful to have that on the public record.”
[continues]
Hate to be a storm crow, but it’s going to be quite some time before there’s anything even resembling “happy days” again all up in heah, yo. These malefactors are not going down easily.
Thank You Jack
Love the reminder of that 1963 event. I have trouble contemplating that I was only 19 at the time. Arghhhhhh
Yesterday I spent the majority of the day watching the Global Citizen Festival from Central Park. Carole King was one of the major performers returning to Central Park for the first time since the 70s. She sang several of her songs, but this is Strisand singing Where You Lead I Will follow from her 1971 Barbra Joan Streisand album.
talk about serendipity, Jack — we saw the Renee Zellweger Judy Garland movie last night. She is fantastic in it.
Zellweger is already getting Oscar buzz.
c’mon sturge, so maybe not lol happy times, but maybe here and there see a subtle smile and a hint of twinkle in the eye. a small lift of the spirits and welcome breath of truthiness wafting from the east.
There’ll be no joy in Mudville till Mighty Casey has struck all the way out—- and even if that happens, there’ll be a white-hooded curtain across the US and the strife will be monumental.
Every time these jerkoffs start off with god on their side, shit gets weird.
“Politicians and Bureaucrats don’t need guns to rob us, they use laws written so obscurely and not advertised that when they hit you it’s like a thief in the night.” A comment by an unknown person. Yep, it’s true. I paid into social security since I was 15. Then they added on the “substantial earnings” thing for each year. So now MANY of those years don’t count because as a kid I didn’t make the substantial amount. Then they, them who thinks up this stuff, added on the WEP (Windfall Elimination Provision). It’s not a windfall to me. So when I retire, my social security will be reduced by this. Both SS and retirement are earned, by me. I paid into both forever. They’re not a hand out. Poor folks who need it get a hand out. But so do rich people who don’t. It would be great if congress addressed this and fixed it. But I fear it’s now way down on their list of concerns. However, this is one of the issues that concern the middle class when it comes to voting!
Jack…. spectacular!…. thanks.
Well… I have a little hop and a skip in my step since last week. But then… I will admit that living in NH means I’m not surrounding by a bunch of yahoos like you are Sturg.
And what’s with the Ukraine? Couldn’t Biden find a job anywhere else in the WORLD?
We’re ALL surrounded by yahoos……😊
Before the movie came out Liza Minnelli was against the project but hope she feels better if she sees it (says she won’t) — although honest about her troubles it really is a love letter to Judy. I didn’t realize Judy was only 47 when she died. Lots of interesting stuff in this Time magazine piece: The True Story Behind The Movie
And in my e-mail today,
“NEAL INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO FIX SOCIAL SECURITY WEP PROVISION, IMPROVE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SECURITY”
Can’t listen to this without thinking of Trump being master of the Universe:
Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco – Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
Evil never rests.
Nice pick Jack
Mr C and I watched the Global Citizne concert — Queen with Adam Lambert — it was wonderful
earlier a duet with Carole King and Kelly Clarkson — in general a very good show
“One of two things is true, Chris. Either the Ukrainian government or people associated with it possess real and actual knowledge of corrupt dealings by the Biden family or they don’t. If they do, is it not in the interest of all Americans to know what that is?”
-Stephen Miller on FauxNews
…remember that he said that, as an official administration spokesperson
One of two things is true. Either Trump is a corrupt, self-dealing crime-boss, or he’s not. Isn’t it in the best interest of the American people to know the facts?
Rhonda Don’t say that name McDaniels chair of the goopers
presiding over the death of the Republican Party
I hope Mittens and the rest of the Romney’s have drummed her out of the family.
bink & tiptoe, shifting attention and focus to biden and off trump is the big ploy now. the playbook from which the critters speak and the ads are already activated out there. it’s a 3 card monte scam writ large.
I’m not the only one to describe twit behavior that way. 2 years ago in a CBC interview salman rushdie was asked about trump election. here’s his response:
It was a bit of a perfect storm. One thing I will say is the City of New York voted 90 per cent against him. In the place where he lived, everyone got his number. In a way, America is waking up to find out what New York always knew. As Fran Lebowitz said, he’s not even a property developer: he’s a three-card monte man. He’s a con artist.
please keep the focus on the perp, there’ll be enough time after the impeachment to look in to hunter and his dad. 1st things 1st.
sigh
by the way, that rushdie interview with the Canadian broadcasting Co was about his book “the golden house” and here’s some of what was said:
Your newest novel has been called an “American novel” in the vein of The Great Gatsby or Bonfire of the Vanities. How do you see it?
It’s very flattering. I did read myself into some New York literature: [James] Baldwin’s Another Country, Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence, Henry James’ Washington Square; these books which try to tell a story about interesting human beings but also to make a portrait of an age. I thought if I could do this right, I could try and capture this bizarre moment in American life.
Much of the conversation around this novel has focused on the presidency of Donald Trump. What did you feel and what did you see around you that became The Golden House?
The initial idea was just to write about this strange family, and it is kind of a broken and tragic family, and I did feel that increasingly, in the last decade, that “broken” and “tragic” were adjectives you could also apply to the United States.
I thought that I could write a tragedy inside a tragedy: the private tragedy of these people surrounded by the larger hullabaloo of the American farce declining into tragedy.
The Republicans (sic) defending SFB are all liars and if the media doesn’t call them out they shouldn’t have them on
And they should not dump on Democrats — this is the swift boat bullshit all over again — let them go on and lie lie lie and then blame the Democrats for not responding.
Alex Witless has some asshole gooper on and lied and she said nothing
We would not be in the place we are if the mass media had any integrity
lizzie will surely get some dog lover votes from this exchange with the charlotte observer yesterday:
Do you ever get tired of constantly being on display, of being criticized? How do you unwind?
My husband’s here with me, which is great. And we have a golden retriever, who’s big and floppy and young. I think of him as a teenager golden retriever. He’s about 15 months old now and thinks that everyone on Earth is put here to pet him. We walk our dog a lot. I comb him a lot, which is very calming for me.
I just gave him a bath the night before last, so that I could take him out yesterday and he could go do a little campaigning with me. But it really is being around Bailey, our dog, the three of us, my husband, our dog and me. That kind of brings things back down to earth.
bailey & friend
Politically, the dawn is just breaking. Red sky at morning, but it could blow itself out by midday, or at latest before noon. There’s a lot of pruning and weeding to be done, and we’ll have to catch a lot of vermin. There’s also digging and planting to be done. It’ll be a lovely afternoon and evening. Then we’ll all go to bed feeling tired, well satisfied, and safe.
Journalists do your job
Gird your loins.
I’m beginning to think that all this crazy Ukraine bidness is going to bring Biden a huge sympathy vote in the early states.
Remember, Biden makes up 71.43% of Bidness.
The Temp. Chief of Staff is about as sleazy as you can get
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Democratic presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke (Alex Moffat), Andrew Yang (Bowen Yang), Pete Buttigieg (Colin Jost), Elizabeth Warren (Kate McKinnon), Marianne Williamson (Chloe Fineman), Bernie Sanders (Larry David), Joe Biden (Woody Harrelson), Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) speak at CNN’s Impeachment Town Hall.
jack, wonderful selection for this moment in time. loved that combination, not only Judy & Barbra but the poignancy of those songs and the way they expressed it.
didn’t mean to diminish the mood with last night’s SNL. meant only to underline it. that tiny sliver of a silver lining.
happy days indeed may be here again. soon. or by nov. 2020 at the latest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/28/elections-chief-says-gop-colleague-blocked-wide-release-her-foreign-activity-memo/
excerpts from above wapo cite:
Hate to be a storm crow, but it’s going to be quite some time before there’s anything even resembling “happy days” again all up in heah, yo. These malefactors are not going down easily.
Thank You Jack
Love the reminder of that 1963 event. I have trouble contemplating that I was only 19 at the time. Arghhhhhh
Barbra reminices at 70
Yesterday I spent the majority of the day watching the Global Citizen Festival from Central Park. Carole King was one of the major performers returning to Central Park for the first time since the 70s. She sang several of her songs, but this is Strisand singing Where You Lead I Will follow from her 1971 Barbra Joan Streisand album.
talk about serendipity, Jack — we saw the Renee Zellweger Judy Garland movie last night. She is fantastic in it.
Zellweger is already getting Oscar buzz.
c’mon sturge, so maybe not lol happy times, but maybe here and there see a subtle smile and a hint of twinkle in the eye. a small lift of the spirits and welcome breath of truthiness wafting from the east.
There’ll be no joy in Mudville till Mighty Casey has struck all the way out—- and even if that happens, there’ll be a white-hooded curtain across the US and the strife will be monumental.
Every time these jerkoffs start off with god on their side, shit gets weird.
“Politicians and Bureaucrats don’t need guns to rob us, they use laws written so obscurely and not advertised that when they hit you it’s like a thief in the night.” A comment by an unknown person. Yep, it’s true. I paid into social security since I was 15. Then they added on the “substantial earnings” thing for each year. So now MANY of those years don’t count because as a kid I didn’t make the substantial amount. Then they, them who thinks up this stuff, added on the WEP (Windfall Elimination Provision). It’s not a windfall to me. So when I retire, my social security will be reduced by this. Both SS and retirement are earned, by me. I paid into both forever. They’re not a hand out. Poor folks who need it get a hand out. But so do rich people who don’t. It would be great if congress addressed this and fixed it. But I fear it’s now way down on their list of concerns. However, this is one of the issues that concern the middle class when it comes to voting!
Jack…. spectacular!…. thanks.
Well… I have a little hop and a skip in my step since last week. But then… I will admit that living in NH means I’m not surrounding by a bunch of yahoos like you are Sturg.
And what’s with the Ukraine? Couldn’t Biden find a job anywhere else in the WORLD?
We’re ALL surrounded by yahoos……😊
Before the movie came out Liza Minnelli was against the project but hope she feels better if she sees it (says she won’t) — although honest about her troubles it really is a love letter to Judy. I didn’t realize Judy was only 47 when she died. Lots of interesting stuff in this Time magazine piece: The True Story Behind The Movie
And in my e-mail today,
“NEAL INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO FIX SOCIAL SECURITY WEP PROVISION, IMPROVE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SECURITY”
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/neal-introduces-legislation-fix-social-security-wep-provision-improve
Can’t listen to this without thinking of Trump being master of the Universe:
Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco – Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
Evil never rests.
Nice pick Jack
Mr C and I watched the Global Citizne concert — Queen with Adam Lambert — it was wonderful
earlier a duet with Carole King and Kelly Clarkson — in general a very good show
“One of two things is true, Chris. Either the Ukrainian government or people associated with it possess real and actual knowledge of corrupt dealings by the Biden family or they don’t. If they do, is it not in the interest of all Americans to know what that is?”
-Stephen Miller on FauxNews
…remember that he said that, as an official administration spokesperson
One of two things is true. Either Trump is a corrupt, self-dealing crime-boss, or he’s not. Isn’t it in the best interest of the American people to know the facts?
Rhonda Don’t say that name McDaniels chair of the goopers
presiding over the death of the Republican Party
I hope Mittens and the rest of the Romney’s have drummed her out of the family.
bink & tiptoe, shifting attention and focus to biden and off trump is the big ploy now. the playbook from which the critters speak and the ads are already activated out there. it’s a 3 card monte scam writ large.
I’m not the only one to describe twit behavior that way. 2 years ago in a CBC interview salman rushdie was asked about trump election. here’s his response:
It was a bit of a perfect storm. One thing I will say is the City of New York voted 90 per cent against him. In the place where he lived, everyone got his number. In a way, America is waking up to find out what New York always knew. As Fran Lebowitz said, he’s not even a property developer: he’s a three-card monte man. He’s a con artist.
please keep the focus on the perp, there’ll be enough time after the impeachment to look in to hunter and his dad. 1st things 1st.
sigh
by the way, that rushdie interview with the Canadian broadcasting Co was about his book “the golden house” and here’s some of what was said:
Your newest novel has been called an “American novel” in the vein of The Great Gatsby or Bonfire of the Vanities. How do you see it?
It’s very flattering. I did read myself into some New York literature: [James] Baldwin’s Another Country, Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence, Henry James’ Washington Square; these books which try to tell a story about interesting human beings but also to make a portrait of an age. I thought if I could do this right, I could try and capture this bizarre moment in American life.
Much of the conversation around this novel has focused on the presidency of Donald Trump. What did you feel and what did you see around you that became The Golden House?
The initial idea was just to write about this strange family, and it is kind of a broken and tragic family, and I did feel that increasingly, in the last decade, that “broken” and “tragic” were adjectives you could also apply to the United States.
I thought that I could write a tragedy inside a tragedy: the private tragedy of these people surrounded by the larger hullabaloo of the American farce declining into tragedy.
The Republicans (sic) defending SFB are all liars and if the media doesn’t call them out they shouldn’t have them on
And they should not dump on Democrats — this is the swift boat bullshit all over again — let them go on and lie lie lie and then blame the Democrats for not responding.
Alex Witless has some asshole gooper on and lied and she said nothing
We would not be in the place we are if the mass media had any integrity
lizzie will surely get some dog lover votes from this exchange with the charlotte observer yesterday:
Do you ever get tired of constantly being on display, of being criticized? How do you unwind?
My husband’s here with me, which is great. And we have a golden retriever, who’s big and floppy and young. I think of him as a teenager golden retriever. He’s about 15 months old now and thinks that everyone on Earth is put here to pet him. We walk our dog a lot. I comb him a lot, which is very calming for me.
I just gave him a bath the night before last, so that I could take him out yesterday and he could go do a little campaigning with me. But it really is being around Bailey, our dog, the three of us, my husband, our dog and me. That kind of brings things back down to earth.
bailey & friend
Politically, the dawn is just breaking. Red sky at morning, but it could blow itself out by midday, or at latest before noon. There’s a lot of pruning and weeding to be done, and we’ll have to catch a lot of vermin. There’s also digging and planting to be done. It’ll be a lovely afternoon and evening. Then we’ll all go to bed feeling tired, well satisfied, and safe.
Journalists do your job
Gird your loins.
I’m beginning to think that all this crazy Ukraine bidness is going to bring Biden a huge sympathy vote in the early states.
Remember, Biden makes up 71.43% of Bidness.
The Temp. Chief of Staff is about as sleazy as you can get
NEW THREAD