By spocko, on March 18th, 2017% https://www.spockosbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/Senator-Fischer-questioned-about-giving-mentally-ill-guns-at-Neb-Town-Hall.mp4
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Transcript. Angela Sorensen Thomas questions Sen. Deb Fischer vote to allow the severe mentally ill to buy guns. at Holdrege City Auditorium Town Hall on March 16, 2017
Angela Sorensen Thomas: AST Senator Deb Fischer DF
Photos by Eric Gregory Lincoln Journal Star
Angela Sorensen Thomas: Recently you voted for house joint bill resolution 40. That allows people who are so mentally unstable they need a guardian or representative to manage their bank accounts to buy deadly weapons.
I have a brother-in-law who was one of the 75,000 people in this category. And it terrifies me thinking about him getting a gun. He lives here in Nebraska. Fortunately for us he’s in a protected setting and it wouldn’t affect him now.
But 10 years ago it would’ve been deadly for him. Not necessarily that he’s a threat to anyone in this room, but he is a threat to himself. Can you explain to me why it’s so important for people who cannot manage their own funds, because of severe mental illness, to be able to obtain deadly weapons?
(Applause)
Deb Fischer: This was a resolution that I happen to agree with the ACLU and other . . . → Read More: Senator Deb Fischer (R) Questioned at Nebraska Town Hall on Why She Voted YES to Allow Severe Mentally Ill to Get Guns
By spocko, on March 9th, 2017%
The stock prices for all these health insurance companies are up since they met with Trump. Thanks Republicans!
We hear so many tragic stories about people who will go bankrupt and/or die because of the repeal of the ACA, and its pathetic replacement, that I thought Americans would want some good news about health care insurance. The stock price of every single publicly traded health insurance company represented in this photo has gone up since this photo* was taken on February 27, 2017! Humana. Was 207 now 217 UP $9 Cigna. Was 149 now 152 UP $3 UnitedHealth. Was 165 now 168 UP $3 Aetna. Was 129 now 132 UP $3 Anthem. Was 164 now 166 UP $2 Things are looking up! . On Vulcan we have a phrase that roughly translates to “Who benefits?” To understand who Trump and Republicans actually listen to, work backwards from the question, “Who benefits?” To determine what will happen next, look forward into what the men in this photo say they want every quarter on their financial conference calls. . . . → Read More: Good news on the health insurance front!
By spocko, on January 26th, 2017%
I’m very excited about all the new activists that this election has inspired. I love looking at photos from the marches, hearing their stories and knowing about the in-person connections made. I look forward to hearing and reading about their future successes on social media.
I want to help these new activists by connecting them with experienced activists and experts I know who kick ass. We can learn from them.
When thinking about activist actions I always want to know, “What was done in the past that worked?
What has to be done to make it work now? How do we go about doing that in our current environment?
Video of aliens flying over a wall and attacking the White House by Dan Mcenroe
My friend Cliff Schecter is starting a new podcast called An Unpresidented Podcast, Bigly that will be addressing some of these issues, especially as it concerns the media. The GoFund me link is here.
“Many of us have lamented the lack of progressive media infrastructure. I’ve given my all to combating this by founding (and partially funding) an independent, progressive radio station in Washington DC and going on independent radio and tv. With the . . . → Read More: Unpresidented. The Media and How They’re Spun
By spocko, on January 20th, 2017%
Photoshop from jerjozwik at Reddit
From Photoshop Battle discussion PsBattle: The Obamas and Bidens Walk Away from White House.
By spocko, on January 18th, 2017%
By spocko, on January 16th, 2017%
The media still hasn’t figured out how to deal with Trump and his weaseling skills.
They are using the, “If a democrat did this…” model. That one was blown out of the water early. But Trump has even surpassed the “It’s Okay When You Are Republican” model. And they are light years away from the “If a regular person did this”…” model. Normal, Democratic, Republican and Decent people norms haven’t been applying to Trump. The media hasn’t adapted, but we need to.
Now I could coach the press on how to bust him, but they are too busy trying to figure out how to stop being humiliated daily.
In a recent Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall was telling the MSM to stop being crybabies about losing access. I saw how Bush treated the DC press like dirt and they ate it up. My friend Eric Boehlert’s great book Lapdogs was all about how the press rolled over for Bush.
If they do get kicked out of the press conferences they might start noticing how Trump has continued to play them. So most of them are beyond help, but that doesn’t mean that WE can’t do their job.
In the . . . → Read More: Weaseling Out of Things Is A Core Trump Skill
By spocko, on January 6th, 2017% I know the D.C. Democrats are busy running around trying to find their next job and tickets to concerts, but Christ on a crutch why isn’t anyone baiting Trump about his “repeal and replace” ObamaCare promise?
At least get some people out there who can tell us what a straight up repeal would mean and what’s going to happen next. Give us some scenarios like
my hero Wendell Potter did here.
Explain that what Americans faced before ObamaCare will come rushing back, the insurance industry abuses, the crummy coverage, the out of control prices. That’s what repeal is. “But, but the law!” Well tell us exactly what can’t be done and what CAN be done.
The problem is that the media lets Trump and his spokespeople off the hook time and time again for not having a plan and how they are making promises they can’t keep.
Why are the democrats giving him more time? He has had over a year to come up with a replacement plan. Stop cutting him slack damn it! Every day they delay him prepare and lets the industry help him to the landing they want.
“But but he’s not even in office yet!” . . . → Read More: Damn it Dems. Make news on what repealing ObamaCare means!
By spocko, on January 3rd, 2017% There is a great scene in Trading Places where the good guys win, and the bad guys are defeated. This shows the results of fighting back. This is my idea of a perfect resolution to fighting leaders and funders of the right. I know it’s a fantasy, but there are real lessons to be learned from it. You want to fight the right? This is how we fight.
What makes this clip satisfying are four parts. 1) A comeuppance that REALLY hurts them. The Dukes lost status in the eyes of their peers, they lost all their monetary assets as well as their symbolic asset–their families’ inherited seat at the stock exchange. One brother loses his health with a heart attack.
2) The brothers turn on each other. Instead of figuring out how to game the system or keep their money, they attack each other. The Dukes could have had healing power of forgiveness and love of family, but that was also destroyed. 3) The rules set up by the Dukes were used against them. The Dukes created the rules to use against others and didn’t expect the rule to apply to themselves. 4) The people who defeated them . . . → Read More: This is how we fight
By spocko, on December 21st, 2016% I had a discussion the other day with a woman who talked about her feelings about Hillary and the election. In the end she said some of the same things that I’ve heard before. “Wasn’t there something that would have preventing Trump from ever running?” and now, “Isn’t there something that won’t let him get into office?”
She also talked about how the media didn’t do their job BUT… Hillary has baggage, she’s isolated etc. etc. etc.
I stopped her and said, “Look, I know Joe Conason, the guy who wrote the book “The Hunting of the President.” and there is a reason that you think these things about her. It started with $2 million dollars spent by Richard Mellon Scaife and others on the Arkansas project in the 80s and has gone on for decades.
When you dread how they will come after Hillary, it’s because they instilled that dread in you. Hillary acts the way she does because of the constant attacks in the past and the anticipated ones in the future. Those Scaife/Mellon people won. They were successful in their strategy. I know that because of what you have just said.”
Photo by Evan P. . . . → Read More: Who’s going to kick the right wing’s ass?
By spocko, on November 28th, 2016%
From the Drone Law Journal November 27, 2016
The FAA has imposed a 4-nautical mile Temporary Flight Restriction, (“TFR”), in airspace up to 3500 feet above sea level, over the Standing Rock Protest in North Dakota. The land in that area sits approximately 1600 feet above sea level, meaning about 1900 feet of the sky above the protest is off limits to any aircraft other than those permitted to fly — namely, aircraft in support of the law enforcement activities.
Neither the mainstream media, nor citizen journalists, nor activist hobbyists may fly in that area to document what law enforcement is doing.
Why is there a TFR over Standing Rock? — Peter Sachs, Esq.
This action will prevent the media or activists from showing shocking footage of water cannons used to spray protesters.
Forbes journalist John Goglia has pointed out that “keeping the media from documenting law enforcement actions is not part of the FAA’s mission. Nor is it a legal basis for issuing flight restrictions.” Yet that is exactly what they did in Ferguson and it appears they are doing the same here.
I reached out to the FAA for more specific information on why the TFR . . . → Read More: FAA Bars Media Drones Flying Over Pipeline Protests
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