Country is so fucked even the mosquito can no longer be trusted
Nice to know you guys
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“Surprisingly Handsome Gorilla” sounds like 1/3 of a quinella box in the fourth race at Gulfstream on a Wednesday
All hail our new gorilla overlords.
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https://twitter.com/WithDaughters/status/1171199959544279040
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Of course the white kid has the toy
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The black kid is much faster
Negative Nancy on a touching moment.
I assume this is part of the Kushner Plan for Peace in the Middle East?
Listening to people at work talk about California is fascinating, I work in manufacturing and people love to bash on all the regulations that CA has. These people think the state is some kind of liberal hellhole that accomplishes nothing, it’s almost like they dont realize that the GDP of CA would put it in the top 10 countries in the world. They would defintely turn down a trip to a place like SF
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I don’t even consider it a 2nd amendment thing. More like the 4th amendment imo.
There have been papers released on the stages of democracy for centuries. Lord Tytler created the Tytler Cycle which separates democracy into eight different stages:
Of course it’s a bit of a simplification but there’s no question that we’re as a whole dealing with a mixture of apathy (the centrists), complacency (deplorables), and bondage (minorities).
So yeah, America is an old democracy. Tytler stated that the average democracy lasts 200 years. It’s been 233 for America so it’s overripe.
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https://twitter.com/nprfreshair/status/1171507236759203843
Some of the conditions we found in some of the Weinstein settlements were so extreme, like women not being able to tell therapists or accountants about what had happened without special permission. Rowena Chiu, one of the alleged victims, never told her husband what had happened to her.
And so this is, like, you know, two years after this story; these settlements are extremely prevalent. They’re being signed. Women are being pressured into signing them every single day in this country. And it’s not just the restrictive clauses that we found so jaw-dropping. I think it’s the fact that there are these lawyers, some of these kind of self-proclaimed women’s advocates, like Gloria Allred for example. You know, she’s been involved in, you know, negotiating these settlements that have silenced women, including one of the victims of Harvey Weinstein in 2004.
GROSS: So we’ve been talking about Gloria Allred. Her daughter, Lisa Bloom, who is also a lawyer who has worked with many victims of sexual harassment and assault, you expected - when you heard she was a part of this story, you expected her to be defending women. But she was actually on Harvey Weinstein’s legal team. And what was her role on Weinstein’s team?
KANTOR: This whole saga is filled with so many surprises in terms of who helped and who hindered and who was on which side. And Lisa Bloom was - Lisa Bloom crossed sides. She decided to help Harvey Weinstein. And when this came out in the fall of 2017, it was very embarrassing for her.
Jesus Fucking Christ - it’s a giant grift
So there was, once again, you know, Lisa Bloom - this, you know, prominent feminist attorney who has publicly battled against sexual harassment and sexual assault and has been such a prominent victims advocate - in 2016, submitted a memo to Harvey Weinstein basically documenting all of the efforts that she was willing to take to help him undermine his accusers. She basically is saying, I’m going to harness all of what I’ve learned in the course of working with so many victims over the years. And I’m going to help you use that against victims.
And so she says, for example, I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world - and she’s speaking about Rose McGowan in this case - because I’ve represented so many of them. They start out as impressive, bold women. But the more one presses for evidence, the weaknesses and lies are revealed. She goes on to sort of spell out, in bullet points, all the different tactics that she’s willing to help Weinstein take.
One, initiating friendly contact with her through me or other good intermediary, and after establishing a relationship, work out a, quote, unquote, “win-win.” Key question, what does she want? But then (laughter), in the second one, she’s saying - she’s spelling out a plan for a counter-ops online campaign to push back and call her out as a pathological liar. A few well-placed articles now will go a long way if things blow up for us down the line. We can place an article re her becoming increasingly unglued so that when somebody Googles her, this is what pops up, and she is discredited.
Absolutely no words. I’m pasting this story as I read it and I keep thinking I’ve hit the big climax.
The incredible thing is how many 1000s of times does stuff like this happen where no one gets caught red-handed? And you know damn well it’s happening but you still have to argue endlessly with the ikes of the world that the sky is in fact blue.
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I’ve been reading about a book about Bill Cosby’s rapes and man, it’s the same shit where everyone knew what was going on but our justice system is almost designed to keep rape victims from ever getting any kind of justice.
Can’t say I’m anything but ecstatic Bolton is gone. Trump’s isolationist Putin-love at least has one good side effect - holding the neocons at bay.
lol Mittens is such trash
The never trumpers are like 95% neocons (Frum, Kristol, Rubin and their ilk)
Civility, keep the dogwhistles above audible, endless war.