ArtfromArk

The Southern Manifesto was a document that was drawn up in the House and Senate in early 1956 in response to the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. The document pledged to support states’ rights to oppose integration of public facilities. Johnson did not sign the document, along with senators Estes Kefauver and Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee.…[Read more]

We’re screwed, blued, and tattooed

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Although I am kind of sheltered where I live outside the US, I have famiiy members in the US I dearly love, and want only the very, very best for them.

Did “Meathead” go “full John Birch Society” on the show, or in real life? I quit watching the show after the 2nd season.

@mistap

My family member has told me that Trump’s attitude toward the PO is essentially a personal vendetta against Bezos, and that if Trump made the PO raise the rates with Amazon, “it could well be the death of us (=the USPS).” 30+ years with the USPS. I’ll take his word for it. The real culprits here are Republicans, especially Issa, Trump and LeJoy.

I was so excited when Clinton was elected, and I think in his very earliest days he actually tried to change things for the better. I think the constant threat of legal action over his sexual peccadillos was like a sword of Damocles over his head that finally moved him over to the Dark Side. Of course, his wife hobnobbing with rich Republicans…[Read more]

for killing the Fairness Doctrine. And Hate Radio came into existence during Reagan’s term as well, spurred in part by Reagan’s disdain for liberals and minorities.

@jbnw

@retiredliberal

back in 1980, when they voted en masse for union-busting Ronald Reagan, and voted for him again in 1984 even after the PATCO debacle. They were more interested in kicking foreign butt, and loved Reagan’s braggadocio.

One of my close family members has worked at the PO for three decades. He has me told that the Amazon contract is very important to the PO and is not a money-losing deal. If you want to point fingers, point them at Republicans in general and Darrell Issa, Donald Trump and Louis DeJoy in particular.

@salemcourt

Lyndon Johnson’s programs were called the Great Society, not the New Society.

@fasttense

I’m afraid you’re right. And that means that it may be a loooong time before I will be able to visit relatives in the US with peace of mind. (They are taking precautions, but the government of the country where I am currently living has imposed severe restrictions on re-entering the country from the US because of America’s…[Read more]

&%$#****#$%§∞¢£¢™!!!

as someone with close ties with the USPS, that the Republicans are by far the bad guys in this mess, going back to Darrell Issa’s mindless crusade against the USPS.  https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/darrell-issas-got-plan-put-postal-service-death-spiral/

but among their supporters, it is often mindless ideology mixed with greed. They’ll automatically attack anything as “socialism” or “communism” if Hannity, Breitbart, the talking heads at FAUX, etc., tell them so. At the same time, they think they will personally have to pay for everyone in the USA if Medicare for All becomes a reality.

that serves the average citizen. I understand the vitriol against top-level Democrats here, but my experience since the 1980s is that the Republicans are out to sabotage public services. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan: “Government is the problem. And if we’re elected, we’ll make that a self-fulfilling prophesy”.

although this NHK article from last September talks about a woman whose eating disorders that resulted from constantly wearing a mask eventually led to the dissolution of most of her teeth

https://www.nhk.or.jp/seikatsu-blog/1000/411894.html

For example, the part that says the Prez and VP can’t be RESIDENTS of the same state. Dubyah and Cheney were both RESIDENTS of Texas, regardless of Cheney’s property in Wyoming.

aren’t all that effective, since they can barely cover the nose and mouth at the same time.