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The Current Administrator doesn't even bother to dogwhistle the racism any more. Of course, anyone who made a cursory look into his background would understand the racism goes back for several decades at this point.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that he insulted Congresswomen of color, insisting that the only true citizens of the country can be white (and probably white men) and then demanding they apologize to him for calling his remarks what they were and insisting that everyone around him denounce him and those remarks. If only they would. A scant few have been critical of the remarks, and fewer still have actually called them racist and unbecoming. The rest seem quite content, and if you look at the statements made, even some of those condemning the Administrator do so only in the context of condemning the people he went after, most seem quite content to call this a matter of politics rather than yet another question of fitness for office. And they can get away with not having to condemn the Administrator because there are more than enough people in the country who think what he's saying is a long-suppressed truth.
In the wake of mass shootings, Texas' government thinks making it easier to get and use guns is the correct solution.
The Current Administrator snubbed Denmark after being told that Greenland could not be purchased.
Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County thinks he should run for the shriff's office again, despite (or because) having been the public face of policies that treated prisoners and immigrants as subhuman and exposing them to extreme conditions. Someone else higher up in the government decided his models were the things to emulate on a grander scale.
But it was finally in reagard to the way a whistleblower complaint alleging, among other things, that the Current Administrator made military aid to Ukraine contingent on Ukraine opening investigations into a son of Joe Biden that Nancy Pelosi formally announced impeachment proceedings to begin against the Current Administrator. To the tune of "about fucking time" from many of the Democratic party and persons who insist on good government everywhere. The question of whether this will be slow-walked in hopes that someone can be voted out before having to call the question, or advanced as quickly as feasible with the hopes of grabbing as many people and bringing them down in scandal is yet to be seen.
In the UK, which continues its feud with the US about which of the two nations is going to be a bigger trash fire, the new Tory prime minister has decided to shave off four weeks of possible parliamentary debate and voting time on the Brexit issue by calling for a porogation of Parliament and a Queen's Speech.
Protests erupted over the weekend at the suspension of the democratic process to suit terrible ends. Lots of protests. Additionally, Petition one, from 38degrees and Petition two, on the Parliament website allow UK residents to register their opinion on the move.
If this is a plan to call an election to get a majority and then do whatever he wants, even if Brexit is stopped, that makes the Prime Minister callous, cruel, and entirely unfit for the job. At least some of the very conservative voices in the UK ae okay with throwing out the PM on a confidence vote and putting together something lone enough to stop the impending disaster.
But because they've been thinking about it, of course there are backup plans, just in case the primary one fails to produce the desired effect.
Led By Donkeys is doing their best to expose the hypocrisy and what the real positions are of various MPs on the Brexit issue. Elsewhere, the cry of "Please Leave My Town" is being taken up to tell the PM what local people think of him.
Said PM delivered at least one insult to an opposition leader. (Context of the remark "big gitk's blouse".) And a different insult, about being a chlorinated chicken. We're learning a lot about the insult capabilities of the — y'know what, I'm not going to refer to the leader of the Tories by his initials there. He continued to wag his tongue, and insist that a colleague who was killed wouuld want them to deliver Brexit, a position he has refused to back down from, despite calls for him to moderate his language. And despite clear consequences from the inflamatory rhetoric happening to other MPs.
Other persons in government chose to mock doctors concerned about medication access as making politics.
But you can pretty easiy see that problems abound with the current lack-of-plans regarding borders and The EU's general unwililngness to give the Brexiteers anything favorable for nothing.
Things have gone so pear-shaped there that the Prime Minster's brother resigns as minister and Member of Parliament. Apparently because the family politics are dividing the family. Cue the comedy work, including the supposed resignation of the dog of the PM. And people in contempt of the parliament are running parts of the show in the government.
On different comedy matters, the raw material needed for a fountain of memes after one of the government's ministers took a very casual pose while listening to a serious debate.
No-deal will be a disaster and a long series of sequences where the UK will be at a disadvantage until everything gets sorted out.
Several members of the Tories defected against confirming no-deal Brexit, and were subsequently sent off from being a member of the party.
It's an example of how constitutions and government function better when people aren't rules-lawyering them.
That said, a small silver lining from this might be the more than 100,000 new voters ready for any election that might be called. It's the sort of thing I would hope to see in the US as well, with people working to overcome the significant barriers put in the way for specific Republican-unfriendly demographics to get registered and then exercise their franchise. There's a serious tactical voting campaign ready in case an election does get called.
And another is that the high Scottish court ruled that the porogation was an unlawful action, followed by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom voiding the action. It shows a constitutional crisis brought on by a government looking to get around the regular processes of Parliament. And it only took ten days.
And Boris Johnson gets heckled wherever he goes, for what good it does. And is apparently very good at being told exactly where he went off the rails in his pop culture references.
One bit of good news - women in Bangladesh no longer have to disclose whether they are virgins when they apply for a marriage certificate. Because even small progress is progress.
The Current Administrator doesn't even bother to dogwhistle the racism any more. Of course, anyone who made a cursory look into his background would understand the racism goes back for several decades at this point.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that he insulted Congresswomen of color, insisting that the only true citizens of the country can be white (and probably white men) and then demanding they apologize to him for calling his remarks what they were and insisting that everyone around him denounce him and those remarks. If only they would. A scant few have been critical of the remarks, and fewer still have actually called them racist and unbecoming. The rest seem quite content, and if you look at the statements made, even some of those condemning the Administrator do so only in the context of condemning the people he went after, most seem quite content to call this a matter of politics rather than yet another question of fitness for office. And they can get away with not having to condemn the Administrator because there are more than enough people in the country who think what he's saying is a long-suppressed truth.
In the wake of mass shootings, Texas' government thinks making it easier to get and use guns is the correct solution.
The Current Administrator snubbed Denmark after being told that Greenland could not be purchased.
Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County thinks he should run for the shriff's office again, despite (or because) having been the public face of policies that treated prisoners and immigrants as subhuman and exposing them to extreme conditions. Someone else higher up in the government decided his models were the things to emulate on a grander scale.
But it was finally in reagard to the way a whistleblower complaint alleging, among other things, that the Current Administrator made military aid to Ukraine contingent on Ukraine opening investigations into a son of Joe Biden that Nancy Pelosi formally announced impeachment proceedings to begin against the Current Administrator. To the tune of "about fucking time" from many of the Democratic party and persons who insist on good government everywhere. The question of whether this will be slow-walked in hopes that someone can be voted out before having to call the question, or advanced as quickly as feasible with the hopes of grabbing as many people and bringing them down in scandal is yet to be seen.
In the UK, which continues its feud with the US about which of the two nations is going to be a bigger trash fire, the new Tory prime minister has decided to shave off four weeks of possible parliamentary debate and voting time on the Brexit issue by calling for a porogation of Parliament and a Queen's Speech.
Protests erupted over the weekend at the suspension of the democratic process to suit terrible ends. Lots of protests. Additionally, Petition one, from 38degrees and Petition two, on the Parliament website allow UK residents to register their opinion on the move.
If this is a plan to call an election to get a majority and then do whatever he wants, even if Brexit is stopped, that makes the Prime Minister callous, cruel, and entirely unfit for the job. At least some of the very conservative voices in the UK ae okay with throwing out the PM on a confidence vote and putting together something lone enough to stop the impending disaster.
But because they've been thinking about it, of course there are backup plans, just in case the primary one fails to produce the desired effect.
Led By Donkeys is doing their best to expose the hypocrisy and what the real positions are of various MPs on the Brexit issue. Elsewhere, the cry of "Please Leave My Town" is being taken up to tell the PM what local people think of him.
Said PM delivered at least one insult to an opposition leader. (Context of the remark "big gitk's blouse".) And a different insult, about being a chlorinated chicken. We're learning a lot about the insult capabilities of the — y'know what, I'm not going to refer to the leader of the Tories by his initials there. He continued to wag his tongue, and insist that a colleague who was killed wouuld want them to deliver Brexit, a position he has refused to back down from, despite calls for him to moderate his language. And despite clear consequences from the inflamatory rhetoric happening to other MPs.
Other persons in government chose to mock doctors concerned about medication access as making politics.
But you can pretty easiy see that problems abound with the current lack-of-plans regarding borders and The EU's general unwililngness to give the Brexiteers anything favorable for nothing.
Things have gone so pear-shaped there that the Prime Minster's brother resigns as minister and Member of Parliament. Apparently because the family politics are dividing the family. Cue the comedy work, including the supposed resignation of the dog of the PM. And people in contempt of the parliament are running parts of the show in the government.
On different comedy matters, the raw material needed for a fountain of memes after one of the government's ministers took a very casual pose while listening to a serious debate.
No-deal will be a disaster and a long series of sequences where the UK will be at a disadvantage until everything gets sorted out.
Several members of the Tories defected against confirming no-deal Brexit, and were subsequently sent off from being a member of the party.
It's an example of how constitutions and government function better when people aren't rules-lawyering them.
That said, a small silver lining from this might be the more than 100,000 new voters ready for any election that might be called. It's the sort of thing I would hope to see in the US as well, with people working to overcome the significant barriers put in the way for specific Republican-unfriendly demographics to get registered and then exercise their franchise. There's a serious tactical voting campaign ready in case an election does get called.
And another is that the high Scottish court ruled that the porogation was an unlawful action, followed by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom voiding the action. It shows a constitutional crisis brought on by a government looking to get around the regular processes of Parliament. And it only took ten days.
And Boris Johnson gets heckled wherever he goes, for what good it does. And is apparently very good at being told exactly where he went off the rails in his pop culture references.
One bit of good news - women in Bangladesh no longer have to disclose whether they are virgins when they apply for a marriage certificate. Because even small progress is progress.
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Date: 2019-10-03 07:26 pm (UTC)