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This is likely the last politics link roundup for the year. I hope it's been informative, even if the material contained within has often been more upset-making than happy-making.
The satirists Led By Donkeys are launching a contest for the UK public to design a billboard against the latest Brexit advertisements. This ought to be awesome. Especially since some of the money they're getting came from the government running pro-Brexit ads on an anti-Brexit podcast.
They might also have something useful to say about the possibility of the Scottish Parliament officially sending a request to extend the Brexit deadline if the UK Parliament fails to do so in violation of the law.
Mr. Johnson has said he will not resign his post, and challenged the Monarch to dismiss him, even if all of his Brexit plans fail and confidence motions mean he should dissolve the government. It wouldn't make sense to call for a porogation and then elections, unless the end plan was just to try and prevent Parliament from taking any action at all.
The Tories also think it's a swell idea to engage in U.S.-style voter identification requirements, with the expected projected results of suppressing the vote of a significant swath of non-Tories. That particular thing needs to be kept in the U.S. and then stomped out with prejudice.
And then there's the film script that Mr. Johnson apparently shopped and heard nothing back from, perhaps because it lacked quality and seemed to revel in stereotyping and violence.
At least the ad campaign for Brexit is suspended because elections have been called and extensions were granted.
Unfortunately, the Tories won the election in record numbers, which suggests a lot about what the mood and politics of the UK is when it comes to the consequences that will follow.kaberett has a list of suggestions on where to put money and time so as to effectively oppose the Tories and the mindset they represent.
Stateside, at least one person working for Cambridge Analytica says they tried to tell the Obama government about election interference and targeting of the radicalizable, but the Obama administration thought, as most people did, that Trump wasn't electable, even with people cheating on his side.
Seventeen of the people working on the Watergate scandal believe the Current Administrator has engaged in conduct worthy of impeachment and conviction.
Self-confessed liar Sarah Sanders says she doesn't like being called a liar. Because that headline is too good not to use.
Despite his best efforts to obstruct and otherwise hinder investigations into his conduct, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald J. Trump, making him the third president in the history of the United States to have articles of impeachment passed in the House. The next phase of the impeachment is a trial in the Senate, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as the presiding officer of the trial. However, removal requires a two-thirds majority vote, and it's already extremely clear that the Senate Majority leader is prejudiced to the point where recusal would be appropriate. So it's unlikely that any trial that goes forward in the Senate would be any sort of impartial and not highly politically-charged. (Which is the thing that Republicans have been accusing Democrats of throughout the process of investigating, drafting, and voting upon the articles of impeachment.) Given the unlikeliness of anything resembling a fair trial happening in the Senate, the House has no great urgency to send the articles to the Senate until they know what the trial experience is going to be like.
Meanwhile, as much as they would love for everyone to give to their preferred super-PAC, plenty of MAGA-ites and others are giving money to groups that have no affiliation with the Current Administrator, even though they use his name, likeness, voice, slogan, and everything else they can find to make themselves appear to be affiliated. It's almost like you could expect this sort of thing in an enviironment where media literacy, fact-checking, and a commitment to finding good information have been thrown out the window in favor of feels, propaganda, and unthinkingly believing that if something appears to come from the person they've sworn their cause to, then it must be true, regardless of anything else.
So, as we close out December 02019, the Tories are in power in the UK, with as clear a mandate as they want to finish the job of Brexit, and the US Administrator has been impeached for conduct unbecoming and obstruction of the legislature. The space where the trial will be held is controlled by the Administrator's party, and is composed of people who think loyalty to the Leader is more important than discouraging behavior inimical to the functioning of a democratic country.
Which is why we must often engage in the smaller ways and resist the things we do not want in our localities, even if things at the level of the nation and the nation-state do not seem to be improving at all. One hopes that 02020 is a much less authoritarian year.
This is likely the last politics link roundup for the year. I hope it's been informative, even if the material contained within has often been more upset-making than happy-making.
The satirists Led By Donkeys are launching a contest for the UK public to design a billboard against the latest Brexit advertisements. This ought to be awesome. Especially since some of the money they're getting came from the government running pro-Brexit ads on an anti-Brexit podcast.
They might also have something useful to say about the possibility of the Scottish Parliament officially sending a request to extend the Brexit deadline if the UK Parliament fails to do so in violation of the law.
Mr. Johnson has said he will not resign his post, and challenged the Monarch to dismiss him, even if all of his Brexit plans fail and confidence motions mean he should dissolve the government. It wouldn't make sense to call for a porogation and then elections, unless the end plan was just to try and prevent Parliament from taking any action at all.
The Tories also think it's a swell idea to engage in U.S.-style voter identification requirements, with the expected projected results of suppressing the vote of a significant swath of non-Tories. That particular thing needs to be kept in the U.S. and then stomped out with prejudice.
And then there's the film script that Mr. Johnson apparently shopped and heard nothing back from, perhaps because it lacked quality and seemed to revel in stereotyping and violence.
At least the ad campaign for Brexit is suspended because elections have been called and extensions were granted.
Unfortunately, the Tories won the election in record numbers, which suggests a lot about what the mood and politics of the UK is when it comes to the consequences that will follow.
kaberett has a list of suggestions on where to put money and time so as to effectively oppose the Tories and the mindset they represent. Stateside, at least one person working for Cambridge Analytica says they tried to tell the Obama government about election interference and targeting of the radicalizable, but the Obama administration thought, as most people did, that Trump wasn't electable, even with people cheating on his side.
Seventeen of the people working on the Watergate scandal believe the Current Administrator has engaged in conduct worthy of impeachment and conviction.
Self-confessed liar Sarah Sanders says she doesn't like being called a liar. Because that headline is too good not to use.
Despite his best efforts to obstruct and otherwise hinder investigations into his conduct, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald J. Trump, making him the third president in the history of the United States to have articles of impeachment passed in the House. The next phase of the impeachment is a trial in the Senate, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as the presiding officer of the trial. However, removal requires a two-thirds majority vote, and it's already extremely clear that the Senate Majority leader is prejudiced to the point where recusal would be appropriate. So it's unlikely that any trial that goes forward in the Senate would be any sort of impartial and not highly politically-charged. (Which is the thing that Republicans have been accusing Democrats of throughout the process of investigating, drafting, and voting upon the articles of impeachment.) Given the unlikeliness of anything resembling a fair trial happening in the Senate, the House has no great urgency to send the articles to the Senate until they know what the trial experience is going to be like.
Meanwhile, as much as they would love for everyone to give to their preferred super-PAC, plenty of MAGA-ites and others are giving money to groups that have no affiliation with the Current Administrator, even though they use his name, likeness, voice, slogan, and everything else they can find to make themselves appear to be affiliated. It's almost like you could expect this sort of thing in an enviironment where media literacy, fact-checking, and a commitment to finding good information have been thrown out the window in favor of feels, propaganda, and unthinkingly believing that if something appears to come from the person they've sworn their cause to, then it must be true, regardless of anything else.
So, as we close out December 02019, the Tories are in power in the UK, with as clear a mandate as they want to finish the job of Brexit, and the US Administrator has been impeached for conduct unbecoming and obstruction of the legislature. The space where the trial will be held is controlled by the Administrator's party, and is composed of people who think loyalty to the Leader is more important than discouraging behavior inimical to the functioning of a democratic country.
Which is why we must often engage in the smaller ways and resist the things we do not want in our localities, even if things at the level of the nation and the nation-state do not seem to be improving at all. One hopes that 02020 is a much less authoritarian year.
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Date: 2019-12-29 11:19 am (UTC)Imagine what I think of Tories...........
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Date: 2019-12-29 04:45 pm (UTC)