Republicans have no campaign issues in this year’s election cycle. They have a succession of bogus moral panics, nearly all of which rapidly wear out, like Mr. Potato Head or woke M&Ms. CRT, DEI, “wokism”, and Global Warming denial have more staying power, but it is notable that every one of them is eroding at historically unprecedented rates. For example, there was a rash of school board elections of book-banning troglodytes, which was (predictably) followed by anti-book-banners throwing them out. Climate denial has had to retreat from calling it a hoax to claiming that we can’t AFFORD cleaner and cheaper energy. And so on.
Only basic racism, misogyny, homophobia, guns, and Christian Nationalism have real staying power, but they have become solid minority opinions in the last few decades, and there is more and more about them that cannot be said out loud in the national political conversation. We have moved on from “sodomy” and marriage equality, and we are now stuck for a while with trans-bashing and laws against drag queens. But it turns out that the groomers and rapists are all their priests, pastors, police, and politicians. We have begun to realize that the constantly demonized immigrants are in fact essential workers deserving of real human rights. Even Blacks have begun to make progress in jobs, basic wealth, public respect, and legal rights of many kinds, most consequentially voting rights.
Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights…
MLK, Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 1957.
As to women’s rights, Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (Official 4K Video)
Now imagine us winning the House back in November, and starting to pass hundreds of bills through Congress for President Biden to sign and implement, on every aspect of the General Welfare. Take the hundreds of achievements of President Biden so far, as Good News Roundup is boosting for us five days a week, and multiply that out even more.
Imagine the screams that will greet them all, and then the dying wails as we proceed to do even more of it all, and even more of the children of the haters fall away, with more of their women and elders.
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I bid 7 No Trump.
He’s attending court sessions because he can grift off them. But now comes word that one Trump plan is off.
Judge says Donald Trump won't give own closing argument at civil fraud trial after disputing rules
MSNBC had an Iowa Caucus Countdown hosted by Rachel Maddow. The Iowa Caucuses will be on Monday Jan. 15, along with another of Trump’s trials.
NBC: Chris Christie drops out of the 2024 presidential race
His departure could make room for Nikki Haley to grow her support in New Hampshire, where Christie had grabbed a slice of anti-Trump Republican voters.
The other big primary news, in Iowa, is that it is expected to be ten degrees below zero on caucus night.
Last night’s Republican Primary debate had only DeSantis and Haley on stage.
Spoiler: They both lost. So did Trump.
Hunter Biden makes surprise appearance at contempt of Congress hearing
The younger Biden had offered only to testify in a public setting — and delivered a statement to the press outside the Capitol rather than attend the deposition, saying that his father “was not financially involved in my business.”
Azuma Kabuki Musicians Nagauta Music 1954 (with liner notes)
Daily Kos: "No more for you" - Dickensian Republican Governors deny food to poor kids
The Hill: These 15 GOP-led states are rejecting summer food aid for children
The USDA said summer 2024 will be the first launch of its new permanent grocery program for children, called Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer. States will give eligible families $40 per month for each child under this new program, which Congress approved in 2022.
Those states include Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) suggested that the state did not need the program, pointing to high rates of childhood obesity as a reason why they should not expand grocery benefits for children.
Because the haters hate Those People so much that they will deprive their own kids of bipartisan aid to Own the Libs and hurt the long systemically oppressed. Also reported in WaPo, Politico, The Boston Globe, Common Dreams, the LA Times…
More than a thousand arrested over J6, and more than a thousand more to come.
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Quora: Which Republicans, if any, should Biden put in Guantanamo if the Supreme Court gives Trump immunity?
Not actually funny, but it qualifies.
McFadden likewise, but I’m not allowed to show it here.
The earliest of Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie cartoons came out of copyright on January 1.
Yup, that’s the koan for all those seeking Buddhist Awakening.
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