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  1. Terry McAuliffe was a terrible centrist candidate. Progressives told you up front. Hopefully that is the last of the FOB's and their Third Way centrism. It doesn't work.
  2. Her voice would cure overpopulation.
  3. Progressives - keep this quiet. Don't want to worry suburban women while they brunch: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/06/democrats-election-victory-loss-media-republicans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other As for this week’s election, it swept in a lot of progressive mayors of color. The most prominent was Michelle Wu, who won the Boston mayor’s seat as the first woman and first person of color. Elaine O’Neal will become Durham, North Carolina’s, first Black woman mayor, and Abdullah Hammoud will become Dearborn’s first Muslim and Arab American mayor. Aftab Pureval will become Cincinnati’s first Asian American mayor. Pittsburgh elected its first Black mayor, and so did Kansas City, Kansas. Cleveland’s new mayor is also Black. New York City elected its second Black Democratic mayor, and Shahana Hanif became the first Muslim woman elected to the city council (incidentally, New York City and Virginia have about the same population). In Seattle, a moderate defeated a progressive, which you could also phrase as a Black and Asian American man defeated a Latina. A lot of queer and trans people won elections, or in the case of Virginia’s Danica Roem, the first out trans person to win a seat in a state legislature, won reelection. In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, who in 2017 was the first of a wave of ultra-progressive district attorneys to take office across the country, swept to a second term with 69% of the vote. “I want to congratulate him. He beat my pants off,” said his Republican rival. In Cleveland, Austin, Denver and Albany, citizens voted in police-reform measures, and while a more radical measure in Minneapolis lost, it got a good share of votes. 2021 wasn’t a great election year for Democrats but it’s not hard to argue that it wasn’t a terrible one, and either way it just wasn’t a big one, with a handful of special elections for congressional seats, some state and local stuff, and only two gubernatorial elections. It is true that the Democratic Party is large and chaotic with a wide array of political positions among its elected officials, which is what happens when you’re a coalition imperfectly representing a wide array of voters, by class, race, and position from moderate to radical on the political spectrum. It’s also true the US is a two-party system and the alternative at present is the Republican party, which is currently a venal and utterly corrupt cult bent on many kinds of destruction. It’s the party whose last leader, with the help of many Republicans still in Congress, produced a violent coup in an attempt to steal an election. A friend who is an independent Democratic party organizer remarked to me: “Democrats are analyzed completely differently from Republicans, mainly because Democrats try to govern and to enact policies that affect the entire country. The media don’t cover the fact that Republicans don’t govern and can’t seem to report on what a party doesn’t do and doesn’t talk about.” Looming in the background, of course, is the fact that Republicans themselves believe they are losers, because they’ve hitched their wagon to the shrinking demographic of angry white suburban and rural voters. Their efforts to suppress votes and undermine voting rights, control or replace election officials, gerrymander like crazy and overturn election results are the moves of a party that doesn’t believe Republicans can win fair elections.
  4. Sprawling, preposterous, and rage-filled suburban drama. ~Virginia Gubernatorial Election, 2021
  5. Byzantine. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/byzantium-and-islam/blog/cultural-connections/posts/byzantine
  6. Wasn't shitting on you. Those are progressive ideas. Status quo is not working for the majority.
  7. Statewide increase in hospitalizations and statewide directive on hospital space. Some of her folk might be sent down to city hospitals, which will scare them half to death. It will get worse in her neck of the woods with hunting season and hot tents.
  8. This is what left libertarianism looks like. Cool. Follow the numbers. Cut out the unnecessary private and public inefficiencies. Subsidize what we must have more of. Incentivize improving quality of life. Put a fee/cost on what we need less of. Streamline. Rectify negative externalities quickly and humbly. We are in a race with other economic powers. It's best that we are fit from top to bottom if that goes south. You might Katie Porter on economic issues. Plain talk - with solid numbers.
  9. There is no bad news in social media - only avenues for financialization of bad decisions. I doubt this is the last we see of Jenna. The casting couch awaits. RW trumpiness is rather grotesque.
  10. Texas' breeding a lot of Fitlumps these days.
  11. Different design flaw, but I agree. The floorplan (from the link above) looks likes solitary confinement with friends. I wonder if there are studies that demonstrate the effects of limited natural sunlight on sleep (among other things). Munger should stick to vulture capitalism, his specialty. He won't. His next step will be to praise China as superior to the United States.
  12. (h/t @Beau Vine) Jena: "I did not witness any violence."
  13. Shitlibs shut it down in fealty to their wealthy masters. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
  14. There's a bad moon on the rise. https://www.cpr.org/2021/11/03/colorado-hospital-capacity-covid-hospitalizations-patient-transfer/ There are now more than 1,200 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Colorado. That’s the most since December, as the highly contagious delta variant continues to spread aggressively through the state’s unvaccinated population. For weeks, roughly 80 percent of those hospitalized with coronavirus have been unvaccinated, and nearly 40 percent of hospitals anticipate being short-staffed during the next week. The CHTC was re-activated in August as COVID-19 hospitalizations were starting to grow again in Colorado – a trend that has continued, putting what the CHA calls “monumental strain” on the state’s health care system. Physicians working in that system said the move is not unexpected. “I'm not surprised,” said Dr. Don Stader, an emergency medicine doctor at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood. He said those working in hospitals have been watching as conditions have been deteriorating for months, especially due to high levels of coronavirus patients. “It's been extremely difficult working in emergency departments of hospitals over the last several months. I think while most people believe that the COVID pandemic is coming to an end, or at least at a status quo, I'll say in hospitals, we're experiencing a significant acceleration of the amount of sick people we're seeing from COVID along with just increasing numbers of other medical diseases.” Making matters more precarious, a severe staffing pinch. “We're dealing with a staff crunch where many physicians, especially nurses and others have left the field just because of the pressures and that burnout associated with what the last few years have been like,” Stader said. Stader said finding a hospital to take a patient has become harder than ever. “I've heard horror stories, and I've been a part of some of these where you have a patient that is critically ill and needs to be admitted to the hospital,” he said. “You're just trying to find a hospital that has the capability and the skills to care for the patient. And oftentimes you're calling 10 different hospitals just to try to get them on a bed and to get an accepting facility because all the facilities are full.” Tad-y said transfers from the CHTC are done through a “data-driven process.” That ensures patients can get access to the necessary level of care, while hospitals make the most efficient use of the health care system and protect access to care for as many people as possible. She added a busy flu season could complicate the picture considerably. “We are on the cusp of the flu season as well. And that will only add additional pressure to our health systems that we're facing,” Tad-y said.
  15. A little safety net goes a long way - especially to those who are invisible to wonderful charities like your own.
  16. It's gonna need to be R-Rated. The night before the insurrection scenes will highlight the debauchery, including drugs and problems with erectile dysfunction for her potential copulation partners.
  17. So one side is fighting for a return to the Dark Ages and the pro-Renaissance champions opposing those forces are expected to do nothing as dark winter approaches? Hell of a plan.
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