tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75357626635960329162024-03-14T01:40:24.834-04:00dlevere's blogA Blog Unbought And Unbossed - Liberal Politics - Video Game Hacking Tutorialsdleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.comBlogger3369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-71109070959633530452020-09-28T08:47:00.002-04:002020-09-28T08:47:25.449-04:00NO MORE POSTS ON THIS BLOG<p> Google has made it extremely difficult for me to create new posts on this blog. They need to revert to the old legacy blogger.<br /></p>dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-1593860388387281022020-09-17T10:03:00.002-04:002020-09-17T10:03:39.165-04:00Nintendo has discontinued the 3DS<p> Nintendo has discontinued every model of the 3DS, according to its <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=3338243&u=https%3A//www.nintendo.co.jp/hardware/3dsseries/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Japanese website</b></a>. </p><p> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21441096/nintendo-3ds-production-discontinued-total-sales" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21441096/nintendo-3ds-production-discontinued-total-sales</a> <br /></p>dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-54827790204798263102020-09-15T13:50:00.002-04:002020-09-15T13:50:13.700-04:00So Many Hoaxes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-31947892543880225982020-09-15T12:56:00.001-04:002020-09-15T12:56:12.824-04:00Trump is STERILIZING "STAGGERING NUMBERS" Of IMMIGRANT WOMEN In His Brutal Detention Camps!<span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Jesse Dollemore discusses the explosive story from Vice which reports a “STAGGERING NUMBER OF HYSTERECTOMIES” taking place at a single ICE detention facility AGAINST THE WILL OF THE WOMEN!!!</span><br />
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Sometimes, oh, my sweet, weary people of Donald Trump's America, it
feels like we're sailing in skiffs on a sea of shit and some of us
believe we can get across the shit sea to shore and some of us believe
that we're gonna sink but we all know we're damned to keep sailing as
wave after wave of shit keeps hitting us, and every time we dare to hope
that we've seen the worst shit wave, that perhaps we'll get a break and
just sail as smoothly as possible through a shit sea, a fucking massive
turd wave in a shit storm appears on the horizon and we've gotta batten
down the hatches and ride this one out, even though we know that in the
best possible circumstances, we'll get over or through but still coated
in shit.<br />
<br />
What does it change that we now have Trump on audio <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html">telling</a>
reporter Bob Woodward that he knew back in early February that COVID-19
was airborne and dangerous, far worse, in his own words, than a
"strenuous flu"? What does it change that we now can hear Trump say that
he downplayed the virus to the public on purpose? In some ways,
obviously, it changes nothing. It doesn't bring back the dead. It
doesn't rebuild the lives shattered by the shutdown economy. It doesn't
really make us understand Trump any more than we already did. We know
that he is the motherfuckingest motherfucker anyone has ever met. We
know that he was deliberately avoiding action on coronavirus until the
mounting death toll and hospitalizations forced him to do something.<br />
<br />
But
what has changed today is that we know without a doubt that Trump
wasn't just spitballing and gambling that the virus wouldn't be bad,
despite experts outside of the federal government telling us it would
be. He knew. He fucking knew. He knew it and could articulate how
dangerous the situation was going to get. And he chose to pretend
otherwise and lie to the nation, forcing others to lie, too. After
telling Woodward it was worse than the flu, he tweeted the exact
opposite, mocking the idea that it's worse than the flu. After telling
Woodward that "young people" are susceptible to it, he said that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/more-half-million-children-u-s-have-had-covid-19-n1239554?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">children</a>
are "almost immune" to the virus. And no matter how many ways Trump and
his ass remoras attempt to spin this as nobly trying not to panic
people, there's a fucking world of difference between yelling, "Fire" in
a crowded theater and telling everyone to just sit still while the fire
burns out. This is not fine.<br />
<br />
Every single person who knew
should have spoken. They should have given Trump the finger and told us,
including Bob fucking Woodward. Because how the fuck do we trust
anything now? Most of us didn't trust Trump, but we thought we could
look at others, look at the CDC or Anthony Fauci and find the truth. But
they all decided to stay silent, out of either blind or craven loyalty
to Trump or the misguided hope they could mitigate the damage by staying
quiet, the pathetic error that so many tainted public servants have
made.<br />
<br />
And now we're supposed to listen when this lying son of a
bitch whose face looks like a one-nut pig scrotum and who speaks in
barks like a brain-damaged beagle bitch tells us to get an untested
vaccine? Fuck off all the way to Moscow.<br />
<br />
This is personal, too. I
remember wondering all through February and into March whether or not I
should wear a mask. I was reading <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/02/03/what-travelers-should-know-about-face-masks-amid-growing-coronavirus-concerns/">articles</a>
about whether or not masks are effective, with many telling us not to
worry about it, that the slim supply of masks had to go to health care
workers. It gnawed at me until I finally decided, "Fuck it, I'm wearing
one" about a week before the CDC changed course and said we should. The
thing is that by that point I already had gotten COVID. I didn't get
sick until a few days after I started mask-wearing, which means I was
doing my part then.<br />
<br />
As I've said before, I had very mild symptoms, just a
low-grade fever, some fatigue, and a bit of a cough. Sure, it could
have been far worse, and I'm pissed at Trump about getting sick. But
most of the time, you have the goddamn virus before your symptoms show
up. I should have been wearing a mask all along. I don't fucking know
who I might have spread it to. And that bullshit weighs on me, and
that's on Trump and everyone who stayed quiet.<br />
<br />
We knew Trump was
busily corrupting every part of the government he could get his
shit-stained fingers on. We knew that he was too fucking lazy to really
take the action that he needed to take, as simple as that may have been.
We knew that we needed to amp up production of masks and gloves and
fucking tests. We knew that it was goddamn weird that it didn't happen.
We knew that the only thing that matters to Trump is re-election,
something that Fauci is quoted as saying in Woodward's book. Fuck, we
knew that Trump was actually, actively evil and not just stupidly so.
The cockscab wants violence in the streets (which is something that
makes his claim of trying to prevent panic utterly laughable).<br />
<br />
I'm
not really shocked by what we've learned. I'm frankly only shocked that
Trump went on the record with it. Which means that he thinks he was
right to lie to Americans. He said that today, like he's some fuckin'
hero for shutting down the information we needed to save our fucking
lives. And by so willingly talking to Woodward, it also means that, even
though he should be forced out of office and arrested, Trump believes
he will suffer no consequences for his evil. And every single time, that
has been proven correct. Even now, when he's killed people in the
middle of every avenue, the <strike>resident</strike> as our mass murderer. And that,
dear Americans, is something we haven't seen in a long damn time.<br />
<br />
Sometimes
it feels like the sails on our skiffs are broken, and so we are just
drifting on the shit sea, buffeted by the waves, wondering if we'll
float to land before we die of exposure.dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-56961351362005294752020-09-09T09:29:00.003-04:002020-09-09T09:29:26.898-04:00The Shape Of Things To Come<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.dailykos.com/images/852896/story_image/TMW2020-09-09color.png?1599404712" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="800" height="542" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/852896/story_image/TMW2020-09-09color.png?1599404712" width="586" /></a></div><br /><p></p>dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-62234991310305370852020-09-06T17:43:00.003-04:002020-09-06T17:43:57.064-04:00Voting Twice, Rigged Elections And Donald Trump The Cheater<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oRgUp3FwTFA" width="560"></iframe><br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-23503451663105850192020-09-01T09:15:00.001-04:002020-09-01T09:15:12.389-04:00Here To Help!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-67084276815640409492020-08-27T22:40:00.002-04:002020-08-27T22:40:23.326-04:00Kamala Harris just went viral DISMANTLING Trump in a MUST-SEE speech<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T7qTk0ikRJo" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Wednesday morning in Kenosha, Wis., on the third night of unrest over
the police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr. At least three people were
injured. It is unclear who fired the shots, and police and hospital
officials have not yet confirmed the severity of the injuries.
<br />
<br />Shots were first fired after midnight, as a group of protesters on
Sheridan Road faced off with police in armored trucks. A young White man
carrying an AR-15-style rifle began running north on Sheridan, away
from the group. As people chased after the man, another round of
rapid-fire shots rang out, and two more people fell to the ground with
wounds. Bystanders dragged both the people who had been hit to separate
sides of the road.<br />
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<a href="https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142569369" target="_blank">https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142569369</a>dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-47176334790207561642020-08-24T13:22:00.001-04:002020-08-24T13:22:10.159-04:00Breaking The News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-60080436080832494272020-08-21T12:14:00.003-04:002020-08-21T12:14:30.574-04:00Trump Arrest From Russia With Love<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ksCKXm6fiY" width="560"></iframe><br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-3786615688595983062020-08-20T12:11:00.002-04:002020-08-20T12:11:39.279-04:00Steve Bannon was arrested on a boat, and the U.S. Postal Service was involvedDonald Trump's former advisor Stephen Bannon was today <a href="https://twitter.com/markberman/status/1296466627777757186">charged with fraud</a> and other crimes.<br />
Bannon was arrested. On a boat. The USPS was involved.<br />
From <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/former-trump-campaign-manager-steve-bannon-indicted-for-fraud-in-ny/2576990/">NBC New York</a>:<br />
<blockquote>
A law enforcement source tells NBC New York that Bannon
was arrested this morning without incident while aboard a boat off the
coast of Westbrook, Connecticut. Bannon is not the owner of the boat.<br />
</blockquote>
NBC News and CBS News have both confirmed that Steve Bannon was
arrested by agents of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which is the
criminal investigating arm of the Postal Service.<br />
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And can we all take a moment to relish the sweet
irony that Bannon was taken into custody by US Postal Service Agents.
Through rain, sleet, snow, and worse they deliver medication, paychecks,
absentee ballots … and JUSTICE! <a href="https://t.co/XLnPRC92QW">https://t.co/XLnPRC92QW</a></div>
— Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSpeier/status/1296461713471090693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2020</a><br />
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Yep. Agents of the USPS arrested Bannon.<br />
Bannon is expected to be arraigned today before a US magistrate.<br />
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NBC News confirms: Steve Bannon was arrested by
agents of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which is the criminal
investigating arm of the Postal Service. <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a></div>
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1296462025636433921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2020</a><br />
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From CBS' Pat Milton: Steve Bannon was taken into
custody today by US Postal Service agents. He's expected to be
arraigned today before a US magistrate. <a href="https://twitter.com/SDNYnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SDNYnews</a> alleges he had a role in defrauding donors as part of an online crowdfunding campaign known as "We Build the Wall"</div>
— Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan/status/1296445655699918857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2020</a><br />
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More on the <a href="https://boingboing.net/2020/08/20/steve-bannon-indicted-by-feder.html">charges against Bannon</a> in our previous post.<br />
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<br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-3908574902250060802020-08-15T06:54:00.004-04:002020-08-15T06:54:28.614-04:00Kamala Harris Will Hurt Trump And Pence And That's What We Need Posted by <a href="https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/08/kamala-harris-will-hurt-trump-and-pence.html" target="_blank">Rude One</a><br />
<br />
Last week, I said on Twitter that I wanted Sen. Kamala Harris to be
Joe Biden's pick for a running mate because I wanted her out there for
the next couple of months prosecuting Donald Trump's administration in
the public space. Several responses were along the lines of "No, fuck
you, she should be attorney general, dick, so that my favorite Democrat
can be VP!"<br />
<br />
There are a few reasons I thought Harris-as-AG was a
dumb idea. First, no Attorney General has ever gone on to become
president. (Robert Kennedy may have, but, well, we'll never know.) And
Harris obviously is eyeing the presidency down the road. More
importantly, though, is that, as Biden's vice presidential nominee, she
will have an incredibly high profile, and in a media environment that
too often ignores Democrats and especially Democratic women, she can go
out every day and make Donald Trump and Mike Pence cry and it will have
to be covered. That will shake some shit up.<br />
<br />
I hear every
complaint about Harris, and, in another time, it might be enough for me
to get upset about it and question Biden's judgment or get angry at the
marginalization of the true left of the Democratic Party or whatever,
but, sorry, no, fuck that.<br />
<br />
"Kamala is a cop," you say? Well, she's not
and never has been, and I've got a stack of bodies that'll be topping
200,000 that makes me just not give a shit about the questionable
aspects of Harris's <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/10/kamala-harris-progressive-pioneer-san-francisco-da-column/3334668001/?fbclid=IwAR3npy99vdIIvnIZtCC3uu_zNd5cVDxdip8F5HfFPu8ohM8ZkpuKFbxZP1A">record</a>
as Attorney General of California.<br />
<br />
Did she ignore a pandemic and cause
the economy to crash and refuse to do anything to help while people
died, starved, and lost their homes? No? Then who the fuck cares. (And
she's been very strong on the environment, violence against women,
financial exploitation of the poor, and more, along with being
anti-death penalty, so let's just say there's more than enough to
mitigate other shit. She's way more progressive than the
more-liberal-than-thou gatekeepers say.)<br />
<br />
Besides, there are a
shit-ton of truly liberal Democratic candidates running at all levels,
from school board on up to U.S. Senate. Get behind them and get them
elected. That's what will move the whole party to the left. Look at
someone like Cameron Webb, running for Congress in Virginia, and who has
a chance to pick up a GOP seat. You can use that amazing lefty energy
to have a long-term effect on the Democratic Party.<br />
<br />
In her <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/sen-harris-gives-first-speech-as-joe-biden-s-running-mate-89969733807">speech </a>today
at the event where Biden introduced her as his running mate, Harris
went right at Trump, laying the failure of this nation to combat the
coronavirus right at his wobbly feet. "The case against Mike Pence and
Donald Trump is open and shut," she offered before listing the utter
failures of this failed group of failures failing us every day, finally
coming back to the response to COVID-19. "When other countries are
following the science, Trump pushed miracle cures he saw on Fox News."
What was doubly awesome about that remark is that the speech was being
broadcast on Fox "news," who finally got a small taste of what it's like
when Trump screeches, "Fake news!" at CNN.<br />
<br />
In perhaps the most
cutting moment, Harris said that Trump "inherited the longest economic
expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and then, like
everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground." That
is some hardcore, go-for-the-jugular shit right there. It attacks the
entire mythos of Donald Trump as a Successful Businessman when he is a
rank loser who couldn't have done a goddamn thing without his daddy's
money and still fucked it all up. And she did it with a calm, rational
voice, not like the ranting hysterics of the man she's slicing and
dicing.<br />
<h2>
<b>You can tell that Trump is shitting himself over Harris
because she is everything that he has feared his entire life: a strong
Black woman straight from Central Casting who won't take shit and who
will get high ratings every time she kicks him in his voluminous ass.</b> </h2>
He's gotta desperately play all the tropes, from the racist "angry"
Black person to the woman who is "nasty" and "mean," which means not
subservient to men like Trump. Shit, they're even <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-tweets-black-mugshots-channeling-old-willie-horton-ad-2020-8">rebooting</a>
the Willie Horton ads from 1988. What the hell else is he gonna do but
break out the hits like this is still the 1980's and the suburbs are
still a generic white paradise and aren't filled with middle-class
people of all races who support things like Black Lives Matter and think
Trump is an obscenity?<br />
<br />
The Trump campaign is caught on Harris between trying to rile up the left with the aforementioned issues and <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-would-destroy-america/">calling</a> her a "<a href="https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1293638361694056453">radical</a>"
who "has abandoned her own morals in an attempt to appease the
socialist mob seeking to destroy America. Biden and Harris' disastrous
proposals of de-funding the police, increased taxes, job-killing
policies, and opening our borders are just a few of the many ways they
would destroy America." All you can say to Trump is "Motherfucker, you
already destroyed America. You burned this shit down. Why would we
re-elect you so you can piss on the ashes?"<br />
<br />
Today, Biden and
Harris offered more sympathy for families and loved ones of the
Americans who have died of coronavirus than Trump has offered since the
pandemic hit this country. They offered more hope in the form of
realistically looking at the crises that Trump has created than in all
the bullshit, pointless, delusional happy talk from the <strike>resident</strike> and
his administration. And Harris and Biden and their staffs look more like
America than the KKK meeting that shows up at every Trump event.<br />
<br />
Harris
can prosecute the case against Trump and Pence starting now, and that's
perfect. She can hurt them over and over. She can do it with
confidence and charisma and cold, hard facts. We need that.<br />
<br />
We need them
wounded again and again. We need Americans to feel ashamed to vote for
these GOP dick-scabs. That's why we need Harris now, not later as
attorney general. When she's elected, Harris can lead a commission that
exposes all their crimes. In fact, having her as vice president would
help assure that Biden doesn't let it all slide just to move forward, as
he and Obama did with the Bush administration's crimes. Harris the
prosecutor knows that you can't let that shit go unpunished.<br />
<br />
Yeah,
the choice of Harris was entirely expected and not remotely surprising,
and, goddamn, it felt good to have something go the way it's supposed
to go. That can be really fucking energizing and get you ready for
what's next. It makes you feel like "Yeah, maybe we can do this."dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-51066206801979154892020-08-14T12:35:00.002-04:002020-08-14T12:35:16.009-04:00Trump Accuses Biden Of Playing Politics On Coronavirus<span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">As coronavirus cases continue surging across the country, the U.S. is cutting back on testing for the virus. Also, Joe Biden is calling for a mandate that all Americans wear masks. The Morning Joe panel discusses. Aired on 08/14/2020.</span><br />
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<br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-14434326566176759392020-08-11T12:03:00.002-04:002020-08-11T12:03:18.351-04:00I will NEVER take a vaccine from Putin.I certainly don't trust it. Do you?dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-89007644266533873132020-08-05T10:34:00.000-04:002020-08-05T10:34:39.681-04:00Another Week, Another Batshit Trump Interview <div>Posted by <a href="https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/08/another-week-another-batshit-trump.html">Rude One</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone's got their line that pushed them over the edge from <strike>resident</strike> Donald Trump's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaaTZkqsaxY&feature=emb_logo">interview</a> with Jonathan Swan of <i>Axios</i> (motto: "When <i>USA Today</i> is too complex, you've got <i>Axios</i>").
Mine occurred when Swan asked Trump about why he didn't bother to ask
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin about the reports that Putin had put a
bounty on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan. Trump could
have shimmied his hands around as he answered, "Well, he's my dom and
when master tells me not to ask questions, I can't ask questions or he
spanks my ass with the splintery switch." That would have made sense. I
could have thought, "Well, I guess he's gotta do what a sub's gotta do.
No one wants splinters in their ass. I assume. Better google that
later." (Note: Of course there are people who want splinters in their
ass.)<div><br /></div><div>Instead, Trump harrumphed around the idea that
the intelligence was real and then said that his recent call with Putin
was about "nuclear proliferation." Trump said, "If we can do something
with Russia in terms of nuclear proliferation, which is a very big
problem...A much bigger problem than global warming in terms of the real
world, that would be a great thing."</div><div><br /></div><div>Putting aside that it's Trump who is <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/21131449/trump-putin-nuclear-usa-russia-arms-control-new-start">allowing</a>
the New START treaty to expire and could extend it for five years with
no difficulty at all, only someone whose brain, such as it is, is stuck
around 1980 could actually say that nuclear weapons, in 2020, are
anything approaching the shit-inducing threat that the growing fuck storm
of climate change poses. It's like Trump just saw <i>The Day<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After"> After</a>, </i>and
he's thinking about how he might get stuck in a bunker with Melania and
that kid she always has with her. In terms of the real real world, not
the fake real world that Trump has forced us all to live in like that
demented telepathic little shit on that <i>Twilight Zone</i> episode,
climate change is the massive problem that Trump and the GOP insist on
denying, like, you know, they did with the coronavirus pandemic, and
that's worked out so fucking well.</div><div><br /></div><div>This was how
the whole thing went. There was Trump bumble fucking through every lie
and delusion. There was the sociopathic denial of any hint of human
empathy despite, as Greg Mitchell <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/04/how-interview-serial-liar-narcissist-who-is-unfit-be-president/">points out,</a>
the many chances that Swan gave Trump to show that he gives a jolly pig
fuck about anyone other than himself. Swan's face multiple times looked
like he was seriously worried if he was going to get out of the
interview unharmed. He confronted Trump again and again with facts, but
Trump would wave them off like someone was offering him a plate of
broccoli with his well-done steak, either not acknowledging them or
questioning whether it was a fact, like when Trump accused South Korea
of lying about its coronavirus cases. </div><div><br /></div><div>The most
appalling moment wasn't Trump's blithe dismissal of the over 150,000
dead from his seemingly proud refusal to act on COVID-19, given the now
forever carved on his political tombstone "It is what it is." No, for
me, it was that he obviously has no idea about anything to do with
American history. I mean, we knew that, but it's always just pathetic
when we see him flunk basic shit again and again. First, Trump had no
idea who John Lewis was beyond the transactional, "the fuck he ever do
for me" basis by which he measures everyone. Seriously, check out this
exchange: </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Swan: John Lewis is lying in state in the U.S. Capitol. How do you think history will remember John Lewis?</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump:
I don’t know. I really don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know John
Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration. He chose… I never met
John Lewis, actually, I don’t believe.</div><div><br /></div><div>Swan: Do you find him impressive?</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump:
I can’t say one or the other. I find a lot of people impressive. I find
many people not impressive. But no, but I didn’t go-</div><div><br /></div><div>Swan: Do you find his story impressive?</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump: He didn’t come to my inauguration. He didn’t come to my State of the Union speeches, and that’s okay. That’s his right. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>That's
the shit you say when you don't know something. While everyone is
praising Swan for simply doing real interviewing (which, admittedly, is
tough to do with an Adderall-snorting, syphilitic hog beast), he should
have asked Trump, "Do you know anything else at all about John Lewis? Do
you even know what the Edmund Pettus Bridge is?"</div><div><br /></div><div>But
prior to that was just Trump's blatantly racist, insidious fucking
attempt to ass fuck American history until it is contorted around his
deformed goddamned image. Trump was once again lying about how "I did
more for the Black community than anybody with the possible exception of
Abraham Lincoln, whether you like it or not," and Swan asked him: </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Swan: You really believe you did more than Lyndon Johnson who passed the Civil Rights Act?</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump: I think I did, yeah.</div><div><br /></div><div>Swan: How? How possibly did you-</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump: Because I got criminal justice reform done, I got prison reform-</div><div><br /></div><div>Swan: Lyndon Johnson-</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump: I’ve done things. Well-</div><div><br /></div><div>Swan: He passed the Civil Rights Act.</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump: Ask. Ask. How has it worked out? If you take a look at what Lyndon Johnson did?</div><div><br /></div><div>Swan: You think the Civil Rights Act was a mistake?</div><div><br /></div><div>Trump: How has it worked out? </div></div><div><br /></div><div>There's
so much to say here that it's almost impossible to articulate it.
First, Trump has no fucking clue what's in the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
let alone the Voting Rights Act or the 1968 Civil Rights Act, all signed
by LBJ (although he might know the last one since it prohibited the
very race discrimination in housing that he and his shitbird father
engaged in). More importantly, Trump looks at his minor adjustments in
laws as huge triumphs, not giving a damn that whatever African Americans
have accomplished during his <strike>residency</strike> comes from a long fuckin' line
of struggles and triumphs involving more presidents than just him. But
as far as Trump is concerned, African American history goes from Lincoln
freeing the slaves, which he allows is possibly more important than
Opportunity Zones, to him.</div><div><div><div><br /></div><div>In a
rational nation, this kind of embarrassing stupidity in a leader would
cause an upheaval that would force them to run for freedom before the
pitchforks and torches caught up with them. And while those of us who
already despise Trump more than the dictionary has words to express are
justifiably nauseated by the interview, in MAGA world, this was Trump
just givin' it to the fake news who were trying to set him up to fail. </div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>You
have to choose your reality in this America. And there are still tens
of millions of people who want to live in the one filtered through
Donald Trump's anus-mouth. Fuck them. <br /></div></div>dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-22605197357723272202020-08-04T13:06:00.004-04:002020-08-04T13:07:43.819-04:00The Self-Destruction Of Donald J. Trump<div class="dek">
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If the current numbers hold, sometime in mid- to late-September, the
United States will likely reach the horrific marker of 200,000 people
dead due to the coronavirus crisis. No doubt, the media will widely
report on this artificial but significant milepost. If, tragically, the
trend ticks up slightly after some schools reopen in late summer and
after flu season begins in October, this grim headline could appear
shortly before Election Day: “COVID-19 Death Count in the US Tops a
Quarter of a Million.” One puzzle is why <strike>resident</strike> Donald Trump does not
seem to realize that these nightmarish statistics—and the news stories
they will generate—could spell doom for his reelection prospects.<br />
<br />
By now it’s damn clear that Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who
cannot express an ounce of regret over the deaths caused by the virus.
He has boasted about the swell TV ratings of his pandemic briefings; he
has said almost nothing of those Americans killed by the pandemic. “It
is what it is,” he nonchalantly and ghastly <a href="https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1290627054925418496">observed</a> the other day. Since the start of this epidemic, Trump has gushed out a <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/trump-coronavirus-timeline/">series of idiotic and false remarks</a>:
The virus is no big deal. It will go away. This is a hoax. We will have
a national testing program within days. We will have a vaccine within
months. Try hydroxychloroquine. Maybe injecting bleach will help. Case
numbers are high because of testing. I take no responsibility. I’ve been
right all along. We’ve done an amazing job.<br />
<br />
He has pushed to reopen state economies and schools before guideposts
established by US government experts were met. He has politicized and,
thus, discouraged the most basic practice to arrest the pandemic:
wearing masks. Imagine being able to prevent tens of thousands of deaths
of your fellow Americans with one easy action—and not taking that step.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the president of the United States. In
recent days, yes, Trump has begrudgingly shifted his stance on masks.
His campaign sent out an email to supporters telling them that it is <b><a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1290438561733509121">“</a></b><a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1290438561733509121">patriotic”</a>
to wear a mask. Yet during his latest White House briefings, when he
reads his opening statement that includes encouraging the use of masks,
Trump hurries his way through this one line and hardly highlights the
point. It’s as if he is swallowing a bitter pill. And this reluctant
about-face may have come too late to persuade his live-maskless-or-die
followers. The damage has been done.<br />
<br />
Trump’s self-obsessed behavior, his dismissal of expert advice, his
attacks on news media outlets that report the awful truths of the
pandemic, his focus on the positive economic indicators that exist
within an economic calamity (look at the Dow Jones!)—none of this is
shocking. But what is surprising is that Trump, perhaps the most
self-interested man ever to reside in the White House, cannot see that
his own and much-cherished personal interests—notably, getting
re-elected—are aligned with the public interest of curtailing the
pandemic.<br />
<br />
Do Trump and his campaign minions believe that he can be reelected as
the number of COVID deaths top 200,000 or 250,000? Shouldn’t he be
doing whatever he can to prevent these headlines in the final weeks of
the campaign? What the hell gives?<br />
<br />
The responsible course for the <strike>resident</strike> was not tough to discern.
Follow the recommendations of public health experts. Model the
appropriate conduct. (Wear a mask!) Assist front-line medical workers.
Seek to help the economically dislocated. Mourn the dead and address the
national fear and anxiety. Yet Trump’s own inner compass is so broken
that he could not even fake concern for his own political benefit. His
deep-rooted pathologies—I know best, I can bullshit through
anything—blocked him from adopting simple measures that would actually
advance his own personal agenda.<br />
<br />
One small example: In the early weeks of the pandemic, Trump picked a
fight with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat. She is a popular
pol in the Wolverine State. She was elected 53 to 43 percent in 2018.
And she was doing a good job responding to the crisis.<br />
<br />
Michigan is (or,
now, maybe was) a key state for Trump. It was part of his “beautiful”
electoral map in 2016, and he could well need it again to win. Yet he
appeared more eager to feud with Whitmer than to help the state acquire
equipment it needed to combat the coronavirus. <b>“</b>Don’t call the woman in Michigan,” Trump <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/03/27/trump-pence-governors-call-coronavirus-sot-vpx.cnn">said</a>
he told Vice President Mike Pence. Why piss off Michiganders when you
desire their votes? It’s in Trump’s nature. (See the story of the
scorpion and the frog.) He placed his <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-obsessed-with-revenge/">love of revenge</a> over his own political survival.<br />
<br />
Consider Trump’s treatment of Dr. Anthony Fauci. This highly esteemed
scientist is much-respected by the public. About two-thirds of
Americans <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/media/poll-trump-fauci-reliable-sources/index.html">trust</a>
what he says about the pandemic. (Only 30 percent have confidence in
what Trump utters about the crisis.) Trump was fortunate to have Fauci
on the White House coronavirus task force. He should be riding the Fauci
wave.<br />
<br />
Instead, the Trump White House has been backstabbing—and
front-stabbing—this acclaimed public servant. Recently, Trump <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/media/poll-trump-fauci-reliable-sources/index.html">whined</a> about Fauci’s high-approval ratings and complained, “Nobody likes me.” He <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510160-trump-challenges-fauci-over-comments-on-coronavirus-surges-wrong">declared</a> that Fauci’s analysis about the ongoing coronavirus surge is “wrong.” (Trump also <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/08/trump-birx-coronavirus/">turned on</a> Dr. Deborah Birx, the ever-loyal coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, tweeting “Pathetic!” at her.)<br />
<br />
Trump has the LeBron James of public health on his team, and he only wants to dump on him.<br />
<br />
That’s not a winning strategy.<br />
<br />
Neither was Trump’s me-first insistence on holding me-me-me political
rallies while the virus wildfire raged. Herman Cain—the co-chair of the
president’s Black Voices for Trump outfit—sadly died of COVID-19 weeks
after attending that indoor rally in Tulsa, where he and thousands of
others sat shoulder-to-shoulder and, emulating Trump, did not wear
masks. It’s unclear when and where Cain contracted the virus, but
the episode suggests a basic lesson: Insisting on a premature return to
normal can yield deadly results and cause serious political
embarrassment. Yet for Trump, there are no teachable moments.<br />
<br />
Trump cannot stop himself from lying. (Last month, the <i>Washington Post</i>‘s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/13/president-trump-has-made-more-than-20000-false-or-misleading-claims/">database</a> of Trump’s false statements hit the 20,000 mark.) Trump cannot stop himself from self-aggrandizing. (Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maybe-i-have-a-natural-ability-trump-plays-medical-expert-on-coronavirus-by-second-guessing-the-professionals/2020/03/06/3ee0574c-5ffb-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html">at the Centers for Disease Control</a>
in March: “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much
about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”) Trump cannot throttle
back on his racism (“the China virus”), his ignorance (“supposing you
brought the light inside the body”), or his egotism (“we had a lot of
people watching, record numbers watching…in the history of cable
television, there’s never been anything like it”).<br />
<br />
But the former
reality TV celebrity, who became famous by exploiting the tabloid press,
does know a thing or two about PR. So is it that difficult for him to
comprehend that this continuing march of death threatens the only thing
he cares about: his own standing? Grasping this simple notion should
compel him to take immediate and extensive action to limit the number of
lives lost to this killer virus—not for the good of others, but for his
own sake.<br />
<br />
Yet Trump’s demons are in control. He is fueled by spite and by
self-glory. Moreover, he appears incapable of peering into the future
and considering the effects of his statements and actions. Last month,
Trump publicly vowed that he would sign and enact a comprehensive health
care plan within two weeks. The fortnight came and went; there was
nothing. This was yet one more sign that Trump is 100-percent
situational. He says whatever he thinks he needs to say at the moment to
gain whatever advantage he seeks, without an iota of regard for later
being held accountable. It sure sounds swell to promise everyone a
signed, sealed, and delivered health care package within 14 days. Why
not say that? So what if there is no new national health care program in
two weeks? Trump will deal with that then. Or not. It doesn’t matter to
him. Neither present truth nor future consequences hold much reality
for him.<br />
<br />
Perhaps this explains Trump’s inability to fully fathom the threat he
faces. The appalling body count of the present doesn’t move him toward
empathy or effective policy, and the prospect of hideous headlines to
come also doesn’t motivate him. Not even when his own political career
is in jeopardy. Maybe he figures that he will BS his way through all
this or rig the system somehow to retain power. Or that he will just get
dumb-lucky via an external incident (a vaccine!) that changes the
now-dark landscape. But Trump’s inability to make a simple calculation—I
should heed the experts and implement the counter-pandemic fundamentals
to save lives and (also!) win reelection—is stark and disturbing. It
shows Trump cannot perceive or escape the vortex of his own
self-destruction. The immense tragedy is that thousands of Americans
have died and will continue to die because Trump cannot help
even himself. </div>
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<br />dleverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14159352192225414990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7535762663596032916.post-2722192856333257062020-07-25T19:59:00.004-04:002020-07-25T20:00:23.582-04:00AOC Fucks The Patriarchy's Shit Up Posted by <a href="https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/07/aoc-fucks-patriarchys-shit-up.html" target="_blank">Rude One</a><br />
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The line from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's calm <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-floor-speech-about-yoho-remarks-july-23">evisceration</a>
of Rep. Ted Yoho yesterday on the floor of the House of Representatives
that will likely be the one that is remembered is something that
shouldn't need to be said: "Having a daughter does not make a man
decent. Having a wife does not make a decent man. Treating people with
dignity and respect makes a decent man." Too many terrible men have
tried to use the fact that they're related to women as a defense for
their shit behavior.<br />
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Ocasio-Cortez was done with that, as we all should
be. Ted Bundy had a mom. Bill Cosby has a wife and daughters. Donald
Trump has had three wives and two daughters. Their proximity to women
did nothing to ameliorate their hideous acts towards women.<br />
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Ocasio-Cortez said that she wasn't speaking so much because Yoho had
called her a "fucking bitch" on the steps of the Capitol but because,
the day before, Yoho had <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ted-yoho-lesson-in-decency-on-the-house-floor?utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=tny&utm_source=twitter">offered</a>
the fake apology of a fucking bitch. Yoho has long been a fucking
bitch. He rode into DC on one of the racist Tea Party waves in 2012,
representing a district in Florida that's 75% white. He's been a loyal
gobbler of Koch money, the kind of piece of shit Republican who votes to
defund Planned Parenthood, won't say if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is
constitutional, and refuses to vote for a federal anti-lynching bill
because that would be "overreach." What had so upset Yoho that he felt
he had to confront Ocasio-Cortez? The Democrat from NYC <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/aoc-accosted-by-rep-ted-yoho-on-the-steps-of-the-capitol.html#access_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCIsImtpZCI6Ik1FSXlNVFZETTBaQlEwUTJSVUV6UkVVMlFqWTNNRU13TVRaR09UWTFNVE0yUTBZeE16RXpOQSJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2xvZ2luLm55bWFnLmNvbS8iLCJzdWIiOiJhdXRoMHw1YzA5ZjE2Y2Q4MDJjNDdkNTFkMmY4NzQiLCJhdWQiOlsiaHR0cHM6Ly9uZXd5b3JrbWVkaWEuYXV0aDAuY29tL2FwaS92Mi8iLCJodHRwczovL25ld3lvcmttZWRpYS5hdXRoMC5jb20vdXNlcmluZm8iXSwiaWF0IjoxNTk1NjA4MDMzLCJleHAiOjE1OTU2MTUyMzMsImF6cCI6Imw2R045RkcyY3ZnMlcyZTRhN1hvT2Q4V0NlaUk4NEhrIiwic2NvcGUiOiJvcGVuaWQgcHJvZmlsZSBlbWFpbCByZWFkOmN1cnJlbnRfdXNlciB1cGRhdGU6Y3VycmVudF91c2VyX21ldGFkYXRhIn0.Gr7PlYZyMtZhVIKOUgSRsjzLKNaRxE_jog5mMlRi708E-4szav4VxKvJbRZ7XVo4xsLXrGW8ULv8ah3EaOs2Lz6_wQ38suwKxTwzYM_mLnhYOrqRfV_bnycTjBd7Dar7AcFreDvkoxmgP2L5mBOArnzvCd7RIDjQ52CrA8mAyp3Tdc6BdQ179wxvpqR9oJhwp_E-TO-4903OsvCgmuvGyTI066D96kieRqM8lole0UfMpCpfEtLAn0lvpSrEgmNkx4E0CvN3QnMB_QyeoQDYf2pNufUlcAgWq9N-tOZuhDOdkXIUd7pTJW_xl-P-vpDUm3LVhLhVwtOgvY4jk_2cyQ&scope=openid%20profile%20email%20read%3Acurrent_user%20update%3Acurrent_user_metadata&expires_in=7200&token_type=Bearer&state=OPAQUE_VALUE&id_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCIsImtpZCI6Ik1FSXlNVFZETTBaQlEwUTJSVUV6UkVVMlFqWTNNRU13TVRaR09UWTFNVE0yUTBZeE16RXpOQSJ9.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.Qga6QPy-VmGqTZ7TWZEcNAeTiVy1PSwEUFPL0PAy7uiSIMx_BYf95akfyaVLvHMrvEEzGPOwEngwtthbsONeH76kiroPvgt4Ut2KrwSa5EK8EBKr6r_2pIPO_iPkiKNh7t98vGCSI4YEp7JhMvOdjEpdD_-LSROMNwzJdVfG6_kUZ-5oEmn6V-YcKEwfhpLFbjsoC_z1zIvFs49Q5_Pq467eXDvnn8QmKcFBumRWODuA5G4iqlCqoPcNkauhWM_EV5UGDwsIULUYSQOE0ZqFvGcBpVMliVxN0jaYNVe55jyGY2NT4AOmH0mP3dr6jm-r1-x3uqI7QDmEDC3_NCHD-w">had said</a> a month ago that poverty leads to crime, something that we've fucking known since at least <i>Les Miserables</i>.
But that set off Yoho because if there's one thing a Republican doesn't
want to hear, it's that you might need to actually help people.</div>
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Then, proving that he's one of the littlest fucking bitches in the
bitch-filled GOP caucus, Yoho went to the mic in the House on Wednesday
to say, in <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/ted-yoho-aoc-apology.html">essence</a>,
"Sorry if what I said upset you. Oh, and I didn't say it. Oh, and I
might have said it but I didn't intend for her to hear it. Oh, and I
only said the thing I didn't say because I love my country and God and
my wife and daughters and I'm gonna hide behind all that because I'm a
fucking bitch." More or less, that was it. </div>
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Sure, one way to read and watch Ocasio-Cortez's response is that she
ripped off Yoho's little nutsack and showed it to him, laughing as he
looked at his torn scrotum in her clutched hand while he bled to death.
It is more than gratifying to see it that way. "I want to be clear that
Representative Yoho’s comments were not deeply hurtful or piercing to
me, because I have worked a working class job," she said, adding, "I
have tossed men out of bars that have used language like Mr. Yoho’s."
And you totally know she could. It was cathartic, but it was so much
more.</div>
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More importantly and more incisively on her part, Ocasio-Cortez
universalized the insult to show how it's simply part and parcel of the
patriarchal world that women have been forced to negotiate and, really,
fuck that shit. Fuck this male-dominated institution and fuck all the
men who fuck up women's lives and fuck them that they do it without
consequences. Or, in her words, "I want to thank him for showing the
world that you can be a powerful man and accost women. You can have
daughters and accost women without remorse. You can be married and
accost women. You can take photos and project an image to the world of
being a family man and accost women without remorse and with a sense of
impunity. It happens every day in this country. It happened here on the
steps of our nation’s Capitol. It happens when individuals who hold the
highest office in this land admit, admit to hurting women and using this
language against all of us."</div>
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Yoho's pathetic little slap at Ocasio-Cortez is just another of the last
gasps of a white patriarchy that has been on oxygen for at least a
decade, kept alive by unholy medical procedures and the force of pure
racist and sexist fear, like Sheldon Adelson or the thankfully dead
Strom Thurmond, that their day may finally, at long last, after so much
delay, be over. And it's going to be women like Ocasio-Cortez and the
dozen-plus women in Congress who stood with her, as well as the
daughters and granddaughters of soon-to-be extinct creatures like Yoho. </div>
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Goddamn, it can't come soon enough. Please take the keys away from men,
whether in Congress or in other positions of power and hopefully the
presidency one day soon. God knows people like Ted Yoho have fucked this
nation he supposedly loves for everyone, including wives and daughters.
No, the people who really love the United States know it must change or
it will die. Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal and Ayanna Pressley
and Mikie Sherrill and Rashida Tlaib and so many more will keep giving
the patriarchy a beat down in the Congress and elsewhere until it's
finally yielded to the hope of progress.</div>
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