friendly_iconoclast
friendly_iconoclast's JournalTrump is the Neville Chamberlain of our time
Played by smarter opponents, and then sat around with his thumb up his ass until the cataclysm
struck.
The Federal Government's COVID-19 Response Plan draft that Trump hasn't read
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/18/1928567/-The-Federal-Government-s-COVID-19-Response-Plan-draft-that-Trump-hasn-t-readPDF link to the actual plan:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6819-covid-19-response-plan/d367f758bec47cad361f/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
Coronavirus dark humor thread- 'cause we need it...
Inspired by DUer Soph0571's instant classic:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213075141
First off from me- Max Colchester retweeting some vintage English snark:
Max Colchester
@MaximColch
https://twitter.com/MaximColch/status/1238024266303647744
Fearful of a Coronavirus Backlash, Some Asian-Americans Are Stocking Up on Guns
https://www.thetrace.org/2020/03/coronavirus-gun-sales-washington-california-asian-americans/People are panicking because they dont feel secure, said David Liu, who is Chinese-American and owns Arcadia Firearm and Safety, just east of Los Angeles. They worry about a riot or maybe that people will start to target the Chinese....
...As The Los Angeles Times has reported, since the first novel coronavirus outbreaks in the United States, Asian-Americans have experienced intensifying venom, including bullying, racist comments, and harassment. And, on February 24, a man of East Asian descent was assaulted in central London. One of the assailants reportedly said, I dont want your coronavirus in my country.
The main thing Im hearing is that they dont want to get jumped because of their race, said Cole Gaughran, the internet sales manager at Wades Eastside Guns in Bellevue, Washington. Gaughran said his store has seen a sixfold increase in sales in the same two weeks. His new customers, most of them first-time gun owners, were almost entirely of Asian descent, he said. Bellevue is just a 15 minute drive from Kirkland, where 11 people have died from the virus...
I urge these new gun owners to obtain competent instruction, practice regularly, and securely store their firearms
as necessary.
As for violent racists, I'd say this to them:
If you play stupid games, you might just win some prizes you really don't want...
It's Melania Antoinette's Hameau de la Reine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hameau_de_la_ReineThe hameau is the best-known of a series of rustic garden constructions built at the time, notably the Prince of Condé's Hameau de Chantilly (17741775) which was the inspiration for the Versailles hamlet Such model farms, operating under principles espoused by the Physiocrats, were fashionable among the French aristocracy at the time. One primary purpose of the hameau was to add to the ambiance of the Petit Trianon, giving the illusion that it was deep in the countryside rather than within the confines of Versailles. The rooms at the hameau allowed for more intimacy than the grand salons at Versailles or at the Petit Trianon...
It shows up in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
Same mindset, different century...
I *had* been bemoaning the fact that I've had to delay orthopedic surgery
Not anymore.
I most likely would now be in postop or a rehab center if I hadn't
I'll take the pain and gimpiness over increased COVID-19 exposure any day
Exclusive: Newly obtained documents show Huawei role in shipping prohibited U.S. gear to Iran
Source: Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Chinas Huawei Technologies, which for years has denied violating American trade sanctions on Iran, produced internal company records in 2010 that show it was directly involved in sending prohibited U.S. computer equipment to Irans largest mobile-phone operator.
Two Huawei packing lists, dated December 2010, included computer equipment made by Hewlett-Packard Co and destined for the Iranian carrier, internal Huawei documents reviewed by Reuters show.
Another Huawei document, dated two months later, stated: Currently the equipment is delivered to Tehran, and waiting for the custom clearance.
The packing lists and other internal documents, reported here for the first time, provide the strongest documentary evidence to date of Huaweis involvement in alleged trade sanctions violations. They could bolster Washingtons multifaceted campaign to check the power of Huawei, the worlds leading telecommunications-equipment maker.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-sanctions-exclusive/exclusive-newly-obtained-documents-show-huawei-role-in-shipping-prohibited-u-s-gear-to-iran-idUSKBN20P1VA
Ther latest example of racism (or 'merely' white saviorism) from a gun control advocate
Playing on fears of armed minorities for political gain has been a constant theme in US political life, from Roger Taney
down to the present day with Michael Bloomberg.
One Oleg Volsky has decided to jump into the game. Apparently, he thinks Bloomie shouldn't be the only one
appealing to the subset of racists that don't like Trump:
https://gunsdownamerica.org/about/
Igor Volsky, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Igor Volsky is co-founder and the Director of Guns Down America. Igor has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fox News, and CNBC television, and he has been a guest on many radio shows. His work on gun violence prevention has appeared in USA Today, U.S. News and World Report and the Orlando Sentinel, among others. In 2011, Forbes named Igor one of their top 30 under 30 in Law & Policy. At Guns Down, he sets the overall strategy and leads our outreach efforts.
https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1231960877248733191
That's right: gun makers are increasingly advertising to WOMEN, CHILDREN & MINORITY COMMUNITIES"
2/ Firearm industry realizes that to survive into the future it must "broaden its reach beyond the aging white men who have been its core customers" -- and so they're now trying to sell their products to other demographics.
This is incredibly dangerous.
Note: Emphasis added
Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they're racist
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/race-to-dinner-party-racism-womenRecently, I have been driving around, seeing a black person, and having an assumption that they are up to no good, says Alison Gubser. Immediately after I am like, thats no good! This is a human, just doing their thing. Why do I think that?
This is Race to Dinner. A white woman volunteers to host a dinner in her home for seven other white women often strangers, perhaps acquaintances. (Each dinner costs $2,500, which can be covered by a generous host or divided among guests.) A frank discussion is led by co-founders Regina Jackson, who is black, and Saira Rao, who identifies as Indian American. They started Race to Dinner to challenge liberal white women to accept their racism, however subconscious. If you did this in a conference room, theyd leave, Rao says. But wealthy white women have been taught never to leave the dinner table.
Rao and Jackson believe white, liberal women are the most receptive audience because they are open to changing their behavior. They dont bother with the 53% of white women who voted for Trump. White men, they feel, are similarly a lost cause. White men are never going to change anything. If they were, they would have done it by now, Jackson says.
My theory: Gun control advocacy is largely a way of fighting "sinful" behavior- i.e. gun ownership
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