September 19, 2019

Elizabeth Warren Closing In On Biden In Recent Polls

19 Sep 2019

The part I find most interesting is the 0:52-1:16 stretch, rebutting what Brian Tyler Cohen, The Young Turks, and even Sam Seder have been pushing recently.

That being said, I shall unhesitatingly vote for whomever wins our party's nomination. Trump Must GO!

September 19, 2019

Iran fired cruise missiles at Saudi oil facility - ABC News

ABC News: We Believe Whatever the Administration Tells Us!

September 17, 2019

Grist: Extreme weather may be pushing Texans to care about climate change

By Zoya Teirstein on Sep 16, 2019

Does Texas, the metaphorical oil tank of the American petroleum operation, care about climate change? About two-thirds of it does, says a new poll of Texas voters — and we’re not just talkin’ Democrats. Sixty-five percent of Lone Star State voters of all political persuasions are in favor of government action to combat the climate crisis, and a third are strongly in favor of it. That’s not the only good news.

Of the 1,660 voters polled by Climate Nexus, 74 percent said they’re more likely to vote for a candidate who supports boosting federal funding for renewable energy. Among Democrats, climate change ranks right up there with the economy and jobs when it comes to issues voters care about in the 2020 election — only health care and gun policy ranked higher. The poll was conducted in conjunction with Yale and George Mason universities.

Texas is still very much a red state. Though Beto O’Rourke came close last year, no Democrat has won a general election in a Texas statewide race since 1994. And last time I checked, the GOP is still firmly in the “don’t take away our straws and burgers” phase of climate denial. So why is Texas suddenly inclined to climate action?

It could have something to do with all of the extreme weather that has walloped the state in recent years. A little more than half of the voters surveyed in the poll think their state government is ill-equipped to handle a big hurricane in 2019. Four in 10 voters voiced concern over having to relocate if there is a major weather event. Most tellingly, close to nine out of 10 Texans say they have been touched by extreme heat within the past year, and nearly half of those surveyed said they have experienced flooding or drought.

https://grist.org/article/extreme-weather-may-be-pushing-texans-to-care-about-climate-change/

Daaaaaaaaaaamn, they're not even blaming it on sin!

September 17, 2019

Pentagon urges restraint after strikes on Saudi oil facilities

Source: WaPo

By Missy Ryan and Dan Lamothe
September 16, 2019 at 8:48 p.m. GMT-2:30

Pentagon officials on Monday recommended a restrained response to the recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities, arguing against a potentially costly conflict with Iran, which the administration has blamed for the strike on a key American ally, according to officials familiar with Defense Department deliberations.

Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper met with President Trump and key national security officials at the White House on Monday, two days after a series of explosions crippled two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, disrupting more than half the Sunni kingdom’s oil supply and dramatically escalating tensions with its chief rival, Shiite power Iran.

While Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the attacks, Trump administration officials have said they believe that at least the bulk of the strikes, which targeted two facilities belonging to state-run Saudi oil firm Aramco, were launched from within Iran — an allegation that, if true, would represent a major escalation between the Middle East’s leading regional powers.

Read more: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-urges-restraint-as-administration-blames-iran-for-saudi-strikes/2019/09/16/58743ae4-d8a5-11e9-adff-79254db7f766_story.html

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These are professional military people at the Pentagon, who know where the shit is and where the shit is NOT! The people with the biggest hard-ons for war are the people who've never worn a uniform higher than the Boy Scouts!

September 16, 2019

Legal Immigration: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Note: DO NOT DUREC THIS! Rhiannon12866 POSTED IT AT 2:38 AM EDT!! FOR SOME REASON, IT DID NOT APPEAR ON PAGE ONE. I AM POSTING THIS ONLY TO INCREASE ITS VISIBILITY. ALL THANKS AND/OR ACCOLADES SHOULD BE POSTED AT THE LINK BELOW, NOT HERE!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017553110

My apologies to Rhiannon: The link to her original thread was faulty. I have now corrected my error.

September 15, 2019

Bill Maher: This Is The Democrats' Race To Lose - Morning Joe

12 Sep 2019

One of these guys vigorously opposed Trump from the get-go. The other one opposes him now.