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Open thread Nov. 21, 2017

Dan Crawford | November 21, 2017 10:27 am

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  • Denis Drew says:
    November 21, 2017 at 11:20 am

    A NEW POLL TAX
    http://robertreich.org/post/167712199540

    “In nine states, Republican legislators have enacted laws that disenfranchise anyone with outstanding legal fees or court fines. For example, in Alabama more than 100,000 people who owe money – roughly 3 percent of the state’s voting-age population – have been struck from voting rolls.

    “This is unconstitutional. In 1964, the 24th amendment abolished the poll tax, a Jim Crow tactic used to bar poor blacks from voting.”
    * * * * * *

    I just read a book about Putin’s Russia — how any (all) opposition is either faked or systematically clamped down. I think the Republican party is getting secret advice from Russia.

    The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
    by Masha Gessen

  • Denis Drew says:
    November 21, 2017 at 11:33 am

    Donald Trump’s Response to Disaster Aid for California: Nothing
    Kevin DrumNov. 20, 2017
    http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/donald-trumps-response-to-disaster-aid-for-california-nothing/

    “A few weeks ago, California requested $7.4 billion in disaster aid following the massive series of wildfires in the northern part of the state that killed 43 people and destroyed nearly 9,000 structures. Actually, let’s back up. That’s not quite accurate. California’s Democratic governor, its two Democratic senators, and its 39 Democratic members of Congress asked for $7.4 billion. With only one exception, California’s Republican delegation boycotted a request for disaster funding for their own state.”
    * * * * * *

    Republicans are anti-Americans.

  • EMichael says:
    November 22, 2017 at 10:54 am

    Just thinking that perhaps we should not allow non blacks on Wall Street, as the non blacks overwhelmingly were responsible for this financial crisis(not to mention the S&L crisis).

    And worse, not a whole lot of them ever go to jail, and reaaly make a lot of money.

    “fter Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley announced hefty profits last fall, the Obama administration’s pay czar said that he’d cap pay at Citigroup, Bank of America, and five other bailed-out companies. The move was largely symbolic: It capped salaries for only 25 executives, kept big stock bonuses in place, and did nothing to address the culture of rewarding folks who sowed our economic destruction. Below, some of the players who made out like bandits during the bubble and the bailout.”

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/wall-street-bailout-executive-compensation/#

    How do we allow these people to continue their culture based attacks on the US?

  • EMichael says:
    November 23, 2017 at 9:25 am

    Amazing, no one is afraid of white men terrorizing the economy.

  • Longtooth says:
    November 24, 2017 at 6:07 am

    EMichael,

    They think they’re being led to the promised land by benevolent soles who are good at making everybody rich. I’ve been terribly perplexed about why people think this (or similar pie in sky beliefs) for 40 or 50 years now and still haven’t figured it out..

    What-ever the reason though it’s no different that people believing in a god… they do it despite rational reasoning, hence most people don’t vote with rational thought, but with gut emotions

    It’s a human trait, which I’d guess has evolved as a benefit to human hunter-gathers survival and civilization hasn’t had time to change it. Give it another 10 million years and we’ll see if this trait persists.

    Of course we humans may destroy our habitat in far less time so “in the long run” we’re probably reaching the end of human habitation give or take a millennia … failure to adapt rapidly enough under conditions changing and with which humans have never evolved to deal with. .

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