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Open thread October 29, 2019

Dan Crawford | October 29, 2019 8:32 am

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  • EMichael says:
    October 29, 2019 at 1:46 pm

    Seems it is “normal” for trump and his pr firm to smear veterans (and their families) when they are doing their jobs and just happen to be immigrants or people of color.

    ” No Way They Could Smear A Troop!!!!

    Republicans have been using The Troops as props and metaphorical human shields for their careers for decades, and every day pundits wake up pretending to forget.

    Matthew Gertz
    ✔
    @MattGertz

    Great job CNN, good hire here. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1189148524291731459 …
    Aaron Rupar
    ✔
    @atrupar

    Sean Duffy on CNN on Army Lt. Col. Vindman: “It seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about Ukrainian defense. I don’t know that he’s concerned about American policy … we all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from … he has an affinity for the Ukraine.”

    Also John Yoo, highly respected Berkeley Law Professor, of the highly respected UC-Berkeley Law School, was on Laura Ingraham accusing him of espionage. I have never heard that name before, and thus I am shocked that an elite law professor could be bad!”

    https://www.eschatonblog.com/

    • run75441 says:
      October 29, 2019 at 10:20 pm

      EM:

      I believe Yoo was Bush’s torture expert who made it ok to torture Middle Easterners.

  • EMichael says:
    October 30, 2019 at 8:37 am

    Run,

    Yes he was. Just amazing how these kind of people flourish in the Rep Party.

    Makes you wonder how they grew up to become so unamerican in so many ways.

    “Chris Hayes on Tuesday night poured scorn on GOP pollster Frank Luntz’s call on Fox News for the fans who booed President Donald Trump during the World Series to be held accountable.

    “You don’t boo the president,” Luntz told the conservative network’s prime time host Laura Ingraham. “You may disagree with him. You may think that he’s not what you wanted, but you don’t boo him. You show respect to him.”

    Chris Hayes on Tuesday night poured scorn on GOP pollster Frank Luntz’s call on Fox News for the fans who booed President Donald Trump during the World Series to be held accountable.

    “You don’t boo the president,” Luntz told the conservative network’s prime time host Laura Ingraham. “You may disagree with him. You may think that he’s not what you wanted, but you don’t boo him. You show respect to him.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-hayes-gop-pollster-donald-trump-world-series_n_5db94d3ee4b066da55292b01

  • EMichael says:
    October 30, 2019 at 8:39 am

    oops

    “Hayes, the host of MSNBC’s “All In,” called Luntz “a conservative BS grifter who apparently thinks we live in North Korea.”

    “Hold them accountable?” Hayes asked. “Just a small reminder that basically the whole point of America is that you can boo the president. But at least Luntz was willing to acknowledge the booing actually occurred, because the strategy over at the morning show at Trump TV & Friends, was to pretend it never happened.”

    “Their coverage of the game started with a piece of video where the booing was magically inaudible and then moved to what they thought was the real viral moment of the game,” he explained, which was when a home run ball hit a man walking down the steps, who was carrying beers in each hand, in the chest. “

  • reason says:
    October 31, 2019 at 7:43 am

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/

    First model (admittedly purely mathematical) showing that redistribution is both necessary and sufficient to combat excessive wealth concentration. That should be a game changer in economic debate, if only people were listening. Of course the same people who like to quote DSGE models will claim it is unrealistic. But this model explains the data much better.

  • reason says:
    October 31, 2019 at 7:45 am

    I’ve been reading the Scientific American for a long time. It used to be completely unpolitical, but as one party has become the anti-science party, even the anti-expertise party it’s hand has been forced.

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