tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post8934289386340179425..comments2024-03-29T06:09:09.845-04:00Comments on the daily howler: HOW WE GOT HERE: How did Justice Alito get on the Court?<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-6030412089297660962022-06-29T10:54:59.011-04:002022-06-29T10:54:59.011-04:00Republicans only talk about culture war issues, su...Republicans only talk about culture war issues, such as teaching CRT in preschools and banning comic books about mice.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-40759587454673270772022-06-28T22:21:35.488-04:002022-06-28T22:21:35.488-04:00I hate to tell you but it does and it did. Sorry.I hate to tell you but it does and it did. Sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81690471200231785412022-06-28T22:13:34.282-04:002022-06-28T22:13:34.282-04:00It doesn’t count as discussing trade and economic ...It doesn’t count as discussing trade and economic issues if they’re lying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10092589147822903262022-06-28T21:49:44.641-04:002022-06-28T21:49:44.641-04:00Ie. they voted for the only person of the two who ...Ie. they voted for the only person of the two who spoke to trade and economic disparity issues and the only person of the two who spoke frankly about issues of class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60585189655940341902022-06-28T19:03:23.368-04:002022-06-28T19:03:23.368-04:00It is a good piece, it is exactly the same thing I...It is a good piece, it is exactly the same thing I have been saying here for years, in response to Somerby's "can't we all get along" nonsense. <br /><br />We need to recognize that it is all about psychology for Republicans, their one true God is: dominance. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50052676270651143132022-06-28T15:52:35.201-04:002022-06-28T15:52:35.201-04:00No misogyny at all.
Voters just wanted someone who...No misogyny at all.<br />Voters just wanted someone who wouldn’t favor the rich over the working class. So they voted for a guy who has used his financial leverage to stiff contractors for over four decades.<br />That, and HC wasn’t a big enough bigot for them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70330287246557032232022-06-28T13:14:02.271-04:002022-06-28T13:14:02.271-04:00Misogyny played no significant role whatever in Hi...Misogyny played no significant role whatever in Hillary Clinton’s two defeats as a presidential candidate. This claim is such a crock! What a gross exploitation of feminism—in the service of an unaccomplished woman whose entire career was spent attached to her husband’s coat tails. Hillary was handed job after job but produced no tangible results in any of them—except of course for her destabilization of North Africa during her rocky tenure as secretary of state. And for all her lip service to women and children, what program serving their needs did Hillary ever conceive and promote? She routinely signed on to other people’s programs or legislative bills but spent the bulk of her time in fundraising and networking for her own personal ambitions. Beyond that, I fail to see how authentic feminism can ever be ascribed to a woman who turned a blind eye to the victims of her husband’s serial abuse and workplace seductions. The hypocrisy of feminist leaders was on full display during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which incontrovertibly demonstrated Bill Clinton’s gross violation of basic sexual harassment policy for his squalid and unethical behavior with an intern whose life (it is now clear) he ruined.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14272136122639253762022-06-28T11:32:51.183-04:002022-06-28T11:32:51.183-04:00The decision was 6-3. If RBG had retired and been ...The decision was 6-3. If RBG had retired and been replaced by a liberal justice (which might not have happened, given Garland's treatment), the decision to overturn would have been 5-4, still a majority. The problem was the 3 justices appointed by Trump, not RBG's decision not to treat her lifetime appointment as a political football.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45703374733281237272022-06-28T11:20:21.570-04:002022-06-28T11:20:21.570-04:00Knives are out for RBG who publicly and often reco...Knives are out for RBG who publicly and often recognized there was nothing cited in Roe that made abortion a "constitutional right." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90146121534573321112022-06-28T10:55:42.918-04:002022-06-28T10:55:42.918-04:00Why couldn't they just sell abortion pills in ...Why couldn't they just sell abortion pills in the many federal buildings? Or consulates? Aren't those federal land too?Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44732102584469922222022-06-28T10:54:28.914-04:002022-06-28T10:54:28.914-04:00It is harder for many people to get to national pa...It is harder for many people to get to national parks than to get to another state.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90764443702538457022022-06-28T10:53:38.525-04:002022-06-28T10:53:38.525-04:00Hillary is more qualified than most male candidate...Hillary is more qualified than most male candidates for the presidency too, including Obama. Her treatment at the nominating convention, where her votes were not counted and Obama was rammed through as a historic candidate (as if the first woman nominee would not be historic in her own right), was a slap in the face to those supporting Hillary. In 2015, the Bernie Bros used Republican talking points and sexist tropes to attack Hillary, joined by the NY Times, who printed scurrilous right wing attacks without substance: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/politics/new-book-clinton-cash-questions-foreign-donations-to-foundation.html<br /><br />Never has a candidate received such unfair treatment, including Benghazi hearings, obsession with her emails, hacked and leaked Podesta emails, a social media smear campaign orchestrated by Russia, Comey's October letter, and much more. Not a peep from Somerby about any of this, much worse treatment than anything that happened to Al Gore, except to call her a failed candidate and blame her for her own troubles, even though she ultimately won more popular votes than any candidate (until Biden) and defeated Trump except for the campaign meddling to win the electoral college. <br /><br />And we would not have those three Catholic right-wing justices appointed by Trump, had Hillary been given the same support as any other candidate and won in three blue states (WI, MI, PA) where the bros stayed home, black vote was suppressed and Jill Stein attracted male left-wing voters who would not support Hillary. <br /><br />Would Trump have won had the Democrats not supported a female candidate? Probably not. But he also wouldn't have run if Obama hadn't insulted him at the Correspondent's Dinner (by his own admission) and he wouldn't have had as much white reactionary support if Obama had not been black. Note that Trump spent his entire term in office rolling back every accomplishment of Obama and encouraging white supremacists to organize and direct their violence against minorities. <br /><br />Progress has a cost. The reactionaries who resist progress are responsible for both Hillary's loss and Trump's win. Somerby's reaction has been to abandon any commitment to fairness, justice, equality, and to retreat to misogyny and racial bigotry. I hold him responsible for this overturning of Roe v Wade, because reactions like his are what put Trump into office, and because his own activities to support Trump have been blatant and obvious here, while he has doubled down on hating women, especially those who are successful, as Hillary is.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34909265177181702332022-06-28T10:37:49.010-04:002022-06-28T10:37:49.010-04:00Hear hearHear hearNot a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89378792780741462972022-06-28T10:37:21.209-04:002022-06-28T10:37:21.209-04:00"According to this news report, some of our t..."According to this news report, some of our tribe's current thought leaders want the current president to establish abortion clinics "on the edge of national parks!" <br /><br />Is it even dimly possible that, on the rarest of occasions, we in our famously self-impressed tribe may have helped facilitate the process by which we have, at long last, finally come to this place?"<br /><br />No, and the more Somerby calls liberals "self-impressed," the more he displays his animosity toward us. WE didn't let Gore down. Gore had plenty of his own baggage. He decided to add Lieberman to his ticket, a person who had sanctimoniously attacked Bill Clinton during his troubles with the Republicans over Monica Lewinsky. He chose to run without talking about the accomplishments of the Clinton terms. His own White House fund-raising scandal and the scandal over Chinese bundling of foreign contributions to his campaign. His moderate stands on issues. Tipper Gore's war on rock'n'roll, which made her a laughing stock among younger voters. His stiffness and clumsiness as a campaigner. None of this was the fault of the media. <br /><br />Gore lost his own election, but Somerby still blames the press for laughing at him and disliking him as a candidate. Somerby could blame George Bush, who lied about his positions on issues, skipped out on his military service, had poor grades in college and a DUI for drug use (Gore took the high road and never attacked Bush's weaknesses). But instead, Somerby seems to be blaming the people who voted for Gore, liberals, and the press (whose job is not to help elect anyone) for disliking Gore on a personal level.<br /><br />Somerby seems to have made this a defining issue in his life. It is sad that Somerby, who never expresses actual opinions about issues himself, has become such an obsessed person when it comes to Gore. Gore made a great movie that helped shift public opinion about climate change, but what else has he done that warrants such devotion? Nothing, except whatever personal moments occurred between Somerby and Gore as roomies at Harvard. But apparently Gore made a big impression then, because Somerby seems unable to shut up about him, even after so many years.<br /><br />In the final analysis, Alito did what he did because he is Alito and a messed up person, not because we liberals voted for Gore but too many others voted for Bush. Why doesn't Somerby spend his waning hours chiding all those Others who didn't vote for his buddy Gore? Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45920411760997837792022-06-28T10:24:57.196-04:002022-06-28T10:24:57.196-04:00If Democrats weren't racist and sexist "t...If Democrats weren't racist and sexist "the most qualified woman in history" would have become president in 2008 with VP Obama who would have trounced Trump in 2016.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24791371840325531912022-06-28T10:22:14.522-04:002022-06-28T10:22:14.522-04:00Regardless of who was or wasn't appointed/nomi...<br />Regardless of who was or wasn't appointed/nominated by whom, it's plain obvious and clearly evident that there's nothing in the US constitution that makes abortion on demand a "right". <br /><br />Can we agree on that, dear Bob? Can we?<br /><br />And if indeed we can, then what follows is that your tribe's psychopathic shamans have been -- and still are! -- engaged in tendentious misinterpretation of the US constitution. <br /><br />Lies and demagoguery, dear Bob, lies and demagoguery -- your tribe's only talent... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51876149199967793302022-06-28T10:21:15.613-04:002022-06-28T10:21:15.613-04:00Yes, we wouldn't have Alito if Gore had won. T...Yes, we wouldn't have Alito if Gore had won. Too bad he didn't run a better campaign. Too bad he didn't fight for his victory, challenging the vote count in FL. Too bad he gave up on politics after conceding to Bush, abandoning the people he claimed he wished to serve. <br /><br />And too bad Somerby doesn't mention that had he and the Bernie bros supported Hillary, she might not have lost to Trump and we wouldn't have Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett on the court. Clinton too supported women's right to a safe and legal abortion. But Somerby pushed Trump's interests instead, by knocking Democrats at every opportunity, just as he has been doing since Trump announced his candidacy. Back in the days when he didn't talk about Trump's birtherism, but talked about what a failed candidate Hillary was, even though she won the popular vote by far more than Gore did.<br /><br />Crickets from Somerby about what happened in 2016, and his role in it. As far as Somerby is concerned, there is no candidate but Gore and we all let Somerby/Gore down by each casting only one vote for Gore. Does Somerby think it is the blue tribe's fault that Gore ran a bad campaign and didn't fight for his victory? What could we have done differently?Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86345951471612145322022-06-28T10:08:50.458-04:002022-06-28T10:08:50.458-04:00Somerby says: "This morning, we checked to s...Somerby says: "This morning, we checked to see if the ABC series, Kung Fu, was still on the air at this juncture. As it turns out, the program's third and final season seems to have ended in 1975!"<br /><br />Perhaps he was unable to find the remake because the main character is now female:<br /><br />"Kung Fu is an American martial arts action-adventure television series that premiered on The CW on April 7, 2021. Set in the present, it is an adaptation of the 1970s series of the same title. It is produced by Warner Bros. Television, as was the original series and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63315094559466075512022-06-28T10:04:59.271-04:002022-06-28T10:04:59.271-04:00Here is some actual media criticism of the differe...Here is some actual media criticism of the different ways Democrats and Republicans are treated by the mainstream media:<br /><br />https://digbysblog.net/2022/06/27/we-have-the-power-to-do-this-so-we-will-do-this/Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.com