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raison de arizona wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:24 pm Some real data on the so-called "empty shelves," which I heard about yet again on FoxNews this morning...

More at link.
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Supposedly, I live in the metro area of one of those nasty liberal cities where everything is going to hell. I went to Jewel on Friday evening and there were some shelves that had some products that were out or almost out but it was like 7pm on a Friday evening. That's usually normal as they have not gotten around to restocking for a bit. Everything I was looking for was there. I doubt it is was any different from what I would have seen at that time pre-pandemic.

Fridays are probably a tough time to find their normal staff since they are probably out at parties and basketball games.

2 people were without a mask which is actually the most I have seen in a long time. Folks are pretty good up here but to be honest, I tend to hit stores at low usage times and my only other main in-person contact is at church where we have required masks ever since coming back in person and highly recommend being vaccinated (and added contact tracing starting on Christmas due to the spike and having extra services).
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northland10 wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:12 pm Supposedly, I live in the metro area of one of those nasty liberal cities where everything is going to hell. I went to Jewel on Friday evening and there were some shelves that had some products that were out or almost out but it was like 7pm on a Friday evening. That's usually normal as they have not gotten around to restocking for a bit. Everything I was looking for was there. I doubt it is was any different from what I would have seen at that time pre-pandemic.
I went to Trader Joe's last night at 8:30 (they close at 9). The dairy section looked like one of the fake photos that Fox has been circulating -- almost nothing on the cooler shelves. Frozen and meat had been picked over as well. But the reason for this was clear: the truck was late. It's usually there by 7:00, but it pulled in just as I was walking out. TJ's is pretty good at having enough staff on hand to unload the truck and start getting shelves stocked almost immediately, so you usually don't notice too many outages if you go at night when the truck is on time.

I have it on good authority (a friend's daughter works at a local store) that they're having no trouble with getting product, but they're seeing staff shortages, so they often stock shelves after closing now. Their outage rates are not significantly higher now than at any other time during the pandemic. There are sometimes issues in distribution centers with the accuracy of picking for the shipment due to employees being sick and hiring of temp employees (they'll order one case of tartar sauce and the DC will send six, for instance).
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1 ... -Democrats
Republicans Have No Clue About Democrats

One of the things I’ve learned by following Jim Jordan is, neither Jim Jordan** nor his sycophants have ANY FUCKING CLUE about Democrats. I’m not even talking about what distinguishes a liberal from a leftist from a traditional Democrat. As far as they’re concerned, all democrats are exactly alike. We’re all against guns entirely, all anti-family, we all want to kill all children, and every single common-sense suggestion (whether proposed as a mandate or not, like simply the suggestion of wearing masks to protect others from your Typhoid-Mary-ass-self) is JUST ONE MORE STEP IN FASCISM***.

They love to use the terms communism, socialism, Marxism, Democrat, and fascism as if they are the same thing. Because they are fucking ignorant. I’m not even going to get into the reasons the Democratic party is none of these things (except Democrat, obviously; and some are Marxist, but how is that a big deal when all modern capitalism is based on Marx’s axiological study of capitalism? I mean, modern capitalists exploit Marx’s insights into capitalism for their own gain).

And this is part of the problem: it’s extremely difficult to counter this dedicated willful ignorance.

Yes, it’s willful ignorance. That’s a huge part of the problem. As Bob Altemeyer points out (you did follow the footnotes, right?), the people who follow authoritarians do so partly because they don’t want to think about complex problems, which require complex solutions. They want simple problems because they want simple answers. That’s a solid 30% of the population that just wishes reality were simple, even if it’s wrong. Which tracks with President Steamed Tangerine’s constant support numbers.

Anyway. If you’ve stuck with me this long, here’s the point I’d like to make (not presented as actual truth, just my take):

GOP supporters have no fucking clue about the constitution of the Democratic party.
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:50 am https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1 ... -Democrats
Which tracks with President Steamed Tangerine’s constant support numbers.

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Bob Altemeyer, whom he quotes, is quite the expert. I believe he has written at least one book with John Dean. You can download and read for free one of his works here:

https://theauthoritarians.org/
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Remember this guy? He paid two $500 fines and is running for a second term.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jason-rav ... econd-term
Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:18 am
raison de arizona wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 6:54 pm
pipistrelle wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 6:53 pm I think the South Dakota AG is the driver who mistook a pedestrian whose glasses were found in his vehicle me for a deer.
You think correctly.
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South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg settles wrongful death suit with widow of crash victim

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has reached a settlement agreement in a wrongful death case brought by the widow of the man that Ravnsborg struck and killed with his car last year.

Matthew Tysdal, a law partner with HPS Law Firm who represents Jenny Boever, confirmed Wednesday morning the wrongful death case would be settled, but the terms of the settlement were confidential.

Ravnsborg was driving to Pierre following a political dinner on Sept. 12, 2020, when he struck Joe Boever, who was walking along the side of U.S. Highway 14.

Ravnsborg first told dispatch that he wasn't sure what he'd hit, and said it may have been a deer.
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In one of his 1st moves in office, Va.'s new Republican AG reached down into the state's university system and fired the top lawyer at UVA -- a lawyer who went on leave from the school last year to be the top investigator on the Jan. 6 committee https://nytimes.com/2022/01/23/us/polit ... ginia.html
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Firing of Jan 6 chief investigator from UVA job is going to draw a lot of questions, rightly so. Highly respected, well liked fed prosecutor,Tim Heaphy is double UVA grad who was driving Jan 6 probe deep into Trump orbit
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NEW: The House Ethics Committee is continuing its review of allegations against Rep. Doug Lamborn, citing citing "substantial reason to believe" he misused official resources as well as "solicited or accepted
improper gifts from subordinates"

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:doh:
Jim Banks @RepJimBanks wrote:Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has??
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raison de arizona wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:45 pm :doh:
Jim Banks @RepJimBanks wrote:Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has??
This is grist for the grifting of credulous and cynical constituents. You have to be a credule to fall such a ironically stupid statement, or a cynic to ignore the stupid irony.
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RNC Research @RNCResearch wrote: BIDEN: “I’m not gonna take any questions because I think it’s inappropriate.”
RNC truncates clip to make it say something it isn't saying. Surprise surprise.
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INSIDE JERRY FALWELL JR.’S UNLIKELY RISE AND PRECIPITOUS FALL AT LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Jerry Falwell Jr. was the Trump-anointing dark prince of the Christian right. Then a sex scandal rocked his marriage and ended his lucrative stewardship of the evangelical education empire founded by his father. In a series of exclusive interviews, Falwell—accompanied by his wife, Becki—describes the events that led to his ouster, their fallout, and why he’s finally ready to admit he never had much use for his father’s church anyway.

BY GABRIEL SHERMAN
JANUARY 24, 2022

On the morning of August 18, 2021, Liberty University’s freshman class began arriving on campus in Lynchburg, Virginia, for the start of Welcome Week. The kickoff to the fall semester had the exuberance of a pregame pep rally. An outdoor sound system blasted Gary Glitter’s glam rock anthem “Rock and Roll Part II.” Student greeters in navy Liberty T-shirts whooped and cheered when a new arrival’s car pulled up to the dorms. Buildings all over the Jeffersonian-style campus were festooned with banners that read: “Liberty University: 50 Years of Training Champions for Christ.”

For 49 of those years, a member of the Falwell family had run Liberty, the country’s most influential evangelical university. But the day before orientation started, Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of the late televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. and the school’s president and chancellor from 2007 to 2020, was nowhere near campus. He was driving a white Jeep Wrangler along a dirt road on his 500-acre farm about 20 miles west of Lynchburg. “That’s the tallest mountain in Virginia,” he said, pointing at the Appalachian peaks rising in the distance. Ahead of us, black Angus cattle grazed in fenced pastures. At the edge of the property stood a 19th-century chapel no larger than a one-room schoolhouse. “Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant both worshipped in that church on different days,” Falwell said in his laconic drawl.

It was the first time I met Falwell in person. Behind the wheel, the 59-year-old looked like a prosperous country lawyer turned gentleman farmer. He was dressed in a lavender polo, dark jeans, and chestnut-brown leather sneakers. He had neatly parted silver hair and a trim silver beard on his round face. His wolflike ice-blue eyes were the only visible signs of the feral personality that had recently cost him his job and reputation.




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AndyinPA wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:15 am https://www.wvpublic.org/2021-06-01/gov ... ness-loans
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has acknowledged that he owes $700 million in loans that have yet to be paid by one of his coal companies.

The governor fielded questions about the outstanding loans Tuesday during his COVID-19 briefing, following a report that indicated his responsibility for the debt.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Justice’s Bluestone Coal Corp. had taken out loans from Greensill Capital in 2018. The lending company recently went bankrupt, leaving a Swiss bank that bought the debt trying to recoup the funds.

Bluestone and Credit Suisse are reportedly now in talks about repayment, according to The Wall Street Journal. Bluestone has also sued Greensill for fraud in federal court.
WV's Jim Justice back in this thread, keeping it classy.
In his State of the State Address last night, WV Governor Jim Justice holds up his bulldog’s rear end and tells Bette Midler and other critics of WV to kiss it.
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Disgusting republican pig. Typical.
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And everyone including the interpreter laughs and cheers. I’d have walked out.
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South Florida seniors alarmed after political party was unknowingly changed to Republican

Despite the security at Haley Sofge Towers, a Miami-Dade public housing building, people with clipboards and Republican Party of Florida caps were in the hallways, door knocking.

It made registered NPA Armando Selva suspicious.

“They said, “We’re doing the renewals on the voter registration, would you like to renew?” Selva recalled.

Resident Juan Carlos Salazar was not suspicious at the time.

“I didn’t do anything, but they changed the party,” Salazar said, adding he noticed, “when they sent me the new registration.”

He wasn’t the only elderly resident at the public housing to come forward and say the same thing happened to them.
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https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022 ... epublican/

Neat trick. Then they can point at vote totals and question why there are so many registered Republicans, but not as many Republican votes.

Not that anyone has done that recently...
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Wha-uh? :shock: They are messing with butteflies now? They have no shame.

We have in SWFL: --> http://www.thebutterflyestates.com/
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A South Dakota House committee declined to hold a hearing on Wednesday on Republican Governor Kristi Noem's proposed draft legislation that would ban nearly all abortions in the state, effectively ending the bill's chances in a move that surprised the governor.

Republican lawmakers in the state applauded Noem's bill when it was introduced, and Republicans across the country have taken up dozens of abortion bills varying from restrictions to total bans as the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling later this year in an influential case that could undermine or entirely overturn the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.

The Republican-led House State Affairs Committee declined to give the bill a hearing, citing concerns that the bill that would ban abortions after cardiac activity can be detected at around six weeks of pregnancy could conflict with other legal battles over other abortion restrictions the state is involved in, according to the Associated Press.
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Natalie Allison @natalie_allison wrote: I was sitting in a hallway accessible to the general public when the hotel’s head of security approached, saying the RNC told him to instruct me to leave the premises and not return until Friday’s “open press” event. I’m a paying guest of the hotel.
David Siders @davidsiders wrote: The RNC now has security in Salt Lake City interrupting conversations, asking reporters for their room numbers and telling them they should not be interviewing people. For a party that might, in some normal universe, be celebrating its midterm prospects, this is peak insecurity
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I’d be getting my money back.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Republican leaders forged an agreement this week to potentially fund a challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, and party members are expected to formally condemn her for her work on the Jan. 6 committee Friday, an unprecedented rebuke of an incumbent member of Congress.

As the party met in Salt Lake City this week, the leaders of the Wyoming GOP privately signed a special letter that would allow the national party to financially support Harriet Hageman, Cheney’s primary challenger. The letter officially recognizes Hageman as the presumptive nominee for the seat.

In response to the party passing the “Rule 11” resolution that could fund Cheney’s challenger, a spokesman for Cheney said: “Wyoming Party Chairman Frank Eathorne and the Republican National Committee are trying to assert their will and take away the voice of the people of Wyoming before a single vote has even been cast.”

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also worked behind the scenes with David Bossie, a top Trump ally, to author and push a resolution that attacked Cheney’s work on the committee, called her a “destructive” force in the GOP and vowed the party would no longer support her.

“We’ve had two members engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse. This has gone beyond their original intent. They are not sticking up for hard-working Republicans,” McDaniel said in a joint interview with Bossie at a Salt Lake City hotel where the party is holding its winter meeting.
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