Here come the big guns
GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn is caught on video with his male staff member’s hand on his crotch | Daily Mail Online
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It’s the name of the network, not an indication of what they actually do.
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He had an inexplicable contempt for men who did
not hurl themselves into pools.
-Neddy Merrill, “The Swimmer” by John Cheever (Definitely not Mark Twain)
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Maybe if people understood what it meant to be ‘woke’, it would be fine, but the Right has already defined the idea for America and no one has contested the definition.
Might not be such a hot idea, just because the reality of it isn’t in the consciousness of the average voter.
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I’m guessing not big.
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Or Truth Social Disease tests?
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Interesting idea the good Senator has.
I wonder if there’s footage anywhere of him doing a swan dive into his pool in LA?
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Ukranian refugee housing? Transports?
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Extremist = People who want to raise your taxes
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From Merriam Webster:
Stay Woke
The new sense of ‘woke’ is gaining popularity
What to Know
Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” and identified as U.S. slang. It originated in African American English and gained more widespread use beginning in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. By the end of that same decade it was also being applied by some as a general pejorative for anyone who is or appears to be politically left-leaning.
Update: This word was added in September 2017.
If you frequent social media, you may well have seen posts or tweets about current events that are tagged #staywoke. Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE). In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke , as in, “I was sleeping, but now I’m woke.”
‘Woke’ is increasingly used as a byword for social awareness.
It can be hard to trace slang back to its origins since slang’s origins are usually spoken, and it can be particularly difficult to trace a slang word that has its origins in a dialect. Woke ’s transformation into a byword of social awareness likely started decades earlier but began to be more broadly known in 2008, with the release of Erykah Badu’s song “Master Teacher”:
Even if yo baby ain’t got no money
To support ya baby, you
(I stay woke)
Even when the preacher tell you some lies
And cheatin on ya mama, you stay woke
(I stay woke)
Even though you go through struggle and strife
To keep a healthy life, I stay woke
(I stay woke)
Everybody knows a black or a white there’s creatures in every shape and size
Everybody
(I stay woke)
Stay woke became a watch word in parts of the black community for those who were self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better. But stay woke and woke became part of a wider discussion in 2014, immediately following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The word woke became entwined with the Black Lives Matter movement; instead of just being a word that signaled awareness of injustice or racial tension, it became a word of action. Activists were woke and called on others to stay woke .
Like many other terms from black culture that have been taken into the mainstream, woke is gaining broader uses. It’s now seeing use as an adjective to refer to places where woke people commune: woke Twitter has very recently taken off as the shorthand for describing social-media activists. The broader uses of woke are still very much in flux, and there are some who are woke to the broader implications of woke :
“Woke” feels a little bit like Macklemore rapping in one of his latest tracks about how his whiteness makes his rap music more acceptable to other white people. The conundrum is built in. When white people aspire to get points for consciousness, they walk right into the cross hairs between allyship and appropriation.
—Amanda Hess, New York Times , 16 Apr. 2016
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Better, less entropy.
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I don’t think there’s any value in trying to refute claims that we aren’t what Republicans say we are. They’re just spinning nonsense.
We have a golden opportunity to take over long-held Republican marketing positions. The problem is that there’s so many positions they’ve abandoned. Research would show the one, maybe two, most vulnerable and effective.
I believe a possible approach would be to show the substance behind the labels. For example, like conservatives, we liberals also favor fiscal responsibility. We know, however, that to make money, you have to spend money. Republicans believe only rich people know what to do with money.
If you came in to $40 billion, could you spend it?
We need to talk about what we believe in — rural living, independence, community, oxygen…
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And it is now a pejorative in the mainstream.
The Left will have to overcome the negative connotation of the concept before they can run on its being a good thing.
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or won’t subsidize your business maybe. With Musk it’s all about the Benjamins.
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Really, completely OT:
My brother went trawling through my Amazon Wish List in search of a birthday present for me, and one of the things he sent me was Radiohead’s A Moon-Shaped Pool, which has been on said list for the six years that the record has been out. It’s all especially wonderful, if you like Radiohead, but this song just might convert the unconverted.
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Damn correct, I could spend $40B! For Sure.
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I guess John Neely Kennedy works up an appetite by cliff-diving in Acapulco and then tears into raw steaks carved with a machete off elk he killed with his bare hands, because it seems now we have our national discussions about how to solve problems and move the country forward in terms of how we get into pools and so forth. Hey John, when you meet this guy for the first time as a fellow Senator, be sure to tell him what a big weenie he is:
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“Florida gave voting rights to people with felony convictions. Now some face charges for voting.” – News From The States
People with felony convictions, and those that support them, get awfully upset at all the ways those criminal convictions limit and inhibit their rights and opportunities going forward in life once they’ve served their sentences.
Maybe someone should start a new trend that would mute the issue. Like not committing crimes to begin with.
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I know you’re working on this, matt, but please, please, please, Pennsylvania, ya gotta send this guy to DC.
Please.
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