The Isolated Politics Blurt Thread I: A New Beginning

vance quotes psychopath killer character when suggesting people might reevaluate how they think about trump:

“In the words of Cormac McCarthy, ‘If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?’” the Ohio Republican wrote.

The aphorism Vance attributed to McCarthy was not actually worldly wisdom from the late American writer but a bit of dialogue from Anton Chigurh, a vicious killer in his 2005 novel, “No Country for Old Men,” which was turned into a 2007 Oscar-winning film.

In the story, Chigurh says the line right before he blows another character’s head off with a shotgun blast. Chigurh, you see, is a psychopathic hit man who kills people for money but also out of a demented notion that he is an agent of fate and that the victims essentially engineered their own deaths simply by crossing his path.

a psychopath hitman for money... sounds about right
 
People that went through the drive through are still complaining about the orange goo on the fries.

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i see the turds creeping out from under their rocks, feeling free to act out in their perception of 'manliness' which is nothing more than creep/pervert/racist/bullying women-haters (women with minds, that is)

the ignore button serves a damned good purpose... life's too short to see the trashy people on here. :)
 
The voters of Missouri are bipolar.

Missouri voted for an abortion rights amendment — and the Republicans who vow to overturn it

Missourians voted Tuesday night to protect abortion rights, raise the minimum wage and guarantee paid sick leave for workers.

They also voted by wide margins to send Republicans to Jefferson City who vehemently oppose those proposals and may try to roll them back.

After years of watching voters go around the GOP-dominated legislature through the initiative petition process, the party has become determined to counter that by making it harder to amend the state constitution.

Of course the Republican reaction is to limit the input of voters. 😄
 

DOJ sues Mississippi state Senate for paying Black staffer half the salary of white staffers


why has this taken so long to be brought up???
According to the lawsuit, Metcalfe’s starting salary was 60 percent of what the next closest white attorney’s salary was. The highest salary was more than $121,000.

The lawsuit argues Metcalfe was paid less even though she was being hired to do “substantially the same as that of her white colleagues.”

In January 2012, Metcalfe’s colleagues were given a raise, but she was not.

Another employee with no previous experience was hired for the same position Metcalfe currently worked and was offered a starting salary of $101,500.

When Metcalfe complained and demanded a raise, the Senate denied her request. She resigned shortly thereafter.
 
Lucrative Bonuses for Wall Street CEOs Take Shape on Trump Win

all you magat consumers who think you'll reap the benefits? the big winners are the ber wealthy already, not you po'boys:

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s return to the White House is already starting to tee up a deluge of bonuses in Wall Street’s corridors of power.

At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the prospect that investment banks and buyout shops will again be among the top beneficiaries of Trump’s regulatory and tax agenda has sent its stock price soaring. If the gains hold over coming weeks, it will trigger a key threshold for David Solomon to eventually collect a special payout, which at current performance levels would be worth at least $50 million.

At buyout shop Carlyle Group Inc., shares jumped 10% on Wednesday to their highest level under Chief Executive Officer Harvey Schwartz. If they stay near the current level for another month, it will unlock another $50 million of his signing bonus. At JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wednesday’s rally boosted the running value of Jamie Dimon’s retention package by almost $40 million, alongside roughly $190 million of gains on the stock he already holds.

Financial stocks led gains in the hours after Trump’s victory, with investors betting the industry will benefit from less government resistance to corporate takeovers, lighter banking regulation and more corporate tax cuts. Dealmaking had been in a slump this year as Biden’s antitrust department challenged acquisitions that might hurt consumers.
 
Every time one party, in this case the Democrats, loses badly like this, there is a lot of loose talk that it can't bounce back, that its bench is shallow, that it won't recover, that this is a "wave" election, and that the national consensus has shifted fundamentally. Then two or four years later, they make a big comeback. Republicans did it in 1966, just two years after Goldwater got drubbed hard by LBJ. Democrats did it in 1974, just two years after Nixon absolutely curb-stomped McGovern. Democrats did it again in 1982 and in 1986, just two years after each of Reagan's big wins against Carter and Mondale. Ditto Republicans in 1994, Democrats in 2006, Republicans in 2010 and in 2014. Democrats in 2018. You get the point. People need to take a step back and a breather and remember that two years in politics is an eternity. An amazing number of changes can happen in just that little time, to say nothing of four years, of course.
 
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