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Rise In COVID Cases In America Have Been Linked To Lack Of Stimulus Payments

Published on Nov 22, 2020

Via America’s Lawyer: Millions of Americans continue to suffer due to congressional gridlock over issuing additional COVID stimulus checks. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The pandemic is getting much worse in American and economist are now saying that this could have been largely avoided if Congress had provided more stimulus to the Americans. It's a story that makes perfect sense. I got Farron Cousins with me to talk about it. Give me the connections, Farron. This is, when you first read the headlines you go, oh, what does stimulus has to do with people dying?

Right. A lot of people are wondering, how does more money help you not get sick?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, the answer is, you know, pretty obvious when you think about it. You have all of these people, the, the lower wage Americans, the workers, the average people that weren't getting stimulus. And so they had to go back to work. A lot of these people in the gig economy, you know, Uber drivers, servers at restaurants, people who otherwise would have stayed home if they'd have had the means. But instead Congress, this, you know, white house, Senate, house of representatives, everybody was so focused on giving billions and billions to corporations, average worker got a one-time $1,200 check to last them for a nine month pandemic. They were forced to go back to work or else they risk losing their homes, you know, losing their vehicles, not being able to pay their bills. So they're out there on the front lines getting sick now and that's why we're seeing such a massive spike because people can't stay home.

Okay. So both parties being hugely unreasonable.

Oh yeah.

The Democrats want $3 trillion, the Dem, the republics are gonna say that's, that's too much. The Democrats want to use it for all of their pet projects. The Republicans do too. And while that's going on, your point is that the average guy is just, I got to go to work.

Yeah.

And if I have to go to work, I'm going to go to work and I'm gonna expose people if, even if I'm sick, there are cases with that, where we know workers are showing up, they have to pay their mortgage. They got to put food on the table. They're sick and they're spreading it anyway. That's kind of where you're landing on this, isn't it?

Yeah, absolutely. And we've seen it, you know, the meat packing industry is one of the worst examples out there. These people could have stayed home, or they could have said, listen, you're not going to force me to come back. I'll find something else. But they had no safety net. They had no cushion in the form of monthly stimulus payments. They had to go there. And what we saw in the early early days of this were just massive outbreaks, tons of people dying in these packing plants because they had to.

So, so it's not, this isn't guesswork.

Right.

You and I have covered the meat packing problem at least three times.

Yeah.

And so this isn't guesswork. It's not speculation. I'm so damn tired of the politics involved here, leading up to the election. You know, the Democrats were gaming the system, Republicans were gaming the system. Mitch McConnell said, there's not going to be any movement at all. And while that's happening, your theory and the theory of many, many economists that have looked at this and says, there's a direct relationship between you holding this money up and the spread of the virus. Haven't we?

Well, well and you've got Mitch McConnell who still refuses to have it. And yet he called the Senate back this week to vote on six new judges for lifetime appointments.

Yeah.

So that's where his focus has been.

The big rush. The big rush with the lame duck presidency.

Right.

Has put these, put as many of these folks, and actually, you know, depending on how Georgia goes, I'm not convinced they still can't put, continue pushing judges. You know, we have, you're going to have three or four Democrats that say, ah, okay.

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in which caesar doesn’t do anything much and all the women are named julia

[Hi, this is me stanning Adrian Goldsworthy’s biography of Caesar. I studied Classics, but not this period, so all I can contribute here are squeals of delight, a few mistakes and the occasional witty comment. If you’d like to know more, please buy the book - it’s really good and a fun read.]

PART 2

The thing is - there’s a lot of boring relevant political stuff going on in this chapter, but I’m mostly fascinated by the glimpses we get into the world of Roman women.

As I said, this is not really my area, so I know random, unconnected facts about how life was like for them; also it doesn’t make much sense to talk about ‘Roman women’, because, as a reminder, ‘Rome’ stretches from the 14th century BC to the 14th century AD, came to include dozens of very different regions, and obviously was home to an incredibly diverse population. And if we’re talking about the late Republican / imperial aristocracy, there’s a sharp divide anyway: on the one hand, the ‘ideal woman’ is the same old model we’re all used to and heard about (silent, obedient, virtuous, chaste, a perfect mother and so on), but on the other, Roman noblewomen had a lot more freedom than, say, their Greek counterparts, so there was usually some political scheming going on - something that in Greece was reserved to a handful of very well-placed courtesans.

(In this sense, think about the contrast between Lucretia, the mythological wife of Collatinus, whose fridging created the Republic, and Agrippina, mother of Nero, empress and all-round badass bitch.)

Anyway, this chapter made me think about women because it starts with Caesar being born and getting his name - it’s sort of an urban legend, btw, that every single Roman had three names: that was just for the Moste Noblest - and how Goldsworthy casually mentions that, unlike men, women of noble birth would just take their family surname as first name. In Caesar’s family, for instance, all the women were named Julia.

(As a reminder: his given name was Caius, then ‘Julius’ identified the tribe, and finally ‘Caesar’ was a nickname that was possibly given to his grandfather for something elephant-related.

People whose grandfathers did not do elephant-related stuff generally never enjoyed the prestige of a funny nickname passed down through the generations.)

So it’s bad enough that twins might be named ‘Peter and Not-Peter’ or ‘Peter and Twin’, but imagine going to the park with your buggy and meeting your old friend Oldest She-Jones (daughter of Ferdinand Jones), now married to George David Taylor, and her five kids - Louis David Taylor, She-Taylor, She-Taylor the Second, She-Taylor the Third and She-Taylor Born on Christmas. So damn cute, and also the reason why the Romans never developed smartphones or social media - how the hell are you supposed to find someone on Vultocodex when every single cousin and aunt has the exact same name?

Poor management, that is.

But anyway - as I said, there’s a dissonance here because women being treated like garbage (like, not given normal names and married off at fourteen) also led to the very peculiar phenomenon: generations of (male) politicians and VIPs being raised by very forceful, strong, and ambitious (widowed) mothers. Because if you count old age, wars, trampolining injuries (let’s be honest, men have always been obsessed with attempting dangerous stunts just for the fun of it) and the general risks of Roman politics, it was very usual for a noble kid to not even remember his father at all.

(Nero is a good example of how weird and all-consuming this boy-mother relationship could become - there’s entire books about it, but I’d point 16-and-over readers to Suetonius’ Life of Nero for details.

Keep in mind 95% of it is propaganda because Suetonius hated Nero, but still. HBO-worthy stuff in there.)

All this to say - we know that Caesar had a very close relationship with his mom (named ‘Aurelia’ because - you guessed it - she came from the Aurelii family), who was a near perfect figure of virtue, intelligence, beauty and common sense. Very powerful in her own right, Aurelia raised Caesar basically on her own, because her (much older) husband was either away at war or dead for most of their marriage.

Aside from drinking in Aurelia’s wisdom, Caesar’s education also included the normal lessons noble Roman boys were required to learn: self-worth, narcissism, delusional manias, rhetoric, martial arts, horse-riding, and writing really bad fanfiction based on Greek myths.

And now for the MEANWHILE part.

(I have no idea why this gif was tagged ‘meanwhile’, but I’m not enough of an idiot to let it go to waste, so.)

Meanwhile, all sort of messes were going on.

As I’m sure you remember, at some point the consul was Marius - Caesar’s uncle and a military genius, but not much of a politician. His negotiation tactic of choice was secretly inviting groups of unconnected people to his house on the same night, serving them dinner in two separate rooms so they wouldn’t see one another and try to work out some kind of agreement between them. Whenever a new point came up, Marius would say he had diarrhoea, pretend to run to the bathroom and instead sit down with the second group and see what they thought about the first group’s proposal.

(Isn’t ancient Rome magnificent?)

A big problem Marius had to deal with was how to grant citizenship to the allied tribes in Italy without pissing off current citizens. Basically no one wanted these other guys to be given new rights, but since they supplied more than half the soldiers of the Roman army and got nothing in return, their patience was running a bit thin. At some point, Roman bureaucrats started to erase foreign-born citizens from their lists claiming they were not actual citizens (something so openly dishonest NO OTHER GOVERNMENT would EVER attempt it again), and next yet another tribune working on a citizenship reform was stabbed to death in the street.

So the allies went to war.

(This war, confusingly, is known as the Social War, because ‘socius’ means ‘ally’ in Latin.)

As you can imagine, it was a disaster. Most of the allied communities had been part of the Roman republic for I don’t want to check but let’s say decades, they lived side by side with Roman families and fought in the same wars, so it was more of a civil war than anything else. Some tribes chose to remain faithful to Rome, others didn’t. Lots of people died.

Caesar was too young to be a soldier, but this was Cicero’s first taste of war (bet you never thought of that weaselly weasel as a soldier, uh? appearances can be deceiving, folks!). Marius was also involved, but since he was old as shit and had famously weak and leaky guts (hahahhaha), he mostly stayed out of active combat, which wasn’t all that normal for a Roman general. In the end, the whole of Italy, down to defeated tribes, cows, dogs and random patches of mossy rocks, was granted citizenship and everyone went home. Their votes, however, were inserted in the system in such a way that they didn’t count much.

On the whole, the one winner of this war was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, one of the military commanders, who became a consul soon after.

Another war, because this is Rome and Romans were dicks, but! this one was in the East, which means every single soldier would get super rich and also! wars in the East were considered easy because *insert racist trope here* and! Sulla had been promised that, as the big winner of the Social War, he could go there with his legions and basically enjoy this Disneyland of golden cups and ultraviolence but! at the last moment, Marius, who never liked Sulla much, managed to snatch the commandership from him, which! was completely legal but also *insert outraged emoji* and wait for it! instead of going gentle into the good night, Sulla made a fiery speech to his soldiers all like GUESS WHAT FOLKS WE’RE STUCK HERE SCRATCHING OUR TESTICULI AND THOSE IDIOTS FROM THE 25TH ARE TAKING YOUR GOLD AND YOUR UNWILLING WOMEN and! Sulla’s entire army marched! on! the! city! of! Rome!

It was the first time a Roman army had ever invaded Rome. Nobody was expecting it, and people panicked. Sulla’s men won easily, burned down some buildings, killed some people, generally had a great time; and then Sulla announced a bounty for anyone who’d disembowel his political enemies (including Marius) because he didn’t have time to go to Braavos and learn how to do it himself (remember, he still had his war waiting for him in the East).

(This turned out to be a success, btw. One guy was even killed by his slave - Sulla gave him the promised reward, then shoved him off a mountain because duh, slave and “When I said ‘anyone’, I meant people, not IKEA furniture” and “Honestly”.)

As nobody could have imagined and/or predicted, as soon as Sulla left for Greece Weak Guts Marius came back with an army and took back the city, beheading his way to the Senate and leaving a trail of blood wherever he passed. As soon as he got there, however, he dropped dead - heart attack, trampolining, diarrhoea, who can tell - and the city was taken over by his second-in-command, Lucius Cornelius Cinna.

(Man, what a ride.)

Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know what Caesar was doing during this time.

Personally, I like to imagine him in Rome - a well-dressed, grey-eyed 15-year-old, freshly orphaned, horrified and exhilarated by the violence exploding all around him - I see him running down the streets, stopping to watch the corpses float in the dark waters of the Tiber, daring his friends to go and touch the severed heads nailed to the doors of the Senate; recognizing many of those heads as friends and colleagues of his father and uncle (passing a hesitant finger on the cold flesh, remembering how they’d once laughed and frowned and spoken about boring matters from the dais).

The truth is, Caesar was just a kid. He was supposed to learn about the Republic, and his own role in making it great, by watching his elders.

God knows what he actually learned, and what he thought, as he was passing through Rome’s paved streets, now shimmering with blood.

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Fake Trump Electors Ask Court To REMOVE Georgia Prosecutor From Case

A group of fake Trump electors in Georgia have asked a judge to remove Fani Willis as the prosecutor for even more of their depositions and testimonies because they claim she is too tainted to handle the situation. This has already happened with one sitting lawmaker in Georgia who successfully got Willis barred from his involvement in the case, but it may not work with everyone. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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A group of 11 Republican fake Trump donors in the state of Georgia have petitioned. The judge that is working, of course, to oversee the, uh, Fulton county, Fannie Willis, uh, special grand jury investigation into possible election fair by Trump and his Kies in Georgia. So a group of 11 of the fake Trump electors has now petitioned the judge for a second time, trying to get Fannie Willis removed from the case. But the interesting part is they don't wanna removed entirely from the investigation, just of course the investigation into them because here's what happened. And I talked about this recently. It was a, it was a stupid, stupid mistake by Fannie Willis. The only mistake she has made so far, she went out there and was the headliner at a campaign event for the democratic candidate for Lieutenant governor in the state of Georgia. Well, the man that that candidate is running against happens to be Republican state Senator Burt Jones and Burt Jones is also a subject of Fannie Willis's investigation.

So she was out there campaigning and raising money for Jones's opponent while investigating Jones, big error, huge error, an error that made the judge say, Fannie Willis, you can no longer investigate Bert Jones. We will assemble a separate prosecutorial team. That's gonna look into what bet Jones did, but because you're clearly not impartial, you can't investigate him. So now these 11 fake electors who, who are clearly, you know, targets in this investigation have petitioned the judge, Hey judge, what about us? Right? Oh, we, we worked on the campaign. We were with this guy we're, you know, tight at the hip with Jones. So if she can't be impartial to Jones, she can't be impartial to us. So you gotta get her off our backs too. Now they had already made that argument when the judge decided on the Jones situation and the judge said, no, y'all aren't excused from this.

She can still go after you. So now they've regrouped retooled their message and said, basically, indeed, because Senator Jones has been removed from this investigation. There's arguably an even greater likelihood that the officers of his campaign partners, his running mates, his financial supporters, and his key political allies could be treated even more harshly. So these idiots are going to the judge and say, listen, everybody who's ever seen Burt Jones in their lives. She can't investigate them. Like the mailman that goes to his house every day, that's too connected to Jones. You gotta cut it out. The Amazon delivery guy, you can't investigate him. Uh, I gave five bucks to his campaign. So clearly she hates me and can't be impartial

While investigating me. Those are the idiotic arguments that they're making. And again, they've attempted this with the judge before. So I don't know that they're gonna see any success, but I'm still bothered by the fact that Fannie Willis made such a ridiculous error. It was totally not necessary. She has done a brilliantly beautiful job in this investigation and had to go be the headliner at that event. Had she not done that, man? This would've been a flawless investigation to date, but I do think she's clearly learned her lesson. Listen, I'm not gonna mix into politics right now. I got a big job to do. And if she does this job correctly, hopefully, she moves up that ladder. I could see an attorney general spot for her up there in the future. And I'd love to see that she's got the one blemish.

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Hygienists Brace for Pitched Battles With Dentists in Fights Over Practice Laws

This year, the Illinois legislature was considering measures to expand oral health treatment in a state where millions of people live in dental care deserts.

But when the Illinois State Dental Society met with key lawmakers virtually for its annual lobbying day in the spring, the proposals to allow dental hygienists to clean the teeth of certain underprivileged patients without a dentist seemed doomed.

State Sen. Dave Syverson, a Republican legislative leader, warned against the bills even if they sounded minor. “It’s just getting the camel’s nose under the tent,” he said in an audio recording of the meeting obtained by KHN. “We’ll have, before long, hygienists doing the work that, if they wanted to do, they should have gone to dental school for.”

The senator added that he missed “the reception and the dinners that you guys host” and the “nice softball questions that I usually get” from the dental society’s past president, who happens to be his first cousin.

The bills never made it out of committee.

The situation in Illinois is indicative of the types of legislative dynamics that play out when lower-level health care providers such as dental hygienists, nurse practitioners and optometrists try to gain greater autonomy and access to patients. And the fate of those Illinois bills illustrates the power that lobbying groups such as the Illinois dental society have in shaping policies on where health professionals can practice and who keeps the profits.

“There’s always a struggle,” said Margaret Langelier, a researcher for the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany in New York. “We have orthopedists fighting podiatrists over who can take care of the ankle. We have psychiatrists fighting with clinical psychologists about who can prescribe and what they can prescribe. We have nurses fighting pharmacists over injections and vaccinations. It’s the turf battles.”

In 2015, the Illinois Dental Practice Act was revised to let hygienists treat low-income patients on Medicaid or without insurance in “public health settings” — such as schools, safety-net clinics and programs for mothers and children — without a dentist examining them or being on-site. Besides doing cleanings, the hygienists can take X-rays, place sealants and apply fluoride.

This year, lawmakers proposed bills that would have expanded those settings to include nursing homes, prisons and mobile dental vans.

The state dental society, in a memo to members, wrote that the fact it took years for hygienists to develop their public health training program shows “they have no real interest in providing access to care to needy patients.”

As it is, Illinois trails many other states in allowing dental hygienists unsupervised contact with patients. In Colorado, on the extreme end, hygienists can own practices.

“It’s just the nature of the beast politically in Illinois. The dental lobby isn’t as strong in those other states,” noted Margaret Vaughn, executive director of the Illinois Rural Health Association. “The Illinois State Dental Society is much more powerful, and they’re much more organized than the hygienists are politically.”

From 2015 to 2019, the dental society spent more than $55,000 on lobbying, for its annual gathering and meals for lawmakers, typically hosted at a swanky Italian spot near the state Capitol in Springfield, according to public disclosures. In the same period, the Illinois Dental Hygienists Association reported spending nothing in its lobbying reports. (Neither group has listed any expenditures since the beginning of 2020.)

The dental society has two exclusive lobbyists and four lobbying firms on contract, state records show. The hygienist group, meanwhile, employs no lobbyists and contracts with just one firm.

The dental society donates generously to both Republicans and Democrats. Its political action committee had nearly $742,000 in cash on hand as of June 30, according to Reform for Illinois’ Sunshine Database. While the PAC has given $4,050 since 2014 to support the campaigns of state Sen. Melinda Bush, a Democrat who sponsored the nursing home bill, the database shows it has contributed far more to help elect Syverson, the senator who spoke at the conference. It has given more than $123,000 to his campaigns since 1999, with bigger annual gifts than to Bush.

“I receive contributions from many groups on both sides of issues,” Syverson emailed KHN. “They are not contributing to influence my vote on a particular bill. In fact, if a PAC sent a check while we were negotiating or voting on an issue they are involved with, I would not accept it.”

The hygienists’ PAC gave $1,100 to the campaign committee of Bush, according to the database, but nothing to Syverson. Bush did not respond to requests for comment.

“The bottom line is, if you don’t have a healthy mouth, you don’t have a healthy body,” said Ann Lynch, director of advocacy and education for the American Dental Hygienists Association. “It only makes sense that we would remove any barriers that do not allow a licensed health care provider to practice at the top of their scope.”

But Dave Marsh, a lobbyist for the Illinois dental society, said it would be dangerous for hygienists to treat nursing home residents, who are often elderly and sick.

“I just don’t feel anybody with a two-year associate’s degree is medically qualified to correct your health,” Marsh added. “They’re trained to clean teeth. They take a sharp little instrument and scrape your teeth. That’s what they do. That’s all they do.”

He said the problem is not a shortage of dental professionals but, rather, a lack of dentists who can afford to accept Medicaid patients — and “nobody wants to raise taxes to actually be able to reimburse” dentists at higher rates.

He also pointed to the scarcity of research on the benefits of dental hygienists having more professional freedom.

Langelier acknowledged that little academic literature exists on this topic, in part because of inadequate data collection on oral health. But in 2016, a study she co-authored in Health Affairs found that, as dental hygienists gained more autonomy, fewer people had teeth removed because of decay or disease. And she said Medicaid data shows more children had dental visits as hygienists expanded their practice.

“I don’t want this to be acrimonious,” said Laura Scully, chair of the access-to-care committee of the state hygienists association. “I would like it to be more of a collaboration, because truly that’s what this is about: getting together so we can help more people.”

Karen Webster works as a dental hygienist for the Tri City Health Partnership, a free clinic in St. Charles, Illinois, about 40 miles west of Chicago. In the past, she could only briefly screen patients before scheduling them with one of the center’s volunteer dentists, often months out.

“Imagine if you had a toothache and the doctor couldn’t see you that day,” she said, noting that her patients have low incomes. “They can’t afford the services. They wait till something hurts.”

But since becoming a public health dental hygienist, Webster now does immediate cleanings, takes X-rays she sends to teledentists for exams, and applies a solution called silver diamine fluoride that can halt tooth decay.

“The whole thing, start to finish, it’s just a lot more efficient,” she said.

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

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Hygienists Brace for Pitched Battles With Dentists in Fights Over Practice Laws

This year, the Illinois legislature was considering measures to expand oral health treatment in a state where millions of people live in dental care deserts.

The bills never made it out of committee.

This year, lawmakers proposed bills that would have expanded those settings to include nursing homes, prisons and mobile dental vans.

As it is, Illinois trails many other states in allowing dental hygienists unsupervised contact with patients. In Colorado, on the extreme end, hygienists can own practices.

The dental society has two exclusive lobbyists and four lobbying firms on contract, state records show. The hygienist group, meanwhile, employs no lobbyists and contracts with just one firm.

The hygienists’ PAC gave $1,100 to the campaign committee of Bush, according to the database, but nothing to Syverson. Bush did not respond to requests for comment.

But Dave Marsh, a lobbyist for the Illinois dental society, said it would be dangerous for hygienists to treat nursing home residents, who are often elderly and sick.

He also pointed to the scarcity of research on the benefits of dental hygienists having more professional freedom.

“The whole thing, start to finish, it’s just a lot more efficient,” she said.

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How Many Registered Republicans In Utah

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The state Democratic or Republican Party controls the governorship, the state legislative houses, and U.S. Senate representation. Nebraska’s legislature is unicameral, i.e., it has only one legislative house and is officially non-partisan, though party affiliation still has an unofficial influence on the legislative process.

The simplest measure of party strength in a state voting population is the affiliation totals from voter registration for the 30 states and the District of Columbia as of 2019 that allow registered voters to indicate a party preference when registering to vote. 20 states do not include party preference with voter registration: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The party affiliations in the party control table are obtained from state party registration figures where indicated. Only Wyoming has a majority of registered voters identifying themselves as Republicans; two states have a majority of registered voters identifying themselves as Democrats: and Kentucky .

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Since 2000, the nationwide proportion of registered Democratic and Republican voters in party registration states have both gone down, while the percentage of registered independents has steadily grown. The latter has nearly reached the nationwide percentage of registered Republicans, which has long been second nationally to the Democrats. Altogether, the combined number of registered Democrats and Republicans, which was 77% in October 2000, is now down to 69%, while the proportion of registered independents over the same period has increased from 22% to 28%.

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Huntsman At Risk Of Shocking Defeat In Utah

After a decade away from Utah politics and a weeks-long fight with the coronavirus, the former governor is locked in a tight race for his old job.

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When former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launched a bid for his old job last November, his entry to the race elicited one immediate question: Why?

Now, on the eve of the state’s Republican primary, many GOP voters are asking that very question. Huntsman, despite once owning 90 percent approval ratings as governor and a surname thats legendary in Utah, is struggling to fend off Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox for the GOP nomination.

Back in 2009, just a few months after he was reelected to a second term with nearly 80 percent of the vote, Huntsman left Utah to serve as ambassador to China under then-President Barack Obama before fleeing Beijing abruptly in 2011 for an ill-fated presidential campaign against the man who appointed him.

Then Donald Trump, in need of a credible ambassador in Moscow after Russia’s interference in the election, tapped the experienced Huntsman for the job even though the former governor had called on him to drop out after the “Access Hollywood” tape.

“This race is kind of Huntsman versus Huntsman,” said Doug Foxley, a political strategist and senior adviser to the Huntsman campaign. “Some of these people have feelings about Jon and they’re either voting for him, or they’re voting against him.”

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Political party strength in U.S. states is the level of representation of the various political parties in the United States in each statewide elective office providing legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state ” rel=”nofollow”>U.S. state governor) and national level.

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Y Identification Party Registration And Unaffiliated Voters

Only 26% of unaffiliated voters also identify as independents. The remaining unaffiliated voters split evenly between Republicans and Democrats . In other words, its probably okay to confuse registered Republicans with self-identified Republicans , but unaffiliated voters are not always independents.

This analysis was performed by Zach Smith, a student research fellow at;;, in collaboration with CSED faculty.; The writing is mostly his. Inquiries about this research should come to Quin Monson.

Even though they sound alike, party registration and party identification are conceptually different.; In Utah and many other states, when you register to vote you can also register with a specific political party or as unaffiliated. This registration status can be changed online. Formal party registration is technically different from party identificationthe psychological attachment or sense of identity that a voter has for a political party.; Party identification is usually measured on a survey with a question something like, Generally speaking, do you consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or what?

Party identification is also typically separated into seven categories so that partisan identifiers can express the strength of their identity.; Independents are typically allowed to lean toward one party or the other .2

How And When To Return Your Ballot:

; Your ballot;MUST;be postmarked no later than the Monday before the election, in order for it to be counted. ;

Drop Box; Secure Ballot Drop Boxes will be available at;the following;locations:

Millard County Clerks Office; 765 S Hwy 99, Ste. 6, Fillmore, Utah during business hours, through the Monday before each election and from 7:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.

Public Safety Building; 765 S Hwy 99, Fillmore, Utah 24 hours up to 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.

Millard County Satellite Offices; 71 S 200 W, Delta, Utah 24 hours up to 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.

Millard County Offices; 50 South Main Street, Fillmore, Utah 24 hours up to 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.

Drop Boxes allow voters to drop their voted ballot, sealed in the signed envelope, at any one of the locations without having to put a stamp on the envelope.; ;Ballots dropped at drop boxes are regularly retrieved by election staff and delivered to the Clerks Office for counting on Election Day.

Polling Locations Election Day Two vote centers will be available on Election Day and during Early Voting, for those who may require assistance, or may have issues with their ballot, i.e.: spoiled, torn or damaged, or did not receive a ballot, need to make name and/or address changes, missed the deadline to register to vote, etc., or simply wish to hand deliver their voted ballot.

Voters needing assistance are encouraged to contact the Clerks Office and/or come in person during early voting or on Election Day.

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A Group Of Friends And A Few Acquaintances Were Having A Politic Many Of You Guys Can Add It Up In One Minute So Please Tell Me:

Eric rauchway, professor of american history at the university of democrats seized upon a way of ingratiating themselves to western voters: There were nine new senators and a minimum of 89 new representatives , as well as one new delegate at the start of its first session. During this time, african americans were largely disenfranchised. Get more help from chegg. The us political parties, now called democrats and republicans, switched platform planks, ideologies, and members many although what happened is complex, in many cases there was no clean sudden shift, and some voter bases and factions never switched, you can see evidence of the. How many new democrats are there? Voter registration is the requirement that a person eligible to vote registers on an electoral roll before that person is entitled or permitted to vote. Voter registration and participation are crucial for the nations democracy to function properly and for the us government to provide fair representation. Republicans who worked with democrats were traitors in the war for seats in congress. Ive seen a lot where it says theyre a registered democrat . A group of friends and a few acquaintances were having a politic many of you guys can add it up in one minute, so please tell me: Republicans and democrats after the civil war. In the others, such as virginia, voters register without.

Nearly 100000 Voters Registered As Republicans Before The Primary But Most Of Those Were Independents Not Democrats

In Battleground States, Newly Registered Democrats Are Outnumbering Newly Registered Republicans

Then-Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, former House Speaker Greg Hughes and former Gov. Jon Huntsman participate in the Utah governor primary debate at the PBS Utah studio at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, June 1, 2020. A new study says voters switching parties had a minimal effect on the outcome of the race, which Cox won by just over 6,300 votes.

There has been much hand-wringing among Utah Republicans even legislation over the potential of Democrats changing their party affiliation to vote in and potentially disrupt GOP primary elections.

But, a new study concludes Democrats didnt have much of an impact on last years Republican primary despite a concerted effort to get voters of all stripes to register with the GOP.

The report from the Princeton University Electoral Innovation Lab says while the number of Utah voters who were registered as Republicans surged ahead of the June primary election, most of those were unaffiliated voters becoming Republicans rather than Democrats switching parties.

Spencer Cox edged out Jon Huntsman for the GOP nomination, winning just 36.15% of the vote in the four-way race in June. Huntsmans campaign encouraged unaffiliated voters who usually vote for Republicans in the general election to register with the GOP for the primary.

And a couple of prominent Democrats also urged members of their party to switch before the primary.

Courtesy Electoral Innovation Lab at Princeton University

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The 2018 Midterm Elections

The 2018 midterm elections held many historic firsts Congress will have more women of color serving at the same time than ever before, and nationally women made unprecedented wins! We congratulate all of this years winners, and applaud first-time candidates, voters, and organizers for getting involved.

The Increasingly Republican Pandemic

Increasingly, it’s a Republican pandemic.

The Associated Pressreported last week that of the 18,000 American COVID-19 deaths in May, only 150 involved fully vaccinated people and that “breakthrough” infections of vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of the 853,000 COVID-related hospitalizations during the month. Those low numbers suggest the pandemic death rate “could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine,” the news service concluded.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of vaccine holdouts. As David Leonhardt points out today at TheNew York Times, the refusers are trending Republican: The average county that voted for Donald Trump is just 34 percent vaccinated; the number is 45 percent for counties that went for Joe Biden. And unsurprisingly, the counties that have a low proportion of vaccinations have higher rates of new cases.

It’s here where you have to consider if Tucker Carlson holds the power of life and death or, at least, good health or ill over his nearly 3 million conservative viewers.

But Carlson can use his influence for good. During the first, terrifying days of the pandemic last March, he reportedly was a pivotal figure who helped convince then-President Trump to finally start taking the coronavirus seriously. “I felt I had a moral obligation to be useful in whatever small way I could,” Carlson toldVanity Fair in March 2020.

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Political Party Strength In Illinois

Illinois is a Democratic stronghold in presidential elections and one of the âbig threeâ Democratic strongholds alongside and New York. It is one of the most Democratic states in the nation with all state executive offices and both state legislative branches held by Democrats. For most of its history, Illinois was widely considered to be a swing state, voting for the winner of all but two presidential elections in the 20th century. Political party strength in Illinois is highly dependent upon Cook County, and the stateâs reputation as a blue state rests upon the fact that the majority of its population and political power is concentrated in , Cook County, and the Chicago metropolitan area. Outside of Chicago, the suburban collar counties continue trending Democratic while downstate Illinois can be considered more conservative with some moderate regions, particularly suburban St. Louis.

Illinoisâs electoral college votes have gone towards the Democratic presidential candidate for the past eight elections, and its congressional makeup tilts heavily Democratic. However, it has a long history of competitive statewide elections and has elected a small number of Republicans in recent years, including Governors Jim Edgar, George Ryan, and Bruce Rauner, Senators Peter Fitzgerald/

William Lee D. Ewing 94R, 83D

Special Exceptions And Processes

If you are incarcerated for a misdemeanor, or if you are a person in pre trial-detention, you are still eligible to vote.

If you are currently incarcerated for a felony conviction, you are NOT eligible to vote.

Convicted felons voting rights are automatically restored upon receiving parole or probation, or being released from incarceration.

Youths ages 16 and 17 may preregister to vote online or by submitting a State of Utah Voter Registration Form. Voting in primary elections is permitted for 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election.

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How The Primary Works

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political partyâs candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Illinois uses an open primary system. Voters do not have to register with a party, but they do have to choose, publicly, which partyâs ballot they will vote on at the primary election.

Actors Who Are Republican

Hollywood looks like a haven for the liberal-leaning Democrat supporters but if you look beyond the surface youll find there are actually quite a few who lean the other way. From superheroes to comedians the list of actors who are Republicans may surprise you.

1. Laura Prepon

You know her from That 70s Show and Orange Is the New Black, Laura Prepon is known for playing quite liberal-leaning roles but off-screen shes a proud Republican having famously supported Bush during his election.

2. Christian Bale

Though it hasnt been confirmed officially it would appear that former Batman Christian Bale is Republican. Many point to his attendance of actor and political activist Charlton Hestons funeral as proof. Christian Bale is thought to be one of the very few actors who attended.3. Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler lets his money do the talking, he quite notably donated a substantial sum of money to support Rudy Giulianis Presidential campaign during the 2012 election.

4. Peyton Manning

Star Quarterback Peyton Manning is known for showing his support for the Republican party by writing checks. Hes donated over $20,000 to Senators and Presidential hopefuls through the years. Most recently he supported Jeb Bushs Presidential run with $2,700, the most a single person can donate to an election.

5. Heather Locklear

The former Superman openly backed Mitt Romneys Presidential bid during the 2012 election and hes a regular guest on Fox News.

7. James Earl Jones

8. Tom Selleck

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Record 22 Million Californians Registered To Vote Heading Into General Election

SACRAMENTO, CA Secretary of State Alex Padilla released the final statewide Report of Registration ahead of the;November 3, 2020, General Election. As of October 19, 2020, a record 22,047,448 Californians were registered to vote. This represents an increase of 2,635,677 registered voters since the last Report of Registration at a similar point in a presidential election cycle .

87.87% of eligible Californians are registered to vote.;This is the highest percentage of eligible citizens registered to vote heading into a General Election in the past;80 years.

For the first time, California;now;has more than 22 million registered voters, said;Secretary of State Alex Padilla. There are more voters registered in California than the number of people in the state of Florida!;Record;registration and a historic election points towards a big;voter turnout, which could also;mean longer lines and wait times on Election Day. If you havent voted yet, I;highly recommend that;you;consider voting early.

If you missed the voter registration deadline, you still have to opportunity to vote using Same Day Registration. 2020 marks the first year that voters can complete the Same Day voter registration process and cast their ballot at any in-person voting location in the county;or the county elections office, Padilla added.

Trends in Statewide Voter Registration 1996 2020

22,047,448

Registration Comparison October 19, 2020 Report vs. October 24, 2016 Report

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libertarianbarbarian · 4 years ago

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You think “Sleepy Joe” is bad?!

Facts

*Ok, I know people don’t like this website…I think it’s useful personally, but I had to resort to it, but I had to use…duh duh duh Wikapedia

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by_Woodrow_Wilson

Oped-Warning

Ok. Not the most salacious of titles…wait, I just used a big word. Oh, hell this one is going to be a hell storm. Ah that feels better. Now if only I was enough of an every man to put a smiley face next to that, I believe the kids now and days call that being a basic bitch, haha! So I know normally I come with a little bit more bit, ahem, girth with my sources…but this time I couldn’t do any better for you guys than what I got for you.

I looked it all up, I actually backed it all up too. I looked through the literal federal database of executive orders to figure out which ones were his and see if Wikipedia actually did its job. Turns out, it did. So now all that shit is done lets get to the good shit. I left out one source…kind of? You can click his name when you’re look at the executive orders, takes you right to his biography.

Well one of our presidents was a piece of fucking work. I knew this guy was an asshole. I knew this guy did some bad shit, and that some of the issues that we have now and days were because of him…but holy hell I didn’t know that he was that much of an ass! So first off. Woodrow Wilson was a REAL racist. I’m not talking, backwoods barely had a tooth in his head kind of racist. No the dude was a religious racist.

Woodrow Wilson was a presbyterian pretty much his whole life. And from what I could gather he grew up in Virginia. Now and days that isn’t much of a bad thing. But he eventually became a minister of a church, or one of the denominations of presbyterian that split from its northern cousin that almost exclusively believed that black americans were lower than white americans. If we saw something like that today, they’d get our version of tar and feathering.

Nope he got to jump to a new and upcoming career path. Historian. Yup folks, one they didn’t have that kind of screening back in the day. Two it was such a new emerging kind of field that when he started, at least back then, that they didn’t even give a shit if they went through secondary sources when they published books and put their information out there. So say you’re going to put a book out there, all your information comes from a friend of a friend…kind of fucked up cause it’s like that old school telephone game that my old ass used to play.

So, after Woodrow Wilson decided, “Nah fam I’m good on being a minister. He went to Johns Hopkins University. Cool, get you some education. Now for the sake of making this as short as possible…kind of…our good ol’ pal Woodrow here ended up becoming a professor of Princeton, then became the president of Princeton.

Now here’s where the real shit begins. Ok, so to start off with the mans saying was literally, "to transform thoughtless boys performing tasks into thinking men." Granted that might be something normal for back in the day, still kind of strikes me as off for back in the day…but kind of seems a little similar to things going on now and days. He started to look pretty decent given the fact that he got the job in 1902 and he let the first Jewish guy and Roman Catholic in to the teachers of the school.

Haha, yeah that’s where it stops. I know Princeton is an ivy league school. I knew that much. Like I always point out to you guys, I’m an every-man, I know a little about a lot, not a lot about a little. But I had no idea that it was in New Jersey. So when Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton, he was actually trying to keep black americans out of Princeton. Other ivy league’s at the time were cool with it, they were actively trying to get them in at the time. Fucks sake it had been forty years after the civil war they were good with it. Hell the 46th senator, Blanche Bruce, just got done serving as senator for Mississippi in 1881…he was a black republican.

Where the fuck is Woodrow Wilson getting off here? So here’s where this guy gets worse. He was trying to get published as a notarized historian, even as this shit was just trying to get known all the other historians looked down on him. Turns out he wasn’t so good at that either. About the only thing he did good when it came to the time, he spent at Princeton was get the students to eat together. I’m serious, that was about all he did as the president at that fucking school. I could name a plethora of things my friggin elementary principal did better than this asshat.

1910. You can mark that as “God damn it.” I’m serious. Woodrow Wilson got fed up with everything at Princeton, so he dropped hints at the DNC two years earlier that he wanted to run. 1910 is when he finally got the balls to register as a democrat and run for the governor of NJ.

Here’s where we get REALLY similar. There’s “rumors” or corruption, in regard to the way that he rigged the vote…like the way voting is going on now and days and the rumors are floating around now and days about democrats and some republicans. Woodrow Wilson, as a democrat, practiced really bad and extremely corrupt law practices during his campaign as well as paid some of his own contributions in to the “workmens compensation program”. Then amazingly he became the governor of New Jersey. Huh, imagine how that would work, if in now and days, if you were going to hide funds and try to all of a sudden try to buy someone’s vote, or a unions vote. Hell, maybe even send a couple of your $55 million dollar campaign contributions to media so your son’s laptop crap doesn’t show up in the paper or on tv? Kind of the same practice, right? Well it had to start somewhere right? Well there wasn’t much to say after that, cause much like one of his predecessors, Nancy Pelosi, Woodrow Wilson spent the time he was NJ’s governor just vetoing republican state senate bills.

Guess what, the democrats love him so much they wanted him to try his hat at the presidential race…two damn years later. Now I’m going to say this right now, this is where probably mostly opinion is going to come out of me more than anything. So super oped-warning on this one guys.

Ok. Woodrow Wilson got elected on pure fucking fluke. Were americans, we have a constitutional republic. Not a democracy. If we had a democracy, the mob would always rule no matter what. This gives a chance to let the minority speak. Well back in the day, when Woodrow Wilson was running, we had more than two major parties. We had the Republicans, the Democrats, and the Bull-Moose, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson.

There’s going to be an issue with the system, any fucking system you have no matter what you do. We’re humans, guess what…we ain’t perfect man. So everyone loved William Howard-Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt so much that everyone was split about the two. Basically the left over votes determined the winner. Fucking Woodrow Wilson.

Yeah, a fucking fluke I wasn’t even alive and I’m pissed about it. Well he went about a couple of things that will sound a little familiar to you with the way I put them…or they should. Wilson wanted us to be the world police. Haha, yup, we were a world apart from the rest of the world. We could have a hell of a lot of a different history…but being the “bleeding heart” he was…Woodrow Wilson gleefully brought us in to World War I, also known as “The Great war”.

This was while he was kind of, you know, putting forth his own racist shit…as a democrat…playing a good ol’ movie called “Birth of a Nation”. Oh it’s a good movie ya know, it’s all about hanging all them worthless…I’m not even going there. I’m sorry I took that one to far. Yes, Woodrow Wilson, one of the hero’s of the democrats, actually played something that the old KKK, before we snuffed them out the first time, called a work of art.

Yeah, this guy wanted to try to globalize the U.S. in a hardcore way. He was the exact meaning of everything you see happening today. He committed voter fraud. Woodrow Wilson hated black people and believed that the south should have won the war, not because of taxes or any other reasons you can think of. Oh no, he hated black americans because they were inferior. So he had no issue with using them to his own advantage, and manipulating them…maybe like we’re seeing today. Folks I don’t think we’re seeing a socialist play book at all. We’re not seeing temper tantrums from the left either. We’re seeing Wilson’s prodigies.

Let me be clear. For a while the democrats cleaned themselves up for a while. They we’re good after this. But right now all I see is, “Hunter’s laptop”, “voter fraud”, and shit being manipulated just like you guys do. I’m sorry, but we need to pull our heads out of our asses and get some balls like Theodore Roosevelt. “Well shits fucked up. Damn it, I already did my time…well screw it I’ll make another party and compete with them make them pull their heads out of their asses.” Because that’s the only way I can really truly see this resolving itself.

We’re close with Trump. He’s a great guy, don’t get me wrong. But he’s got his faults. And like I’ve said before we need an every-man. An every-man won’t give a shit what color you are, he’ll give a shit if you’re working. He won’t give a shit if you have power, he’ll give a shit if your utilities are on. An every-man won’t start a war but he sure as hell will finish it. But the thing that will set him apart is he’ll be the thing that the republicans and democrats won’t know a damn thing about…unlike Trump…which unfortunately they do. Plus they won’t see an every-man coming either.

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Hamilton - A Summary

Right so. Basically Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean poor as shit. His father left when he was 10 and his mother died 2 years later after they were both ill. He moved in with his cousin and started reading, writing, and working, moving up very fast in the ranks of the trade firm. Then his cousin committed suicide and a hurricane destroyed the town, but the town put together a fund to send him to America to study and make something of himself. He gets there and gets into Kings College, but wants to graduate in 2 years instead of 4 so he can go fight in the revolution, but the college is like nah fam and he's like "FIGHT ME IRL" and then punches the bursar. Needless to say they kick him tf out and he rolls into town to see Aaron Burr (who had graduated in 2 years cause his parents died and left money to the college - rich kids amirite). Burr tells him to talk less smile more, and is like generally "Hamilton sit down". Hamilton ignores this then meets some other revolutionary peeps (Laurens, Lafayette, and HERCULES MULLIGAN - You'll understand later why his name must always be capitalised). He gets them all riled up and drunk as shit and is like we should go fight someone. So they roll up to a guy called Samuel Seybury who doesn't support the revolution and they're like HOW DARE and try to fight him. While this is going on the Schuyler Sisters (Angelica, Eliza......... and Peggy) are rolling through NYC trying to pick up dudes, and Burr tries to hit on them but they tell him to fuck off and start talking about how women should be equal to men (amen sisters) Then King George III rocks up and is like why are you doing this America I thought we were BFFs how could YOU. And then he's like that's it definitely sending my army in now. So ding dong it's all aboard the revolution express and George Washington is emo because he needs someone to help him out and his soldiers are demotivated. In rolls Burr like ayo I was a captain before and my previous commander got shot so... HIRE ME. It gets awks. Real fast. But Hamilton shows up and Washington is like THANK FUCK Burr you can go. Hamilton then agrees to be Washington's right hand man. Back to the sisterhood of purity and now it's time for a LOVE TRIANGLE 0.o - So Angelica sorta fancies Hamilton but also Eliza loves Hamilton and they're like omg what shall we do. But Angelica is like aha I'm probably too good for him he can have my sister instead. Then she has the regrets and is like to her sis please share him ;-) And Eliza is like A HAHAHA GOOD JOKE but pls don't steal him. So Eliza and Alexander get married and Burr rocks up to say congrats but then Alex and the crew wail on him for zero reason other than fuck Burr I guess. Also turns out Burr is having an affair with the wife of a British officer and Alex is like oh damn son but srs why are you scared go get her why do you wait. And Burr is like LEMME TELL YOU A STORY about waiting. Burr explains his parents and grandad were great people who did amazing things but then they died and left him with only their legacy to protect and that is why he is so cautious. He has one of the most heartbreaking lines in the show "If there's a reason I'm still alive when everyone who loves me has died, then I'm willing to wait for it". He also expresses sorta admiration/disbelief that Alexander keeps taking and taking and not waiting, and yet he keeps winning. Ding dong it's back to revolution and Hamilton wants a promotion. He's like PLS George Washington give me my own command. And Washington is like nah fam imma appoint this other dude Charles Lee instead. This goes badly when Lee nearly gets everyone killed, and Hamilton is like SOMEONE SHOULD FIGHT HIM. Laurens fights him and wins but then Washington is piiiiiiiiissed and sends Hamilton home where it turns out NEWSFLASH Eliza is pregnant and just wants Alexander to stay home as that would be enough for her. But Hamilton is like nah fam war isn't done - ANGST. Back to revolution and Lafayette is rapping REALLY FUCKING FAST cause he's suddenly learned all of English when he wasn't very good at it before. He explains how he brought reinforcements and shit from France but is like Washington you really need Hamilton back and Washington is like omg you're right Hamilton pls come back I'll give you soldiers to command BUT first listen to my song about the first time I was in command and oopsed and got my men killed so yeah DON'T DO THAT also bear in mind history has its eyes on you they may even make a musical someday ayo ;) So Hamilton comes back and they end up winning and King George gets SUPER UPSET because parliament won't pay for his war anymore but he's like good luck lmao now see what I've had to deal with being in charge. So revolution is over and America is born, meanwhile Burr and Hamilton both have kids at the same time and turns out they're pretty similar in that they wanna build a good world for their kids to live in. Hamilton moves back to New York finishes his studies and becomes a lawyer, where he ends up working with Burr on the first murder trial in America. He shows off as usual and Burr gets pissed, but is also like how do you keep doing all this stuff oh my God you're non stop. INTERMISSION So yeah now we've skipped forward a bit and Washington is President, Hamilton becomes Treasury Secretary. But UH OH Thomas Jefferson is back from France where he has been getting hella high and sleeping with loads of women, and he's here to fuck Hamilton's shit up. They have a straight up rap battle in a cabinet meeting and Hamilton wins but realises he's outnumbered anyway and need to change tactics if he wants his financial plans implemented. Meanwhile Eliza really wants him to take a fucking break and listen to his son play piano and rap, and also go with her and Angelica on holiday. Hamilton is like nah fam I have to work soz and they go away anyway. But then Hamilton fucks up. Literally. He sleeps with a woman called Maria Reynolds who rolls into his office asking for dolla. But UH OH turns out her husband knows and blackmails Hamilton to keep it quiet, and he agrees because he's an atrocious human being. Back to politics for a sec and Hamilton makes a deal with Jefferson to move the capital to Washington DC from NYC if his financial plans go through. But Burr gets super angry because nobody invited him to government camp, and then Hamilton is like I got what I wanted but WHAT DO YOU WANT. *side eyes emoji* And Burr is like I wanna be in the room where it happens. So finally in the second act we know what Burr actually wants. And apparently his first step is to get elected a Senator. So ofc he's like lol I'll just kick Eliza's dad out of the Senate how could this go wrong ^^ Surprise surprise it goes poorly and Hamilton is piiiiisssssed. And Burr's dropping mega shady vibes like Hamilton your pride will be the death of us all ;) ;) Beware it cometh before the fall ;) ;) ;) So there's another cabinet meeting now and France is fighting Britain and wants America's help. Hamilton is like NUUUUPE we can't do that it's a mess lol sorry France. Jefferson meanwhile is like WHAT THIS IS OUTRAGEOUSSSSSSS. He forms an alliance with Burr and they call themselves SOUTHERN MOTHER FUCKING DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS. He then resigns from the cabinet and is like imma run for President. Washington by this point is too old for this shit and is like I don't wanna be President anymore. And Alexander is like A hahaha ha good joke. And Washington is like no fam I'm serious. And Hamilton is like 😭😭😭 so they write a farewell address to the nation and everyone is sad but then Washington rides off to go enjoy his retirement. So Jefferson loses the election to Washington's Vice President, John Adams. But Jefferson is the new VP. Adams fires Hamilton and is super racist towards him but then Alexander is like HOW DARE and destroys him in the paper. Jefferson and Burr have at this point noticed some weird payments coming out of Hamilton's accounts to James Reynolds and think he's been doing some dodgy financial corruption shit. So they roll up like hey we got the cheque stubs boy explain this. And Hamilton is like oh shit so he confesses his affair but is like please keep it secret omg. And they're like k I guess. Hamilton then remembers how he wrote his way out of the Caribbean and so OF COURSE he can write his way out of this situation as well. So he decides to write and publish the Reynolds pamphlet where he is like "yall think I'm guilty of financial crimes but JOKES ON YOU I actually had an affair ayo" and everyone's like wait what. And Eliza is like wait WHAT. And Angelica is like MOTHERFUCKER WHAT. So Hamilton definitely fucked up his whole political career never to be fixed woops. Angelica shows up and Hamilton is like thank gawd someone who understands me and Angelica is like BITCH I'M NOT HERE FOR YOU I'm here for my sister so go away. Eliza is v angry and basically burns all Hamilton's letters to her and is like I hope that YOU burn (also a fucking chilling emotional line). Ding dong. It's time for a time shift and now Hamilton's son Philip is 19 and just graduated from King's College. But UH OH someone talked shit about his father and he's like IMMA FIGHT THEM and Hamilton is like fine but pls don't actually shoot them and Philip is like fine when we duel I won't shoot dad omg. So they duel and Philip aims for the sky intending not to shoot but they other guys pulls a dick move and shoots before they count to 10. So Philip is deceased and Eliza and Hamilton r upset. So Hamilton is pretty :’( and now wanders the streets by himself, finds jesus (not in the streets, in like his heart), and eventually him and Eliza make everything right. But hold up its politics time again and now it's an election year. Jefferson is running for President again and John Adams is gonna lose but uh oh Burr also runs for President. It's a tie and the whole party goes to Hamilton like Bro who you want to be Pres? And Hamilton is like leave me alone. And then they say it again LOUDER and Hamilton meets Burr whilst out campaigning and is like "is there anything you wouldn't do to win" and Burr is like "no and I learned that from you". So Hamilton finally agrees to endorse someone and SHOCKER endorses Jefferson. His reasoning is I'm enemies with Jefferson but at least he has principles cos Burr has none. And Jefferson is like wait what. And Burr is like MOTHERFUCKER WHAT. So Burr writes some angry letters to Hamilton basically blaming him for everything that's gone wrong in his life. Hamilton responds with an itemised FUCKING LIST of the disagreements they've had. Burr is like take it back. Hamilton says no. Burr is like fight me then. Hamilton is like k fam let's go. So they're gonna duel but before that Hamilton writes a letter to Eliza explaining all this shit. He then rocks up to the dueling ground across the river and Burr is like Wait is he actually gonna shoot me omg THIS MAN WILL NOT MAKE AN ORPHAN OF MY DAUGHTER (also a tearjerker moment) so they count to 10 and shots are fired. Hamilton is hit and does a death soliloquy like oh shit what is my legacy. He sees the light and all the dead people he loves and is like imma go there too. Back to realtime and Burr is like he's aiming his pistol to the sky? ? WAAAAIIIIIT. But it's too late he's shot Hamilton in the ribs and he's rushed away and gets a drink. He's told he'd better hide cause Alexander died. He now laments that history obliterates and paints him in all his mistakes, and that he's now the villain in our history. Basically he has the mega regrets. Then everyone gets together and sings about Alexander's life and Eliza explains how she's telling his story to everyone, and how she lives another 50 years (time that he always wanted). She raises funds to build the Washington Monument, speaks out against slavery, and is basically the real MVP for the rest of her life. But her proudest achievement is establishing the first private orphanage in NYC and helping loads of kids grow up and she's like "in their eyes I see you Alexander I see you every time". She now wonders if she has done enough and if people will tell her story, and that she can't wait to see him again Musical over.

#hamilton #hamilton an american musical #summaries #lin manuel miranda #daveed diggs #phillipa soo #holy shit I spent too long writing this

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Political type of thoughts below the cut. Stuff I feel compelled to share but can’t really post it on facebook.

My parents and a large, sizeable chunk of my family are very right and very conservative in their views. Not to mention racist AF. Growing up, I had a lot of these kinds of opinions and views. I distinctly remember my mom talking on the phone to a friend and mentioning how “conservative” I was. I didn’t really understand what that meant at the time, or if I really was? Was I just going along with what my family believed so that I didn’t make any waves? Making waves with my mom meant you were going to have an awful time, and it wasn’t like the time I was having was all that splendid as it was. There was a vitrol sort of hatred toward my aunt and her views, but I never really understood why. Her daughter, my cousin, was in art school and was really cool. She was the cool aunt who liked to sew and bake and it was always fun going to her house for holidays until my mom snapped and severed contact with her. Looking at her facebook and what she posts, I understand why it would’ve gotten under my mom’s skin. I leaned republican because that’s what my parents were, but thankfully I wasn’t 18 yet and they weren’t really active voters. I didn’t vote in my 1st election in 2000. I just remember being sheltered. Not in that restrictive way, but I never really saw much outside the entire frame of reference I lived in. The only traveling I did was for a school club, band, or church youth group related function. My days in high school were spent going to the mall with friends, going to a friends house, going swimming in the summers, roller skating, etc. I was allowed to date though and did stuff like movies. But more often than not, I was mostly exposed to a lot of people who had mindsets that were not too far off from my own. If they were, nobody really talked about those issues. They weren’t really issues being teenagers. My female friends liked boys, my male friends liked girls. I just wanted to date cute boys, have friends, and be better in marching band so people would stop making fun of how much of a bad marcher I was. I didn’t really know many people who were lgbt, or if I did, they hadn’t come out. It was different then. It’s got to be hard now, I’m sure. But it was rarer and harder to come by those days. That was, until my best friend and long-time crush came out, dropped out of school, started dating an older guy from another state that he met online (which was big bad and scary back then in the 90′s). And for me being miss “conservative” church girl, it was kind of really devastating. Looking back, I understand why he did it. But I was awful. I wanted my friend to be saved and come back to Jesus because being gay was a sin wasn’t it? If I had a time machine, I’d go back in time and slap myself. I did some things and said some things that I regret so much. I guess I’m just thankful that despite all of that I can still call him an old friend. We don’t see eachother much because that’s life as an adult. But we met up at an amusement park last year and it was fun hanging out talking about stupid shit and being our old goofy selves. Somewhere between 2000-2004 things started to change. I don’t know what happened. Maybe it was going to college, something that most of the people on that side of the family didn’t do, that helped to open my mind a little. Anime conventions and cosplay gave me a chance to travel, to meet people from everywhere and all walks of life. Me being active on the internet during then on forums, blogging, making websites and everything I did gave me a chance to see and hear other points of view. I started to doubt everything I’d grown up in and those viewpoints. It was probably also seeing what Bush was doing to the economy over stupid wars that we are still technically fighting fifteen years later. Oh, I was also in an emotionally abusive relationship sometime in that time period with someone whose family was ultra-conservative and Christian. I was never good enough to be included and he just wanted to control and manipulate me (I was a vulnerable doormat and super-willing to please back then) and I guess that was the beginning of the end for me when it came to holding onto any Christian belief system. I questioned it, I questioned the history of the religion. I questioned why it was so deeply rooted in our politics. So now I’m sitting here, a “filthy liberal”, liking all of my aunts status posts about things I’m not courageous enough to say on facebook. I watched as the people who shop at my store in a very conservative out in the country area were obnoxiously pro-trump. His son did a rally at a restaurant at the end of my shopping plaza that I’d often run to get lunch while I’m working. All I could do besides vote was watch. Now I’m sitting here watching as our government and country is being pulled apart at the seams. People are too distracted by shit-flinging and calling eachother names to realize that none of these people gave two shits about you, your needs and your struggle. They never lived it and they just needed your vote, you’re nothing but a number whether it be a dollar or a vote. I’m afraid, very afraid for what is in store. I’m glad that we do have things like the internet because it allows us both to archive and to inspect and really track what is going on. The rest of the world can watch, see and know. But yet, it allows people to get so distracted by what “the other side” is saying or doing and before they know it, their rights will be gone as well if we don’t do something. I want to do something. I’m tired of watching. Voting is all I can do and it seems like all my vote is, is a number. A dot of blue in a sea of red. We can’t wait two years, four years to do something. To wait for another political savior figure to come by. By then, it may already be too late. We may already be too far gone as it is. TBH, I’ve been thinking a lot about how if someone like this has come into power and how both the left and the right has gotten far and far more right over time with lifetime senators (people working as senators for as long or longer than I’ve been alive), our systems are extremely flawed. I think everything needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up in a way that represents all people fairly, regardless of viewpoint. It’s the way this system was set up to be originally, but clearly it was not foolproof as we can obviously see. This government no longer serves the people if we can’t pursue life liberty and happiness because we’re too busy scraping the bottom of the barrell and healthcare, food, clean water, safety and security regardless of the amount of melanin in your skin, and a roof over our heads is not considered a basic right but considered to be idk, a luxury like a leather sofa. But yes let’s scream that everyone needs to get a job. That’ll help you. That billionare is the guy that you need he’ll shake things up. He’ll fix things. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see another civil war come out of this. If some global conflict and cheeto fingers don’t press the nuke buttons and fry us all first.

#tl;dr #long-winded-rant

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First Dem Debate 2020

WOLF BLITZER: Here we are in Ohiowa. Biden, let's start with you. Why should you be Commander in Chief even though you supported the War in Iraq?

BIDEN: Oopsies! That was a booboo haha. Mistakes. We all make 'em.

PETE: I'm young, and I served with babies, people not old enough to vote, children without memories. They weren't there for 9/11. We will have challenges different from anything we've seen. Cyber, climate, foreign interference. We need to look to the future to learn from the past, and for me, that's personal.

WARREN: The military industrial complex is bad.

WOLF: Tom Steyer, you've never done anything and no one knows who you are. Can you speak to that?

TOM STEYER: Should I look into the camera? Yeah, this is good, this is good stuff. Okay. I worked in finance around the world. I met businesses. I agree with what Elizabeth said, it's about judgement and it doesn't matter if you have zero experience.

WARREN: Uh-

TOM STEYER: Everyone else made mistakes. And you know what? Barack Obama was a senator with no experience, just like me, a white billionaire finance bro with no experience. An outside perspective is what we need, a random dude. That's what I can bring to the table.

WOLF: How are you going to stop ISIS?

BIDEN: I was part of the Iran nuclear deal. And then guess what, we pulled out, people are saying, our allies, we both need to stand down, and now-- we just need to put it to get it in and up and just, and now, and we need to do it.

WOLF: Okay...so would you leave troops there or pull them out?

BIDEN: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I would leave them there to patrol the gulf, cause we're there already, so you know, might as well, some of them, right?

KLOBUCHAR: You need to leave some there cause of terrorism.

PETE: I remember the day, all those many years ago, I remember it, when we shipped out, saying goodbye to family. I remember walking hand in hand with my best friend, into the sunset, and his child was behind him, and he kept walking and couldn't look back, because if he did, Eurydice would be trapped in the underworld forever. I was just thinking about that story cause I saw Hadestown on Broadway last night. Just terrific.

WOLF: Biden, would you ever take military action without congressional approval?

BIDEN: Only if everyone says it's okay. I mean, we can't just take out all the troops. You can't just talk to terrorists, you have to defeat them. Otherwise we have to police everyone.

WOLF: Just to be clear, you and Obama took military action without congressional approval like a bunch of times. What's the deal?

BIDEN: We had authorization to do other things.

PETE: If our troops have the courage to go into harms way, Congress should have the courage to vote. It's all about courage. As my great-grandfather once said, it takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

WOLF: Isn't that a quote from Harry Potter?

WARREN: J.K. Rowling's a TERF.

BIDEN: I don't know what that means.

WARREN: Trans-exclusionary-

BIDEN: What is trans?

PETE: I grew up with Harry Potter because I am twenty-one years old and it is very close to my heart. In a way, Albus Dumbledore has always been like a grandfather figure to me. And he was gay, even though there's no evidence of that in the text and so no actual representation. Look, Harry Potter is nostalgic for me, okay? Give me a break.

WOLF: What were we talking about?

TOM STEYER: Where's the camera? Am I looking at the- oh, okay, here we go. I would take military action to protect the lives of American people. Terrorists are bad and I love America. We need a strategy though. And what is that? I don't know. Also, Australia is happening. Also, how can Americans prosper more?

ABBY PHILLIP: Biden, would you meet with North Korea?

BIDEN: They said I am a rabid dog and should be beaten to death with a stick.

BERNIE: Haha.

BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL: Bernie, why don't you support the trade deal even though the AFL-CIO supports it?

BERNIE: Cause all the unions and all the environmentalists and everyone good in the world opposes it and I don't want all my grandchildren to die.

BRIANNE: We'll talk about climate change in a moment but let's stick to trade.

BERNIE: Joke's on you, they're the same thing. Everything is climate change.

TOM STEYER: Where's the- here we are. Look. On the first day, we get rid of tariffs, waivers, corn-based ehtanol. I am literally the only person here who acknowledges that climate change is real.

ABBY: Bernie, why did you tell Elizabeth Warren that women shouldn't be president? Why do you hate women?

BERNIE: I actually never said that.

ABBY: Really?

BERNIE: Yup.

ABBY: Senator Warren, what did you think when Bernie admitted to you that he was a rampant misogynist who thinks women are all stupid and bad?

WARREN: I did not enjoy it and thought he was wrong. Bernie is my friend. Also, I'm the only person here who's beat an incumbent republican in 30 years.

KLOBUCHAR: I know other women and I am proud to know them, their names are, um, I know their names.

BERNIE: Just so you know, I have beaten an incumbent Republican.

WARREN: When?

BERNIE: 1990.

WARREN: Yeah...30 years ago...

BERNIE: What's your point?

WARREN: I said "in 30 years." So you haven't beaten an incumbent republican in 30 years.

BERNIE: 1990 was 30 years ago, as a matter of fact.

WARREN: Yeah, I know, that's what I'm saying...

BERNIE: Neither here nor there. Anyways. I believe that a woman can be president.

ABBY: Senator Warren, I'll give you the last word.

BIDEN: I would actually like to have the last word.

ABBY: Of course you would.

BIDEN: I also like women. They are competent. But who represents all of us? Brown, black, gay, female, whatever else? A cishet white guy like myself. I can appeal to the most people.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

ABBY: Healthcare?

BERNIE: Medicare for all. We can finance it with a 4% tax on income. People will be paying 10% of what they're paying now.

BIDEN: We don't really need Medicare for all though.

BERNIE: Workers are paying 20% of their incomes on healthcare. That's insane. People are going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills.

BIDEN: Nah.

ABBY: Mayor Buttigieg, you call your plan 'Medicare for all who want it,' but you're forcing people to pay for it even if they don't want it. How do you feel about your false advertising?

PETE: I'm just making sure that um. I'm offering a choice. And my plan is paid for. It's super cheap.

WARREN: The only reason your plan is cheap is that it sucks butt. People won't be able to pay for their prescriptions.

PETE: It's JUST. NOT. TRUE.

BRIANNE: Biden, do you support free universal infant care?

BIDEN: Here's the thing. I mean, we should have that, yes, BUT I don't know. I also had to deal with child care. I don't know. I know my time is up and I don't really have anything else to say but I'll just stop now, I won't go over like everyone else who has things to say.

WOLF: What about the impeachment?

TOM STEYER: Wolf, we need to decide for ourselves. I know what America is about, Wolf. Standing up for what is right is ALWAYS worth it, Wolf, okay, Wolf? And I will NEVER back down from that, Wolf.

KLOBUCHAR: Have you no sense of decency, sir?! HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY??!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?

WOLF: .......what?

BRIANNE: Mayor Pete, what do you do about farms and factories that can't be moved from areas at high risk of flooding?

PETE: Yeah, that's why we need to stop climate change. It's just so bad, it's real bad, and we need to stop it, and that's what I'm gonna do.

BRIANNE: I repeat: what do you do about farms and factories that can't be moved from areas at high risk of flooding?

PETE: Yes.

BRIANNE: Not really a 'yes or no' kind of question.

PETE: Hm?

TOM STEYER: This is why climate change is bad, and I'm still floored that I am the only one here who is not a climate change denier. I am the only person in this room, in this country, who believes in climate change and wants to take action, and I am the only person who can stop climate change. On my first day in office, I will cancel the weather.

BRIANNE: So okay, let me get this straight. You care the most about climate change, but you're also a billionaire who has profited from investing in coal, oil and gas. Correct?

TOM STEYER: Yeah, I mean, I invested in the economy. It was about the economy. But then I divested and I gave all my money away so I could become an eco-terrorist and tree sit in the Amazon rain forest. So, YEAH, I think I CARE about CLIMATE change, idiots.

BRIANNE: Senator Klobuchar, you're quoted as saying "I think fracking is very cool and also sexy. When I think about fracking it makes me feel warm and happy. I don't know, I can't explain it, it just gives me butterflies. I like fracking, okay? I love it. I love fracking." What do you have to say about this?

KLOBUCHAR: I think it's a good transition. It'll get us to carbon neutral eventually. We'll just frack for a little while. We'll be carbon neutral within the next 500 years.

BRIANNE: Okay, Bernie's been raising his hand for a while now like a good little boy so I'm gonna call on him. Bernie?

BERNIE: We actually can't wait 500 years to be carbon neutral because we'll all die and all our children will die and our planet will be uninhabitable.

ABBY: Mayor Pete, you said that black voters don't like you because they don't know you. What if they actually do know you but they just don't like you because of who you are as a person?

PETE: If black people really know me, they like me. It's just that I don't know any actual black people. I mean, is that so bad? Is that really my fault? Wait, hold up. Now that I think about it, my step-cousin went to school with someone who's black and I think he is voting for me probably. My step-cousin, I mean. All I have to say is, I care about poverty and I do not think that police officers should murder people.

ABBY: Bernie, a lot of people don't like socialism. Don't you think that'll be an issue?

BERNIE: Nope, not at all. Most people don't actually know what socialism is, but when you realize that socialism is like, having fair wages and healthcare and access to education, you realize that actually socialism is the bomb dot com.

ABBY: Mr. Businessman, you spent a million dollars of your pocket change on tv ads for yourself. How do you expect people to actually like you?

TOM STEYER: Okay, people. Look me in the eyes. Look at me. I'm talking to you. I started a business by myself. And when I'm in office, I'm gonna show everyone that Trump is a fraud and everyone is a phony. If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did. People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

ABBY: Is that from Catcher in the Rye?

TOM STEYER: These are my own words. I've done everything myself.

BIDEN: By the way, just wanted to say that I am uncomfortable saying 'black' and also I have huge support among the African American community. I have met African American people before in my life and we just love each other. So much love.

TOM STEYER: In closing, I love team sports, and you are all my teammates. I can slap your butt, but no one can kick you in the face, and that's how I'm going to win this election. Let's save the world.

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Listening to Elizabeth Warren reminds me of Adlai Stevenson. Are some people just too smart to be president?

COMMENTARY:

This is an excellent question. It’s exactly why I will never run for President.

My cousin Woody ran and won and his legacy is a very mixed bag. I went to Vietnam on the basis that I was the leading edge of the League of Nations, but I live in DC to try to stay as far away from white Southern Scots Presbyterians, who represent the absolute existential core of America whte supremacy, as possible. And, as a Christian, I prefer to avoid the economics of the Anti-Christ distilled in the Pro-Live Evangelical business model they generally embrace. It’s why so many of them send their children to DC with MAGA hats instead of tin foil.

Woody was smart as hell. My dad aspired to emulate him in the way Robert E. Lee attempted to emulate George Washington. I’m pretty smart, myself, but dad is really in a different league, number one, and, number two, he was probably an NT and I’m an SP and, in many was, he was from Mars and I was from Uranus. I have learned to consciously think like the way my did did like fielding a ground ball and my odd manner of acquiring knowledge has begun to pay off in my eight decade, but it’s been a long, strange trip.

Sometimes all you can do is to be willin’ to keep on truckin’.

Any of these people running could be a potent President of the United States. The Oval Office expands the capacities of the individual by literally channeling George Washington, spiritually, as an inheritance. It just does. Lincoln may be the only individual who came to office fully formed, but even he had to complete the 2 year learning curve compelled by the US Constitution.

It takes some people longer than others. JFK was as about on track, primarily because he was a very smart person in a Adlai Stevenson as PT Boat action figure kind of way. Once upon a time, Harvard produced scholars but, since the take-over of Columbia by the SDS in 1968, it’s become more of a vocational degree, like auto mechanics and HVAC engineers, than Oxford or Cambridge. There are still very smart people going through Harvard Yard, as a proxy for the American academe, but, when it comes to grand strategy, the post-modern dialectical deconstruction of the SDS forces a choice between the two wings of the Oliver Stone version of Vietnam, John Lewis Gaddis’s Kennon Long Telegram orientation on the one hand and Victor Davis Hanson’s relentless Churchhill oriented Fascist sophistry and you end up doing stupid things like the Obama Russian sanctions. Obama is a very smart man but he let himself be misled by the advice Hillary Clinton was being fed by Robert Kagan, the co-author of the Project for the New American Century that informed the invason of Iraq.

Obama likewise came to the Oval Office fully formed, but he was prevented from fully realizing his potential by a number of things, one being Mitch McConnell’s obstructionism, as a proxy for what has become the MAGA hat coalition of white Southern Scots Presbyterians who are pulling Duck Ass Don around by his dick in the way he learned to expect from Roy Cohn. Obama had absolutely no room to manuever after Rahm Emanuel squandered Speaker Pelosi’s gavel and the majority in the Senate, legislatively. Until AOC came along, the Democrats didn’t exhibit much spine and a great deal of appeasement if not out-right ideological collaboration with Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. That was the biggest problem he faced and he got about as much out of it as possible,

But a more significant obstacle to his personal growth was Valerie Jarrett, who shaped and maintained the cacoon in which she ensconsed him. People who think like her in the Democrat conference are the biggest danger to the Green New Deal. As a business person, she is perfectly content with the Tory Socialism and class warfare of Reaganomics. The only difference between Valerie Jarrett and Condoleezza Rice, in terms of Russia, are their political patrons. Hillary Clinton and Laura D’Angelo Tyson fall into this catagory. As the leading edge of the ERA generation, they all played the hand they were dealt and represent the rising value added of the 19th Amendment and Title IX. They are the base line from which AOC has been launched, but they have become reactionary. And that’s what may have been the most profound inhibition on Obama in becoming POTUS. I’d vote for him and Hillary again because, unlike virtually any white Southern Scots Presbyterian male with an (R) behind his name, they can learn. And will learn. It just hasn’t started yet.

Elizabeth Warren falls into this generation on some issues, but, in terms of banking and securities, she represents important, if not necessary, financial structures of the Green New Deal. Finance is probably the greatest single fallacy of Marxism and the singular seat of the essential criminal intent of the Tory Socalism and class warfare of Reganomics and the macroeconomic populism of Donald Duck Ass. A HUGE difference between America in 1981, before Reagan, and the Soviet Union in 1981 was our banking system and securities milieu, both of which have been systematically corrupted by people in the GOP Deep State I associate with Donald T. Regan, Phil and Wendy Gramm, and Newt Gingrich. There are other Republican villians in the mix, but that’s a good place to start, especially when you toss in Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Mick Mulvaney, the sort of creme de la creme of crypto-Fascist cesspool scum. If Elizabeth Warren could pass all the banking and securites legislation she desires by 2020, she would be able to hit the ground running to implement the Green New Deal without having to thing about it all that much,

In terms of learning curve, 43 didn’t really become his own president until he fired Rumsfeld and installed Bob Gates at DoD. In that respect, he had a 6 year learning curve. Until then, Cheney had basically dictatated national policy, especially in terms of Iraq’s oil. This fig leaf of spreading democracy is just that. At best, the invasion of iraq was a blunder of cosmic proportions but my personal opinion is that it was a war crime, pure and simple. The lesson Bush should have learned from Vietnam that his daddy did was to not invade Iraq.

Clinton’s Dayton Accords is the reason why the invasion of Iraq hasn’t been a bigger disaster for America and why I say Obama fucked up the US-Russian relations on the advice of Robert Kagan. Clinton should have been given a Nobel Prize for that project because it is exactly what the Marshall Plan was all about, especially as it pertains to George Kennan’s Long Telegram.

As I say, I went to Vietnam as the leading edge of the League of Nations, keeping a family heritage alive, and as part of the triangulation of the United Nations Blue Helmet Peace Keepers, the Peace Corps and the Greet Berets. We were in Vietnam to give those collateral agendas the space and time they needed to get traction, globally. Circumstances forced America to sacrifice the Republic of Vietnam towards that end, but the result, the collapse of the Soviet Union, has worked out well for us.

And the signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995 was the fruits of that grand strategy, in that the Treaty ending the Bosnian War was the first time an active conflict was put tamped down by the tactical peace keeping of the UN Blue Helments and then smothered by the combined UN Blue Helmets/NATO intervention made possible by the Dayton Accords AND the active acquiesence, if not enthusiastic participation, by Putin’s Russia. This project occurred in the TRADITIONAL Russian sphere of influence and it couldn’t have happened if they didn’t want it to, but it seems the Russians realized they didn’t have any solutions and they were willing to try something new. And when they handed over the keys to Prestinka Airport to the NATO column being led by Wesley Clark, it represented a brand new era in international cooperation. We couldn’t have conducted our operations against Terroism in that region without the strategic easement Russia continues to provide.

And this is what Obama fucked up. And he’s a very smart guy.

In regards to Donald Duck Ass, there doesn’t seem to be any constructive learning curve operating. He’s like the entire Roger Stone wing of the GOP, who are like bank robbers who get caught and go to prison but, instead of changing their ways, learn how to become better bank robbers. For example, these sanctions against South Korea, China, India, Turkey and Japan have nothing to do with any grand strategy beyond Duck Ass Don’s need to keep the Bull Market going and high prices for gas at the pump here, in the states. provides the liquidity that’s being sucked out by the 2017 Tax Reforms the markets need to keep the party going. Duck Ass Don is still running the lie, cheat and steal “Art of the Deal” pyramid scheme he has run his entire life. He has a certain genius in a Rainman kind of way but I think he understood, intuitively, at a very early age he isn’t smart at all beyond a certain animal cunning of the Brooklyn street thug with aspirations of being an uptown made man. And probably the real problem is that he has managed to surround himself with people who are even more stupid than he is, or willng to suppress their smarts for a paycheck and the future rewards that the GOP Deep State will provided once they are out of public service in the manner of John Kasich, David Stockman, Brett Kavanaug and Bob Barr before he blundered back onto the federal payroll.

By and large, Republicans have never produced an Adlai Stevenson: it’s a Democrat thing. Bernie Sanders is an example, the difference being that Sanders helped Democrats shake off the intellectual topor that had set in after the moral impotence of the McGovern campaign: McGovern was what Bernie Sanders would have been in 2016, but that’s changed. In terms of coalition building, Sanders ishe light years ahead of where he was in 2016 and in a different universe from where McGovern or Adlai Stevenson ever became.

Philosophically, that is to say, in terms of Democratic Socialism, Bernie Sanders and AOC are virtual clones, but all things Sanders are in the rearview mirror of AOC and her Green New Deal. The trade off is that, as President, Sanders and/or Warren are smart enough to implement the Green New Deal as it emerges while AOC, if she’s smart, will inherit the Speaker’s gavel and retire after a career of providing the constancy of purpose as the Green New Deal evolves as we advance past the dawning of the Age of the 19th Amendment.

And Adlai Stevenson could never have accomplished that. He wasted a great deal of energy spinning his wheels as an intellectual. Bernie was like that until 2016 BUT AOC came out of the chute with her big wheels posi-traction digging into with big chucks of dirt and the only thing really slowing her down is the ERA generation. She is the future of the ERA.

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Andrew Gillum and Gwen Graham were once allies. Here’s how they became rivals.

https://uniteddemocrats.net/?p=8303

Andrew Gillum and Gwen Graham were once allies. Here’s how they became rivals.

Gwen Graham was a Democratic star in 2015, one of the party’s lone bright spots after winning her congressional race the year before.

She could have chosen anyone to be her guest at President Barack Obama’s next-to-last State of the Union address.

She picked Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

Only four years later, that invite seems quaint. Tallahassee’s top two politicians now find themselves diametrically opposed in a battle for the soul of Florida’s Democratic Party.

Graham is the centrist candidate hoping to capitalize on a trend of other successful women candidates around the country. Gillum is the Bernie-Sanders-endorsed liberal hoping to ride a progressive wave that will return the party to the base.

For all the attention on Jeff Greene and Philip Levine, the self-financed South Florida rich guys running for the Democratic nomination for governor, it’s been Gillum and Graham who have pushed the party’s narrative in opposite directions.

Their face-off also symbolizes the split nationwide between the Democratic Party’s grassroots and establishment, a stark choice that has divided their hometown.

“It’s like trying to pick between two cousins,” said state Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, who has not yet endorsed anyone in the race.

Gillum has seen a late surge thanks to Democrats who fear nominating yet another centrist after two decades of failures. He’s campaigned advocating for “Medicare for all,” impeaching President Donald Trump and the full legalization of marijuana.

“Centrism, which is really right of center, has given us nothing — nothing,” said Alex Symington, a semi-retired gardener from St. Petersburg, told the Times/Herald at a Sanders rally for Gillum last week. “We’ve tried that route and it hasn’t worked. Let’s try something different.”

Graham ran for Congress touting the “North Florida way,” a kind of rejection of party-line politics, and Gillum and others have criticized Graham for siding with Republicans on key votes in Congress. And she has a milder positions than Gillum on health care and supports decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana instead of making it legal.

Her supporters assert she’s more a pragmatist than centrist and that she’s consistently left on issues like abortion and school funding.

“I think she represents the breadth of views in our party,” said Democratic strategist Steve Schale, who worked on her Congressional campaign. “Gwen’s not trying to run to represent a wing of the Democratic Party.”

The campaigns have clashed repeatedly in ways that have perplexed Graham.

“I do know — I believe — that Andrew’s better than this,” Graham told the Times/Herald in May, after a secret money group backing Gillum began airing ads accusing her of not being liberal enough. “And I don’t know where the direction’s coming from. I don’t know what’s driving this. I don’t understand it.”

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If not for the ill-fated presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the two former allies may never have crossed each other.

They had met about 14 years ago when they supported the presidential campaign of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

Dean’s presidential run in 2003 and 2004 was strongly based on his opposition to the recent invasion of Iraq, a sentiment that Graham — and her father, who voted against it — shared.

After her father dropped out of the presidential race, she joined Dean’s campaign as a national surrogate, criss-crossing the country and gathering supporters. Gillum was then a recently-elected Tallahassee city councilman, fresh out of Florida A&M University, and a volunteer on Dean’s campaign.

“Of course I knew of her as the senator’s daughter — the governor’s daughter,” Gillum said.

In the decade afterward, Gillum and Graham mostly moved in different circles. Gillum was deeply entrenched in city politics. Graham was invested in her job with the Leon County School District as director of employee relations and was known more for her ties to state politics, partly because of her then-husband, Mark Logan, who was a lobbyist for several years.

“Before she ran for Congress, I’m not sure I even had an opportunity to meet Gwen and get to know her,” said City Commissioner Curtis Richardson. “I’ve been in public office for 20 years and have been involved in the commission [and] prior to her run for Congress, I just never saw a lot of community involvement on Gwen’s part.”

Over the years, Gillum would get to know Graham better during her work at the school district. When she chose to make a long-shot run at Congress in 2014, going up against a Republican incumbent, she reached out to Gillum.

“She asked for my help. I was happy to offer it,” Gillum said. “I worked on the campaign and supported her and wanted very much to see her there.”

When she won, it was Gillum who swore her in at a ceremony in Tallahassee City Hall.

She returned the favors by inviting him to her first State of the Union address.

From there, their own careers and trajectories within the party would pull them apart.

•••

After Gillum was given a coveted spot speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, observers were certain Clinton would tap him for some job at a federal agency after she won.

“His bags were packed, and he was heading up there,” said Screven Watson, a Democratic strategist in Tallahassee. “(But) that election night forced some re-evaluation and put them on this path to collide.”

By then, Graham was already assumed to be running for governor. Even before Gillum could make a decision, she sat down with the mayor to talk about it.

“The congresswoman laid out to me why she thought she had a strong case,” Gillum said last week. “More than anything she wanted me to know that whatever I decided, it wouldn’t diminish her opinion of me.”

When Gillum decided to run, it caused many in Tallahassee to fear for the worst.

“I had some concerns at first. I thought, Well, there was going to be bad blood at the end,” Watson said. “These two have a lot of overlapping friends. They have a lot of overlapping support.”

Gillum quickly used Graham’s centrism to portray himself as the liberal candidate, blasting her for votes she took in Congress and refusing to denounce a super PAC with unknown donors that has gone after Graham. Graham, who has tried to publicly run a positive campaign, was forced to respond.

“I am disgusted that Andrew Gillum would allow a secret-money group to run a false attack against a fellow Democrat,” Graham said in a statement released by her campaign in May.

But although Gillum has routinely polled in fourth place among five Democrats running for governor, his embrace of the left wing of the party earned him valuable stump speeches by Bernie Sanders last week.

Despite their placement on opposite ends of the party spectrum, Gillum and Graham remain friendly.

Gillum says they still occasionally text each other, and when they meet privately on the campaign trail, the candidates and their campaigns are cordial to each other.

Gillum said the attacks on Graham have not been personal.

“Personally the congresswoman and I are fine,” he said. “My issues with her are her voting record.”

Both Graham and other Democrats in Tallahassee believe they’ll make up sooner than their other opponents, regardless of who wins.

“We were friends before,” Graham said. “And we’ll be friends after.”

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caddyxjellyby · 7 years ago

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Alcott Readathon 2018: Hospital Sketches (1863)

"It is by no means faultless, but it fastens itself upon the mind and heart of the reader." -Springfield Daily Republican "The wit, the humor, the power of brief and vivid description which the volume evinces, will give it a wide popularity." -The Wide World "There are some passages in this little volume which will move the heart to tears as irresistibly as the humor of others will move the voice to laughter." -The New England Farmer Hospital Sketches (1863) was published first in newspapers and then as a book, to mostly glowing reviews. It is based on Alcott's brief time as a nurse with the names changed. The protagonist is called Tribulation Periwinkle but I couldn't help but refer to her as Louisa. I'm leaving a lot out of this recap so that if you read it there will still be surprises. Chapter 1: Obtaining Supplies The book opens with something I had forgotten - Nurse Periwinkle has two sisters and a brother Tom. Tom suggests she try nursing after she rejects other family suggestions of writing a book, teaching, marrying, and acting. A neighbor introduces her to a nurse and she receives her commission. "A certain dear old lady" cries while saying good-bye to "topsy-turvy Trib." She's entitled to a free railroad pass and spends 5 pages searching for the right place to get it. Haven't we all been there? After acquiring it she compares herself to Christian in Pilgrim's Progress "when the Evangelist gave him the scroll." Before the train leaves she visits her sister "Mrs. Joan Coobiddy" at the Dove-cote. Chapter 2: A Forward Movement Train ride.

"Very comfortable; munch gingerbread, and Mrs. C.'s fine pear, which deserves honorable mention, because my first loneliness was comforted by it, and pleasant recollections of both kindly sender and bearer. Look much at Dr. H.'s paper of directions—put my tickets in every conceivable place, that they may be get-at-able, and finish by losing them entirely. Suffer agonies till a compassionate neighbor pokes them out of a crack with his pen-knife. Put them in the inmost corner of my purse, that in the deepest recesses of my pocket, pile a collection of miscellaneous articles 22 atop, and pin up the whole. Just get composed, feeling that I've done my best to keep them safely, when the Conductor appears, and I'm forced to rout them all out again, exposing my precautions, and getting into a flutter at keeping the man waiting. Finally, fasten them on the seat before me, and keep one eye steadily upon the yellow torments, till I forget all about them, in chat with the gentleman who shares my seat. Having heard complaints of the absurd way in which American women become images of petrified propriety, if addressed by strangers, when traveling alone, the inborn perversity of my nature causes me to assume an entirely opposite style of deportment; and, finding my companion hails from Little Athens, is acquainted with several of my three hundred and sixty-five cousins, and in every way a respectable and respectful member of society, I put my bashfulness in my pocket, and plunge into a long conversation on the war, the weather, music, Carlyle, skating, genius, hoops, and the immortality of the soul."

Knowing LMA I imagine she doesn't approve of hoops.

Then a boat. She doesn't want to sleep as she has "twice escaped a watery grave" and won't press her luck a third time. Because I'm a nerd I can identify both times. When she was a little girl she fell into a pond and a black man rescued her. In 1858 she was looking for work in Boston and finding it difficult, she considered drowning herself into the Back Bay. And it turns out I spoke too soon - Nurse P is in fact wearing a hoop.

Another train. Passes through Philly where "few men appear, and the women seem to do the business, which, perhaps, accounts for its being so well done." Misandry! In Baltimore a coupling iron, whatever that is, breaks, and the train stops for a repair. Her first sight of Washington D. C. takes LMA's breath away.

Chapter 3: A Day

LMA's fourth day at "Hurlyburly House." It always strikes me, reading history, how little formal education was required for getting a job.

Forty ambulances arrive from Fredericksburg. Our heroine is momentarily taken aback at being told to strip and wash soldiers but follows orders. A lad with one leg and one arm provides some gallows humor.

"I've been in six scrimmages, and never got a scratch till this last one; but it's done the business pretty thoroughly for me, I should say. Lord! what a scramble there'll be for arms and legs, when we old boys come out of our graves, on the Judgment Day: wonder if we shall get our own again? If we do, my leg will have to tramp from Fredericksburg, my arm from here, I suppose, and meet my body, wherever it may be."

We learn that nuts as slang was used in 1862.

A Confederate says he'll wash himself, provoking "angry passions" in LMA. She has no sympathy for him.

She filks The Charge of the Light Brigade:

"Beds to the front of them,

Beds to the right of them,

Beds to the left of them,

Nobody blundered.

Beamed at by hungry souls,

Screamed at with brimming bowls,

Steamed at by army rolls,

Buttered and sundered.

With coffee not cannon plied,

Each must be satisfied,

Whether they lived or died;

All the men wondered."

The doctors and nurses work non-stop from dawn til 11, with supper at 5. "The amount that some of them sequestered was amazing."

Chapter 4: A Night

An example of the tragic/comic mixture that is Alcott's trademark. She enjoys the night shift and learns to recognize each man's snore. A twelve year old drummer boy, Teddy, wakes up crying. It isn't pain - he dreamed about his friend Kit who died. Teddy was injured and Kit carried him wrapped up in blankets, so Teddy blames himself for weakening Kit. LMA assures him Kit would have died either way.

John, a blacksmith from Virginia, dictates a letter home. He has a ring so she asks if he's married. He says, no, his mother is a widow and so he must support her and act as surrogate father to his sister Lizzy and brother Laurie. LMA admires his manly courage and maternal devotion. He dies two days after, just before the reply arrives.

A man who lost his leg attempts to escape home, hopping all around and rambling, and a Prussian gentleman puts him back to bed.

Chapter 5: Off Duty

A surgeon urges her to rest lest he "have to add a Periwinkle to my bouquet of patients." Her room has broken windows, sheets for curtains, and rats that take the food.

For exercise she visits Armoury Hospital and describes how it's much more clean and organized than Hurlyburly House.

Another time she visits the Senate Chamber, but it isn't in session so she sits in Charles Sumner's chair, imagines herself cudgeling Preston Brooks, the guy who beat up Sumner for making an anti-slavery speech, and steals "a castaway autograph or two." Then she goes to an art museum and writes that "several robust ladies attracted me . . . but which was America and which Pocahontas was a mystery, for all affected much looseness of costume, dishevelment of hair, swords, arrows, lances, scales, and other ornaments quite passé with damsels of our day, whose effigies should go down to posterity armed 76 with fans, crochet needles, riding whips, and parasols, with here and there one holding pen or pencil, rolling-pin or broom."

Then it rains for a week and she's shut up in her room. The other nurses and her friends visit her, including Dorothea Dix.

As any of you who have read a biography of LMA know, she comes down typhoid and returns home.

"I never shall regret the going, though a sharp tussle with typhoid, ten dollars, and a wig, are all the visible results of the experiment; for one may live and learn much in a month." Only ten dollars? TEN? $2.50 a week? Frank Leslie paid her $50 a story.

Chapter 6: A Postscript

Answers to readers' letters. Are there churches services at the hospital? Yes, there is a chaplain but she finds his sermons dry and uninteresting.

"Regarding the admission of friends to nurse their sick, I can only say, it was not allowed at Hurly-burly House; though one indomitable parent took my ward by storm, and held her position, in spite of doctors, matron, and Nurse Periwinkle. Though it was against the rules, though the culprit was an acid, frost-bitten female, though the young man would have done quite as well without her anxious fussiness, and the whole room-full been much more comfortable, there was something so irresistible in this persistent devotion, that no one had the heart to oust her from her post. She slept on the floor, without uttering a complaint; bore jokes somewhat of the rudest; fared scantily, though her basket was daily filled with luxuries for her boy; and tended that petulant personage with a never-failing patience beautiful to see.

I feel a glow of moral rectitude in saying this of her; for, though a perfect pelican to her young, she pecked and cackled (I don't know that pelicans usually express their emotions in that manner,) most obstreperously, when others invaded her premises; and led me a weary life, with "George's tea-rusks," "George's foot-bath," "George's measles," and "George's mother;" till after a sharp passage of arms and tongues with the matron, she wrathfully packed up her rusks, her son, and herself, and departed, in an ambulance, scolding to the very last."

Nurses aren't required to witness amputations. LMA watched operations because she wanted to nurse at the front. The offer from Dr. Z to witness a dissection she turned down.

She was warned "to expect much humiliation of spirit from the surgeons" but those she worked with didn't do that at all. They were very kind and when she was ill Dr. Z made sure she had firewood.

She refuses to give the hospital's real name - it has closed down and its patients moved to, she hopes, a place with better food.

#louisa may alcott #alcott readathon 2018 #american civil war #books #women in history

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israel-jewish-news · 7 years ago

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DACA Negotiators Lean on Trump Whisperer Lindsey Graham

New Post has been published on http://hamodia.com/2017/12/13/daca-negotiators-lean-trump-whisperer-lindsey-graham/

DACA Negotiators Lean on Trump Whisperer Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sen. Lindsey Graham is in a pivotal position to help craft a deal to help keep 800,000 young immigrants in this country.

The South Carolina Republican enjoys unique access to President Donald Trump that virtually none of his colleagues share. He receives regular calls from Pres.Trump on his cellphone. On Sunday, Graham joined the president for a round of golf in Palm Beach, where immigration was the main topic of discussion.

Graham downplayed his influence on the commander in chief, saying he was one of many lawmakers Pres. Trump regularly rings up for a “temperature check” on the news of the day.

But Graham, who endured verbal abuse from Pres. Trump throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, has emerged as the senator Pres. Trump calls the “Down-The-Middle-Guy” who can offer blunt assessments of the diciest policy debates and help the president understand political dynamics from all sides.

In the days ahead, Graham could end up serving as a bridge between his Capitol Hill colleagues and Pres. Trump, who has said he has plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program in March. He has asked Congress to come up with a legislative remedy.

Publicly, the White House is demanding strict changes to current immigration law and increased border security in exchange for sparing current DACA beneficiaries from deportation. In private negotiations, the president has indicated a willingness to cut a deal.

That dynamic has created some chaos on Capitol Hill, where multiple working groups, on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers, are working furiously to come up with a proposal they can sell widely. Each group is convinced Pres. Trump could wind up on their side.

That’s where Graham, who has worked on immigration policy with Democrats and Republicans for years, could be crucial.

Graham and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., are pushing for a plan that includes the DREAM Act, which gives DACA recipients a pathway to legal status. It has support from members of both parties.

Flake told McClatchy that Graham’s line to Pres. Trump was important to their efforts.

“Lindsey has the closest relationship with the president out of all of us, certainly,” Flake said.

The Monday after the golfing excursion at Mar-a-Lago, Pres. Trump’s Florida retreat, Graham returned to the Senate with perhaps the most up-to-date set of demands.

“I think a good deal would be secure the border, change our immigration system to move towards a merit-based immigration system,” Graham told McClatchy. “Green cards should be limited to minor children and spouses and give the DACA kids a pathway to citizenship they have to earn … (and) secure the border with a wall component. I think that’s the deal.”

Graham’s readout of Pres. Trump’s wish list, which he appeared to endorse, isn’t the final word. And until Pres. Trump offers more clarity, several groups of lawmakers from other corners of the Capitol are continuing to explore different fixes.

One group of Senate Republicans has offered a proposal they say boosts border security significantly while giving Democrats a DACA solution many of that party’s negotiators have supported in the past. That proposal, unveiled by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, was panned by Senate Democrats.

Republicans want changes in how to handle chain migration, which allows citizens and people with green cards to secure visas for their family members.

Many conservatives fear chain migration would to lead to an expansion of immigration in the United States. If each DACA recipient has the ability to bring family members with them to live legally in the country, opponents argue the immigrant population would become out of control.

Democrats contend that the policy is a cornerstone of the country’s immigration laws, and changing it would run counter to American values. While a compromise could include revising the policy to apply to immediate family or just children, and exclude more distant relatives, like cousins, even that would go well beyond what Democrats said they’d accept in exchange for a DACA fix. Democrats want few if any changes to the current immigration system.

On Tuesday afternoon, Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer of New York was optimistic about reaching a deal before the end of the year.

Democratic aides said Graham was helping them get closer to a deal before the end of the year — if he can rally support from conservatives in his party.

Schumer told reporters Senate negotiators were “making good progress.”

Flake agreed that lawmakers were “getting close.”

Graham, when asked if he thought lawmakers could seal the deal by the end of the year, would only say, “I hope so.”

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