Month: November 2018
“Scott Walker was a national disgrace,”
Mashable
The best dig of the midterms is a 6-word statement on Scott Walker’s loss
After eight years of decimating public unions and annoying everyone on Twitter, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker lost in the midterm elections on Tuesday to former public school principal Tony Evers.
Labor union AFL-CIO has been fighting Walker for years. Their six-word public statement about his loss couldn’t have been shorter and sweeter.
“Scott Walker was a national disgrace,” the statement reads.
The AFL-CIO has a long history of calling Walker a disgrace. In 2015, when Walker announced his candidacy for president, union president Scott Trumka released a press statement saying simply: “Scott Walker is a disgrace.”
When he tanked in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, the AFL-CIO added a few short words to their statement.
“Scott Walker is still a disgrace, just no longer a national one,” they said.
Today, the internet applauded one of the nation’s strongest, pithiest unions:
Congratulations to the AFL-CIO on their successful years-long public trolling campaign.
Randy Rainbow: Wicked Election Day Reminder!
November 5, 2018
NEW VIDEO!!!
A WICKED #ElectionEve reminder. Good luck at the polls tomorrow, everyone. May the Schwartz be with you. Share the hell outta this one.
VOTING! – A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
NEW VIDEO!!!A WICKED #ElectionEve reminder. Good luck at the polls tomorrow, everyone. May the Schwartz be with you. Share the hell outta this one. 💚💖🗳🌊
Posted by Randy Rainbow on Monday, November 5, 2018
Shep Smith shut’s down the rest of Fox News’ lies about the migrant caravan.
Video to the group: Stephanie Miller Fans.
November 6, 2018
Shep Smith shuts down the rest of Fox News: Migrant caravan edition
Shep Smith spent the past few weeks shutting down the rest of Fox News’ lies about the migrant caravan. Watch:
Shep Smith shuts down the rest of Fox News: Migrant caravan edition
Shep Smith spent the past few weeks shutting down the rest of Fox News' lies about the migrant caravan. Watch:
Posted by Media Matters for America on Sunday, November 4, 2018
Here’s the story of how we got into this mess and how we get out of it.
Class in Session shared a video.
Election Day – November 6, 2018
Here’s the story of how we got into this mess and how we get out of it.
Make your voice heard today — vote!
In these dark times, it's important to understand how we got into this mess, and how we get out of it. Here's the big picture.
Posted by Robert Reich on Saturday, July 7, 2018
We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
Washington Post
We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.
By October 29, 2018
Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger is a safety expert, author and speaker on leadership and culture.
Nearly 10 years ago, I led 154 people to safety as the captain of US Airways Flight 1549, which suffered bird strikes, lost thrust in the engines and was forced to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River. Some called it “the Miracle on the Hudson.” But it was not a miracle. It was, in microcosm, an example of what is needed in emergencies — including the current national crisis — and what is possible when we serve a cause greater than ourselves.
On our famous flight, I witnessed the best in people who rose to the occasion. Passengers and crew worked together to help evacuate an elderly passenger and a mother with a 9-month-old child. New York Waterway took the initiative to radio their vessels to head toward us when they saw us approaching. This successful landing, in short, was the result of good judgment, experience, skill — and the efforts of many.
But as captain, I ultimately was responsible for everything that happened. Had even one person not survived, I would have considered it a tragic failure that I would have felt deeply for the rest of my life. To navigate complex challenges, all leaders must take responsibility and have a moral compass grounded in competence, integrity and concern for the greater good.
I am often told how calm I sounded speaking to passengers, crew and air traffic control during the emergency. In every situation, but especially challenging ones, a leader sets the tone and must create an environment in which all can do their best. You get what you project. Whether it is calm and confidence — or fear, anger and hatred — people will respond in kind. Courage can be contagious.
Today, tragically, too many people in power are projecting the worst. Many are cowardly, complicit enablers, acting against the interests of the United States, our allies and democracy; encouraging extremists at home and emboldening our adversaries abroad; and threatening the livability of our planet. Many do not respect the offices they hold; they lack — or disregard — a basic knowledge of history, science and leadership; and they act impulsively, worsening a toxic political environment.
As a result, we are in a struggle for who and what we are as a people. We have lost what in the military we call unit cohesion. The fabric of our nation is under attack, while shame — a timeless beacon of right and wrong — seems dead.
This is not the America I know and love. We’re better than this. Our ideals, shared facts and common humanity are what bind us together as a nation and a people. Not one of these values is a political issue, but the lack of them is.
This current absence of civic virtues is not normal, and we must not allow it to become normal. We must rededicate ourselves to the ideals, values and norms that unite us and upon which our democracy depends. We must be engaged and informed voters, and we must get our information from credible, reputable sources.
For the first 85 percent of my adult life, I was a registered Republican. But I have always voted as an American. And this critical Election Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our common values and not pandering to our basest impulses.
When I volunteered for military service during wartime, I took an oath that is similar to the one our elected officials take: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” I vowed to uphold this oath at the cost of my life, if necessary. We must expect no less from our elected officials. And we must hold accountable those who fail to defend our nation and all our people.
After Flight 1549, I realized that because of the sudden worldwide fame, I had been given a greater voice. I knew I could not walk away but had an obligation to use this bully pulpit for good and as an advocate for the safety of the traveling public. I feel that I now have yet another mission, as a defender of our democracy.
We cannot wait for someone to save us. We must do it ourselves. This Election Day is a crucial opportunity to again demonstrate the best in each of us by doing our duty and voting for leaders who are committed to the values that will unite and protect us. Years from now, when our grandchildren learn about this critical time in our nation’s history, they may ask if we got involved, if we made our voices heard. I know what my answer will be. I hope yours will be “yes.”
Read more:
Max Boot: What is happening to our country?
Tom Toles: The election is decision day for who we are
Joe Scarborough: Voters are finally on to the GOP
Beverly Weintraub: ‘Sully’ was just a hero. Why label the Southwest captain a ‘female pilot’?
Alexandra Petri: One president’s scary story is a country’s scary world
Republican candidate’s children warn people not to vote for him: ‘He must be stopped’
The Independent
Republican candidate’s children warn people not to vote for him: ‘He must be stopped’
Steve West, who once said ‘Hitler was right,’ won the Republican nomination for a state representative seat in Missouri: YouTube/Screenshot.
A Republican candidate’s own children have warned voters in Missouri against electing their “fanatic” father to the state assembly, just days before the midterms.
“A lot of his views are just very out there,” Emily West said of her father, Steve West.
“He’s made multiple comments that are racist and homophobic and how he doesn’t like the Jews,” she told the Kansas City Star this week.
“I can’t imagine him being in any level of government.”
Her brother, Andy West, told the newspaper his father is a “fanatic” that “must be stopped”.
“His ideology is pure hatred. It’s totally insane … If he gets elected, it would legitimize him. Then he would become a state official, and he’s saying that Jews shouldn’t even have civil rights,” he said.
Antisemitic and homophobic comments by Steve West, who goes by the name “Jack Justice” on his YouTube channel, have come to light since he comfortably won his Republican primary in August.
“Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler was right about what was taking place in Germany,” he said on a radio show in 2017.
In attacks on the LGBT+ community, the 64-year-old has said homosexuality and paedophilia are “absolutely linked” and described women’s athletics as a “breeding ground for lesbianism”.
Just this week, Steve West told NBC News, without providing evidence: “The homosexual world, they are by much greater per cent predators – especially when it comes to boys.”
The Missouri Republican Party, which does not endorse him, has previously branded his comments “shocking and vile” and said his rhetoric has “absolutely no place in the party”.
Despite the party’s condemnation, Steve West still has the opportunity to become the Republican state representative of the state’s 15th district on Tuesday.
“I’m deeply disturbed by his candidacy,” Jon Carpenter, the Democratic incumbent, said of his opponent. “It’s my hope that the voters of the 15th district overwhelmingly reject that kind of bigotry on election day.”
Don’t Forget This Republican’s Warning!
Senator Bernie Sanders
November 3, 2018
Dwight D. Eisenhower was not a radical socialist, he was a Republican. And he tried to warn us about the “military industrial complex.”
This Republican President Tried to Warn Us
Dwight D. Eisenhower was not a radical socialist, he was a Republican. And he tried to warn us about the "military industrial complex."
Posted by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Saturday, November 3, 2018
In a time of deep divisions, here are 5 principles that continue to bind us together.
Robert Reich
With divisions this deep in America, it can often feel like we can’t agree on anything. Our latest video explains the 5 principles that still unite us in these dark times.
With divisions this deep in America, it can often feel like we can't agree on anything. Our latest video explains the 5 principles that still unite us in these dark times.
Posted by Robert Reich on Sunday, October 28, 2018