Here's Pence getting booed as he gets to his seats at Hamilton pic.twitter.com/IRQG68x1sB
— David K (@dkipke12) November 19, 2016
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E100vs at the VW graveyard. No, I won’t tell you where this is.
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that is not dead which can eternal lie
and across strange aeons, even death may dieso kissinger was going to be on the list no matter who won the election
hell world
Who has that great quote from Anthony Bourdain about Kissinger and Cambodia? Please repost.
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For those not following on twitter – Mike Pence went to Hamilton tonight – got booed by the entire audience, was subjected to massive extended applause after “Immigrants, we get the job done”, and then King George sang “On Your Own” directly to him leading to a three minute standing ovation for the King.
Finally some good news.
[WaPo article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/mike-pence-hamilton.html?_r=0]
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“Planned Parenthood confirmed that yes, people are putting their money where their tweets are. Of 160,000 donations made to Planned Parenthood since the election, 20,000 have been made in Mike Pence’s name, according to a spokesperson. That’s 12.5 percent of all donations.”
loves it
From what I’ve understood, making them IN his name is a bad idea—Planned Parenthood donations are tax deductible, and he may end up with a tax write-off.
From the PP site: “Your contribution to Planned Parenthood Federation of America is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable.”
When donating, select the box which says “Yes, my gift is in honor or in memory of someone special.”
Making them out to Mike Pence in the “IN HONOR” section still gets a notification to his office, while not running the risk of giving him any tax deductions. Plus, you’ll get a deduction for yourself.
Nope – American federal tax law specifically forbids “giving away” charitable deductions. Donating in someone else’s name has no effect whatsoever on who gets to claim the resulting tax deduction. Mike Pence would be committing tax fraud if he attempted to claim a writeoff for donations made in his name by third parties.
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OK folks: Game night is ON. I have 2 neighbors donating board games appropriate for all ages.
I’m still sick, so this’ll probably start in early December. It’ll be at Burial Grounds in Oly. The new location is at the old Darby’s Cafe.
Thanks to Linda and Elisa, we’ll have all ages board games. Kate’s bringing Jenga and @shadesofmauve is bringing mahjong (right? That was you, wasn’t it?)
That was me, and I’ll also bring RoboRally and Dominion. :)
(We can thank @tinierpurplefishes for Roborally – that’s where my game comes from! She hand-painted all the figures!)
EDIT: All this is assuming I can actually make it – my nights are pretty booked. But you’d be welcome to pick up my games even if I couldn’t come.
Uh! You have RoboRally? That game is teh awesomes. I always meant to get a copy…
And there are other Kates?
Yes ????
@pyoorkate, my friend Kate is an area herbalist. She’s volunteered to teach us about plant things if anyone is interested. I know I am.
I think I’ve technically owned RoboRally for awhile, but my mom had stolen it. Since @tinierpurplefishes had given it to me to play with her, I can’t really blame her. But now its back at my house!
Also, @pyoorkate, I suspect you’d fit in well at these gatherings, but since currently I only ‘know’ (sort of) @pacificnorthwestdoodles, I can’t say just yet.
That’s really funny @shadesofmauve. @tinierpurplefishes should totally come and meet other Oly/thurston county area folks. Like minded non-tumblr folks are coming too. My buddy Kate is one of them.
@pyoorkate you’ll be great. We’ll all be together meeting new folks. @madtechnomage, @darrahbailey, @maeganbobaegan, have said they’d like to come too.
@lovablebiscuit? @saintofbeasts? @cetra777, @bitterbitchclubpresident I know you’re not super close, but this might be something you’d be interested in. <3
The focus is on getting to know each other. Connecting with other Thurston County/Oly area buds. Saying “hey, we’re here. We’re going to take care of each other. Our emotional/mental health in these crud times in important’
“We are here. We are Present. We are not going away <3?
If folks aren’t able to make this, that’s OK too. I can arrange take home things for folks to do too if that’s more your speed. I have books and crafts folks can take home/borrow too.
I am quite, quite excited about this. Which is good, because I need something to be excited about. Other than starting to learn Norwegian*.
* For the fourth time.
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Can somebody explain to me why this is a problem? Why is voter ID bad???
How do you not have ID?? License? Passport?
Also how is that proof that’s it’s rigged. Why do those 300,000 people not have ID? Does that mean they are illigal immigrants(seriously I have no clue) cuz if that’s the case, they have no right to vote.
Needing ID vote makes so much sense to me. In Canadian elections, you need ID votePlease somebody explain to me what the issue is with needing ID to vote
Because most likely if they don’t have a drivers license they probably can’t afford a passport which are the two forms of ID they’d accept so it makes the poor people unable to vote
Fair enough.
Isn’t the purpose of an ID to prevent voter fraud? I think that pretty important
I do agree it is important but it would be better if they made IDs more accessible for people who wouldn’t normally be able to afford it
True
I don’t know the prices and how possible it is to reduce prices (what affects, what needs to be taken into account) but something to considerMy original question stemmed from the fact that so many people are against voter ID in general, as if proving who you are is a violation. I’ve seen so much hate for it months prior to the elections. Plus the tweet claims it’s evidence of it being rigged which I found quite dumb. I don’t support either candidate but jeeeez
But idk I’m Canadian
I don’t know a whole lote about how things are done and what the process is so…yeaTo clear some of this up for those who aren’t familiar with voter ID laws:
Here is an excellent article written a few years ago (by a former Republican!) about how these requirements put a disproportionate burden on certain groups of voters – specifically, those who are likely to be Democrats. A few key points:
“7% of the general voting public doesn’t have an adequate photo ID, but those figures rise precipitously when you hit certain groups: 15% of voting age citizens making less than $35,000 a year, 18% of Americans over 65, and a full quarter of African Americans.”
“…the documents one needs to get a photo ID aren’t (free) and the prices haven’t been reduced. Lost your naturalization certificate? That’ll be $345. Don’t have a birth certificate because you’re black and were born in the segregated south? You have to go to court.”
“One can only hope that would-be voters have access to a car or adequate public transportation, and a boss who won’t mind if they take several hours off work to go get their ID, particularly if they live in, say, the third of Texas counties that have no ID-issuing offices at all.”
“(Republican) Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, to take an example, signed a strict voter ID law and then made a move to start closing DMV offices in areas full of Democrats, while increasing office hours in areas full of Republicans—this in a state in which half of blacks and Hispanics are estimated to lack a driver’s license and a quarter of its DMV offices are open less than one day per month. (Sauk City’s is open a whopping four times a year.)”
So basically, there are a lot – A LOT – of Americans who are legally eligible to vote but lack a DMV-issued I.D. Most of those people are from demographic groups perceived as likely to vote Democratic.
The “rigged” part? Is that Republican state and local officials have actively worked to make it harder for Democratic-skewing demographic groups – especially the poor – to obtain DMV-issued I.D.s, while enacting laws that require them to show those I.D.s in order to vote.
John Oliver did a good piece focusing on Voter ID law and how pretty much it is a hypocrisy
Ensuring no voter fraud is a good thing, it helps uphold the integrity and people’s trust of the voting system. That being said, overly strict regulations end up targeting minority groups. (also a little weird that for USA’s federal elections there isn’t a federal standard? IDK state powers are weird)
So how do other countries decrease fraud and inequality? Since one of the above posters mentioned Canada -> in Canada there are 2 big ways you can prove you’re you without photo ID. (Any combination of 2 pieces out of 48 pieces of listed non-photo ID, or 2 pieces of ID with name and a person who will testify you live where you say you live) http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e
Oh, and employers are legally obligated to give you time off to vote, and cannot deduct your pay for going to vote. These measures would go a long way in decreasing bias at the polls. (Oh and a federal standard. Did I mention a federal standard?)
There is also the basic history in the U.S. of disenfranchising PoC, specifically black voters in the South. Voter fraud is almost non-existent in the U.S. It has become and continues to be a talking point of the Republican party because it is based in racism. Legally, they can’t say, “No black person is allowed to vote. No Latinx is allowed to vote,” but states continue to pass laws that make it specifically harder for those groups to vote, whether it is the “literacy tests” of the Jim Crow era (seriously, try taking that test; many of these types of tests had intentionally confusing questions) or a voting places with extreme waiting times in poorer areas. We also see shorter early voter periods in these areas, which makes it harder for the poor working class to vote since Election Day isn’t a holiday in the U.S.
This doesn’t even touch the issue the amount of documentation you need in order to get an ID these days in the US. If you are homeless or a migrant worker of any kind, it’s pretty much impossible.
There is also the major issue that these laws have never been universally applied. A white person going to vote gets a cheery wave and a “just sign next to your name,” while a black person has to have two forms of ID just to prove who they are and if they don’t have the ‘right kind’ of ID–again often determined by people at the polling place– they are turned away. So while folks can say that having ID just makes sense, U.S. history speaks volumes as to why it shouldn’t be implemented.
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I’m considering life changes that might spur me to, at the age of 33, to eventually purchase an automobile.
That’s not such a huge deal in other countries, I think, but an American in her thirties who doesn’t own a car and doesn’t live in a major metropolitan district is considered quite weird. One who doesn’t own a car but does own a house is REALLY strange (like, insurance companies cannot wrap their mind around it and keep trying to sell me auto insurance strange, and ‘bank can’t understand why you don’t use car payment history to apply for mortgage even when you explained it three times’ strange).
I decided, when I got out of school, to just see how long I could do it. The fact is, living in the same city as my boyfriend and my folks and having when-needed access to their vehicles, with a good transit system, I could do it indefinitely. But certain factors are starting to make engine-powered-wheels appealing.
And I have no idea how one deals with that.
They are different sizes. They go vroom. Some of them you can see out of nicely and some of them you can’t. Their engines run on internal combustion and when driving I am always slightly concerned that it might accidentally become external combustion. Apparently people who try to sell them to you are assholes.
There are plenty of people in the US who first do this at eighteen, and I’m like *pokes cautiously with stick* “ew. Maybe later. When I’m older.”
So I poked into craigslist to test waters of ‘how do car’ and selected ‘private seller only’ because graphics created by autodealers make me want to claw my eyes out, and I learned something!
I learned I could buy myself a FIRE TRUCK for only 8500 bucks!
WHEEEEOOOWHEEEEOOOOWHEEEOOOO
There’s actually someone around here who has a decommissioned German firetruck and just drives it around as their car.
If you can stomach the cost and can find one that’ll do the range you need, I’d recommend an EV. The maintenance is way lower, they’re super nice to drive, and also don’t destroy the planet. Also, many of them you can set to preheat which might be an enormous benefit in winter…
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Democrats have one final shot to flip a Senate seat
Democrats have one final shot to flip a Senate seat
Democrats have one final shot to flip a Senate seat – but in order to pull off an upset, they need to quickly rally around the Louisiana candidate whose victory could be a bright spot in an otherwise dismal year. Public Service Commissioner – and jovial cattle farmer – Foster Campbell will face off against Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy, a twice-failed Senate candidate, in a Dec. 10 runoff.
On the surface, it might seem like a lost cause: A Democrat running a statewide campaign in Louisiana in the Year of Trump. On the contrary, though, Campbell has a legitimate shot to upset his opponent the same way Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards did in 2015. Yes, Louisiana has a Democratic governor. He’s busy at the moment cleaning up the fiscal mess left by his predecessor, failed presidential candidate and Kenneth-the-Page avatar Bobby Jindal.
Edwards pulled off an upset in part because of Jindal’s failures, and in part because he ran against David Vitter, a less-than-charismatic politician tainted by a bygone prostitution scandal. But Edwards prevailed not only as an anti-Jindal and anti-Vitter. As an Army veteran with family law enforcement ties and a calm demeanor, he was a strong candidate in his own right.
Campbell, too, is a good bet; he has a wicked sense of humor and speaks plainly. During a recent debate, he rebutted false allegations of ties to ex-KKK leader David Duke, saying, “I have nothing in common with David Duke other than we’re probably breathing.”
Democrats who feel frustrated, fearful, and angry following Donald J. Trump’s upset win, listen up: Go donate $5 to Campbell’s campaign. If you’re in Louisiana, vote for him on Dec. 10. If you know someone in Louisiana, spread the word. Help raise money and awareness for Campbell.
Electing Foster Campbell is the most immediate way to rebuke President-elect Trump. A Campbell victory would mean a 51-49 split in the Senate. This is the last best way to make a difference in 2016.
From Campbell’s website, he supports increasing minimum wage, college loan forgiveness, expanding Medicaid, and universal Pre-K. He was in the state legislature previously and you can see what he worked on. That included getting utilities to waive minimum deposit and connection fees for people fleeing domestic violence and cracking down on prisons charging outrageous amounts (as in $14 A MINUTE) for phone calls.
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Why does no one recognize the KKK as an actual terrorist group??? As an actual WHITE and CHRISTIAN and AMERICAN terrorist group?? Is it because they’re white? Is it because they’re Christian? Is it because they’re American? Or is it all three? Hm……….Guess we’ll never know………………
Keep reblogging this please I’m getting so much hate from racists it’s hilarious
