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radius777's JournalAbuse is rampant throughout both male and female athletics.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, and in coming years I think we could see an awakening on this issue similar to the Catholic Church abuse that went unaddressed for years.
The other day I saw a story about an NHL player who said he was assaulted:
The Chicago Blackhawks settled a lawsuit filed by a former player who said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach during the team's Stanley Cup-winning season in 2010.
In an emotional, televised interview, Beach disclosed detail of his assault, how the team treated him, and the emotional fallout of his assault. Beach was 20 years old at the time of his attack.
If it's happening in the pros, then it must be rampant on the lower levels.
Liberals have given up the raunch sphere
and it costs us. Like it or not there are alot of people out there who enjoy (and are influenced by) 'junk food' entertainment.
In the 90s when I was growing up we had some big stars on our side (defending the Clintons) like Howard Stern, Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner, etc. They were raunchy or un-PC when it came to sex and partying, but were committed to liberal causes, often against the wishes of their own mostly white male audience. Bill Maher sucks and was never on our side like those guys were, BTW.
Rogan fills that space that they did, but is RW leaning, and we don't have the equivalent LW leaning type to fill the space anymore. Charlamagne Tha God has become pretty big but again the typical liberal tends to tsk tsk his style.
Rep. Ruben Gallego is the perfect candidate
to primary her. He's a charismatic Latino and miltiary veteran with appeal to the Dem base as well as independents.
Voting rights and Civil Rights are a litmus test for any Dem - you see that 48 of them voted for the carve out, even Dems from red and purple states like Mark Kelly from her state - because they know what it means in the context of the past 60 years and what the modern day Dem party stands for. There can be disagreement on other issues but not core rights such as voting rights. She (and Manchin) sided with Jim Crow instead of MLK and John Lewis. She's finished. Manchin could also be finished as the Dem base won't come out for him and neither will the pro Trump voters (he voted to impeach fatass twice).
Basically Manchinema's instincts are bad and are rooted in outdated thinking about their being some large centrist bloc in America that values 'bipartisanship'. The reality is that we live in a base driven country now with both sides being dug in, and you're either on one side or the other.
It just shows how deeply embedded a racial caste system
is within much of our current world which was built upon colonialism. Many whites especially RW whites still see the world as depicted in that imagery, and who yearn for an overtly white dominant order where non-whites had to show deference to whites. Pretty much what is driving Trumpism and the RW's hatred of the BLM/woke-left movements that shine a light on these issues.
Exactly. All we can do is protect ourselves.
In real world situations there is little we can do about the anti-maskers, or those who don't wear their masks properly.
Only properly fitting, authentic and new/clean N95's, KN95's and KF94's can protect the wearer from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Some also suggest wearing protective glasses as there is a possibility that the virus can infect via the eyes.
The idea behind the cloth masks was that 'my mask protects you, and your mask protects me' but that only works if everyone wears it and wears it properly. Cloth masks do work well to stop the exhalation of viral droplets (as the droplets are much bigger and wetter as they are exhaled) but poorly at stopping the inhalation of viral droplets which are at that point dry and aerosolized and much smaller - which only the better masks can stop.
+1. Those colors were shown a long time ago.
There is a segment of white voters in both parties who think things like voting rights are simply left-wing or black issues, and not mainstream American issues, and who actually cheer on Sinema/Manchin's maintaining of the filibuster.
Sinema has no political appeal. She thinks she's being mavericky like McCain but in reality she's just a wannabe with no natural base. The charismatic and qualified Gallego would destroy her in a primary.
Of course it's a toss up state, that's what a purple state is.
The point of my post was that unlike in WV where Manchin is perhaps the only Dem who can win there - in AZ (being purple) any solid Dem can win there. It's not an easy win and will always be close but Dems have won statewide there in recent years (Sinema, Hobbs, Kelly).
Sinema has no natural base and is not really liked by anyone at this point. Someone like Rep. Ruben Gallego who is a Latino and a military veteran would crush her in the primary (as other posters noted above) and also have a better chance of defeating the Repub nominee in the general election than the clueless Sinema would. She basically has no political value to any particular constituency in her state, and her strategy or mirroring Manchin (whose situation is unique in his state) is simply stupid.
This is why Adams was elected in NYC
and even Lori Lightfoot (Chi) and London Breed (SF) are sounding a much tougher tone on crime.
Being against crime does not mean one is for the racist police... Adams has always been against both. And if you think about it being for communities of color and the disadvantaged means you have to be against both.
The key is to give young people the proper schooling and a safe environment so they don't drift to gangs - alot of crime is gang related.
There are too many homeless mentally ill on the streets who need to be institutionalized to receive the treatment they need and to protect the public at large.
MSNBC is liberal leaning but cannot become a leftwing FOX
which simply presents a false reality to its viewers. Having an editorial slant is fine as long as it is tethered to journalistic integrity.
The fact is Biden's poll numbers are very low, for a variety of reasons some under his control some not.
Nicolle Wallace was talking about this on her show the other day, how some viewers get upset about her critique of the Biden Admin and Merrick Garland etc. But the coalition of voters (ie, 'the Resistance') that put Biden in the Whitehouse is in fact disappointed about how things are going and simply voices that frustration on shows like hers, which include on her panels everyone from former Repubs to moderates to progressives.
Sinema is finished.
She's from a purple state that another Dem could win, and she has several incidents now (the curtsy, this recent speech, etc) that are easy to make into a commercial in a Dem primary. Note that Mark Kelly from the same state is not the problem for us that she is, neither is Warnock and Ossoff from an equally purple state in GA.
Manchin is from a deep red state and there is little we can do to him.
The old school Dems would dig up dirt on both of them and pull their strings ... wish we had some of that hardball mentality in this current party. Sinema and Manchin seem to have no fear of disrespecting a Dem President and derailing his agenda.
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