Politics

[zelezo vlk]

I could see some of these companies making things up ala Theranos.

I see it all as a gigantic waste. My sister wants everybody in the immediate family to do it, and there's just no frigging point in having 3 siblings do it.

 

[ickythump1225]

I did one through Ancestry.com and it turned out more or less how I figured it would considering all of the research I had done myself. The one surprise was being about a fifth Swedish. I guess the Norwegians (which I knew about) intermingled at some point.

 

[Wild Bill]

I'd slam my dick in a sliding glass door before I ever willingly gave a morally bankrupt corporation a sample of my DNA to use as they wish. A corporation with DNA information on a large percentage of the population can't end well.

Re Pocahontas native American ancestry - I think all the evidence we needed was her grandfather's high cheek bones.

I did one through Ancestry.com and it turned out more or less how I figured it would considering all of the research I had done myself. The one surprise was being about a fifth Swedish. I guess the Norwegians (which I knew about) intermingled at some point.

It'll be used against political dissidents first. It was nice knowing you, icky

 

[ickythump1225]

I'd slam my dick in a sliding glass door before I ever willingly gave a morally bankrupt corporation a sample of my DNA to use as they wish. A corporation with DNA information on a large percentage of the population can't end well.

Re Pocahontas native American ancestry - I think all the evidence we needed was her grandfather's high cheek bones.



It'll be used against political dissidents first. It was nice knowing you, icky

I'll go down fighting. To honor Pocahontas' high cheek boned relatives I post this:

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
-Tecumseh

 

[wizards8507]

LMAO she's not even 1/1024th Native American. She's 1/1024th amalgamation of indicators based on theoretical migratory patterns.

 

[ACamp1900]

“Your ancestors killed whatever ratio of native you would have been.....”

 

[Irish YJ]

Less % than most typical Americans.....

But I guess that's enough to get into Harvard.....

Even the Cherokee Nation slammed her.

The whole thing about her grandparent getting hell from in-laws because of how much Native American they were, is simple rubbish.

Betting someone else got some of her DNA via hair or something, and was going to drop it, and she preferred to spin it herself as soon as possible before mid terms.

 

[loomis41973]

Fauxcahontas 2020

 

[Irish YJ]

 

[loomis41973]

 

[Irish YJ]

 

[loomis41973]

 

[connor_in]

 

[NorthDakota]

You know it was a bad day for Pocahontas when I text a very liberal ex girlfriend who thinks Barry O walks on water for her thoughts on the news today and she says, "That kinda backfired. She didnt need to do that."

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Senate Democrats have sent a letter complaining that they were "not consulted" about a hearing that not only had the ranking member agreed to.. but they had specifically agreed to "not to object to the timing of hearings scheduled."<a href="https://t.co/lXnYntC3A4">https://t.co/lXnYntC3A4</a> <a href="https://t.co/wpX4sDZmC9">pic.twitter.com/wpX4sDZmC9</a></p>— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1051943869330464768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[NorthDakota]

Hatch and Grassley own.

 

[ACamp1900]

You know it was a bad day for Pocahontas when I text a very liberal ex girlfriend who thinks Barry O walks on water for her thoughts on the news today and she says, "That kinda backfired. She didnt need to do that."

What do you mean? Nothing to see here...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elizabeth-warren-releases-native-american-dna-test-results

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/politics/elizabeth-warren-dna-test-native-american/index.html

Elizabeth Warren Proves Her Native American Heritage - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Video Clip) | Comedy Central

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/po...rican-issue/YEUaGzsefB0gPBe2AbmSVO/story.html

 

[wizards8507]

I have no problem with left-wing comedians, but is anyone more unfunny than Trevor Noah?

 

[ACamp1900]

I have no problem with left-wing comedians, but is anyone more unfunny than Trevor Noah?

I have never once laughed at Jimmy Fallon, all the guy does is laugh at other people's jokes... but yeah, Noah is terrible.

 

[Bishop2b5]

Warren's BS is about as valid as me claiming to be part of the British royal family because I'm descended from some British king. Guess what? 99% of us are descended from some British king if you go back 10 or 20 generations. Dear Elizabeth, being 1/1024th Native American doesn't make you a Cherokee. Admit you lied and then shut up. That the usual suspects in the press are trying to spin her .1% Native ancestry as vindicating her claims is so typical.

 

[ACamp1900]

Okay, for real this time, what freaking alien race replaced Lindsey Graham with this doppelganger???

Now he's going around saying he'll take a DNA test to beat Warren.... lol

 

[wizards8507]

I have never once laughed at Jimmy Fallon, all the guy does is laugh at other people's jokes... but yeah, Noah is terrible.

I like Fallon in sketch comedy, particularly when he's on SNL with Justin Timberlake.

 

[Legacy]

McCaskill-Hawley attacks remind us that politicians do have families — and feelings (KC Star)

Hawley vs. McCaskill: A sideshow battle of billionaire donors (StL P-D)

 

[Irish#1]

What a blunder.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/lexi-zhorela-heidi-heitkamp-cnntv/index.html

Washington (CNN)A woman who was identified without her permission as a survivor of abuse in a campaign ad for Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said Thursday she doesn't know what the senator "could do that would make it better."

Lexi Zhorela, a 24-year-old self-identified liberal from Bismarck, North Dakota, opened up about being in the ad to CNN's Erica Hill on "New Day."
"I don't know what she [Heitkamp] could do that would make it better," Zhorela said. "I know that's why a lot of the people in this situation are reaching out to seek legal counsel because of, you know, what she did is wrong."

She added that she thinks "it's very reckless" that Heitkamp didn't read and approve the document before it was published. "Somebody messed up," she said.

Earlier this week, Heitkamp, looking to slam her Republican opponent, Rep. Kevin Cramer, for suggesting "tough people" do not identify with the national conversation around sexual assault and the treatment of women, ran an open letter to Cramer to show him "what prairie tough looks like."

The letter featured over 120 names at the bottom, but several women, including Zhorela, have come forward to say they were either included without their permission or were not survivors of "domestic violence, sexual assault, or rape," as specified in the letter.

Heitkamp issued a personal apology to the women on Tuesday.
"You know, the names that didn't want to be out there are already out there for the world to see. You can't really retract that, the damage is done," Zhorela said.
Heitkamp's office told CNN Thursday that they planned to reach out to Zhorela, something Zhorela said she was already told before.
Zhorela previously told CNN that she no longer plans to vote for Heitkamp. On Thursday, she stuck to that position, telling Hill that "as of right now, she definitely lost my vote."

 

[connor_in]

 

[NorthDakota]

What a blunder.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/lexi-zhorela-heidi-heitkamp-cnntv/index.html

Washington (CNN)A woman who was identified without her permission as a survivor of abuse in a campaign ad for Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said Thursday she doesn't know what the senator "could do that would make it better."

Lexi Zhorela, a 24-year-old self-identified liberal from Bismarck, North Dakota, opened up about being in the ad to CNN's Erica Hill on "New Day."
"I don't know what she [Heitkamp] could do that would make it better," Zhorela said. "I know that's why a lot of the people in this situation are reaching out to seek legal counsel because of, you know, what she did is wrong."

She added that she thinks "it's very reckless" that Heitkamp didn't read and approve the document before it was published. "Somebody messed up," she said.

Earlier this week, Heitkamp, looking to slam her Republican opponent, Rep. Kevin Cramer, for suggesting "tough people" do not identify with the national conversation around sexual assault and the treatment of women, ran an open letter to Cramer to show him "what prairie tough looks like."

The letter featured over 120 names at the bottom, but several women, including Zhorela, have come forward to say they were either included without their permission or were not survivors of "domestic violence, sexual assault, or rape," as specified in the letter.

Heitkamp issued a personal apology to the women on Tuesday.
"You know, the names that didn't want to be out there are already out there for the world to see. You can't really retract that, the damage is done," Zhorela said.
Heitkamp's office told CNN Thursday that they planned to reach out to Zhorela, something Zhorela said she was already told before.
Zhorela previously told CNN that she no longer plans to vote for Heitkamp. On Thursday, she stuck to that position, telling Hill that "as of right now, she definitely lost my vote."

LMAO she's getting absolutely crushed for this at home. She was already losing pre-Kavanaugh, she pretty much accepted defeat during Kavanaugh, and now it seems she's just gonna torch everything she can.

 

[Irish YJ]

still yummy, with or without the left wing.

LMAO she's getting absolutely crushed for this at home. She was already losing pre-Kavanaugh, she pretty much accepted defeat during Kavanaugh, and now it seems she's just gonna torch everything she can.

Nice that she's going out as a dumpster fire though.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

The Week's Matthew Walther just published an article titled "Confession of an ex-voter":

The first vote I ever cast was for Bill Clinton in 1996, when I was 6 years old. I have been unable to discover a tally of the official vote from that year's Nickelodeon "Kids Pick the President" election, but I seem to remember a landslide victory for the Man From Hope.

My instincts have never been partisan. Four years later an article in that distinguished periodical Time for Kids informed me that Al Gore's wife supported "Parental Advisory" stickers on rap CDs and had hard things to say about Dr. Dre and Eminem. Armed with this knowledge I did as my conscience dictated and canvassed heavily for George W. Bush in my fourth-grade class's mock election. He won by a handful of votes. There might even have been a recount.

After this I did not return to the ballot box for many years. In 2008 I was a month shy of being 18 at the time of the Michigan Republican primary. The $25 I sent to Ron Paul's campaign represented about half of my net worth, but it gave me the pleasure of seeing my name appear on his homepage for about 30 seconds. That November I supported Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, because I liked his mustache. Two years later I voted for my girlfriend's cousin in a Michigan House primary (she came in third) and a straight Republican ticket in the fall. At the straw poll held at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2013 I wrote in my maternal grandfather and urged others to do so. He lost to Rand Paul.

This exhausts my personal electoral history.

There are any number of reasons why I have not voted since. One is simply that I cannot manage to fulfill the minimum requirement of keeping my address up to date. Appearing at my designated polling place on Nov. 6, 2012, I found myself turned away because my name appeared on the rolls of another ward. I later lived in Virginia for about five years. In half a decade I did not bother to change over my Michigan driver's license, much less put my name forward as a citizen-elector in that commonwealth. (While I cannot agree with earnest liberals who decry stipulations that voters register at their current addresses and present photographic evidence of their identities as "suppression," I do oppose so-called "voter I.D. laws," just as I believe that it should be legal to purchase alcohol and tobacco without presenting identification. One would expect those who consider the franchise sacred — or at least more important than beer — to take a somewhat stricter view.)

Another reason I have found for not voting is that in most cases it appears that my ballot will not make a difference. This is almost certainly true in presidential elections, where the slimmest margins — Florida in 2000 — still involve hundreds of votes.

In state and local politics the case is different. Here elections are often much closer and on occasion even a single vote matters. But there are other reasons for staying home. The decline of regional newspapers has made local affairs outside major metropolitan areas a matter of anagogic frustration to voters, who have only the faintest idea how and by whom most decisions are made in their states and cities. One simply accepts things as they are.

But my principal reason for declining to take part in elections is moral. It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself.

I believe that the burden of choosing leaders has been psychologically taxing for those upon whom it has been placed in the relatively brief period in which this arrangement has been common. The pace of modern communications has made it all-consuming. We are invited to witness the failings of politicians, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable, for 24 hours a day, every day of the year. For most of history men and women enjoyed the luxury of knowing that the sovereign's rule was a brute fact about which nothing could be done. They went about the ordinary business of life — laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator — untroubled by futile expectations of change. Some of us continue to aspire to this happy ideal.

Popular elections are a recent phenomenon in human affairs. I do not expect the illusion that there is something nobler about choosing leaders than inheriting them to hold sway over our imaginations forever. The neoliberal economic consensus that has united both of our major political parties, and indeed most politicians in the industrialized world, is a more powerful force than democracy. So long as the supply of cheap consumer goods and crass entertainment continues without interruption I think the majority of Americans would not mind terribly if universal suffrage gave way to a more emphatic type of oligarchy. The Chinese arrangement of one-party capitalist tyranny probably lies somewhere in our future.

In a bland way I hope to see Republicans control various state and national offices. This arises from a single issue: the legality of abortion. But I do not trust members of the GOP to keep their promises, and I refuse to be implicated in the crimes of politicians whose views are otherwise repulsive and whose character I find dubious. While I have strong feelings about what is wrong with the country and the world I see no obvious means of putting things right.

Even those who do not share my views will understand, I hope, the sense of futility I am attempting to describe. Among other things it is the reason is that I am mostly sanguine about Donald Trump's presidency. His rule is nakedly imperial; his will, mutable and frivolous. His authority is lawful not lovable. The capriciousness of his decisions, the hideousness of his conduct, and the visible descent of his mind and body into a ribald senescence are easier to bear if one sees him as a decadent potentate late in the decline of an empire rather than as the tribune of a conscientious citizenry in a flourishing republic. I have neither the power nor the will to alter the reality of Trump's presidency.

This feeling of resignation, which once barely rose above the level of despair, has become a consolation. This is true not least because I earn my living by writing about politics, albeit from the detached perspective of the non-combatant. I like to imagine that my disinterest allows me to see things more clearly than partisans, but even if this is not so it certainly makes me happier. Our misrule is simply the case.

 

[Irish YJ]

didn't know there was such a thing as a conservative street artist in Cali.

Street artist Sabo places Maxine Waters’ head on ‘Halloween’ billboard
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/street-artist-places-maxine-waters-head-on-halloween-billboard

 

[ickythump1225]