https://newrepublic.com/post/176624/josh-hawley-citizens-united-stunt
«But it’s still worth prodding his proposal to assess the full measure of his ambitions—which turn out to be appropriately deceptive. You see, for all of Hawley’s bluster, he’s only targeting one sliver of the boodle that the Supreme Court’s allowed to come sluicing through the gates: corporate money. For all this posturing, Hawley would leave unchecked the flood of dark money.»
https://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh709.sht
Sang this hymn, written mid-ish-17th century, today, All Saints Sunday (in which we remember those who have passed on before us), and I’m always struck by how grim it must sound to folks who want it to sound grim and/or don’t have a key bit of context. Definitely something from another time (? maybe?). Catchy tune, though.
(“Blood besprinkled” is a reference to Old Testament sacrifice practices in which the congregants get the blood of the sacrifice sprinkled on them, Jesus being the sacrificial lamb for us now.)
1. Come, let us join our friends above
who have obtained the prize,
and on the eagle wings of love
to joys celestial rise.
Let saints on earth unite to sing
with those to glory gone,
for all the servants of our King
in earth and heaven are one.2. One family we dwell in him,
one church above, beneath,
though now divided by the stream,
the narrow stream of death;
one army of the living God,
to his command we bow;
part of his host have crossed the flood,
and part are crossing now.3. Ten thousand to their endless home
this solemn moment fly,
and we are to the margin come,
and we expect to die.
E’en now by faith we join our hands
with those that went before,
and greet the blood-besprinkled bands
on the eternal shore.4. Our spirits too shall quickly join,
like theirs with glory crowned,
and shout to see our Captain’s sign,
to hear this trumpet sound.
O that we now might grasp our Guide!
O that the word were given!
Come, Lord of Hosts, the waves divide,
and land us all in heaven.
The headline pretty much nails it.
https://popular.info/p/what-everyone-should-know-about-the
Well, I guess moderate Republicans (are there any left?) thought it better to vote this guy in than to work with Democrats to elect a more-reasonable Speaker.
The descent continues.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4269717-speaker-candidate-votes-2020-election-results-overturn/
This seems worth knowing, for whatever reason.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4264545-house-gop-not-backing-jim-jordan-speaker/
Well, apparently, America apparently does NOT want Jim Jordan.
https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/111199101308233391:
Because older generations tend to be more conservative than younger generations, it looks like people get more conservative with age.
This is, thankfully, untrue.
People get more progressive with age.
It’s just that previous generations get a little left behind. The jump between generations is bigger than the progress that happens within people, giving the illusion that older people become more conservative.
Some good news for once. 😊
https://brilliant.org/lesson/the-overton-paradox/
#politics #demography
Vote for clowns, get a circus. And, to be clear, when I say “clowns”, I mean “Republicans”.
«There are no serious discussions taking place on a coalition speaker picked with bipartisan votes, according to senior lawmakers and aides in both parties.
“No Republican has come to leadership to have a serious conversation of substance,” said a senior Democratic aide. “This is on Republicans to come to the Democrats to try to find a compromise.”»
19th-century tweet:
«Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.»
Short and sweet, because he didn’t think anybody would care enough to write it down, but… brevity is the soul of wit.
This is what happens when Dems/liberals pay attention only to the Presidential election and not state-level stuff:
«The legislature also handed the current Republican chief justice of the state Supreme Court, Paul Newby, greater power to determine which judges hear lawsuits challenging state laws. So, a Republican chief justice can steer Republican lawmakers to Republican-friendly and/or Republican-appointed judges to hear a challenge to laws passed by a Republican legislature.»
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/north-carolina-gop-power-grab-roy-cooper
Here, Read This 