Sunday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, January 3, 2021
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I read the Guardian, but sometimes… Head? Meet Desk.
Can Kamala Harris as vice-president be both loyal deputy and heir apparent?
I just… I just can’t.
In a nutshell, that’s it.
It’s ‘World War III,’ says L.A. County doctor beset by intensely sick COVID-19 patients
On Parler, Talk of ‘Civil War’ Follow Ted Cruz-Led Plan to Challenge Electoral Votes
@Teve:
This is nothing new. The Trumpkins over at Lucianne.com have been calling for civil war for over a year now. They claim to have all the guns and ammo.
Just who do they plan to shoot? Where will they start? With their next door neighbors?
@CSK: I’ve been watching them on Parler. They’re going to shoot pussy Libtards, and it’s going to take a week or less. That’s about as detailed as their plans are, at this stage. 😀
Antibiotic Abuse: Pharmaceutical Profiteering Accelerates Superbugs
They’re in for a bit of a surprise.
@Teve:
Interesting that they’ve not done any planning, since they’ve been threatening war for so long.
@OzarkHillbilly:
I know, but I’m deeply sick of listening to their threats. They’re like little kids. No wonder they love Trump. He really is one of them.
I have risk factors, so have been extremely cautious and have barely left the house since last March. While death and serious long-term illness frighten me, I think that losing sense of taste and smell, perhaps permanently, has to be at the top of the list of sh!t covid can cause that scares me most.
Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste
Permanently losing one’s sense of taste and smell.
@Jen: that is a terrible condition
A thought for a Sunday morning:
A coterie of Dem leaning operatives should quietly establish themselves on the various Q-anon forums and as the the 2022 election season begins in earnest, they should spread rumors and conspiracies about voting and encourage the rubes to stay home on election day.
@Teve:
What a whiny, self-pitying pus-pocket he is.
I am refusing to accept the apparent outcome of the Sugar Bowl! Clearly corrupt influences must be at work! Before the game the point spread favored Clemson which proves that they won. Also, I have heard that one of the referees was born in Ohio, and both of the guys holding the measuring chain have visited there with one of them on the record as saying that Cleveland is not so bad. We should start Congressional committee hearings on Ohio State’s quarterback eligibility to play in view of his transfer from Georgia. Also, the whole departure of Urban Meyer needs to be exposed. You can not trust Ohio State; everybody knows that.
understanding the appeal of conspiracy theories
@CSK:
Oh, come on. You’re maligning whiny, self-pitying pus-pockets everywhere. He’s much worse.
@Flat Earth Luddite:
True, but it’s difficult for me to think of anything bad enough to describe him adequately.
@Teve:
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well, cool. First one through my door gives me a gun. Hate to admit it, but that’s been my first thought every time an open-carry MAGAt wanders up to my cash register. I see several of them every week.
@CSK:
Point taken. I concede, but it’s still hurtful to the poor whiny, self-pitying pus-pockets who aren’t named Donald Trump.
@flat earth luddite: They are all around me out here. What it is they are afraid of I do not know.
Is this what was meant by MAGA?
@OzarkHillbilly:
If they were 1/32 as smart as they think they are, they’d be afraid of people like me. There are a lot of us out there. We look like everyone else. And personally, I’m old enough that life in prison should be a couple of years and a wake-up.
@OzarkHillbilly: On the other hand, many Americans have so many sets of (step) grandparents that anyone who catastrophe has struck seem like outliers. That and catastrophes only happen to poor people living in the sticks here in the first place. (And they wouldn’t have had any problems if they’d had the courage to leave their red state sh!thole towns like others of us did. 🙁 )
@Teve:
I hope that’s true. What I expect is for the GOP to see that their big obstacle to regaining complete control during the mid-terms is the nation recovering from Covid-19.
Why is there no worcestershire sauce at the groceries?
@Michael Cain: I think supply chain issues are causing some weird shortages. Worcestershire sauce isn’t something I’ve needed lately (I have about a half-bottle on hand), but there have been other items that just seem strange to be missing from the shelves.
Sorry we aren’t neighbors, I’d be happy to let you have some!
@Just nutha ignint cracker: there is no doubt in my mind that if Biden developed a solid plan which would end the panic in three months, McConnell would do anything in his power to block it. He’s a depraved piece of shit.
@Michael Cain: Lea & Perrins has had a lockdown-based bottling problem due to Covid.
@Teve: Good thing I’ve got an extra then.
Heh.
For your edification and entertainment:
http://www.thebulwark.com/portrait-of-the-president-as-a-gangster/
@Michael Cain: I noticed that, too. Haven’t been able to get any french dijon mustard under ANY brand name since the beginning of the pandemic, either.
Not sure why, but I have an Edit button, and it says my comment is awaiting moderation! What’s going on on the back end of the site today?!
Braggart.
@Teve:
No Lea & Perrins. No Heinz. No French’s. No Kroger’s house brand.
Years ago, there was a shortage of many integrated circuits because all of the resin used in the plastic-mounted versions in the world was produced in a single factory in Japan that was closed by a fire. Is worcestershire like that?
@Michael Cain: idk. But I’ve seen articles going back to spring about the L&P problem. It could be that demand is very steady so the supply chain has no extra capacity.
@Michael Cain:
My past experience in both food processing and wholesale grocery finds me unlikely to be surprised to discover that all of those brands might well be manufactured in the same factory. A frozen vegetable company I worked for during the summers in grad school processed frozen vegetables for 3 national brands and 4 or 5 house brands and the wholesaler that I worked for in my university days had a canned food line that they used to bid out to fill. We only provided labels and distribution chains. We canned nothing. It wouldn’t surprise me to find that Lee and Perrins only supplies one additional item–a specific recipe–but they may not, too. Foodstuffs are way more generic than we admit to.
Schneier on the Solarwinds Attack
@Just nutha ignint cracker: it could be that. It could also be that when L&P went down, consumers changed brands and depleted those.
I was very surprised to find out that Red Bull is entirely a marketing company. They subcontract the cans out for like $0.03 apiece and resell for $3.
WaPo says Trump’s lookin to give Devin Nunes the Medal of Freedom.