Sunday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, August 1, 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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The US is now actively aiding and abetting illegal immigrants to the point of providing seats on special flights to America.
You laugh, but just you wait. It will be the lead story on Tucker Carlson’s show every night this week.
Those Chinese are taking this global warming hoax just a little too far.
Apple Yanks Anti-Vax Version of Tinder From the App Store
@OzarkHillbilly:
It may be too far. But let’s be honest, how diabolical is it, really? It can’t be that hard to push a glacier off the edge of the Earth. The trickiest part is NASA’s military wing.
The Daily Show put together a good clip of Fox hosts downplaying the threat of Covid when – wait for it – trump was president; and then exaggerating its threat when – wait for it – Biden is president and illegal immigrants are the possible vector. These people really have no shame.
Must disagree. If I have my pick handle handy…
https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1421616784034127876
I have no idea if this is true or not:
https://twitter.com/dmbtrivia2/status/1421643446104719367
https://twitter.com/dmbtrivia2/status/1421643027655716865
@charon:
Yep. Pfizer put up money to conduct the expensive clinical trials, and marketed like crazy. The vaccine itself is pure BioNTech.
Announced yesterday, the FDA is juggling resources and putting off some of their other work in order to speed up the process to fully license (or not) the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Business Insider
Kevin McCarthy reportedly joked about hitting Nancy Pelosi with a speaker’s gavel during a GOP fundraising dinner
“What a moron.”
Sarah Palin told a conservative Christian crowd in Pasadena that if God wants her to do so, she’ll run for the senate in 2022.
I suppose there’s always room for one more clown in the circus, but I think all the former Palinistas have long since transferred their allegiance to Trump.
@CSK:
Saw that she is mulling over a run for Murkowski’s seat, the primary attack ads write themselves; Didn’t know that Tucson (or wherever she lives in AZ) was a community in Alaska.
@Teve:
Being the target of public ridicule is an adverse effect!
@Sleeping Dog:
I’m sure she’s just marketing her brand, to whatever extent there’s a market for it. According to the Anchorage Daily News, she lives mostly in the family homestead on Lake Lucille in Wasilla, and for the low, low price of $199, she’ll make a Cameo video wishing your grandma or spouse or whoever a happy birthday or happy anniversary.
I think the house in Arizona was sold before she even lived in it.
@CSK:
But she isn’t challenging Trump, she’s hoping to get on the Trump train and score an endorsement from him.
The larger question is whether she’s simply thought of as old news. And I hate to say it, but part of her appeal in the first place was her youthful good looks; I remember Palinista men being interviewed in 2008 and gushing over how she was “hot.” With her pushing 60, that’s going to be harder to achieve.
@Sleeping Dog: Additionally, her endorsement of Joe Miller against Murkowski in 2010 was notable as one of the big failures to knock out a Republican incumbent.
@Kylopod:
I never said that she was challenging Trump–that would be suicide–but that many of her former acolytes have moved on from her to Trump.
She’d be challenging Lisa Murkowski, an issue complicated by the fact that Trump has already endorsed Murkowski’s other Republican opponent.
I doubt she’ll run. The past few years have brought her only bad publicity: various out-of-wedlock pregnancies by her eldest daughter, her oldest son’s multiple arrests for domestic violence, the whole family’s participation in a drunken brawl…
This is just a grift.
@CSK:
I didn’t realize that. If that’s the case, she would be effectively challenging Trump by entering the race.
@Kylopod:
Yes, but it’s very likely moot. How many times has Palin teased the possibility of running for something.
@Teve:
Big mistake. Apple should be working to help the untaxed segregate themselves into a covid ghetto to protect the rest of us.
60% of White-Tailed Deer, in Michigan, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/one_health/downloads/qa-covid-white-tailed-deer-study.pdf
For the 40th anniversary of MTV:
@CSK:
Palin has a practically insurmountable mountain to climb. The press has Greene, Boebert, Gaetz, not to mention Trump Himself, to turn to for entertaining batshit nuts material these days.
In today’s GOP those incidents will only serve to endear her to the base even more.
@dazedandconfused:
True. She looks almost normal beside that crew.
@OzarkHillbilly:
You may well be right.
@CSK: Pretty sure a fair percentage of the trumpsters around here have records. I can easily see them claiming her as one of their own.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Back in 2014, shortly after the Palins’ epic party-crashing/drunken brawl escapade, I encountered a Palin fan and made some mildly critical comment about these latest hijinks. The Palin fan immediately flared up and said: “Just because you come from a boring family is no reason to criticize Sarah’s.”
I confess I had never before heard “boring” equated with “non-criminal.”
@CSK: Rednecks and hillbillies are proud of getting their asses kicked by cops. First thing they do after getting out on bail is brag about how many cops it took to take them down. I never had much patience for such folks. One guy, I pulled out of several situations not knowing wtf set ’em off. And then I finally saw it. Thought I was gonna die. Literally.
Super nice guy, you’d never guess it but a stupid belligerent drunk. A Marine, he was gonna take on the world. Not with my help, I was done after that.
@OzarkHillbilly:
I love the way she raises her face and smiles that lovely, joyous smile at the end.
@OzarkHillbilly: makes my day!
@OzarkHillbilly: (Probably late, but…) It’s probably even better than you imagine. If we hadn’t done it, Tucker would say we should have, but if rightwing nut jobs start acting antisocially toward the people we rescued (an isolated proposition at best, I’m sure [eyeroll emoji]), Tucker can criticize the Democrats for bringing “those people” into “a society that they can’t understand” and note that they should have been left at refugee camps.
@charon: This can be the new anti-vaxx pitch–Pfizer DELIBERATELY shorted the concentration of vaccine in their shots to make a third jab essential.
@Just nutha ignint cracker: there Was some Republican diptard who said we should leave all the Afghanis who helped us there, so they can fight for their own country.
@Teve: Wa! That means they don’t need me to help them write this sh!t. I’m soooooooo disappointed. 🙁 Another retirement job opportunity lost. [weeping emoji]
@Teve: At least Karma is still on our side.