CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 24 - 29

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nycfan said:
The rightly part or the getting dragged part?
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Rightly part. This is just how politics works now.

I get it: Greg Abbott is not the victim (if he was, he'd deserve everything he got plus much more) -- rather, the disabled community would be discouraged to see disabilities made fun of. But the disabled community also doesn't benefit from the GOP winning elections.
 

Trump is preparing to pull Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador​

Stefanik has been a longtime supporter of Trump's in the House.

www.nbcnews.com

Trump pulls Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador

Trump said Stefanik will remain in the House, where Republicans have a razor-thin majority.
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[No details why yet — to preserve her seat in a tough time for special elections?]
 
nycfan said:

Trump is preparing to pull Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador​

Stefanik has been a longtime supporter of Trump's in the House.

www.nbcnews.com

Trump pulls Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador

Trump said Stefanik will remain in the House, where Republicans have a razor-thin majority.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

[No details why yet — to preserve her seat in a tough time for special elections?]
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Holding the seat is a good guess. Trump doing something to end the UN wouldn’t be a bad guess either.
 


She is now out of leadership in the House (though Trump claims she will return to leadership — will they just make up a new spot or demote someone else?) and lost a plum job because Trump has made electoral politics too risky for her red seat after a couple of months of crazy.

They may also be in fear of numbers they are seeing in one or both Florida special elections to replace Waltz and Gaetz (I can only hope)?
 
nycfan said:


She is now out of leadership in the House (though Trump claims she will return to leadership — will they just make up a new spot or demote someone else?) and lost a plum job because Trump has made electoral politics too risky for her red seat after a couple of months of crazy.

They may also be in fear of numbers they are seeing in one or both Florida special elections to replace Waltz and Gaetz (I can only hope)?
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After what’s happened the last 2 months, anybody who would vote for a Trump sycophant is dumber than a box of rocks. The Democrats’ and Lincoln Project’s warnings are all proving to be true.
 
superrific said:
Rightly part. This is just how politics works now.

I get it: Greg Abbott is not the victim (if he was, he'd deserve everything he got plus much more) -- rather, the disabled community would be discouraged to see disabilities made fun of. But the disabled community also doesn't benefit from the GOP winning elections.
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Mocking the disabled is how politics works now?
 
ZenMode said:
Mocking the disabled is how politics works now?
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NO and yet …

Elon Musk Has Brought 'The R-Word' Back — And It's Part Of A Disturbing New Trend​


www.yahoo.com

Elon Musk Has Brought 'The R-Word' Back — And It's Part Of A Disturbing New Trend

It fits in with a "politics of cruelty" that's been running rampant in the White House.
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“… Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s buddy-in-chief and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is among those who uses the slur regularly: In the past year, Musk, has used “retarded” as an insult at least a dozen times on X, the social media platform he owns and obsessively posts on.

Musk ― who’s always been something of a shit poster, even at 53 ― has directed the word at famed Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, actor Ben Stiller, and most recently, Timothy Snyder, a Yale history professor and authoritarianism expert who got under Musk’s skin by criticizing the Trump administration. …”

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As I noted earlier, I think she was totally out of line but hard to countenance focusing on a single far left member of Congress behaving in ways I completely reject in the wider spectrum of where we find ourselves thanks to MAGA/Musk. 🤷‍♀️
 
nycfan said:
NO and yet …

Elon Musk Has Brought 'The R-Word' Back — And It's Part Of A Disturbing New Trend​


www.yahoo.com

Elon Musk Has Brought 'The R-Word' Back — And It's Part Of A Disturbing New Trend

It fits in with a "politics of cruelty" that's been running rampant in the White House.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

“… Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s buddy-in-chief and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is among those who uses the slur regularly: In the past year, Musk, has used “retarded” as an insult at least a dozen times on X, the social media platform he owns and obsessively posts on.

Musk ― who’s always been something of a shit poster, even at 53 ― has directed the word at famed Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, actor Ben Stiller, and most recently, Timothy Snyder, a Yale history professor and authoritarianism expert who got under Musk’s skin by criticizing the Trump administration. …”

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As I noted earlier, I think she was totally out of line but hard to countenance focusing on a single far left member of Congress behaving in ways I completely reject in the wider spectrum of where we find ourselves thanks to MAGA/Musk. 🤷‍♀️
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I’m fine with criticizing her for this, but the left needs to have learned a lesson from the Al Franken situation.
 
Lots to f news to post tonight but I am swamped. Invite others to do so, though …

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nycfan said:
But geez

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology​


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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'

Trump said there was a "concerted and widespread" effort over the past decade to rewrite American history.
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“President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

Trump said there was a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

He signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo. …”
 
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