Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Gun control back in the news America has been a dangerous place this past month – even more so than usual. A couple of …
Joining me today is Charlie Robinson, here to discuss — in rapid fire conversation format around numerous topics — the general insanity of the world (as driven into reality by the powers-that-shouldn’t be) and how truly obvious and ominous it has become. (https://www.rokfin.com/TLAVagabond) (https://odysee.com/@TLAVagabond:5) (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/24yVcta8zEjY/) Video Source Links (In Chronological Order):
Presumably, Chris Collins (R-NY), infamous as the first congressman to have backed Trump, got back to Clarence this morning. I suspect what was waiting for him in the Buffalo News, his district's biggest newspaper, was worse than what most Republicans who voted for TrumpCare Thursday had to face. Keep in mind, though, that NY-27, has a PVI of R+8 where Obama lost badly both times and where Trump trounced Clinton 59.7-35.2%, his best performance in the state-- and considerably better than Romney had done when he won the district with 55.3%.
same-sameNot many people outside of New York have ever heard of Caril Paladino— and they’re better off for that. The aggressively senile far right 70 year old Buffalo realtor managed to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination against the hapless Rick Lazio in 2010. He went on to be absolutely shredded in the general election of Andrew Cuomo, losing 2,910,876 (61%) to 1,547,857 (32.5%).
I keep seeing one of those annoying automated spam tweets-on-endless-repeat from The Hill: "Billionaire George Soros said he regretted backing Obama in 2008, Clinton email reveals." I suppose its about the primary and he was sorry Hillary wasn't the nominee. But there were plenty of people who felt let down by Obama-- or by what-they-thought-Obama-was-going-to-be-- in 2008. 69,498,215 people voted for Obama in the 2008 general election.
Unless you're reading DWT for the first time, you're already aware that we don't care for conservatives or reactionaries here. We have a bias towards progressives. But we don't dislike moderates either. Nothing wrong with a moderate. Oh, not in the way the Inside-the-Beltway media terms every right-wing corporate whore and conservative a moderate… just actual moderates. Like Buffalo's Brian Higgins. He has the 132nd most progressive voting record in Congress (out of 200 Democrats). His lifetime Progressive Punch crucial vote score is 76.06.
