by NoahHey, Republicans, ya want civility? New Yorkers like me have got your civility right here. Like these fake public service ad posters that are popping up around New York City that say you are trash, pretty mild actually. The time to be polite about what you are has long since passed. Look in the mirror, Repugs. Whether it cracks or not, you are still trash. There is no other reasonable explanation for why you continue to worship your dear leader.
- by NoahOnly pawns in their game. So sang Bob Dylan. He was singing about the assassination of Medgar Evers and how politicians and others in authority use poor whites as pawns and pit people against eachother to gain and keep power.
Active Shooter by Nancy OhanianWhen I was a kid, there was a really clownish conservative douche of a senator from Nebraska, Roman Hruska. What's the opposite of a brain scientist? A Roman Hruska. He was a one-term congressman from Omaha before winning for an open Senate seat in 1954-- and then getting reelected over and over until he finally retired in 1976.
It must have been extraordinarily depressing for sincere conservatives, but on Sunday, Tim Alberta, writing for Politico , noted that the conservative movement is Donald Trump.
Heading into the elections in November, the Democrats held 8 of the 35 seats in the South Dakota state Senate. On November 8, they held 6 seats (and none of the 6 had been contested by the GOP). And of the 70 members of the state House, only 10 are Democrats. Every statewide elected official is a Republican and the 3 members of South Dakota's congressional delegation are also Republicans. Trump beat Hillary 227,721 (61.5%) to 117,458 (31.7%). In 2012 Romney won the state, but Obama did far better than Clinton, having taken 144,988 votes (40%).
Going into 2017, the Christian Science Monitor reminded its readers that boosting low wages has become less controversial as conservatives looked elsewhere to inflict their deadly ideology on working families.
