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True Dough's JournalYoung Canadians' love affair with Trudeau on shaky ground as election nears
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A Nanos poll on Tuesday, commissioned by CTV News and the Globe and Mail, found the proportion of 18-to-29-year-olds who plan on voting Liberal was 27%, down from 38% on Aug. 2. Their Conservative support was 23% compared with 19% in August.
“These were the people that Trudeau didn’t just need on side, but needed on side enough to go cast a ballot,” said Shachi Kurl, executive director of polling firm Angus Reid, referring to concerns about low voter turnout.
In 2015, overall turnout for voters between 18-24 jumped from 39% in 2011 to 57%, while total voter turnout was 68.5%, the highest since 1993.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-election-youth/young-canadians-love-affair-with-trudeau-on-shaky-ground-as-election-nears-idUSKBN1WG4I5
What's your expectation of foreign leaders who Trump tried to manipulate/extort?
Do you think they all should have reported Trump's actions/words immediately to the FBI or the United Nations or some other reputable body? Was the onus on them to flag that conduct? Can they be forgiven for thinking that they just have to put up with the so-called "leader of the free world" and longtime grifter as this is consequently the new "normal" in foreign relations with the U.S.?
Will your respect for foreign heads of state plummet if/when we find out they too were leaned on by Trump for this favor or that in return for something else and they remained quiet?
Vontaze Burfict suspended for remainder of NFL season following dangerous hit
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1178698349614120960
Completely warranted for a repeat offender like him.
https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1178368999068966913
Watch police crack down on protesters in Hong Kong
Democracy being trampled before our eyes...
https://twitter.com/blader/status/1178247973345484800
Tulsi Gabbard changes her mind: she's now in favor of impeachment hearings
Statement to come.
Al Franken to host weekly show on SiriusXM radio
Gradually rebuilding his public profile. We all know he'll be a great interviewer.
The Minnesota Democrat is perhaps the most prominent public figure felled by the #MeToo movement to step back into public life. He said he has no plans to return to politics, but as an author, former "Air America" radio host and "Saturday Night Live" writer and comedian, he's returning to a realm he inhabited before becoming a senator. Sirius originally carried Franken's Air America show.
"I miss the Senate a lot but I'm not there so I want to be a voice," he said in an interview. Of the public's acceptance, he said "a lot of that will depend on me and whether folks think what I'm saying is important and fun at the same time."
The one-hour interview show with figures from politics, entertainment and other fields will air Saturdays at 10 a.m. ET on the Sirius Progress channel, with replays available on demand. Comic Chris Rock will be the first guest, with former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and comic Patton Oswalt lined up for future shows.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/embattled-former-senator-al-franken-returns-to-public-eye-with-weekly-radio-show/
Now is the time for a Warren New World Order
Trump is going to take the Repubs down in a dumpster fire. Yes, hard-core ReThugs will remain on board the steaming pile of dung, flailing in the flames. Fine, let 'em burn.
But others who lean right will refuse to vote for that shit show. So let's take advantage. Seize the moment.
This is the time to push the left further to the left and allow Elizabeth Warren to reset the balance of power so that corporations and lobbyists aren't running the country anymore. For far too long they've been widening the wealth gap, exacerbating the growing disparity between the 1 per centers and the poor.
And to hell with these types below. It's the grassroots who will have to ante up and ensure Warren has the $$$ to work with. She needs to control the agenda and knock the greedy scum down a few pegs. She has the guts to do it. A "return to normal" isn't good enough!
Wall Street Democratic donors warn the party: We’ll sit out, or back Trump, if you nominate Elizabeth Warren
Democratic donors on Wall Street and in big business are preparing to sit out the presidential campaign fundraising cycle — or even back President Donald Trump — if Sen. Elizabeth Warren wins the party’s nomination.
In recent weeks, CNBC spoke to several high-dollar Democratic donors and fundraisers in the business community and found that this opinion was becoming widely shared as Warren, an outspoken critic of big banks and corporations, gains momentum against Joe Biden in the 2020 race.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/wall-street-democratic-donors-may-back-trump-if-warren-is-nominated.html
At least Maguire
isn't trying to downplay the gravity of what Trump was doing. He's not passing a guilty verdict, but he has acknowledged that he has a grasp of how serious this shit really is. Doesn't bode well for Donny.
Ex-Dallas cop missed clues before shooting man eating ice cream in own home: prosecutor
Amber Guyger, who is white, has told investigators she mistook 26-year-old Botham Jean, a black man, for a burglar after she mistakenly entered his central Dallas apartment one floor above her own.
A defense attorney said in his opening statement that the officer was so exhausted she was “on autopilot” and that dozens of other people who live in the same apartment complex reported they had confused floors because all of them are virtually identical. Assistant District Attorney Jason Hermus told the jury of four men and 12 women that Guyger had a 16-minute phone conversation with her former partner, with whom she had a romantic relationship, on the way home from work that night after a 13-1/2 hour shift.
“Whatever is on her mind after that conversation has consumed her attention entirely,” Hermus said in his opening statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-crime-amber-guyger/ex-dallas-cop-missed-clues-before-shooting-man-eating-ice-cream-in-own-home-prosecutor-idUSKBN1W80XN
Far Side comic is making a come back!!!
The beloved cartoon was the original proto-meme: a bizarre mashup of science, dark humor and anthropomorphic animals that pointed out the absurdity of human behavior and life in general. Now The Far Side website is teasing new content with a cartoon of a man thawing out several iconic Far Side characters trapped in a glacier. The caption reads “uncommon, unreal, and (soon-to-be) unfrozen. A new online era of The Far Side is coming!”
I used to skip over the other crappy Sunday comics to read The Far Side. The compact, absurd punchlines delivered by simpleton characters offered a hilarious glimpse into a Gonzo world where cows stand on their back feet and only drop down to graze on all fours when there’s a car coming. One panel shows a Viking rowing ship with brawny Celts on the left, and scrawny ones on the right. “I’ve got it too, Omar,” says one ship commander to the other, “a strange feeling like we’ve just been going in circles.” In another, a karate class watches aliens made of bricks and wood blocks pile out of a spaceship: “The class abruptly stopped practicing. Here was an opportunity to not only employ their skills, but also to save the entire town.”
The buzz is loud for a comic that’s been out of the public eye for a quarter-century. Fred Armisen played the ultimate Far Side fanboy in “Searching for Mr. Larson,” the Documentary Now! Parody of “Dear Mr. Watterson.” Director Joel Schroeder’s 2013 passion project/road trip to explore the appeal of Calvin and Hobbes through fan interviews became more of a vanity project about Schroeder’s own personal journey. Armisen is only mocking the documentary trend of filmmakers wedging themselves narcissistically into their hero’s story, but it’s clear that Far Side fans are just as invested and expectant for Larson’s output.
https://bookandfilmglobe.com/comics/the-far-side-is-coming-back/
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