I try not to do too many “Yeah, what he said” posts. But Keith Olbermann put it so beautifully last night I can’t resist.
You can follow this link to the video and transcript, or just watch the embedded video below….
I particularly like Senator Kennedy’s observation, made again by Olbermann. “You mean, Mr. PResident, you are really prepared to put the lives of the American people at risk just to protect the phone companies?”
Stay tuned . . . .
This has always been true. Turns out he is also very good at turnk out Democrats, as demonstrated in 2018 and 2019.
One reason turnout in primaries less useful as indicator for Ds. Opportunity to vote AGAINST Trump drives turnout.
President Donald Trump's campaign is fine-tuning its get-out-the-vote machine months ahead of the general election — a daunting challenge for Democrats
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/16/trump-campaign-voter-turnout-115338
Tiffany’s or Dollar General: “since 1970, the share of US income earned by families in the middle class has fallen from almost 67% to around 40%. Small wonder, then, that retailers are aiming at the ends of the income distribution”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/not-internet-really-killing-malls.html
🚨 Exciting Career Announcement! 🚨
I will be starting at @publicknowledge on Tuesday as a Policy Counsel. I will still be working on #privacy, but I'll be doing much more advocacy work and I'll get to dive into the broad consumer privacy - not just kids and education.
There is an unfortunate tendency to blame “teh Internets “ for everything awful today.
Frankly I think the Internet works like a collective Mirror of Erised.
I’ve fought for a free internet for more than 30 years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right. https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/three-decades-internet-freedom-activism.html via @slate
We live in interesting times.
The best journalists of our days are two comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and one sportscaster, Keith Olbermann.
“We live in interesting times.” Isn’t that a Chinese Curse???
Olbermann was AWESOME.