[The Soup Nazi]

Update from demandprogress.org:

June 11. That's the day net neutrality will go away, after the FCC sided with AT&T, Verizon and Comcast against 86% of Americans to repeal Title II net neutrality protections.

Now we have another important date to share with you. Wednesday, May 16. That’s the day we are 99% sure the CRA resolution to save net neutrality will be voted on in the Senate.

Will you help win Wednesday’s vote? Tell Senators to vote YES on the resolution to save net neutrality.

Thanks to the entire Democratic caucus, and the support of Senator Susan Collins of Maine, we have 50 Senators in support of overturning the FCC and saving net neutrality.

We just need one more vote to win in the Senate. What happens over these next few days will determine whether the internet is controlled by you, or Big Cable.

You better believe that lobbyists for Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T are doing a full court press with members of Congress right now. So we have to bring our A game too.

Click here to tell the Senate to overturn the FCC and save net neutrality. DEADLINE: Wednesday.

Then, forward this email to someone you know. A friend, co-worker, your dog’s vet. Anybody who you enjoys the free and open internet as much as you do.

We are soooo close to victory. Small businesses across America are fired up and standing with us. Your favorite sites like Reddit, Etsy, Vimeo, and Medium are telling their visitors to contact Congress. People are protesting at Senate and House offices all over the country on May 14th.

If we push really hard now, we can save net neutrality for good without any complicated legislative maneuvers. If we don’t go all in, saving net neutrality becomes a heck of a lot harder.

This is one of the most consequential votes Congress has taken on net neutrality and internet freedom in years. We can win this vote. We only need one more senator to win.

So drop everything you are doing right now and sign this petition. Make sure the Senate hears all of us, loud and clear.

We have only until Wednesday: Tell the Senate to overturn the FCC and save net neutrality.

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“stop saying the trump era is not normal”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...n-here-before/

Slavery, the Klan, Jim Crow, the Klan again. Internment of Japanese Americans. Gender discrimination and scientific racism. McCarthyism. George Wallace. All leading to a president whom Meacham considers “an heir to the white populist tradition,” a leader eager to undermine the law, the truth and “the sense of hope essential to American life.”

Trump is normal in that he embodies recurring maladies of American public life; perhaps the main anomaly is that he brings so many of them together. Such historical awareness can comfort, especially if you believe, as Meacham does, that every generation considers itself under siege and that, with the right leadership, Americans usually find a way forward rather than back. “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before,” he writes. “All has seemed lost before, only to give way, after decades of gloom, to light.”

Of course, if you’re living in the gloom, awareness of historical patterns bestows limited consolation. It might, however, inject small doses of those qualities that latter-day resistance requires: Inspiration. Patience. Even humility.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

There's been much concern about President Trump;s pullout from the JCPOA last week, so i thought I'd share with you the views of Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic representative from New Jersey and former Bill Clinton speechwriter abd Hillary Clinton and John Kerry campaign adviser:


Gottheimer Stands Strong Against Iran Deal

Washington, May 8, 2018

Today, Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) released the following statement regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action:

“I opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015, because while it may have placed temporary limits on certain aspects of Iran’s nuclear program, it did not permanently preclude Tehran’s pathway to the bomb. It also failed to address Iran's aggressive development of long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these nuclear weapons. These facts remain true today.

“Since the deal’s implementation, Iran has reaped the benefits of sanctions relief, twice skirted the agreement’s limitations on heavy water, and continued to flaunt its refusal to allow international inspectors access to military sites under the JCPOA’s weak inspections regime. Iran has violated international law by testing long-range ballistic missiles and transferring weapons to terrorist groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and Iranian proxies in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen. But even if Iran were to fulfill all its obligations, the sunsets in the JCPOA would still permit Iran to resume its nuclear program within years."

Isn't it strange that he said this, but elsewhere it is said that inspections were not refused, and Iran followed the rules of the deal.

Which "truth" do we follow?

(I certainly cannot believe a word that Netanyahu speaks. He is almost Trumpist in his hatred of all things Obama.)

[ilduclo]

he's also just about as crooked as Trump

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...amin-netanyahu

[Skuj]

So, Mr Kushner, how's that whole mid-east peace thing working out?

[Skuj]

What does Obama and EU know that we don't? OK I'll read that.....

If Kushner was on The Apprentice, wouldn't he be fired by now? Oh....wait....

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what this shit means is that the perfect is the enemy of the good

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Skuj

So, Mr Kushner, how's that whole mid-east peace thing working out?

I've always —even before the Trumpocalypse— hated Kushner and Ivanka for being parasitic famous-for-being-famous CROOKS, but today was the first day I simply couldn't stand the sight of them on TV anymore — it literally (and I literally mean LITERALLY) made me nauseous.

 

 

 

[The Soup Nazi]

But hey, who gives a shit about the 55 (and counting) Palestinians killed by Israel today, right? I mean, they're so brown and poor and faceless and just... unglamorous...

 

 

 

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fucking disgraceful

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

he's also just about as crooked as Trump

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...amin-netanyahu

Updated overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E...i n_Netanyahu

Netanyahu was fighting for his political survival and Trump made it golden for him by getting out of the JCPOA and moving that repulsive motherfucking embassy to Jerusalem. Nothing like fearmongering (Iran and Hamas will rape us! They will RAPE US!) to get your poll numbers up, cry witchhunt, blame the media and try to discredit the Chief of the Israeli Police and the country's Attorney General... both of whom were appointed by Bibifuck himself — sounds familiar?

[ilduclo]

Yup, Election Day in OR today.

I wish someone would sanction the US and Israel for this..BDS!

[The Soup Nazi]

This is a almost two months old but I hadn't seen it. From time.com:

Inside the Last Days of the Hillary Clinton Campaign
From Huma Abedin's breakdown to Clinton's reaction to the Comey email investigation

Excerpted from DEAR MADAM PRESIDENT: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World, by Jennifer Palmieri

[evollove]

DEAR MADAME PRESIDENT is short, inspiring book. Highly recommended.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

This is a almost two months old but I hadn't seen it. From time.com:

Inside the Last Days of the Hillary Clinton Campaign
From Huma Abedin's breakdown to Clinton's reaction to the Comey email investigation

Excerpted from DEAR MADAM PRESIDENT: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World, by Jennifer Palmieri

christ on a cracker

of course she’s going to blame someone other than her boss

same old fucked excuses for a shitty “i’m not him” campaign. hillary & co please go away already.

she didn’t lose because she was a woman. she lost cuz she was a sucky candidate with a sucky campaign.

now let elizabeth warren run

[The Soup Nazi]

Join Mark Hamill and save net neutrality!

[The Soup Nazi]

From The Huffington Post:

CIA TORTURER BREAKS DEMS
Game Over: Gina Haspel On Track To Be Confirmed As CIA Director
Democrats have lost the debate over torture after two Democratic senators said they plan to back Haspel’s confirmation.

More (just in case you're a wuss who equivalences the HP to Fox News):
https://news.google.com/gn/news/stor...us&hl=en&gl=US

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

The best move for Iran now would be to ditch Khamenei's bullcrap about "pulling out too" (let Rouhani deal with that guy) and send Zarif to Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin and Beijing to present a united (and smiling!) front: as with the Climate Change agreement (actually, the JCPOA is better than that one), everybody but the U.S. sticks with the deal and Trump can go fuck himself while playing Bibi's CDs.

Called it.

 

Europe, Iran say push to save nuclear deal off to good start

BRUSSELS (AP) — Major European powers and Tehran committed Tuesday to keep working together to save the Iran nuclear deal despite U.S. President Donald Trump's determination to kill it off. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany said after talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that salvage efforts focused on economic, business and banking issues could produce "practical solutions in the next few weeks"

[ilduclo]

Cool! Hey, we just “unvoted” our shithead Repub County Comissioner!

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

Cool! Hey, we just “unvoted” our shithead Repub County Comissioner!

To the fiery pits with that indecent offal.