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Recent Polls on Voters & Congress

Posted on June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 by ScottSoriano

CNN’s Chris Cillizza reports on recent generic ballot polls for Congress (generics are when no candidate is mentioned) which show that the voting public prefers a Democratic controlled Congress 51% to 40% – an 11-point gap. He notes that in January that gap was 6 points. As someone who studies and writes on polls, Cillizza’s…

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White & Tight: Thoughts on Being an Ally

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 by ScottSoriano

When an incident of repression occurs or systematic oppression is revealed, people who were not repressed or do not live with a particular form of oppression are repulsed by what they see. They want to help fight repression and oppression. In recent days, many white people watched the nine-minute clip of George Floyd’s murder by…

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Posted on June 4, 2020June 5, 2020 by ScottSoriano

I woke Tuesday morning with tears in my eyes. It was a rough night. Popped outside for the dog’s last walk, a little after 8 p.m., after San Francisco’s unnecessary, open-ended curfew. There were a half-dozen people hurrying down the sidewalk, alone, something I’ve gotten used to in the pandemic shutdown. Tucked in doorways, a…

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America Is A Riot

Posted on June 1, 2020June 5, 2020 by ScottSoriano

One of the more disturbing reactions to the week’s unrest is the shock that riots are occurring. I’m not talking about shock over why they are happening, but that violent unrest happens. People react as if the violent uprisings in Minneapolis and other cities are unique occurrences in the history of America. They aren’t. Going…

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From George Floyd to Abraham Lincoln

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Whenever a police kills a Black or Latinx person, we play by all the rules. We write letters to public officials, we go to community meetings, we dialogue with the police, we work on political campaigns, we vote…and we protest. News reports emphasize “peaceful” as if peaceful protests aren’t the norm. Often the protests are…

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There Are Riots Going On

Posted on May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Have you ever been in a riot? Never? I have; several. The first one was at the Democratic National Convention in 1984. We went down from Sacramento to San Francisco to see the Dead Kennedys. Mayor Dianne Feinstein had the police create “protest pens,” areas tucked away from the convention, which allowed police to keep…

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Where’s the Fight?

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Please don’t freak over Trump and his recent lashing out about Twitter. It is all impulse and show. He cannot do anything to shut down or police social media. No executive order he issues (if he actually does, he puff ‘n bluffs a lot) will make it through the courts. Read Trump’s hissy fit as…

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The Puff ‘n Bluff: How Donald Trump Gets Over

Posted on May 27, 2020May 30, 2020 by ScottSoriano

One of Donald Trump’s most effective tactics is the puff ‘n bluff. He puffs himself up as a tough guy, a know-it-all, or a tough guy know-it-all and starts babbling bullshit. It is a tactic he learned at a young age. When he was an “aspiring developer,” he puff ‘n bluffed his way into city…

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Trump’s Voter Fraud Chicken Little Act, Pt 236

Posted on May 26, 2020May 27, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Donald Trump has been talking/tweeting a lot about voter fraud. While the latest blasts have been regarding mail-in voting, Trump has been talking about voter fraud since before he was elected. In 2016, shortly after his nomination to run as the Republican candidate for president, Trump was talking about voter fraud and how the general…

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The Crisis of the COVID Crisis

Posted on May 25, 2020May 26, 2020 by ScottSoriano

Things get stranger and stranger. While a majority of the country still believes that we should follow public health experts’ advice and be very cautious with “reopening,” more and more people are treating the advice as something that they think is totally right on…for everyone else (COVID for thee and not for me me me…

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