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Morning Reads for Tuesday, October 30

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Good morning! I’ve started to think of Election Day as less of an event in and of itself, and more as if it were a deadline, not unlike the April 15th income tax filing deadline. So… have you voted yet?

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Teri

Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.

37 Comments
  1. Mr1raggedhole

    Here’s an idea. Read everything above this line and nothing below it for the rest of the week. You will be better for it.

    • Gregs

      I didn’t expect a full throated laugh from the morning reads but you just gave me one.

  2. chefdavid

    To my Northwest Georgia friends Trump is coming to Chattanooga Sunday. Get you tix here: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/rallies/nov-tennessee-2018

  3. Dave Bearse

    Incivility is bad, but one good thing about it is that it emboldens people to show who they really are:.

    “…Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama was Muslim, let him say what he wants. Let him go around going (makes high-pitched tongue trill) or whatever they do. I don’t think that Michelle is going to wear a burka. She’s ugly enough to wear a burka. Oh, I said it. And she gonna need an extra large. Did you see how big her butt was on Inauguration Day? I said it.” Ellen Diehl, Republican candidate for State House District 81 in a webcast she prepared and posted on-line.

    Take note suburban women. Is this a woman you want representing you? I haven’t checked her campaign contribution reporting, but I anticipate she has five figure support from the GOP and its leadership, so she’s someone GOP and it’s leadership want representing you.

    • Will Durant

      Purely pandering to his base prior to the midterm election. Even a demagogue cannot strike a direct clear-as-a-bell sentence from a constitutional amendment by executive order. He is also skirting posse comitatus by deploying 5,000 active military troops to the border in another appeasement of his anti-immigration base. All to supposedly meet a ginned up “invasion” that may not arrive at all, but certainly won’t before the end of the 45 day deployment where they are not allowed to legally arrest or detain anyone anyway. A useless political gesture on both his birthright statement and military deployment.

      • Ellynn

        A Jade Helm 2018 like thing…

  5. Dave Bearse

    This from the Guardian BEFORE the recent terrorism. (So what’s the deal with these “terrorizing acts” from a man that campaigned on talking about “radical Islamic terrorism”? Is it because these are the acts of nationalist victims, and not actual terrorists?):

    “Political violence in the United States has tended to come in two forms. The first consists of simply unhinged acts, like John Hinckley Jr shooting Ronald Reagan in the hope of impressing the actress Jodie Foster, or Timothy McVeigh hoping to bring down the government with a bomb. The second is more systematic and sinister: the violence used to keep down groups who threaten the social and political order. This is the violence of strikebreakers and the KKK. It is the violence that killed Emmett Till….”

    “It is no surprise that this febrile atmosphere, in which any lie can be justified if it paints the president’s opponents as traitors, would lead to violence. But what is particularly disturbing is that the propaganda that inspires this violence has been outsourced to private organizations, meaning no simple change of government by election can end it. Nowadays, even the president himself gets his daily talking points by parroting Fox News, which he believes over his own government officials. The rot is pernicious and deep, and it will inevitably lead to more violence.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/26/outsourcing-political-violence-bomb-scares-trump

    • TheDeepDark

      This editorial is less about outsourcing of propaganda and more about Andrew’s dislike for the president. Am I wrong? I mean, his Twitter history seems to back that up.

      • ScottNAtlanta

        I frankly dont have time to check someone’s “twitter history”. I can only evaluate the words on the page, and if they ring true. You are engaging in whataboutism to discredit the message. “What about” his twitter feed. That is irrelevant. Make an argument about what is in the piece. I read it and dont find a whole lot that I dont agree with. The tone is set at the top. When Trump plainly calls himself a “nationalist” it sets a tone.
        Orwell wrote

        “Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.”
        “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them”
        .”

        • Dave Bearse

          Thanks for sharing the quote. Nuance and distinction are important.

      • NoParty4Me

        Using twitter history is a bad expample for your argument. Our ‘Twitler in chief’ is all about propaganda. He pretty much ‘Trumps’ anyone when it comes to Twitter propaganda.

  7. FreeDuck

    It’s designed to spark a court battle that they can try to get before the Supreme Court. I didn’t think the 14th amendment was all that ambiguous, but what do I know?

    • bethebalance

      This is from memory of international law, but there are at least four grounds of national jurisdiction over individuals. One of them is geographic location within the boundaries of the country. Could you plausibly argue that the U.S. doesn’t have the jurisdiction to arrest, try, or otherwise administer individuals who are found in the U.S. just because those individuals aren’t already citizens? Of course not. If they can be arrested, they’re subject to the jurisdiction.
      I don’t know the full legal arguments, though, so maybe I’ll find some and read further.

    • Dave Bearse

      The North Koreans nailed it when they called Trump a dotard.

      Another demonstration of Trump’s fifth or sixth grade intellect.

  8. Benevolus

    Speaking of Nimruds, doesn’t it look like this guy is wearing a 3000 year old wristwatch?

    https://www.cnn.com/style/article/assyrian-relief-panel/index.html

    • NoParty4Me

      it’s a sundial.

      • Benevolus

        Of course! Passed down from the Flintstones. Much improved by 1000 BC though. Shtevenal Jobsirpal included a compass and flint with it.

  10. Ellynn

    But wait…

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/graham-to-introduce-legislation-to-end-birthright-citizenship/ar-BBP6UUh?ocid=ientp

    When was the last time 291 house members, 67 senators and the super majorities required for approving an amendment in at least 38 state governments agreed on something?

  11. Caroline

    It’s just more pandering to white nationalists.

  12. Caroline

    Interesting. Republican operatives are being investigated by the FBI for attempting to pay women to make false claims against Robert Mueller. It now explains why Grassley put out that bogus claim against Julie Swetnick and it also explains why Republicans were screaming that Blasey Ford was being paid. They apparently pay everybody so they think everybody else must operate the same way. David Frum believes this story is why Trump pulled the 14th Amendment nonsense today.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/special-counsel-refers-scheme-targeting-mueller-to-fbi/574411/

    • Dave Bearse

      The people following a dirtbag think all leaders are dirtbag. Who’d a thunk it?

      • Caroline

        Well, the good news is Wohl and Gateway Pundit are getting roasted all over social media. The more details that come out the more they look like idiots.

        • Dave Bearse

          Reading more about it, they’re in the same league with Saudi’s with respect to competence in crafting a plausible story. Trump’s kind of people.

    • Dave Bearse

      Some RINOs working for Soros, no doubt.

  13. Will Durant

    “The new Opinion Savvy poll for FOX 5 shows Democrat Abrams at 48.1 percent and Republican Kemp at 47.2 percent.”
    http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/new-fox-5-poll-abrams-edging-kemp-in-dead-heat
    3.9% margin of error of course, nevertheless the first one I’ve seen with her up nearly a point.

    fivethirtyeight’s aggregate shows Kemp with a 0.6% edge.

    We might, maybe, could be voting in December, though I’m still doubting it.

  14. Will Durant

    No one answered Teri’s rhetorical(?) question yesterday asking if you have voted yet so I will. Yes. And as a PSA I would like to remind everyone that this year’s ballot has amendments to the Georgia Constitution and most of us know what that means on election day. Many will be reading them for the first time in the booth. Vote early and save yourself the hassle.

    • Dave Bearse

      Mail-ins were dropped off at the Post Office Friday. Surely materials technology is such that the size and weight of an absentee ballot could be shaved 15% to just under an ounce and collectively save voters hundreds of thousands of dollars each statewide election..

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