“How to Help Change This Incredibly Toxic Culture”

I will have a great deal more to say about the predators in our midst, and the cowards who give them cover. So much more. Much of it will not be kind.

But I think we’ll start here, with what good people can do to help victims, and what they can do to help stop the assholes who prey on people who can’t stop them. This advice comes from fcmp in a comment on Pharyngula, and I wholeheartedly endorse it. Continue reading ““How to Help Change This Incredibly Toxic Culture””

“How to Help Change This Incredibly Toxic Culture”
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Biden Goes Nuclear

Damn, I wish Joe Biden was getting more air time. The man’s a caution:

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (CNN) – Joe Biden Thursday night told Sarah Palin not to lecture him on patriotism, after weeks of attacks mocking him for his statement the wealthy should be patriotic and pay higher taxes because not enough has been asked of them.

“Sarah Palin had great fun saying Joe Biden thinks paying taxes is patriotic. Well, let me tell you what Joe Biden thinks,” the Delaware senator said at an outdoor rally. “Joe Biden thinks that anybody who takes millions of dollars offshore to avoid paying their fair share is unpatriotic.”

The Obama-Biden campaign has accused John McCain of saying publicly he would close offshore banking loopholes, but saying otherwise in private.

“That is not patriotic and it will stop, it will stop in an Obama-Biden administration! Enough! I’ve had it up to here! Don’t lecture me on patriotism,” shouted Biden, getting drowned out by the applause of his supporters. “I’m dead tired of being taken advantage of. I’m getting tired of it.”

Obama made an outstanding choice when he tapped this man on the shoulder and asked him to run. He’s saying exactly what needs to be said. Republicons have no standing to lecture Dems on patriotism.

None.

Biden Goes Nuclear

Biden vs. Palin: a Preview

This video should tell you exactly who’s bringing the sizzle and who’s bringing the steak to tonight’s debates:


Biden can discuss Supreme Court decisions intelligently and in depth. Palin vomits forth a loosely-connected stream of platitudes, personal impressions, and smoke.

There is no contest here. Palin is not the droid you are looking for.

Biden vs. Palin: a Preview

Givin' 'em Hell

Sen. Joe Biden talks about the issues the Republicons don’t want to talk about:

But, I’ll tell you, it’s not so much of what I heard in the Republican convention. When you heard John speak last night. It’s not so much what I heard, when I heard part of what the Governor had to say, the vice presidential candidate. It’s what I didn’t hear.

(Applause)

THE SILENCE – THE SILENCE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS DEAFENING. IT WAS DEAFENING. ON JOBS, ON HEALTH CARE, ON ENVIRONMENT, ON ALL THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS I GREW UP IN. DEAFENING!

(Standing Ovation)

Ladies and gentlemen, THEIR AMERICA IS NOT THE AMERICA I LIVE IN. THEY SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN I SEE

He goes on to hit them hard over the issues they don’t want to discuss. Brutal and brilliant. And he ends with the knockout punch:

You know what I’m talking about.

What do you talk about, when you have nothing to say?!

What do you talk about when you CANNOT EXPLAIN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF FAILURE?!

(Standing Ovation)

What do you talk about?! What do you talk about?!

You talk about the other guy.

Crowd: Giv’em Hell, Joe!

Biden: Remember what Harry Truman used to say. The crowd would yell, “giv’em hell, Harry.” And he’d say, “I’m not gonna to giv’em hell, I’m gonna tell them the truth, and they’re gonna think it’s HELL.”

I don’t think Republicons are going to have a very good time this election season. Not. At. All.

Givin' 'em Hell