Henceforth, however, their comments should post immediately!

Just a little FYI for the newcomers, especially those interested in being part of the fun every Sunday evening at the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party. Which is always found on the Friday Talking Points column whether this signature column is posted on the usual Friday or on the rare Saturday ...

I mean it is the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party!

Okay, so, why don't we broaden the theme just a little bit and say that the tunes this Sunday night will have an immigration theme to them or be by an artist not from North America.

Sound good?

https://youtu.be/QraoFSyT_RQ

unless you're born into money or title.

i'd wager don gets one more formal warning before CW issues a K.I.T.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKNJV6iM_8

hopefully don learns to rein himself in, both so he doesn't get red-carded and also so he ceases to be a distraction from the movement for pie-based voting.

JL

John M from Ct. wrote:

This is getting bad. If one decides to ignore a monomaniacal poster / troll in this comments thread, plus those who respond to him, one finds there is now very little actual commenting worth reading on Chris Weigant's posts.

Kind of like when another monomaniacal poster / troll DOMINATED THESE THREADS, to the average politics fan's dismay and disgust.

Chris? You okay with Don's crap?

so liz, what's our topic?

Let's make sure we pick one for next week!

O-o-oh, come on! Take Me To The Kaptin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv24gN27kRM

Have a great night, everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdU_otNPl8M

Spaceship Superstar

Trooper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_d79xN45U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_fVnE3xHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwXsh7bYN_c

balance! ha!

Here's a Headpins set with Darby Mills - and if this doesn't get ya going, nothing will ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSobHPQJivk

https://youtu.be/inBKFMB-yPg

that's wonderful! and so's this:

https://youtu.be/F1HuCWVQ-vs

My Girl (Gone, gone, gone)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE

Welcome, everyone! And, don't be shy - post your favourite tunes, what are you listening to today?

Since we didn't decide on a theme for this week and since I'm in a definite Vancouver classic rock band frame of mind, I'd like to share a favourite Chilliwack tune, Midnight ... beautifully melodic in a soothing sort of way, just the thing to mellow out after a trying day ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHOXQWTuOfs

reading that thread from last april was actually quite instructive.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/01/april-is-the-cruelest-month/#comment-156872

do you think don realizes i'm probably the last person left on this entire blog who in spite of everything is still seriously trying to help him avoid the conclusion toward which he's currently heading?

and, umm... when does the music start again?

JL

okay, here goes. you got yellow-carded for, among various and sundry other things, repeatedly calling kick a "f*cktard little c*nt" (without the asterisks), and wrote "YOU, however, either need to see a shrink or do the world a favor and visit a Dr. Kevorkian..".

even after being repeatedly warned by CW not to, you continued to use those and other such words, claimed that such words were perfectly warranted by kick's behavior, and incongruously claimed that CW was in the wrong and kick should have been carded instead, essentially for calling you a "deranged little man" and quoting your own words back to you as evidence that you had consciously chosen to "turn troll" (direct quote).

that's why. again, i think i've conclusively demonstrated that CW's reason for carding you had nothing to do with

"being nice, warned Kick, was warned by Kick and then was yellow carded by CW for not being nice."

when i say "whatever that means," i'm quite confident that my failure to understand (how that was your takeaway from being yellow-carded) was not due to my lack of intellect. i'm also quite confident that i won't be carded for having the temerity to quote you back to yourself.

however, if you'd like to make that request of CW, feel free. i'm sure he'll respect your viewpoint and take it seriously. he's certainly gone above and beyond to meet that self-imposed obligation where you're concerned. more power to him.

JL

really? is that all you took away? ok, i hereby dispute the assertion, whatever it is.

i didn't realize you required further explanation. true, whether or not i say something has no bearing whatsoever on its accuracy. there exists a physical world outside our opinions.

You did not dispute that I tried being nice, warned Kick, was warned by Kick, then was yellow carded by CW for not being nice.

ah, because i didn't say something also doesn't make it true. being "nice" has nothing to do with why CW yellow-carded you. he carded you for gender slurs and spamming the forum without contributing anything of value (as CW defines said things, NOT as YOU define them).

you are of course entitled to continue thinking he was wrong about all of that, but your opinions didn't change the fact that you were temporarily banned, and it won't change a permanent ban if that occurs.

true, but not in the way you think.

@49,

as apt a mission statement as any i suppose.

@48,

I am not doing anything wrong. CW was wrong when he called me a troll and gave me the yellow card.

again, a series of opinions that refuses to acknowledge the reality of your situation. when you are red-carded, you can continue to believe that you are right and CW is wrong, but you'll still be banned from the site and erased from its memory. you are of course free to continue on that path, but your belief will not change your destination.

best of luck with that.
JL

p.s. if you learned to bake pie instead, you'd have everything you have now, plus pie.

:-)

I think I'll put the both of you in charge of the festivities Sunday evening. You see, I won't be able to make it to the party until very, very late and so, I'm sure you guys will do a bang up job! Ahem. :)

Maybe lathered on a bit thick but the history is interesting.

Kind of like when another monomaniacal poster / troll DOMINATED THESE THREADS, to the average politics fan's dismay and disgust.

But if you mix the two, you get the base for a sweet and sour sauce. Sweet and sour sauces are tasty...

NOT griping would ABSOLUTELY be more likely to change your situation for the better.

"covering things the rest of the media doesn't," doesn't mean CW has signed up to give a feature interview to every tinfoil-hat crackpot who shows up at his doorstep claiming to have seen a unicorn farting rainbows. whether or not you fit that particular description is a matter of opinion, but given that it's an opinion shared by most people who've been reading your posts for the past five years, it's not as if there isn't some concurrent validity to it.

and at the rate you're going, you'll soon be red-carded and every comment you ever made here will be gone, except presumably the ones others have quoted. so not only will you not have CW's blog for a forum, all of the thousands of comments you've made already will also be erased.

plus, pie is yummy and just plain fun, so it does you no good whatsoever to denigrate such a rich and storied institution.

you keep calling the rest of us trolls, but in terms of consequences your opinion doesn't matter, while CW's opinion does matter. try to get THAT reality through your skull.

JL

REAL FLAWS???. No one has pointed out One Demand’s REAL FLAWS?!?!

OMG! So you claiming One Demand is a non-profit organization when it is not does not count as a flaw to you? The fact that you want people to pledge to only vote for small donor only candidates, but then you say that it is not a big deal that you have no candidates that people can actually support doesn’t seem like a flaw to you?

How many supporters I have has no bearing on the idea and whether it is valid and can happen. That is just a moosepoop excuse.

Don, you are like some early 1900’s inventor who, after the Wright brothers were credited with creating the first successful flying machine, goes around claiming that you had come up with a much better flying machine that in theory is far superior to the Wright’s aircraft. And you are angered by people pointing to the film of your 20 wing aircraft collapsing and not getting off the ground as proof that it was not a well thought out idea. You only want to talk about how good your idea sounded before it was ever put to the test!

“But in THEORY, my idea is far a superior concept and everyone says so!”

As explained many times previously it doesn't matter how candidates are listed in on the site as participants as One Demand is designed to start with voters working together to put pressure on the candidates to participate.

You have nothing to offer anyone! Your success relies on you being able to get millions of registered voters who do not vote to suddenly decide to get active with voting, but you have not bothered to tell anyone how you are going to pull that major feat off! One Demand does not inspire anyone. You do not inspire anyone.

Oh, I know! Since One Demand does not have any candidates for anyone to support with their votes, you can claim that every NON-VOTE that never is cast is actually a vote in support of One Demand! You can claim that all registered voters who did not vote in an election did so in solidarity to you...and who can prove you are wrong???

You are asking folks to only vote for your candidates to send both parties a message, but you have no candidates for people to support! That is a MAJOR FLAW!

That's what the comments are for and part of the responsibility that comes with having a blog in order to maintain integrity and live up to the mission statement on THIS blog.

perhaps you haven't READ the mission statement?

This blog's purpose is to present to the public one man's view of politics.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/about-this-blog/

there's plenty more mission statement, but nothing that appears to assign him responsibility of any sort for thinking your statements are worth addressing. he promises to "respect your viewpoint -- whatever it may be -- in your comments, and to take your viewpoint seriously."

where you're concerned, he's already done that to a much larger extent than anybody else here would. it clearly upsets you that the process hasn't turned out the way you'd like it to, nor the way you believe it ought to. but that's just the way the pie crumbles. griping about it won't change the outcome.

CW often gives his point of view on things he may not agree with and explains why he disagrees.

the only reason he includes points of view he disagrees with is for the purpose of dissuading others from supporting such views. since you're already doing such a fine job of that yourself, there's clearly no need for him to step in.

JL

Been there, done that.

If you could have pointed out real flaws instead of your fantasies you would have done it already.

Been there done that ad nauseam...

If, and I mean in a purely hypothetical if, CW wrote about OD, I and I think most commenters here would expect him to respectfully and politely trash your idea, being reality based and all. And some of us in the comments would certainly fill in any flaws that CW happened to miss.

So the question is why are you so desperate for any press over good press? What does bad press buy you?

wrong. he's providing his own point of view. CW's point of view tends to support democrats, and that's their good fortune. however, he's not doing it for them, he's doing it for himself.

that's what blogs are for, putting one's own views out there. giving public suppport to other people's views who strongly disagree with you, not so much.

JL

just to clarify your meaning, do you think perhaps there's some latent sexism in the impressive and disappointing selections?

@don,

chris's "generous donor" could well have been michale. even those who most strongly disapprove of his comments can't rightly claim that he brought nothing of value to this community. nancy pelosi, much less likely. could it have been don harris? well, let's not presume THAT far...

JL

During the confirmation process, Becerra stressed his upbringing, his father's recent passing and his efforts for expanding health care access as California's attorney general and a 24-year Congressman representing a Los Angeles-based district

The vast majority of Senate Republicans opposed Becerra's nomination over his support for abortion rights and his lack of a background as a health care professional.'
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/18/politics/xavier-becerra-confirmation-vote/index.html

Her confirmation is as symbolic as it is historic. For much of its history, the Interior Department was used as a tool of oppression against America's Indigenous peoples. In addition to managing the country's public lands, endangered species and natural resources, the department is also responsible for the government-to-government relations between the U.S. and Native American tribes.'
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary

The chamber later approved a second bill, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, in a 247-174 vote. Thirty Republicans voted to approve the bill and one Democrat ? Rep. Jared Golden of Maine ? voted no.'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-passes-bills-dreamers-undocumented_n_60539561c5b6fce6ee96b436

* A couple of weeks ago, Stacey Abrams denounced the voter suppression effort by state legislatures as "New Jim-Crow" laws. This didn't merit a mention in any FTP. This week Chris awards MIDOW to Senator Warnock for using the same language.

* Sen. Feinstein is 'disappointing' by expressing an opinion about ending the filibuster. (I'm shocked that Chris isn't even miffed that Ms Feinstein announced she has no intention of resigning!)

* A few weeks ago, 8 Democrats voted against Sen. Sanders' logic-defying amendment to include $15-per-hour minimum wage in the COVID relief bill. Only one, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, warranted Chris' attention.

* Rep. Jared Golden, Democrat from Maine, voted AGAINST the COVID-19 relief package. This week, he was one of only two Democratic votes against gun control legislation. Chris isn't even mildly disappointed.

* California continues to be the leader in the deadly game of COVID-19. This isn't even on Chris' radar, as evidenced by the number of weekly FTPs without a single word.

* This week, the petition to recall Gov. Newsom was submitted with a sufficient number of Californians expressing THEIR disappointment to ensure that appears before the voters. There is stunning silence from Chris.

too late, i already have two young boys with jets pajamas. what word aren't you allowed to use, mountain fracking? i hear that's all the rage in kentucky. maybe wayne gretzky and dale earnhardt could win the kentucky derby, if wayne gretzky were the name of a horse owned by dale earnhardt. and you'll be the winning jockey before you succeed in convincing CW to give you any free publicity beyond whatever derisive attention you have here in the peanut gallery.

in any case, the VP will play whatever role the president asks her to, even if it goes against her prosecutorial instincts on drug enforcement.

JL

[5] as a NY Jets fan i'd settle for a super bowl - the last one was before i was alive, so hopefully the next will be sometime before i'm dead.

[6-7] almost as good a strategy as 5 - and about as likely to succeed as lance armstrong playing linebacker for the NY Knicks in the FA Cup.

bake up and get edible.

JL

Nope, on this:

"...if the facts do prove to be true, then President Joe Biden deserves this week's MDDOTW"

If? If??? Most Disappointing Democrat, when in the same column you tip your hat to him on matters of performance (press conferences vs. getting stuff done) and style (snappy political slogan).

I don't get the marijuana thing in the White House either - not fired, just told to work remotely? - and I guess maybe we should wait until "IF" goes away and we know what this is really about.

It is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the Senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society.

This!