is very proud right now.

Standing up to fascism.

"Yinzer is a 20th-century term playing on the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania second-person plural vernacular "yinz." The word is used among people who identify themselves with the city of Pittsburgh and its traditions."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinzer

So...where we in Alabama would say 'y'all', you would say 'yinz'?

Yep!

Yinz got a problem wit dat?

... Alabama as a teenager on. So I say both. I also use the insult Jagoff. You know, like “Trump is an orange, treasonous jagoff”. I think that’s a Western PA original too.

Hey Jagoff,

'Ja eat yet, or you wanna' go dahn-tawn and grab a sammich at Primanti's?

and I'm all about the vernacular.

Like in upper peninsula Michigan..

Yoopers!

http://dayoopers.com/whatwher.html

Mahalo, trof!

"Very brave. If anyone gets fired, I'm sure some other paper would love to hire them. If there are any positions open."

More like; If there are any papers.

and with mega-corps owning them all there is not a "voice of the people" - there is a "voice of the boardroom."
That's what we're witnessing here.

Can it?

Berzelius Windrip, anyone?


https://www.salon.com/2015/09/29/it_really_can_happen_here_the_novel_that_foreshadowed_donald_trumps_authoritarian_appeal/

Rec - wish I could rec 1,000 times.

For example, according to the screed--er, editorial, "It is not racist to say this country cannot take only the worst people from the worst places." Who, exactly, is saying that our immigration policy must take only the worst people from the worst places? And the sprightly voices in John Block's head don't count. However, the assumption that immigration is solely about taking the worst people from the worst places is (ta-ta-da-dah!) racist.

Seems that shoe fits you very nicely, Mr. Block. This is where the party ends.

It starts with a falsity, spoken as truth, and moved along quickly to state what should be done instead of that horrible (falsity). When the beginning premise is false, to begin with.

We don't prevent Norwegians or the British or Swedish from immigrating here. I think the U S has policies though that allow for greater numbers from areas that are bad off...and then there are special case refugees and others seeking asylum. But America takes immigrants from all over the world.

It takes guts to make a stand like this, and once again, those who had the courage found out in a big way they aren't alone.

None of us are alone in our opposition to Trump and EVERYTHING he stands for. He's ripping apart our country right in front of our faces, and we must resist in every peaceful way we can.

Here, we see the pen once again mightier than the sword.

Trump, with his billions, and the GOP would be secretly buying up papers to gain control of the news and information that the public gets.

He's already started his own website of information, I think. I guess it didn't work, since I haven't heard anything about it lately. Maybe they'll start 'er up for the mid-terms. And then they've formed informal partnerships with sites like Breitbart, Fox, and others. Imagine if he had control of all the information.

I think this is partly what's behind net neutrality. When those broadband providers are in control of which sites are easily accessible and which are slow or buffer, all the GOP has to do is convince them to work for them informally. Will DU be buffering all night for the mid-terms?

Doctrine to replace the one the snake Reagan let die in 1987, is a must.

These people, these corporate-funded Ayn Rand radical libertarians in power now under Republican guise are little more than thieves and pirates.

We'll see if DU slows down. You know, my wife and I watched the Netflix Letterman interview of Obama done earlier this month. God, I miss Obama! But, he was brilliant - when Letterman asked him what the biggest problem was, he went right to the root cause. He said the biggest contributor to today's polarized political environment is that everyone isn't working from the same set of facts. I don't want to be too much of a spoiler, but one other thing - Obama did use the term 'a different planet' when describing Fox viewers.

If you haven't watched the Letterman/Obama interview, I recommend it just for some sanity.

My dad was a prominent print journalist, and he already decried the direction the "news" coverage was headed toward the end of his life. He died toward the end of the year 2000, never lived to hear of the SCOTUS decision to install Cheneybush. That would have killed him faster than his cancer did.

the Republicans stole it. This time, in 2016, it was 2.9 million votes in Clinton's favor, and they still 'won.' It's getting worse, I'd say.

We've got to flip both Houses of Congress this November. If, that is, we're lucky enough to have an election then.

So did the Soviet Union. Comrade Stalin got 98.97% of the vote (or some such figure).

There is a quote attributed to Stalin that translates out to "those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything." Good Stalinists that they are, the Republicans have figured out that Stalin was right. Whether the Democratic candidate won or not is irrelevant if only Republicans count the votes.

Notice the presidential elections of 2000, 2004 and 2016. All three elections were decided by questionable tallies in 5 states (2000 FL, 2004 OH, 2016 WI-MI-PA) all narrowly won by states with Republican governors and secretaries of State of questionable ethics/morals at best.

Does a pattern begin to form here? Don't swallow Republicans' claims of being "anti-kommanist." They are better Soviets than Gorbachev ever was.

Did they suddenly forget that they were supposed to cheat? Kind of awkward for the conspiracy theory.

There is no reasonable question about the states in 2016. None. Wisconsin had a recount, some counties by hand, some by machine and there was no significant difference between the counties by recount method. 2000, based on the actual votes cast, not including over-votes, which is what the Gore campaign asked for, Florida was going to be won by Bush.

There is no evidence that actual vote totals were changed. I don't understand this eagerness to embrace some sort of hopeless "oh we can't win because it's rigged" stance.

And that is massive turnout on our side. Do you really believe Doug Jones won with just 51% in Alabama?

GOTV is our last and best weapon. Manipulation as it works now only is effective with a minimum of scrutiny if it is a razor-thin "surprise upset." If polls say Clinton wins California 60-40 and Trump takes California with 51-49, that will not walk without a Federal investigation. States like PA and WI, on the other hand (or Florida 2000) were just plausible to get away with.

They are quite the Leninists in the way they seek and consolidate power.

The state we end up with, though, will be a fascist state - feverish nationalism to keep the masses busy, with the treasury ruled by oligarchs. Just like Germany in the 1930s.

The way to win isn't get the most votes. The elections weren't stolen, we lost because of a quirk in the rules.

Not to mention systematic voter suppression measures specifically designed to make it more difficult for minorities to vote.

But yes, if we have massive turnout and win by a significant margin, that dramatically reduces their ability to cheat. If it's close, though? Cheat they do.

There is a National Popular Vote movement that calls for state legislatures and governors to enact legislation that requires a state's electors to vote the same way as the national popular vote. Mathematically, if enough states pass this, to account for over 270 electoral votes, then we will have successfully negated the electoral college.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/

Seems like a good idea to me, because the more actual democracy we can have, the better.

The ENTIRE Block family, except JR Block, Jr and Allan Block, wrote and signed a letter to the editor critical of the editorial. The wrote that it was entirely at odds with everything their father, uncle, grandfather stood for.

I believe at least some of these Block family members sit on the board, so we'll see if there's any fallout.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette should look at Block and think about removing him from this position

Thank you, babylonsister and many thanks to the staff of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!

Shame on John Robinson Block.. Thankfully he's in the minority.

He's a real nazi mutant.

Every editor and manager at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strongly favored Hillary Clinton, and fully expected to endorse her a few days before the election. However the owner J.R. Block told them they could not endorse Hillary, instead they had to endorse Trump. It was an outright order, but instead of endorsing Trump, the editors didn't endorse either candidate. They said there are good things about both candidates, they've both made mistakes, etc. Several columnists wrote later that their arms were twisted, and it would have cost them their jobs to endorse Hillary. (Pittsburgh and Allegheny County are something like 70% Democratic, and Trump never had a chance here.)

Well I have to tell you, Pittsburgh readers were shocked and outraged. There were so many nasty letters to the editor, but then Trump won the election a couple days later. We were all shell-shocked, just like the entire world. Many people cancelled their subscriptions to the Post-Gazette when this happened. But I'm happy that the employees and editors are finally standing up to the tyrant owner, pretty soon something will have to be done about this guy. I hope he resigns.