More interviews from Netroots Nation. Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) joins Sam to talk about social security and the grand bargain, the fiscal cliff, Obama’s kill list and SCOTUS disgrace over Citizens United. And a conversation with Markos Moulitsas (@markos), founder and publisher of The Daily Kos. Click thru for links and updates. Use this post as today’s thread.
Read Senator Bernie Sander’s report, “Fed Board Member Conflicts Detailed by GAO: Banks and Businesses Took $4 Trillion in Bailouts.”
In July Sam will travel to Seattle for Forum 2012.
10:59 am
In loving memory of the original wild and open MRR blog:
From The Guardian: What is an internet troll?
…But what’s the difference between a troll and somebody who just has very bad manners?
11:01 am
NSFW music video:
Thank You Hater! by Clever Pie and Isabel Fay
12:08 pm
“bad manners?”???!!!
This is a battle for our United States not dinner at your aunt’s house.
This cute “hey! how have you been” Care bear committee that ya’ll do here is not progressive.
Majority Report has the potential to be ground zero for progressive action, at least it does in my eyes.
12:24 pm
no sound
12:36 pm
I’m not an anarchist, but this gal has an excellent point:
At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.
I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. “I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.” Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.
Emma Goldman
9:28 am
Great quote – there are a lot of humorless liberals who do not understand we need humor more than ever these days.
12:51 pm
Pat Garofalo @Pat_Garofalo
[Sam must have been looking at twitter during the tape with Whitehous!]
2:55 pm
Sam, the word is “intransigence.”
6:44 am
Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites: A Review
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
By Alexis Goldstein, Live to Try | Book Review
“An oft-photographed sign at OWS events is the much-quoted “SHIT IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT.” Hayes’s eminently well-written book outlines in a plethora of areas exactly why that is the case, and how we got there.”
“At its heart, Twilight of the Elites is an indictment of the meritocracy—or what passes for it. A compelling revelation that comes early in the book is the bastard etymology of the very word “meritocracy.””
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9765-twilight-of-the-elites-a-review
7:14 am
http://www.youtube.com/user/JB3DProductions
9:25 am
Great show Sam – the buzzword for the right of shareholders to sue the corporation is “shareholders derivative suit” – it varies by state law but most states follow the model act. Basically shareholders alleging corporate waste have to go through internal administrative hoops with the board of directors, and if the board (usually self-interested CEOs) rejects the claim, they can sue in court. This used to be a pretty useful brake on corporate mismanagement but, no surprise, recent SCOTUS decisions have been eroding these suits. There are two cases coming up before SCOTUS, Amgen and Allergan, one of which requires shareholders to show that the malfeasance has adversely affected stock prices (which is stupid, because shareholders who are mad that profits are diverted to CEO pay instead of dividends may not be able to show stock prices went down – I guess the message is, you’re troublemakers, so just sell your stock and get out already).
And I have to agree with Seth, supra – “in-trans-i-gence”, as in, “I’m IN TRANSit to the GENTS room” LOL