#Robyn Pennacchia

[the-cimmerians]

Vice President Kamala Harris announced this week that the Biden administration is looking to lessen the burden medical debt has on people by purging it from their credit report. This means that even if people have piles of medical debt — one in five Americans say they do — it’s not going to affect their ability to get a mortgage or a car loan. So they will at least have a place to rest their head and a car they can drive to work every day while paying off their medical bills.

Via AP:

Harris said that would make it easier for them to obtain an auto loan or a home mortgage. Roughly one in five people report having medical debt. The vice president said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is beginning the rulemaking process to make the change. The agency said in a statement that including medical debt in credit scores is problematic because “mistakes and inaccuracies in medical billing are common.” “Access to health care should be a right and not a privilege,” Harris told reporters in call to preview the action. “These measures will improve the credit scores of millions of Americans so that they will better be able to invest in their future.”

It only seems fair that high medical bills for an emergency or serious illness shouldn’t affect one’s credit rating anyway. It’s not like we’re talking about someone irresponsibly dropping several grand at Versace and then never paying off the credit card bill. Fifty-seven percent of Americans could not afford a surprise $1000 emergency, so the inability to pay off massive amounts of medical debt is hardly a fair reflection of an inclination to default on normal payments — payments you can budget for — on something like a mortgage or auto loan. “Way to be irresponsible by getting cancer, lady! You should definitely be punished for that by not being able to find any place to live!” seems pretty harsh, no?

#us politics #health care #medical debt #Wonkette #Robyn Pennacchia

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Rep. Gosar censured over anime video that depicted violence against Democrats

#rage baiting #Paul Gosar #Kathy Griffin #twitterature #Robyn Pennacchia

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[diaryofabookgirl]

Women are also rejected. Women also spend their teen years pining after dreamy boys who will never love them back. You don’t see us going around murdering people over it. You don’t see us setting up internet communities for the purpose of talking about how evil and shallow men are for not taking us to pound town. Women don’t go around killing men who don’t like them, because if you’re a woman in this society, a boy not liking you is the least of your problems. It is nowhere near the shittiest thing you’re going to be expected to “just deal with” in your life – one of those things being the fact that we are expected to “just deal with” how men are sometimes going to murder a bunch of people because they felt entitled to romantic attention from women. We are expected to “deal with” that, while never bringing up the terms “male privilege” or “male entitlement” or “toxic masculinity” and why those things so often lead to mass murder, on account of how that might really hurt the feelings of the men who have been gracious enough to not go on killing sprees.

This Is Not What ‘Lovesick’ Is, Robyn Pennacchia | Published on March 23, 2018 at Wonkette (see source for full article)

#quote #robyn pennacchia #wonkette #this is not what lovesick is

[calicojack1718]

James Randi Outed Some Truly Heinous Frauds, And For That We Should All Be Grateful - Wonkette

James Randi Outed Some Truly Heinous Frauds, And For That We Should All Be Grateful – Wonkette

James Randi Outed Some Truly Heinous Frauds, And For That We Should All Be Grateful — Wonkette

Somehow the news of James “The Amazing Randi” Randi’s death got past me on the crowded news cycle. Luckily, it didn’t get past the good folks over at Wonkette.

Crowding out really important news stories like this with their BS and constant whining is another reason to decry the Ol’ Pussy Grabbér’s…

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#Charlatans #Critical Thinking #Debunking #Frauds #James Randi #Paranormal #Robyn Pennacchia #The Amazing Randi #Wonkette

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Mike Pence Is A Moonie Now, Practically

Wonkette    Robyn Pennacchia

March 06, 2021 04:00 PM

Hey! Remember the Moonies? Probably, since they're still around and they still own the Washington Times (but not Entenmann's, which was apparently a rumor back in the 80s). The Rev. Sun Myung Moon may be dead, but the church is still going strong under the leadership of his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, and his daughter, In Jin Moon.

This week, the Unification Church held their 5th annual Rally of Hope — starring none other than former Vice President Mike Pence. This seems like a weird choice for our very holiest vice president, given that the Moons think they are gods (and their followers believe them), which one would think would go against his Christian beliefs.

In the speech, Pence praised Hak Ja Han Moon and the Washington Times, which he described as a model of "fair and accurate reporting."

Of course, given that he's persona non-grata in the Trump cult now, he may just be lonely and looking for a new place to belong. After all, the church pretty much invented the term love bombing.

Unification Church members are smiling all of the time, even at four in the morning. The man who is full of love must live that way. When you go out witnessing you can caress the wall and say that it can expect you to witness well and be smiling when you return. What face could better represent love than a smiling face? This is why we talk about love bomb; Moonies have that kind of happy problem. — Rev. Sun Myung Moon

No word yet on if he's leaving Mother to go get mass married in a Unification Church ceremony, but anything can happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A5Wx-muGUg&t=3266s

Mike Pence speaks at 54:30

https://www.wonkette.com/mike-pence-is-a-moonie-now-practically

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Hak Ja Han speaks at: 2:01:20 

“Following World War I many material and ideological challenges arose and in the midst of these challenges heaven prepared someone to bring the completion of the 6,000 year history of the providence, the Only Begotten Daughter. Heaven sent the Only Begotten Daughter and this providence took place. Jesus, before walking the path of the cross, prophesied that he would come again to host the Marriage Wedding of the Lamb. In other words the purpose of the Second Advent of the Christ is to meet the Only Begotten Daughter and form True Parents. Without the Only Begotten Daughter the dream of the Second Coming True Parents cannot be fulfilled. The situation at the time of my birth was difficult because Korea was liberated but a few years later Korea would be divided into the pro-Soviet North and the pro-democracy South. At that time had America understood the importance of Heaven’s providence the course of history in the Korean peninsular might have been different....”

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In 1985 the Washington Times sponsored a fund for the Contras who committed atrocities, and trafficked drugs to the US

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Missing Pieces of the Story of Sun Myung Moon by Frederick Clarkson    September 8, 2012 The reporting and punditry in the wake of the death of Sun Myung Moon has left a lot to be desired. Even long, seemingly comprehensive treatments of Moon’s life and empire, such as the one that ran in The New York Times, did not delve deeply into Moon’s profound far right and criminal involvements; antidemocratic politics; or even the mysterious sources of foreign cash for The Washington Times, and extensive political operations in the U.S. for decades, let alone the Moon organization’s broad, insidious affects on American culture and democracy.

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“Moon’s Law: God Is Phasing Out Democracy” by Frederick Clarkson

Kim Sang-In has, since at least 1982, been executive Vice President of the parent company of Moon’s Washington Times newspaper, News World Communications (NWC). Bo Hi Pak is President of NWC, as well as CAUSA, and the still existent Korean Cultural Freedom Foundation (KCFF). Han Sang Keuk later became the Korean Ambassador to Norway,6 and is currently involved in CAUSA’s International Security Council.

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Money and Power and Moon’s Washington Times by Rory O’Connor

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The church recently ran a two-page ad in the Moon-owned Washington Times, asserting that 36 U.S. presidents from George Washington to Richard Nixon endorsed Moon during a series of “spirit world” conferences

U.S. Presidents Endorse Sun Myung Moon From ‘Spirit World’

#Mike Pence #Hak Ja Han #Sun Myung Moon #Washington Times

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#1yrago Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music

Wonkette writer Robyn Pennacchia went on a brilliant Twitter rant about the strange history of square dancing, which is not an old American tradition, but rather a 20th century hoax that Henry Ford and Dr Pappy Shaw created to get white people to stop dancing to music made by black people.

Ford even got school districts to teach square dancing in gym classes, and convinced 27 states to make square dancing their official state dances.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/08/dr-pappy-shaw.html

[scottiestoybox]

Is Jim Jordan Planning To Kill Us All?

Is Jim Jordan Planning To Kill Us All?

https://www.wonkette.com/is-jim-jordan-planning-to-kill-us-all Robyn Pennacchia December 07, 2021 09:36 AM       Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, has been on something of a roll lately. Last week, he announced to the world that Real America was done with COVID-19. It was a fairly premature declaration given that the areas of the country Jordan likely considers to be “Real America”…

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[nodynasty4us]

If Joe Biden bears any responsibility for the way this turned out, it's due to having voted for the war as a senator, not for withdrawing as president.

Robyn Pennacchia in Wonkette

#afghanistan #Joe Biden

[trendingnewstracker]

Saturday Night Owls: Lame duck White House occupant eager to kill Californians with Medicaid cuts

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week 32 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE Robyn Pennacchia at Wonkette writes—Well This Is Just A Swell Time For Trump To Cut Healthcare Funds To California Over Abortion: California is having a difficult time. It’s…

https://is.gd/ByWmhV

[the-cimmerians]

You can’t unionize autoworkers in the South, they said.

Well, whoever “they” are, they were wrong. Because, on Friday, 73 percent of Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to become the first non-union auto plant to unionize in decades, and the first foreign-owned auto plant to unionize in the South, period.

This happened despite a union-busting campaign so fierce that even governors in the South got on board, sending out a letter last week warning workers not to organize, telling them that “The experience in our states is when employees have a direct relationship with their employers, that makes for a more positive working environment.”

Clearly, the employees didn’t think so.

Via UAW:

“This election is big,” said Kelcey Smith, a worker in the paint department at Volkswagen. “People in high places told us good things can’t happen here in Chattanooga. They told us this isn’t the time to stand up, this isn’t the place. But we did stand up and we won. This is the time; this is the place. Southern workers are ready to stand up and win a better life.”   “We saw the big contract that UAW workers won at the Big Three and that got everybody talking,” said Zachary Costello, a trainer in VW’s proficiency room. “You see the pay, the benefits, the rights UAW members have on the job, and you see how that would change your life. That’s why we voted overwhelmingly for the union. Once people see the difference a union makes, there’s no way to stop them.”   “This is a movement for every blue-collar worker in America,” said Doug Snyder, a body worker at Volkswagen. “Our vote shows that workers everywhere want a better life on and off the job. Fair pay is important, but so is time with our families. So is a voice for safety in our plant. We’re looking forward to getting to the bargaining table with the company and winning a contract that makes things right at Volkswagen.” 

#labor #solidarity #union #recommended reading #Wonkette #Robyn Pennacchia

[thewightknight]

Whenever you get something like this, be it female Ghostbusters or a black Johnny Storm or whatever, the standard regressive talking points come out, and they are generally rather ridiculous. I know, it's shocking that people allergic to critically looking at the media they consume might not produce the greatest response to other criticisms, but it does happen.

My old favorite is, "What if we changed FEMALE character to male, huh!" It's exactly the hot take you'd expect from people whose understanding of sexism or racism begins and ends with the dictionary, but I'm here to tell you bros that feminists are 1,000 percent on board with a huge chunk of that idea.

Brief shout-out to my friend Robyn Pennacchia at Wonkette for this writing prompt. You should read everything she has ever written and tell her she's nice.

Let's start with Disney. Think about it...a gender-swapped Little Mermaid. A man can't talk for three-quarters of the movie and has to use empathy and other means to win the heart of a person he's in love with? Women wouldn't throw money at that; they'd throw the whole damned purse. It's probably why someone wanted to remake Splash with Channing Tatum.

How about Frozen? A young male king who has been struggling with powers threatened by repressed emotions finds comfort and salvation in the love of a sibling and no one ends up in a stupid refrigerator to get him there? Yeah, that sounds kind of nice, actually. Mulan? Man goes undercover as a woman in an Amazonian army to save his parent? I'd watch that.

Someone in the original thread that inspired this mentioned Pretty Woman, that classic hooker with a heart of gold story. I'd argue that they already made the crap gender-swapped version of that with Deuce Bigalow (and even then, the first film really does have some sweet moments). Regardless, let's totally switch it. Let's see a successful corporate shark of a woman trying to understand love as more than a visible commodity as a young man finds his self-worth being appreciated. Has there ever even been a movie like that?

#doctor who #movie remakes #sexism in movies #sexism in television #why we need feminism

[feastoffun]

Who can turn the world on with her smile? @robynelyse Robyn Pennacchia that's who! (at Feast of Fun)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford gto get white people to stop dancing to black music

Wonkette writer Robyn Pennacchia went on a brilliant Twitter rant about the strange history of square dancing, which is not an old American tradition, but rather a 20th century hoax that Henry Ford and Dr Pappy Shaw created to get white people to stop dancing to music made by black people.

Ford even got school districts to teach square dancing in gym classes, and convinced 27 states to make square dancing their official state dances.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/08/dr-pappy-shaw.html

[dianeintransit]

Favorite tweets

When I was a kid, I thought George Washington had wooden teeth, was extremely honest about cherry tree chopping and that he was married to Dinah Washington. One of those things was obviously my own problem, but the rest are totally untrue things that I was taught.

— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) June 21, 2020

#Twitter