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Jan-27-21
 | | Dionysius1: <perfidious: The nonce:
<....During last week's siege of the U.S. Capitol, the "hope peddlers" and other professional centrists abruptly appropriated the language of "the Resistance," spontaneously finding last-minute courage to tell the truth about Trump's presidency and his movement.> You can't call Trump the nonce! |
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Jan-27-21
 | | perfidious: Can I, instead, call him the leader of the modern-day Know-Nothing party? Seems a propos. |
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Jan-28-21
| | Dionysius1: Be my guest :-) |
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Jan-28-21
| | perfidious: That paragon of moral rectitude, Marjorie Taylor Greene, on Twitter after her account was briefly suspended: <'Contrary to how highly you think of yourself and your moral platitude, you are not the judge of humanity. God is.'> Somehow, it seemed she believed herself capable of sitting in judgment--time for a lesson from a more temporal power on 'moral platitudes'. |
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| Jan-29-21 | | Refused: Always remember, she is also the one who hounded that Majorie Stoneman Douglas suvivor David Hogg.
So she really is a piece of work.
AOC on the other hand, she just continues to be awesome, telling Teddy <to just resign because he almost had her killed> after he had the gut of proposing to work with her. |
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Jan-30-21
 | | chancho: Rep. Margory Slaylor Gangrene...
Conspiracy Theorist.
Certifiable Nutcase.
This is the GOP's idea of a dignified Statesman? Lincoln is spinning in his grave. |
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Jan-30-21
| | perfidious: Dignity? Hahahahaha! |
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Feb-01-21
| | perfidious: <'Because of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, 2020 will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations [sic] history — unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during World War One & World War Two with no problem, but now they are using Covid in order to cheat by using Mail-Ins!'> |
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Feb-01-21
| | chancho: <Ted Cruz: They're going to take up what is called <budget reconciliation.> > https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin... Seeing Teddie's outrage given that he was as giddy as a schoolgirl when he voted in favor of tax cuts for the rich by using, of all things...<budget reconciliation> is really... rich. : https://www.cnsnews.com/article/was... P.S. Maria Bartiromo's face appears to be aging from all the anger and tears at calling Biden... president. https://th.bing.com/th/id/R46aa2a8a... |
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Feb-01-21
| | chancho: <Stephen Miller/ before: Our opponents,[Political/Democrats/Legislators] the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned. Stephen Miller/ After: “The fundamental question is this.
What's the point of having a Congress, a House, a Senate, committees going through detailed deliberations to pass federal laws where you debate every sentence, every comma, every paragraph if a president can come in and just wipe it all away and decide for himself what the law is?”> His concern for Biden's executive orders is really cringeworthy given that: Trump had 220 executive actions in <4 years.> Obama had 276 in <8 years.> <“Bullsh.it is the glue that binds us as a nation.”― George Carlin> |
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| Feb-01-21 | | Refused: While Biden tries to get his stimulus bill thru, the Lincoln Project gets to do the fun stuff.
Threatening to sue Rudy for Defamation (after our avid GoT and Ivy League Lawyer claimed on Bannon's show, that the Lincoln Project were behind the Capitol Riots), and creating a new attack ad aimed at McCarthy. |
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Feb-01-21
| | perfidious: <Maria Bartiromo's face appears to be aging from all the anger and tears at calling Biden... president.> That fraud will get over it.....or not.....idgaf. |
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Feb-02-21
| | chancho: Obvious...
<Former president Donald Trump lost the 2020 election largely due to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a post-election autopsy completed by Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio.The 27-page document shows that voters in 10 key states rated the pandemic as their top voting issue, and President Biden won higher marks on the topic. The report also indicates that <<<Trump lost ground>>> among key demographic groups he needed. The internal report cuts against Trump’s claims that the election was stolen from him and that Biden could not have fairly beaten him — and mirrors what many Trump campaign officials said privately for months. The analysis by Fabrizio, a Florida pollster who has worked for Trump for years, was shared among campaign advisers late last year and was provided to The Washington Post on Monday night. Politico first reported on the existence of the document. The states studied were Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas. Voters in the states overwhelmingly supported a mask mandate — 75 percent — and Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s top infectious-disease specialist, secured an approval rating almost as high. Trump did not support a mask mandate — sometimes mocking the wearing of masks — and regularly criticized Fauci, threatening to fire him at times. Advisers repeatedly <<<encouraged Trump to wear a mask,>>> stop attacking Fauci and signal to the public that he was taking the coronavirus more seriously, particularly after he was hospitalized and given an experimental drug. Trump was largely resistant and mocked the virus down the stretch, sarcastically saying “Covid, covid, covid” at his rallies and falsely predicting the virus would leave the news after the election. More than 400,000 people have died of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli... |
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Feb-02-21
| | perfidious: <Former president Donald Trump lost the 2020 election largely due to his being a dumbass, sociopath and narcissist who cared for no-one save himself....> Fixed. |
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Feb-02-21
| | perfidious: The Blight of the South at it again:
<Newly uncovered Facebook posts by Georgia freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene expressing support for the murder of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were called “deeply disturbing” by the top Republican in the House, whose office said he planned to “have a conversation with her” about it.On Tuesday, CNN reported that Greene had shown support for executing prominent Democrats before she ran for Congress in 2020. Greene, a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory who has a long history of racist comments, was elected to the House in November after winning the Republican primary in a heavily conservative district. According to CNN, Greene “liked a comment that said ‘a bullet to the head would be quicker’ to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who, in her eyes, were part of the ‘deep state’ working against Trump.” In a February 2019 Facebook Live video from inside Pelosi’s office, Greene suggested the Democratic leader would “suffer death or she’ll be in prison” for her “treason.” In a statement posted to Twitter on Tuesday, Greene said she had teams of people manage her accounts over the years, implying some of the comments weren’t hers. A spokesperson for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Axios Tuesday night, “These comments are deeply disturbing and Leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them.” McCarthy had condemned Greene last year after Politico unearthed hours of video of her endorsing racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views. Following her primary victory, then-President Donald Trump called her a “future star.” Greene had received more than $75,000 from the House Freedom Fund, the campaign fundraising arm of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. On Wednesday morning, Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland, Fla., student who died in the 2018 school shooting there, posted a video of Greene harassing Parkland survivor and gun legislation advocate David Hogg outside the Capitol. Guttenberg wrote, “Is this you harassing [Hogg] weeks after the Parkland shooting, that my daughter was killed in & he was in? Calling him a coward for ignoring your insanity. I will answer all of your questions in person. Get ready to record again.” As of Wednesday morning, the video was still up on Greene’s YouTube page. In the video, originally posted by Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., Greene is accusing Hogg of being funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor. Last week, Media Matters reported that Greene had promoted the idea that the shooting, which resulted in 17 deaths, was a “false flag” operation, a staged event to influence public opinion, a claim that has been made about every nationally publicized mass shooting event in recent years. Per Media Matters, Greene has since removed some of the posts, but the organization retained screenshots. Greene had previously promoted conspiracies tied to both the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and the Pizzagate conspiracy, a precursor to QAnon, whose adherents believed a Washington, D.C., restaurant hid a dungeon where children were held as sex slaves. Through a number of videos and posts on social media over the last three years, Greene has promoted content related to QAnon, a cultlike conspiracy theory about a plan by Trump to dismantle a child-molesting cabal of Democrats and global elites. In documents obtained by Yahoo News, believers were labeled a domestic terrorism threat, and some of the rioters arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 were believers. In one video posted to YouTube in 2017, Greene talks about the anonymous “Q,” whom she describes as “a patriot” and “very pro-Trump.” She says, “I’m very excited about that now there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.”> https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-tay... |
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Feb-05-21
| | perfidious: Originally posted by <chancho> Over There, excerpts from a book: <Three Features of fascism as identified by Jason Stanley:<1. Conjuring a “mythic past” that has supposedly been destroyed (“by liberals, feminists, and immigrants”). Mussolini had Rome, Turkey’s Erdogan has the Ottoman Empire, and Hungary’s Viktor Orban rewrote the country’s constitution with the aim of “making Hungary great again.”These myths rely on an “overwhelming sense of nostalgia for a past that is racially pure, traditional, and patriarchal.” Fascist leaders “position themselves as father figures and strongmen” who alone can restore lost greatness. And yes, the fascist leader is “always a ‘he.’” 2. Fascist leaders sow division; they succeed by “turning groups against each other,” inflaming historical antagonisms and ancient hatreds for their own advantage. Social divisions in themselves—between classes, religions, ethnic groups and so on—are what we might call pre-existing conditions. Fascists may not invent the hate, but they cynically instrumentalize it: demonizing outgroups, normalizing and naturalizing bigotry, stoking violence to justify repressive “law and order” policies, the curtailing of civil rights and due process, and the mass imprisonment and killing of manufactured enemies. 3. Fascists “attack the truth” with propaganda, in particular “a kind of anti-intellectualism” that “creates a petri dish for conspiracy theories.” (Stanley’s fourth book, published by Princeton University Press, is titled How Propaganda Works.) We would have to be extraordinarily naïve to think that only fascist politicians lie, but we should focus here on the question of degree. For fascists, truth doesn’t matter at all. (As Rudy Giuliani says, “truth isn’t truth.”) Hannah Arendt wrote that fascism relies on “a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth.” She described the phenomenon as destroying “the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world…. [T]he category of truth verses falsehood [being] among the mental means to this end.” In such an atmosphere, anything is possible, no matter how previously unthinkable.> > |
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Feb-05-21
| | perfidious: Greene and her husband took PPP money last year ($182k) for their company from the Small Business Administration, all while opposing allocations of relief funds to others during the pandemic. She ought to fit in right well with many another pol inside the Beltway: denounce in public whilst on the take in private. |
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Feb-07-21
| | chancho: <We are all wondering how the Republican Party — the party of Lincoln — got to the point that it has an elected member of Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has called for the execution of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), cast doubt on the events of 9/11 and suggested that a Jewish cabal used lasers to start the California wildfires. The answer is in plain sight: the accommodation of extremism by the party’s leaders. This week, the Republican congressional caucus declined to censure Greene in any way. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pretended not to even know what QAnon was. In the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has finally drawn the line, describing Greene’s views as “loony.” But it is too little, too late. The party has been encouraging loony views for years. Today we rightly laud Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) for his political courage — but it’s worth recalling that when he was running for president in 2012, he craved Donald Trump’s endorsement. When Romney got it, he gushed, “There are some things that you just can’t imagine happening in your life.” Later that year, he tacitly endorsed Trump’s most noxious lie — birtherism — joking that “no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.” The real big lie at the heart of the modern Republican Party is about public policy, not conspiracy theories. Starting in the 1930s, Republicans promised their voters the repeal of FDR’s New Deal. When the next Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, did nothing of the sort, the modern conservative movement emerged, furiously branding Ike a traitor. When LBJ enacted the Great Society, conservatives pledged that once elected, they would tear it all down — and never did. Ronald Reagan launched his political career by denouncing Medicare as a direct path to socialism. If it passed, he warned, “[We] are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.” Of course, as president, Reagan left Medicare largely intact. In the early 1990s, House leader Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) doubled down on a rhetoric of radicalism and extremism. He promised revolution and described political opponents as the embodiment of evil, who won only because they lied and cheated. E.J. Dionne Jr. has described the toxic results of this strategy as “the politics of disappointment and betrayal.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) follows the same strategy today. His 2016 platform included promises to repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS and balance the budget — plans that he knew could never get enacted but were just the right red meat for the base. He treats his supporters like cannon fodder, whipping them into hysteria and sending them into battle.> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin... |
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Feb-07-21
| | perfidious: <….House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pretended not to even know what QAnon was....> McCarthy proved himself worthy of Trump's steel, backtracking on earlier comments. Just another pol who is a <point of sale>. |
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| Feb-08-21 | | Refused: sorry chancho. But that's not entirely correct. <When LBJ enacted the Great Society, conservatives pledged that once elected, they would tear it all down — and never did.Ronald Reagan launched his political career by denouncing Medicare as a direct path to socialism. If it passed, he warned, “[We] are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.”> Those 1980s conservative leaders in the west (the UK's Thatcher, and Germany's Kohl were cut from the same cloth in that respect) did not launch a frontal assault on social safety nets or social programs as such. That much is correct. It would be politically foolish. Same way conservatives won't directly take away the ACA. They took a different route. Their stick was basically.
<Taxes are too high. Who likes to pay taxes? Vote for me you will pay less.> That is more on brand with Paul Ryan than Teddy Boy. However, you get what you pay for, that holds true here, too. So he basically cut the taxes, and cut funding to those <socialist programs>. When you look at the US and the states. MA charges relatively higher taxes, but you got stuff like rather well funded schools, good infrastructure and a working administration in return.
You gut goverment agencies, you lose manpower and expertise, which you then have to buy at a premium on the free market (consultant firms). A cynical observer would conclude that there's more than a bit redistribution of wealth happening, giving it to the top. To go full circle to the ACA, remember the orange ones musing about just letting it crash. That's the 1980s reloaded. |
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Feb-08-21
| | chancho: If Obama had lost to Romney in 2012, (it's a silly hypothetical scenario, I know.) and he kept saying the election was rigged against him over and over again and asked for his supporters to head to D.C. to stop the electoral vote on January 6, and moreover, told Biden that he had to power to stop the proceedings, and after being impeached for his misdeed and leaving office, with the Democrats claiming that convicting Obama would be unconstitutional, would the Republicans be ok with such a thing?
Would they vote not to convict Obama after he left office?
Would they say for the sake of unity we need to move on?
No need to respond.
The answer is obvious. |
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Feb-09-21
| | chancho: <Andy McCarthy
@AndrewCMcCarthy·7m
Lawyer for the former POTUS who maintains that the election was stolen argues that there’s no need to disqualify that former POTUS because the American people just voted him out of office. I'm confused ...> <Jennifer Rubin
@JRubinBlogger·8m
Rudy: I'm the worst lawyer in America
Castor: Hold my beer.> |
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| Feb-09-21 | | Refused: You still expect logical consistency? That's so adorable. |
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Feb-09-21
| | perfidious: <'We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.'> If matters go to pot, we can thank the person who spewed this screed in no small measure, perfidious wretch that he is. |
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Feb-10-21
| | chancho: <perfidious wretch that he is.> 🤣🤣🤣
I see what you did there...
<"We will not let them silence your voices," We will stop the steal.""I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so, because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election."> Doing the "right thing" in Donnie Numbnut's eyes is committing crimes for him. Like when Michael Cohen paid 130 grand to silence Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket and Trump paid Cohen in small installments to repay him for the misdeed. Thankfully, Mike Pence did not want to get involved in that sort of illegality. I don't like his politics, but at least he stood for the constitution when push came to shove. |
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