Monday, December 20, 2021
Lauren Boebert Is Awful by Standards Set by GW Bush of All People
They were really both massive assholes, though GWB was an asshole on a global scale.
The GOP Has Evolved into the Party Of Assholes
As it happens, Dole’s death came just a few days after we learned what Donald Trump did after he tested positive for the coronavirus last year. He not only concealed the result but also proceeded to put hundreds of people at risk by continuing his normal activities while refusing to wear a mask or practice social distancing. And when he came down with a life-threatening case of Covid, he suggested that he might have caught it from Gold Star families he had met with after his positive test — that is, he blamed people he himself had callously endangered.
At some level, nobody is surprised; we knew that Trump was malignant to a degree never before seen in high office. But what does it say about the state of modern America that nobody expects him to pay any price for this revelation? The loyalty of his base won’t be shaken; he’s still the favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Nor has he paid any price for other character defects that would once have been considered damning.
A generation or two ago, could a national political figure have gotten away with being constantly self-pitying, complaining about how badly he’s being treated? Could he have paid no penalty for always refusing to admit error, even if the cover-up required altering weather maps with what appears to have been a Sharpie?
And Trump seems to have set the standard for many of his devotees. Many of the rioters who tried to overturn the election on Jan. 6 seem to be very sorry — for themselves. Kyle Rittenhouse wept on the witness stand, not because he felt remorse over killing people but over the pain of being put on trial. The Crumbleys, who gave their son the gun with which he shot up his Michigan school and killed four students, also seemed very upset — over having been arrested. All this from a movement obsessed with the idea of masculinity. Weren’t real men traditionally supposed to be strong, silent types who took responsibility for their actions and accepted burdens without complaining? Of course, these are human virtues, not specifically masculine; still, they used to be qualities we expected and admired.
It didn’t start with Trump. We’ve been heading this way for a long time. Back in 2006, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq on false pretenses and the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, I wrote about the “mensch gap” — the unwillingness of the people then running the country to accept responsibility for their own failures, their eagerness to blame others when things went wrong. Later, during the Obama era, it was striking how many critics on the right refused to acknowledge error when their predictions of runaway inflation or the abject failure of Obamacare failed to come true. But now the transformation of American conservatism — the same movement that complains about liberal “snowflakes” — into a collection of malignant whiners seems to have reached apotheosis. Yes, there are self-pitying hypocrites on the left too, but they don’t dominate the way Trump and Trump-like figures dominate the right.
Monday, December 13, 2021
Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Reveals PowerPoint presentation that set out plan for Trump to overthrow the election
Psycho insurrectionist assholes:
Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack a PowerPoint recommending Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to return himself to the presidency.
The fact that Meadows was in possession of a PowerPoint the day before the Capitol attack that detailed ways to stage a coup suggests he was at least aware of efforts by Trump and his allies to stop Joe Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January.
The PowerPoint, titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 Jan”, made several recommendations for Trump to pursue in order to retain the presidency for a second term on the basis of lies and debunked conspiracies about widespread election fraud.
Saturday, November 13, 2021
House Republicans are now PUNISHING their members who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill
It's a BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL -- 19 Republican Senators voted for it.
Some of these members who voted for the bill are getting death threats.
Gerrymandering Fuckery in Utah
2018: Utah voters approve ballot measure to end partisan gerrymandering
2020: Utah Republicans repeal most of the ballot measureSunday, October 31, 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021
A Brief History of the Right and White Supremacy in America
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Republicans Promote Nazi Blood Flag Symbology to Promote Their Insurrection
At the rally last night for GOP VA Gov candidate Glenn Youngkin, they said the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ to a flag that was carried during the insurrection on Jan 6, as if it was sacred or something....
Sound familiar? The Blutfahne or Blood Flag, is a Nazi Party swastika flag that was carried during the attempted coup d’etat Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany on 9 November 1923, during which it became soaked in the blood of one of the SA men who died.
GOP Assholes Run Amok in Texas
Texas has become a truly evil place, haven for cruelty and bigotry, which has locked in white minority rule through gerrymandering and discriminatory voting laws.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Monday, September 20, 2021
The Evil of White Evangelicals
“We need to quit coddling evangelicals and allowing them to use these moral issues to hide behind, because it’s very clear that that’s not what the issue is. The issue is that they believe in anti-vaxxing, they believe in racism, they believe in anti-immigration, they believe that only Republicans should run the country and they believe in white supremacy.”-- Professor Anthea Butler
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Trump's Stolen Supreme Court Justices help Overturn Roe vs Wade and Women's Rights
RIP Roe v. Wade? SCOTUS Won’t Block Texas Abortion Ban That Is “Clearly an Unconstitutional Law”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to let stand a new anti-abortion law in Texas, which bans all abortions in the state after six weeks — before most people even realize they are pregnant — and allows for private citizens to sue anyone who “aids and abets” a person in getting an abortion. Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, says, “It is clearly an unconstitutional law” that must be reversed. “It’s absolutely an abomination...".
President Biden said the Texas law, quote, “blatantly violates” the constitutional right to abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade. It is the most restrictive anti-choice law in the nation, barring abortions about six weeks into a pregnancy — before many people even know they’re pregnant. There is no exception for rape or incest. The law also allows anyone in Texas to sue patients, medical workers, a cab driver or even a patient’s family or friends who, quote, “aid and abet” an abortion. Texas clinics say they’ve had to cancel most of their appointments since the law took effect Wednesday. Providers say at least 85% of abortions they performed are now outlawed.
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Sunday, August 8, 2021
US Capitol Police Officer and Jan 6th Veteran Calls Out GOP Over Their Hypocrisy
Mike Fanone to GOP members of Congress: “You guys don’t seem to have a problem when we’re kicking the shit out of Black people. But when we’re kicking the shit out of white people, uh-oh, that’s an issue.”
In meetings with GOP members of Congress, Fanone asked how they could claim to “back the blue” while selling him out. They brought up Black Lives Matter and how they’d had the cops’ backs. “You guys don’t seem to have a problem when we’re kicking the sh-t out of Black people,” Fanone recalls saying. “But when we’re kicking the sh-t out of white people, uh-oh, that’s an issue.” He found himself explaining why attempting to overthrow a CVS was slightly different than attempting to overthrow the government. Why the peaceful transfer of power was a bigger deal than a few anarchists in Portland, Ore.
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Republicans Push COVID Vaccine Skepticism and the Death of Their Voters
"As the coronavirus’s Delta variant rips through conservative communities, most Republicans remain reluctant to confront vaccine misinformation and skepticism in their midst."
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Joint Chiefs chairman feared potential 'Reichstag moment' aimed at keeping Trump in power
In the waning weeks of Donald Trump’s term, the country’s top military leader repeatedly worried about what the president might do to maintain power after losing reelection, comparing his rhetoric to Adolf Hitler’s during the rise of Nazi Germany and asking confidants whether a coup was forthcoming, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters.
As Trump ceaselessly pushed false claims about the 2020 presidential election, Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, grew more and more nervous, telling aides he feared that the president and his acolytes may attempt to use the military to stay in office, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker report in “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.”
Milley described “a stomach-churning” feeling as he listened to Trump’s untrue complaints of election fraud, drawing a comparison to the 1933 attack on Germany’s parliament building that Hitler used as a pretext to establish a Nazi dictatorship
“This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides, according to the book. “The gospel of the Führer.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joint-chiefs-chairman-feared-potential-reichstag-moment-aimed-at-keeping-trump-in-power/2021/07/14/a326f5fe-e4ec-11eb-a41e-c8442c213fa8_story.html
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Monday, June 21, 2021
Rand Paul Goes Full Fascist Scumball
“The idea of democracy and majority rule really is what goes against our history and what the country stands for,” Paul said. “The Jim Crow laws came out of democracy. That’s what you get when a majority ignores the rights of others.”
Jim Crow laws — laws instantiating public racial segregation and, importantly, curtailing the voting power of Black Americans — were, in fact, reflections of the rule of the majority. But that “majority” was not itself a reflection of the actual population, given the extent to which Blacks were excluded from participation. That's not to say that universal Black participation in voting in the Jim Crow South would have given them a majority, but it almost certainly would have reshaped power dynamics. Which, of course, was why Black voting was discouraged.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Trump Wanted to Use National Guard to *Protect* the Jan. 6th Rioters Not Protect Congress
What a treasonous motherfucking asshole.
The GOP March To Fascism Continues
By the Brennan Center for Justice’s count, state lawmakers have introduced more than 360 voter suppression bills across the nation, and the aim seems clear: Despite rhetorical nods to protecting “election integrity,” it’s a collective Republican effort to suppress the vote in future elections.
As Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic minority leader of the Georgia state House explains, these bills “are responding to the big lie, to the disproven, discredited and, sadly, the blood-spilled lie of voter fraud.”
But not only are states trying to restrict access to the ballot box, in many instances, they’re also trying to make it harder for voters to protect their rights in court. A new Brennan Center analysis identified at least 93 bills in 26 states introduced this year that threaten judicial independence by limiting courts’ power or injecting more politics into state judiciaries. According to the analysis, in at least eight of these states, bills have specifically targeted election-related cases. And in 21 states, broader court bills were introduced that would impact election cases, among others, by changing how judges are selected, which courts hear cases challenging the constitutionality of state actions or how judicial decisions are enforced. It’s a dangerous trend that leaves voting rights at risk and undermines a critical check against abuses of power during our elections.
Friday, May 21, 2021
Asshole Anti-Vax Republicans Must Wear Masks
Pelosi observed that Republicans have only themselves to blame for the ongoing mask mandate. “It is unfortunate that a large number of people in the Congress have refused to be vaccinated or … have been vaccinated and don’t want to admit it.” She says she can’t tell which because of medical privacy. “It’s their personal business,” she said. “But … as the doctor said, until they are vaccinated, we cannot have meetings without masks.” Her ire rising, she observed, “We have a responsibility to make sure that the House of the Representatives chamber is not a petri dish because of the selfishness of some.”
In a throwaway line, she suggested the alternative to the mask mandate could entail sticking members who refuse to be vaccinated up in the House gallery. “I mean, we could come to a place where we say, if you don’t want to wear a mask and … if you’re not vaccinated, don’t even come to the floor,” she said. “We have facilities up above in the Gallery where people can come to vote.” Maybe put them behind a plastic screen, too? The idea is comical, but it gets to a serious issue: The burden of pandemic restrictions should eventually fall on the unvaccinated.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Friday, May 7, 2021
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Republicans ask Biden to withdraw 'divisive' proposal to teach more Black history
Dozens of Senate Republicans called on the Biden administration on Friday to withdraw what they say is a “divisive” education proposal that would place greater emphasis on slavery and the contributions of Black Americans in history and civics lessons taught in U.S. schools.
In the latest salvo of a burgeoning culture war over race in America, 39 Republican lawmakers led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the proposed Education Department policy would divert established school curricula toward a "politicized and divisive agenda" fixated on the country's flaws.
"Young Americans deserve a rigorous understanding of civics and American history. They need to understand both our successes and our failures," the Republican senators wrote in a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona dated April 29. The letter was released on Friday.
"Americans do not need or want their tax dollars diverted from promoting the principles that unite our nation toward promoting radical ideologies meant to divide us."
Friday, April 30, 2021
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021
A New America First Caucus
A new America First Caucus — led by @mtgreenee and @RepGosar — is recruiting people to join based on “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” architectural style that “befits the progeny of European architecture” Some of the most nativist stuff we’ve seen.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
The Long Evil Sordid History GOP Voter Suppression
2000: Rs block manual recount after memory card is found to have inexplicably deleted 16k votes from Gore’s total on a Diebold machine in Volusia county; no other races were impacted. Bush declared victorious by 537 votes. History forever altered. 1/
She warns that Republicans cld use paperless machines from Republican-controlled companies to hack elections without detection. Media yawns. 10/