Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419078894074875914
and
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068600200138763
You can keep scrolling if you really want to.
Printable View
Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419078894074875914
and
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068600200138763
You can keep scrolling if you really want to.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ility-families
Trump must be trying to film his own Borat like comedy film with this rally there's some top class stuff in there....They're not going to allow windows or cows anymore.... Amazing
I guess it keeps the donations coming though, the mad man seems to believe everything he says though, which is a bit worrying
It's more than a bit ironic that Biden gets lambasted by Trumpees for verbal gaffes and stumbles.... when the (thank God) former President specializes in nonsensical, blathering rants. Rants in which the vocabulary level never rises above middle-school level. Just a lot of rah-rah, space-filling nothingness... designed to appeal mostly to the uneducated. I've already posted (several times) Trump's incredibly drunken-sounding rant about windmills in front of some college students... so we really do not need to belabor the point.
If there were any I.T. people listening -they have to have perfected the art of ignoring aka ignorance to not have cringed. He wants I.P. addresses? routing tables? But I have to remember this is the same demographic that found solace in BushismsQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
https://youtu.be/rQ6N-sb7SVQ
https://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfo...tid=5889&stc=1
Utterly mind blowing that this is actually real and not some lame parody of an unhinged talentless entitled old prick embarrassing himself on social media.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Beanz
Donnie from Queens, you're on the air.
I hope you're prepared for another four years of him:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...-doctrine.html
Wait till trumpet finds out the Canadian team has a Ayer that identifies as transgender non binary and only goes by the name Quinn.... Maybe the Americans weren't woke enough to beat us Canucks :SQuote:
Originally Posted by Beanz
"Wokesters" ffs ;D. Man that is bottom feeding at it's finest. Still convinced if these were written in crayon the poll numbers would be stronger.
Today in Trump Land those who claim the establishment loathes him and love the Ted Cruz' of the Party used to say it ass backwards the other way. When the right wing media is wrong about it? Pretend it never existed...
https://youtu.be/GXtGeHrTnqk
Words from Rush 'Oxycontin' Limbaugh:
"Ted has been ignored from the 1st day. From last summer news was always about Trump. Even at the debates Ted Cruz is smoking everybody. After the debates. Post coverage is about Trump ..it's about what did trump say about this moderator or that moderator. he is hated by the establishment- they are the ones that ignore him."
The Party has not lifted a finger to help him
Kid ready to hang up Trump states
"Now hang on thoughl..he is being dworfed & swamped by unprecedented coverage of Trump who hasnt had to spendy any money. We're told everyone hates him yet he is in 2nd place.
I think Ted Cruz can win & he's won 9 states it isnt near over everybody want you to believe its over that crump ...Trump..is gonna get it or it will be contested by a kasich whoever the establishmment can throw out."
--RUSH LIMBAUGH
These were the sentiments across the board. But when the polls showed Cruz getting crushed by lie after lie & the liar became the leader. Rush, FOX & crew decided to follow the leader...of lies...
https://youtu.be/NLokvR5UsQQ
Two-thirds of Republicans want Donald Trump to remain key figure in GOP, Pew survey finds
https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-third...182225305.html
What is wild is that his fiercest supporters were once nevertrumpers.
I also note that since he came- those who I had a slither of respect for either resigned or bullied out of office -so when we say conservative...I think we are NOT talking about the likes of William Buckley.
He conversed with his opponents and not insult or refuse to engage at all. I see it today as rightwingism- in the name of conservatism.
Those individuals -like Rand Paul who insulted Trumpertantrum everyday....is now making senate sessions where he DEMANDS people apologize to the Donster.
Or Ted Cruz whose wife was outted by the crotch-grabber as an ugly woman...well that dude like Rand had NO position on Team Drumpf...but one can review the past year in office and find quite a few videos where Ted is standing behind him...like a valet.
Doing nothing...justy standing there...
Those are the Republicans of today and they are more for Trump today than ever.
Pimpin' Republicans in the name of Jesus. Who would have thought America would go out like this....
@SlimTrae , it is my opinion that some of that fierce support is due to the lukewarm (at best) job Biden is presently doing as POTUS. Had a candidate defeated Trump and proceeded to wow the American people with true leadership on all fronts... Trump would have been reduced to an afterthought. Remember that many of those who voted Trump in 2016 actually flipped after becoming deeply disappointed/horrified at the person they had elected. These are what I call thinking, conscientious Republicans. Nothing wrong with being Republican or Democrat in this country. What's wrong is being an extremist puppet... easily encouraged to storm Capitol buildings... believing every song and dance your candidate spouts out as "truth." Sometimes I think it's not even the politicians who have ruined the country. It's the people themselves... because there seem to be more and more mindless puppets every day.
Trump caught lightning in a bottle in 2016, when Obama's terms had run out, and all the Dems could trot out there was a universally disliked and mistrusted Hillary Clinton. After riding Obama's coattails on the economy for a couple of years and appealing to the darker side of the American public as skillfully as a snake oil salesman... he began sowing the seeds for the 2020 election MONTHS PRIOR, by saying the elections would be rigged. Anybody who didn't see that coming was either asleep or in a coma. So it was WIN-WIN even before the elections took place.
Dems on the other hand, had FOUR years to come up with a good candidate to beat Trump's socks off in 2020. So what do they do?? They spend 3-1/2 of those 4 years moaning and groaning about Trump. Then they hurriedly put this unwieldly mass of primary candidates together... and the process spits out Joe Biden. :vd: A man who's even older than Trump and to be perfectly honest does not appear to have the physical and mental fortitude to last the full four years.
And how's Biden doing right now? Well... key issues like immigration and the handling of Afghanistan have been a mess. But don't just take my word for it. Look at ANY public opinion poll. I know there are anti-Trumpers here that will gladly swallow anything Biden does because frankly..... HE'S NOT TRUMP. But I'm nothing if not realistic, and all I see is Joe Biden keeping Trump relevant. Even worse than that... along with Trump, there is his forgettable cast of spineless, morality-challenged, worthless cohorts, like Graham and Cruz.
It's enough to make you want to puke.
Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
You keep on going on about how parties can come up with candidates like there's a candidate factory somewhere that can create candidates that will "wow" with great leadership a 50-50 electorate who as a matter of course hate the guy from the other party and everybody will somehow be happy. That's just not how it works. You can't manufacture candidates. You have a beauty contest choice between a bunch of variously flawed human beings. The incredible length of the American election process, with the procedure to elect a president starting with primary campaigns nearly two years before an election takes place mean that the nature and character of any candidate is exposed to all over the endless campaign. Any attempt to manufacture somebody, to graft on aspects of personality or character or whatever would fall apart under the microscope. It is literally impossible to do what you're saying should be done.
You just get the beauty contestants up on stage a bunch of times and let them answer questions and you hear them give speeches and interviews and town halls and whatever and then people pick their guy. How good the guy is depends on the talent pool available. Once in a generation you get a Kennedy or a Reagan or an Obama, most of the time it's a case of picking the least worst guy. That's what the current guy is. A nonthreatening, moderate, least worst choice.
Very objective post!Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Dems looking like the gang that can't shoot straight. They seriously need to get their collective shit together and present a unified front..grit your teeth and kill these public spats and pissing contests. The AOC and Cory Bush campus clown rants do no good. Sinema may be nuttier than a Christmas fruit cake but you don't follow someone into the bathroom ffs. Repubs are just going to wait them out till mid terms otherwise. I'd like to see Biden grab both the moderate and progressive dividers by the short hairs and remind them of the absolute unamerican catastrophe that was one Trump. Get it together! Bernie you ran, you lost, sit down and stfu. Equally have no faith in what passes for Repubs now who have devolved into a gaggle of boot licking weak sycophant's. Donald belongs in an orange jumpsuit with shower shoes that are too small curled up on a metal cot. Future of what was this Republic, I have concerns.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
You keep on going on about how parties can come up with candidates like there's a candidate factory somewhere that can create candidates that will "wow" with great leadership a 50-50 electorate who as a matter of course hate the guy from the other party and everybody will somehow be happy. That's just not how it works. You can't manufacture candidates. You have a beauty contest choice between a bunch of variously flawed human beings. The incredible length of the American election process, with the procedure to elect a president starting with primary campaigns nearly two years before an election takes place mean that the nature and character of any candidate is exposed to all over the endless campaign. Any attempt to manufacture somebody, to graft on aspects of personality or character or whatever would fall apart under the microscope. It is literally impossible to do what you're saying should be done.
You just get the beauty contestants up on stage a bunch of times and let them answer questions and you hear them give speeches and interviews and town halls and whatever and then people pick their guy. How good the guy is depends on the talent pool available. Once in a generation you get a Kennedy or a Reagan or an Obama, most of the time it's a case of picking the least worst guy. That's what the current guy is. A nonthreatening, moderate, least worst choice.
Nobody's talking about manufacturing candidates or beauty contests. FFS... if Trump was so inadequate for the position (which he most definitely was)... then is it so much to ask to find SOMEONE adequate enough to beat him in an election four years later? It speaks poorly of the pool of candidates for political office if we have to talk about "manufacturing" and "beauty contests." It also speaks poorly of the millions of voters who are tasked with voting for the correct candidate. Except lately there hasn't been much of a choice, has there. Trump or Hillary..... Trump or Biden. :vd: If the bar was any lower we'd have to dig to find it.
Saw a speech by Reagan someone posted on FB the other day. It was pre-Presidency Reagan. Man... I forgot what an intelligent, articulate political candidate sounds like. We're so used to choosing between "Dumb and Dumber"... we've become desensitized to what we should be able to expect from the leader of the free world.
Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
You keep on going on about how parties can come up with candidates like there's a candidate factory somewhere that can create candidates that will "wow" with great leadership a 50-50 electorate who as a matter of course hate the guy from the other party and everybody will somehow be happy. That's just not how it works. You can't manufacture candidates. You have a beauty contest choice between a bunch of variously flawed human beings. The incredible length of the American election process, with the procedure to elect a president starting with primary campaigns nearly two years before an election takes place mean that the nature and character of any candidate is exposed to all over the endless campaign. Any attempt to manufacture somebody, to graft on aspects of personality or character or whatever would fall apart under the microscope. It is literally impossible to do what you're saying should be done.
You just get the beauty contestants up on stage a bunch of times and let them answer questions and you hear them give speeches and interviews and town halls and whatever and then people pick their guy. How good the guy is depends on the talent pool available. Once in a generation you get a Kennedy or a Reagan or an Obama, most of the time it's a case of picking the least worst guy. That's what the current guy is. A nonthreatening, moderate, least worst choice.
Nobody's talking about manufacturing candidates or beauty contests. FFS... if Trump was so inadequate for the position (which he most definitely was)... then is it so much to ask to find SOMEONE adequate enough to beat him in an election four years later? It speaks poorly of the pool of candidates for political office if we have to talk about "manufacturing" and "beauty contests." It also speaks poorly of the millions of voters who are tasked with voting for the correct candidate. Except lately there hasn't been much of a choice, has there. Trump or Hillary..... Trump or Biden. :vd: If the bar was any lower we'd have to dig to find it.
Saw a speech by Reagan someone posted on FB the other day. It was pre-Presidency Reagan. Man... I forgot what an intelligent, articulate political candidate sounds like. We're so used to choosing between "Dumb and Dumber"... we've become desensitized to what we should be able to expect from the leader of the free world.
Id Reagan was around now he'd be called a RINO, socialist, communist and so on. The GOP has moved massively rightwards even since Reagan. If you're not a conspiracy theory spouting lib owning white nationalist the GOP base aren't just going to ignore you, they're going to despise you.
The Democrats have their own problems with voters and policies. This is an excellent read. If the NYT won't let you read it install the noscript addon and clear your cookies and cache and so on and then click the link again. Worth the effort to read this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/o...e=articleShare
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
To be fair to the Democrats there are like two people in the Senate and a couple in the House holding the whole thing up. Everybody else will pass whatever comes out of the sausage making process. The progressive part of the Democratic party have already accepted the bill will only be half as big as originally planned.
Manchin's fortune is in fossil fuels and it's difficult to get turkeys to vote for Christmas. Sinema released a statement saying her vote can't be bought or forced by anybody while she's literally holding fundraisers with lobbyists who are trying to kill the whole bill.
But even Manchin, representing and trying to get reelected in an R+35 state is well to the left of where Obama was in 2009 when he was willing to trade cuts in Medicare and Social Security for tax increases on top earners. Cutting those two programmes was being a moderate Democrat twelve years ago. Now being a moderate Democrat is backing a two trillion dollar spending programme although Manchin and Sinema have blocked raising taxes on the top one percent to pay for the spending.
I'll do the bill after the next fight.
The bill itself doesn't seem to be very good. The only thing people know about it is it's three and a half trillion. It eventually won't even crack two trillion and that's spread over ten years. It's two hundred billion a year which is the size of the Trump tax cut. The Trump cut goes entirely to the top one percent soon as the cut for the ninety nine percent expires in a year or so. The Democratic spending goes to low and middle income earners, Medicare recipients and basically the ninety nine percent. It's full of supply side stimulus you'd think the GOP would like* like subsidised childcare to get more people back into the labour market.
Whatever bill does pass is going to mean socialism and the end of America and bankrupcy (it'll be less than 0.5% of GDP) and so on but you know the first and probably only thing (was for Trump) the GOP manage to pass next time they're running things will be another top one percent tax cut that is completely unfunded and just cranks up the deficit.
*Of course the whole supply side adherance in the GOP is because it's the only was to remotely justify top one percent tax cuts. Never mind that there's forty years of evidence showing they don't work.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...24274858283019
Sinema is getting huge campaign contributions to keep this out of the bill. Same with Manchin. Both of them will use this and other issues to earn themselves future lobbying jobs in DC for massive money when they leave the Senate. They do what the pharma lobbyists want now and get huge paying jobs when they leave office. Sinema will take the lobbying job, Manchin is already rich so will probably get future investment opportunities with guaranteed returns in pharma projects and no fingerprints.
And this gets little mention in the media. To the media they're just moderate Democrats with serious concerns about spending and deficits and debt. Amazing that the interests of corporations are the moderate position and the radical leftist position is the one shared by eighty three percent of Americans.
And this is just fucking horrific. These detestable people should be thrown out of office and put in jail for years for this. Keep scrolling , lots of posts:
https://twitter.com/bykenarmstrong/s...05198516535297
And this kind of thing isn't all that unusual. There was a judge went to prison a year or three ago for something similar. They're basically jailing children for profit. Here's some more on it:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/b...ults-in-charge
More again if you google the school to prison pipeline.
Here we go. Twenty eight years in prison for sending kids to jail:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...=1634091402541
A Black Teen Jailed for Not Doing Her Schoolwork Is Now Free
https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/black...choolwork.html
Good posting m8, you guys just know way more about this stuff than me so there's not much point in me replying, my contribution would (at best) amount to "bloody ell, that's like someone took the seinfeld finale really seriously and decided to enact it on black children, but it's not that funny in real life:S"... And the dog in the promo video for the detention centre was pretty cool...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
Anyway good posting keep it up!.
When a former president can tell voters...
Trump says Republicans won’t vote in 2022 or 2024 unless his bogus election fraud claims are ‘solved’vote in 2022 ...and they consider listening.......damn...
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-re...221930912.html
so don't vote- let democrats take control of both houses then????
What I find is amazing-is how mainstream claims Don is no longer relevent- yet they can't stop making articles about him. Quoting him.
They are keeping him alive, relevant. I think...MSNBC, CNN probably cover Donnie as much as FOX does now.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SlimTrae
Trump continues playing that flute... knowing his minions will regurgitate whatever outlandish B.S. he shovels.
Whereas CNN is permanently scarred... and can't get off of Trump. Like you said, keeping him relevant.
And the people?
Well... if there was such a graph as "Political/Election IQ" among the masses... the curve would've taken a near vertical drop at around the time Trump got elected and would have been scraping bottom ever since.
A US judge has ruled a congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot can access some of ex-President Donald Trump's White House records.
Mr Trump had sought to invoke executive privilege, under which presidential documents can be kept secret.
The inquiry is trying to find out if Mr Trump had prior knowledge of the riot.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59227425
My :twocents:
If I were to guess...
Did Trump incite the riot? Sure.
Did he stoke the fires of the idiot masses who worshipped the ground he walked on? Absolutely.
Should he be held accountable for the damage and loss of life that ensued from the Jan 6th riots? You bet.
Did he have prior knowledge of the riot? I don't think so.
I think this was the case of a mob scene with a bunch of Neanderthals, that soon became a shark feeding frenzy, and the crowd just lost all control.
The "storm the Capitol" bit was probably initiated by a dozen or so braindead morons... and quickly picked up on by the zombie crowd.
Now Republican "leadership" sits idly by promoting the stripping of committees of 13 Repubs who had the audacity to cast an honest vote in support of bi partisan infrastructure. Many of whom have received death threats. Again, for nothing more than casting an honest vote as is their elected duty. This is true tyranny and the true threat to Freedom. It really is and the majority of the current party..which I have agreed with on some issues as an Independent..is an absolute embarrassment to the Nation. It's more shameful to watch them cower and grovel to a man no longer in power than it was when he was actually in office..I didn't even think that was possible. And don't get me started on the 'progressives' with initial proposals of 7 trillion, played hard ball dragged key policy into an erratic laughing stock. Then compromised while accusing other fellow Dems of zero trust and trickery...then when the vote came down and against their own leadership in the more left wing of party..a half dozen voted against record infrastructure anyway. Fook them too. If I'm honest didn't miss politics after the Traitor in Chief was voted out. Basically feel like there needs to be a political detox program in this recent and current climate. It's literally unhealthy.
I don't care for Maher often but he keeps it cutting and hits the nail on the head occasionally. https://youtu.be/7cR4fXcsu9wQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
White supremacists declare war on democracy and walk away unscathed
American democracy’s most dangerous adversary is white supremacy. Throughout this nation’s history, white supremacy has undermined, twisted and attacked the viability of the United States. What makes white supremacy so lethal, however, is not just its presence but also the refusal to hold its adherents fully accountable for the damage they have done and continue to do to the nation. The insurrection on 6 January and the weak response are only the latest example.
During the war for independence, after the British captured Savannah, the king’s forces set out to capture a wholly unprepared South Carolina. John Laurens, an aide-de-camp of George Washington, pleaded with the South Carolina government to arm the enslaved because the state didn’t have enough available white men to fight the 8,000-strong British force barreling toward Charleston. This was a crisis born of South Carolina’s decision to divert most of the state’s white men from the Continental Army to fight the Redcoats and, instead, enlist them in the militia to control the enslaved population, whom they defined as the primary threat.
The response to Laurens’ plan was, therefore, “horror” and “alarm”. Umbrage even. The state’s political leaders were so appalled that they questioned whether “this union was worth fighting for at all”. The United States of America was not nearly as important as maintaining slavery. They, therefore, toyed with the idea of surrendering to the British, making a separate peace. For that flat-out refusal to fight with every resource at its command, and clear willingness to sacrifice the United States simply to maintain slavery, South Carolina suffered no consequences. It wasn’t ostracized. It wasn’t penalized. Instead, the state’s leaders were fully embraced as Founding Fathers and welcomed into the new nation’s halls of power.
What makes white supremacy so lethal is the refusal to hold its adherents accountable for the damage they have done
Several years later, at the 1787 constitutional convention, the south once again put white supremacy above the viability of the United States. In tough negotiations, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia’s representatives were willing to hold the nation hostage and risk its destruction unless protection of slavery and the empowering of enslavers was embedded in the constitution. The negotiators acknowledged exactly what was going on and even, sometimes, how reprehensible it was. When, for example, the delegates bowed down to the south’s demands for 20 additional years of the Atlantic slave trade, James Madison admitted that without that concession, “the southern states would not have entered into the union of America”. And, therefore, as “great as the evil is” he added “the dismemberment of the Union would be worse”.
The same refrain played after the infamous three-fifths clause passed under the southern threat to walk away and, thus, scuttle the constitution and the United States. Massachusetts delegate Rufus King called the nefarious formula to determine representation in Congress one of the constitution’s “greatest blemishes” while lamenting that it “was a necessary sacrifice to the establishment of the Constitution”.
The enslavers’ extortionist threats – white supremacy as the price for the nation to come into being – should have created a massive backlash. But it didn’t. There was no retribution, only compliance and acquiescence. The demonstrated lack of accountability for threatening the viability of the United States served only to embolden the slaveholders, who bullied, harangued and pummeled other congressional leaders, including the brutal 1856 beating of Senator Charles Sumner by southerner Preston Brooks on the Senate floor, to get their way.
When the bullying and beatings no longer worked, and the nation dared elect a president opposed to slavery spreading any further, the slaveholders launched a military attack against the United States. They wanted, according to Alexander H Stephens, vice-president of the Confederate States of America, the “disintegration” of the Union. He said that the United States had to be destroyed because, unlike the US, the Confederacy’s “cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition”.
The lack of accountability for threatening the viability of the United States served only to embolden the slaveholders
To wage its war for white supremacy, the Confederates killed and wounded more than 646,000 American soldiers. In addition to the loss of life, fending off the CSA’s devastating military assault cost the United States billions of dollars. The CSA also tried to badger and entice the British and French to ally with the Confederacy and attack the United States.
For doing so much to destroy this nation, after the CSA’s defeat, the consequences were disproportionately minimal. President Andrew Johnson granted many of the Confederacy’s leaders amnesty and allowed them to resume positions of power in the government. The entrée into American society for the traitors was also paved by the way the US supreme court dismantled many of the protections put in place by Congress for post-civil war Black citizenship – the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, as well as laws banning racial segregation and white domestic terrorism – and allowed the bureaucratic and lynching violence of Jim Crow to eviscerate the “self-evident” principles of equality. And to ensure that a narrative of white supremacy’s innocence permeated the nation’s textbooks, the Confederacy’s treachery became the “war of Northern aggression” and the south’s “Lost Cause” became nothing less than noble. The forgiveness tour continued as the states, not just in the south, allowed the erection of statues in the public square honoring those who committed treason.
‘This horrific attack on American democracy should have resulted in a full-throttled response. But, once again, white supremacy is able to walk away virtually unscathed.’© Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters ‘This horrific attack on American democracy should have resulted in a full-throttled response. But, once again, white supremacy is able to walk away virtually unscathed.’
The 6 January invasion of the US Capitol, provoked by the lie that cities with sizable minority populations, such as Atlanta, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, “stole” the 2020 election is, at its core, white supremacists’ anger that African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans not only voted but did so decisively against Donald Trump. The invaders constructed gallows, stormed the US Capitol, wanted to hang Vice-President Mike Pence, who would not hand the election to Trump, and hunted for the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. They beat police officers, yelled “nigger” at others, carried the Confederate flag through the halls of the building and decided that those defending the Capitol were the actual “traitors” who needed to be killed.
This horrific attack on American democracy should have resulted in a full-throttled response. But, once again, white supremacy is able to walk away virtually unscathed. US senators and representatives who were at the rally inciting the invaders were not expelled from Congress. Similarly, in shades of the post- civil war Confederacy, several politicians who attended the incendiary event at the Ellipse were recently re-elected to office. And those who stormed the Capitol are getting charged with misdemeanors, being allowed to go on vacations out of the country, and, despite the attempt to stage a coup and overturn the results of a presidential election, getting feather-light sentences.
It also took months to establish a congressional committee to investigate 6 January, but it’s already clear that its subpoenas, as Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Clark so brazenly demonstrated, can be violated and mocked at will with no consequences. And, like the Lost Cause, its adherents have tried to rewrite this assault on America as “a normal tourist visit” or simply “law-abiding, patriotic, mom and pop, young adults pushing baby carriages”.
In other words, this nation has a really bad habit of letting white supremacy get away with repeated attempts to murder American democracy. It’s time to break that habit. If we don’t, they just might succeed next time.
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. She is a contributor to the Guardian
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...cid=entnewsntp
Trump makes racist claim McConnell was ‘working with’ China because he has an Asian-American wife
The former president of the United States reignited his feud with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday with a racist attack referencing Mr McConnell’s wife, who is Asian-American.
Mr Trump claimed in a statement released just after noon that Mr McConnell was “too busy working on deals with China for his wife and family” to support the former president’s false claims of widespread election fraud, which he alleges led to his defeat at the hands of President Joe Biden.
Mr McConnell has repeatedly rejected Mr Trump’s false claims. His wife, Elaine Chao, is Taiwanese-American and was born in Taipei; she became the first Taiwanese-American to serve as a member of the US Cabinet in 2001 when she was confirmed as secretary of Labor in the second Bush administration.
The Independent has reached out to Mr McConnell’s office for comment.
Ms Chao was one of the longest-serving members of the Trump administration, staying for nearly Mr Trump’s entire tenure, but resigned in the hours following the attack on the US Capitol earlier this year.
The Senate Republican leader’s feud with Mr Trump dates back to before January, when Mr McConnell emerged as one of the main Republican national-level elected figures who did not echo the former president’s false claims about election fraud. Still, he refused to acknowledge Mr Biden’s victory for some time after the election last year, and downplayed the danger of Mr Trump’s legal challenges and false claims about the election for weeks before 6 January.
The pair broke potentially for good ahead of the vote to certify the election results on 6 January, when he whipped members of his caucus against sustaining objections to the results in states including Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Mr Trump has spent the months since leaving office endorsing primary challengers to Republicans he views as disloyal, sparing Mr McConnell only because the Senate GOP leader was reelected last year and therefore won’t face a challenge until 2026.
The president’s use of racist language regarding Asian-Americans is well documented. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic last year as anti-Asian attacks were on the rise around the US, Mr Trump repeatedly used the terms “Kung Flu” and “China Virus” to describe the pandemic as a means of heaping blame on China’s government.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...cid=entnewsntp
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
I don't know what the initial seven trillion progressive wishlist was but I'd like to see what they wanted to spend seven trillion on. Then I'd add a further three trillion dollars in moonshot clean energy investment to try and come up with something to keep fossil fuels in the ground worldwide that America could earn trillions of dollars in future income from. And I'd mandate in my ten trillion spending bill that that future income would flow back mainly into the US government coffers instead of to private enterprise as the US government has funded it. Think of it as a sovereign wealth fund investment by the government on behalf of the taxpayers/sovereign wealth fund stakeholders.
So I just spent ten trillion (over ten years). What did I get for the money? A quick google doesn't find the progressive wishlist but I bet there'd be a lot of healthcare, universal childcare and a bunch of other stuff in there. How would I pay for it? You know what, I wouldn't raise taxes even a penny, not even for the top 0.1%. I'd simply enforce the existing tax code:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-irs-estimates
So there's my trillion dollars a year in new spending fully paid for.
The last thing we need is to tax centimillionaires and billionaires because it would bring the entire economy crashing down, although some people including centimillionaires and billionaires who wrote this article argue that there just might be leeway to tax these people a little bit more:
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion...ideas_covid-19
Which would pay for some really nice stuff. Just a thought.
In general though it was Manchin and Sinema posing as "moderate" politicians who did the bidding of the centimillionaires and billionaires who run the show and held up the whole thing while slashing trillions in both spending and tax enforcement/increases while the progressives agreed months ago to vote for anything Biden managed to agree with Manchin/Sinema:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...structure.html
Even this current bill is smoke and mirrors. It claims to be over a trillion dollars but $550 plus billion is the existing highway bill. The rest is new spending. So really they're arguing about spending sixty trillion or sixty point five trillion over the next ten years. It's a fucking rounding error. And they're letting ten trillion walk out the door in tax evasion over the same ten year period.
If Don can be credited for anything; it's allowing his followers to finally feel free to tell the world what they hate.
As Laura Boebert's mother video resurfaced makes account
https://youtu.be/yZoJBF6Epg8
A Republican Politician's mother:
"We're here to talk about things we hate. Am I allowed to say mexican? Politically correct? Ok brown people...I hate it when they are playing that hat music. And they blast it."
"Girl I hate it when you go to the store ...to the walmart and got to wait behind 80,000 other kind of people""
"Brown people? and they dont speak no english....they go with the whole family and the 80 different kids with 80 diferent daddies...oh hell naw..."
"They come to the wall...mart with the whole family and I hate it"
Before Donald the dick-Arnold, these words were never a part of their culture.(so they claimed):(
Well- I am ok with what her mom said. My problem is why now? :confused: I never read such statements so freely pre-Donster the Monster. These are not new feelings, many long felt this way but felt afraid. But thanks to Donaldus hatimus...it is now defined as "speaking one's mind."
Aint no way to put this back in the bag. There are 10 year old white kids who have been reared to think blacks have always been presidents, there was never a slave trade, rather a triangular trade, all democrats are evil, only republicans love god, and if black get shot by the cops,...wait to see what was in their past. and if whites beat the dog shit out of 150 cops at the state capital....its because every single cop was a traitor. Not to the nation, but to Emperor Drumpf.
Boebert's child Lauren is a product of that. just imagine what today's 10-15 years young white children raised under Limbaugh, Coulter to Hannity...what will they think like in 10 years...
Thank Donald!
‘We had COVID come in, and then I brought it back"
--Pimp Donald, Lord of the Gimp Squad, Master to all UncleDaddies of the world
taken from the article:
Trump: I came up with vaccines and saved millions of lives during COVID
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world...cid=uxbndlbing
So cancel culture took away our comedian's right to freedom of speech, now look at the goddamn consequence- Donald.
Damn.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=uxbndlbing
If I hadn't fired Comey you wouldn't be sitting here talking to me. I dont think I could've survived because They were coming after me like a hornet's nest.
Now people are saying to me it was the most incredible instinctual moves anyone as ever seen."
Now why would an innocent person care about who is coming after him from the standpoint of the law?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...132100296.html
So Don admits he fired Comey- because they were coming after him?
For those who felt Donald Trump alone could save America should heed the following words:
“The minds of men seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. So, the continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.”
President George Washington farewell address
U.S.A's First President under the Constitution warned in a (solemn) manner... there were candidates that desired factions… possessed the abilities to distract the public, agitate communities with ill-founded jealousies, raise false alarms, ignite enmity against their neighbor and so desirous to keep power that they will even attempt and or foment riot(s) & insurrections…
January 6th, 2021, over 140 state capital officers were beaten [by a faction], one murdered after a peaceful rally completed where the former president, [who possessed the ability to ignite enmity] told the crowd to march down Pennsylvania avenue, where the rally goers… turned violent [by fomenting a riot that produced a failed insurrection].
.
“Take back your country and you have got to fight hard.”
Jan 6th- words of one [who possessed the ability to ignite enmity] -his words not carried out by Americans of various demographics, rather [by a faction]
What would President Washington say if he heard the cries of "Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump?
And this is who some Americans want in 2024; a dude so Jack the Friggin Incompetent- dude inavertantly claimed: "Anybody that doesn’t think there wasn’t massive Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election is either very stupid, or very corrupt!"
1. CNN reporter Daniel Dale claimed, “This is, accidentally, Trump’s first ever accurate statement on the legitimacy of the 2020 election.”
2. Politico reporter Kyle Cheney simply noted: “This… doesn’t say what Donald Trump thinks it does.”
3. ABC’s Jonathan Karl joking suggested that Trump “finally conceded.”
4. When you accidentally tell the truth because you can’t grammar good
And he calls others stupid.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...132100296.html
I'm saddened & amazed at how politicians like Trump can find investors, Political action committees to up hundreds of millions of dollars for everything but JOBS.
He can raise money to get elected to ask the senate and Congress to stalemate each other in the name of a Jobs bill.
And this isn't the 78 thousanth-umpteenth example of how money hungry he is?:-\ He got capital for a billion dollars worth? Shit, why not make a company or two in just red states? The poor whites struggling with their attorney fees for the Jan 6th day -when they greeted the cops with hugs & kisses?:D He can't kick his white brothers and stumpedly-stupidswamprunning-housenegroes.... enough.
And now his Media and Technology Group (TMTG) announced it secured $1 billion from an undisclosed group of investors
Nothing like having zero transparency from the demographic constantly blaming others for their lack.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-social-...205914876.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/3a3fcc7...r-says-it.html
And in his typical hypocritical fashion (usually in the same sentence) stated:
The network has been advertised as a platform "that encourages open global conversation without discrimination on the basis of political ideology."
followed by...which will feature "non-woke" news, entertainment, podcasts and other content.
We want open discussion, unless its woke and those who follow woke, related to them, work with them...:confused:
Isn't this his 3rd try at social media? ;D:rolleyes: Well I can't call him a quitter. Oh wait....it's somebody else's money he's using.:(
Again:mad:
Donald Trump voters; over-the-top-loyal as one is to a deity.