A year after blaming antifa, Gaetz now endorses theories that Jan. 6 was an FBI-influenced inside job.
Rep. Matt Gaetz said that when Republicans take control of the House, they should not disband the Jan. 6 committee. Instead, they should put controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge and turn the sights on blaming Democrats and the FBI.
The Panhandle Republican, who on Jan. 6 infamously blamed the Capitol riot on Antifa protesters, now wants Congress to investigate if FBI informants stoked violence that disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory over Donald Trump. He appeared with Greene on Steve Bannon’s podcast to discuss Jan. 6.
The most consequential moment may have come when he asserted Greene should chair the Jan. 6 Committee next year.
“I wouldn’t disband it. I would take it over,” Gaetz said. “I would throw off the tyrants that are on that committee now. I would make Marjorie Taylor Greene the chair. I would make Darren Beattie the staff director, and then we would get the truth in front of the American people.”
Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter, has leveled accusations that FBI informants were at the Jan. 6 protest instigating members of extremist groups.
Greene also appeared on an episode of Gaetz’s podcast Firebrandand endorsed using the committee to turn the investigation away from Trump and toward law enforcement and Democrats.
“I’m ready to rip the whole thing wide open and expose everything,” Greene said.
Gaetz has fed the theory the FBI played a role in pro-Trump demonstrators breaching the Capitol. He said on his own podcast he wants to subpoena an individual named Ray Epps, accused of being an FBI informant in the crowd, and pursue other theories making their way around the far right.
“Why is there no accountability for the very people who are on video dispassionately and professionally setting up a booby trap for people, a lot of whom didn’t even know they were breaking the law because barriers had been removed,” Gaetz said on Bannon’s podcast.
At one point, he employed the term blood libel, a longtime anti-Semitic attack accusing Jews of using the blood of non-Jewish children for rituals.
“The people all in this country know what is driving this, and that is the folks inside the beltway of Washington, D.C. — severely impacted with the pandemic of Potomac fever — believe that the way that American democracy ought to work is that they ought to get to make all the decisions,” Gaetz said.
“And instead of the voters picking the leaders, that the leaders and the elites and the bureaucratic class ought to be able to dictate the outcomes of elections. We don’t believe that, and we’re not going to allow them to lie about us, and we’re not going to allow this blood libel to exist as a consequence of the Jan. 6 narrative that they are putting forward.”
**Editorial Note** This is typical republican projection. The Republicans are the ones doing the most outrageous gerrymandering and voter suppression hoping to keep people who might vote against them from voting. These are facts I wish the cult followers of misleading right wing media would understand. Gaetz and Marge Greene are lying. Scottie ****
Of note, Gaetz was among those House members, including 12 Florida U.S. Representatives, who objected to certifying the votes in several states Biden won.
But Gaetz and Greene both stood by that on the podcast.
“We’re ashamed of nothing,” Gaetz said. “We are proud of the work we did on Jan. 6 to make legitimate arguments about election integrity.”
He said a press conference will be held Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot, to discuss the “truth” of what happened that day.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Ready to Expose the Truth About J6 on @Firebrand_Pod
"I'm ready to rip the whole thing wide open and expose everything…How is the FBI, the Department of Justice, or any of our agencies involved in what happened on January 6?"https://t.co/py9Zacgtilpic.twitter.com/o8yfkSqwag
Representatives Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday went on Steve Bannon's show to try to redirect blame for the Capitol attack. They offered little evidence for their claims during the appearance. https://t.co/mAPaUHHJnn
Gaetz and Greene holding their packed press conference in a tiny room … Gaetz blames Pelosi for not giving them a bigger room pic.twitter.com/654Y885L4F
As we approach the first anniversary of the Trump insurrection that occurred on January 6, 2021, let’s reflect on the wisdom of Courtney Love who wrote the lyrics, “I want to be the girl with the most cake.”
Those words are in the song “Doll Parts” which is on the 1994 Hole album “Live Through This.” Someone who feels inadequate is a person who wants the largest slice of cake at their birthday party. Even though it’s their party, they need the largest slice, not because they’re hungry for cake, but to show everyone else how special they are. Donald Trump has been known to get the most cake at his parties. It’s well documented that at dinners and other events with Donald Trump, everyone is served one scoop of ice cream while Trump is served two. Keep in mind that Donald Trump is a grown man in his 70s…
Sean Hannity’s show for racist MAGAt troglodytes airs every weeknight on Fox News at 9 P.M. I know this because I asked Alexa. I sure wouldn’t know from watching Fox News because I don’t watch Fox News. At first, Alexa replied, “How am I supposed to know? I don’t watch that shit.” I also didn’t know whose show was first each night, Tucker or Hannity. It’s like which came first, the racist chicken or the racist egg? Anyway, Hannity’s show comes on at 9 P.M, a time slot he’s winning against MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Michael Smerconish, along with whoever else is in the rotating chair since CNN fired Chris Cuomo.
And remember why CNN fired Chris Cuomo? CNN fired Chris Cuomo because he was a journalist, or at least he was supposed to be. A journalist can not act as an adviser to politicians or other people in…
I had a lot of fun putting this one together today. Lots of topics and discussions with right wing cult members on right wing media cartoon sites. Even with the 5 day and growing plumbing problem disaster. Enjoy. Scottie
Labor value is stolen from workers and given to shareholders. Their record profits is your misery.
Corporations are private tyrannies. They expect your total subordination.
Workers must unite and demand better conditions and wages.
wait a second I was told there were labor shortages and supply chain issues that was causing prices to rise, but now corporations are seeing their biggest profit margins since the 50s? well I'll be darned! https://t.co/PqMlgIGuhC
It’s a special interest group that broadcasts predetermined narratives and coordinates with the Republican Party.
Just a casual reminder that Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes. That's roughly the population of the entire country of Bulgaria.
Btw, you're not the party of the working class if not a single member of your party voted for the expanded Child Tax Credit. pic.twitter.com/jMiKrCnouH
Trump destroys everything he touches. All who touch Trump die. The circular firing squad will continue. All to protect the ego of the most mediocre silver-spooned asshole in history.
People say the Jan 6 insurrection failed. But did it really?
—There have been no consequences for Trump or co-conspirators in Congress —71% of Republicans think Biden’s win was illegitimate —Voter suppression laws are sweeping the US
People need to know just how close this came and how many / who were involved in the prior planning to over throw valid election results because they did not like the will of the people! Scottie
If you’re still criticizing Garland after this speech — where he specifically lays out WHY the “big fish” haven’t been charged yet, I would have to question your motives.
Like I’ve said from the start: DOJ is doing their job, and they won’t stop until it’s done. https://t.co/0iTQhzZfrZ
“What is clear is the effect of protests. Locally-oriented demonstrations significantly reduce the number of Black and Latino deaths by police.” https://t.co/B49UTiZgjB
The media depends on narratives. They know negative news is clickbait. When something does not fit their narrative, something positive, they will refuse to report on the positive.
Just a reminder that Abbott destroyed inventory of their #COVID tests this past summer when sales dwindled. The company thought the tests were worth less than the space to store them 😞https://t.co/ZB2FepNAem
It depends on the environment and the emphasis put on the remote learning. Kids today spends hours online and can recite the minutia of every game they play, every tick tok they see, every music video, movie, and so on. They do learn online. It is just they are learning what they want. School work has to be given that priority and made to keep their interests, just like in schools. If kids are in an environment where they are not comfortable or have connection issues or they are just allowed not to view the lessons then they wont learn. Scottie
Is it any wonder that the number of cases, the number of hospitalizations and the number of Covid-related deaths are all proportionately higher in red states? Which also happen to have lower rates of vaccination… The smart people are taking precautions and abiding by health and safety regulations in order to do their part to help prevent the spread of the pandemic! Scottie
The filibuster rule has been modified many times over the years. In fact, the Senate started out with no filibuster rule at all. Moscow Mitch stole the goal post to pack the courts with unqualified judges and Supreme Court Justices. McConnell had no problem changing the rules so he could stack the judiciary. They had no problem changing the rules to raise the debt ceiling. Now, our democracy hangs on the vanity of one (expletive) Democratic senator. Meanwhile, where’s the line between being a “conservative” cartoonist and a supporter of those who would destroy our democracy and Putinize America? There’s a term for a professional whose services are enjoyed by criminals and traitors. Scottie
Most experts are expecting this wave of Covid cases to crest and recede in weeks (as opposed to months like other variants) and that cases will start dropping again within this coming February or so. Also, most of these cases thus far are either mild or asymptomatic (particularly if the patients are fully vaxxed) and the ones who are seriously ill from Covid aren’t vaxxed. Yes, that’s cold comfort to those who are pulling back because of the rise in cases. But this too shall pass. Hopefully, by mid-2022 or so, we can largely move on and then turn our attention to the midterms. I am hopeful that the Democrats can bounce back (if there’s a major turnaround in the case situation) and they can widen their majorities in both houses. History, though, is on the side of the party currently not in the White House gaining seats in both houses in midterms (the last time was 2002). But, even if that happens, the GOP could end up playing the foil to Biden the way earlier GOP majorities played the foil to Clinton and Obama. Both Clinton and Obama saw their parties lose control of the House and Senate in 1994 and 2010. But that didn’t stop either President from winning reelection in 1996 and 2012. Scottie
Please note that in the preamble to the constitution the reasons given to create the new country / constitution. One of those is to promote the public welfare. To take care of the people. That includes the health of the people. The government has the responsibility to create polices and rules that help people live together in a communal society. That is why we have things like traffic rules / laws for example. For society to work there has to be rules, not everyone can do what ever they like regardless of how it effects others. Scottie
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of …
Conservatives want things to JUST STAY THE SAME… and for EVERYONE TO FOLLOW THE (my) RULES… and for (my) AUTHORITY TO BE HONORED. Qublican response to every problem all the time: TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND MORE CULTURE WAR! People should be given the opportunity to be what they are. It must be really unpleasant to have to live your life pretending to be something else. Scottie
The Republican senator from Texas said Democrats weaponized impeachment with former President Donald Trump, adding, “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz participates in a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 15. Credit: REUTERS/Chip Somodevilla
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz predicted Republicans will impeach President Joe Biden as political payback if they win back the U.S. House this year in the midterm elections.
“Yeah, I do think there’s a chance of that, whether it’s justified or not,” he said on the latest episode of his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz.”
“Democrats weaponized impeachment,” he said, referring to House Democrats twice voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. “They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. And one of the real disadvantages of doing that … is the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, you know, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
** Edit** incorrect. Both times legitimate charges were brought against tRump. A fair jury would have convicted. For political reasons the veery Republicans that blamed tRump on the night of Jan 6th then voted to acquit him during the Senate trial. That was the entire political part of the impeachment. But Republicans are both desperate to protect tRump ( what does he have on them? ) and get revenge that the maga cult demands. ****
Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice, but the Senate lacked the votes needed to convict him in both cases. In 2019, the House impeached Trump over his phone call with the leader of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. A record of the call released by the White House detailed how Trump implored Zelensky to investigate Biden, who beat Trump in 2020, and his son, Hunter Biden.
On Tuesday, Cruz said that impeachment shouldn’t be used as a political tool.
“That’s not how impeachment is meant to work,” he said.
But the junior Texas senator also said there were “multiple grounds to consider for impeachment” against Biden.
“Probably the most compelling is the utter lawlessness of President Biden’s refusal to enforce the border. His decision to just defy federal immigration laws and allow 2 million people to come here unimpeded in direct contravention of his obligation under Article 2 of the Constitution to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” he said. “That is probably the strongest grounds right now for impeachment, but there may be others.”
** Edit** and again total bullshit the only thing that changed at the border was that we no longer sent unaccompied kids out of the country alone and we did not rip kids from families. Biden has tried to bring the US back into compliance with US law and treaties we have signed but the last minute trickery by the tRump racist bigots making never heard of contracts with third parties means that every change on the border has to be litagated in the courts. That is in process but will take time. Nothing the tRump admin did was in good faith including the border issues. ****
Cruz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A pack of KN95s that I got for $15 a month ago is now $50 on Amazon. Right before children are being forced back to school. During the covid peak. While hospitals are overflowing. What’s happening right now is a deeply immoral, profit driven humanitarian crisis.
There is something seriously wrong with an economy that enables the world's richest man to add $28 billion to his wealth in a single day while more than 50% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. These racists feel uncomfortable for a reason.
Yes, Noah, this is America. And so is every slave auction, every public lynching, every act of terror, every dispossession of indigenous Americans. All of American history is America. We can engage with that history or continue to cherry pick rosy episodes to make us feel better. https://t.co/ioN3PlbcF6
— Mark K. Gradoni is Striking (@_Snarkaeologist) January 5, 2022
This extremist Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act not once, but twice, in the last decade. We need to do two things: We need to eliminate the filibuster to restore voting rights, and we must rebalance the Supreme Court to defend our democracy.
Idiot anti-vaxxers add a massive burden to our health care system. They don’t care how abusive they are to nurses and doctors.
Funny how they believe in science/medicine when their rhetoric leaves them for dead.
Because so many are denying the virus and the public safety measures are sending their kids to school with the virus the situation changes daily, sometimes hour by hour. The disruption is hard on kids and families. If we are not going to increase the funding to have large areas where the kids can spread out and be together safely then we need to go back to full time remote learning. It can be done and needs to be done. We simply have to pay for caregivers to watch over their children or a group of children spaced out properly. It is all about the priorities the US has. Scottie
End their tax-free status!
Elon Musk will blame his failures on everyone except himself.
This is pure made up misinformation. This is the same party that blamed Biden for not getting more Afghans out when we left. The border is secure, the US is not being over run by brown people. The brown people are already here and they are collectively the majority of the country or will soon be. It is normal and OK. This country has whole towns dying because the people are moving away, but now this is the perfect time to reinvigorate these towns with new people. With work from home and other measures jobs can return. Kids will be stay instead of moving away. People this large country is not full. Scottie
Same response as the cartoon below. Scottie
Don’t you love right wing misinformation propagandist like Rivers? The Republicans are the ones who tried to scramble our Democracy on Jan 6th. The Republicans did the insurrection, the riot at the capital on Jan 6th. They did not succeed in getting their way and keeping power, this time. So they implemented more destruction to democracy by enacting voter restrictions and gerrymandering to keep the other party voters from using their right to vote. How anyone even the right can see the above cartoon and not realize how backwards it is confounds me. Scottie
Same response as below. Scottie
Oh the fickle right. Remember when they did not want testing. In Florida they still don’t. They don’t want anyone to know we have Coronavirus in Florida, so they can get those tourist to come here. They want cruise ships to stop testing and just go with sick people. Florida and those places with Republican governors want the system back to the way it was before Covid so the money flows for them. The wealthy donors are not getting as much profit and they want that. The Governors shut off unemployment to force poor workers to return to virus infected work places at the same time they passed laws giving companies immunity if a worker catch Covid working for them. The point is our lives and the money we would have to pay if hospitalized do not matter to the wealthy Republicans. To the Republican leaders like DeathSantis you are nothing but a clog, a gear to be used and when ground down too much then thrown away. Life doesn’t have to be this way. The people should expect more.
But to the tests and why we are having a shortage I already addressed this. People attended gatherings during the last two holidays. A lot of tests were used at the parties and even a lot more after as people tried to figure out if they were safe at these parties and after. Many found out they were positive when tested requiring more testing. The businesses that want to open at full capacity need tests to do so. They are buying a lot of the supply. Because the suppliers were not prepared for a huge increase it will take them a while to catch up but in the meanwhile they are loving the increased profit. Think of the toilet paper shortage, it was not that toilet paper was not being made, it was that people suddenly started hording car / truck loads of it. Some then tried to price gouge selling it. But Biden never gave a time frame for the tests, only that the government would pay for them and send them out. It is a gimmick anyway, one test is not helpful. Scottie
Complete bullshit and lies. Flat out lies. This is again the right wing attempt to deny reality and try to force the world / the US back to the way it use to be. Give it up, this is the normal now and should be. They really give their viewers deadly misinformation. Scottie
The state of education in this country is past ridiculous. Maybe it would help if administrators listened to the teachers and understood they were concerned about returning to a job where there is little protection for the teacher, and by proxy, the teacher’s family and loved ones. Once again, blame the union for trying to provide living wages and benefits for workers instead of the employers who use and abuse the employees. I’ve known teachers, and more and more of them are leaving the profession because the pay is low, the children do not get engaged, parents are hostile, and they need to teach to Bush the lesser’s no child left behind program, which enriches the pockets of giant test companies. Two of ours are our healthcare and school systems. Before the pandemic there were stories of teachers living in their cars because they were renting their apartment / house so they could make enough money to eat! Once the pandemic hit it got worse. Many schools are now limping along with numbers of teachers, security, food workers, custodians on health leave while they recover from COVID. And there are no substitutes for any of these people. Teachers in some districts are asking that their schools return to remote learning until the “viral tsunami” passes and quarantined staff return. In many places if their needs are not met they will quit. And then who will work in schools?
Whether or not they “like” teachers, they certainly vote for people who enact laws designed to destroy public education for profit. The path they want to tread is exactly the same path they forced the public hospital system down in the 70’s. I think we all know how that turned out. This is exactly the same. Privatize the schools to keep from raising property taxes is EXACTLY THE SAME TACTIC as privatize the hospitals to keep your county taxes low. We’ll wind up spending ten times as much for less. That’s where this road ends. Some of us are old enough to remember public hospitals in remote counties. And we even remember the tactics undertaken to ensure they’d be “unprofitable”.
When she was shot Babbitt was on video crawling through a window she had just helped break out to gain access to a hallway they were not allowed into that had members of congress in it. The right wants to make her a hero and has much in the way they made Rittenhouse a hero. Facts don’t matter to them. Babbitt was judged by the left on what she was doing, and she was an imminent threat of death or serious body injury to the congresspeople. Floyd was not committing a crime at the time he was killed, he was not a threat to anyone at the time he was murdered and what he was being detained for was not a death penalty offense which cops don’t have the authority to carry out. The cases are not equal in any manner. The funny thing it is the right that insists on judging everyone on their past, just like they did the people killed by their new hero Rittenhouse who had no way to know the past of those he killed. Scottie
If I thought for a moment that Ol’ Al was actually interested in resolving the conundrum of how to do best for kids while in the midst of a pandemic, I’d almost like this cartoon. Except for the idiocy of “allowed” a gender identity. Believe me or not, kids know their gender within months of becoming aware of themselves as being part of the family “pack”. They may not… probably won’t… be verbal about it, and they may very well play dress up to see how it works for them; the canonical example being the kid in a tutu and cowboy boots. Well. Anyway, I’m sure that Al isn’t at all interested in that. He’s on a mission to make liberals seem as stupid and wrongheaded as possible, in every way possible, always. Too bad it only works on people who are already convinced of that. Scottie
He spent 6 years in prison for a crime he didn’t do. Now every move feels like a gamble.
Anthony Miller is free from prison, but not from paranoia. He copes with the reality that his youth vanished in the six years he spent behind bars.
Matt Powell first came to my attention when he was in his first year of bible college after being home schooled and was adamantly and loudly preaching that atheists were only people that stayed home on their mother’s couch playing video games. He took this fame online to atheist blogs where he stated firmly with no exceptions that the government needed to kill gay people. All those gays needed to be put to death because that was what god said. He spent a year trying to defend that stance, claiming it was not hate or bigotry and he himself did not want to kill the gays just that the government had to do it because the bible said so. Well then Matt got himself a full head of steam and them attacked others of his own circle he felt were not godly enough. Then he decided he had to give tutorials on why evolution was wrong even though he has no educational back ground to even understand the concept. But he has given lots of YouTube creators tons of material with his assertions like the one where he claimed a picture of a Pterodactyl with confederate civil war soldiers was proof that dinosaurs lived with man and that the earth was young. Yes I would have thought at this point he was putting people on and mocking them, but nope, young Matt was a true believer. When he started out and was so anti-gay many thought he was gay himself, to disprove that he got himself a woman and they started right away to having babies. But I guess things were not working out so Matt almost right out of school moved himself to Kent Hovind’s compound to take over old Kents delusions online. Matt looks pretty worn in his latest videos. The Creaky Blinder is a YouTuber from Wales who started out debunking flat earthers. He has branched out and, in this video, he again takes on Matt Powell. I enjoy Creaky’s humor and funny delivery. He is a joy to watch as his goal really is to give humor to the debunking. He has a lot of funny videos so look over his work to see if a subject interest you. I have been following him from when he started with just a web cam to now when he has a really impressive set up. Let me know what you think. Scottie
“What use would someone on the McDonald’s career track have for algebra 1?” — the GOP view of public schools. A+ @will_bunch column. https://t.co/GGUdwRWZcz
This was drawn by a right winger to slam Schumer. I put it here because it really is a slam against the Republicans. Republicans have become obstructionists. The only bill they worked with Democrats on are the two things their big donors wanted, in fact insisted on. The infrastructure bill that had massive benefits for corporations, and the debt ceiling raise which the wealthy had to have or they would lose a huge pile of money. Other than that the Republicans say no to everything. They did the same thing when Obama was president. The Republicans don’t want to govern they want to stop the government, destroy it so nothing can be done to help the people or benefit the public. So changing the filibuster is necessary to have a functioning government. Scottie
Folks who are telling me remote schooling is not good for mental health: 1) Neither is long COVID 2) Neither is getting sick or watching a relative get sick or die 3) Neither is going back, letting things fall apart because everyone gets sick, and then having to go remote anyway.
The right, the party that bills themself as the pro-life party, is very angered and upset that the idea that the death penalty is being done away with because it doesn’t work as a deterrent, is racially biased, and more costly along with tying up the courts. The other advanced developed countries already figured this out and learned that progressive sentencing and detainment works best for lowering recidivism. Again if the US would get over the idea that everything we do must be the best thing in the world and would look at what really works being done in other countries we would be much better off. Scottie
Really the right needs to catch up. First it was only one Democratic party member who said motherfucker during a campaign rally. Once. What was it tRump repeatedly said? He cursed all the time. But really the right not only thinks saying lets go Brandon triggers the left, they are desperate for it to be true. They are trolls, they are the school yard name callers, little kids giggling they are almost using a naughty word. Adults don’t care. Biden did not care. Most of us are not even thinking of it but the right is full time. This is what passes for serious legislators in the time of the Marge Greene, Gym Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, and the other failing loser kids hanging out in the halls of congress. Scottie
Same right wing cartoonist paid to try his best to make the Republicans look good and the Democrats look bad. He rarely even makes sense and his cartoons normal reverse the situation. But in this case he is right. Some Republicans have promised to impeach Biden as soon as they get control of the House. That is their great goal for the country, a revenge impeachment to sooth the ego of the former guy. Really they said this a few months into Biden’s term. They do not care that Biden has not violated any laws and that the former guy did, they just want to invalidate any Democratic election win. They are cheapening the meaning of impeachment again because it stings that their cult leader got impeached twice for breaking laws. But this is the lofty goals to help the people and country, make impeachment a joke. Scottie
Partially correct. The truth is that ICU’s are filling up with anti-vaxxers along with all the other hospital beds so that non-covid emergencies and non-emergency procedures are unable to be treated and proceed. We have seen the stories, verifiable stories of people dying because there were no beds available in the hospitals due to anti-vax Coronavirus who are really sick. I was not sure if this cartoon was mocking the idea that non-vaxxed people are getting really sick or if it was mocking the vaccinated. Scottie
I hate how the right likes to misrepresent the relationship between Biden and the progressives. The progressives are the ones that were fighting for Biden’s agenda. The build back better bill was Biden’s agenda, what he ran on, what he wanted. The full bill, not the stripped down version. Yet the media keeps trying to portray the progressives as the ones sabotaging Biden’s plans instead of the real villains killing it, Manchin and the other old corporate politicians right and left. The right wants to hide the truth and blame others for their actions. Sound familiar? Scottie
Rivers is on a roll for misleading anti-Biden cartoons. This one is just a general slam at Biden because he / the right hates what Biden is doing and wants the right to think Biden is a failure even though they never can show what he failed at. What policy is being addressed here? None, it is just hate Biden please. Scottie
There has been no wide scale defunding of the police, nor has any real police reform been enacted. The one place the police were radically changed in NJ it worked really well. The problem is the police have become the very monsters they are to protect the people from. The police are a gang of thugs who prey on the public like a military occupying force ruling over a prisoner population. That police believe they can get away with the worst actions against the public and if they do get caught no real punishments happen to them. At most they use to get fined, which the people had to pay not the cops. Now lately several cops have been found guilty of killing. But that is two out of … Heck one police department was found to have cops protecting a sex trafficking ring in exchange for sex. It seems it was rather widely known. This is their idea of serve and protect? Police reform is desperately needed. No more militarized cops on the streets. They want to be military, let them join the military and fight for the country, not against our own people. But to them it is a game with other peoples lives, theirs is never in danger. Scottie
The people wanting government to serve their needs rather than cater to the wealthy. It is about where taxpayers dollars going. To the public needs, or the wealthy wants. Will the government work for the people or only for the wealthy. History has shown the best economic times while being the most product the country had was during the period that corporations and wealthy paid a much higher tax which they could afford and still gain great wealth. Scottie
Notice the bait and switch here by the misleading right wing media. See the cartoon implies and wants the right to read that there is no consensus about vaccines. The reality is that there is complete consensus that the vaccines work and everyone who can should get them. The split in consensus is on the Republican side and is about if mandates for vaccines work. But the truth is it is only a Republican talking point used by Republican governors and media. The data shows that mandates / rules do increase compliance not only with vaccines but any enforced rule. It is common sense. But if you want data the police union in NY City was claiming that thousands of cops would quit if forced to vaccinate. But only 34 really were willing to quit. Enough said.
A day the Republicans want to forget entirely, and wipe it from history because it clearly was an insurrection attempt against the US government. The Republicans want people to forget what their supporters did that day so they can try it again and the next time have a successful coup against the peaceful transfer of power. Scottie
Oh yea the right has something to blame Biden for. I guess it was tRump’s fault there was a toilet paper shortage? There is an increased demand for testing due to everyone gathering for holidays and businesses want to test all their employees. This too will work itself out. Scottie
“U.S. financial markets are outperforming the world by the biggest margin in the 21st century,”“…Biden’s first year in the White House the standout among the seven previous presidents, based on 10 market and economic indicators given equal weight.” – https://www.bloomberg.com
Gross domestic product surged at an average annual rate of 5.03% in each of the first three quarters of 2021, and is poised to expand 5.6% for the year based on the average estimate of more than 80 economists surveyed Bloomberg.
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Scottie's Playtime 
If I thought for a moment that Ol’ Al was actually interested in resolving the conundrum of how to do best for kids while in the midst of a pandemic, I’d almost like this cartoon. Except for the idiocy of “allowed” a gender identity. Believe me or not, kids know their gender within months of becoming aware of themselves as being part of the family “pack”. They may not… probably won’t… be verbal about it, and they may very well play dress up to see how it works for them; the canonical example being the kid in a tutu and cowboy boots. Well. Anyway, I’m sure that Al isn’t at all interested in that. He’s on a mission to make liberals seem as stupid and wrongheaded as possible, in every way possible, always. Too bad it only works on people who are already convinced of that. Scottie