Can Republicans take a day off from their race to the bottom?
We get the psycho troglodyte twins, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, heckling during the State of the Union on one day. And then in the same week, we get the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, bullying kids.
At a press event at the University of South Florida in an area where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends indoor masking due to high COVID-19 risk, DeSantis bullied high school students for wearing face masks, calling it “political theater.” I think that’s a Rand Paul talking point.
As soon as DeSantis got to the stage to give his little speech, he turned to the students who were set up as props behind him and said, “You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything. We’ve got…
I am pretty proud there is a round up today. I love the roundup and I wake up early. Today I got up at 4:30 AM and at 5 AM I started the roundup. I got half way through the first 400 pages when I lost the entire thing. The reason I lost the entire thing was my router. We have been having issues, well really Ron was on his electronics for about a month. I sort of dismissed it because I couldn’t replicate it when he told me. But now the entire router cut out. I got one side of the router back up and running. After hours. Took me a lot of resetting and initializing and trying to adjust thing. Some parts of the router are still off line. Once I got the computers / internet up I investigated new routers. I was doing this as Ron kept telling me all the issues he has had with his electronic over the last few months that I apparently had not paid the needed husband in charge of the electronics should have done.
I have found something I did not know. Routers are now only good for 3 to 5 years. There is an entirely new standard since 2019. Our router was about 10 years old. Back then I needed a really strong router so I got one nearly $500.00 dollars.
I did some quick research and found one far better than our current one for only $165.00 and I ordered it. It will be here tomorrow some time. So the problems of the day solved right? Nope. I had to go lay down, and Ron has not been feeling well all day and after lunch my body gave out so we both went to bed until about 2 PM. I started working again and the toilet in the center of the house backed up. Shit. Well no luckily it was not, it was pee.
Last summer the electric company replaced the pole behind out home. They had a really grand machine on tracks that could dig the hole and hold / carry the pole and do all the work. It was small enough to go between the homes. But the sewer pipes run between the homes and apparently this thing crushed them. So every now and again we have to dump boiling pots of hot water down the toilets to clear any slow drainage. Yes the park knows and it is on their to do list. We have a nice green flag out there to say so. It doesn’t help the toilets to drain.
Anyway after 8 big pots of water the toilets are working great again and I could get back to the roundup. I won’t mention that I did have to go get Ron, who was napping because he did not feel well, after the first four pots because my back gave out, I couldn’t hardly walk much less carry boiling water. Ron was not happy I did not wake him before trying to carry boiling water. Oh well I am a bad boy rebel. And on to the cartoons / memes
Ron and I both have teeth issues. I had such pain in my mouth when I was younger and seen dentists that I went over 30 years without getting any dental care. In that time I developed a lot of problems. Like my bones in my body my teeth were dying and decaying. When I went to a dentist about five years ago they had a heck of a fight to save most of my teeth and I have a life long problem now with periodontal disease and even after the surgeon took the bad teeth and cleaned out the infections I still fight infections around my teeth. We spent about 10 grand having my teeth fixed and crowns put over the breaking teeth. Right now we are trying to budget nearly $500 dollars because I have an infection around one tooth that they have to go in and clean out and pack with antibiotic. I had that same area done only a year and half ago. The US has to have dental care for seniors and the disabled. It is seriously important. I am missing a tooth in the front because I ran out of insurance before I could have the needed dental surgery to implant it. It will cost 5 grand. This is something other countries consider rights for the people in their country, but the US is too worried about someone losing profit to worry that someone can not eat.
US employers added 678,000 jobs in February—well beyond predictions. While this is good news, wages didn’t grow at all.
Average hourly earnings went up just one cent, but the Fed is still set to raise interest rates later this month to head off a nonexistent “wage-price spiral."
Wow!!! I can’t believe you were getting 40 cents an hour. Where I was at we got 65 cents a day. And most Unions will bring ex cons into their apprenticeship programs.
Communities build prisons based on predicted birth rate of felons because they know the cycle of incarceration. This is truly evil.
Tucker’s demand for LSAT scores is manifestly racist in that it’s (a) selectively asked of a black candidate but not asked of others and (b) trades on a well-worn racist trope of nonwhite candidates being elevated using less stringent requirements. This is what Kenny’s defending.
Turns out that Russia is not as militarily powerful as they have portrayed themselves. Their nukes are the only thing giving the rest of the world pause from acting in force against Russia. It is clear now that Russia can not stand up to NATO. The Russian military sent to Ukraine is full of badly trained conscripts who are ill supplied. There is no fuel for the vehicles, no food for the troops, no command authority it seems. The Ukrainians were letting the Russian kids call home to their mothers because they said their families had no idea where they were. The myth of the great Russian military machine has been shattered.
This is a horrifying assessment of the #RussianInvasion of Ukraine.
Authoritarians try to negate a population, force disruption/displacement. Civilians are the obvious target. Children will suffer.
The idea of flattening empty cities is chilling.
Putin is a small, small insecure man.
Mikhail Watford was from Ukraine. He feared he was on Putin hitlist.
Putin: invasion is going as planned
I probably wouldn’t have planned to run out of gas, lose thousands of soldiers, fail to neutralize air defenses, have my forces refuse to go into Kyiv, get a Chechen commander and one of my top generals killed, or attack a nuclear power plant.
Republicans caved without a fight. They were willfully complicit with our biggest enemy.
We know why the right wing supports Putin. He is a white supremacist who hates the LGBTQ+ like they do. That is the most important thing to them. What bothers them is that the Ukrainians are white also. If the Russians were killing brown people the Republicans would be pushing to join them or give Putin arms just like they are the Saudis in Yemen.
BREAKING: Florida legislators voted to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy on Thursday, a move that would severely restrict access to the procedure in a state that for decades has been a refuge for women from across the South, with @aglorioshttps://t.co/RUKhWYA45c
Not a single fucking person is sitting at home thinking, “I’m totally not trans, but I’d probably give it a whirl if I could easily and cheaply change my birth certificate to reflect a gender with which I do not identify.”
Stop being fucking stupid, you absolute ballbags.
— Fancy Brenda 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (they/them) (@SpillerOfTea) March 4, 2022
“People who are already trans and have always existed will be much more likely to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate if the process ceases to be so costly, time-consuming and dehumanising.”
The right wing wants to support Putin but the know it is very unpopular in the country. Even Carlson has backtracked from his I love Putin stance. I think we all know Putin is not dancing over the invasion, it is going very badly for him.
Incorrect. This is ignoring the situation. The ones in the US who claim they need their guns to fight their own government don’t understand the Ukrainians have the support of their government. They have the support of their police. They are facing a force that is coming from out side and is limited in their number. Our police forces have the budges and weapons of the Ukrainian military. Our military has weapons and training far in advance of the Russians. It is now clear that the Russians are not even near peers or the US and they are a paper tiger with nukes. If our groups of militia think they will stand up to the US government and fight the US military and police they would be slaughtered quickly. Sorry but you are adding apples to oranges. The Russia soldiers are conscripted kids who are hungry and scared and their vehicles have no fuel. That is not the way it will be against the US military.
The right wing is desperate to not give Biden credit for anything. They are so tribal. The facts are that on Biden’s watch the country increased in jobs more than ever before. Yet Hannity tried to compare tRump’s best before Covid with just one month during Covid for Biden. One other right winger claimed Biden was wrong because the recording of job numbers was not started until 1939. WTF. So desperate. Why not just admit Biden gets credit for more job creation while saying they don’t think he did enough?
After tRump’s limited vocabulary, frequently repeated words, and half finished sentence then starting a tangent with a new subject entirely the right has no leg to stand on criticizing anyone about how they talk. Even with a teleprompter tRump read like a second grader and spoke in a monotone. I would say this is a case where people that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
When you think of the turn around from the last administrations handling of the Covid pandemic Biden has done great work for the country. 6.2 million jobs have come back, wages up, growth happening, record profits for the corporations and the wealthy. All in less than a year while fighting the misleading right wing media arm of the Republican party.
This is a catch 22 situation. If Biden does add more sanctions on Russian oil, the prices of gas in the world may rise, it may violate the contracts already signed, the right wing media arm of the Republicans would go crazy attacking Biden. However if he doesn’t sanction the Russian oil companies then he gets attacked by everyone. The fact is the US increased the importation of Russian oil under tRump and it has already decreased greatly under Biden. The situation has to do with the type of oil and where it can be refined. Oil and what is done with it is now global, it is not limited to one country. That said the Democrats have proposed a bill in congress to sanction all the Russian oil exports. Lets see if the Republicans join the Democrats on this or just claim the Democrats are against capitalism and want to hurt oil companies.
When the government tries to regulate private companies, the R’s scream—except when the R’s think they have a neat way to criticize the government. Private US companies are buying the Russian oil. Several major private companies have announced they are withdrawing from their arrangements with Russian companies (BP, Shell, Exxon), but that doesn’t fit in or get mentioned by the RW shills promoting this meme, so it gets buried in their propaganda releases.
Everybody knows checks to Russian oil companies for their exports to the USA are drawn directly from the US Treasury and signed personally by Joe Biden.
Tucker said that, or maybe it was somebody else on FOX. Or I heard it on Newsmax. Or it was on Breitbart. Or World Net Daily. Or Steve Bannon or Alex Jones, one or the other, said it on their podcast.
No, wait! It was on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Hold it a minute, I’m not absolutely positive about that.
But I heard it, or read it, somewhere reliable. Not on lame stream media, that’s for sure!
Maybe it was Lauren Boebert who said it. Or Marjorie Taylor Green, good ol’ MGM. Both of them tell it like it is. Almost as good as our President who got the election stolen from him by socialist communist libtards tells it like it is. I speak of one Donald J. Trump, of course. He says Putin is smart, remember.
President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union speech last night, and he delivered. Last night, we saw leadership from an American president. It was refreshing.
President Biden came out strong in his first SOTU address, standing with Ukraine and condemning Vladimir Putin’s tyranny. A heartwarming moment was when he pointed out one of his special guests, the Ukraine ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, who appeared moved by the sustained applause. Markarova even got a hug from First Lady Jill Biden.
President Biden stated, “In the battle between democracy and autocracies, democracies are rising to the moment and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security.”
President Biden pledged to stand with Ukraine and pointed out other nations doing the same. He said, “Members of the European Union, including France, Germany, Italy, as well as countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Korea…
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky went from being an actor, the voice of the Ukraine version of Paddington Bear, and the winner of the first season of Ukraine’s Dancing with the Stars (that’s a thing?) to being the man inspiring his nation to fight.
A video clip of Zelensky standing in the middle of the streets of Kyiv with other government officials has helped make the Ukraine president an international war hero. In the clip, he says, “We are all here, defending our independence, our country. And it will stay that way. Glory to the men and women defending us. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes.”
While that video was made of Zelensky standing in the streets of a city being bombed, Vladimir Putin was sitting somewhere safe and posh with his greatest concern being for his own political safety. Putin doesn’t have to worry about his citizens dying, or…
There’s something seriously wrong with people who think being vile and disgusting is cute and clever. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene appear to be in a race to be the most horrible creatures alive. Toxic Betty and Veronica are proof that being able to walk upright and have opposable thumbs doesn’t make you human.
The president deserves respect while delivering his (or her) State of the Union speech unless, of course, that president doesn’t respect the process himself. President Biden respects the presidency, the courts, Congress, and tradition. He deserves respect. But, there is room to express disagreement. If applause is allowed, then a certain amount of objection should be allowed as well. If the opposition party objects, it’s fair for them to grumble and boo…to a certain point.
There were boos from Republicans the other night that lasted about two seconds each and were delivered in unison. I…
Defund police, increase spending for services needed by the community like housing.
The police are funded. The communities are not.
Cortlin, a leader at the first unionized Starbucks store, on why he joined the movement… pic.twitter.com/U8OwOWWkJR
— Starbucks Workers United (@SBWorkersUnited) March 1, 2022
Look, corporate profits are at near record levels. Of course these massive corporations could absorb cost increases. They’re not raising prices because they have to. They’re doing it because they can. And they can because many of them have killed off all of their competition. pic.twitter.com/xNEtdjI8bT
Memo to the Fed: A better alternative to raising interest rates and slowing the economy would be a windfall profits tax on big corporations who have been raising prices despite making record profits. https://t.co/Z4VBrkn8zz
Because they’re too distracted by the imaginary scary caravan
Progressive policies are common sense.
If a million people tune into every episode of your commentary on current events, whining about "the media" is equivalent to a sitting representative whining about "the government." If you hate the field in which you work that much, GTFO and let someone who likes it have a try.
Please take note of how dramatically Twitter has changed since the freezing of Russian assets. Suddenly all those anti-Biden “American patriots” have disappeared.
— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) March 1, 2022
BREAKING: The Jan. 6 select committee says it believes Donald Trump violated multiple laws in his quest to overturn the 2020 election — including obstruction of Congress and defrauding the United States.https://t.co/xfJ5jYQDom
#Russia's state TV again showcases @FoxNews clips as part of their war propaganda, seeking to demoralize the Ukrainian troops with dire predictions from retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor (who gave multiple interviews to Russian state media in the past). pic.twitter.com/wmBwUrnKHB
Please remember that when you're angry at a country, you're angry at its government– not its people, who suffer under that government. This is truest when that government most closely resembles a dictatorship, which is typically why we're angry at countries.
Here’s the smoking gun email, where Eastman actually says to Pence’s lawyer that he’s aware he’s asking Pence to violate the law. “I implore you to consider on more minor violation [of the electoral count act]” pic.twitter.com/1lB1WJdHgN
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 3, 2022
Just a reminder that multiple states are moving bills to criminalize health care for trans youth this week. Hearings scheduled in Alabama, Idaho and Tennessee (on a civil prohibition that reaches adult care as well).
UPDATE: The Travis County District Court has GRANTED a temporary restraining order to BLOCK the state from investigating the parents of a trans teenager for providing essential, life-saving health care or taking any action against the mandatory reporter in our case.
🚨Alabama had passed HB266 and SB184 out of House committee. SB184 has passed the Senate already. A felony ban on health care for trans people up to 19 is now close to passage. They are trying to eradicate us. 🚨
Thread about how transphobic detrans activism is about restricting or even eliminating trans people's access to healthcare, rather than trying to create more resources for people who detransition and/or are harmed by medical transition. https://t.co/mYACQCCDCp
— Ky Schevers @reclaimingtrans@kolektiva.social (@reclaimingtrans) February 25, 2022
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Far right cartoonist Rivers is trying to sell the don’t stop Putin stupid idea. The refrain from the right is don’t stand up to Putin or it will make him run right to China. China the country Putin was kissing up to long before he went into Ukraine is the reason the right says not to appose the invasion. But the lives of the Ukrainians are worth far more the right wings fear mongering.
The destruction of cities like funding infrastructure. The devastating assault on livelihoods like a record employment increase. We have more jobs than workers right now. We are finally tackling crumbling infrastructure.
Because petroleum is an international commodity. The USA imports as much oil as they export. If Europe will pay more for Texan oil, that’s who they will sell it to. If Russian oil is cheaper than Texan oil, that’s who refineries will buy from. January saw virtually zero U.S. imports of Russian crude, with some volumes slated to arrive in February and March purchased before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. So far, there haven’t been any signs of fresh bookings as buyers look elsewhere for supply.
So, the federal government is forcing women to abort up to birth? There’s no comparison of governmental policy. The right of privacy INCLUDES the right to carry to birth. QUESTIONABLE COMPARISON. No one is fighting for abortions up to birth. That is one of the most idiotic lies out there. The only exception would be if the baby was already dead and needed to be removed to save the life of the mother. If the baby is already dead it is not actually an abortion. Those that would have the mother die to birth a dead baby are dead inside. Frankly, it’s ridiculous to be bothered with this nonsense when Ukraine is currently on the front line fighting for their freedom and quite possibly the world’s.
Inflation is actually price gouging. The border and crime are basically as they’ve been for decades. Energy is a front on which the Democrats, and ONLY the Democrats, want to make progress. Inflation is a global problem. Biden is way superior to Trump on foreign policy. It is the GOP that strives to keep American dependent on fossil fuel energy. Trump was Putin’s baby. The border is incredibly exaggerated. Crime is no more a problem than it has ever been, and a lot better than it was just 30 years ago.
We can only hope the people will rise up and remove Vlad.
At first Rivers was hitting Biden as weak, but because public opinion is so pro-Biden and anti-Putin Rivers had to switch his target.
Russia is not communist and Putin doesn’t want that part of the USSR back. He has stole far too much of the countries wealth for that. But he is sending untrained kids and uninformed military into Ukraine to fight.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The right wing can not help themselves. They are racists and they know how that label hurts themselves, so they want to assign that label to those they hate also. They want to turn people off from Planned Parenthood so they claim the organization is racist. Even thought it is a big help women of all colors and economic levels.
Sanger’s birth control movement did have support in black neighborhoods, beginning in the ’20s when there were leagues in Harlem started by African-Americans. Sanger also worked closely with NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois on a “Negro Project,” which she viewed as a way to get safe contraception to African-Americans.
In 1946, Sanger wrote about the importance of giving “Negro” parents a choice in how many children they would have. “The Negro race has reached a place in its history when every possible effort should be made to have every Negro child count as a valuable contribution to the future of America,” she wrote. “Negro parents, like all parents, must create the next generation from strength, not from weakness; from health, not from despair.”
Her attitude toward African-Americans can certainly be viewed as paternalistic, but there is no evidence she subscribed to the more racist ideas of the time or that she coerced black women into using birth control. In fact, for her time, as the Washington Post noted, “she would likely be considered to have advanced views on race relations.”
Why does the right right wing think the president can only work on one thing at a time? The President has staff, a lot of staff. The president has a cabinet to work on things for them. The right seems to think the president does all the work himself, but the president has a team to get a lot done at the same time. So yes it is all on the front burner. And the US is not a low rated show.
Another example of ramirez playing fast and loose with the truth. the assailant was a right wing nutjob, not a democrat, and he was attacking the governor’s wife, too…
The state of the country is strong. The US bounced back from the destruction of the pandemic faster than any other country. We had the most vaccinated. We had the highest growth compared to the rest of the world. Our nation under the leadership of Joe Biden has brought the rest of the world together against Putin / Russia and applied the toughest sanction ever put against Russia for its aggression. Despite the right wing media trying to tear the country down, the borders are secure and the country is still a mass exporter of oil & gas just like we were a year ago. In fact the US has increased its oil exports. The right wing doesn’t like that fact, because it shows not only are we still oil independent but that the oil companies prefer to sell over seas to increase their profits rather than sell that oil domestically at a cheaper price. It is about the profit for the oil companies, not what is good for the US. This cartoon is just a bunch of lies and false statements designed to get praise from the cult who never bother to look up the facts, the numbers, the real situation but instead champions the misinformation and misdirection the wright wing media puts out to sway the base.
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Everybody knows checks to Russian oil companies for their exports to the USA are drawn directly from the US Treasury and signed personally by Joe Biden.
Tucker said that, or maybe it was somebody else on FOX. Or I heard it on Newsmax. Or it was on Breitbart. Or World Net Daily. Or Steve Bannon or Alex Jones, one or the other, said it on their podcast.
No, wait! It was on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Hold it a minute, I’m not absolutely positive about that.
But I heard it, or read it, somewhere reliable. Not on lame stream media, that’s for sure!
Maybe it was Lauren Boebert who said it. Or Marjorie Taylor Green, good ol’ MGM. Both of them tell it like it is. Almost as good as our President who got the election stolen from him by socialist communist libtards tells it like it is. I speak of one Donald J. Trump, of course. He says Putin is smart, remember.