Category: Anger
Acosta: GOP senator appears to be aligning with pro-Russian movement
Texas governor finally gets EXPOSED amid more blackouts
Conservative Christian Overreacts to LGBT+ Teachers
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: When corporations and the wealthy shouldered their share of taxes on income could provide for the needs of an entire family. Greed of the large employers destroyed that.
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Scottie’s world today
Just kidding I love the inter webs and even the trolls … sometimes.
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Republicans can’t hide their Russian agenda.
And yet rather than spend money fixing the electric system to ensure that the power stayed on, Abbot instead shifted state money to pandering gimmicks like finish building the wall on the border. In fact the big money donors from the fuel and energy industry gave large donations to stop any requirements that Abbot had talked about implementing to keep the power on. Now again in winter with freezing temperatures the power is again going off. They made no effort to fix the very issues that happened before and were told would happen again. Seems they care far more over their personal finance than the health and welfare of the people that elected them
We are a selfish country.
Conservatives are about submission. Their kids will rebel one day.
Kids have no problem wearing masks. It’s the parents who can’t think of others.
What is horrifying is the change in the Republican party that went from saying “Better dead than Russian red” to praising Putin and supporting Russia. Russia under Putin is still as authoritarian as it was under communism. Russia under Putin is still as much an enemy to the US and democracy as it ever was.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
This cartoon author is one of the right wing misinformation cartoonist normally but in this case I agree with her. The Chinese government has shown they will crack down on anyone who says what they don’t like even if done by the athletes. The big scandal in the comment section of the page is over Nancy Pelosi saying the athletes should be care and watch what they say to keep themselves safe, and she blasted the Olympic committee for picking China to host them. The right wing commenters can not seem to understand why she said these things and are attacking her at the same time they are attacking China. So it doesn’t matter what she said, the fact is them must scream in anger about anything she says.
Oh boy the right wing media is on fire over trying to make Whoopi the worst racist ever. Why? Because she is a left leaning black woman. They are drooling to attack her, it is a dream come true for them.
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And now some for fun
Repub. Declares WAR On Teaching Facts
Rand Paul says Republicans will investigate Fauci if they retake the Senate, escalating a long-running personal feud
https://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-gop-investigate-fauci-wins-senate-2022-2
- Sen. Rand Paul said Republicans would subpoena Fauci if they win the Senate in the mid-terms.
- Paul and Fauci have engaged in bitter exchanges at Senate hearings.
- Paul has pushed unsubstantiated claims that funds approved by Fauci may have helped create COVID.
Sen. Rand Paul said that Republicans will subpoena chief White House medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci if they take control of the Senate in the mid-term elections.
The Kentucky Republican is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. He stands to be nominated as chairman of the panel if Republicans win the Senate in November, securing him the power to launch investigations and issue subpoenas.
“If we win in November, if I’m chairman of a committee, if I have subpoena power, we’ll go after every one of [Fauci’s] records,” Paul said during an interview with anti-vax podcaster Lisa Boothe.
“We’ll have an investigator go through this piece by piece because we don’t need this to happen again.”
Paul, a physician, and Fauci have clashed in a series of heated exchanges in Senate hearings.
Paul, often trafficking in conspiracy theories and disinformation, has criticised Fauci on measures he has advocated to contain the virus.
His attacks have focussed on Fauci’s tenure as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and often rely on speculation that funding Fauci approved to a lab in Wuhan, China, may have been used to create the coronavirus.
Fauci has denied that the funding was for so-called “gain of function” research, or research into making diseases more contagious.
The origin of the virus has not been established, with China blocking attempts to investigate the source of the pandemic. Many experts believe that the theory it originated in a lab is spurious and it most likely originated in nature, though others say it is plausible.
In a particularly embittered exchange in January, Fauci said that Paul’s baseless attacks “kindle the crazies” who threaten and harass him and his family. He said Paul was seeking to exploit the pandemic for political gain.
At hearing last July, Fauci said “you do not know what you’re talking about” to Paul, and accused him of “lying”, after the senator tried to draw connections between research in China partly funded by NIAID and the coronavirus.
Paul had at a hearing earlier in the year accused Fauci of indulging in “theater” by wearing a mask after having gotten vaccinated, and Fauci responded that vaccines don’t offer protection against all variants.
Fauci has become a hate figure for some on the right, with many Republicans rallying around opposition to federal government measures to control the virus.
Some Republican supporters have embraced fringe anti-vaccine views and conspiracy theories about the virus.
So Republican 101 normal behavior, when in power attack and try to destroy anyone who you dislike. The right hates Dr. Fauci because they cannot discredit him, he points out their misinformation and lies. I hate that this is the Republican idea of governing. How does this help the country? Why vote them into office if this is their goal? Remember that Rand Paul is making big money on Covid treatment drugs, and he fud raises off his attacks on Dr. Fauci. So he is putting his personal profit ahead of saving lives.
Twitter Wits Have Suggestions For Donald Trump’s New DJ Gig At Mar-a-Lago
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-dj-twitter_n_61fdac6be4b0f8a1b844730d
“I fought the Law (and the law won). Please, please play that one,” joked one.
Former President Donald Trump may have found his true calling: DJing at Mar-a-Lago, cranking up “amazing” music, and busting loose until the very “late evening.”
That’s what he promised he’ll be doing Friday and Saturday in a statement sent to Mar-a-Lago members and shared by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
Critics groaned, imagining an endless loop of Trump’s rally favorites, like (ironically) “YMCA.”
Quipsters had some other playlist suggestions:
Others had more general commentary about the former president’s weekend gig:
DeSantis’ Supreme Court connection
Good Friday morning.
A legal matter — Gov. Ron DeSantis, who went to Yale and Harvard Law School, has of course, lots of strong opinions about the law and what’s constitutional, and what’s not.
Everyone’s a critic — The Republican governor even recently ripped into the U.S. Supreme Court over its decision to let a Biden administration vaccine mandate for health care workers remain intact while an underlying lawsuit proceeds. While appearing on the conservative Ruthless podcast last month, DeSantis said that both Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh did not have a “backbone” when they decided to allow the mandate to stand.
Call me — Well, it turns out that DeSantis may have his own direct connection to the Supreme Court.
CC time — Emails handed over to American Oversight, a group that bills itself as a government watchdog, suggest that DeSantis is in regular contact with Justice Clarence Thomas. In June 2021, Thomas’ wife, Ginni, who runs her own consulting firm, worked with the DeSantis administration to have the governor talk to a coalition of groups, including people affiliated with Judicial Watch, the conservative organization that uses information requests and lawsuits to investigate public officials.
The pitch — In one of the emails about having DeSantis talk to “conservative patriots,” Ginni Thomas says that DeSantis should be acquainted with her for a few reasons: she interviewed him for the Daily Caller when he was in Congress, saw him at a state dinner when Donald Trump was president, and “my husband has been in contact with him too on various things of late.”
Response — POLITICO’s Matt Dixon reached out to the governor’s office about this email, but did not get a response. Helen Aguirre Ferré, the executive director of the Republican Party of Florida, responded by saying “I can’t speak about any private conversations Governor DeSantis may or may not have had with anyone but both he and Justice Thomas believe in the separation of powers and defend individual liberty, the law and the Constitution as written.”
Admirer — There’s no question DeSantis holds Thomas in high regard. Back in 2018, the governor called the justice the “gold standard for a Supreme Court appointment.” The two also appeared together at a 2020 Federalist Society conference held in Disney World where DeSantis introduced Thomas as the “greatest living justice.”
— WHERE’S RON? — Gov. DeSantis is scheduled to appear with former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany at the Federalist Society conference being held at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista.
New allegations plague Florida’s controversial surgeon general
Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s former UCLA supervisor does not think he should be Florida’s state surgeon general.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handpicked state surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, is currently doing the job, but he still needs to be formally confirmed by the Republican-led state Senate. To that end, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement did a routine background investigation as part of the confirmation process.
It apparently didn’t go especially well. The Tallahassee Democrat newspaper reported yesterday that Ladapo’s former supervisor at UCLA discouraged Florida officials from hiring the controversial doctor.
“In my opinion, the people of Florida would be better served by a Surgeon General who grounds his policy decisions and recommendations on the best scientific evidence rather than opinions,” the unnamed supervisor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in the Jan. 18 report prepared by a senior crime intelligence analyst for the Senate.
According to the local report, the UCLA supervisor added that Ladapo’s weird theories “created a stressful environment for his research and clinical colleagues and subordinates,” some of whom believed the doctor “violated the duty in the Hippocratic Oath to behave honestly and ethically.”
In the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report, Ladapo’s views were described as having led to “stress and acrimony among his coworkers and supervisors.”
The newspaper did not get a comment from Ladapo, but the press secretary for the Florida Department of Health “characterized Ladapo as a misunderstood visionary.”
This is not the first time Ladapo’s work at UCLA has generated scrutiny.
During his tenure, the physician claimed in a USA Today op-ed that his perspective on Covid treatments had been shaped by his experience “taking care of patients with COVID-19 at UCLA’s flagship hospital.” Two weeks later, Ladapo added in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he had his experience “caring for patients with suspected or diagnosed Covid-19 infections at UCLA.”
Thanks to reporting from The Rachel Maddow Show, those claims have since been called into question. As my colleague Kay Guerrero explained in a report in November, “Several former colleagues of Dr. Joseph Ladapo … say he misled the public about his experience treating Covid-19 patients.”
One UCLA source also said, in reference to Ladapo, “A lot of people here at UCLA are glad that he is gone because we were embarrassed by his opinions and behavior. At the same time, we don’t wish this on the people of Florida. They don’t deserve to have someone like him making their health decisions.”
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