Republican senators are unmoved by Tucker Carlson’s relentless warpath against support for Ukraine — even as it widens an existing rift in their party. In recent days, Carlson has attacked Republicans who are pushing for a stronger response to Moscow’s aggression — slamming Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) as “ignorant” and Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) as “a moron masquerading as a senator” and “pompous neocon buffoon” simply for advocating long-standing GOP orthodoxy when it comes to Russia.
“On individuals up here who are decision-makers, I don’t hear any disagreement about the position Russia is in,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), said in a brief interview. “I don’t agree with those views,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio,said when asked about Carlson’s monologues. Some GOP senators rolled their eyes when asked about Carlson’s attacks and indicated that the far-right Fox host isn’t impacting their calculus on an emerging legislative path, even as his views are picking up steam among the base.
Don’t be surprised if Putin grooms Tucker Carlson to succeed Trump as leader of his fascist cult if Trump is sidelined by indictment, declining health, or the fatigue of his base. @Kasparov63 is exactly right about how Putin is already using Carlson: https://t.co/yRpJAc8Zqt
Walking by, I thought at first that my Russian-speaking wife was watching Fox News (which would have been unusual). Then I realized that Tucker Carlson's show was getting long chunks of airtime on Russian state TV
My first brand new home cost less than my 2018 car. Then I could afford a new home, two vehicles, two motorcycles, and other luxuries on one working persons wages. Not now.
A living wage. Housing as a human right. Medicare for All. Building union power. Legalizing marijuana & expunging records. Tackling the climate crisis.
Republican fascism is here. FOX broadcasts the propaganda. Both thought they would restore past glory by scapegoating and violence.
Half the GOP in Congress will be in prison and they will still chant ‘lock her up’ because the brainless have no objective intelligence, just slogans and grievances.
We had all of our major cities BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!
We need to look at this for what it is — they’re trying to keep us from voting with the threat of violence, because they know they can’t win on the issues.
Because of the red states forcing in person schooling with no attempt at all to use precautions or mitigate the spread of Covid, so many teachers are out sick with the virus that there is no one left to watch the kids as the parents work. Think about the sign, it is not about educating the kids, it is about having a place to park them so the parents can make profit for their employers. If it was about teaching kids than the money would have been put into making the kids and adults safe.
Just what we need, a country that can not afford to take care of nuclear weapons and did not have the expertise needed to control them having them. But they are right they should have gotten much better security promises and treaties for giving them up.
Not quite that bad. There has been some hesitation as to how far to go with sanctions on the part of Germany because they get a large part of their natural gas for heating their homes from Russia. In the middle of winter I can see their issue, but I also want to note they have agreed to go along with the sanctions.
Yes they do hate to be called out for what they are. Most racist say they are not racists. The fringe people want or need to think they are the majority and the ones with the truth.
Notice the cartoonist name. This same deep right wing person who fawns over tRump and rants against anything the Democrats want to do while promoting Covid misinformation is supporting the Canadian anti-maskers / anti-vaccine truckers. Do you wonder if there is dark money fueling all these people ranting against governments attempt to slow down and eradicate the virus?
This normally far right cartoonist is sort of correct above. But what it points out is not that Biden has fallen but that there is not one Republican willing to do the right thing for their country. It shows that the right is party first rather than the good of the country. They would see the country destroyed to make Biden fail, regardless of the cost to the nation.
How immature. The US government requires money to operate and provide services. The IRS exists to ensure that those who owe taxes pay the correct amount owed. The problem is that the Republicans have managed to shift the tax burden on to the lower incomes and poor and away from the wealthy. The Republicans have starved the agency so they can no longer go after wealthy people actively avoiding paying the taxes they owe. The wealthy want as much bad press and to demonize the IRS as much as possible so the people will try to do away with the agency in charge of making the wealthy pay their taxes. This is the right wing media doing the bidding of the wealthy to sway public opinion. Don’t fall for it. Don’t give the wealthy a pass from paying their taxes.
I noticed Goodwin never pointed out the injustice of appointing white people over qualified black women. Remember that Reagan promised to put a woman on the Supreme Court if he were elected—and he did. Was that pandering? Trump promised to put anti-abortionists on the Court, and he did. Was that pandering? Conserves are scared of a more balanced court. That’s why they stacked the Supreme Court with single minded simpletons who pander to the ultra right wing evangelicals.
Michigan state senate candidate Mike Detmer (@DetmerMike) tells a crowd that he wants citizens to bring guns to polling places: “…if we can’t change the tide, we need to be prepared to lock and load. So you ask, ‘What can we do?’ Show up armed.” #milegpic.twitter.com/emIKnfyqsi
Please watch the video above. It is CC. I have watched it three times and it chills me more each time. Think about this. This Republican candidate is openly appealing to his right wing followers to show up at voting places armed, to unplug and stop voting if they don’t like what they see. Don’t like that black guy voting, just threaten violence, or unplug the machine he is using. Heck shut down entire voting places in black areas. They do not see this as a problem, to them this is the goal so that they take complete power. This is not democracy. They are not trying to win votes, they are demanding that others not be allowed to vote. I spent yesterday arguing with right wing cult members who had no idea of reality or facts who about civilian vigilantism thought it was great and simply standing your ground. Defending your way of life one wrote to me. Cops and people should be able to mete out punishment as they wish. This is a clear and immediate danger to all of us who want democracy in the US. And these people that are saying take guns to the polling places and use your second amendment rights are supported by Fox hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. By all the right wing opinion shows. Really scary. OK back to the roundup I go.
After a group wearing Nazi symbols was seen demonstrating — and yelling antisemitic slurs — in the Orlando area over the weekend, local and statewide officials issued statements condemning their actions as hateful and disturbing. However, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did not immediately add to the bipartisan denunciations — and his top spokesperson sparked controversy by questioning whether the swastika-clad demonstrators were actually Nazis.
“Do we even know they’re Nazis?” Christina Pushaw posted in a since-deleted tweet, according to FloridaPolitics.com. “I trust Florida law enforcement to investigate and am awaiting their conclusions.” Despite having deleted her tweet, Pushaw has since retweeted several posts defending her skepticism of the Orlando demonstrations and criticizing those asking for the governor to weigh in on them, while also adding “we have always condemned antisemitism and hate.”
Read the full article. The Nazi group is based in Kissimmee, which about 30 miles south of Orlando near Disney World. They are well known to the SPLC and Jewish organizations.
I am aware of the anti-Semitic demonstration in Orange County. I along with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office deplore any type of hate speech. This hatred has no place in our society. Any reports of criminal activity will be thoroughly investigated.
Yesterday neo-nazis rallied in Orlando. But America beat their disturbing ideology before and we'll do it again. As a police commander I saw similar rallies, and I also saw that for every nazi there were a hundred Floridians there to stand up for what's right.
The hateful & anti-Semitic demonstrations reported in Florida today have no place in our state. Across America, we’ve seen a heartbreaking & disgusting rise in hate like this. We must always condemn it & continue to stand strongly with our Jewish communities.
Ron DeSantis press secretary @ChristinaPushaw liked this tweet from someone saying “why does anyone need to condemn nazis for you” and saying that nazi rallies in orlando is “faux outrage”. I ask again, why is it so hard for Ron DeSantis and his staff to simply condemn nazis??? pic.twitter.com/kezYZqqLoS
So – If the governor himself does not issue a public statement of specific condemnation of whoever this group is, within a time period that the Left deems acceptable, he is smeared as a Nazi sympathizer by default?
Democrat politicians have falsely insinuated all weekend that the Governor’s policies are somehow responsible for the protest with Nazi symbols. The same Dem politicians insist falsely that hate groups are the Governor’s base. It’s just so wrong, sick, and exhausting sometimes. https://t.co/iVRPYqP5H3
Her response after she failed to do research on the group that was protesting to see that they are, in fact, Nazis. She also failed to realize her words have deep consequences and that her initial reaction couldn’t have been worse. https://t.co/r5FhbCJ7dR
This weekend in Orlando, Nazis chanted "The Jew is the devil" and "Jews rape children and drink their blood." Their signs read "VAX THE JEWS" and "Let’s go Brandon.” They gave Nazi salutes.
More closeups of the Florida Nazis seen in Orlando. Really disgusting to see this but this is what the constant misinformation, conspiracy theories, and hateful rhetoric that is prevalent in right wing Florida politics leads to.pic.twitter.com/fxA2yJ0UgE
My son just witnessed nazis in Orlando. He said there were dozens hanging on the corner. The guy getting assaulted got out of his car and pushed one of them. @fox35orlandopic.twitter.com/HUvNgI3zwl
The Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney is asking for the FBI’s help in providing security for buildings and staff one day after former President Donald Trump called prosecutors investigating him “racists” and said his supporters should hold “the biggest protests we have ever had” in cities like Atlanta if the prosecutors “do anything wrong or illegal.”
At a rally in Conroe, Texas, Saturday night, Trump, without naming them, railed against Willis plus New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., who are investigating his business empire, calling them “racists.” The three are Black. Trump provided no evidence of racial discrimination.
“These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people. They’re racists and they’re very sick — they’re mentally sick,” he said. “They’re going after me without any protection of my rights from the Supreme Court or most other courts. In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you.”
In a letter to J.C. Hacker, FBI special agent in charge of the Atlanta field office, Willis asked for a risk assessment of buildings surrounding her office and the courthouse where the grand jury will sit. She also asked for FBI agents to provide security, saying “security concerns were escalated this weekend” by Trump’s rhetoric. Willis said her office had already received communications from people unhappy with the investigation before Trump’s rally.
“I am asking that you immediately conduct a risk assessment of the Fulton County Courthouse and Government Center, and that you provide protective resources to include intelligence and federal agents,” Willis said in the letter, obtained by CNN. “It is imperative that these resources are in place well in advance of the convening of the Special Purpose Grand Jury.”
CNN has reached out to the FBI in Atlanta for comment.
Willis, a Democrat, compared potential violence associated with her investigation to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Trump said Saturday night that he would consider pardoning those who were charged in connection with the deadly attack if he wins the White House again. Several high-profile Republicans, including New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, quickly dismissed Trump’s suggestion.
“We must work together to keep the public safe and ensure that we do not have a tragedy in Atlanta similar to what happened at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,” Willis said.
The State Of Georgia and The FBI should send the bill for heightened security to TFG as his little pity party and suggestion of mass protests in Atlanta will cost someone somewhere some big bucks! https://t.co/en05dwcWqb
A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.
Travis McMichael is shown during the sentencing of he and his father Greg McMichael and neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. | Stephen B. Morton via AP Photo
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery’s parents denounced the proposed deal for Travis McMichael, with mother Wanda Cooper-Jones and father Marcus Arbery emotionally asking the judge to reject agreements filed for McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael.
In rejecting the deal, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood said it would have locked her into specific terms — including 30 years in federal prison — at sentencing. Wood said that in this case it would only be appropriate to consider the family’s wishes at sentencing, which the proposed deal wouldn’t allow.
Travis and his lawyer asked for a 10 minute break to discuss whether he moves ahead with pleading guilty. The judge had yet to rule on his father’s proposed deal.
Marcus Arbery told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Brunswick that he’s “mad as hell” over the deal, which lawyer Lee Merritt said could enable Travis and Greg McMichael to spend the first 30 years of their life sentences in federal prison, rather than state prison where conditions are tougher.
“Ahmaud is a kid you cannot replace,” Arbery said. “He was killed racially and we want 100% justice, not no half justice.”
Cooper-Jones described the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to propose the plea deal despite her objections as “disrespectful.”
“I fought so hard to get these guys in the state prison,” she said. “I told them very, very adamantly that I wanted them to go to state prison and do their time. … Then I got up this morning and found out they had accepted this ridiculous plea.”
Wood continued preparations to summon summoning the first 50 potential jurors to the courthouse on Feb. 7 for questioning.
The proposed plea agreements were filed with the court late Sunday. There was no mention of a deal with their co-defendant, William “Roddie” Bryan. No details were disclosed in court Monday morning. Federal prosecutors didn’t mention the deals in the court’s morning session.
Federal deals would not affect state murder convictions in Arbery’s killing. All three men were sentenced to life in prison on Jan. 7 after a trial last fall.
The hate crime charges accuse McMichaels and Bryan of violating the 25-year-old Black man’s civil rights by chasing him through their neighborhood in coastal Georgia on Feb. 23, 2020. The McMichaels armed themselves and pursued Arbery in one pickup truck while Bryan joined the chase in another and recorded video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun.
A national outcry erupted when the graphic video leaked online two months later. Georgia was one of just four U.S. states without a hate crimes law at the time. Legislators quickly approved one, but it came too late for state hate crime charges in Arbery’s killing.
During the state trial in Glynn County Superior Court, the defense argued that the white men had authority to chase Arbery because they reasonably suspected he had been committing crimes in their neighborhood. Travis McMichael testified he opened fire only after Arbery attacked him with fists and tried to grab his shotgun.
The federal judge ordered that a jury pool be chosen from throughout the Southern District of Georgia, which covers 43 counties, to improve odds of seating a fair and unbiased jury.
You can no longer be neutral on this issue. You are either against white supremacy and the negation of black history, or, you identify with white supremacy and you require an anti-black agenda to exist.
Your exposure to humanity should make you curious. Tell your parents to open a book.
It is exhausting to see people decrying Biden picking “a less qualified” or “unqualified” Black woman for SCOTUS, without even seeing who the nominee is. You are essentially saying that you think there is literally no Black woman in this country qualified to sit on the Court.
Just a reminder that the Heritage Foundation, a pillar of conservative policy, is actively engaging in spreading anti-vax misinformation.
It boggles my mind that in 2022, with thousands still dying daily, a major think tank is still agreeing "shots don't prevent spread." 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/0fsGi6Lzge
Being a police officer isn’t even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs and it’s far behind such risky ( but genuinely useful ) endeavours as working on a farm and collecting garbage.
Not only that but COVID became the number one killer of cops « in the line of duty » last year.
— Scott #FuckElonMusk AbolishThePolice #ACAB Menor (@smenor) January 30, 2022
Also he’s a fantastic idiot if he thinks that violence against women isn’t a norm in society or that the threat of being punched (or whatever else) by men isn’t an actual risk that women constantly navigate
— E. McCumber @independentpen@mas.to (@independentpen) January 30, 2022
People can still travel by air, they just have to follow the rules as they always have had to follow the rules. The rules now include wearing masks and having the Covid vaccines.
My comment on the above cartoon was deleted as spam. I suspect that the cult followers of the right simply flag any comment that contradicts what they spew. The person writing the comment that was removed doesn’t get notified and has no way to know why it was flagged or who flagged it. There is a request for review and I hit them, but I have never seen the review have any effect. I have had comments on review for over two months with no resolution. So it scam to block non-right wing misleading comments. Below is the comment that was marked spam.
The southern border is secure, one of the most secure of borders. The norther border is not only not secure in many places it is not even marked or patrolled. In fact the northern border often runs through towns, down the center of roads, or is just sections of beach. Why do some people focus on the well patrolled and watched southern border and not the wide open northern one confuses me. There has to be something different about the people crossing them … Oh I got it skin color maybe?
The wall is not practical, it is not effective, and it is easily defeated. We all seen the videos of people scaling the new walls, cutting them with battery operated saws, or using makeshift ladders to go over them. The idea of a wall is only a media gimmick, a political tool, a pretend solution to please the anti-immigration crowd. There are long sections where the wall cannot be built due to terrain, where people don’t want to give up their land, where it is an environmental disaster. It simply is a not needed boondoggle.
Ah healthcare. Republicans have blocked every attempt to lower drug costs and to improve healthcare for the public. Look it up.
Why do we need to rebuild the military? Didn’t tRump brag he did that? Almost over night even. They were out of bullets until him he said. Thing was the military budget increased under Obama, under tRump, and under Biden. Those are facts, look it up.
Infrastructure for political cronies like the one support by Republicans that just passed and was signed into law. Know why that is so popular with corporations and the wealthy? It gives large amounts of public assets to businesses so they can charge the public to use them. That is real crony problem, Republicans giving the country to the wealthy instead of having government working for the public.
Oh I agree that we shouldn’t have bribes to China for Ivanka’s trademarks. That was horrible. She got 18 in two months during first two years when China was on good terms with the former president. Russia got many good deals in the hope of approving serval ventures tRump wanted to in Moscow. He even offered Putin the top penthouse for free. it is a fact look it up.
OK so your opinion host talking points are bull. Go back to what I said, why are the GOP not talking about them? They are not pushing any policies. They argue culture wars, they talk about a kids potato toy not being called Mr. or Misses anymore as it is a national crisis. They screamed for weeks that Dr. Seuss was being canceled because the owners did not want to keep publishing books that were not selling out of the collect of his works. Look at what the Republicans are talking about and see it is fear and outrage they are trying to create. Move past that and they offer nothing to improve your daily life.
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These are polices the GOP are behind and all make American Lives better: Securing the border. Finish the Wall – the materials are there, awaiting construction, Ensuring we don’t have another chaotic exit, leave folks behind strategy, anywhere else. Improving Heath Care and reestablish Private Insurance with less government. Having Infrastructure that is really Infrastructure and not a money to political cronies bill. Stopping all of the concessions to our enemies in return for a bribe of a relative. Continuing what the new VA gov an other GOP govs are doing by ensuring the lies of CRT are not in school curriculum. Stopping using govt bureaucracies as political tools. Rebuilding the military. Withdrawing from Iran and Paris deals.
None of these divide the people like Dems policies do nor are they designed to keep Dems in power.
There are limits and rules to every right in the US. How is it freedom to push misinformation that is responsible for killing many people and holding back the recovery from a pandemic? It is not anti-freedom to make sure that the public has the correct true information and that misinformation distribution is curbed or labeled as such. Spotify has begun labeling all misleading misinformation about Covid and says they will include links to the correct information. It also is a free market decision for those who disagree with the company to remove their music. Again no violation of freedom.
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The southern border is secure, one of the most secure of borders. The norther border is not only not secure in many places it is not even marked or patrolled. In fact the northern border often runs through towns, down the center of roads, or is just sections of beach. Why do some people focus on the well patrolled and watched southern border and not the wide open northern one confuses me. There has to be something different about the people crossing them … Oh I got it skin color maybe?
The wall is not practical, it is not effective, and it is easily defeated. We all seen the videos of people scaling the new walls, cutting them with battery operated saws, or using makeshift ladders to go over them. The idea of a wall is only a media gimmick, a political tool, a pretend solution to please the anti-immigration crowd. There are long sections where the wall cannot be built due to terrain, where people don’t want to give up their land, where it is an environmental disaster. It simply is a not needed boondoggle.
Ah healthcare. Republicans have blocked every attempt to lower drug costs and to improve healthcare for the public. Look it up.
Why do we need to rebuild the military? Didn’t tRump brag he did that? Almost over night even. They were out of bullets until him he said. Thing was the military budget increased under Obama, under tRump, and under Biden. Those are facts, look it up.
Infrastructure for political cronies like the one support by Republicans that just passed and was signed into law. Know why that is so popular with corporations and the wealthy? It gives large amounts of public assets to businesses so they can charge the public to use them. That is real crony problem, Republicans giving the country to the wealthy instead of having government working for the public.
Oh I agree that we shouldn’t have bribes to China for Ivanka’s trademarks. That was horrible. She got 18 in two months during first two years when China was on good terms with the former president. Russia got many good deals in the hope of approving serval ventures tRump wanted to in Moscow. He even offered Putin the top penthouse for free. it is a fact look it up.
OK so your opinion host talking points are bull. Go back to what I said, why are the GOP not talking about them? They are not pushing any policies. They argue culture wars, they talk about a kids potato toy not being called Mr. or Misses anymore as it is a national crisis. They screamed for weeks that Dr. Seuss was being canceled because the owners did not want to keep publishing books that were not selling out of the collect of his works. Look at what the Republicans are talking about and see it is fear and outrage they are trying to create. Move past that and they offer nothing to improve your daily life.
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