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In other words his income is tied to fossil fuels and he want the US to keep using them.  The idea that by using more fossil fuels such as oil and coal we can make the plant cleaner is asinine.   Manchin is hoping what he said will be picked up and run on the right wing misleading media as sound bites.  He wants to make sure the clean energy parts of the Build Back Better bill are dead even though much of the country wants to and is ready to do more to fix the climate crisis. 

Take away obstruction and Republicans will have to work.

No bigger performative coward than Mike Pence.

The system needs to be replaced. You can’t reform this.

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“Race” is a construct. There are only humans. That hasn’t stopped one set of humans for using demographic labels (race, religion, sex, economic class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) as a means to suppress and kill that hated group. It’s human nature, unfortunately. We hate. We kill. Dig deep enough and you’ll find greed is the reason. It’s the most humanistic trait there is.

The old hero fantasy. Unlike in the movies there is a real mess to clean up.   People who buy guns to shoot intruders are eight times more likely to shoot their own children.   The burglary rate has dropped by half over the last ten years. The homicide rate, however, has climbed in those ten years. But it’s not because people are shooting burglars. Mostly it’s family or random, often unarmed strangers on the street.  

The right wing screamers that appointing a black woman is racist seem to have the assumption that race is the only qualification Biden is looking for and that there is no qualified black woman.  That is racist.   The idea of a white man not automatically getting the position while a black person must fight for it is shocking to the right.  

Congress hasn’t done a good job since the GOP went off the range with the Tea Party, Trumpism, MAGA, and the other whack jobs they brought in.

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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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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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I fell asleep after an early supper.   Woke up at 5:30 and rushed to finish this.   Enjoy

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Socialized safety net is antidote for capitalism.

Conservatives want to cancel non-white humanity. Conservatives want to cancel elections. Conservatives want to cancel the separation of church and state.

GOP: gaslight, obstruct, project

The above is about politicians in Kentucky trying to shield / block reports of bad actions done by cops and other political groups from the public and to make it easier for utilities to raise rates on customers with less input.  Just jack prices for profit.  

If this six year old could stand the discomfort of walking through crowds of shouting angry people screaming obscenities and throwing things at her, knowing that if they were allowed they would hurt her, then white six year olds can learn of her, what she did, and why. 

Book titles for the book burners

 

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What crimes!   Oh the made up ones in Rudy’s mind?  The right wing fever dream of Hunter being the worst being on earth?  Oh Hunter used drugs.  Have they seen the videos of Donnie Jr?  He is clearly tanked up off his ass on something.   The right did not care about Donnie Jr illegally hunting animals in other countries, they did not mind Ivanka getting an unheard of number of trademarks from China in a short time frame when China wanted things from tRump, they don’t mention that Jared couldn’t get a security clearance because he was such a risk but tRump gave him one anyway.  Hunter Biden is an adult, he is not in the WH, he is on the WH payroll, he is not an unofficial advisor to the president.  But the right needs desperately to find something to hit Joe Biden with, so they reach for the personal struggles of his son.   Great people. 

The right wing is preoccupied with crime as it again causes fear.  Be afraid, be very afraid is the mantra of the misleading right wing media.  Fact is urban crime is down, rural crime is up, and all crime is still far below historical levels.   What is the rights solution to crime.  Not to see what causes crime and fix it, nope.  The right wants more militarized police officers to aggressively occupy the lower incomes and non-white people.  They want more people in for profit prisons to do slave labor for the corporations.     They want to cut any government assistance programs that would help curb crime such as after school programs and to cut any diversionary programs that help rehabilitate people as that might cost the wealthy a few bucks in taxes.  And they blame democrats even though that is not the truth because they want the white people to be afraid and misinformed so they vote Republican.

The consequences seem to be causing Putin to have some second and third
thoughts on invading. I wouldn’t mock Biden too hard on that front. He
is pulling the world along with idea of sanctions if Putin invades. As for the minor incursions that was because there are already small groups of Russian military in the Donetsk. Biden did not want the misleading right wing media opinion hosts such as Hannity to use that to push the US into actions that would be premature. There are some Republicans wanting Biden to sanction and move aggressively against Putin now such as Lindsey Graham because that would force Putin to act and we would have the war Graham’s donors want.

The consequences seem to be causing Putin to have some second and third thoughts on invading. I wouldn’t mock Biden too hard on that front. He is pulling the world along with idea of sanctions if Putin invades.

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Republicans would have you believe they are ‘tough’ on terror. They are, in fact, not tough.

Trump released over 5000 Taliban fighters, deserted our Kurdish allies, and abandoned American military bases, weaponry, and equipment to hostile foreign interests.

US Conservatives and Russians are both trying to dismantle American democracy

Lindsey went all in for Trump and Brett Kavanaugh. Non-stop bad faith. Never forget.

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frédéric Bastiat

Pass this on to your ‘both sides’ Putinists.

Boy he thinks highly of himself. 

White terror needs guns, anti-blackness needs books banned.

Exposure leads to improved empathy and emotional intelligence. You build character.

https://href.li/?https://news.yahoo.com/kim-reynolds-ending-covid-disaster-195812882.html

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The desperation runs from the right wing media to find anything to pin on Biden is driving them crazy.   They think centralist Joe is following socialist Sanders.  Have you seen the things Biden endorses right wing people, he is not being led by Sanders anywhere. 

The right wing wants to paint Dr. Fauci as lying to the people.  Why?  Because their Doctors that push Ivermectin and other things that doesn’t work on Covid are lying or crazy.  The head doctor of frontline doctors Stella Immanuel has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches. She alleges alien DNA is currently used in medical treatments, and that scientists are cooking up a vaccine to prevent people from being religious.   She is a pediatrician not a virologist or immunologist.   But they believe  her over a Immunologist because she says crazy shit they also believe. 

At CNN, they hold their own accountable, while at Fox, they give them bonuses and promotions.  Somehow because the CEO was having an affair with a vice-president executive in the company and did not report it he felt because he broke the rules he enforces he should resign, and did.  Fox did not have anyone in high position that had the same integrity.  But that some how makes CNN sinking?   Get real. 

While she was wrong in what she said I don’t think there was any malicious intent. I think she was trying to express a point about inhumanity and was not fully versed in the mentality of the Nazis. She apologized with a real apology, not some fake one that put the blame on the victim.

So these people believe infecting others and being 97 times more likely to die from the virus is freedom? What about their responsibilities to their fellow humans? I guess it is freedom to not care for others or how what you do effects them. Seems pretty selfish to me, and if that has been the principle we wouldn’t have had a nation, fought a war to end slavery, joined a war to fight fascism, and so much more that takes the idea that doing something for the good of others even if it costs you personally is worth while.

There is no war on police. There is a war on bad actions by police. There can be no defending police that shoot unarmed people, that torture and beat black people for no reason, police that kill believing they are entitle to do so. There is a movement to adjust the duties and role of police to end militarized policing and return policing to community based serve and protect. It really is that simple. There is no reason to have the police act as an occupying army.

Nice cartoon, but late to the game. See the rate of inflation has slowed. Food prices are stabilized or coming down. The Fed and most economists think that inflation was caused by Covid resulting having to shut down the economy and then the fantastic reopening of everything. Like trying to run a whole swimming pool through a small funnel. But sadly many corporations took advantage and engaged in price gouging also.

Debts and Deficits only seem to matter when Democrats are in the White House.  Get the corporations and all the rich to pay their FAIR share. That stop in the 1970s. The lower and middle class can’t make up for that crap.   Debts and deficits matter if payments can’t be made on them. The U.S. economy has been growing during my lifetime and it hasn’t been an issue.

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My blood sugar has been uncontrolled all day causing me to have periods of extreme tired.  As my sugar soars and then the insulin fights to bring it down and then soars again I am seesawing  between feeling OK and not able to keep my eyes open.  I have been back to bed four times so far today.  I feel I have not gotten anything done. 

I found out that my part D insurance company wont pay for the insulin my doctor prescribed.  Now I have to find what insulin they will cover and see if the doctor thinks that will work for me.  It is not about what works best and what the doctor thinks will be the best choice for my medical condition, it is what the insurance company will pay at least part of.   I sure could have used that lower drug prices and $15 insulin in the Build Back Better bill that wealthy yacht living Maserati driving Manchin says I don’t need.

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If only the #NYT were this concerned about the debt when #TFG was ramming through tax cuts for corporations and rich people.

What about interest on the W Bush tax cuts and his two endless wars?

They said ‘don’t politicize the bench, no judicial activism’. They lied. It’s what conservatives do.

Most of the braindead Right have no idea of the mission of the Federalist Society. They can’t connect the dots between their grievances with life and a corporate fascist judiciary/SCOTUS.

How do you work for Putin without saying you work for Putin. Hawley is a Russian rat.

The media are underplaying Trump crimes.

Misogyny is MAGA gospel.

The media’s gender bias is obvious.

Women are punished. Men get ‘locker room’ BS.

Always a different set of rules for [mediocre white] men.

Would like to see this broken into Red State and Blue State deaths per capita to compare policies.

NYT avoids telling why the US has such a high death rate: right wing disinformation & Putin

The idea is to walk softly but carry a big stick.  I agree with Ukraine on this.  Russia would love it if Ukraine’s economy crashed and their businesses closed.  That actually could be used by Russia to invade. So world, be ready to act but don’t scream about it world wide. 

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Nope, not even close.  What was requested is he stop promoting lies about a health crisis and getting people killed.  Even he admitted he had to try harder to give the correct information. 

No Biden did not base his pick just on skin color, skin color is just one of the qualifications he requires of the nominee.    Those who keep complaining of this see only that he is picking a black woman as if it was a random person he seen on the street.  The complainers are not even worth arguing because they are doing it in bad faith, wanting to find some fault with Biden, and fault at all.  

What’s that have to do with car crash?  he prison system in the US always fails. The reality is that it doesn’t rehabilitate. It teaches people to be better criminals.   We have more people in the jail and prison than any other country. Yes, the system has certainly failed.

The right is up in arms because ICE is moving families to new locations.  They act as if ICE has never moved people around the country and in the night at that.  Well I posted on the many flights they did to hide kids taken from their families in the middle of the night.  Companies started to refuse ICE to fly these scared kids who were under orders not to talk and who no one was allowed to talk to.  This was the real abuse.   These kids were taken from their families and taken across the country to be given to adoption agencies (usually christian adoption agencies)to place in families for money.  That is called child trafficking. 

So the cartoonist admits the average person in the US can not afford necessities which is increasing petty crimes of theft. I think it is time to tax the wealthy and large corporations the way they were taxed in the best economic times of the US such as the 1950’s so the government can take care of the needs of the people. The government can create programs to insure people have the things they need and are not so deep in poverty that they need to steal to stay warm and clothed.

I remember night flights when ICE took children who had been taken from their parents at the Southern border and taken across the US to mostly Christian adoption agencies to be placed with US families for a price. The frighted kids were not allowed to speak to anyone and ICE agents wouldn’t let anyone talk to the children. This is child trafficking. It was done under the tRump administration and it was because of the tRump separation policy that they had children they had to move around the country.

Complete lie. It is stupid to even promote that idea. Remember the US is a country of laws and the DA and Gov. of Texas along with other states have go to court to block every attempt that Biden has made to change rules at the border. The only one rule change that was made was that families seeking asylum are not detained but verified given ways to track them and sent to family or NGO’s in other parts of the country. There are cities and towns in the US that are welcoming as many immigrant families as they can get. Reality is the US has places dying because of lack of people living there. Immigrants bring life back to these places. But that is the only rule change. The borders are not open, apprehensions are up. Facts matter

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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. 

Profit is king and workers are only livestock to make the profit for the wealthy.

‘Not qualified’ is a Republican bona fide.

Anti-blackness is GOP oxygen.

White people in this picture would say THEY are the victims of racism.

Its racist white people want racist white legislators to prioritize their racism.

Media, can you do your job?

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.

Rand Paul, flunkie reject, libertarian hero.

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. 

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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.

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