Jon Stewart looks at the GOP response to Trump’s conviction and demands that the media do more than just speculate on future realities. Plus, Ronny Chieng digs into Biden’s executive order at the border along with his D-Day visit to France, and Trump’s background checks on prospective VPs, including Jim Crow fan, Byron Donalds. #DailyShow#Biden#Trump#Election
This is what drives the increased hate and attacks on the LGBTQ+. This is what republicans consider to be high quality discourse and thought. Attack anyone different and hurt them hard, wipe them out. It is gang thug rule and it is the cults they are in. Either the tRump cult or the Fundamentalist cult. Hugs. Scottie
The fallout from the Colorado GOP’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric earlier this week continued Friday with state Republican leaders calling for party chairman Dave Williams to resign.
The latest denouncement came from the Jefferson County Republicans, who on behalf of “numerous Colorado Republican County Chairs, other county party officers, members of the Colorado State Central Committee in all 64 Counties, and many Republican candidates” called on Colorado GOP chairman Dave Williams to “immediately resign.”
The mounting backlash against Williams follows a blast email from the Colorado GOP that was signed by the chairman, in which the party accused the LGBTQ+ community of being “godless groomers” who want to harm children. On its official profile on X, the Colorado GOP also called for the burning of Pride flags.
Williams sent an email to GOP voters earlier this week that referred to queer people as “barbaric,” “creeps,” “degenerates,” “godless,” “groomers,” “predators,” “radicals,” and “reprobates.”
Valdamar Archuleta, the head of Colorado’s Log Cabin Republicans, has been one of the few GOP members to defend Williams. He said Wednesday that “I do not think Dave hates me because I’m gay. I don’t think that Dave is a homophobic person. He’s trying to get a reaction.”
Five of the six Republican candidates running for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District are disavowing their state party’s leadership, citing its recent anti-LGBTQ messaging and concerns over campaign impropriety.
The conservatives, who are on the primary ballot this month, have called into question Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams and are advocating for new leadership. Only U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who received the endorsement of the party, declined to comment on Williams’ messaging.
Williams has sparked criticism inside and outside of the Colorado Republican Party for an email sent from the state party that claimed people in the LGBTQ community are “evil” and “godless groomers.”
As I reported earlier today, Colorado has seen a spree of stolen Pride flags since the state GOP issued its “burn all Pride flags” message. Williams has called reports of the thefts a hoax.
Last month the Colorado GOP called on Christians to remove their children from public schools because Democrats are using schools to “turn more kids trans.”
Williams is running to replace retiring GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn. Williams, you may recall, lost a lawsuit seeking to have “Let’s Go Brandon” by his name on the ballot during his failed 2022 House bid.
During a December 2023 appearance on extremist Laura Loomer’s podcast, Williams told the Colorado Supreme Court to “go fuck themselves” after they removed Trump from the ballot. It’s what Jesus would want.
My 90 year old Colorado Father in law has always been a republican. He loves his Gay son and his gay sons husband (me), He told us last night, “I’m done with the republican party” after he received this email.
Again the haters spewed their bigotry non-stop for years, over shooting any other voice, we have to raise our voice just as loud. We were stomping this shit out until the cult of tRump maga made being a low intellect gang thug the in thing. This is driven by those who insist on controlling the lives of others, to make others live as the haters are comfortable with. Hugs. Scottie
Emboldened by the mainstreaming of hard-right politics ahead of a presidential election cycle, white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups increased to record levels in the United States last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest annual report on hate and extremism. The SPLC, which has published the annual report since 1990, documented 835 active anti-government groups, up 133 from 2022’s count, and 595 hate groups, an increase of 72 over the previous year’s figure.
Accounting for a large portion of the increase was a 50% surge in white supremacy hate groups in 2023, the highest jump ever recorded by the SPLC, growing to 165 over 109 in 2022. White power and neo-Nazi rallies across the U.S. totaled 143 in 2023, down from 191 in 2022. SPLC saw a 33% rise in anti-LGBTQ+ organizations over last year, bringing the total to 86. The group said the growth was largely attributable to the anti-trans movement on the far-right.
The annual report from the SPLC raises the specter of far-right groups. Also: Pro-migrant groups are being harassed for their work. https://t.co/uoz31bQOdg
Trump emboldened them. These folks were always racist and sexist but they knew to disguise it. Now they are proud of it. It’s no surprise that they want to belong to groups of like-minded groups. The Klan used to hide. Now some similar groups wear masks but many do not. They don’t hide their identities because they don’t feel they need to. We have to prove them wrong.
Fear of the “other” has animated Republican politics since forever. If it isn’t LGBT people, it’s immigrants. In his weekly screed, Andrew Sullivan blames Biden for “losing” the election to Trump over immigration, all without ever mentioning the fact that Republicans, on marching orders from Trump, squashed bipartisan legislation to secure the southern border. Funny how that rather important element is simply ignored. Block Javascript to read:
The hubby and I got a couple of guns (locked away for safekeeping) but if push comes to shove, we’re not going down quietly. Hate to have to think that way now.
Kids are not born haters, they are taught to hate by adults and older kids around them. Every maga republican and fundamentalist religious leader is spreading this hate like an infectious disease. Hugs. Scottie
A juvenile suspect has been arrested in connection to an incident at the Newberg Public Library in which a window that displayed an LGBTQIA+ Pride flag was shattered by a BB gun.
According to the Newberg-Dundee Police Department in a post on Facebook, police were originally dispatched to investigate the incident on Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. No one was injured and it was initially investigated as a vandalism complaint.
It’s unclear what charges may brought to the juvenile, including whether or not they may include bias crime charges. However, police said the case is being “referred to the Yamhill County Juvenile Department for prosecution.
"A pride flag displayed at a library in Newberg, Oregon, was shot at with a pellet gun this week, according to police, who are investigating it as a possible hate crime. … similar attacks across the country within days of the start of Pride Month."https://t.co/PHYWJu9H9o
A report in the New York Times, verified by documents and Israeli government officials, confirms that Israel has been using fake social media accounts and websites in an attempt to sway U.S. policy.
Reality means nothing to him and his cult. He says three different contradictory things before breakfast and his cult buys into each one. When it is said about him though … no way … and they scream violence and hate on everyone. They are a cult. The republican party is no more. It is the cult of tRump party, and his people control all the party apparatus. They are in charge of the most important thing in that former party, the money and the base. So the rest bow down, do what is demanded / needed kiss what he tells them too, and they get to stay in their office. Why is that so important. Don’t the public realize, a seat in federal, and even some what to a smaller degree, a seat in federal congress is the the golden ticket to wealth and fame. Republicans don’t give a shit about governing, most of them hate it and don’t know how to do it. To them it is the way to riches and power. That is their turn on, their goal in life. As it is their god they follow, the Dear Leader tRump. Hugs. Scottie
I just posted a video by Jon Stewart talking about this subject. The next comment I read was by Susan, her link below, who reminded me of a post she made on this same subject. I am going to repost it because I think it will help all of us dealing with the tRump supporters, the Covid deniers, the people who simply can not accept or see reality. Hugs. Scottie
A theory regarding the continued disconnect between Trump objectors and Trump supporters: the divide occurs between those who believe words have meaning and those who do not.
We can trace the beginning of this divide to the moment Trump first announced his candidacy when he famously said of immigrants, “They’re rapists, they’re murderers, and some, I assume, are good people.” Those of us who believe words have meaning interpreted that to mean “They’re rapists, they’re murderers, and some, I assume, and good people.”
Those who would go on to support Trump heard those words differently. They heard some version of “immigrants are bad.” The distinction is important because it highlights the problem with covering this candidate. When somebody deploys weapons with the carelessness and frequency of Donald Trump, it makes it impossible to analyze his every bizarre utterance. How does one separate the bull from the shit?
The Tower of Babel by Peter Bruegel
But the Trump supporter listens to the diarrhetic stream-of-conscious ramblings of their champion and hears soaring rhetoric. The lies, the exaggerations, the threats, the cruelty. They don’t hear any of it. They hear notions: strength, greatness, power. For them, every time he walks out onto a stage double-dick-sucking to the strains of YMCA, it’s Lincoln at Gettysburg. Only better, because Lincoln only spoke for a few minutes, whereas Trump rambles on for ninety minutes at a go.
I really think we’re hearing two different speeches. His supporters are taking in one set of cogent, well-prepared remarks and we’re hearing, well, we’re hearing what he’s actually saying, in all of its crackpot lunacy.
If words have meaning, and Trump’s speaks his words truthfully, then Trump is the greatest president in American history, done more for American Black people than Abraham Lincoln, is a genius – and a stable one at that, his inauguration was the most highly watched inauguration in history, he won California in 2016, as well as the national popular vote, and he won the entire election in 2020. But that’s only if words have meaning.
If words don’t have meaning, we could interpret those same remarks any way we want. We can take him literally or seriously, or literally but not seriously, or seriously but not literally, or we can just assign any random meaning to his words the way the government assigns meaningless code words when naming secret operations so that anybody who hears those words would have no idea what they’re supposed to mean. If words have no meaning, why should anybody get upset when you call their nation a “shithole country” or you call one of The Apprentice contestants “a n—”? Why should anybody disbelieve anything you say when you haven’t said anything to begin with?
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Michael Cohen was probably both correct and incorrect when he discussed the way Trump talks “in code,” but that people close to him understand what he’s saying. No doubt Trump talks in mob-influenced patois: “Our friend David is taking care of it,” because that sort of vaguery relieves Trump of responsibility from a misinterpretation of his intentions. When somebody screws up, it’s never Trump’s fault. How could it be? If they had only listened to what he said, they would have done the job right the first time. Of course, they had listened to what he said but didn’t understand what he meant because it’s unlikely Trump knew what he meant.
Because – and this is the key point – Donald Trump is dumb.
We know this because people who both know the man and believe that words have meaning have said he’s dumb. One of his professors at Wharton, William Kelly, called Trump “the dumbest goddamned student I ever had.” His first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, called Trump a “fucking moron.” General John Hyten said about Trump, “the president is an idiot.” His first Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, said Trump is “like a fifth of sixth grader.” I’m sure he didn’t mean it as an insult to fifth or sixth graders.
Dumb people don’t read. They don’t speak with precision. They don’t understand nuance. They have no sense of humor. They often an exaggerated sense of self. They possess unearned confidence. Does this sound like anybody you know?
Which isn’t to say Trump isn’t also a genius. He is. That’s what makes him a unique American figure. Trump understands the dark side of human nature better than most. He understands fear and greed, and mines his own fear and greed to inspire others to feel as bleakly about humanity as he feels about himself. The words don’t matter because the sentiment is so powerful.
Rhetoric fails in his firehose of emotion. It’s the great gift of the autocrat, to inject words with the same shit they put under the skin of supermarket rotisserie chickens to make them so delicious. We know it’s bad for us, but we choose to ignore it because it tastes so good. Trump knows he’s injecting poison into the bloodstream of the American body politic but doesn’t care. Worse, he celebrates it because bile is his mother’s milk.
I apologize for all the Trump stuff lately. As the election nears, it’ll probably continue. But maybe you like it, in which case, toss a little sub my way? As my hero once asked, “What the hell do you have to lose?”
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The Trump voter is unreachable because the words one would use to convince the Trump voter are words that voter has already rejected. Words like “election,” “flag,” “nation,” “citizen,” “immigrant.” These, and probably hundreds of other words, no longer mean the same thing to me as they do the Trump voter because Trump himself has twisted them into levers of governmental oppression. Even the word “guilty,” repeated 34 times this week, now means something other than what it means.
I worry we’ve lost America, not because of any single candidate, but because the language itself has been cleaved in two. The language itself has become so politicized that we can no longer even understand each other. We’ve made a Babel of America, and I don’t know how we learn to understand each other again.
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