The hypocrisy of GOP whiteness. Freedoms for me, but none for thee.
‘Legitimate political discourse’ is what the indoctrinated call terror.
The abuser has removed all their morals/ethics. The indoctrinated can’t admit their mistake, so they further radicalize themselves to appease the abuser. It’s a cult.
If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying to hard to keep you from voting.
Remember that when you worry about the future of the Republic, and don’t let *anything* keep you from being at the polls. https://t.co/ofz6ZcXZVH
Plus the study is not peer reviewed. However it is getting a lot of traction. They were talking about it at my doctors office this morning. Scary.
Imagine hearing this and thinking death is a better option. Imagine hearing this and NOT think of the burden of the unvaccinated on society.
Takes a certain mind to dismiss science and humanity while deaths approach one million.
Republicans normalize racism. Writ large.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Let’s compare the number of trademarks China gave Ivanka when tRump was president to how many they have given Pelosi? The former guy has at least 100 Chinese trademarks, and Ivanka got 18 Chinese trademarks in just 2 months. Yet you claim Pelosi is the one taking money from China.
Ah this will please the cult base but has no grounding in fact. Wasn’t it former guy tRump who had trouble walking down ramps and stairs requiring someone be very close to him in case he wobbled or started to fall. Oh yes, there is video of it.
In a blizzard of pretrial briefs Friday, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s attorneys are seeking to have the congressman’s full statement to the FBI played for jurors — both to show the repetitive questioning of government agents and the idea that Fortenberry was simply confused, rather than lying to agents.
Attorneys for the embattled Fortenberry, 60, also want to call an expert to testify to the fallibility of memory, especially in older adults. And his defense team wants to delve into the purported political leanings of the lead prosecutor.
Fortenberry, who has represented eastern Nebraska’s 1st District since 2005, is charged with three felonies — two counts of making false statements to federal agents and one count of seeking to conceal the source of $30,000 in “conduit” political contributions from a 2016 California fundraiser.
Read the full article. The illegal donation came from a Nigerian man who reportedly shares Fortenberry’s interest in protecting Christians from persecution in the Middle East.
On the misleading right wing cartoons comment sections I go to one of the constant refrains is how confused and befuddled Biden is. They claim that he is senile or has Alzheimer’s constantly. Yet here is one of their own using that as an excuse for lying to the FBI. Now think about that, the lawmaker is claiming he is too old and confused to know he was lying. Then why is he still in the congress?
Saturday’s edition of Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox News could have used some filtering with regards to an egregiously inaccurate graphic aired during a monologue on unhealthy cities.
In a segment designed to portray large cities run by liberal politicians as unsafe and unhealthy, Unfiltered showed a map of the U.S. that highlighted the “Top Ten Most Unhealthy U.S. Cities.”
The only problem is, the graphic actually showed the ten healthiest cities – or, nine of them anyway – according to the very source that Fox News cited.
“Let’s look at some major policy areas, right?” said Bongino. “The economy, healthcare, education, public safety. Where are economies struggling right now? Inner cities run exclusively and monopolistically by garbage Democrat politicians who don’t give a damn about people.”
Bongino lamented that many cities haven’t had Republicans at the helm for decades.
“You look at some of the health outcomes in these inner cities the Democrats have run monopolistically for decades, and you stand a pretty darn good chance of dying in one of these inner cities – far more likely, than if you lived in an areas where they gave a damn about people and their healthcare outcomes.”
During the monologue, Fox News aired a graphic claiming that the unhealthiest cities in the U.S. are: San Francisco; Seattle; Portland, OR; San Diego; Honolulu; Washington, D.C.; Austin; Irving, TX; Portland, ME; Denver.
But there’s a problem. According to WalletHub – the source that Unfiltered cited in its graphic – the 10 cities featured in the graphic are actually the “healthiest places to live in the U.S.” That is literally the opposite of “most unhealthy.”
Well, nine of the cities, anyway. Apparently, the Bongino and his production crew took Irvine, CA to mean Irving, TX, which made its way into the hilariously inaccurate graphic.
In a later airing of Unfiltered, the map graphic did not appear. In its place, Fox News ran B-roll footage of homeless people instead.
I went to the source cited in this graphic and I’m not sure what happened here pic.twitter.com/3E1S3Dzvhg
Manchin is trying to reverse psychologize the climate crisis by saying removal of fossil fuels will make the environment dirtier. https://t.co/wN8tVrBEQS
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.
Ahhh! “Legitimate Discourse” defined by GOP National Committee. Pic (including PA man who just pled guilty to Capitol riot charges) Thanks to Phila. Daily News pic.twitter.com/th1XKP21TY
According to the Republican Party, sending lawmakers running for their lives and chanting about hanging the Vice President is simply “legitimate political discourse.”
Democrats must take this threat seriously — before there's no democracy left to protect. pic.twitter.com/zxpWATTXcq
But we are supposed to pretend this is only about merit and qualifications, just like we are supposed to pretend what Shapiro said was only a bad tweet and that this keeps being directed at black women, like @nhannahjones also, just by coincidence. https://t.co/LZE15is5zO
“Yes, of course [peaceful Muslims] exist, and those people are not good Muslims, but they’re good people. So, I’m talking about the doctrine of Islam itself, that’s what it prescribes, that’s what it’s calling for Muslims to do.”
Originally, most folks were predicting that a Russian invasion would be focused on eastern Ukraine — both due to troop concentrations and ease of assault. Eastern Ukraine is mostly flat, and will be hard to defend. 1/5
Now, many analysts are of the opinion that Kyiv is the target after all. The increased concentrations of Russian troops, with more on the way, certainly make it look like Putin has decided he wants *all* of Ukraine. 4/5
“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.
Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2019, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-68%), murder/non-negligent manslaughter (-47%) and aggravated assault (-43%). Meanwhile, the property crime rate fell 55%, with big declines in the rates of burglary (-69%), motor vehicle theft (-64%) and larceny/theft (-49%).
Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those reported by the FBI. Per BJS, the overall violent crime rate fell 74% between 1993 and 2019, while the property crime rate fell 71%.
So historically crime rates are down. Crime has risen as people are more desperate and stressed. However it is no where near the terrifying levels that the misleading right wing media wants to portray. Ask your self why it is so important for the misleading right wing media to push the narrative of a national crime wave? It is political. They want to find anything they can to make people feel the country is going wrong with Biden in charge. Don’t believe their hyped myth.
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.
Steve Kelley continues to LIE about the border crisis, even though he has been caught in his LIES many times.
The border crisis was caused 100% by DONALD TRUMP.
When Trump took office, illegal border crossings were at a FORTY-YEAR LOW because Dubya Bush (one of the few things he got right) and Obama had in place systems to stabilize minority indigenous communities who were the targets of racist gang violence. In one single day (June 17, 2019), TRUMP CANCELED EVERYTHING, not gradually or phased out, but all at once, and a border crisis from Central America resulted. It takes years to build bridges, a single day to blow them up. TRUMP BLEW IT UP. And yes, VP Harris is on it. The crisis is in Central America, not at our border (which Harris, as a native Californian from a border state, has been to many times). She has already met (in person and via Zoom) with the presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Stabilization aid is being restored and the numbers of illegal border crossings are already plummeting. Again, blame the Democrats WHO ARE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING to return to stability, for the problem TRUMP CAUSED.
Under Obama / Biden, our nation had brought the border to its most stable level — lowest number of illegal border crossings — in MORE THAN FORTY YEARS — by removing the incentives for coming here: addressing the violence, neighborhood insecurity and economic collapse and other issues that drive people out of their ancestral homelands.
Those leaving are predominantly INDIGENOUS MAYAN. They do not want to leave the ancestral homelands their people have occupied for tens of thousands of years, long predating the arrival of brutal European thugs.
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Steve Kelley continues to LIE about the border crisis, even though he has been caught in his LIES many times.
The border crisis was caused 100% by DONALD TRUMP.
When Trump took office, illegal border crossings were at a FORTY-YEAR LOW because Dubya Bush (one of the few things he got right) and Obama had in place systems to stabilize minority indigenous communities who were the targets of racist gang violence. In one single day (June 17, 2019), TRUMP CANCELED EVERYTHING, not gradually or phased out, but all at once, and a border crisis from Central America resulted. It takes years to build bridges, a single day to blow them up. TRUMP BLEW IT UP. And yes, VP Harris is on it. The crisis is in Central America, not at our border (which Harris, as a native Californian from a border state, has been to many times). She has already met (in person and via Zoom) with the presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Stabilization aid is being restored and the numbers of illegal border crossings are already plummeting. Again, blame the Democrats WHO ARE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING to return to stability, for the problem TRUMP CAUSED.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-trump/as-promised-trump-slashes-aid-to-central-america-over-migrants-idUSKCN1TI2C7
Under Obama / Biden, our nation had brought the border to its most stable level — lowest number of illegal border crossings — in MORE THAN FORTY YEARS — by removing the incentives for coming here: addressing the violence, neighborhood insecurity and economic collapse and other issues that drive people out of their ancestral homelands.
Those leaving are predominantly INDIGENOUS MAYAN. They do not want to leave the ancestral homelands their people have occupied for tens of thousands of years, long predating the arrival of brutal European thugs.