Like Sinema, I believe the cause of the Civil War was abolitionists not working hard enough to get slavers on board with anti-slavery reforms. If only they had talked about slavery more, and tried to find a compromise (perhaps involving Missouri) everything would've been solved.
The founding fathers would say, “What the hell is a filibuster?”
Projection. Every GOP accusation is an admission of guilt.
Today (1/13/21) the Michigan AG criminally referred, to the US Attorney for Michigan, the fake “electors” who forged electoral certificates as part of an apparent 5-state conspiracy to defraud the United States with respect to the 2020 election. The AG is bound to weigh in now.
Republicans are the party of theft. They all know voter suppression and gerrymandering are about stealing elections. They know the audits were about stealing elections. They know slowing the Post Office was about stealing elections.
The complicity and gaslighting, vis a vis, ‘stop the steal’, represent manifest diseased GOP morals/ethics.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Your bigotry is showing. Again.
Trumpism = shameless, racist misogynists
Women in Texas: I’d like to have some privacy
Supreme Court: nope
The misogyny is so obvious.
I want everybody to remember that the Supreme Court has said the government doesn't have the authority to make people wear a mask when it later says it *does* have the authority to force women to give birth against their will.
Be kind. You don’t know what others are going through.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Fox News the media arm of the GQP, got caught using an image that is actually from a 2011 NPR story (photo #15) about residents fleeing the disaster area near the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet their viewers claim to be the smartest most informed. Scottie
At the hearing to again appoint him chairman of the FED, Jerome Powell admitted to Senator Warren that the high prices could be profit taking by companies. They were raising prices and charging more because they could. Inflation and profit taking / price gouging is world wide yet the right wing media hopes to pin it all on Biden. I don’t buy it. Scottie
If it is a federal election , it should be ” federalized “. What happened to the right-wing talking point that we should just let the free market work things out? Don’t pay attention to the fact that Republicans are making it harder for people to vote and giving themselves the power to easily overturn election results they don’t like. A perfect recipe for a dictatorship. Scottie
Get your shots, wear a mask, keep some distance. It’s really not all that difficult. Scottie
So the five Republican senators vs 1 Democratic one retiring means? Fact is members of both parties are either retiring, running for different offices, or have been redistricted out of their seat. This is nothing new nor unexpected. As of January 2022, 44 members of Congress—six members of the U.S. Senate and 38 members of the U.S. House—have announced they will not seek re-election. Twenty-nine members—six senators and 23 representatives—have announced their retirement. Five retiring Senate members are Republicans and one is a Democrat, and of the retiring House members, 18 are Democrats and five are Republicans. Fifteen U.S. House members are running for other offices. Four Republicans and four Democrats are seeking seats in the U.S. Senate, one Republican and two Democrats are running for governor, one Republican is running for secretary of state, one Democrat is running for mayor, and one Democrat and one Republican are running for attorney general. No U.S. Senate members are running for other offices. Scottie
Complete bullshit. Try restricting voting places so people can not reach them and if they do they have wait in line times of 8 to 12 hours. Try removing the places to get ID in areas of POC and making it as hard as possible to get one. Try having one drop box in highly populated Democratic areas. The fact is voter restrictions are happening and that is not a democracy. In a democracy the people vote for the people they want in elective office, in the Republican way of governing the elected office holder allows only their supporters to vote. Scottie
Is Steve Kelley so ignorant of history (or honest enough to be accurate as to historical context) that he does not understand how the parties reversed roles on social justice issues?
I will acknowledge the evils of my party’s past.
But today’s Democratic Party is…
Not the party of the KKKonfederacy
Not the party of George Wallace
Not the party of Bull Conner
.
and today’s TrumpubliQan cult is…
Not the party of Lincoln.
Not the party of Teddy Roosevelt.
Not the party of Eisenhower.
Not even the party of McCain or R-money.
The Democrats’ ugly racist PAST is the Republicans’ ugly racist PRESENT.
Once upon a time, the Democratic party was the conservative party that was pro-slavery, pro-racism and pro-anything that was bad for the American people, and the Republican party was the LIBERAL party of Lincoln.
Then some time went by, some things happened, and eventually, the parties switched ideological sides.
Only the trolls are dumb enough, or willingly ignorant enough to take your BS at face value. Scottie
The SCOTUS is pro corporate and profit while anti-government services for the public, and so they side with the GQP. What the supreme court turned down was not mask mandates but mandating business vaccinations through OSHA. Had congress or other means been used they would have been forced to agree with it. Scottie
Jake Hoffman’s Twitter account now shows as suspended; Twitter told The Republic it is permanently suspended. Hoffman has said he is the president of and CEO of Rally Forge, the firm that was banned, which he called “one of the nation’s top conservative digital agencies” in the Center for Arizona Policy’s voter guide.
The firm created accounts that were engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” — essentially trolling by posting comments that appeared to be real people commenting on news and sharing right-wing opinions.
The Washington Post broke the story on what some experts characterized as a “troll farm” where teenagers wrote posts on social media on behalf of Turning Point Action, a conservative group working to elect Republicans and led by Charlie Kirk.
NEW In Arizona, journalism can be a team sport. GOP State Rep. Jake Hoffman refused to answer 12News photojournalist's question (which I provided) re why he signed phony declaration in 2020 that Arizona electors voted for Trump. Watch as AZRepublic's @ruelaswritings folos up… pic.twitter.com/Qp3YOLyBl9
Anything to promote capitalism and stop any restraint on the ravages of capitalism on the people who struggle to survive. They are trying to head off any suggestions that the government should use taxpayer money for the people. They will claim anything the government does for the public is “communism or socialism”.
Students in Florida could soon observe a “Victims of Communism Day” under a measure OK’d Thursday by a House subcommittee. Under the proposal (HB 395), government and public schools would begin observing “Victims of Communism Day” on Nov. 7, 2023. The measure would require public school students to receive 45 minutes of instruction on communist leaders and the suffering of victims under their rule.
Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution, are among the leaders and topics listed in the measure. The House Secondary Education and Career Development Subcommittee unanimously passed the proposal. Republican Rep. David Borrero of Sweetwater is the bill sponsor.
Rep. David Borrero reminds us of Matthew 20:26 & encourages us to stand up and be leaders for just causes like the unborn. #floridafpcpic.twitter.com/jiLTreC9Ae
— Florida Family Policy Council (@FLPolicyInsider) March 16, 2021
But that’s not all. Centner Academy has been meeting hub for the far-right — hosting racist anti-vaxxer Chris Nelson and a Sept 14 event with Micheal Flynn which included Proud Boys, QAnon types, fascist social media influencers and FL Rep David Borrero. pic.twitter.com/ehhJwxOis7
Ron just went and picked up his one month prescription of JARDIANCE . It cost him $522.00 because our insurance has a 420 dollar co-pay before they kick in. In two weeks I have to do the same. another $522.00 for a 30 day supply of medications. We can not afford a $1044.00 hit in one month just for one medication each on our fixed incomes. The drug companies are making record profits, the insurance companies are making record profits, all the costs are going up while the incomes are stagnate or going down as inflation rises. The people need help. The country is run by the wealthy and large corporations and they are sucking the very life out of the public. This is worse than any vampire movie. They are draining the country of its vitality, and the people of any resources to live. Scottie
Assuming this 14% holds across the whole Kroger workforce, that's around 65,000 people working at the fourth-largest private employer in the US — ranked 17th on the Fortune 500 — who've been homeless while keeping the country's grocery stores running, in a pandemic. https://t.co/9RWLYvduap
The painful truth. Concentrated wealth and power are tremendously unhealthy.
Kill the filibuster. Kill the legacy of white supremacy.
Kill the filibuster.
Projection. Every GOP accusation is an admission of guilt.
“As Trump’s team pushed its discredited voter fraud narrative, the National Archives received forged certificates of ascertainment declaring him and then-Vice President Mike Pence the winners of both Michigan and Arizona and their electors after the 2020 election. Public records requests show the secretaries of state for those states sent those certificates to the Jan. 6 panel, along with correspondence between the National Archives and state officials about the documents.”
Get them all under oath. Then send them to prison for treason.
If you are a Republican who cares about the Constitution, you should be outraged. #Arizona
These are forged documents used by Trump cronies, yet they will lie and say Biden stole the election. This is just disgraceful.
Ted Cruz is trying to blame the FBI for J6 when Trump was President on Jan 6.
[Ray Epps is Arizona Oath Keeper chapter president and massive Trump supporter.]
the fakes make up news
FOX has ratings based on predetermined narratives. Their hosts do one thing and say another, just to create resentment and fear.
Republicans attack the messenger. They have no policy insights or actual ideas.
My favorite Tony Fauci is the one who’s had it with Rand Paul’s bullshit.
Although studies claim Omicron to be mild, there is no plausible reason to think that the highly-transmissible variant will not cause long Covid conditions among survivors. Though much remains unknown about omicron, experts say the variant could lead to long Covid, even with a mild case. Patients with long-term symptoms can experience crushing fatigue, irregular heart rhythms and other issues months after their initial Covid infection. The highly infectious Omicron coronavirus variant causes less severe disease than the Delta strain but it remains a “dangerous virus”, particularly for those who are unvaccinated, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Scottie
My spine shots were Monday. Yesterday and today my blood sugars are uncontrolled no matter how I try to control my food intake to minimize sugar intake. I have been trying to not sleep all the time. My blood sugar at 4 PM was 400. The doctor says that steroids keep the medications from removing the excess sugar from my system. If it stays high for a couple more days then I will go on insulin. In the meanwhile I will be struggling to think and to stay awake. The roundup may be late or missed entirely. Scottie
I repeat: The filibuster isn't in the Constitution. Arguably, it's unconstitutional. The Framers did not allow a minority of Senators to obstruct the majority. https://t.co/d1UW5rdL1c
Biden points out that 16 *current* Republican Senators voted to approve the last voting rights act and questions why so many of them seem to have lost their voices now.
Let’s get one thing straight: The changes in voting laws by Republican state legislatures aren't a response to voter fraud (which is non-existent) but to voter turnout (which they want to suppress).
My 12-year-old had appendicitis. The ER was overwhelmed with unvaccinated Covid patients and we had to wait 6+ hours. While waiting, his appendix ruptured and had to spend 5 days in hospital; just got hmo bill of $5000. So yeah, your decision to not vaccinate does affect others.
this is such an important point. the people who dismiss police killings of unarmed Black people as statistically insignificant ignore the fact that police abuse is a continuum of behavior. few people get shot, yes. but many do get hassled, harassed, pushed around, even beaten. https://t.co/DMoC2qvzfU
Quick anecdote about the trans bathroom moral panic: I used to look like the pictures below (very cool).70% of the time I’d pass as a guy depending on what clothes I was wearing. One time I was in Queens at a dive bar waiting to take a piss in the women’s bathroom and a woman 1/3 pic.twitter.com/dkhXK7fuUQ
accosted me. Screamed at me and grabbed me by the shoulder because I was allegedly a trans predator in the woman’s restroom. This scared me and I was also pissed the fuck off. Needless to say we had words and I was so shook up by the whole thing I left the bar. 2/3
You transphobic feminists think you’re all out here saving women but you’re hurting women, trans and cis. You’re actively making the world more unsafe for us and I fucking resent you for it! 3/3
I am once again reminded of the 1995 Alison Bechdel comic. People really have been gatekeeping bathrooms and not being feminine enough for what feels like forever pic.twitter.com/9SBs1CzLWu
— ?Jowmuni¿ | BLM – Defund the Police (@noj4888) January 12, 2022
I’ve literally saw this same scenario in a restaurant in Alabama. A butch woman was accosted for being trans in the women’s room. She wasn’t trans. This nonsense is another arm of patriarchy and it even affects little girls playing sports. This is harming all women.
Every medical expert in the field of Virology and immunology agreed this was not a gain of function that the US had anything to do with. The US / NIH did not fund a gain of function on a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Rand Paul not only doesn’t have the medical qualifications to understand / address this issue, he has misrepresented it for political gain and profit. Every time he attacks Dr. Fauci he turns out a fund raising pitch and it works for him. All he is doing is trying to enrage his voting base. Just because I can do basic cooking doesn’t make me a chief nor a chemist. Scottie
Oh my great dogs, the stupidity of this cartoon plus the complete antisemitism to it is stunning. The right blames everything they don’t like as being paid for by George Soros. He is their big boogieman. Even as a billionaire there is no way he could pay for all the things the right claims he is paying for. What is the issue with the DA’s? Well both right wing and left wing DA’s have decided to implement reforms that have been in the works for years. They changes / improvements are needed because courts are over loaded, the DA’s are over worked, the prison system is crashing with over population all because many non-violent crimes were being prosecuted with long harsh prison sentences. Things that are not really crimes are being treated as civil tickets instead of major crimes. Others are not being prosecuted at all such as possession of minor amounts of cannabis. These are common sense changes the right wing media rails against because it curbs racism abuses and lowers the for profit prison slave system. The right insists they need to make a profit of the bodies of the poor and helpless. Other things these reforms do is fund the placing of the mentally ill in other treatment than simply jailing them. Scottie
He has no use for the Law Enforcement people who died later. One from a stroke due to injuries and others who killed themselves over it!! But hey Henry is only pro life if you are a few cells old. Five people died as a result of Jan. 6, not counting the four officers who subsequently died by suicide. I think we all know we were lucky the number wasn’t higher.
Our democratic republic almost died that day and was prevented from happening with a single bullet. If the traitor Ashley Babbitt made it through the broken window and dozens of her fellow traitors followed, what would have happened to the congress members down the hall.
The vaccines and boosters allow the ones who catch any of the Covid virus and its variants from getting so ill they need hospitalization and nursing care. Hospitals all over the country are overwhelmed and red state governors are begging Biden for medical personal from the military because of the overwhelming numbers unvaxxed . The healthcare system in the US is failing, crashing. People with other than Covid needs are dying because of lack of beds for them because hospital beds are full of ill anti-vaxxers. This is not about some mythical freedom or control of people lives talking points. It is about very real consequences of people’s behavior in not getting vaccinated that harms others in many ways including causing death to other people and causing economic problems country wide. Scottie
God grant me the serenity to close all the tabs I'm never going to read The courage to read the open tabs that really ought to be read And the wisdom to know the difference
NEW: Republicans in Arizona and Michigan tried to send forged vote certifications declaring trump the winner to the National Archives. NARA refused to accept them. https://t.co/GVqqq5hwJe
Gym Jordan, who helped cover up the sexual assaults of his fellow wrestling coach, has plenty to hide.
Hillary Clinton testified for ELEVEN HOURS and never took the Fifth Amendment or refused to answer any questions because she really did have “nothing to hide.” At the end of her ordeal, the committee chair, Republican Trey Gowdy, a trained prosecutor, apparently unaware that the mic was still hot, confessed that “we got nothing.” He soon resigned his committee chairmanship and then resigned from the congress entirely and has essentially never been heard from again.
All the Republicans who waged years of witch hunts against Hillary, never once getting anything, are now taking the Fifth (probably drinking a few fifths, too), refusing to testify and doing everything possible to avoid questions that they know will prove how directly they were involved in election lies, election fraud and an armed violent attempted overthrow of the United States Capitol.
From Raw Story:
“To answer Jim Jordan, I would quote Jim Jordan from the views that he expressed in the final Benghazi report, where he said that all of the truth must come out,” said Raskin. “Everybody needs to testify, and nobody’s got the right to hide anything from Congress. So, I think he had it right then. Jim Jordan, more than anybody else, knows what dogged, aggressive investigation is about, even when he’s on a wild goose chase, he demands all the information he wants, and we’re not on that. We are on the central investigative mission certainly of this decade, if not this century, to get to the bottom of this terrible political crime that was incited and to a substantial extent organized by Donald Trump.”
Depends on if the state is red or blue. In the blue states you have a chance for a good result out of the state legislatures, red state ones then you are screwed and your rights denied. Scottie
The slumlord who owned the building that burned in the deadliest residential blaze in New York City’s recent history is on Eric Adams‘ transition team for HOUSING ISSUES. https://t.co/HYkLOuyrf2
A caravan of over a dozen private vehicles with taped-over license plates pulls up, the Patriot Front members load up their shields and flags outside Soldier Field here in Chicago pic.twitter.com/JYUl1RDOps
At least they were not abusing and killing unarmed black men. But for that they wouldn’t have been fired. Scottie
Sorry too late then. Scottie
The unvaxxed clogging our hospitals , expecting the overworked staff to cure them strain sympathies. When they recover, will they still support anti-vax pols? Morning newspaper white-space sketch. pic.twitter.com/3WvbBfKvlM
So the reason not to say "screw it, let's just unmask and go back to normal" right now is to try to….flatten the curve. I know that's an expression from way back when, but it applies. We need to slow down infections to keep hospitals from collapsing. 6/n
Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine announced today that CORBEVAX™, a protein sub-unit COVID-19 Vaccine, whose technology was created and engineered at its Center for Vaccine Development (CVD), has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to launch in India with other underserved countries to follow.
Dubbed “The World’s COVID-19 Vaccine”, it uses a traditional recombinant protein-based technology that will enable its production at large scales making it widely accessible to inoculate the global population. The initial construct and production process of the vaccine antigen was developed at Texas Children’s Hospital CVD, led by co-directors Drs. Maria Elena Bottazzi and Peter Hotez and in-licensed from BCM Ventures, Baylor College of Medicine’s integrated commercialization team, to Hyderabad-based vaccine and pharmaceutical company Biological E. Limited (BE).
I have debunked this right wing talking point before. Crime is up currently in cities run by both the right and the left, but the misleading right wing media is making it out to be a lot worse than it is and they leave out it is happening in cities run by the Republicans. The right wing uses talking points instead of facts. The crime we have now is less than we had just less than a decade ago. What the right is trying to do is scare the voters into voting for Republicans saying they will be harmed if they don’t and only Republicans can save them. It is a talking point they have used for as long as I can remember. They claim the Democrats are soft on crime and weak on the military. Both are incorrect. Scottie
Rivers is a die hard far right cartoonist. He doesn’t even see the hypocrisy of showing people that sacrificed and gave what they could for a public good he is then comparing to people who won’t even wear a mask to prevent a virus from spreading because it inconveniences them. Really the other suffered for the good of the country with extra work, rationed foods and fuel, not buying stuff to save it for the war effort and yet the people Rivers is championing won’t wear a mask because it seems to harm a mythical freedom they have the rest of us don’t. Scottie
Covered this one before. The CDC guidelines take into account the reality that the US doesn’t have the testing kits we need to do proper testing. The CDC guidelines are easy to understand if you wish to do so. If you listened to the misleading right wing the guidelines are written in a now dead language by space monkeys. It is a case of saying what you wish ere true instead of reporting the reality. Scottie
The US undervalues teachers and uses them as childcare baby sisters to park kids somewhere so the parents can go to work to make profit for the upper incomes. The New Mayor of NY even said it, he needs kids in schools so the parents can work when he was talking about wanting to stop testing for Covid. DeathSantis threatened teachers, schools, and districts if they dared to require masks or vaccines and worse if they tried to do remote learning. Deathsantis has made it clear he is denying Covid is in Florida because it is hurting the tourism trade and the profits wont flow if we admit the truth. Better to infect everyone they say and get it over with. Problem is it is not over with then. There is so far no herd immunity with the coronavirus which is shown as you can get it a second and even third time. Teachers are humans, people with families and they want to not get Covid also. They have the same right to protect themselves as everyone else. The fact that they stop the states from getting tax money and the upper class incomes from profit is the states problem. Pay for more teachers to spread the students out, enforce mask and vaccine requirements, and do remote learning when needed. But the states don’t want to spend more money on kids or teachers / schools, better to let them all die on their own dime the states feel. Scottie
One side, the Democrats are fighting for the people and the public good. The other side, the Republicans are fighting against the public good and for the wealthy / large corporations. It is very misleading of the media that tries to make this both sides are doing it. That is incorrect, each side is fighting for very different ideas and groups of people. Scottie
The main difference is that Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were foreign enemies. The perpetrators of January 6th were domestic enemies, traitors one and all. Scottie
Mail in ballots have been shown to be safe and secure way for people to vote. Several states use only mail in ballots with little problems and no fraud. Drop boxes are simply convenient for people who are busy especially with the slowed down mail system. Again no evidence of any fraud. The only large scale ballot harvesting fraud was in North Carolina where a Republican operative took a bunch of ballots to mark them for the Republican candidate. He got caught. The point is small scale fraud happens and the people get caught. Like the four people so far from the Villages in Florida who voted more than once for tRump. Ballot gathering or bunching is simply a convenience to help people who can not get out and post their ballot themselves. It is a service not a crime. What the right doesn’t like about the voting rights bill is it helps people who have a right to vote to vote. The right doesn’t want all eligible voters to vote because they will lose. But that is democracy, they need to change their message to appeal to more people. They do not seem to want a democracy, but instead to allow only the people who vote for them to vote.
The allowing non-citizens to vote in local communities where they have lived for many years makes sense. It gives people who live there a say in their community. Studies have shown that when people are part of the community they work for the well being of that community. This is not federal elections, not even state office holders, it is simply local community issues. No big deal and no down side. Scottie
Equating the ending of a 20 year war and the removing of US troops along with mostly peaceful protests against police abuse / murder of unarmed people to violent attacks against the country with thousands of deaths or the attack on the capital to stop a legislative action is despicable. The ones mentioned by VP Harris were attacks against the US sovereignty. That is a huge difference from the others added despite the right wing media hype over them. Scottie
Is Steve Kelley so ignorant of history (or honest enough to be accurate as to historical context) that he does not understand how the parties reversed roles on social justice issues?
I will acknowledge the evils of my party’s past.
But today’s Democratic Party is…
Not the party of the KKKonfederacy
Not the party of George Wallace
Not the party of Bull Conner
.
and today’s TrumpubliQan cult is…
Not the party of Lincoln.
Not the party of Teddy Roosevelt.
Not the party of Eisenhower.
Not even the party of McCain or R-money.
The Democrats’ ugly racist PAST is the Republicans’ ugly racist PRESENT.
Once upon a time, the Democratic party was the conservative party that was pro-slavery, pro-racism and pro-anything that was bad for the American people, and the Republican party was the LIBERAL party of Lincoln.
Then some time went by, some things happened, and eventually, the parties switched ideological sides.
Only the trolls are dumb enough, or willingly ignorant enough to take your BS at face value. Scottie