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Some have a lot and others have very little

Respect labor. Respect women. Invest in education. Increase school resources.

Or longer.

All the gun control legislation up north does no good whatsoever when a quick trip down south can re-stock your arsenal!  For 110 years there has been a flow of illegal guns into NYC and other cities like Boston or DC from States with lax or no gun laws. Prior to 1968 there were almost zero federal laws regarding handguns allowing bulk smuggling of cheap throw down “Saturday Night Special” pistols. Today the story is things like $500 Glock in a Free State goes for $3,000 on the street in NYC.  Guns be cheap and available down south, then can be sold up north. Profitable!

Hey, hey, my, my, hope other artists leave Spotify.

One person can start the conversation that brings change

Just goes to show cops don’t follow rules. They think they are beyond reproach. They never atone.

These idiots, full of bad judgment and racist confirmation bias, eschew all training, and act out white supremacist ‘judge and jury’ violence and ‘I was so scared’ cowardice script.

Impartial? The opposite.

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Yes there are some really whacked out ideas like the flat earth movement or the anti-vaxx people.   But the thing to understand is most ideas that become mainstream started as fringe ideas.  

Benson is very annoyed that Breyer chose to give Biden the opportunity to replace him before the midterms. Be sure that McConnell, Manchin, et al will do everything they can to delay it until after the newly elected Senators are seated.  

Lisa and the other Trump Disciples were deliriously happy when Ruth Bader Ginsberg died. They had her replacement nominated before she was even buried.   They celebrated the opportunity to put a perjurer who was also credibly accused of sexual assault, on the court.

Fear, be very afraid. That is the message the misleading right wing wants to sent to their followers. Keeping them fearful and outraged so they wont notice that the Republicans have no polices to make the public lives better. The only polices the Republicans have is to empower themselves and to divide the country while denying rights to diverse segments of the population.

As stated often enough despite the right wing talking points wanting to make it so the withdrawal from Afghanistan was not a disaster. Biden’s actions on the Ukraine issue seems to be working well, Putin has hesitated and not invaded as of this time. I have not figured out the right on this. Do they want Biden to insert troops into Ukraine to start a war even the Ukrainians don’t intend to fight in an army to army way? That wouldn’t be smart at all. Does the right want the US to step aside and let Putin have the entire country of Ukraine like Tucker Carlson is pushing for? What is it the right wants here?

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5.7 according to the WH chart.  I should post that here.  And I did

If you think a Democrat is wrong for something but the same something done by a Republican is okay to you it is not the policy that bothers you. You are just tribal and hate the others not in your group simply because they are not in your group. That doesn’t work for running a country and shows how immature the person is.

There is far too much tribalism and emotionalism when having a discussion about many subjects these days. The idea that adults can not have civil discussions even when they are passionate and disagree with each other is a sad testament on the people in this country. People have forgotten that the goal is sharing information and hoping that information brings others to your view. A discussion is not to force the other person to agree with you against their will. Insulting or threats don’t add anything valuable to a conversation. Trolling shows how childish you are, not how informed or correct about a subject.

Are these two Gorsuch and Barrett?  Or is the guy the I love beer Kavanaugh?  Mitch McConnell is warning … warning Biden to to not but a lefty on the court, not to listen to the progressive wing, even though he pushed three every extreme right members on the court.  The misleading right wing is pushing the narrative that if Biden appoints someone who cares about how the law effect people vs how it is now favoring business interest that the court will be destroyed.   More fear tactics on the right.  

and shouldn’t happen anyway. 

Citizens United helped create this.

The chickenshit Republican whiners.

Attn Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema

Granted the person is retiring, but even Republicans admit they are cheating.

Curriculum is about preparing minds to think and reason, it’s not about parental control and subordination. Banning books is small-minded.

Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.

White people think they are the victims of racism. Then ban people from talking about how racism works in America.

Washington media is broken. Two examples.

Biden is held to a totally different set of standards than Trump/traitors.

Lock them up.

Modern day trolls

Tucker Carlson is yet another conservative pawn for Putin.

We are dealing with emotional and intellectual three year-olds. #WearAMask

“Just do what they say” and “follow the rules” are bad faith suggestions from conservatives.

Yes smart people understand the professionals have evaluated the data that shows the vaccines effective and safe which makes it good public policy to get vaccinated. People who have no higher education claiming they did their own research really are not smart enough to know how silly that is, so are not ready for higher education.

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The Senate advises and consents. It did neither. Obama should have put him on and dared it turn him down. It’s been done before; in fact, Washington put a nominated chief justice on the Court, and then the Senate turned him down. Eisenhower didn’t wait to put Earl Warren on the Court. The Senate later approved him. If the Senate won’t have a hearing, then it consented.

tRump was an asset for Putin either willingly or just easily manipulated because he wanted to do big money business in Moscow. tRump openly took Putin’s word over the evidence of Russia’s interference in 2016 election and continuing attempts to destabilize the US in social media. These are facts and are demonstrable. At every turn tRump tried to ingratiate himself with Putin. For example when both California and Siberia were having wild fires tRump denied federal assistance to California and offered the US help to Putin fighting the fires in Siberia. Again a fact. Also at the start of the pandemic tRump authorized a shipment of PPE to Russia when supplies were short in the US. So he either was an asset willingly or just easy for Putin to control, but none of that can be said of Biden. Biden has not take Putin’s side over US intelligence or other cabinet level departments. Biden has not granted Putin favors to gain a favor back. Even while Tucker Carlson advocates abandoning Ukraine to please Putin Biden has stood defending the fledgling democracy. So the cartoon is correct about the old puppet, but wrong that there is a new one in Biden.

A photo id to prick up a child? Well yes, and be on the approved list for safety sake.   The number of child abductions in the US is higher by far than the number of proven cases of voter fraud. And nobody ever died because a vote was fraudulently cast in their name.    If the person registered to vote, THEY ALREADY SHOWED THEIR ID, and they will need to sign the ballot, which will be matched to the signature on file.

Votes are NOT CONTAGEOUS!  Right wing idiocy, on the other hand, is more contagious than pink eye, as demonstrated by Al.

You already registered to vote, and provided credentials to do so, and voter fraud is so minuscule to be almost nonexistent. Passing around diseases in school happens to a much greater degree.

“At the federal level, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires a voter ID for all new voters in federal elections who registered by mail and who did not provide a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number that was matched against government records.1 Though state laws requiring some sort of identification at voting polls go back to 1950, no state required a voter to produce a government-issued photo ID as a condition for voting before the 2006 elections.” – Wikipedia (Coincidentally 2006 election Democrats won both houses)

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Give more resources, defund the police.

Fight poverty, lower crime

Paging Joe Biden.

Crimes AND cover-ups. The guilt is everywhere.

White supremacy has engulfed the GOP.

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1486244020904996865?s=20

Learning and exposure make you more Democratic. Conversely, no one who banned books was ever the good guy.

Some parents don’t see the actual stress they allow/put on their kids.

They would rather try to score political points with book bans and vaccine disinformation.

The lens of racism is the lens of America. Banning black experiences is 100% racist.

Equating masks with the holocaust shows you how white people [who have never suffered] have no similar experience. They steal and try to pass themselves off as victims. It’s disgusting.

Accurate. #WhiteNationalism

Imagine telling your grandfather that the communists we fought in the Cold War for fifty years are now your best friends because they are equally corrupt and equally hateful of non-white citizens.

The RW needs it to whip up anger and fear in their base and to distract from the other problems they have right now.  

The actual instances are so near zero that they have to go to other countries to get sufficient exemplars to push their narrative.

And THEIR OWN EXAMPLES make their “solutions” a mockery.

The BIGGIE is “gender assigned at birth”.

First sentence, second paragraph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya

Semenya is an intersex woman, assigned female at birth, with XY chromosomes and naturally elevated testosterone levels.

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Result of all this folly? :

https://www.wsj.com/articles/caster-semenya-tokyo-olympics-11625159284#:~:text=South%20Africa’s%20Caster%20Semenya%20can,400%20meters%20and%201500%20meters.

South Africa’s Caster Semenya can run 800 meters faster than any woman on the planet. But the two-time Olympic gold medalist won’t defend her title in Tokyo because her testosterone levels exceed a 2018 limit imposed by track’s governing body on female athletes competing in distances between 400 meters and 1500 meters.  

It is an article of faith among the radical right that young men are lining up to get their testicles removed and taking hormone shots for the sole reason of competing with women athletes.

Of all the insane things I’ve ever heard, that’s pretty much a topper.

Four Myths About Trans Athletes, Debunked

According to an study, the rate of gender dysphoria is about one-half of one percent, tops:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33644314/

I was just reading the right wing media about the swimmer Thomas who competed as a male and then transitioned and after waiting for her testosterone to be at the accepted levels again joined the university team.   The right likes to mention how she is beating the times of other women.  Oh the horror.   Except they fail to mention she has been beaten by  women also.  

Three things:
There isn’t a sport I am aware of that utilizes the Penis.Using Kelly’s transphobic logic, if strength and endurance is a determining factor, athletes like the Williams sisters would have been required to play as men.If people (like Kelly) who attempt to argue against Transgender accept that man came from a handful of dust and woman from a rib, they have no valid opinion on Transgender. 

I find it very disturbing that for decades conservatives have ignored and underfunded women’s sports…even mocked them openly. And now all of the sudden they claim the role of protector from a threat that they made up solely for the purpose of uniting hateful ignorant people under their banner and get their votes.

 

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This cartoonist is not normally in the misleading right wing group.   How ever in this case he is.  Biden has stated that there will be no active fighting troops from the US in the Ukraine.   I think that is because the Ukrainian military will do the Afghanistan model of warfare.   Hit and run, hard to spot enemy that wears the attacking army out trying to conquer the territory.   It wouldn’t make sense for the US to add unformed troops to that situation.   There will more likely be special forces trainers and CIA agents.  Along with mercenaries of course.  The US will need to use a lot of non-traditional methods to fight the Russians if they invade Ukraine.   In this case we are not forcing our will on the Ukrainians, we are standing beside them as best we can to protect their democracy. 

Same as above except this cartoonist is a proud member of the misleading right wing media.

And again same as above notes.

 

Bull. Breyer is retiring on his own recognizance, though he has already said that one of the considerations was to give Biden time to replace him before midterm elections.   Breyer has been talking about retirement for a while. He merely chose the best time so that Moscow-Mitch would have a hard time tanking the nomination of his replacement like he did with Obama’s nomination of Garland.  here was no problem when Kennedy resigned to give McConnell the same opportunity. I know Trump claimed he was the one to appoint the new one, but all he did was sign where McConnell told him to.

The CDC has the expertise to evaluate the medical data and make the needed public health guidance. Something their critics lack with abundance.

There is a huge difference between muttering something under your breath that is picked up by a hot mic and have staff members shout insults at those they did not think properly honor their cult leader like the staff of the former guy. One is excusable and understandable, the other should be grounds for HR involvement and evaluating if the person should have that job. You do not hear the regular staff harassment and mistreatment in Biden’s administration that we did in tRump’s. 

Doocy tries to frame questions that can be used on Fox news as a sound bite, normally with out the answer given to the question because that shows how stupid the question was. So Doocy asked a really dumb question and the president noted that out loud. He did not go on a personal attack to Doocy like the former guy did, Biden did not call Doocy the enemy of the people like the former guy kept calling the press. Seems to me a lot of hype over nothing. But then again the right has very little to attack Biden over so they cling to anything they can.

The US southern border is secure despite the misleading right wing media trying to hype that the border is wide open and there are hoard of marauding brown people storming over it. There is no storming force coming over the southern border but there is an armed military threatening to cross the border between Ukraine and Russia. The Russian army is poised to invade and wipe out the new democracy in that country. The US was once known for defending democracy, are we still? I do not understand why so many on the right want to defend Putin and Russia when the St. Ronnie the Reagan called evil and Republicans had the slogan “Better dead than red”. Besides the cartoon is misleading because Biden has ruled out combat troops fighting in Ukraine.

This is cute, but sanctions beat tanks over the medium and long term. IF they can be deployed in sufficient number and on time.   Keep in mind New York City has a larger economy than all of Russia. 

The diplomats have warned Putin that the added pending sanctions will be heavier and the oligarchs including Putin will feel it. Putin either believes it’s a U.S./NATO bluff or he wants an escalation so the tail can wag the dog and distract the common Russian. 

Some believe that P’s strategy will backfire if the Ukrainian resistance can send enough body bags back. The Ukrainians have already lost territory and thousands of lives so they may decide to go “all medieval (Afghanistan) on their ass”.

We will not send in troops but surreptitiously probably “advisors”. The profiting war machine will love the commitment to increased armaments.

The propaganda Putin / Russia is pushing.   That they have overwhelming force and the will to use it.   Truth is their economy is not able to handle a war over 6 weeks.   They need to roll in and have it over quickly so they can take money out of Ukraine.   It will be much worse if Biden is able to force really tough sanctions on the Russian oligarchs themselves.  

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None of these abortion laws are written by people who become pregnant. They have no medical background. They have no family planning background.

They have have one goal: force women into submission.

Employers prefer to have everyone on a gig economy.   They want workers to work any hours they provide gratefully so the workers have to have multiple jobs and no social lives.   Scottie

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1486244020904996865?s=20

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So far Biden is doing as well as possible on Ukraine.   The problem is right wing media hosts like Tucker Carlson are openly pushing for the US to let Putin do what ever he wants.   Just let Russia take Ukraine, who cares, why should we, just let it be they say.   Really it stuns me the better dead than red party is now openly Russian supporters.   I guess tRump was a great asset for Putin.   Well here is why we need to defend Ukraine, it is a democracy, a real one, trying to hold off an authoritarian strongman near dictatorship government run by Putin for his own enrichment.   Maybe that is why the Republicans love him.  Scottie

Afghanistan was not Biden’s fault, the military did the best they could with what tRump negotiated.   Inflation is world wide from a pandemic and the world being shut down.  Immigration is fine, we need more not less so no problem.  Covid is not Biden’s fault, tRump was president when it hit, Biden got vaccines out to the people, he got the economy going in record time.   The US is the only nation to have bounced back so far with a positive growth GDP.   The only ones you can lay at Biden’s feet is Voting rights and Build Back Better.   Scottie

Are there actually any cities doing this, or is it just another Republican terror meme because there is space that needs to be filled?  

Ukraine is a democracy and there was a time when the US proudly stood up to help and protect democracies. That was back when Republicans also felt it was better to be dead than Russian red. I do not want US military to die uselessly in battle that is not for the safety of the US, but also I do not want the US to ignore a Russian take over of other sovereign countries. If the US wants to be a world leader we need to act like we are one and do the hard work. However for those demanding that the US make the first moves that would be the US attacking a country that has not done an illegal action yet. Can not punish a country that has not done the action they need to be punished for. If Putin orders military action on Ukraine then it will be time for the US to respond.

This is what passes for an editorial cartoon from right wing media cartoonist Mike Shelton.   Need I even comment?

A misleading right wing attempt to convince people that the Democrats want to let votes be counted long after the election if it would help them.   Not true at all.  Several states say if the ballot is marked posted by the Postal Service on or before the election day then that ballot will count if received at the elections office after election day.   That is common practice, especially with military ballots from over seas.    Scottie

Republicans don’t fear injections; they fear the loss of power to ANY majority, as they will never have more than minorities ever again.   For the last few decades Republican Party has been basing its appeal and power on The Four Horsemen: Ignorance, Fear, Anger, and Hatred. Just look. The one thing you won’t find is a positive vision for America.

Lots of jobs, lots of growth, companies making record profits. All the stuff Qubs brag about when they’re in office. 

GOP congressmen standing in front of their voters and taking credit for the infrastructure plan that’s now starting even if they voted against it. So typical. Let the Dems do the work and wait and see how the public reacts. If the reaction is positive then stand up and take credit. Suddenly it’s we instead of them.

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