It has been 100 years and we are still having the same hope. Lets hope this will be the year of decency and civility, reasonable discourse and understanding of reality. What is normal but wanting to live happy and well, wishing the best for others as we hope they are wishing for us. With malice for none but good will toward all. Scottie
My wishes to you and your family for a safe, healthy, science-based new year.
In 2021, we began the slow process of rebuilding our democracy, but our work has just begun. We must continue to remain vigilant of the forces of fascism that seek to undermine this country.
It may seem like the vaccines are doing less to stop Omicron because of the number of breakthrough anecdotes, but the data published by NYC’s DOH today is absolutely gobsmacking pic.twitter.com/XynrHjSlSr
— Bitch McConnell™, Jive Turkey 🦃🍗👸🏾🐕 (@tiffmc1013) December 31, 2021
The above tweet thread is important to read and click through. It shows how companies feel about workers, even workers they claim to need and value. As soon as you want something it is too much, but they can demand anything and everything from you. In this case it fails spectacularly. Scottie
America’s evil genius political fortune teller predicts near 30 new GOP House seats in 2022 and pickups in state houses. Unfortunately sounds right to me. Morning sketch from Rove WSJ column. pic.twitter.com/hNQiI0Y28h
Perhaps hospitals should require proof of vaccination before admitting patients. Philly Sees Highest Average of New COVID Cases, Health Workers ‘Burned Out' https://t.co/LgM77B2Rb4
The question at the heart of this debate, is whether bigotry or evidence should form the basis of decisions on safeguarding, provision of services, sporting categories and other areas where trans people currently have legal rights and protections.
— Joss Prior 🌈Mild-mannered mother of two…🌈 (@joss_prior) December 29, 2021
A trans woman won a bunch of Jeopardy episodes & now bigots are claiming Jeopardy prizes are somehow being taken away from cis women & want separate categories of competition for trans people? Are they under the impression that Jeopardy is a gender-segregated show? pic.twitter.com/P5c4WLo2cb
I think they are going to try. I really believe that the Republicans have given up on democracy. They don’t want it. They want power, they want to rule. Yes they will have a fake sort of democracy like China, Russia, and other authoritarian nations that have sham elections of either one party or set up so only one party can win. That is what Putin does, he jails or kills his opponents and wins almost all the votes. Think of what the Republicans have done this last year with changing election supervisors and laws, all designed so they can change any vote they disagree with. Our democracy hangs by a thread, we should be worried. Scottie
Maybe we should clean our own house before we start on the Chinese. Yea, but do you know that inmates are also exploited in other countries? You live in one. Ah, wait until Mr. Ariall finds out about prison labor in the United States…. …roadside maintenance, furniture manufacturing, fighting fires…
The above is the republican right wing Christian mindset. Scottie
Is Rand Paul joking, or is this a Republican senator earnestly calling get-out-the-vote efforts “steal[ing] an election”? https://t.co/o0ViRqNr35
How to steal an A in a course: Attend every class, pay attention and take notes, complete all assignments and go to office hours to go over material and clarify questions about it, and rock the final exam.
Am I doing this right? If so I want to hear more ways to steal stuff https://t.co/zsqkDqpkAj
This is what the right wants, for their viewers to never question the BS they are pushing. Scottie
Really? Has this cartoonist been in a cave for the last century? Biden has been in government all his adult life. He has been a right leaning corporate Democrat the entire time. Yes in office he has moved more to the center left, but he is no progressive much less a socialist. What does that word mean in the US today, because the way the right has used it and gotten it in to the modern culture it doesn’t mean what it use to mean, a system of governing where the workers control the production and distributions of all goods and services. That is what scared the wealthy about socialist countries, but they don’t really exist anymore. Socialism now means using government to help the people by protecting them from abuses of the wealthy and large business / corporations. Again the right is against that, because it lowers profits when the workers can not be abused the public has rights. Scottie
No one is preventing anyone from having an opinion, or voicing it. But you kinda need to defend that opinion with something more substantial than your “feelings”. Man, the right wing are such whiny snowflakes. This obsession with Fauci is weird. Scottie
I think it is important to understand that the Biden term has seen three new variants so you have four viruses doing the killing work. I love how the right tells people to refuse the vaccines, then screams that Biden is at fault for people not being vaccinated. Get real. This is a case of the guy who started the fire blaming the fire department for things being burnt. Scottie
What a pack of lies Goodwyn jams into a single cartoon. The U.S. has never been “energy independent”; our refineries need foreign crude to produce the specific petrochemicals we need. Not all crude oil is the same, any more than all animal meat is the same. We need Saudi-grade crude to refine gasoline (these days, though, our main source of imported crude is Canada. We’re a net exporter of petroproducts, but that doesn’t make us “energy independen t.” Any more than a dairy farmer with a profitable operation is “food independent” because he sells more food than he buys.
The U.S. crime rate has gone up slightly this year. As happens every year, there are a few places with unusually large spikes. But violent crime fell sharply under Clinton (more than a tnird), declined more slowly under Bush (almost 20%), was relatively flat under Obama, and had a low-end notice under Trump.
And Biden makes less than 1% of the false statements that Trump did. If Biden’s a long-nosedPinocchio, trump’s proboscis would reach the moon. And Goodwyn’s would reach the top of Trump Tower.
But repugs are real quick with the “hold up a minute” when it comes to trump facing consequences for anything he does.
And this is in the media now because after the Biden’s were gracious with he and his kids some dimwitted, obnoxious little prick thought he was clever for saying it and hanging up. Now he’s rightfully getting dragged and whining like the little bitch he is. Of course he and his father’s business had no problem taking Joe’s handouts … think they’ll stand with their convictions and give it back? Scottie
“We had the land, and they had the Bible. Then they said, ‘Let us pray,’ and we closed our eyes. When we opened them again, they had the land and we had the Bible,” ~Desmond Tutu RIP 🙏🏽🤎
In local jails all over the US, people are locked up for inability to pay fines & fees.
“This is not a sustainable way to raise revenue," said @JuliaCarmel__, sponsor of New York's End Predatory Court Fees Act. "It's simply wealth-based detention."https://t.co/gsGLd0mqHU
This anecdote in a public defender’s LTE about an Uber driver telling his passenger, an undercover informant, about his financial troubles and winding up with a prison sentence is such a stunning display of needless cruelty pic.twitter.com/D0JA61Datb
We just want what’s best for our country and save democracy
Classic conservative loser response.
We outnumber you.
On the one hand there’s a political party that attempted to maintain power through violently ransacking the US capitol. But on the other hand the smugness of liberals annoys me.
We can only wonder how much conservatism is not because someone is conservative but that some progressive, somewhere, somehow hurt their feelings. https://t.co/wNBuXZCv5d
FWIW, Cawthorn is exactly the kind of person a hostile intelligence agency would target. He’s a known serial liar, so there’s plenty of blackmail opportunity just in the public record. He’s also young, decidedly *not* smart, and easy to manipulate.
The US ICE / border patrol department of the government sent females to hospitals to be sterilized with out there consent under the tRump presidency. This is a recorded fact. This is a crime against humanity. But because it is the US against poor POC then it is not acknowledged nor given much thought, just like when those same departments under tRump’s orders ripped kids from parents and deported the parents. That is child trafficking. But again it is the US so must not be questioned. What is it was a different country? Scottie
This conveniently gives one side all of the power (they get to determine the cultural significance of the mask) and the other side all of the responsibility (it's their fault that the other side determined the way that they did). https://t.co/7MMDLLCHD8
I love arguments like this. The premise is that conservatives are mere brutes incapable of rational decision-making, so weak-minded and emotionally-driven that they bear no responsibility for obviously illogical decisions like refusing to get vaccinated. https://t.co/X0yNRhFIhs
Covidiots made it political, replacing loyalty to party over humanity.
A crack in the armor? Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Qanon are pissed off with Trump for uttering a scintilla of truth. Could the lunatic rats be deserting the Lunatic’s sinking ship? Here’s hope for the New Year.
There is no doubt what Fox News Corp has been doing. They make money by keeping their viewers as agitated as possible. When after Fox called the election for Biden they lost a lot of viewers to the more farther right media who spouted even worst lies. Fox soon we full big lie to win those viewers back. I can see their point, they are in it for the money. But they also are in it from the beginning to enable the channel to manipulate politics and the people to benefit the wealthy by changing laws to help the wealthy. The thing the viewers of these channels don’t realize is their being played. The lawyers for Fox have argued in court they are entertainment hosts, and their opinion should be taken as fact or news. Sad but the ones depending on Fox for their medical information don’t know that. Scottie
This is one of the most far right die in the wool hard Republican cartoonist. He makes not just misleading claims but out right lies. His cartoons are based in right wing media talking points not real events. Like the one above. We know Fauci simply looks at the data / evidence and gives his best educated recommendations based on his 30 plus years doing his job very well. Fauci don’t make any rules, laws, or mandates himself. He doesn’t have that authority, he recommends. The elected officials do the rule making. But the right has vilified him. I can tell you why. The right has over the last five years started to terrorize anyone who they disagree with until that person gives up in fear. Many left leaning politicians and bureaucrats are quitting their jobs in fear of the harassment / death threats they get to themselves and their families. Fauci enrages them because he did not give up nor give in, he stood up to their lord tRump. Think about what Fauci has advocated that makes the right so angry, protection from decease and deadly illness. That is it. That is what makes him suck a beast to them, he is a good communicator and he wont bow his had and spout their lies. So he must be destroyed in their universe. Scottie
The Q-publicans will block and obstruct any and all bills that Democrats try to pass if it will help the County and its citizens, but if it passes anyway, they will tout it as their own in the next election.
Michael Ramirez continues to demonstrate how fact-challenged, math-challenged, honesty-challenged, democracy-challenged or all-of-the-above challenged he is if he does not understand that the Senate is NOT a democratic institution.
And no, 51 votes from conservative senators does NOT equal a majority, when a state like Montana or Wyoming, with 1/18 the number of people as California has the same number of senators.
No, it is not a majority. 24% of the people represented are able to block the will of 76% of the people.
Even without the filibuster, the red state conservative failed, impoverished taker-welfare states would be far over represented compared with the successful, prosperous donor states. Add in the fact that just 40 senators from the smallest states with the fewest people (representing land [dirt], not people; conservative believe PEOPLE are worth less than DIRT) can use the corrupt, RACIST filibuster (begun to obstruct civil rights reforms and perpetuated to obstruct civil rights reforms) such that senators representing 24% of the population can overrule the will of senators representing 76% of the population.
That is NOT a majority.
That is NOT a democracy.
And if Michael Ramirez does not understand that, he is ignorant and uneducated and unqualified to comment. And if Michael Ramirez DOES understand it, he is immoral and dishonest.
Rep Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, holds a press conference supporting Build Back Better investments in home care, childcare, paid leave and expanded child tax credit payments. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for MomsRising Together)
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning to describe the toxicity in Congress that exploded during Donald Trump’s four years as president, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) shared a recording of a vile death threat against her and her family.
With CNN host Dana Bash warning the audience about what was to follow, her producers play the audio where an unidentified man called the member of Congress a multitude of obscene names before stating, “I hope your family dies in front of you. I pray to God, if you got any children, they die in your face.”
As for comment afterward by host Bash, Dingell sat in silence for a moment before explaining the recording was one of many threats she has received since being singled out by the former president.
“I’ve been getting those for a couple of years ever since Christmastime, the Christmas, right after [husband] John had died,” she recalled.
“John was my late husband and it — you know, once you’re in that Trump hate tunnel, you kind of don’t escape it,” she continued. “There are a lot of people that are good, wonderful to meet, et cetera, but we average several of those a week and we’re used to it. My friends look at me, it’s almost like therapy, and say, ‘How can you do this?’ But you have to — we’ve got to be careful not to normalize it, but I’m not going to not do my job. I’m not going to go out and not be with people. I’m not going to go out and not listen to them. I want the American people to think about what’s happening in our country, that this kind of hate, this fear is happening in communities across the country.”
Watch below:
"It's pretty toxic, there's no question about it," GOP Rep. Fred Upton discusses the hostility on Capitol Hill with Democratic colleague Rep. Debbie Dingell.
Manchin betrayal is obvious. He must redeem himself.
US politicians will be like “We are falling behind, we need to compete with China“ then refuse to build infrastructure, expand social programs, or do literally anything other than expand the military.
But he is magic, not limited to the physical problems of supply and demand plus his workers are a branch of elves and they love their jobs because Santa treats them great.
I hope this is photo shopped, but this is the goal of some people who are convinced they need this arsenal to protect themselves from their own government. Hugs
Only the US forces you to give birth while forcing you to pay tens of thousands of dollars to give birth while not letting you have time off to give birth.
What a pack of lies Goodwyn jams into a single cartoon. The U.S. has never been “energy independent”; our refineries need foreign crude to produce the specific petrochemicals we need. Not all crude oil is the same, any more than all animal meat is the same. We need Saudi-grade crude to refine gasoline (these days, though, our main source of imported crude is Canada. We’re a net exporter of petroproducts, but that doesn’t make us “energy independen t.” Any more than a dairy farmer with a profitable operation is “food independent” because he sells more food than he buys.
The U.S. crime rate has gone up slightly this year. As happens every year, there are a few places with unusually large spikes. But violent crime fell sharply under Clinton (more than a tnird), declined more slowly under Bush (almost 20%), was relatively flat under Obama, and had a low-end notice under Trump.
And Biden makes less than 1% of the false statements that Trump did. If Biden’s a long-nosedPinocchio, trump’s proboscis would reach the moon. And Goodwyn’s would reach the top of Trump Tower.
But repugs are real quick with the “hold up a minute” when it comes to trump facing consequences for anything he does.
And this is in the media now because after the Biden’s were gracious with he and his kids some dimwitted, obnoxious little prick thought he was clever for saying it and hanging up. Now he’s rightfully getting dragged and whining like the little bitch he is. Of course he and his father’s business had no problem taking Joe’s handouts … think they’ll stand with their convictions and give it back? Scottie