No surprise that Lisa Benson, in her typically uneducated ignorance of economic context, wants to focus on the single factor of inflation — the TEMPORARY imbalance of supply with regard to consumer demand — caused by Trump’s devastation of our trade policy, tariff policy, infrastructure neglect and mishandling of the pandemic instead of the long-range booming consumer confidence, strong wage growth, plummeting unemployment, the most jobs created in the first year of a new president EVER in history, investment and capital markets finishing the year at record highs and a strong economic outlook due to infrastructure gains.
The only flaw in Democratic economic policy is their failure to communicate the current strength of the economy and the fast pace of recovery that results in inflation as recovery and demand outpace supply.
But then, unlike conservatives, we don’t have our own 100% wholly-owned captive media like Faux “News,” NoiseMax or OAN, and even the supposedly “mainstream” media, while it does strive towards a standard of journalistic balance, is 100% owned — every single major media outlet, whether broadcast, cable or print — by very wealthy billionaires and corporations representing the special interests of the wealthiest elites who want to hang onto their economic power.
Price gouging and profit taking are a large cause of the current inflation. Businesses are trying to make more money as they do at the cost of the people suffering. This is win win for large or wealthy businesses. While small businesses are going under more money for the large ones. They get more money, more power, more help from the governments, the only ones getting less are the people. Scottie
Businesses created the model that is the biggest contributor to this problem so they could make more profit. In the old days where product and service meant more than profit manufacturers would have a supply of what they needed to make a product readily stored for use. The makers of a item would stock the items parts in a warehouse. the ones that make the parts would have a supply of their needs, all up and down the chain. But in worshiping the god of more profit they got rid of the warehouses and extra inventory, instead going to a system of timed deliveries. Works great if the deliveries are on time no delays. But when there is a problem then the entire system shuts down. Locally the grocery story nearest me me had empty shelves in some spots. While other stores of their same company had those products with full shelves. I checked. Turned out the problem was a hold up in the shipments directed to their store and they had no back of the store storage to hold any amount of supply in. That equaled empty shelves but more profit because when they built the store they did not need to add the cost of the storage area, nor the costs to maintain it, fill it, use it, so on. The cult leader may be tRump but the long time god is profit at all costs.
The American People are all in favor of Biden’s agenda but the rich business owners are not.
We know exactly what Dr. King would say about the filibuster today, because he said it in 1963. pic.twitter.com/iRm6Sf8ea6
I'm extremely tired of the oxygen that the lab-leak hypothesis gets. If you wanted an article that lays out the actual evidence natural origins of SARS-CoV-2, here it is. Note that there is *no evidence at all* for a lab-leak. Me for @massivescihttps://t.co/oQal3IsMIw
— Dan Samorodnitsky (@d_samorodnitsky) May 26, 2021
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
“The clogged polling locations in metro Atlanta reflect an underlying pattern: the number of places to vote has shrunk statewide, with little recourse. Although the reduction in polling places has taken place across racial lines, it has primarily caused long lines in nonwhite neighborhoods where voter registration has surged and more residents cast ballots in person on Election Day.”
For Republicans that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Why so much skepticism and/or opposition to the most fundamental right in our democracy — the Right to Vote!
A Catholic curia in Poland has asked for a court to determine the sexuality of the victim of a priest and whether he took “pleasure in the intimate relationship”. The victim says he was 12 years old when the abuse began.
Last year, Janusz Szymik – pictured above as a child – launched a civil case against Bielsko-Żywiec diocese. He is seeking 3 million zloty (€660,000) compensation from the curia, which he argues is responsible for abuse he suffered at the hands of a priest – who can be named only as Jan W. under Polish privacy law – in the 1980s.
A church court had previously found Jan W. guilty of sexual offences against Szymik when the latter was a child. In 2017, he was given a five-year ban on conducting priestly ministry and hearing confession, and was ordered to live in isolation.
‼️ Kuria w Bielsku-Białej chce, aby sąd sprawdził, czy ofiara księdza pedofila mężczyzna jest homoseksualistą i czy relacja z księdzem nie była dla niego źródłem satysfakcji. Tylko, gdy koszmar się rozpoczął, ofiara miała 12 l. Ujawniam to dziś w @onetplhttps://t.co/hKMOXn0MwK
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
Anti-transgender attitudes have long made bathrooms a dangerous place for trans men and women — a problem only made worse by the latest round of bathroom hysteria. But other women are also getting swept up by anti-trans discrimination, as bathrooms turn into places of harassment for anyone who doesn’t conform to rigid views of gender.
In a recent case that went viral, a cisgender (non-trans) woman was insulted while in a Walmart bathroom after another woman confused her for a trans woman, apparently because of her short hair. The incident, the woman said, led her to confront the kind of harassment and discrimination that trans people have faced in bathrooms for a long time.
That the current hysteria over bathrooms is leading to women, trans or not, getting harassed in bathrooms is, on top of plain awful, ironic. After all, harassment is one of the things those who oppose letting trans people use the bathroom for their gender identity supposedly want to prevent. They claim trans-friendly policies will allow men to disguise themselves as women, go into women’s bathrooms, and harass or assault women.
The claim is a myth: Multiple investigations have found states and schools that have had legal protections for trans people for years have never linked an instance of sexual assault or harassment in a bathroom to trans-friendly policies. (The only bathroom harassment historically related to trans people, in fact, seems to be harassment and discrimination against trans people.)
But it does seem like the bathroom hysteria is leading to some women getting harassed — not in the way opponents of trans rights worry about, but more along the lines of the discrimination and harassment trans people have faced for a long time while trying to use the bathroom. Here are a few examples.
Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You’re disgusting!” and “You don’t belong here!”
After momentary confusion, she realized that the woman next to her thought — because of her pixie-style haircut and baseball cap — that she was transgender.
Toms, a 22-year-old from Naugatuck who works at a retail store in the Bethel-Danbury retail area around Walmart, posted a video “rant” about her experience on Facebook Friday that had been viewed more than 12,000 times by Sunday evening.
“After experiencing the discrimination they face firsthand, I cannot fathom the discrimination transgender people must face in a lifetime,” she said. “Can you imagine going out every day and having people tell you you should not be who you are or that people will not accept you as who you are?”
Case in point: the man who, um, heroically barged into a women’s restroom at Baylor Medical Center in Frisco on Thursday to make sure that Jessica Rush, who manages a local health-food takeout place, was peeing in the proper place.
She was, for the record, and her situation isn’t particularly complicated. Rush was born and identifies as female and has no plans to change that. “I look very much like a girl,” she says. “I’m not trying to transition, nothing like that.”
But Rush wears her hair in a bleached blond fauxhawk and dresses androgynously. On Thursday, she was wearing a T-shirt from her alma mater, Texas Tech, with basketball shorts. As the man at Baylor explained after walking into the restroom behind her, it’s all very confusing. …
“When I saw you enter I thought you was…” the man says.
“A boy?” Rush offers.
“Yeah, it was kind of confusing.” Certainly she can see why. “You dress like a man,” he says several times as he walks away.
In the video, the unnamed woman tries to convince the two male officers and one female officer present that she is a woman, her friends shout in her support “she’s a girl”, which the officers ignore.
The police then ask the woman for identification to prove her sex. She rejects their demand, offended. The male officers then manhandle her out of the restroom, whilst calling her “sir”.
The police eventually tell the woman’s friends, who are still vouching for her female identity, “you can all leave if you want”.
Trans women and men have faced harassment and violence in bathrooms for a long time
Back in 2011, Chrissy Lee Polis captured national attention when teenagers attacked her after she used an empty women’s bathroom at a McDonald’s in Maryland. The Baltimore Sun reported:
There was a time when it seemed people from all over the country were talking about the 24-year-old. Many wanted to help her; others condemned her.
Polis became an unwitting symbol of the transgender community and the struggle for transgender rights when she stepped into a Rosedale McDonald’s one April evening. Two teen girls beat her that night. When an employee caught the assault on his cell phone, the video went viral, making headlines nationwide.
In a more recent case, in May, a security guard at a Washington, DC, grocery store allegedly pushed a trans woman out of the business after she tried to use a bathroom. The guard was later charged with simple assault. NBC4 Washington reported:
Ebony Belcher, 32, said she went to the Giant in northeast D.C. with a friend to pick up a delivery from the Western Union.
While at the Giant, she asked a store employee to point her to the restroom and passed a female security officer standing in the hallway.
The officer came into the restroom and told her to get out, according to Belcher.
“She opened the door and came in and started calling me derogatory names,” Belcher said.
She said the officer put her hand on her shoulder and arm, grabbed her and pushed her out of the store.
These are just two examples of the discrimination trans people face in bathrooms on a regular basis.
A 2013 survey published by the Williams Institute, for example, found that 70 percent of trans and gender nonconforming respondents in the Washington, DC, area faced a negative reaction while trying to use a public bathroom, including 9 percent who reported physical assault. The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 26 percent of trans and gender nonconforming respondents across the country reported denial of access to gender-appropriate bathrooms in educational settings, and 22 percent faced such denial in the workplace.
The same surveys also show that trans people face a lot of discrimination, harassment, and violence more broadly — at home, work, and school. So the harassment cisgender women are now dealing with in bathrooms is just a small sample of the discrimination that has plagued the trans community for years and years.
Understand this is entirely about if someone thinks you look as they think a woman should look. Are you feminine enough to satisfy them? They demand others conform to their standards of male and female. It’s part of an entitlement feeling when someone can demand to know person’s genitals, their private body parts. What a weird violation of culture norms now excepted is that a person has the right to demand to know or verify someone else’s covered private reproductive organs. How is that not a sexual offence? 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
The Spotsylvania County School Board wasted no time Monday making its mark in the at-times contentious first meeting of the year, which included fiery jabs at the new chairman and squabbles between members.
It began with a vote to name Livingston district member Kirk Twigg the new chair. Twigg supported banning and even burning some sexually explicit books from school libraries in November. His win gives conservatives a majority on the school board.
The move to appoint him drew the ire of the outgoing chair, Dawn Shelley, who delivered a scorching criticism of Twigg.
“He has spoken about confidential [human resources] matters in open session. He is constantly using his AOL account to send and read emails throughout school board meetings. He wants to burn books,” Shelley said.
The board voted 4-3 in favor of ousting Baker over protests of the minority members who said the action was taken illegally. It is still unclear who will serve in that role while the search for a replacement begins.
“You have not stated any justification or ability to fill the position. You cannot even properly chair a meeting, but yet you’re going to terminate a superintendent for no reason,” Nicole Cole, a member from the Battlefield District, said. “How is this good for the students, the children of Spotsylvania County? How does this make sense? Spotsylvania citizens please recognize that you have not been given any valid reason.”
While both Cole and Shelley spoke, other board members attempted to interrupt them and pushed back against their comments.
Even the ceremonial formality of the passing of the gavel from the outgoing chair to the new one was fraught with tension. Twigg appeared to want to take the seat from Shelley, who refused to yield it.
According to a parent who spoke at the meeting, the rancor was nothing new. She said she believes chaos is Twigg’s goal.
“It has been that way for several months. In this moment people are trying to shout me down, so I think people should be aware that that’s happening,” she said.
The Spotsylvania County School Board fired Superintendent Scott Baker without cause during an unruly meeting Monday.
The board voted to approve Baker’s termination without cause after coming out of a closed session that may have violated Virginia’s open meeting requirements.
Virginia Code states that no closed meeting shall be held unless the public body first approves a motion that states the subject matter and purpose of the meeting, as well as the applicable exemption from open meeting requirements.
“A general reference to the provisions of this chapter, the authorized exemptions from open meeting requirements, or the subject matter of the closed meeting shall not be sufficient to satisfy the requirements for holding a closed meeting,” Virginia Code states.
The closed session, during which Baker’s position was discussed, was the second closed session of the meeting and was not on the approved agenda.
Board members did not vote on a motion to enter the second closed session, as is required by Virginia Code.
Salem District representative Lorita Daniels asked for a legal opinion on whether the second closed session would violate the Freedom of Information Act, but Twigg did not respond to her request.
I almost did not do the roundup today. I got up at 4:30 AM to get ready for my first in the morning doctors appointment. I got multiple shots into my spine. They give a numbing shot to the area, then quickly follow it up with the insertion of a catheter, and then come back and inject the substance into the vertebrae . My vertebrae are misshapen and destroyed. They grow in ways that catch or pinch my nerves. Some times they stretch the nerves and others they smash / pinch them. Each produces different sensations and pain levels. At one injection the pain was so bad that I nearly passed out. The doctor told me he had to inject the stuff right above the nerve causing it to have a lot of pressure so the signal it sent to the brain was intense to say the least.
I got home and Ron fed me a wonderful baked pasta dish he made and I went right to bed. Then hours later I got up and started the Roundup. I love it so much I really want to do it. But I have to do a bunch of legal paperwork in the next few days to get a bunch of stuff done so the roundup may be late or just skipped. Best wishes to everyone. Scottie
While the owners of Walmart, the wealthiest family in the country, became over $60 billion richer during the pandemic, they are now slashing the paid leave of their employees in half. Outrageous. We must end corporate greed and raise the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour.
They demand government support and get it while the people suffer. We seen this oveer the last two years. Scottie
SCOTUS when the Trump administration unilaterally rewrites immigration law to keep out refugees: cool cool cool 😎
SCOTUS when the Biden administration relies on a textual delegation of authority to protect workers from the deadliest pandemic in American history: pic.twitter.com/Qq36EwHZka
This is due to gerrymandering / voter suppression laws , and big money in politics. Why listen to the voters is only your supporters can vote? Scottie
When you want to do something terrible, you make stuff up to rationalize it. Hillary gave a concession speech the morning after the election was called. Obama hosted Trump at the White House as president-elect two days later. If Trump did what they did, Jan. 6 doesn’t happen. https://t.co/BxUWpyXh5N
Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, actual devils, are calling out today’s Republican traitors.
Would love to hear Republicans denounce white supremacy. Out loud. On the record. On a regular basis. Same with their base.
White conservative terror wants to be regarded as the default.
If you want democracy, you want to expand voting rights.
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
It is absolutely wild to me how many people legit think exposing an entire generation of kids to Covid is better than skipping a couple weeks of school.
We know long haul Covid is very harmful, we know some aspects of Covid in kids manifests after they seem to get better. What we don’t know is what the long term effects of Covid are on the brain / nervous system. If it causes you to lose taste and smell when sick, what does it do long term to your sensory nerves? Do we really want to take the chance with kids?
Situation still tenuous. He won the first case in court yet the Australian government has said they will appeal the ruling. Scottie
How many rude annoying people treat servers when they go out to eat. Scottie
It all starts with elections of representatives who decide policy and law. If the representative is owned by the 1%, then interests of working people are abandoned. USAunify.org
Iszac Henig, a (pre-t) trans man competing on the Yale team won several races and beat Lia Thomas. Cue conservative media only citing that Iszac is trans and all of social media assuming he's a trans woman and engaging in horrific transphobia while ironically affirming Iszac. pic.twitter.com/cj5vBKuBUd
School choice is a dog whistle, it is code for what the right really wants. Segregated schools paid for by the tax payer. They basically want schools that teach / preach their views paid for by the public. That was what most charter schools were, a disguised attempt to get around the public curriculum but being paid for by the public. Religious people want to be able to send their kids to private schools paid for by the taxpayer so kids can be indoctrinated into science denying bigots, the white supremacist want white only schools so their kids don’t have to mix with the non-whites they are taught to look down on, and the wealthy want you the public to pay for expensive great schools their kids get to attend so they wont have to associate with the general population they see as be low them. Scottie
Of course Republicans would prefer to quietly strangle your right to vote like a python than publicly tread on the topic. In the reality-reversed alternative universe Ramirez is writing from, he thinks allowing more people to vote more easily with equal access for all voters and all votes being counted with equal weight is treading on freedom? What Michael Ramirez wants to see is an election system in which white suburban and rural voters can get in and out of a convenient, nearby polling place in five minutes, while those in minority areas see most polling places closed until they have to drive very far and then wait in line for six or seven hours (with a prohibition on providing them with food or water) in order to vote, with the proviso that if the state legislature doesn’t like the outcome, it can throw out the results and install its own outcome.
Ramirez wants to return to the original voting standard as envisioned by the original founders: white male landowners are the only ones allowed to vote. He seems oblivious to the fact (or just doesn’t care about facts) that we have had twenty-seven amendments since then, each written by a new set of founders, that have equal weight to the original Constitution and which include many expansions of the right to vote to include all adult citizens age eighteen or over regardless of race, ethnicity, previous condition of servitude, gender and without undue burdens imposed.
Michael Ramirez demonstrates what Senator Raphael Warnock meant when he said, “Some people don’t want some people to vote.”Scottie
The CDC is an organization made up of skilled people with expertise / education to protect the people of the US for the viruses and diseases that threaten the public. That is their jobs and they do it well. They give the White House their best advice and suggestions. As we seen in the last administration the White House can ignore their advice if the president wishes to do so. Scottie
Pearl Harbor and 9/11 took more American lives than the January 6 attempted coup so, in that sense, were greater tragedies.
But Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were attacks by FOREIGN agents.
January 6 was an act of treason perpetrated by a sitting president to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power after HE LOST AN ELECTION BY MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION VOTES.
January 6 was an act of terroristic treason COMMITTED BY AMERICANS, not foreigners.
January 6 was the first time the U.S. CAPITOL had been taken over by hostile forces since the War of 1812. Not even during the Civil War did the Capitol get taken over; the KKKonfederate flag was never raised inside the U.S. Capitol until January 6.
January 6 was the first time ever that the Constitutional electoral role of certifying a presidential election was disrupted by force.
After Pearl Harbor and 9/11, you didn’t have 30-40% of the population SUPPORTING THE FOREIGN ATTACKERS.
Comparing January 6 and Pearl Harbor or 9/11 is like comparing an orange with a bushel of apples. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were FOREIGN attacks that caused more loss of life but united our country. January 6 caused fewer deaths but further divided our country.
ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS, MINIMIZES OR RATIONALIZES THE TRAITOROUS, TERRORISTIC ATTEMPTED COUP is a traitor.
The U.S. Constitution provides two possible definitions of treason: either giving aid or comfort to the enemy (with enemy defined in legal decisions to mean as an adversarial combatant in a declared war), which clearly does not apply, or being in open rebellion against the United States government, which applied for those who waged violent rebellion against the United States during the Civil War and reasonably applies to what happened on January 6.
A violent, armed insurrection against the United States Capitol for the purpose of stopping the congress from completing a CONSTITUTIONALLY-MANDATED PRO-FORMA DUTY in order to OVERTHROW A LAWFUL ELECTION is clearly an act of open rebellion against the United States.
Much evidence has already been made public and much evidence will be revealed in the days to come as more serious charges are filed.
And we all watched on television as an ARMED MOB of Trump insurrectionists, in response to directions from the president in a carefully-planned military maneuver including printed T-shirts equating themselves to July 4, 1776, invaded the U.S. Capitol and forcibly disrupted a CONSTITUTIONALLY-MANDATED pro-forma session to complete a federal election. They came armed, including weapons of various sorts (including some firearms, we now know), and including zip ties, wall climbing equipment, wearing bulletproof vests, and many other indications of a well-planned insurrection.
Whether or not the Justice Department decides to file charges of treason, the actions that have been charged and proved so far, with more to come, clearly rise to the Constitutional definition.
All those who defend, rationalize, minimize or excuse these acts of violent rebellion against the United States are complicit after the fact in the treason.
The Fed has it backwards. Wage increases have not caused prices to rise. Price increases have caused real wages (what wages can actually purchase) to fall.
Prices are increasing at the rate of 6.8% annually but wages are growing only between 3-4%.https://t.co/Vk3TsAjN63
By the way, just four large conglomerates control most meat processing. Half of the recent rise in grocery prices is from meat products — beef, pork, and poultry.
The major draw of the Republican Party is never having to defend horrible behavior.
Complete hypocrisy? Cronyism? Corruption? Treason? Sexual assault? Obvious bad faith?
Not one problem.
Make no mistake: Trump's coup is still ongoing. The attacks on our democracy have only worsened since last year's attack.
The choice now is between saving our democracy or saving the filibuster. Whichever way it goes will be Joe Biden’s most enduring legacy. pic.twitter.com/fHNrKyyUo1
Conservatives want to break public schools and disrespect teachers, 75% of which are women. This is all on brand for their misanthropic fascist policies. They want corporate charter schools to take taxpayer dollars to make crony shareholders rich.
Pay teachers. Fund education. Protect schools.
For all the TERFs out there who keep telling me I don't look like a woman because I have a big forehead…
Most of the anti-trans you don’t look like a woman is based not on any science but on personal preferences of what individual people think is attractive or not attractive to them. I have posted pictures that are easy to find of trans people who you wouldn’t even think are trans because they look like what people have traditionally accepted as that gender. That is why letting young people use puberty blockers is so very important, other wise people are left with an adult body that is not representative what they are. Puberty blockers are not harmful, widely used for many conditions, and complete reversible.
Russia, Belarus, and other CSTO members send ‘peacekeeping forces’ and now we have orders to murder protestors without warning.
Henry Payne loves to make fun of anything having to do with public safety. The cartoonist openly shows contempt for: Public schools, people who attend public schools, teachers, and learning. With cases rising, everyone is home sick anyway. Might as well remote learn. Can only hope all the kids have the means to connect to the remote learning websites. Scottie
is this a conspiracy … or possibly the truth? How deep does thee greed go? Scottie
So incorrect, it is an out right lie that the misleading right wing media gets away with because they know their followers don’t check. How many Americans could find Kazakhstan on a map? I’m putting the over/under at 2%.
NEWS FLASH – The government of Kazakhstan has not “resigned!!” As a matter of fact, Kazak police and armed forces have been joined by Vladdy’s troops with orders to shoot – without warning!! As usual BADwyn gets his “facts” WRONG!!! I’m thinking Al is upset that Trump didn’t have Russia invade the USA to keep Trump in power.
Prices are determined on supply and demand….
U.S. gas price, December 2012: $3.310 / gallon.
U.S. gas price, December 2021: $3.307 / gallon.
Gas prices declined long term during Obama’s second term, but trended upward under Trump, who intervened in the market to protect his supporters (Texas and Russian oil companies). This trend was reinforced by the Biden economic recovery. Apparently Goodwin would prefer to throw 15-20 million Americans out of work than return to the normal gas prices of a decade ago. Because, you know, Biden must be blamed. Scottie
Don’t I wish. How I feel after going back and forth on right wing media. Scottie
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Rich people have every advantage given to them. If not given, they just avoid the rules.
This is no way to judge others who don’t have all those advantages and shameless greed.
Wanting your tax dollars to pay for your needs and the needs of your community is normal.
Don’t let the rich and spoiled fool you into thinking this is greedy. Their opinions are shit.
Their view is simple: Republican Presidents have unfettered power, Democratic Presidents have no power. See the eviction moratorium, which suddenly became illegal after Biden took office, and "Remain in Mexico," a discretionary Trump policy that they forced Biden to maintain. https://t.co/aUXuEYSx1D
Again, it's key to understand that formal instruments of power are used to the same end as informal intimidation. Bogus "election audits" are used to threaten election officials. In WI, a former Judge who declared the election was stolen is threatening to jail election officials. pic.twitter.com/nwg8Fqf7MC
I've been studying election administration on and off for almost two decades. The concerted attack we are seeing now on local election officials is new. 2/ pic.twitter.com/hib9pyHivq
The mob literally stabbed cops with Trump flags. Tried to murder Pence.
The Big Lie was made by morons for morons.
No surprise conservatives could not stop said morons from completely taking over the GOP.
This is where we are. Republicans give no respect, so they deserve no respect.
Just goes to show ‘law and order’ and BlueLivesMatter was always bad faith. A con
The GOP sure is pissed about Biden “politicizing” their attempt to destroy the Republic as we know it in an effort to placate their bloated orange Führer
Funny story. Mr. I am so important I don’t have to follow the vaccine rules above was given an OK by the event organizers to attend with out being vaccinated which was required by all other participants. How ever when he got to Australia the country said nope. No vaccine you quarantine as they have a strict vaccine to enter policy. They wouldn’t bend it for Mr. thinks he is more important than the rules. Last I knew he had been ordered to leave, but this morning I read he is bitching about the conditions at his quarantine quarters. Still I like the comeuppance. Scottie
The failure of the Biden admin to 1) anticipate the need for rapid tests and 2) procure them and make them freely available is their single biggest Covid screw up. https://t.co/4gCnu76run
The unvaccinated would rather stay on the Titanic. Why would they ever hurt the ego of the ship? Why would they get in a lifeboat if they don’t know where it was made? [Even though they had been using lifeboats their entire life]
Conservatives with Covid trying to eliminate preventative Covid policy
I can’t think of a more apt image to describe the climate situation than a gas powered leaf blower being used to clear snow from the sidewalk. pic.twitter.com/qneXDrFcqT
Such woke, which is a right wing word for being sensible, to not use state resources to ruin the lives of the poor and POC. Things that are crimes because of history and tradition like cannabis criminal laws used to arrest and destroy the lives of mostly black people. The DA’s are simply not prosecuting the breaking of laws on the books for what is legal in more and more places. Think of the laws still on the books in many right wing states like anti-sodomy laws that even though they could apply to both opposite gender sex and same gender sex was used to target gay people. Those laws are still on the books despite being unenforceable so DA’s wouldn’t prosecute anyone for breaking them. This is what the right is so angry about and trying to use to get their cut members enraged. Scottie
Bragg memo in. The Manhattan DA will no longer prosecute: ▫️selling more than 3 oz of weed ▫️turnstile hopping ▫️trespassing ▫️resisting arrest without an underlying charge for the arrest ▫️prostitution (can seek approval for solicitation) ▫️obscenity ▫️adultery pic.twitter.com/PonoybxqNm
This is what the right wing is so enraged over. I wonder if it is because less black people will be put in jail for things white people are mostly not arrested for? Racism? Scottie
Yes because inflation and Covid are just a problem in the US. Really the pandemic is just in the US. The right wing seems unable to understand the US is not the entire world, that the US is just another country among many. In case these people don’t get it, Biden doesn’t control the entire world and even in the US he is not a dictator, like tRump tried to be. Scottie
So, I guess it’s not okay for teachers to want to work in a situation where they’re unlikely to bring Covid-19 home to their families? Teachers are people also and they have the same needs as everyone else, despite the constant attempts to belittle them. Far too many people including those in government do not see teachers as educators but as child sitters so workers can park their kids with them so they can work to make profit for the businesses and wealthy. Scottie
I have resisted posting this one because the right is so over the top trying to insult this woman. I think she is correct, they are sexually obsessed with her. Yes she has criticized DeathSantis for the Covid polices in Florida. And yes she was in Florida not wearing a mask. Oh my gods and dogs, right? Wrong. She was out side eating and drinking, something that it is accepted that you would have your mask off. Get real people. Even inside she couldn’t eat or drink through the mask. The right is so scared of her, she is really smart and she is a women. That threatens them. Scottie
I saw a meme today pointing out that kids have been displaced… during a war… in the winter… and had to move to a foreign nation… with a new language to learn… and missed two YEARS of any kind of school at all. And come out just fine.
However, it’s not impossible to learn remotely. It’s done all over the world in places where it’s impractical to have school (the Australian Outback, for instance). Stanford University runs a very well respected online high school. Many working people take online classes for college degrees. It’s a question of training, expectations and attitude. Maybe we need to rethink what school is for. Scottie
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No surprise that Lisa Benson, in her typically uneducated ignorance of economic context, wants to focus on the single factor of inflation — the TEMPORARY imbalance of supply with regard to consumer demand — caused by Trump’s devastation of our trade policy, tariff policy, infrastructure neglect and mishandling of the pandemic instead of the long-range booming consumer confidence, strong wage growth, plummeting unemployment, the most jobs created in the first year of a new president EVER in history, investment and capital markets finishing the year at record highs and a strong economic outlook due to infrastructure gains.
The only flaw in Democratic economic policy is their failure to communicate the current strength of the economy and the fast pace of recovery that results in inflation as recovery and demand outpace supply.
But then, unlike conservatives, we don’t have our own 100% wholly-owned captive media like Faux “News,” NoiseMax or OAN, and even the supposedly “mainstream” media, while it does strive towards a standard of journalistic balance, is 100% owned — every single major media outlet, whether broadcast, cable or print — by very wealthy billionaires and corporations representing the special interests of the wealthiest elites who want to hang onto their economic power.