@EPOTUS
United States government official
Republican leaders have made it clear they will crash the economy by putting the United States in default unless we yield to their demand to cut Social Security and Medicare.
And that’s more than a promise. It’s a threat.
3:00 PM · Oct 23, 2022 The White House
“The fact that he’s willing to go down the path of suggesting that America will no longer stand for freedom, I think, tells you he’s willing to sacrifice everything for his own political gain,” Rep. Liz Cheney said during a Sunday interview with Meet the Press
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A small contingent of GOP lawmakers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rep. Thomas Massie of Tennessee, have largely opposed sending aid to Ukraine. As McCarthy hesitated to commit to further financial and military support to the country facing invasion by Russian forces, Rep. Liz Cheney criticized him as positioning himself to be “the leader of the pro-Putin wing” of the Republican party.
“[A]t every moment since, frankly, the aftermath of the election in 2020, when Minority Leader McCarthy has had the opportunity to do the right thing or do something that serves his own political purpose, he always chooses to serve his own political purpose,” Cheney said during the Meet the Press appearance. “And, you know, that extends to what we’ve seen just in the last few days with these comments about aid to Ukraine, the idea that somehow the party is now no longer going to support the Ukrainian people.”
Cheney said she doesn’t see McCarthy as “fit for office” and his lack of support for the Ukrainian people is “dangerous,” adding: “He knows better.”
and forget about your rights. they’ve already taken women’s rights to health care choices and have diminished/limited voting rights. they’ve hinted next will be elections themselves, contraceptives and whom one can marry.
john warning last week about another GOPer target
John Oliver discusses the latest round of attacks on transgender rights, what’s at stake, and the filthiest of the “Peanuts” characters.
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Ten years after Romney’s loss, Republicans are fighting their first election since the presidency of Donald Trump. But far from entering next month’s midterms as the party of tolerance, diversity and sincerity, critics say, they have shown itself to be unapologetically the party of hate.
Perhaps nothing captures the charge more eloquently than a three-word post that appeared on the official Twitter account for Republicans on the House of Representatives’ judiciary committee – ranking member Jim Jordan – on 6 October. It said, simply and strangely: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”
The first of this unholy trinity referred to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has recently drawn fierce criticism for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at Paris fashion week and for antisemitic messages on social media, including one that said he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE”.
The second was billionaire Elon Musk, who published a pro-Russian peace plan for Ukraine and denied reports that he had been spoken to Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.
The third was former president Donald Trump, who wrote last weekend that American Jews have offered insufficient praise of his policies toward Israel, warning that they need to “get their act together” before “it is too late!” The comment played into the antisemitic prejudice that American Jews have dual loyalties to the US and Israel.
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Republicans have long been accused of coded bigotry and nodding and winking to their base. There was an assumption of rules of political etiquette and taboos that could not be broken. Now, it seems, politics has entered a post-shame era where anything goes.
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Here’s the other thing: If there is a blue wave, how will the MAGAts react? More violence? More lies? What we need is a messenger who can deprogram them. I don’t know who that would be, but that voice is needed.
There was an old TV show from the 80s or early 90s on last night, and one other characters equated Orange Adolf with Lee Iococca as both being great business men. The PR con had already started.
Jamie – Most of my neighbors are from India, so the Diwali lights are up.
“Los Angeles officials are condemning the display of banners from a freeway overpass this weekend by a group of demonstrators seen in bystander photos showing support for antisemitic comments recently made by rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye.”
Ye seems to be popular with neo-nimrod-nazis.
By the way, they cherry picked words from the Bible. Rev 3:9 is about hypocrisy and lying, it is not about Jewish people, but people claiming to be so; they have also conveniently forgotten Jesus was Jewish.
In fact, Rev 3:9 sounds like the hateful branch of Evangelicals who hide behind the Bible, but show none of Jesus’ love for others.
How do they reconcile the daughter of their beloved Orange Adolf converting with their unfounded hatred? Do they even know what it is they think they hate, because I sure don’t. It’s mass hysteria, as far as I can tell, and there is this nebulous fear that the GQP has turned into hate…IDK, I can’t define what’s going on with these guys.
“A group of Iranian artists, frustrated with the inaction of Western museums in the face of human rights abuses in Iran, unfurled a series of banners covered with the face of Mahsa Amini at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on 22 October.”
By the way, it’s UN Day. Let’s do something about Russia, eh?
The weather is not cooperating for the first day of early voting in Texas. Severe storms are moving through. Imagine if one could only vote on Election Day, but the weather was bad. Right now, there are reports of internet outages taking down voting machines at some sites.
Just learned where a lot of the right wing & Q-Anon garbage is coming from on Twitter. It is called Disclose TV and has managed to acquire millions of followers most of whom flood Twitter with constant spam.
If /when Elon takes over the Twitterverse, all of that hate speech will go unhindered. If the internet can be used to cause enough division, the entire world will unravel, and it’s an old, white guy (like Elon) at the top of the garbage heap they’ve created who will then, I don’t know, become the head garbage collector.
Republicans have gotten their crack hit from bogus crime ads too soon. When you demagogue an issue, needs to be done really late so passion doesn’t yield to reason.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday granted Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) request to temporarily shield the South Carolina Republican from testifying in probe of alleged pro-Trump election interference in Georgia.
The move comes after Graham on Friday filed a request to Thomas, who handles emergency matters arising from Georgia, and follows a ruling by a lower appeals court declining to halt Graham’s testimony before a Fulton County, Ga., special grand jury.
The court this weekend requested a response from Fulton County, which is due on Thursday, so it is likely the Supreme Court will act again in the case soon. Thomas has the option to handle the application himself or refer the matter to the full court.
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“Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order requiring the testimony of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in front of an Atlanta-area special grand jury that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.”
“The South Carolina Republican senator is arguing that such testimony is foreclosed by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate clause, which shields legislators from certain law enforcement action for conduct connected to their legislative duties.”
“Graham has argued that all of the topics of questioning previewed by the subpoena were out of bounds and thus the entire subpoena should be quashed.”
I predict that if Lady G is forced to sing, it’s all gonna come out in the wash.
Disclose TV has a Twitter account and Twitter does nothing. Their tweets walk a thin line of opinion with only mild sarcasm, never outright hate speech or harmful posts. These are usually milder versions of their webpage.
About as bad as it gets on Twitter is referring to Rachel Maddow as a “Dude”.
Two of my closest friends were friends with Leslie Jordan. Individually they worked with Jordan on personal issues. He was a very caring and wonderful man. Losing him to the world of entertainment is one thing, losing him for people he worked with is so much different. My friends are very sad. For someone like me who only enjoyed his work on television I am sad for him going so early.
“People who reported experiencing side effects to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines such as fever, chills or muscle pain tended to have a greater antibody response following vaccination, according to new research.”
Great news for me, I guess. All five shots took me down for 24-36 hours; only the first lacked a fever and chills, but zapped my strength to the point of spending a day sleeping. Had mild covid for about a day and a half (tested positive for several days, though) between shots four and five.
I questioned that and was told, nope, no difference. A former coworker donated blood and said she was told she had no antibodies despite having been vaccinated. She had no reaction other than a sore arm.
Republican ads down here are both laughable and infuriating. They aren’t running on their record (because they can’t tell the truth), but on fear of open borders (aka brown folks), and loss of guns, and so-called godliness. Lying schmucks.
@EPOTUS
United States government official
Republican leaders have made it clear they will crash the economy by putting the United States in default unless we yield to their demand to cut Social Security and Medicare.
And that’s more than a promise. It’s a threat.
3:00 PM · Oct 23, 2022 The White House
Kevin McCarthy Has Developed a Reputation for Desperate Power Grabs (businessinsider.com)
and forget about your rights. they’ve already taken women’s rights to health care choices and have diminished/limited voting rights. they’ve hinted next will be elections themselves, contraceptives and whom one can marry.
john warning last week about another GOPer target
John Oliver discusses the latest round of attacks on transgender rights, what’s at stake, and the filthiest of the “Peanuts” characters.
US politics’ post-shame era: how Republicans became the party of hate | Republicans | The Guardian
Tucson’s son is named Buckley Carlson. They’d be throwing rocks at Buckley if he were still alive.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did-trump-steal-documents-to-blackmail-us-10-24-22/id1633301179?i=1000583640211
Santiago Mayer
Reminder that polls in Kansas were 16 points off, because young voters turned out to fight for their rights.
Here’s the other thing: If there is a blue wave, how will the MAGAts react? More violence? More lies? What we need is a messenger who can deprogram them. I don’t know who that would be, but that voice is needed.
There was an old TV show from the 80s or early 90s on last night, and one other characters equated Orange Adolf with Lee Iococca as both being great business men. The PR con had already started.
Jamie – Most of my neighbors are from India, so the Diwali lights are up.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/us/los-angeles-demonstrators-kanye-west-antisemitic-remarks/index.html
“Los Angeles officials are condemning the display of banners from a freeway overpass this weekend by a group of demonstrators seen in bystander photos showing support for antisemitic comments recently made by rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye.”
Ye seems to be popular with neo-nimrod-nazis.
By the way, they cherry picked words from the Bible. Rev 3:9 is about hypocrisy and lying, it is not about Jewish people, but people claiming to be so; they have also conveniently forgotten Jesus was Jewish.
In fact, Rev 3:9 sounds like the hateful branch of Evangelicals who hide behind the Bible, but show none of Jesus’ love for others.
How do they reconcile the daughter of their beloved Orange Adolf converting with their unfounded hatred? Do they even know what it is they think they hate, because I sure don’t. It’s mass hysteria, as far as I can tell, and there is this nebulous fear that the GQP has turned into hate…IDK, I can’t define what’s going on with these guys.
Moron MAGAts.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/24/protest-for-mahsa-aminiwho-was-killed-by-irans-morality-policeis-staged-at-new-yorks-guggenheim-museum
“A group of Iranian artists, frustrated with the inaction of Western museums in the face of human rights abuses in Iran, unfurled a series of banners covered with the face of Mahsa Amini at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on 22 October.”
By the way, it’s UN Day. Let’s do something about Russia, eh?
The weather is not cooperating for the first day of early voting in Texas. Severe storms are moving through. Imagine if one could only vote on Election Day, but the weather was bad. Right now, there are reports of internet outages taking down voting machines at some sites.
Just learned where a lot of the right wing & Q-Anon garbage is coming from on Twitter. It is called Disclose TV and has managed to acquire millions of followers most of whom flood Twitter with constant spam.
Disclose.TV: English disinformation made in Germany – DW – 02/08/2022
If /when Elon takes over the Twitterverse, all of that hate speech will go unhindered. If the internet can be used to cause enough division, the entire world will unravel, and it’s an old, white guy (like Elon) at the top of the garbage heap they’ve created who will then, I don’t know, become the head garbage collector.
Encouraging new CNN polls
Pennsylvania: Democrat JOHN FETTERMAN leads Republican MEHMET OZ, 51% to 45%.
— Wisconsin: Republican Sen. RON JOHNSON holds a slim one-point lead over Democrat MANDELA BARNES, 50% to 49%.
Republicans have gotten their crack hit from bogus crime ads too soon. When you demagogue an issue, needs to be done really late so passion doesn’t yield to reason.
these masked men might as well be wearing pointy white hoods, carrying flaming crosses and twirling hanging noose – the neo- clansmen new strategy
Tensions high after armed individuals reportedly watch ballot box in Mesa (azfamily.com)
Possible voter intimidation being investigated in Maricopa County (azfamily.com)
pillow talk ruling by any chance or did he just ask himself WWGD?
The Hill
DeSantis Crist debate tonight 7pm on YouTube at
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/us/st-louis-school-shooting/index.html
Another day in the US, another school shooting.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/entertainment/leslie-jordan-dead/index.html
RIP Leslie Jordan
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-clarence-thomas/index.html
“Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order requiring the testimony of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in front of an Atlanta-area special grand jury that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.”
“The South Carolina Republican senator is arguing that such testimony is foreclosed by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate clause, which shields legislators from certain law enforcement action for conduct connected to their legislative duties.”
“Graham has argued that all of the topics of questioning previewed by the subpoena were out of bounds and thus the entire subpoena should be quashed.”
I predict that if Lady G is forced to sing, it’s all gonna come out in the wash.
Variety article on Leslie Jordan.
RIP to a great comic and actor
BiD
Disclose TV has a Twitter account and Twitter does nothing. Their tweets walk a thin line of opinion with only mild sarcasm, never outright hate speech or harmful posts. These are usually milder versions of their webpage.
About as bad as it gets on Twitter is referring to Rachel Maddow as a “Dude”.
Two of my closest friends were friends with Leslie Jordan. Individually they worked with Jordan on personal issues. He was a very caring and wonderful man. Losing him to the world of entertainment is one thing, losing him for people he worked with is so much different. My friends are very sad. For someone like me who only enjoyed his work on television I am sad for him going so early.
Ted Cruz hid in supply closet during January 6 riot, book reveals https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/24/ted-cruz-supply-closet-january-6-riot-book
Because Cancun was too far.
Jamie – The good(ish) thing is that the feds are monitoring them.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/health/covid-antibody-response-vaccines/index.html
“People who reported experiencing side effects to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines such as fever, chills or muscle pain tended to have a greater antibody response following vaccination, according to new research.”
Great news for me, I guess. All five shots took me down for 24-36 hours; only the first lacked a fever and chills, but zapped my strength to the point of spending a day sleeping. Had mild covid for about a day and a half (tested positive for several days, though) between shots four and five.
I questioned that and was told, nope, no difference. A former coworker donated blood and said she was told she had no antibodies despite having been vaccinated. She had no reaction other than a sore arm.
Republican ads down here are both laughable and infuriating. They aren’t running on their record (because they can’t tell the truth), but on fear of open borders (aka brown folks), and loss of guns, and so-called godliness. Lying schmucks.
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