For more than 30 years, scientists have been warning humanity that there would be catastrophic dangers ahead if our planet continued to be warmed by the burning of fossil fuels. Some among us refused to believe the science. For most of the rest of us, it was always a threat down the road, years away, another generation’s problem.
Now, faster than expected, climate change is no longer tomorrow’s trouble. It is here today.
July 2023 has brought several days hotter than any in Earth’s modern history. The month of June was the warmest on record. Texas, Mexico and India are experiencing killer heat. The ocean’s surface temperature around Key West is hitting hot tub levels. Smoke from wildfires in tinder-dry Canadian forests is inundating large swaths of the United States. Antarctic ice is rapidly melting. Multi-billion-dollar weather-related catastrophes are no longer infrequent, they are persistent.
Despite such stark evidence, people who, for political or economic reasons, have denied the reality of climate change continue to find reasons not to believe. Shills for the oil industry still nitpick climate science in Op-Ed essays. Republican politicians still block meaningful legislation and regulation that might mitigate the onslaught of climate disasters. Right-wing radio and TV bloviators still incite their listeners and viewers with bogus conspiracy theories about liberal elites using climate as an excuse to crush free enterprise.
And, thanks to them all, not nearly enough gets done to save us all from the worst that is yet to come.
pup tent party’s political philosophy
Attribution: GOP Cares by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA
Living in the reddest state in ‘mer’ca you can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a stupid person (Gooper). Have I ever mentioned that I really hate living in the middle of the reddest ‘mercan state.
Pogo, have been meaning to ask your best West Virginia guess on the following re:Manchin…
1) Can the governor beat him?
2) Can that Trumpier Republican congressman whose running beat the governor in the primary?
3) Might Manchin not run for reelection and do something weird like run third party for president on No Labels ticket? (He’s speaking next week at their town hall in New Hampshire)
about letters you receive when you have stupid for a client
An attorney for Hunter Biden sent a cease-and-desist letter on Thursday to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, claiming that Trump’s rhetoric on social media and elsewhere “could lead to [Hunter Biden’s] or his family’s injury.”
Abbe Lowell, one of the younger Biden’s lawyers, cited past examples when Trump’s language allegedly inspired violence, notably the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol, the October attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi, and the man arrested near the Obamas’ Washington, D.C., residence last month with an arsenal of firearms.
“This is not a false alarm,” Lowell wrote. “We are just one such social media message away from another incident, and you should make clear to Mr. Trump — if you have not done so already — that Mr. Trump’s words have caused harm in the past and threaten to do so again if he does not stop.”
[…]
“You know, if Mr. Trump does not, that Mr. Biden has neither committed nor been accused of the charges that your client is claiming … and that the Biden family was not at the White House (let alone in the vestibule) in the period when the cocaine was found,” Lowell wrote.
Lowell wrote that Trump’s team “need not respond,” but encouraged them to convey to the former president “how his incitement can further hurt people and cause himself even more legal trouble.”
Way more than Biden’s age or RFK Jr, this should be the really worrisome factor for Dems…
A third-party nightmare for Democrats. Third-party candidates tend to get the most traction when there’s greater-than-usual dissatisfaction with the major party presidential candidates — like in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had favorability ratings of just 43 percent and 38 percent, respectively.
But there is one point of solace for Democrats: Voters in battleground states have been less likely to vote third party in recent elections than those in less competitive states.
Oh, and by the way,
“cause himself even more legal trouble “.
As if we need more proof of RFK Jr’s lunacy, he’s also a Putin sock puppet…
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian youth have already died because America's foreign policy establishment manipulated their country into war to fulfill vain + futile geopolitical fantasy. Now, rather than acknowledge failure, Biden admin prepares to sacrifice American lives too.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023
Pick something to celebrate. St. Swithen’s Day could be a problem:
What happens on Saint Swithin’s Day? According to folklore, whatever the weather is on July 15, which is Saint Swithin’s Day, that weather will remain the same for the next 40 days and nights.
BREAKING NEWS:Politico is reporting that new polling from the Public Policy Institute of California shows Katie Porter leading Adam Schiff in the California Senate race. But here’s the kicker: Rep. Porter is the ONLY candidate who has placed in the top two slots in the last five public polls. And she consistently fares better than Schiff against the top Republican.
well good news for some of us!
Good news for me, they’re both great. I kinda lean to K Porter, but either way’s a win.
In fact, If I had to vote I’d go with K Porter quite simply because of your endorsement.
I mean,,,you actually being IN California.
I was at a largish party quite a few retired banksters in the group. Only one was supporting Schiff because of perceived Porter anti bank attitudes. I feel bad for Barbara Lee–I think she should drop out. I’m pretty sure the campaign to force Difi to resign failed so no seat for Newsom to fill with Barbara Lee.
“Yes, that’s former a U.S. president and current presidential candidate raging on Truth Social that federal prosecutor David Weiss did not give Hunter Biden “a death sentence” for his aforementioned crimes, which, as a reminder, were paying his taxes late two years in a row and buying a gun when he was using drugs. This is funny for a lot of reasons, including but not limited to the fact that:
Trump’s family business was found guilty last year of tax fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying business records
Trump himself reportedly “participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud,” according to a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation by The New York Times*
Trump has been accused of much worse crimes than not paying his taxes on time, including conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation (to which he pleaded not guilty); he’s also under investigation by the feds for trying to overturn the 2020 election and inciting a violent riot that left five people dead, and facing potential charges for trying to overturn the election in Georgia.”
“Kennedy’s habits of mind are maga-adjacent, but his manner differs from that of his Republican doppelgänger. Donald Trump is a bully—rude, swaggering, out to flatten his questioner under an avalanche of lies and volume. Kennedy is not rude. Rather, he is serenely convinced of his virtue and his interlocutor’s pitiful susceptibility to conventional wisdom.”
“…he was kicked out of prep schools, got arrested for marijuana possession, was addicted to heroin, and still managed to graduate from Harvard. He now works as a lawyer, and his income last year was $7.8 million.”
“I was a heroin addict for fourteen years. I’m lucky to be alive. People have plenty of reason to write me off forever because of the way I conducted my life during that fourteen-year period. And, when I was at Riverkeeper, I made a point of hiring people who were felons, who were convicted, who had served their time in prison. And that divided the organization. I believe in redemption. I don’t think we can dismiss human beings, no matter what they did earlier on in their lives. Everybody gets another chance. And what Jesus said is, Not only do you give them seven chances, but you give them seven times seven chances.”
“So, if you were President now, would you withdraw military aid to Ukraine?
“I would end the war. I would negotiate a peace.”
“And what would that peace look like?
“Well, you never know that until you negotiate.”
“Would you allow a peace that allowed much of eastern Ukraine and Crimea to remain in Russian hands?
“I don’t know what I would negotiate. I know that the Russians had come to two different peace agreements, both of which were eminently reasonable. And so I don’t-“
“What I’m asking is: what would be a reasonable peace?
“Well, you know what, the answer to that question is strategic ambiguity. If I intend to be President of the United States, I’m not going to tell my adversary what my final negotiating position would be.”
“What about the voter?
“I’m not going to—I’m going to negotiate. You negotiate a treaty.”
“What’s your go-to way to find out what happened in the world today and yesterday?
“I read everything that I can get my hands on. I read the Times. I read the L.A. Times, although not religiously. And I read a lot of alternative press sources, which are now, you know, oftentimes better sources for unvarnished truth than the mainstream media.”
“Like what?
“On what subject?”
“Well, foreign policy. Domestic policy.”
“Well, if I want to know about what’s happening in Ukraine, I might read Doug Macgregor’s site, or a number of other just alternative sites. I have a podcast where I interview people, and I interview people on both sides.”
•
“Douglas Macgregor is a retired Army colonel. Trump had hoped to nominate Macgregor as ambassador to Germany until his comments about Muslim refugees as “unwanted invaders” were repeated in the press. After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Macgregor spoke repeatedly on Fox News in defense of the action, adding that Russia had been “too gentle” in the early days of the war. The former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has characterized Macgregor as representing “the Putin wing of the GOP.”
Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a dangerous nut job. We don’t need to worry about third-party-Manchin, when we’ve got Bobby deciding he’s going to be a uniter, running as a Dem while spewing Republicans word salad. He’s going to appeal to evangelicals. He’s going to do Bannon’s dirty work for him. This is bad. This is very bad.
I like Katie Porter.
Poobah, sorry, got tied up and just got done with a nap 😴 I needed badly. Your questions …
1. Yes. Almost everyone thinks if Manchin runs for re-election and Justice runs against him, Justice would become the junior Senator of WV. Most people think that if Justice runs for Senate Manchin won’t.
2. If you mean Alex Mooney, I think Justice beats him 2 to 1. Mooney’s a dilettante but Justice is wildly popular. Conventional thinking is that Justice will run for Senate and we’ll see Mooney and our AG Patrick Morrissey run against each other for governor. Morrissey wants to be governor so bad he can taste it.
3. A distinct possibility. The question is whether Manchin’s narcissism wins out over his fragile ego. He knows a 3rd party run as Loserman’s No Labels candidate would be doomed to fail but trying to predict whether the narcissism outweighs the avoidance of being the big loser in a 3 way race.
I believe the one thing that is certain is that Manchin will not run another statewide race in WV. The MAGATs here will never vote for him and I think he knows it.
“A number of high-profile Jewish groups are denouncing Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false remarks that “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people are “most immune” to Covid-19.”
“Speaking at a dinner in New York City earlier this week, Kennedy said “there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” according to video shared by the New York Post on Saturday.”
“Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” Kennedy said, adding that “we don’t know whether it’s deliberately targeted that or not.”
“Ashkenazi Jews trace their roots to Central and Eastern Europe and represent a majority of the US Jewish population.”
“In a tweet Saturday, Kennedy said that the dinner conversation was supposed to be off the record and that he “never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.” Rather, he said, he was referring to a study that “serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons.”
“According to the New York Post, the event’s organizer, Doug Dechert, said the event had been on the record.”
“Kennedy, who is polling between 15% and 20% nationally in the Democratic primary, is a longtime vaccine skeptic who has promoted several health-related conspiracy theories.”
Yeah, he was also against the lockdowns that kept us from infecting each other, and the vaccines that saved lives.
“Elon Musk hosted a Twitter Spaces for the raging anti-vaxxer, who not too long ago had to apologize for suggesting the plight of the unvaccinated in America was worse than that of Anne Frank’s.”
“Steve Bannon is apparently a huge RFK Jr. supporter, floating Kennedy as “an excellent choice for President Trump to consider” as a running mate. Roger Stone called a Trump-Kennedy ticket a “dream.”
“Infowars’ Alex Jones was struck by Kennedy’s anti-vaccine conspiracies and told listeners he was “definitely awake.” Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and QAnon-linked Michael Flynn both said they like the guy as a presidential candidate too. So why are all these right-wingers supporting a Democrat? It could be that he kind of sounds like them: He talks about government institutions betraying the trust of the American public, and published a whole book attacking Anthony Fauci. But there’s also very likely another reason.”
“As conservative Noah Rothman wrote in National Review, “Kennedy has promoted the view that the COVID vaccines were concocted only to enrich the medical establishment, that 5G cell towers are designed to ‘control our behavior,’ and that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is engaged in an effort to ‘genetically modify’ humanity.” He’s blamed mass shootings on antidepressants and told Musk and Sacks that his “position on gun control is I’m not going to take away anybody’s guns.” He believes Russia’s war against Ukraine is “a setup by the neocons and the CIA.” He wants to “seal the border permanently” and went on Jordan Peterson’s podcast to suggest he believes that kids are trans because they are “swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals.”
“His campaign manager, former Ohio representative Dennis Kucinich, goes on to explain the fringe support as a feature, not a bug—if he can win all the people on the margins both on the left and the right of the political spectrum, maybe he can scrape something together, Kucinich suggests. Maybe not, but perhaps—as Republicans appear to be hoping for—he can spoil the race for Biden.”
I’m gonna cut Kucinich out of that photo with me and Craig’s mom, the little weasel.
“Stone said it himself in an interview that RFK Jr. “will help in the end soften Joe Biden up for his defeat by Donald Trump in the general election.”
Kennedy is their great hope?
Good plan. lol
I smell flop-sweat.
Kucinich not knowing better is simply proof that he’s been a squirrel all along.
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson 2h
Again, you conflate contempt with fear. Bannon is a scabby wannabe revolutionary. Kennedy is mentally ill.
Ms. Janet
@MsJanet8591
Replying to @TheRickWilson
I DARE you Mr Wilson, to debate Mr Bannon, or Mr Kennedy. They are both patriots, and truth tellers. Your fear of these men, is palpable.
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accompanying his cartoon, David Horsey’s Climate deniers keep their heads in the sand | The Seattle Times
For more than 30 years, scientists have been warning humanity that there would be catastrophic dangers ahead if our planet continued to be warmed by the burning of fossil fuels. Some among us refused to believe the science. For most of the rest of us, it was always a threat down the road, years away, another generation’s problem.
Now, faster than expected, climate change is no longer tomorrow’s trouble. It is here today.
July 2023 has brought several days hotter than any in Earth’s modern history. The month of June was the warmest on record. Texas, Mexico and India are experiencing killer heat. The ocean’s surface temperature around Key West is hitting hot tub levels. Smoke from wildfires in tinder-dry Canadian forests is inundating large swaths of the United States. Antarctic ice is rapidly melting. Multi-billion-dollar weather-related catastrophes are no longer infrequent, they are persistent.
Despite such stark evidence, people who, for political or economic reasons, have denied the reality of climate change continue to find reasons not to believe. Shills for the oil industry still nitpick climate science in Op-Ed essays. Republican politicians still block meaningful legislation and regulation that might mitigate the onslaught of climate disasters. Right-wing radio and TV bloviators still incite their listeners and viewers with bogus conspiracy theories about liberal elites using climate as an excuse to crush free enterprise.
And, thanks to them all, not nearly enough gets done to save us all from the worst that is yet to come.
pup tent party’s political philosophy
Attribution: GOP Cares by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA
Living in the reddest state in ‘mer’ca you can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a stupid person (Gooper). Have I ever mentioned that I really hate living in the middle of the reddest ‘mercan state.
Pogo, have been meaning to ask your best West Virginia guess on the following re:Manchin…
1) Can the governor beat him?
2) Can that Trumpier Republican congressman whose running beat the governor in the primary?
3) Might Manchin not run for reelection and do something weird like run third party for president on No Labels ticket? (He’s speaking next week at their town hall in New Hampshire)
about letters you receive when you have stupid for a client
ABCnews:
Way more than Biden’s age or RFK Jr, this should be the really worrisome factor for Dems…
A third-party nightmare for Democrats. Third-party candidates tend to get the most traction when there’s greater-than-usual dissatisfaction with the major party presidential candidates — like in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had favorability ratings of just 43 percent and 38 percent, respectively.
But there is one point of solace for Democrats: Voters in battleground states have been less likely to vote third party in recent elections than those in less competitive states.
— Politico
Oh, and by the way,
“cause himself even more legal trouble “.
As if we need more proof of RFK Jr’s lunacy, he’s also a Putin sock puppet…
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Pick something to celebrate. St. Swithen’s Day could be a problem:
BREAKING NEWS: Politico is reporting that new polling from the Public Policy Institute of California shows Katie Porter leading Adam Schiff in the California Senate race.
But here’s the kicker: Rep. Porter is the ONLY candidate who has placed in the top two slots in the last five public polls. And she consistently fares better than Schiff against the top Republican.
well good news for some of us!
Good news for me, they’re both great. I kinda lean to K Porter, but either way’s a win.
In fact, If I had to vote I’d go with K Porter quite simply because of your endorsement.
I mean,,,you actually being IN California.
I was at a largish party quite a few retired banksters in the group. Only one was supporting Schiff because of perceived Porter anti bank attitudes. I feel bad for Barbara Lee–I think she should drop out. I’m pretty sure the campaign to force Difi to resign failed so no seat for Newsom to fill with Barbara Lee.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/donald-trump-says-hunter-biden-shouldve-gotten-the-death-penalty-for-not-paying-his-taxes-on-time
“Yes, that’s former a U.S. president and current presidential candidate raging on Truth Social that federal prosecutor David Weiss did not give Hunter Biden “a death sentence” for his aforementioned crimes, which, as a reminder, were paying his taxes late two years in a row and buying a gun when he was using drugs. This is funny for a lot of reasons, including but not limited to the fact that:
Trump’s family business was found guilty last year of tax fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying business records
Trump himself reportedly “participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud,” according to a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation by The New York Times*
Trump has been accused of much worse crimes than not paying his taxes on time, including conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation (to which he pleaded not guilty); he’s also under investigation by the feds for trying to overturn the 2020 election and inciting a violent riot that left five people dead, and facing potential charges for trying to overturn the election in Georgia.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-alternative-facts-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr
“Kennedy’s habits of mind are maga-adjacent, but his manner differs from that of his Republican doppelgänger. Donald Trump is a bully—rude, swaggering, out to flatten his questioner under an avalanche of lies and volume. Kennedy is not rude. Rather, he is serenely convinced of his virtue and his interlocutor’s pitiful susceptibility to conventional wisdom.”
“…he was kicked out of prep schools, got arrested for marijuana possession, was addicted to heroin, and still managed to graduate from Harvard. He now works as a lawyer, and his income last year was $7.8 million.”
“I was a heroin addict for fourteen years. I’m lucky to be alive. People have plenty of reason to write me off forever because of the way I conducted my life during that fourteen-year period. And, when I was at Riverkeeper, I made a point of hiring people who were felons, who were convicted, who had served their time in prison. And that divided the organization. I believe in redemption. I don’t think we can dismiss human beings, no matter what they did earlier on in their lives. Everybody gets another chance. And what Jesus said is, Not only do you give them seven chances, but you give them seven times seven chances.”
“So, if you were President now, would you withdraw military aid to Ukraine?
“I would end the war. I would negotiate a peace.”
“And what would that peace look like?
“Well, you never know that until you negotiate.”
“Would you allow a peace that allowed much of eastern Ukraine and Crimea to remain in Russian hands?
“I don’t know what I would negotiate. I know that the Russians had come to two different peace agreements, both of which were eminently reasonable. And so I don’t-“
“What I’m asking is: what would be a reasonable peace?
“Well, you know what, the answer to that question is strategic ambiguity. If I intend to be President of the United States, I’m not going to tell my adversary what my final negotiating position would be.”
“What about the voter?
“I’m not going to—I’m going to negotiate. You negotiate a treaty.”
“What’s your go-to way to find out what happened in the world today and yesterday?
“I read everything that I can get my hands on. I read the Times. I read the L.A. Times, although not religiously. And I read a lot of alternative press sources, which are now, you know, oftentimes better sources for unvarnished truth than the mainstream media.”
“Like what?
“On what subject?”
“Well, foreign policy. Domestic policy.”
“Well, if I want to know about what’s happening in Ukraine, I might read Doug Macgregor’s site, or a number of other just alternative sites. I have a podcast where I interview people, and I interview people on both sides.”
•
“Douglas Macgregor is a retired Army colonel. Trump had hoped to nominate Macgregor as ambassador to Germany until his comments about Muslim refugees as “unwanted invaders” were repeated in the press. After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Macgregor spoke repeatedly on Fox News in defense of the action, adding that Russia had been “too gentle” in the early days of the war. The former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has characterized Macgregor as representing “the Putin wing of the GOP.”
Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a dangerous nut job. We don’t need to worry about third-party-Manchin, when we’ve got Bobby deciding he’s going to be a uniter, running as a Dem while spewing Republicans word salad. He’s going to appeal to evangelicals. He’s going to do Bannon’s dirty work for him. This is bad. This is very bad.
I like Katie Porter.
Poobah, sorry, got tied up and just got done with a nap 😴 I needed badly. Your questions …
1. Yes. Almost everyone thinks if Manchin runs for re-election and Justice runs against him, Justice would become the junior Senator of WV. Most people think that if Justice runs for Senate Manchin won’t.
2. If you mean Alex Mooney, I think Justice beats him 2 to 1. Mooney’s a dilettante but Justice is wildly popular. Conventional thinking is that Justice will run for Senate and we’ll see Mooney and our AG Patrick Morrissey run against each other for governor. Morrissey wants to be governor so bad he can taste it.
3. A distinct possibility. The question is whether Manchin’s narcissism wins out over his fragile ego. He knows a 3rd party run as Loserman’s No Labels candidate would be doomed to fail but trying to predict whether the narcissism outweighs the avoidance of being the big loser in a 3 way race.
I believe the one thing that is certain is that Manchin will not run another statewide race in WV. The MAGATs here will never vote for him and I think he knows it.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/politics/rfk-jr-covid-jewish-groups/index.html
“A number of high-profile Jewish groups are denouncing Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false remarks that “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people are “most immune” to Covid-19.”
“Speaking at a dinner in New York City earlier this week, Kennedy said “there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” according to video shared by the New York Post on Saturday.”
“Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” Kennedy said, adding that “we don’t know whether it’s deliberately targeted that or not.”
“Ashkenazi Jews trace their roots to Central and Eastern Europe and represent a majority of the US Jewish population.”
“In a tweet Saturday, Kennedy said that the dinner conversation was supposed to be off the record and that he “never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.” Rather, he said, he was referring to a study that “serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons.”
“According to the New York Post, the event’s organizer, Doug Dechert, said the event had been on the record.”
“Kennedy, who is polling between 15% and 20% nationally in the Democratic primary, is a longtime vaccine skeptic who has promoted several health-related conspiracy theories.”
Yeah, he was also against the lockdowns that kept us from infecting each other, and the vaccines that saved lives.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/right-has-welcomed-rfk-jr-with-open-arms-donald-trump
“Elon Musk hosted a Twitter Spaces for the raging anti-vaxxer, who not too long ago had to apologize for suggesting the plight of the unvaccinated in America was worse than that of Anne Frank’s.”
“Steve Bannon is apparently a huge RFK Jr. supporter, floating Kennedy as “an excellent choice for President Trump to consider” as a running mate. Roger Stone called a Trump-Kennedy ticket a “dream.”
“Infowars’ Alex Jones was struck by Kennedy’s anti-vaccine conspiracies and told listeners he was “definitely awake.” Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and QAnon-linked Michael Flynn both said they like the guy as a presidential candidate too. So why are all these right-wingers supporting a Democrat? It could be that he kind of sounds like them: He talks about government institutions betraying the trust of the American public, and published a whole book attacking Anthony Fauci. But there’s also very likely another reason.”
“As conservative Noah Rothman wrote in National Review, “Kennedy has promoted the view that the COVID vaccines were concocted only to enrich the medical establishment, that 5G cell towers are designed to ‘control our behavior,’ and that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is engaged in an effort to ‘genetically modify’ humanity.” He’s blamed mass shootings on antidepressants and told Musk and Sacks that his “position on gun control is I’m not going to take away anybody’s guns.” He believes Russia’s war against Ukraine is “a setup by the neocons and the CIA.” He wants to “seal the border permanently” and went on Jordan Peterson’s podcast to suggest he believes that kids are trans because they are “swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals.”
“His campaign manager, former Ohio representative Dennis Kucinich, goes on to explain the fringe support as a feature, not a bug—if he can win all the people on the margins both on the left and the right of the political spectrum, maybe he can scrape something together, Kucinich suggests. Maybe not, but perhaps—as Republicans appear to be hoping for—he can spoil the race for Biden.”
I’m gonna cut Kucinich out of that photo with me and Craig’s mom, the little weasel.
“Stone said it himself in an interview that RFK Jr. “will help in the end soften Joe Biden up for his defeat by Donald Trump in the general election.”
Kennedy is their great hope?
Good plan. lol
I smell flop-sweat.
Kucinich not knowing better is simply proof that he’s been a squirrel all along.
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
2h
Again, you conflate contempt with fear. Bannon is a scabby wannabe revolutionary. Kennedy is mentally ill.
Ms. Janet
@MsJanet8591
Replying to @TheRickWilson
I DARE you Mr Wilson, to debate Mr Bannon, or Mr Kennedy. They are both patriots, and truth tellers. Your fear of these men, is palpable.