Arizona GOP representative Paul Gosar, one of the founding members of the new American Fascist Party, posted an anime video to his Twitter account in which he is depicted killing his colleague in the House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and then turning his sword on President Joe Biden.
Gosar should immediately be removed from Congress because, let's face it, if you or I or anyone posted a tweet like this today, the U.S. Secret Service would be knocking on our door tomorrow. Make no mistake, what Gosar did is a crime. He encouraged violence against a sitting Congresswomen and the United States President.
Gosar, whose five siblings spoke out - and continue to speak out - against him being elected to Congress, has ties to white nationalists and has praised the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. However, if you are waiting for the American Fascist Party leadership, formerly the GOP leadership, to do anything about this, don't hold your breath.
Let's be clear. This is the same authoritarian organization that kicked Liz Cheney out of her leadership role in the party for not going along with former President Donald Trump's big lie, and telling the truth about the election, but refuse to do anything about Gosar or Marjorie Taylor Greene.
This is part of an even more worrying trend in this country. Since November 3, 2020, members of the Trump cult, citizens who I presume at one point use to believe in democracy, have been calling elections officials, school board officials, elected officials, public health officials and threatening their lives and the lives of their wives and children for not going along with the big lie.
As disgusting as this is, the even more worrying trend is that law enforcement seems inclined not to do anything about it. It was this failure to act, or failure to see these terrorists as a real threat, that allowed the cult to penetrate the U.S. Capitol building itself.
Now they seem to refusing, in general, to go after these people who continue to this day to commit these crimes. Threating to kill someone is a crime whether it is done over the phone or through a tweet like Gosar.
If you believe for a second that the threat posed by Trump and his brownshirts in Congress is over, you are sorely mistaken. In Virginia enough people who voted to oust Trump in 2020, voted in a Trumpist Cult member in Glen Younkin last week. THE THREAT IS NOT OVER.
If you love democracy and you want to continue to have a say in who your elected leaders are going forward, the only sane vote is for a Democrat or an Independent, until some semblance of the old GOP reemerges. As currently constituted, the conservative movement is nothing more than an authoritarian, anti-democracy movement who believes in minority rule.
The Democratic Party, after months of wrangling and "negotiating", finally pulled the trigger on passing the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure bill that was first passed in the United States Senate many months ago.
This bi-partisan bill, which passed the Senate 69-30, laid needlessly in wait so that the progressive wing of the Democrats could try to force a vote on the huge "human" infrastructure bill at the same time. These progressive members felt the need to hold the bi-partisan bill as leverage to assure they got a vote on human infrastructure, commonly known as President Joe Biden's build back better agenda.
Here is the problem with all this. The progressives wasted time holding up the $1.2 trillion bi-partisan bill, and still did not force a vote on the bigger bill. They are still counting on their colleagues in the Democratic Party to honor their word. If this was going to be the end result anyway, why didn't they just pass the first bill months ago, and move on to negotiation the reconciliation bill?
All that time that was wasted is time that could have been used to get these infrastructure projects off the ground, and would have allowed the economy to recover even faster from the Covid-related recession. Plus, the decaying infrastructure in the U.S. was only getting older while this bill was being held hostage.
Just as important, is that this delay in passing meaningful bi-partisan legislation, actually cost those of us who are fighting to preserve democracy, a huge blow. The failure of Congressional Democrats to take a victory when it was readily available to them in the form of the bi-partisan infrastructure bill, led to the fall of Virginia to the Trump-wing of the American Fascist Party.
It is imperative, if we plan on keeping our democracy, that the American Fascist Party (formerly the GOP), is defeated in the coming midterms, or our ability to vote freely will forever be lost at the hands of these authoritarians. If given back the House of Representatives or the Senate, America might be unrecognizable to the us in five-to-six years time.
HOW DOES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FIX THIS?
FORGET THE MEANING OF THE WORD COMPREHENSIVE!
The Democratic Party, who I believe is the only political party working on behalf of the American people and the only party who still has some semblance of sanity within it, MUST learn to accept and take the small victories. These small victories will keep voters moving in their direction, and finally maybe give the Democrats the filibuster-proof majorities they are looking for in the Senate.
1. People would love comprehensive immigration reform, but putting DACA to a vote in Congress would force the moderates in the former GOP to take a hard vote. When you pack a ton of stuff into a comprehensive immigration package, it becomes an easy NO vote for the right.
2. People would love comprehensive gun reform, but putting universal background checks to a stand-alone vote would force the moderates in the former GOP to take a hard vote. When you pack a ton of stuff into one comprehensive gun package, it becomes an easy NO vote for the right.
3. People would love a comprehensive voting rights bill, but declaring election day every year as a national holiday might force a tough vote for the former GOP moderates, but when you pack it with 800 pages of do's and do nots, it becomes an easy NO vote for those on the right.
Until the Democrats can learn to accept small, incremental victories, they will never get any of the big change they truly want.
When the Democrats won an improbable majority in the Senate in January, I messaged Chuck Schumer, my state Senators, and the DNC chairman about this strategy, but alas, they ignored it, and continue to use the same old tired mistakes despite being on the side of right in this country for the last three decades. For people who claim to do this for a living, they suck at it.
So the cult members of the American Fascist Party (formerly the GOP), and the braindead victims of their propaganda campaign, continue to scream bloody murder about their freedom, but clearly have no idea what that really means.
They have spent the pandemic crying about their freedom to not have to wear a mask in public places to save lives, and to not get vaccinated, which would help save their lives and the lives of others around them, and now they are spending their time prolonging the pandemic they claim to hate, and in some cases dying as a result.
If that wasn't bad enough some of these people are now protesting at schools, schoolboard meetings, and refusing to grant the people who choose to mask their kids, the same freedom they want for themselves, and beyond that some are actually physically attacking students (other people's children).
These loser, brain-washed parents, are accosting other parents with claims that masking your child is "rape", yes rape, and "child abuse." These claims are so ignorant, it makes me fear for their children because these stupid people are raising them.
They continued to claim that the responsible parents are traumatizing their own kids by making them wear masks. You know who is traumatizing the children? You are stupid! These halfwits screaming outlandish insanity at the responsible parents is what is traumatizing the children. NOT MASKS!
What happened to freedom? Don't these parents get to mask their kids if they want to? And who the hell are these Qanon, Trump-conned morons to take away their freedoms and tell them how to parent?
This is how things have worked on planet earth in America for the last 70-100 years or so. If you want to send your kid to public school, your kids need to be vaccinated. If you don't want to comply by the rules of society, then don't send your kid to public school. Send them to private school. If you can not afford it, then home-school your soon-to-be damaged children. And they will be damaged not because of mask mandates, but because you were their teacher.
If we did not have vaccine mandates in schools, tuberculosis, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, and yellow fever would be running wild in our schools, and children would be dying at alarming rates. Maybe that's what these so-called staunch pro-lifers want, for kids to die in large numbers. Doesn't sound so prolife to me.
The people who scream the loudest about freedom are the first to try and restrict the rights of others. If you are a true lover of freedom and democracy, you must vote out the politicians who have enabled these Fascist Party soldiers who are trying to impose their will on others despite being the minority.
If you have been paying attention for the last year (yes it has been a year), you have heard some crazed right-winger screaming about how the election was stolen and how Donald Trump actually won the election, and that the only reason Joe Biden was said to have won the election was because of massive voter fraud.
These outlandish claims of massive voter fraud, in the past, would have lived only in the dark corners of the internet, and would have been put to bed by the news media as ridiculous, and the nation would move on. However, these dangerous claims of dead-people voting in the millions and voting machines rigged to change votes, have been amplified by an irresponsibly dangerous right-wing media (OANN, FOX News and other so-called conservative outlets) to promote this propaganda first introduced into the ethos by a sociopath named Trump who really doesn't care about the nation, but only his own twisted ego.
This propaganda even led thousands of people to storm the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 to try and overthrow the government.
Here is the hard truth that most of the people watching FOX News, OANN, and Newsmax never hear, the limited amount of voter fraud that did occur in the 2020 election seemed to be perpetrated by Republicans in an attempt to get Trump re-elected, and not the other way around. Here is just a couple of examples.
One of the Trumpiest of Trumpists, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, said he would pay a bounty of up to a million dollars for people who found evidence of voter fraud, and despite the right claiming there were millions of examples of this, his campaign has only issued one check thus far at it was for an example of a Republican who tried to vote twice for Trump in Pennsylvania.
Now it might be easy to laugh this off as a clown show of Republican/American Fascist Party idiots making outlandish claims, but you need to stop laughing right now. Remember these claims prompted thousands of people to beat police on Jan. 6 and to seek out Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi on that same day to murder them. There is nothing funny about losing our democracy right in front of us.
In fact, these fake claims of fraud have made it "okay" for the Republican/American Fascist Party to pass laws in almost every red state that has made it harder for actual American citizens to cast their votes, and to make it easier for partisan hacks appointed by politicians to actually steal the election the next time around. Keep that in mind.
It is up to us as American citizens to put an end to this authoritarian movement at the ballot box. Make no mistake, it is an authoritarian movement, whose candidates now claim on a daily basis that elections are being stolen despite all the evidence to the contrary. Even sham audits like the one performed by the Cyber Ninjas, an organization of pro-Trump hacks, who donated to Trump's fascist campaign for President, can't even find widespread fraud like Dumbo Don claims. This was a group who went in looking to confirm all his stupid ramblings in Arizona and couldn't manage to do so despite no real transparency and oversight.
Here is Arizona's American Fascist Party member Paul Gosar's reaction to the Cyber Ninja's claims that the Joe Biden, much to their dismay, actually won Arizona for the fourth time.
We must as democracy loving Americans to put an end to this fascist/authoritarian movement being executed by the far right in this country, and the only way to do so is to vote out these closeted fascists from all walks of government. We must purge all the GOP fascists from government in such overwhelming numbers in the next election that it leaves no doubt as to who is in charge - the American people.
They will not change their stripes until they see it politically damaging to go along with the "Big Lie" and to support Dumbo Don, and his fascist thugs.
First we must start by supporting our democracy-loving friends from New Jersey and Virginia, who will be voting in less than 2 weeks to keep GOP/fascists from taking over the governors' offices in those respective states.
Next we must target for defeat other fascist Governors like Ron SeSantis (Florida), Greg Abbott (Texas) and Kristi Noem (South Dakota), among others.
Here is a current list of the targets of GOP/fascists who need to be voted out in the upcoming 2022 elections:
Ron Johnson (Senator) - Wisconsin
Chuck Grassley (Senator) - Iowa
Marco Rubio (Senator) - Florida
As far as the Senate is concerned there is also four seats in which the moderate Republicans are not running for re-election, so you can expect the nominee to be a fascist from the Trump wing of the Party (Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina).
These people must be defeated if we are to maintain our democracy, and we must re-elect the following Democrats: Mark Kelly (Arizona), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), Catherine Masto (Nevada), Raphael Warnock (Georgia).
In the House of Representatives, it is a who's who of fascists:
Matt Gaetz (FL), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Paul Gosar (AZ), Lauren Boebert (CO), Marjorie Taylor Green (GA), Steve Scalise (LA), Elise Stefanik (NY), Kevin McCarthy (CA), Devin Nunes (CA), Jim Banks (IN), Andy Biggs (AZ), Mo Brooks (AL), Madison Cawthorn (NC), Andrew Clyde (TX), Louie Gohmert (TX), and Chip Roy (TX).
NOTE: Going forward I will refer to the Party formerly known as the GOP as the Republican/American Fascist Party. I will refer to moderate Republicans by name or as moderate Republicans. I will never stop using the term American Fascist Party until the threat posed by Donald Trump, his Trumpist brownshirts in Congress, and his army of domestic terrorists has been destroyed in full at the ballot box.
Matthew Taylor Coleman, a member of the Qanon Cult, killed his 2-year-old and 10-month old children with a spear gun and dumped their lifeless bodies by the side of the road in Mexico.
This twisted member, of a growing right-wing death cult, told authorities that his children possessed the DNA of the serpent because apparently their mother did not adhere to the same death cult that believes in Satanic cabals of pedophiles who eat children.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS than cults. NOTHING!
David Koresh, formerly known as Vernon Howell, led the Branch Davidian Cult in Waco, Texas that ended in the deaths of 79 of his followers, including 21 children under the age of 16. Koresh claimed to be the last prophet of the Branch Davidians, who forced a standoff with the ATF and FBI that lasted 51 days.
Jim Jones, the leader of the People's Temple, led more than a thousand people to the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana where they were murdered or forced to drink poison at gunpoint. In total, this Cult claimed the lives of 918 commune members, including 304 children. Jones also had Congressman Leo Ryan killed. Ryan went to Guyana at the behest of the American family members of cult members to inspect the situation. When he boarded his return flight, he and four other people were shot and killed by cult members.
Today, Donald Trump is the leader of a death cult in America. How many times have we seen images of a Trump rally and seen people wearing Q tee-shirts and holding up Q signs. The U.S. Justice Department must at this point identify who Q is and put an end to these radical mind-altering posts.
Internet posts that encourage people to commit acts like Coleman did is not free speech. We can't yell fire in a crowded theatre, and neither can the people associated with Qanon make inflammatory, reckless and untrue statements that can lead to death and violence.
The lies and conspiracies that Trump promotes, and have been reinforced by the right wing media outlets like Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax, has had a mind-numbing impact on his brainwashed supporters. Remember this people didn't join the Branch Davidians and People's Temple thinking that in the end they would play a part in killing themselves or their own children, but that's exactly what has happened here with the Qanon death cult. The only thing missing is the sad end to this horrific chapter.
Although I agree with the bulk of the Biden agenda, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is a massive mistake.
While Afghanistan has been a disaster my entire life, the limited U.S. troop presence has for years prevented the Taliban from reclaiming control in this country at minimal risk to U.S. military personnel. However, in a matter of just four months, the Taliban has completely overrun the Afghan security forces and retaken most of the country.
A lot of people on both sides of the political spectrum are happy to see the U.S. troops coming home from Afghanistan, but if history has taught us anything it is that having a relatively small military presence in a nation after a war provides stability for both the local population and U.S. national security interests.
Look at the evidence, the U.S. has kept a military presence in both Germany and Japan since World War II, and now both countries can be considered stable democracies and staunch political allies of the U.S. Need more evidence, the U.S. has also kept a military presence on the Korean peninsula since 1953 - the end of the Korean War - and it has prevented North Korea from overtaking the South. Again, as a result South Korea is one of our biggest allies, and despite all of the North's bluster, they have never taken serious action against the South Koreans.
There is no reason that the United States could not have done the same thing in Afghanistan to help maintain the peace.
Afghanistan, often referred to as the Soviet Union's Vietnam, has been a problem for any country who has dared to try and tame it. The Soviets invaded the country in 1979, and spent the better part of the next decade fighting a guerilla war with the U.S.-backed Mujahidin. The U.S., who was in the midst of a cold war with the Soviets at the time, backed the Islamic fighters in Afghanistan, including Osama Bin Laden until they finally forced the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the late 1980s. This is largely seen as retaliation for the Soviet's backing of the North Vietnamese guerillas a decade earlier.
When the Soviet's withdrew in the late 80s so did the U.S. and a result, a terrorist state was created. Afghanistan served as a training ground for terrorists until the U.S. was forced again to intervene after September 11, 2001 attacks.
For the last twenty years, the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan has provided the country with some stability and allowed the Afghani Security Forces to maintain control, knowing full well that the U.S. was there to back them up if needed. The minute those forces withdrew, it as a green light for the Taliban to reassert its draconian way of life, and that's exactly what has happened.
Yesterday, the Donald Trump Supreme Court of the United States, which has been stitched together by stealing two seats of the three that he appointed, further weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and violated the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution in the process.
The Trump Supreme Court, who voted 6-3 (along party lines), to uphold Arizona's Republican law limiting voting rights, weakens section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This ruling only further diminishes the 1960's landmark legislation that was already hit hard by another so-called conservative SCOTUS ruling in 2013 that withered section 5 of the law.
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which expanded the 14th and 15th Amendments to prevent racial discrimination in voting practices. This was one of the staples of the Civil Rights movement, and it was a necessity then, and it continues to be critical now.
If you believe America has moved beyond its racist past, you are wrong! America has come a long way, that is not in dispute, but it has miles to go. If you need proof of that, look at all the voting laws being introduced and passed in 2021 around the country designed to limit voting, and some of these restrictions are targeted at limiting minorities from voting.
If you study American history, even in a limited way, you will note that throughout our collective story we have always expanded voting rights. We allowed all men to vote, not just landowners, and then we allowed former slaves, at least in theory, to vote, and then we allowed women to vote and so on, and so on.
Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the Federal Government was tasked with monitoring state laws to make sure that the states, especially those with a history of discrimination, were not passing laws designed solely to keep people of color and other minorities from voting (Also known as pre-clearance). This law was passed in an attempt to end Jim Crow laws and restrictions in the South. Many Southern states spent a century coming up with creative ways to limit black folks from voting, and the Voting Rights Act, made that much more difficult.
The Supreme Court in 2013 put an end to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the so-called pre-clearance clause. SCOTUS said in 2013, again along party affiliation, that the Federal government no longer needed to monitor states with a history of racial discrimination in terms of their respective election laws because we, as a nation, had moved beyond Jim Crow. Nothing can be further from the truth. Again, see the current laws being passed and their intended targets.
How does this issue got resolved? Some have argued to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices. Not the answer! This might make people feel better especially after having watched Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell spend four years stealing two court seats. Remember McConnell held a seat open for a year, and then filled it with Neil Gorsuch when Trump was elected despite not winning a majority of the vote, and then in 2020, Moscow Mitch blasted through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett in 30 days despite being in the middle of an election, which was his reasoning for holding the Gorsuch seat open. hypocrite!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These injustices in reality can only be dealt with by winning more elections and passing more legislation preventing states from getting away with this sort of backward anti-democratic behavior. The American public, who fought back against Trumpism in the 2020 election, can not go back to being apathetic when it comes to exercising the vote. You don't like the behavior of McConnell and Trump, vote them out. You must VOTE in every single election (Federal, State and local), and prevent these Trumpists from ending up in power positions. Make them pay with their privileged jobs.
General Mark Milley, the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lambasted Republican Congressmen Matt Gaetz after the Florida Congressmen tried to corner one of Milley's colleagues during a recent House hearing.
Gaetz, who is currently being investigated for possible sex trafficking of a minor among other crimes, was trying to advance the right's culture war grievance when he hinted at the fact that the U.S. military was too "woke" as Gaetz called it, and suggested that the military was advancing "critical race theory."
Initially Gaetz reclaimed his time which prevented Milley from offering his thoughts, but then Milley was given an opening by a Democratic member of the House. Milley proceeded to deride Gaetz without mentioning him by name. You can see the whole interaction in the video below.
This is what the Republican Party has been reduced to. The GOP, with limited exceptions, does not do the work of the American people and rarely offers suggestions for legislation to improve the lives of everyday citizens, but instead spends the bulk of its time complaining about NONSENSE.
One of the newer grievances of the GOP is this aforementioned critical race theory, which amounts to teaching children in school about slavery and the history of race in America. The big beef seems to be that it makes the everybody-gets-a-trophy crowd feel bad about being white. That's insane!
The fact is that this country did have slaves, both North and South, and was one of the last countries on earth to abolish slavery, and it took a war that led to the deaths of 600,000 Americans to finally end this grotesque institution. If that makes white people feel bad? Oh well.
If the story ended there in 1865, one could say, maybe, it was a long time ago. However, that is not the case. Even after slaves and their descendants were free from shackles, they were OPPRESSED. FACT.
In the South they were second class citizens well into the 1960s and 1970s with segregation and living in terror of organizations like the KKK, but in the so-called "enlightened" North, people still made sure that blacks could not buy homes in the same neighborhoods as whites, get the same access to higher education, or banking opportunities to start business to name just a few.
Blacks who excelled despite these institutional roadblocks, were in some cases attacked - see the Tulsa Race Riot. Not to mention the treatment of blacks at the hands of the police over the last fill-in-the blank years.
Excuse me if Gaetz, a trust-fund baby, gets upset when someone tells the truth. He claims that by teaching the real history of race in America, that it is teaching our children to hate America. Again, Nonsense. Two things can be true at once. I love this imperfect country because of the principles that it was founded on that all men are created equal. And although, America has never quite lived up to that principle, we keep trying to get there. But I can also be disgusted by 100s of blacks being indiscriminately killed in Tulsa, or lynched in the South for no good reason, or for Bull Connor unleashing the firehoses and dogs on peaceful children in Birmingham, or four little girls being blown up at the 16th Street Baptist Church or for Emmett Till's senseless murder, among countless others.
Emmett Till's open casket
I can be proud of America for defeating Fascism and destroying the oppressive and murderous Nazi regime, but at the same time be disgusted that American citizens of Japanese ancestry had their property taken from them by the government indiscriminately and put in internment camps.
I can be proud of the founders and the truly enlightened documents they wrote, and the lasting impact of said writings, but still be disappointed and angered by their relative disregard for the native peoples of America and their forced march to reservations all over the western United States, and the broken treaties that led to this inglorious history.
This is called being a student of our history. Not just the highlights, but all of our history. This is the point Milley was making when he says we need to be well read, and attempt, as best we can, to understand how our Asian American friends feel, or how our Latino American friends feel, or how our black and brown friends feel. That gives a better insight into the world we live in.
Milley explained that reading Mao Zedong's writing does not make him a communist, nor does reading Mein Kampf, make someone a Nazi. In fact, our failure to be well read and students of our own history as well as world history is what created an environment that made 1/3 of the country susceptible to a con artist like Donald Trump and his brown-shirt collaborators like Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Marjorie Taylor Idiot. In fact, the right counts on the fact that you will not learn about it or look it up on your own or do some critical thinking, because you would find out what Stuart Stevens discovered in the last 4 years, that it was "All A Lie."
So don't believe me. Don't take my word as gospel. Do the research yourself, and you too will find the truth. I know one thing for certain, you can not find the truth in a GOP congressional speech or anywhere on FOX News. Happy investigating!
If you needed any more evidence that a large element of the Republican Party has completely lost its collective mind, here is Republican Congressional candidate in Florida's 13th district threatening the life of another GOP candidate, Anna Paulina Luna, running in the same race to replace Democrat Charlie Crist, who plans to run for Governor.
I must warn you that the language used by this so-called candidate and self-identified "Patriot", William Braddock, is graphic. He calls his opponent, a member of the same fascist party, a "c---, a piece of s---," among other horrible names.
Braddock, clearly a new Trump-emboldened member of the American Fascist Party (formerly GOP), says that the political threat Luna, in his mind poses, warrants having her killed by his Russian and Ukrainian friends. He says that they will make her disappear and that he will be sent visual evidence of this crime.
I must be clear here. As much as Luna is a victim here of a sociopath running against her, she is not a better option for this seat. Luna is supported by disgraced former President Trump and future registered sex offender U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz.
Braddock also threatens Erin Olszewski, the other person on the call, saying "please do not be associated with this candidate (Luna)" because it will put Olszewski in danger as well and going so far as to say "you have kids." Then he tells her not to say anything to anyone because they will both be in danger.
Braddock who is the epitome of Trump's GOP, claims that the tape was doctored but as you can see in the video, the phone call is running on speaker phone and the time of the call never gets interrupted as it pertains to the relevant parts related to the threats.
This is what I mean when I say that we need to do everything in our power as voters to make sure that people like this never see the inside of the halls of Congress. It was not enough to vote out Trump, but we need to eliminate electorally those people who share his views but come in a much more presentable package like this Braddock fellow.
On the surface, Braddock seems like the type of person who might make a good candidate for Congress. He describes himself as a lawyer, entrepreneur, and former member of the USMC (Marine Corps). They don't all look like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but there mentality is the same. If you live in Florida's 13th District, make sure this douche never sniffs Congress.
But it is not only in this district or the ever-increasing disturbing state of Florida, but all around the country that candidates like this are popping up. If you want to be a true PATRIOT, do you civic duty and vote these goons out. The only viable option in America right now is the Democratic Party - even if that means voting for a Progressive because at least they are not storming the U.S. Capitol, plotting to kidnap duly elected governors, or threatening to kill their political opponents with mob hits. There is a sentence I never thought I would have to write related to politics.
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A U.S. District Court judge yesterday in California ruled that the state's 32-year-old assault weapon's ban was unconstitutional, calling the 1989 ban "a failed experiment" that violates people's constitutional right to bear arms.
Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego, a staunch gun advocate and a GOP activist judge, claimed that "like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle."
That is NONSENSE.
What happened to the right's bullshit arguments about state's rights? They claim state's rights when it comes to writing new abortion law. They claim state's rights when it comes to writing election law. They claim state's right when it comes to writing transgender law, but here California wrote a law that helped save lives, and this George W. Bush-appointed hack, no longer is a proponent of state's rights. SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
This is just another prime example of how the GOP and the right in this country is completely full of crap.
Benitez, who is clearly a card-carrying member of the NRA, went on with his braindead argument. "This case is not about extraordinary weapons lying on the outer limits of Second Amendment protection. The banned 'assault weapons' are not bazookas, howitzers or machine guns. Those arms are dangerous and solely useful for military purposes. Instead, the firearms deemed 'assault weapons' are fairly ordinary, popular, modern."
This is also an insane argument. If you ask any doctor, AR-15's are designed to kill people in mass, and they destroy people's bodies and that's why many victims of mass shootings can not be saved.
I have had thousands of arguments with gun advocates, and they claim that laws will not save anyone, but they have no answers to help save the lives that are needlessly taken every year in this country before their time so that some moron who wants to play G.I. Joe on the weekends, needs to have these weapons of mass murder.
NO gun that has ever been manufactured in this country has been sold out the back door of the factory illegally, and no federally-licensed dealer sells guns illegally to criminals because they risk losing their licenses and livelihoods. So where are these guns being sold to criminals? They are being sold to criminals at gun shows, and then being sold to criminals.
Any person who sets up at a gun show and is not a federally licensed dealer, does not have to abide by federal background checks.
In fact, Texas this year is moving a law that would no longer require gun owners to get a license, would no longer require a background check and no longer require safety classes. That sounds incredibly sensible (SARCASM)!
This is why every election is so important. You can't simply vote when there are dopes on the ballot like Donald Trump. Assume every member of the GOP is a culture-war idiot like Trump. They are extremely dangerous, and with your vote you must insure that they can never appoint these hack Federalist Society justices to the Federal Courts around the country.
I am watching the Senate live tonight as they prepare to vote on legislation which would allow a bi-partisan independent commission to investigate the January 6th riot that nearly overthrew our democracy.
In order for the legislation to pass, it would need 10 patriotic Republican Senators to vote for this commission. Unfortunately, the GOP is lacking even 10 people that resemble patriots at this point.
This piece of legislation was negotiated in the House of Representatives by both parties and even saw 35 Republican members of the House vote for this commission, but despite all of these facts, the Senate will not find the necessary GOP votes to pass this bill tonight.
Some members of the Senate GOP were wavering and were seriously contemplating voting for this bi-partisan commission, but Moscow Mitch McConnell - the GOP leader in the Senate - pressured these wavering Senators by telling them that a 'No' vote would be a personal favor to McConnell, who is clearly siding with the insurrectionists and their dear leader - Donald Trump (FAILED one-term ex-President).
Numerous Capitol police officers, who were on the front lines on January 6th, and Brian Sicknick's mother came to Capitol Hill today to try and lobby Republicans to get this legislation passed. The REALITY here is that the majority of these GOP cowards even refused to meet with the grieving mother of the fallen U.S. Capitol police officer who died trying to protect these losers.
Fifteen Republican Senators refused to meet with Mrs. Sicknick, whose son was a Trump supporter, and 14 others did not respond to requests. What kind of useless men, and they are mostly wealthy white men, refuse to listen to a grieving mother of a man who gave his life in defense of his country. This party, comprised of Trump sycophants, must be cleansed electorally. Only by punishing this kind of gross behavior at the ballot box will you modify it for the better going forward.
The vote has been pushed to Friday because the Republican Party bogged the Senate down in procedural votes related to the science and technology bill. The delay is just prolonging the inevitable. The GOP has no intention of voting for a independent commission because they feel it would hurt this grotesque party in the 2022 midterms. It's a power grab like most of what the Republicans spend all day, everyday doing in DC, figuring out a way to stay there!
The key for voters is to remember which one of these braindead GOP losers refused to meet with Mrs. Sicknick, and refused to put the country ahead party and then vote their useless behinds out of office.
This is a post that has been long overdue because Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) still wholeheartedly believes in Trumpism and all it's disgusting attributes, and he is undoubtedly the most at-risk Senator in 2022 to be removed from his position by the voters of Wisconsin - hardly a red state.
Since the January 6 attempted overthrow of the government by brainwashed insurrectionists, Johnson has gone on numerous media outlets and claimed that the violence of January 6 was not really dangerous or a threat to the members of Congress or Vice President Mike Pence, and that it wasn't an armed insurrection and that it posed no real threat to democracy as a whole. Just to be clear, that's all a load of happy horseshit.
This post includes numerous videos of Johnson spewing the most outlandish garbage that a sitting U.S. Senator could spew in light of the terrorism experienced at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but it is critical that the voters of Wisconsin see this over and over, as well as the rest of the country. The main reason is that this Trump, boot-licking coward might someday get the inclination to run for President, and when he does remember these videos.
Senator Johnson first claims that he did not feel threatened by the terrorists who stormed the capitol on Jan. 6 because they were "law-abiding" Trump supporters. Hey Ronnie boy, they broke numerous laws including beating the police with flag poles. But he was quick to point out that if these were BLM protesters, he would be afraid or fear for his life. Is there anything more racist? Why not just say, "no, I never cross the street when I see white people coming, but of course I do when I see black people walking on the same side of the street as me."
"This did not appear to be an armed insurrection to me," Johnson said. Because the terrorists who stormed Capitol were not all carrying firearms does not make the violence the police suffered any less real, or the threats of "hang Mike Pence" any less worrisome. This Senator from Wisconsin has spent the last 4 months trying to whitewash the insurrection and erase it from history so his dear leader "Dumbo Trump" can never get blamed for the violence. Johnson and his cronies in the House and Senate who are trying to downplay the violence, are all co-conspirators in a violent armed insurrection.
Johnson is bending himself into a pretzel since Jan. 6 in an attempted to whitewash this vicious and violent insurrection. Most people who came to the rally might not have come with the intent to be violent, but also could have stopped some of the violence, or if they couldn't, should have simply walked away.
And below was Ron Johnson's response on January 6, 2021 after the violence. He went so far as to say people do not trust the results of the election, and the response there would have been, because you and the former President have been feeding them a steady diet of bullshit about the election. Listen to the list of all the fraud that he says took place. I guess that same fraud occurred both times he was elected to office.
We can not have delusional people like this serving in the United States Senate or House for that matter. Do your duty Wisconsin, and in November of 2022 add Ron Johnson to the scrap heap of Trumpists who paid for their sins with their political careers.
Representative Liz Cheney appears poised to lose her job in the Republican House leadership tomorrow morning. Why you ask? Because Cheney committed the most horrific of crimes in Republican circles these days, she told the truth. But even more heinous than that, she told the truth as it relates to Donald Trump and the 2020 election.
Yes, Cheney had the audacity to speak out against the big lie. Every time Cheney is asked about Trump and the 2020 election, she tells the truth, and that clearly does not sit well with the Grand Old Party of Liars. You can not be a member of the cult in good standing unless you repeat endlessly that the election was stolen and that there was voter fraud. However, here on plant earth the election was not stolen. Illegals didn't vote. Thousands of ballots were not flown in from SE Asia, etc., etc., etc.
"The election is over," Cheney said in her speech tonight to the House, and she will not roll over and sit quietly by while this thuggish liar, Donald Trump, continues to attack Democracy. And make no mistake, that's what Trump and his friends like Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, just to name a few, are doing.
Unfortunately for our country, Cheney is on a virtual island by herself. She, Adam Kinsinger and Mitt Romney seem to be the only GOP members of congress who have continued to show the backbone to speak out against the two-time popular vote loser, and one-term president. They have recognized Trump for what he is, a dangerous cult leader like Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones, and alike. No, that is not to strong of a comparison.
Trump has led an insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple Capitol Police officers and one of his supporters. He ignored the pandemic, but even worse, he actively undermined the medical professionals to convince people that they shouldn't wear masks or take this disease seriously. That led to the deaths of half a million Americans. His far-right rhetoric about immigrants and other scapegoated groups, has led some of his most twisted supporters to try and assassinate prominent Democrats. It led one deranged Trump supporter to shoot up a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, so he could stop the "invasion" and then of course there was the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh where another Trump supporter, radicalized by Trump and the far right's rhetoric about George Soros and all those made up conspiracies, shot and killed 11 people who were praying.
This body of evidence is what has got Cheney and a tiny minority of her Republican colleagues upset. Donald Trump and the people who keep backing his bold faced lies in Congress are a CLEAR & PRESENT danger to the future of the country.
Regardless of where you live in the country, you must identify these blind, cowardly and feckless Trump supporters in Congress and vote them out the next time they come up for re-election. Only by paying the price on election day will this weird Republican cult ever have any chance of recalibrating itself to something that possibly could resemble normal.
If you still do not believe it's a cult, watch the reaction Romney received at a Utah GOP convention.
The negative reaction Romney received came in a state that he won in 2018 by 30 percent, and it bears repeating that only eight years ago, this was the Republican Party standard bearer. It boggles the mind how quickly the Republican Party has swirled down the bowl in such a short period of time.
Cheney wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post explaining her position, and it is a must read.
Throughout my life, believers in the death penalty, have told me that capitol punishment is a good thing because it deters criminal behavior. I can not pretend to get into the criminal mind and determine whether that is true or not, but the defenders of the death penalty - largely members of the GOP - now are upset that Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts of murdering George Floyd in board daylight.
My answer to those idiots on the right who are defending a guy who kneeled on the neck of a handcuffed person until the life left his body, is we need to hold these bad cops accountable in order to deter them from killing unarmed or handcuffed people at will, especially black folks who seem to be the targets in most cases whether it is warranted or not.
This one verdict, by itself, will not be enough to deter cops from feeling like they have the public's blessing to kill black people when they get "uppity, or resist" and talk back, etc. This needs to happen to 100 or 200 bad cops before they get the message that the courts are no longer going to protect them when you indiscriminately kill unarmed black folks. The "Blue Wall of silence," or police unions are not going to protect you any longer when you kill the citizens you are suppose to be protecting whenever you have a bad day, or they piss you off.
The police's job is not to be judge, jury and executioner, but is instead to detain people and process them for the courts if the situation so warrants it. In the field, a police officer's job is to deescalate the situation, not inflame it.
Here is a prime example of the opposite. What not to do:
"I have not done anything wrong" and "I am afraid to get out of the car." Police response "you should be."
"What is going on?" Police response - "You are fixing to riding the lightning." This is an older term describing someone who was fixing to die in the electric chair. Really? Is that what we do now in this country to someone whose tags you didn't see displayed.
That's right. Before we go any further, this is a traffic stop over his tags not be displayed on the vehicle, but they were in the rear window. If I were this person, I would also not want to get out of the car. George Floyd ended up with four people on him until he could not breath and died. I'm not going out like that. What happened to license and registration please?
The police's job is to deescalate the situation. Full stop. The officer could have talked to him calmly, but instead this veteran had two guns drawn on him, and was eventually sprayed with a chemical to attempt to force compliance.
This is the activity that is happening across the country on a daily basis that the right seems determined to defend. And before you claim that I am some radical leftist who wants to defund the police, let me just say, go banh ankles. I have always respected the police and the difficult job that they do, but I think the police and all suspects will be safer if they address potential risks in a non-threatening manner. Research in other countries in Europe bares that out. People who give respect are more inclined to receive similar respect in return.
Mitch McConnell, the "leader" of the GOP in the Senate, finds himself and his party on the wrong side of history yet again. It must be hard to be wrong all the time. McConnell announced Thursday that he, and the party of "No" (Republicans), have no intention of supporting Joe Biden's infrastructure bill.
Let's break down for a second what this means. Republicans will again vote in unison, if McConnell is to be believed, against an infrastructure bill designed to repair roads, bridges, dams, highways and build new infrastructure projects. All these projects would further help to spur the economy.
Biden's plan is not designed to put money in the hands of corporations, and hope against hope, that it will some how trickle down to regular working Americans, but it is instead structured to get money in American's hands directly through work. It is a throw-back to the New Deal-era public works projects that not only helped regular Americans find work, but also built buildings, dams, and bridges that still make up America's landscape almost 90 years later.
McConnell, disingenuously, claimed that he would like to work with Democrats on infrastructure, but would not raise taxes to do so. What does that mean? How does he plan on building roads, dams, and bridges? Does he plan on doing it with the good faith and credit of the United States? If so, Mitch, that ship has sailed. In order to pay for something like this you have to raise corporate tax rates.
Republicans again find themselves voting against Americans. Polls show that 70 percent of Americans, which means at least 40 percent of average GOP voters, are in favor of Biden's infrastructure plan, and an even a higher percentage of them are down with taxing corporations to pay for it. But despite Republican support for this initiative across the country, you will not see one GOP senator vote in favor of the bill.
This is not new, the GOP also voted unanimously against the Covid relief bill, despite 75 percent of the American public being in favor of that bill. Watch out though, they will try to take credit for what they see as positive aspects of the bill in their local districts as if they had voted for it. They will likely do the same once this infrastructure bill passes. Be prepared to see GOP so-called leaders at ribbon-cutting ceremonies for projects that they tried to vote down.
McConnell and the GOP's political strategy here is not an innovative one. Moscow Mitch did the same at the start of Obama's presidency. It didn't matter what President Obama proposed, Republicans were against it. The Republican party is not about governing, they are about pointing out problems and blaming Democrats for it or scapegoating whatever minority or immigrant group that they think will appeal to their political base. They do this so they can attempt to reclaim power through fear mongering. But when was the last time the GOP passed a piece of legislation that helped real working Americans?
They had complete control of government from January of 2017 through January of 2019 and what did they pass? A corporate tax bill that had no impact on working Americans but made countless rich folks, richer.
The playbook is an old one for the GOP that dates back to the early 1900s. Give the rich more money and it will make its way down to the rest of us. But in reality that has not been the case since the 1920s. Yes the roaring 20's was the last time this theory had merit. Corporations don't build factories in America anymore. Even some service companies outsource their customer service to foreign countries.
Here is President Biden's plan, and judge for yourself instead of letting the fear mongers on the right tell you what you should be afraid of.
Forget for one second that the Republican Party supported the most vile human ever to run for public office (Trump), or that they live in the pockets of big business at the expense of every single working-class American. I guess some people are willing to overlook that, but when Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided today to open every single state business 100 percent as of Wednesday and rescind the state-wide mask mandate, he moved from the realm of incompetent into the lane of deliberately stupid and evil.
The recent good news on the Covid virus has finally given us hope. The numbers have been going down across the board, infections, hospitalizations and deaths, while the number of vaccinations per day have been climbing daily. I guess, for Governor Abbott, the news was to good, so he decided to prematurely derail the train and with it all the positive news.
Using all the metrics, if we stayed the course for about another month or two, we could finally have this virus licked and start to get back to normal, but instead, they've decided to create yet a fourth spike by opening up all the night clubs and bars just in time for spring break, which should allow the virus to be passed all around the nation yet again. College students going to South Padre for Spring Break could be infected and then travel home to make others in their respective communities sick.
Abbott, who has been under unrelenting criticism for his and the Texas' Republican Parties failure to deal with the weather crisis during the last few weeks, now has announced that he will open the state in full starting next Wednesday. It's almost as if they want the virus to keep making people sick, and for it to continue to mutate to the point where the vaccines become ineffective.
This insane announcement comes on the heels of news that Trump, and first lady Melania, were vaccinated for covid in January before he left office. Clearly, he should have been vaccinated because he was the President at the time, but I think it is odd that he didn't do so publicly, and didn't tell his worshippers - the members of the cult - that they too should get vaccinated, which would helped the country reach heard immunity faster. Again, deliberate stupidity, or maybe just pure evil.
Abbott is not alone. The Republican governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, is also lifting the mask mandate. "The governor's office is getting out of the business of telling people what they can and cannot do," Reeves said. One can only hope that this does not serve as an excuse for people to stop using masks prematurely, which goes against all medical advise.
What is it about Republicans that makes them so ignorant and reckless. At first, I believed they were being obtuse with covid to simply please dear leader - otherwise known as Donald Trump. However, it turns out they are all just as ignorant as he was if not more so.
Rush Limbaugh, the original misinformation spreader on the right, has died at the age of 70 from lung cancer.
Limbaugh who spent his conservative life duping "the low-information voter" - his words, not mine - into believing that the right wing in this country are the victims. He made these Republicans believe that they were the aggrieved parties of affirmative action, social security, Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment insurance, the Affordable Care Act and alike, and scapegoated blacks, Hispanics, women and any other group you could think of to lead "conservatives" to believe that these marginalized groups are the reason that they are not successful in life.
The reality is that the Republican Party as an institution and the right wing have made it a certainty that all Americans, white, black, Hispanic, women, and everyone else was doomed to failure because of their support for corporations and fossil fuels. It is Limbaugh's, and by extension the right's, thinking that has kept people down. The GOP wants to cut social security and Medicare, but will hand out billions of dollars per year in corporate welfare to fossil fuel companies that make billions. Look it up.
They are still doing it. As recently as 2017, the Republican Party, who was in complete control of the government at the time (House, Senate and Presidency), passed the biggest corporate welfare bill in American history to corporations so they could buy back stocks, but are reluctant to give the taxpayers (all of us) $2,000 of our own money back. How dare they.
There is no question that Rush Limbaugh used his platform to promote racism and sexism. You can listen to him in his own words, but it is the lies that he spread on that nationally syndicated show for decades, which reached 43 million listeners at its peak, that might have been his most destructive contribution to American life.
I don't wish ill on anyone, but he has fostered a safe space for people to truly foment hate for the "other" through his broadcasts. His show, and I listened everyday for over 2 years because I had a boss that like to stew in that bile, perpetuated the idea that you should hate democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama because they were evil.
Much of the Republican agenda does not appeal to me, especially these culture wars they like to talk about all the time, but I try for the most part to stick to the "policies" I disagree and why they don't work. I try not to refer to Republicans as evil, unless I am referring to Donald Trump, because he is the epitome of that word as was evident by his failure to ever gain 50 percent of support for his job approval for even one day of his presidency. His dereliction of duty led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and worse of all, it was on purpose for the most part.
Limbaugh, the mouthpiece of this "us against them" mentality can probably be best summarized in the following video. Listen to Limbaugh's listener's devotion to the rhetoric that has been drilled in to him over decades.
Limbaugh has spent years indoctrinating the right wing, and telling them that they should be mad, but his party had complete control of the government for two years and passed a tax-cut for the wealthy that further put this country in debt and what else? Limbaugh's listeners should be mad, but they should be mad at Republican Party.
The Republican Party told us for years that if we deport everyone, than everything will be okay. President Obama deported more people than any other administration, and that didn't solve the diddo heads problems. Republicans told us that if we simply repealed Obamacare everything would be fine, but when given the first opportunity to do so, they couldn't come up with a better plan. They are not interested in governing, but instead just determined to maintain power. Be mad at that Limbaugh voter.
In his last few years of life, Limbaugh spent his time in full support of the nation's most corrosive, destructive, and corrupt President. Not surprising to me, but now he has a lot to answer for before God. Good luck Mr. Limbaugh.
Evan McMullin, who ran as an independent candidate for President in 2016, speaks in great detail about the summit that many former Republicans and current moderate Republicans had recently which focused on creating a possible third party to fight the extremism that currently makes up the bulk of the GOP.
At this summit the idea was floated that a third, center-right, presumably conservative, party could be formed or possibly a faction within the current GOP that would battle the extremist element of the party. McMullin, in the video, goes into great detail about the possibilities of both options.
Not that McMullin is asking, but I am of the opinion that it is indeed time for a Conservative Party. It would be nice to have a center right conservative party that again fights for fiscal conservatism (discipline), free trade, lower taxes when possible, a strong national defense, and limited regulations on business. But also regulate business enough so that they don't run amuck on the environment or on its employees. It needs to resemble more of Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan's GOP.
This Conservative Party could work assuming it focuses on these core ideologies of the old Republican Party, but ditches the insane culture war aspects of the modern GOP/QAnon cult. There is a real call for a fiscally conservative party that doesn't spend all its time fighting gay rights, scapegoating immigrants for all of America's problems, and bashing science while also promoting conspiracy theories. Finally, this party must focus on equality for all Americans regardless of race, and that means ending this GOP talking point that there is massive election fraud under every rock. This party must also avoid shoving Christianity down everyone's throat. I am all for Christianity, but in accordance with our founding ideals, religion and government should remain separate. Everyone in this country should be free to worship as they see fit regardless of religious affiliation.
The formation of such a party would lead to initial losses for both the current GOP and this Conservative Party, but this is necessary in order to eliminate the craziness that currently dominates the Republican Party.
This new party would need to focus on getting funding from corporations that have cut their ties with the current tin-foil-hat-wearing members of the Republican Party, and run conservative candidates in the old mold of Reagan, Eisenhower, Roosevelt etc. in all the red states for senate and red congressional districts regardless of state. They should not oppose the Republican candidates in primaries because that is just a waste of time and money, but should instead get on the ballot to divert votes away from these Republican candidates that have lost their minds. This is how you purge the party on insanity. Simply running candidates against these nut jobs in Republican primaries will not work. Bill Weld and others tried that in 2020 when they ran against Trump in the primaries and averaged only 10-15 percent of the Republican vote, and we were still left with Trump as the only conservative choice.
If this conservative party instead helped moderate Democrats win in red states for one cycle, maybe the party could again find its footing. As long as the likes of Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley keep winning re-election, there is no incentive for them to change or for the Republican Party to change. These candidates must be defeated in order to send the message that this craziness within the party will not be tolerated.
The cowards that make up the Republican Party, the bulk of the GOP, voted again to let former President Donald Trump walk on the charges of impeachment for a second time. Trump, who was as guilty as sin of inciting an insurrection, had 43 sycophantic, feckless weaklings vote to let this scumbag, drenched in the blood on the five people who died on January 6th, to skate again.
All this vote does is give future President's the precedent to contest elections, lie through their teeth, and incite their supporters to go and attack their enemies. The Republican Party, minus the seven Senators who voted to convict, has made this country weaker today.
Here is how your senators voted in today's removal vote. Those that chose to support this seditious former President, disgraced Don, should be voted out as soon as the law allows. They do not believe in democracy, and thus have no business leading ours.
It was expected that the Republicans would piss on the U.S. Constitution for the millionth time today during this regrettable Trump era and subsequently this trial, but I was overcome by anger when I saw these cowards say not guilty out load. It is the equivalent, that if, after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, an entire political party came out and tried to deny that it was Bin Laden and his organization who was responsible.
The anger experienced watching those videos of the attack on our Capitol on January 6, 2021, is the same anger felt on September 11th. However, this time the nation was not fuming against foreign terrorists, but instead had to come to grips with the fact that it was our own "countrymen" perpetrating this attack on the seat of democracy.
It is unimaginable that our own politicians refuse to hold the leader of this coup attempt to account. He led the insurrection, and because these losers were afraid of a primary challenge, they gave this life-long criminal yet another free pass. Another get out of jail free card. Another opportunity to claim he did nothing wrong and that he was acquitted.
Immediately after receiving his latest pass from the Republican Party, Trump released a statement he clearly did not write because there is a number of words in it he doesn't even know how to pronounce, let-alone, spell. In this statement he threatens America that we are not done with this monster.
As was predictable, he said that "this has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country." He clearly dictated that part of the statement, because he speaks in that hyperbolic way. "No President has ever gone through anything like it."
He also goes on to mention that he received 75 million votes, "the highest number ever for a sitting President," but omits the fact that Biden received 7 million more than Dumbo Donald.
Finally he concludes with this threat. "Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement ... has only just begun. In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together."
So if this maniacal sociopath returns and finishes the job of destroying our democracy, remember it is those 43 cowardly Republicans who are to blame for refusing to put an end to this tragic moment in history for good.
The trial of former President of the United States Donald Trump, the only President to ever be impeached twice, is nearing its conclusion, and this trial has reignited the trauma of January 6, 2021 in a big way for many Americans.
Despite being guilty as sin of inciting that mob, and helping to lead an insurrection, Trump is very likely to be acquitted again because of the weak and feckless, so-called leaders that currently make up the Republican Party. Despite overwhelming evidence, the likes of Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and the like, are afraid to convict Trump and vote to ensure that he will never hold federal office again.
As much as there is to say about the guilt of Trump, and through their silence, his accomplices, this post was not meant to highlight that part of the Senate trial. This will actually focus on just how disgusting and despicable Trump is as a human being and how quickly he turned on the vile retches that he incited to attack the Capitol, kill police and then, in less than a week, threw them directly under the bus.
Trump would not have survived where I grew up because in my neighborhood, "snitches get stitches," and you never sell out or rat on your friends, and Trump would be the first to sell you out to get a better deal. It's all about him.
This post looks primarily at Trump's words on January 6, and how quickly he turned on those poorly educated saps and terrorists he coerced into attacking the Capitol. First we will look at Trump's speech to the mob before they became the mob. Most of the people who attended that event probably thought it was just going to be another Trump rally where they could hoot and holler, and complain about the so-called evil Democrats and then go home, but Trump had other ideas.
Below is the end result of Trump's months of wild rhetoric which included lies of election fraud and the idea that he had been cheated. The ultimate snowflake-in-chief, crying again about how HE, it's all about him, was treated unfairly.
Here are the facts, Trump has never won the popular vote. He spent three months getting his supporters to believe the big lie, and then in this 28-minute tirade on January 6, he worked these maniacal terrorists into a rage and then unleashed them on the U.S. Capitol. What you are about to see is graphic and disturbing.
Two hours after these domestic insurrectionists stormed the Capitol looking to hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, and started beating the police officers they claimed to love and respect, Trump released this minute-long video basically saying go home. But the video kept the big lie alive. He calls these terrorists very special people and goes on to say how much they are loved by him.
Around 6 eastern time, Trump sends out a tweet on social media that says, what do you expect? He basically excuses the rioters at the Capitol. "What do you expect," he said. "when you have an election stolen." He also goes on to say in that same tweet that this is a day we should remember, not with disgust, but with reverence.
His glee about what the rioters did vanished in less than a week however. Once he saw the reaction to that violent attempted overthrow of the U.S. Capitol and the U.S. Constitutional Democracy, he released this video on January 13, 2021, where he throws those "very special people" that he claimed to love under a 747-sized bus. Make no mistake. They deserve it. They deserve everything that is coming to them. But to watch this worthless, soulless loser incite these people and then discard them is pretty disturbing.
Finally some of the Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol that day asked Donald Trump for a pardon, like Jenna Ryan, who still doesn't think she did anything wrong. All I can say, is laugh out loud. Trump didn't pardon Ryan or any of the other terrorists with her that day. Why? Because he never cared about you Jenna or any of his stupid supporters. You were just a means to an end for this sociopath. She is upset because she was "following the President's orders" but keep that in mind as you navigate prison!
Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the face of the modern Grand Old Party, has been stripped of her committee assignments in a bi-partisan vote on Thursday in the House of Representatives. The vote stripping Taylor-Greene of her Budget and Education Committee assignments included 11 Republican members and stood at 230-199 when it was gaveled.
The Republican Party, which has been the epitome of cowardice in the last five years at least, had a chance to prevent this vote, but minority leader Kevin McCarthy proved once again to be a feckless weakling. McCarthy decided not to handle this situation internally like Republicans did when they stripped former Iowa congressmen Steve King of his committee assignments for his controversial statements regarding white supremacy. King's unhinged statements, as bad as they were, pale in comparison to Taylor-Greene's beliefs. Democrats gave McCarthy and Republicans the opportunity to handle this internally but they were to busy attacking one of the last few sane Republicans in the caucus, Liz Cheney, for having the gall to vote to impeach Donald Trump.
Provided below is just a taste of some of Taylor-Greene's most deranged musings in her own words.
Taylor-Greene is the embodiment of the modern GOP. They do not present facts, but instead ask questions and let you make up the rest as you go along. That is right out of the Trump playbook. Trump never presented facts either, but would couch his lies by saying things like, "a lot of people are saying," or "I'm just asking the question." In her own words, Taylor-Greene admits that she doesn't know who Q is but says this mysterious person is a patriot for sure. How can you call someone a patriot when you don't know anything about them? Insane on its face.
However, her unhinged thoughts are not limited to the above video. She has posted stuff on Facebook and twitter that is just as crazy if not more so. Here are some of the highlights.
1. She called Nancy Pelosi a traitor in a video and in the same video said that the penalty for treason is death, hinting that Pelosi should get the death penalty. She has also liked Facebook posts that said Pelosi should be executed.
2. During her campaign, a poster/ad was produced with Taylor-Greene holding an AR-15 and pointing it at members of the so-called squad - Democratic members of the House of Representatives, which all happen to be women of color.
3. She has called both Sandy Hook and Parkland school shootings false flag events, suggesting that the people killed during those massacres were not really dead, and that these were orchestrated as a way for the government to pass more stringent gun laws.
- NOTE: The Sandy Hook part of this is by far the most offensive of her deranged thoughts to me. I remember when 20 of those six- and seven-year-old babies were killed along with six of their heroic teachers and principal. I also remember when that sociopath Alex Jones (Infowars) claimed that they were child actors. Then Taylor-Greene lends additional oxygen to that red-faced loser, Jones, by also suggesting that the loss of these families was not real. BEYOND SICK and TWISTED.
4. She claims there is no evidence of one of the terrorist planes on September 11, 2001 hitting the Pentagon.
5. She claims that members of our government and the Hollywood "elites", her word not mine, are worshipping Satan and eating babies.
6. She holds anti-Semitic and Islamophobic views. She has claimed that the California wildfires were started by a secret Jewish space laser, and that George Soros was behind the aforementioned Satan worshipping and soul cooking. She also called the elections of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, a Muslim invasion of our government. Representative Omar said she received death threats as a result this statement and earlier-mentioned meme - where she was one of the targeted women as was Tlaib.
7. Taylor-Greene believes that the Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, who killed 61 people and injured more than 800, was not a lone wolf but suggests that he was part of a conspiracy to make conservatives at said concert fearful. She goes on to claim that this was a way to get those people to be afraid and to give up their guns.
8. She has claimed the Clinton's were part of the Satanic cabal, but that they were also responsible for countless murders - including the death of John Kennedy Jr.
This list goes on and on, but the reality is that this women is clearly unhinged, and has no business serving in any position of authority, but alas the 14th congressional district in Georgia overwhelmingly put this nut in office despite being given a more moderate Republican choice - a local doctor name John Cowan. But the modern Republican Party has no interest in electing strong fiscal conservative voices anymore. They have instead become the party of crackpots like Taylor-Greene. And the proof of this again came Wednesday when McCarthy refused to take action from within and again on Thursday when the bulk of the Republican House members refused to strip Taylor-Greene of her committee assignments.
Greene tried to defend some of her previous statements and beliefs in an address to the House of Representatives prior to Thursday's vote, but it fell flat for the most part. She never apologized for her statements and instead blamed the media for the dangerous rhetoric in this country. She even tried to put QAnon and the mainstream press on equal footing when it comes to blame. Like any of the self-proclaimed tough Republicans who are going to kick some ass and take some names, when confronted, they play the victimized snowflake and cry about cancel culture. You can see her speech in its entirety below:
Taylor-Greene, who has now been reduced to a do-nothing member of Congress, has scheduled a press conference for Friday morning - a few hours from now. You can fully expect Taylor-Greene, who is using this to raise millions of dollars so far, to cry foul, and about cancel culture and how she is the "poor" victim in all this. I am telling you this because this modern GOP is very predictable. I'm sure that as I am writing this, FOX and OAN and alike have been pounding the airwaves with the woe-is-me rhetoric.
Today was a monumental day in American history. The nation finally shed the scourge and national nightmare that has been the Donald Trump administration, and moved toward normalcy.
Today, President Joe Biden gave his inaugural address and called for unity. He talked about American exceptionalism and how America can accomplish anything when we do it together. You can see Biden's entire speech below, but it was nice to see a President of the United States again who didn't berate people, insult his enemies and attack everyone that stood in his way.
But as soul-soothing as Biden's inaugural was, it was only part of the return to normalcy that accompanied his first day in office.
President Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki delivered a coherent and honest press briefing. One of the lines that stood during Psaki's remarks was that "there will be another one of these tomorrow." She said that in response to a question from the press that she did not have an immediate answer to. Instead of lying and spewing propaganda, she intimated that she will get back to that member of the press. Psaki further explained that the daily press briefings will again be, in fact, held daily (Monday-Friday).
In yet another departure from a the previous administration, Psaki explained that she had "a deep respect for the role of a free and independent press in our democracy." She went on to say that one of the key objectives of this press office would be to "bring transparency and truth back." The best way to combat misinformation, in her opinion, is to tell the truth even when it is hard to here. This has been a sentiment echoed by Biden himself. The new President has said time-and-time again that he will always be honest with the American people, especially as it pertains to the pandemic.
The President, like he said he would do during the campaign, signed 15 executive orders on the very first day in office, which is many more than any of his predecessors. All of these executive orders were signed in order to bring America back as a worldwide leader.
Some of the highlights of the executive orders include the following:
1. 100-day masking challenge, which includes a mask mandate in all federal buildings and land.
2. Reversed Trump's order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.
3. Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accords.
4. Reversed Trump's Muslim travel ban, which was designed to discriminate against people based on their religion, which goes against everything this nation was founded on.
5. Halted funding for the previous administrations border wall - a monumental waste of taxpayer dollars.
6. Reverse a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
It is so good to see normalcy back and to see someone who actually cares about Americans back in the White House. You can tell he cares because he didn't spend the whole day on Twitter talk about the election, but instead got to work on matters that he talked about during the campaign.
Republican representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado has decided that the rules do not apply to her. This is typical for a member of the American Fascist Party, who flouts the rules of civil society at every turn.
Boebert, who has been on Capitol Hill literally one week, has decided that the rule against bringing a loaded weapon into the chamber of the House of Representatives shouldn't be followed in her case. Why does she need to carry a loaded weapon into the House chamber? Does this QAnon, conspiracy-theory believing nut plan to shoot her own colleagues some of who she believes are socialists and Satanists.
You might claim, she would never do that, but she is a QAnon believer who thinks Democrats are Satanists who eat children in their free time. Boebert, who got elected on the strength of her support for the worst and most conspiratorial President ever, strikes me as someone who is quite likely to go off half cocked.
For example: After the Capitol attack by a Fascist mob (Her constituents) on January 6, some Democrats have claimed that some of their Republican colleagues were giving tours of the Capitol to would-be rioters who showed up the next day. The Democrats called for investigations into these tours. The Capitol has been closed to tours to the public since March due to Covid. This freshman Congresswoman came out and said people should stop accusing her of giving tours and information to the rioters. Wait! What? No one did that. Guilty conscious much? Why was she so defensive tweeting at several Democrats when they never invoked her name?
Here is the thing the Boebert. If I can't walk in to my local courthouse brandishing a loaded gun, and without going through a metal detector, why should you? How dare you? You claim to be against the elite, whatever that means, but yet you have been on the job like four minutes and you want special exceptions made for you. Answer: DENIED!
This is the Trump problem all over again. Trump didn't wear a mask so his dumb supporters decided masks were a violation of their freedom. If this conspiracy nut Boebert is allowed to not go through metal detectors and can carry loaded weapons on to the floor of the House, then what is stopping the rest of the braindead Trump cult from refusing to check their weapons at airports, or refusing to go through metal detectors in normal government buildings in your small towns America?
If January 6 taught us anything it's that guns and Trump supporters don't mix. They beat police officers, who they claimed for years to have loved and supported, with flagpoles that garnished old glory herself. They stole a police officers' gun and shouted that they should kill him with his own weapon. A father of four little girls. These people are sick and should all be locked up for every minute that the law allows.
Boebert is just another side of the same Trump coin, and needs to be targeted for defeat in the next election. You might be in for a short stay on Capitol Hill Mrs. Boebert. Sane and civilized society can only hope.
