The guy they sold their soul to? Taft? Coolidge? Teddy was the last great one. Ike was ok.
Bloomberg Opinion Today: Trump’s Failing Coup Now Even Fail-ier — In the year 2020, an election is only really, truly over when YouTube finally starts pulling down misinformation about the election.
Conservatives have officially become a sad group of angry, bitter, whining, radicalized, and mostly white men, who fear being made irrelevant by the inevitable demographic changes of America’s 21st century and as such now call themselves, wait for it, “victims.”
At his campaign rally in Georgia this weekend, President Trump assured his maskless followers, “We’re all victims. Everybody here, all these thousands of people here tonight, they’re all victims. Every one of you.”
What a stunning declaration of powerlessness, one that prompts the question: victims of who and what, Mr. President? I’m so glad you asked.
They are victims of the younger, more diverse America that rejected Trump and voted for Joe Biden. They are victims of their own white male aggrievement and resentment.
Yes, Trump increased his vote share among white women, but it’s men like him—older, wealthier, powerful—who are leading the way toward the politics of victimhood.
They lie, openly. They distort the truth. They claim that their heritage is being stolen from them when confederate flags and monuments are removed from public places. They rail against critical race theory, diversity and inclusion training, calls for social justice and police reform, and label it “socialism,” which they associate with every Democrat from AOC to Biden.
These folks are mad. But more than that they are foul hypocrites.
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Bill (Bennett) had been a man of virtue and a defender of the U.S. Constitution until Donald J. Trump became president of the United States.
All of that went out the window as he joined Paula White, Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, and so many so-called Christian conservatives in sucking up to an openly bigoted, sexist Birther who cheats on his wives, pays off porn stars, gropes young beauty pageant contestants, and has been accused credibly of sexual assault… (✁ 4 space)
A Republican admission that the Republicans are the terrorists….
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Last week, allies of President Trump accused Republican leaders in Pennsylvania of being “cowards” and “liars” and of letting America down.
Mr. Trump himself called top Republicans in the General Assembly in his crusade to twist the arms of officials in several states and reverse an election he lost. The Pennsylvania lawmakers told the president they had no power to convene a special session to address his grievances.
But they also rewarded his efforts: On Friday, the State House speaker and majority leader joined hard-right colleagues — whom they had earlier resisted — and called on Congress to reject Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 81,000-vote victory in Pennsylvania.
The extraordinary intervention by the president, and the willingness of some top party leaders to abet his effort to subvert an election, demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s sway over elected Republicans is likely to endure after he leaves office and how his false claims of a “rigged” 2020 vote may inflame the party base for years to come.
Courts across the country have summarily thrown out Mr. Trump’s claims of a stolen election. But 64 Republicans in the General Assembly signed a letter last week urging Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to reject the state’s Electoral College votes for Mr. Biden.
Kim Ward, the Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, said the president had called her to declare there was fraud in the voting. But she said she had not been shown the letter to Congress, which was pulled together hastily, before its release.
Asked if she would have signed it, she indicated that the Republican base expected party leaders to back up Mr. Trump’s claims — or to face its wrath.
“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’” she said about signing the letter, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
Russian state media—a reliable barometer of the mood at the Kremlin—remains fixated on election-related events in America.
Affectionately referring to Donald Trump as “our Donald,” “Trumpusha” and “Comrade Trump,” Russian lawmakers, experts and pundits repeatedly have expressed their concerns about the future of Moscow’s all-time favorite U.S. president.
Co-host of Russian state TV news talk show 60 Minutes Olga Skabeeva brought up the possibility that President Trump would end up seeking asylum in Russia to escape any prosecutions in the United States following the conclusion of his sole presidential term.
Skabeeva emphasized that this was by no means a joking matter: “It’s all very serious,” she said, as she pondered out loud about the nature of criminal charges Trump might soon be facing.
Experts in the studio enthusiastically discussed the likelihood of Trump being charged with a bevy of offenses from tax evasion to fraud and sexual assault.
They concurred that Trump’s presidential pardon would not help him in state cases, unlike the recently advanced constitutional amendment in Russia that secured lifetime immunity from criminal prosecution for the country’s former presidents.
Russian President Vladimir Putin can relate to Trump on a very personal level—not only where it comes to a ruthless pursuit of power, but also with respect to the intense fear of accountability if that power was to ever slip away.
While Putin’s grip on Russia is feverishly safeguarded, Trump’s fate is far from certain.
The rabidly anti-American military expert and member of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Public Council, Igor Korotchenko, spoke out in Trump’s defense with a passion that is drastically different from the combative rhetoric that traditionally accompanied his commentary about any other Western heads of state.
If the Republican Party was dismantled, it would be a net benefit to the entire world.
The people who proudly tout pocket constitutions and crow about freedom, liberty and ’merica want to sacrifice it all at the altar of hatred, ignorance and greed.
Gone pecan, Carmen, ain’t coming back; not enough adulting, not enough courage, (and we can start with Stantisfernuthin’) to fix all that dysfunction, just need to wait for them to die off and hope for the next generation.
Today states reported 3,054 deaths from COVID-19—the highest single-day total yet, according to the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic.
The seven-day average of daily deaths was also at a record high, of 2,276 deaths. Since mid-October, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has been climbing relentlessly, with only a brief dip in the days after Thanksgiving, when states delayed reporting daily data.
This past weekend the seven-day deaths average for the first time surpassed the record set in the spring surge.
Today, too, the seven-day averages for reported new daily COVID-19 cases and currently hospitalized patients were at record highs, at 204,356 and 102,580 respectively.
But because testing was so limited early in the pandemic, creating undercounts of both COVID-19 cases and related hospitalizations, the deaths number marks the clearest comparison with the spring.
There is no doubt now: This is the worst moment of the pandemic so far.
Just three weeks ago, as case numbers were rising, The Atlantic wrote that predicting the deaths that would follow “has become a matter of brutal arithmetic,” and that the U.S. could cross the threshold of averaging 2,000 daily deaths within a month.
The country reached that moment even sooner than expected.
America’s racists were there for the taking, the low hanging fruit. After LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 64, Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes knew it was a bargain with the devil but it was so easy. Those racists were a majority in the South and the “Southern Strategy” was born…. With that success, the GOP spread its arms to embrace evangelism (who had no problem with racism) and the immoral “Moral Majority” of Jerry Falwell had a home…
If there is any blame – it rests with the GOP moving away from principles in blatant and political ways. There are those who will make the “purists are practical” argument – but both parties are so far from principle that it is virtually an argument of the extreme. The rejection of congress by so many voters is a function of the only principle from either party seems to be about different models of simply maintaining power. If the lesson isn’t learned of why “professional politicians” were rejected in the first place – this is going to continue to be a problem.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
kaffekup almost 4 years ago
He didn’t even have to pay. They gave it totally free.
William Robbins Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The guy they sold their soul to? Taft? Coolidge? Teddy was the last great one. Ike was ok.
Bloomberg Opinion Today: Trump’s Failing Coup Now Even Fail-ier — In the year 2020, an election is only really, truly over when YouTube finally starts pulling down misinformation about the election.
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
Conservatives have officially become a sad group of angry, bitter, whining, radicalized, and mostly white men, who fear being made irrelevant by the inevitable demographic changes of America’s 21st century and as such now call themselves, wait for it, “victims.”
At his campaign rally in Georgia this weekend, President Trump assured his maskless followers, “We’re all victims. Everybody here, all these thousands of people here tonight, they’re all victims. Every one of you.”
What a stunning declaration of powerlessness, one that prompts the question: victims of who and what, Mr. President? I’m so glad you asked.
They are victims of the younger, more diverse America that rejected Trump and voted for Joe Biden. They are victims of their own white male aggrievement and resentment.
Yes, Trump increased his vote share among white women, but it’s men like him—older, wealthier, powerful—who are leading the way toward the politics of victimhood.
They lie, openly. They distort the truth. They claim that their heritage is being stolen from them when confederate flags and monuments are removed from public places. They rail against critical race theory, diversity and inclusion training, calls for social justice and police reform, and label it “socialism,” which they associate with every Democrat from AOC to Biden.
These folks are mad. But more than that they are foul hypocrites.
✁
Bill (Bennett) had been a man of virtue and a defender of the U.S. Constitution until Donald J. Trump became president of the United States.
All of that went out the window as he joined Paula White, Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, and so many so-called Christian conservatives in sucking up to an openly bigoted, sexist Birther who cheats on his wives, pays off porn stars, gropes young beauty pageant contestants, and has been accused credibly of sexual assault… (✁ 4 space)
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-male-conservatives-think-theyre-americas-real-victims
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
A Republican admission that the Republicans are the terrorists….
~
Last week, allies of President Trump accused Republican leaders in Pennsylvania of being “cowards” and “liars” and of letting America down.
Mr. Trump himself called top Republicans in the General Assembly in his crusade to twist the arms of officials in several states and reverse an election he lost. The Pennsylvania lawmakers told the president they had no power to convene a special session to address his grievances.
But they also rewarded his efforts: On Friday, the State House speaker and majority leader joined hard-right colleagues — whom they had earlier resisted — and called on Congress to reject Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 81,000-vote victory in Pennsylvania.
The extraordinary intervention by the president, and the willingness of some top party leaders to abet his effort to subvert an election, demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s sway over elected Republicans is likely to endure after he leaves office and how his false claims of a “rigged” 2020 vote may inflame the party base for years to come.
Courts across the country have summarily thrown out Mr. Trump’s claims of a stolen election. But 64 Republicans in the General Assembly signed a letter last week urging Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to reject the state’s Electoral College votes for Mr. Biden.
Kim Ward, the Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, said the president had called her to declare there was fraud in the voting. But she said she had not been shown the letter to Congress, which was pulled together hastily, before its release.
Asked if she would have signed it, she indicated that the Republican base expected party leaders to back up Mr. Trump’s claims — or to face its wrath.
“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’” she said about signing the letter, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
~
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/politics/trump-pennsylvania-electoral-college.html
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
Oh, remember these guys?
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Russian state media—a reliable barometer of the mood at the Kremlin—remains fixated on election-related events in America.
Affectionately referring to Donald Trump as “our Donald,” “Trumpusha” and “Comrade Trump,” Russian lawmakers, experts and pundits repeatedly have expressed their concerns about the future of Moscow’s all-time favorite U.S. president.
Co-host of Russian state TV news talk show 60 Minutes Olga Skabeeva brought up the possibility that President Trump would end up seeking asylum in Russia to escape any prosecutions in the United States following the conclusion of his sole presidential term.
Skabeeva emphasized that this was by no means a joking matter: “It’s all very serious,” she said, as she pondered out loud about the nature of criminal charges Trump might soon be facing.
Experts in the studio enthusiastically discussed the likelihood of Trump being charged with a bevy of offenses from tax evasion to fraud and sexual assault.
They concurred that Trump’s presidential pardon would not help him in state cases, unlike the recently advanced constitutional amendment in Russia that secured lifetime immunity from criminal prosecution for the country’s former presidents.
Russian President Vladimir Putin can relate to Trump on a very personal level—not only where it comes to a ruthless pursuit of power, but also with respect to the intense fear of accountability if that power was to ever slip away.
While Putin’s grip on Russia is feverishly safeguarded, Trump’s fate is far from certain.
The rabidly anti-American military expert and member of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Public Council, Igor Korotchenko, spoke out in Trump’s defense with a passion that is drastically different from the combative rhetoric that traditionally accompanied his commentary about any other Western heads of state.
~
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-media-wants-moscow-to-grant-asylum-to-trump-to-help-him-dodge-prosecutions
shamest Premium Member almost 4 years ago
sell your soul to the devil with no way out you did
dotbup almost 4 years ago
The Republican Party is a danger to the world.
They deny climate change.
They deny virus dangers.
They are anti- science and education.
They jump at the chance to declare war.
They promote violence and racism.
They break treaties.
They support dictators.
If the Republican Party was dismantled, it would be a net benefit to the entire world.
The people who proudly tout pocket constitutions and crow about freedom, liberty and ’merica want to sacrifice it all at the altar of hatred, ignorance and greed.
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
You sold (if you ever had them in the first place) to Ronnie and Newtster for the shekels of billionaires and the supremacy of white men.
rossevrymn almost 4 years ago
Gone pecan, Carmen, ain’t coming back; not enough adulting, not enough courage, (and we can start with Stantisfernuthin’) to fix all that dysfunction, just need to wait for them to die off and hope for the next generation.
MollyCat almost 4 years ago
If you don’t focus on the ideals there can be no protection for the individual.
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
A sad reminder….
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Today states reported 3,054 deaths from COVID-19—the highest single-day total yet, according to the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic.
The seven-day average of daily deaths was also at a record high, of 2,276 deaths. Since mid-October, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has been climbing relentlessly, with only a brief dip in the days after Thanksgiving, when states delayed reporting daily data.
This past weekend the seven-day deaths average for the first time surpassed the record set in the spring surge.
Today, too, the seven-day averages for reported new daily COVID-19 cases and currently hospitalized patients were at record highs, at 204,356 and 102,580 respectively.
But because testing was so limited early in the pandemic, creating undercounts of both COVID-19 cases and related hospitalizations, the deaths number marks the clearest comparison with the spring.
There is no doubt now: This is the worst moment of the pandemic so far.
Just three weeks ago, as case numbers were rising, The Atlantic wrote that predicting the deaths that would follow “has become a matter of brutal arithmetic,” and that the U.S. could cross the threshold of averaging 2,000 daily deaths within a month.
The country reached that moment even sooner than expected.
~
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/daily-covid-19-deaths-pass-3000-first-time/617356/
feverjr Premium Member almost 4 years ago
America’s racists were there for the taking, the low hanging fruit. After LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 64, Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes knew it was a bargain with the devil but it was so easy. Those racists were a majority in the South and the “Southern Strategy” was born…. With that success, the GOP spread its arms to embrace evangelism (who had no problem with racism) and the immoral “Moral Majority” of Jerry Falwell had a home…
Thinkingblade almost 4 years ago
If there is any blame – it rests with the GOP moving away from principles in blatant and political ways. There are those who will make the “purists are practical” argument – but both parties are so far from principle that it is virtually an argument of the extreme. The rejection of congress by so many voters is a function of the only principle from either party seems to be about different models of simply maintaining power. If the lesson isn’t learned of why “professional politicians” were rejected in the first place – this is going to continue to be a problem.
librarian4hire almost 4 years ago
Hannah Arendt wrote:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
MAGA Premium Member almost 4 years ago
A the libertarian loves the RINO. Best thing that happened to the GOP was Trump.