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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Yeah, turns out Luna wasn't a complete lunatic when she claimed they were out to get her.

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    GOP hands Dems a new line of attack: They're for 'Trump over the cops'

    epublicans often blast Democrats for wanting to defund the police. But Democrats have a new rebuttal: The GOP won’t defend the police.

    In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the GOP’s love for law enforcement — a longtime hallmark of the party — is being called into question as some members on the right continue to whitewash the insurrection and even foist blame on the police officers who protected lawmakers that day.
    Democrats are ramping up attacks on Republicans who refused to investigate the riots or formally honor the cops who responded, some of whom were tasered, maced and beaten with flag poles by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Members of President Joe Biden's party are not only painting their colleagues across the aisle as disrespectful of law enforcement, but also arguing that the GOP’s unflinching loyalty to Trump has compromised its core values.

    That dynamic was on full display in the Capitol Wednesday as D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a concussion and heart attack while fending off the Jan. 6 mob, visited the Hill seeking meetings with the 21 House Republicans who voted against a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to police officers for their service during the attack. Fanone says freshman Rep. Andrew Clyde — the Georgia Republican who recently downplayed the insurrection by comparing it to a ”normal tourist visit” — refused to shake his hand after the officer introduced himself in an elevator.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    "**** the poor!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChadH View Post
    Cue the inevitable “War on the Fourth of July” rhetoric.
    Standing by with a “I’ll gladly celebrate weak traitors losing Gettysburg and Vicksburg in the same 24 hr period with you as well! We can even use scraps of the confederate flag as toilet paper to take patriotic $#!+s!”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/stat...20709752786949

    This is some good info on Manchin and voting rights, and includes what he wants in voting legislation. Most of its pretty good (though not all of it) and he smartly wants to pull the Voter ID rug out from under the GOP. Much as I may loathe Manchin, there's no doubt he's a pretty good politician. I've argued that Dems need to get in control of the voter ID issue for a while, and Manchin is putting it front and center here. There are also some bad items here, such as the end to no-excuse absentee voting, but all in all, it's good to see some movement here.
    Good. They need to pass some kind of voting bill before the midterms or we’ll be totally screwed. There has to be some kind of deterrent to the GQP’s fascist and racist voting restrictions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    They were not a third world country when they built up that stockpile.

    If the shoe was on the other foot? We probably would not be in any big hurry to give ours up either.

    I don't like it, but I don't see a really sensible path to reducing their stockpile either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    That's right! Destabilizing the middle east is our job!

    More seriously, you're right of course
    If it was only the Middle East...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/stat...20709752786949

    This is some good info on Manchin and voting rights, and includes what he wants in voting legislation. Most of its pretty good (though not all of it) and he smartly wants to pull the Voter ID rug out from under the GOP. Much as I may loathe Manchin, there's no doubt he's a pretty good politician. I've argued that Dems need to get in control of the voter ID issue for a while, and Manchin is putting it front and center here. There are also some bad items here, such as the end to no-excuse absentee voting, but all in all, it's good to see some movement here.
    While I don't like it, trying to make the best out of a bad situation does probably make the most sense here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    The sad part of it all was that the guy was probably just talking out his ass and could no more call up Russian hitmen than I can get a date with Beyonce.

    I like this strategy. Hammer Qpublicans at every opportunity, get the message out there that the GQP have openly stiffed law enforcement.

    Quote Originally Posted by Robotman View Post
    Good. They need to pass some kind of voting bill before the midterms or we’ll be totally screwed. There has to be some kind of deterrent to the GQP’s fascist and racist voting restrictions.
    I couldn't agree more. Problem is, what's to stop Qpublicans from moving back the goalposts since they WANT those restrictions?
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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainEurope View Post
    Yeah, turns out Luna wasn't a complete lunatic when she claimed they were out to get her.
    It was odd that she claimed all 3 opponents she faces were in on it.
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    In both 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Pat McDonough, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates who is also a conservative talk radio host (yes, this is going the way you think it will) whose entire political lifeblood seems to be to subsist on a constant stream of race-baiting to motivate conservatives. Since 2010, there have been multiple instances of McDonough complaining about Mexican immigrants not speaking English (in Maryland) and people celebrating pro-immigration victories by "popping their tequila corks", whining about "black youth mobs" running amok, and campaigning for all immigrants to have driver's licenses rejected by falsely claiming 9/11 hijackers got their licenses in Maryland. He responded to the Baltimore riots in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray by suggesting protesters' parents should "have their food stamps taken away" for those people using their First Amendment rights to protest, and wanted the death penalty to be reestablished in Maryland and instituted in any case where a police officer is attacked. McDonough's legislative playbook is much the same, as he tends to submit the most extreme anti-immigrant legislation his warped mind can come up with. In 2016, though, he began a new focus on transphobia, as he supported legislation on transgender bathroom access. As we predicted in our original profile of McDonough, he took a shot at higher office in 2016, trying to get elected to the U.S. House of Representatives Maryland's 2nd Congressional District, but was crushed by incumbent Democrat Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, only getting 33% of the vote in the general election. McDonough will hopefully begin fading from relevance, as he’s currently trying to weasel his way back into some political office by running for Baltimore County Executive, while using his radio talk show for propaganda purposes, such as lying about how the FBI raided the office of a Maryland GOP consulting firm. McDonough’s elected career seems to be over.



    On this date in both 2018, as well as 2019, as well as 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled the sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 22nd District, Devin Nunes, who has rocketed up into our “must profile” list after actions he took his role in the Trump transition team, as well as in the Republican House Intelligence Committee’s joke of an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Trump transition team with Russia. Because it’s not so much that Rep. Nunes has made Trump look like a traitor, or that he’s made his campaign look like traitors, or that he’s made himself look like he was covering up his own potentially treasonous actions… no, Devin Nunes has drawn our scrutiny because he’s so goddamned transparent and incompetent of how to cover up a scandal, he may as well have been trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it.

    Devin Nunes spent his high school days back in the 1990s rocking a mullet and passing the time like you would think a guy with a mullet would, then first fan for Congress at the age of 29 back in 2002, winning and spending six years quietly going about his business as most Bush-era Republicans, using patriotism after 9-11 as a shield against any criticism. Nothing too interesting about him, through that stretch.

    Of course, Rep. Nunes’ tone changed around 2009, in the face of Democrats having control over the White House, Senate, and House, when during the debate over the soon-to-be-passed Affordable Care Act, he spitefully claimed it was bringing back “ghosts of communism, which we’re sure in no way was any kind of hyperbole about democratic socialism. Fast forward a few years to February of 2014, and the Congressman was also going “all-in” on climate change denial, during one of the worst droughts in the history of California, no less, when he declared “global warming is nonsense.

    Other than that, Nunes spent the second half of the Obama administration wasting taxpayer dollars so that conspiracy theory nuts could bay at the moon over theories about the attack on an American-controlled compound in Benghazi, but after years of promising some clear links to wrongdoing by President Obama or Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nunes and his GOP-controlled House Intelligence Committee investigation ended up having to debunk most of their own theories.

    Still, all of that partisanship brought Devin Nunes to the attention of the Trump campaign, and he was quickly brought on as a member of the Trump transition team. Only days after the inauguration, Nunes was entrenched enough with the secrets of Team Trump and on their side that he was backing his Muslim ban, in spite of the fact that, y’know, it was unconstitutional as f*** and most national security experts thought it actually would make foreign relations far, far worse.

    Less than a month into the Trump administration, though, the whispers of links between the Trump campaign and the Trump transition team trying to set up secret meetings with Russians were growing to a claxon alarm… and Devin Nunes, the man who only a few years earlier was whining about healthcare reform bringing back “the ghosts of Communism” was suddenly referring to the reports from the FBI, CIA, and others in the intelligence community as a “Witchhunt” or a new “McCarthyism”. It’s only apparently Nunes who’s allowed to fear-monger about the commies, you see, and when his own party literally has their candidate linked to the leftovers of the KGB to swing the American elections that it’s dirty pool to talk about it.

    And let’s be honest, it’s around March of 2017 where Nunes done f***ed up when it came to being a covert operative trying to help out the Trump administration and himself. As the great John Oliver summed it up, Devin Nunes managed to become a key player in “Stupid Watergate”, where if Watergate were happening again, but everyone involved was very, very stupid. Nunes was caught leaking classified information found during the intelligence community’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Trump transition team directly back to the White House and then blurting it out to the public outside the White House to frame public opinion in Trump’s favor. Similarly to how Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself from the Department of Justice’s inquiries into Trump/Russia because of his own involvement, Nunes was forced to step aside after leaking classified information to the White House, then the public.
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    Except, Devin Nunes is completely full of s*** that he’s no longer tainting the House Intelligence committee’s investigation, especially when he’s caught by the media sending his own investigators on taxpayer’s dime to the United Kingdom to try and find Christopher Steele, author of the Steele Dossier. (Note: They failed, using House Intelligence Committee position to taint investigation and attack the FBI investigators.) As time goes by, though, Nunes has become less and less subtle about putting his thumb on the scale, moving on to actually outright talk of “corruption” he’s imagining is happening at the Bureau, trying to throw up smokescreens to distract from the Trump/Russia investigation like say, demanding an investigation Hillary Clinton over the conspiracy theory Uranium One in December of 2017, because no Republican would enjoy giving a Christmas gift to their party like continuing to waste taxpayer dollars harassing Hillary Clinton for daring to be both a Democrat and a woman seeking the presidency. And of course, choosing the FBI’s surveillance of Carter Page, the most suspicious Russian operative in the entire Trump/Russia operation to be the hill to die on, by write a memo about it, saying it was full of “shocking revelations” but once it was released, would do little but make him look like even more of an incompetent boob.

    By February of 2018, Congressman Nunes was caught funding his own alternative news site to try and manipulate what “news” was being spread about the Trump/Russia investigation, and that in no way mirrored how the intelligence community reported on how the 2016 election was tainted by Russian bots spreading those kinds of stories, right? It's dragged on now to where Nunes has started threatening senior members of the FBI and Department of Justice with impeachment for not revealing all of the information they’ve gathered during their investigation of the links between Trump and Russia (when by now, Nunes is supposed to have recused himself anyway, and has already shown he’d leak classified information for partisan reasons) and he’s been left with no other option but to go on Fox & Friends to claim that the Trump campaign was “set up” by the FBI.

    It's almost as if Devin Nunes has some personal stake invested in the matter, you know? Like, more than the average Republican who will just look the other way, Nunes seems to want to outright taint the investigation and declare it over… like how he might in some way be implicated in illegal activity because of things he did as a member of the Trump transition…


    California’s 22nd District has a +8 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, and in 2020, he only managed 54% at the polls. Nunes has underperformed the partisan advantage of his district for the past two terms he’s held, but he has not ceased has flagrant attempts to prevent Trump or his party from facing any consequences for their actions or bother helping citizens in any way:

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    It was odd that she claimed all 3 opponents she faces were in on it.
    I'm realizing you not only get to profile the person who claimed that but ALSO the person caught on tape discussing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    Yes and no, while we shouldn't interfere with their domestic matters, Russia and Putin act in the international arena. So we can not "let" them screw with the Ukraine, or destabilize the Middle East, or assassinate people in England, or cyberattack U S companies. The truth is the combined economies and clout of the U S and Europe could crush Russia. We shouldn't, but we can still make Putin know there are consequences now that hi puppet isn't in the White House.
    Don't disagree with any of that, my point was on "letting a 3rd world country have so many nuclear weapons" as Tami put it. We should be pressuring Russia not to be a bad actor. Because they're much weaker than they were in the Soviet era they're reduced to the strongman leader "talking tough" like we see in North Korea or the Middle East, all they have is poking the bigger guys (especially us) in the eye. Maybe only to keep up that self image of being our rival. Sadly, because it's always easier to tear things down than build them up, they've had a lot of success pushing isolationist thinking among Europeans (Brexit) and here in the US (see right-wing propaganda that's anti-UN/NATO/EU/traditional allies). If they can tear apart those alliances it's easier for them to do the bad things they'd like to do because the pressure's weaker.

    It's why some push for things like stronger state's rights and local control vs the Federal government here in the US. On the surface it makes sense, let the people who know conditions on the ground decide because they know best. In reality corrupting local government officials without national oversight (not to mention gobbling up any media or watchdog groups on the local level) is a heck of a lot easier than doing it with that national spotlight. If we were 50 separate countries in a loose alliance, as some would have, you'd likely find some states with far worse pollution/labor laws/human rights abuses/etc. than they can with a baseline set of standards at the Federal level. We already see to some extent which states those would be (usually the more rural and conservative ones, the same group that would like this system the most in theory).

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    Devin Nunes is not your “average” Republican, he’s the sea-worthy douche-canoe who chose to use whatever power he has to prop up in incompetent racist s***heel in the White House. He currently is moving towards election season hoping and praying he can survive all the controversy and criminal activity he seems to be linked to over the past few years, while also getting his ass handed to him in court rulings about all the frivolous lawsuits he’s been filing.

    While whatever fascist attacks he has tried carried out against the media or critics have begun to backfire, it’s still a question of when the voters of his district realize that they have yet to rid themselves of this twit and choose to elect a legislator who actually does something within their interests.
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