All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[babyblob]

And what about your fictional statements that they called for such a commission? Or that executive privilege has ever been waved by either party holding the WH? Of course it is the right thing to do to be contemptuous of an overreaching Congress just as it was back in the day of HUAC. Organizing a political solution to a suspect election is not a crime nor does Congress have the power to investigate crimes. Wrong on two counts but hey it is okay because the Orange Man is the Devil.

The GOP never called for a commission . They keep yelling we want the truth out while voting down one that would have had 5 Dems and 5 Gop.

And the fact that you buy into the big lie and call the election suspect shows that you are brainwashed. You and the cult deny evidence for a man who could give to shits about you.

it says way more about you as a person then it ever will myself and the others who dont buy into the Bullshit you big old orange cult monster is selling.

But there really is not point in trying to debate someone as far gone as you all are. You are presented tons of evidence and just ignore it either on purpose or because you are so brainwashed you dont know any better at this point. It is just amazing me.

I live with a brain dead idiot hardcore Trumper so I am not going to spend my time debating the facts with some here who ignores what is in front of their face.

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That you think the committee investigating an insurrection instigated by the President is McCarthyism shows how far down the rabbit hole you have gone. Considering you have actually endorsed McCarthy like conspiracies within the State Department.

That you can't see this as suburban inflected McCarthyism is either your blinker or commitment to your subjective party allegiance it does not matter because your ad hominin jabs evade the facts.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

That you can't see this as suburban inflected McCarthyism is either your blinker or commitment to your subjective party allegiance it does not matter because your ad hominin jabs evade the facts.

I live in the inner city, so what about urban inflected McCarthyism? Inquiring minds wanna know.

[Tendrin]

toward mentally unstable violent women - correction

It's good to know that in addition to your other faults you're a misogynist. This shall surprise no one.

[worstblogever]

Sen. McCarthy accusing random American citizens of being secret communists...

versus actual videotape of Republicans screaming about "Stop the Steal" for weeks leading up to many of them in attendance at the Capitol the morning the attack was carried out. And a clear indication there are phone records between the White House and those who organized the rally, as well as White House calls to those who plotted the attack. Who have ignored all subpoenas to get them to testify, while all but ten people their party in Congress try to refuse any analysis of these actual facts.


Yeah, clearly, those two things are exactly the same.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” ran a profile of Michael Duvall, a former member of the California State Assembly who was a big supporter of Republican "family values" that compelled him to vote for Proposition 8 a few years back to "protect the sanctity of marriage". What he probably should have done to protect marriages, though, was to not get multiple mistresses to run around behind his wife's back with. This all came to light, and led to Duvall's resignation, after he was boasting about a new gal pal in the Assembly itself while a hot microphone picked up him boasting about the details to a colleague, including what panties his new paramour wore, and how she was into spanking. Adding to the seediness of the whole affair? This mystery woman turned out to be a lobbyist that he was literally in bed with. Anyway, Duvall resigned in disgrace back in 2010.

On this date in 2015, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Kathleen Tonn, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Alaska in the 2014 elections who appeared in a Youtube video where she blamed a perceived lack of growth of daisies in the natural flora in Alaska on the presidency of Barack Obama and his support of same sex marriage. For whatever reason, that insane correlation that flies in the face of the scientific method did not garner Ms. Tonn’s video a ton of views, go figure. She then also decided to prove her credentials as a candidate by posting a video where she went to a local sauna fully clothed, and “sang in tongues” to, as she later explained, “save” a woman therein, because thankfully Satan cannot decipher when Christians speak in tongues. Now, just because she didn’t get elected doesn’t mean that Kathleen Tonn has decided to fade away into obscurity just yet. She turned up at an Anchorage Assembly, where she pulled out a multitude of props to make a spectacle of herself, including a Bible, a trumpet, and a tampon. During her alotted time to speak, she angrily read a passage from the Second Epistle of Peter about the Judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, and was outraged that the city was considering an ordinance for LGBT protections so people could not be fired for their sexual orientation. Instead, she asked them to consider an ordinance to protect against the real afflicted minority, people who speak in tongues which as far as signature issues go, is not one likely to see her ever elected to office.

On this date in 2016, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published a profile about Richard Cash, a man who decided to challenge Senator Lindsay Graham in the 2014 GOP Primary for his seat in the Senate representing South Carolina, based on his qualifications of owning a fleet of ice cream trucks. Cash, as it stood, is a climate change denier, who felt there wasn't enough evidence to do anything about the phenomenon, and seemed more convinced that climate change scientists were running a "scam". We're going to go out on a limb and assume he only doesn't want to do anything about increasing temperatures because it would help him increase his ice cream sales. But what was far more concerning was that Richard Cash was quite the social conservative, to terrifying extremes. He was opposed to same sex marriage because "God designed men and women for a unique type of companionship", and he was a supporter of Personhood, which because he believes life begins at conception, he thus would prevent such "murders" by not just outlawing abortion, but most forms of birth control. How far to the lunatic fringe did his views on abortion get? While speaking before a Tea Party group on Martin Luther King Day, he referenced MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, and then segued to his own "I Have a Dream" speech about preventing all abortions, and granting unborn babies Constitutional rights. Richard Cash finished third in that primary with only 8% of the vote, and seems to have gone back to slinging ice cream.



On this date in both 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Mary Dye, a member of the Washington House of Representatives who was first appointed to her position back in 2015, quickly dropped into place after her predecessor, Susan Fagan, resigned amid ethical violations.

Dye popped up on our radar back in January of 2016, when a few websites noted the story of how a group of high school students from Eastern Washington traveled to the state legislature in Olympia to meet with politicians there to lobby a bill they supported. The bill in question they chose was to expand insurance to include birth control. And the girls who made the trip got to meet Mary Dye, who responded about as poorly as you could. Because Dye, for whatever reason, started interrogating the teenage girls if they were still virgins or not, and began accusing one of having lost her virginity before their teacher stepped in and told the students they didn’t have to answer the Puritanically insane Dye. She would eventually give a half-assed apology where she claimed she was trying to be “motherly”, which would seem to only be the case if she was trying to be the mother from Stephen King’s “Carrie”.

Then again, Dye also has been fearmongering against the Muslim community in her district, falsely claiming that Muslims were “staking out” the Snake River Dams with high-powered rifle, and insinuating they might be associated with an Islamic Center in Pullman. Because that’s not just an evil thing to accuse someone of without evidence, and couldn’t result in attacks against the Muslim community.

So far, there’s not a lot in her voting record, save for her vote against Washington Democrats’ move to approve automatic voter registration, because at this point, it’s obvious that the GOP want to restrict the vote so their party has a chance to win elections and her opposition to the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act, which would have required businesses to take special considerations for pregnant employees like considering things like that they might need more bathroom breaks. In 2020 thus far, she voted against gun regulations on daycare and child care facilities, because she apparently feels that not enough toddlers are dying from gun accidents in the home, so they should have a chance to stumble upon one at daycare, as well.

Mary Dye only faced a Libertarian challenger for her seat in the Washington state legislature in 2020, and was easily re-elected to another term in office. She has spent the majority of this term in the minority being simply a “NO” vote to any common sense legislation presented in her state, including bills to curtail police abuse including her vote against a bill to require police to let a juvenile detainee have a lawyer present when they interrogate them, and a bill banning police chokeholds and no knock warrants.

The sooner she’s gone from office, the better.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Well Socialism doesn't work out too well and immigrants are perfect for replacing the working class with cheaper labor so 5G is just the next step in our Whats App 3rd world-ing of america thanks to team Biden.
If only we could be more like Venezuela I guess.

5G is now the result of President Biden's administration? These conspiracy theories change so much that it's difficult to keep up.

[babyblob]

5G is now the result of President Biden's administration? These conspiracy theories change so much that it's difficult to keep up.

Thats all the GOP has anymore. Hell you still have how many who are still bitching the 6th was Antifa and BLM frame up. All the vids and picks of Trumpers there and all the posts they made bragging about it are deep fakes and photoshop.

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The GOP never called for a commission . They keep yelling we want the truth out while voting down one that would have had 5 Dems and 5 Gop.

And the fact that you buy into the big lie and call the election suspect shows that you are brainwashed. You and the cult deny evidence for a man who could give to shits about you.

it says way more about you as a person then it ever will myself and the others who dont buy into the Bullshit you big old orange cult monster is selling.

But there really is not point in trying to debate someone as far gone as you all are. You are presented tons of evidence and just ignore it either on purpose or because you are so brainwashed you dont know any better at this point. It is just amazing me.

I live with a brain dead idiot hardcore Trumper so I am not going to spend my time debating the facts with some here who ignores what is in front of their face.

I see that you have not read what I posted above about Trumpian lies and it never crossed your mind that I am and other Trump backers are ideologically committed to a counter culture that in many instances is diametrically counter to yours so it really doesn't matter what Trump feels or doesn't feel toward me or the movement that is about thwarting the junk that the Democratic party is pitching. No amount of commercials or speeches if going to convince me that politicians are about caring to begin with. We would all be better off if everyone operated from this cynical position about the hucksters that hold our offices as our functionaries. An oligarch is an oligarch and it doesn't not matter to me if big Oil or FB(Meta) is pulling their deals down as long as there remains the freedom and opportunity to alter me and my families' economic position. I am not in competition with the oligarchy in fact but with the other striving groups and underclasses trying to cut out from under me whatever privilege I have been allowed. So don't talk to me about equity because that is just code for giving some other group advantage and special status not equality. The only equality I am concerned about is before the law.

I will leave off with a brilliant point about the why today's Left is junk.

I can certainly call myself an anti-democrat, but I am not an anti-liberal; indeed I am opposed to pure democracy precisely because I am a liberal. I believe that the ruling class ought not to be monolithic and homogeneous but ought to consist of elements which are diverse in regard to origin and interests; when, instead, political power originates from a single source, even if this be elections with universal suffrage, I regard it as dangerous and liable to become oppressive. Democratic Jacobinism is an illiberal doctrine precisely because it subordinates everything to a single force, that of the so-called majority, on which it does not set any limits.

- Gaetano Mosca

[babyblob]

I see that you have not read what I posted above about Trumpian lies and it never crossed your mind that I am and other Trump backers are ideologically committed to a counter culture that in many instances is diametrically counter to yours so it really doesn't matter what Trump feels or doesn't feel toward me or the movement that is about thwarting the junk that the Democratic party is pitching. No amount of commercials or speeches if going to convince me that politicians are about caring to begin with. We would all be better off if everyone operated from this cynical position about the hucksters that hold our offices as our functionaries. An oligarch is an oligarch and it doesn't not matter to me if big Oil or FB(Meta) is pulling their deals down as long as their remains the freedom and opportunity to alter me and my families' economic position. I am not in competition with the oligarchy in fact but the other striving and underclasses trying to cut out from under me whatever privilege I have been allowed. So don't talk to me about equity because that is just code for giving some other group advantage and special status not equality. The only equality I am concerned about is before the law.

I will leave off with a brilliant point about the why today's Left is junk.
- Gaetano Mosca

I would take this more seriously of you didnt defend the terrorists of the 6th in every other post, keep going on about the Big lie and how the election from Trump by Biden. Trying to make a point and really all anyone is doing is laughing their ass off at you talking out of your ass.

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5G is now the result of President Biden's administration? These conspiracy theories change so much that it's difficult to keep up.

It is not a conspiracy to have lobbyists pushing a technology dependent on infrastructure and the spending that goes with it. It is just plain old corruption like the old patronage system.

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I would take this more seriously of you didnt defend the terrorists of the 6th in every other post, keep going on about the Big lie and how the election from Trump by Biden. Trying to make a point and really all anyone is doing is laughing their ass off at you talking out of your ass.

Not terrorists - to me you are the one backing a Lie and illegitimated ruler. Maybe you could say ass one more time to convince everyone of your points.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It is not a conspiracy to have lobbyists pushing a technology dependent on infrastructure and the spending that goes with it. It is just plain old corruption like the old patronage system.

Can’t wait to wait to see what happens when 6G comes out.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Not terrorists - to me you are the one backing a Lie and illegitimated ruler. Maybe you could say ass one more time to convince everyone of your points.

The GOP have yet to provide evidence that the election was stolen (not that I'm expecting something that doesn't exist). Even trump's DOJ said it was legal.

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The GOP have yet to provide evidence that the election was stolen (not that I'm expecting something that doesn't exist). Even trump's DOJ said it was legal.

as if courts don't play to those that rule

Beijing (CNN)A Chinese court has upheld the death sentence for Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian convicted of drug smuggling in China in 2018.
The Liaoning High People's Court said in a statement Tuesday that they rejected his appeal because "the facts identified in the first trial were clear, the evidence was true and sufficient, the conviction was accurate, the sentence was appropriate."

In sum it is not about evidence of ballot stuffing -

Biden’s statement is false as regards the Supreme Court, which never heard about any “cause” or “evidence,” but simply declined to hear the challenges brought by Republicans. It declined, for instance, to hear an appeal from a Pennsylvania Supreme Court case that rejected a challenge to the state’s vote-by-mail law; and it also declined to hear a challenge that Texas filed against election law changes in Pennsylvania and three other states, saying that Texas lacked standing to sue.

Rightly or wrongly, the Supreme Court stayed out of the 2020 election — perhaps fearing the political fallout were it to intervene, as it did in Bush v. Gore (2000), a case that caused Democrats to accelerate their attacks on the judiciary.

Biden’s claim that the election was “the most scrutinized election ever in American history” also misses the point. The election laws were changed, in the middle of the campaign, to allow mass vote by mail — at the behest of Democrats, and over the objections of Republicans. The rate of rejection of absentee ballots dropped dramatically from the primary to the general election, despite millions more ballots being delivered by mail. And private money from left-wing billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg was used to fund local vote by mail efforts in Democratic counties in key battleground states.

Republican challenges were not only about claims of election fraud, but about the legitimacy and constitutionality of changes that legalized voting practices that until recently were considered vulnerable to fraud and partisan manipulation.