https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946381523/right-wing-embrace-of-conspiracy-is-mass-radicalization-experts-warn?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
For some reason, this article evokes images of the OKC bombing in my mind. That was another period of right wing radicalism. The current situation feels worse, though.
Because at least when that domestic terror attack happened, our politicians and media rallied together to denounce it.
You didn’t have people creating multimillion dollar funds for Timothy Mcveigh’s defense, political leaders saying that maybe we need to listen to the Mcveighs of the world, and anybody attempting to justify him was immediately shunned.
We don’t have that now. If another domestic terror attack like that happened, it would split the country.… Continue reading
President Trump signed a bill to extend unemployment benefits and avert a government shutdown, the White House said in an emailed statement Sunday evening. While Trump signed the current bill providing for $600 checks for most Americans hours before a midnight government shutdown deadline, he will continue his push to bring that amount to $2,000, according to two sources familiar with the planning.
Trump’s delay in signing the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill and $1.4 trillion government funding measure caused unemployment benefits for millions of Americans to lapse overnight. A bipartisan group of lawmakers, angered over the delay, urged Trump earlier on Sunday to sign the measure, saying “too many people” depended on it.… Continue reading
I’ve wondered the same thing, and have concluded there are 2 groups.
The first are rural imbeciles who literally are THAT dumb that they can’t see a walking cartoon conman. These are the same people who give TV preachers their money and so on.
The second, and larger group, are people who know full well that he’s a liar and a crook and a cheat and everything else, but they don’t care because he’s on THEIR side, and they WANT him to do whatever it takes to “win” their white culture war and make liberals cry.
I’d argue there’s a third group.… Continue reading
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/virginia-biden-mcauliffe-youngkin/2021/10/31/aa8c6d62-384b-11ec-8be3-e14aaacfa8ac_story.html
We’ve had a very good couple of years of getting things done in VA. The reason this election is so close is because the GOP culture war and fear mongering works on a lot more people than it should.
Apparently this is politics in America in 2021. If Party A hasn’t fixed every problem in the country/world since the last election vote for Party B. When Party B fails to fix everything vote for Party A again.
Then sit back and wonder why things continue to go to shit when we’re rapidly switching gears between very different policy agendas and strategies and there’s little continuity in government.… Continue reading
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/03/progressives-virginia-loss-corporate-democrats-have-only-themselves-blame
Democrats always lose when they second guess what Republican voters want and then pander to that.
I’ll never understand this… the answer to what Republican voters want is… Republican politicians. There’s no way to appease that. They want to see and R and 95%+ of them don’t care about anything else.
ACA proved that. Obama went with a full appeasement strat: 1:1 introduce healthcare approach by top Repiblican candidate.
But because it was now a Democrat plan, states chose this hill to, in many cases literally, die on – rather than allow a black Democrat install republican policy on national level.… Continue reading
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-kinzinger-marjorie-taylor-greene-communist-infrastructure-highways_n_6187163ae4b0c8666bdd9f9d
She’s one of the worst extremist politicians out there. Everything Democratic is communism, every Democrat is a socialist, every bill not brought forth by Republicans is wasteful, illegal, blah blah blah. She insists on voting No on anything put forth by Democrats, just because it’s from Dems. Yet everyone knows if Republicans put forth the same bill, she’d be screaming for it to be passed. She is a grifter, a fearmonger, a hypocrite and a bigot.
If it had been Democrats who stormed the Capitol to try to disrupt the confirmation of Trump as President, she absolutely would be calling for the death penalty for all of them.… Continue reading
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nascar-brandon-brown-lets-go-brandon-corporations-marketability-tough
I feel absolutely gutted for this guy.
For those of you who don’t follow NASCAR, Brandon Brown competes in the Xfinity Series, which can be thought of as the second division of NASCAR. He raced for years at lower levels before starting his own team with his dad in 2019.
He has grinder his way up the ladder. Starting off with secondhand equipment and part-time sponsors, he’s slowly built his way up into a fairly consistent top-20 contender, despite having to employ as many as 25 different sponsors for a 33 race season.
This year, he became a feel-good story as his father has been battling cancer, and unfortunately couldn’t be at the track for the first time in Brandon’s career.… Continue reading
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-it-wise-bar-democrats-who-move-red-states-voting-1664155
On Wednesday, the Georgia congresswoman posted on Twitter that “brainwashed people” who move from California and New York need a “cooling-off period.” Her comment was in response to a Twitter user who wrote he supports discriminating against Democratic transplants, including restricting their ability to vote for a period of time. He also wrote that they should have to “pay a tax for their sins.”
Republicans are waging full scale war on our voting institutions. This isn’t some off hand joke, it’s a statement from an elected US official. She deadass believes this, and odds are good that swaths of republicans do as well.… Continue reading
We knew their infrastructure was crap when Harvey happened. Now this. My dad is still talking about “add DC and we will secede” and “Texas will have its own refinery and oil and jobs and wealth” and I clapped back that he better call his state representatives to pull that hand back for federal aid. One thing Texans always brags about is how they have their own independent power grid. How’s that working out?
Well, the point was to avoid regulations that would force them to do things like winterize their system.
So, exactly like intended?
It’s like trump gutting Obama’s pandemic system.… Continue reading
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