I think reporters should stop going to susan collins for comments ; she has proven that she can be easily manipulated . My other thought is how on earth do reporters keep a straight face when comer spews garbage ??
I vacillate between all the stages of grief. I'm currently back in seething anger. I was listening to Chris Hayes and his podcast/show on repubs want to get rid of regulations so we'll all be more prosperous. No, YOU will be more prosperous. The rest of us will be sucking wind. Deregulate what, exactly... drinking water, air emissions, lead paint, asbestos, FDIC? I'm terribly afraid of regulations around animals and treatment therein puppy mills, hunting, killing wolves, trophy hunting all of it.
I don't know what to say. He is a horrible, horrible person, but enough low information voters who watched Fox News and couldn't vote for a women chose to put him over the top. I don't understand how he was allowed to even run again. If the Jan 6th committee actually had any clout then he would be sitting in jail right now.
How do reporters not bust out laughing at these people. Comer has spent the last 4 years doing exactly what he accuses the J6 committee of doing and now he talks about them committing crimes?
"[Marty Makary] is a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins."
Surgeons are technically engineers, not scientists. With no disrespect to engineers in general (my daughter is one), it is a fact that they are more likely than scientists to sell out and peddle pseudoscience and other anti-science propaganda. Look up the Salem Hypothesis.
"Not every House Republican The Bulwark spoke to endorsed Trump’s modest proposal of jail for the J6 committee. But none were willing to publicly criticize it either."
I noticed decades before MAGA how authoritarians operate. They instinctively learn how to avoid giving straight answers, to make baseless claims and pretend that the burden of proof is always on their opponent. That's because they are always speaking to their "base," not their opponent. A "base" that craves comforting lies and fears the truth. They also avoid criticizing each other in public when they do disagree, either on facts or strategy. Because it's never about finding the truth wherever it lies, but to keep the "big tent" happy. And now this GOP "big tent" is a literal cult.
Susan Collins is consistent and pathetic. “It was my understanding that he backed off that statement in a subsequent interview,” She showed a hint of courage yesterday by saying that she would not endorse Hegseth. Soon we'll hear "well, he told me he would be nice" and she'll endorse him.
"With politicians, if you’ve used a congressional committee and you’ve lied and tried to set people up and falsely imprisoned people, then you should be held accountable,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Bulwark. Does this include the Comer committee that falsely tried to impeach Biden?
Acceptance doesn't mean that we're okay with the situation. Acceptance just means saying, "This is where we are - it's the starting point, but it's not where we're willing to stay. Let's shift into all-wheel drive and get more serious about driving through this bog in front of us and get to the other side."
Not so much into the 5 stages of grief. I'm more of a 7 deadly sins kinda a guy. And so when it comes to the so called republican party, I'm gotta go with wrath.
Comer, Boebert and Burchett are the Trifecta of Stupidity in the House. Thank you, the American people, for blessing us with such treasures. You morons.
Now we are coming to grips with a simple fact: our American history. I'll fly my woke flag (I used to call it 'knowing stuff') and point out that ripping toddlers from their parents at the border isn't that far from dangling the babies of slave mothers by their heels and saying, in the voice of Jeff Sessions, 'Now this here pickaninny will make a fine field hand!' I recall marvelling at the way LBJ handled senators who insisted the colored drinking fountains and lynching trees were part of Southern heritage. They recently closed the Indian School in my town (Phoenix) where Native American kids were "placed" for their own good. We used to ride up to mining towns here in Arizona to dance and raise tuition money for children of miners because the Hispanic miners were still paid less than the Whites. To my Republican fellow citizens, I apologize for having a memory which keeps getting called up by recent events in our Republic.
Yes, the US Government is becoming a reality TV show. Bitterness and acrimony are the new substitutes for former civil norms of behavior. George Washington, our first President for those voters who do not know history and which is currently about a third of the population of the United States, warned in his Farewell Address about the dangers of factionalism. Read George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address. If you dare. It is illuminating even though it was written more than 200 years ago.
I think reporters should stop going to susan collins for comments ; she has proven that she can be easily manipulated . My other thought is how on earth do reporters keep a straight face when comer spews garbage ??
I vacillate between all the stages of grief. I'm currently back in seething anger. I was listening to Chris Hayes and his podcast/show on repubs want to get rid of regulations so we'll all be more prosperous. No, YOU will be more prosperous. The rest of us will be sucking wind. Deregulate what, exactly... drinking water, air emissions, lead paint, asbestos, FDIC? I'm terribly afraid of regulations around animals and treatment therein puppy mills, hunting, killing wolves, trophy hunting all of it.
I want to thank Cathy Young for her piece elsewhere about Jay Bhattacharya.
I don't know what to say. He is a horrible, horrible person, but enough low information voters who watched Fox News and couldn't vote for a women chose to put him over the top. I don't understand how he was allowed to even run again. If the Jan 6th committee actually had any clout then he would be sitting in jail right now.
How do reporters not bust out laughing at these people. Comer has spent the last 4 years doing exactly what he accuses the J6 committee of doing and now he talks about them committing crimes?
"[Marty Makary] is a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins."
Surgeons are technically engineers, not scientists. With no disrespect to engineers in general (my daughter is one), it is a fact that they are more likely than scientists to sell out and peddle pseudoscience and other anti-science propaganda. Look up the Salem Hypothesis.
"Not every House Republican The Bulwark spoke to endorsed Trump’s modest proposal of jail for the J6 committee. But none were willing to publicly criticize it either."
I noticed decades before MAGA how authoritarians operate. They instinctively learn how to avoid giving straight answers, to make baseless claims and pretend that the burden of proof is always on their opponent. That's because they are always speaking to their "base," not their opponent. A "base" that craves comforting lies and fears the truth. They also avoid criticizing each other in public when they do disagree, either on facts or strategy. Because it's never about finding the truth wherever it lies, but to keep the "big tent" happy. And now this GOP "big tent" is a literal cult.
Susan Collins is consistent and pathetic. “It was my understanding that he backed off that statement in a subsequent interview,” She showed a hint of courage yesterday by saying that she would not endorse Hegseth. Soon we'll hear "well, he told me he would be nice" and she'll endorse him.
What I feel mostly is resignation.
No way to fight fatal disease.
Cabaret is all that's left.
Why bother to go down fighting when you have to go down with the ship.
"With politicians, if you’ve used a congressional committee and you’ve lied and tried to set people up and falsely imprisoned people, then you should be held accountable,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Bulwark. Does this include the Comer committee that falsely tried to impeach Biden?
“Now we know that they’ve manipulated evidence, so—if that’s the case, then absolutely.”
You KNOW, or IF THAT’S THE CASE? Can’t be both.
Acceptance doesn't mean that we're okay with the situation. Acceptance just means saying, "This is where we are - it's the starting point, but it's not where we're willing to stay. Let's shift into all-wheel drive and get more serious about driving through this bog in front of us and get to the other side."
Not so much into the 5 stages of grief. I'm more of a 7 deadly sins kinda a guy. And so when it comes to the so called republican party, I'm gotta go with wrath.
Comer, Boebert and Burchett are the Trifecta of Stupidity in the House. Thank you, the American people, for blessing us with such treasures. You morons.
They sound exactly as if they're talking about themselves, and they're too dumb to even realize it. They have less self-awareness than a goldfish.
Now we are coming to grips with a simple fact: our American history. I'll fly my woke flag (I used to call it 'knowing stuff') and point out that ripping toddlers from their parents at the border isn't that far from dangling the babies of slave mothers by their heels and saying, in the voice of Jeff Sessions, 'Now this here pickaninny will make a fine field hand!' I recall marvelling at the way LBJ handled senators who insisted the colored drinking fountains and lynching trees were part of Southern heritage. They recently closed the Indian School in my town (Phoenix) where Native American kids were "placed" for their own good. We used to ride up to mining towns here in Arizona to dance and raise tuition money for children of miners because the Hispanic miners were still paid less than the Whites. To my Republican fellow citizens, I apologize for having a memory which keeps getting called up by recent events in our Republic.
Yes, the US Government is becoming a reality TV show. Bitterness and acrimony are the new substitutes for former civil norms of behavior. George Washington, our first President for those voters who do not know history and which is currently about a third of the population of the United States, warned in his Farewell Address about the dangers of factionalism. Read George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address. If you dare. It is illuminating even though it was written more than 200 years ago.