WTF!! This should be sending chills down everyone's spines. Major news organizations should have multiple articles about this from multiple journalists questioning Trump and his MAGA cucks about this. I see nothing on the front page of the New York Times or LA Times. WAPO has an article by Phillip Bump, who I would consider more of an opinion writer. We are in serious trouble and Trump and his henchman are only going to get worse. Trump will definitely run again, either as President or VP. The GOP will have no problem with it and the media will fall in line. The current Democratic leadership is not going to save us. They are too soft. We need fighters. If we want to save our country it's time to organize and get people in power that are willing to fight. We need Representatives that are willing to go low and open investigations about everything that the GOP does.
At what point will the media and the Bulwark stop trashing Biden. It gets old and frankly it's dishonesty simply because you all don't like the guy. We get it.
Never trumpers hate Biden much more than they hate trump. And the coming months of him going off on people they love like Liz Cheney should make you reflect on your hits and misses.
It's hard to think of a better metaphor for the feckless gerontocracy of the Democratic Party than thinking "the guy leading opposition efforts should definitely be a septuagenarian cancer patient".
We all understand his revenge politics is a repeat of Hillary and Benghazi and 'but her emails'. In one moment the rabid committees and GOP legislators say America is over Jan6 so move on and in the same breath announce the investigations into J6 committee members or Dr. Fauci. They will not stop with this until they are out of the majority. We have watched since 2016 how they will just keep using their committees to harass fellow Americans who were just doing their jobs. It just churns my gut that we can not stop them.
So house republicans, consisting of election deniers and those that feel January 6th was a peaceful process, concluded their own investigation? Say, why don't we ask the Japanese to investigate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Or maybe ask the Saudi's to investigate 9/11?
It’s interesting that the Republican Congress is so eager to go after Liz Cheney, but less vocal about going after Adam Kinzinger. Is that because she used to be part of caucus leadership? Do they view her as a more serious threat? Or are they more afraid of him? Is it because of her relationship to neo-con Dick Cheney? Or is it simple misogyny? Some, none, or all of the above?
I'll feel clearer about all of this is Trump demands that she be flogged, naked on TV in from of the Lincoln Memorial. Then he can jail her. Can it be a life sentence? Maybe an execution? He's talked about doing that in the not distant past. I hope the house and senate republicans can attend wearing hoods so we don't know quite which ones giggle.
Representative Loudermilk led a tour of the Capitol the day before the attempted coup on January 6. He wasn’t proven to have had any involvement with the insurrectionists, but, if I’m not mistaken, the Capitol was closed to visitors at that time due to COVID. Gee, I wonder why he might want to go after Liz Cheney?
So it's typical for the Speaker of the House to run his budget policies by a couple of egregiously conflicted billionaires for approval? Please let's not normalize what's happening.
I did not say it is normal. Or good. I said it is perfectly legal. The House Speaker or that president can take dictation from anyone they want. A president cannot appoint cabinet members without Senate approval, but he can have all the informal advisors he wants.
Yes, frustration speaking. But should we survive this debacle there need the be guardrails. Advise...ok. But what's happening with Musk and Vivek pushes beyond reasonable. So much of the norms of this country are held by people holding those understandings and agreements and of course Trump et al have tossed that all out the window. And with that, we are barely functioning democracy. The assumption has always been that how things were set up would hold. That people would value what we had. That hasn't proved true. This has been a long slow moving train. And I've said it here a million times, but it started with Reagan and went on steroids with Newt Gingrich (who remains in the mix on many fronts). (Aside: Also, yes, historically there have been other similar events before Reagan and other arguments can be made on that front. I'm looking at more recent history with an understanding it all matters)
I see the criticism of the Dems pretending things are normal and I get that. I agree. Makes me want to scream. But everybody pretended things were normal. And almost every institutionalist defended the indefensible or defended the erosion of norms and culture wars that brought us here. And they defended it to maintain their power and to stick it to the other guy. And if you were out there pointing this all out prior to Trump, most people called you an hysteric or told you to shut up. It won the GOP a lot of power, sway and elections. And so here we are with a bunch of incompetents with delusions of grandeur running the show and everyone is to blame. And I get tired of us saying because it was normal or okay before, or has been done before, it's okay now. It's not okay. As has been pointed out many, many many times before by many people, we have had a multitude of hideous, egregious things in our history that have been legal that were not just, right, or defensible. We are at one of those junctures with this (and a laundry list of other things).
Why am I not hearing anything about Biden issuing preemptive pardons all Jan. 6 Committee members and witnesses or am I being too foolish to believe that is possible or likely? It's a very sad state of affairs that legally appointed participants in a legal proceeding require exoneration like common criminals. What has become (and will become) of the rule of law?
Some of them don’t want pardons, because they say they haven’t done anything wrong. Maybe they even relish a chance to publicize what actually happened. I’d like to think that the Biden administration is making inquiries and will do the pardons at the last minute, because some of those aides are not really in a good position to fight prosecutions.
The Trump Vengeance Tour is a great orange herring to distract us from MAGA's war plan to dismantle every part of the federal government that serves the public interest.
MAGA is just a front for transforming our government into a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires in a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy", as European lawmakers called Victor Orban's Hungary.
PBS: "Hungary’s Orbán gives Trump an ‘illiberal’ roadmap for American conservatives"
Yesterday, I cheered myself up with the incontrovertible fact that now me, and everyone I know (outside of my MAGA relatives), are now actually smarter and more knowledgable than the president of the United States of America. So that is something!
Poor Mike—once you talk to God, He makes all these “unreasonable” demands! His Angels are just relentless. What happened to calm & quiet white supremacy?
WTF!! This should be sending chills down everyone's spines. Major news organizations should have multiple articles about this from multiple journalists questioning Trump and his MAGA cucks about this. I see nothing on the front page of the New York Times or LA Times. WAPO has an article by Phillip Bump, who I would consider more of an opinion writer. We are in serious trouble and Trump and his henchman are only going to get worse. Trump will definitely run again, either as President or VP. The GOP will have no problem with it and the media will fall in line. The current Democratic leadership is not going to save us. They are too soft. We need fighters. If we want to save our country it's time to organize and get people in power that are willing to fight. We need Representatives that are willing to go low and open investigations about everything that the GOP does.
Mike Johnson seems confused about who is in government and who isn't. Possibly a cognitive test is in order?
At what point will the media and the Bulwark stop trashing Biden. It gets old and frankly it's dishonesty simply because you all don't like the guy. We get it.
Never trumpers hate Biden much more than they hate trump. And the coming months of him going off on people they love like Liz Cheney should make you reflect on your hits and misses.
I endorse the creation of a legal defense fund for targets of the Trump admin's Justice Department.
It's hard to think of a better metaphor for the feckless gerontocracy of the Democratic Party than thinking "the guy leading opposition efforts should definitely be a septuagenarian cancer patient".
We all understand his revenge politics is a repeat of Hillary and Benghazi and 'but her emails'. In one moment the rabid committees and GOP legislators say America is over Jan6 so move on and in the same breath announce the investigations into J6 committee members or Dr. Fauci. They will not stop with this until they are out of the majority. We have watched since 2016 how they will just keep using their committees to harass fellow Americans who were just doing their jobs. It just churns my gut that we can not stop them.
So house republicans, consisting of election deniers and those that feel January 6th was a peaceful process, concluded their own investigation? Say, why don't we ask the Japanese to investigate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Or maybe ask the Saudi's to investigate 9/11?
It’s interesting that the Republican Congress is so eager to go after Liz Cheney, but less vocal about going after Adam Kinzinger. Is that because she used to be part of caucus leadership? Do they view her as a more serious threat? Or are they more afraid of him? Is it because of her relationship to neo-con Dick Cheney? Or is it simple misogyny? Some, none, or all of the above?
she has more name recognition and with the exception of a couple of campaign appearances; she has been low key and has limited her appearances
Kinzinger is on CNN and is an active presence on twitter and blue sky -- he also gives back more than she does
I suspect they go after her b/c she only punches back with a 'statement' and Kinzinger will go further
Misogyny
Thanks- I even looked that up, and still got it wrong! Corrected now.
I'll feel clearer about all of this is Trump demands that she be flogged, naked on TV in from of the Lincoln Memorial. Then he can jail her. Can it be a life sentence? Maybe an execution? He's talked about doing that in the not distant past. I hope the house and senate republicans can attend wearing hoods so we don't know quite which ones giggle.
Representative Loudermilk led a tour of the Capitol the day before the attempted coup on January 6. He wasn’t proven to have had any involvement with the insurrectionists, but, if I’m not mistaken, the Capitol was closed to visitors at that time due to COVID. Gee, I wonder why he might want to go after Liz Cheney?
Exactly, and his hosted guests were taking surveillance photos of back halls and stairwells.
How did these insurrectionists even come to be in contact with him? Perfect person to lead the charge.
Should have been “before” instead of “be fire”. Damn Autocorrect!
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Thanks! I did, and now I’ll know for the future.
Why are unelected millionaires having seats in the White House and dictating policy and decisions? How is this in any way legal and OK?
Billionaires. These days mere millions won't get you into the club.
Jeez, legal and OK, Both? why do they have to be elected? Isn't it enough that they think it's a swell idea?
😂👍
It is perfectly legal. A president can take advice from anyone. He can have his secretary or friend live in the White House. Many presidents did.
So it's typical for the Speaker of the House to run his budget policies by a couple of egregiously conflicted billionaires for approval? Please let's not normalize what's happening.
I did not say it is normal. Or good. I said it is perfectly legal. The House Speaker or that president can take dictation from anyone they want. A president cannot appoint cabinet members without Senate approval, but he can have all the informal advisors he wants.
Yes, frustration speaking. But should we survive this debacle there need the be guardrails. Advise...ok. But what's happening with Musk and Vivek pushes beyond reasonable. So much of the norms of this country are held by people holding those understandings and agreements and of course Trump et al have tossed that all out the window. And with that, we are barely functioning democracy. The assumption has always been that how things were set up would hold. That people would value what we had. That hasn't proved true. This has been a long slow moving train. And I've said it here a million times, but it started with Reagan and went on steroids with Newt Gingrich (who remains in the mix on many fronts). (Aside: Also, yes, historically there have been other similar events before Reagan and other arguments can be made on that front. I'm looking at more recent history with an understanding it all matters)
I see the criticism of the Dems pretending things are normal and I get that. I agree. Makes me want to scream. But everybody pretended things were normal. And almost every institutionalist defended the indefensible or defended the erosion of norms and culture wars that brought us here. And they defended it to maintain their power and to stick it to the other guy. And if you were out there pointing this all out prior to Trump, most people called you an hysteric or told you to shut up. It won the GOP a lot of power, sway and elections. And so here we are with a bunch of incompetents with delusions of grandeur running the show and everyone is to blame. And I get tired of us saying because it was normal or okay before, or has been done before, it's okay now. It's not okay. As has been pointed out many, many many times before by many people, we have had a multitude of hideous, egregious things in our history that have been legal that were not just, right, or defensible. We are at one of those junctures with this (and a laundry list of other things).
Well at least our oligarchs are doing it in public now. That's an improvement of sorts.
Why am I not hearing anything about Biden issuing preemptive pardons all Jan. 6 Committee members and witnesses or am I being too foolish to believe that is possible or likely? It's a very sad state of affairs that legally appointed participants in a legal proceeding require exoneration like common criminals. What has become (and will become) of the rule of law?
Some of them don’t want pardons, because they say they haven’t done anything wrong. Maybe they even relish a chance to publicize what actually happened. I’d like to think that the Biden administration is making inquiries and will do the pardons at the last minute, because some of those aides are not really in a good position to fight prosecutions.
The Trump Vengeance Tour is a great orange herring to distract us from MAGA's war plan to dismantle every part of the federal government that serves the public interest.
MAGA is just a front for transforming our government into a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires in a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy", as European lawmakers called Victor Orban's Hungary.
PBS: "Hungary’s Orbán gives Trump an ‘illiberal’ roadmap for American conservatives"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hungarys-orban-gives-trump-an-illiberal-roadmap-for-american-conservatives
Btw, as we love to give celebrity couples combined nicknames, do we call Elon & Donald "Trusk" or "Mump"?
#SaveAmerica #NeverMAGA #NeverTechnoFeudalism
I prefer mump, because it is a disease.
Well, at least Tulsi knows where Syria and Iran are … a step up from Trump 1.0.
Yesterday, I cheered myself up with the incontrovertible fact that now me, and everyone I know (outside of my MAGA relatives), are now actually smarter and more knowledgable than the president of the United States of America. So that is something!
As to going after Liz Cheney first … NO!!! Do me first, daddy, I been a bad, bad boy. Try me, convict me, then find me an ambassadorship.
Monte Carlo is good.
Poor Mike—once you talk to God, He makes all these “unreasonable” demands! His Angels are just relentless. What happened to calm & quiet white supremacy?