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Legal Eagle: How lawyers fight climate change

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Culture wars ♬

Amber Ruffin: Why can’t America have nice things? Two words—“Economic anxiety”

Vox: Texas’s power disaster is a warning sign for the US

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Robert Reich: The truth about guaranteed income

John Oliver: Raids!

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Andre Antunes: ♫ ‘Shaking head prophetess’ goes Heavy Metal ♬

Stephen: Uh-oh, Nevada wants to let corporations form their own governments

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

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Amber Ruffin: ♫ “I Love It When a Man Tells Me What To Do ♬

Mark Fiore: Best frienemies forever

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ CPAC is Mecca for conservatives ♬

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Comments

  1. 1

    When March 4th approached, I noticed the conspiracy theorists just came up with a new date.

  2. 2

    San Francisco’s iconic Cable Cars have been suspended since the beginning of the Pandemic. Looks like, with the vaccine available, the Powell-Hyde line will be running by the fall. The F-Market and Wharves line will be running by May. The F-line uses rolling stock comprised of Electric Streetcars dating from 1912 to the 1950s. It too has been suspended since the Pandemic.

    https://www.sfmta.com/blog/update-cable-cars-and-munis-historic-fleet

    The cable cars, with their higher fares, are mainly oriented towards tourists, $8, vs $2.50/3.00 for bus, MuniMetro, and historic streetcar.

  3. 3

    Steve clings more tightly than anybody else.

    As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever

    The key point to emphasize here is that threats and dangers are not binary: they either exist or they are fully illusory. They reside on a spectrum. To insist that they be discussed rationally, soberly and truthfully is not to deny the existence of the threat itself. One can demand a rational and fact-based understanding of the magnitude of the threat revealed by the January 6 riot without denying that there is any danger at all.

    Alas, RawStory is neither rational nor fact-based. And so neither is Steve.

  4. 4

    Remember when GWB43’s approval rating exceeded 90%?

    Bullshit like this means nothing. People who think money is free want free money. Tell them their kids won’t have jobs if they insist on too much free money and they start to realize that it’s not free money after all.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Pramila Jayapal
    ✔
    @PramilaJayapal
    Two-thirds of Americans want a $15 minimum wage: Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans.

    We must listen to them and deliver 32 million workers the long overdue raise they deserve.

    4h

    We must not listen to idiots, Pramila. You included.

  5. 5

    Railfan @ 1

    There will always be a new conspiracy theory. Without one people like The Even Bigger Fucking Moron are at risk to begin thinking for themselves.

  6. 6

    Get a load of the easily triggered traitor Doctor Dumbfuck.

    There was no insurrection on 1/6. There was no QAnon saying the date of The Storm was now March 4th. And now QAnon isn’t saying the date for The Storm hasn’t slipped from the 4th to the 20th.

    After spewing this fucking horseshit, he says Raw Story isn’t rational and counters with Glenn Fucking Greenwald. What a fucktard.

    https://www.rawstory.com/

    I love how a mere link to Raw Story causes the stupid fuckting traitor’s head to explode.

  8. 8

    Bob would desperately like to forget of January 6th, the day the GOP Insurrectionists tried to undemocratically overthrow their governement based on the lies of the dictatorship regime that they themselves cheated to get to office via a ton of voter fraud, that killed and assualted cops.

    Never forget! Yeah right 9/11 was a terrorist act. Never forget. 9/11 didn’t happen. The moon landing never happened. Sandy Hook never happened.

    The 1/6/21 Insurrection – Bob would like to think that it never happened. He supports the killing of LEO and assault of LEO and he doesn’t even think that if that happens the individuals should pay with imprisonment. Prisons are only for the Blacks. And the gays? Push them over the edge of a roof.

    Bob legitimized ISIS and the Taliban. The American GOP are The American Taliban. Bob is a member of the American Taliban. Heil Fuckhump!

  9. 9

    @7 shit Steve, I didn’t read your comment before making my own comment @8. I only got as far down as reading @3 then made my comment.

    Bob is a Terrorist. A Troll Terrorist. Bringing this country to its knees (yeah funny Bob) due to his love of dictatorship and racism and bigotry, due to the love and greed of money.

  10. 10

    Republicans are LEO assaulters. They cause death, destruction and harm to LEO. And Bob loves it.

    Bob is a RINO.

  11. 11

    To insist that they be discussed rationally, soberly and truthfully is not to deny the existence of the threat itself.

    Until it’s a child holding a toy… when that child is black.

    Tara, when you find yourself relying on Glenn Greenwald for the intellectual “thrust” of your arguments, it is time to put that shovel down.

  12. 12

    Most of the several hundred low level domestic terrorists arrested so far who participated in the Jan. 6th terror attack on The Capitol are blaming “God” for their part in the attack.

    That’s probably Tara’s best plan too.

  13. 13

    This kind of shit really doesn’t help GQP chances of clawing back Arizona:
    https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-largely-silent-after-member-speaks-white-nationalist-s-event-n1259729

    But they have no other choices left. They simply can’t afford to meaningfully distance themselves from the white supremacist voter base. Instead, their last shred of hope lies in clinging to that base, turning them out even more, and convincing them that their white supremacism is “justified”.

  14. 14

    Speaking of discussing threats “rationally, soberly and truthfully”, nearly every single one of the more than 300 domestic terrorism suspects arrested so far in the Jan. 6th terror attack on The Capitol have stated either in social media comments, in media interviews, or in pre-trial hearings that the purpose for their illegal presence inside The Capitol was “to do everything possible to ensure that President Trump would be sworn in as President on Jan. 20th”. This stated purpose was even published in many of the documents used to organize and promote the terror attack.

    It’s important to note, when discussing individuals accused of taking part in the domestic terror attack like this one, that each individual criminal defendant is charged and set for trial based on the evidence of their own actions and intentions in taking part in the attack. Those who entered The Capitol unlawfully only after the police had been overrun, who are not known to have committed vandalism or theft, who did not assist in gaining entry or summon others for that purpose, who did not commit any assaults, nor express any intention of doing so are being charged with misdemeanors relating to unlawful entry and trespass. Those who in addition committed vandalism or theft face more serious charges. Those who expressed specific violent intentions, even without committing violent assaults, face still more serious charges. And those who breached the entry points or assaulted police face the most serious charges.

    That’s all pretty standard playbook for this kind of violent mass criminal attack against the government. And nothing about the particulars of the charges and evidence against any single individual defendant is going to be very informative or give a clear picture about the overall terror attack itself. That’s why the pre-event planning communications and tactical communications of the most seriously charged defendants is of such interest to prosecutors and the courts. Those statements of tactical objectives, like occupying certain locations or positions, gaining possession of documents or resources, targeting of specific lawmakers, and staging of armed reinforcements more clearly describe the serious and violent nature of the terror attack itself. And of course the one common thread that ties it all together: the stated intention “to do everything possible to ensure that President Trump would be sworn in as President on Jan. 20th”.

    And that’s is a discussion that no Republican wants to have at all. They’d much rather talk about Green Eggs and Ham.

  15. 15

    When do kids in “cages” not matter? When they’re caged because that’s where Team Biden put them.

    A memo issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tells service providers to “temporarily increase capacity to full licensed capacity … while implementing and adhering to strict COVID-19 mitigation measures.” It’s not immediately clear how many beds will come available beyond the roughly 7,000 that were online last month. HHS’ fully licensed capacity was over 13,000 beds late last year.

    Some facilities have reduced their capacity by as much as half during the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, hundreds of children waiting to be placed in HHS’ system are being detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in tent facilities or large, cold cells unequipped to hold minors.

    This is not a small problem. But it is a problem of Biden’s own making.

    Agents are apprehending around 400 children a day unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, a sharp increase since last month. There are concerns that those numbers will continue to rise.

  16. 16

    @ 14

    …nearly every single one of the more than 300 domestic terrorism suspects arrested so far in the Jan. 6th terror attack on The Capitol have stated either in social media comments, in media interviews, or in pre-trial hearings that the purpose for their illegal presence inside The Capitol was “to do everything possible to ensure that President Trump would be sworn in as President on Jan. 20th”. This stated purpose was even published in many of the documents used to organize and promote the terror attack.

    I get that an example needs to be made of these people. They did what Antifa did in other sites – fought with LE, trespassed on government property, broke or stole some shit – so that’s nothing new. The difference is that they did it in the US Capitol building. And as things turned out, the Capitol was very, very poorly defended.

    That having been said, if you are going to take the spoken and written words of these people literally, please tell me, QoS McHillbilly why doing “everything possible” did not include doing it with firearms.

    If yer gonna try to take down government, isn’t it a good idea to bring along a sidearm or two, just in case? No firearms were confiscated from any of those people. They were unarmed.

    You’re gonna see some people do short jail terms for doing shit that the DOJ just chose not to prosecute a bunch of PDX Antifa types for doing. I fully agree that if someone got caught punching or beating a cop, that person should be shamed, convicted, should do some time, and should have Deathfrogg-like job prospects for the rest of his life. Fully agree.

    The problem is, you’ve got a shitload of people who said something or posted something, then entered the Capitol while cops stood by in a large number of instances, then walked around before realizing that nothing more was going to happen. So basically, they were trespassing. Nothing more. They livestreamed themselves and now they’re in trouble. Some insurrection.

    The worst thing the shaman dude did was write a threatening note to Pence, I’m told. That should get him some jail time, I believe. Every liberal who sent a text, email, fax, or letter to Trump making a similar threat should suffer the same fate, for the same reason.

    The thing is, and it’s what Greenwald is pointing out, what most of these people did was little worse than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s “Liberals must arm.” shtick. They just did it onsite.

  18. 18

    @ 7

    QAnon-loving Capitol rioter thought JFK Jr would be ‘sworn in’ as Trump’s vice president on Jan 6

    This is every bit as intelligent as the usual shit spewed by G-clown.

    The only difference is that she’s 1) female 2) likely hetero and 3) made herself famous for being a psychotic fuck. Alas, G-clown still toils in anonymity. He can only hope that one day the two of them can share a cock together.

  19. 19

    why doing “everything possible” did not include doing it with firearms.

    Because that would have resulted in their arrest before they even got to the hotel, much less to Trump’s staging point rally.*

    Jesus. All that for nuthin. A metaphor for Tara’s last five years.

    *Thus the QRF and weapons staging across the river that morning. What Marine hasn’t lamented being fucked over by swabbies?

  20. 20

    @ 19

    The *QRF was one guy, 60s, with health problems.

    A lawyer for an accused Oath Keeper Capitol rioter says the group’s ‘quick reaction force’ of weapon suppliers was actually just one guy

    https://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-accused-oath-keeper-capitol-210036573.html
    They called him QRF to build him up. Same way that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit refers to himself as a millionaire. Most people give him a pass on the falsehood because he’s so pathetic that there’s really no harm in giving him a pass.

  21. 21

    The worst thing the shaman dude did was write a threatening note to Pence, I’m told.

    Look before you leap, Tara. His charges reflect that. He isn’t even being charged for the “threatening” note you mention.

    It is, however, material to his pre-trial detention. A federal judge or magistrate would have to take pretty seriously the potential of a defendant to even issue such a threat, much less carry it out while released on bail.

    Like I said, all that for nuthin. I sure hope that wan’t a lot of work for you. It’s pretty obvious the last five years have been.

  22. 22

    A lawyer for an accused Oath Keeper Capitol rioter domestic terror suspect

    Yawn.

  23. 23

    @ 22

    I’m not the one who came up with Miranda, PDs, and unanimous verdicts.

    More of a stockade guy myself.

  24. 24

    7)Speaking of JFK Jr, was Caroline one of the elites that were part of the cabal Q was saying Trump would take down?

  25. 25

    They called him QRF to build him up.

    In high school there was a developmentally disabled student equipment manager who used to lift every day with the football team. He really got into it, with lots of beet red face and screaming. We used to call him “Arnold” as a joke. Yes, it was a cruel joke and we should not have done it.

    Oddly enough, that did not make Governor Schwarzenegger any less real.

  26. 26

    @ 21

    He isn’t even being charged for the “threatening” note you mention.

    I only mention it because I read it. If he’s not being charged, why not?

    Possibilities:

    1. Not yet.

    2. It is protected free speech.

    3. It is misinformation intended to make it look worse than it really was.

    Really, if someone threatens the Vice President and does so in writing, why not lead with that? It’s the most insurrectionist thing he can be charged with. Bad makeup is just an average YLB Saturday night.

  27. 27

    @ 25

    Oddly enough, that did not make Governor Schwarzenegger any less real.

    It also did not make him a strike force instead of one guy, improve his cardiovascular disease, put him onsite with a weapon, or otherwise make him anything other than a guy with a title.

    Anyone can play dress-up.

  28. 28

    23,
    Then pay attention to what you are reading, especially if you are going to act as defense counsel for domestic terror suspects.

    He’s making a pre-trial detention argument. He’s under no obligation to provide any proof or support. And it’s not admissible.

    On the other hand, the Parler messages, the contents of the phones and hard drives, and the photographs of tactically clad military age males rallying in a park across the river with cargo bags and ammo cans is all admissible into evidence at trial.

  30. 30

    @ 28

    … the photographs of tactically clad military age males rallying in a park across the river with cargo bags and ammo cans is all admissible into evidence at trial.

    I do agree that LARPing is criminal behavior. But only because most of them are using their unemployment checks to buy costumes.

    G-clown’s definition of “tactically clad” is a 16″ strapon.

  31. 31

    I get that an example needs to be made of these people. They did what Antifa did in other sites – fought with LE, trespassed on government property, broke or stole some shit – so that’s nothing new. The difference is that they did it in the US Capitol building. And as things turned out, the Capitol was very, very poorly defended.

    I don’t think Dumbfuck gets it. The Jan. 6th Insurrectionists aren’t equal to Antifa. Antifa was protesting police brutality, a reality of an existance that is undemocraticaly, unamerican and criminal acts performed by authoraties as rasicist and bigoted acts.

    The Jan. 6th Insurectionists were traitor to everything that is democtratic.

    Boob likes to create his own narrative and slant…..never, ever being right and never, ever trying to being honest. Pathetic Troll that he is.

    He and his fellow Insurrectionist like to kill and assualt LEO. He enjoys it.

  32. 32

    A lawyer for an accused Oath Keeper Capitol rioterdomestic terror suspect

    Yawn.

    An American Taliban.

  33. 33

    30,
    Your defense so far appears to be that your clients were just really, really, really, ridiculously good at pretending to be domestic terrorists. Even going so far as to plan, and fully implement a terrorism attack on The Capitol that almost achieved it’s stated objectives.

    Good luck with that.
    In case it doesn’t work out, you can always fall back on the claim that “it was all a big joke that got out of hand”.

  35. 35

    The following is an incredibly fucking stupid thing to say:

    Conservatives must arm.

    Why is it any more intelligent, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, to say this:

    Liberals must arm.

    ?

  36. 36

    @ 33

    Your defense so far appears to be that your defendants were just really, really, really, ridiculously good at pretending to be domestic terrorists. Even going so far as to plan, and fully implement a terrorism attack on The Capitol that almost achieved it’s stated objectives.

    Not at all.

    I’m not offering a defense. Some of those people should be imprisoned for a decade or more for what they did.

    I’m offering observations:

    1. There’s zero evidence that a LEO was murdered.

    2. There’s zero evidence that a firearm was brought into the Capitol building by people who allegedly wanted to take over the government.

    3. The vast majority of those in the Capitol building illegally were guilty of no more than trespassing.

    4. One firearm discharge from a Capitol LEO seems to have ended everything. A single gunshot and the “insurrection” effort ended.

    My observation is that a dozen or maybe two dozen people conspired. My observation is that since nobody brought a firearm, the penalties in nearly allmost cases will be more for deterrent purposes than for punishment.

    I have one further observation. Antifa will continue to assault police in the same way that we saw LEO assaulted on January 6, and you won’t give a shit about it, QoS McHillbilly.

  37. 37

    The difference is that they did it in the US Capitol building.

    Nope. Not so much.

    The difference is criminal intent.

    It’s really fascinating to me how consistently we find older, angry white people confronting this fundamental aspect of western criminal justice traditions and pouting about “unfairness”. Criminal intent is a feature of almost any criminal statute. And although there are exceptions, the more serious crimes associated with this terror attack on The Capitol are not among them.

    As I see it, at least, this pouting and expressed sense of unfairness simply comes down to privilege. In practice, questions in a criminal investigation surrounding criminal intent offer law enforcement and prosecutors the greatest discretion and leverage in the development of evidence and the bringing of charges. And it’s obvious that historically in the US that discretion has been employed to the benefit of white people, especially those with money. And just as obviously that leverage has been employed to the detriment of people of color and the poor.

    So whenever white people of a certain political orientation see that discretion being used against “their own” it frustrates them and feels “unfair”. Well, that’s our system, at least insofar as it confronts the vast majority of the accused.

    As I posted earlier, the common thread uniting nearly every single one of these defendants in this terror attack on The Capitol is their clearly expressed criminal intent. Yes, you can go to jail for a long time for having the wrong intent. That’s a feature, not a bug. And it’s a big difference that distinguishes most of these defendants from most of the people Tara calls “Antifa”, or BLM, or whatever.

    If Tara’s sense of white privilege didn’t stand in the way of her intellectual honesty she’d have seen that already. But instead, like most white “conservatives” she has to have it pointed out to her.

  38. 38

    @ 37

    So, you’re saying Antifa does not plan its behavior in advance?

    The vans with the shields and bats, the bricks delivered a couple of days before a publicized event, the flyers telling people how to dress, what to bring, how to prevent themselves from being filmed by people who act as press…

    None of that is criminal intent?

  39. 39

    1. The normal criminal standard applied in murder cases in most jurisdictions would argue otherwise. In fact, in some jurisdictions there are special statutes with expansive criminal standards applied specifically in cases where assault on a police officer leads to that police officer’s death.

    2. Lots of weapons, including weapons that are deemed by statute to be “deadly weapons” were brought to The Capitol by the accused domestic terrorists.

    3. As explained above, many, perhaps even most of those who participated in the terror attack on The Capitol may face additional more serious charges owing to their clearly stated criminal intent for trespassing. That’s an important feature of our criminal justice system. And you only find it unfair in this case because you personally identify with the defendants and their stated intent.

    4. The arrival of an overwhelming force of National Guard troops coupled with the orders from their leaders and organizers including President Trump to leave the grounds is what ended the terror attack.

    You should stop now and drop this.
    This effort of yours is ill-advised. It is singularly in service to a deplorable mob bent on overthrowing an election to preserve an impotent reality television celebrity with a mushroom dick. And it will end as badly for you as it ended for the Q-Shaman.

    But then you have no other choice.

  40. 40

    38,

    Intent of what? You introduced this line. What statutory criminal intent do you accuse “BLM” of evidencing in what specific cases?

    Again, nearly all of the domestic terrorists who attacked The Capitol on Jan 6th did so with the clearly stated criminal intent of disrupting a government proceeding. That is a crime (actually, according to statute multiple crimes) with specific penalties.

    Thanks again, Parler!
    #owngoal

  41. 41

    Bad makeup is just an average YLB Saturday night.

    Heh. teh babblin’ butthole’s sat night babbles on HA before salt mining duty aside..

    Here’s a bad makeup job featuring a fayled twice impeached ONE TERM repuke disaster..

    https://youtu.be/xeDCrAkyuFA?t=9

    A credit to the dimfook mentality. A lifetime of fellating Bonzo Raygun while the “miracle on ice” loops on the vhs leads to just this.

  42. 42

    Amanda Gorman, the 23-year-old poet who recited a poem at President Biden’s inauguration, shared on Twitter that she was racially profiled outside her apartment Friday night when a security guard tailed her on a walk and told her she looked “suspicious.” Gorman wrote on Twitter, “This is the reality of black girls: one day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.”

    “LEO” performing its “duty” – keeping the incel racist dimfook’s of the world shivering in their safespaces.

    FREEDUMB!

  43. 43

    This effort of yours is ill-advised. It is singularly in service to a deplorable mob bent on overthrowing an election to preserve an impotent reality television celebrity with a mushroom dick.

    The doctor has caught his treasonous tit in a wringer. Being the dumbfuck that he is, he doesn’t know any better than to keep on cranking the wringer in the wrong direction.

  44. 44

    With 700 days of controlling the House, Senate, and Oval, Republicans passed… tax cuts for the richest who don’t need it.

    In ~50, Democrats will have passed one of the largest and most progressive packages in history.

  45. 45

    Bernie Sanders: “The American Rescue Plan is the most progressive piece of legislation to benefit working people in the modern history of this country.”
    It includes:
    —$1,400 per-person checks to struggling Americans
    —$300-a-week jobless benefits ( tax refund on $10200)
    —$3,600 per child.
    —$350 billion state/local aid
    —$34 billion for ACA subsidies
    —$14 billion vaccine distribution,
    —$30 billion in rental and critical utilities assistance
    —Expansion of ACA tax credits
    —$20 billion for a national vaccination program
    —$50 billion for an expansion of testing
    —$25 billion in grants to help small restaurants remain open
    —$350 billion in direct support for state and local governments
    —$13 billion for nutrition programs
    —$10 billion to reauthorize the State Small Business Credit Initiative
    —Extensions to COVID relief programs that offer supplemental unemployment benefits and expanded paid leave
    —$30 billion for supplies and PPE for frontline workers
    —$5 billion for Americans experiencing homelessness
    —Permanent increase of $130 million/year for child care assistance and expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit
    —$170 billion to help K-12 schools and higher ed institutions re-open
    —100% fed reimbursement for FEMA resources

    And not a single republican voted for it, but they did vote for tax giveaways to the richest.

  46. 46

    Democratic Voters: we’re pissed people aren’t getting everything they need
    Republican voters: we’re pissed anyone else is getting anything they need

  47. 47

    In ~50, Democrats will have passed one of the largest and most progressive packages in history.

    And they will have done it while protecting the right flanks of Trump state Senate Democrats and driving right straight down the rhetorical, populist middle singing Kumbaya and “unity” – all while Republicans held important debates about which trans middle-schoolers should have their junk examined by strangers.

    Still, it won’t be enough if we don’t pass voting rights later this year.

  48. 48

    The Albany Times Union, which endorsed Cuomo three times, now calls for his resignation.

    So now we have a compromised health commissioner who can’t be trusted to tell the full truth about vital public health matters. A university chancellor who had a hand in writing a report of half-truths. And a governor who can’t be trusted to tell the truth even when he’s supposedly owning up to a lie.

    New York cannot get through this public health crisis if New Yorkers don’t know whether the governor and health officials are being honest with them from one day to the next.

  49. 49

    @48 – No worries about Andrew Cuomo. He’s a liar, a greaseball and a bully. He won’t have much political power (or any power at all) in a relatively short period of time. His own kind has turned on him, and that’s usually the death knell for any crooked politician like Cuomo.

    Maybe he can get a job with his brother, Freddo, over at CNN. He can be Freddo’s administrative assistant – as long as he pinky-swears he will keep his hands to himself!

  51. 51

    “The Senate has never spent $2 trillion in a more haphazard way,”

    Except for the three times it spent far more than that to fund Cheney/Bush wars of adventure in Persia with literally no stated military objectives.

    #yellowcake #yumm

  52. 52

    Conservative must arm – said in an offensive manner. Said as in undertaking an insurrection.

    Liberals must arm – said in a defensive manner. Said as in defend yourself. Said as in Stand Your Ground.

    But a Dumbfuck is a Dumbfuck, not much can be done there. American Taliban

  53. 53

    My EWU Eagles Protected the Red very well and sent the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks back to Flagtown 45-13.

  54. 54

    @4 I’ve been getting free money ever since I started investing in stocks and my kid still has a job.

  55. 55

    @7 I wonder how the sand pounding is going for her. Should be well compacted by now.

  56. 56

    @16 “did not include doing it with firearms”

    Looks like Doctor Dumbfuck is adopting the Sen. Ron Johnson defense of the Capitol terrorists. Shit, it’s not even original. He plagiarized it from Johnson.

  57. 57

    @20 John Wilkes Booth was just one guy, too. And he very soon had health problems.

  59. 59

    @35 “The following is an incredibly fucking stupid thing to say: Conservatives must arm. Why is it any more intelligent, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, to say this: Liberals must arm. ?”

    The answer to your incredibly stupid question is as follows: When conservatives are arming like crazy and going around talking about “executing liberals” (their words), it would be incredibly fucking stupid of liberals not to arm.

    @36 “4. One firearm discharge from a Capitol LEO seems to have ended everything. A single gunshot and the “insurrection” effort ended.”

    Except here’s a plausible argument that only one liberal needs to arm, and if events necessitate that he exercises his right of lawful self-defense against just one conservative, the rest will fold like a cheap tent in a breeze.

    Some army your side has there, chump.

  60. 60

    ‘I’m so confused’: People baffled as Kevin McCarthy reads Green Eggs and Ham in protest at pulling of Seuss books | ‘Democrats are passing Covid relief And Republicans are reading Dr Seuss’

  61. 61

    @38 Just to be clear, there have been over 10,000 BLM protests against police brutality, 97% of them have been entirely peaceful, and at those that have not the violence has been perpetrated by a handful of individuals, few (if any) of whom are BLM protesters or there to protest police brutality.

    When you speak of “antifa” it’s not clear to me what you mean. “Antifa” and “BLM” are not the same. I think of “antifa” as violent radicals from the fringe who go looking for confrontations with Proud Boys and other violent radicals from the rightwing fringe, and as far as I’m concerned, they deserve each other.

    The peaceful BLM movement for police reform deserves neither of them.

  62. 62

    I note that Republicans in Congress are dead set against fine-tuning qualified immunity. They want cops to have a license to murder black people. That’s fewer black voters they have to run off from the polls.

    What I don’t understand, though, is why Republican governors are so determined to kill off Republican voters by lifting mask mandates, encouraging unsafe dining, etc. It appears their electoral strategy is to eliminate their own voters and then complain the election was “rigged.”

  63. 63

    @44 and @45: “voted for tax giveaways to the richest”

    And bitterly fought against any Covid aid for state and local governments. A story in this weekend’s print edition of USA Today explains this antipathy: They think it rewards “blue” states for shutting down. In other words, they’re angry at states that didn’t kill their citizens to preserve business profits. (You can be sure they don’t give a damn about unemployed workers; they’ve also fought against unemployment benefits, because they want to force workers back to work no matter how unsafe the workplaces are.)

    This is all about protecting the profits of Republican business owners, every bit of it. Shutdowns mean business owners lose money. That’s way more important to them than the lives saved.

    And now, out of spite, they want to punish states that saved lives at the expense of business profits.

  64. 64

    @47 “Still, it won’t be enough if we don’t pass voting rights later this year.”

    Which isn’t possible with the filibuster.

    Here’s what Senate Democrats should do. Instead of doing away with the filibuster (we don’t have the votes), require them to actually filibuster; i.e., they have to talk, and talk, and talk, and the moment they stop talking, the filibuster ends. No breaks, no recesses. Let’s find out if they can keep reading children’s books and Bible passages for two straight years, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  66. 66

    @49 “His own kind has turned on him, and that’s usually the death knell for any crooked politician like Cuomo.”

    No, it’s not. It’s only the death knell for a Democratic politician. Republicans don’t care what their politicians have done. They could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and they wouldn’t care. Even their leader admits it.

    Once again, Democrats and Republicans aren’t the same. One of the parties believes in personal responsibility, the other only talks up a good game about it.

  67. 67

    Why is the greedy racist incel outraged by Cuomo but not outraged by trump who is responsible for 100x more people?

  70. 70

    @69 The way a Republican legislator gets kicked out of a Republican legislature by the Republican caucus is by harassing the female Republican legislators.

    I guess he didn’t want to be seen with Democrats.

  73. 73

    Hey G-clown, how does it make you feel to learn that Barack Obama helped make Mayor Pete poisonous to black voters?

    …Obama said he liked Buttigieg, a rising talent who’d worked on his own campaign. But despite his affinity for the South Bend mayor, he rattled off a list of reasons why Buttigieg couldn’t win.

    “He’s thirty- eight,” Obama said, pausing for dramatic effect, “but he looks thirty.” The audience laughed. Obama was on a roll, using the tone of light ridicule he some-times pointed at himself— “ big ears” and “a funny name,” he’d said so many times before. Now, it was directed at Buttigieg. “He’s the mayor of a small town,” the former president continued. “He’s gay,” Obama said, “and he’s short.” More laughter.

    Only months earlier, Buttigieg had sat in Obama’s postpresidential office in Washington seeking counsel on how to maintain equanimity in the face of homophobia on the campaign trail. Now, behind his back, Obama was riffing on him to some of the wealthiest Black men in America at a time when Buttigieg had been dubbed “Mayo Pete” by critics who believed he couldn’t connect with African American voters.

    I bet Obama made fun of Mayor Pete’s weiner, too.

    This is what the Democrat party thinks of you and other men who suck cock for fun, G-clown. It’s a very welcoming feeling, isn’t it?

  76. 76

    Bob is a cop killer/assaulter sympathizer. In stead of denouncing the acts on January 6th, he makes excuses and false equivalency, as if two wrongs even make a right.

    The horse fucking dude could care less about a cop, especially a federal employee. If he cares he’d speak out against the onslaught brought on that day by the fucking hypocrites

  78. 78

    Andrew Cuomo refuses to resign because it will hurt his chances to become president.

    After all, with the successful elections of Trump and now Biden, it has become clear that American voters don’t give a shit about sexual harassing behavior by their betters.

  79. 79

    It takes a lot to get YLB to take a shower. Free money is the best way to entice a liberal gal to strip down to her skivvies.

    The Washington Post
    @washingtonpost
    ·
    20h
    Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty in defining move of presidency

    Although the stench of unserious liberalism is always there.

  80. 80

    @77,

    Is “NOT CANCEL”?
    Why not “CANCEL”?

    Same? It seems like you’re saying same.
    When is “CANCEL” and when is “NOT CANCEL”?

    Is “NOT CANCEL” when is “one of their own”?
    Is “CANCEL” bad or not bad?
    Is “NOT CANCEL” good?

    Then why would anyone “CANCEL” when “one of their own”?

  81. 81

    I’ll take “It Was A Mostly Peaceful Protest“, Steve.

    Of course you will. That’s why you’re a dumbfuck.

  82. 82

    78,

    Now do Kristi Noem.
    Then do Kemp, Cruz, Hawley, Scalise, MTG, Cawthorn, Ronny Jackson, Paul Gosar, etc.

  83. 83

    @77 “That’s the GOP’s supermajority tossing one of their own, QoS McHillbilly.”

    Because he was harassing them.

    The one thing Republicans consistently do is protect their own selfish asses.

  84. 84

    Bedington’s argument for not ending the filibuster seems a bit specious:

    “President Joe Biden opposes ending the legislative filibuster despite a slim Democratic majority in the Senate, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Sunday, as the administration faces hurdles in pushing the President’s priorities through Congress.

    “‘His preference is not to end the filibuster. He wants to work with Republicans, to work with independents,’ she told CNN’s Jake Tapper on ‘State of the Union.’ ‘He believes that, you know, we are stronger when we build a broad coalition of support.’

    “She also pointed to the administration’s success on the $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan that narrowly passed the Senate on Saturday, saying, ‘Look at what we’ve been able to do in the first six weeks that we’ve been in office with the filibuster in place.'”

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/07/politics/kate-bedingfield-biden-filibuster-cnntv/index.html

    Yeah. Through reconciliation. Without a single GOP vote.

    This is for show. Yes, Biden wants to work with Republicans. But they don’t want to work with him. We understand he has to be able to say, “Well, I tried.”

    So he tries. Says the right things. But he’s been around a long time, and I’m sure he realizes he’s just going through the motions. Bedington knows that, too.

  85. 85

    83,
    Madison Cawthorn is accused of sexually harassing dozens of “conservative” bible school students by more than 150 of his classmates.

    Hasn’t been canceled.
    Won’t be. Will be given a keynote at the ’24 convention as “punishment”.

  87. 87

    There can be no meeting of minds, because Democrats and Republicans have different values, and want different things. We want to save people from Covid-19. They want them to die.

  88. 88

    The greed racist incel is outraged that Cuomo has not stepped down but never said a bad word about trump and his 47+ allegations of sexual assault.
    Why should we pay attention to anything he posts?

  90. 90

    Trumper logic:

    Wearing a mask means accepting that the virus is bad.

    Accepting that the virus is bad means admitting the previous president lied about it for nearly a year when he insisted it wasn’t that bad and would go away soon.

    Admitting that the previous president constantly lied about the most serious health crisis in a generation means admitting he was a bad president.

    Admitting he was a bad president, meant they fucked up and supported a bad person

    Therefore not wearing no mask.

  91. 91

    Why should we pay attention to anything he posts?

    It’s entertaining to mock the degenerate bonzo raygun/”miracle on ice” whelped mentality.

    White privilege? White supremacy? Unhinged greed? Kreepy sex predation? Rape fantasies?

    The freak is the complete package.. Pop the popcorn and have a box of rotten tomatoes at the ready.

  92. 92

    84,
    To be clear about it, she’s a spokesperson. It isn’t “her” argument. It’s her job to deliver it. It’s Biden’s argument.

    Biden still believes that as the nation recovers from the pandemic, the terror attack on The Capitol, and four years of GQP incompetence, and as the stimulus package goes into effect, some Republicans in the Senate will break from Moscow Mitch’s planned obstruction. Part of that is his own belief in himself. He seems pretty convinced that given a chance to demonstrate some success and to communicate that opportunity for success one-on-one with moderate Republicans he can bring some of them around.

    I think he misjudges them and Trump’s hold over them. I think he’ll far well short of the ten he needs. But I also think that given time and the right political conditions Biden will come around to lowering the threshold. I think the language telegraphs that. He hasn’t said he would oppose changes to the filibuster. Senate rules with respect to the end of debate have changed continuously throughout history. The two-track cloture rules only came into existence in the 1970s. And the current rules were revised as recently as 2017.

    Changing of Senate debate rules is actually pretty routine. I don’t think it’ll be a big deal for Biden once he’s had a chance to warm things up a bit.

  95. 95

    From Twitter:
    “I love being an essential worker in the time of plague. I get no raises, risk my life every day and get treated like dirt by people whose idea of freedom is shopping.”

  96. 96

    The demented bigot in charge of the Republican party just said people who receive government assistance should be barred from voting.

    FOX News responds by urging you to boycott Space Jam 2.

  97. 97

    @96 Why don’t they be honest about it, drop the pretense, and admit they want to do away with voting. Everyone knows that’s where they’re going with this.

  98. 98

    97,
    It’s not a comfortable thing to admit. But if Republicans were being honest it would be “whites only” voting.

    Bannon figured it out, and was willing to say it more or less explicitly. Because even now, a majority of whites in the US are bigots, at least enough to give Republicans an edge they can lean into. But only if plenty of non-whites are kicked off voter rolls. And especially if they can reduce the numbers of young people who register.

    Go take a moment to examine any of the “intellectual” arguments Republicans offer for restrictions on “early voting” or “automatic registration” for instance. Basically these are completely passive, and non-ideological in effect. But you’ll find them offering the most specious, and high-handed horse shit you’ve ever seen as objections. Pure distilled garbage liberally salted with grad school seminar terms like “civic engagement” and “collective citizen self-government” that merely serve as argle-bargle stand-ins for “making it harder for low income workers to vote”.

  99. 99

    Dear Gov. Coumo,

    They may want you to resign, but don’t resign. They wouldn’t resign. Nor would they ever suggest that one of their own resign. Best of luck. God Speed!

    Suggest to them that you’ll resign only if they resign too.

  101. 101

    The GOP/Trump appointee most recently indicted in the Jan. 6th terror attack on the US Capitol for beating police with a stolen riot shield turns out to have a ten page rap sheet:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/nate_thayer/status/1367877688954880000/photo/1

    Includes multiple assault and robbery charges. As a GS-12 this would have disqualified him. It’s axiomatic that the records of his multiple violent felony convictions were withheld from the GSA by persons in the White House office of personnel in order for Mr. Klein to be granted the appointments and clearances. This is indicative of the kind of routine criminal misbehavior by the Trump/GOP White House that is probably unworthy of DOJ prosecution.

    However, since Mr. Klein was still employed by that White House on the day he attacked police with a riot shield while taking part in a terror attack on The Capitol that may not be the end of it in his case. If Mr. Klein used his position as a high security clearance federal employee in any way that day, then the criminal actions that enabled him to obtain that status are far more serious and a criminal investigation by DOJ is in order.

  102. 102

    Bob would rather talk about everything and anything other than the day the GOP assaulted LEOs.

  103. 103

    @99 “They wouldn’t resign.”

    True, but aren’t we better than them?

  105. 105

    Imagine what went on in The Fuckhump Family, knowing what went on in The Royal Family.

  106. 106

    @104 True, and if they drag us down to their level I guess we’ll have to behave like them. I’m sure not looking forward to fucking goats, horses, and chickens, though.

  107. 107

    89)Thought they. Wanted it voluntary. The resteraunt chose to be on the safe side.No need to call ICE over it.

  108. 108

    In 2010, Burlington, VT voters used a scandal plagued mayor as an excuse to abolish Ranked Choice Voting. 11 years later, more voters in the city voted to bring it back. I remember when I was attending EWU, Some Spokane voters were willing to scrap the Strong Mayor form of government because the new guy wasn’t good, forgetting that they could vote him out, which they did after rejecting the charter amendment. Then the guy they voted to replace him got recalled.

    https://www.fairvote.org/burlington_voters_overwhelmingly_back_amendment_to_restore_ranked_choice_voting

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