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4 hours ago, JCon said:

Drip by drip, the alt-right are normalizing neo-nazi language and ideology in the US. Drip by drip. 

Drip by drip? They've opened up the firehose 

[the watcher]

About the middle you will find Fauci  responding to Tucker Carlson's suggestion that the vaccines don't work.  Pure frigging insanity. You would think that with the American propensity to sue Carlson would be in court. 

They are all nuts.

 

[HardCoreBlue]

30 minutes ago, the watcher said:

About the middle you will find Fauci  responding to Tucker Carlson's suggestion that the vaccines don't work.  Pure frigging insanity. You would think that with the American propensity to sue Carlson would be in court. 

They are all nuts.

 

I really trace this devolution back to hearing Kelly Anne Conway formalizing the term alternative facts January 22nd, 2017. 

Reality, fact and critical thinking as most sane people understood it has regressed since then.

[bustamente]

Fox News wants the right to spread false information and not be libel for what come afterwards, Republicans want to suppress voters and be a minority ruling party, police want to kill people and not be held accountable that's a hell of a country they got down south

[Mark F]

america is a madhouse, the daily shootings, bombings, rapes, police executions of citizens, Nazi news network, environmental catastrophe, greed.

saw a cctv video, woman unhappy with service at drive through pulls out a pistol and starts shooting through the service window. happens every day all over down there.

I need a short break from it.

Edited April 14, 2021 by Mark F

[HardCoreBlue]

7 minutes ago, Mark F said:

america is a madhouse, the daily shootings, bombings, rapes, police executions of citizens, Nazi news network, environmental catastrophe, greed.

saw a cctv video, woman unhappy with service at drive through pulls out a pistol and starts shooting through the service window. happens every day all over down there.

I need a short break from it.

Balancing approaches of out of sight out of mind for mental wellness and wanting to engage positively in anyway one can thru discourse and action is extremely difficult.

[the watcher]

33 minutes ago, Mark F said:

america is a madhouse, the daily shootings, bombings, rapes, police executions of citizens, Nazi news network, environmental catastrophe, greed.

saw a cctv video, woman unhappy with service at drive through pulls out a pistol and starts shooting through the service window. happens every day all over down there.

I need a short break from it.

Yes, a while back I just quit watching the news . I guess I was full of the insanity and had to let it settle.

[Tracker]

All empires, and America has conducted itself as an empire, fall from within. With power, individuals and groups have to decide whether to use that power as a responsibility to do good or to do harm through aggression and hubris. Sociologists have been predicting the end of America as THE world power for some 20 years. Americans, particularly right-wingers, are rabidly reluctant to accept that all empires fall, and that includes them. So they ratchet up their rhetoric and look for someone, anyone to blame. Similarly, Adolph Hitler and the militants refused to accept that they lost WW1 due to military reasons, so they created the lie that "inferior, malevolent people" were responsible and had to be rounded up and disposed of.  If this sounds familiar, you just have to look at Trump and the fascists who adore him.

[Tracker]

Top Republican To AIPAC: Trump Wanted To ‘Marginalize’ Palestinians

In his final months in office, former President Donald Trump unveiled deals for four Arab countries to recognize Israel, saying it was a key step to resolve the decades-old Middle East standoff over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Trump administration repeatedly rejected criticism from foreign officials and national security experts that his approach made Israeli-Palestinian peace less likely by angering and isolating the Palestinians while boosting the Israelis.

But according to previously unreported remarks by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chief Republican working on foreign policy in the House of Representatives, sidelining the Palestinians was Trump’s aim all along.

 “I think the goal here is to marginalize the Palestinians,” McCaul told donors and supporters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a closed-door meeting last month, referring to Trump’s negotiations with Muslim-majority countries. 

Top Republican To AIPAC: Trump Wanted To 'Marginalize' Palestinians | HuffPost

[do or die]

32 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Top Republican To AIPAC: Trump Wanted To ‘Marginalize’ Palestinians

In his final months in office, former President Donald Trump unveiled deals for four Arab countries to recognize Israel, saying it was a key step to resolve the decades-old Middle East standoff over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Trump administration repeatedly rejected criticism from foreign officials and national security experts that his approach made Israeli-Palestinian peace less likely by angering and isolating the Palestinians while boosting the Israelis.

But according to previously unreported remarks by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chief Republican working on foreign policy in the House of Representatives, sidelining the Palestinians was Trump’s aim all along.

 “I think the goal here is to marginalize the Palestinians,” McCaul told donors and supporters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a closed-door meeting last month, referring to Trump’s negotiations with Muslim-majority countries. 

Top Republican To AIPAC: Trump Wanted To 'Marginalize' Palestinians | HuffPost

No surprise after earlier reading the Trump Middle East Peace Plan.  Or to put it more accurately.....the Kushner-Netanyahu Peace Plan.

[bustamente]

Today's mass shooting brought to you by Fed Ex.

[Tracker]

Bill Barr sued by watchdog for records in potential DOJ corruption scheme
   
On Thursday, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced a lawsuit against former Attorney General William Barr to obtain the records of a meeting he took with infamous Blackwater founder Erik Prince.

"CREW is suing the DOJ for records on any meetings that Barr and Prince had since they could reveal potential preferential treatment for Trump's allies in Department of Justice investigations," said the group their press release. "Prince reportedly faced a DOJ investigation for apparently lying before Congress about the Russia probe following Representative Adam Schiff's request for a criminal investigation, but almost two years later, no investigation has been reported and no charges have been announced. In addition to charges related to making false statements to Congress, DOJ apparently was considering whether Prince violated U.S. export laws, but no charges have been announced in that case either."

"Throughout his tenure, Barr consistently intervened in cases to the benefit of Trump's allies, including several Trump would later go on to pardon," continued the statement. "In his final days as president, Trump issued pardon after pardon to benefit himself and his cronies, including for four Blackwater guards convicted of killing of Iraqi civilians. Trump also pardoned Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, whose cases Barr and top DOJ officials had reportedly previously intervened in to withdraw stiff sentencing recommendations — in Stone's case, after Trump tweeted that the recommendations were unfair."

Prince, who is also a GOP megadonor and the brother of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was reportedly also involved in a meeting in the Seychelles to try to establish a backchannel to the Kremlin for the Trump administration. He is currently facing United Nations sanctions for allegedly violating an arms embargo in Libya.

Bill Barr sued by watchdog for records in potential DOJ corruption scheme - Alternet.org

[JCon]

1 minute ago, Tracker said:

Bill Barr sued by watchdog for records in potential DOJ corruption scheme
   
On Thursday, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced a lawsuit against former Attorney General William Barr to obtain the records of a meeting he took with infamous Blackwater founder Erik Prince.

"CREW is suing the DOJ for records on any meetings that Barr and Prince had since they could reveal potential preferential treatment for Trump's allies in Department of Justice investigations," said the group their press release. "Prince reportedly faced a DOJ investigation for apparently lying before Congress about the Russia probe following Representative Adam Schiff's request for a criminal investigation, but almost two years later, no investigation has been reported and no charges have been announced. In addition to charges related to making false statements to Congress, DOJ apparently was considering whether Prince violated U.S. export laws, but no charges have been announced in that case either."

"Throughout his tenure, Barr consistently intervened in cases to the benefit of Trump's allies, including several Trump would later go on to pardon," continued the statement. "In his final days as president, Trump issued pardon after pardon to benefit himself and his cronies, including for four Blackwater guards convicted of killing of Iraqi civilians. Trump also pardoned Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, whose cases Barr and top DOJ officials had reportedly previously intervened in to withdraw stiff sentencing recommendations — in Stone's case, after Trump tweeted that the recommendations were unfair."

Prince, who is also a GOP megadonor and the brother of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was reportedly also involved in a meeting in the Seychelles to try to establish a backchannel to the Kremlin for the Trump administration. He is currently facing United Nations sanctions for allegedly violating an arms embargo in Libya.

Bill Barr sued by watchdog for records in potential DOJ corruption scheme - Alternet.org

 

The only time I want hear that name is when he's been investigated or sued. Just like anyone named Cheney, Bush or McCain. 

[JCon]

 

[JCon]

White supremacists are everywhere in the US:

 

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, JCon said:

White supremacists are everywhere in the US:

 

This is why America is doomed to repeat another civil war, although it will probably be euphemistically renamed.

[bustamente]

First guilty plea in the Capitol riot, and it's a name familiar to me, Jon Schaffer founder of the metal band Iced Earth who will now be released as he has entered a cooperation agreement with the Government. Truthfully one of my favs growing up an in the 20 plus year clip he is the rhythm guitar player, of note the lead singer left the band and became a cop in Delaware.

..............and him today

Edited April 16, 2021 by bustamente

[HardCoreBlue]

Kimberly Craig on Twitter:

@matthewjdowd on @OutFrontCNN with  @ErinBurnett  basically just said, Cruz and Jordan don’t want to lead. They just tell the lies their constituents want to hear. #truthbomb

 

Perfectly put imo.

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

2 hours ago, JCon said:

White supremacists are everywhere in the US:

 

I see your local white supremist law enforcement that donates to white nationalist shooter and raise you white nationalist federal law makers forming a white nationalist caucus in the US congress:

 

 

 

I see they've put down the dog whistle... picked up a bull horn, turned it to 11 and are now repeatedly shouting "COME GET YOUR KIBBLES AND BITZ!!!!"

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by wanna-b-fanboy

[JCon]

 

 

It's White Nationalism. That's it.

[blue_gold_84]

Imagine being that ******* frail and paranoid while simultaneously claiming to be a proud and free American.

[JCon]

 

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, JCon said:

 

 

It's White Nationalism. That's it.

'The most nakedly nativist rhetoric': House Republicans launch caucus for 'Anglo-Saxon political traditions'
   
Although former President Donald Trump has been gone from the White House for almost three months, many far-right Republicans in Congress continue to push an equally nativist "America first" agenda — and Punchbowl News is reporting that some of Trump's Republican allies in the U.S. House of Representatives are putting together an "America First Caucus" based on "Anglo-Saxon political traditions."

According to Punchbowl, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona are "distributing materials" calling for a caucus that would express a "common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions." Punchbowl reports that according to an e-mail invitation it has obtained a copy of, House Republicans who have been invited to join the America First Caucus include Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas and Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama.

(Racism by another name is still racism)

[iHeart]

15 hours ago, bustamente said:

Today's mass shooting brought to you by Fed Ex.

and apparently the loser with the gun used to work for Fed Ex

https://people.com/crime/indianapolis-mass-shooting-suspect-identified/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=6079fbe6df0747000120fda8&fbclid=IwAR3mlBJLb_Fwo9XvWopHLXWxcblwVq8Ee6v-bE0z5QsqMyqcw24ZgP1X8tU

[Mark F]

Biden press secretary Jen Psaki is outstanding.

 

I see some of her briefings on facebook.

honest, very smart, very well informed, polite, but tough.

worth a look if you have not seen her in action.