Let’s please make sure all these frothing lunatics have easy access to weapons of mass destruction.
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The boos during Mona Charen’s sexual predator comments were somewhat subdued. The conservatives, many who of course are wonderful and devoted christians who believe in the bible, were really vocal in expressing their support for pedophilia when Mona Charen was critical of pedophiles. Based on what the Alabama pastor (I forget the name) said, I am supposing they were so upset and booed because Joseph got Mary pregnant when she was a minor.
Not exactly a Mensa meeting was it?
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My memory is hazy on this. But when I first heard about CPAC, my impression was something more staid and business like. Reading about it today, CPAC sounds like a low rent sports bar on a Friday night.
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Those people aren’t even ideologues. They are simply on the make. It’s the grifter party.
Conservatism at CPAC means blind obedience to the leader.
1st amendment, what’s that? In truth, there’s only one amendment to the Constitution. Don’t believe all that lib talk.
Absolutely. And, regardless of how hard Mueller nails down the evidence, something he seems to be doing a very good job of, when DT gets a nice jump suit to match his skin tone 25 - 50% or more of his followers are going to reject the obvious on the basis of some patent absurdity akin to (ready the fainting couches, please) Nunes’ claim that the Democrats in Congress have conspired with the US government to produce the evidence against his junk memo. The best thing that could happen to these dead enders would be for them to be marginalized, like the Birchers in the 70s. Instead, my guess is there’ll be money from the Koch’s, Adelson, Mercer & Co. to help the cult build it’s bamboo control towers and carve air fields and giant MAGA signs out of jungle to help guide the great man whom again.
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Like the Super Bowl. Lots of cross border illegal immigration to service the rich white male attendees with their taste for the exotic.
Just like the mal llamado National Prayer Breakfast. Also started by the leader of a very powerful cult within the White Nationalist GOP.
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She is still awful. But yes, during my late 70s arrival and acclimation to NYC, when you could get the NY Post (acquired by Murdoch) for free on any subway ride of moderate length, her columns promoting the land grabs of Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu, and trashing any US Presidents who dared stand in their way, were nauseating fare. Thankfully, following Murdoch’s career formula, the Post had a pretty decent sports section if you ignored the politicized columns of Murdoch buddy Ray Kerrison and the increasingly drunk and deranged Dick Young.
The GOP is now fully the party of Nazis, dictators, child molesters and sexual predators. And they’re good with that.
Again and again and again:
RUN FOR OFFICE!! You are better than these ‘people’.
The repurposed hats hadn’t been overwritten with MAGA, yet.
It’s nice and all that Mona got up and said what needed to be said about Trump, but I’d like to know the answers to some follow-up questions:
• Did Mona publicly say anything critical while Limbaugh was ranting about “Feminazis?”
• Did Mona publicly say anything critical when the unmarried Limbaugh was busted with Viagra prescribed under somebody else’s name after a trip to the Dominican Republic?
• Did Mona publicly say anything critical while Limbaugh was calling the future 44th President “Barack the Magic Negro?”
• Did Mona publicly say anything critical when FoxNews repeatedly brought charlatan “Dr.” Keith Ablow into the studio to claim that Obama hated white people?
• Did Mona publicly say anything critical when GHWB and Lee Atwater ran the Willie Horton ad in 1988?
• Did Mona publicly say anything critical when it was plainly obvious that the only reason Sarah Palin got the time of day from male Republicans is because they thought she was a hot babe?
I strongly suspect that answer in each case is “no.”
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How can we be expected to read that! I mean it’s ten pages long!
This is around the time they start to turn Reich.
My apologies, but can you summarize your comment. My attenti…oh look, an ant just pooped!
The redactions are ridiculous.You can see type through the marker and I strongly suspect someone with access to the right software could lift it right off. And there isn’t anyone we don’t want seeing this who doesn’t have that software. I will be shocked if a de-redacted version doesn’t make its way onto the Internet soon.
But it’s also ridiculous because a lot of blotting out of stuff that has already been publicly reported like where Steele made contact with the FBI and because it’s transparently, you should pardon the expression, political.
My favorites:
P. 3: they blotted out the number and names of several other individuals linked to the Trump Campaign who had become the subject of “sub-inquiries” by the FBI by September, 2016. Based on the length and the bit at the end they missed, the number appears to be “four.” And two of the three besides Page are almost certainly Manafort and Flynn. My guesses on who the third is include Jr., Jared and Sam Clovis.
P. 4: “In subsequent FISA renewals, DOJ provided additional information obtained through multiple independent sources that corroborated Steele’s reporting.” Information that corroborated the totally made up, uncorrobotatable, lies for pay by a slimey spy for a ferrin country? Boy, wouldn’t you like to know what that is? Sorry, can’t. Secret.
P. 5: The FISA warrant on Page resulted in the collection of valuable intelligence. For instance . . . well, we don’t know what it was but whatever it was, it proved more times Page lied to the committee.
PP 5-6: Oops, they forgot to redact the direct quote in which, contrary to the claims whipped up by Comrade Nunes’ loyal staffers, they specifically disclosed their belief that Steele had been hired to dredge up dirt on Trump. The staffers’ claim that they withheld this information from the court is, in classic, sleazy, Issa-weasel fashion, based on the fact that they masked both Steele and Trump’s names, calling them “Source 1” and “Candidate 1” as required by law.
Yeah, sorry, those footnotes are secret, too.
Upd: shit. Just realized there’s a whole thread on this elsewhere. Oh, well.
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That they are cultish and get worse as they find themselves marginalized are two accurate observations.
What does one of their leaders have to do to get his followers to turn on him?
Few were disenchanted with Hitler and Stalin while they lived or, if any were, kept it to themselves for their safety.
Well goody. Now that the Republican’s 40+ year old Southern Strategy has reached it’s culmination, we can now bask in the amusement and horror of the resulting clusterfuck. What would be the most appropriate cliché? Chickens coming home to roost? Lunatics taking over the asylum? Some “created a monster/monster turning on its creator” comparison with Frankenstein? Regardless, this is what you get when you spend the past several decades pandering to a group of uneducated and/or willfully/proudly/belligerently ignorant, backward, racist, fundamentalist, fanatical hicks, while using their ignorance and prejudices to dupe them into supporting self-destructive economic policies with the promise that it will hurt the people that they hate even more than themselves.
These aren’t rational people. These are white evangelical racist hicks who have been economically disenfranchised by the very policies they voted for and have been whipped up into an angry mob from a steady diet of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Trinity Broadcasting, etc. It’s gone so far off the deep end that they’ve even embraced Infowars. These aren’t people who support democracy. These are people who gladly turn america into a fascist right wing police state as long as it was also a fundamentalist christian theocracy. They don’t care about morals. They don’t care about freedom. They don’t give a flying fuck about sexual harassment, rape, or marital infidelities, not only because they hate women, but because they don’t view religious commandments as rules to follow because they are moral or virtuous. They view them as a weapon to impose on everyone else. Deep down these people don’t believe in Jesus or forgiveness or loving one another. The core of their belief system is a puritanical fundamentalist brand of Old Testament fanaticism that focuses on the original sin and unworthiness of humankind. It is obsessed with the wrath, punishment, and judgement, which is essentially hatred, more specifically self-hatred. And because their hate and bigotry is the exact opposite of the Jesus they profess to believe in, the only way they can remain in denial about their own hypocrisy is to impose their system of belief on everyone else. And this is how they’ve so easily went from being anti-Russian, patriotic, commie-hating supporters of law & order, family values, and apple pie to believing Russia over our own FBI and supporting a vulgar, disgusting President who has violated every moral their their religion espouses. Religion, patriotism, etc., isn’t really what they believe in. It’s just the mantle they cloak themselves in to hide their true beliefs of authoritarianism, hate, and oppression.
And now they have overthrown the Republican establishment and elected Trump: a con artist and snake oil salesman who has more in common with the televangelists on TBN than the venerated Ronald Reagan that supposedly exemplifies the ideals of the party. We have a President in Trump who is essentially a reflection (or perhaps a parody) of what the Republican party/conservative movement in America has become: Spiteful, ugly, cruel, bigoted, authoritarian, morally bankrupt, hypocritical, and hopelessly fucking stupid.
I hope that the rest of us are looking at what is happening and realize what is at stake this November. If the Mueller investigation does not bring down the Trump administration and if we are unable to win back at least the House of Representatives in November then it may truly be too late for our country.