You should use something like this in every communique, every press release, and every personal interaction:
“Yes, but you were a fully vested party to The Chump Abomination, and I wouldn’t trust you to babysit my pet rock.”
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BTW, their bail was lowered to 10k.
The militiamen who plotted to kidnap and execute Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer saw their operation mainly as a backup plan for a much more ambitious “Plan A,” prosecutors say. The plan was to assemble 200 armed “Patriots” who would take over the state Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, and then hold televised executions of the state officials they took hostage.
According to a document filed by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office this week in response to an attempt by attorneys for one of the men to drastically reduce his bond, the militiamen devised the Capitol takeover plan alongside their schemes to abduct Whitmer from her summer home. At the end, they intended either to kill everyone inside the building or to simply set it aflame with everyone locked inside.
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A classic case of just keep repeating the lie and eventually they will believe it. The really dangerous part is that it appears that the majority of the GOP are in on the fix. When one party is headstrong on ending the political system that has been the envy of much of the planet for over a century it is a matter of concern. The fact that Biden is taking the stand that he will do nothing in the way of moves to investigate what has been done to the nation is scary in itself. We did the same at the end of the Civil War and are still suffering the results. The generals and lead politicians should have been charged with treason and brought to trial.
Many us laws and oaths sworn to the constitution have been broken or severely bent and those who did this should not be allowed to walk away untouched and I suspect in many cases a hell of a lot richer.
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What has been happening, and why Chump got 71 million votes, is the R party abdicated slowly, then in a rush, all need for facts, arguments, logical positions, hills to die on. Absolutely nothing matters. You need no facts, no opinions, no motives, no goals to be part of the R party. No morals or values anymore, real or imagined. Just go WooHoo! and wave your star spangled 10 gallon hat, raise your red cup, toast the Falwells and Jeebus and cuckolding and raping underage girls and breaking democracy. WooHoo! Capture the MI statehouse, behead them all, burn them all inside WooHoo!
It’s easier than having to have ideas, plans, accountability.
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O.M.F.G. You’re a genius! (More to come. Most likely involving VR goggles for the “fliers,” many randomly spaced “targets” (comprised of vats of various sizes housing an “appropriate” number of hagfish), one basketball hoop and much gambling.•
*tiowally reserves the right to regulate all gambling, and to charge an appropriate fee to all odds makers, indy gambling houses, and gamers.
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We all know why Trump is doing this. He’s a megalomaniacal and narcissistic psychopath who craves power, can’t stand losing and needs continual validation. He’s an easy read. But I keep asking myself why the rest of them doing this. There’s not just one reason, of course. I can identify 3 broad categories of why:
1 - Fear of something bad happening to you if you don’t go along, like being fired, primaried, outed, shunned, attacked, and so on.
2 - Gaining something, be it money, power, status, membership in elite company, the illusion of success, etc.
3 - Ideology, be it political or religious.
Of these, it’s the third that worries me the most. The first, fear, is what motivates lesser and weaker people whom one normally wouldn’t worry about, like Lindsay Graham, who’s a non-entity lapdog ass-kisser who could be easily replaced if need be. And the second is basically corruption, a noxious but run of the mill motivation for cheating, lying and stealing that also betrays a kind of weakness, of the soul.
But ideology, whether political or religious, now that’s scary, because we’re talking zealotry and fanaticism that knows no bounds, where everything’s fair game in pursuit of a higher agenda, which believers feel they’re mandated to further by whatever means necessary. It’s one thing for a Lindsay Graham to try to intimidate local officials because he’s terrified of that video of him and three young boys being revealed, and for a Bill Barr to corrupt the DoJ because it makes him feel powerful and manly. These operate at the individual psychology level, which is understandable and manageable.
But when someone’s motivated by magical thinking and the belief that some invisible being no one’s ever actually seen or spoken to (you don’t actually believe those quaint children’s fables do you about burning bushes and mountaintops?) demands that something be done, or that some higher truth about politics or economics or culture or race demands that they do evil, how do you fight that? Such people are quite literally insane, members of a death cult, and will die before they give up.
If the GOP is mostly motivated by fear and corrupt gain in acquiescing to Trump, then we’ll probably be ok. But if this is about some kind of ideological or religious fanaticism or grand mission, then we should all be scared. That woman who’s supposed to sign off on the administration cooperating with the Biden transition, she strikes me as a true believer who has no problem breaking the law because she’s doing it for a higher purpose, saving the country from us radical communist homosexual deviants or something. Same with ACB, that QAnon house member, and that idiot SD governor. They’re all doing it for Jeebus or the constitution or FreeDUMB!, and no damn law or common civility will stand in their way.
The GOP has devolved into a death cult motivated by crazy beliefs and massive paranoia, not really that different from the Branch Davidians or Jonestown. And if that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.
What do we do about it, because they have millions of followers?
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73 million votes for a candidate & a party that is so totally devoid of substance or stated principles that there wasn’t even a platform … the “platform” was whatever the King said … until the King says something else.
Just a half assed tin-pot dictatorship!
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like they own QAnon
they have embraced insanity
How many hundreds of Meg-churches are out there? 15 hundred by one estimate
How many billions do super-star TV evangelists rake in every year?
How many million people believe the QAnon bullshit?
Magical thinking, hell yes. Huge swaths of this nation have been primed.
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I happen to find ALL religious and non-humanistic ideological belief to be nuts, but so long as its believers keep it to themselves, I can live with that. You want to worship an invisible bearded white guy who lives in the sky or believe that selfishness and greed are good things, be my guest, just don’t push it on me. It’s the zealots, the ones who don’t just believe this stuff but insist upon imposing it on others and believe that they’re justified in doing so because of some magical higher truth, who are truly dangerous, all the more so because they’re motivated by irrational beliefs that allow no rational refutation. You can’t win over such people. You can only either contain or destroy them.
Uncle Rudy, today.
<< dear sweet baby jesus . . . >>
Strict scrutiny not necessary to spot a bad dye job.
And please — if you get your uppers done, you should at least get your lowers whitened.
The sad truth is, if this is countered they will keep this poison flowing every single day, leading to millions of people believing (and some acting on the belief) that Biden is an illegitimate leader.
And the harder & louder it is countered, the more fervent they will believe (& act on) the opposite.
But we should counter it anyway, not to solve a goddamn thing, but because it’s the right & honorable thing to do.
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I thought people in Kreb’s position had recourse against this kind of retaliatory firing.
If there isn’t recourse, there ought to be. Especially if you’ve been fired simply for doing your job well and properly.
Tithing to Soros is still a thing.
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Maybe for the loudest and stupidest fanatics, but IMO the vast majority are ignorant cowardly schmucks. The schmucks see one side loudly yelling about the election stolen and the other side not saying squat about it and they think, “hey, maybe the ones yelling have a point”. The cowards see one side agitating and other side providing no resistance and they think, “hey, maybe the ones yelling can get away with it”. A properly articulated and acted-upon reaction would dissuade a lot of both.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we had a statute that… provided for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. We could name it “RICO,” for short…and wouldn’t it be a great American story if a lone-wolf US Attorney used it to take down some of the most infamous and violent criminal organizations…and then that US Attorney became Mayor of the Big Apple…and then…went beserk and helped lead one of the very criminal organizations he had once vowed to crush…that would be a really crazy plotline…
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Hey, remember when Crooked Hillary refused to concede and socialist Muslim Obama obstructed the transition? Good times.
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my point is, it is EASY being a Republican voter. They ask nothing of you. You need not have any skills or critical thinking, and you never have to answer for anything, never have to say you are sorry.
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- Rudy Giuliani should do the opening for SNL.
- I will not take a vaccine named The Trump.
- We should get ready for a violent coup attempt.
- I just can’t take it anymore!