Will the Supreme Court laugh if it comes to that?
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Have you ever been so wasted that you’ve tried to persuade a president to falsely declare victory in an election? No? Well, according to a new book, that’s what Rudy Giuliani was up to on Election Night. The Washington Post has published a revealing excerpt from the latest behind-the-scenes account of the dying days of the Trump presidency, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year. It says that, on Election Night, “some people thought Giuliani may have been drinking too much” when he came up with a bold strategy for Trump. “Just say we won,” Giuliani reportedly instructed Trump’s team, explaining that they should simply declare victory in each battleground state. Giuliani is then said to have told Trump directly: “Just go declare victory right now… You’ve got to go declare victory now.” An unnamed Trump adviser later recalled how annoying Giuliani’s intervention was, explaining: “It’s hard to be the responsible parent when there’s a cool uncle around taking the kid to the movies and driving him around in a Corvette.”
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What you say makes sense and will get educated peoples’ stamp of approval, but the ‘Stoopids’ usually come from poverty and ignorance, with little chance of seeing the world outside their environments or to find a way past their plight. They get used and abused every day. Unfortunately, this time, it isn’t about religion, capitalism or owning the libs, it’s about life and death. So it goes, and let’s cleanse the gene pool but the puppeteers are the one’s to hate.
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My brother is like that. Ph.D, candidate in electrical engineering, but thinks evolution is a hoax.
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It’s not all that hard. Start with the idea that there was a creator being or thingie, and marvel that science reveals how elaborate and ordered that creation was. One can go on to worship the god thingie by caring for the world that science reveals. Win - win.
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Jenna Ellis quit Republican Party in a rage - furious that it is not obedient enough to Trump.
Quite odd indeed …
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This sign is, for me, the distillation of RW ignorance.
Even better: “heck, we done hate socialism but don’t touch our social security neither” – better, because “social” appears in the damned name.
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And of course we know who the “kid” is in the metaphor. If any of this were new information that might be the most revealing bit. Rudy saying ridiculous stuff is just a day that ends in “y”.
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A few years ago Pope Francis was asked to remark on what some see as a conflict between science and religion.
He said there was no conflict; that God works through the laws of nature, which He created.
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I call bullshit. Libraries are free. Books and periodicals are ubiquitous. Nearly everyone has access to a computer, thus the entire world is at their fingertips. The places you can’t visit, and the things you can’t personally experience, you can read about and study and absorb through other means. Ignorance cannot be excused as a result of poverty. It’s a lame rationalization. Paupers can learn, and even those most isolated and deprived still have the means to overcome their circumstances, if only they’d tap into them.
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Evangelicals and fundamentalists are basically the same thing. The word “fundamentalism” got a bad name after 9/11, so Christian fundamentalists prefer to be called evangelicals now.
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“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
Sam Spade
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Guess she’s given up on getting paid.
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Yes but not very well.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no dying, that makes him a martyr because he goes out at full-strength and they’ll paint him with a halo and continue on in His Name. They’d treat it like “who shot JFK” and would build a whole new pile of conspiracy theories on that.
He should have a massive crippling stroke, where he drags his foot, drools out of the side of his mouth, and mumbles incoherently. There’s no glory in worshiping a frail, shriveled up old wreck. They’ll turn away from him in horror and disgust. Because who worships a diaper-wearing, rubber-helmet-wearing doddering old man with a walker?
I’m hoping that stroke is on the way soon. This, trust me, is his worst nightmare after being exposed as a thousandaire…
(Oh, yes, and it must be physically disabling – dementia, at least in the beginning, leaves the body relatively untouched and they could still have him doing the waving from a window bit and even coach him on short “interviews” to be released to his adoring fans…keeping the “legend” alive.)
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He should just get everything that we currently have a vaccine for, and let nature sort things out.
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Yes, many of us had the same thought: that with the Internet all the world’s knowledge would be only a click away. We’d become more informed, smarter, wiser.
But as we have seen, for many people the Internet is only for shopping, gambling, watching sports and pornography.
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The President will also reportedly make a call to action for a “new coalition” of activists, faith leaders, and businesses to fight against the legislation.
At first I read that as “faith healers” which gave me a brief but intense WTF moment.
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Preferably all at the same time.
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I noted that with great interest. They’ve been quietly cutting the cords with him, and she’s the only one loudmouth enough to make a stink about it. True believers, man, they’re scary.
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