Joe Biden, Never-Trump, Ukraine, Deficits, Legitimate Political Disgrace

  • Various right-wing media are accusing mainstream reporters of hypocrisy -> replaying Joe Rogan using racial epithets – like the “N” word – while ignoring Joe Biden’s use of the same word in 1986. Tommy Christopher is a target.
     
    Tommy carefully explains, as he did decades ago, that the use of that offensive word, is qualitatively different, when it is used in a quote from a racist in order to criticize that racist for casually using that word.
     
    That was what Joe Biden was doing in 1986. Tommy provides comparative videos.
     
  • Never-Trump types seem bent on explaining how they, the conservative adults, will show leftist hippie Democrats how real opposition is done. Hold my beer, Sonny.
     
    It is all a bit too arrogant for driftglass, who responds that
    The enemy of my enemy is my friend
    is not the same as
    The enemy of my enemy is my Supervisor.
     
    He suggests those folks stop bossing or get off the boat.
     
  • The Financial Times editorializes. Seems the real problem in America, one that should be President Biden’s priority, is cultural overreach by the left. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil, looks at book banning by the right, armed intimidation by rightists, a various continuations of January 6, voter & voting suppression, and Republican state legislatures picking and choosing whose votes are to be counted. For some strange reason, M Bouffant regards the Financial Times observation as an absurdity.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit remembers what most of us have at least half forgotten: How our once-upon-a-President went beyond mere democracy and endangered the world in a nuclear way. And that the danger continues.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports that former President Trump is using a written excuse from a Podiatrist during the Russian invasion of Ukraine to avoid being drafted into Putin’s armed forces.
     
  • Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson hates to be a broken record, so Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson explains just who broke the record (note FY 2021 was passed in 2020 and signed into law by then President Trump):
     


    and elaborates:

  • So what if, right after the election, the Trump campaign called law officials in Michigan with orders to seize voting machines and turn them over to the campaign?
     
    Well… the Palmer Report says a story pretty much drowned out this week might turn out to be very ugly news for Rudy Giuliani.
     
  • Part of that gawdawful conservative activity happened when an election official illegally turned over voter private data to a conservative activist.
     
    It is always a joy to see a do-you-know-who-I-am type encounter honest law enforcement. Watching Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters handcuffed, kicking and screaming her how-dare-you’s, can bring tranquility to a troubled soul.

  • In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson contrasts the overwhelming treatment of the relatively minor story in 2016 of mishandled but unimportant Clinton emails with underwhelming coverage of massive Trump document destruction as well as unmistakable theft.
     
    One accurate and telling comment from Aaron Rupar:
    If two prominent reporters broke news that Joe Biden was flushing documents down White House toilets, [Fox News Channel personality Sean] Hannity would anchor special Fox News coverage that would last through 2024. Trump flushing documents down WH toilets has been mentioned twice on Fox News today, once in passing.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors detects a pattern during the waning days of the Trump administration; in addition to the illegal shredding of records, flushing of records, dining on records, stealing of records; there seem to have been phone records that illegally disappeared from official logs.
     
  • We’ve all heard about legitimate political discourse, words used by the Republican National Committee to describe the January 6 MAGA riot. But are the words as reported really reported in context? Is that how national Republicans really view the attempt to pull down our democracy, the attempt to find and assassinate Senators, kill Members of Congress, murder the Vice President of the United States?
     
    Nojo helps us out publishing the entire context in the form of the entire resolution condemning 2 Republicans for investigating the crime as if it was …well… a crime.
     
  • Of course, denizens of the internet have been having fun with it:

  • Republican officials have begun responding to criticism. The RNC resolution only endorses non-violent legal protest. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara, always skeptical of liberal press reporting, wonders about all that legitimate political discourse talk. Are national Republicans really, truly, endorsing the violence at the Capitol? He decides to look at the RNC resolution itself.
     
    He reads, and analyzes, and considers, and decides that they, sure as hell, are doing exactly that!

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  2. I hope you don’t mind me pointing out a classic example of right wing lying. James Widgerson talks about the Federal budget deficit, but the graph shown to illustrate his point is not of the deficit, but of total Federal debt. In fact, during his eight years in office, Barack Obama decreased the annual deficit by two thirds, despite Republican obstruction to everything he tried to do. And the previous Democratic President, Bill Clinton, reduced the Federal deficit to zero, for the first time in decades. The graph implies that Democrats are just as responsible for deficits (and the resultant government debt) as Republicans. The truth is that, with the exception of deficits resulting from World War II, the national debt is almost one hundred percent a result of Republican economic sabotage.

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