When jumping out of your car to pitch a fit at the drive-through window, while harassing an underpaid employee, be sure to put your car in park. pic.twitter.com/XaRCUHWXWG
— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) May 15, 2022
- Max’s Dad, usually pithy and entertaining in his rants, becomes angry and eloquent as he contemplates more mass murders by white supremacists.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit does not think targeting guns or even assault rifles will end racially motivated mass murders. She does have a suggestion.
- Frances Langum covers the coverage as CNN’s Jim Acosta calls out Tucker Carlson for his deadly Replacement Theory nonsense.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life explains how social language norms influence behavior and how that applies as conservatives toe-dip, and sometimes wade, into white supremacy, and how it then leads to race based mass murder.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson examines the great Replacement Theory, variations of which are becoming popular among Republicans, conservative television personalities, white supremacist groups, and racist mass murdering shooters, and traces it back to reconstruction days in the South circa 1870.
- In Hackwhackers it’s cartoon time, and a few takes on modern white supremacy.
- Ten years ago, John Scalzi figured out a way to write about white privilege in a way that would effectively communicate the concept to resistant white males. It didn’t work, and John is pretty sure why.
- Pro-life Republicans are now going after the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged takes a look at the message behind the message as Cultural Conservatives attack those getting nutrition as undeserving layabouts and then lapse into a variation on Replacement Theory rhetoric.
- By US and International law, refugees have to be treated humanely. Our policy has been to investigate thoroughly whether they are truly refugees, which is to say they have a legitimate fear of persecution. This has been the law for over 40 years. While being investigated, they have to be fed and sheltered.
Scotties Playtime covers a new controversy as Republicans, presumably pro-life conservatives, are calling Democrats pedo grifters for providing enough baby formula to keep immigrant babies from starving. After all, the baby formula is for babies already in America in programs the same conservatives are trying to eliminate.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger knows the polls, he has the data, and he tells us how Americans regard the US Supreme Court.
One way to say it might be minimum high esteem.
- Dave Columbo has a few newsworthy opinions on abortion rights and the Supreme Court draft rationale for overturning them:
@davecolumbo It’s been a pretty rough week. #news #democrats #democratsoftiktok #democrat #politics #politicaltiktok #roe #roevwade #fy #fyp #foryou ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo - Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara regards with some skepticism those who insist on the right of individuals to make their own abortion decisions, if they also want indoor masking mandates at public facilities during a pandemic. He calls us on our hypocrisy.
I dunno, Michael. When my neighbor stands next to me at the checkout during a widespread contagion, it can affect me, my family, my friends, and others in deadly ways. When my neighbor decides whether she will have children it does not affect any of the rest of us.
Not everything that is my concern is my business. Some things are.
- Nojo contemplates how to be happy in these desperate times, and settles for an evening with a Ukrainian friend.
- Infidel753 sees a few dim, but brightening, signs of hope as Putin loses his war of aggression. Infidel has a habit of accurate analysis in these areas.
- Green Eagle knows that most analysts see only two ways for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to end. One is Russian defeat that Putin will not tolerate. The other is escalation to a nuclear nightmare. Green Eagle sees a possible path to a third alternative.
- After @momwino98 became @whiskeywhistle98, I was afraid this might be lost. Fortunately she thought to preserve it:
@whiskeywhistle98 #answer to @spidermark790 an oldie but a goodie!! 😂 #humor #trumpispathetic #tiktokmom #foryourpage #fyp #trend #obama #yikes ♬ original sound – @Whiskeywhistle98- - The Palmer Report has been covering the legal contest between Donald Trump and NY’s Attorney General in her investigation of corporate and bank fraud. At issue was whether Trump would surrender financial documents that are under subpoena. Now it looks like Donald has caved and given up the documents.
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez has an idea of the source of right wing politics:
The primary function of modern right wing politics is giving people who are angry and bitter because they’re losers a series of fictions they can pretend to themselves are the source of their rage. https://t.co/qCwpqTUOuL
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) May 20, 2022
I’m dead serious about this. A truly frightening amount of our politics now seems to be about manufacturing socially acceptable public pretexts for rage people are already harboring for essentially personal reasons.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) May 20, 2022
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a suggestion for CPAC
If CPAC is supposedly about the promotion of conservatism, shielding the event from the press is hardly the way to do it. https://t.co/7kTWHSYsOX
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) May 21, 2022
- driftglass has an important message for normal apolitical people.
- Tommy Christopher watches a MAGA focus group and reports back. Headline says it: ‘Nothing Against Martin Luther King…’ MAGA MSNBC Focus Group Member Slams Raphael Warnock for ‘Always’ Quoting MLK.
- Dave Dubya considers ways to reason with the radical right, and finally has to give up.
- As Mehmet Oz suffers through a narrow count in his campaign for Senator from Pennsylvania, Andy Borowitz has the nation’s physicians praying for Dr. Oz to win and hopefully get out of medicine. With luck, he just might stop promoting the healing powers of magic coffee beans.
- One incumbent sheriff is a bit of a lout. While campaigning, he muscled his way into a local Catholic church to photograph himself praying for an advertisement. The church demanded he pull the ad. He’s gone totally culture war, targeting the homeless. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil says the sheriff should be tossed out on his ear for yet another reason: the dumbest campaign ad ever.
- YellowDog Granny has an insight into how a horrible, tragic, life affecting experience has resulted in a changed Madison Cawthorn.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors shows no mercy in bidding farewell as Representative Madison gets ready to become Citizen Madison.
- It is a tough thing to lose an election. I imagine it’s even more devastating for a young adult (read “kid”). News Corpse covers Madison as he gets in scandal-type trouble, then loses the Republican primary, and finally lashes out: …it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command and Their days are numbered. We are coming..
- Sarah Cooper takes a look at one bit of the continuing persecution of Elon Musk, and is unimpressed with the hardship:
This man is a DRAMA QUEEN https://t.co/qH1NJIWHXZ
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) May 15, 2022
- Grung e Gene has some insights into the current amazing crypto-crash. Crypto, we learn, is a Ponzi scheme that steals from later victims to reward early victimizers. Gene describes the concept as a belief in magic beans.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz is pessimistic about our national future.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce remembers an assaultive, physically dangerous, game he and other teenage boys played in high school.
Young folks often must simply grow out of doing dumb, dangerous things. I tried to. Makes me wonder if the same lesson tells us why Madison Cawthorn is as he is.
- A clinical psychologist from Canada has made a name for himself as an academic conservative. PZ Myers reacts to the psych’s reaction to Twitter’s reaction as he harshly criticizes a plus-size model. He is offended that Twitter is offended, and quits the social media site in a huff, for all of about a minute. Professor Myers suggests that, if the fellow wants to insult a woman for not meeting his exacting standard of beauty, perhaps he should acquire a thicker skin.
- At The Moderate Voice, Kathy Gill marks the 49th anniversary of the Watergate committee investigating what turned out to be the Nixon criminal conspiracy. She reviews the history of the news coverage with an emphasis on Nixon’s sour relationship with the press.
- Doesn’t sound legit, but apparently it is. Nan’s Notebook has discovered an organization that will pay you to read books. The catch is the actual work involved. Statistical analysis of words, phrases, characters, locations, and more sounds like fun. Sort of.
- At The Onion, researchers discover a new virulent trigger for human anxiety attacks.
- In another vital life hack, Reductress instructs us on how to leave someone a voicemail without imagining them listening to it after you’re dead.
- In MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist is scheduled for cataract surgery. He has to fill out the requisite forms by cell phone, no mean trick for the eye impaired. Then he gets tripped up over gender assigned at birth.
- SilverAppleQueen has optical illusions, along with a few pointers on why they work.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
Seen while wandering around Southampton last week. pic.twitter.com/dJQ2Mawheu
— Bristol Ideas (@bristolideas) May 15, 2022
I have news for you gun lovers: the guy who murdered ten strangers in Buffalo considered himself a “good guy with a gun” while he murdered them.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) May 15, 2022
trump didn’t win the 2020 election. Immigrant babies aren’t stealing your baby’s formula. Educators aren’t teaching your kindergartner CRT or grooming them to be gay. There’s no caravan coming for your job or your wives or anything else.
Those are lies Republicans tell.
The end.— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) May 13, 2022
I spent a decade working in counterterrorism. The rhetoric we are seeing from leaders of my party — the Republican Party — is *directly* fueling violence and a spike in domestic terrorism. This is not a partisan observation. This is a public safety warning.
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) May 15, 2022
Do all the MAGA bros praising Zelensky’s courage understand that Trump got impeached for refusing to provide military aid to Zelensky unless he made up dirt about Joe Biden?
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) February 26, 2022
INCREDIBLE MOMENT: Boynton Beach police sent this video out in the hopes to honor the people who got out of the car to help the woman who had a medical episode while driving. https://t.co/5XDUhTg570 pic.twitter.com/2o6G9d6MJP
— WPBF 25 News (@WPBF25News) May 11, 2022
— James Sides 🏳️🌈🇺🇲🌊 (@JamesztieS) May 16, 2022
We don’t need gun control. We just need to avoid churches, malls, supermarkets, mosques, concerts, synagogues, cinemas, parks, pre-schools, middle schools, high schools, college campuses, mass transportation, the outdoors in general… (1/513)
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 15, 2022
first they came for the white people, and I didn't speak out— because nobody is coming for the white people, you stupid fucking whiny paranoid grievance-babies. get a fucking grip
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 15, 2022
NEW: Fox News is now blaming video games for mass shootings like those in Buffalo and Laguna Woods, with a host saying that they’ve become “so realistic and so violent” that they’ve “de-sensitized” people to violence.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 15, 2022
Exactly 💯% pic.twitter.com/b0fpA3dGXP
— Treasonopoly (@treasonopoly) May 15, 2022
These criminals just DGAF. 🫤🤣 pic.twitter.com/QmuC4KUHYT
— shan 💎🙌🏼 (@Oshan702) May 17, 2022
I can’t solve the political divide but I can make sure I listen to both sides.
I can’t solve the economic divide in this country but I can make sure I help others when I can.
I can’t solve racism but I make sure my children are not racist.
Effort & compassion go a long way!❤️
— KID VICIOUS🔪 (@kirkacevedo) May 18, 2022
AS YOU ARE REHASHING ABORTION RHETORIC EVERYONE SHOULD REMEMBER: A WOMAN TESTIFIED UNDER OATH TODAY TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS THAT SHE BELIEVES ABORTIONS POWER STREET LAMPS.
SHE SAID THAT. WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.
UNDER OATH.
ABORTIONS.
STREET LAMPS.
SHE ACTUALLY SAID THAT.
— Renee Bracey Sherman (@RBraceySherman) May 18, 2022
Problem: High gas prices
GOP solution:
The House has passed a bill to crack down on price gouging at gas stations by a vote of 217-207. Every single republican voted NO.https://t.co/o3KEO84gEP— JEWISH SPACE LASER Count De Monet vs GOP Orgies (@johnaddams2022) May 20, 2022
"The red states poised to ban or severely limit abortion already tend to have limited access to health care, poor health outcomes and fewer safety net programs in place for mothers and children."
.https://t.co/nzxLomsNMw— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 20, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 15, 2022
"I'll hold your coat."
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 15, 2022
I would need a note from my wife.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 16, 2022
Ouch.
Seems your argument was completely eviscerated by @visgrrl https://t.co/b1UwfGvqE9— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 16, 2022
The tough guys who always spoke to him in private, with tears in their eyes.
The tough guys only he could see.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 16, 2022
Thanks for the warning.
That's enough for me to change my plans for this morning.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 16, 2022
I think it's completely unfair that I have a reputation for being bald.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 17, 2022
Oh come on, people. Stop calling her stupid.
She is NOT stupid.She's just unlucky…
.
.
…when it comes to thinking.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 17, 2022
"What I am saying is that the Murdochs *are* responsible for putting hosts on air who say almost the exact same stuff that the alleged shooter in Buffalo said. And that should both scare and outrage the rest of us."
My monologue last night on Rupert & co:pic.twitter.com/ObfM0k1ILd— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 17, 2022
The objection apparently is not to all immigrants.
Mr Trump made a scheduled speech at CPAC in 2013 demanding that European immigrants be given preference. More Europeans should be immigrating, he said.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 17, 2022
B-bye
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 18, 2022
I hope, even if I was an atheist.
I'd like to think I wouldn't make someone's death experience all about me.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 18, 2022
Damn I'm old! https://t.co/X2NJ9xNuip
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 18, 2022
Vote to approve additional funding for FDA to deal with baby formula shortage: 231-192.
12 of the 231 YES votes were Republicans.
All 192 NO votes were Republicans. https://t.co/hfeYK5FcGi— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
Good God!!
Is this accurate?Did company executives celebrate success in keeping FDA from finding out about unsafe conditions contaminating baby formula?
The contaminated baby formula that caused babies to die?https://t.co/vkuIkJjhRO
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
Should have seen this coming
GOP Candidate Wants to Eliminate One Person, One Vote
.https://t.co/bobZkCU7Gr— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
I confess that I am somewhat elderly and I have probably been using the wrong search engine, or not using it correctly.
I am like you. I want a solution that will keep infants from going hungry.
Can you give me a link to the legislative bill you fight for as a better solution?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
Extreme Democrats demand healthcare for all.
Extreme Republicans go along with kidnapping the Governor of Michigan.So compromise on all issues.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
So yet AGAIN, you have resorted to sidestepping reality and personal attacks with 0 facts to argue a point that I never brought up. You may be the one with the memory issues, go back and find where I said anything about her defense that wasn't simply a reply to you bringing it up
— Fuck You (@FuckYou66763507) May 13, 2022
You are seriously one of the DUMBEST people I've ever encountered. I will say this 1 more time for you. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT HER LEGAL DEFENSE, I SIMPLY ASKED WHAT EVIDENCE YOU HAVE TO CALL J6 AN INSURRECTION… The fact that you can't seem to get such a simple question is crazy.
— Fuck You (@FuckYou66763507) May 19, 2022
2/
Here's where we are:I answer your repeated question with logic and evidence, and show where the conversation was when you joined us as a welcomed participant.
Your response is that I have many character flaws.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
Well, of course you do, my dear.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
Outer space fire fighter police hero person.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 19, 2022
"The red states poised to ban or severely limit abortion already tend to have limited access to health care, poor health outcomes and fewer safety net programs in place for mothers and children."
.https://t.co/nzxLomsNMw— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 20, 2022
Rioting should be prosecuted and punished.
Insurrection, trying to violently keep someone in power after they lost an election, is even worse by multiples, and must be prosecuted and punished.
You agree. Right?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 20, 2022
I'm somewhat elderly so I know it is easy to be confused by twitter, hard to even pay close attention to what prompts you to apply.
You may want to re-read what I just posted. The tweet you tried to answer.
It pretty much says what you think I have never said.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 20, 2022
Biden is creating a catastrophe at the border by ending Title 42.
Texas is gearing up by activating a border operation center & creating a steel barricade to turn back illegal immigrants.
As the federal government fails, Texas continues to step in & secure the border. pic.twitter.com/leNdMw4zzM
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 20, 2022
The objection apparently is not to all immigrants.
Mr Trump made a scheduled speech at CPAC in 2013 demanding that European immigrants be given preference. More Europeans should be immigrating, he said.https://t.co/99H5R2KJQp
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 20, 2022
Rioting should be prosecuted and punished.
Insurrection, trying to violently keep someone in power after they lost an election, is even worse by multiples, and must be prosecuted and punished.
You agree. Right?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 20, 2022
Ummm, no actually.
You may want to read again.
This time slowly, moving your lips.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 21, 2022
I don't know about relentless.
I do take a breath now and then.Actually, I think Ijuswanna has it about right.
.https://t.co/BquNyeBiYP— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 20, 2022
$2.76?
My first job?
Only a little more than that, I think.Of course, that was more than half a century ago.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 21, 2022
Despising Julian Assange
.https://t.co/yR4gAtUgYo— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 21, 2022
I may be old, but I pretty much say what's on my mind.
Trolls who toss about insult instead of argument are entertaining. They try to provoke anger. When I respond with amusement, they sometimes get awfully upset.
But not all are trolls. Some are just surprised, even friendly.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 21, 2022
Well no.
When I was single, I learned the hard way.You have to wash them again and again.
Every damn year!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 21, 2022
You have been misled, I'm afraid.
But I can help you out:
.https://t.co/H8iAHZ6N1F— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) May 21, 2022
– Podcasts –
The Second Amendment’s ‘well-regulated militias’ were not so much an aversion to a standing army (the nascent US very rapidly learned the value and need to have one) so much as the southern slaveholding states unwilling to trust that the central government would legally recognize their slave patrols.
Those “well regulated militia’s” had much less to do with fighting tyranny, but capturing runaways and preventing a slave revolt. Even then, slaves outnumbered the free people in those states.