Nothing like a bit of Vivaldi played by The Goede Hoop Marimba Band to bring joy to any day #WednesdayMotivation pic.twitter.com/lTeNOF5XDZ
— Alison Kriel 💙 #ubuntu #AntiRacist (@AlisonKriel) May 18, 2022
- Let us begin with a common rightist shibboleth:
The anti-democratic tilt of today’s conservatism occasionally finds a home in the simple observation that our government is a republic, not a “pure democracy.”
Conservative reverence for the founders has often centered on distortions of the views of poor James Madison.
The term “pure democracy” did exist in the 1700s, referring to the then zombie vision that government would be better without bothersome structures like legislatures, executives, courts, and representation. Proponents argued instead for a periodic mass meeting of everyone to make mass decisions in a series of, you know, mass votes. Madison and others argued against that form of “pure democracy”.
So conservatives sometimes trot out the tired, discredited argument that the founders hated democratic elections, wanting instead to shield rulers from unruly voters through buffers like the electoral college.
Madison hated the concept. In fact, he didn’t even like a non-proportional Senate. He and others went along with both in order to keep southern slaveholders on board in establishing an independent country.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara argues that the founders were against democracy and that we should honor their wishes. He wants to abolish direct election of Senators and go back to having state legislatures choose them for us.
Mercifully, he does not pick on James Madison this time, choosing instead to twist Thomas Jefferson into a pretzel.
As Jefferson said, “the majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.” The Founders were not primarily concerned with giving the people the right to vote. They intended to liberate the people from predatory government, whether monarchistic, theocratic, socialist, or democratic.
Actually, Jefferson and his contemporaries were concerned with both. That is why we have a Bill of Rights.
Mr. LaFerrara was quoting from a letter Jefferson wrote to Pierre du Pont. It is an interesting choice. Du Pont had been a supporter of the French Revolution, and became a survivor of what became known as the Reign of Terror. He barely escaped the guillotine and came to America.
You may suspect he might have been receptive to warnings against mob rule.
Michael neglects to mention that, in that same letter, Jefferson begins with a strong endorsement of democratic elections. That would be direct democratic elections
We of the United States, you know, are constitutionally and conscientiously democrats.
Jefferson goes on to describe the benefits of direct elections. Citizens are able to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent, and to delegate those to which they are not competent to deputies named, and removable for unfaithful conduct, by themselves immediately.
You don’t do what we want? We’ll vote you out.
Jefferson even argued separately for the abolition of the electoral college: to have no electors, but let the people vote directly.
Jefferson was a contradictory mess. Loved democracy, hated slavery, owned slaves, and wrote about why Black people were inferior in most every way.
How about we don’t saddle him with the additional moral crime of conflating democracy with mob rule.
Leave that to the current state of contemporary conservatism.
- Most of us have heard how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pulled some shady stuff in Texas to get charter planes filled with migrants. The operation was intended to show how liberals in Massachusetts can’t handle things when confronted by those damn illegals.
Problem with the whole operation is, although the recipient communities were indeed surprised and unprepared, they quickly rallied at what could have been the humanitarian disaster intended by DeSantis and managed to find enough beds, food, and medical care.
In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson delves into the story behind the story. Turns out the history of immigration from the south is richer and more complex than is generally reported.
Part of the current story is statistical, but one reason Heather Cox Richardson is popular is clear narrative. She manages to explain numbers briefly and well without pulling readers into the high weeds.
In fact, the border is not “open.” Fences, surveillance technology, and about 20,000 Border Patrol agents make the border more secure than it has ever been.
- Tommy Christopher learns from CNN that the DeSantis/Abbott repopulating of “undesirables” was borrowed from 1960s segregationists.
Meanwhile, Tommy bring us us this comment from Joe Scarborough:
You don’t own the libs with human lives
- Imani Gandy observes the political point made with refuge pawns.
She called them deplorable. Was she wrong? https://t.co/Gd8lg1Jak4
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 16, 2022
again, this seems pretttttttty kidnappy https://t.co/COvjy9BwiD
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 16, 2022
yeah. It’s disgusting
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 16, 2022
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged contrasts the coarse cynicism of DeSantis, using human desperation to own the libs, with the humanity of those in and around Martha’s Vineyard pitching in to help those in need.
- Hackwhackers has several cartoon-type reactions to the DeSantis hijack of migrants.
- At The Moderate Voice Don Hermann asks a few questions about the Republican agenda. From the sunsetting of Social Security, through realistic gun laws, to religion, I would say he already has the GOP agenda nailed. A very good summary, in fact.
- The master of eloquent rant, Max’s Dad, strolls with us through the dark valley, as Republicans campaign to allow states to decide whether a woman has the right to decide, then decide that is a scary, scary thought.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit reminds us that Lindsey Graham is not an aberration. The extremists scrambling for control really want to ban abortion no matter what. No exceptions. Ever.
- PZ Myers asks just who bought and paid for a rigidly religious conservative Supreme Court, and believes he has a possible answer.
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez captures my reluctant feeling:
Obviously there have always been plenty of court rulings I don't like or agree with, but in the past few years I've started to see opinions that don't even feel like serious attempts at articulating a legal argument; they're just Gateway Pundit posts with a docket number. https://t.co/h6sUp36oeB
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 17, 2022
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson gets impatient with voter suppression games that barely pretend to be something else:
If only it were that simple. The IRS is more forgiving of errors now.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) September 16, 2022
That would have been cold comfort to my homebound parents, whose ballots I apparently illegally cast for them in the 2020 election.
Voting should not be a gameshow where someone can say, "Ha, ha, your vote doesn't count because your witness wrote road instead of avenue."
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) September 16, 2022
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger goes polling after Joe Biden achieves some important legislative victories, then lambastes the devoted anti-democracy followers of mr Trump, who are quite willing to substitute violence for voting. President Biden’s numbers vary slightly from poll to poll but share a common skyward direction.
- The Propaganda Professor catches a superficial glimpse by a right-winger of the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists. The idea is that leftists are terrorists.
SOooo… PropProf goes definitional and finds some problems with the glimpsing polemic. Then goes deep into the numbers and finds a rightist to leftist ratio along the lines of 20 to 1.
- Last week I linked to my long-time conservative friend Darrell Michaels, who lambasted his own caricature of liberal thought that the dark corners of right wing imaginations contrive.
This week, Dave Dubya responds, taking each of Darrell’s points and dry roasting it.
- The Palmer Report has implicit advice for January 6 defendants. When on trial for assaulting police officers and trying to lynch federal legislators, the wisest defense strategy is probably not screaming at the presiding judge.
- Frances Langum provides video of CNN coverage as Mark Meadows cooperates after all with investigations of the terrorist insurrection of January 6:
- News Corpse reports on the reports as Fox is horrified that the FBI got a search warrant and seized Mike MyPillow Lindell’s cell phone. Apparently something to do with probable cause, possibly concerning criminality involving damage to voting machines.
- At The Onion, Steve Bannon is arraigned on charges of public indecency for going around looking like that.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life has a way of going constructively clinical, educating and entertaining us with hidden insights. This time he takes a look at Narcissistic Collapse what catastrophic outcomes are possible when it is occurs in the life of a well known subject.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac posts a speculative headline of how an ex-president might react at not being invited to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors watches as the Arizona Republican candidate for the United States Senate is asked for a “subversive thinker” whom people should know more about. He answers um, unexpectedly.
This is getting like The Producers, where they absolutely need for their production to fail.
- Libertarians see freedom as freedom from government.
I have, in the past, taken a look at the human cost of one instance when protective regulation was absent.
Infidel753 takes on libertarianism with a careful examination of functional freedom in the actual world.
- From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz: Stop being so damn hopeless!
Are you grieving?
Are you angry?
Are you brokenhearted?
Are you pissed off?
Are you at the end of your rope?
Good.
He explains This is cause for celebration.
And he tells us why.
- Dave Columbo completely understands the Ariel controversy:
@davecolumbo How I’m feeling right now #ariel #disney #littlemermaid #movies #film #hallebailey ♬ [Animals and dishes] Cute BGM – Sound Owl - M. Bouffant at Web of Evil looks to the heavens for a sign that the rest of the year will be okay, and receives, well, a sign anyway.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce takes a look at the perception that evangelical pastors lead easy lives at the expense of their gullible parishioners. Bruce defends the clergy.
Key passage:
For every megachurch pastor making millions of dollars, there are thousands of pastors making average, or below-average wages (even when housing allowance is taken into account). It’s one thing for atheists to attack and challenge theological beliefs. It is another thing to attack the character of clergymen, all because they don’t like what they stand for.
- Nan’s Notebook asks traditional reporting questions about religion. Who, What, and Where is God?
- In the Borowitz Report, Lauren Boebert educates us on the law: The 19th Amendment does not exist because God gave Moses only ten Amendments.
- Always the source of helpful life advice, Reductress explains how to ask your boss if your Chucky impression is any good.
- @whiskeywhistle98 gets enthused, sorta, about education:
@whiskeywhistle98 That’s a record for us…#ChewTheVibes #tiktokmoms #fyp #foryourpage #colds #sweetjesus #sick #seriously #ridiculous ♬ original sound – Soliana - YellowDog Granny has more problems with autocorrect.
- Author John Scalzi at Whatever is an excellent writer. But he wonders how he might have looked in another career. He has an AI program recast his photo as a member of rock’s KISS. Turns out he’s an excellent writer.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL experiments with video and audio settings to produce a brief introduction to her literary work on never being too old or too broken to find happiness.
The pure mechanics of audio are elusive, but she conquers. See what you think.
- SilverAppleQueen has a sheltered patio weeds in the eaves. Turns out to be a robin’s nest.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
The cage.
— InfiDale (@InfiDale3476) September 10, 2022
At last… pic.twitter.com/QrpfNxLoxQ
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) September 8, 2022
Biden delivers AGAIN! #BidenDeliversAGAIN @TheDemocrats pic.twitter.com/0sps6MKbQX https://t.co/H73oiVbn8t
— Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 (@ifindkarma) August 15, 2022
never forget that Sir Donald Trump wanted to invite the Taliban over to Camp David for a terrorist sleepover on 9/11 and when John Bolton said that was the stupidest fucking bullshit he'd ever heard in his life, Trump fired Bolton
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) September 11, 2022
'We ask you to relieve yourself of your post'. https://t.co/HDU4JcDv6O
— Carmalita (@Carmali15147795) September 11, 2022
Never forget that we moved heaven and earth to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. Not because he flew an airplane into the World Trade Center on 9/11, but because he incited his followers to do it for him.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) September 11, 2022
"Republicans trying to take credit for legislation they didn’t vote for" pic.twitter.com/7DEl41rgWv
— NotATweeter16 (@NotATweeter16) September 8, 2022
I guess Ted Cruz forgot… pic.twitter.com/JtvKlPBmKp
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 11, 2022
Think it’ll work?? pic.twitter.com/iFm3kEWnez
— dawn 🌞 (@missmyjeans1) September 10, 2022
My maternal great-grandparents were Ukrainian Jews who emigrated to the United States a century ago — fleeing violence and death inflicted by Russians. It’s awesome to see Putin’s ass being whipped now by President Zelenskyy, another Ukrainian Jew. 🇺🇦✡️
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) September 12, 2022
My entire time on twitter, I have never once asked you to retweet something. I am asking now. Please let people hear Brevard, FL School Board member Jennifer Jenkins tonight detail the threats and intimidation her, her family, and her neighbors have been subjected to this year. pic.twitter.com/6iAMxeKd9P
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 12, 2021
Interesting how the GOP surrounds @TheOtherMandela with the members of "the squad" who are non-white as they put up "Different. Dangerous." Yet there is no connection to any of the other Democrats in the ad. https://t.co/ohdGFhCIva
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) September 13, 2022
— Linda Hampton (@Ladydragon0212) September 13, 2022
I hear Josh Hawley is leading a delegation to Ukraine to teach Russian soldiers the proper technique of running away.
— Real🌻KennethD🌊🌊🌊💉4🍊🤡 (@RealKennethD) September 14, 2022
The Moscow 8 have aided Putin in his war on democracy:
—Richard Shelby (AL) 🇷🇺
—John Kennedy (LA) 🇷🇺
—Steve Daines (MT) 🇷🇺
—John Hoeven (ND) 🇷🇺
—Ron Johnson (WI) 🇷🇺
—Kay Granger (TX) 🇷🇺
—Jerry Moran (KS) 🇷🇺
—John Thune (SD) 🇷🇺#PartyOfTreason#GOPTraitorspic.twitter.com/gzdzhzXVkm— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) March 10, 2022
Michelle Obama: "What we are looking at today — a portrait of a biracial kid with an unusual name and the daughter of a water pump operator and stay-at-home mom — what we are seeing is a reminder there is a place for everyone in this country." pic.twitter.com/noW86ASkBN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 7, 2022
How to update your smart phone?
— InfiDale (@InfiDale3476) September 15, 2022
this motherfucker said “from a scientific perspective” talking about a goddamn mermaid 😂 https://t.co/Cf9v9tH9AG
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 15, 2022
I’m not sure why this isn’t on tv:
If GOP takes Congress in the Fall, MAGA will cut off military funding to Ukraine and Russia will take Ukraine by Summer.
Putin will not stop at Ukraine. It will spillover into NATO and the US will be fighting in Europe within a year.— Garry K Stonebraker (@stonebraker74) September 14, 2022
— Lolow5 (@lolow5) September 15, 2022
The Select Committee has obtained a recording of communications over a walkie-talkie app among Oath Keepers who were inside the Capitol and others who were sharing intelligence from elsewhere.
Listen to how they reacted to President Trump’s 2:38 tweet in real-time. pic.twitter.com/0ZzJ1E37w0
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) September 15, 2022
this cat looks like he just tied a damsel to some railroad tracks pic.twitter.com/2P0SdbUW2A
— an english human 🦷🍺/🧊🍋 (@English_Channel) November 23, 2021
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
I suspect that was satire.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
Without specific actions on her part with which you disagree, your post is nothing more than a sandbox taunt.
3rd grade stuff.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
OR
a necessary investigation into an attempted overthrow of the American government by a lynch mob.Why ever would you not enthusiastically support that investigation?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
Oops.
That must hurt.Your snide comment gets stomped and ground into the ground with a single short question from Carolyn:https://t.co/SaWylt5kLk
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
Dark times indeed!
Suddenly Trump Folk find out they are not above the law after all.
Doesn't seem fair.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
Enforcement of the law.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
Things do change, don't they?
I remember when a contractor updated a White House Christmas list. Did a sloppy job
A dedicated employee took the list home at the last minute to work on it
She got investigated by Republicans for theft of gov't propertyhttps://t.co/xoy8sjtl6N
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneyshttps://t.co/CiAic73k5i— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
It's time to stand up. It's time to speak up for righteousness.
— Pastor John Hagee (@PastorJohnHagee) September 11, 2022
As if your name is "Grovel"https://t.co/nBmMpriiEk
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
“Americans are remembering 9/11 with moments of silence, readings of victims’ names, volunteer work and other tributes 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil,” the AP reports.https://t.co/ZCgnozwBmw
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
The Republican Party may have given up for now on their plan for strict nationwide ban of abortion.
For nowhttps://t.co/E8nIdlSAal
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
What Trump thinks of God.
What Trump thinks of you:https://t.co/L9MvXhuc0F— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
“There’s no one that’s done more for Christianity than Donald Trump. No one.”
Yup.
Jesus had his moments, but it's time to move on up.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
Well no.
Although forming a lynch mob to hunt down and assassinate legislators probably qualifies.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
That's truly amazing.
Remarkable.mr Trump kept a secret?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
Well, I wasn't supposed to tell anybody.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 11, 2022
I'll never forget that, before the attack,
Secretary Clinton and President Obama
begged the Republican Congress for increased funding for embassy security
and they turned them down flat.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Well…
there were those 30,573 exceptions.https://t.co/dxdQCendOW— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
You mean because she didn't keep silent about their distain toward her because of …well… that thing it wasn't because of.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Oh, I don't think so.
Seems to me a huge majority everywhere oppose most cases of open bullying.Ukraine is the little guy who fights back and unexpectedly beats up the bully.
Of course we cheer.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Do you just pull random angry words out of the air?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
And then you vote against your own prayer.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Russian Soldiers Fleeing 'So Fast They Left Half Their Equipment': Officialhttps://t.co/6T6Zc2KyUq
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
The ability to communicate simply, from the heart
has always been a strong point.Joe Biden speaking to families about 9/11:
"I know for all those of you who lost someone, 21 years is both a lifetime and no time at all."
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
We must encourage Ukrainians to behave according to international law.
They should treat Vladimir humanely, turning him over to the Hague, even as Ukrainian tanks roll through the streets of Moscow to cheering crowds of Russians liberated from Putin rule.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Is that anything like check-your-brakes-safe-driving secular religion?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Nice to meecha!
Gotta run!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Don’t believe any Republican who campaigned in the primary on banning all abortions, even for rape and incest , when they try to soften their position now. Do. Not. Believe.Them.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) September 8, 2022
Actually, rights belong to each individual not to the community.
In the 1960s here in Missouri, an interracial couple would have faced imprisonment for getting married.
Should their marriage be up for neighborhood approval?
Should it have been even then?
Majority rules?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Those obsessively pointing out minor mistakes of others.
(Also, it's "Whom" not "who")
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
Start! Planck time!! ⚛️
— InfiDale (@InfiDale3476) September 12, 2022
That was gre
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
That strikes me as reasonable.
I find my own internal evidence to be compelling.
To require you to give it any weight at all would be to demand that you sacrifice your own intellectual integrity.
I'm unable to make such a request.
I cannot find it in me even to politely ask.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
As opposed to the political leader who looked over those marching with self-declared Nazis and said
"There are fine people on both sides."
I dunno, Graham. I think it's okay to be against those who want to overthrow democracy through violence.
Don't you?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 12, 2022
You mean except for:
1Polio booster doses
2Hepatitis B booster doses
3Tetanus booster dose
4Whooping cough booster dose— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
Valid point!
And how can she claim to be excited about astrophysics when she has never been to outer space?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
You guys do have a penchant for sandbox taunts.
Biden explained his reasoning.
His definitions make sense.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
Actually, Biden put forward a proposal to increase funding for police.
Democrats passed it.
You voted against funding for police.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
True.
Obama instituted a program of investigation that averages two years.
Biden enforces that.Trump worked to accept everyone from Europe.
Turned back or imprisoned those fleeing danger from the south.Had something to do with "cultural conservatism" and taking away children
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
Oh Sean! Whatever were you thinking?
That backfired so horribly! https://t.co/vPdVlWn7vr— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
They just met on the golf course for a friendly game of Witness Tampering.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
The Republican Putin Caucus:
Conservatives Try to Block Aid for Ukrainehttps://t.co/C1uOGo9ecx
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
I function well on just 4 hours.
Several times a day.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
The Age-Old Effort to Block Americans From Votinghttps://t.co/4QVuKtt5of
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
I'm elderly.
Maybe it's my logic, not yours, that is upside down.I'm hoping you'll set me straight.
If police crack down on trespassing and catch several trespassers, that means they are doing a horrible job enforcing laws on trespass?
Can you spare a moment to explain?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
I'm diabetic.
My loved one prohibits me from even thinking about anything like that.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
I expect this will disappear as an issue once every Republican office holder in Arizona joins every major Republican figure in the country in condemning it.
Unless, of course, that does not occur.https://t.co/gsJpe12leH
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
Fulfilling, in Virginia, the Republican vision for the nation
West Virginia Bans Nearly All Abortionshttps://t.co/I7r4KCXZhH
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
I especially hated cutting taxes way down for the incredibly wealthy, so they don't have to pay their fair share
And cutting back the IRS so nobody can fight their army of CPA tax cheats.
And refusing to tax mega-corporations a bare minimum.
OH!
My loved one says that was YOU!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
I'm considered elderly by some.
I'm afraid I haven't followed Mr Fahey at all.Did he have anything to do with the caging of those little kids who were kept out in the cold?
I know that was pretty awful.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
Is this true?https://t.co/bGRky56Jvb
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
Easy!
We just agree to disagree.
You worship God in your way.I'll worship Him in His!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 13, 2022
The accuracy of a poll depends on how it was conducted. Most of Pew Research’s polling is done by telephone. By contrast, most online polls that use participants who volunteer to take part do not have a proven record of accuracy.https://t.co/VU5PbwgzMd
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
On outlawing abortion throughout the nation without exception. https://t.co/XcjUnyAO9e
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
Ouch!
Dress up for a little visual snark.
Feeling smug at attacking someone you don't like.Must a little humiliating to suddenly find yourself destroyed when Tony pulls the rug from under you with a couple of biographical facts.https://t.co/0MH4B8oPSa
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
Oooof. That must sting.
Expressing hate on behalf of the community.
And that target calmly shows that same community rejects you personally.And in formal recorded vote!
You were just crushed by Olivia Juliannahttps://t.co/udj17HjW8s— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
Because of their unfair criticisms of violent insurrectionists who hunt for legislators to assassinate?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
So turkey is off the menu this Thanksgiving?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
World is 4000 years old. Dinosaurs were planted by god to confuse us
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) September 13, 2022
Years ago, I wrote about something similar:https://t.co/WsnrXgJVaw
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
I dunno Sean.
China's communist regime calls itself a
People's Republic.You and Mr Huckabee may, of course, have different loyalties than do I.
I don't much like that oppressive government.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
Pretty much how my grandparents got here.https://t.co/T4W4XTtl3i
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
Didn't you and your Republicans in Congress vote against measures to reduce inflation?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
Well…
I would have to get a permission slip from my wife.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
I'm considered elderly and I may have it wrong.
I understand the FBI already have Hunter's laptop,
but Giuliani had it first
and some files were accessed, edited, or added
while it was passed through the hands of several MAGA folk.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 14, 2022
I get distracted too easily, I suppose.
He is back with the uncontrolled hand flutters.
It's like he can't help it.
Is that a symptom of something he should have checked?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
2/2
Under the Trump/Sessions edict, baby Jesus was taken from them and put in a cage outdoors in the cold with other children.Sadly, no records were kept, Jesus was never found, and Mary and Joseph were sent back where they were killed.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
There is obvious oversight by law enforcement authorities.
Hearings, briefings, transparency about any investigation are typically not supposed to happen until that investigation concludes.
Anything else before you obey the decision of your former constituents and fade away?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
I'm dead?
Fake!
Hospital monitors were hacked!I demand a recount!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
A Complexion Problem
If Donald Trump runs for president again, he said that he would not pick Nikki Haley, his United Nations ambassador, as a running mate because she had a “complexion problem,” the New York Times reports.https://t.co/DKg7mW9hSG
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
You are saying that half of America is trying to violently overthrow democracy?
That is an extraordinary accusation.
Can you back it up?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
You will be congratulating President Biden for preventing that strike. Right?
Well?
Right?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
I think hard working Americans, not only Pennsylvanians, will be grateful if you would please make another video instructing us how to buy vegetables.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
Simple procedure:
No paperwork.
Why would anything official be done?An act of faith:
A laying on of hands."I hereby declassify thee.
Arise and walk again."Except not aloud.
All done by paranormal process.https://t.co/wKZWoSGHF6— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 15, 2022
So the death panel fantasy has become a planned outcome?https://t.co/2bt8SzHsYf
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 16, 2022
Thoughts and prayers, of course.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 16, 2022
When has any anti-choicer EVER suggested covering "every expense for the mother/child"?
When?
Did any anti-choicer support Sen. Mia McLeod's Pro Birth Accountability Act in 2019 when she introduced it? NOPE.
it is a farce to pretend that you folks care about mothers & babies. https://t.co/TdUiztr3Ua
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 16, 2022
Benedict Arnold Wishes He Had Had Special Master
“I think a special master would have taken a look and said, ‘Hold on, here—switching sides is a personal decision, so that’s privileged,’ ” the disgraced military officer said.https://t.co/nUGkAXUKy9
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 17, 2022
Since you check so often, you may want to correct me.
I understand asylum can be claimed, and often is, by those who cross the border, seek out authorities, and turn themselves in.
They are investigated in a process that can take as long as 2 years.
So asylum ISN'T a catchall.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 17, 2022
– Podcasts –
I am so glad that you have/are recovered so well to put these out-this was huge, and great! Thank you.
Speaking of Thomas Jefferson and our friend Darrell, né T. Paine, his latest Constitution Day allocution is on “saving the Constitution” and its sacred permanence. The Right seems annoyed that it is amendable, and has been amended.
He quotes an “unbiased” Republican college’s pitch for donations:
“America’s Constitution endured for more than two centuries—longer than any other constitution in human history—because it was brilliantly conceived and based on the principles of liberty in the Declaration of Independence. Today, however, certain parts of the Constitution have been completely subverted.”
I suppose if we mention slavery and 3/5th persons it indicates we “hate America” and are pushing “Marxist CRT”.
I hope he isn’t too annoyed by the Anonymous comment on Jefferson.
Constitution Day is the perfect time to remind everyone that Thomas Jefferson said we should rewrite the Constitution every 20 years.
In a letter written to James Madison from Paris just after the French Revolution had broken out, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) argues that any Constitution expires after 19 years and must be renewed if it is not to become “an act of force and not of right”:
“The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water… (But) between society and society, or generation and generation there is no municipal obligation, no umpire but the law of nature. We seem not to have perceived that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independant nation to another… On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation… Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.”
I’m looking forward to his conclusion that Jefferson “hated America”.
Alas, Darrell ignored Jefferson entirely.
great post — intelligent discussion that doesn’t imply that the only thing that matters right now is the queen’s death. thanks, too, for including a link to my site here