This is worth a few seconds:
The Mother’s Against Greg Abbott are back. Wow. pic.twitter.com/n4lcozUdhm
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 13, 2022
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson explains how Prime Minister Liz Truss applied conservative supply-side policies to British economic problems and achieved a new, spectacular record in rapidly forced retirement.
- Green Eagle has a few unexpected words in defense of Liz Truss.
- Reductress says the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Truss leaves her unsure about what new direction to take.
Note: the headline is the whole point.
- Vice President Kamala Harris gave an interview, talking at length about aid efforts to Florida during and after Hurricane Ian. Late in the interview, she mentioned that natural disasters often hit hardest those struggling with poverty including, disproportionally, Black people.
Conservatives, being who they are, immediately fit those innocuous comments into something sinister. Hurricane aid, they charged, would target people based on skin color. White folks would be denied help.
Unabashedly American is worth a review only to satisfy some interest in right wing caricatures of liberal beliefs.
Darrell Michaels leads with a crude cartoon of Harris and Biden denying aid to Floridians based on a pigment chart.
Just in case you have trouble getting the point, the Harris speech bubble is HA HA HA (CACKLE) (CACKLE) HA HA, while Biden peeps around the chart with SORRY, YOU AIN’T BLACK!
Sadly, my old friend Darrell accurately represents the current state of contemporary conservatism. Among his many gifts, subtlety is notably absent.
- So much for we report you decide. Fox News covers their reporter asking Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre what they see as an embarrassing question. Fox interrupts her response with
We wanted to show you the rest of her answer but she didn’t make any sense.
Scotties Playtime has a better explanation and links to what Fox would not show. Turns out her didn’t make any sense answer was factual, completely sensible, and pretty much shut the Fox interrogator down – as in to‑the‑ground.
- Max’s Dad explains why he’s not contributing to Democratic campaigns. At least not until they toughen up.
Republicans are all accusation, way past the point of absurdity. Defund police, release violent criminals, kill your family, tax you to oblivion, give it to illegals, take your house, and on and on.
Yet here we continue with the Democratic ads about how they are lying about me and can’t we all get along?
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac has a brief summary of the official campaign strategy for all GOP candidates. It’s mandatory.
- Dave Columbo knows everything that matters about the midterms and GOP positioning.
@davecolumbo Reposted now with fewer triggering jokes!!! #democrat #democrats #democratsoftiktok #midterms #midterms2022 #politicaltiktok #politicalsatire #politics #news #breaking #fy #fyp ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo - Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson does not seem especially intimidated by the turn of the Republican party toward an institutional fascination with political violence.
This is what we end with:
Such a civil war would more likely resemble Beirut or Baghdad than Gettysburg and Antietam.
If we’re going to avoid such a fate because we’re all a bit too heavy around the middle, and I would obviously include myself in that description, then I have some simple advice for Gableman.
Have another Twinkie. War is not the answer.
Everything that leads in to that is worth the read.
I hate that an occasional conservative writer is that good.
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez has little sympathy for today’s conservative nostalgia for 1930s and 40s fascism.
My father had to flee Franco Spain for his life, so if you’re contemplating swooping in to “actually” me about how his legacy has “shades of gray,” please consider the alternative of giving yourself a colonoscopy with a rusty chainsaw. Thanks.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) October 20, 2022
Ah OK, he’s just trolling. He knows the bipedal livestock following him have no real idea who Franco was, but will do a giddy seal clap and imagine the libs have been pwned whenever educated people are horrified. https://t.co/oFsly9nRQv
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) October 20, 2022
Sabatini meets Franco in Hell: “Ok I guess I didn’t think that one through…”
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) October 20, 2022
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, reacts to a Republican reaction from a minor candidate to German history before and during World War II: All Nazis weren’t bad.
One key passage:
…Dr. Matt Keefer has a different take: wouldn’t you just do a little genocide, because everyone else was into it? It’s not like it makes you a bad person if basically everyone else was into it.
Sure. Myself, I get that peer pressure makes people smoke, do crack, sleep with everyone they know and vote third party, but I tell you what, I draw the line at genocide.
A lot of conservatives these days seem genocide-curious.
- Want to know how fascists win? In Italy? Maybe eventually, maybe soon, here in the Land of the Free? The Propaganda Professor sees five distinct tactics within an anti-democracy strategy.
- YellowDog Granny remembers the good old days when the GOP and the conservative Christian community had a less distant relationship with truth and morality.
- driftglass doesn’t care for Republicans, anti-Trumpers who remain Republicans, former Republicans, Independents, or those Democrats who are okay with anti-Trumpers, former Republicans, or Independents. Because he, driftglass, was right all the time and they weren’t.
It’s time they said so.
And he won’t like them even if they do.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has a two sentence handle on Republican economic plans to cure inflation.
- In Hackwhackers, Republicans make public their plans after taking over Congress, and twitter reacts.
I admit to some bias. I don’t much care for the announced GOP intention to slash Social Security benefits, being elderly and all. And I do have some concern about the pro-Putin anti-Ukraine reversal of US policy. I kind of like seeing freedom fighters win against an international bully.
- Tommy Christopher reports as folks arrested by the DeSantis administration get to court and are found not-guilty. Tommy has the legal reasoning.
I have a brief summary of the facts behind the reasoning.They were felons who had served their sentences, completed parole.
The DeSantis administration told them they could vote, issued them registration cards, then arrested them for voting.
The idea was to prove voter fraud.
Pretty tricky.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
- The Borowitz Report covers Herschel Walker as the Georgia Republican candidate for the US Senate claims he is an honorary Power Ranger.
“I can control the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord,” the Senate candidate insisted. “Raphael Warnock can’t say that.”
Sometimes satire comes very close to non-fiction.
- At The Moderate Voice, retired U.S. Air Force Officer Dorian de Wind has a high opinion of Steve Schmidt’s low opinion of Kevin McCarthy.
- Frances Langum transcripts Tulsi, who is no longer a Democrat because Biden is Hitler.
Frances wonders how much of Tulsi Gabbard’s income is paid in rubles.
Strikes me as a reasonable question.
- News Corpse relays conservative outrage at the sentencing of Steve Bannon for defying a lawful subpoena from Congress.
I happen to have a thought:Is he guilty?
He wasn't charged with being a dissident.
He was charged with refusing to respond to a lawful subpoena.Is he guilty?
4 tweets, & you did not mention whether he is guiltyThat the prosecutor was biased
That he wanted to win the case
That you vow revengeGuilty??
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 22, 2022
- Dave Dubya does see a lot of gloom.
Yes, there is bad news to be dealt with in our country. We’re witnessing a deeply concerning course of events these days. We are watching the toxicity of the radical white nationalist right reach a lethal level. Our democratic republic still faces it worst domestic threat. It can be difficult to believe the outcome won’t be a grim darkness across the land.
But he looks to recent judicial developments and finds reason for optimism.
- There is the occasional biased judge. Then there is a judicial personality so partisan, her bias becomes comically warped. Since cases at a federal level are assigned randomly to judges, Trump really lucked out, at least at first, in drawing Judge Aileen Cannon.
In the Palmer Report, Shirley Kennedy suggests we hold our wild-eyed stampeding horses! Maybe it wasn’t just luck.
Trump lawyers lied on official filings to avoid an impartial judge.
- It was one of several Pacman investigations launched by the Trump administration to investigate investigators in order to prove that the original investigations were bogus no matter what they found. John Durham was assigned to ferret out and prosecute investigators and the witnesses they had found while looking into Donald Trump’s collusion with Putin folk while he campaigned for president.
M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has an opinion on the spectacular unsuccess of the Durham investigation, conducted on behalf of Trump, and on conservative efforts to salvage what they can from the debacle.
- At The Onion, Donald Trump outsmarts another lawsuit by cleverly changing his name.
- Abortion rights, the right for any woman to make her own decisions, got a severe setback with the Supreme Court’s extreme decision: Constitutional amendments don’t really mean what they say.
Now some states are preparing new laws allowing their residents to sue citizens of other states for helping women get abortions.
Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group videocast how an obscure lawsuit about the treatment of pigs might turn back this newest extremism to the previous lesser level of extremism. If you prefer reading, they thoughtfully provide a transcript.
- Nan’s Notebook contains the reaction we all ought to share with each new stunning instance of mass murder with weapons of …well… mass murder.
- Professor PZ Myers provides a story about a woman
denied essential surgery because the hospital wanted to pander to the transeses.
He does a quick search and discovers there is a whole lot more to the story.
Wait! So not everything from everyone on the internet is completely true?
You want us occasionally to …like… check?
- Ukraine stands up to bullyboy Vlad Putin. Yay for them.
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit explains how tough-guy Republicans want to shrink fearfully back from helping Ukraine, and why timidity with Putin is a really bad idea.
- Infidel753 covers Russian public reaction to the aggression toward Ukraine. Ordinary citizens have been mildly supportive of Putin, but now ineptitude in the drafting of men to replace those lost on the front lines is exacting a deadly toll. The war is coming home.
A key passage about support for the invasion:
That is now changing, thanks to Putin’s ill-advised and stunningly incompetent mass mobilization.
- So it goes with midterm elections. Participation is typically low. But tens of millions of us do vote.
North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has a few words of less-angry-than-disappointed wisdom for the 100 million plus who did not vote in 2018.
One key sentence:
More than 100 million people thought so little of the freedoms Americans who came before them protested and were jailed for, were beaten and imprisoned for, fought and died for—that they would simply abstain.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara defends the Electoral College. It exists because the founders intended to defend against the tyranny of the majority.
That was what many of us were taught in school many decades ago, before scholars went to original sources on early debates and discovered it was false.
That myth only began to spread before the late 1800s, and then as a result of a single professor who had an unfortunate influence on future textbooks.
I don’t know why conservatives pick on poor James Madison to misrepresent so flagrantly, but we might charitably assume those on the right have been misled.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors finds a poignant reminder that human slavery in the United States was not so long ago.
I have to agree. Former slaves were still alive, telling stories of servitude, when I was young.
And I am reminded of this: a witness to the Lincoln assassination appeared as a surprise guest on a then-famous television game show I’ve Got a Secret when I was a child.
- After so many sleepless nights! Finally, I am at restful peace.
The Strategic Studies Book Club tells us what Napoleon Bonaparte thought about the wars of Julius Caesar. In his own words.
Okay, okay. It is kind of interesting.
Truly, I am such a dweeb!
Yet I am happy. I glory in my dweebery!
- CalicoJack remembers:
These photos take me back to my youth. It was so different back then. https://t.co/5LJHn25RnW
— The Psy of Life (@ThePsyOfLife) October 16, 2022
Funny how smell works. Wasn't there a cologne (or am I thinking of pitbauchlie oil) that was popular back then?
— The Psy of Life (@ThePsyOfLife) October 16, 2022
I think I had a pair of platform shoes that fit that description. I loved those shoes, too.
— The Psy of Life (@ThePsyOfLife) October 16, 2022
- Atheist Bruce Gerencser tells us of his time as an avid religious participant. He relates how a young girl who became pregnant was reduced to an object of the sort of official cruelty for which we Christians should be ashamed.
- There are times you really don’t want to encounter @whiskeywhistle98
@whiskeywhistle98 Dark times my friend…#FlexEveryAngle #period #dontmesswithme #foff #snacks #wine #leavemealone #fyp #tiktokmom #foryourpage ♬ original sound – Alia DeSantis - SilverAppleQueen has been knitting. She shows us a very cool blanket for her soon-to-arrive granddaughter.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
Saw this today. pic.twitter.com/yOvBGZMY7t
— GunnyJ (@GunnyJ) October 8, 2022
If infrastructure is working properly, you rarely think about it. If it's not, everything else gets harder.
This is why we invest in fixing and enhancing America's infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/C9zMg1PZUo
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) October 8, 2022
This will blow your mind. New Hampshire’s Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc says abortion decisions “belong” to Republican “gentlemen” state representatives, and that “as a man”, women “get the best voice” when men decide how to regulate their rights. pic.twitter.com/zv4twOWdoU
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 9, 2022
“Do not give power to people who have told us that they will not honor elections.” – Rep. Liz Cheney pic.twitter.com/k7ZQ6ztfla
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 7, 2022
I just had a man tell me that if a woman dies from an ectopic pregnancy, that’s God‘s will. He’s voting on November 8. Are you?
— Piper for Missouri (@piper4missouri) October 10, 2022
Totally sympathize. I mean, totally. pic.twitter.com/QUgXuPtzV2
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) October 10, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act is now law.
Giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. Ensuring wealthy corporations pay their fair share in taxes.
And taking the biggest step forward on climate in our history.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 16, 2022
"If you don't own a gun, you don't know enough about them to make gun laws," he says just after regulating a uterus.
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) July 5, 2022
Beautiful.
Just beautiful. pic.twitter.com/3o2hxJ72rQ— CAMPBIZZLE (@happycrazytown) August 10, 2022
A Minnesota man who said his camper was lit on fire because it had a Trump 2020 flag on it pleaded guilty to starting the fire himself and then filing fraudulent insurance claims Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced. https://t.co/KmhIw19g37
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) October 13, 2022
Nothing is more on MAGA brand than a guy who paid for an abortion wanting to ban abortion.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) October 4, 2022
— @HillaryWasRight 🇺🇦 💙💙 🏳️🌈 (@HRCwasRight16) October 7, 2022
I’m pretty sure that’s a Möbius dildo.
— InfiDale (@InfiDale3476) October 17, 2022
Texas Gov Greg Abbott is choosing to send DNA kits to schools that parents can use to identify their children’s bodies AFTER they’ve been murdered rather than pass gun safety laws to proactively protect their lives.
Vote @BetoORourke #txgov #txlege https://t.co/lnZQcUoNlt
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 17, 2022
ALERT: Kevin McCarthy vows to block future US aid to Ukraine if elected Speaker of the House. Putin must be smiling.
He is siding with Russia against both our democratic ally and our NATO partners.
RT if you agree that this is deplorable! pic.twitter.com/qMhouYjnkT
— Joel Rubin (@JoelMartinRubin) October 18, 2022
Good morning ☕️☕️ pic.twitter.com/Tl9ag6IwEd
— HeidiHo 💙🌻🇺🇦 (@Heidi521) October 19, 2022
President Biden is a Catholic with pro life views, yet he has promised to codify Roe because that’s how it’s supposed to work. Politicians are supposed to do what’s best for the citizens of this country not shape our country based on their personal religious beliefs.
— Sarah Ironside 💙🌊 (@SarahIronside6) October 19, 2022
Criminals cannot claim attorney client privilege. Boom! Here it is. #TrumpCrimeFamily pic.twitter.com/gCbPreU8gw
— Minkamom🇺🇸💙🌊💙 (@minkamom) October 19, 2022
Remember when credit card co.’s could “adjust” your interest rate to huge %’s even if you were only one day late? Or they would pay down lower interest first before higher? Obama’s CFPB changed that fine print predatory lending. GOP has been trying to dismantle ever since. 👇 https://t.co/bNcOjOKVPD
— Minkamom🇺🇸💙🌊💙 (@minkamom) October 20, 2022
— Patty Squillante (@PattySquillante) October 20, 2022
— Patty Squillante (@PattySquillante) October 20, 2022
Elections do have consequences, as @POTUS warned yesterday. The fact that Vladimir Putin considers a GOP win in November his last best hope to win in Ukraine should tell you everything. It would be a disaster for the US on every level. https://t.co/9x0U9RudEZ
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) October 21, 2022
What do think @RonJohnsonWI ?
“I may go down as a hero,” Mazza told Capitol Police.
Is Mazza correct? https://t.co/Ezopv0WLUN— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) October 22, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
My take as well => https://t.co/l8cvuGKxSE
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 9, 2022
mr Trump boasts about Jan 6:https://t.co/kRBhRjkai8
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 9, 2022
This Kanye/Kardashian thing is way out of hand
Kim will get missile, West will do nothinghttps://t.co/HixAz7qnnf
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 10, 2022
Really?
This guy is attacking his opponent for attending a Jewish school as a kid?
Do his fellow Republicans agree with his attack?https://t.co/KGWmsn0Dmk
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 11, 2022
Trying to remember where we've heard that before:
"He winked at you.
I had to hit you." https://t.co/1JNQFNWKFF— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 11, 2022
After the Election,
Republicans say they plan to create a Debt Crisis to
force cuts to Social Security, Medicarehttps://t.co/EvcSGdxu7I— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 11, 2022
Not the ringing endorsement I would have expected.
"We'll stick with him because we've invested too much to abandon him now."
Unstated but heavily implied:
"Too bad we didn't find out earlier.
We would have kicked him loose."https://t.co/A2rj70Hc1f— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 12, 2022
I think I had it right 10 years ago when I wrote about
– deliberate conservative dishonesty
and
-media reporting that stresses balance over truthI was reacting to reactions about how Joe Biden had eviscerated Paul Ryan in a VP debate
It applies now:https://t.co/Vp8CLSd2v3
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 13, 2022
I am resistant to the accusation that conservative men are universally delusional paranoids.
Can Huckabee present any documentation, studies, or other evidence that he and his fellows are psychotic?https://t.co/Ld04czWu9R
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 13, 2022
Infantile enough to be plausible.
Putting undercover informants, those surrounded by danger, at more risk of deadly exposure.For the purpose of childish bragging!
Hey look at what I copped from the White House.https://t.co/7dS8tJgbks— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 17, 2022
Speculative, but pointedly informed:https://t.co/I2H4L0Cca2
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 17, 2022
Not all of us think "The Flintstones" is a documentary.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 17, 2022
Well…
It isn't immigrants, actually.https://t.co/ZUz5IUYzxp— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 18, 2022
You really should stop drinking
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 18, 2022
Republicans announce agenda:
Cuts to aid for freedom fighters in Ukraine.
Slashes to Social Security and Medicare for seniorshttps://t.co/tnhq9RUg5D— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 18, 2022
Tom is right
I mean, are you telling me…
…in this country, the nation that's supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave…
…you can't put these terrible people in prison?
Tom hates them! What more do we need?
.
How about if he's passionate about it?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 18, 2022
He should be. Using his campaign funds would have gotten him prosecuted but the Federal Election Commission decided the amount was too small.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) October 18, 2022
Wigderson's case:
The guy broke the law and participated in an attack on democracy, but partisans on the FEC said the amount wasn't that big a deal.He should have been charged.
Your response:
He wasn't charged
so he shouldn't have been charged.That's your logic?
Really?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
On the other hand, it was clear he didn't lie to the FBI.
So just guessing:
Could that have been the reason for the verdict?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Gosh, I wonder who won that $10 million!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
I'm considered elderly.
Maybe I remember this incorrectly.I believe the DeSantis administration advised a few felons who had served their sentences that they could now vote.
Then arrested them for registering to vote.
But let some Republicans go after they tried to vote twice
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
You are very kind.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
I'm gonna spend the whole rest of the day not thinking about that.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
This is Greg Abbott's solution?
Horrifichttps://t.co/5H8kesnMa3
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Says something for confidence, I suppose.
Republicans are now becoming open about their plan
to slash Social Security.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
From later that month.https://t.co/RqHuDHrfdf
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Insider trading, perhaps?
Democrat/Republican – doesn't matter.
Let the chips, as they saySeems like a detailed investigation is in order —
Followed by probably prosecutionhttps://t.co/hQQxGVedX6— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Oh, no.
You have the wrong address.
They live down the street.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
– Biden’s student-loan plan a DISASTER!
Nope– Rich liberals with grad degrees getting FREE handouts from the government
False– The fact is, every dollar they receive was EARNED by a working-class American
Republican tax cuts for the wealthy– DEMOCRAT ELECTION BRIBES!
Nope— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Good morning ! Let’s go. Fall weather coming thru at 41* & I came to work scandalous w my thigh high boots.
🍁🍂 🧡 🍂 🍁 pic.twitter.com/2b8gsuOGvS— ᑕᕼIᑕᗩᑎᗩ 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 💛🐝 (@Chicanatravels) October 19, 2022
Oh, yeah.
Cheeky chic.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Oh that isn't us
Those are the satanic spirits that fly around the neighborhood every evening when we pull out the nightly Ouija board
You'll be okay, as long as you gather your family and hide under your bed
Thank you for your thoughtful note. You really must visit our coven
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
"MASTURBATING outside of a preschool"
According to one account, he told police he was watching interracial porn on his cellphone at the time.
His big concern was whether that fact would be included in the police report.
That. Was. His. Concern.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
Hi David:
These come to mind.
Have you condemned them yet? pic.twitter.com/YM0P6cRjik— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
If you think you are charged with advocacy, it looks to me as if you need a new lawyer.
I took a moment to look it up
It seems you and others are charged with "using their bodies, furniture, chains and ropes" to forcefully block women from a clinic.
Isn't that against the law?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Hard to believe someone acting on the basis of faith would speak dishonestly and think it's for the Lord.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
Please forgive me, Calvin, for failing to acknowledge you.
I had completely forgotten you were around.Thank you for that thoughtful contribution.
You may go now.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Thank you, Calvin, for making the same point again.
Perhaps you'd like to try again?Repetition makes it more compelling, you know.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Oh dear Calvin. Did my little snark hurt your feelings?
How thoughtless of me.You may stay, if it will help you heal.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Thank you for your health advice, Calvin
Very compelling argument.
Repeated endlessly with slight variations makes it all the more convincing.
Have you thought about all-caps? That might help as well.The misspellings and misuse of simple words are kind of endearing, in a way.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Hard for someone of the faith to say,
God being pretty much self-defining.What do you think?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Why thank you!
However, I do not think you will be successful in putting God into your little box. That, of course, is speculative on my part.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 19, 2022
Your point is well taken on some criminals.
The Jan 6 conspirators should be serving long sentences by now.But even there, I don't sense any bias toward the criminals, at least from Democrats.
In fact Democrats seem to be the crime fighters.
More funding for police was Dems.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
You are something.
So Biden is wrong for not getting prices lower. We should oppose him for that.
And Biden is wrong for getting prices lower because it might get us to support him.
I think folks are wrong for saying you have no sense of humor
They forget you are hilarious
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
Sorry.
I would need a note from my wife.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
Yes, folks did overcome obstacles intended to discourage them from voting.
Why do you consider that a problem?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 20, 2022
Kevin Drum:
Capitalism worked fine during the pandemic, thanks very muchhttps://t.co/7H2GHTnmHg
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Here’s what fetal tissue looks like at nine weekshttps://t.co/fMHckKnUQe
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
This is the Supreme Court case that can end democracy in the US
Extremists are pushing to allow any right-wing legislature to overrule any public vote – including Presidential elections
It's what Trump was trying to get State Legislatures to do in 2020https://t.co/sFSrUuthPo
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Laugh-track fake audience
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Not sure.
I'll ask my cousin.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Actually, Republicans say they will cut Social Security.https://t.co/EvcSGdfkTA
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Very carefully.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
You mean the documentary her daughter was making of her mom's ceremonial role she was scheduled to play in certifying a newly elected President.
The documentary that unexpectedly included her making the very call you say she rejected.
I hope rather than lying, you are misled.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Some folks are like that, I suppose.
Any port in an argument.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Oh my.
First we make a sneering, snarky little comment just to be nasty. Then sit back all comfortable and smug.Then get destroyed with a brief bit of irrefutable logic from TigerLily.
Must be frustrating.https://t.co/HXdt4vdCC3
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Oh my.
Government agents are stealing children?I thought they were just requiring it for certain group activities where your irresponsibility might affect other children.
Like school, where you can choose an isolated alternative.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Kind of like measures, flu, and polio shots when I was a kid.
Saved countless lives
and right-wingers had little objection in those days.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Got the brakes fixed on my car.
Still got sideswiped and ended up in the hospital.
So fixing brakes is no good.Yearly inspections should be entirely up to the individual.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 21, 2022
Having brakes won't keep folks from having any accidents. It will make it far less likely, and if they do it will likely make mishaps less severe.
Vaccines make you safer.
And they make those around you safer.
They don't make you immortal.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 22, 2022
I'm gonna spend the whole weekend not thinking about that.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 22, 2022
Wow! I'm uh grateful!!
Not everyone would do that!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 22, 2022
Another myth destroyed!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 22, 2022
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great post as always – laughing & crying – wish the neighbors had given examples to their heathen neighbors lol
Thought I’d waste five minutes and offer a rebuttal, Mr. Deming.
“It is our lowest-income communities and communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues not of their own making—” Kamala Harris said before being interrupted by Priyanka Chopra Jonas at a Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum.
“Women,” Jonas added.
“Absolutely,” Harris replied. “And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out in the same place and if we want people to be in an equal place sometimes we have to take into account disparities and do that work.”
Christina Pushaw, rapid response director for Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ reelection campaign, disputed Harris’s comments.
“This is false. @VP’s rhetoric is causing undue panic and must be clarified. FEMA Individual Assistance is already available to all Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian, regardless of race or background,” Pushaw tweeted. Pushaw reiterated that aid was being distributed regardless of race or background in multiple tweets Friday night.
Let me reiterate, “And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity…”
Yeah, no idea how those evil conservatives and so many of those Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian would misinterpret Harris there and think aid would go to anyone in need, and not based on equity/color!
Good old Darrell. Pushing white identity grievance politics for all he’s worth.
No wonder most Trumpists actually believe THEY are the “real victims” of racism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/29/more-than-half-republicans-think-minorities-are-favored-over-whites-united-states/?utm_campaign=wp_politics_am&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_politics&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F340ba64%2F60dc57f79d2fda8060ef79e9%2F596d1b4fae7e8a44e7ffe1ed%2F26%2F54%2F60dc57f79d2fda8060ef79e9
“More than half of Republicans think minorities are favored over Whites in the United States”
Better ban CRT.
It’s NOT about individual racism, and NOT taught in primary schools. But hey, the white Right has exclusive privilege and authority to make ALL judgments on racism, amirite? “Driving while Black” is FAKE NEWS! (And there’s no such thing as white privilege or right-wing authoritarians.)
Let’s just stop teaching the history and effects of slavery and racism altogether, and declare there’s no such thing as residual systemic racism. For the white children’s sake. Their FEELINGS might get hurt to know the truth. It teaches white kids to “hate America” like all those progressive, anti-Trump pro-democracy types do.
But America is NOT a democracy, the radical Right howls. Never mind the definition of the word. The Right has the authority to define any term, any way they like. And they’re NOT authoritarians.
Merriam-Webster
Democracy:
1a: government by the people especially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
FAKE DICTIONARY!!
America is pure as the driven snow. Well, radical white conservatives are. With Trump they have true moral authority. The rest should take the hint from Dear Leader and “go back where they came from”.
I certainly appreciate you taking the time to comment, Darrell.
Here is one independent fact-check.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/no-kamala-harris-didnt-say-hurricane-ian-relief-would-be-based-on-skin-color/
It seems well documented. Here is the conclusion:
Scott claimed Harris said, “if you have a different skin color, you’re going to get relief faster” after Hurricane Ian.
Harris said no such thing in a response to a question that touched on several topics, including Hurricane Ian, climate change policy and disparities in who is most harmed by climate change and extreme weather.
We rate this claim False.
The Vice President was responding to a long, involved question touching on a multitude of national aid programs relating to poverty and race. The lengthy question included accusations that minority areas were being underrepresented during climate related tragedies. She began with “I’m gonna unpack that question,” which prompted some laughter.
At no time did she indicate what conservatives charged. Instead, she was referring to climate policies and disparities among those harmed by climate change.
No pigment chart.
No HA HA HA (CACKLE) (CACKLE) HA HA
No SORRY, YOU AIN’T BLACK!
Here is a more complete clip, this time in context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o95OaVB79Hk&t=204s
Your conclusion was:
Yeah, no idea how those evil conservatives and so many of those Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian would misinterpret Harris there and think aid would go to anyone in need, and not based on equity/color!
I hope this helps give you an idea of just how evil that distortion was.
I was going to respond to Burr’s latest comment and how I respectfully think he is wrong, but somehow right now in light of the worry over their Marine, I will simply offer my prayers on the family’s behalf.
Politics is not anywhere as important as the life and well-being of a loved one, especially when that loved one has volunteered to serve our nation in harm’s way. God bless your Marine, Burr, my friend!