When both of your parents are news anchors @Robert7News pic.twitter.com/E1z2J0kyQb
— Jeannette Reyes (@Fox5DCJeannette) August 14, 2022
- Hackwhackers bids a fond farewell to Queen Elizabeth.
- Professor PZ Myers has little regard for the British monarchy, but little resentment against the Queen herself. He seems to hope all the mourning and exaggerated analysis will just go away.
Good summary:
The Queen is dead. My regrets to those who cared about her. Call me when the monarchy is dead, OK?
- Apparently, as the Queen got older, she asked that her hobby of dog breeding stop. Seems she didn’t want to leave a large number of dogs behind to be cared for.
So, of course, Tommy Christopher is left to cover actual live television interviews on whether existing puppies are scheduled to be buried alive.
- Reductress may have been the satiric source of the entire rampant buried-royal-puppies uproar.
- President Biden made a speech and talked, in part, about an extreme MAGA philosophy and characterized it as like semi-fascism. Well, anti-democratic, prone to political violence in place of elections, authoritarian seem to fit the definition.
Max’s Dad liked Joe Biden’s speech because he went against his own grain and stood clean-tough against the party of always-fight-dirty bullies.
- Nan’s Notebook reads one notable opinion about President Biden’s most dangerous, divisive, demagogic speech.
She wonders how anyone can be so certain and decides politics is akin to religious discussion.
I dunno. It seems the temptation may be to stray toward a both-sides premise. That is the human tendency, often practiced by journalists, of presuming without evidence that two sides of any question are equally valid.
I think of one hypothetical example: one side insists it is raining while the other maintains it is dry outside.
Many modern reporters quote both sides equally and accurately and call it a day. Fair and balanced.
Responsible journalism dictates we actually look outside to see what the weather is doing.
President Biden defined with some precision to whom who he was referring when he talked of semi-fascist MAGA folk. He was talking about those who would use or endorse political violence in order to overturn democracy.
He specifically exempted the majority of the Republican party.
The writer to whom Nan rightly objects defines MAGA types as traditionalists who want what I recognize as a Bill Buckley variety of conservatism.
And so the writer is outraged that the President would target him personally.
It is a tactic that has been with us since language began: setting up a strawman in order to knock him down.
My response to similar contrived anger:That is an extraordinary accusation.
And baseless.You really shouldn't smear folks just because they are to the right of most Americans.
Do you have any proof that all conservatives are unpatriotic, violent, insurrectionists?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
- My longtime conservative friend Darrell Michaels, at Unabashedly American, speculates on what he would do if he was a fascist or even a semi-fascist who wanted to destroy America.
Oddly enough, what follows is mostly the familiar conservative caricature of what some on the right imagine that non-conservatives believe. A sample:
Well, I would first want to take over our education system in order to indoctrinate our kids into believing that they live in an unjust and racist nation that brings nothing but ruin to others throughout the world. I would ignore teaching them of the United States history where we overcame so many great sins, like slavery and women’s inequality in rights. I would bury the truth of how the United States fought and buried hundreds of thousands of men in defense against the true fascism of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Mussolini’s Italy.
None of which is advocated by anyone I have heard of.
It may not have occurred to my friend that those who wanted to destroy our democratic republic and eradicate the freedoms that our constitution was formed in order to protect might instead form a lynch mob, storm the Capitol Building, assault police officers, and hunt for legislators to assassinate.
Darrell is a kindly, peaceful soul for whom such a possibility would not occur.
I suppose it is worth pointing out that most of America has a somewhat different view of MAGAfolk than does my old friend:Most Americans see Trump's MAGA as threat to democracy: Reuters/Ipsos poll https://t.co/N14vWl3wP0 pic.twitter.com/WggzZLBvA7
— Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) September 8, 2022
Nice to have you back, Darrell.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony sees a bit of political gamesmanship in President Biden’s speech. In his view, the President gave precisely the sort of speech that would goad a furious, and ugly, Trump response: a response that will make the election all about Mr Trump himself.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life speculates on professional Republicans, staffers to politicians, who must find ways to keep voters motivated. What motivates the motivators?
- Dave Columbo welcomes us to another meeting of the Covert Evil Cabal of Secretly Well Organized Democrats
@davecolumbo Heres a recap if you missed the last few meetings #democrat #democratsoftiktok #democrats #political #politicaltiktok #politics #maralagoraid #biden ♬ Fashionable and cool Parisian accordion(892415) – ricca
Live long and Soros!
- In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson detects a judicial pattern that will allow state legislatures to gerrymander themselves into near complete independence from voters, and to be immune from state or federal court review. She points to the next step: clear signals that the Supreme Court may also allow these self-perpetuating legislatures to overturn decisive votes in Presidential elections.
And there goes democracy.
- Some of the official folders warranted at the Trump abode are marked as so hyper classified even most top cleared people are not allowed to see what’s in them. Except what was in them has been removed. Where are those extreme secret documents?
It’s toon time as YellowDog Granny speculates, briefly, on just where the FBI will eventually find the missing contents of those folders.
- One of the many Trumpy excuses for the hyper-top-secret theft is that Trump was spiriting away evidence that Vlad Putin’s Russian interference in the 2016 election was all a hoax. And so was Trump’s cooperation with that hoax. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged takes a look at that theory, examines it forward and back, inside and out, and develops a plausible alternative.
- Frances Langum takes notes as Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are asked by Jimmy Fallon how easy it could be to walk out of the White House with boxes of classified documents.
- Green Eagle applies a little humor to a serious purpose.
Using documented security lapses, he explains how easy it would have been for pretty much anyone – foreign spy, domestic terrorist, Putin agent, teenage prankster, to get into TrumpLand and find quick access to the most vital of US security secrets.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil watches interviews. Two public figures use similar language how did that happen? to trivialize National Security. Our host is unimpressed with their trivia.
- In the satiric Ant Farmer’s Almanac, Trump lawyers look to the personal history of their client to clarify what he wants from a Special Master.
- Humorist Andy Borowitz covers Vlad Putin’s accusation. The Russian dictator says he is losing the war in Ukraine only because the FBI seized the stuff he needed.
“If I had those things right now, I wouldn’t be getting my ass kicked all over Kharkiv,” the Russian President said.
- Dave Dubya is tired of descriptions of mr Trump as the only one as in the only one who can fix it. Dave has a few only-one points to add.
- News Corpse ticks and tocks as Fox actually airs an anti-Trump ad by the Lincoln Project, then Trump Threatens to sue Fox and the Lincoln Project, then the Lincoln Project goes public and dares mr Trump to file the court papers. The prevailing past pattern is expected to repeat. mr Trump is expected to back down. Again.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit reads the book! It turns out that when Trump and Trumpers complain about a Politicized Justice Department it really is a case of projection. A Trump insider spills it.
- The Palmer Report makes the case that the Republican Party is rapidly going all Orwellian.
Key passage:
And Big Brother is precisely what the GOP idolizes. They want to watch women carefully dictating where they can travel and imprisoning them if they dare to make their own decisions to get abortions.
They want to do away with things like Social Security, leaving people dependent on them for survival. And they want vengeance.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson just can’t understand why it would be worth any controversy at all when a candidate for office contributes to anti-abortion activists.
I suspect it might have to do with whether such a candidate supports public policy contrived to take that decision out of the hands of individual women.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the polls. The right of individual women to decide on abortion is supported across demographic lines.
Well, except for one shrinking group.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has quotes and sources. Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson explains why he’ll vote against legislation to protect gay marriage from a renegade court. Seems he doesn’t like gay marriage after all. When he said before that he would support the right of gay people to marry, he was only kidding. Says he wanted to get the press off his back.
On the bright side, it may provide a respite from the hammering he still gets for his proposals to put the existence and funding of Social Security and Medicare up for reconsideration every year.
- Libertarians have a lot invested in making sure climate change is out of the reach of government. Their entire ideology has a single overarching principle: Government is evil.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara knows that record-breaking horribly deadly high temperatures around the world are not caused by climate change.
Climate change? That’s just silly.
Hot weather is simply caused by atmospheric conditions.
Similarly, it occurs to me that when I am stopped for driving too fast, I can explain that the speed of my car has nothing to do with the pressure of my foot on the accelerator.
You see, the speed of my car is caused by how fast the tires are rotating.
So, will there be anything else, Ossifer?
- At The Moderate Voice, Anthony Stahelski tries to figure out why so many communities want to disband the police.
He analyzes in detail three misconceptions that fuel the movement.
- Either criminals do not exist, or, if they do exist they can be easily transformed into law-abiding citizens.
- If criminals do exist non-criminal civilians can easily defend themselves against criminal behavior.
- The police are the real criminals.
He fails to examine a fourth misconception, largely because he embraces it himself:
That the Defund the Police movement exists as a movement in any meaningful sense. It doesn’t.
It is true that San Francisco dabbled briefly in diverting genuine police funding to social programs. They quickly abandoned the effort when crime spiked.
Other communities have moved some non-police tasks from the police to other departments, making the defund concept functionally meaningless.
And there remain a few stray activists who mouth the words.
The original slogan, and that’s all it was, was most often explained as meaning something other than disbanding police departments. Which summarizes the problem.
A slogan that has to be explained is a horrible slogan.
That is a possibility Mr. Stahelski might want to consider.
- At The Onion, a shocking video captures police officers calmly handling a situation nonviolently.
- It isn’t exactly a new idea. I’ve written about something similar over the years. But there does seem to be a revival of sorts.
Scotties Playtime brings to our attention the conservative take on what should be taught to kids. Slavery wasn’t really all that bad. Many slaveholders were nice people.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL touches on abortion, anti-racism, how to write and promote a book, and podcasting in the nude.
She’s always a fun read.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz poses an obvious truth about one unfortunate version of Christianity:
Jesus' movement 2,000 years ago was a personal invitation to follow him in the ways of empathy and generosity: something to be embraced or rejected without fear of repercussions.
In other words, it is nothing like the Christianity of the Republican Party.https://t.co/PEt0aXBQXw— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) September 9, 2022
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce takes a blowtorch to rosy eyed Christians who see the bright side of everything.
- A county official is arrested, and Cato’s Julian Sanchez seems to think it not a good idea to murder a reporter for writing critical stories:
Holy crap. https://t.co/OLpFbHOatA
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 7, 2022
Holy Crap x2: Las Vegas Public official arrested on suspicion of murdering a journalist who wrote critical stories about him. https://t.co/RgYhTRGWS4
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 8, 2022
- Imani Gandy is delighted to watch Vice President Kamala Harris who is delighted to speak to astronauts who are delighted to hear from her:
She looks positively delighted https://t.co/XA0VLv5oSl
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 9, 2022
space nerd! 🤓
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 10, 2022
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a French example of one famous method of teaching us how to draw a century ago. I wonder if my grandmother taught this technique in her one room schoolhouse.
- Infidel753 has the photo as our Lord perhaps overreacts to half a dozen evil fish.
- SilverAppleQueen has beautiful flowers.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
— Goddess of Bodily Autonomy (@Serendipitygrae) September 3, 2022
Ron Johnson Thinks a GOP Plan for Tax Increases and the Potential End of Medicare and Social Security Is a ‘Positive Thing’ | UpNorthNews | Wisconsin News For You https://t.co/vHiLej53Y4
— Barbara Brower-Jones. 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 (@doghouse10000) September 3, 2022
Except for this one?https://t.co/iWvblN1Y1y
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
Maga Republicans respond to Biden calling them extremists by making death threats and going to a #TrumpRally
— "All I do is" Nguyen ☺️🇻🇳🌈 (@Nguyen_anime3) September 3, 2022
I was a lifelong Democrat. Then White House comms chose red backlighting.
— Blake Emerson (@BlakeProf) September 2, 2022
— Boblet (@Boblet3001) September 3, 2022
Playing along with religious extremists turns out to be a losing idea.https://t.co/ya34pc6VhX
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
14,000 baby strollers recalled after a child’s fingertip caught in a break. Why can’t we be this robust when children are shot to shreds with an AR-15 in their schools?
— Wyona M Freysteinson, PhD, MN, RN, FAAN (she/her) (@wyonaf) September 4, 2022
100% true pic.twitter.com/jGyFNt4rVx
— Rhonda Harbison (@rhonda_harbison) September 6, 2022
Reminder: 96% of House republicans voted against keeping birth control legal. Do not forget it. pic.twitter.com/s2UkQvTlHK
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) September 7, 2022
Recently, emails were released showing that Mehmet Oz personally messaged Jared Kushner & Deborah Birx urging them to push the dangerous hydroxychloroquine cure.
Today, we learn Oz owns $615,000+ of stock in companies that supply the drug & pushed it purely for personal gain.
— Kyla in the Burgh 🏴☠️🔥 (@KylaInTheBurgh) September 7, 2022
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is 85 million Americans electing Democrats on November 8th. #FreshWords
— Southern Sister Resister – Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm (@ResisterSis20) September 8, 2022
Popular with Clarence Thomas, where since his actual conduct was indefensible, defenders just pretended people were objecting to the very idea of a SCOTUS spouse doing political activism.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 7, 2022
Trump: I just shot someone on Fifth Avenue.
Media: Trump is finished.
Trump's lawyers: This happened near the duck pond, so we're going to need to refer this to admiralty court.
Judge: This is beyond my expertise. Let's pause for a few weeks while I research maritime law.
— Mattathias Schwartz (@Schwartzesque) September 6, 2022
Biden condemned 2020 riots many times, @DouthatNYT (see screenshots). He didn't in this month's speech about threats to US democracy because they're not an active threat to US democracy, and helping apologists for active threats try to whatabout them away doesn't address them. pic.twitter.com/wSzGRhhqxi
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) September 4, 2022
“They must have planted that cocaine! Also, it wasn’t on the desk; it was in a lacquered box in the bottom left drawer of my desk behind a bag of coughdrops.”
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 3, 2022
fun fact! It is possible to strongly disapprove of many aspects, if not the entirety of, the British monarchy without being a ghoul about the ill health & approaching death of an old woman.
— Amy Colleen (@sewistwrites) September 8, 2022
This clip encapsulates a frustration I think many ppl feel about media coverage of Biden. It's as if Republicans don't have agency. *Biden* is failing by not somehow persuading them to be bipartisan. Republicans are absolved of culpability. Their obstruction is taken for granted. https://t.co/wOUJFS0Hjq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 16, 2022
Riley Williams, accused of stealing Pelosi's laptop, was given permission to leave house arrest to attend a Renaissance fair.
As a public defender, I represented a teenager who wasn't given permission to leave jail to go to his dad's funeral.
Two. Systems. Of. Justice.
— Eliza Orlins (@elizaorlins) August 22, 2022
Trump declares himself King of England! Claims Charles rigged the succession.
— Paulette Feeney (@PauletteParis1) September 8, 2022
Artist’s sketch of the @GOP’s Chief Advisor, Steve Bannon, as he faces the Judge and addresses the multiple Indictments for fraud and money laundering.
Credit: @Pleightx pic.twitter.com/Ib7Ot9k1wD
— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) September 9, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
So what happened to those documents?
The ones that could identify people risking everything to keep danger from us?
The docs that can get them & their families killed?https://t.co/0JlI3VG8qK
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
For some, that seems the whole point of abortion control.
It's about putting a stop to what they see as an immoral lifestyle. They abhor sex for any purpose other than procreation.
In their view, sex for the joy of mutual pleasure is an abomination.
Do the crime – do the time.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
You have the advantage of knowing what you meant.
The rest of us must go by what you write.
It struck me as ridiculous as well,
but I was too polite to point that out.For your convenience: Here is what you wrote.https://t.co/F0RvEC1wMN
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
For some, the whole point of abortion control seems to be about putting a stop to what they see as an immoral lifestyle. They abhor sex for any purpose other than procreation.
In their view, sex for the joy of mutual pleasure is an abomination.
Do the crime – do the time.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Thank you for providing the clarification so notably absent in your original post. The one about responsible people staying away from sex. And your following one about demons.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Sincerity is a critical quality.
If you can fake that, you'll really go far.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
Spare the rug!!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
Yes. Almost always.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
No way to be sure without a definitive survey, I suppose.
Intuitively, I would think it could be an influence.
If you feel that adherents are against you and those like you, my guess is it could push you away.As likely, perhaps, is internal damage:https://t.co/iLYXjpaVBJ
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
On the other hand… er… hands.https://t.co/0o5bDqlFvC
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 3, 2022
Ummm…
You have been misled.
Perhaps you and your organization should include more mainstream news in your busy schedule.https://t.co/0zVtbIVdmG— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Well, no, actually.
You have been misled.You really should consider replacing whomever you have assigned to watch the news for you.https://t.co/iWO1YBscMq
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
And China's communist regime calls itself a people's republic.
I don't much like their government.
You, of course, have different loyalty.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
And he was very tough and had a tear in his eye?
And called you …um… sir?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Well, you could describe it that way.
But "only"? No.You could also describe it accurately,
as entirely truthful.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
I hate it when that happens to me.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Well, I am.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
No hand flutters.
Were his arms tied down?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
And occupied the Capitol Building,
trying to lynch a Vice President,
looking for legislators to assassinate
Sent police officers to the hospital
All trying to overthrow an election.Damn leftists.
Oh wait
My loved one is telling me those were MAGA Trump followers.Never mind.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
In what way does Biden try to silence free speech?
You are looking to use AR-15 weapons on others?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
You mean he described those who try to overturn democracy with violence as fascist?
Was anything he said untrue?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Actually, Biden went out of his way to point out that violent MAGA Trumpers are a minority of Republicans.
And they are not a race of people.
Was there anything he said that was not the truth?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
That we can find the polling booth.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Morton Salt?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Trump Suggests Documents Were Bound for His Libraryhttps://t.co/95QB0NJMed
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Your fevered imagination set to a high level today.
The President did not even mention you, much less identify you as a supporter of violent anti-democratic fascism.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
The current state of contemporary conservatism:
GOP Lawmaker Says Raped 12-Year-Old Has ‘Choices’https://t.co/tP7H0IL8TL
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Wow!
We do have ex-Presidents who simply live their lives
without breaking laws,
or stealing secrets,
or endangering those risking everything to keep us safe.https://t.co/5ZntyOhej9— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
So now you're going by his job application?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
No, No.
More rallies, please.https://t.co/iYUjJDki9b— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
You're saying Mr Trump hid classified documents in Barron's bedroom?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Except maybe Dick Nixon.
And Herbert Hoover can be heard chuckling from underground.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Trump cheerleaders
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Since you haven't offered any specifics, we are free to speculate on what you mean.
You may have been misled by some stray bit of right wing dishonesty.
Here is one possibility:https://t.co/PBSq3XmMf7
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
To be expected, I suppose.
The American people rejected all you represent and threw your candidate out on his ear.
By a large margin.I can imagine you would find that reality hard to accept.
As well as the fact that your guy was replaced by an excellent President.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Sorry.
I would need a note from my wife.
She is the love of my life.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
Dinesh D'Souza seems to be in a bad way.
His latest conspiracy "documentary" started out as a money-maker but has since been completely discredited.
He is frustrated at being pretty much ignored, even by conservative media.
Lashing out at random people may just be a symptom.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
I appreciate the wisdom you so frequently express.
I am sorry about any time you have been made to feel unwelcomed: particularly because you are Muslim.
"proud" and "majority is with me" sound about right.
I am part of that majority.
I am Christian.
I am with you.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
What you say makes sense to me, including that with which I do not agree.
Constructively thought provoking.
I'm glad you are here.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 4, 2022
I have to agree with rightwing extremist J.D. Vance on this:
"I don’t think the question is, pivot or not pivot. I think the question is, you try to tell voters how you’re gonna improve their lives in a way that’s consistent with your own principles"https://t.co/DcXFHBaJy2
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
So glad this was overcome.
Will not forget watching Republicans celebrate when they thought they had destroyed veteran health bill. https://t.co/pyc9nK5VWt
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
Actually, your second sentence describes your first sentence.
Nobody has been able to point out to me anything in Biden's speech that was not completely truthful.
I invite you to give it a shot.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
If I understand correctly, you simply want Congress to decide each year on whether Social Security will be renewed for another year.
And how much it will be that year.
And how it will be funded.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
You have served your country well.
A distinguished military career that leaves us, especially those of us who have never served, in awe.No, you are not a sellout
Just misinformed
You have been busyHelen Philpot has a good memory.
She can help us out.https://t.co/0o5bDqlFvC— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
That's really amazing!
.
.
.
You have friends?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
It appears you have been politely, but severely, schooled.https://t.co/eQFWzfy6ij
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
You are saying the process is paranormal?
No need to document or mention to anyone?Just do it in his mind?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
Sorry. memory slips with age.
What were Republicans saying about Biden?https://t.co/lTFkn0yoET
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
Quite a contrast to Mr Trump, who urges supporters to commit violence on occasional protesters.
Biden tells crowd to leave protester alone.https://t.co/ulnxj3MwMQ
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 5, 2022
You statement is not supported by available evidence.
Although it is not possible to know what is in another's heart, it does strike me as projection.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
That occurred to me as well.
Comey, by his own words, was frightened right down to his socks of how conservative partisans in Congress might view him.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
#FBIWFO released a new photo of this man who allegedly assaulted law enforcement personnel at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. If you recognize him, call 1-800-225-5324 or visit https://t.co/t8G7LO4hxu to submit a tip. Refer to photo 113 in your tip. pic.twitter.com/DCE0WRYV8g
— FBI Washington Field (@FBIWFO) September 2, 2022
So much for supporting law enforcement.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
Awfully short sighted of all those women who turn down Dale's offer allowing them the honor of bearing his children.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
This is emphatically not true.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
Not quite, Tom.
Every American who respects the law will be outraged at any ruling that says that a former president is above the law.
You are able to grasp the distinction, are you not?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
So you are saying Mr Trump hid highly classified documents in Hunter Biden's room?
That's extraordinary!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
A master review by someone in justice authorized to see hyper-classified papers, someone who could be instructed to remain apart from investigation and provide to investigators only what, and all that, does not violate lawyer-client privilege.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
— Christy Lyne (@lyne_christy) August 22, 2022
Ouch.
It must be terrible to proudly post such a defiant message, only to be exposed and squashed so eloquently in just a few words by Dee.https://t.co/UeQn5SL3Uf
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
At least the hand flutters are back, so you know he's not strapped to a chair.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
I elderly, and my memory is perfect, kind of like yours.
So perfect that, like you, I sometimes remember things that did not happen.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
I can relate, because that sort of thing happens to me all the time.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
And, ladies!
He's available!!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
misspell
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
Texas has suffered more of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings than any other state.
Additionally, CDC data: The firearm death rate of Texas children has more than doubled since Gov. Greg Abbott took office. #AbbottFailsTexasEveryday pic.twitter.com/py6ibro0bp— Judy Hockenbrough ☮️ (@JHockenbrough) September 5, 2022
That's your compelling argument?
"Take your ass back to LA"
That's it?Pretty weak stuff.
Looks like Judy's got you beat right into the ground.
Bleeding and broken in the dirt.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
A shame, but okay.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
You mean my bread has been cut?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
I apologize for my ignorance.
I'm considered elderly and I have not been following your controversy.Can you help me out?
In what way did you defraud the US government?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
Don't forget to pray today. Things happen after you say Amen.
— Living Christian (@livechristian1) September 5, 2022
Action is an essential, isn't it?
I still remember watching the inauguration of JFK on a little black & white set when he talked of
"knowing that here on earth
God's work must truly be our own."He was promoting quite the liberal agenda.
Action still strikes me as a good idea.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
This speaks to the issue:https://t.co/AoLJVmGGZD
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
It would be startling if President Biden actually said that.
Turns out he did not.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 6, 2022
And ladies -> He's available!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 7, 2022
Oh good. I was afraid I was being offensive.
How about fascist?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 7, 2022
Actually, the data shows the opposite.
Unemployment way, way down with Biden.
Deficits way way up with Trump.You have been misled.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 7, 2022
Being a Constitutional scholar, you might be able to help me with this.
What article provides for the storming of the Capitol by a lynch mob looking for legislators to assassinate?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 7, 2022
Well, no actually.
Its an interesting speculation, but the purpose is described in the Amendment itself.
If that doesn't do the trick, Federalist 19 should.
History also provides a guide of sorts. See reactions among founders to Jefferson's response to the Whiskey Rebellion.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 7, 2022
I am considered elderly.
Maybe I just heard it wrong.Did Lauren Boebert just say she's had it with Biden's "decisive speeches"?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 7, 2022
Are you one of those guys who refused to shower or bathe because your unwashed clothes were still piled in the laundry room?
Here's a thought:
Save the nation of Ukraine from Putin aggression AND save the people of Mississippi from privatized water failure
OH! go ahead & bathe
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 7, 2022
It must be embarrassing to quote the Gospels without context, feeling smug and self-righteous,
then suddenly
find your pomposity demolished when Parri cites a single humble verse of scripture that actually does apply.https://t.co/Pn6XRlhh6H
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
That did make me smile.
Well played, sir.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
As opposed to this mocking disrespect:https://t.co/z9NWArvt5I
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
But aside from that, he's an okay guy…https://t.co/smBYwYBQBW
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
Raise your proud hand , if you never called him “President Trump”, but instead you referred to him as just ‘Trump’. ✋
— Jeras Ikehorn (@JerasIkehorn) September 7, 2022
Yup, he was "my president", right up until the overwhelming majority voted and we threw him out.
Here is one small example out of many.https://t.co/pMMRIZnrQl
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
That does seem to be the pattern, doesn't it?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
Garland is the Democrat you have in mind, right?
It's true he's cautious.
Could be he wants to be sure he has much more than enough evidence.Be patient, sir.
He still has time to treat Mr. Trump like the criminal he is.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
Republicans Dodge Security Implications of Trump Actionshttps://t.co/BzXsPFkEkq
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
The way of disappointed autocrats?
Putin attacks his own generals
Trump attacks Foxhttps://t.co/sTD2OTOQNj— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
Republicans charge the US with political persecution over holding mr trump accountable under law for violating nat'l security.
Why would we think all that howling is projection?https://t.co/fdxaY4olBc
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
(10 years back – Why I liked Joe BidenFact Free Journalism? Not so much )Why Joe Biden Was Wrong https://t.co/OPx1T6khzb
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
That's a fairly weird take:
"If Steve Bannon were a Democrat and raising money to fight climate change or support transsexuals, and if"
he, instead, used the funds to buy a yacht for himself,
"would any of this be happening to him?"Just guessing here:
.
Damn right it would!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
Too late.
It's already happened, Martha.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
He'll explain that he LIKES putting his head in a lynch mob's noose.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
I think it's a mostly unused term in science now. When we thought of evolution as a smooth advancement rather than a jagged path the common perception was that any jump in the smooth flow of biological development was just some missing piece not yet discovered.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
Well DAMN!
If there's anything I hate, it's having to deal with a good judge of character.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
I agree with you on that.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
"Theists just have a difficult time wrapping their minds around the concept of gods not existing"
That applies to me in a sense.
I can get it intellectually.
I do think of it as a weakness of imagination.I wrote about it a few years ago.https://t.co/KoeDkHoVLO
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
And, ladies…
He's available!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
You seem to have forgotten to include any reasoning.
You have the advantage of knowing what you consider dishonest in that filing.
The rest of us have little choice but to regard your post as vacuous.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
You somehow neglected to include any evidence or logic.
You have the advantage of knowing how you reached that conclusion!
The rest of us must go by your naked assertion, which – regretfully – indicates either psychotic paranoia or a complete lack of integrity!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
You present no logic, no evidence.
Have you given this any thought?
Any at all?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
Wow.
Doug Mastriano's pre-Jan. 6 Prayer
asking God to let the violent insurrection succeed.Mastriano is the Republican party's choice for
Governor of Pennsylvaniahttps://t.co/HJAOL7gPaw— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
This is actually kind of funny, considering the appearance of military in speeches of past Presidents,
most prolifically with mr trumpHouse GOP ‘Gravely Concerned’ Over Use of Marineshttps://t.co/hUteyyRDCJ
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 8, 2022
That's a strange assertion.
Bannon wasn't read his rights?
He was denied legal representation?
He wasn't allowed to remain silent?In what way were his rights abused?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 9, 2022
Nice bumper sticker logic
Here's the problem:
Life has many cases of those who dealt with emergencies they did not causeIn this case, the emergency was global – you know – around the world?
In this case, the rescue has been presidential.
Biden took action.
GOP opposed action.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 10, 2022
– Podcasts –
I missed Darrell, too. He always inspired me. I’m so happy he’s back to vent his anger, resentments, scapegoating and misunderstanding of almost every issue.
For he is a righteous man.
He inspired me to follow his example and consider what I’d do if I were a fascist.
If I were a fascist I’d praise Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping. I would idolize Putin.
I would meet with him in secrecy, give Russians state secrets in the Oval Office, (And probably later with stolen top secret documents), and take Putin’s side in denying his election interference, over all our intelligence agencies and my Director of National Intelligence.
If I were a fascist I would praise Putin as a genius after he invaded Ukraine and started slaughtering human beings to make Ukraine part of Russia.
If I were a fascist I’d called for the imprisonment of my 2016 election opponent, demonize the Democratic Party as “communists” and lie about winning the 2020 election.
I would insist any election I lose would be “rigged” and stolen from me, even though I never once polled higher than my opponent.
If I were a fascist I would gladly end our nation’s proud history of peaceful transfer of power because I am too much a narcissist and liar to concede defeat.
I would tell a secretary of state he would be a criminal if he didn’t find 11,780 votes for me to win Georgia.
If I were a fascist I would demand the FBI to “Just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.
I would send my lawyers out to enlist fact electors.
I would disregard my own Attorney General if he said I lost the election and there was no evidence of election fraud that could change the outcome.
I would send my toady lawyers to 60 courts and lie about fraud to get them to overturn the will of the voters
Then I would summon an angry mob to Washington DC to obstruct Congress from their Constitutional duty to certify the election. I would tell the mob I would march to the capitol with them and fight like hell to stop the steal.
If I were a fascist I would then watch my mob terrorize Congress and beat cops bloody, sending dozens to the hospital. I would watch them for three hours on TV and do nothing to stop them until I knew they would fail to overturn the election.
If I were a fascist I would then tell my Proud Boys and Oath Keeper thugs “We had an election that was stolen” and PRAISE them, “You’re very special. We love you.”
I would support my very special thugs by telling them “I will look very, very favorably about full pardons” if I was reelected.
If I were a fascist I would steal top secret documents, just in case they come in handy to share with Putin or the Saudis.
I would NEVER stop whining about being the most victimized person in history. More than Lincoln and JFK!
If I were a fascist I’d agree with Trump when he said, “Hitler did some good things.”
“The National Government…regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.” – Adolf Hitler “My New Order” – Proclamation to the German Nation, Berlin, February 1, 1933
In 1941 Hitler said, “I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
Hitler’s army’s belt buckles were embossed with Gott Mit Uns, “God with us”.
On October 10, 1936 Heinrich Himmler created the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion, or Special Office (II S), a sub-department of Executive Department II of the Gestapo.
If I were a fascist I would believe anyone who is against Trump hates America, and he alone can fix it.
So yes, if I were a fascist, I’d agree wholeheartedly with Trump and Darrell.
Oops.
I was embarrassingly remiss to forget what I would do first if I were an aspiring fascist.
I would emulate the German NAZI’s use of the term “Lügenpresse”, or lying press, for journalists who questioned me.
I would declare any news media “fake news” and the “enemy of the people” if they didn’t endorse and praise me.
thanks much for including me here 🙂 wishing you a great week