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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:09:01 GMT
yep that's it. I couldn't remember the guys name ha ha... Here's another dedication we'll be doing to the drumpf supporters..lol
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:09:21 GMT
Any of you sick of these asshats flipping the republican vs democrat and always taking credit. I know we've discussed this before but I still see a lot of this when it's clear the ideologies have since flipped. The democrats started the KKK.. but those democrats are todays republicans or alt right party..irritates me to no end.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:09:52 GMT
Quote by Dianna: One must also remember a very important year: 1948. It was in that very year that disaffected Suth'n (sic) Democrats, led by Strom Thurmond (who even then was becoming a fossil in his own time), turned away from the party as it began championing the cause of the burgeoning civil rights movement, and integrated themselves with the party that had once been the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Because of this, the GOP slowly but surely became more and more depraved, disgusting, and horrific in its behavior, until finally, on November 8, 2016, they gave us Der Fuhrer Trump. Trump is already backing away from some of the things he said he would do, like prosecute Clinton for her crimes. That's not playing too well with many of his supporters who wanted him to do just that. He also disavowed the alt-right and condemned them. (How does his buddy Steve Brannon feel about that?) He also conceded to some degree that global warming is happening and it's probably caused by people. And he also decided against waterboarding after one of the generals in the military told him they can get more information with cigarettes and beer. I don't think he's even enamored of building the wall. It was just something he said to get those on the right fired up and get him the nomination. As I suggested to some of my family members who were supporting Trump, my suspicion was that he was or will be a Trojan horse for the Republican party. Still, there is cause for concern as he does have people like Christian Nazi Mike Pence as his vice president and he's considering people for cabinet positions who shouldn't be allowed to have one, like Oklahoma's own Mary Fallin. She is extremely unpopular in the state of Oklahoma, what with all the fracking-induced earthquakes and her protecting of the oil industry, and the state's tanked economy, still in the billions in red. He's considering her for Secretary of the Interior (to which the lone distant voice of Sarah Palin screams in the Alaska wilderness, "Nooooooooooooo! That's my job!"), which would be a disaster as Mary Failing would then be over the national parks and Indian lands, and as a big supporter of the Keystone pipeline, she will be at odds with the Sioux Indian tribe who are protesting the pipeline running through their lands and through their burial grounds. Trump is also invested in the same pipeline. Is anyone seriously considering he will be fair and impartial on a decision? I cam across an article on Cracked (one of my favorite reading sources) in which there was an article comparing what Trump is doing and how it compared to what Hitler did similarly after he was elected in 1933. Reading that article made me feel very uncomfortable. Here's the link if anyone wants to read: www.cracked.com/blog/think-trump-cant-become-hitler-watch-these-4-signs/I'm sure hoping this article is wrong or that Trump is a one term president, defeated by a stronger Democratic party in 2020, and also the Democrats winning the mid term elections in 2018. Even some of the Republicans are still not on board with Trump and promise to oppose him as much as they can. If he can't get his party to back him, what chance does he have to be an effective leader? None that I can see, and that makes him the most dangerous animal in the cage.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:10:20 GMT
The Republican Party has been fascist for years. In fact it bolted in that direction immediately after Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet. riversong.wordpress.com/myth-of-corporate-personhood/
As the American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”
Today, corporate power and the consequent corruption of government are so pervasive that we almost take it for granted and forget that it is as dangerous to our Republic as any form of tyranny.
“Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it… Law is often the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual… I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence
“The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.” – Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson warned, in his 1837 farewell address, “Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations.”
And Abraham Lincoln, in a Nov. 21, 1864 letter to Col. William F. Elkins, warned that “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. ” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, 1933 – 1945
The Fourteenth Amendment, which says that no “person” shall be denied “equal protection of the laws,” was promulgated after the Civil War to free the slaves. But corporations have long asserted that because it says “person” rather than “natural person” it included giving, in 1868 when the Amendment was ratified into law, full Constitutional rights under the Bill of Rights to corporations. (Corporations are, at law, known as “artificial persons” and humans are “natural persons” – both have to have some sort of “personhood” in order to pay taxes, sue and be sued, etc.) As Scalia wrote in his opinion in FEC v. Wisconsin Right To Life: “…FECA was directed to expenditures not just by ‘individuals,’ but by ‘persons,’ with ‘persons’ specifically defined to include ‘corporation.
The attempt of corporations (and their lawyers, like John Roberts was before ascending to a federal court) to usurp American democracy is nothing new, as David Souter well knew. Fascism has always been a threat to democracy. Oligarchs have sought to buy the power of government to suit themselves, since the beginning.
Of the top 200 biggest economies in 2010, 114 are corporations not countries.
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else. – Bill Moyers, PBS Commentator
In his strongest indictment of the tide of fascism, Henry Wallace the Vice President of the United States under FDR saw rising in America, he added:
“They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
Finally, Wallace said, “The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. … Democracy, to crush fascism internally, must…develop the ability to keep people fully employed and at the same time balance the budget. It must put human beings first and dollars second. It must appeal to reason and decency and not to violence and deceit. We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.”
As Wallace’s President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, said when he accepted his party’s renomination in 1936 in Philadelphia:
“…Out of this modern civilization, economic royalists [have] carved new dynasties…. It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction…. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man….”
Speaking indirectly of the fascists that Wallace would directly name almost a decade later, Roosevelt brought the issue to its core:
Well, it it may well on our doorstep. And the oligarchs are plotting their final takeover by using their economic dominance to capture governmental power – specifically, the governmental power which sets the rules for the very marketplace that provides the oligarchs with such massive wealth.
THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.REGARDING TRUMP AS PRESIDENT? I HAVE TO AGREE WITH NOAM CHOMKSY. WE HAVE TO ASK IF HE MEANS WHAT HE IS SAYING. IF HE DOES THEN WE ARE IN VERY DEEP TROUBLE. BUT HE DOESN'T SEEM TO FIT INTO ANY PARTICULAR MOULD. HE HAS TAKEN BITS AND PIECES OF SUCCESSFUL TYRANTS TO DELIVER A MESSAGE OF SAYING ANYTHING JUST TO GET ELECTED. NOW, UNDER CONFLICT OF INTERESTS OF HIS OWN HE IS BACKING OFF ON THE JAILING HILLARY PROMISE BECAUSE HIS CRIMES ARE WORSE THAN ANYTHING SHE HAS DONE. WE WILL SEE HIM DO THE SAME ON OTHER ISSUES AS WELL WHICH WILL ANGER THE EXTREME RIGHT NO END. THIS IS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY TO TRUMP. IT AIN'T TO BE NICE TO HILLARY.Trump may or may not mean what he is saying but like a "fly attractant" people of like mind (to what he espouses) are surrounding him and will be taking THEIR place in our power structure and their followers unless subdued spell violence and great conflict for the people. The Republican Party which is fascist by its nature thinks this surprise election is THEIR TICKET to finally complete the rest of their anti government anti worker pro corporate agenda while destroying (by privatizing) the remnants of FDR's New Deal. In this effort Libertarians like the Koch Bros. have infiltrated the Republican Party beginning in the 1970s and are just about to wet their pants in joy. How far will Trump allow this agenda to proceed? And if he stops it and reverts back to the quasi Liberal he was it could spell the end for him by his own party. They have a loose relationship and Trump is like a candle in the wind. Is he a fascist or just a meglomaniac? Probably some of both.
As I have stated before I do not believe Trump won this election. Intentional fraud by the Republican Party, media messaging and vote flipping possibly from our intelligence agencies intent to stop Hillary's likely success is why Trump is president elect. As more facts come out and into the belief system of the opposition we can expect extreme turmoil UNLESS Trump himself starts acting like his inner Liberal. Trump is now in a DAMNED IF HE DOES AND DAMNED IF HE DOESN'T SITUATION OF HIS OWN MAKING.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:10:53 GMT
Any of you sick of these asshats flipping the republican vs democrat and always taking credit. I know we've discussed this before but I still see a lot of this when it's clear the ideologies have since flipped. The democrats started the KKK.. but those democrats are todays republicans or alt right party..irritates me to no end. I had this posted on page 2 of this thread which backs up what you and she are saying:
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:11:28 GMT
GERRYMANDERING: ONE OF THE MANY WAYS REPUBLICANS RESORT TO TAKE ELECTIONS
Court says Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin was unconstitutional By Brendan O'Brien ReutersNovember 22, 2016
By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Republicans in Wisconsin tilted district maps in their favor in order to hamper Democrats and ultimately win state elections in 2012 and 2014, a federal court said on Monday in a case that could influence future rulings on gerrymandering.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin decided 2-1 that Act 43, a redrawing of districts approved by the state's Republican-led legislature in 2012, violated the U.S. Constitution, court documents showed. "We find that the discriminatory effect is not explained by the political geography of Wisconsin nor is it justified by a legitimate state interest," the court wrote in its ruling.
The case has no bearing on Donald Trump's victory in Wisconsin in the presidential election on Nov. 8, in which he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said in a statement that he planned to appeal, which would send the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A ruling there on gerrymandering - the practice of manipulating electoral boundaries for political advantage - could have wide implications across the country as similar cases in Maryland and North Carolina work their way through lower courts.
"This is a big victory for those who want to see courts rein in partisan gerrymandering. But it is anybody’s guess what happens to this when it gets to the Supreme Court," wrote Richard Hasen, an elections law expert at the University of California, Irvine, on his blog.
Since 2010, Republicans have more than doubled their control of state legislatures. They now control both legislative chambers in a record 32 states, the New York Times reported.
"Republicans win elections because we have better candidates and a better message that continues to resonate with the voters," said Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in a statement.
Twelve Wisconsin voters argued in their lawsuit that Republicans redrew maps in 2011 to divide Democratic voters so they fall short of a majority in districts and to concentrate Democratic voters into districts so they win by overwhelming margins and dilute votes of Democrats statewide, according to the ruling.
Despite receiving 51 percent of the votes statewide in 2012, Democrats won only 39 of 99 Assembly seats. In 2014, Republicans won roughly the same percentage of votes statewide, but won 63 seats, a 24-seat disparity, judges wrote.
The Wisconsin case hinged on a new way to measure the discriminatory effect of gerrymandering. The "efficiency gap" measure found the redistricting in Wisconsin caused Democrats to waste more votes than Republicans.
The measure gives judges "a clear threshold for deciding what is acceptable”, Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the New York Times. (Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:12:00 GMT
THIS IS WHAT IS KNOWN AS "THE TWO SANTA CLAUS STRATEGY" AND IS SOMETHING EVERYONE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO. THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS DO. Republicans are getting ready to explode the deficit againPaul Waldman November 23, 2016
Just after the 2002 midterm elections, then-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill argued in a White House meeting against the huge tax cuts others in the George W. Bush administration wanted, on the grounds that they would increase the deficit. Vice President Dick Cheney cut him off: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said, as Ron Suskind reported in his book The Price of Loyalty. "We won the midterms," Cheney continued. "This is our due."
So it was. They got their tax cuts and increased the deficit dramatically, all while claiming to be the party of "fiscal responsibility." And now we stand at another transition between a Democratic and Republican administration, which means that Republicans are preparing to do a 180-degree turn on their opinion about spending and deficits.
Here's how it works: When there's a Democrat in the White House, Republicans say the deficit is a positively existential threat to our nation and our children's future, and we simply must make brutal cuts to spending in order to bring it under control. But when there's a Republican in the White House, they say deficits are something to be concerned about, sure, but maybe at some later date, because right now we really need to cut taxes and boost military spending.
That's not to say that Republicans don't have some spending cuts planned, because they do, to things like food stamps and Medicaid. But that's not about saving money, it's ideological. Elsewhere they're looking forward to blowing up the deficit as high as they can.
Take, for instance, President-elect Donald Trump's tax proposal. It would cause an unprecedented increase in the deficit. Over 10 years it would decrease federal revenues by an astonishing $9.5 trillion, or nearly a trillion dollars a year, the Tax Policy Center says. And of course, the bulk of its benefits go to the wealthy. When you ask Republicans about the fiscal effects, they wave the question away by saying that when you cut taxes for the rich, there's such an explosion of economic growth that you get back most of that revenue, and what's left can be taken care of by eliminating "waste, fraud, and abuse" in federal spending.
We don't have to wonder whether their predictions are true, because we've already tested them. Just about everything in the Republican economic plan was tried during George W. Bush's presidency, when like today they controlled both the White House and Congress (for his first six years). Bush passed two massive tax cuts that showered benefits on investors, wealthy heirs, and anyone else with high incomes. He cut regulations on corporations, getting government off their tender and tired backs. And what happened?
There was, you may recall, no explosion of economic growth. In fact, growth in GDP, jobs, and wages was anemic throughout Bush's time in office, culminating in the most catastrophic economic crisis in 80 years. And the deficit? Well, in Bill Clinton's last year in office there was a surplus of $236 billion. By Bush's last year in office, the deficit was $458 billion, for a remarkable $694 billion net increase.
You can't blame the increased deficit solely on Bush's tax cuts, however. There was also his enormous spending initiatives, which were supported wholeheartedly by Republicans in Congress. None was bigger than the Iraq War, which is estimated to have cost at least $2 trillion and perhaps $4 trillion. At the time, when Bush was raising the alarm about Saddam Hussein's fearsome arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, only a few wimpy Democrats raised the question of how this new war would be paid for; Republicans just knew it needed to be done, deficits be damned.
They felt the same way when Bush proposed adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare: Sounds good, let's not worry about paying for it. This is in stark contrast to the supposedly profligate Democrats, who bend over backwards to make sure that every new program they propose is paid for down to the last dime. So it was with the Affordable Care Act, which included new taxes and savings squeezed from Medicare to pay for the entire bill.
Republicans are also hoping to pass an infrastructure bill, which is something our roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, and electrical grid sorely need. We'll put aside for another day the problems with the particular kind of infrastructure plan they're considering, but it's important to remember that Barack Obama spent years begging them to consider a comprehensive infrastructure bill. They refused, citing the terrifying deficit.
But now everything's different: There's going to be a Republican in the White House, and so, as Reagan proved, deficits don't matter. It should be said that in many ways, deficits don't actually matter; we're fine running a deficit just as we always have been. And with interest rates at near zero, this is the best time to borrow more money to make critical investments in things like infrastructure.
But let's not pretend that the Republicans who will now be borrowing that money ever really cared about the deficit in the first place, as anything other than a tool they could use to justify hamstringing Democratic presidents and cutting programs they never liked anyway. In that sense, the deficit did matter a great deal to them. It's just not what they're willing to admit.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:12:28 GMT
Not only are Republicans hypocrites because of the things stated in this article they are hypocrites because they have NO moral compass. For years we have been hearing how awful Liberals are for voting for Bill Clinton, the womanizer, rapist, liar and any name they could come up with. So along comes Trump who is hundreds times guilty of the same OR worse things and THEY DON'T CARE. They vote for the guy in droves INCLUDING evangelical Christians who are the worst of the worst.Republicans, you're not Pro-Life, you're a hypocrite.The Huffington Post 9 hours ago . In his 1996 HBO special Back in Town, the late comic legend and social critic George Carlin nailed the hypocrisy of social conservatives who rail against abortion and birth control with "pro-life" rhetoric while simultaneously attacking social programs designed to support struggling families, supporting war and inciting violence against women. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you!" Carlin paced the stage, hyping the audience with assertion that the same conservatives who use pro-family rhetoric object to programs like food aid, free school lunches and cash payments to the nation's many deeply impoverished families. ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-youre-not-pro-life-youre-a-hypocrite_us_5839cf89e4b0c2ab944369b8
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:13:06 GMT
The real story here is NOT the posted story but in the comments section thereafter. Those are the people who populate the conservative movement and the Republican/Libertarian Parties. It begins to get ugly:www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/12/01/a-photo-of-a-4-year-old-with-hillary-clinton-was-used-as-a-disgusting-meme-her-mom-fought-back/?utm_term=.60c24cab5111#comments A photo of a 4-year-old with Hillary Clinton was used as a disgusting meme. Her mom fought back.By Colby Itkowitz
December 1 at 7:33 AM
Hillary Clinton to little girls: 'Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful'
In her concession speech on Nov. 9, Hillary Clinton took a minute to address young women and little girls. (The Washington Post)
Early in the campaign, a 4-year-old girl dressed as Hillary Clinton for Halloween, wearing a blazer and carrying a briefcase, met her idol. The candidate, then vying for the Democratic nomination, posed for a picture with her mini-me after an event in the girl’s hometown of Charleston, S.C., in 2015. Clinton told her she looked like a future president.
Jennifer Jones’s daughter, Sullivan, cherished the picture, now framed in her bedroom, showing a smiling Clinton crouching behind her with both hands on her little shoulders.
Hillary Clinton poses with 4-year-old Sullivan at the event in Charleston, S.C. (Courtesy of Jennifer Jones via Hillary for America)
But more than a year later — the day after Clinton lost the election and as Jones was processing her own grief over the loss — their treasured photo was turned into something sinister. Someone had taken the photo, originally uploaded to the Clinton campaign Flickr page, and turned it into a meme that was then shared thousands of times across social media.
Bold white type across the top of the image read, “I AM FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS!” Then halfway down, text covering the lower half of Sullivan’s body accused Clinton of accepting money and refugees from countries “that would mutilate this girl’s genitals, marry her to a Muslim pedophile, and stone her to death if she doesn’t wear a bedsheet.”
Jones hadn’t been on social media. So she didn’t see that a friend had shared the image to her Facebook page asking if she’d seen it. Another friend took a screenshot of it and sent it to her in a text message.
For 46-year-old Jones, who works the overnight shift at a local hotel so she can be at home during the day for her two daughters, it felt like a personal failing. That night, after she gave Sullivan a bath and put her to bed, she searched for the photo online and found thousands of blogs and feeds on Instagram and Pinterest and Facebook that shared the image. She believed what she’d always been told: Once something is on the Internet it’s there forever.
“I felt like I failed her,” Jones said. “As a mother your job is to protect and fix things and I wasn’t able to fix it. I’ve never felt so low in my life with this image being out there that I had no control over.”
She traced one photo to a Facebook page, “Men for Donald Trump,” which has more than 200,000 followers. She implored them to take it down. At first they resisted, but after dozens of her friends bombarded them with messages, they obliged. It was a victory, but a small one. That was only one site. There were countless more. Was it even possible to go to each one and make the same request? She reported hundreds to social media sites and Google, but that wasn’t going to purge the image of her little girl from the Internet.
She makes $10 an hour at her hotel job. She couldn’t afford to hire an attorney.
Several days later, she posted about it on Pantsuit Nation, the Facebook group of more than 3 million that started as a secret pro-Clinton page and has morphed into a massive online community where people share stories and seek support. Jones asked if they could help her report the image one-by-one.
Soon messages poured into her inbox offering help. This person knew someone at Pinterest who could help; another had a contact at the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Then she got a message from Shaun Kozolchyk, the San Francisco director of development for the Anti-Defamation League.
“I am a mother of my own two daughters. I was so horrified and deeply affected by that post and knew the work we do at ADL could be a space that could be helpful,” Kozolchyk said.
She contacted a colleague who works on cyber-hate response issues, who immediately verified that the Clinton campaign held the copyright to that photo. Any unauthorized use of it was against the law. The ADL sent a take down notice to the originating sites and, soon after, it disappeared from the Internet.
“When I got all this response from all these people from all over the country, it’s going to sound cheesy, but it felt like this giant blue blanket of love wrapped over me and I didn’t feel alone anymore,” Jones said. “There were so many people, who said, ‘we got you.’”
But what happened next gives Jones reason to believe her fight had a wider cause. When she shared again on Pantsuit Nation what the ADL had been able to do, others started coming forward saying their child’s image had been used in a meme. They just didn’t think there was anything they could do about it.
Kozolchyk said the ADL is now working on about a dozen similar cases to get these memes removed.
“Every day I come into work and we are bombarded with cases of hate and bigotry. You start to feel deflated and hopeless, but you have to keep pushing,” Kozolchyk said. “Then you get this kind of victory and it carries you through to the next thing.”
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:13:36 GMT
The sheets came off of Republicans and Conservatives when the Obama's moved into the White House. This is just more of the same from these two groups who I deem are ENTITLEMENT GROUPS thinking they are the only ones entitled to live in the White House and to rule the country which by the way is a democratic republic and belongs to no one but the people, and NOT just white people. I hope this little racist coward loses her cushy $363,000.00 job for her stupidity alone, never mind her racism.Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article118163468.html#storylink=cpyNational December 1, 2016 9:17 AM Doctor won’t be seeing patients after calling Michelle Obama ‘monkey face’ By Kate Irby kirby@mcclatchy.com It started on a Facebook post praising Michelle Obama for her eloquence. JoAnn Nietto told the Denver Post one of her friends typed the original status, and then she saw a woman she didn’t know, Dr. Michelle Herren, made a couple comments on it. “Doesn’t seem to be speaking too eloquently here, thank god we can’t hear her!” said the first comment, which included a picture of Obama, who appeared to be screaming. “Harvard??? That’s a place for ‘entitled’ folks said all the liberals!” “Monkey face and poor ebonic English!!!” She continued in a second comment. “There! I feel better and am still not racist!!! Just calling it like it is!” Nietto found out the woman was a pediatric anesthesiologist at Denver Health, a public hospital, and decided to report her. “It really outraged me to see that she works at Denver Health, which serves a huge minority population,” Nietto told the Denver Post on Wednesday. Denver Health said they are looking at options for disciplining Herren, since the First Amendment and other state and federal laws prevent them from firing her for statements made while off-duty. In the meantime, she will not be seeing patients. Herren makes $363,000 per year, according to the Denver Post. Her Facebook appears to have been deleted. Obama, who is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law, has been targeted with these kinds of remarks before. West Virginia Mayor Beverly Clay praised a social media post calling the First Lady an “ape in heels” and subsequently resigned in November. The post was made by Pamela Ramsey Taylor, the director of a government-funded nonprofit, who was also removed from her position. Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article118163468.html#storylink=cpy
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:14:08 GMT
This about sums it up.
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-the-political-f-boys-of-america_us_5818f04ae4b01fffa751fa3b
Republicans Are Your Friend Who Borrows Money To Pay Bills And Then Posts Vacation Pics
Their core ideology is squarely in “f***boy” territory. 12/05/2016 11:30 am ET | Updated 2 hours ago Stanley Fritz
The Republican Party as a unit, for all of its rich history and “great leaders,” is still a party whose core ideology, with or without Trump, places them in the f*ck boy territory.
Anyone that believes in common sense policy and mathematics needs to understand this; the Republican party is really f*cking problematic. Without Trump, your average GOP platform consists of policy that supports gay conversion therapy, stripping women of their right to choose, voter suppression laws, gerrymandering that compresses black and brown votes into small districts to dilute their political power, undermining the power of collective bargaining to weaken or break unions, and supporting tax cuts for the rich that crippled working- and middle-class families. They have been able to get away with it for so long because they are amazing at messaging.
Check out the Republican Parties Problematic Platform for 2016
Put it like this: Republicans are the friend that borrows money from you to cover a bill, then posts vacation pics on Instagram and accuses you of being a hater when you ask for your money back. They’re the “f*ck boy” who spends their day on Facebook making fun of “people who don’t wanna hustle” when they live with their mother and don’t pay their own bills. They’re the uncle who comes to your cookout without a dish, but packs two plates to go and complains about the seasoning. I could continue the slander for days, but let’s take a fact-based look at this foolishness.
Trickle Down Economics:
GOP Theory- You cut taxes for businesses and the rich, in turn, they will take that money and create jobs to stimulate the economy.
Reality- The super rich and big businesses get this money and hoard it for themselves. Republicans will sit here and straight up tell you how much they care about putting money in people’s pockets, but they’re about as reliable as your ex who started working with Herbalife.
Their economic policies are straight up trash.
In 2010, Kansas elected a Tea Party Republican by the name of Sam Brownback, to be their governor. He promised that by cutting taxes for businesses and the rich, everyone in the state would benefit. After being elected into office and then having a Republican assembly and senate, the Governor signed off on the biggest tax cut in the state’s history. Ninety percent of the cuts benefited the top 10 percent of earners, or in other words, the super-rich. The plan failed, and since the cuts, Kansas has faced almost yearly budget deficits and was sued for its lack of funding for public education. The New Republic does a great job of detailing the damage:
By June of 2014, the results of Brownback’s economic reforms began to come in, and they weren’t pretty. During the first fiscal year that his plan was in operation, which ended in June, the tax cuts had produced a staggering loss in revenue—$687.9 million, or 10.84 percent. According to the nonpartisan Kansas Legislative Research Department, the state risks running deficits through fiscal year 2019. Moody’s downgraded the state’s credit rating from AA1 to AA2; Standard & Poor’s followed suit, which will increase the state’s borrowing costs and further enlarge its deficit.
I’m not calling them racist, but they tend to do racist ass stuff.
GOP Theory- ”We can’t be racist, we’re the party of Lincoln. Just look over there, we have one N***** black Republican.
Reality- Republican policies are so racially focused that the actual policy acknowledges success by the number of People of color it disenfranchises.
Listen, I’m not saying that the entire Republican party is racist. Hell, I’m not even saying that 75 percent of the Republican Party is racist. However, they support policies that are fucking racist problematic. For example, look at North Carolina, where the GOP-controlled legislature passed a bill aimed at addressing “voter fraud” even though there is almost no voter fraud in the entire state. As a result, this bill grossly disenfranchised the growing black electorate in the state. Think I’m joking? Even some white people thought the laws were problematic. Vox did an article on the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals’, decision to overturn the law, and here is what they said:
The federal appeals court pointed out that in the process of constructing the voter identification law, the state legislature not only requested data on the voter practices, which included race, but the changes to voting practices also seemed to use that information to target voters based on race.
“In particular, African Americans disproportionately used the first seven days of early voting,” Motz wrote. “After the receipt of this racial data, the General Assembly amended the bill to eliminate the first week of early voting, shortening the total early voting period from seventeen to ten days.”
They have purposely refused to work with President Obama, just to make him look bad.
GOP theory- Barack Jaquan Hussain Obama is a socialist and refuses to work with us.
Reality- The video doesn’t lie.
OK, so we discussed their economic policies, as well as their racist voter policies. Now it’s time to point out their overall refusal to put our country first. When President Obama was elected in 2008, the top leaders of the Republican Party created a strategy aimed at making him look bad and a one-term president. How did they do that? Well, they refused to govern, criticized Obama for anything he did, trashed common sense policies like the Jobs Bill, and finally created an atmosphere that led to the Republican nomination of Trump for president.
Like I said, they’re f*ck boys.
I’m sure there is a random black Republican in your ear right now telling you that the Republican Party “’isn’t that bad” or “Hillary is worse.” Don’t listen to them. Yes, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party have problems and need to be checked. We may even need to take our support away from them. But the Republican party is not the answer. You wouldn’t break up with someone who kept lying to you for someone that’s going to cheat and steal your credit card info, right? That would not make sense. So before you grab a registration form to “lean right,” remember, your current bae (the Dems) might be acting up, but the GOP is not a real option.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:14:47 GMT
This about sums it up.
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-the-political-f-boys-of-america_us_5818f04ae4b01fffa751fa3b
Republicans Are Your Friend Who Borrows Money To Pay Bills And Then Posts Vacation Pics
Their core ideology is squarely in “f***boy” territory. 12/05/2016 11:30 am ET | Updated 2 hours ago Stanley Fritz
The Republican Party as a unit, for all of its rich history and “great leaders,” is still a party whose core ideology, with or without Trump, places them in the f*ck boy territory.
Anyone that believes in common sense policy and mathematics needs to understand this; the Republican party is really f*cking problematic. Without Trump, your average GOP platform consists of policy that supports gay conversion therapy, stripping women of their right to choose, voter suppression laws, gerrymandering that compresses black and brown votes into small districts to dilute their political power, undermining the power of collective bargaining to weaken or break unions, and supporting tax cuts for the rich that crippled working- and middle-class families. They have been able to get away with it for so long because they are amazing at messaging.
Check out the Republican Parties Problematic Platform for 2016
Put it like this: Republicans are the friend that borrows money from you to cover a bill, then posts vacation pics on Instagram and accuses you of being a hater when you ask for your money back. They’re the “f*ck boy” who spends their day on Facebook making fun of “people who don’t wanna hustle” when they live with their mother and don’t pay their own bills. They’re the uncle who comes to your cookout without a dish, but packs two plates to go and complains about the seasoning. I could continue the slander for days, but let’s take a fact-based look at this foolishness.
Trickle Down Economics:
GOP Theory- You cut taxes for businesses and the rich, in turn, they will take that money and create jobs to stimulate the economy.
Reality- The super rich and big businesses get this money and hoard it for themselves. Republicans will sit here and straight up tell you how much they care about putting money in people’s pockets, but they’re about as reliable as your ex who started working with Herbalife.
Their economic policies are straight up trash.
In 2010, Kansas elected a Tea Party Republican by the name of Sam Brownback, to be their governor. He promised that by cutting taxes for businesses and the rich, everyone in the state would benefit. After being elected into office and then having a Republican assembly and senate, the Governor signed off on the biggest tax cut in the state’s history. Ninety percent of the cuts benefited the top 10 percent of earners, or in other words, the super-rich. The plan failed, and since the cuts, Kansas has faced almost yearly budget deficits and was sued for its lack of funding for public education. The New Republic does a great job of detailing the damage:
By June of 2014, the results of Brownback’s economic reforms began to come in, and they weren’t pretty. During the first fiscal year that his plan was in operation, which ended in June, the tax cuts had produced a staggering loss in revenue—$687.9 million, or 10.84 percent. According to the nonpartisan Kansas Legislative Research Department, the state risks running deficits through fiscal year 2019. Moody’s downgraded the state’s credit rating from AA1 to AA2; Standard & Poor’s followed suit, which will increase the state’s borrowing costs and further enlarge its deficit.
I’m not calling them racist, but they tend to do racist ass stuff.
GOP Theory- ”We can’t be racist, we’re the party of Lincoln. Just look over there, we have one N***** black Republican.
Reality- Republican policies are so racially focused that the actual policy acknowledges success by the number of People of color it disenfranchises.
Listen, I’m not saying that the entire Republican party is racist. Hell, I’m not even saying that 75 percent of the Republican Party is racist. However, they support policies that are fucking racist problematic. For example, look at North Carolina, where the GOP-controlled legislature passed a bill aimed at addressing “voter fraud” even though there is almost no voter fraud in the entire state. As a result, this bill grossly disenfranchised the growing black electorate in the state. Think I’m joking? Even some white people thought the laws were problematic. Vox did an article on the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals’, decision to overturn the law, and here is what they said:
The federal appeals court pointed out that in the process of constructing the voter identification law, the state legislature not only requested data on the voter practices, which included race, but the changes to voting practices also seemed to use that information to target voters based on race.
“In particular, African Americans disproportionately used the first seven days of early voting,” Motz wrote. “After the receipt of this racial data, the General Assembly amended the bill to eliminate the first week of early voting, shortening the total early voting period from seventeen to ten days.”
They have purposely refused to work with President Obama, just to make him look bad.
GOP theory- Barack Jaquan Hussain Obama is a socialist and refuses to work with us.
Reality- The video doesn’t lie.
OK, so we discussed their economic policies, as well as their racist voter policies. Now it’s time to point out their overall refusal to put our country first. When President Obama was elected in 2008, the top leaders of the Republican Party created a strategy aimed at making him look bad and a one-term president. How did they do that? Well, they refused to govern, criticized Obama for anything he did, trashed common sense policies like the Jobs Bill, and finally created an atmosphere that led to the Republican nomination of Trump for president.
Like I said, they’re f*ck boys.
I’m sure there is a random black Republican in your ear right now telling you that the Republican Party “’isn’t that bad” or “Hillary is worse.” Don’t listen to them. Yes, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party have problems and need to be checked. We may even need to take our support away from them. But the Republican party is not the answer. You wouldn’t break up with someone who kept lying to you for someone that’s going to cheat and steal your credit card info, right? That would not make sense. So before you grab a registration form to “lean right,” remember, your current bae (the Dems) might be acting up, but the GOP is not a real option.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:15:19 GMT
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. (The RNC knew exactly what they were doing. Whether the brownnoser Priebus is referring to Trump or not is not what is going on here to my mind. This is dogwhistle to get our already "Christianized" troops ready and gain their loyalty as well as evangelicals firmly behind them for what is about to come. And what is about to come is the Republican War on Muslims.)RNC's 'new king' Christmas message ignites furor over whether it compared Trump to Jesus
Javier E. David | @teflongeek 3 Hours Ago
The Republican National Committee's Christmas message sparked a war of words on social media on Sunday, as the organization's Biblical reference to "new king" polarized political watchers.
The RNC issued a public statement celebrating Christmas, a normally anodyne holiday tradition that goes unremarked. Because 2016 has been far from a normal year, a number of journalists and social media users took umbrage with the RNC's use of religious language in a political context.
Some interpreted RNC Chair and incoming White House chief of Staff Reince Priebus' reference to "a new king" as a veiled comparison of President-elect Donald Trump to the birth of the Messiah: The use of "new king" is rooted in the Christian faith, and is routinely used to refer to Jesus, particularly around the holidays. That said, some observers took a less charitable interpretation, underscoring how nerves remain frayed after a polarizing and hard fought general election.
Reactions and counter-reactions ricocheted across social media almost immediately, with political veterans and reporters entering the fray. RNC communications director Sean Spicer blasted the criticism on Twitter as "disappointing."
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RNC: The 'new King' is not Trump CNN 4 hours ago . The message from RNC chairman Reince Priebus says, "Over two millennia ago, a new hope was born into the world, a Savior who would offer the promise of salvation to all mankind. Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King." ... hsrd.yahoo.com/RV=1/RE=1483915561/RH=aHNyZC55YWhvby5jb20-/RB=/RU=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jbm4uY29tLzIwMTYvMTIvMjUvcG9saXRpY3MvcHJpZWJ1cy1jaHJpc3RtYXMtbmV3LWtpbmcvaW5kZXguaHRtbAA-/RS=%5EADASToe3QGNgEj6F_JPnamj75SdlH8-
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RNC denies it compared Trump to Jesus in Christmas message; social media has its doubts The Charlotte Observer 1 hour 53 minutes ago
The Republican National Committee is denying claims that its annual Christmas message compared President-elect Donald Trump to Jesus. Social media, however, has its doubts. The message from RNC Chair Reince Priebus and Co-chair Sharon Day referenced the birth of Jesus, then said, “Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King.” Twitter quickly pounced, with responses such as this from someone calling himself @teridax: “Comparing Trump to Jesus is ridiculous. Jesus never had a plane with his name on it.” Several media outlets also asked about the message. In response to Buzzfeed’s question, GOP spokesman Sean Spicer tweeted, ... www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article122931144.html
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:15:54 GMT
More proof that Bush Cheney and the Republican's knew there were NO weapons of mass destruction and they didn't want to deal with any information that didn't support their goal. Meanwhile the world is dealing with the mess Republican's created. Interesting few minutes:
CIA Interrogator: At Time of U.S. Invasion, Saddam Hussein Was Focused on Writing Novel, Not WMDs
Published on Dec 28, 2016
democracynow.org - Ten years ago this week, on December 30, 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed. Hussein was toppled soon after the U.S. invasion began in 2003. U.S. President George W. Bush launched the invasion on the false premise that Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and had ties to al-Qaeda. The invasion destabilized Iraq and the region, leaving over a million people dead. And the fighting continues in Iraq and Syria. A stunning new book about the Iraq War has just come out from a perspective we have not yet heard from. It is written by John Nixon, the CIA analyst who interrogated Saddam Hussein after his capture 13 years ago. Nixon reveals that much of what the CIA believed they knew about Saddam Hussein at the time of the invasion was wrong. During his interrogation, Hussein revealed that by 2003 he had largely turned over power to his aides so he could concentrate on writing a novel. There was no program of weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein was also deeply critical of al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups inspired by Wahhabism. During the interrogation, Hussein also had a warning for the United States about Iraq. He said, "You are going to fail. You are going to find that it is not so easy to govern Iraq. You are going to fail in Iraq because you do not know the language, the history, and you do not understand the Arab mind." We speak to former CIA analyst John Nixon, author of the new book, "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein."
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2020 10:16:21 GMT
MORE FASCIST TACTICS FROM REPUBLICANSHouse Members Could Face Fines for Photos or Streaming Video
HeadlinesDec 28, 2016
Members of Congress who stream video or hold sit-in protests on the House floor could suffer fines and ethics inquiries, under new rules proposed by House Speaker Paul Ryan. The move comes in response to a demonstration held by Democrats in June, when lawmakers held a 25-hour vigil to call for new gun control measures in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando. When Speaker Ryan called the floor into recess, C-SPAN’s cameras went dark, prompting lawmakers to stream video of their action on social media sites. Under Ryan’s new rules, such behavior could incur fines of up to $2,500 per violation.GOOD SITE TO FIND TODAY'S TOPICS www.democracynow.org/2016/12/28/headlines/house_members_could_face_fines_for_photos_or_streaming_video
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