nostr:npub1kjkt2u0q6evydaqxg5py9aztlqrhzvpshxhqeqkw3w835tfkdj9q4ar3df Those are excellent points.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3
What the heck is Ken Burns nestled between those two rogues?
nostr:npub1k9f4x0ggdapnj0nz848hnqfvf38mru3p28h70fjfu6lktrj9y0hs49h3gc Interesting, isn’t it? It’s definitely going to make me rethink Ken Burns.
McCarthy has just said about the Republican Congressfolks he "leads that they “just want to burn the whole place down.”
Jay Kuo's response:
"What led such a brilliant tactician and deft political leader to this wholly obvious point? Let’s review the footage of this slow moving train crash." And then Kuo goes on to review….
#McCarthy #Republicans #Congress #dysfunction #RepublicansinDisarray
"Trump’s admission that he formed his opinions based on his instincts, or books written long after the fact, or by listening to 'different people' is devastating to his planned advice of counsel defense. Thanks to his own megalomania, which won’t allow him to credit anyone else with telling him what to do, Trump has now admitted publicly and emphatically that he wasn’t acting on advice of counsel."
~ Liz Dye
#Trump #crime #megalomania #MeetthePress
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-meet-the-press-legal-defenses-destroyed
nostr:npub1z679k24whc3rf4l0rna9senam5hwm9epj28jcr4259c9a8erwdfssvt6kx I don't think "can get" is meant in the future sense here as in, "it isn't weird now but can become weird." I think it's meant in the descriptive sense as in, "When you're dealing with the New Right, be prepared for it to get weird — since that's what it does."
"The interview also speaks to a larger problem that — somehow in 2023 — continues to confound the news media and the well-compensated television anchors tasked with effectively holding power to account. Even after Trump subverted democracy during the 2020 election, inspiring an actual insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, newsrooms continue to struggle with how to cover him."
~ Oliver Darcy
#Trump #normalization #MediaFail
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1695088339607276427caf027/raw
"It's arguable that, at this juncture, there is really no need to interview Trump. After years and years of seeing how he dishonestly operates, what exactly is there to glean from a sit-down? The near-certain result is that the outlet will record a stream of lies rushing out of his mouth, mixed in with absurd grievances about how supposedly unfair the system treats him. Does any of that really serve the public?"
#Trump #normalization #MediaFail
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"The interview also speaks to a larger problem that — somehow in 2023 — continues to confound the news media and the well-compensated television anchors tasked with effectively holding power to account. Even after Trump subverted democracy during the 2020 election, inspiring an actual insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, newsrooms continue to struggle with how to cover him."
~ Oliver Darcy
#Trump #normalization #MediaFail
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1695088339607276427caf027/raw
nostr:npub1573ewn9fnjvffmq8u5k7cus3g9z22k7dzf3xlzcrm8a73eyqay4q9lkmev Thank you for that reminder. You're right: that Black lesbian Secret Service officer saved his life. Some gratitude on his part!
nostr:npub1qfpe5wy2fu82nj3qpw9gxd0nyv33lelayyunhfmxm0a2sgg006fqs22xdk This is well-noted and well-stated.
"I’ve always believed that decline is a choice, and one place we seem to have chosen decline is at the theater, both live and cinematic. That decline was represented most dramatically this week by the boorishness of Rep. Lauren Boebert at a recent showing of Beetlejuice: The Musical."
~ Sonny Bunch
#Boebert #LaurenBoebert
https://screentime.thebulwark.com/p/if-you-cant-behave-yourself-in-a
"The public record, at least, makes clear that those threats of violence correlate with a decision to seek more punitive treatment of the President’s son.
And that’s a very chilling prospect: that MAGA right wingers could bully prosecutors into taking punitive action against Hunter Biden."
#HunterBiden #Republicans #violence
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As Michael Tomasky asks, what is it, precisely, that Biden is too old to do? To steal nuclear secrets and other classified documents? To violate the law knowingly? To lie boldly about the crowd numbers at his inauguration? To tell the nation he "leads" that a dangerous pandemic, for which he refused to take national precautions, would be over in a few days — when he knew better?
The list is long, and Tomasky provides it.
#Biden #age
As PRRI's new report "Clergy and Congregations in a Time of Transformation: Findings from the 2022-2023 Mainline Protestant Clergy Survey" shows, when asked to respond to the statement “Today, America is in danger of losing its culture and identity," only 37% of mainline Protestant clergy agreed, but 64% of their congregants agreed.
There's a reason 50%+ of white US Christians voted for Trump twice.
#MainlineProtestants #race #immigration #CultureWars
"The [recent] PRRI survey [about mainline Protestants] finds that mainline clergy are more supportive than their congregations of LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws, more likely to oppose the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and less likely to believe the U.S. is in danger of losing its culture and identity."
#churches #LGBTQ #abortion #CultureWars #immigrants #race
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“'Our history and tradition may support some limits on an intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon, but it does not justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage,' the Fifth Circuit ruled back in August."
In short, America — MAGA above all — thinks ANYONE should have a "right" to a gun, regardless of his/her history of addiction or drunkenness.
Own petard, meet hoist.
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #HunterBiden #InmateP01135809 #guns #GunRights
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About the charges just filed by Trump-appointee David Weiss against Hunter Biden:
"This crime is nearly always charged as something tacked on to some bigger crime, like murder or robbery. It’s almost never used to prosecute someone on its own. Just imagine how many people, especially in gun-loving red state America, are unlawful users of or addicted to controlled substances while in possession of a firearm."
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #HunterBiden #InmateP01135809
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/political-legal-lightning-round
"One ironic fact: There’s a case out of the conservative Fifth Circuit that has held the law in question here unconstitutional under prior Supreme Court precedent. The statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), bars anyone who is an 'unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance' from possessing a gun."
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #HunterBiden #InmateP01135809 #guns #GunRights
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About the charges just filed by Trump-appointee David Weiss against Hunter Biden:
"This crime is nearly always charged as something tacked on to some bigger crime, like murder or robbery. It’s almost never used to prosecute someone on its own. Just imagine how many people, especially in gun-loving red state America, are unlawful users of or addicted to controlled substances while in possession of a firearm."
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #HunterBiden #InmateP01135809
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/political-legal-lightning-round
Even as people gathered to pull the girls' bodies from the rubble white teens with a Confederate flag and a sign saying "Go Back to Africa" stood taunting those moving the rubble. Black teens nearby threw rocks at the white teens. Police on the scene then turned against the Black teens — not the white ones — and shot one of them in the back.
#Birmingham #Alabama #bombing #racism #violence
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As Kevin Kruse reminds us, on this day in 1963, white racial terrorists bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist church in Birmingham, killing four Black girls, fourteen-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson, and eleven-year-old Carol Denise McNair.
This also happened on the same day, he reminds us:
#Birmingham #Alabama #bombing #racism #violence
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Why do the Republicans imagine they can score important points via an impeachment charade that any thinking person knows is farcical? Dan Pfeiffer notes that they think this because "the horse-race obsessed political media" have created an opening for them in a "dystopic information environment flooded with disinformation and clickbait."
Does. Not. Bode. Well. For. Our. Future.
#MediaFail #impeachment #disinformation
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/impeachment-scam-what-you-need-to