Mr.TaterSalad

Why would Gaetz, Gohmert, Greene, Gym Jordan, Perry ask for pardons if they didn't do anything wrong? Why else would anyone ask for a pardon?

Can you imagine if Al Gore had a bunch of activists storm the Supreme Court or Kathrine Harris' SOS office in Florida during the 2000 election? Can you imagine what the Republican reaction would have been?

CNN: Elon Musk's child tells court she no longer wants 'to be related' to her dad I don't know the whole, truthful story of what's going on between Musk and his daughter and it wouldn't be fair on my part to fully speculate. But the more that comes out about Musk, the more he sounds and looks like a miserable human being.

That's some demented and sick shit right there.

I had a post all lined up and now I can't remember what I was going to post. For the record, mocking Reagan for having a debilitating brain disease ain't really cool and I don't enjoy doing it. But since Dr. Bunker's always out here blasting away at Biden for being a demented old bat, I would like to remind him of who the person was that actually had a brain health and memory loss issue while sering as President.

I disagree that one particular group doesn't have a hold over the party. I think Bill Clinton proved 25 years ago that the centerists will crush anyone that gets in their way and they'll do what they want. Deregulation, NAFTA, welfare reforms, pushing a homophobic agenda to ban gay marriage, Clinton got everything he wanted. Barack Obama again proved centrist dominance in the 2010s by extending the NSA program, passing the NDAA, killing the public option in Obamacare, and ensuring the misery of millions of Americans by bailing out Wall Street instead of homeowners, and ensuring the stimulus he passed was negligible in nature. Joe Biden's victory over both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, coupled with the air tight control that Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have on the Senate proves continued centrist dominance. Progressives lost control of the party in the 80s and 90s when all the FDR and New Deal Democrats were pushed out in favor of pro-corporate, Third Way Democrats. Centrists have won almost every big, significant policy fight in D.C. over progressives over the past 30 years.

Hungary under Viktor Orban is one that comes to mind. It is no surprise that Trump loves and endorsed Orban for re-election. I think an ideal MAGA country would be a hybrid between George Wallace's Alabama of the 1960's and Viktor Orban's Hungary of the present day. Jair Bolsonaro and what he's done in Brazil is another example of what MAGA folks would like our nation to embody and be like.

You're welcome! Justin Townes Earle is one of the most underrated songwriters out there. I say that not because he has since passed away, but felt it when he was alive too. He's a true storyteller with the music he wrote. I don't have a specific starting point if you're interested in getting into more of his music. I would just recommend going to his Spotify page and hitting shuffle. You can't go wrong with almost anything he's put out. Some of his stuff is more country-leaning, some of it-bluesy rock, some of it straight up rock, some of it Americana.

That probably part of the plan. They want to privatize schools and turn education into a for-profit, cottage industry. Once they do that, they will deregulate all education standards and credentialing required for being a teacher. The skills and preparation it takes to be a high quality, good educator of young minds means little to a lot of people on the far right. If you teach the bible, creationism, biblical literalism, the Earth being only 7,000 years old, anti-abortion education, that being gay is a mortal sin, that the Civil War was caused by northern aggression, that there are differences between the races, we aren't all equal, gun ownership is a necessity and immigrants are poisoning our society, the right would have no problem with any of that. All of the certifications and requirements for becoming a teacher are unnecessary burdens and red tape. Furthermore, they would tell us that we need to stop all the grooming and liberal indoctrination that modern day teachers do. When they went to school a teacher could take their belt or the back of their hand to you. You bent down and prayed apparently at the start of every day and you said the words "Under God" in the pledge extra loud or something.

Steve Bannon is my guess as far as the Proud Boys connection goes. Bannon was the one trumpeting on his radio show/podcast how things were going to get wild on January 6th.

I don't disagree that there are plenty of nutty, crazy people on the left. A day on twitter will show you that. The 9/11 truther movement originally took hold among left-wing minded individuals back in the day. There have been various other crazy ideas and conspiracy theories that people on the left have adopted from the CIA to vaccines to things corporations do. There have also been people on the left pushing ideas, like abolishing ICE and defunding entire police departments, that currently sit outside the American mainstream of ideas. All that said, it is an incredibly small minority of people on the left pushing those things. Generally, even among some of the less well educated or more radical individuals on the left, the average progressive/leftist/democratic socialist/social democrat just wants a government that supports people and takes care of a bunch of core, basic needs in life. Healthcare, child welfare, nutritious food, clean water, housing quality public education, reliable transpiration, a healthy planet, a clean environment, taking care of wildlife, etc. are all seen as basic human rights. The average person on the left isn't building a political movement centered around lazy people on welfare, CRT, gun ownership with no restrictions, gays grooming people, bootstrapping your way through life, or creating a survival of the fittest society. Sure, the party of centrists and third way Democrats like Joe Biden, Tip O'Neill, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Liberman, John Kerry, Barack Obama is slowly being replaced by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Jamal Bowan, John Fetterman, and on. But it isn't being replaced that way all at once. In-fact, there are some on the left who do indeed complain that the transformation of the party into a solidly progressive one moves too slow. But in general, the way they are trying to transform the party and the source of their frustration is built around not helping people enough. Whereas with Republicans and people on the right who are transforming their party, the source of their frustration is racial grievance, intolerance, and a wanting for someone to feel as miserable in life as they do. Misery and hatred love company, and they are finding a home on the right wing of America. Rational Republicans are fewer and fewer these days. The party of educated, thoughtful, sophisticated conservatism of the likes of George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, Gerald Ford, John Boehner, George Will is being replaced by a radical, less educated element with Donald Trump, MTG, Lauren Bobert, Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Steve Bannon, and Tucker Carlson. How many people on the right do you hear standing up to people like Herschel Walker who are out there denying evolution or Ben Carson who says the Pyramids of Egypt were grain silos built by Joseph or Donald Trump who says climate change is a Chinese hoax or immigrant caravans from the likes of Tucker Carlson. Pick out anyone of these idiots and chances are they'll be talking about grooming, CRT, gay people, an immigrant invasion of America, guns, non-existent voter fraud, etc. The American right has become far more radicalized than the American left. Furthemore, the intentions of the average person on the American left is much more altruistic, caring, kind, and virtuous towards the plight of others than it is on the American right.

The far right and Republicans, as with everything else, are just projecting when it comes to teaching and what they want taught. They accuse the left and Democrats of "grooming" their kids with an LGBTQA and racially sensitive agenda. When in actuality none of that is happening and it is they who want to ban what can and cannot be taught. It is they who want to dictate to Teachers and Education Professionals what can and cannot be taught. It is they who want creationism and junk theories with no provable scientific merit taught alongside or instead of scientifically tested theories and hypothesis'. They who want to ban books like Maus and whitewash history in the process.

Same thing apparently goes with Diane Feinstein. When someone has a serious brain health issue, unlike what Arch always claims about Biden, it is wrong to put that person through the rigors of running for office and a disservice to have them serving as a public official. I agree with you that based on the comments Walker has made previously and based on him having played football for a long period of time in his life, that CTE may be an issue there. I am not a doctor or medical professional, so for me to firmly say he has CTE would be wrong. I am not claiming CTE is a thing with Herschel Walker and don't have the professional knowledge about brain trauma and CTE to make that armchair diagnosis. But for his own sake (and that of the countries) I hope he loses and gets the professional, medical help he may well need.

I watched the video clip and the Trump supporter/January Sixer says "We're coming to take you out. We're coming to pull you by your hairs. You're gonna need a shine up on top of that bald head when I get done with you." I remember when a deranged individual who was a Bernie Sanders supporter and campaign volunteer shot up a Congressional baseball game and wounded Congressman Steve Scalise. Bernie Sanders was quick to condemn the man and his action in the strongest possible terms. He then continued to condemn the man on the Sunday Shows after the situation happened. I remember when January Sixers assaulted Capitol Police and attempted a coup to overthrow the government on January 6th 2020. Kevin McCarthy was quick and swift to condemn their actions and those of President Trump. Two weeks later, he was quick and swift to be a bootlicking, partisan hack and walk back almost all of his prior condemnation.

Projection! Don't be a deadbeat dad. Welp, looks like I'm a deadbeat dad.

Daily Beast: Herschel Walker Says He’s a Model Dad. He Has a Secret Son. Quotes from Walker about deadbeat dads . . . LOL, projection as always. Herschel Walker criticizes absentee fathers and has a son he has no contact with. He's a deadbeat dad himself.

The same political action committee that went after Madison Cawthorn is going after Bobert. The arguments they make against her on this website are salacious as all get out, so who knows what is true and what isn't. Not a lot of credible evidence backing this stuff up yet. https://www.fireboebert.com/drunklauren

Have we brought Deboer in for an interview yet?

Devin Funchess is a Lion now. Just signed today apparently.

https://www.macombdaily.com/2022/06/05/poll-marlinga-holds-big-lead-for-primary-narrow-margin-over-john-james/ Macomb Daily reported on a poll from Ed Sarpolus at Target Insyght that had it Marlinga 44% and James 40%. Sapolus is a middle of the road, non-bias pollster I believe. I don't think he is a Dem-affiliated pollster.

Here are more of the crosstabs for those interested in the Ryan/Vance poll . . . https://innovationohio.org/uncategorized/poll-tim-ryan-maintains-lead-over-gop-extremist-j-d-vance/

Don't let yourself get excited, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay too early and it's only one poll. But damn, if Tim Ryan beat J.D. Vance that'd be the upset of the year!

Nope. According to bozos like Larry Summers, the entire reason we have inflation is because of the $1,400 stimulus checks in the American Rescue Plan. Mind you, this is the same Larry Summers who told Obama and his White House team to cut down the size of the stimulus plan after the economy had just fallen off a cliff and into recession in 2008-2009. Summers pushed and was victorious in getting a significantly smaller stimulus than was actually needed to help people during the Great Derivatives Financial Crises.