Everywhere you turn with the GOP these days, you see dysfunction. Take the pending vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. A cabinet secretary has not been impeached since the post-Civil War era, and that was for blatant corruption
I'm tired of the normalcy the major media outlets give them. They feed on the lunacy for ad dollars by treating them like they are perfectly normal politicians having just another day at the "House."
Unfortunately, they still wield enormous influence, and sometimes they even produce the occasional useful investigative report. The New York Times is an example, to me, of a split personality. They'll crank out an excellent investigative piece, then produce headline after headline that normalizes a man found guilty of sexual assault and defamation in a civil court, with 20+ additional female accusers, along with all the other crap, including 91 felony indictments.
I agree on all counts, enormous influence. As a writer on climate change I subscribe to many resources, the NY Times one of them, because like it or not I have to. You're right, some great pieces, but also a lot of annoying, hypocritical crap. This in part is what has driven me and I suspect others to jump into the fray, researching and writing. We need to know the truth, and that can only be found by digging for the details and being unencumbered by sales and circulation numbers. Every serious independent writer needs paid it's not easy, but perhaps that's an indicator of integrity, to take the hard road.
For me, the exhaustion comes from the hyper or uber everything about Donald Trump and his gang. Their hyper egos, hyper fear-mongering rhetoric, the hyper partisanship and the hyper false patriotism. They are betrayers of ideal the nation was built on.
November is so far off that I fear what might happen across the world as we wait to vote. Then, there is no clear guarantee that these lemmings will be voted out of power. It is just a damn shame that some Republicans in the House who still might have a sense of decency within themselves would not stand up for what is right. They are cowards with a broken moral compass.
If Johnson causes the Entire Government Down…It All But Guarantees A November Victory For Biden! And We The People have Allot to Overcome! The Low Turnout in last weeks Primary of BLACK VOTERS AND…GAZA! I’m not Pro Israel Nor Pro Palestine I AM ANTI BOMBING FENCED IN PEOPLE! I Resent My Federal Tax Dollars Helping Pay For The Bombs! And I KNOW I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE! 1,200 Deaths Minus 27,000 Deaths Is A Negative!
A capitulation by Johnson to get a budget passed, or to kick the can down the road again with a continuing resolution will not save them come November. Ten more months of similar behavior in the House will simply magnify their gross mismanagement of the public trust and drive all but the MAGAts away from the Repuglican ticket. They might cave somehow and allow an aid package through but they won’t be able to run on it, having set themselves up as obstructionists. I’m as TIRED as anyone hearing about their juvenile behavior, but the longer it persists the more likely the voters will do what needs to be done. May God grant me the patience to survive the long wait for November...
The MAGA cult member will never believe the fault lies with trump and his sycophant's in congress, and will always blame President Biden. However this has the potential to be a historic "own goal" for MAGA, and democrats should be blasting this betrayal every singe chance they get. Remember during the pandemic the democrats in the house passed bills that could have helped trump, but they did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.
Biden can’t even find his way off a stage...stumbling and verbally mumbling like a demented human. I’m a board certified neurologist at 77 years old. You’re sounding between 18-30yrs something, poorly educated but strongly indoctrinated. You and your younger generation will have to live with what Biden is doing; I know my years are numbered but my kids and 11 grandchildren will suffer. Grow up. Use your brain not your emotions.
But Ukraine cannot wait until January 2025 for aid and bullets, more than a year late. Shit. Shit.
We have our own problems, and yes they are existential. But ours are not problems of bullets and literal lives on the line. Not like theirs. They have no refuge, no safe harbors. Ukraine literally has lives and bullets and its very destiny hanging in the balance.
A discharge petition? To convey aid to them? With that few needing to defect, is it possible in any way?
This makes me feel a little better…From Tom Watts on Post:
“The Ringtausch
I think I have this right.
Turkey ratified Sweden's Nato bid. Turkey then won the right to purchase F-16s.
Then arch-rival Greece received the go ahead to purchase F-35s. The next day they announced their willingness to send a bunch of their Soviet era weapons to Ukraine.
Then the US said they'd be willing to sell F-35s to Turkey if they donated their S-400 anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine. Turkey is mulling the deal.
Meanwhile Ecuador announced they would donate back to the US some American weapons in its inventory in return for new weapons at a date to be determined later. The first shipment of those weapons were picked up in Ecuador by a Ukrainian Antonov-124 cargo plane.
Russia has announced an embargo on Ecuadorean bananas.
The Germans call this a Ringtausch, a ring trade. Europeans have been doing this for months now. And there isn't a single thing Youth Pastor Mike can do about it”
Thank you for this excellent re-telling of the Post article. Not a bad exchange all around--although, I had to admit that I laughed at the bit about the Russian embargo on Ecuadorean bananas.
And if Ukraine falls, do we think Putin will stop there? Take his toys and go home? Nah, he will show up in a NATO country. Then all those Republican idiots who held back aid, will of course volunteer themselves and their off spring to defend democracy. /S
I believe change is coming. The repubs are not governing anymore, they’re acting like clowns and everyone sees it (no disrespect to clowns). The voters will speak loudly! As for tucker, they could use an opinionated rube over in Moscow. If he’s looking for fame, he’d fit in quite well, asking ALL the questions and not providing and answers.
We all must be involved to get voters registered and then to the polls.
And by voters, I mean those who will vote blue. I am now at the point where I think “Stupid people shouldn’t breathe, much less vote”. Yeah, it has come to this.
Sure, but it will not look like 1/6/21. That was a pathetic dry run. And some of us were on guard then too, but it is not at all clear that mattered much in the big picture.
Maybe visits to Orban and Putin need to be looked at under the lense of negative foreign influence on our Democracy? Just a thought. It's not like he could be showing them footage of the inside of our Capitol with the footage McCarthy gave when defecting.
I emotionally want to call *ucker carlson a traitor, but I don’t know the legalities of the crime of treason. Can someone with more understanding chime in?
I’m thinking on the lines of a private citizen traveling to meet with the head of state of an adversarial power. We have sanctioned pukin and his enablers due to invasion of another sovereign state. Carlson was so not a reporter that even faux news fired him, so press credentials do not fly for me. Is he a clear and present danger as a treadmill no good son of a ….?
I did thoughts and prayers this morning that maybe puttie wouldn't like that message where he said he loathed tfg and maybe try holding him for ransom or a prisoner swap where we could say 'nah, keep him, thanks' cuz we're polite. 🙏🗽💙
This one might hit closer to home and I did refer to her a a traitor in another post, per co conspirator guilty plea and what I saw with my own eyes (via live feed from someone who attended) pillow guys Cyber Symposium in '21.
"United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."
We are not currently at war with anyone, so treason is a difficult crime to commit at the moment. Insurrection - now there's a crime we actually have evidence for and indictments under way. There are people "serving" in the House who really ought to be in jeopardy of indictment and trial for that crime, as well.
I can't remember if it was here, in an earlier article that mentioned a government shut-down, or in one of Dr. Heather Cox Richardson's posts. A person who works in government explained that employees must actually start preparing for a shut-down a few WEEKS ahead of time. In fact, they've probably already begun those preparations, just in case. If a budget or CR is passed, then it will take about the same time to undo that preparation. Sooooo, they undergo WEEKS of unnecessary activities, and this is the 3rd time they'll have gone through this. Aren't Republicans supposed to be conservative when it comes to unnecessary spending?
I would only say that the impeachment effort against Biden is fading not because Comer is incompetent but because There is No There There. Just saying.
But it doesn’t help that Comer is one of the flat-out dumbest and most incompetent people in Congress next to Tubby. The two of them barely have 10 brain cells between them.
With T☭cker Carlson interviewing P☭tin in Moscow, if Carlson in any fashion becomes involved in Donald Tr☭mp's re-election campaign how is that not the collusion with the R☭ssian Federation and Vladimir P☭tin that Tr☭mp has so strenuously denied?
Jay, this comment isn't about this daily post, but about MA IN ALL CAPS. My partner got to our copy before I did and she LOVES it. She herself is an immigrant mother whose adult offspring roll their eyes frequently at Mom's foreignisms.
But it probably won't. Look back to the Obama administration. The House sent lots of bills to the Senate. Moscow Mitch just let them all pile up in his office and wouldn't bring for a vote. Same shit, different day.
Every bill should be a clean, stand alone bill. They are not because that would mean voters would be able to see how they're being jerked around by a bunch of jackasses. Frankly, I'm sick of paying our public SERVANTS to do nothing except whine, muddy the waters of progress, and cower in fear when Biff blathers.
Only the elected 'public servants' are that useless. The federal workers--those "bureacracy drones", the people who work every day to make sure the government runs as smoothly as possible are still doing their jobs to the best of their ability. Those who have been elected to 'serve the people' have clearly forgotten to whom they owe their allegiance and service. It's high time we remind them who is truly their employer. VOTE. BLUE.
the border bill not being brought to a vote in the House because of the fear it will pass is honestly all anyone needs to know about how the GOP is governing. All because someone who is no longer president doesn't want it. Of course their supporters will turn a blind eye but I'm hoping enough see it to make a difference in Nov. I know Nov is too late for funding that is needed but so many in this country need to wake up and understand WTF is really going on.
I am so sick of these tyrannical toddlers. Just. So. Tired.
I'm tired of the normalcy the major media outlets give them. They feed on the lunacy for ad dollars by treating them like they are perfectly normal politicians having just another day at the "House."
The major media outlets are owned by the people who benefit from chaos and division. Mainstream news is little more than deception and propaganda now.
Unfortunately, they still wield enormous influence, and sometimes they even produce the occasional useful investigative report. The New York Times is an example, to me, of a split personality. They'll crank out an excellent investigative piece, then produce headline after headline that normalizes a man found guilty of sexual assault and defamation in a civil court, with 20+ additional female accusers, along with all the other crap, including 91 felony indictments.
I agree on all counts, enormous influence. As a writer on climate change I subscribe to many resources, the NY Times one of them, because like it or not I have to. You're right, some great pieces, but also a lot of annoying, hypocritical crap. This in part is what has driven me and I suspect others to jump into the fray, researching and writing. We need to know the truth, and that can only be found by digging for the details and being unencumbered by sales and circulation numbers. Every serious independent writer needs paid it's not easy, but perhaps that's an indicator of integrity, to take the hard road.
THATS WHY SUBSTACK IS HERE!
Yeah, promoting nazis to raise the stackerboys' own income. That what you mean?
For me, the exhaustion comes from the hyper or uber everything about Donald Trump and his gang. Their hyper egos, hyper fear-mongering rhetoric, the hyper partisanship and the hyper false patriotism. They are betrayers of ideal the nation was built on.
MAGA!!!
You and me both!
same
Yup. And this will continue, as long as there are no consequences for them.
November is so far off that I fear what might happen across the world as we wait to vote. Then, there is no clear guarantee that these lemmings will be voted out of power. It is just a damn shame that some Republicans in the House who still might have a sense of decency within themselves would not stand up for what is right. They are cowards with a broken moral compass.
We need to use this time to grow enthusiasm and determination among our base.
I HATE to Say This:
If Johnson causes the Entire Government Down…It All But Guarantees A November Victory For Biden! And We The People have Allot to Overcome! The Low Turnout in last weeks Primary of BLACK VOTERS AND…GAZA! I’m not Pro Israel Nor Pro Palestine I AM ANTI BOMBING FENCED IN PEOPLE! I Resent My Federal Tax Dollars Helping Pay For The Bombs! And I KNOW I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE! 1,200 Deaths Minus 27,000 Deaths Is A Negative!
I mean, hello, Tuckems is in Moscow!
Unholy alliances are standing in broad daylight, and the sun's glare is not kind in its revelations.
How much and in how may ways do they have to say--Trump et al. are in Putin's pocket!
Vichy America.
A capitulation by Johnson to get a budget passed, or to kick the can down the road again with a continuing resolution will not save them come November. Ten more months of similar behavior in the House will simply magnify their gross mismanagement of the public trust and drive all but the MAGAts away from the Repuglican ticket. They might cave somehow and allow an aid package through but they won’t be able to run on it, having set themselves up as obstructionists. I’m as TIRED as anyone hearing about their juvenile behavior, but the longer it persists the more likely the voters will do what needs to be done. May God grant me the patience to survive the long wait for November...
Sadly, Ukraine may not have the time to wait.
That was part of my point above. November is far off and Ukraine needs help now.
Then sign up yourself or if you have sons of fighting age, head them down to the USMC recruitment depot.
The Pentagon should look under its couch cushions. There’s likely enough there to fund Ukraine for the foreseeable future.
agree; 50 billion from the EU can't hurt. Drones and robotics may allow them to squeek by for a while.
However, my understanding is that the 50 billion euro is not for military support but aid to support the Ukrainian economy.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/europe/eu-ukraine-funding-deal-intl/index.html
The MAGA cult member will never believe the fault lies with trump and his sycophant's in congress, and will always blame President Biden. However this has the potential to be a historic "own goal" for MAGA, and democrats should be blasting this betrayal every singe chance they get. Remember during the pandemic the democrats in the house passed bills that could have helped trump, but they did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.
Biden is a demented despicable corrupt creature.
Riiiight. Project much?
Biden can’t even find his way off a stage...stumbling and verbally mumbling like a demented human. I’m a board certified neurologist at 77 years old. You’re sounding between 18-30yrs something, poorly educated but strongly indoctrinated. You and your younger generation will have to live with what Biden is doing; I know my years are numbered but my kids and 11 grandchildren will suffer. Grow up. Use your brain not your emotions.
Wrong on all accounts! Care to try again?
MAGA!!!
Typical.
But Ukraine cannot wait until January 2025 for aid and bullets, more than a year late. Shit. Shit.
We have our own problems, and yes they are existential. But ours are not problems of bullets and literal lives on the line. Not like theirs. They have no refuge, no safe harbors. Ukraine literally has lives and bullets and its very destiny hanging in the balance.
A discharge petition? To convey aid to them? With that few needing to defect, is it possible in any way?
This makes me feel a little better…From Tom Watts on Post:
“The Ringtausch
I think I have this right.
Turkey ratified Sweden's Nato bid. Turkey then won the right to purchase F-16s.
Then arch-rival Greece received the go ahead to purchase F-35s. The next day they announced their willingness to send a bunch of their Soviet era weapons to Ukraine.
Then the US said they'd be willing to sell F-35s to Turkey if they donated their S-400 anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine. Turkey is mulling the deal.
Meanwhile Ecuador announced they would donate back to the US some American weapons in its inventory in return for new weapons at a date to be determined later. The first shipment of those weapons were picked up in Ecuador by a Ukrainian Antonov-124 cargo plane.
Russia has announced an embargo on Ecuadorean bananas.
The Germans call this a Ringtausch, a ring trade. Europeans have been doing this for months now. And there isn't a single thing Youth Pastor Mike can do about it”
Thank you for this excellent re-telling of the Post article. Not a bad exchange all around--although, I had to admit that I laughed at the bit about the Russian embargo on Ecuadorean bananas.
Thanks- it’s actually an exact quote from Tom Watts’ post on Post. ☺️
I beg your pardon...I no longer get the Post so I didn't realize--and didn't think to look for the quote marks. Sorry--my bad!
But still, that throwaway sentence about the Russian embargo on bananas...for some reason, it still makes me laugh.
No problem- just to be clear- I saw it on “Post” which is an on-line alternative to Twitter/X that is way less nasty, way more thoughtful than X.
Also love the banana embargo! 😁
And if Ukraine falls, do we think Putin will stop there? Take his toys and go home? Nah, he will show up in a NATO country. Then all those Republican idiots who held back aid, will of course volunteer themselves and their off spring to defend democracy. /S
😆🤣
I believe change is coming. The repubs are not governing anymore, they’re acting like clowns and everyone sees it (no disrespect to clowns). The voters will speak loudly! As for tucker, they could use an opinionated rube over in Moscow. If he’s looking for fame, he’d fit in quite well, asking ALL the questions and not providing and answers.
Heard a Poll today that preserving Democracy is replacing border problems as the most important concern for the election.
I really REALLY hope you are right. But I am still singed, even crispy after being burned in 2016...we were all SO sure.
Yep. We cannot take anything for granted!
We all must be involved to get voters registered and then to the polls.
And by voters, I mean those who will vote blue. I am now at the point where I think “Stupid people shouldn’t breathe, much less vote”. Yeah, it has come to this.
What happens if...when they lose but refuse to accept, crying that the election was stolen? Another Jan. 6?
Harder to pull off now that we’re on guard.
Sure, but it will not look like 1/6/21. That was a pathetic dry run. And some of us were on guard then too, but it is not at all clear that mattered much in the big picture.
MAGA!! Come November!!!
Maybe visits to Orban and Putin need to be looked at under the lense of negative foreign influence on our Democracy? Just a thought. It's not like he could be showing them footage of the inside of our Capitol with the footage McCarthy gave when defecting.
https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara/frequently-asked-questions
I emotionally want to call *ucker carlson a traitor, but I don’t know the legalities of the crime of treason. Can someone with more understanding chime in?
I believe SCOTUS is currently looking for a way to redefine this term and the self enforcing mechanisms of 14/3.
I’m thinking on the lines of a private citizen traveling to meet with the head of state of an adversarial power. We have sanctioned pukin and his enablers due to invasion of another sovereign state. Carlson was so not a reporter that even faux news fired him, so press credentials do not fly for me. Is he a clear and present danger as a treadmill no good son of a ….?
I did thoughts and prayers this morning that maybe puttie wouldn't like that message where he said he loathed tfg and maybe try holding him for ransom or a prisoner swap where we could say 'nah, keep him, thanks' cuz we're polite. 🙏🗽💙
This one might hit closer to home and I did refer to her a a traitor in another post, per co conspirator guilty plea and what I saw with my own eyes (via live feed from someone who attended) pillow guys Cyber Symposium in '21.
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2024/02/former-colo-clerk-tina-peters-says-fellow-republicans-basically-framed-me/59486/
"United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."
We are not currently at war with anyone, so treason is a difficult crime to commit at the moment. Insurrection - now there's a crime we actually have evidence for and indictments under way. There are people "serving" in the House who really ought to be in jeopardy of indictment and trial for that crime, as well.
I can't remember if it was here, in an earlier article that mentioned a government shut-down, or in one of Dr. Heather Cox Richardson's posts. A person who works in government explained that employees must actually start preparing for a shut-down a few WEEKS ahead of time. In fact, they've probably already begun those preparations, just in case. If a budget or CR is passed, then it will take about the same time to undo that preparation. Sooooo, they undergo WEEKS of unnecessary activities, and this is the 3rd time they'll have gone through this. Aren't Republicans supposed to be conservative when it comes to unnecessary spending?
They've dropped all pretenses of being conservative. They traded those creds in for "pro-Putinism" and obstructionism.
GREAT point.
McCarthy couldn’t control his conference. Johnson can’t control the same conference. There are no competent babysitters in the GOP.
I would only say that the impeachment effort against Biden is fading not because Comer is incompetent but because There is No There There. Just saying.
But it doesn’t help that Comer is one of the flat-out dumbest and most incompetent people in Congress next to Tubby. The two of them barely have 10 brain cells between them.
There are so many of them that are flat out idiots! They all are bottom of their class!
I think you are being generous about the number of shared braincells between Comer and Tuberville.
I try to be kind when I can. 🤣
You are a much better person than I!
Not really, but thank you for thinking that. 😁
With T☭cker Carlson interviewing P☭tin in Moscow, if Carlson in any fashion becomes involved in Donald Tr☭mp's re-election campaign how is that not the collusion with the R☭ssian Federation and Vladimir P☭tin that Tr☭mp has so strenuously denied?
Love the use of the hammer & sickle!
Jay, this comment isn't about this daily post, but about MA IN ALL CAPS. My partner got to our copy before I did and she LOVES it. She herself is an immigrant mother whose adult offspring roll their eyes frequently at Mom's foreignisms.
Thank her for reading!
It ticks me off royally that a handful of idiots can prevent a bill from coming to a vote. That needs to be changed.
But it probably won't. Look back to the Obama administration. The House sent lots of bills to the Senate. Moscow Mitch just let them all pile up in his office and wouldn't bring for a vote. Same shit, different day.
The Constipation Party.
Oh good one!
Let’s collaborate?
Every bill should be a clean, stand alone bill. They are not because that would mean voters would be able to see how they're being jerked around by a bunch of jackasses. Frankly, I'm sick of paying our public SERVANTS to do nothing except whine, muddy the waters of progress, and cower in fear when Biff blathers.
Only the elected 'public servants' are that useless. The federal workers--those "bureacracy drones", the people who work every day to make sure the government runs as smoothly as possible are still doing their jobs to the best of their ability. Those who have been elected to 'serve the people' have clearly forgotten to whom they owe their allegiance and service. It's high time we remind them who is truly their employer. VOTE. BLUE.
the border bill not being brought to a vote in the House because of the fear it will pass is honestly all anyone needs to know about how the GOP is governing. All because someone who is no longer president doesn't want it. Of course their supporters will turn a blind eye but I'm hoping enough see it to make a difference in Nov. I know Nov is too late for funding that is needed but so many in this country need to wake up and understand WTF is really going on.