"Ms. Powell told a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the 2020 election was "essentially a bloodless coup where they took over the presidency of the United States without a single shot being fired."

Always accuse your opposition of doint exactly the things you are actually doing yourself.

#5 | Posted by danni at 2021-09-22 05:23 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Sidney Powell continues to promote complete BS, asserting on some right wing program just this week that the Democrats not only stole the election, but that they've committed at least two murders to cover up their crime. She knows it's not true, but she keeps saying it, and apparently that's good enough to make her a star among the right-wing nut jobs who control the GOP.

I respect taking the high road, most of the time. But honest to God, the Former Guy needs to be held accountable. An absolute scuz who deserves not a shred of mercy.

I'm, going to take off my cynic hat for a minute and say thank goodness.

Thank goodness at least some members of the Republican Party are starting to see how unhealthy it is to be in a party dominated by shmucks. How can you look in the mirror if you have to carry water and/or work alongside such horrifically unqualified, hateful wackos as Trump, Boebert, Greene, Gosar, Paul, Cruz, McCarthy, Gohmert, Kennedy, and on and on? I'll never claim the Democrats are perfect, but they're better than today's GOP, which has some of the ugliest personalities I've ever seen on a national stage.

I don't know how long this purge goes on before the Republican Party simply folds up its ever-smaller tent.

What would we do without cartoons?

Before this is over I have a feeling we're going to get "big story fatigue" on the long road to uncovering the full breadth and depth of this saga. In fact, I've already run out of adjectives to describe my disgust ~ and to think ~ it's only just beginning.

I truly believe the real sh** hasn't even hit the fan yet.
#11 | POSTED BY TWINPAC AT 2021-09-21 10:11 PM | FLAG:

I think you're right. We just keep turning over rocks and finding more snakes.

This should be a bigger story. This is clear evidence of a coup attempt, cloaked in a shiny but disingenuous veneer of legal argument.

And it's not finished. The right wing media, the former guy and the Repub ratf**ks in Congress continue to gaslight the American public as they work to undo the will of the people. The failed effort to recall Gavin Newsom, and the inevitable, even proactive claims of fraud, shows they're still at it.

We were told repeatedly that there were no shady ties between Trump and Russia and that we should stop harping on the matter.

It's pretty clear that those suspicions were well-founded.

In fact that's where this whole "sew doubt in the experts" strategy came from. Oil companies realized the experts were saying their products were roasting their planet, so their strategy was to attack the experts and make it partisan. And it worked. The republican party took their side, spread their lies, attacked the experts, delayed climate action a few decades, and raised the temperature of the earth another few degrees.

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2021-09-20 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yep. It's the old attack-the-messenger trick. Same thing they do with the media.

If you constantly tear down the people and organizations who collect information and impart facts for a living, then eventually nothing the world once accepted as truth is a given anymore. Soon the space once occupied by truth is empty, and lies quickly fill the void. That's why the right wing propaganda machine (Rupert Murdoch et al) spins its conspiracy tales so relentlessly. The facts don't even matter once you've convinced your followers that the sources are tainted.

I hear ya, Lamp. It's been a long-ass time since I made beer. Brown ales, mostly. They're relatively easy, and the result was dependably good.

Oh no, 2016 all over again where the left claimed they lost because of the Russians.

#1 | Posted by fishpaw at 2021-09-20 12:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

Tell us about losing. Your experience is more current. How does it FEEL?

Does it make you want to cheat some more? Call in the Russkies again? Refuse the vaccines? Buy some pillows?

That sounds good. I love their lager.

"We've discovered that when we lie and cheat, it actually helps us with the party faithful. Pass it on!"
- Trumpists

Dogfish Head 120 minute IPA is a hell of a lot cheaper and finishes out in the 15-20% range.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2021-09-20 10:57 AM | Reply | Flag:

Everything Dogfish Head makes is worth drinking. Some of it is pretty weird, but it's all interesting.

Sam Adams is decent beer. I like their Oktoberfest. But this stuff, I don't know. Any beer that costs $240 can kiss my Aass*. Sounds like a gimmick.

(*Aass is a fine Norwegian beer.)

Ross Douthat is a weird dude. Who writes a paragraph like this?

"And as terrible as it is that one in 500 Americans has died of Covid, it's still much easier to have gone through the pandemic without having a close friend or family member die of it " as I have not, for instance " than it would be were the toll one in 50."

Apparently the geniuses in number 12 and number 13 believe we should simply stop trying to prevent pandemics.

No sugarcoating this one. That's just awful.

Idaho has long been a popular destination for survivalist wackos, and I have to believe a 3-way Venn diagram of this cohort, Trumpists and anti-vaxxers is mighty close to concentric circles.

#6 | POSTED BY BBQ AT 2021-09-16 02:06 AM | FLAG:

Good post. You've laid out the problem as succinctly as I've seen it explained anywhere.

This is great. My ex probably would have recognized it. An art freak with an art history degree, and Italian to boot. She knew her stuff. I liked that about her.

A friend, who called COVID a "hoax to bring down Trump" and wouldn't wear a mask got COVID and died after 5 weeks on a ventilator. His wife just sold their house to pay bills.

#8 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY AT 2021-09-15 02:11 PM | FLAG:

Damn. Wonder if he had any regrets toward the end.

Don't forget, Tucker Carlson literally admitted over the weekend that he sometimes lies when he's on the air. Would a real journalist admit that part of his shtick is to be dishonest?

Here in Kentucky the National Guard was called in yesterday to help staff overburdened hospitals deal with unprecedented conditions resulting from a massive spike in Covid patients, most of whom are unvaccinated.

But the Republican-led legislature continues its pro-pandemic stance by battling any attempts by the Democratic governor to enforce masks and vaccines. And the Trumpist sheep flood social media claiming there is no surge, the vaccines are unproven, the governor is a tyrant, the whole thing is a hoax, etc.

The current crop of Republicans seems determined to prove they are gullible at best, or more likely, willfully ignorant of the facts. History will not look kindly on their break from reality.

#43 | POSTED BY SKEPTICAL AT 2021-09-13 08:37 PM | FLAG:

Your response is boring and stupid. Just take the vaccine and shut up so we don't all die.

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