"Hunter Bid..." BOO! SHUT UP!! "Stolen elec..." BOO! SHUT UP!! "Beach Walk..." BOO! SHUT UP!!

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Wednesday October 25, 2023 · 1:16 PM PDT

2023/10/25 · 13:16

Don't blame me, it was in the image library.

So according to the GOP, it’s apparently acceptable to just shout down inconvenient questions that you don’t want to answer?

The next time a Republican asks a stupid, misleading question about a topic that has already been debunked a dozen times before, Democrats should treat it with exactly the same contempt that we see coming from Republicans. Then, when they hypocritically whine about it, use that to swing the focus back to where it belongs: on whether or not Speaker Johnson is an insurrectionist.

GOPenstein’s Monster advances on its creator

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Tuesday August 15, 2023 · 9:39 AM PDT

2023/08/15 · 09:39

After watching the GOP spend decades pushing punitive, excessively harsh, and defendant-hostile policies that make life a living hell for anyone who has a run-in with the law (and making a mockery of the principle of being presumed innocent until found guilty in court), it is just so overwhelmingly schadenfreudelicious to see Trump and 18 of his cronies getting a taste of their own medicine.

In Georgia, the presumption is against releasing defendants on bail unless the DEFENDANT can prove that they pose NO RISK of witness tampering or further criminality. That “no risk” is the standard in the law — the burden is on the accused to show they deserve pretrial release, and given Trump’s long well-documented history of actual witness tampering and threats of violence against anyone and everyone who stands against him (including the judge, prosecutor and witnesses in this very case), he is in very serious danger of being held in jail until trial. On top of that, Georgia has virtually done away with pardons. The governor has no pardon power at all, and they can only be issued after at least part of a prison term has been served.

Of course, these laws were enacted with the intention of using them to abuse people who were poor and brown-skinned. I’m sure that much of the outrage that the Republican talking heads are spewing is because they cannot believe these laws are actually being — GASP! — applied to rich white people too. But their hypocrisy just makes their comeuppance all the more intensely satisfying. As the meme goes, “`I never thought the leopards would eat MY face’, sobbed the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”

I’ll conclude this diary with the video for a song that is really appropriate here on several levels. Not just the literal words of the lyrics, but also the subtext. Rob Halford has said that the song was really about gay men like him having to worry about running afoul of sodomy laws.

And that makes it extra spicy here, because Donald Trump is completely fucked.

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Breaking: Judge "finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct"

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Monday March 28, 2022 · 9:19 AM PDT

2022/03/28 · 09:19

Just reported at Talking Points Memo: A Federal judge just ruled that Eastman must surrender 101 out of 111 messages he was trying to shield behind attorney-client privilege to the J6 Committee. And to quote the decision:

“Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” U.S. District Judge David Carter for the Central District of California wrote.

Why are Dems not demanding Trump resign immediately??????

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Saturday February 29, 2020 · 8:26 AM PST

2020/02/29 · 08:26

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Trump is calling COVID-19 a hoax. This is clearly insane! He is obviously so mentally defective he cannot face reality, never mind be POTUS. His ineptitude could lead to the deaths of MILLIONS OF AMERICANS if this disease is not treated with the deadly seriousness it deserves! Why the FUCKING HELL is EVERY ELECTED DEMOCRAT not demanding this incompetent corrupt blithering MORON get the FUCK out of the Oval Office right now?!?!?!?!?

NC-09: GOPer's campaign collected ballots from black voters... and changed their votes from D to R

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Saturday December 01, 2018 · 9:14 PM PST

2018/12/01 · 21:14

Searched for a diary on this and couldn’t find anything… It appears that the reason the election board in North Carolina’s 9th District that voted 9-0 to not certify the Republican Mark Harris’ 905-vote victory, is starting to come out.

#NC09 GOP candidate @MarkHarrisNC9Ã¢ÂÂs campaign appears to have sent people door to door in rural Robeson & Bladen Counties to steal absentee ballots from elderly black voters and complete them for Harris. There were 1300+ such ballots in those counties in a race Harris won by 905. pic.twitter.com/ufJ5vP3TZ2
Ã¢ÂÂ Jeff Yang (@originalspin) December 1, 2018

The Republican won by 905 votes… and apparently over 1300 ballots were stolen and modified, with possibly many more Democratic ballots just thrown away.

Given that they gave Crystal Mason a five year sentence just for trying to vote with a felony record, any GOP operative who was stupid enough to participate in this scheme deserves to be in prison for the rest of their lives.

The networks that called the bombings a "false flag" must pay

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Friday October 26, 2018 · 10:35 AM PDT

2018/10/26 · 10:35

One of the most enraging things over the last week were these lying sacks of crap on TV that claimed the bombings MUST have been a false flag operation by the Democrats to make Republicans look bad.

We need to organize a campaign to contact these networks, and demand that these TV personalities must present the evidence they based that assertion on, or be terminated.

We should also contact all the advertisers on these shows and ask them how they like being associated with some liar spreading this BLOOD LIBEL against more than half of their customers.

Super callous fragile ego extra braggadocious!

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Wednesday September 28, 2016 · 8:24 PM PDT

2016/09/28 · 20:24

Randy Rainbow, who did a whole series of parody song videos called “GOP Dropout” (to the tune of “Beauty school dropout” from the musical Grease) each time a GOP candidate was knocked out of the primary, has put Monday’s debate to music. I think he really knocked it out of the park with this one.

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(I searched to see if this was already posted, didn’t see any diaries anywhere with it… if someone beat me to posting this, I’ll edit to provide a link!)

Donald Trump, Manchurian Candidate?

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Tuesday July 26, 2016 · 12:46 PM PDT

2016/07/26 · 12:46

The Republicans have repeatedly accused President Obama of being a Manchurian President, a double agent secretly in the employ of foreign entities, and working to harm America from within.

They’ve accused him over and over and over and over and over again, on the basis of nothing but easily-debunked evidence.

So now, the hot news story of the day is that Donald Trump may in debt to Russian oligarchs connected to Putin, in the amount of millions — potentially HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS — of dollars. He has surrounded himself with advisors who have worked for Putin-leaning strongmen, he has indicated he would pull out of NATO, he has praised Putin himself, he has massive personal business holdings in Russia and Eastern Europe, his campaign specifically altered the GOP platform to no longer support Ukraine…

Wouldn’t this mean that Trump is quite possibly an actual Manchurian Candidate, a candidate being supported by foreign powers who want to see harm come to America?

I know this is speculation — and outrageous speculation at that — but given that the Republicans have repeatedly gone after our president on far flimsier pretexts, I feel this should be totally fair game. Plus, all of this speculation could be ended in a moment by Trump, if he would just release his tax returns and we could see that he’s not actually in Vlad’s pocket.

But until he does release those returns, the prudent and sensible thing to do is keep asking at every opportunity: is Donald Trump an actual Manchurian Candidate?

Edited to add: about a minute before I hit publish, user jaaneezutto published the same idea in their own diary.

Green Eggs and O-ham-acare

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Tuesday September 24, 2013 · 7:54 PM PDT

2013/09/24 · 19:54

From Talking Points Memo:

Cruz began by reading Bible passages from "King Solomon's Wise Words," and then compared the Affordable Care Act to the beloved Dr. Seuss story "Green Eggs and Ham," which he read enthusiastically and in full.
"'Green Eggs and Ham' has some applicability, as curious as it may sound, to the Obamcare debate," Cruz said after he finished, to a few audible chuckles from the Senate gallery.

Americans "did not like green eggs and ham, and they did not like Obamacare either," he added. "They did not like Obamacare in a box, with a fox, in a house, with a mouse."

Sometimes, it takes someone as abysmally stupid as Ted Cruz to say something so amazingly, profoundly, inadvertently... true. Wait, what?

Think about what the moral of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham would be.

Isn't it: How do you know you don't like it if you haven't even tried it?

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Friday September 21, 2012 · 10:12 AM PDT

2012/09/21 · 10:12

There are a couple recent diaries about how Gov. Romney's been lying about his fundraising and has started doling out HUGE bonuses to staff.

Are we starting to see signs that Gov. Romney's campaign was a Bain-style cash grabbing bust-out all along?

(Follow below the Fleur du Kos for more)

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Monday August 06, 2012 · 6:22 AM PDT

2012/08/06 · 06:22

(Anaheim, CA) In a move designed to spin the weekend landing of the Curiosity rover to his advantage, GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney announced his support for the Curiosity Mars Rover project, claiming it was another example of the triumph of private industry that America is still experiencing in spite of President Obama's leadership of the country.

(continued under the Orange Martian Dust Cloud)

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Tuesday July 10, 2012 · 9:06 PM PDT

2012/07/10 · 21:06

Remember, you cannot spell "Willard" without "L-I-A-R".

After reading the latest news report showing conclusively that Mitt Romney lied about leaving Bain, I made a parody of "The Pope Song" by Tim Minchin about the GOP candidate. If you're at all familiar with that song, the following warning should come as no surprise:

WARNING: The lyrics below the Orange Kösbius Strip are filled with VERY NAUGHTY LANGUAGE and should not be read by ANYONE EVER.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

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"Hunter Bid..." BOO! SHUT UP!! "Stolen elec..." BOO! SHUT UP!! "Beach Walk..." BOO! SHUT UP!!

GOPenstein’s Monster advances on its creator

Breaking: Judge "finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct"

Why are Dems not demanding Trump resign immediately??????

NC-09: GOPer's campaign collected ballots from black voters... and changed their votes from D to R

The networks that called the bombings a "false flag" must pay

Super callous fragile ego extra braggadocious!

Donald Trump, Manchurian Candidate?

Green Eggs and O-ham-acare

Vendors servicing the Romney campaign, beware!

Romney extends "You Didnt Build That" attack to Curiosity rover

The Mitt Song (WARNING: VERY NAUGHTY WORDS)