I Guess it's Time to Discuss January 6th

[Chuck Naill]

Did the rest of you get the news that Trump stages fund raisers where a winner gets to have supper with him, yet nobody won. In classic Trumpian fashion, they blamed it on the winner.

[Chuck Naill]

For many of the same reasons Trump bothers me, Elon Musk is reminder that some people, through hook and crook, can become too much of a problem. Nothing wrong with being smart, speaking of Musk, but couple that with being self serving, thinking to highly of yourself, and willing to do anything to win, can result in harm.

[TSherbs]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene testifies Friday, under oath, before a judge, about her role in the January 6, 2020, attack on the Capitol building. First member of Congress to have to do so.

About time. And about four others to go....

[Chuck Naill]

Any opinion on how her testimony will pan out?

[TSherbs]

No idea. We'll see.

[TSherbs]

Well, now we know: a rope-a-dope of "I-don't-remember"s after she was caught in a lie.

[TSherbs]

McCarthy is a big liar, too.

[Chuck Naill]

"We admire Zelensky because he reminds us of how rare these traits have become among our own politicians. Zelensky was an actor who used his celebrity to become a statesman. Western politics is overrun by people who playact as statesmen so that they may ultimately become celebrities. "
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/o...-zelensky.html

[Chuck Naill]

DeSantis’ war with Disney and restructuring voting districts might be politically retribution.

[Chip]

DeSantis’ war with Disney and restructuring voting districts might be political retribution.

Might be? De Santis is a vicious thug. But there's no way he can win this round.

[Chuck Naill]

DeSantis’ war with Disney and restructuring voting districts might be political retribution.

Might be? De Santis is a vicious thug. But there's no way he can win this round.

👍👍 you have a good point

[dneal]

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[Chuck Naill]

This point is for those folks to pay taxes.

[dneal]

Cool. Now they will. No more special exemptions for woke corporations that want first-graders to learn about sexual orientation.

[Chuck Naill]

First graders will learn it regardless. People don't become homosexuals because someone said "gay".

If we could convince the non-wokes to wake up to history, we'd be able to move along and solve some problems.

What concerns me more is that a minority (Republicans) wants to rule and tell others what they can read and think.

[dneal]

What concerns me more is that a minority (Republicans) wants to rule and tell others what they can read and think.

Correct, except for who the culprit is.

[Chuck Naill]

Who do you think the culprit is?

[Chuck Naill]

Like Putin, Republicans are busy saying the liberal left are out to destroy democracy while they themselves are the ones doing it in plain site.

The problem is an uninformed base who continue to vote for these insurrectionists. At least some of those standing trial now see they were used. Some have said they thought Trump told them to. Trump should have been convicted and barred from every holding public office again, but the Republicans lacked a moral sense.

Some like you probably know better, but it suits your agenda to appear you care about children and have fashionably become against gays and trans people. Putin is doing the same .

[Chuck Naill]

Also, like Putin, in the US there is a mythical past that children have been taught.

So, which is worse, saying “gay” or lying about the Alamo?

[Chuck Naill]

“The new word “рашизм” is a useful conceptualization of Putin’s worldview. Far more than Western analysts, Ukrainians have noticed the Russian tilt toward fascism in the last decade. Undistracted by Putin’s operational deployment of genocide talk, they have seen fascist practices in Russia: the cults of the leader and of the dead, the corporatist state, the mythical past, the censorship, the conspiracy theories, the centralized propaganda and now the war of destruction. Even as we rightly debate how applicable the term is to Western figures and parties, we have tended to overlook the central example of fascism’s revival, which is the Putin regime in the Russian Federation.”

Timothy Snyder