There is no mystery to why the Republicans are pulling out their “performative outrage” to go after President Biden. For Donald Trump - the author of this move - impeachment is an existential necessity. He not only needs to put impeachment to use as a weapon of mass distraction, but also as the authoritarian’s instrument of moral flattening.
With all this new impeachment blather, I keep thinking of the Texas put down of “All hat, no cattle”. Makes me want to call the current GOP “All smoke, no fire”!
Mike Garcia said there's smoke, so we should see if there's a fire. There is NO smoke. There are just a bunch of lying Republican politicians SAYING there's smoke. Sort of like a burglar when confronted by the homeowner says, "OMG! There's a fire in your kitchen." Then he runs out the front door.
The Atlantic has an excerpt from a forthcoming biography of Rmoney in which author McKay Coppins shows his intentions of taking him up on a cloud. But the fun parts are when Rmoney tells of comments from #MassMurderingMoscowMitch, whose spokespeople then deny he said those things.
The Washington Post story on Rmoney's decision not to lose a reelection bid should be read to understand that he clearly has been one of the sources for Dan Balz of The Post, and thus is treated with kid gloves.
He ran what was then the most dishonest presidential campaign ever in 2012, with a total fraud named Paul Ryan--or as Charlie Pierce called him, the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver (and who calls Rmoney during the impeachment trial to urge him to vote to acquit)--and didn't even prepare a concession speech because he couldn't conceive of losing to the Black guy whom republicans did not defend against charges that he was born in Kenya. If Rmoney had had an ounce of principle, he would have left the republican party. He didn't have even that, meaning he fits the Harry Truman description perfectly.
Yes, he had the record for most lies in a presidential campaign until the Master of Lies came along the next time. And that "47% speech" the bartender recorded.
And then there was the "pro-Vietnam War" rallies he organized in college, only to take his deferment on graduation as a Moron, er, I mean Mormon, "missionary" in France, where he converted no one, since the French aren't stupid. Another typical service-avoiding Republican "patriot" right down there with Dick "I had other priorities" Cheney.
for me, if I want to loathe Romney, all I have to do is think about him driving cross-country (or wherever he was driving to...it doesn't matter at all) with his Golden Retriever strapped to the roof of the car.
this makes him cruel beyond redemption (doing the thing) and stupid beyond description (talking about it).
I had to hang up on a telephone town hall today from my GOP Rep. It was just a "greatest hits" replay of GOP talking points. The economy, domestic fossil fuel support, parental rights... so I hung up. After hanging on the line for awhile to ask a question. Im probably on the do not answer list. Gotta admit they're all on message. Time for us to start bullet point messaging. Bodily autonomy, protect and improve the social safety net, clean energy, AND A CLEAR IMMIGRATION POLICY. Forget the bright shiny objects. Forget ideology. That stuff goes over heads. Sadly.
Same here. The difference is that Mitt's father, a good governor, grew up poor and made something of himself, only to rear an economically and religiously entitled Mitt. George understood American Motors relationship with the UAW, which allowed him a sweep of mind that made him a good governor. Mitt? Less so.
it is certainly looking like the "new normal" isn't just gonna be disputing every lost election for every office, but an impeachment during every presidential term.
not only does this poison our elections as an institution, it destroys the impeachment hand grenade that managed to keep its pin in place from 1868 to 1996 (or was it the year before?). once again, we have Newt Gingrich to thank for this. and I'm willing to bet Newt had more than his share of being on the receiving end of an illicit blowjob or two.
TFF was impeached for valid reasons, twice.
an hour ago, I watched Ari Melber's interview with Gaetz. oy vey. so there's a Very Important Document, but Chip Roy has the only copy? the only thing Gaetz said that was in any way appropriate was the time he spent excoriating McCarthy. jeez...when those scumbags turn on each other, it's time to put in a huge order for that painful rabies serum.
once again, if I was editing the novel, I'd tell my author to turn the heat down a little...save the real juice for the denouement...
That interview was revelatory, imo. Gaetz was so full of himself and so confident that he could match Ari (hah, that'll be the day) he unwittingly gave MSNBC enough footage to expose not only his ignorance and the nasty infighting, but some of the plotting underway. Gaetz and Greene together make a pair of the ugliest lower primates sitting in Congress. Maybe someday they'll share a cage together.
It appears to me that all these people do, night and day, is plot and develop talking points and then posture before cameras. They are simply on the dole to taxpayers for being traitors to democracy. The talk of "smoke" reminds me of their usual strategy: make a lot of noise about nothing, then say, "but, but, but there's so much NOISE, there MUST be a reason for it." Sure. Create the storm, point the finger, and announce, "look there's a storm." I'm not sure most Americans with half a brain (and that would exclude the MAGAts and the GOP Fascists) can be fooled again and again.
As far as following der fuhrer's constant orders, my guess is they are all jockeying for positions in 2024, if not for VP (Stefanik, Noems, Haley, Greene, Lake, etc.), then for other power positions (see Gaetz and his aspirations to be AG.) The rest of them are afraid - of being primaried, doxxed, or targeted by armed and ignorant middle aged white men and their ignorant sidekicks.
The whole GOP is totally in thrall to Trump----and they are winning the messaging war---we will hear constantly "we are looking...." and that enough for the lame MSM to keep "impeachment' on the front page. All they have to say, it looks suspicious, or smoke means there is fire---without defining the "smoke"....... The whole project of America is in more and more danger every day. Lies, repeated often enough, become "accepted truth", alas. Where is a Democrat Party vision and voice??? It will soon be too late to get traction in the media. I'll keep writing postcards and looking for other opportunities, but.........
When your party has nothing for most Americans, no solutions to its problems, no bread, give them circuses. It keeps folks dazed and confused and thereby no threat to the oligarchs.
The GOP is the moat filled with crocodiles protecting the wealthy.
by the way, to change the subject slightly, I've been reading Naomi Klein's just-released-yesterday book about being confused with Naomi Wolf ("Doppelganger"), and it's really a page-turner. everybody here needs to grab a copy and devour it. really pungent (with plenty of literary analysis for people like me), and beautifully written...it's got a lot going for it.
Recently I realized that humans are the worst species to ever inhabit Earth; destructive, cruelly sadistic, short-sighted despite “intelligence” and unable to learn from mistakes. But there are very fire individuals among us, and I am very happy to call them family, friends and acquaintances.
"The more I see of the Republican representatives of the people, the more I like cockroaches." With apologies to Alphonse de Lamartine.
I'm pretty sure Lamartine would tell you that no apologies were necessary.
With all this new impeachment blather, I keep thinking of the Texas put down of “All hat, no cattle”. Makes me want to call the current GOP “All smoke, no fire”!
Excellent!
Mike Garcia said there's smoke, so we should see if there's a fire. There is NO smoke. There are just a bunch of lying Republican politicians SAYING there's smoke. Sort of like a burglar when confronted by the homeowner says, "OMG! There's a fire in your kitchen." Then he runs out the front door.
The Atlantic has an excerpt from a forthcoming biography of Rmoney in which author McKay Coppins shows his intentions of taking him up on a cloud. But the fun parts are when Rmoney tells of comments from #MassMurderingMoscowMitch, whose spokespeople then deny he said those things.
The Washington Post story on Rmoney's decision not to lose a reelection bid should be read to understand that he clearly has been one of the sources for Dan Balz of The Post, and thus is treated with kid gloves.
He ran what was then the most dishonest presidential campaign ever in 2012, with a total fraud named Paul Ryan--or as Charlie Pierce called him, the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver (and who calls Rmoney during the impeachment trial to urge him to vote to acquit)--and didn't even prepare a concession speech because he couldn't conceive of losing to the Black guy whom republicans did not defend against charges that he was born in Kenya. If Rmoney had had an ounce of principle, he would have left the republican party. He didn't have even that, meaning he fits the Harry Truman description perfectly.
Yes, he had the record for most lies in a presidential campaign until the Master of Lies came along the next time. And that "47% speech" the bartender recorded.
And then there was the "pro-Vietnam War" rallies he organized in college, only to take his deferment on graduation as a Moron, er, I mean Mormon, "missionary" in France, where he converted no one, since the French aren't stupid. Another typical service-avoiding Republican "patriot" right down there with Dick "I had other priorities" Cheney.
for me, if I want to loathe Romney, all I have to do is think about him driving cross-country (or wherever he was driving to...it doesn't matter at all) with his Golden Retriever strapped to the roof of the car.
this makes him cruel beyond redemption (doing the thing) and stupid beyond description (talking about it).
Yes! As my father used to say, you understand that religion and its believers by removing the second "m."
I had to hang up on a telephone town hall today from my GOP Rep. It was just a "greatest hits" replay of GOP talking points. The economy, domestic fossil fuel support, parental rights... so I hung up. After hanging on the line for awhile to ask a question. Im probably on the do not answer list. Gotta admit they're all on message. Time for us to start bullet point messaging. Bodily autonomy, protect and improve the social safety net, clean energy, AND A CLEAR IMMIGRATION POLICY. Forget the bright shiny objects. Forget ideology. That stuff goes over heads. Sadly.
"Rmoney" exactly. Thank you, Michael. (And I am a Michigander who liked George).
Same here. The difference is that Mitt's father, a good governor, grew up poor and made something of himself, only to rear an economically and religiously entitled Mitt. George understood American Motors relationship with the UAW, which allowed him a sweep of mind that made him a good governor. Mitt? Less so.
I just hope enough people are sick of this garbage to shut it down at the polls. We sure are.
it is certainly looking like the "new normal" isn't just gonna be disputing every lost election for every office, but an impeachment during every presidential term.
not only does this poison our elections as an institution, it destroys the impeachment hand grenade that managed to keep its pin in place from 1868 to 1996 (or was it the year before?). once again, we have Newt Gingrich to thank for this. and I'm willing to bet Newt had more than his share of being on the receiving end of an illicit blowjob or two.
TFF was impeached for valid reasons, twice.
an hour ago, I watched Ari Melber's interview with Gaetz. oy vey. so there's a Very Important Document, but Chip Roy has the only copy? the only thing Gaetz said that was in any way appropriate was the time he spent excoriating McCarthy. jeez...when those scumbags turn on each other, it's time to put in a huge order for that painful rabies serum.
once again, if I was editing the novel, I'd tell my author to turn the heat down a little...save the real juice for the denouement...
Hell, Newtie started his affair with Wifey-to-be #3 while he was leading the campaign against Clinton. And she was one of his staffers.
I remember that. what a prick.
You can take the boy out of the trailer park, but it is hard to take the trailer park out of the boy.
That interview was revelatory, imo. Gaetz was so full of himself and so confident that he could match Ari (hah, that'll be the day) he unwittingly gave MSNBC enough footage to expose not only his ignorance and the nasty infighting, but some of the plotting underway. Gaetz and Greene together make a pair of the ugliest lower primates sitting in Congress. Maybe someday they'll share a cage together.
SPOT ON.
It appears to me that all these people do, night and day, is plot and develop talking points and then posture before cameras. They are simply on the dole to taxpayers for being traitors to democracy. The talk of "smoke" reminds me of their usual strategy: make a lot of noise about nothing, then say, "but, but, but there's so much NOISE, there MUST be a reason for it." Sure. Create the storm, point the finger, and announce, "look there's a storm." I'm not sure most Americans with half a brain (and that would exclude the MAGAts and the GOP Fascists) can be fooled again and again.
As far as following der fuhrer's constant orders, my guess is they are all jockeying for positions in 2024, if not for VP (Stefanik, Noems, Haley, Greene, Lake, etc.), then for other power positions (see Gaetz and his aspirations to be AG.) The rest of them are afraid - of being primaried, doxxed, or targeted by armed and ignorant middle aged white men and their ignorant sidekicks.
Sorry for the rant. It's one of those days.
● VOTE BLUE
● Don't believe half of what you read in MSM, including AP.
● Make a Fweedumb Caucus
Member list and re-election date. VOTE or DONATE to kick them out.
● VOTE BLUE
The whole GOP is totally in thrall to Trump----and they are winning the messaging war---we will hear constantly "we are looking...." and that enough for the lame MSM to keep "impeachment' on the front page. All they have to say, it looks suspicious, or smoke means there is fire---without defining the "smoke"....... The whole project of America is in more and more danger every day. Lies, repeated often enough, become "accepted truth", alas. Where is a Democrat Party vision and voice??? It will soon be too late to get traction in the media. I'll keep writing postcards and looking for other opportunities, but.........
When your party has nothing for most Americans, no solutions to its problems, no bread, give them circuses. It keeps folks dazed and confused and thereby no threat to the oligarchs.
The GOP is the moat filled with crocodiles protecting the wealthy.
by the way, to change the subject slightly, I've been reading Naomi Klein's just-released-yesterday book about being confused with Naomi Wolf ("Doppelganger"), and it's really a page-turner. everybody here needs to grab a copy and devour it. really pungent (with plenty of literary analysis for people like me), and beautifully written...it's got a lot going for it.
Good to know. What a PITA - being mistaken for such a whoopass.
Recently I realized that humans are the worst species to ever inhabit Earth; destructive, cruelly sadistic, short-sighted despite “intelligence” and unable to learn from mistakes. But there are very fire individuals among us, and I am very happy to call them family, friends and acquaintances.
Continuity.