Thanks "Kristen".

Kyrsten Sinema
@SenatorSinema

Yes! Our Chips and Science law restore’s America’s – and Arizona’s – leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of strong Arizona careers, strengthening national security, and lowering costs. Proud to deliver this win for AZ.

The grammar error.
https://twitter.com/SenatorSinema/status/1623144588004163586

She chose to sit among Republicans at the State of the Union, joking and laughing it up, while dressed as a dandelion.

Did I hear that right? Trump floated the idea of bringing back firing squads and mass executions?

Margorie Trailer Greene wrote:

“We need a national divorce,” Greene declared on Twitter. “We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/16 ... 3398688768

She's a disgusting human being. I know, that's old news.

Uproar as Fox host Tucker Carlson gets Capitol riot videos (BBC)

US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy is under fire for giving thousands of hours of footage from the Capitol riot to a Fox News host.

Tucker Carlson said on Monday his team had been looking at the video trove for about a week.
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Earlier this week, Mr Carlson told the news website Axios that there was "never any legitimate reason for this footage to remain secret".

"If there was ever a question that's in the public's interest to know, it's what actually happened on January 6. By definition, this video will reveal it," he told the website. "It's impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that."

The release was cheered by some of the House Speaker's most prominent supporters on the right of the Republican party.

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that "Americans deserve to see the truth".

However, there have been no indications the footage will be provided to the public, other news outlets, or even Fox News departments other than Mr Carlson's. (My bold)

At this point the House Speaker is just taking the piss with an egregious and blatant abuse of power.

It's tiring to say that fascism is already in the USA when no one seems able to do anything about it. Such events above are really to be expected at this point - it's not even close to how flagrant the Republicans have become in subverting institutions.

Oh well, it's just revealing minor details like safe areas and escape routes, what could possibly go wrong?


There's stupid, there's dangerously stupid and then there's people like Kevin McCarthy and the insurrection caucus.

And not to all news outlets, but to a purveyor of lies, propaganda, pro-Russian agitation, pro-white nationalism, whose defense in court for lying was that no one should consider his shows anything other than entertainment.

And no one can actually do anything about it? One step after the next - I'm sure Putin thinks he can play the long game here relying on the US to either elect another quasi-fascist, or even simply to become ever more partisanly divided about what is factually real. If US support for Ukraine fades for whatever reason, it might be that new century of Russian imperialism Putin's been jacking off about.

I'm sure someone can do something about it, but as of yet they choose not to, whoever they are. Not a single word from them. Someone made the point that Democrats seem to worry more about what Republican voters will think/say than the about people who voted for them. This has seemed true since at least the Obama era, which is when I started paying more than accidental attention to politics.
It's my opinion that some of the Democrats who say and do nothing about corruption and hypocrisy are worried that if they do, their own corruption and hypocrisy will come to light. But Republicans are already calling out Dems as corrupt, hating America, groomers, and every other horrible thing as it is already. What's the difference?

Funny that they'd claim Democrats hate America when they're the ones saying US soldiers should be more like Russian ones [and boy did that stance age well].

This is just comic relief. Marjorie you know who being a selfawarewolf again. Elite level selfawarewolf here. The "humiliation" in the title is merely a twitter response by David Hogg.
A mother and son interrupted her at a restaurant and now she thinks the country is gone. Literally. Even though she harassed activist and school shooting witness/survivor David Hogg like the sociopath she is. Even though she harassed AOC's (perhaps empty) office and said through the mail slot a whole bunch of nonsense, including that AOC should put her big girl pants on. And she whines about being approached by 2 US citizens in public. Said we should have A NATIONAL DIVORCE, then says the country is gone because 2 people voiced their disapproval of her very public displays of divisive, dangerous rhetoric and lack of any legislative accomplishments whatsoever to help regular working class Americans one iota. Sorry about the rant.

In a moment of idleness I dropped "who finances marjorie taylor greene" into Google to see what came back.

Following the money is interesting, but not very useful. She seems to be 50% self-financed/50% from small donors, and spends a disproportionately hefty chunk of the contributions on personal security (understandable really).

I suppose the biggest takeaway is that to make it as a raving loon in US politics you need a substantial personal fortune and a media pipeline to thousands of equally deluded donors. (She's a business admin graduate and does seem to have had business success. From my own experience of former bosses, having a weirdly twisted worldview isn't a barrier to also being a successful business-person. Indeed, I suspect it's something of an advantage).

Spearthrower wrote:And not to all news outlets, but to a purveyor of lies, propaganda, pro-Russian agitation

Genuine question here... could someone explain please, why it's the Republicans and Republican leaning media that are pro-Russia?

Back in the day (he said vaguely), the Republicans were much more hawkish, I thought.

TopCat wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:And not to all news outlets, but to a purveyor of lies, propaganda, pro-Russian agitation

Genuine question here... could someone explain please, why it's the Republicans and Republican leaning media that are pro-Russia?

Back in the day (he said vaguely), the Republicans were much more hawkish, I thought.

Back in the day the Russian Empire called itself „union of soviet SOCIALIST republics“
these days Russia has a fascist head of state endorsed by the local christian leaders.

TopCat wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:And not to all news outlets, but to a purveyor of lies, propaganda, pro-Russian agitation

Genuine question here... could someone explain please, why it's the Republicans and Republican leaning media that are pro-Russia?

Back in the day (he said vaguely), the Republicans were much more hawkish, I thought.

Probably the most succinct way to explain this is just to remind that the Republicans got taken over by tea-party abject fucking morons, and it's all been about Lib tears ever since.

I think both of those answers are correct. They just want to be assholes, because they are assholes. Mostly, of course not every one.

Dems don't like Russia, therefore Russia good.

Anything more nuanced causes pain. Except maybe mtg, need at least some neurons to transmit pain

Spearthrower wrote:

TopCat wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:And not to all news outlets, but to a purveyor of lies, propaganda, pro-Russian agitation

Genuine question here... could someone explain please, why it's the Republicans and Republican leaning media that are pro-Russia?

Back in the day (he said vaguely), the Republicans were much more hawkish, I thought.

Probably the most succinct way to explain this is just to remind that the Republicans got taken over by tea-party abject fucking morons, and it's all been about Lib tears ever since.

Ya spelled "morans" wrong.

Some of them caught the far left liberal extremist hoax Chinese lab leak Wuhan Fauci-funded Biden virus and, though the prayer warriors prayed really hard, god called them home. They got their angle wings.

Marj Traitor Spleen's latest contribution to the house is to apparently discuss confidential information concerning the border in a hearing, even to actually say she is not going to be confidential.
While this is not unique to the US, I find it absurd the level of [or flat-out lack of] rigorous vetting of US political candidates for the House and Senate such that dangerously stupid and/or insane individuals like her can so easily fail upwards into such positions of power and responsibility. In the greatest country on Earth? 330 million people and she is the best some parts of it can do?

Video of MTG committing treason shooting her mouth off here:


I find this surreal TBH. The outright stupidity on display is breath-taking and why she isn't facing jail-time incomprehensible.