formerly-Republicans, Are You Fucking Serious ?

[bodysong]

formerly-Republicans, Are You Fucking Serious ?

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

REPORTER:

You criticized the Biden admin for giving the Taliban information about Americans.
If the US was trying to get Americans through Taliban checkpoints, how else
were they supposed to do that?

KEVIN McCARTHY: Why wouldn't we have created a situation of safe passage?

3 hours ago

 

[adrina]

Deflection and "own the libs" - today's Republican party. Yay.

 

[bodysong]

Crooks and Liars ✓
Twitter › crooksandliars

Romney is suddenly not in favor of withdrawing from Afghanistan.
I guess capturing the GOP vote in 2021 is different from in 2012.
#MittRomney #Afghanistan #JakeTapper #SOTU #CNN

9 hours ago

¯\_('/')_/¯

formerly-Republicans pivot, again

 

[bodysong]

Rand Paul undecided on Ivermectin to treat COVID-19,
says hatred of Trump hinders research

Cincinnati Enquirer

2 days ago

Sen. Rand Paul says ‘hatred of Trump’ blocks research into ivermectin
to treat COVID

NY Daily News 1 hour ago

New York Daily News ✓
Twitter › NYDailyNews

Maggie Haberman ✓
Twitter › maggieNYT

Paul injecting Trump into current miracle cure discussion comes a few weeks
after Trump mocked Paul for supporting a rival candidate who lost in an OH
congressional primary

(link to Cincinnati Enquirer)

2 hours ago

Butler County judge orders West Chester Hospital to treat COVID-19 patient

(graphic - a picture of sign in store, "Notice" These products for sale for animal use only)

with ivermectin, despite CDC warnings

Cincinnati Enquirer 2 hours ago

Judge orders Cinci hospital to treat COVID-19 patient with Ivermectin,
despite CDC warnings

Ohio Capital Journal 13 hours ago

Jeffrey Smith, 51, came down with COVID-19 in early July and has been in
the intensive care unit of a Butler County hospital for weeks. His wife, Julie Smith
asked in Butler County Common Pleas Court on Aug. 20 for an emergency order
for the use of Ivermectin.

Dr. Fred Wagshul proscribed it. (Is Fred a MAGA member ?)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/30/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

The hospital refused!

 

[ryan8558]

could have transferred the guy to an animal hospital so he can be treated by a vet.

 

[bodysong]

Trump-Centric info-tainment for MAGA fools kick off their attacks on Joe Biden
by telling an outright lie. Then, walked it back, by saying Biden did it wrong.

FFS, events are broadcast live, in real time - there is video, and time tracking.

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

When I told Ernst’s office I’d found a buncha examples of Biden expressing gratitude
to recent troops, they wouldn’t admit Ernst was wrong to claim he’d never once said
those words. Instead, her spokes started arguing the words were mere “platitudes.”

(link to CNN)

2 days ago

Sen. Joni Ernst said Biden has “not once” expressed gratitude or empathy
to troops who’ve served in the last 20 years. That is not close to true.
Here are a bunch of examples of Biden explicitly doing what Ernst
said he has never done:

(link to CNN)

2 days ago

¯\_('/')_/¯ copycat, repeat, rinse - forming the glue that makes propaganda stick

 

[bodysong]

It has been ages, since OWS pissed off the hedge fund brats
and the trust fund fuck-ups.

Trillionaires and billionaires. The 1% owe the IRS trillions in taxes.

Suburban Guerrilla Ω
Twitter › SusieMadrak

Katie Porter: The people who are complaining about the BBB being too expensive
are the same people who took the IRS enforcement money out of the bill. HMMM.

15 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Texas law could force social media to host misinformation and hate speech
- Ars Technica

7 hours ago

Ars Technica ✓
Twitter › arstechnica

Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law

(Gov. Greg Abbott signed HB 20 into law.)

The law is due to come in to force in December

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58516155

"This bill abandons conservative values, violates the First Amendment, forces websites
to host obscene, anti-semitic, racist, hateful and otherwise awful content."
-Steve DelBianco
NetChoice trade association.

The new law states social media platforms with more than 50 million users
cannot ban people based on their political viewpoints.

Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube are within its scope.

Critics say the law does not respect the constitutional right of private businesses
to decide what sort of content is allowed on their platforms.

September 10, 2021

HB 20 severely limits the ability of large social media platforms to remove
disinformation, harmful propaganda, hate speech, and incitement of violence.

The bill actually allows sites to remove such speech -
only if it “consists of specific threats of violence.”

This is the very narrowest definition of incitement to violence.

It’s the kind of very narrow requirement that has protected both KKK leaders and
Tucker Carlson when calling for violence or other harmful acts against groups,
without making a specific threat,

By prohibiting social media platforms from removing text that doesn’t feature
a specific threat, they have created a “must carry” situation.

One in which the social media platforms that fit their definition
(which seems to be Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok,
Pinterest, and Snapchat, but could expand to Google, Apple, and others
thanks to some broad language) can not remove hate speech or disinformation,
no matter how malignant.

- Daily Kos

Seriously. Texas just passed a law (and Abbott just signed it) which prohibits
social media sites from removing hate speech, or posts that promote terrorism,
or intentional misinformation about vaccines, or holocaust denial.

- Daily Kos

“This law is going to put more hate speech, scams, terrorist content,
and misinformation online.”

- Chamber for Progress

 

[BidudeinWi]

Yawn…..the fake news and misinformation continues……..ad nauseam!

 

[butters]

former former-republican judge

suicide before he could be arrested for the kinds of crimes we all too often see associated with republican names lately

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/repub...g-hidden-camera-to-sexually-exploit-children/

 

[bodysong]

Remember this press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court -
doctors touting hydroxychloroquine, prompting praise from then-President
Trump and Google, Twitter, and Facebook to take the video down?
Florida’s new Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, was a speaker.

(pic)

— Jay O'Brien (@jayobtv) September 21, 2021

Florida remains screwed as Governor Ron "De Satan" De Santis picks
hydroxychloroquine-supporting quack as new surgeon general.

- Daily Kos

 

[pecksniff]

Yawn…..the fake news and misinformation continues……..ad nauseam!

No, bodysong is not citing Fox pieces.

 

[bodysong]

Take the gig, take the money, and sell everyone out, that depends on you.
$500,000.00 is an incentive to march Americans to the Covid volcano,
as sacrifices.

Coronavirus death toll in US eclipses 1918 influenza pandemic estimates

- ABC

Trump, formerly-Republicans, and MAGA are determined to bring as much disorder,
disaster, and chaos to Joe Biden's administration, as possible. The American hospital
network is on the verge of collapse. Overwhelmed, pediatric hospital have set up tents,
hospitals have adopted crisis mode. At least 10 of the no-mask no vaxx states are
dumping their patients in out-of-state hospitals, and are telling lies about it.


New guidelines signed by Dr. Joseph Ladapo

- Miami Herald

September 23, 2021

“Lapado made it clear he shares DeSantis’ personal freedom approach
to pandemic management, rejects business lockdowns, face mask and
vaccine mandates, and doubts the safety of vaccines.”

Florida on Wednesday escalated its war with school districts over mask mandates
when a newly appointed, controversial surgeon general issued a rule making it
even harder for schools to enforce them while also setting what experts called
a dangerous new quarantine policy.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who was appointed on Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis,
instituted his first rule Wednesday to give parents “sole discretion” over
whether their child wears a mask.

- Daily Beast

September 23, 2021

Florida's New Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo Kills Mask Mandate Challenge,
Stokes School Chaos

- Daily Beast

15 hours ago

September 23, 2021

Florida Students Are No Longer Required To Quarantine After Being Exposed
To COVID

- NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/

September 23, 2021

The Biden administration on Thursday began compensating some Florida
school board members whose pay was docked this month for defying
Gov. Ron (De Satan" DeSantis’s ban on mask mandates, the Department
of Education said.

As part of the Biden administration's "Project SAFE" grant program, an initial sum
of $148,000 has been awarded to Alachua County school board members who voted
this summer to mandate masks in the county's schools as Florida developed some of
the worst rates of Covid infection in the nation.

- NBC

September 21, 2021

Kentucky schools overwhelmingly keep mask mandates after Republicans
scrapped state requirement

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/21/coronavirus-kentucky-schools-masks/

 

[bodysong]

Trade unions called for mask-wearing to be enforced in the U.K. parliament
after two MPs tested positive for COVID-19

Conservative MP Peter Bone contracted Covid-19 two weeks ago

Hello ? Pandemic ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58669392

Strange attitudes -

Great Barrington Declaration
Twitter › gbdeclaration

“At the start of the pandemic I said that lockdown could end up
killing more people than Covid – I wish I had been wrong”
@AllisonPearson @Telegraph

(link)

2 days ago

The cancer backlog scandal is so much worse than you think

At the start of the pandemic I said that lockdown could end up killing
more people than Covid – I wish I had been wrong

- Allison Pearson

21 September 2021

A No 10 spokesman said that every patient had the right to a face-to-face appointment.

The “Poor me!” fit of the vapours from the British Medical Association is already
starting.

A lack of access to face-to-face appointments, coupled with a fear of coming forward
to burden the NHS, could be responsible for the unnecessary deaths from cancer
of 25,000 men, women and children. To that sad toll, you can add tens of thousands
of future fatalities from stroke, diabetes and heart failure. Back at the start of the
pandemic, I said that lockdown could end up killing more people than Covid.
I wish I had been wrong.

The stage is now set for a battle between doctors’ trade unions on the one hand
and patients and the Government on the other.

Will GPs continue to ignore the letter from NHS England, brought about
by a Telegraph campaign, which told them they must all ensure they are
offering face-to-face appointments? As the Covid risk diminishes for the
vaccinated majority of the population, will GPs insist that they must be
“safe” when that means sticking with phone and online consultations
which are clearly less safe for the sick people who depend on them?

A GP who declares that they won’t see any patient with a cough has lost sight
of what it means to be a doctor. For God’s sake, get yourself a box of tissues
and some Strepsils. Physicians, heal yourselves!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/21/cancer-backlog-scandal-much-worse-think/

Oct 9, 2020

One of the best things you can do today is sign the Great Barrington Declaration.
- Allison Pearson @ allisonpearson

Florida surgeon general Joseph Lapado has signed The Great Barrington Declaration
which (Stanford University Professor Jay Bhattacharya) partially wrote.

Jan 4, 2021

Now the Swedish model has failed, it's time to ask who was pushing it
- Guardian

Florida's surgeon general Joseph Lapado will direct Florida’s Department of Health
and serve on the board of the University of Florida College of Medicine.

 

[bodysong]

September 24, 2021

Anti-vaxx Facebook groups have a new message for their community members:

Don’t go to the emergency room, and get your loved ones out of intensive care units.

Consumed by conspiracy theories claiming that doctors are preventing unvaccinated
patients from receiving miracle cures or are even killing them on purpose.

Some people in anti-vaccine and pro-ivermectin Facebook groups are telling those
with Covid-19 to stay away from hospitals and instead try increasingly dangerous
at-home treatments, according to posts seen by NBC News over the past few weeks.

In Branson, Missouri, a medical center recently introduced panic buttons on employee
badges because of a spike in assaults. Violence and threats against medical professionals
have recently been reported in Massachusetts, Texas, Georgia and Idaho.

- NBC
- Independent

"Some workers have stopped asking whether patients have been vaccinated due to hostile or violent responses."

- ADN

Oh, look! Conspiracy crazies are bringing violence inside the hospitals, nationwide.

 

[bodysong]

Trump Won Texas Last Year, but Republicans Are Auditing the Elections Anyway

September 29, 2021

Critics have called the Texas governor a puppet of former President Donald Trump.
Now, they have fresh ammo to bolster that claim.

Last week, the Texas Secretary of State’s Office announced it had begun the process
of auditing the 2020 election in four counties: Dallas, Tarrant, Harris and Collin.
The move came hours after Trump issued a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott calling
on him to “get to the bottom of the 2020 Presidential Election Scam!”

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, a Democrat, believes the timing is suspect.

“We’re not talking about a group of extremists here; this is the former president
of the United States … telling the Republican governor of the second-largest state
to audit an election that the Republicans won, and spread a narrative that you can’t
trust elections,” he said. “I mean, that should scare the hell out of people.”

Despite a lack of trust, state elections officials have insisted the 2020 elections
were “safe and secure.” The Texas Secretary of State’s website also says there’s
been no evidence of compromised voting or voter registration systems before
or after the 2016 election.

In his letter to Abbott, Trump himself touted House Bill 16, which would allow
for audits of the 2020 presidential and future elections.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news...will-cast-doubt-on-elections-process-12502762

Twitter slams Sen. John Cornyn for cheering Norway's vaccination rate
after he downplayed COVID-19

September 28, 2021

Senator. John Cornyn

Twitter users pounced Monday when the Texas Republican shared an Associated Press
story about Norway's COVID-19 restrictions ending.

Twitter users lit up Cornyn for what they said amounts to his inability to take
a firm stand against the anti-vaccine sentiment rife among the GOP base.
That certainly seems to be the case in his own bright-red Texas, which ranks
29th among U.S. states in terms of people who have been fully vaxxed.

Some called the senator's soft sell on Norway's admirable milestone too little too late.
Others torched him for over his unflinching support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott,
who's repeatedly fought mask and vaccine mandates even amid the Delta variant surge.

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily...mpaign=rightrail&utm_content=TabbedPopularity

 

[bodysong]

Mother Jones ✓
Twitter › MotherJones

Kyrsten Sinema is cozying up to corporate groups
that are aiming to kill Biden’s domestic agenda

2 hours ago

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...fundraiser-as-she-blocks-biden-spending-bill/

As Congressional Democrats frantically tried to reach agreement on passing
President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion social
spending bill, Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz), one of the key moderates blocking
the Build Back Better Act, abruptly left Washington DC for Arizona on Friday.

Her spokesman said she had a medical appointment for a foot injury, but it turns out
Sinema will be attending a fundraising “retreat” for her political action committee
at a high-end Phoenix resort and spa on Saturday.

It’s the second time in a week Sinema will have fundraised with corporate interests
who oppose Biden’s spending bill.

On Tuesday, at an undisclosed location at Capitol Hill, she held a fundraiser with
five business lobbying groups -
who agreed to write checks between $1,000 and $5,800 after spending 45 minutes
with her. The fundraiser was hosted by corporate groups including the National
Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, as well as political action committees
for the supermarket industry and various/ construction interests that are trying
to kill Biden’s signature domestic agenda.

 

[bodysong]

Arizona...

Racist scumbag, Fascist Joe Arpaio, is running for mayor in Arizona.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news

Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day:

Rep. David Schweikert, was forced to admit to 11 ethics violations in his attempts
to win office.

Schweikert’s relationship with his constituents has soured, as he has dodged town halls,
and seen constituents host ones with him in absentia, and his home office in his district
has responded to those who brought cookies and hoped to set up meetings with him…
by calling the police and trying to have them arrested.
For sharing baked goods, apparently.

He has, however, been oddly quiet since talking to the local press asked why he voted
for the objection to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes in the 2020 election, and he claimed
that he had been shown an “entire three, four-inch binder of the fact tree, and they built
a great argument on the fact tree.“

Based on how all the lawsuits from Trump and his lawyers getting thwarted, it seems
like there weren’t really any “facts” in there at all. And that if Schweikert can’t tell
the difference between those and conservative fantasy, he needs to f*** right off
and out of office. Respectfully.

- Daily Kos

The Trump Cult Candidate for Arizona Governor Would Not Have Certified
2020 Election Results

October 2, 2021

This week Trump endorsed Kari Lake as his anointed candidate for governor of Arizona.

That's the state that just completed a fake audit (fraudit) performed by the rabidly
partisan "Cyber Ninjas" that ultimately still found that Joe Biden is the legitimate
president and was was fairly elected.

Lake is the perfect Trump surrogate. She is a TV celebrity with no political experience,
who embraces conspiracy theories, advocates for building a wall on the Southern border
peddles quack COVID cures, and most importantly, adores Trump almost almost
as much as he does.

Lake's job prior to jumping into the race was as a news reader on the Fox owned-
and-operated television affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona.

- Daily Kos

 

[bodysong]

2022 is about to be a doozy: 36 states will vote on governors next year.

And with how crucial state executives have been during the pandemic,
as well as the GOP-ification of our nation's state legislatures,
these elections will be a big fuckin' deal.

"Politico has a cheat sheet warmed and ready for you."

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/20...-deal-twitch-got-hacked-zuckerberg-claps-back

Voters in 36 states will elect a governor next year. Here’s a cheat sheet.

October 6, 2021

"I don't expect the vast majority of our incumbents are going to need our engagement
next year,” said Dave Rexrode, the executive director of the Republican Governors
Association, which is confident about defending sitting governors in large,
pricey states like Texas and Ohio.

That means dumping tens of millions of dollars into just a handful of states
instead of the 28 states Republicans were worried about in 2018.
Democrats find themselves in the same situation.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/06/the-fifty-governors-2022-515211

 

[butters]

georgia mayor who didn't understand zoom thought he'd cut off the meeting with black colleagues before calling it a 'monkey show'.

At one point, one of the Black council members can be heard saying, "Mr. Lawson, we still can hear you."

*

In ending the budget workshop, Schwabe falsely claimed that the council did not have a quorum because two white council members had left. However, the city's three Black council members remained on the Zoom call, which constituted a quorum.

The three Black council members are suing Schwabe for illegally ending the meeting.

https://www.rawstory.com/swainsboro-mayor-charles-schwabe/?

 

[bodysong]

October 7, 2021

Murder- Suicide Pact on January 3rd, before the January 6th Attack and Invasion

vile, disgusting, sickening ick, flowing from the garbage bag, that contains MAGA

Secret, No More!

 

[bodysong]

"All the reporting and investigations of Trump’s coup attempt -
make clear that the effort to overturn the election was haphazard, ad hoc,
and at times deeply stupid, yet at the same time utterly terrifying."

"It’s a good lesson:
The people who do the most damage to our country and democracy aren’t
necessarily brilliant supervillains. Sometimes calamity occurs because
a bunch of scoundrels and fools were presented with an opportunity
to do their worst. And in this case, those scoundrels and fools were
stopped only because some other people managed to find an ounce
or two of courage. They are not heroes. They went to work for Trump
knowing full well who he was. But at that moment, they were unwilling
to cooperate in a coup, and their resistance deprived it of a key element
it needed.

- Paul Waldman
October 7, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ls-trumps-threat-democracy-republicans-shrug/

 

[pecksniff]

The people who do the most damage to our country and democracy aren’t necessarily brilliant supervillains. Sometimes calamity occurs because a bunch of scoundrels and fools were presented with an opportunity to do their worst.

OTOH, see Evil Geniuses, by Kurt Andersen. He refers to plutocrats playing a calculated long game.

 

[bodysong]

Trump Whined to Acting Attorney General:
You’ll Do Nothing to Help Me ‘Overturn’ Election

October 7, 2021

On Jan. 3, days before Donald Trump’s supporters went on to ransack the U.S. Capitol,
the president allegedly opened a high-stakes Oval Office meeting by complaining
to his acting attorney general that he was doing nothing to help him “overturn”
his election defeat by Joe Biden.

The extraordinary claim was made by former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen
in an interim report released by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning.

Rosen recalled that Trump opened an Oval Office meeting on the evening of Jan. 3
by complaining to the gathered officials: “One thing we know is you, Rosen,
aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.”

- Daily Beast

AlterNet ✓
Twitter › AlterNet

Here's the real reason Trump didn't follow through with his 2020 plot
been exposed in new Senate report: analysis

(link)

1 hour ago

 

[bodysong]

Trump lawyer instructs Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, and other former advisors
not to comply with Jan. 6 subpoenas: report

(Dan Scavino and Kash Patel, too!)

October 7, 2021

Timeline:
Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election

October 7, 2021

- Aaron Blake

Dec. 31: Pence asks a judge to reject a lawsuit that aimed to expand his power
to help overturn the election. Trump becomes livid.

Around this time: Conservative lawyer John Eastman writes a memo detailing a path
for Pence to reject the results from certain states and possibly allowing Trump to
remain in office.

The plan involves getting House Democrats to cry foul, at which point Pence would
citing constitutional process, allow the House to elect the president. Given the House
has GOP majorities in 26 of 50 states and the vote would take place by delegation,
it could allow for Trump to win.

Jan. 1: (Mark) Meadows emails Rosen several times with theories about the election.

(Rep. Mark Meadows (NC) became Trump's Chief of Staff, after Mick Mulvaney exited.)

Jan. 3: Clark informs Rosen that Trump has decided to replace Rosen with Clark,
and that it would take place that day rather than as previously suggested on Jan. 4,
per Rosen. Rosen responds that he will need to hear that from Trump.

During a White House meeting in which the DOJ officials say there will be
mass resignations and White House counsel Pat Cipollone and others warn
Trump about proceeding.

Trump abandons the idea.

Trump calls Donoghue and cites baseless claims that a Department of Homeland
Security special agent had a truck full of shredded ballots in Atlanta, per Donoghue.

Jan. 4: Eastman meets with Trump and Pence.

Jan. 5: Trump angrily vents to Pence and aides about Pence’s refusal
to toe his line on rejecting electors.

Jan. 6: Trump speaks with Pence multiple times in the morning and presses his case
on overturning the election. Pence continues to refuse, eventually releasing
a statement saying he cannot do what he’s being asked to do.

In the early afternoon, as Congress meets, the U.S. Capitol is overrun
by Trump supporters seeking to overturn the election,

During the riot — and as Congress still hadn’t finished its business —
Trump attacks Pence in a tweet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...azen-attempt-overturn-2020-election-timeline/