Republicans behaving badly
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:16 pm
He went to Harvard.
Falsehoods Unchallenged Only Fester and Grow
https://thefogbow.com/forum/
— and that will forever be Harvard's shame.
Tim Kaine @timkaine wrote: So let me get this straight:
Republicans want to "fix" the border but don't want to pass a bill to do so because they want to attack Biden over it.
AND now they don't want to pass a tax cut for families because it's an election year?
This isn't how we should be governing.Joseph Zeballos-Roig @josephzeballos wrote: GOP Sen. Grassley tells me he’s concerned passing Wyden-Smith tax bill might aid Biden’s re-election:
“I think passing a tax bill that makes the president look good mailing out checks before the election, means he could be reelected and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts”
Elie Mystal @ElieNYC wrote: Both Tom Cotton and I went to undergrad and law school at Harvard at roughly the same time... so hopefully that helps you understand why I react with near homicidal rage when someone tells me *I'm* the one who didn't get in on merit.
I've been smarter than that kid my whole life.
nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR wrote: Republican Rep. Troy Nehls on border security:
“Congress doesn't have to do anything.”
Story: https://rollingstone.com/politics/polit ... 234958223/
The opinion: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-cont ... 1-copy.pdfMueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote wrote: NEW: Those 10 Oregon republicans who WALKED OUT for 6 weeks last year to BLOCK bills on abortion, trans rights, and gun reform ARE NOT ELIGIBLE to run for reelection: per Oregon Supreme Court.
Acyn @Acyn wrote: Rand Paul warns that we could become a country where politicians use the judicial system to prosecute their political enemies before complaining that the DOJ hasn’t prosecuted Fauci
"For completeness," the voters approved a measure to ban legislators who had more than 10 unexcused absences. (To deter stunts like this.)The opinion: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-cont ... 1-copy.pdfNEW: Those 10 Oregon republicans who WALKED OUT for 6 weeks last year to BLOCK bills on abortion, trans rights, and gun reform ARE NOT ELIGIBLE to run for reelection: per Oregon Supreme Court.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ww ... rcna136941WWE founder Vince McMahon is under federal investigation surrounding sex trafficking allegations, sources say
The revelation comes after a former employee sued McMahon last week alleging she was the victim of sexual assault and trafficking at WWE, and after his exit from its parent company, TKO Group.
Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon is under federal criminal investigation as prosecutors try to determine if federal law was broken in conduct surrounding recent allegations of sex trafficking that have been made public in lawsuits, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Last week, the company, McMahon and a former WWE executive were sued by a former employee alleging those crimes.
McMahon has also discussed being under federal investigation and having a phone seized by federal officials, a senior-level WWE executive and another personal friend told NBC News.
Senator James Lankford, you sir are a liar and an asshole and don't deserve to be U.S. Senator.Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan wrote: A straight-up brazen lie, which I am guessing he won’t even bother to correct or apologize for because facts don’t matter in the Fox Cinematic Universe.Sen. James Lankford @SenatorLankford wrote: All of the 9/11 attackers were present in the US illegally. We shouldn’t wait until the next horrific terror attack to realize that our wide-open southern border is a national security risk.Readers added context wrote: As the 9/11 Commission found, all of the hijackers entered the country legally on nonimmigrant tourist or student visas. Many hijackers, including the pilots, remained in the country legally on nonimmigrant visas until the attack.
https://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_st ... av_Ch1.pdf
This is, in fact, exactly why when I first *heard* the term 'Fox Cinematic Universe' I immediately corrected it to faux-French as 'Fox Univers Cinematique' just so I could abbreviate it as FUC and refer to its adherents a certain way.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:23 pm These f$%kers just straight up bald face lie. It's really quite breathtaking. And astonishing. I hate alternative facts, they shouldn't be a thing.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/ ... 47603?s=20Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan wrote: A straight-up brazen lie, which I am guessing he won’t even bother to correct or apologize for because facts don’t matter in the Fox Cinematic Universe.
Shouldn't that be "Faux Univers Cinematique"?Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:36 amThis is, in fact, exactly why when I first *heard* the term 'Fox Cinematic Universe' I immediately corrected it to faux-French as 'Fox Univers Cinematique' just so I could abbreviate it as FUC and refer to its adherents a certain way.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:23 pm These f$%kers just straight up bald face lie. It's really quite breathtaking. And astonishing. I hate alternative facts, they shouldn't be a thing.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/ ... 47603?s=20Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan wrote: A straight-up brazen lie, which I am guessing he won’t even bother to correct or apologize for because facts don’t matter in the Fox Cinematic Universe.
It should be but I didn't want to multi-layer the pun.keith wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:36 pmShouldn't that be "Faux Univers Cinematique"?Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:36 amThis is, in fact, exactly why when I first *heard* the term 'Fox Cinematic Universe' I immediately corrected it to faux-French as 'Fox Univers Cinematique' just so I could abbreviate it as FUC and refer to its adherents a certain way.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:23 pm These f$%kers just straight up bald face lie. It's really quite breathtaking. And astonishing. I hate alternative facts, they shouldn't be a thing.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/ ... 47603?s=20
The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow wrote: REPORTER: "You would be okay with the Supreme Court leaving the issue of interracial marriage to the states?"
SEN. MIKE BRAUN (R-IN): "Yes. If you are not wanting SCOTUS to weigh in on issues like that, you’re not going to have your cake and eat it too."
IIRC, Braun made that comment in 2022, and trying to basically support the repeal by saying that Loving was also judicial activism and it is all states rights.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:57 am What is the interracial marriage issue? Is that a thing?
If I recall correctly the proper quote is "You can't eat your cake, and have it too", fun fact the use of the proper quote is one of the things that caused the Unibomber's brother to realize that the manifesto was written by his brother...Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 5:19 am As a kid I wondered about that apparently absurd proverb but I guessed its interpretation was (in modern English) more like you can't keep your cake and eat it, meaning you must make the choice, or perhaps that the relevant option can only be exercised once. That is, "have" has a sense of possess, own, retain.