Heather, I felt all the stories you cite were about the depth of Republican desperation to hold power no matter what. The Tennessee cases are particularly interesting in that they all reveal a deep corruption the local people must have known about all along. I really hope the guy now living high on the hog in Nashville is fired and prose…
Heather, I felt all the stories you cite were about the depth of Republican desperation to hold power no matter what. The Tennessee cases are particularly interesting in that they all reveal a deep corruption the local people must have known about all along. I really hope the guy now living high on the hog in Nashville is fired and prosecuted! He broke a very clear law. The dastardly act of throwing out duly elected black representatives for no reason, shone a World Light on them all. Wonderful “unintended consequences” for democracy! Heather, we all marvel at your clarity and support for us in making sure we know what is really going on in the world. Thank you!
He not only broke the law, but went out of his way to hide it by the way he structured the purchase of his Nashville home, then lied when it was found out that it was his residence. And to top it off, he collected his allowed expenses as if he still lived in his District. Can you say corrupt?
The Tennessee Three should go after him BIG TIME! A clear winner of a case for all folks paying attention to politics. Meaning everyone, right now.. .a winner for Democracy. Thank you Jean, for your comment.
Justin Jones asked the clerk to read out the requirements for residency, and the clerk laughed. If dependent on Sexton for his job, it was probably all he could do.
One of the hybrid words from the Washington Post. The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole
As I recall from old Saturday Night Live skits….didn’t they call them “sniglets”? Memory hazy as to the source, but I recall the moniker. One that comes to mind is “destinasia”, a mash up of “destination” and “amnesia”……something that happens to me from time to time.
Today in Montana a leader in the legislature blocked a Democratic member from speaking on the issue of care fir trans youth. I'm certain the fact that she is transgendered had nothing to do with it.
Annis, the GOP make the rules as they go along. The Constitution means nothing, ethics mean nothing, their state Constitutions mean nothing. We are seeing this over and over again.
I guess when you make up the rules “as you go along” you do “whatever you damn please”. OMG. This is also a type of insurrection, no? Annis, what do you think?
My understanding is the speaker refused to recognize her. Some protested , they took it to committee & the republican super majority said the speaker has that right. So they voted for authoritarian rule rather than parliamentarian. I can look for the article if it makes the Missoulian paper
HCR writes hopefully of a new shift toward transparency and accountability. RFK, Jr.'s recent speech announcing his candidacy in opposition to Deep State Swamp Creature Joe Biden comes to mind.
Will this new shift extend toward examination of the evidence that Joe Biden stole the 2020 Democratic nomination from Bernie Sanders? The evidence consists, among other things, of a pattern of discrepancies between the official primary results and the exit polls, with the Massachusetts primary being the most egregious example.
There is a lot of behind-the-scenes evidence regarding the general topic of computerized election fraud in the U.S.A. A good place to start is the book "Votescam: The Stealing of America" from the 1990s, part of which is free here:
Back then, it was always the Republicans who were being accused of computerized election fraud. One cliche was "Stay up at night past bedtime and wait for the computers reporting the results to crash, and then see how the numbers change."
In the 2008 Democratic primary season, I did just that. (I voted for Hillary in the primary, and for Obama in the general election.) It was the North Carolina primary, and it was a do-or-die moment for Hillary's campaign. The voting results started coming in, and it was close. And then, around 11:00 p.m., an announcement: The computers crashed and there wouldn't be any more updates for the time being. I smelled a big fat rat, and decided to stay up way past my bedtime to witness what happened.
It must have been around 3:00 in the morning when there was finally an update: Hillary's total was unchanged, but there was a big jump in Obama's total, putting the election out of reach for Hillary.
For a couple days, there was some speculation that Hillary was going to challenge the result, but she didn't, and the North Carolina Attorney General became the next governor, and North Carolina was chosen to host the next Democratic convention, thank you, thank you.
We must be reading and listening to different facts. I personally don’t believe in Alternative Facts. I worry about the coming elections that are critical to keep in a continuing Democratic administration. Qualified Democrats. Many to choose from. Let’s work hard not to support Independent and alternative candidates that could split the tickets. Robert F Kennedy, Jr, with his conspiracy theories and antivaxer stance doesn't seem to be a good party fit. Then there’s Sinema and Manchin. We need majorities. .Latest upset : NC State Dem Representative announced she is switching party affiliation to GOP. She said the Dem party “has become unrecognizable to me.” Let’s get to work friends.
Irenie, a good starting point for double-checking your sense of reality is: What do you make of Davison Budhoo's resignation letter from the International Monetary Fund, with its extended confession of genocide? The I.M.F. has always been dominated by the U.S. government. Here are some excerpts from Budhoo's letter, confessing his guilt in "our own peculiar Holocaust":
"To me resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind’s eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. ...The blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers....
"The charges that I make touch at the very heart of western society and western morality and post-war inter-governmental institutionalism that have degenerated into fake and sham under the pretext of establishingand maintaining international economic order and global efficiency....
"Will the world be content merely to brand our institution as among the most insidious enemies of humankind? Will our fellowmen condemn us thus and let the matter rest? Or will the heirs of those whom we have dismembered in our own peculiar Holocaust clamor for another Nuremberg?
"I don’t mind telling you that this matter has haunted me; it has haunted me particularly over the past five years. It has haunted me because I know that if I am tried I will be found guilty, very guilty, without extenuating circumstance...."
Of course Biden, who was planted in the Senate back before the beginning of time, was fully in the know as our IMF genocide got into full swing in the 1980s and 1990s.
Anyone who begins rant with “Deep State Swamp Creature Joe Biden” is forever on my 💩 list. No expletives here, right? Tried to delete from my page but he keeps coming back sort of like his herpes might do. 🤬
Actually, the whole phrase is: Creepy Snuggles, the Deep State swamp creature mired in Ukrainian sleaze, from tiny corporatist Delaware, where the grassroots voters work in corporate headquarters buildings. If Trump is Godzilla, then Biden is Dracula.
The impression around here is a bunch of white racists apologizing for (or resolutely ignoring) genocide while supporting Ukraine's bigoted, oppressive, undemocratic thug regime:
And the Democrats have been zombified. Biden stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders, and then he embraced much of Bernie's platform so disgruntled progressives wouldn't revolt, like the left-wing Oregon protestors chanting "F#CK BIDEN!" on Inauguration Day as they marched to the local Democratic Party headquarters and broke all the windows.
Heather, I felt all the stories you cite were about the depth of Republican desperation to hold power no matter what. The Tennessee cases are particularly interesting in that they all reveal a deep corruption the local people must have known about all along. I really hope the guy now living high on the hog in Nashville is fired and prosecuted! He broke a very clear law. The dastardly act of throwing out duly elected black representatives for no reason, shone a World Light on them all. Wonderful “unintended consequences” for democracy! Heather, we all marvel at your clarity and support for us in making sure we know what is really going on in the world. Thank you!
He not only broke the law, but went out of his way to hide it by the way he structured the purchase of his Nashville home, then lied when it was found out that it was his residence. And to top it off, he collected his allowed expenses as if he still lived in his District. Can you say corrupt?
The Tennessee Three should go after him BIG TIME! A clear winner of a case for all folks paying attention to politics. Meaning everyone, right now.. .a winner for Democracy. Thank you Jean, for your comment.
Justin Jones asked the clerk to read out the requirements for residency, and the clerk laughed. If dependent on Sexton for his job, it was probably all he could do.
That’s IT???? The clerk laughed? What is going on?
I dunno. It's a bit hard. Let me try. Corrupt Asshole. Oops. Sorry. Can't just say Corrupt by itself.
I learned a new word yesterday: Ignoranus. Now, if we could find a word that adds corrupt to ignorant asshole, we're in business.
You beat me to it! Here is the full description!
One of the hybrid words from the Washington Post. The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole
As I recall from old Saturday Night Live skits….didn’t they call them “sniglets”? Memory hazy as to the source, but I recall the moniker. One that comes to mind is “destinasia”, a mash up of “destination” and “amnesia”……something that happens to me from time to time.
If I take that literally, would i be too wrong to think that an ignoranus has no clue he's spewing b.s.?
Knave. Rapscsllion. Scallywag. Cur. All apt words for past times. I personally like the modern Yiddish phrase, "Schmuck with Hutzpah".
Yes, Jean I can!
Today in Montana a leader in the legislature blocked a Democratic member from speaking on the issue of care fir trans youth. I'm certain the fact that she is transgendered had nothing to do with it.
Forgive my ignorance, but how can a member of a legislature block another from speaking?
Annis, the GOP make the rules as they go along. The Constitution means nothing, ethics mean nothing, their state Constitutions mean nothing. We are seeing this over and over again.
In Tennessee, they do it by turning off their mics.
I guess when you make up the rules “as you go along” you do “whatever you damn please”. OMG. This is also a type of insurrection, no? Annis, what do you think?
It is Calvin's Rules, as in the wonderful Calvin and Hobbes cartoon series. I miss them, a very long time ago I was Calvin.
It's anarchy - and not the David Graeber kind!
My understanding is the speaker refused to recognize her. Some protested , they took it to committee & the republican super majority said the speaker has that right. So they voted for authoritarian rule rather than parliamentarian. I can look for the article if it makes the Missoulian paper
In TN, the speaker turned off their mics. Also, when asking for a voice vote, the individual is told no.
Is there no recourse? The governor? the courts? Someone has to police the rules.
They'll have to start bringing in bullhorns again.
No. The republicans stick together.
HCR writes hopefully of a new shift toward transparency and accountability. RFK, Jr.'s recent speech announcing his candidacy in opposition to Deep State Swamp Creature Joe Biden comes to mind.
Will this new shift extend toward examination of the evidence that Joe Biden stole the 2020 Democratic nomination from Bernie Sanders? The evidence consists, among other things, of a pattern of discrepancies between the official primary results and the exit polls, with the Massachusetts primary being the most egregious example.
There is a lot of behind-the-scenes evidence regarding the general topic of computerized election fraud in the U.S.A. A good place to start is the book "Votescam: The Stealing of America" from the 1990s, part of which is free here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxpZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT9&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
And then there was Bush v. Gore and the 2000 Florida election meltdown. That brought us the investigative reporting of British journalist Greg Palast:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1174115.stm
Of course Florida wasn't about computerized vote fraud, but it shoved the general issue of vote fraud in our faces.
And in 2004 we were introduced to the notorious oh-so-easily-hackable Republican Diebold voting machines:
https://columbusfreepress.com/article/diebold-indicted-its-spectre-still-haunts-ohio-elections
And see also:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2549684/back-door-flaws-found-in-diebold-e-voting-machines.html
And back then was when "Black Box Voting" was active. They're still around:
https://blackboxvoting.org/
Back then, it was always the Republicans who were being accused of computerized election fraud. One cliche was "Stay up at night past bedtime and wait for the computers reporting the results to crash, and then see how the numbers change."
In the 2008 Democratic primary season, I did just that. (I voted for Hillary in the primary, and for Obama in the general election.) It was the North Carolina primary, and it was a do-or-die moment for Hillary's campaign. The voting results started coming in, and it was close. And then, around 11:00 p.m., an announcement: The computers crashed and there wouldn't be any more updates for the time being. I smelled a big fat rat, and decided to stay up way past my bedtime to witness what happened.
It must have been around 3:00 in the morning when there was finally an update: Hillary's total was unchanged, but there was a big jump in Obama's total, putting the election out of reach for Hillary.
For a couple days, there was some speculation that Hillary was going to challenge the result, but she didn't, and the North Carolina Attorney General became the next governor, and North Carolina was chosen to host the next Democratic convention, thank you, thank you.
We must be reading and listening to different facts. I personally don’t believe in Alternative Facts. I worry about the coming elections that are critical to keep in a continuing Democratic administration. Qualified Democrats. Many to choose from. Let’s work hard not to support Independent and alternative candidates that could split the tickets. Robert F Kennedy, Jr, with his conspiracy theories and antivaxer stance doesn't seem to be a good party fit. Then there’s Sinema and Manchin. We need majorities. .Latest upset : NC State Dem Representative announced she is switching party affiliation to GOP. She said the Dem party “has become unrecognizable to me.” Let’s get to work friends.
Irenie, a good starting point for double-checking your sense of reality is: What do you make of Davison Budhoo's resignation letter from the International Monetary Fund, with its extended confession of genocide? The I.M.F. has always been dominated by the U.S. government. Here are some excerpts from Budhoo's letter, confessing his guilt in "our own peculiar Holocaust":
"To me resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind’s eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. ...The blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers....
"The charges that I make touch at the very heart of western society and western morality and post-war inter-governmental institutionalism that have degenerated into fake and sham under the pretext of establishingand maintaining international economic order and global efficiency....
"Will the world be content merely to brand our institution as among the most insidious enemies of humankind? Will our fellowmen condemn us thus and let the matter rest? Or will the heirs of those whom we have dismembered in our own peculiar Holocaust clamor for another Nuremberg?
"I don’t mind telling you that this matter has haunted me; it has haunted me particularly over the past five years. It has haunted me because I know that if I am tried I will be found guilty, very guilty, without extenuating circumstance...."
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJzvpfFzIKu76oE1CkzZlarRiVpYIggFMFzSt6OgHx0/mobilebasic
Of course Biden, who was planted in the Senate back before the beginning of time, was fully in the know as our IMF genocide got into full swing in the 1980s and 1990s.
John....for crying out loud, why don't you just start our own Substack?
Anyone who begins rant with “Deep State Swamp Creature Joe Biden” is forever on my 💩 list. No expletives here, right? Tried to delete from my page but he keeps coming back sort of like his herpes might do. 🤬
Actually, the whole phrase is: Creepy Snuggles, the Deep State swamp creature mired in Ukrainian sleaze, from tiny corporatist Delaware, where the grassroots voters work in corporate headquarters buildings. If Trump is Godzilla, then Biden is Dracula.
The impression around here is a bunch of white racists apologizing for (or resolutely ignoring) genocide while supporting Ukraine's bigoted, oppressive, undemocratic thug regime:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-23-2023/comment/15175428
HCR does an excellent job of massaging talking points. The place to counter the rampant dishonesty around here is ... right here.
A corollary theme to these news developments is rank dishonesty and immorality. It’s in the GOP’s DNA.
And the Democrats have been zombified. Biden stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders, and then he embraced much of Bernie's platform so disgruntled progressives wouldn't revolt, like the left-wing Oregon protestors chanting "F#CK BIDEN!" on Inauguration Day as they marched to the local Democratic Party headquarters and broke all the windows.
Those weren't left-wing protesters. They were anarchists. Big difference. Not that you deal in facts.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-23-2023/comment/15175428