I prefer reading these with my first cup of coffee early in the morning, but wowza, lots to unpack here! Lies, snarling, no tax audit, Jack Smith getting Jan 6 materials, republicans not wanting immigration reform, because, well..because
Thank you Professor! You made my night, and I will re-read with coffee tomorrow!
Regarding republicans not wanting immigration reform, kudos to ABC’s Martha Raddatz for calling out Texas Gov. Abbott for his disingenuous conduct:
“You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders,” Raddatz said to Abbott, “but I don’t think I've ever heard President Biden say, ‘we have an open border, come on over.’ But people I have heard say it are you, are former President Trump, Ron DeSantis; that message reverberates in Mexico and beyond. So they do get the message that it is an ‘open border,’ and smugglers use all those kinds of statements.”
Yeah lots to unpack - and all of it - ALL OF IT - is exhibit "A" of a dangerous, obsolete, heartless, and corrupt political party that has way too much power in our supposedly great country. I don't even know where to begin. But y'all know this.
Here I was planning on giving all my Red relatives and sometime friends a copy of the J6 report and along comes Trump’s tax returns. Should I wait until after the first of the year to sent the later or should I just go ahead and do an enormous big Trump dump for the holidays?
To all LFAA followers, I send my season greetings and thank you all for your comments and conversations throughout the year. Be well.
I'll bet you are lots of fun at Christmastime. I'm sure they are too kind to tell you to your face what they think of you.
One day your face will be as (appropriately) red as Tim Robbins' during this interview. At least he is trying to come to terms with what Democrats have wrought.
Show me lack of spirit, name calling or fallacy in the comment.
Seriously, do you think giving political gifts to relatives for Christmas is unworthy of ridicule? I called him no names. He called his relatives "Reds", Dehumanizing his own family. Truly sad. You defend that by criticizing me?
Read my comments on the politics of immigration, directly above. It's complicated!
But responding to your one sentence about it, the GOPers may feel they're not getting anything in return for given the Dreamers citizenship. Yet, any immigrant who gets citizenship can become the first link in chain migration, bringing in scads of relatives. This on top of the country's basic policy of admitting over a million annually--which Biden (who I otherwise think is doing a wonderful job) wants to increase to around 2 million.
Those numbers would throw millions of Americans out of work--there are only so many jobs available in any given year, and the pay would tank--as it did for meat packers, and many othesr in the '80s, when the immigration surge turned into a flood.
Also, the US is already environmentally unsustainable (I learned about these kinds of issues in '75 from John Holdren, a UC Berkeley professor who later moved to Harvard, and still later became Pres O's Science Advisor.) Global warming will mke the US far more unsustainable, as this article by ProPublica in the NYT Mag makes dramatically clear. Millions of Americans will become climate refugees in the next 20-30 years.
Wouldn't it be gratifying if "the girls" got into it, right on the House floor? I mean right on the floor!! Greene would win if it's a bare-handed match (probably in better shape still from her gym days); Boebert if her AR-15 were to be
allowed in. What an embarrassment they are to my gender: all noise, crassness, brawn, and no brains. I can't wait until they have landed where they belong, in the dustbin of history.
I m not sure than Greene would last if the Whiskey Tango girl fight goes down the distance. If Greene goes full on, she could run out of gas burning out. All that muscle takes more energy. Boebert has the cardio and youth advantage, so it’s just a matter of her avoiding Greenes power shots. Plus Lauren’s new implants and Botox might shield her from Greenes power shots. Let’s get Dana White on phone. Might as well make some money on the side.
It sounds like a fight is brewing. Let us hope they are checking members of Congress for weapons. Both like to tote guns, although being from the Wild West Boebert seems more likely to try to conceal a gun. They are members of the new soap opera called "The American Republican Party." Perhaps they want to replace Donald Trump. Unfortunately for me, I don't like watching series where none of the characters are likable, so this is not the show for me!
You guys are missing the Trump-alike PowerUp Bonus. Marjorie has that one down cold. Boeberti sounds more like a Mortal Combat fighter, and has a longer cool-down.
She won't and that's what you have to fear. Rednecks Boebert and Greene are like unsightly oozing boils on the skin but Stefanik, who has fashioned herself as a "legit" legislator is a hidden cancer that insidiously metastasizes....
Since "Rednecks" are union miners fighting the powers that be, I would not be using that term to describe people like Boebert and Greene who are clearly union busters, as well as every other offensive thing they can do to working people, just because it might help someone who is not White out!
Ohh boy... "Lauren's new implants" !! Gag me! No wonder Gaetz & her have hooked up.. hhaahahaahahaa. Errr ahhh "hooked up" being my benign use of the expression....hahahaa. Really?
Oh my Gail. I am soooo reading from the same sheet of music. For me it was Michelle Bachmann, years ago. She shocked me into reality. I am a bit befuddled why this upsets me so. Except to say that I have harbored in the past some views that have a tinge of misogyny, views I have tried to correct as I grow older. And this might something like viewing humanity in terms of 20K years ago when women tended the children, gathered the roots and seeds, prepared the meat the men brought back, etc. And the men fought off invaders, did invading (and raping) themselves, and did dangerous hunting. While human society has evolved considerably compared to back then, one could reason that women on average had (and have) cooler heads than men, and therefore might be better fit to rule in a civilized society. Since then I have come to realize that such a view is at best overly simplified and presumptuous. Michelle Bachmann showed me just how toxic females in political leadership can be. Also, if you want to see exhibit "A" in toxic conservative women, look no further than Fox News. So my point is that terrible wingnutty leadership is gender neutral to a certain extent. And while everything else being equal, I would vote for a woman, one must do their homework first.
Republicans have had a long list of horrible women candidates, but Michele Bachmann really stands out. Other famous Republican women who actively worked against women's and LGBTQ rights are Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly from the 80s Ugh. Horrible.
Given two highly qualified candidates with good ideas (i.e., ideas I support), I would generally prefer to vote for the woman, but as you say, a female horror show is still a horror show.
Thing is - Republicanism, as defined thoroughly by HCR in her various works, is a toxic way of looking at the world. It is heartless, anti-democratic, and incapable of dealing with what Al Gore calls "the inconvenient truth". Instead they believe there are indisputable truths, developed from ages of ancient thought and experience, that are as true today as in the past. So whenever something new comes (climate change is the prime example BTW), then their worldview gives them no choice but to reject it. That races of people are practically genetically identical? Uh, that's a problem for them too. This leaves its proponents struggling to fit in with today's realities without rejecting them, and/or engaging in disreputable activities to battle those who are better dealing to reality. There is a fundamental dishonesty in the Republican world view. So that partly explains why we see such "horrible candidates" whether men and women from the Republican party. Conversely, good hearted well meaning people have trouble sidling up to Republican views. Some exceptions, but IMO few.
It's junior high all over again. Name calling. Hair pulling. Maybe even a food fight. Being sent to the Principal's office where "This is going on your PERMANENT RECORD." While the rest of us snicker and talk smack.
Agree! I've got snarky smack talk going on in my head every time one of the GOP opens their mouth! Hershel Walker just about put me over the edge. Since I'm a civilized person I can mostly keep it to myself. ❤️
Laura And Wishy Washy McCarthy would be a bad referee, since he is sucking up to both these pistol packing mommas. Might Greene and Boebert shoot each other simultaneously? What a marvelous holiday thought! (And, perhaps, blast Jim ‘Pit bull’ Jordan in this blaze of bullets?)
You folks are way to hard on trailer parks, they are a protected class under civil rights laws. In all seriousness some low income folks don't have much choice when it comes to housing. We need solutions to raise income levels for all especially their children. (I have no support for MTG, I live less than 10 miles from her district, and even less Boebert.)
As we light the Hanukkah candles and pray for peace and Justice, the repub girls are fighting over “Jewish Space Lasers”. What a way to keep repub sponsored Antisemitism alive and what timing. How the repub party can govern at all is up for debate. They lied about the election, continue to support Superman, even though he could go to jail for his crimes and are working on ways to block legislation. The border, the Dreamers, the Haters. There is no longer a working two party system.
All true.... at some point the GOP will have to return closer to the center and leave the crazies alone with their lies, meanness, and conspiracy theories. Either that or the party will eventually become (1) more ineffective than the are now or (2) an even greater threat to our Democracy.
Unfortunately, the Republicans cannot move away from crazy because there are upwards of 74 million US citizens who think crazy is the new wonderful. The 74 million are not fading. They are doubling down. About the only hope is that maybe 10% of the women who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but now find that fhey are tired of being treated as brood mares by the entire Republican Party will do what they did a few weeks ago: vote D and, to protect themselves from harm, lie to the Trump-loving monsters they are living with about how they voted.
Current Republicans can't back away from crazy and expect to get many votes. Without their smokescreen, "Make the rich richer and the poor poorer" would not be a popular sell.
I think you're right about the two options, but I don't have much faith in any return to "the center." I don't believe that what we think of as the center exists anymore. By whatever reverse alchemy has been at work in this country, the Republican Party has changed from deep inside out and is simply not the same party. It's not even a question of getting rid of the crazies. There's Crazy in their soul now. In my opinion, there is no Republican Party. What will be there when the dust settles, I honestly can't begin to imagine.
When Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Congress this week, wonder if MTG will suggest that Zelensky arrange for the space lasers rather than expensive American armaments?
I prefer reading these with my first cup of coffee early in the morning, but wowza, lots to unpack here! Lies, snarling, no tax audit, Jack Smith getting Jan 6 materials, republicans not wanting immigration reform, because, well..because
Thank you Professor! You made my night, and I will re-read with coffee tomorrow!
Regarding republicans not wanting immigration reform, kudos to ABC’s Martha Raddatz for calling out Texas Gov. Abbott for his disingenuous conduct:
“You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders,” Raddatz said to Abbott, “but I don’t think I've ever heard President Biden say, ‘we have an open border, come on over.’ But people I have heard say it are you, are former President Trump, Ron DeSantis; that message reverberates in Mexico and beyond. So they do get the message that it is an ‘open border,’ and smugglers use all those kinds of statements.”
https://youtu.be/UntEb0ekTOQ
Raddatz should lead a master class on media interviews.
That would be great, is there a way to message through substack?
I am!
She’s taking a reasonable bedtime. Well deserved given she’s still under the weather.
Yeah lots to unpack - and all of it - ALL OF IT - is exhibit "A" of a dangerous, obsolete, heartless, and corrupt political party that has way too much power in our supposedly great country. I don't even know where to begin. But y'all know this.
Here I was planning on giving all my Red relatives and sometime friends a copy of the J6 report and along comes Trump’s tax returns. Should I wait until after the first of the year to sent the later or should I just go ahead and do an enormous big Trump dump for the holidays?
To all LFAA followers, I send my season greetings and thank you all for your comments and conversations throughout the year. Be well.
You would first have to pay for all of them to have a “Reads with Comprehension” test and pass it.
Oh. I thought if I sent them in ginormous print or in very loud audio formats they'd follow. Comprehension now, that is a bigger issue.
😜🤪 😜🤪 😜🤪 😜🤪
I need a chuckle emoji to go with your trump dump!
Seasons greetings and happy holidays to you and yours, Fred WI!
I'll bet you are lots of fun at Christmastime. I'm sure they are too kind to tell you to your face what they think of you.
One day your face will be as (appropriately) red as Tim Robbins' during this interview. At least he is trying to come to terms with what Democrats have wrought.
https://youtu.be/uMdOesJo4h8
You are not living up to your aspirations are you:
“I enjoy a spirited debate, without logical fallacy and name calling.”
Show me lack of spirit, name calling or fallacy in the comment.
Seriously, do you think giving political gifts to relatives for Christmas is unworthy of ridicule? I called him no names. He called his relatives "Reds", Dehumanizing his own family. Truly sad. You defend that by criticizing me?
Put on some Rouge, lots of it.
https://youtu.be/4VIF_0ru6WI?t=49
Thank you for your thoughtful response.
Same here!
Read my comments on the politics of immigration, directly above. It's complicated!
But responding to your one sentence about it, the GOPers may feel they're not getting anything in return for given the Dreamers citizenship. Yet, any immigrant who gets citizenship can become the first link in chain migration, bringing in scads of relatives. This on top of the country's basic policy of admitting over a million annually--which Biden (who I otherwise think is doing a wonderful job) wants to increase to around 2 million.
Those numbers would throw millions of Americans out of work--there are only so many jobs available in any given year, and the pay would tank--as it did for meat packers, and many othesr in the '80s, when the immigration surge turned into a flood.
Also, the US is already environmentally unsustainable (I learned about these kinds of issues in '75 from John Holdren, a UC Berkeley professor who later moved to Harvard, and still later became Pres O's Science Advisor.) Global warming will mke the US far more unsustainable, as this article by ProPublica in the NYT Mag makes dramatically clear. Millions of Americans will become climate refugees in the next 20-30 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html
Just as the GOP has been in denial about global warming, so the Democratic Party is in denial about immigration.
See, every Jew I know (including me) is still patiently waiting for our space laser to show up in the mail. I could get the pin (https://dissentpins.com/collections/secret-jewish-space-laser) but what's the fun in that?
Que the SNL SKIT: Boebert vs Greene laser tag/white trash trailer park girl fight
Wouldn't it be gratifying if "the girls" got into it, right on the House floor? I mean right on the floor!! Greene would win if it's a bare-handed match (probably in better shape still from her gym days); Boebert if her AR-15 were to be
allowed in. What an embarrassment they are to my gender: all noise, crassness, brawn, and no brains. I can't wait until they have landed where they belong, in the dustbin of history.
I m not sure than Greene would last if the Whiskey Tango girl fight goes down the distance. If Greene goes full on, she could run out of gas burning out. All that muscle takes more energy. Boebert has the cardio and youth advantage, so it’s just a matter of her avoiding Greenes power shots. Plus Lauren’s new implants and Botox might shield her from Greenes power shots. Let’s get Dana White on phone. Might as well make some money on the side.
It sounds like a fight is brewing. Let us hope they are checking members of Congress for weapons. Both like to tote guns, although being from the Wild West Boebert seems more likely to try to conceal a gun. They are members of the new soap opera called "The American Republican Party." Perhaps they want to replace Donald Trump. Unfortunately for me, I don't like watching series where none of the characters are likable, so this is not the show for me!
You guys are missing the Trump-alike PowerUp Bonus. Marjorie has that one down cold. Boeberti sounds more like a Mortal Combat fighter, and has a longer cool-down.
Will the referee mind Boebert's Glock? and who will be the referee...Gym Jordan?
Is he Gym even interested in girl athletes?
I think Mitch McConnell is your man, I can just see a little spittle sliding out the corners of his mouth.
I'm sure, just for posterity (and attention), that Elise Stefanik would get in on it too.
She won't and that's what you have to fear. Rednecks Boebert and Greene are like unsightly oozing boils on the skin but Stefanik, who has fashioned herself as a "legit" legislator is a hidden cancer that insidiously metastasizes....
Since "Rednecks" are union miners fighting the powers that be, I would not be using that term to describe people like Boebert and Greene who are clearly union busters, as well as every other offensive thing they can do to working people, just because it might help someone who is not White out!
https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2015/05/20/is-west-virginia-s-coal-history-a-goldmine-mine-wars
I learned about this from reading Barbara Kingsolver's latest book, Demon Copperhead.
Now that is a fight I would buy a ticket for.
Me too. I think Stefanik is the most dangerous one of all.
Be safe as well, my compatriot.
Salud!
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Hahahahaha...Ted!😂
Ohh boy... "Lauren's new implants" !! Gag me! No wonder Gaetz & her have hooked up.. hhaahahaahahaa. Errr ahhh "hooked up" being my benign use of the expression....hahahaa. Really?
Gross!
But don't forget: greene owned a fitness center, and likes to show off her muscles. My money is on greene.
LOL Ted!!!!
Greene and Boebert are two examples of why I've never bought into the whole "always vote for the woman" idea.
Oh my Gail. I am soooo reading from the same sheet of music. For me it was Michelle Bachmann, years ago. She shocked me into reality. I am a bit befuddled why this upsets me so. Except to say that I have harbored in the past some views that have a tinge of misogyny, views I have tried to correct as I grow older. And this might something like viewing humanity in terms of 20K years ago when women tended the children, gathered the roots and seeds, prepared the meat the men brought back, etc. And the men fought off invaders, did invading (and raping) themselves, and did dangerous hunting. While human society has evolved considerably compared to back then, one could reason that women on average had (and have) cooler heads than men, and therefore might be better fit to rule in a civilized society. Since then I have come to realize that such a view is at best overly simplified and presumptuous. Michelle Bachmann showed me just how toxic females in political leadership can be. Also, if you want to see exhibit "A" in toxic conservative women, look no further than Fox News. So my point is that terrible wingnutty leadership is gender neutral to a certain extent. And while everything else being equal, I would vote for a woman, one must do their homework first.
Republicans have had a long list of horrible women candidates, but Michele Bachmann really stands out. Other famous Republican women who actively worked against women's and LGBTQ rights are Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly from the 80s Ugh. Horrible.
Given two highly qualified candidates with good ideas (i.e., ideas I support), I would generally prefer to vote for the woman, but as you say, a female horror show is still a horror show.
Thing is - Republicanism, as defined thoroughly by HCR in her various works, is a toxic way of looking at the world. It is heartless, anti-democratic, and incapable of dealing with what Al Gore calls "the inconvenient truth". Instead they believe there are indisputable truths, developed from ages of ancient thought and experience, that are as true today as in the past. So whenever something new comes (climate change is the prime example BTW), then their worldview gives them no choice but to reject it. That races of people are practically genetically identical? Uh, that's a problem for them too. This leaves its proponents struggling to fit in with today's realities without rejecting them, and/or engaging in disreputable activities to battle those who are better dealing to reality. There is a fundamental dishonesty in the Republican world view. So that partly explains why we see such "horrible candidates" whether men and women from the Republican party. Conversely, good hearted well meaning people have trouble sidling up to Republican views. Some exceptions, but IMO few.
“What an embarrassment they are to my gender”. Exactly
It would be like Annie Oakley and Dale Evans shooting it out! Nothing like watching two pigs sling mud at each other.
I don’t know --sounds like pigs in the mud to me --
https://www.facebook.com/100059806601270/posts/pfbid02HcC86A7E3EGaD9jQ9igrcwhxDDdNwPQEzcLonG2gRfSi4mkzqXcGW3MCPUuxkPchl/
Please note: girls, not women.
It's junior high all over again. Name calling. Hair pulling. Maybe even a food fight. Being sent to the Principal's office where "This is going on your PERMANENT RECORD." While the rest of us snicker and talk smack.
Sometimes, talking smack is good therapy as long as we can remember that it is not actual conversation.
Patricia
Agree! I've got snarky smack talk going on in my head every time one of the GOP opens their mouth! Hershel Walker just about put me over the edge. Since I'm a civilized person I can mostly keep it to myself. ❤️
As a former middle school teacher, for 22 years, I say you are spot on!
Hahaha - great GIF!
Laura And Wishy Washy McCarthy would be a bad referee, since he is sucking up to both these pistol packing mommas. Might Greene and Boebert shoot each other simultaneously? What a marvelous holiday thought! (And, perhaps, blast Jim ‘Pit bull’ Jordan in this blaze of bullets?)
Yes, an embarrassment to the human race, but particularly to women.
and to pigs
Is there a state where dueling is not illegal?
They remind me of audition candidates for the next “girl-mud wrestling” try-outs!
I don’t think that the AR-000 would be successfully traded for a cane, Ma’am.
Return of Tina Fey and Amy Polar. We need ya back ladies. Democracy needs comedy.
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LOL. Those two going at each other: Gangrene and Blight Barbie. The whole trailer park might go up.
You folks are way to hard on trailer parks, they are a protected class under civil rights laws. In all seriousness some low income folks don't have much choice when it comes to housing. We need solutions to raise income levels for all especially their children. (I have no support for MTG, I live less than 10 miles from her district, and even less Boebert.)
Agree, Dave, about trailer parks. There are trailer parks & then there are Trailer Parks - not places to look down on - legitimate homes!
As to the gruesome twosome? Shows exactly what having financial perks and no morals does for you. Altho - we should be used to that after TFG!
They are both to dumb to know how they are being used.
True
"Blight Barbie?" ::LOL:: That's new for me.
Someone who lives in Colorado called her a blight which I thought I should include as a nickname.
Too funny. But, an accurate picture!
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I would pay good money to watch the two of them fight to the finish.
as long as at the finish both have been deminished into nothingness.... which is what they are.
Jews are capable. Im sure the lasers are perfect in every way for mutual Whiskey Tango Girl destruction.
Oh, my. Does this mean they won't be sitting together during Biden's 2023 State of the Union?
We need Representative Katie Porter and her white board at the State of the Union.
It is going to be QUITE a list of actions taken for the American people - ALL, not some.
Amazing what can be accomplished when one doesn't spend (all) his days on the golf course (or watching Fox, or stealing classified documents...).
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I would pay good money to never have to hear either of their names again!
Where can I sign up?
“Blood and lust is the candy.”
I'll sell admission tickets.
Now that's hilarious!
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
I have a cough—you started me coughing again while laughing!
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As we light the Hanukkah candles and pray for peace and Justice, the repub girls are fighting over “Jewish Space Lasers”. What a way to keep repub sponsored Antisemitism alive and what timing. How the repub party can govern at all is up for debate. They lied about the election, continue to support Superman, even though he could go to jail for his crimes and are working on ways to block legislation. The border, the Dreamers, the Haters. There is no longer a working two party system.
All true.... at some point the GOP will have to return closer to the center and leave the crazies alone with their lies, meanness, and conspiracy theories. Either that or the party will eventually become (1) more ineffective than the are now or (2) an even greater threat to our Democracy.
Unfortunately, the Republicans cannot move away from crazy because there are upwards of 74 million US citizens who think crazy is the new wonderful. The 74 million are not fading. They are doubling down. About the only hope is that maybe 10% of the women who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but now find that fhey are tired of being treated as brood mares by the entire Republican Party will do what they did a few weeks ago: vote D and, to protect themselves from harm, lie to the Trump-loving monsters they are living with about how they voted.
Current Republicans can't back away from crazy and expect to get many votes. Without their smokescreen, "Make the rich richer and the poor poorer" would not be a popular sell.
It’s what they are all about
OR,
3) They have to convert the country to a Fascist state where we don't matter.
I know which one I think they are working on the most.
Haven’t they hit that bottom yet???
Oh, Jeri, you pure, sweet soul.
There is no bottom.
At least not in any of the other black holes in the Universe.
Even the new Webb telescope can't see to the bottom of the GOP pit.
The worst is yet to come. For the GQP. I think we are watching a spiral dive. And when they hit the ground they will keep going all the way to Hades.
The bottom seems to be a moving target…
Fast diggers. Really fast.
You know, in the spirit of truth-telling -- maybe the “Drain the Swamp” campaign slogan should have been “Fill the Sewer”.
I think you're right about the two options, but I don't have much faith in any return to "the center." I don't believe that what we think of as the center exists anymore. By whatever reverse alchemy has been at work in this country, the Republican Party has changed from deep inside out and is simply not the same party. It's not even a question of getting rid of the crazies. There's Crazy in their soul now. In my opinion, there is no Republican Party. What will be there when the dust settles, I honestly can't begin to imagine.
Well, we just had our little laugh. Now eyes front again.
Truth.
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Patricia -- As another member of the tribe, I feel very safe because I know the Jewish Space Lasers will not be targeting my home.
When Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Congress this week, wonder if MTG will suggest that Zelensky arrange for the space lasers rather than expensive American armaments?
I hope the Republicans give Zelensky the respect he deserves.