I suspect the Supreme Court leak came from Alito, Thomas or Thomas's wife, Ginny, which is why the public won't be privy to the responsible party or parties.
Once in power, republicans never fail to hold the U.S. to unnecessary economic trauma.
The GOP is a cruel and useless excuse for a political party.
I suspect the Supreme Court leak came from Alito, Thomas or Thomas's wife, Ginny, which is why the public won't be privy to the responsible party or parties.
Once in power, republicans never fail to hold the U.S. to unnecessary economic trauma.
The GOP is a cruel and useless excuse for a political party.
Just because Republicans were in charge in both houses of Congress and the Presidency (Calvin Coolidge), in the ten years leading to the Great Depression in 1929?? That does not mean Pubs are always responsible for Great Depressions with bad policy.
And, just because George W Bush/Republicans were in charge of the gov in the eight years leading up to the second largest economic crash in the last 120 years in the US, the 2008 depression that permanently devastated many Americans??? Does not mean Pubs are always responsible for depressions due to bad policy.
And, just because the Republicans were in charge from 2016 to 2020 when the deficit shot up like a rocket AND the economy crashed due to tax cuts and poor management of the Coronavirus? Does not mean Pubs are always responsible for depressions due to bad policy.
And just because, in 1982, when Reagan was President, America had one of its WORST recessions in history, resulting in college graduates all over the US not getting jobs for, in some cases, years, and resulting in the first deficit spending to try to fake our way out of that?? Does not mean Pubs are always responsible for depressions due to bad policy.
Just because TFG told thousands of already organized and prepared for violence criminals and soon to be criminals to march to the capitol and stop Mike Pence from certifying votes for President Biden, which we watched in horror with our own eyes and ears doesn’t mean Republicans are singularly responsible for trying to overthrow the government. Just because they’ve weaseled their way in through voter suppression and gerrymandering, and helped by foreign governments, dark money, delusional lunatic conspiracy theories and media news outlet that spew falsehoods to millions of Americans telling them how Democrats eat babies, and hate Jesus. Doesn’t mean Pubs are responsible for an insurrection, seditionists seated in Congress at this very moment and a continuing attack on the Constitution, Americans, women, and our economic system. Right?
According to something I read/heard the other day (can't remember where), 30% of the deficit is a result of TFG's tax cuts to the super-rich and deadbeat corporations. 30%. In 2 years.
Linda, BUT I thought it was OK to run deficits if we make sure that the money goes to Republican donors and the richest pay no tax? Is that not what Reagan taught and sought?
It's only "wasteful" if the money goes out on programs like Social Security for people who don't donate to political campaigns.
Nope not to political campaigns but they ALL "donated/contributed" to the Social Security program, tho - its THEIR money these numnuts want to take away! Doesnt it seem as tho that truth should be shouted from the rooftops rather than allowing the R bunch's bs to be believed?
I will just agree with you on all of this, and start working. :-) Though I am retired , I still work. I might drop into the conversation later today. I find everyone´s comments interesting and entertaining. It makes a great break in my day. Thank you everyone. I just discovered this online chat, though I have read Dr Richardson´s posts for years.
Diane, welcome. I mostly lurk, because the people here are so smart and well-informed. There is more accurate information from HCR and the incredible people who post here, than any other source.
I am one of those who graduated college in 1981 (into Oregon's decline of the timber industry and in search of a law enforcement position). It took 4 years and testing with multiple agencies in multiple states before I was hired in 1985. That was in the first round of new hires in my department since "the layoffs in 1982" (they'd spent 3+ years hiring back all the folks they'd laid off before getting to us "new hires".)
The "GOP" has been captured, bought and paid for by cynical, self-serving plutocrats. Lincoln would (presumably) be outraged. "Reaganomics", between the lines, and certainly in practice, makes the very rich much richer, the poor poorer, and government of, by and for the people an endangered species. Certainly that has verifiability been very much the trend (with the governments own statistics) over the last four decades.
I completely agree. If Roberts doesn't like the low approval ratings of his court, he has only to look at Alito and Thomas (and Ginny) and others who cover their stink with a black robe.
Roberts, himself, is a fully committed white supremacist and been for his entire career. He might like the Court to enjoy better approval ratings but not at the cost of changing its inclination for guaranteeing white control of the government.
I agree with you, Deborah Carroll. I believe it came straight from Alito, which is why I keep envisioning Captain Renault from Casablanca blowing his whistle in Rick’s and ordering “Round up the usual suspects”. What a grifter.
Fomenting disrespect for government institutions is part of the Republican playbook for dismantling democracy. First they cause dysfunction, then point out that government doesn’t work, then the rubes (read working class) vote for the dismantlers, and, voila, we find a kleptocratic autocracy in charge.
That was the cunning part of Reagan's attacks on "government" (of, by and for the people). And of course the ahistorical "high tide lifts all boats" theory, that everybody prospers when the wealthiest rule the roost.
From the rape of the environment to the "Great Recession" to the plutocratic tilt of our courts and laws, we are living the legacy of Reagan, and the corrupt and plutocratic neo-"GOP".
While the media had been gunning for Nixon, they seemed to eat from "The Gipper"'s hand, repeatedly dubbing him "The Great" whatever; or when caught doing dodgy stuff, "The Teflon President"
"Former US President Ronald Reagan has been voted the "greatest American" of all time by his fellow citizens. Mr Reagan, who died last year aged 93, topped a list of 10 contenders, which featured six former presidents."
"He edged out Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Some of the most notable names of US history such as Albert Einstein and Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, did not make the top 10."
"More than 2.4 million Americans cast their vote by phone, text or e-mail in the poll, organized by the Discovery Channel and AOL. "
When Roberts was asked why his court does not observe the code of ethics standards observed by lower courts, my memory is that he literally said that the Supreme Court is above all that, and that anyway no one has the power to enforce it. He presumes their word is law.
The GOP is a party that remains in power by serving the rich, big business and now more openly than ever before , racists. They get money from the former and the racists supply votes. ( along with those who hate anyone getting economic help from the government)The party is a world apart from the party that I grew up with from 1950 to 1970. Once Joe McCarthy, was out of the way, they were mostly honorable men. I will never forget the 147 votes against certifying Joe Biden, only hours after the entire congress was effectively held hostage by the terrorist insurrectionists. These are extraordinary times as Nicole Wallace says each day, at the end of her show. With luck , the GOP will shatter soon.
I suspect the Supreme Court leak came from Alito, Thomas or Thomas's wife, Ginny, which is why the public won't be privy to the responsible party or parties.
Once in power, republicans never fail to hold the U.S. to unnecessary economic trauma.
The GOP is a cruel and useless excuse for a political party.
Now, now.
Just because Republicans were in charge in both houses of Congress and the Presidency (Calvin Coolidge), in the ten years leading to the Great Depression in 1929?? That does not mean Pubs are always responsible for Great Depressions with bad policy.
And, just because George W Bush/Republicans were in charge of the gov in the eight years leading up to the second largest economic crash in the last 120 years in the US, the 2008 depression that permanently devastated many Americans??? Does not mean Pubs are always responsible for depressions due to bad policy.
And, just because the Republicans were in charge from 2016 to 2020 when the deficit shot up like a rocket AND the economy crashed due to tax cuts and poor management of the Coronavirus? Does not mean Pubs are always responsible for depressions due to bad policy.
And just because, in 1982, when Reagan was President, America had one of its WORST recessions in history, resulting in college graduates all over the US not getting jobs for, in some cases, years, and resulting in the first deficit spending to try to fake our way out of that?? Does not mean Pubs are always responsible for depressions due to bad policy.
Right?
:-)
What are you trying to say here, Mike? 😉
Just because TFG told thousands of already organized and prepared for violence criminals and soon to be criminals to march to the capitol and stop Mike Pence from certifying votes for President Biden, which we watched in horror with our own eyes and ears doesn’t mean Republicans are singularly responsible for trying to overthrow the government. Just because they’ve weaseled their way in through voter suppression and gerrymandering, and helped by foreign governments, dark money, delusional lunatic conspiracy theories and media news outlet that spew falsehoods to millions of Americans telling them how Democrats eat babies, and hate Jesus. Doesn’t mean Pubs are responsible for an insurrection, seditionists seated in Congress at this very moment and a continuing attack on the Constitution, Americans, women, and our economic system. Right?
Karen. RIGHT!
I have copied for posterity and to share with my Republican friends.
Thanks!
:-)
Call ‘em like we see em!
That about sums it up!
According to something I read/heard the other day (can't remember where), 30% of the deficit is a result of TFG's tax cuts to the super-rich and deadbeat corporations. 30%. In 2 years.
Linda, BUT I thought it was OK to run deficits if we make sure that the money goes to Republican donors and the richest pay no tax? Is that not what Reagan taught and sought?
It's only "wasteful" if the money goes out on programs like Social Security for people who don't donate to political campaigns.
"...Social Security for people who don't donate to political campaigns." Because they're living on Social Security and can't afford to! 👿
Nope not to political campaigns but they ALL "donated/contributed" to the Social Security program, tho - its THEIR money these numnuts want to take away! Doesnt it seem as tho that truth should be shouted from the rooftops rather than allowing the R bunch's bs to be believed?
An exercise in irony so the reader should understand each paragraph's final sentence to mean: Pubs ARE always responsible for... ?
Gosh Mike, when you put it like that... ;)
I will just agree with you on all of this, and start working. :-) Though I am retired , I still work. I might drop into the conversation later today. I find everyone´s comments interesting and entertaining. It makes a great break in my day. Thank you everyone. I just discovered this online chat, though I have read Dr Richardson´s posts for years.
Diane, welcome. I mostly lurk, because the people here are so smart and well-informed. There is more accurate information from HCR and the incredible people who post here, than any other source.
Diane,
Welcome to the party! There is enough diversity of thought and good writers to make this board with (some) time.
Welcome! You just spent the best money you have ever spent in your life.
“Welcome to the club”, Diane. We all welcome others, and their opinions. Makes this “Steady” more steady!
Right? “Conservative”?
Misnomers both
Yep.
Nazi's is more accurate.
Here’s an example of how these Dumb ones parade their cluelessness around on a poop stick
https://newrepublic.com/article/170104/go-ahead-republicans-pass-national-sales-tax?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily
I am one of those who graduated college in 1981 (into Oregon's decline of the timber industry and in search of a law enforcement position). It took 4 years and testing with multiple agencies in multiple states before I was hired in 1985. That was in the first round of new hires in my department since "the layoffs in 1982" (they'd spent 3+ years hiring back all the folks they'd laid off before getting to us "new hires".)
RIGHT!
New acronymn? DNMRAR?
My money is on Alito. I give him a guilty verdict.
I’m taking Ginni Thomas as #2 suspect. She is a female version of Roger Stone.
Ted Keyes, thank you! It’s so perfect a pair of pernicious influences.
Dumb and Dumber 3
Out now staring Roger Stone and Ginni Thomas, with a cameo by Sam Alito
The "GOP" has been captured, bought and paid for by cynical, self-serving plutocrats. Lincoln would (presumably) be outraged. "Reaganomics", between the lines, and certainly in practice, makes the very rich much richer, the poor poorer, and government of, by and for the people an endangered species. Certainly that has verifiability been very much the trend (with the governments own statistics) over the last four decades.
Agreed.
I'm currently reading "The Economists Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture Of Society" by Binyamin Applebaum.
These "plutocrats" have many "False" prophet economists to thank for their obscene wealth.
Don't rule out Mrs. Alito. (It's always the ones you're not looking at.)
I see it as a two-fer. Both Mr. & Mrs
The new investigation of the leak indicates your conclusion. 100%
Republicans are stingy and mean, and have been since about 1880.
I completely agree. If Roberts doesn't like the low approval ratings of his court, he has only to look at Alito and Thomas (and Ginny) and others who cover their stink with a black robe.
Roberts, himself, is a fully committed white supremacist and been for his entire career. He might like the Court to enjoy better approval ratings but not at the cost of changing its inclination for guaranteeing white control of the government.
I agree with you, Deborah Carroll. I believe it came straight from Alito, which is why I keep envisioning Captain Renault from Casablanca blowing his whistle in Rick’s and ordering “Round up the usual suspects”. What a grifter.
Agree. Even a Junior level investigator could have seen this one coming. The Supreme Court has lost all credibility.
Fomenting disrespect for government institutions is part of the Republican playbook for dismantling democracy. First they cause dysfunction, then point out that government doesn’t work, then the rubes (read working class) vote for the dismantlers, and, voila, we find a kleptocratic autocracy in charge.
That was the cunning part of Reagan's attacks on "government" (of, by and for the people). And of course the ahistorical "high tide lifts all boats" theory, that everybody prospers when the wealthiest rule the roost.
From the rape of the environment to the "Great Recession" to the plutocratic tilt of our courts and laws, we are living the legacy of Reagan, and the corrupt and plutocratic neo-"GOP".
While the media had been gunning for Nixon, they seemed to eat from "The Gipper"'s hand, repeatedly dubbing him "The Great" whatever; or when caught doing dodgy stuff, "The Teflon President"
A poll from 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4631421.stm
"Former US President Ronald Reagan has been voted the "greatest American" of all time by his fellow citizens. Mr Reagan, who died last year aged 93, topped a list of 10 contenders, which featured six former presidents."
"He edged out Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Some of the most notable names of US history such as Albert Einstein and Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, did not make the top 10."
"More than 2.4 million Americans cast their vote by phone, text or e-mail in the poll, organized by the Discovery Channel and AOL. "
seems they are indeed above the Law and superior to the plebes they rule by now creating law.
When Roberts was asked why his court does not observe the code of ethics standards observed by lower courts, my memory is that he literally said that the Supreme Court is above all that, and that anyway no one has the power to enforce it. He presumes their word is law.
The GOP is a party that remains in power by serving the rich, big business and now more openly than ever before , racists. They get money from the former and the racists supply votes. ( along with those who hate anyone getting economic help from the government)The party is a world apart from the party that I grew up with from 1950 to 1970. Once Joe McCarthy, was out of the way, they were mostly honorable men. I will never forget the 147 votes against certifying Joe Biden, only hours after the entire congress was effectively held hostage by the terrorist insurrectionists. These are extraordinary times as Nicole Wallace says each day, at the end of her show. With luck , the GOP will shatter soon.
Even so, a dangerous, wounded predator.
My money’s on Ginny Thomas but this whitewash of an investigation never considered the justices
Want to bet it was both of them? ha ha, It was both of them. Fascists bastards!
Robert Hubbell today describes in detail why the Republican Party is a clear and prenatal=sent danger. http://roberthubbell.substack.com/