2021-05-10 at 10:20 PM UTC
POLECAT
POLECAT is a motherfucking ferret
[my presentably immunised ammonification]
did you dumbass niggers even look to see what Qanon is?
well I know you didnt cuz had you you wood no its Q,,,period. just Q.
anon's are the people trying to make cents out of Q posts
so when you speak out about Qanon you just look like the idiot you truley are
2021-05-10 at 11:10 PM UTC
OK.
Does anyone live in Reality and not Fantasy/Conspiracy Land?
2021-05-10 at 11:13 PM UTC
Q?
Is that what they call those things with the strings that are used to control puppets?
2021-05-11 at 5:58 AM UTC
CNN
An amazing revelation about the GOP's willful blindness on Donald Trump
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
When I read these lines in a Washington Post profile of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney over the weekend, I gasped:
"When staff from the National Republican Congressional Committee rose to explain the party's latest polling in core battleground districts [at an April retreat], they left out a key finding about Trump's weakness, declining to divulge the information even when directly questioned about Trump's support by a member of Congress, according to two people familiar with what transpired. ... Trump's unfavorable ratings were 15 points higher than his favorable ones in the core districts, according to the full polling results, which were later obtained by The Washington Post."
Go back and read that. And consider what it makes clear.
It's this: The campaign officials charged with helping Republicans win back their majority in 2022 are keeping deeply relevant information about former President Donald Trump's negative impact from GOPers running in key seats.
That is, quite literally, the definition of political malpractice. And, at least according to the Post, it's not the first time it's happened.
"Cheney was alarmed, she later told others, in part because Republican campaign officials had also left out bad Trump polling news at a March retreat for ranking committee chairs," reported the Post.
Why would these campaign types be purposely leaving out data that will, quite clearly, impact critical campaigns in the battle for the House majority? I'm a broken record here, but the answer is simple: They are terrified of Trump and the base he commands.
So terrified that they are willing to jeopardize the party's chances of winning back the House in order to preserve the cult of personality around Trump and the 2020 election that he lost.
From the perspective of these campaign officials -- and NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer -- they are doing what they need to survive in this moment in Republican politics. Trump has repeatedly shown a willingness to attack those who cross him -- and use the utter fealty he commands among his base to end (or curtail) political careers.
And so, rather than give GOP members the honest truth about Trump -- he's widely popular among the base and not at all popular with the general electorate -- they perpetuate the myth that aligning with Trump is A-OK as a winning strategy!
The Point: This is shortsighted politics. History suggests Republicans should win back the majority in November 2022 -- but hewing so closely to a deeply unpopular former President spouting election lies may be the one way to keep history from repeating itself.
2021-05-11 at 8:38 AM UTC
Reminder about mainstream news.
2021-05-11 at 3:49 PM UTC
Making
Americans
Grovel
At the Mar-A-Lago throne
CNN
What Mitt Romney nails about the removal of Liz Cheney
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
In a single sentence on Monday night, Mitt Romney explained why the planned removal of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position in the House on Wednesday is such a giant mistake for Republicans.
"Expelling Liz Cheney from leadership won't gain the GOP one additional voter, but it will cost us quite a few," tweeted the Utah senator (and 2012 Republican presidential nominee).
Yup. Nailed it.
Here is the political reality that Republicans currently face: They don't control the White House, the Senate or the House. They have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential races. Republicans face their largest deficit on the party identification question in almost a decade. And the man who oversaw these losses -- Donald J. Trump -- is deeply unpopular among the general electorate.
It doesn't take a political genius to figure out that the Republican Party needs to grow, considerably, if it wants to return to the once-dominant position it held in the early 2000s.
"Cancel culture is cancel culture, no matter how you look at it," said Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst about the effort to remove Cheney. "I support President Trump and his policies, so I have a slightly different view on that -- but I still think we shouldn't be trying to cancel voices."
The die is, of course, cast. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (California) has not only signaled his plan to hold a removal vote to oust Cheney as GOP Conference Chair on Wednesday but has also signaled his support for New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to replace her.
And amazingly, he has justified his actions by referencing the idea of the GOP as a "big tent party." He included that phrase in a letter to GOP members justifying his plans. He added in that same letter:
"We represent Americans of all backgrounds and continue to grow our movement by the day. And unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate. All members are elected to represent their constituents as they see fit, but our leadership team cannot afford to be distracted by the important work we were elected to do and the shared goals we hope to achieve."
Now, to be clear, I don't think that the average American is watching the machinations of House Republican leaders. Despite Cheney's famous last name -- her father was the vice president of the United States during the George W. Bush presidency -- most people in the country are simply not focused on whether she remains in leadership or not.
"I was in Nebraska all last week and not one Nebraskan asked me about Liz Cheney," Nebraska Republican Sen. Deb Fischer said Monday. "I think you guys are focused on this intra-party fighting." Added Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, who runs the party's campaign committee: "No one is talking about this."
Which, again, is probably right! But also sort of misses the point.
The point is this: Actions have consequences. And removing Cheney from leadership solely because she voted to impeach Trump and believes he should not play a major role in the party going forward sends a message. And replacing her with Stefanik, who has become a national star on the back of her full-throated defense of Trump during both impeachment proceedings against him, sends that same message.
The message? This is Trump's party and anyone -- ANYONE -- who doesn't get in line behind him at all times no matter what will be severely punished. (That get-in-line mentality extends all the way to insisting -- against all objective facts -- that the 2020 election was fraudulent or stolen.)
The inevitable result then of the purging of any and all anti-Trump voices within the party leadership will be to chill ANY dissent, unless, like Cheney, those speaking up are willing to lose leadership positions (or their political careers) for doing so.
All of which means that the Republican Party will grow even Trumpier. And that's a major problem for Republicans because there simply aren't enough Americans who love (or even like) Trump for Republicans to grow their party via total fealty to the former president.
The removal of Cheney is a recipe to shrink a party that badly needs to grow. Romney understands that -- having come up short in his fight for the White House.
Republicans would do well to listen to him. But they won't.
2021-05-11 at 3:58 PM UTC
Funny to watch the Democrats attack the credibility of the Arizona auditors right off the bat. Shows how terrified they are right now.
2021-05-11 at 4:06 PM UTC
Making
All
Goons
Appeal the judge's decision
CNN
2 men accused of using chemical on officer Brian Sicknick at the Capitol riot to stay in jail, judge rules
By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
Two men accused of spraying police with chemical spray, including on Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, in the Capitol riot will stay in jail as they await trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
The long-awaited ruling from Judge Thomas Hogan of the DC District Court comes in one of the most closely watched cases related to Trump supporters' violence against police during the insurrection.
RELATED: Sicknick death ruled 'natural' but experts say stress can set off strokes
The two Trump supporters spraying toxic chemicals at police during the riot "wasn't just out of the blue," Hogan said on Tuesday. George Tanios and Julian Khater "had a plan to use those devices as weapons at the Capitol," Hogan added.
Tanios and Khater have pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of assaulting police and other charges.
Tanios is accused of buying pepper and bear spray in West Virginia to bring to the election protests, then carrying it in his backpack in the crowd on January 6. Khater is alleged to have pulled out the chemical spray during the riot and fired it in the faces of three officers, including Sicknick, injuring them as the police line around the Capitol building began to fall.
Video from the attack, released recently to CNN and other media outlets, was key to the judge's considerations.
"Mr. Khater did the spraying. Mr. Tanios did not, but he obviously" worked with his friend, Hogan said.
Sicknick died the day after the riot from strokes, and the chemical spray attack has not been linked to his death.
"It did affect him ... he is injured," Hogan noted of Sicknick, who is on surveillance video minutes after the attack wiping his face, pacing and kneeling.
2021-05-11 at 4:13 PM UTC
Making
All
GOPers
Anti-democratic
The Hill
Michael Steele: 'No doubt' GOP represents one of the world's largest anti-democracy forces
Joseph Choi
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Monday agreed with the assertion that the GOP is "one of the largest anti-democratic movements in the world."
During an appearance on MSNBC's show "Deadline: White House," host Nicolle Wallace brought up a clip of Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) standing by his vote challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Banks was one of several Republicans who voted to challenge the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, when both the House and Senate met to certify the election results. However, the day was interrupted when a mob of former President Trump's supporters breached the Capitol and ransacked lawmakers' offices, attacked Capitol Police and forced members of Congress to hide in undisclosed locations.
Banks was also one of several Republicans to join a Texas lawsuit that made its way to the Supreme Court challenging the 2020 election results. However, the high court would not hear the case.
Wallace asked Steele, a member of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, if after viewing the clip he believed that the Republican Party was one of the largest movements against democracy in the world.
"Part of me wants to ask you who's going to tell him and other part of me wants to ask you if the Republicans now represent one of the largest, in terms of numbers, anti-democratic movements in the world."
Steele responded that there was "no doubt about that."
"We're streaming headlong into that truth about who Republicans are and how they see themselves right now," Steele said. "It's just another, you know, degree of stupid that we're asked to buy."
The news come as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 House Republican, faces efforts to oust her from leadership. Cheney has garnered intense backlash from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), among others, for speaking out against Trump and asserting that the 2020 election was not stolen from the former president by widespread voter fraud.
Steele, who endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, said that there were a number of ways that Republicans could be made to care about democracy.
"One is what do good citizens out there deicide to do? How do they stand up and respond? And to that I say stay tuned because there are responses coming in the wake of what we see happen on Wednesday," Steele said, referring to the day Republicans are poised to vote on Cheney's status as chairwoman of the House Republican Conference
Steele said the recent rise in GOP-led action to challenge elections or limit voter access is in preparation for upcoming elections, when "Republicans know their backs are going to be up against the wall."
"That's where you have to overwhelm the system with your legitimate vote. Because at the end of the day, the numbers don't lie," Steele said.
A number of state legislatures have introduced or passed bills across the country that would tighten voting restrictions for mail-in votes, polling stations and identification requirements.
Democrats and voting rights activists have largely panned this type of legislation as voter suppression.
2021-05-11 at 4:20 PM UTC
McCarthy To Lose and Cheney To Win?...Place Your Bets, Folks ! ! !
Mediaite
Numerous GOP House Members Reportedly ‘Pissed Off’ at McCarthy Over Cheney Fiasco: ‘Weak Leadership. Straight Up.’
Joe DePaolo
One day ahead of the vote to oust one of their leaders from her position, a new report says there’s growing unrest in the ranks among the GOP House caucus over the whole episode.
According to Tuesday’s edition of Politico Playbook, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is facing backlash from House Republicans for his push to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from leadership. Playbook reports that the move is being viewed by some GOP members (and not just moderate “Adam Kinzinger types,” Politico reports) as McCarthy throwing his own colleague to the “MAGA wolves” to secure the backing of former President Donald Trump in his potential bid for speaker in 2022.
“Kevin McCarthy has pissed off enough members of his own conference that he’s going to have to go back to his former days as a whip to try to figure out where his votes are [to become speaker],” an unnamed GOP member of Congress told Politico. The unidentified representative — whom Politico billed as a perceived McCarthy ally — added, “You have people like me — who are here to do the right thing for all the right reasons and have an expectation of leadership — that are, shall we say, disgusted with the internal squabbling that results from having weak leadership. And it is weak leadership. Straight up.”
A senior aide to a conservative GOP House member also told Politico that McCarthy’s back-and-forth on whether or not the former president is complicit in the Capitol riot.
“He’s flip-flopped on [whether it’s] Trump’s fault, it’s not Trump’s fault. … It seems like he doesn’t have the backbone to lead,” the aide told Politico. “He bends to political pressure. It’s tough to do when you’re Speaker. You have to lead.”
McCarthy sent a letter to his GOP House colleagues Monday spelling out his reasons for setting the vote to oust Cheney.
“It’s clear that we need to make a change,” McCarthy wrote.
Based on the Politico report, the minority leader might want to be careful what he wishes for.
2021-05-11 at 4:46 PM UTC
After his loss in the chairmanship election, Steele was hired by MSNBC to be a regular political analyst as of May 2011.[7] He also was hired to be a columnist for the online magazine The Root, an African-American news and commentary site owned by The Washington Post Company.[64]
On C-SPAN's Washington Journal on the Sunday after the 2012 Obama reelection victory, Steele expressed some interest in running for RNC Chairman again. Steele emphasized the need to make conservative minorities feel comfortable and welcome in a party that offered them opportunities to launch political careers in counties and statehouses.[65]
In 2018, Steele was named a faculty fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, where he will lead seminars.[66]
In August 2020, Steele joined the Lincoln Project PAC and endorsed Joe Biden for president.[1]
