Keep fishing for those important stories
I’ve been a fisherman most of my life. Now that I’m retired, I enjoy it more so. After reading the paper today, it occurred to me that both have a lot in common.
A reporter reads the water waiting for a story to surface. Once it does, he casts for the facts. The “whoppers,” however, are a lot harder to find. They stay deep undercover. Once caught, they muddy the water or snag the line with disinformation and lies.
If that doesn’t work, they jump over and over again shaking their heads saying, “I didn’t do it.” They’re trying to misdirect and remove the hook.
Finally, as more facts are exposed, the net scoops him up. His actions will determine if he will be a “catch and release,” or if he will be nailed to the wall.
I tip my hat to the reporters that troll deep for the facts. I also salute the wire leaders and editors that review the facts for publication. Their efforts set the hook allowing the truth to be seen, and sometimes the law gets to reel one in.
As Gadabout Gaddis might say, “Keep casting, and tight lines” Gazette. Happy New Year.
George Hebert
Cohoes
Consider all factors with plastic bags
In his Jan. 12 letter (“Stop putting paper in thin plastic bags”) to The Gazette, David Gibson requested that Gazette carriers refrain from using single-use plastic bags.
As a former Gazette carrier of over 13 years, David having a “tube” for his daily paper was not the norm where I delivered. The majority of papers delivered were to front doors, side doors, front steps or wherever my customer requested it.
It was essential to have something that kept the elements of nature from destroying the reader’s paper. Even those customers of mine who had tubes would have their paper placed in a bag if conditions warranted it.
Although David may not know it, carriers “buy” these bags and bands as needed and were charged for a customer complaint if the paper was not in the best condition for reading. Some customers did return used bags and rubber bands for use, again which was appreciated.
The need for an alternative solution other than the present plastic bag should take into consideration that many carriers might be going to other jobs after delivering, time constraints, future possible cost to the carrier, and ease of doing their deliveries. These should factor into any future decisions regarding that.
Kurt Haushalter
Scotia
Officials linger to keep making money
The laws apply to all of us. Did you ever wonder why people in Congress retire in their 80s, while their constituents retire in their 60s? Could it be their hunger for power?
A case in point: Nancy Pelosi recently invested money in the stock market with information she obtained on companies regulated by Congress. Her $30 million gain easily beat Warren Buffet’s $10 million. She claims her holding back legislation, which would harm her investments, had nothing to do with insider trading. So much for progressive thinking.
Adding that to her $40 million position in her winery should make her ready for retirement.
My question is: do you think she’ll try to match Biden’s 1% donation to charities? We can only hope.
Vince Alescio
Clifton Park
Stop scaring public over covid dangers
Over 60% of the United States population is fully vaccinated. We have been wearing masks for over two years now. However, if you listen to the news, the covid numbers are higher than ever.
It is apparent to me that this virus needs to take its course. I personally do not believe masks and vaccinations are mitigating anything. In fact, they are causing unrest among people.
I am so sick of the arguing over these issues. Live and let live! The government and media should stop scaring the public and leave us alone. At this point, I am of the belief that if we had just let nature take its course from the start, we would have reached herd immunity by now. This is America. We revolted against such government tactics to become the greatest country in the world.
Lastly, the collateral damage caused by the overreacting of the powers to be is a travesty.
What the government mandated in the name of help merely created different but just as devastating consequences. It is time to revolt again!
Barbara McBride
Schenectady
Reuse plastic bags to pick up dog waste
This is in response to David Gibson’s letter (“Stop putting paper in thin plastic bags”) in the Jan. 12 Gazette. Not only are the bags useful to keep the paper dry (I took down my plastic tube because the paper still got wet), but they get a second chance to get used because they are ideal when walking your dog to pick up its fallout.
So if you have a neighbor with dogs, you may want to pass them along or maybe the shelter might want them so they can be recycled.
Scott Anderson
Scotia
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Must say if I see or hear something I don’t like, regardless of whomever says or does I call them on it; I was just watching Chris Hayes interviewing Adam Schiff, and in the background is a front facing book “Midnight in Washington” by Adam Schiff.
It’s one thing for a private citizen to get a free plug, but a don’t like when any politician is trying to add to their pocket in that manner. Just sayin
He also pointed out something else that is downright fascinating. The above observation explains why the Republican elite and powerful will support DeSantis while the mob will continue to support Trump. This could create real problems for the phony and former G.O.P. Let’s hope so.
David Frum, genuine conservative Republican intellectual and avid foe of Trump said something on Ari Melber tonight that was really interesting food for thought. He called Trump a genuine American phony and DeSantis a phony American phony. If you think about it, it makes sense and reveals a great deal about both of them.
Remember Trump has a very checkered career as a student.
DeSantis is a Yale and Harvard graduate.
Weee haaa, the roaches are continually being pulled from their filthy nests:
Washington Post
“The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection issued subpoenas to members of former president Trump’s outside legal team on Tuesday, including Trump’s former personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, former White House aide Boris Epshteyn, and lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
“The four individuals we’ve subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes,” Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement.”…
Catching more fish! Reel em in!!
Hopefully they’ll work their way right up the food chain to the great orange shark.
William, Also know as Always Wrong News favorite website for “facts” Revolver. Got a few minutes read the whole story. You will see why this is one of his go to sites
Excerpt:
The story of how Beattie went from being an unknown speechwriter fired from the Trump White House in 2018 to a prominent propagandist fired by the Biden White House in 2022 is worth recounting for what it tells us about the chaotic Trumpian right. It is not a particularly encouraging story. Beattie rehabilitated his relationship with MAGA World not by cleaning up his act but by showing an unflagging commitment to Trump and demonstrating a real knack for promoting conspiracy theories. That Trump is eager to promote Beattie—that Trump finds Beattie useful—is yet another indicator of everything that is disturbing about the ex-president’s hold on the GOP.
https://www.thebulwark.com/even-as-his-big-conspiracy-theory-crumbles-darren-beatties-star-continues-to-rise-in-trump-world/
I was thinking about something that all these “non-racist” RACISTS should think about: Just as in sports such as baseball, football, and basketball, to name a few, if you want to be on the winning human team you best make it inclusive of ALL, God damn it! – Nah, the Dodgers and the Giants would have better off without Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays.
So William agreed when CNN airs bad things about Biden they are factual …When they air bad things about Trump they are fake news. …I think William likes be a TrumpT*rd. I can’t stop laughing. …Also William Trump supporters are threatened by facts as you display daily here
Thanks their mr. Varoma, I ben tryin to learn me a new wurd ever day. My wurd for taday were hipockrasee, an from what I ben learning, you jus give me a grate xample. Much obliged.
Boy, oh boy, ya talk about brain dead. Wow! ~ Holy Bouncy Boiler Plate, Batman!
FYI to all: “Some Americans are able to order free rapid coronavirus tests from a federal website beginning Tuesday, ahead of the site’s official launch Wednesday. The website, covidtests.gov, is operating at limited capacity Tuesday to ensure a smooth launch Wednesday, a White House official said.”
Just ordered mine, without problem.
Thanks for the information Lou; Unlike the former monstrosity who occupied the White House, bringing his own unique stench of corruption with him, Biden does his best to follow through on his promises.
Just for the hell of it, a few of Trump’s failed promises:
A health plan so great he’d have no trouble ending Obamacare
Infrastructure updating
His ugly wall that HAHAHAHA Mexico would pay for BUT,
HE DID GET A 2 TRILLION DOLLAR TAX CUT FOR THE 1% YAYYYYYYY!
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
Again, it needs to be asked:
Are you high?
That’s funny because it was your fellow lefty that posted that article…
LOUIS RESTIFO
January 18th, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
An article you clearly didn’t read.
How about yet another song-and-dance of bravado and bluster how you’re not the racist party, “it’s the other party, the guys that also have twice as many members of color, because they’re so racist!”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“For the past 18 months, many political scientists have been seized by one question: Less-educated whites were President Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. But why, exactly?”
Why indeed.
Btw, I just want to note that if you or your little racist Republican Trump-humping friends could show one tiny microgram of humanity or humility, I guarantee my tone and probably many many others would be more friendly. But you all are so full of yourselves and your LOLs and your bizarre delusions of grandeur, and especially your willingness to make a mockery of our system of government and our experts and the will of the American people, I don’t feel you deserve any more than my mockery and derision.
Grow up and rejoin the human race and maybe we can talk.
Lou, it is almost enough to make you feel sorry for such pathetic, fearful, losers; but no, the hatred they feel toward “others” stops that empathy in its tracks.
Tony, excerpts from the link I posted:
“it was about dominant groups that felt threatened by change and a candidate who took advantage of that trend.”
“For the first time since Europeans arrived in this country,” Mutz notes, “white Americans are being told that they will soon be a minority race.” When members of a historically dominant group feel threatened, she explains, they go through some interesting psychological twists and turns to make themselves feel okay again. First, they get nostalgic and try to protect the status quo however they can.”….. (MAGA)
“Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.”
Ya hit the nail on the head with this comment ChuckD. You picked the right phrase when you pointed out that they don’t “show one tiny microgram of humanity or humility,” and everything you write is also a perfect description of the bizarre jerk they still LITERALLY worship.
I will never understand how so many Americans can believe and respect Trump and the clowns he surrounds himself with. It would be a hilarious movie if it weren’t actually happening!
That’s not it Chuck, even when completely stoned people are at least a little cognizant.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
In other words, it’s now pretty clear that many Trump supporters feel threatened, frustrated, and marginalized—not on an economic, but on an existential level. Now what?
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN: President Joe Biden has had a very tough week with setbacks for his agenda. COVID complications and the Supreme Court blocking his vaccine mandate.
CHUCK TODD, NBC: One year in Mr. Biden has the second-lowest approval rating ever measured in the White House. And it has never been less popular nationally.
MARGARET BRENNAN, CBS: 2022 is not exactly off to a good start for the Biden administration.
JOHN KING, CNN: The country is frustrated, his party is frustrated, we are two weeks into a midterm election year, a few days away from a one-year anniversary, and it is very dark for him right now.
ERIN BURNETT, CNN: Now he’s in the midst of what famous children’s book writer called “a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad” time.
Wait you said all those news outlets were fake news. Are their articles only fake news when they say something about Trump that is bad. …One thing I’ve learned you’re not ashamed to show your hypocrisy when it comes the Trump and his cult members
Just shows that those channels are willing to criticize the president, no matter who it is, so they are NOT bias like faux (state run) entertainment.
Yes, Biden is having a hard time right now, but I still believe in him and what he stands for. I’m not as concerned about certain policies as I am with his major goal of saving this nation from an autocracy.
Can you imagine how 45 would treat Congress members like Manchin & Sinema if they defied him? Biden is disappointed, but still respects them.
The GOP bought into 45s chaotic response and lies to covid, cause trouble with masks, refuse to get vaccines…but now it’s Biden’s fault that we’re getting variants and can’t put this pandemic to bed?
The GOP refuse to even discuss Voting Rights that they have ALWAYS supported, so now it’s Biden’s fault that we can’t get them passed to save our nation?
The GOP are nothing but obstructionist, self-serving jerks on the side of an autocrat.
jclark, only because they can’t lie and spin it.
I believe part of the problem is that Biden is amongst a pit of vipers and he is attempting to pet them. He’s not fighting fire with fire.
Lou, his own party is attacking him from every side.
They are but I’m telling you what they are saying about your great leader.
“Destroying America”? Care to explain that brilliant statement? BTW – I know you are used to lying, but Biden doesn’t lie.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?category=&ruling=false&speaker=joe-Biden
LATEST FALSE FACT-CHECKS ON JOE BIDEN
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 in a speech in Atlanta:
As a youth, “I got arrested” protesting for civil rights.
falsefalse
By Jeff Cercone • January 13, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2021 in an interview with Rita Braver of CBS:
“I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on November 30, 2021 in a conversation at a technical college in Minnesota:
“I used to drive a tractor trailer … I only did it for part of a summer.”
falsefalse
By Jon Greenberg • December 3, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on December 1, 2021 in remarks at the White House:
“The number of small businesses is up 30% compared to before the pandemic.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on November 3, 2021 in a news conference.:
“No governor in Virginia has ever won when…he or she is the same party as the sitting president.”
falsefalse
By Warren Fiske • November 12, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 20, 2021 in remarks:
Al-Qaida is “gone” from Afghanistan.
falsefalse
By Amy Sherman • August 23, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2021 in a CNN town hall:
“The cost of an automobile, it’s kind of back to what it was before the pandemic.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on June 23, 2021 in a White House announcement:
“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
falsefalse
By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on May 3, 2021 in remarks on the American Families Plan:
For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, “there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”
falsefalse
By Victoria Knight • May 11, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in press conference:
“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”
falsefalse
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 in remarks at a CNN town hall:
“If we kept (the minimum wage) indexed to inflation, people would be making $20 an hour right now.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 25, 2020 in a “60 Minutes” interview:
“I can send every qualified person to a four-year college in their state for $150 billion.”
falsefalse
By Noah Y. Kim • October 30, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2020 in a town hall:
“The boilermakers union has endorsed me because I sat down with them and went into great detail with leadership [about] exactly what I would do.”
falsefalse
By Jessica Calefati • October 21, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2020 in an ABC town hall:
“They eliminated the funding for community policing.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 10, 2020 in a comment to reporters:
Senate Republicans’ move to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in an election year is “not constitutional.”
falsefalse
By Bill McCarthy • October 13, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2020 in an NBC town hall in Miami:
During the Obama/Biden administration “18,000 people got clemency.”
falsefalse
By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 20, 2020 in a speech:
“The Trump campaign asked that I release the list (of potential Supreme Court nominees) only after (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) passed away.”
falsefalse
By Bill McCarthy • September 22, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 20, 2020 in a speech in Philadelphia:
“There’s no court session between now and the end of this election.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 17, 2020 in a CNN town hall:
“If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I’m not making this up. Just look at the data.”
falsefalse
By Bill McCarthy • September 18, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 9, 2020 in a speech in Warren, Mich.:
“Military COVID infected: 118,984. Military COVID deaths: 6,114.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 2, 2020 in a speech in Wilmington, Del.:
Says he was the first person to call for invoking the Defense Production Act.
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 in a SEIU roundtable discussion:
“McDonald’s (makes) you all sign noncompete contracts that you cannot go across town to try to get a job at Burger King.”
falsefalse
By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 in a town hall:
No U.S. presidents elected before Donald Trump were racist.
falsefalse
By Sophie Austin • July 27, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 in a video:
“You weren’t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on May 22, 2020 in an interview on The Breakfast Club radio show:
“The NAACP has endorsed me every time I’ve run.”
falsefalse
By Amy Sherman • June 1, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in a debate:
Because the Federal Reserve recently cut interest rates to near 0%, “the Fed will be of little consequence now. They’ve already used what leverage they have.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • March 18, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on March 3, 2020 in a tweeted video:
Video shows President Donald Trump saying COVID-19 is Democrats’ “new hoax.”
falsefalse
By Daniel Funke • March 15, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2020 in comments during the New Hampshire presidential primary debate:
Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan “would cost more than the entire federal budget that we spend now.”
falsefalse
By Shefali Luthra • February 13, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 12, 2019 in a Democratic debate:
Says the Obama administration “didn’t lock people up in cages.”
falsefalse
By Miriam Valverde • September 13, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on September 3, 2019 in an NPR interview:
Referring to the Iraq War, “immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment.”
falsefalse
By Miriam Valverde • September 5, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on August 7, 2019 in a campaign stop in Iowa:
Says Donald Trump “asserted that immigrants would quote, ‘carve you up with a knife’.”
falsefalse
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on May 1, 2019 in an interview:
“I was always labeled as one of the most liberal members of the United States Congress.”
falsefalse
By John Kruzel • May 6, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2016 in an appearance on MSNBC:
Says Donald Trump “is going to go out and carpet bomb” the Middle East.
falsefalse
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 2, 2016
Joe Biden
stated on April 29, 2016 in a speech at the Vatican:
“In the United States alone we lose more than 3,000 people a day to cancer.”
falsefalse
By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2016
Joe Biden
stated on May 8, 2012 in a speech:
“When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran.”
falsefalse
By Eric Stirgus • May 14, 2012
Joe Biden
stated on April 1, 2012 in a “Face the Nation” interview:
“General Motors is the largest corporation in the world again.”
falsefalse
By Becky Bowers • April 9, 2012
Joe Biden
stated on August 30, 2011 in remarks at a campaign fundraiser:
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal “eliminates Medicare” in 10 years.
falsefalse
By Dave Umhoefer • September 7, 2011
Joe Biden
stated on January 17, 2010 in a fundraiser in Florida:
“As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators.”
falsefalse
By Catharine Richert • January 22, 2010
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa:
“John doesn’t have a record in the Senate. John’s only passed four bills. They’re all about post offices.”
falsefalse
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa:
“Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills).”
falsefalse
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2007 in statement on Web site:
“In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America’s streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row.”
falsefalse
By Wes Allison • November 2, 2007
Joe Biden
stated on September 26, 2007 in Hanover, N.H.:
“There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they’re carrying those children to term.”
So you are saying they are fake news with regards to Biden then. Thank You for acknowledging the stories are fake
They are Fake News when it is about Republicans. When they are telling you that your president is out of his league and destroying America they are right on. He is so bad they can’t even lie and spin it.
Speaking of “Keep casting and tight lines,” I’m hoping 45 and his cronies are nailed to the wall, soon.
I never thought I’d ever agree with Ann Coulter, but here we go: ‘Trump is done.’
One can only hope, in order to save our democratic, constitutional republic.
https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/conservative-pundit-ann-coulter-says-trump-is-done/
jclark, I thought I would never write these words: I hope Ann Coulter is right.
I know one thing …If trump does run and win in 2024 we are doomed as a nation. His presidency will be about revenge at all costs. Don’t count him out yet. He still has his willful ignorant people backing him.
Agreed 100%. I just believe that this is the way it will go down. They are really closing in with regards to the Jan 6 committee. My main point is that KM and MM and the rest of the stooges will not lift a finger to help the cause so they can have their cake and eat it too. Make no mistake that privately these guys know that Trump is evil and stupid.
I know! That’s how upside-down we are as a nation.
Agreed. I think that the R party knows privately that Trump is likely to go down either with the Jan 6th committee or one of his other law suits. Then when that happens , they can turn the page to someone new and save face with the Trump minions. Let someone else do the dirty work. Meanwhile Trump can keep doing his rally’s and get his ego boosted while the real candidates battle it out for the esteemed R nomination.
Barbara McBride Republicans have been scaring people for ages. George Bush ‘Willie Horton ad” comes to mind. They scare people into buying guns every year. Trump coming down the escalator saying drug addicts and murders and rapists are coming from Mexico to get you. Trump before an election telling us the evil caravan is coming from Mexico to get us. Transgenders are gonna get your kid if we let them use the same bathroom. etc etc etc. Republicans try to scare people stupid. At least trying to scare people into wearing a mask and getting vaccinated serves a purpose, to save their lives. ..Also for herd immunity to have a chance at working with no vaccine would have cost close to 4 million lives …You should be scared with your stance on vaccines and masks ..it might even end up scaring you to death
Trump and his legion of worshipers is the final outcome, the ‘popping of the boil’ that the Republican party has been for years. Sometimes, this is what it takes to finally force genuine conservatives to realize what is happening and join the ranks of anti-Trump Republicans.
Don’t forget indictments and guilty pleas and convictions.
This recent revelation that now seven states attempted to usurp the electoral process with their own clown cars of Republican pinheads has to be seen as a milestone in the Republican crash and burn. In 5 cases it now looks like outright fraud and forgery of a Federal document which has been clearly orchestrated from within the trump inner circle. And there’s ample evidence he himself was aware of it.
There’s probably a good chance the Select Committee already knew about this and it will come out for sunlight and sanitation sooner rather than later.
This recent revelation will be seen as the Republicans’ jumping the shark and that ain’t “Fake News”.
After 5 plus years of this I don’t understand why they haven’t joined the ranks. Perhaps the answer is “genuine conservatives” are only 1 or 2 percent of the total. Realize the Republican senators and congressmen now in elected office. In that category you’ve Liz Cheney and, and, and….
In the House, there is also Kinzinger, a true conservative Republican, on the House 1/6 committee. And there is the Lincoln project representing many well-known Republicans previously held in high esteem by the party but who stand solidly against Trump and how he has dirtied the former G.O.P.
I really think the only way to turn some of his less well-informed followers away from him is to tell them about the racist remarks and false statements he made at the 1/15 rally. We should all keep hammering away at his sordid past, Trump University, remarks about the military and veterans, his draft dodging during the V.N. war, his literally insane, corrupt, and evil inner circle, insurance and tax fraud, love of dictators etc.
Anyone who knows these things and continues to support him can’t be saved. If there are enough of them to restore Trump to power, good-bye world as we know it; prepare for hell on Earth.
Quotes from Trump, Kelli Ward, and Antony Kern can be found a a comment I posted above. They are really troubling.
Some very racist statements by Trump, just as troubling, can be found in another post before the one mentioned and above it.
Let’s use them to fight this fascist s.o.b.
Was thinking similar. Why is it that the only election that was fraudulent was the Presidential election? Why are all those R victories not equally fraudulent? This guy brings the R party down yet they keep supporting him. Makes no sense. If inflation continues and Biden has another year like he had in 2021 , it won’t matter as the R’s will control both houses anyway. Why not move on at the top as well?
If the Republicans succeed in taking over Congress by ‘hook or crook’ in the next election, the America we know, will come to an end. They will never win in a fair election since America as a nation overwhelmingly supports Democrats and their programs. They aren’t fairly represented in Congress because of the undemocratic Senate, the use of the filibuster to stop the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, and voter ignorance of the real facts and party platforms.
As the fascist leader Trump said, if their is a big voter turnout Republicans can’t win.
By hook or crook? You must mean if we win the election rather than you ending the filibuster and forcing through your radical agenda. The only way Democrats can win an election is to cheat one way or another. Change the rules at the end of the game
Further stirring up hostility in America, creating the chaos that makes it easier for a wannabe dictator to achieve his goal, Kelli Ward who is running for Arizona Secretary of State said the following at the monster’s 1/15 rally:
She would work to “de-certify the 2020 election.” I wonder if that applies to the Republicans who won congressional seats. She also said “we want indictment of the election workers.”
Anthony Kern, part of the conspiracy to create a fake set of electors from Arizona, had the following witty things to say, after emphatically repeating that Trump won in 2020:
“Screw the media.” “Boo on the fake news media.” “I don’t believe a word they say.”
History often proves that the minority in a country fighting bigotry, autocracy, and lies, emerges victorious in the long run. The Vietnam War is an example, as are the lies about ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that didn’t exist in Iraq but got the U.S. to support an attack on Iraq with horrible consequences for all. Most relevant is the long struggle for civil rights and against racism, which, unfortunately, still must be fought.
The comments by Trump in the above post were meant to stir up white resentment at the fact that programs to get needed medical treatment to Blacks and the poor were created to overcome the inadequate medical infrastructure in Black and poor communities. These programs are anti-racist, not racist, to clear up any confusion in the minds of people who are able to reason and think.
Tell me a president that has done more for minorities than Trump, I’ll wait. And not Lincoln.
Joe Biden.
Next stupid question?
Biden white-splained that Latinos in America resist vaccinations because “they’re worried that they’ll be vaccinated and deported.”
While insulting such a sizable segment of our population, Biden actually went further. He referred to this group of people as “Latinx,” which is a term invented by woke academics who objected to gender-specific words in the Spanish language.
In the same breath as his “Latinx” comment, Biden lectured about the fears that blacks may have of the vaccine, attempting to point to historically shameful episodes when they were subjected to inhumane medical experiments.
“They are used to being experimented on—the Tuskegee Airmen and others,” Biden said.
In this, he confused legendary World War II fighter pilots with a long, notorious governmental study of syphilis among black men—the Tuskegee Experiment.
On Charlamagne Tha God’s popular morning radio show in May 2020, Biden infamously asserted to the largely black audience that if they were unsure of whether to vote for him or Trump, then “you ain’t black!”
Then in August 2020, Biden told a gathering of black and Hispanic journalists that “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
In the same interview, responding to a question on whether he had taken a cognitive test, Biden angrily fired back with the suggestion that the black reporter was a drug addict. “That’s like saying you . . . before you got in this program, you’re take [sic] a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not,” Biden said. “What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?”
In 2010, he warmly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.”
In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
In 2006, he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
Way back in 1977, he said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”
Of course, he infamously worked with segregationist senators to oppose that mandatory busing, which decades later led to the strongest moment in Kamala Harris’s campaign for president, when she blasted him as having personally impacted her as a young girl.
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/bidens-history-getting-away-racist-remarks
Of course. Anyone should be able to see that Trump is just stirring up his base. Trump believes whatever it is that will make him popular with his followers. They are truly a flock of sheep. Does anyone truly believe that Trump is pro life as one example?
Barbara McBride is another self-anointed scientific genius; “I personally do not believe masks and vaccinations are mitigating anything.”
“The government and media should stop scaring the public and leave us alone.”…..Because if the facts are scary I want to stick my head in the sand or get alternative facts from Fox or social media sites.
“Live and let live!”…. That is until one of my loved ones dies from COVID-19, and then I will assert the importance of getting vaccinated and wearing masks.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/nyc-considering-race-in-distributing-life-saving-covid-treatment/amp/
New York City will take a patient’s race into account when distributing potentially life-saving COVID treatments, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene revealed on their website.
So tell me was he wrong?
Bill, was this not relevant to their rant? Not fit in with what they say?
No Annie, he means the link doesn’t work:
Maybe English isn’t your first language?
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Let’s try again
Sorry, we can’t find the page you are looking for. Would you like to go back to where you were, or search for it?
Sorry Chuck, let me explain. The link did not work so I explained what the story was about. Do you need me to break it down more for you?
Heh, yeah, after I pointed it out.
But whatever..
Annie, Reagan said it’s not that my democrat friends are ignorant, it’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.
And you both get an F+ in Reading Comprehension.
Neither one of you responded to each other’s comment accept to use it as a jumping off point for your personal anxiety attack.
Ah, Reagan again. Did you know that when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was dealing with him, he said, “Reagan is intellectually feeble”? Republican senator William Cohen lamented, “With Ronald Reagan, no one is there. The sad fact is we don’t have a president.” Even Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, who was considered friends with Reagan, said the President Reagan “lacked the knowledge he should have had in every sphere” and “was an actor reading lines, who didn’t understand his own programs.”
I suggest you use someone other than Reagan for intelligent remarks since he lacked original thought. Not unlike yourself!
I could compare Biden to you except once in a while you have a cognitive post, not often though.
And the republicans love to label Biden as “senile” when Reagan was most likely suffering from dementia while in office.
Reagan’s doctors said he was cognitively healthy…” despite the former president’s memory lapses and bouts of confusion in public, most visibly during the 1984 presidential debates and his 1990 Iran-Contra testimony. Incidents such as these led to speculation that he was undergoing a gradual mental decline that those around him didn’t want to admit. A 1987 article in the New Republic posed the troubling question outright: “Is Reagan Senile?”
snopes.com
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.htm
Just to add not just NY.
Annie the link doesn’t work
Minnesota dropped the preference for race when taken to court.
I think Trump revealed who he really is when he made the following statements at his 1/15 rally in Florence, Arizona:
“If you’re white, you don’t get vaccine, or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics.”
“If you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health. Think of it. If you’re white, you go right to the back of the line.”
Trump told these vicious racist lies even though on 1/6/16 he famously made this absurd, stupid and racist comment”
“I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.” to the Washington Post.
Against the backdrop of this statement at the same rally: “January 6 was a protest against a crooked election…The real insurrection took pace on election day November 3” is there any doubt that he is attempting to regain the presidency by creating hostile divisions in this country?
Barbara Mcbride how sad I wonder when covid strikes closer to home will your ignorant response change if one of your children or elderly parents is stricken?Oh the overwhelming inconvenience of mask wearing. The danger of the vaccine . Wake up Babs and be thankful you live in this great country with its medical advances instead of whining about you rminor inconveniences. Time to stop the stupid.
Although I agree with your post 100% , I also sense that she like many others is just terribly frustrated. It sounded more like venting and ranting rather than a cohesive and well thought out letter.
True, but there is no excuse for not helping to end the pandemic. She seems to have no idea how the virus is spread and why it keeps going. Other countries are now pushing back on the unvaccinated. I hope she doesn’t have children.
Gallop Poll says 49% of Americans prefer the GOP over democrats 42%. Last year the number was 49% preferred the democrats over GOP 40%.
Let’s Go Brandon.
L G B
Why are republicans talking about lesbians, gays, and bisexuals?
(sarcasm)
I’ll bet someone we all know has best friends that are lesbians gays and bisexuals.
And some are republicans.
Why on earth would voters want to support republicans when they don’t stand for anything of real value? When republican candidates publicly support Trump’s big lie, it should be a red flag that those candidates are willing to lie to their constituents. Arizona is a great example since the state’s GOP spent millions of dollars to audit and recount their 2020 ballots only to find that Biden should have been given even more votes and Trump less. But now a candidate who would be responsible for counting the votes in the future wants to decertify the 2020 election. Of course, the audience, made up of Trump morons, cheered.
Yes, we’ve been reduced to “my team” tribalism and slogans that stand in for swear words. Here’s a harder exercise. What problems can we agree on and strive to change?
Let’s start with immigration, let’s close the southern border. Let’s get back to energy independence. Renewables will take decades to get to the point that they can give us the energy we need and we shouldn’t be buying our oil in the meantime from our enemies.
BTW Bill, the U.S. is a net petroleum exporter. Do you recommend we not sell it to other countries we have contracts with or stiff them like Trump would probably do?
I’m pretty sure that if we kept the sweet crude for ourselves and just sold the tar sands and fracked oil we would be in a much better position but then we would have to reverse Biden drilling mandates
Bill, I don’t know why I bother but here it goes. Close the southern border to important commerce and legal immigration that U.S. businesses rely on. If energy independence means promote fossil fuels that increases climate change and negatively impacts the environment and our daily lives and drives up the cost of most items, then you’re a GOP genius. Do you have any other bright ideas?
Ray, yes but we won’t be there for decades as you very well know. The best thing we could do is build more nuclear plants.
Bill, define energy independent. Does it also include renewables?
Right, closing the southern border to the more than one million illegals this year alone is a bad idea because they come here with more than enough money for housing, food, education, and medical costs without the taxpayers paying for them… What was I thinking?
Fossil fuels? Do you mean the same stuff we buy from our enemies and use every day anyway? What was I thinking, why would we want American workers to get paid when we could just pay our enemies for it and ship it over the ocean because surely that’s cheaper and a better alternative than getting it from N. Dakota and Texas.
You are certainly a genius in the world of democrats.
“…slogans that stand in for swear words.”
Thanks for translating Bill’s words. If it was not for you. I would have thought the words reflected praise for a son how has found a way to cope in a complex world.
For a good example of the tribal that you have alluded to consider the diversity programs that the Democrats promote.
FYI Fred:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Go_Brandon
Okay, what can we agree on?
RACE CARD
A tool of the intellectually weak and lazy when they cannot counter a logical argument with factual data.
We can agree on the fact that pretty much anything, be it good or bad, right or wrong, that democrats propose, the republicans will do everything in their power to step on it. Especially so if it’s an effort to fight for equality for all, as well as attempting to eliminate White privilege and supremacy in America.