Yup, they are so skiddish on reporting right wing terrorism. They’d ignore it if at all possible. They still hedge on January 6 events.
Random side rant: I just got set off by a Facebook post from an old friend turned chud that was posted this morning. It’s a long rant about how the GOP needs to distance itself from Trump and how now is the time for the bootlicking senators to step up and purge Trumpers from the party. Sounds good, right? But here’s the problem. The same dude spent the last 6 years defending Trump at any and every opportunity, downplaying January 6th, constantly shitposting long diatribes attacking “the left,” parroting everything Trump and Fox News said, etc. And this dude is not alone. I’m seeing tons of people who sucked Trump’s dick for the last 6 years suddenly talking about needing to get rid of him. Guess what? 2022 Trump isn’t any different at all from 2016 Trump. We’ve been saying for years that the guy is a massive fucking piece of shit who is terrible for the country since he threw his hat in the ring, and every criticism has been met with “stop watching CNN,” or “you’re obviously a radical leftist communist homosexual transgendered Muslim who lives crime and open borders!” You know what? Fuck these people. You fucking knew we were right from 2016 and now you want to switch horses not because he’s the fucking piece of shit he’s always been, but because you lost. Pisses me off.
This is very well said. The ending to that news article tears me up… “It's unclear if Cruz will leave Washington after the incident.”
Love that we have evidence of how well Trump does in elections post 2020, and that the republicans see that decide they want more.
to give you an idea of how powerful the right wing ecosystem is, my dad said this exact thing over the weekend
Every journalist on Twitter: omg journalists shouldn’t be covering this also I’m going to tweet about how even though I hate Ted Cruz I hope his daughter is ok brave stance
Folks Ted Cruz allowed another man to talk shit about his wife and father on National television then turned around to bootlick and worship that man for years. I’m not even sure you can call someone who would do that a real person
Amazing how people who live in proximity with others and have to learn to work together tend to be more tolerant of others
Bloomberg rolling bullet point chyron: Trump Backing Is 'Kiss of Death' as Republican Criticism Grows Not going to lie, wish he was on tweeter only for today
The framing of trump as some weird standalone curiosity and not, like, the mental and spiritual id of the GOP is fun and frustrated
Senate finance is on this too which I’m guessing means it can’t die next Congress. But also, ppl ignore confessional subpoenas and who really gives a fuck about naked corruption anyway?
Every GOP politician should be forced to have a giant T carved into their forehead Inglorious Bastards style
Be cool as fuck to live in a place that went this hard at people trying to run a coup instead of letting them continue to work in congress
Is the complaint that she constantly makes people like Lauren Boebert and MTG look like complete idiots?
Excuse the chud twitter acct, but the framing here is incredible. "Id love to help you circumvent anti trust regulations, but being a bigot is more important. The justification is trash, but .... yay at the end result???
We call that an accidentally left. Kroger is fucking trash despite a lot of grocery store employees being unionized. They closed a few stores in California when the state decided to make pandemic hazard pay permanent.
Conservative columnist explains why the GOP is so obsessed with Hunter Biden: Guilt over Trump For seven long years, Republicans have serially debased themselves at the altar of Donald Trump—a ramshackle shrine that isn’t as ornate and gold leaf-gilded as you might think. Actually, it’s just like a traditional altar, except if God ever asked Trump to sacrifice his firstborn son on it, Trump would be elbows deep in failson viscera before Yahweh had a chance to tell him He was kidding. But hey, some might say it’s out of bounds to go after an ex-president’s children—unless they work for his administration, campaign for him endlessly, or repeatedly show up on Fox News as his surrogate. So Barron is off-limits—at least until he’s caught on camera riding Rudy Giuliani around the West Palm Beach Spearmint Rhino like a horsey. Until that day, don’t you dare even mention his name. Adam Schiff says that Trumpcould face charges of criminal conspiracy to obstruct Congress But Republicans—they have no such forbearance. Their strategy for fighting inflation, creating jobs, and promoting democracy both here and abroad is single-pronged and simple: investigate Hunter Biden. After all, he has, well, nothing at all to do with his father's administration—but like millions of Americans, he’s battled a substance abuse problem, and so Republicans think they can embarrass our president to the point where he loses it and starts prescribing bleach shots for respiratory diseases and squirreling away top secret nuclear documents in his neck wattle. Spoiler Never mind that when it comes to Hunter Biden, all that Republicans are likely to find are some peccadilloes that are personally embarrassing—to Hunter Biden. Meanwhile, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner skipped town with a $2 billion loan from Prince Bone Saws, and No. 1 child Ivanka scored some sweet trademarks from China as her dad threatened and menaced its government with tariffs. So why are Republicans doing this? Because they’re a waste of time, carbon, and oxygen? Yes, of course—but that’s only part of the answer. The real reason, according to conservative columnist Mona Charen, is pervasive guilt. In a new column for The Bulwark, Charen argues that Trumpland is so up to its oleaginous teats in gaudy scandal, it has no choice but to paint its opponents with the same off-brand, lead-based paints its been marinating in for most of the past decade. For seven years, the right has been explaining, excusing, avoiding, and eventually cheering the most morally depraved figure in American politics. That takes a toll on the psyche. You can tell yourself that the other side is worse. Or you can tell yourself that the critics are unhinged, suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome” whereas you are a man of the world who knows nobody’s perfect. But then Trump will do what he always does—he’ll make a fool of you. You denied that Trump purposely broke the law when he took highly classified documents to Mar-A-Lago and obstructed every effort to retrieve them. And then what does Trump do? He admits taking them! You scoff at the critics who’ve compared Trump with Nazis. And then what does he do? He has dinner with Nazis! (And fails to condemn them even after the fact.) You despised people who claimed Trump was a threat to the Constitution, and then Trump explicitly calls for “terminating” the Constitution in order to put himself back in the Oval Office. Yup. Whatever fever dream you can conjure about Joe Biden and his family, Trump’s real life will eventually top it. Guaranteed. And it’s not even close. So Republicans’ only option now—other than embracing truth and belatedly attempting to salvage some modicum of dignity (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha … whoo! … *wipes away tear*)—is to try to make Biden look just as bad as the guy they gifted with a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. Unfortunately, Trump keeps fouling up their plans by continuing to breathe and speak. President Biden is hardly the first president to have troubled family members. But Joe Biden didn’t hire Hunter at the White House, and if there is any evidence of the president using official influence on Hunter’s behalf, we haven’t seen it. The Department of Justice under President Trump opened an investigation into Hunter Biden. President Biden has left it alone. It’s ongoing. So even though Hunter Biden’s alleged misdeeds have nothing at all to do with Joe Biden’s administration, the president has refused to intervene on his son’s behalf. Contrast that with Trump, who used the DOJ to spin the Mueller report, tried to use it to steal the 2020 election, and openly criticized his first attorney general for refusing to act as his mob consigliere. The right has a deep psychological need for the Hunter Biden story. They desperately want Joe Biden to be corrupt and for the whole family to be, in [GOP Rep. Elise] Stefanik’s words, “a crime family” because they have provided succor and support to someone who has encouraged political violence since his early rallies in 2015, has stoked hatred of minorities through lies, has used his office for personal gain in the most flagrant fashion, has surrounded himself with criminals and con men, has committed human rights violations against would-be immigrants by separating children from their parents, has pardoned war criminals, has cost the lives of tens of thousands of COVID patients by discounting the virus and peddling quack cures, has revived racism in public discourse, and attempted a violent coup d’etat. I wholeheartedly agree, and I couldn’t have said it better myself—because if I’d said it, I would have felt compelled to compare Trump unfavorably to a pumpkin-spiced whale placenta, and that may have lacked the necessary gravitas. But whatever we on the American side of our country’s current political divide have to say, Republicans will likely go full Republican regardless. Their interminable Benghazi investigations surely contributed to Hillary Clinton’s eventual defenestration, and they can’t wait to perform the same black magic with Joe Biden’s troubled son. The fact that there’s very little “there” there will hardly dissuade them. But maybe, just maybe, the American people will be wise to their tricks this time around. After all, Donald Trump’s trail of corruption is hard to miss—and Republicans will no doubt be slipping on that slug slime for many years to come, no matter how many distractions they try to throw in our path.