GQPers SENDING THEIR BEST LETHAL WEAPONS MESSAGES AT CHRISTMAS

 

Because nothing represents the "Spirit of Christmas" more than lethal weapons in the hands of children and adults.

These Trumpublican Christmas cards represent their Savior's message of "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men." 

Or not.

Isn't it beautiful to see children holding lethal weapons in front of a Xmas tree? 

"O Come, All Ye Locked and Loaded!" 

"Silencer Night; Holes in Body Night, Nothing's Calm, They're not Bright"

"Cocking Your Guns 'Round the Xmas Tree, Have a Bloody Holiday!"

"Deck the Halls with Belts of Ammo! Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-tat-tat!"

"We Four Kids of Boebert Are Armed."

"Bang! Hear the Guns! Christmas is Here!"

"On the First Day of Xmas My Mother Gave to Me An AR Fiiiiiiifteen!"

"Chestnuts Roasting; Mamma Yells 'Open Fire!' "

"We Wish You A Gun-Filled Xmas and a shooty New Year!" --Xmas Song Titles by S.K.

Here, once again, are more "Christians" spreading the word of their "Prince of Peace," Jesus!

The happy, smiling faces of Trumpublicans holding lethal weapons 

in front of a Christmas tree!

Jeff Tiedrich

@itsJeffTiedrich

what kind of shithole party falls all over itself in a mad dash to see who can shove the most guns possible into the hands of their children

10:29 AM · Dec 8, 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

Tell me again where Christ said “use the commemoration of my birth to flex violent weapons for personal political gain”? lol @ all the years Republicans spent on cultural hysteria of society “erasing Christmas and it’s meaning” when they’re doing that all on their own

"The GOP has become the party of death."

We interrupt today's blogpost to present one of the GQP's Death & Destruction cheerleaders, Republican US Senator, Roger Wicker: 

 On Fox News, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) floats the idea of bombing Russian military assets -- and says he wouldn't even rule out a nuclear strike.

Because, as TFG once said,  we have nuclear weapons so "why can't we use them?" 

This is a US Senator going straight to the nuclear option to solve a problem, and TFG whined about not being able to do so while he was POTUS.

Why would any sane person EVER vote for a Trumpublican?  

How is the GOP’s coronavirus recklessness compatible with being pro-life?

Michael Gerson, WaPo:

"The core of the Trump movement has always been more interested in political conspiracies, White identity politics, persecution fantasies and disdain for elites. Remember that Trump himself was initially supportive of “partial-birth” abortion. As a presidential candidate, however, Trump issued one of U.S. history’s most effective political bribes: He set out a list of conservative judicial nominees for the Supreme Court, promised to pick from among them and then kept his word. 

 Now, with a conservative legal challenge to Roe nearing fruition, anti-abortion advocates are understandably pleased about their political alliance with the anti-government populists. Yet even after the effective overturn of Roe, years of political battles await at both the state and federal levels. And it is hard to see how a GOP increasingly dedicated to needless death can carry an antiabortion message. The effective end of Roe would be an ideal point for responsible pro-lifers to assert their position on abortion as part of a broader culture of life, including the unborn and their mothers, the old and ill, people with intellectual disabilities and refugees fleeing oppression. Instead, in the Trump era, the state of Texas is taking the messaging lead on the topic, ensuring that the antiabortion movement seems as radical, punitive and vicious as possible. 

 How can the anti-vaccine ideals of “my body, my choice” Republicanism — which refuses even the easiest and safest sacrifices to protect the life of a neighbor — coexist with a “culture of life”? One is a reckless purveyor of needless death. The other, at its best, is a movement of human rights. It is clear enough which is ascendant. The GOP has become the party of death."

Let's see The GOP is . . . 

For the death penalty  

Against universal health care  

Against sensible gun control  

Against setting a leadership example to mitigate the effects of Covid 

Against vaccine mandates

Against raising the minimum wage 

Against paid maternity/parental leave 

For laws outlawing mask mandates and distancing 

For characterizing Jan. 6 as just a bunch of tourist not worth investigating .

Indifferent to the lowering of American life expectancy, maternal, and child deaths 

Almost all "pro-life" folks really don't care about life AFTER birth. That said, how does a "pro-lifer" square his/her pro-life views with the fact that, after a child is born alive, it has a much greater chance of dying if it is around unvaccinated people, who can infect it with a deadly disease? 

How much longer before the Republican Party self-immolates? This is a really slow-burning fire but eventually, it's going to turn into a full-blown blaze. This is like the snake consuming itself from the tail. Will it take TFG  croaking, developing full-blown dementia, or some other medical condition to remove him from the scene? 

What does the GQP do after he's gone? He's made the the once relevant GOP into his brand. Without Trump, it just becomes a collection of lilliputian imitators with an abhorrent "zeitgeist." Naturally, the MAGA crowd has not considered that, not that I care. 

Of course, prison time could also do the trick. Whatever it is, I keep hoping that in the short or long run, his influence on America will wane. I have no hope for his supporters, they're irredeemable, 

But, as Trump's brand of politics shrinks, think about what Tolstoy, in War and Peace, says about General Kutuzov, the Russian general who was the victor in the war against Napoleon in 1812: He counselled his generals to allow "time and patience" to work against the enemy. 

We hope, in the meantime, that the nation doesn't disintegrate.

Well said, Representative Yarmuth

 

@RepJohnYarmuth, D-KY

I promise not everyone in Kentucky is an insensitive asshole.

Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.

The above is a Christmas card sent out by  Trumpublican US Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky days after the tragic killing of four high school students and wounding of seven others by a 15-year old shooter in Michigan.

It's just another example of countless examples of how far into the sewer the Trumpublican Party has sunk.

Because nothing celebrates the Christmas spirit better than a family photo showing everyone proudly holding lethal weapons and asking Santa for "ammo."

Rep. John Yarmuth:

"I'm old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it was insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy," he added in a follow-up tweet. 

"Now they openly rub the murder of children in our faces like they scored a touchdown. 

Disgraceful."

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Thomas Massie’s incendiary picture, days after a deadly school shooting in Michigan, seemed carefully calibrated to provoke

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDDAY NIGHT DANCING

 

MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE SAME EVENT

 

This was the AP (Zeke Miller) announcing jobs numbers in February 2018 while Trump was POTUS (no COVID problems or recovery from lockdown). 

The 200K jobs added was labeled "STRONG.":

This is the AP (Zeke Miller) announcing jobs numbers in December 2021 with Biden as POTUS (recovering from COVID lockdown.)

The 210,000 jobs added is labeled "SLUGGISH":

Explain, please.

The Auschwitz Memorial Just Defined The Current Republican Pary

 

The Auschwitz Memorial slammed a Fox host [Lara Logan] for comparing Fauci to a Nazi doctor, calling it a 'sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline'

"A sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline."

I couldn't have defined the GQP better.

Just look at the ongoing quarrel between U.S. Representatives Boebert and Ilhan Omar. Boebert labeled Omar a "terrorist," and part of the "jihad squad," implying a U.S. Representative is an enemy of the United States, all because she's a Muslim.

This is part of the "moral decline" stench permeating the current Republican/Trumpublican Party. The party that has been against an investigation into who and what was behind the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812!

Why do you think that is? Could it be that some of the top dogs in Congress were involved? Or that the biggest one of all was?

The only time Trumpublicans make the news is when they're defying a legal subpoena; viciously maligning a fellow colleague, even one of their own party; or putting out a video showing them murdering a fellow colleague.

When they laid down with Donald J. Trump, we knew they'd be infested with his degeneracy and moral and intellectual decline.

This woman was elected to Congress by Trumpublicans...

 

and they can't get enough of her. Here's a report on their "rising star" -- a rising star in the political party that values "Law and Order."  LOL!

Congressional candidate Lauren Boebert has a history of minor arrests, court no-shows 

Rifle Republican has been arrested and summonsed four times in the past decade

Here's just one report on her record:

"Boebert was arrested twice in Mesa County in 2015. As first reported by Colorado Newsline, Boebert was detained on June 20, 2015, after a verbal altercation with police at Country Jam, a music festival near Grand Junction. Boebert, then 28 years old, allegedly shouted at people detained on suspicion of underage drinking, urging them to flee from police, which caused the young drinkers to become unruly. While she was being handcuffed for disorderly conduct, Boebert tried to twist away from police, according to deputies’ reports. She allegedly shouted that her arrest was unconstitutional, that “she had friends at Fox News and that the arrest would be national news.” 

It did not become national news.

Rotten behavior and arrests run in the Boebert family:

Lauren Boebert’s husband did jail time for "lewd exposure" in a bowling alley. She was there Couple were 86'd from Colorado bowling alley in 2004 after Jayson Boebert exposed himself to two young women

Just recently Boebert called a fellow member of Congress a "terrorist."

Rep. Lauren Boebert suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar was terrorist in anti-Muslim remarks at event

"Boebert implied Omar had been mistaken for a terrorist in an elevator on Capitol Hill. 

"So the other night on the House floor was not my first jihad squad moment," Boebert told a crowd. "I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers and he and I were leaving the Capitol, we're going back to my office and we get in the elevator and I see a Capitol Police officer running hurriedly to the elevator. I see fret all over his face. And he's reaching. 

The door is shutting. I can't open it." "What's happening? I look to my left and there she is, Ilhan Omar, and I said, 'Well she doesn't have a backpack, we should be fine,'" 

Boebert continued. "So we only had one floor to go and I say, do I say it or do I not? And I look over and I say, 'Look, the jihad squad decided to show up for work today.' Don't worry, it's just her staffers on Twitter that talk for her. She's not tough in person." 

Let the record show that Ilhan Omar has never been arrested for disorderly conduct or resisting arrest. Lauren Boebert has.

Two years ago, Ilhan Omar was challenged for her seat in the House by this Trumpublican: 

Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft 

Exclusive: Danielle Stella, reported to support baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, held twice this year over alleged shoplifting

And here's Boebert's inane comment on Transportation Secretary Buttigeig's infant son:

"Rep. Lauren Boebert silent on criticism after she said Pete Buttigieg was trying to 'chest feed' at same event she implied Rep. Ilhan Omar was a terrorist." 

The pride of the Trumpublican Party: Lauren Boebert. If she were any stupider, she'd have to be watered once a week.

The Trumpublican Party used to be the Republican Party, a party that was supposed to stand for law and order, family values, and fiscal responsibility. They abandoned all of those ideals in service to a Liar, a Cheat, and a Fraud: Donald Trump.

Lauren Boebert and her ilk are examples of how degenerate, degraded, and dissolute the Party of Lincoln has become.

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." --George Orwell

SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING

 Perfection!

Kimin Kim:

  

To All My P.E. Friends:

 

Have a safe and peaceful Thanksgiving.

We're off to New York to spend the holiday with my son and his family.

 

Jury finds Unite the Right defendants liable for more than $26 million in damages

What are the gobshites saying?

 

When you read this sort of nonsense, you have to ask yourself if Trumpers are actually living in the same country as the rest of us:

"The left is fueled by bile and rage."

And this: 

"The longer the left wallows in rage and purblind ignorance to reality, the more they lose the broad middle where the normals live."

Conservative writer, Max Boot:

 It “doesn’t take many extremists to cause mayhem in a country awash in firearms,” noted Boot, a fierce critic of Trump and his enablers. 

 With right-wing violence now a top domestic terrorism threat, Boot said “a responsible political party would damp down its incendiary rhetoric and urge its supporters to moderate their zeal.” But Republicans just “continue to fan the flames of hatred, violence and division.”

Do we need to keep pointing out to Trumpers that it wasn't the Left that attacked the U.S. Capitol and the Capitol police, smeared feces all over the Capitol, screamed "HANG PENCE!" and hunted down Speaker Pelosi, looking to harm her, all in service to a BIG LIE, promoted by their idol, Trump, whom they continue to worship and refuse to separate from. It wasn't the Left that tweeted out a video that featured a U.S. Congressman killing one of his Democratic colleagues, and finally, it is the rabid Right who put a stupid young man, who killed two and permanently maimed one, on a pedestal and made him the face of the current GOP, because his lethal vigilantism is admired and promoted by the GOP leaders.

What on earth is that person writing about when he claims the Left is fueled by bile and rage? 

I have news for him and others who are projecting what is actually happening on the Right onto the Democrats: 

The broad middle where the norms live made a decision in November 2020 and did not want four more years of Trump's and the GOP's incompetence, bile, and rage. 

The Closing Arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial

 

In closing arguments, prosecutors stated that Ahmaud Arbery wasn’t killed because he was a threat. He was killed because he wouldn’t do as he was told and stop to talk to the defendants.

Arbery was told by complete strangers who were NOT LEOs to obey them and stop.

Arbery did not. Arbery was shot.

"Travis McMichael acted out of a sense of duty," his lawyer argued.

What "sense of duty?"  Plenty of strangers walk and jog in my neighborhood, and no one stops them out of a "sense of duty." 

Prosecutors: "The men pursued Arbery because ‘he was a Black man running down the street,’ the prosecutor said in summation.

Thoughts on the Kyle Rittenhouse, IMO, miscarriage of justice:

Self-defense can be tricky for a prosecutor, I thought reckless endangerment, at the very least, might stick. 

Two people are dead and one maimed, with zero accountability. Even drunken drivers who didn’t mean to kill anyone are held accountable. They got behind the wheel with alcohol in their system, and Kyle Rittenhouse walked down the street with a semiautomatic rifle over his shoulder. Each scenario, a disaster in the making — this one proving, once again, that the law and justice are miles apart.

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING

 Ann Reinking, one of the all-time greats:

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity .…They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. 

They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” 

--Vice President Henry A. Wallace, April 9, 1944.

 

Rittenhouse is the vigilantes of the Right’s O.J. Simpson.

Jeff Tiedrich on Twitter:

“It’s lucky for Kyle Rittenhouse that he was just a bloodthirsty white teenager crossing state lines to literally commit murder, and not, for example, a black man selling loose cigarettes on a street corner, because there are serious consequences for that.”