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?
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?
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.
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In Republican America, you can't abort a fetus. You have to wait until it's born and then shoot it. Plain and simple.
Of course its hypocritical for the same people who protest the government mandating a vaccine, they claim the government has no right to tell them what to do with their bodies, or what to put in it, yet, they are all for telling women what to do with their bodies. Not to mention all the points you made and all the other hypocritical positions Republicans have taken over the decades.
I do believe "This to will pass." Trump will be a bad moment in U.S. history. He will be forgotten and his supporters will slowly fade away, but not before he has changed America for the worst. It will take decades, but fascism is not the future of America.
I saw the speech Trump gave the mourning of January 6th. He definitely incited the crowd to march on the Capital and stop the vote. For that he should be charged with treason and put in jail. Jailing him will send a message and help kill off this dangerous Trump culture. It would help if we just stop talking about him. Every time he says something the liberals jump and the conservatives love it. He is no longer president and he is at his weakest point right now.
We need to follow the rule of law. When the leader of the Senate goes against the Constitution what is the remedy?
The remedy for Row/Wade is for the Congress to pass a law making abortions legal. Two thirds of the country want legal abortions, so it would easily pass and we can forget the religious, partisan Court. This should have been done long ago. Row/Wade was always weak because it was a Court decision not a Congressional law.
Jerry opined... "I do believe "This to will pass." Trump will be a bad moment in U.S. history. He will be forgotten and his supporters will slowly fade away, but not before he has changed America for the worst. It will take decades, but fascism is not the future of America."
Based on what Jerry?
Right now we are seeing Trump loyalists working to take control of election boards, Secs of State offices and voting mechanisms across the country, but focused in the battleground states he lost on 2020. Think Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and more.
Access to the ballot is being pared back in all corner of the US as the Trump led GOP is acting on the belief that America did not follow her laws as it relates to the last election. To put it another way, the current GOP is working to solve the existential problem they identified and admitted that if we allow open access to the ballot, Republicans will never win another election.
As opposed to passing, this fever has all the evidence of morphing into a full scale heart attack on the very foundations of of democracy.
We know nothing will happen because the esteemed leader will carry on from the teachings of his teacher. Russia will do what it damn well pleases just as they did ten years ago and the esteemed leader will draw a line in the sand and wait for someone to pull his ass out of the fire. Unlike his teacher who relied on russia to bail him out he will have to rely on some other country to do it.
I understand the hatred of trump but one thing he was is unpredictable which kept our enemies off balance. Biden is totally predicable and he will not make decisions that represents the US. As has been stated he has never made a correct decision on national policy and he won't now. Think Afghanistan because you know that is what our allies are thinking and do they really want to be left holding the bag, which they will.
I do agree with jerry that trump will be a bad moment in US history and he will be forgotten. Biden's actions and non-actions will remain longer because of the damage he can and probably will do.
and says he wouldn't even rule out a nuclear strike
Apparently he doesn't realize that Russia also has a large nuclear arsenal, and if we did something that stupid, they might retaliate in kind against similar assets on our side.
The fundamental point he doesn't understand, and Trump didn't understand until it was carefully explained to him, is that the reason for having nuclear weapons is deterrence. They're too devastating to actually use (remember that modern nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb). Their purpose is to make other countries afraid to attack the country which holds them. That's all. If they are ever actually used, that means they've already failed.
The US economy is many times bigger than the Russian economy, and far more diverse. We are more technologically advanced and have more allies. Our conventional weapons are far superior to Russia's. Nuclear weapons are the only area in which Russia is on the same level as the US. In deterring an invasion of Ukraine, we have many options to choose from where we have the advantage. Why opt for the only arena in which Russia is our equal?
Infidel753 "Why opt for the only arena in which Russia is our equal?"
Because neither Wicker nor Trump are as informed on and what deterrence is as you are. To even suggest or muse about using these annihilatory weapons reveals their ignorance in something as serious and cataclysmal as the nuclear option.
I shudder just thinking about their speaking those words.
skudrunner: "I understand the hatred of trump but one thing he was is unpredictable which kept our enemies off balance."
This is exactly the behavior the world has seen in North Korea's Kim Jong Un! And you think that's admirable in a world leader who has his finger on the nuclear button? You actually believe that's a good characteristic in a world leader -- no nation, friend or foe, -- could trust or predict what the POTUS would do in any given circumstance because he/she is "unpredictable?"
Have you thought that through to what could actually happen if an enemy with nuclear power saw the American president as "unpredictable" -- not knowing what he or she would do under pressure in a dangerous confrontation?
Did it ever occur to you that the unfriendly nation, in that circumstance, would choose to strike first because they'd have no idea what the "unpredictable" POTUS would do to their country????
What you admire is a Kim Jong Un with his finger on the button!
skudrunner: "Biden is totally predicable and he will not make decisions that represents the US."
That statement is nothing more than partisan hackery.
Top US Officer: Kim Jong Un Irrational, Unpredictable
https://www.usnews.com › News
Jan 23, 2014 — Top U.S. Officer: Kim Jong Un Irrational, Unpredictable.
Kim Jong Un's Erratic Behavior Shows North Korea Is Stuck
https://www.bloomberg.com › news › articles › kim-jon...
Jun 24, 2020 — Even by North Korean standards, Kim Jong Un has been unpredictable this year.
Ms. Shaw, Joey has proved he has no clue what he is doing. If you need proof just look at the withdrawal in Afghanistan where you take out the military then have no plan to remove the citizens. His plan was to blame Afgan leadership then the Afgan military then the Afgan citizens then our military and finally the American people. He has a history of bad judgement with no action so it is not partisan hackery just past actions. When the past hero drew a line in the sand what did he do when called out, ran to Putin to bail him out.
There are idiots on both sides of the political aisle but it does seem the republicans have the weirdest of the weird.
Based on history. Nixon's name is never mentioned anymore, but at the time and for a few years after it was all everyone talked about. Think of any bad moment this country has had, they have all passed into history and don't effect current events. Even the atrocities of WWII have been forgotten and our enemies then are our allies now. It will take time and as time passes events and leaders fade away.
SKud... was there anything in Shaw's post about Biden? In any comment before yours?
No, of course not.
But I get it... as a GOP supporting kind of guy, you can't really talk about the people you typically vote for because they support violence as a solution for losing elections.
So rather than face that fact, you attack Biden. I'll say this, he's not perfect. But he's not the kind of guy who will watch the US Capitol attacked and not call in the Nat Guard of the military to defend Congress. He won't waste time watching TV while people are attacked also, like Trump did.
BTW Jerry, Nixon is mentioned all the time... as in Trump makes Nixon look like a beginner when it comes to being corrupt.
It's mind boggling that TFG even got elected. Oh wait, they elected tRUMP too. Never mind.
Rev, I have to congratulate the administration for acknowledging that there are smash and grab gangs attacking stores. Unlike AOC and lighfoot Joey confirmed what is shown on the news.
I didn't see Nixon mentioned in Ms Shaw's post either but I think I am beginning to understand that you don't care for the president who lost over a year ago. I doubt biden stays up at night watching TV at all.
Anyone who thinks Trumpism will disappear after Trump dies ignores the fact there are American Nazis still praising Hitler...AND Trump.
Humanity is cursed with a third of it having an authoritarian personality.
The radical Right will grow until it's catastrophic demise, inflicting a lot of collateral damage in the process. It can, and very likely will, get much, much worse, kids.
I promise the worst is yet to come if Trump and his cartel don't face justice...soon.
A powerful and free Trump is the stench of gangrene on the republic. Either he goes down, or the US is finished as a democratic republic, if it ever was in the first place.
Nixon's pardon never allowed us to find the depth of his crimes. Worse, it allowed people like Cheney, Robertson, and others to infect our politics for decades. Even after Trump has disappeared his cult followers will be around for a long time infecting our politics. There is no way Nixon's crimes come close to Trump's crimes and corruption. I think he should be prosecuted for treason, but the evidence is not in yet. It's totally plausible that 100 years from now Trump's name will be evoked to spur another rise of fascism in America. Our history is racism, bigotry, white supremacy, and violence, so I'm sure it will rear its ugly head again.
Skud... you can bring up whatever you want, just don't slam or mischaracterize what I wrote with false statements...
Now, let's see if we can get this back to the a sitting US Senator, the second ranking GOP member of the Armed Services Committee, suggesting using nuclear weapons against Russia in the event of an invasion of Ukraine.
Now the idiot class can rely on the "this would never have happened under Trump" meme, but that's just nuts. This has nothing to do with Trump, or Biden. It's about Putin and his desires to return Russia to prior USSR glory.
But of course, conservatives cannot talk rationally about this issue, as evidenced by Wicker and the rest of the current clown car GOP.
As if on cue, Sen Mo Blunt, an ironic name if I've seen one, said late yesterday that vaccine mandates are “the most insidious form of authoritarianism.”
Really? The most insidious? Worse than what we saw in Cambodia? Worse than we saw in the USSR? Worse than, dare I say it? Nazi Germany?
As Dr. Anthony Fauci gets compared to Dr Mengele and Senators like Blunt make statements like he did, we either have to compare these folks to Germans in the run up to WWII, or believe they are the stupidest people on the planet.
Because it can't be both.
The very fact that The Former Guy had any impact on the nation is astonishing actually. How anyone who actually listened to and really understood the words and actions tRump flaunted regularly could support and vote for the sick nimrod tells us all we need to know about the very sick psyche of Trumpublicans and gutless republicans.
America is very, very sick. And the prognosis is not good.
skudrunner won't like this news at all,
The unemployment rate fell to 4.2%—a level experts didn’t expect us to achieve until 2024.
We’re making progress for workers, small businesses, and our economy.
Didn't skudrunner say Biden's done nothing for the American people? Is this nothing skudrunner?
Paula I read that today. I also read this:
"Nationally, gas prices are down seven cents a gallon and continue to fall.
Here's another little something Biden has made happen...
He signed off on the 39 US soldiers who were injured in a missile attack from Iran in Jan 2020 receiving Purple Hearts for their injuries. For some reason, the Trump Admin was unable to make that happen.
Maybe it's because in his statement to America after the attack, Trump said "Good morning. I'm pleased to inform you: The American people should be extremely grateful and happy no Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.
Which of course, we knew then, and now, was a total and complete lie and dismissal of the reality of injured US troops. I wonder why that little fact wasn't mentioned in the FOX News report that lamented why it took so long to award medals to these soldiers?
Just another example of the extremist BS we have to deal with from the right.
Dave "Just another example of the extremist BS we have to deal with from the right."
And another example of the Trumpublicans and anti-Biden folks not receiving the truth. This is why we're so divided. One third of this country listens to FAUX NOOZ and believes its propaganda.
Terrible news for Biden:
"Jobless claims come in at 184,000 — the lowest level in 52 years."
also this:
Jobs are being created at SIXTY TIMES the rate under President Biden than under the last three Republican presidencies.
But look over there! Fox's Christmas tree!
And the job participation rate is at 61.6% while in 2019 it was 63.6%. Initial jobless claims are the lowest since 1969 which is great but doesn't count the millions who decided to not work or look for work. Low unemployment rate is great but low participation rate is not.
skudrunner: "And the job participation rate is at 61.6% while in 2019 it was 63.6%."
The 21st century has seen a steady decline in labor force participation. In 2000, it reached a peak of 67.3%. By July 2020, [TRUMP ADMINISTRATION] it had fallen to 62.7%.1
The COVID-19 pandemic had an initial impact on both unemployment and the participation rate. In fact, there was a marked decrease in the participation rate in 2020 in the U.S., from a level of 63.4% in January of 2020 to 60.2% in April of 2020—the biggest drop in a single year since 2001 [TRUMP ADMINISTRATION].
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The job participation rate in April of 2020 during the Trump administration was LOWER THAN what you posted (61.6 -- rounded off to 62%) about the current rate during the Biden administration, according to the Labor Dept.
I've checked my blog comments to see if skudrunner came running here to complain about that statistic during the TRUMP administration. I couldn't find one mention of "job participation rate" nor how weak it was -- "60.2% in April of 2020—the biggest drop in a single year since 2001" -- during Trump's time in office.
No one was talking about that on FAUX NOOZ nor any other right wing noise machine, so we didn't hear about it from skud or anyone else.
Isn't it interesting that anti-Biden folks are talking about it now, even though at this point, the job participation rate is BETTER THAN IT WAS DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IN APRIL 2020.
Keep banging the drums of discontent and see how much more division you can add to an already divided country.
skud said "...but doesn't count the millions who decided to not work or look for work."
There you go skud, implying millions of Americans are lazy, that they 'decided' not to look for work.
Open your eyes. How many families are now one parent? How many families were decimated and have no parents? How many families have to take the additional responsibility of orphaned kids? How many people now suffer from the very real condition of long haulers with it's various symptoms including permanent physical disability because COVID isn't playing around?
Where is the accounting for all these people who through no fault of their own can not work as they did pre-pandemic?
I've read the posts of many humans who say they are done with COVID. Silly children. They may be done with the virus but I guarantee the virus is no way done with any of us. President Biden and Dr Fauci are doing what they can against a force of stupid which... Well, I used to say 'avoid it like the plague' but not anymore.
The positive in all this is those who deny the reality of science and the pandemic are dying at three times the rate of those who do accept reality and science. So there is that, horrible as it may be.
Ms Shaw, you really need to get over the obsession that everything is about trump. You hailed joey because of the jobless rate being low and I pointed out that participation rate needs to be taken into consideration. You do state that April of 2020 the participation rate was low. You do realize that was during the pandemic don't you.
The news came in that trump lost and biden won, over a year ago. It does appear that MSDNC and Progressive Eruption can speak of nothing else except trump. He gets as much press now as he did while he was president and it is all still negative. The left points out that there are trumpists. I do seem to recall that there are obamaists as well even though his great achievement was having no one convicted of a crime while he was in office. That is quite an accomplishment considering the three presidents prior to him and the one after him can't make that claim.
skudrunner "You do realize that was during the pandemic don't you."
And you do realize that we've been dealing with the Delta variant and now Omicron since Biden was inaugurated. And because of the anti-vaxxers, we are still being overwhelmed with COVID.
We continue to talk about Trump because HE continues to be a disrupter. He's continued to promote the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen. And he's been able to dupe 30% of this country into believing that filthy lie.
We should NEVER stop talking about a dangerous idiot like Trump who has 30% of this country in his thrall and continues to tell lies that will continue to tear apart our country.
I will not stop posting about his ugly threat to our democracy.
Grey One talks sass
Good to see you here.
We will continue to see people being hospitalized, sick, and dying so long as they stubbornly resist being vaccinated.
I've read on far right blogs that being vaccinated is useless, since fully vaccinated people can still spread COVID and still get COVID. What those armchair virologists fail to understand is the info below (from the CDC), and those people contribute to false information that encourages people to not get vaccinated:
CDC: "Unvaccinated people remain the greatest concern: The greatest risk of transmission is among unvaccinated people who are much more likely to get infected, and therefore transmit the virus. Fully vaccinated people get COVID-19 (known as breakthrough infections) less often than unvaccinated people. People infected with the Delta variant, including fully vaccinated people with symptomatic breakthrough infections, can transmit the virus to others. CDC is continuing to assess data on whether fully vaccinated people with asymptomatic breakthrough infections can transmit the virus.
Fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others. However, vaccinated people appear to spread the virus for a shorter time: For prior variants, lower amounts of viral genetic material were found in samples taken from fully vaccinated people who had breakthrough infections than from unvaccinated people with COVID-19. For people infected with the Delta variant, similar amounts of viral genetic material have been found among both unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people. However, like prior variants, the amount of viral genetic material may go down faster in fully vaccinated people when compared to unvaccinated people. This means fully vaccinated people will likely spread the virus for less time than unvaccinated people.
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