Keeping Score
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Keeping Score of Republican Voters
In a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll we learned that 45% of Republican-aligned adults responded that Trump “Best represents [my] values.” That’s more than double such identification with the next nearest Republican candidate.
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They’re talking values here. Not policies, not patriotism, not democracy, not America. Values.
AND THEY IDENTIFY WITH TRUMP!
Something has gone terribly wrong when nearly half of Republicans think Trump even has values (other than for himself) and they think he best represents their own values.
MAGAs, thoughtless sheep that they are, are followers without consciousness or conscience, excusers of verbal and physical violence. Those are values. So is hatred. And they most identify with Trump.
I have a question for all of them:
What is it that makes you need to hate people so much?
Okay, another question:
What happened to the values Mom & Dad taught you and that you learned in Sunday School or at the 4-H, or in the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts or even in kindergarten? What in the world made you sell yourself out?
Hint: Watch for answers in my post on Wednesday, January 24.
These people and their hatred have moved the needle not to the right, but to the wrong. All those self-righteous Evangelicals, for example, certain of their holiness, believe they’re doing God’s work and they’re are encouraged by their extremist political overlords and their pastors. That they support and promote vileness that is entirely anti-Christian makes no difference to them. They are bonded in a brotherhood of other-ing everyone not exactly like them. That is the America they insist upon. Those are quite odd values for bible thumping Americans to hold. But they do hold them, just the way Trump spouts them.
I don’t know how to create the counter to that, to stop the march to oblivion. Worse, it appears that Democrats don’t know either.
However imperfect, the America we used to have (or at least were working toward) is, in reality, the America we believed in not so long ago. Now those notions are at best quaint to many and at worst they are the enemy of the angry millions.
So, Republican voters’ score: D-
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Keeping Score On The Supreme Court
We suffer under six extremist justices because in order to get through the Senate vetting process they lied or misled about their beliefs:
including their intent to honor stare decisis (leave prior Court decisions alone)
including Roe v. Wade being settled law
including opposition to legislating from the bench – nevertheless, they made up cases so they could make new, extreme partisan law
That’s how they got on the Court: dishonesty. There’s lots more, but we’ll save that for another day.
Don’t expect Clarence Thomas, whose wife was a key supporter of the insurrection, to do the right thing and recuse himself from cases concerning January 6. He’s just not into doing the right thing.
Trump lawyer Alina Habba, speaking on Fox News (begin at 6:00) about the Supreme Court case regarding Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, said the most un-American thing. She said,
“I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them. You know, people like Cavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place, he’ll step up. Those people [the other Trump appointed justices] will step up . . . “
She finished, saying that their stepping up will be because of the law and fairness. But everyone can see that her intent was to declare that they owe Trump, so they’ll pull his butt out of the fire.
She might be right.
So, Supreme Court score: D-
Trump attorneys’ score: F
Keeping Score Of Begs
It isn’t surprising that no Republicans hit me up for campaign solicitations. I think I got hit on once by Trump and possibly many times, as I’m sure I tagged that first email as spam, so I don’t see those exercises in victimhood, retribution and grift.
Meanwhile, many Democrats have found me. I mean many. Here are a noteworthy few.
Elizabeth Warren contacted me once and Gavin Newsome a few times.
Independent Krysten Sinema has written to me with her hand out six times. Good luck with that, Krysten.
Adam Schiff gets the award for the most interesting, thoughtful and well written begs. He’s knocked on my door 79 times.
AOC writes the most friendly, caring and grass roots informative solicitations. She’s hit me up 183 times.
The winner is Joe Biden and all those who write solicitations for him. They have reached out to touch my wallet over 594 times since he announced last April. That’s an average of two per day. Even if the rate of his solicitations doesn’t increase, given the number of days until the election, I’m looking at about 558 more hits just from Biden. I’ll help him, but woe be unto my Delete key.
Stand by for the final count in my post of November 10, 2024.
So, political donation begging score: Don’t get me started.
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Keeping Score on Speakers of the House
On February 23, 2023 I sent a request to the then-Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. He had given 41,000 hours of video recordings of the January 6 riot and insurrection to Tucker Carlson – and only to Tucker Carlson. Carlson then cherry picked the recordings and put together an impressively dishonest and misleading piece of propaganda, suggesting that the insurrectionists were ordinary peaceful tourists. That’s why I asked McCarthy to send the videos to me, too. Oddly, I never heard from McCarthy, despite repeated requests.
The new speaker is a bible-thumping extremist, so I don’t expect him to do the right thing, either. In fact, he posted footage of the insurrection on his website and blanked out faces to protect the villainous perps. Odd, since we’ve seen the videos of these perps many times and many have already been convicted of their crimes, so their faces are known.
Consequently, this is your final update about those videos. They aren’t going to show up in my Inbox unredacted, so you’ll just have to live with what your own eyes have toldl you – no gaslighting. What a concept!
So, Speakers of the House: F
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Keeping Score of Republican Legislators
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- “The GOP is more interested in nursing grievances and stoking anger than actually solving problems. That’s exactly what Donald Trump has trained them to do.”
- – Eugene Robinson
So, GOP legislators: F
- Today is a good day to be the light
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- Our governance and electoral corruption and dysfunction and our ongoing mass murders are all of a piece, all the same problem with the same solution:
- Fire the bastards!
- The days are dwindling for us to take action. Get up! Do something to make things better.
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