Here’s a petition to bar the congresspeople who supported the insurrection from holding office in the future, per the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
FWIW, I signed it, even though I can’t imagine it will be successful, insofar as these traitors have not been tried and convicted, which, of course, they should be.
Unfortunately, Clarence and Ginni Thomas, two of the most corrupt people in U.S. politics, are completely off the radar screen when it comes to criminal prosecution.
That they both are working to re-instate the traitor Donald Trump as the U.S. president is a concern to virtually no one.
Are you trying to tell me that some woke pedophile commie radical couldn’t see that Kari Lake got cheated out of a U.S. senate seat?
Maybe this socialist sissy is one of the 61 judges who ruled that there was no massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
I listened to a recent interview in which anthropologist Jane Goodall laid out the three reasons for her overall optimism with respect to environmental recovery: the development of relevant technology, the inherent resilience of natural systems, and, above all, the fierce commitment of young people to protecting our ecosystems.
Sure hope she’s right.
The fact that Fox News personalities, Sean Hannity among them, have turned out to be “shameless liars” surprises no one outside of the cable channel’s cult following.
There is, however, deep significance to the testimony that Sean Hannity gave under oath, when it occurred to him that fibbing here would constitute perjury, which could send him to prison. Thus, for once, he told the truth, in this case that he “did not believe (the Big Lie) for one second.”
The significance of this testimony lies in the fact that, unlike dozens of other clearly false claims that Fox has forwarded over the years, this one was slander, the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation.
Moreover, when Dominion Voting Systems, whom Hannity had accused in front of millions of television viewers of illegally rigging their machines to make Biden win over Trump, Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
Now it’s true that Fox News has never lost a case of this form, where they routinely and successfully claim that despite the word “News” in its name, it cannot be held liable for lying, because its viewers understand that the content of its shows are entirely fictional, a form of entertainment, and that anyone with the intelligence of a jellyfish realizes that. Again, as outrageous as it may seem, judges and juries have consistently ruled in Fox News’ favor.
Yet, here we have a case where a huge company has been defamed, along with its thousands of employees all over the world. Here the page from Dominion’s website that answers the question: What is it like to work (here)? Something I noticed was missing: Unless we win our suit against Fox News, you will be regarded as scum.
We’ll see where this one goes.
When you’re banning books, abortion, and vaccinations, all the while making asylum seekers’ lives ever more miserable and telling teachers what they can and cannot say in the classrooms, your very last goddamn concern should be daylight savings time.
Put another way, setting back your clocks an hour doesn’t mean too much when you’ve set your calendars back 75 years.
From the text of an ad offering this coin shown at left:
When Americans learned of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the U.S. had an opportunity not seen in quite a few years: to agree unanimously that these war crimes were not acceptable and would not stand.
Of course, that’s not what happened. Somehow, Fox News and the other far-right “news” shows were able to make the case that Ukraine was not worthy of our help, that we have nothing in common with its people, and that their country’s government was corrupt, so Russia should be allowed, even encouraged, to do whatever it liked in the region: indiscriminately bombing dozens of cities and towns, while arresting, torturing, raping and executing thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
It really came down to one thing: if the Democrats wanted something, regardless of how noncontroversial, it had to be opposed, even if that meant signaling to the world’s single most aggressive and oppressive regime that the United States and its allies were offering an open invitation to annex European democracies.
So here we are, enter a new year, defensing the indefensible. The actual facts on the Russian invasion and the state of peril in which it leaves the entire free world have long since ceased to matter in our post-truth society. Defending democracy against tyranny is no longer an imperative; it’s an option, here a poor one, adopted by woke liberal sissies.
On another matter, last month we actually reconfirmed how little value we place on facts and honesty, as we watched in horror as sociopath, moron, and pathological liar Herschel Walker came within a hair’s breadth of becoming a U.S. senator. One would have thought Walker would have lost by 30 points, but no, it was less than 3.
Fighting against one another, over the most ridiculous causes, is really the only thing we do well at this point.
Technology “leaked from NASA.” Rumors say it’s the most efficient new source of energy.
To me, nothing says high efficiency energy generation better than a fan belt and a rubber mallet.
Who doesn’t?
Freedom to prevent science from keeping people alive and healthy. Freedom to force 10-year-old rape victims to carry their fetuses to term. Freedom to ban books that stimulate critical thinking and teach the truth about U.S. history. Freedom to further abuse desperate asylum seekers.
It’s just what America needs.
