A retired conservative federal judge who helped former Vice President Mike Pence rebuff attacks on the 2020 election is warning that the United States is locked "in a political war to the death" and that "American democracy hangs in the balance."J. Michael Luttig began his career clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger. Luttig briefly served at the Department of Justice before being confirmed to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, where he was twice considered for the Supreme Court during the George W. Bush presidency.Luttig retired from the federal judiciary in 2006, but remained an influential figure in the conservative legal world — and now says he is deeply troubled by the Republican Party's attacks on American democracy."This feels like a seminal moment in America when all of what the country has witnessed and endured for these years seems to be building to volcanic crescendo," Luttig told the Los Angles Times columnist Jackie Calmes. "We are in political war to the death — with each other."
I'll take that as a compliment, although I have no interest in working in China, even though my son works in Beijing for Daimler Benz, and I drive a 2022 Volvo XC60 and not a third-hand something or other.
That really shows your mentality. Always some trick or denial NOT to face your mistakes and flaws. Also, I love how for all his lefty/high-minded proclamations, when push comes to shove, it all comes down to "I drive a semi-luxurious car!"
You can’t be a proper lefty unless you only eat what you grow yourself, never buy anything, and live in a natural cave. /s
I imagine that to some extent, it would depend on the car.I think a case could be made that one could still "speak truth to power" without being too much of a hypocrite if one showed that they could not function without the use of a car, and then did everything in their power to make their car one that aligns (as closely as possible) with their ideology.
Want more evidence?"The Nevada governor and his wife were accosted and chased from a restaurant in Las Vegas on Sunday, as two men, one a rightwing “digital creator”, shouted profanities and threats.In a statement, Steve Sisolak said the men shouted “racist threats” at his wife, Kathy Sisolak, who is of Chinese heritage.The Sisolaks planned to meet their daughter at the restaurant. They were not accompanied by security guards.Cellphone video posted to social media showed a man in a red T-shirt reading “Cannabis and Combat” asking Sisolak for a picture. While posing with his arm around the governor, the man began to insult him.The man was identified by news outlets as Justin Andersch, a “digital creator” who posts anti-government rightwing conspiracy theories on a blog called Cannabis and Combat. The Las Vegas Sun reported that Andersch took credit for accosting the Sisolaks on a podcast he creates."
Exactly. In a country as large as the US, a few are bound to act out. Extreme statistical anomalies. They get arrested and go to jail. Life goes on.
I dig your ostrich impersonation. Watch out for the zookeeper.
The Arizona Senate voted Tuesday to censure Republican Wendy Rogers, whose embrace of white nationalism and calls for violence drew bipartisan condemnation.Rogers is in her first term in elected office but has built a national profile among the far right with inflammatory rhetoric and vociferous support for former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.Rogers has long faced fierce opposition from Democrats and a handful of Republicans for offensive comments on social media.Pressure mounted within the GOP this week after she said over the weekend that her political opponents should face a “newly built set of gallows.” She spoke in a video played at the America First Political Action Conference, a white nationalist gathering.“We do support First Amendment freedom of speech," said Republican Senate President Karen Fann, who voted to censure. “We absolutely support it. We fight battles over it. But what we do not condone is members threatening each other. To ruin each other. To incite violence. To call us communists. We don’t do that to each other.”The censure, a formal condemnation that carries no practical consequences, was approved in a 24-3 vote, with all Democrats and most Republicans in support.Rogers stood as Senate Majority Leader Rick Gray read the censure aloud. When it was her turn to speak, she portrayed the censure as an attack on her constituents and her supporters.“You're really censuring them,” Rogers said. “I do not apologize. I will not back down. And I'm sorely disappointed in the leadership of this body for colluding with the Democrats to attempt to destroy my reputation.”Hours earlier, Rogers said on Twitter that Tuesday "is the day where we find out if the Communists in the GOP throw the sweet grandma under the bus for being white.”She sat and listened, often smiling, while her colleagues condemned her.Rogers has trumpeted her ties to right wing militias, and her prolific posting on social media has included messages and imagery with antisemitic tropes. Most recently, she has also tweeted critically about Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as they fight back against a Russian invasion.Rogers said Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, "is a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons,” referring to the Jewish billionaire donor George Soros.Rogers has parlayed her national profile into fundraising prowess, raising unprecedented amounts of money for a state legislative race.Before she built her own national donor network, Rogers was elected with support from the state's top Republican officials and donors, who poured money into her 2020 race to secure the GOP's one-seat majority in the Senate.Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, whose political action committee spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Rogers eke out a win, said last week “she’s still better than her opponent.”“What I need as a governor are governing majorities,” Ducey told reporters. He walked back his support after the censure, saying in a statement that “antisemitic and hateful language has no place in Arizona," though Rogers had a history of offensive comments long before Ducey's supportive comments.
More for the everything is great crowd to digest:
David Duke won election to office in Louisiana, then got 38% of the vote in Louisiana race for Governor. Civil War did not follow. You want a REAL worry of civil war? Try having 4 million students on strike, ROTC buildings being burned and smashed, continuous mass protests, all while having a draft for a war that was deeply unpopular with many. Oh and things like riots outside the DNC, the aforementioned self-immolation outside the Pentagon, race riots that make the George Floyd protests look like a joke, multiple assassinations of prominent figures and it getting so bad a sitting President chooses not to run for re-election. "But so and so got shouted at in a restaurant and some random person gave a speech at an event dubbed 'white nationalist' by an organization that hands out that designation on a whim, THAT is on the verge of civil war"- An idiot.
Who posted "on the verge"? Must have been some idiot.
A Riverside County mother is speaking out after video emerged of her daughter's preschool teacher leading students in a chant against President Biden."What do we want to do with him?" the teacher can be heard asking the students, who are 4- and 5-year-olds, in the video."We want him out!" the students yelled.Christina McFadden's daughter was among the students captured in the video, which was taken in February at Turning Point Christian School in Norco.School officials did not respond to requests for comment.Reached Tuesday, McFadden said the teacher posted the video on a communication app used by the school. When she saw it, she said, her first reaction was fear."Fear that this was sent to 14 families with differing views. Fear that it appeared to be a political propaganda video and that it would spread as such with my daughter front and center," she said.
