If the Dems were smart, they’d have all the hearings recorded and put on Netflix or Amazon Prime for voters to watch/share at their leisure before the midterms.
As someone raised (and confirmed) Catholic, only 380 abusers covered up seems almost small-scale to me compared to what the Catholic Church pulled off for decades. Still, it is devastating cruel behavior, made all the worse but how loudly the perpetrators proclaimed themselves better than the average Christian, and certainly light years better than those dirty unbelievers.
Behavior like this is why church attendance keeps dropping.
It also further convinces me that every "grooming" accusation by the all publicly religious Christians like DeSantis are just more and more projection.
Still disappointed that CPAC-Hungary gets one mention in the UGLY section. Look at the background and organizations of the featured speakers and you cannot help but conclude that it is exactly where today's GOP wants to take this country. It isn't extremism and it isn't hyperbole when they have specifically gone to Hungary and specifically engaged speakers who say the quiet parts right out loud...
Again, anyone interested should take a look at this twitter thread by Philip Germain, as it is quite good at pointing out the troubling backgrounds.
What is the purpose of these public hearings? To improve the public profile of those involved? If the hearings are not accompanied by immediate announcement of charges by DoJ, this dog-and-pony show will be a distant memory by Nov 2022 (let alone 2024). I wish the Jan 6 committee and the DoJ would coordinate to make this happen. Perhaps also create special courts to deal with those charged and speed up the process. If some of these vile characters are as bad as we are being told, there has to be a sense of purpose and urgency in dealing with them and their actions related to the insurrection. The way these hearings are planned currently is more appropriate for a much anticipated movie/album release, not for something that should be a collective, national emergency. I understand due process and all (& am not advocating for compromising any of that), but the response/actions hitherto betrays lack of seriousness.
When the Republicans start hobnobbing with fascists in Hungary, and a former president is a featured guest and speaker, you know we're at the point of no return. And yet all the Democrats do in response is tell us to vote for them. As if that's going to change this trajectory.
So six public hearings in June detailing how Trump broke the law. It's up to Merrick Garland whether these hearings will be a guide to what DOJ will not tolerate or a guide to what as President you can expect to get away with.
It is interesting how much time these people spend in Hungary and how much attention they pay to Hungary. I thought they were supposedly American politicians.
The racism seems to keep getting more and more open. Maybe all these years of denying that they are racist is bearing fruit. A lot of them are sure racist-adjacent and racist-enabling if not actually racist. But then, a lot of Americans are, too.
The give away is how triggered they all get when called on it.
I am really hoping that the DoJ is going to bust out some serious moves here some time soon... but I am not actually expecting it... and the 1/6 committee will be done when the next Congress is seated unless the Dems and the voters pull off a minor miracle. Instead will will have umpteen impeachments of Biden.
Without actual charges and prosecutions, all of the revelations of the committee are largely pointless. A large number of these people (especially the politicians) know that the Big Election Lie is--well--a lie. And the people at the base level believing and pushing aren't listening to the committee or pretty much anyone that will tell them that--they do NOT want to hear that.
"Pivotal political moment..." Are you kidding? Nothing, but nothing, shakes the Republican cult's self-righteous belief in its lies. Imagine a white jury in Alabama in 1920 in a trial of a black man. Exactly what role would evidence play in their verdict?
Just as the Roman Catholic church learned nothing from the Nixon/Watergate cover-up, the Southern Baptist Convention learned nothing from the Catholic hierarchy's cover-up leading to the payment of millions in legal cases, jail time for miscreants, the booting out of bishops and cardinals, and an award winning movie covering the Boston diocesan crisis.
The arrogance and hubris in religious sects are astonishing, but believeable considering the self-righteousness.
No wonder the largest growing "religious belief" in America is the "Nones" (those who claim spirituality, but with no religious sect.)
The continued fixation on Trump is so interesting from the psychological perspective.
However...
In a speech delivered at a conference in honor of Du Bois at Atlanta University in October 1974 and reprinted in the February 1975 issue of Crisis, Henderson wrote, “If all racial prejudice and discrimination and all racism were erased today, all the ills brought by the process of economic class distinction and economic depression of the masses of black people would remain.”
‘Any publicity is good publicity’…. Why do the press and opinion writers keep giving Trump exactly what he wants…free publicity. I realize that it is necessary to keep pounding away at his lies but maybe there’s a way to do that without ever mentioning his name. It might drive him right over the edge.
The irony of people named Posobiec, Stefanik, Gorka, and DeSantis decrying the end of white people in America is so huge.
If the Dems were smart, they’d have all the hearings recorded and put on Netflix or Amazon Prime for voters to watch/share at their leisure before the midterms.
As someone raised (and confirmed) Catholic, only 380 abusers covered up seems almost small-scale to me compared to what the Catholic Church pulled off for decades. Still, it is devastating cruel behavior, made all the worse but how loudly the perpetrators proclaimed themselves better than the average Christian, and certainly light years better than those dirty unbelievers.
Behavior like this is why church attendance keeps dropping.
It also further convinces me that every "grooming" accusation by the all publicly religious Christians like DeSantis are just more and more projection.
Still disappointed that CPAC-Hungary gets one mention in the UGLY section. Look at the background and organizations of the featured speakers and you cannot help but conclude that it is exactly where today's GOP wants to take this country. It isn't extremism and it isn't hyperbole when they have specifically gone to Hungary and specifically engaged speakers who say the quiet parts right out loud...
Again, anyone interested should take a look at this twitter thread by Philip Germain, as it is quite good at pointing out the troubling backgrounds.
https://twitter.com/Philip_Germain/status/1527425209304657920
What is the purpose of these public hearings? To improve the public profile of those involved? If the hearings are not accompanied by immediate announcement of charges by DoJ, this dog-and-pony show will be a distant memory by Nov 2022 (let alone 2024). I wish the Jan 6 committee and the DoJ would coordinate to make this happen. Perhaps also create special courts to deal with those charged and speed up the process. If some of these vile characters are as bad as we are being told, there has to be a sense of purpose and urgency in dealing with them and their actions related to the insurrection. The way these hearings are planned currently is more appropriate for a much anticipated movie/album release, not for something that should be a collective, national emergency. I understand due process and all (& am not advocating for compromising any of that), but the response/actions hitherto betrays lack of seriousness.
Every hearing should be in prime time, not just the first and last.
When the Republicans start hobnobbing with fascists in Hungary, and a former president is a featured guest and speaker, you know we're at the point of no return. And yet all the Democrats do in response is tell us to vote for them. As if that's going to change this trajectory.
So six public hearings in June detailing how Trump broke the law. It's up to Merrick Garland whether these hearings will be a guide to what DOJ will not tolerate or a guide to what as President you can expect to get away with.
It is interesting how much time these people spend in Hungary and how much attention they pay to Hungary. I thought they were supposedly American politicians.
The racism seems to keep getting more and more open. Maybe all these years of denying that they are racist is bearing fruit. A lot of them are sure racist-adjacent and racist-enabling if not actually racist. But then, a lot of Americans are, too.
The give away is how triggered they all get when called on it.
I am really hoping that the DoJ is going to bust out some serious moves here some time soon... but I am not actually expecting it... and the 1/6 committee will be done when the next Congress is seated unless the Dems and the voters pull off a minor miracle. Instead will will have umpteen impeachments of Biden.
Without actual charges and prosecutions, all of the revelations of the committee are largely pointless. A large number of these people (especially the politicians) know that the Big Election Lie is--well--a lie. And the people at the base level believing and pushing aren't listening to the committee or pretty much anyone that will tell them that--they do NOT want to hear that.
It is all lies and fake news--to be ignored.
Trump has done more damage to Georgia than Shermans march to the sea
"Pivotal political moment..." Are you kidding? Nothing, but nothing, shakes the Republican cult's self-righteous belief in its lies. Imagine a white jury in Alabama in 1920 in a trial of a black man. Exactly what role would evidence play in their verdict?
Why are America Firsters like CPAC in Central Europe?
Just as the Roman Catholic church learned nothing from the Nixon/Watergate cover-up, the Southern Baptist Convention learned nothing from the Catholic hierarchy's cover-up leading to the payment of millions in legal cases, jail time for miscreants, the booting out of bishops and cardinals, and an award winning movie covering the Boston diocesan crisis.
The arrogance and hubris in religious sects are astonishing, but believeable considering the self-righteousness.
No wonder the largest growing "religious belief" in America is the "Nones" (those who claim spirituality, but with no religious sect.)
The continued fixation on Trump is so interesting from the psychological perspective.
However...
In a speech delivered at a conference in honor of Du Bois at Atlanta University in October 1974 and reprinted in the February 1975 issue of Crisis, Henderson wrote, “If all racial prejudice and discrimination and all racism were erased today, all the ills brought by the process of economic class distinction and economic depression of the masses of black people would remain.”
‘Any publicity is good publicity’…. Why do the press and opinion writers keep giving Trump exactly what he wants…free publicity. I realize that it is necessary to keep pounding away at his lies but maybe there’s a way to do that without ever mentioning his name. It might drive him right over the edge.
As long as no one thinks that Kemp and Raffensperger are in any way decent people, because refusing to actually break the law is kind of a low bar.