It baffles me when people refuse to condemn a terrorist because he is “mentally unstable”. By definition, all terrorists are mentally unstable! In fact, The Bulwark podcast made exactly this point on Monday. Whether a terrorist is a White Supremacist or another type of extremist, he must be mentally unwell in order to carry out this atrocity! You can listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bulwark-podcast/id1447684472?i=1000561651782
By all means, don't eliminate Elise Stefanik (R-NY) from your list from those who promote the "great replacement" conspiracy. As a reminder, she is the chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021, the third-ranking House Republican, after being elected by GOP House members to replace Liz Cheney in that role. Ms Stefanik has come under fire for a series of FB ads in September 2021 stating that Democrats were letting undocumented immigrants into the country in an attempt to ultimately silence Republican (AKA: white) voters. “Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” reads one of the ads, with an accompanying image of migrants reflected in Joe Biden’s sunglasses.
Last evening, after the President's address in Buffalo, Stefanik had to nerve to admonish our citizens for "politicizing" the Buffalo massacre. She is the elected House Rep to the district just north of mine in Central NY. She is a truly vile person who takes masterful command of her talents in whining about current issues while proposing no solutions. She tweeted on 5/12/22 : "I am ultra-MAGA and I'm proud of it".
If you have a minute, please call her Watertown NY office and voice your displeasure at her attempts to promote her campaign through the use of this great replacement conspiracy and white supremacy rhetoric. In the least, it may open the eyes to her staffers, who may attempt to seek a more viable career path forward . 315-782-3150
It would be interesting to see everyone's geonomic testing. Ultimately we are all very closely related mutts. There is no "other" . We are all human beings, I think.
Thank you for the historical note on Tombstone, a town located in the reddest of red states. The good citizens on Tombstone 140 years ago did what many Americans wish could be done today.
President Biden should call out Carlson and Ingraham by name. He lets them off the hook by not doing so. Perhaps Fox too. And “mental instability” is a nothing but an entirely predictable dodge.
Isn't there any lawyer reading your Newsletter who can provide a legal challenge to the Senate "rule" which is NOwhere in the Constitution the so-called filibuster. This is NOT what the framers of the Constitution intended. Please. someone do something to break this filibuster. McConnell if he were Speaker would do away with in in a heartbeat.
May 18, 2022·edited May 18, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
On the NYC/guns case, which the Supreme Court argued, it has now been dismissed as "moot" because NYC softened its own regulations adequately to handle the very narrow case before the Court (which of course the Justices were going to greatly elaborate). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/supreme-court-new-york-city-guns.html
Of course the Justices loudly invited a new test case and it will arrive soon, but it will not likely be decided before our fall elections. A gun decision, on top of Roe/Wade, would have highlighted the Court's activist absolutism and would have seemed stupid and outrageous to most reasonable US voters .... but alas this will not detonate right now.
WE are happy in NC tonight and today! Cheri Beasley (I Chair Women for Beasley) won by a landslide - 81%. We also got rid of Madison Cawthorn - hallelujah! Now we have to fight big $$ Ted Budd for the US Senate Seat.
I’m just stumped by Chairman Thompson’s “reluctance” to turn over anything to the DOJ. Isn’t that part what we’ve all been waiting for…won’t it give the DOJ something to begin to take action?
We need every registered Democrat to vote in the primaries and to follow up with a vote in November. And every Democrat needs to have a conversation with friends, especially independents or like minded Republicans to convince them of the dangers our Democracy faces if the Congress is flipped. The Democrats must craft the positive response to the polynna 11 points of Sen Rick Scott of Florida. The truth of American history with its noble as well as blemished past so that we can forge a path forward that rejects the lies of "white supremacy" or "replacement fiction"
and forges a stronger America united in our acknowledgement that All Men (and Women) are created equal.
I am glad that Biden, et. al. are now calling out Fox, but it just makes me more angry since words are meaningless. What can be done?? We can't get them off our cable packages and they have 1st amendment protections. This keeps me up at night as I know how dangerous they are.
LOL about your reference to Tombstone as I was just there last month. It is a classic tourist spot that has one modern store that I saw: Trump cult headquarters with all the Let's go Brandon, etc. you can imagine. :(
Maybe Bennie Thompson’s comment is an attempt to draw the DOJ into a negotiation. Remember, DOJ has been sitting on criminal referrals from the committee for months.
It baffles me when people refuse to condemn a terrorist because he is “mentally unstable”. By definition, all terrorists are mentally unstable! In fact, The Bulwark podcast made exactly this point on Monday. Whether a terrorist is a White Supremacist or another type of extremist, he must be mentally unwell in order to carry out this atrocity! You can listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bulwark-podcast/id1447684472?i=1000561651782
By all means, don't eliminate Elise Stefanik (R-NY) from your list from those who promote the "great replacement" conspiracy. As a reminder, she is the chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021, the third-ranking House Republican, after being elected by GOP House members to replace Liz Cheney in that role. Ms Stefanik has come under fire for a series of FB ads in September 2021 stating that Democrats were letting undocumented immigrants into the country in an attempt to ultimately silence Republican (AKA: white) voters. “Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” reads one of the ads, with an accompanying image of migrants reflected in Joe Biden’s sunglasses.
Last evening, after the President's address in Buffalo, Stefanik had to nerve to admonish our citizens for "politicizing" the Buffalo massacre. She is the elected House Rep to the district just north of mine in Central NY. She is a truly vile person who takes masterful command of her talents in whining about current issues while proposing no solutions. She tweeted on 5/12/22 : "I am ultra-MAGA and I'm proud of it".
If you have a minute, please call her Watertown NY office and voice your displeasure at her attempts to promote her campaign through the use of this great replacement conspiracy and white supremacy rhetoric. In the least, it may open the eyes to her staffers, who may attempt to seek a more viable career path forward . 315-782-3150
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/buffalo-shooting-great-replacement-theory-republicans
https://www.businessinsider.com/elise-stefanik-buffalo-shooting-comments-immigration-replacement-republican-north-country-2022-5
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/politics/elise-stefanik-replacement-theory.html
It would be interesting to see everyone's geonomic testing. Ultimately we are all very closely related mutts. There is no "other" . We are all human beings, I think.
Thank you for the historical note on Tombstone, a town located in the reddest of red states. The good citizens on Tombstone 140 years ago did what many Americans wish could be done today.
As always, thank you for providing perspective. Love the comment defining Biden as effective communicator not skilled orator. Authenticity trumps air.
President Biden should call out Carlson and Ingraham by name. He lets them off the hook by not doing so. Perhaps Fox too. And “mental instability” is a nothing but an entirely predictable dodge.
I'd like to know which companies are the top 10 advertisers on Tucker Carlson's show. Then I'd avoid buying from them if I had a viable choice.
Isn't there any lawyer reading your Newsletter who can provide a legal challenge to the Senate "rule" which is NOwhere in the Constitution the so-called filibuster. This is NOT what the framers of the Constitution intended. Please. someone do something to break this filibuster. McConnell if he were Speaker would do away with in in a heartbeat.
On the NYC/guns case, which the Supreme Court argued, it has now been dismissed as "moot" because NYC softened its own regulations adequately to handle the very narrow case before the Court (which of course the Justices were going to greatly elaborate). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/supreme-court-new-york-city-guns.html
Of course the Justices loudly invited a new test case and it will arrive soon, but it will not likely be decided before our fall elections. A gun decision, on top of Roe/Wade, would have highlighted the Court's activist absolutism and would have seemed stupid and outrageous to most reasonable US voters .... but alas this will not detonate right now.
WE are happy in NC tonight and today! Cheri Beasley (I Chair Women for Beasley) won by a landslide - 81%. We also got rid of Madison Cawthorn - hallelujah! Now we have to fight big $$ Ted Budd for the US Senate Seat.
I’m just stumped by Chairman Thompson’s “reluctance” to turn over anything to the DOJ. Isn’t that part what we’ve all been waiting for…won’t it give the DOJ something to begin to take action?
We need every registered Democrat to vote in the primaries and to follow up with a vote in November. And every Democrat needs to have a conversation with friends, especially independents or like minded Republicans to convince them of the dangers our Democracy faces if the Congress is flipped. The Democrats must craft the positive response to the polynna 11 points of Sen Rick Scott of Florida. The truth of American history with its noble as well as blemished past so that we can forge a path forward that rejects the lies of "white supremacy" or "replacement fiction"
and forges a stronger America united in our acknowledgement that All Men (and Women) are created equal.
I am glad that Biden, et. al. are now calling out Fox, but it just makes me more angry since words are meaningless. What can be done?? We can't get them off our cable packages and they have 1st amendment protections. This keeps me up at night as I know how dangerous they are.
LOL about your reference to Tombstone as I was just there last month. It is a classic tourist spot that has one modern store that I saw: Trump cult headquarters with all the Let's go Brandon, etc. you can imagine. :(
I wish Today's Edition Newsletter could be REQUIRED READING for EVERYBODY!!!
Thanks, as always, Robert! ( I checked the lede usage note - the kind of detail I love )
Happy, happy, happy: Cawthorn lost, Beasley and Fetterman are in the running!
Maybe Bennie Thompson’s comment is an attempt to draw the DOJ into a negotiation. Remember, DOJ has been sitting on criminal referrals from the committee for months.