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
Me too. "Mental stability" is a relative term. From a social point of view, anyone who advocates violence against "others" is unstable and unhealthy. But here is the thing:
I don't care. I don't think finessing terms gets us anywhere. When people are persecuted or even die because they are of a different faith or have a different skin color, the perpetrator should be punished. Call in the shrinks - study them if you want, but lock up the terrorists and throw away the key.
And most of all, call out and condemn the promoters of this crap. Sue Murdoch! Take his money and power.
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.
Hi, Doug. Your comment yesterday prompted me to make the comparison between Biden and Schumer, and to suggest that we all follow Schumer's example. Thanks!
Fox's primary profit comes from involuntary cable carriage fees, not advertising. Each cable subscriber on many systems, whether they watch Fox or not, is paying over $2 a month into Rupert Murdoch's gaping maw. That's really where we need to target our efforts to cut their profit effectively. (And Fox is in negotiations with many cable/satellite companies right now.)
Excellent information, Scott and John! I have an AT&T U-verse family plan that does NOT not include Fox News, so I am not paying that $2 monthly fee. Of course, I am not getting MSNBC either, but. . .
For more information on how to fight Fox, check out Defenders of Democracy Against Disinformation (DDAD) at stopdisinformation.org. One thing I learned from a recent Zoom with this amazing group is to ask proprietors (nicely) to please "change the channel" when Fox is on in their establishment. Why? - because Fox broadcasts are designed to provoke rage . . and rage is not good for business environments! I am eager to try this out. I encourage others to do so, too.
I recorded his Monday show to suffer through hearing his BS first hand and check advertisers. haven't watched the whole thing yet, but the first advertisers were Golden Corral, Damp Rid Pro and of course, My Pillow.
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.
You are right about McConnell's intentions. He will wait for the moment of maximum advantage. The filibuster is likely unconstitutional because it is a rule that changes the allocation of power between the states established in the Constitution. But a court would likely say that it is a political question and decline to hear the matter. (Courts decline to decide political questions about matters that are vested to the discretion of Congress and the Executive.)
I sent a note to the Harvard Law School Election law group after receiving an announcement of a voting rights course asking them to consider the equal protection aspects of this behavior: my 2 senators' votes representing 45m voters require 58 other senators to agree on laws not 49 to reach a decision. I consider this an equal protection issue and not a political issue. But I haven't been in law school for 45 years. Thanks for commenting.
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?
A bizarre turn of events. The request from DOJ was made a month ago (per NYTimes article). I think the article in the Times was a leak designed to motivate Thompson to get off the mark and turn over the transcripts. And the traditional rule is that Congress gets out of the way for the DOJ, not the other way around, as Thompson suggests.
At the DOJ Criminal Division, "sensitive law enforcement" matters are handled by KENNETH A. POLITE Jr. Kenneth serves as the Assistant AG; he supervises over 600 Federal prosecutors. Ken's Crew wants "transcripts" meaning testimony under oath for numerous reasons. I am certain Ken & Crew candle the separate branch of government liaison issues to the Select Committee's satisfaction. Sensitive issues behind the scenes are being addressed.
I read that the two branches are negotiating and that the DOJ actually has access to the documents (the committee isn’t turning them over, but the DOJ still has access). I don’t know if the article I read is correct, but I hope it is!
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.
Yes. For Women's March Day, my sister and I took a long pleasant walk with one of our tRumper brothers. We talked about family and flower gardens, and how one of my Republican friends is now running as a "moderate" in a local Republican primary she has won twice before. Another tRumper brother has reestablished contact with me after 2 years of tRump induced silence. A neighbor who marched to the Capitol on June 6th has reverted back to his pre-tRump niceness, and sure, he can help cut up and stack my fallen trees from the big storm.
And a small group of us former "Milliken Republicans" (Michigan's long serving Republican governor fought for the environment and small businesses, while his wife started Michigan's Planned Parenthood), have drawn up "matter of" fact sheets on the voting record of our current U.S. Republican Rep (and seditionist) Jack Bergman. Each sheet is tailored for a different Republican voter: Live in Saulte St. Marie? All that reconstruction on the Soo Locks that Bergman took full credit for? Funny thing, he voted against that bill.
So far we have a voting record sheet specific for veterans, one for women's health, another for restaurant and small business owners, and one on family issues. We also have one that asks "Where Does Jack Bergman Live?" with the facts about how his home really is in Louisiana, where his wife still lives, and, yes he has a fishing cabin in the U.P., but didn't claim it as a primary home until, oh, right before the election.
Our group is independent of the Democratic Party (though we have one campaigner for their fabulous candidate, Dr. Bob Lorinser, advising us) and none of our materials will say "Democratic Party" on them. Our message is "Send Jack Back to Louisiana!" Our goal is to "reach good, moderate Republicans." We have already had some success!
So now I have a new concept of "Women's March" and a better attitude. A lot of little walks, with only one or 2 people. And a walk through my neighborhood. A walk door-to-door in town. See, good, moderate Republicans just need to know the truth. And lucky for them, I have it.
Many, many thanks to one person in our group who combed through nearly a year of voting records to find the nuggets that most affect (or disaffect) our Michiganders.
“ Each sheet is tailored for a different Republican voter.”
“So far we have a voting record sheet specific for veterans, one for women's health, another for restaurant and small business owners, and one on family issues.”
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
Me too. "Mental stability" is a relative term. From a social point of view, anyone who advocates violence against "others" is unstable and unhealthy. But here is the thing:
I don't care. I don't think finessing terms gets us anywhere. When people are persecuted or even die because they are of a different faith or have a different skin color, the perpetrator should be punished. Call in the shrinks - study them if you want, but lock up the terrorists and throw away the key.
And most of all, call out and condemn the promoters of this crap. Sue Murdoch! Take his money and power.
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
Thanks, Lynn. You are right about Steffanik. I will check out the links and make the call!
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.
Absolutely right. There is only one human species, and we all share the same genome. Attempts to mark people as "other" is a social construct.
Yes Barbara, we all bleed red. And as the meme with the bear holding his knife and fork at the picnic table says, "They all taste like chicken to me."
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.
Hi, Doug. Your comment yesterday prompted me to make the comparison between Biden and Schumer, and to suggest that we all follow Schumer's example. Thanks!
Bret Stephens in today’s NYT is excellent.
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.
Fox's primary profit comes from involuntary cable carriage fees, not advertising. Each cable subscriber on many systems, whether they watch Fox or not, is paying over $2 a month into Rupert Murdoch's gaping maw. That's really where we need to target our efforts to cut their profit effectively. (And Fox is in negotiations with many cable/satellite companies right now.)
Here's a great, organized website for more: https://unfoxmycablebox.com/
Excellent information, Scott and John! I have an AT&T U-verse family plan that does NOT not include Fox News, so I am not paying that $2 monthly fee. Of course, I am not getting MSNBC either, but. . .
For more information on how to fight Fox, check out Defenders of Democracy Against Disinformation (DDAD) at stopdisinformation.org. One thing I learned from a recent Zoom with this amazing group is to ask proprietors (nicely) to please "change the channel" when Fox is on in their establishment. Why? - because Fox broadcasts are designed to provoke rage . . and rage is not good for business environments! I am eager to try this out. I encourage others to do so, too.
I just deleted my reply because no sense posting the same info twice. Good link!
Good link. I "unfoxed".
I recorded his Monday show to suffer through hearing his BS first hand and check advertisers. haven't watched the whole thing yet, but the first advertisers were Golden Corral, Damp Rid Pro and of course, My Pillow.
I think Liberty Mutual is one of the few major advertisers on Fox News shows.
One can drop a request to drop FOX to Liberty Mutual's Investor relations Team by using this link: https://www.libertymutualgroup.com/about-lm/investor-relations/contact-investor-relations
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.
You are right about McConnell's intentions. He will wait for the moment of maximum advantage. The filibuster is likely unconstitutional because it is a rule that changes the allocation of power between the states established in the Constitution. But a court would likely say that it is a political question and decline to hear the matter. (Courts decline to decide political questions about matters that are vested to the discretion of Congress and the Executive.)
I sent a note to the Harvard Law School Election law group after receiving an announcement of a voting rights course asking them to consider the equal protection aspects of this behavior: my 2 senators' votes representing 45m voters require 58 other senators to agree on laws not 49 to reach a decision. I consider this an equal protection issue and not a political issue. But I haven't been in law school for 45 years. Thanks for commenting.
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.
Thanks for the correction!
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 donated to Cheri Bradley’s campaign. Ted Budd is supported by Club for Growth, big, dark money.
It’s Cheri Beasley, not Bradley. Damned autocorrect.
Post a link for donations!
💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
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?
A bizarre turn of events. The request from DOJ was made a month ago (per NYTimes article). I think the article in the Times was a leak designed to motivate Thompson to get off the mark and turn over the transcripts. And the traditional rule is that Congress gets out of the way for the DOJ, not the other way around, as Thompson suggests.
At the DOJ Criminal Division, "sensitive law enforcement" matters are handled by KENNETH A. POLITE Jr. Kenneth serves as the Assistant AG; he supervises over 600 Federal prosecutors. Ken's Crew wants "transcripts" meaning testimony under oath for numerous reasons. I am certain Ken & Crew candle the separate branch of government liaison issues to the Select Committee's satisfaction. Sensitive issues behind the scenes are being addressed.
I read that the two branches are negotiating and that the DOJ actually has access to the documents (the committee isn’t turning them over, but the DOJ still has access). I don’t know if the article I read is correct, but I hope it is!
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.
Yes. For Women's March Day, my sister and I took a long pleasant walk with one of our tRumper brothers. We talked about family and flower gardens, and how one of my Republican friends is now running as a "moderate" in a local Republican primary she has won twice before. Another tRumper brother has reestablished contact with me after 2 years of tRump induced silence. A neighbor who marched to the Capitol on June 6th has reverted back to his pre-tRump niceness, and sure, he can help cut up and stack my fallen trees from the big storm.
And a small group of us former "Milliken Republicans" (Michigan's long serving Republican governor fought for the environment and small businesses, while his wife started Michigan's Planned Parenthood), have drawn up "matter of" fact sheets on the voting record of our current U.S. Republican Rep (and seditionist) Jack Bergman. Each sheet is tailored for a different Republican voter: Live in Saulte St. Marie? All that reconstruction on the Soo Locks that Bergman took full credit for? Funny thing, he voted against that bill.
So far we have a voting record sheet specific for veterans, one for women's health, another for restaurant and small business owners, and one on family issues. We also have one that asks "Where Does Jack Bergman Live?" with the facts about how his home really is in Louisiana, where his wife still lives, and, yes he has a fishing cabin in the U.P., but didn't claim it as a primary home until, oh, right before the election.
Our group is independent of the Democratic Party (though we have one campaigner for their fabulous candidate, Dr. Bob Lorinser, advising us) and none of our materials will say "Democratic Party" on them. Our message is "Send Jack Back to Louisiana!" Our goal is to "reach good, moderate Republicans." We have already had some success!
So now I have a new concept of "Women's March" and a better attitude. A lot of little walks, with only one or 2 people. And a walk through my neighborhood. A walk door-to-door in town. See, good, moderate Republicans just need to know the truth. And lucky for them, I have it.
Many, many thanks to one person in our group who combed through nearly a year of voting records to find the nuggets that most affect (or disaffect) our Michiganders.
MaryPat, This is awesome:
“ Each sheet is tailored for a different Republican voter.”
“So far we have a voting record sheet specific for veterans, one for women's health, another for restaurant and small business owners, and one on family issues.”
Go, Dr. Bob !
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.