President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

garrow · Jul 19, 2022

Don't give them the opportunity, America

It's not just Hunter Biden: Prepare for a 2023 packed with House GOP investigations

dixiehack · Jul 19, 2022

Anodyne headline, fascinating (and long) story in NYT Magazine.

Gone, for now, are the big rallies, with their open calls for violence and ostentatious displays of military-style kit, and many of those who organized them. Gone, too, are most of the election audits and other inquiries into the results convened by Republican-controlled state legislatures and local governments, investigations that failed to produce evidence of meaningful fraud. What is left in their place is an insistence — a belief, a lie or an act of motivated reasoning, depending on whom you’re talking to — that the election was stolen, which has fed a new wave of post-Trump activism on the right.
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The language of Mastriano’s speech at Harrisburg, and his speeches since, reflect the partitioning of American politics over the past decade and a half. They are full of references that are often opaque to anyone outside the base but immediately significant to anyone within it. The insistence on America as a “republic” but not a “democracy” is a tendentious reading of James Madison popularized by the John Birch Society, the conspiratorial anti-communist organization — a justification for governing the country according to conservative values and policy prerogatives, even when the numerical majority of its people did not vote for them. “Speaking life” is contemporary evangelical parlance, which infuses the efforts to overturn the election at every level; it means to speak positively over something in accordance with God’s word. The liars, the cheaters, their exposure and imprisonment? That, of course, comes from the Book of Trump.

History, faith, crime, retribution: These are the rudiments of a new strain of Republican politics, shaped by the last year of Trump’s presidency — the second impeachment trial, the coronavirus pandemic, the campaign — but destined to extend far beyond it.
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How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right

goalmouth · Jul 19, 2022

The GQP is a terrorist organization and all of it, every single piece, must be destroyed.

The New York Times is more than happy to aid and abet there nefarious plans to destroy democracy, may they all die trying.

garrow · Jul 19, 2022

18 Republicans — including MTG, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert — voted against Sweden and Finland joining NATO

BTExpress · Jul 19, 2022

House has nothing better to do than cast "symbolic" votes that carry no weight?

goalmouth · Jul 19, 2022

garrow said: ↑

18 Republicans — including MTG, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert — voted against Sweden and Finland joining NATO
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Primary targets when Sweden and Finland bomb the U.S.

tapintoamerica · Jul 19, 2022

BTExpress said: ↑

Headline makes it sound like the best man denounced him during the ceremony.
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Terrible headline.
"Trump candidate scorched by close friend" doesn't produce the metrics.
Syntax is often a victim of substandard (or disappeared) editing.

garrow · Jul 19, 2022

Party of Lincoln is now the party of Jeff Davis

DanOregon · Jul 19, 2022

Yet another reason I hate the realignment mess in college football - loved that Maryland was hated in the old ACC BECAUSE they didn't secede.

heyabbott · Jul 19, 2022

goalmouth said: ↑

The GQP is a terrorist organization and all of it, every single piece, must be destroyed.

The New York Times is more than happy to aid and abet there nefarious plans to destroy democracy, may they all die trying.
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Well they did talk to 5 vets of the Afghan War at a Cracker Barrel in Stalingrad.

Webster · Jul 19, 2022

In the Secret Service deletion of texts story, it isn’t clear whether only the texts of 1/5 and 1/6 were deleted. If that is the case and it isn’t some part of a regular deletion protocol (which in of itself makes no sense), this is a massive story.

2muchcoffeeman · Jul 19, 2022

dixiehack said: ↑

I hope you put more thought into your journalism than you do your criticism of journalism. That’s a cheap one-line takeaway. You’re capable of more.
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I disagree.

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