Joe Heller for February 05, 2021

when do they get back to doing what’s best for the country instead of the continual pissing contest

The new administration is doing the work that is best for this country. The sooner the Republicans get on board the better for all of us!

The dictator loving republican traitors attempt to overthrow the government of the USA, and deny that the majority elected Biden is the biggest cancel culture event of all time.

The anti democracy qanon republicans should be excoriated from American politics.

There is no such thing as “Cancel Culture.” If people don’t want to listen to someone else’s hooey, they’re allowed not to.

I remember when “cancel culture” was called “free-market economics” and was praised. Seems kinda snowflakey to whine about the market only after it turns against you.

So, no need to try and punish the seditionists who attacked the Capitol Building of the United States, who assaulted and murdered police, who threatened elected officials with harm and death, who brought Confederate and Nazi flags into the very heart of our government? Just "Oh well… Now we just forgive and forget, " right? Nope. Don’t think so.

Minus the political attachments, the snake with its tail in its mouth is a very ancient mystical symbol (the ouroboros) . It means (to me anyway) the timeless time before time. Never saw two snakes biting each other’s tail before. Could mean the first instant of creation, say the first .0000000000000000000000000000000000001 second after the Big Bang, or any number of creation myths, stories and religious accounts.

Interesting how being held accountable for one’s own actions needed a new name. Maybe it’s been too long in coming.

Actually, there are things on both sides which should be “gotten rid of”, though much more of it seems to be on the right side. Evil is still evil whether it is standing beside you or facing you.

Hau du u spel “phalz ekwivalentz”?

First you invent a catchy phrase: “Pro life” or “Cancel Culture”. Then you fasten it over your own weeping (moral) sores and blame other people for your behavior.

Want to talk about “cancel” culture? How about a culture that denies people the right to love a person of their own choice? How about a culture that cancels your right to bodily autonomy if you happen to be female (particularly if pregnant)? How about a culture that works, hard, to eliminate science and all forms of higher education? How about a culture that allows felonious assault on you if it is done by a person in uniform and you happen to be black or hispanic… or Democrat?

Pfaugh!

if the repubs would only meet just half way, we could start putting this country back together…

Thank you Babs, well said and very true

Just because something is part of a culture means neither that it is inherently good nor sacrosanct. Jules Henry’s book “Culture Against Man” notes that all cultures have sources of joy – and of pain. Cultures change but slowly. That being the case, there’s no reasonable proscription against hastening the process when it comes to harmful, backward elements. Think of it as psychotherapy for a nation.

I am actually more conservative than the Democratic party, on many issues. I would welcome a conservative party that could actually compete with the liberals without lying. That hasn’t happened in the entire time I have been politically aware, roughly 50 years. I don’t agree with a lot of liberal ideas- abortion tops the list, and would be interested in hearing the views of an HONEST conservative party. I have never had that option and once I understand that I am being lied to, even if the person lying seems to believe what he is saying, you’ve lost me. How can you trust a person who either distorts reality for his own purposes or doesn’t even realize what reality is? An honest conservative option might be nice.

@Babs Maloney – That is hard to swallow!

I think it was Mencken who said “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people”. However, the Republicans seem to have made the best attempt in history. They are very good at it, using the Nazi notion that “if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes truth” or at least enough people believe it that it doesn’t matter. Starting with Propaganda radio 50 years ago, they have created not just one lie that is accepted as truth, but one after another. Once one lie was accepted, it became the base for additional lies, eventually creating a solid base. They may have gone one step too far for some of the deluded audience with the stolen election lie but the situation required them to try, or they were going to lose their poster boy. And, even those people who refused to accept that lie still firmly believe the previous 50 years of lies. While Faux may have bailed on them, requiring at least a modicum of validity, there are other media sources that will take up the torch and descend even further into the alternate reality. The Republicans were just trying to delude enough people into voting for them, financed by the 1% ers who owned the propaganda outlets, so they could continue to finance the “trickle down” economy, and get their campaigns financed in appreciation.

Turning into an insurrection wasn’t in the plan. But, the 1%ers and the Republicans have created a monster, and I doubt if they can control it. Frankenstein dies trying to escape from the monster he created, while the monster lives on. This is the Republicans’ Frankenstein.

Know he difference between the Right and the Left cancel culture?

When people on the Right get ‘cancelled’ by the Left, they go on popular cable show and talk-radio where they whine about being cancelled and promote the book they’ll write about that experience.

When the people on the Right go a-cancelling, on the other hand, we get dead people in a defiled Capitol.

But heh, sure… both side do it.

Often, when the Right attacks the Left, or vice versa, the pot calls the kettle black. These days, though, the Right’s pot is a lot blacker than the Left’s kettle.