Trump is not injecting anything into the Elephant – just as the GOP no longer has anything to offer as a Politician Party – he’s sucking out anything that might be still inside the placoderm’s skull. Leaving it an empty husk.
Without a commitment to truth, logic, and reality, we doom our democracy to extinction.
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In classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy, the democratic assembly was an arena filled with rhetoric unconstrained by any commitment to facts or truth. So far, so familiar.
Aristotle and his students had not yet formalized the basic concepts and principles of logic, so those who sought influence learned from sophists, teachers of rhetoric who focused on controlling the audience’s emotions rather than influencing their logical thinking.
There lay the trap: Power belonged to anyone who could harness the collective will of the citizens directly by appealing to their emotions rather than using evidence and facts to change their minds.
If it only stopped with vaccines. Trumpanzees in the state and federal legislatures are wrecking havoc with laws passed to restrict voting and proposed legislative measures benefitting most people stifled.
These bills are being called “vaccine freedom laws,” as in, you have a right to be free of the vaccines against COVID. What’s not a mixed bag is the political leaning of the states. All the states where such laws are in effect are controlled by Republican governors and legislatures: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
You could call them the death wish states, or the Kevorkian states, after the infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was jailed for eight years after assisting a man to commit suicide who suffered from ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. So if you want to enjoy your freedom to catch COVID and possibly die, those 13 states are the states for you. In six of them, you are guaranteed the freedom to subject your unvaccinated children to the virus as well.
At the same time the Republican Party is moving to protect your right to refuse the COVID vaccine, rates of infection are on the rise across the country. According to Johns Hopkins University, the new case rate is 10 percent higher in 46 states than it was last week. According to CNN, “In 31 states, new cases this past week are at least 50% higher than new cases the previous week.”
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-cult/
Disease spreading republicans will keep the USA shut down for another year.
A Running List of Gun Arrests Tied to the U.S. Capitol Attack
Civilians didn’t open fire on January 6, but that doesn’t mean the Trump supporters who congregated at the Capitol weren’t armed.
As of now, at least 10 people have been hit with illegal gun possession charges stemming from the riot, according to an analysis of arrest records and court documents. Two of them were detained after police noticed a bulge under their clothing. Three people were arrested the night before the riot. Another person, Proud Boys’ leader Enrique Tarrio, was found in possession of two large-capacity magazines when police arrested him for another crime on January 4. Because Tarrio planned on going to the rally, we included him in our tally.
But these are only the people who were caught with guns that day. We’ll never know how many people brought weapons with them to President Trump’s speech, and onward to the Capitol. Perhaps cognizant of the penalty for carrying a gun without a license in the District — up to five years in prison — only a few felt comfortable enough to display them. One rioter flashed his handgun at a group of journalists, a moment captured by a Vice reporter.
Anatomy of an insurrection: How military veterans and other rioters carried out the Jan. 6 assault on democracy
“Every single person charged, at the very least, contributed to the inability of Congress to carry out the certification of our presidential election,” prosecutors wrote in memorandum filed with the court on Tuesday.
The slow-moving tedium of prosecutorial legal machinery and the GOP campaign to deflect responsibility can make it easy to lose sight of the big picture of what transpired on Jan. 6. But based on an aggregate review of individuals cases, along with other sources, a Raw Story analysis of the critical events in the Jan. 6 siege reveals a striking degree of coordination, sustained and intentional violence, planning and preparation, and determined effort to disable the United States’ critical governance apparatus by participants, including many with recent military experience. Many of the rioters who played critical roles in breaching the Capitol came away from the experience vowing to wage war against the United States. Few among those who are being prosecuted have expressed any remorse for their actions.
Ken Burns warns of ‘the most fraught time’ in America’s history
“The problem is that this is the most fraught time i think in the history of our republic,” he explained.
“And I think this is where the rubber is meeting the road. We’re at this desperate place, the convergence of all of those viruses, the side effects of the misinformation and the paranoia and the lying, voter suppression and then the rewriting of our history, our saying that we’re not interest in facts, we’re not interested in the truth, we’re not interested in the many varied voices that make us up,” he explained.
I’ve given up caring about them. Let them get sick. Let them suffer for the rest of their lives, bankrupted by the disease. Or let them die of their own stupidity.
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
Sigh. How do you get someone to wake up and smell the reality when they just don’t WANT to?
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Crazy lying Republicans are racist anti democratic disease spreaders who claim American elections are fraudulent. Who wouldn’t want to vote for that?
Daeder almost 3 years ago
Someone should tell those suckers and losers that Il Douche got vaccinated!
PraiseofFolly almost 3 years ago
And thus we have a parallel nation-wide addiction, the Dope-ioid Crisis …
William Bednar Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Trump is not injecting anything into the Elephant – just as the GOP no longer has anything to offer as a Politician Party – he’s sucking out anything that might be still inside the placoderm’s skull. Leaving it an empty husk.
superposition almost 3 years ago
Without a commitment to truth, logic, and reality, we doom our democracy to extinction.
“…
In classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy, the democratic assembly was an arena filled with rhetoric unconstrained by any commitment to facts or truth. So far, so familiar.
Aristotle and his students had not yet formalized the basic concepts and principles of logic, so those who sought influence learned from sophists, teachers of rhetoric who focused on controlling the audience’s emotions rather than influencing their logical thinking.
There lay the trap: Power belonged to anyone who could harness the collective will of the citizens directly by appealing to their emotions rather than using evidence and facts to change their minds.
…"
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-historians-predicted-failure-democracy-95686
Patjade almost 3 years ago
Actually, they’re voluntarily drinking Trump Nectar™, that warm, yellow, unsweetened fluid that flows freely from the bigot, er, spigot™.
FrankErnesto almost 3 years ago
The vaccine is almost 100% effective. I wish the disease was, too.
The Nodding Head almost 3 years ago
The goofy look on the Republiphant’s face echoes Trump’s famously vacuous expressions.
mourdac Premium Member almost 3 years ago
If it only stopped with vaccines. Trumpanzees in the state and federal legislatures are wrecking havoc with laws passed to restrict voting and proposed legislative measures benefitting most people stifled.
Michael G. almost 3 years ago
One would think that this plague only affects the worthless unsaved heathens. Hello, Confederate States? Guess what?
rlaker22j almost 3 years ago
if the Democrats don’t start winning State elections all is for not
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Republicans have become the Death Wish Party
These bills are being called “vaccine freedom laws,” as in, you have a right to be free of the vaccines against COVID. What’s not a mixed bag is the political leaning of the states. All the states where such laws are in effect are controlled by Republican governors and legislatures: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
You could call them the death wish states, or the Kevorkian states, after the infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was jailed for eight years after assisting a man to commit suicide who suffered from ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. So if you want to enjoy your freedom to catch COVID and possibly die, those 13 states are the states for you. In six of them, you are guaranteed the freedom to subject your unvaccinated children to the virus as well.
At the same time the Republican Party is moving to protect your right to refuse the COVID vaccine, rates of infection are on the rise across the country. According to Johns Hopkins University, the new case rate is 10 percent higher in 46 states than it was last week. According to CNN, “In 31 states, new cases this past week are at least 50% higher than new cases the previous week.”
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-cult/
Disease spreading republicans will keep the USA shut down for another year.
walkingmancomics almost 3 years ago
DT, murderer
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Trump lashes out at Fox News after investigation debunks his allegations of fraud in Arizona
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fox-arizona/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
GOP group slams ‘COVID friends’ Tucker Carlson and QAnon lawmakers for helping pandemic stage a comeback
https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-vaccine-2653806602/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
A Running List of Gun Arrests Tied to the U.S. Capitol Attack
Civilians didn’t open fire on January 6, but that doesn’t mean the Trump supporters who congregated at the Capitol weren’t armed.
As of now, at least 10 people have been hit with illegal gun possession charges stemming from the riot, according to an analysis of arrest records and court documents. Two of them were detained after police noticed a bulge under their clothing. Three people were arrested the night before the riot. Another person, Proud Boys’ leader Enrique Tarrio, was found in possession of two large-capacity magazines when police arrested him for another crime on January 4. Because Tarrio planned on going to the rally, we included him in our tally.
But these are only the people who were caught with guns that day. We’ll never know how many people brought weapons with them to President Trump’s speech, and onward to the Capitol. Perhaps cognizant of the penalty for carrying a gun without a license in the District — up to five years in prison — only a few felt comfortable enough to display them. One rioter flashed his handgun at a group of journalists, a moment captured by a Vice reporter.
https://www.thetrace.org/2021/01/capitol-riot-firearms-arrests-proud-boys/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Anatomy of an insurrection: How military veterans and other rioters carried out the Jan. 6 assault on democracy
“Every single person charged, at the very least, contributed to the inability of Congress to carry out the certification of our presidential election,” prosecutors wrote in memorandum filed with the court on Tuesday.
The slow-moving tedium of prosecutorial legal machinery and the GOP campaign to deflect responsibility can make it easy to lose sight of the big picture of what transpired on Jan. 6. But based on an aggregate review of individuals cases, along with other sources, a Raw Story analysis of the critical events in the Jan. 6 siege reveals a striking degree of coordination, sustained and intentional violence, planning and preparation, and determined effort to disable the United States’ critical governance apparatus by participants, including many with recent military experience. Many of the rioters who played critical roles in breaching the Capitol came away from the experience vowing to wage war against the United States. Few among those who are being prosecuted have expressed any remorse for their actions.
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-insurrection-timeline/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Mike Pence refused to get in car amid 6 January riots fearing Secret Service ‘conspiracy’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-coup-book-claims-b1885449.html
Sgt. Snorkle almost 3 years ago
Ignorance can be fixed, Stupidity is forever and it has infected the Republican party to the Max!
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Bill O’Reilly threatens to sue over report that his tour with Trump isn’t selling out
https://www.rawstory.com/bill-oreilly-donald-trump-tour/
Right wingers constantly whine when they aren’t lying.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Ken Burns warns of ‘the most fraught time’ in America’s history
“The problem is that this is the most fraught time i think in the history of our republic,” he explained.
“And I think this is where the rubber is meeting the road. We’re at this desperate place, the convergence of all of those viruses, the side effects of the misinformation and the paranoia and the lying, voter suppression and then the rewriting of our history, our saying that we’re not interest in facts, we’re not interested in the truth, we’re not interested in the many varied voices that make us up,” he explained.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-history/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Trump tells reporters that he would have beaten an undead George Washington-Abraham Lincoln ticket
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-better-than-lincoln/
Curiosity Premium Member almost 3 years ago
What’s in the syringe should be a lot browner.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
One in five Covid-19 cases in US now from Florida: ‘This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated’
‘We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cdc-vaccines-covid-pandemic-us-b1885538.html
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
The health care profession is really beginning to hate covid spreading republicans.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Oh, Y’know, Just a Death Cult Doin’ Death Cult Stuff
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/16/2040349/-Oh-Y-know-Just-a-Death-Cult-Doin-Death-Cult-Stuff?utm_campaign=trending
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Lying republicans are fighting a war with reality.
Democrats are fighting lying republicans.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Plant Rich Diet Reduces Risks of COVID-19: Vegetarians 73% Lower Odds of Moderate-Severe Infection
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/16/2040313/-Plant-Rich-Diet-Reduces-Risks-of-COVID-19-Vegetarians-73-Lower-Odds-of-Moderate-Severe-Infection?utm_campaign=recent
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
I’m sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I’ve had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky Trump
Is gonna mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
.
With apologies to JL
ferddo almost 3 years ago
GQPs want Trump to get all the credit for the COVID vaccinations, while at the same time they refuse to get one of those vaccinations…
admiree2 almost 3 years ago
Cool artwork, KAL!
basilisk Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I’ve given up caring about them. Let them get sick. Let them suffer for the rest of their lives, bankrupted by the disease. Or let them die of their own stupidity.