Quote:The Texas Republican Party adopted a new platform declaring that the 2020 election violated the Constitution and President Biden “was not legitimately elected.” The Texas GOP adopted the 40-page platform at its biennial convention in Houston, which concluded this weekend. “We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” the platform reads.

Quote:Hungary’s nationalist leader, Viktor Orbán, will be the star speaker at an extraordinary session of America’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to be held in Hungary this week, in an effort to cement bonds between the radical right on both sides of the Atlantic under the banner of the “great replacement” ideology. In a speech on Monday, Orbán made explicit reference to the ideology, which claims there is a liberal plot to dilute the white populations of the US and European countries through immigration. Increasingly widespread among US Republicans, the creed was cited by the killer who opened fire on Saturday in a supermarket in a predominantly black area of Buffalo, New York.

• Making Obama a one-time President as the overriding goal in 2008
  
• Against fiscal stimulus, bailing out the car manufacturers and railing against the Fed for lose policies during Obama's term, then reversing 180 degrees on these positions when Trump got elected
  
• Now once more obstruction is their only game trying to make Biden fail even if it takes the economy with them.
  

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Quote:“I think conservatives view themselves as having little option but to try to take on these kids," said Matt Gertz of Media Matters, who has written extensively about the attacks on the Parkland survivors by right-wing media. "They know these students are incredibly good on television. They’re good messengers for the gun violence prevention movement and they’re getting a lot of attention."

“When you see people fighting in a debate, most people don’t really care about the content of the message," explained Dan Kahan, a Yale law professor and head of the Cultural Cognition Project. "They’re using the identity of the fighters to figure out whose side they should be on.” Most people determine their opinions, Kahan continued, based not on cold analysis of the facts, but on their "affinity group." If people like you are for guns, then you are for guns. More important, if people that you consider weird, different or bad — as Fox News viewers have been coached to believe liberals are — have a pronounced opinion, that inclines you to take the opposite view.

That's one reason that the debate over gun control seems to have calcified, even though the majority of Americans, including most conservatives, support policy ideas like universal background checks. But advocates for gun control are framed as by conservative media as condescending, snooty nanny-state liberals, and all discussion of policy falls apart in a culture-war panic where guns are treated as symbolic totems, rather than products that can be subject to common-sense safety regulations.

Conservative pundits have had this routine down cold for decades: Tell their followers that the only people who want gun control are liberals, and the audience will reject the message of gun safety even if, under more neutral circumstances, they might agree with the policy ideas. But the Parkland students seem to have disrupted that strategy..

Quote:Today I accepted Steve Wynn’s resignation as Republican National Committee finance chair.

• The reason of his dismissal
  
• Women, the accusations
  
• The money ($2.5M) he donated to the party and whether they are going to return that.
  

• All the accusations they threw at liberals, liberal media and liberal Hollywood
  
• The silence about the rot in their own camp (Fox news, Trump, etc.)
  
• The fact that invariably it's the liberal media who discover this stuff
  

Quote:President Donald Trump has gotten a huge boost from a handful of conservative House members in his quest to counter special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Many of those congressmen are members of the conservative Freedom Caucus.


Reed Galen, a Republican strategist who formerly served as Sen. John McCain's deputy campaign manager for his 2008 presidential bid, said there are a couple of reasons why conservatives have rallied behind Trump on this cause. Among them is that Trump "best represents" what their idea of government should be, and the members "probably really believe in the 'deep state' and black helicopters." "These guys are political nihilists," he said. "They don't believe in government, they don't like and don't want to contribute to legislative progress." This allows them to work "on discrediting the state from their perch within it."

Quote:The other day, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, admitted to The New York Times that he “misspoke” when he declared that his party’s tax plan wouldn’t raise taxes on any middle-class families. But he misspoke when he said “misspoke”: The proper term is “lied.” ... 

We’re still waiting for detailed analysis of the Senate bill, but the House bill doesn’t just raise taxes on many middle-class families: It selectively raises taxes on families with children. In fact, half — half! — of families with children will see a tax hike once the bill is fully phased in. Suppose that a child from a working-class family decides ... to attend college, probably taking out a loan to help pay tuition. Well, guess what: Under the House bill, that interest would no longer be deductible, substantially raising the cost of college. 

What if you’re working your way through school and your employer contributes toward your education expenses? The House bill would make that contribution taxable income. What if your parent is a university employee, and you get reduced tuition as a result? That tuition break becomes taxable income. So would tuition breaks for graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants. So what we’re looking at here are a variety of measures that will close off opportunities for children who weren’t clever enough to choose wealthy parents. 

Meanwhile, funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers more than eight million children, expired a month and a half ago— and so far, Republicans have made no serious effort to restore it. This is surely the shape of things to come: If tax cuts pass, and the deficit explodes, the G.O.P. will suddenly decide that deficits matter again and will demand cuts in social programs, many of which benefit lower-income children. 

So this isn’t just ordinary class warfare; it’s class warfare aimed at perpetuating inequality into the next generation. Taken together, the elements of both the House and the Senate bills amount to a more or less systematic attempt to lavish benefits on the children of the ultra-wealthy while making it harder for less fortunate young people to achieve upward social mobility. Or to put it differently, the tax legislation Republicans are trying to ram through Congress with indecent haste, without hearings or time for any kind of serious study, looks an awful lot like an attempt not simply to reinforce plutocracy, but to entrench a hereditary plutocracy.

• Abolishing the individual mandate, leading to 13M people without healthcare insurance, a 10% increase in premiums and increased cost of emergency rooms. Creating hundreds, perhaps thousands of avoidable deaths, increased medical debts and bankruptcies in the process.
  
• Abolishing the estate tax (which starts at $5M+ for individuals and $10M+ for couples, so it's really not for the small businesses and farmers conservatives claim it is) perpetuating inherited wealth.
  

Quote:President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that the decision allowing Bowe Bergdahl not to serve prison time is a "complete and total disgrace." He tweeted, "The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military."  The Army soldier, who the Taliban held for five years after he deserted his Afghanistan outpost, pleaded guilty last month to the charges. Bergdahl was released in May 2014 in a controversial exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees. Trump has never been a fan of Bergdahl -- in March 2017, he called Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor."

• Trump has never served in the military.
  
• Serving in the military really isn't for everyone, especially in a foreign war situation, there are records from WOI that more than half the soldiers in the trenches could not even load their rifles anymore when under stress.
  
• War obviously took a toll on Bergdahl's nerves, stuff like that happens, civilians like us can't possibly imagine what it's like. It's for a reason that so many veteran's come back with all sorts of trauma.
  
• Trump even urged for the death penalty for Bergdahl during the campaign.
  
• That has been a mitigating circumstance during the trial, according to the judge, but Trump isn't phased by this at all, achieving exactly the opposite what he claims. His game is playing politics at the expense of people. Very nasty indeed.
  
• Consider also that Bergdahl has been a captive of the Taliban for five years and has been tortured. We can't even begin to imagine what that means.
  
• Consider also that he then comes back to a country where there are many, like Trump, out for his blood. Welcome home, Bowe..
  
• Consider also that he was dishonorably discharged, he has to remake his career and life.
  

Quote:Back in late August 2015, a teen reminded Christie of a statement he made earlier in the month that exhaling carbon dioxide contributes to climate change. Christie denied ever saying that and reprimanded her: “I know you really care about this subject, but you know what? The first thing you need to do is not be wrong and not quote me incorrectly.” The video above, made by NextGen Climate-New Hampshire, proves that she was right and he did, in fact, say the following statement on August 4: The climate’s been changing, forever. And it will always continue to change. Does human activity contribute to it? Of course it does. We all contribute to it, in one way or another. By breathing we contribute to it. Christie, who has said he doesn’t think Americans should prioritize climate change, never responded to the video.