"It’s terrible when folks commit these kinds of acts of violence, and I hope they’ll be prosecuted appropriately for doing that. But make no mistake about it, that night America also showed its strength. VP Pence finished the election and we had a peaceful transition of power."
Mike Pompeo, who's attempting a rehabilitation tour, repeatedly this week praised Jan. 6 as an example of a "peaceful transition" of power.
It was not a "peaceful transition" of power.
Sorta how they sat on Biden’s classified documents since before the midterms and only went public when news outlets caught wind of it.
Starting to notice a pattern here…
Bloomberg reports that the White House kept the balloon’s presence under wraps for fear of derailing the Blinken trip, until local media in Billings Montana published a picture of it on Thursday afternoon.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-04/from-china-to-big-sky-the-balloon-that-unnerved-the-white-house…
Conservative attorney George Conway explains to CNN’s @andersoncooper why he believes House Republicans are not applying a neutral standard by removing Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The people on far right and far left who publicized the obviously bogus @nypost story were not dupes. They were accomplices. The story could not have been more obviously fake if it had been wearing dollar-store spectacles and attached plastic mustache.
If the balloon had anti-black history messages stenciled on it, or if it were dropping anti-trans pamphlets down to earth, or if it were broadcasting denunciations of wokeness non-stop, MAGA would be pro-balloon. They’d be welcoming the balloon. They’d be worshipping the balloon.
Liberals: It's "creepy" to want to use "government to manipulate and micromanage our lives."
Also Liberals: So we're banning gas stoves and also telling you who's a boy and who's a girl.
“DeSantis is reaching down into the minute-by-minute personal lives of families and kids,” says @ChrisMurphyCT. It's a “creepy” use of “government to manipulate and micromanage our lives.”
@ThePlumLineGS outlines the emerging Democratic counterattack. http://bit.ly/3x1344J
I thought the face of Tyre Nichols dying was five black cops....but Eddie Glaude and Ana Navarro want to try and somehow connect Tyre to DeSantis.
This is about as fair as connecting your everyday black-on-black killing to Eddie Glaude.
Eddie Glaude on College Board: We buried Tyre Nichols...and that is a reflection of the ongoing refusal of this country to understand that diversity is constitutive of who and what it is...we're in a moment of betrayal and backlash and DeSantis is its face https://on.msnbc.com/3Y08eKt
I love how right-wing podcasts feel the need to smoke cigars and drink brown liquor prominently. Maybe there's a gun in the background, maybe the set is decorated like a beer commercial "man den." Leather chairs are a necessity. It's all so painfully insecure lol
Jonny Greenblatt and the ADL have no Ilhan Omar tweets in the last 24 hours, but they can hit a Republican (yeesh, frosh!)
It makes them look like a Democratic Party organization.
To compare a dispute between a news channel and cable provider to the Holocaust diminishes the memory of victims and the significance of the Holocaust. @RepEricBurlison, like all of our elected leaders, must be far more responsible with his rhetoric. https://newsweek.com/republican-compares-newsmax-holocaust-directv-cable-1778075…
Rep. @AOC: "It’s uncomfortable serving w/ people who engage in what many experts deem stochastic terrorism ... I’ve consistently had to ride in 20,000-lb armored vehicles, engaging in some of the most gruesome threats that you can imagine that were incited by Republican members"
special promotes critic who says "the media often neglects to illuminate black suffering in similar ways and to provide attention that's given to it almost as if you deserve to be shot, right?"
So WE can't get air time on PBS because we're critical?
: Ron DeSantis had a win on "African-American studies," but CNN rolled out the smear that he has a "white nationalist agenda."
There are no Facts First at CNN. This was more like Smears First.
KJP on abortion "extremes"!
“While Congressional Republicans continue their support for extreme policies including a national abortion ban, the president and vice president are calling on Congress to restore the protections of Roe in federal law.”
As if #IlhanOmar's day wasn't going badly enough, #Sudan — the 3rd-largest nation in Africa, a former staunch ally of Iran, and a one-time protector of Osama bin Laden — is planning to sign a formal peace agreement with #Israel. 🇸🇩🇮🇱
On the path to the signing of a peace agreement between Israel and Sudan
Minister of Foreign Affairs @elicoh1 today made a historic visit to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, during which he met with the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan
On PBS, Christiane Amanpour's show delved into cursing "the patriarchy," men in general, and hoping for more abortions worldwide. https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2023/02/02/tax-funded-fuss-christiane-amanpour-and-v-curse-patriarchy-see-hope…