Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Robert Reich
@RBReich
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Why do CPAC presenters get so much media attention for spouting rightwing lies? Why isn't there a yearly confab of progressives getting this much attention for talking about social justice and the truth?

[JimC]

Why isn't there a yearly confab of progressives getting this much attention for talking about social justice and the truth?

Mainly because they'd spend 99% of the conference time in tearing shreds off each other...

[pErvinalia]

Why would you think that?

[JimC]

Why would you think that?

It's the cynic in me, I suppose. One of the features of left/progressive movements seems to be a huge amount of internal division and argument. Perhaps it is inevitable, and in a way, honest...

[pErvinalia]

I don't see it any different from the right.

[Brian Peacock]

...
Oh look. There's a black fella among the GOPpers. So, proof the Republicans are not racist.

Still a bit of a sausage factory though eh?

[Brian Peacock]

Oh look. There's a black fella

Oh look, republicans being racist.

Oh look, someone changing the subject after their claim was shredded.

[Tero]

Trump theme dominstes. And the election was stolen.

[Tero]

[Tero]

Confusing Mitch denounces Trump and insurrection, but the criminal is no longer president so take him to court. But then:

Mitch McConnell Booed by CPAC Audience as Trump Takes Credit for His Reelection

"There's no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day," he said on the Senate floor. "The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. And having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth."

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) audience on Sunday afternoon booed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as President Donald Trump took credit for the Kentucky senator's November election win.

"My endorsement of Mitch McConnell at his request, he asked for my endorsement," Trump said, prompting loud boos from the crowd, "brought him from one point down to 20 points up and he won his race in the great state and the great commonwealth of Kentucky. He won it very easily. And I said, 'I wonder if I'm doing the right thing here,' but you know what, I did what I did."

https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnel ... on-1572685

[Tero]

I fixed up the first part of the blog entry as I left the Christian part unexplained the first time:
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2021/0 ... white.html

There Would Be No Trump Without White Christians

[Brian Peacock]

The 'great commonwealth of Kentucky' eh?

[Tero]

[Cunt]

Careful, Tero, if you cheer the wrong team, some irritable old man might come 'fact-check' your claim about coke.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Careful, Tero, if you cheer the wrong team, some irritable old man might come 'fact-check' your claim about coke.

It's OK, I think that every member of this site is well aware that what you bring here is mostly rubbish meant for gullible rubes who never bother to determine the facts. They hand grubby 'shocker' memes and Facebook/dweet nonsense off to each other, stoking their righteous anger, then you get in on the act. Never mind that this one is months old and was debunked at the time.

'Posts falsely claim there are only 133 million registered voters in the US'

It is unclear where the false number came from, but it is substantially lower than the 211 million registered voters who appeared on voter rolls in 2018. That number comes from the Election Assistance Commission’s 2018 Election Administration and Voting Survey, which asks local election officials to report registration numbers.

Stephen Ansolabehere, a voter registration expert and professor of government at Harvard University told the AP the 2020 survey is not completed yet. He said he expects 2020 voter registration numbers to be greater than the 211 million figure from 2018.

The 133 million figure shared on social media is also far lower than the more than 136 million ballots cast in the 2016 election. “The number of 133 million registered voters is plainly false,” said Michael McDonald, a University of Florida political scientist who runs the election data site, U.S. Election Project.