I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

AliceBastable

I thought Grassley said he wasn't running again. Maybe he forgot.

Marjorie Traitor Soylent Greene has done the impossible; she makes Sarah Palin look almost human.

What (and who) the hell is the dead guy who "owned the libs"? A Covid denier who died from it? Shouldn't it read "Stupid in death as in life" or something similar? Oh well, one less Republican vote.

Spookiesmom

IllinoisLady

This is not new to the Reps. McConnell and others figured if you want to go places you have to fill every office you can ( no matter how lowly it may be ) with Reps. Same playgoing on here now.

Special Report – Backers of Trump's false fraud claims seek to control next elections

The Republican secretary-of-state candidates are part of a much larger party effort to exert more control over election administration following Trump's false fraud claims.
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IllinoisLady

Newspaper Refuses To Call Republican Fraudits Audits

The Philadelphia Inquirer is refusing to call the fraudit efforts by Pennsylvania Republicans an audit.
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IllinoisLady

When I get nervous which is more than I like to admit, reading things like this help me to remember that there are usually two sides to everything and just because one side SEEMS to have the upper hand doesn't always mean they do.

I did like the part where the one person said if those of color were riled they might come out in droves.

Voter Suppression Laws Backfire And Make It Harder For White Republicans To Vote

Many Republicans are slowly realizing that their talk of fraud and new voter suppression laws are causing fewer Republicans to vote.
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IllinoisLady

This is what I was trying to explain about R. Maddow's show Friday night. Please do read this through.

Steve Schmidt Warns That We Must Confront The Republican Attack On Democracy

Steve Schmidt laid out the Republican authoritarian movement's attack on democracy and urged Americans to confront the threat.
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magiclight

Only an insecure little F#$^ would make this his signature photo

magiclight

Best line I heard today

Fiscal conservative means F#ck the poor.

ChiSandy

I fear for my old home town NYC--the winner of the Dem. mayoral primary, Brooklyn Borough Pres. Eric Adams, is an ex-cop who actually opposes raising taxes on the rich because "1.8% of Americans already pay 61% of the taxes." Oh, boo-frickin'-hoo. (Cue violins playing "Hearts & Flowers"). But at this point, the alternative is a Trumpy Repugnican. I so wanted Maya Wiley to win!

IllinoisLady

Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity.

Howard Gardner

IllinoisLady

This one is a hard one to imagine, but he is wearing the shirt. Really shows what has meaning for some. How could this person care about anything in a realistic way when he obviously didn't seem to care much for a son he is dis-honoring in this way. Do these people even know what they actually care about. I read earlier that MAGA people are angry people and nothing will really make them happy. Seeing this I'm thinking it is true. Begs the question what the hell is it about orange felonious that seemed to have given much stronger life to all that anger and hate.

IllinoisLady

Oh how I hate that we are still living with not being able to be done with this orange con and fraud.

IllinoisLady

We should be ( though the spelling is horrid ) much more upset that these people EVER get into our government. A further reason to keep people like orange con man out of ever being able to attain the highest office.

IllinoisLady

Exactly why McConnell felt the need to early on ask that the filibuster be left alone. Should have been the first thing to go.

IllinoisLady

Lighten up and have a little chuckle:

IllinoisLady

Why I value what Steve Schmidt has to say.

IllinoisLady

What you get when you follow the head felonious orange con man. An empty, pathetic human who is withering away. Hope he loses big time, next time.

Betrayal

Love the above memes but the one on light in his loafers Lindsay is spot on. I cannot believe that John McCain would have befriended such a traitor. I would never have voted for John McCain but felt he was a decent human being and respected him for standing up to Trump.

So far he has trashed both Mitch and Lindsay. Must be ducks if the hate water runs off their backs.

magiclight

This morning's Washington Post editorial by Rick Boyle, Palliative Care Doctor in Mississippi;

Heroism is risking your life for the sake of others; there is no heroism in risking the lives of others for the sake of self.

ChiSandy

There are many valid reasons to disrespect Lindsay Graham. Allegedly being closeted is not among them--unless said closeted person publically rails against homosexuality. (Neither is simply being gay, on either side of the closet door, period). I'm trying to avoid culturally-insensitive insults. Not saying I'm "woke" by any means, though. Anyone who boasts they're "woke" isn't. At best, they're sleepwalking.

To explain: "woke" implies having had an epiphany (what Ms. Magazine used to call a "click" moment), on the recent side of a bright line, and permanently so at that. But being politically & culturally sensitive and evolved is a process, an "awakening," if you will. And that awakening is ongoing, over the course of a lifetime. To judge someone based where on they are on that continuum, as evidenced by past words & deeds, requires a hard look at chronology--and in the course of seemingly "cancel-worthy" statements, taken in the context of how long ago they were made, the degree of power (and responsibility to set an example) the person had at the time, the ideology, culture & rhetoric prevailing in that era, the speech truly reflecting the person's odious beliefs, and the pattern of words & conduct that demonstrates whether or not that person has since acknowledged the wrongfulness of their prior words & deeds and has sincerely rejected them. (Or, conversely, tries to justify or defend their prior insensitivity or even worse, continues to stand by it).

Some things justifiably should disqualify a person from a position of public trust, meaningful fame or being a role model (the definition of "cancel"). Mike Richards' sexist, racist and anti-Semitic quips--especially so recent--are an example. But Alexi McCamant's teenage Tweets, made a decade ago, should not cause her to lose, at 27, a magazine editorship--especially when they consisted of language considered acceptable by her peers of all ethnicities & ideologies half a lifetime ago. (I'm glad to see Axios has given her a chance).

A sense of logic & proportion is also advisable--that millennial who's suing Nirvana (including Cobain's estate) for using as an album cover a photo of him swimming naked while still a baby should be laughed out of court. (If for no other reason that a remedy requires having suffered an injury--and who the heck would look at a 31-yr-old and say "hey, I recognize you--you're that Nevermind naked swimming baby")? Taking a snapshot of your baby on a bearskin rug is not child porn, even if you put it on your social media timeline. (Arguably, neither are even David Hamilton's photos of seemingly prepubescent naked girls--who were all over 18 at the time and consented to have those photos published. Distasteful, maybe, but not illegal).

How many of us baby boomers used "retarded" as a pejorative adjective (rather than a verb) on the grade school or jr. high playground bsck in the 1960s? If not getting "cancelled" requires having experienced an epiphany, that epiphany should not have had to occur in childhood (much less in utero).

ruthbru

ruthbru

IllinoisLady

Sandy, finally a "woke" I can figure out and why in fact. I was starting to hate the 'phrase'/word coming up because I found the whole thing confusing and now know why. I have had several 'gay' family members and so look on everyone as people with a preference which I'm ok with, no more, no less. Sue happy comes to mind about the album cover. This should seem far-fetched even to the person bringing the suit so what in the world is he seeing that I don't. I would indeed worry about being laughed right out of the docket before anything even got started.

This is a piece on another of my un-favorite people.

Chuck Todd Hits A New Low By Featuring Megan McCain On Meet The Press

Chuck Todd took Meet The Press to a new low on Sunday by featuring Megan McCain as a panelist.
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IllinoisLady

I do wish someone would hurry up and take this woman's law license ( co-horts too ) although I'm not sure if that would shut them up either. Does sound like she is helping make the case about the Reps. being in good and deep for having 1/6.

Sidney Powell Implicates Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and Justice Alito In Plot To Overturn The Election

Sidney Powell suggested that the purpose of the 1/6 attack was to give time to Supreme Court Justice Alito to intervene and overturn the election.
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IllinoisLady

This sign is in Aunt Crabby's yard. She says people steal them ( leaving the holder ) but she just buys another one. I don't try to put words in anyone's mouth, but I have to wonder what about someone trying to live on a moral/ethical level like this and saying so on a flag/sign. I mean do people who can't possibly meet those standards, get so in-secure they have to steal the flag/sign.

IllinoisLady

I like this. To the side of the meme someone says that Felonius talks about his brilliance, but then speaks about being robed/duped. He doesn't seem to know that robbed or duped is pretty much the opposite of brilliant. But as in the meme his whole life has become one big plead fest in front of his loyal followers. Interesting to me how someone so mentally deficient can see clearly that this behavior will endear him to these followers since they identify with things being taken away from them -- yet to others like me, he is nothing but a crybaby loser.

IllinoisLady

There was a time when we would all pull together. Seems a real long time ago now.

IllinoisLady

Ruth, I love the cat meme.

AliceBastable

ChiSandy

To those decrying the teaching of "Critical Race Theory" (which is not even a "thing," BTW), i reply that as much as we kids were taught that the Civil War was fought over the right to own human beings, that the Cherokee were uprooted from the only home they knew and marched to a barren Oklahoma, and that Peter Stuyvesant ripped off the indigenous Manhattan tribes (whose name, Lenape, we didn't learn till recently), we weren't taught anywhere near the half of it. Our teachers left out the fact that there was slavery in the North (even slave auctions in lower Manhattan), probably because their own teachers never told them. Tours of the White House, Mt. Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg, and Monticello downplayed (or barely mentioned) the slaves that built them and kept them running. And even though I grew up in Brooklyn, NY, it wasn't until last spring that I even heard of Weeksville, the 19th century middle-class Black community only a couple of miles from my childhood home. And it wasn't till Lizzo's set during yesterday's Global Citizen concert in Central Park that I'd even heard of Seneca Village--the affluent free Black community that was depopulated and razed to acquire the land to build Central Park. And it wasn't until 2020 that I (and most Americans) learned the tragic story of the massacre & destruction of Greenwood, Tulsa's "Black Wall Street."

Teaching the true history of America--from slavery's role in creating the foundations of this country to the short doomed history of Reconstruction to Jim Crow and the horrors perpetrated thereby, doesn't mean our kids are being taught that all white people are racists, nor that we white people should all feel guilty for what we have. It means that history is multifaceted and messy. Time to stop the idiocy of binary (e.g., "you're a racist if you are not actively anti-racist," whatever that entails) thinking and give our kids credit for having the gray matter to be able to process the gray areas, more than just "cowboys vs. Indians."