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

illinoislady - I just hope the Dems don’t fight among themselves as they often do and get behind the good that Biden had done for the country. They have an opportunity to win at the mid-terms and prove that the orange man is loosing his clout in the GOP.

Read a bit about this, this morning and now here's a meme. The stmt. he is making holds about as much wt. as when he spoke about what a great Dr. he would have been. He doesn't have the barest qualification to be a Dr. because you first have to work hard, and as for truth -- how could he be be truthful. He's never looked that word up in the dictionary. A matter of real truth or your version, Loon. Alternative reality, eh !!!

Opinion by Dana Milbank April 8, 2022 Washington Post

There were even more vermin than usual in Washington this week. A rabid fox at the Capitol bit at least nine people, including Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.). And Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison attacked Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) with an insult most entomological. After Cotton implied that Supreme Court Justice-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Nazi sympathizer, Harrison referred to Cotton as a "little maggot-infested man" on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Fake news! Cotton might go low, but, at 6-foot-5, he is not little. Also, maggots typically feed on dead things, and Cotton, though stiff, is not currently deceased. The man likes to carry on, but he is not carrion. Harrison went on to censure the Republican Party as a whole: "It is a party built on fraud, fear and fascism." Interestingly, a statement from the Republican National Committee taking offense at the "maggot-infested" charge did not dispute the "fraud, fear and fascism" formulation. As your self-appointed fact checker, I have therefore examined the merits of the accusation.

Fraud

Sixteen months after President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud failed in some 60 court cases, we have finally found evidence of potential voter fraud. Trump's White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, reportedly registered to vote in 2020 using the address of a mobile home he never lived in. And former Trump State Department official Matt Mowers, a current congressional candidate, voted twice during the 2016 primaries, in New Hampshire and New Jersey. The "big lie" about a rigged election, accepted by two-thirds of Republican voters, has spawned new frauds about the dangers of coronavirus vaccines (leading to sharply higher death rates in heavily Republican counties) and the promise, touted by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), of the deworming drug ivermectin to treat covid-19; an exhaustive new study finds the drug useless. Then there are the little everyday frauds. Just days after Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) told the world that his colleagues engage in coke-fueled orgies, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) declared at a Trump rally that it was Trump who "caught Osama bin Laden," record-low unemployment is at a "40-year high" and there weren't "any wars" during Trump's presidency. Never mind Syria and Afghanistan.

Fear

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said people like Ketanji Brown Jackson become public defenders because "their heart is with the murderers." Cotton said Justice Robert H. Jackson "left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis. This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them." Republican senators used the Jackson confirmation to stir fear of minorities and vulnerable groups with manufactured crises about transgender athletes (of the 200,000 participants in women's collegiate sports, perhaps 50 are transgender) and "critical race theory" (which isn't taught in public schools). Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance released an ad saying "Biden's open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs and more Democrat voters pouring into this country." Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.), in his latest dalliance with white nationalists, was listed as a "featured guest" at an event on April 20 (Adolf Hitler's birthday) of a white-nationalist-tied group. His office denies he'll participate, but Gosar shared details of the event on Instagram, the Arizona Mirror reports. At a Trump-hosted screening at Mar-a-Lago this week of "Rigged: The Zuckerberg Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump," a poster showed Mark Zuckerberg "devilishly grabbing cash," The Post's Josh Dawsey reported. The film repeatedly describes the Jewish billionaire's money as "Zuckerbucks" — even though the Anti-Defamation League objected to the term as an antisemitic trope about wealthy Jewish control.

Fascism

Sixty-three House Republicans — 30 percent of the caucus — voted against a resolution this week affirming unequivocal support for NATO as authoritarian Russia attacks democratic Ukraine. A Republican National Committee resolution, never rescinded, refers to the Capitol insurrection not as an authoritarian attempt to overthrow democracy and keep the defeated Trump in power but as "legitimate political discourse." And Trump expresses regret he didn't march to the Capitol with the insurrectionists. Republican-run states are racing to follow Florida's "don't say gay" legislation that bans teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity, which follows similar efforts to ban certain teaching about race and history, and widespread efforts to ban books about race, sexuality, gender and police brutality. The Florida legislature approved an "election crimes" police force for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), with the potential to intimidate voters, while various GOP-led states move forward with new provisions providing residents with incentives to inform on each other. The newly revealed text messages of Justice Clarence Thomas's activist wife, Ginni, show her sharing with the Trump White House her "hope" that the "Biden crime family" as well as elected officials, bureaucrats and journalists would be taken to "barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition."

* Is the GOP "a party built on fraud, fear and fascism"? Certainly, not all Republicans think this way. But too many others are subverting democracy, cavorting with white nationalists, spreading racist fears and fantasizing about extrajudicial punishment for political opponents and the media. For them, the jackboot fits.

I try with the immigrants by asking who’s going out in the fields to pick the crops? To do the hot, dirty work? Yeah, it’s nasty work. But apparently it’s better here, than wherever they came from. Just as there’s a few bad actors, there are bad actors already here. Unless they are being paid off the books, they do pay taxes. And if they purchase anything, they pay tax. So that doesn’t work. This country was built by immigrants from around the world. Let them in.

Divine and spookie'smom and really anyone else -- it is good to try and settle right away if possible, where our deep leanings ( Reps. or Dem or Ind. ) are so that maybe we avoid shocks later on. It's nice to know early on what you have in common in the political world. Helps you choose whether you are willing to have an acquaintance or friend where "politics" is never discussed. I do have a couple of those.

My family though, all pretty much dyed in the wool to the nth. degree, Reps. it is understood that I neither will talk politics with them and I will not hang around while they talk to each other about the subject. They are otherwise bright, capable people but seemed pre-conditioned just by dint of being Reps. to go completely partisan -- and they want to convert me and as many others as possible. Something they n ever understood when they moved here to my home-town -- is people don't talk about their politics. There are only a few people around town that I know as Reps. They have learned -- but they tend to test the waters if they get a chance.

Thankfully most of my close family lean liberal like me. I have friends who are socially liberal, fiscally conservative, anti-Trump. We avoid discussing politics though. I live in a blue state, but in a red county. While undergoing chemo, I would hear wild stories about Obama shutting down the power grid (better hoard food) and Bill Gates putting computer chips in the vaccine. 🤦 The Qanon and FoxBS live strong around here unfortunately.

Ruth, I am moved to tears reading about Julian Lennon and his not singing " Imagine " until something happened that none of us really could imagine either, just like Julian. I'm so glad that he changed his mind. In the ongoing life difficulties, the Ukrainians are suffering I'm not sure how many would really get to hear Julian and the others sing. but I do hope if not right now, soon enough we can come back together again. I fear it may be a long time -- but I don't give up on hope so it won't give up on me. Someone has to keep the prayer of peace alive. A heartfelt thanks to Julian Lennon for singing his Dad's beautiful song.

(((Betrayal )))) for you and your GP's. Well said. I too feel if there is danger it is from the very people who take an oath to help and not immigrants. Many of them like Col. Alexander Vindman and his brother had enough respect for the opportunity to live in the land of the free that they devoted themselves to the service of our and their country. There are groups of 'ugly' people in this world -- and they are to be feared.

I have picked strawberries and worked in a lemon packing plant and neither was so easy of a job. I was much younger then and it should have been easier but it sometimes made you dread the length of the season.

Alabama ( if they have to tolerate someone like Marsha Blackburn ) likely would be fine with it to keep Tennessee out of their state. Then again I've thought for a long time that Marsha Blackburn was a real waste of earth space and oxygen.

You hit the proverbial nail on the head with what you said about Marshmallow Blackburn (the marshmallow describes her brain or lack thereof). Is she the twin of Soylent Greene? Actually it was my GGP not GP's, a slip of my lousy typing. They arrived poor and didn't leave this earth with much more than they had on arrival but they were hardworking in the interim. My GF and his brother were placed in an orphanage when their father died and their mother had no income. She did retrieve them when times got better but he was angry with her for pretty much the rest of his life. He didn't understand her circumstances then or later.

What did the poor Alabamans do to her that she wants a wall? Sort of right up there with the Putrid Palin saying she could see Russia from her back door. I was in Wasilla and I can assure you that you cannot see Russia from there unless you are looking on a globe.

There may be a fair amt. of truth here. I find myself amazed at the people I looked up for such a long time who still talk in bedazzled fashion about the Loon. A friend just put a meme up that talked about the Loon's honesty/truthfulness. I'd like to believe it is just her being provocative and trying to get under people's skin, or even that she is just that 'strong' about being and remaining a Reps. come what may. I just see her as a sad delusional person under the spell of a rather crazy con man who knew what buttons to push. I see most of the Reps. that way that will not in any way acknowledge that their leader is flawed -- since we all are. To continue looking up to this paragon of devil spawn makes me so thrilled that I'm not a Reps., so bound to my party I will accept the likes of a totally mentally un-balanced con man. Right now these people I know are just as lost as the Loon.

Ruth, that's hilarious, and very true! Sorry I've been away for sooooo long, but I check the posts every day! everybody!