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And there is video of him as a DRAG QUEEN! Perhaps his greatest sin...
The New York Democrats do not often issue joint letters like this, which made their relatively brief letter all the more notable.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sent a letter Wednesday to Rupert Murdoch and other Fox News executives asking for the network’s hosts to stop spreading misinformation about the 2020 election. ... In addition to Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, the letter was sent to Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation, Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media and Jay Wallace, president and executive editor of Fox News Media.
There’s an incredible amount of blindness about the realities of race in the US (particualarly?). A minute fraction of ‘white people’ have ever attempted to really see situations from the perspective of, say, an overpoliced communityThe frightening corollary of that is that many white people think blacks don’t really have something to be protesting about.
I imagine there is a correlation with people who oppose the idea of critical race theory as, well, upsetting. Disrespectful of the natural order of things (which I hear in my head with a drawl).
It’s Martin Luc*fer C**n and his communist influence, they said. Nobody wants trouble, they said. It’s just those outsiders, they said.My mother once said something like there were no problems between Black and White people before Black people began protesting.
She looks SO annoyedJoe drags MTG and Rick Scott … all to some laughs.
My mother was a staunch Democrat who supported MLK and the civil rights movement but would occasionally say crazy stuff like "protesters are why we have problems between Black and white people". She didn't talk like that all the time. Maybe she was just doing the "say it out loud" test. It's partly due to her influence that I'm a proud liberal but I keep statements like that in mind. Black people see white liberals as unreliable allies for good reason.There’s an incredible amount of blindness about the realities of race in the US (particualarly?). A minute fraction of ‘white people’ have ever attempted to really see situations from the perspective of, say, an overpoliced community
It’s Martin Luc*fer C**n and his communist influence, they said. Nobody wants trouble, they said. It’s just those outsiders, they said.
Social Media magnifies it all en masse.I remember in my hometown there used to be two solitudes between protestants and Catholics and bigotry a generation or two ago, a protestant marrying a Catholic was a thing of note! However, since religion is less important than it used to be in society, those differences have largely disappeared. Bigotry and racism are learned behaviors and it is only when a larger modern society is divided into "tribes", based on actual tribes, religions or looks, that there is trouble. People have a propensity to go tribal when they are faced with a big problem or threat, a very human propensity to organize ourselves into groups and dehumanize those not within that group, if the problem is with them. We evolved to shut off empathy for the other to make it easier to kill them, with humans it is the group's survival not the individual's that is important to evolution and men are expendable. We will kill others while sacrificing our own lives for the perceived greater good of our group. That can mean battle in Ukraine or closing down a public swimming pool so the black people can't get some too, or not wanting government medical care, even if they desperately need it. How many threw themselves under the tanks of democracy for Trump and the "cause", whatever fuzzyheaded thing that is.
We haven't heard from Jeb; he might run again..you'll see the old familiars.Haley makes pitch to Trump-friendly CPAC: Vote for me ‘if you’re tired of losing’
Newly minted White House hopeful Nikki Haley pitched herself to conservatives outside of Washington, D.C., on Friday, delivering a ramped-up version of her typical stump speech that urged Republicans to back a younger generation of party leaders and played off GOP fears of socialism and so-called wokeness.
Speaking to a half-full ballroom at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Haley rattled off a list of talking points that have so far defined her nascent presidential bid. She railed against out-of-control federal spending, accused the Biden administration of staking out a weak posture toward China and reiterated her call to subject politicians over the age of 75 to a “mental competency test.”
Buried in her remarks was also an implicit dig at former President Trump, her one-time boss and current rival for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nod. She noted that Republicans had lost the popular vote in nearly every presidential election since 1992. Trump lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020.
“We’ve lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections,” she said. “Our cause is right, but we have failed to win the confidence of a majority of Americans. That ends now. If you’re tired of losing, then put your trust in a new generation. And if you want to win — not just as a party, but as a country — then stand with me.”
Haley’s appearance at CPAC marked an effort to reintroduce herself to a crowd of conservative activists and a segment of the GOP grassroots that plays a critical role in the presidential nominating process.
While she has long been seen as a rising star in Republican circles, early polling shows her distantly trailing Trump and another potential rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who hasn’t announced whether he will seek the White House in 2024 but is actively preparing for a likely campaign.
Haley’s speech touched on the themes that have been at the center of her campaign since the beginning. She touted herself as “proof that liberals are wrong about everything they say about America,” noting that she is “a woman,” “a minority” and “the daughter of immigrants.”
She also warned that the U.S. is spiraling “toward socialism” under President Biden, and claimed that “wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic,” echoing a talking point that has been embraced by conservatives like DeSantis.
“I have traveled the world and back and I have seen what’s out there. America isn’t perfect, but the principles at the heart of America are perfect,” Haley said.
“America is not a racist country,” she added. “I will get the self-loathing out of our schools, I will get the self-destruction out of our culture and once we make America proud, we will make America strong.”
But the reception to Haley appeared mixed. Her call to require competency tests for politicians over the age of 75 was met with only sparse applause, while her pledge to support term limits for members of Congress received a more enthusiastic response from the crowd.
After exiting the stage, videos posted online showed Haley facing a crowd of conference attendees loudly chanting “Trump.”
Haley is set to go in front of a different crowd on Saturday when she will address the conservative Club for Growth’s annual donor retreat in Palm Beach, Fla.
Haley makes pitch to Trump-friendly CPAC: Vote for me ‘if you’re tired of losing’
Newly minted White House hopeful Nikki Haley pitched herself to conservatives outside of Washington, D.C., on Friday, delivering a ramped-up version of her typical stump speech that urged Republica…thehill.com
Ummmmmm, the place is empty?The MAGA fascist fest! Come back later when they've had a few drinks and their tongues are loose...
This year's CPAC brings the usual rhetoric without the crowds
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NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard reports life from this year's CPAC, and he finds it looks a little different than it once did.