We can be sure of this. When Roger brings a topic here, he will run from it. Bidencare... " "Explain one cost driver in the babble you copied from Dementia Joe" Cali
It's different than 9/11 ,because it was an Insurrection, an attack on the Capitol building, not a couple high rise buildings.
The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month by a mob of Trump supporters has drawn renewed attention to the problem of far-right violence in the United States.
The attack on Congress will be remembered as a singular day in American history, but it fits into an ongoing trend of violence by right-wing extremists. Despite the attention paid to Islamic terrorism after 9/11, research shows that far-right ideology has been behind the majority of terror attacks in the U.S. since 1994, and right-wing attacks have increased significantly over the past six years. In October, the Department of Homeland Security called white supremacist extremists the “most persistent and lethal threat” to the country.
Sometimes people cough and again then catch their breath.
I have spoken at meetings many times and I have coughed.
Bonkers and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again
Stopping extremism starts with acknowledging its deep roots in American society
“America needs to turn a spotlight on the witches’ brew of white nationalism and neo-fascist extremism that boils among Trump’s hard-core base. There is a painful truth: Our country has an enemy within. … Post-war Germany has spent decades facing up to its embrace of Nazism. Italy had to confront its romance with Fascism. America must likewise face up to its dance with white nationalist, far right extremism — and, much more, rid itself of it.” — Jeff Robbins, Boston Herald
Military and law enforcement must confront extremism within their ranks.
“The vast majority of America’s armed services personnel and law enforcement officials honorably go about their duty to protect, defend and serve the public. But the unfortunate truth behind the rise of extremists in the ranks is that their fellow officers often protect them behind a blue line or military code of silence. That must stop.” — Editorial, Las Vegas Sun
There needs to be a unified anti-extremism effort across the entire government.
“All the tools of government [must be] brought to bear, from research and analysis, to mental health, social services, economic development, law enforcement and prosecution, and [even] federal Bureau of Prisons rehabilitation. There is a vast entity at the federal level that can and should be tapped to address the severity of the threat that we face today.” — Anti-Defamation League senior adviser George Selim to ABC News
Civil rights cannot be sacrificed in the name of fighting extremism.
“As a response to the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. embraced a host of invasive policies that didn't work, didn't make us safer, and didn't respect our civil liberties. We should not make the same mistakes in our response to the attack on the Capitol.” — Scott Shackford, Reason
Social media companies should be pressured to do much more.
“Just as the social media platforms have pressured those like Trump to play by the rules of society or to find somewhere else to spread hate, so we should pressure social platforms to uphold our safety while not overstepping their mark. The tightrope they have to walk is far more difficult now because they didn't act before. They got us into this mess: now we need to ensure they can get us out.” — Chris Stokel-Walker, Business Insider
But!!!!!Overaggressive online censorship might backfire. I agree!
“That’s why the utility of zealously taking down fringe or extremist content should also be questioned. Public platforms out in the open make it easier for security and intelligence agencies to track and police threats. … It’s a bad idea to drive nefarious actors entirely underground to encrypted messaging apps or dark web platforms where they can organize effectively without being seen.” — Satya Marar, Washington Times
Trust in the pillars of American democracy must be restored. Trump and Ch tried to destroy law and order!
“As a nation, we need a nuanced strategy for addressing each violent ideology, hybrid derivative and group. Part of that effort will be shoring up trust in information sources, public leaders and our very democracy. People need to understand where opinion ends and extremist ideology begins, and right now that is a nebulous line for too many.” — Erroll G. Southers, USA Today
Accusing Biden of being demented is projection! like Indy said.
Military and law enforcement must confront extremism within their ranks.
translation - Military, we don't trust you. we know an overwhelming number of you voted for Trump and that will not be tolerated.
There needs to be a unified anti-extremism effort across the entire government.
translation - republicans and conservatives are the enemy, and they will be cancelled, censored, de-platformed, re-programmed, and removed from polite society.
Civil rights cannot be sacrificed in the name of fighting extremism.
translation - COMPLETE & UTTER BULLSHIT. political enemies will be stripped of their civil liberties.
Social media companies should be pressured to do much more.
like what? you censor, block and remove people from your platform. what the fuck is left to do?
LOL.
you're a joke alky. and the shit you plagiarize is fucking hilarious.
Scott never criticizes Republicans, no matter how fucking crazy they are
She said that the shooting was fake.
A recently-resurfaced video shows Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill shortly after the 2018 attack, calling him a "coward."
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was among the 17 people killed in the school shooting, shared the video on Twitter on Wednesday.
The video shows Greene tailing Hogg as he walked toward the Capitol in March 2018 to advocate for gun control, just weeks after he survived the February 14 shooting. Hogg was 17 years old at the time. Greene was elected to Congress in November 2020.
The Republicans should agree with the censure and expelle her from the house of Representatives
One thing to understand about Adam Kinzinger is that he knows how this will end.
“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead,” the Republican congressman from Illinois says. He is quoting a scene from the World War II series “Band of Brothers” in which an officer dresses down a soldier who hid from battle. The officer continues: “And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function.”
Kinzinger, who is also a pilot with the Air National Guard, took those words as an order.
His embrace of this fatalistic credo made it easier for him to fly planes into enemy territory during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. It made it easier for him to object late last year as President Donald Trump and some of his congressional colleagues amplified the myth of a “rigged” election, stoking violent revenge fantasies among the party’s politically valuable give-me-MAGA-or-give-me-death contingent. And it made it easier for Kinzinger, a young, square-jawed Republican with his whole political life ahead of him, to vote to impeach Trump in the aftermath of the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “I’m willing to blow this whole thing out of the water at all times,” Kinzinger said of his career in politics. The 42-year-old congressman, who last fall won reelection easily, spoke to The Washington Post from his office a week after the attack on the Capitol. He was the only Republican to vote in favor of a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and strip Trump of his presidential powers and one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Trump for inciting a riot at the Capitol.
Now, as the Senate prepares for Trump’s impeachment trial, Kinzinger finds himself prepared to learn what his outspoken criticism of the former president will cost him.
“Those 10 [Republican] colleagues who voted to impeach all have to know there’s a decent chance they lose their jobs next year,” says Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman who challenged Trump in last year’s presidential primary.
The upside, practically speaking, has been elusive. Before the Capitol siege, Kinzinger had spoken out against baseless pro-Trump claims, and in the wake of the attack, he has condemned Republican colleagues and leaders of Christian churches for backing Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen from him. But this tack has not been politically rewarding so far. “I’ve felt very isolated in my party,” Kinzinger told The Post. “Very isolated and very lonely.”
Trump is out of office but remains in control of the Republican Party — a commander in absentia. Where does that leave Adam Kinzinger, a political soldier who broke ranks?
“If there was any political calculation, it’s to be one of the leaders of the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party,” Walsh says. “And I give him credit for that. I just don’t think they have a prayer.” When he was 6 years old, Kinzinger was a Democrat — or, at least, he marched a Democratic candidate's campaign sign around his Jacksonville, Fla., cul-de-sac during the city's mayoral primary. (In retrospect, Kinzinger thinks he was mostly into hot pink campaign signs, but was still bummed when his guy lost.)
After a couple of years in Florida, the Kinzinger family moved back to Illinois, where his mother taught public school and his father ran nonprofit organizations. In junior high, the other boys sprouted; Kinzinger remained small. His brother topped six feet, like their dad. Kinzinger, the youngest of three, maxed out at 5-foot-9.
“As a guy, it’s always about being tough, right? Well, now, all of a sudden, when you have people that have grown and you haven’t, you’re, like, not as tough as them,” he says. “And I think that builds a dynamic where it can lead to self-esteem issues.”
The lack of confidence continued into high school. He started drinking at age 16. He can remember drinking before school one morning, just to try to be cool. In his first semester at Illinois State, he joined a fraternity and came home with a 2.5 GPA. The next semester, he got a 0.8 and was kicked out. He spent the next six months living with his parents and working as a manager in the furniture section of a department store. He tried to date the daughter of a fellow store manager, only to learn that he forbade her to go out with him.
“Because I was a loser, or whatever,” he says now. “And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, man, I suck.’ ”
Chastened by failure, he started talking to God and eventually went back to college. At age 20, he ran for a seat on the county board. “Somebody jokingly told me I should, and I thought they were serious,” he says. He conducted his campaign almost exclusively via phone, worried that if he showed up in person, voters would see how young he looked and laugh him off the front porch. (He won the race.)
A month after Sept. 11, 2001, he signed up to join the Air National Guard.
Kinzinger saw “Band of Brothers” when it aired in 2001. Sometime later, he heard his brother give a speech to a church group, highlighting the advice the on-screen officer gave that frightened soldier: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead.
During two tours in Iraq, Kinzinger flew planes that transported troops who were tasked with killing or capturing known terrorists, often taking mortar attacks along the way. “There were a few heightened moments,” he says. “I didn’t have any fear. It was just my belief that, ‘We’re here for a moment like this.’ ”
In 2006, Kinzinger encountered another heightened moment. On a night out in Milwaukee, he and his girlfriend were walking along a street full of popular bars and restaurants after dinner with a friend. Suddenly, they heard a woman screaming, “He cut my throat! He cut my throat!” The woman, clutching her neck, looked to Kinzinger for help as her boyfriend held the bloody knife.
“I remember going to thoughts of, ‘If I watch her die, I can’t live with myself for the rest of my life,’ ” he says. “But the second thought was, ‘If I fight him, I’m going to die.’ ”
Kinzinger was able to wrap his arm around the man’s neck and pin him to the ground until the police arrived. The woman survived, and Kinzinger walked away unscathed. He later received commendations from the Air Force and the National Guard.
You think that he should be shot in his head like Pelosi
Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again? 8:11 pm Susan Glasser: “Eight days into his tenure, President Joe Biden has not occupied my every waking thought—nor, I suspect, yours. He has not insulted anyone, as far as I’m aware. He has not played golf instead of working, or held late-night counselling sessions with cable-television anchors, or caused a rupture in our relationship with Australia. He had a friendly call with Angela Merkel, and a stern one with Vladimir Putin. He went to church on Sunday, and stopped for bagels in Georgetown. His tweets have been sparse and so anodyne that a writer for the Washington Post compared them to the sayings that come inside fortune cookies. He has returned policy wonks and message discipline to the White House. Technocrats are in; Rudy Giuliani is out.
“In some ways, Biden has already fulfilled his first, and arguably most compelling, campaign promise: being the un-Trump.” ______________
He's doing well.
Meanwhile, Trump has started attacking Republicans.
President Biden may be able to bypass the 60 vote margin to pass appropriations for his covid-19 recovery plan. Including infrastructure and a minimum wage increase, and voting rights , including mail ballots.
The White House on Thursday signaled it could throw its weight behind passing President Biden's coronavirus relief package via the budget reconciliation process, arguing that doing so would not preclude the vote from being bipartisan.
Administration officials have been peppered with questions in recent days about whether Biden would support reconciliation, which would allow the bill to pass with a simple majority in each chamber, as Republican senators express opposition to key parts of the president's $1.9 trillion measure. Passing the legislation without reconciliation would require support from at least 10 Senate Republicans.
"The president wants this to be a bipartisan package regardless of the mechanisms. Republicans can still vote for a package even if it goes through reconciliation," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a briefing with reporters. "There's no blood oath anybody signs. They're able to support it regardless."
Psaki would not speculate on whether Biden would back a bill that passes with no Republican support given his frequent calls for unity and bipartisanship, but said the president is having regular conversations with members of both parties to get the bill passed.
"He wants this to be a bipartisan package," Psaki said. "He's listening to Democrats and Republicans - we all are - to ensure that's what it looks like at the end of the day."
Psaki's remarks came hours after Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned that Democrats were willing to go it alone on the coronavirus relief package, potentially starting the process as soon as next week.
"The dangers of undershooting our response are far greater than overshooting ... so the Senate as early as next week will begin the process of considering a very strong COVID relief bill," Schumer said from the Senate floor.
President Richard Nixon signed the bill giving President and the majority to bypass the filibuster in 1974
This might have a great impact on the economy and pandemic recovery and the next election
Pentagon Halts Trump Appointments to Advisory Boards 6:07 pm “The Pentagon has suspended the processing of a number of former President Donald Trump’s last-minute appointees to defense advisory boards as the new administration looks to weed out loyalists to the former president,” Politico reports.
“The move effectively prevents a number of Trump allies, including his 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandoski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie, from actually serving on panels tasked with providing advice to the defense secretary, at least for the time being.”
So is this starting now? Or from 1960's when this lying crap started. Or is it from Al Gore's, Expired the end is coming from the 1990's.
"John Kerry, whom President Joe Biden appointed as the United States special presidential envoy for climate, said in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday that only nine years remain to save the planet from so-called manmade climate change."
Republicans are whining about the number of Executive Orders issued by Biden. They seem to be unaware of the high number of terrible things done by Trump that desperately need correction!
Elections have coniquentionces.
Trump has lost the house, the senate and Presidency. Yet you remain loyal!
Here’s what we know about American politics: The Republican Party is stuck, probably irreversibly, in a doom loop of bizarro. If the Trump-incited Capitol insurrection didn’t snap the party back to sanity — and it didn’t — nothing will.
What isn’t clear yet is who, exactly, will end up facing doom. Will it be the G.O.P. as a significant political force? Or will it be America as we know it? Unfortunately, we don’t know the answer. It depends a lot on how successful Republicans will be in suppressing votes.
About the bizarro: Even I had some lingering hope that the Republican establishment might try to end Trumpism. But such hopes died this week.
On Tuesday Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, who has said that Donald Trump’s role in fomenting the insurrection was impeachable, voted for a measure that would have declared a Trump trial unconstitutional because he’s no longer in office. (Most constitutional scholars disagree.)
On Thursday Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader — who still hasn’t conceded that Joe Biden legitimately won the presidency, but did declare that Trump “bears responsibility” for the attack on Congress — visited Mar-a-Lago, presumably to make amends.
In other words, the G.O.P.’s national leadership, after briefly flirting with sense, has surrendered to the fantasies of the fringe. Cowardice rules.
Climate Czar John Kerry Says Tens of Thousands of Jobs Will Be Cut for Zero Benefit:
"He [Biden] knows [the] Paris [Accord target] alone is not enough. Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet's emissions, global emissions come from outside of U.S. borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn't solved."
behold the "logic" of the left.
destroy tens of thousands of American jobs in pursuit of a goal that is, self-admittedly, impossible to achieve.
this isn't just stupid.
this isn't even "alky" stupid.
this is fucking EVIL.
this is targeting Americans you HATE and destroying their lives.
No different than you taking trumps word as gospel.....>>BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! Gotta start somewhere rat.... a concept that always seems to elude your massive intellect!!!!!!
They have rigged everything, silenced dissent with tech censorship and financial deplatforming, rigged the economy with insider trading, rigged democracy with lobbying and mass immigration, and they'll tell you with a straight face that racist rednecks are the problem.
I really don't think Trump will run in 2024. It's a case of already bern there done that. He'll be in a position to be king maker. I think he'll prefer that.
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It’s scary as f....
Ignored
We can be sure of this.
When Roger brings a topic here, he will run from it.
Bidencare...
" "Explain one cost driver in the babble you copied from Dementia Joe" Cali
Puts Alky on the carpet and on the clock
It will go down in history as One/Six.
It's different than 9/11 ,because it was an Insurrection, an attack on the Capitol building, not a couple high rise buildings.
The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month by a mob of Trump supporters has drawn renewed attention to the problem of far-right violence in the United States.
The attack on Congress will be remembered as a singular day in American history, but it fits into an ongoing trend of violence by right-wing extremists. Despite the attention paid to Islamic terrorism after 9/11, research shows that far-right ideology has been behind the majority of terror attacks in the U.S. since 1994, and right-wing attacks have increased significantly over the past six years. In October, the Department of Homeland Security called white supremacist extremists the “most persistent and lethal threat” to the country.
Jesus, "cue" cards for the fucktard.
Sometimes people cough and again then catch their breath.
I have spoken at meetings many times and I have coughed.
Bonkers and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again
So much for
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Ignored
January 28, 2021 at 3:41 PM
LMAO
btw, did anyone tell the drooling dementia dumb fuck that cesar chavez was a very ardent OPPONENT of illegal immigration.
he has the bust as a prop behind him but i'll bet he hasn't the first fucking clue.
there's your boy, alky! just as fucking decrepit as you are!
LOL.
Cum-Allah is just sitting back and taking this all in, licking her chops like she used to lick Willie B's nutsack.
LOL.
Perspectives,
Stopping extremism starts with acknowledging its deep roots in American society
“America needs to turn a spotlight on the witches’ brew of white nationalism and neo-fascist extremism that boils among Trump’s hard-core base. There is a painful truth: Our country has an enemy within. … Post-war Germany has spent decades facing up to its embrace of Nazism. Italy had to confront its romance with Fascism. America must likewise face up to its dance with white nationalist, far right extremism — and, much more, rid itself of it.” — Jeff Robbins, Boston Herald
Military and law enforcement must confront extremism within their ranks.
“The vast majority of America’s armed services personnel and law enforcement officials honorably go about their duty to protect, defend and serve the public. But the unfortunate truth behind the rise of extremists in the ranks is that their fellow officers often protect them behind a blue line or military code of silence. That must stop.” — Editorial, Las Vegas Sun
There needs to be a unified anti-extremism effort across the entire government.
“All the tools of government [must be] brought to bear, from research and analysis, to mental health, social services, economic development, law enforcement and prosecution, and [even] federal Bureau of Prisons rehabilitation. There is a vast entity at the federal level that can and should be tapped to address the severity of the threat that we face today.” — Anti-Defamation League senior adviser George Selim to ABC News
Civil rights cannot be sacrificed in the name of fighting extremism.
“As a response to the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. embraced a host of invasive policies that didn't work, didn't make us safer, and didn't respect our civil liberties. We should not make the same mistakes in our response to the attack on the Capitol.” — Scott Shackford, Reason
Social media companies should be pressured to do much more.
“Just as the social media platforms have pressured those like Trump to play by the rules of society or to find somewhere else to spread hate, so we should pressure social platforms to uphold our safety while not overstepping their mark. The tightrope they have to walk is far more difficult now because they didn't act before. They got us into this mess: now we need to ensure they can get us out.” — Chris Stokel-Walker, Business Insider
But!!!!!Overaggressive online censorship might backfire. I agree!
“That’s why the utility of zealously taking down fringe or extremist content should also be questioned. Public platforms out in the open make it easier for security and intelligence agencies to track and police threats. … It’s a bad idea to drive nefarious actors entirely underground to encrypted messaging apps or dark web platforms where they can organize effectively without being seen.” — Satya Marar, Washington Times
Trust in the pillars of American democracy must be restored. Trump and Ch tried to destroy law and order!
“As a nation, we need a nuanced strategy for addressing each violent ideology, hybrid derivative and group. Part of that effort will be shoring up trust in information sources, public leaders and our very democracy. People need to understand where opinion ends and extremist ideology begins, and right now that is a nebulous line for too many.” — Erroll G. Southers, USA Today
Accusing Biden of being demented is projection! like Indy said.
like she used to lick Willie B's nutsack.
Never say that around native Atlantans our Willie B was revered
LMAO
Military and law enforcement must confront extremism within their ranks.
translation - Military, we don't trust you. we know an overwhelming number of you voted for Trump and that will not be tolerated.
There needs to be a unified anti-extremism effort across the entire government.
translation - republicans and conservatives are the enemy, and they will be cancelled, censored, de-platformed, re-programmed, and removed from polite society.
Civil rights cannot be sacrificed in the name of fighting extremism.
translation - COMPLETE & UTTER BULLSHIT. political enemies will be stripped of their civil liberties.
Social media companies should be pressured to do much more.
like what? you censor, block and remove people from your platform. what the fuck is left to do?
LOL.
you're a joke alky. and the shit you plagiarize is fucking hilarious.
Your ignorance of the law is why I ignore you.
Scott never criticizes Republicans, no matter how fucking crazy they are
She said that the shooting was fake.
A recently-resurfaced video shows Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill shortly after the 2018 attack, calling him a "coward."
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was among the 17 people killed in the school shooting, shared the video on Twitter on Wednesday.
The video shows Greene tailing Hogg as he walked toward the Capitol in March 2018 to advocate for gun control, just weeks after he survived the February 14 shooting. Hogg was 17 years old at the time. Greene was elected to Congress in November 2020.
The Republicans should agree with the censure and expelle her from the house of Representatives
https://www.businessinsider.com/video-marjorie-taylor-greene-harass-parkland-survivor-david-hogg-2021-1
https://news.yahoo.com/how-can-farright-violence-be-stopped-165037092.html
The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol has highlighted the challenges of defeating homegrown extremism.
"Caliphate4vrJanuary 28, 2021 at 3:54 PM
So much for
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Ignored"
Lol
https://news.yahoo.com/how-can-farright-violence-be-stopped-165037092.html
Unity Lie.
Pelousy calls Republicans the "Enemy Within"
https://news.yahoo.com/how-can-roger_amick-violence-be-stopped-165037092.html
Damn that is funny.
Scott excerpts a tiny segment of video where the President has a moment or two of difficulty speaking, coughing... and makes a big deal out of that.
THIS IS FAR, FAR MORE IMPORTANT:
WATCH THE VIDEO AND READ THE ARTICLE
AND SEE WHAT A COMPETENT PRESS SECRETARY BIDEN HAS AND -- MORE IMPORTANT -- WHAT A COMPETENT AGENDA
https://www.aol.com/news/psaki-defends-bidens-executive-orders-214430123.html
He has a very competent press secretary who answers questions well because Biden's positions and programs are clear and easy to defend.
Socialism is being clearly being implemented, I agree with James.
Biden signed another EO, making killing babies easier.
Scott excerpts a tiny segment of video where the President has a moment or two of difficulty speaking, coughing... and makes a big deal out of that.
Pay no mind to the idiot, look over here
"January 28, 2021 - 09:56 AM ESTFauci warns COVID-19 situation 'potentially could get worse' given new variants.
The South Africa Variant.. It is ok to call it that,,,,, But not the China Virus.
Odd how Socialism works.
The Problem for Joe is he can't hide any more.
Biden has a totally incompetent press secretary who keeps promising to "cicle back" and doesn't.
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
It's Thursday and nobody from the Biden Administration has "circled back" to me about China & our national power grid.
John Cardillo
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1354052277917675520
@EmeraldRobinson completely stumps @jrpsaki when she asks about Biden allowing China into our power grid.
Probably because the Biden's are owned by China
* circle
One thing to understand about Adam Kinzinger is that he knows how this will end.
“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead,” the Republican congressman from Illinois says. He is quoting a scene from the World War II series “Band of Brothers” in which an officer dresses down a soldier who hid from battle. The officer continues: “And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function.”
Kinzinger, who is also a pilot with the Air National Guard, took those words as an order.
His embrace of this fatalistic credo made it easier for him to fly planes into enemy territory during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. It made it easier for him to object late last year as President Donald Trump and some of his congressional colleagues amplified the myth of a “rigged” election, stoking violent revenge fantasies among the party’s politically valuable give-me-MAGA-or-give-me-death contingent. And it made it easier for Kinzinger, a young, square-jawed Republican with his whole political life ahead of him, to vote to impeach Trump in the aftermath of the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“I’m willing to blow this whole thing out of the water at all times,” Kinzinger said of his career in politics. The 42-year-old congressman, who last fall won reelection easily, spoke to The Washington Post from his office a week after the attack on the Capitol. He was the only Republican to vote in favor of a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and strip Trump of his presidential powers and one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Trump for inciting a riot at the Capitol.
Now, as the Senate prepares for Trump’s impeachment trial, Kinzinger finds himself prepared to learn what his outspoken criticism of the former president will cost him.
“Those 10 [Republican] colleagues who voted to impeach all have to know there’s a decent chance they lose their jobs next year,” says Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman who challenged Trump in last year’s presidential primary.
The upside, practically speaking, has been elusive. Before the Capitol siege, Kinzinger had spoken out against baseless pro-Trump claims, and in the wake of the attack, he has condemned Republican colleagues and leaders of Christian churches for backing Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen from him. But this tack has not been politically rewarding so far. “I’ve felt very isolated in my party,” Kinzinger told The Post. “Very isolated and very lonely.”
Trump is out of office but remains in control of the Republican Party — a commander in absentia. Where does that leave Adam Kinzinger, a political soldier who broke ranks?
“If there was any political calculation, it’s to be one of the leaders of the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party,” Walsh says. “And I give him credit for that. I just don’t think they have a prayer.”
When he was 6 years old, Kinzinger was a Democrat — or, at least, he marched a Democratic candidate's campaign sign around his Jacksonville, Fla., cul-de-sac during the city's mayoral primary. (In retrospect, Kinzinger thinks he was mostly into hot pink campaign signs, but was still bummed when his guy lost.)
After a couple of years in Florida, the Kinzinger family moved back to Illinois, where his mother taught public school and his father ran nonprofit organizations. In junior high, the other boys sprouted; Kinzinger remained small. His brother topped six feet, like their dad. Kinzinger, the youngest of three, maxed out at 5-foot-9.
“As a guy, it’s always about being tough, right? Well, now, all of a sudden, when you have people that have grown and you haven’t, you’re, like, not as tough as them,” he says. “And I think that builds a dynamic where it can lead to self-esteem issues.”
The lack of confidence continued into high school. He started drinking at age 16. He can remember drinking before school one morning, just to try to be cool. In his first semester at Illinois State, he joined a fraternity and came home with a 2.5 GPA. The next semester, he got a 0.8 and was kicked out. He spent the next six months living with his parents and working as a manager in the furniture section of a department store. He tried to date the daughter of a fellow store manager, only to learn that he forbade her to go out with him.
“Because I was a loser, or whatever,” he says now. “And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, man, I suck.’ ”
Chastened by failure, he started talking to God and eventually went back to college. At age 20, he ran for a seat on the county board. “Somebody jokingly told me I should, and I thought they were serious,” he says. He conducted his campaign almost exclusively via phone, worried that if he showed up in person, voters would see how young he looked and laugh him off the front porch. (He won the race.)
A month after Sept. 11, 2001, he signed up to join the Air National Guard.
Kinzinger saw “Band of Brothers” when it aired in 2001. Sometime later, he heard his brother give a speech to a church group, highlighting the advice the on-screen officer gave that frightened soldier: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead.
During two tours in Iraq, Kinzinger flew planes that transported troops who were tasked with killing or capturing known terrorists, often taking mortar attacks along the way. “There were a few heightened moments,” he says. “I didn’t have any fear. It was just my belief that, ‘We’re here for a moment like this.’ ”
In 2006, Kinzinger encountered another heightened moment. On a night out in Milwaukee, he and his girlfriend were walking along a street full of popular bars and restaurants after dinner with a friend. Suddenly, they heard a woman screaming, “He cut my throat! He cut my throat!” The woman, clutching her neck, looked to Kinzinger for help as her boyfriend held the bloody knife.
“I remember going to thoughts of, ‘If I watch her die, I can’t live with myself for the rest of my life,’ ” he says. “But the second thought was, ‘If I fight him, I’m going to die.’ ”
Kinzinger was able to wrap his arm around the man’s neck and pin him to the ground until the police arrived. The woman survived, and Kinzinger walked away unscathed. He later received commendations from the Air Force and the National Guard.
You think that he should be shot in his head like Pelosi
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Emerald Robinson (QOAN)
The Babylon Bee
https://gab.com/TheBabylonBee/posts/105634424950595489
Rich Wall Street investors getting squeezed by the GameStop buying frenzy are taking solace in the fact that they'll get a $600 stimulus check.
Emerald Robinson is Newsmax, totally legit question that couldn't be answered.
Why don't you answer you for Joe ?
I can see why there is talk about "cleansing" the White House press corps of true reporters.
They make a mockery of the lame stream media.
and hurt roger's feelings
Jack Posobiec
FEES: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1354801670237126656
Janet Yellen’s millions in speaking fees from Wall Street
WOW, those are Hunter like numbers.
Biden starts his first month with more scandals than anyone could imagine. No wonder he is signing executive orders then hiding.
Reminds me, what is the FBI doing with Hunters laptop ???
Banana Republic
John Cardillo
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1354550428290179074
John Durham couldn’t indict people who fraudulent swore out FISA warrants but people are being indicted for five year old memes.
America is dead.
Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again?
8:11 pm
Susan Glasser:
“Eight days into his tenure, President Joe Biden has not occupied my every waking thought—nor, I suspect, yours. He has not insulted anyone, as far as I’m aware. He has not played golf instead of working, or held late-night counselling sessions with cable-television anchors, or caused a rupture in our relationship with Australia. He had a friendly call with Angela Merkel, and a stern one with Vladimir Putin. He went to church on Sunday, and stopped for bagels in Georgetown. His tweets have been sparse and so anodyne that a writer for the Washington Post compared them to the sayings that come inside fortune cookies. He has returned policy wonks and message discipline to the White House. Technocrats are in; Rudy Giuliani is out.
“In some ways, Biden has already fulfilled his first, and arguably most compelling, campaign promise: being the un-Trump.”
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He's doing well.
Meanwhile, Trump has started attacking Republicans.
President Biden may be able to bypass the 60 vote margin to pass appropriations for his covid-19 recovery plan. Including infrastructure and a minimum wage increase, and voting rights , including mail ballots.
The White House on Thursday signaled it could throw its weight behind passing President Biden's coronavirus relief package via the budget reconciliation process, arguing that doing so would not preclude the vote from being bipartisan.
Administration officials have been peppered with questions in recent days about whether Biden would support reconciliation, which would allow the bill to pass with a simple majority in each chamber, as Republican senators express opposition to key parts of the president's $1.9 trillion measure. Passing the legislation without reconciliation would require support from at least 10 Senate Republicans.
"The president wants this to be a bipartisan package regardless of the mechanisms. Republicans can still vote for a package even if it goes through reconciliation," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a briefing with reporters. "There's no blood oath anybody signs. They're able to support it regardless."
Psaki would not speculate on whether Biden would back a bill that passes with no Republican support given his frequent calls for unity and bipartisanship, but said the president is having regular conversations with members of both parties to get the bill passed.
"He wants this to be a bipartisan package," Psaki said. "He's listening to Democrats and Republicans - we all are - to ensure that's what it looks like at the end of the day."
Psaki's remarks came hours after Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned that Democrats were willing to go it alone on the coronavirus relief package, potentially starting the process as soon as next week.
"The dangers of undershooting our response are far greater than overshooting ... so the Senate as early as next week will begin the process of considering a very strong COVID relief bill," Schumer said from the Senate floor.
President Richard Nixon signed the bill giving President and the majority to bypass the filibuster in 1974
This might have a great impact on the economy and pandemic recovery and the next election
Pentagon Halts Trump Appointments to Advisory Boards
6:07 pm
“The Pentagon has suspended the processing of a number of former President Donald Trump’s last-minute appointees to defense advisory boards as the new administration looks to weed out loyalists to the former president,” Politico reports.
“The move effectively prevents a number of Trump allies, including his 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandoski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie, from actually serving on panels tasked with providing advice to the defense secretary, at least for the time being.”
Congrats Alky and pedo you’ve bored the internet to death
Corey Lewandoski Which post was he actually recommend to fill?
So is this starting now?
Or from 1960's when this lying crap started.
Or is it from Al Gore's, Expired the end is coming from the 1990's.
"John Kerry, whom President Joe Biden appointed as the United States special presidential envoy for climate, said in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday that only nine years remain to save the planet from so-called manmade climate change."
Republicans are whining about the number of Executive Orders issued by Biden. They seem to be unaware of the high number of terrible things done by Trump that desperately need correction!
Elections have coniquentionces.
Trump has lost the house, the senate and Presidency. Yet you remain loyal!
Consiquensions
"“world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” SIC
April, 2019.
So is John Yacht Kerry or AOC rightt?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Elections have coniquentionces.
Consiquensions
"You know, the thing!!!"
LOL.
alky, you are a perfect metaphor for our dementia patient president.
LOL.
According to Q Anon.....trump will be reinstated as tyrant on Jan. 31!!!!!!!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! And you fools believe it!!!!!!
Here’s what we know about American politics: The Republican Party is stuck, probably irreversibly, in a doom loop of bizarro. If the Trump-incited Capitol insurrection didn’t snap the party back to sanity — and it didn’t — nothing will.
What isn’t clear yet is who, exactly, will end up facing doom. Will it be the G.O.P. as a significant political force? Or will it be America as we know it? Unfortunately, we don’t know the answer. It depends a lot on how successful Republicans will be in suppressing votes.
About the bizarro: Even I had some lingering hope that the Republican establishment might try to end Trumpism. But such hopes died this week.
On Tuesday Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, who has said that Donald Trump’s role in fomenting the insurrection was impeachable, voted for a measure that would have declared a Trump trial unconstitutional because he’s no longer in office. (Most constitutional scholars disagree.)
On Thursday Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader — who still hasn’t conceded that Joe Biden legitimately won the presidency, but did declare that Trump “bears responsibility” for the attack on Congress — visited Mar-a-Lago, presumably to make amends.
In other words, the G.O.P.’s national leadership, after briefly flirting with sense, has surrendered to the fantasies of the fringe. Cowardice rules.
Paul Krugman
The Republican party has no intention of taking advice from Paul Krugman.
Climate Czar John Kerry Says Tens of Thousands of Jobs Will Be Cut for Zero Benefit:
"He [Biden] knows [the] Paris [Accord target] alone is not enough. Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet's emissions, global emissions come from outside of U.S. borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn't solved."
behold the "logic" of the left.
destroy tens of thousands of American jobs in pursuit of a goal that is, self-admittedly, impossible to achieve.
this isn't just stupid.
this isn't even "alky" stupid.
this is fucking EVIL.
this is targeting Americans you HATE and destroying their lives.
It is necessary in a democracy, to ensure that its citizens have faith in their government.
In the years after his failed insurrection, Trump still has control of the Republican party.
If he wins in 2024 Hitler will be cheering from hell.
The American dream will end.
this isn't just stupid.
No different than you taking trumps word as gospel.....>>BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! Gotta start somewhere rat.... a concept that always seems to elude your massive intellect!!!!!!
@KeithWoodsYT
They have rigged everything, silenced dissent with tech censorship and financial deplatforming, rigged the economy with insider trading, rigged democracy with lobbying and mass immigration, and they'll tell you with a straight face that racist rednecks are the problem.
I really don't think Trump will run in 2024. It's a case of already bern there done that. He'll be in a position to be king maker. I think he'll prefer that.
Cum-Allah level law enforcement:
Woman ‘gives armed robber blowjob to distract him until police arrive’
https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/28/woman-gives-armed-robber-blowjob-to-distract-him-until-police-arrive-13979080/?ito=cbshare
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Elections have coniquentionces.
Consiquensions
Boy that says it all about roger.
You know the "bright" wife beater
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