In today’s news and poll of the day - part 2

Let us not forget Reagan saying he would appoint a woman while on the campaign trail, before he was elected!!

Another...only the best....of the gun toting family Christmas card fame..
Rep Massie(R-KY)
NOT Voltaire!!!



In an online post from 2017, Strom confirmed that the quote was his, writing that "it's pretty clear, even to my critics, that I came up with the idea and the quote — and Voltaire never did."
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This isn't the first time Massie has apparently invoked Nazism in debates around COVID-19. Back in August, one of Massie's interns quit after the congressman compared vaccine cards to the policies of Nazi Germany. At the time, Massie tweeted a photo with an image of a weathered wrist tattooed with a concentration camp identification number, captioning it: "If you have to carry a card on you to gain access to a restaurant, venue or an event in your own country … that's no longer a free country." He later deleted that post.

www.rawstory.com/republican-s-latest-on-fauci-blows-up-in-his-face-after-he-quotes-an-infamous-neo-nazi/#cxrecs_s

There are so many things to worry about with Trump's statement that he will pardon the Jan 6 insurrectionists. The Republicans with the notable exception of Liz Cheney and possibly Kinzinger, for remaining silent are complicit. Two years ago who would have thought those 2 would be the reasonable Republicans?

from the article above (thank you dizzycheermom)

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-30-2022

Observers note that this promise might encourage the bigger fish ensnared by the investigation to keep quiet; Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted that “Trump…is committing a form of obstruction of justice in full public view.”

and this

That promise of pardons might also be for crimes not yet committed.

this is also alarming

“t’s both alarming and yet utterly predictable that Trump would toss the gasoline of racial allegations onto his flaming pile of grievances, knowing how that will play with the Confederate flag aficionados within the ex-president’s cult,” Bunch wrote. Trump, he said, “is seeking to start a race war.”

What will the Republican leaders who have tied themselves to Trump say now that he has openly admitted he was trying to destroy our democracy?

excellent question. My prediction - more of the same. They will remain silent and wait for it to blow over.

They pay because he is their great leader. If they don't pay he will trash them and he will collect all the donations to their none!

Chip Roy is another loon!
Spoiler is a response to his tweet... So funny!! Nothing bad...