If you raged against lockdowns and mask mandates, but now cheer the government enabling you to force yourself on businesses that don’t want you, what you believe in isn’t “freedom,” it’s free riding. https://t.co/o33471rAQk— Julian Sanchez (@normative) June 8, 2021
This guy will having an easier defense in court than most Republican operatives. This seems like SOP for these people.
It is - and it's a rather common fraud that rarely gets punished Much like Ponzi schemes, people are more afraid of being laughed at for sending money to these people than they are willing to admit they were duped and try and get the grifters punished... I mean, you could discharge every person who's in prison for selling small amounts of weed and load up all the people that get slapped on the wrist for shit like this and you'd need to build two new prisons in every state
"Build two new prisons in every state" Hey, that's the extent of the Republican counter Infrastructure Plan!
I was actually amazed how much latitude there is to simply lie and defraud your political donors Regular companies would never get away with this stuff under consumer protection legislation
For McGintey, I put that on the PA Democratic Party honchos that screwed Joe Sestak in the primaries. He could've kicked Toomey's ass pretty handily, unlike McGinty, who had no chance of appealing to very many people outside of Alleghany County or Philadelphia and the suburbs. But in general, yes.
I'm not sure that there is a vehicle created that is open to grift, abuse & human suffering than "private prisons"
All things that are illegal. If only there was a place to "house" people high up in the business who break the law. Hmm? Where could that be? Oh, yeah, Congress! Not surprisingly, 18 of the top 20 recipients of private prison political donations in 2020 were Republicans. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries./recips.php?cycle=2020&ind=G7000
Dude we talked about this before, He was a Republican that ran as Democrat and after winning switched back and became a hardcore Trumper. He does not support the point you are trying to make.
The Economist points out that the same Texas legislature that screams about state's rights has passed a whole bunch of bills that withholds funding from cities if they don't toe the GOP line. Ironic that.
Not sure Nelson ever really had a shot. Cunningham is a tough one. He ********ed himself, but the way he did, meant that the DNC couldn't provide support. That said, he should have fought harder. McGinty, yup. Though I will say this was 2016, so I think it was as much a DNC failure as McGinty's.
Shouldn't surprise anyone that Grifty Glemm is just all in on trumpian propaganda these days This video is so hilarious. Obviously, NBC was among the leaders pushing the false claim Trump tear-gassed protesters for a photo op.The problem: Ken Dilanian read the IG Report & knows it's not true. Chuck Todd does everything to salvage it, but can't:pic.twitter.com/Y9ea19Vr1A— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 10, 2021
IMHO, it's only ironic if you accept the disingenuous right-wing framing of 'state's rights' as a euphemism for personal freedom and limits on governmental overreach, rather than the extremely reactionary and anti-democratic ideology it's always been.
Yeah, I'm like, are we still pretending the modern Republican party has an ideology? Cuz they don't. I guess they're against taxes. But that's pretty much the only ideological point they hold.
I'm pretty sure this is the chorus of their campaign ditty while ripping off Jan & Dean's "Surf City"