Another GOP traitor on the job

Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, (NY-21), continues to support Donald Trump, despite the fact — repeat, despite the fact — that her president lost the 2020 election, instigated an insurrection in January, 2020 , and continues his attempts to overthrow — or otherwise destroy the legitimately elected government of the United States. — wfw

‘You’re a mess’: Elise Stefanik slammed for parroting Donald Trump’s debunked ‘illegal leak’ screed

United States Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-New York), the chair of the GOP Conference in the House of Representatives, suggested on Saturday that former President Donald Trump is a victim of political persecution by “corrupt Leftist prosecutors” who are expected to indict Trump as soon as this upcoming week.

That includes Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, and Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith – all of whom are investigating Trump for an array of alleged crimes.

Stefanik being floated as possible Trump VP

America has Ignored GOP Crimes to Seize the White House Long Enough – It’s Time to Put this One in Prison

Trump’s Dead-Enders: here’s how they roll

When you come across comments, statements, or declarations by Trump’s dead-enders, you know there’s a pile of bullshit on display . They rail against Joe Biden, they whine, carp and complain about Hunter Biden, they babble about a myriad of fanciful transgressions committed by Democrats which is predictable, but — what really defines them — is what they don’t complain about.

Donald Trump falsely claimed that the 2020 election was rigged against him and there wasn’t a hint of outrage from his supporters. Donald Trump actively engaged in a treasonous effort to negate the votes of the 81.5 million people who voted for Joe Biden — or against the Donald — and there wasn’t a mouse-squeak of protest from his followers.

I think it’s fair to conclude that the many of folks who ignored Trump’s lies, and quietly sloughed off his effort to overthrow the legitimately elected government of the United States, supported his goal of becoming president for life. And now they think they can distance themselves from his treasonous behavior by ignoring it.

On September 24, 2020, Forbes magazine published the article, “Here’s Everything Trump Has Said About Refusing To Give Up Power.” you can look it up online, check out the URL: https://tinyurl.com/55st8apf or — if you’re a Trump dead-ender — dismiss it as “fake news”.

The bottom line is: engaging these folks is an exercise in futility. They’re woefully ignorant — by choice,– preferring instead, to wallow in the outright lies provided by FOX News. Eventually, they’ll realize that they were duped — and they’ll deal with that fact by rationalizing their failure and setting themselves up for the next bullsjit artist that tells them what they want to hear. It’s how they roll.— wfw

A former producer of the largest Fox show calls Trump supporters inbred ‘terrorists’A former producer of the largest Fox show calls Trump supporters inbred ‘terrorists’

Opinion | I Helped Write the Jan. 6 Committee Report. Here’s What Tucker Carlson Left Out.

Republican senator refuses to discuss new footage of MAGA rioters smashing up his office

Don’t call Trump Dead-Enders fans! They’re members of the MAGA-Cult.

Don’t waste your time trying to reason with MAGA-Cultists.They know he didn’t win the election. They know he instigated an insurrection against a legitimately elected government of the United States — they don’t care — they’re willfully ignorant and proud of it. They think they’re entitled to rule this country. — wfw

Trump’s ‘evident emotional issues’ aren’t scaring off his fans – and that’s dangerous — by Tom Bogging

The hero’s welcome that greeted Donald Trump at this past weekend’s CPAC gathering in Maryland — despite the fact that he tried to subvert the 2020 presidential election while inciting a riot at the Capitol — should be a cause for concern over what it will take for his fans to abandon him? READ MORE

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit

“Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Social Security is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer and employee. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the General Fund to reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security Trust Fund. So Social Security has nothing to do with balancing a budget or erasing or lowering the deficit.” — President Ronald Reagan 7 October 1984

Washington teeters on the brink of a Cold War over Social Security By BURGESS EVERETT

Amending entitlements is a tall order for a Congress that disagrees on nearly everything. Lawmakers are still wading into the mess, hoping to recreate a famed bipartisan deal that shored up the programs four decades ago.

ongress, whose members struggle to accomplish simple tasks like funding the government and raising the debt ceiling, is suddenly talking about changes to Medicare and Social Security.

There’s plenty of reasons to be skeptical that any of that big talk will pay off.

Delaware Democrat Chris Coons, for one, has a unique seat at the table as a bipartisan group of his fellow senators meet quietly about potential solutions to shore up Social Security’s long-term fiscal health. Coons, a close ally of President Joe Biden who’s sat in on meetings of the bipartisan Social Security gang, openly admits that changing the popular entitlement “is one of the most difficult things for Congress to do.”

Elise Stefanik, Lier, Trump Toady, and Traitor

Stefanik speaks at CPAC, makes false claims about the FBI (BY EMILY RUSSELL (ADIRONDACK REPORTER)

North Country Rep.Elise Stefanik spoke last weekend at CPAC , the annual conference for conservative lawmakers and activists. Stefanik attacked the Biden administration and celebrated the work of her Republican colleagues.

“I am so excited to be here with you as the conference chair of the new House Republican majority,” said Stefanik, smiling as she took the stage on Saturday.

Stefanik was notably the only member of the Republican congressional leadership at this year’s CPAC. Missing from the event were House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, and former vice President Mike Pence.

This year’s CPAC was more a celebration of Trumpism than it was a broad spectrum of Republican speakers and ideals.

Stefanik spent her speech attacking President Biden and the Senate Democrats. “They want a blank check to continue to spend our hard-earned taxpayer dollars on wasteful, woke programs,” said Stefanik.

She blamed inflation and crime rates on Democrats. She also made three false claims about the FBI and the Department of Justice.

“America is seeing Joe Biden’s corrupt DOJ and FBI fully weaponized as they label parents domestic terrorists,” said Stefanik.

The Justice Department said it’s never used that term to describe parents. The term ‘domestic terrorists’ was instead used in a letter written by the nonprofit National School Board Association to the DOJ.

Stefanik continued her speech with another false claim about the DOJ and FBI, saying that “they conducted an unprecedented and illegal raid on President Trump’s home”

The raid was legally authorized by a federal judge. Stefanik provided no evidence to support her claim. The FBI also searched President Biden’s home and personal property.

Stefanik also falsely claimed that the FBI “illegally paid Twitter $3 million to suppress stories, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story all for the political benefit and purpose of electing Democrats.”

The FBI did pay Twitter $3.4 million, but according to USA Today, it was for records requests, not to suppress stories on the social media site.

Separately, the FBI has flagged Twitter accounts it says violate the company’s terms of service. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Stefanik’s staff has done the same, making regular requests over both the Trump and Biden presidencies that Twitter moderate its content.

Down Home with Marjorie Taylor Greene

The Sickening History of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Hometown (The Daily Beast May. 17, 2022)

When Marjorie Taylor Greene, the new congresswoman known for her racist and anti-Semitic rants, was a senior at South Forsyth County High School in 1992, a few dozen Black marchers made their way through the Georgia county’s rain-slicked streets singing old protest songs and carrying signs reading “We Shall Overcome” and “Black and White Together.” The route was flanked by hundreds of snarling white racists waving Confederate flags and shouting ″Go home, n—ers.”

The marchers had been marking five years since the 1987 “Walk for Brotherhood” drew international condemnation to all-white Forsyth County. Newspaper accounts describe protesters being pelted with so many “rocks, bottles and mud thrown from a crowd of Ku Klux Klan members and their supporters” that they were forced to abandon the two-and-half mile route. Forsyth County had maintained an unwritten whites-only policy dating to 1912, when white vigilantes lynched a black man and drove out nearly all of the African American residents. The county’s reputation as too dangerous for Black folks to even drive through—a courthouse lawn sign in the 1950s and ‘60s warned “N—er, Don’t Let the Sun Set on You” — was well earned. ”I have been in the civil rights movement for 30 years,” Hosea Williams, an acolyte of Martin Luther King Jr and organizer of the Forsyth County march, told the New York Times in 1987. “I’m telling you we’ve got a South Africa in the backyard of Atlanta, Georgia.”

It’s time to tell the GOP to fuck off!

Progressives Urge Senate Dems to Ditch Tradition That’s Allowing GOP to Veto Biden Judges

“Senate Democrats should eliminate every barrier possible” to confirm President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, said Indivisible

With Democrats hoping to confirm dozens more federal judges following President Joe Biden’s milestone of appointing 100 new members of the judiciary, progressives on Friday said the party has no choice but to eliminate a tradition they say has been exploited by Republicans to block the president’s nominees.

Advocacy group Alliance for Justice said Democratic leaders, particularly Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) must make a choice: They can “transform our federal courts by confirming so many more judges with a respect for the rights of all of us,” or they can allow Republicans to continue the tradition of using so-called “blue slips” to reject nominees.

The Senate “can’t do both,” said the group.\

GOP will ‘suffer’ because it’s led by ‘freaks’ like Marjorie Taylor Greene’: analyst

Arizona Republicans slammed for broadcasting ‘parade of ever-more dubious conspiracy theorists’

Dingbat, Lauren Boebert, Deconstructed

Updated February 25, 2023

‘”She lives in some sort of weird, you know, firearms Disneyland where everybody has guns and everybody shoots everybody all the time, It’s insane, it’s just insane.”

— Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson

Trump’s dead-enders are at each other’s throats

“An Enemy of the People” – New Hampshire Republicans Offer Resolution to Censure Mitch McConnell

New Hampshire Republicans are offering up a resolution at the state’s convention on Saturday to censure Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

McConnell made funding Ukraine his highest priority this past year. Mitch not only forgot about funding Republican senate candidates, he openly badmouthed Republicans while he funded horrible Independent candidate Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. Mitch truly is the enemy of the people.

Republicans confront bitter divide; no clear path forward

They are without shame — update February 2023

Schoharie County government defies state order to reinstate health director

Dr. Amy Gildemeister was unanimously approved for a new contract by the county Board of Health, but the supervisors’ board has refused to authorize her salary.

Rachel Silberstein Jan. 27, 2023Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 3:22 p.m.

SCHOHARIE — Defying a direct order from New York’s health commissioner to reinstate Schoharie County’s longtime health director, the county Board of Supervisors — which previously criticized the ousted health official’s implementation of state COVID-19 guidelines — has locked her out of county offices and put an interim health officer in her place, according to email communications obtained by the Times Union.

Amy Gildemeister, who has served the county for nine years, was unanimously reappointed for another term by the county Board of Health in December, but the county supervisors, who act as the rural county’s legislative body, have refused to authorize her salary.

Gildemeister resigns as county’s Public Health head