Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Soup D’Etat” – It Will Make a Chill Run Down Your Spine

 Posted by at 2:09 pm  Politics
Feb 112022
 

By now, most of you have seen Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) claim on the right-wing network OAN (without an iota of evidence) that Speaker Pelosi is in charge of the “Gazpacho Police” in order to secretly spy on Congress critters.  But if not:

Transcript of MTG

“Not only do we have a D.C. jail — which is a D.C. gulag [MTG probably meant to say “goulash”] — but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s Gazpacho Police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff, and spying on American citizens that want to come talk to their representatives.”

Just to clear things up, @RepMTG

Gazpacho: a vegetable-based Spanish cold soup

Gestapo: Nazi Germany’s secret police

 

It’s not the first time that MTG has served up some haute quisling.  With this malaprop she’s doing her best Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi imitation by declaring: “No Democracy for you!!”

And if you thought the Twitterverse was going to pass up a golden opportunity to mock MTG’s confusing “Gestapo” with “Gazpacho”, you’d be wrong!  So, let’s enjoy a few …

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) put a wonderful positive spin while throwing huge shade on MTG’s ignorance:

 

It’s easy to agree that MTG makes Sarah Palin look smart in the same way that Trump makes Dubya look presidential.  And I realize that half the entire population has an IQ below 100.  But do republicans have to keep electing them all to Congress?

As you all know, olive doing puns – and I think here and now is the thyme and place for a few.  So, playing off her ignorance of history and lack of culinary knowledge (why, some mean-spirited folks have even called her a stupid bisque) let’s see what we can come up with.

First, my disclaimer: Having personally met a few members of Pelosi’s Gazpacho Police, I have to say they are consommé professionals.

With MTG’s endless invectives and lies, it’s obvious she’s constantly pandering to her bouillabaisse.

Next, she’ll be claiming that back on 1/6/21 Pelosi’s Gazpacho Police were searching those “patriotic tourists” for mazel tov cocktails.  And it won’t be long before she starts demanding all those foreign prisoners down in Guacamole be locked up forever.

When a reporter confronted her about the “Gazpacho Police” gaffe, she asked MTG if she happened to have ever even seen a Thesaurus.  MTG replied: “You mean one of those computer-generated dinosaurs in Jurassic Park”?

I guess we can all try to romaine calm, but record-shattering ignorance like that makes me want to drink an entire giraffe of wine.

Given her long history of unhinged shenanigans, I really think she has a lentil disability.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if she just admitted it and confessed: “Miso stupid.”

The truly sad thing is that besides MTG, all her buddies – Boebert, Gaetz, Cawthorn, the list goes on and on – are also all crepes.

We cannoli hope they all lose in the next election.

 

🎵 I say gestapo and you say gazpacho.

I hate the Nazis and you hate doc Fauci.

Gestapo. Gazpacho.

Nazi. Fauci.

Let’s call her whole term off. 🎵

 

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Video Thread 2/11/22

 Posted by at 11:43 am  Open Thread, Politics
Feb 112022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Obstruction of Justice and the Running of the Clock: A Statute of Limitations Discussion

Republicans LOVE cancel culture… when THEY do it!

Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party

Farron Balanced – Lauren Boebert Blames Her Horrible Personality On Jesus

RHQ – Trump Is In Big Trouble After Clogging White House Toilets

Cracked – If NFTs Were Honest

Beau – Let’s talk about a question on republican lawsuit legislation….

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Open Thread for February 11, 2022

 Posted by at 6:31 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 112022
 

Yesterday, I overslept – which is a good thing because I had not slept well the prior two noghts. But between that and the Zoom presentation (which was WELL worth the 2+ hours it took), I ran late and didn’t get a lot done. Well, I had expected not getting a lor done, and it really doesn’t all need to be done at once. I did get a couple of bills paid, which is a plus.

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Crooks and Liars – Colorado Election Conspirator And County Clerk Arrested, Kicks Cop
Quote – Tina [Peters], Trumper, election conspirator and GOPer clerk and recorder in Mesa County, Colorado, is currently being investigated by a grand jury for election tampering. She was arrested on unrelated charges yesterday of illegally recording a criminal hearing Monday. During her arrest, she appears to have kicked an officer.
Click through for story, and for even more, through again t CPR. She is a real piece of work. She has been barred from overseeing the 2022 election. Want to bet she’ll try anyway?

Speaking of Colorado and elections, the above story sent me to search engines looking for what our districts will look like.

Colorado Public Radio – If The Redistricting Commission Doesn’t Agree On Something Else, This Is What Colorado’s New Congressional Map Will Look Like
Quote – Colorado’s Congressional Redistricting Commission still has a few more days to reach a super-majority agreement on a new map. But if commissioners can’t hit that deadline, we now know what the state’s congressional districts will look like…. Politically, the map creates four Democratic seats, three Republican ones, and a swing district that leans just a hair to the left.
Click through for tha map and a comparison of the districts 2011-2020 with all proposed maps if you like. Sadly, we did not get the map that takes away Boebert’s residency inn the district she represents. So we may be stuck with her unless our SoS can get her disqualified unser the 14th Amendment. CPR can be counted on.

The Hill – House passes bill to reform Postal Service operations
Quote – bipartisan agreement to overhaul the Postal Service had long eluded lawmakers, until last year when House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and the panel’s top Republican, Rep. James Comer (Ky.), unveiled the proposal the House passed on Tuesday. “Today’s historic bipartisan vote brings us one step closer to finally putting the Postal Service on a sound financial footing so it can continue serving all Americans for years to come,” Maloney said.
Click through – This is clearly good news, but it comes at a time which concerns me. We are still stuck with DeJoy, and there are things obstructing getting rid of him. I fear this bill, while doing good, will also give him more leeway to steal/

Food For Thought:

In case you missed it, Ms. Taylor Greene recently qas widely quoted as saying “gazpacho” when she meant “Gestapo.”

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Video Thread 2/10/22

 Posted by at 11:38 am  Blog News, Editorial
Feb 102022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Document Destruction; Pence Says “Trump is Wrong” & Republican Party Continues to Implode

CNN – NC elections board says it can disqualify Rep. Cawthorn from running over January 6 .[It appears to me that it is exactly the State Secretaries of State/State Elections Boards who have the sole authority to determine who does and doesn’t go on the ballot. I have wrotten to my Secretary of Stateabout my representative.]

The Lincoln Project – “Legitimate Political Discourse 2

Ring of Fire – First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Says Free Community College Is Off The Table

politicsrus – Legitimate Political Discord

Brent Terhune – ban the books NOW

Beau – Let’s talk about fast food, California, and AB 257….

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Open Thread for February 10, 2022

 Posted by at 7:28 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 102022
 

Yesterday, I got the trash and recyclables out, emptied the mailbox (most of which went straight into the recyclables), sent a couple of ecards, made a couple of cartoons, and called it a day. Today I am sgned up for a Zoom presentation on Walt Whitman by the “Theater of War” (which uses ancient, old, and sometimes modern literature to help people heal from various traumas. They started with Greek tragedy but have nranched out considerably.) That probably means I won’t get much more done today than yesterday.

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Mother Jones – Why It’s So Hard to Get a Defense Lawyer Confirmed to the Supreme Court
Quote – The last time the Supreme Court had a justice who’d worked as a criminal defense lawyer was 1991. That’s the year Thurgood Marshall, the legendary civil rights advocate, retired after 24 years on the court. Since then, the court has suffered from a dearth of justices with any sort of criminal defense backgrounds. Both Democratic and Republican presidents have stacked the court with former prosecutors, who are overrepresented on the court—people like Justice Samuel Alito, who had previously served as the US attorney for the District of New Jersey. Even Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s most liberal member, spent nearly five years working as an assistant district attorney for the legendary New York County DA Robert Morgenthau straight out of law school.
Click through for story. And for why it matters.

HuffPost – Man Arrested For Storming The Capitol While Out On Bail For Attempted Murder
Quote – Federal authorities have arrested Matthew Beddingfield for his role in the Capitol insurrection, which he attended with his father while out on bail for a first-degree attempted murder charge…. HuffPost revealed Beddingfield’s identity more than 10 months ago, on March 26, in a story that built off the work of a network of citizen-sleuths. They used facial recognition software to match footage of Beddingfield at the Capitol to his publicly available mug shot from a 2019 arrest for attempted murder.
Click through for background. there’s a catch phrase going around – “Tell me you’re [blank] without telling me you’re [blank].” I have mostly seen it with the blank filled in by “white.” I’d say that applies here.

Black History
Biography – Otis Boykin 1920-1982 ( JL)
Quote – Boykin, who took a special interest in working with resistors, began researching and inventing on his own. He sought and received a patent for a wire precision resistor on June 16, 1959. This resistor would later be used in radios and televisions. Two years later, he created a breakthrough device that could withstand extreme changes in temperature and pressure. The device, which was cheaper and more reliable than others on the market, came in great demand by the United States military for guided missiles and IBM for computers…. His most famous invention was a control unit for the pacemaker.
Click through – it isn’t long. It’s safe to say that there are people waling around today who would not be alive had Boykin not existed. It’s also not too farfetched to suggest that without his work on computers, we might not have thos blog today.

Food For Thought:

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Video Thread 2/9/22

 Posted by at 12:10 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Feb 092022
 

Glenn Kirschner – GOP Gives Aid & Comfort to J6 Defendants by Declaring their Conduct “Legitimate Political Discourse”

The Lincoln Project – “Legitimate Political Discourse”

Ring of Fire – Steve Bannon Issues Ominous Warning To Mike Pence For Going Against Trump

Rebel HQ – What Is Trump Hiding In Mar-A-Lago?

MSNBC – Wisconsin Supreme Court Allows Use Of Ballot Drop Boxes In Feb. Spring Primary [for the last time, maybe]

Randy Rainbow – The Tango Vaccine

Beau – Let’s talk about Trump getting convicted….

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Open Thread for February 9, 2022

 Posted by at 7:01 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 092022
 

Yesterday, I got confirmation from LinkedIn that they received they received documantation, closed the account, and send condolences to all of is. I also put together the documents Twitter asked for – I say documents, but just as I had them all together, and went to upload them, it said I only gor one upload to do it all. So I regrouped, got everything into one Word Doc, printed it as a PDF, and then uploaded it. That was late enough in the day that I have not heard back from them yet.

Cartoon – 09 Quincy Loaded

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Crooks and Liars – Neofascist Patriot Front: Clownish Operations With A Military Edge
Quote – The Vanguard America organization marched at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, where one of its members, James Alex Fields, mowed down an antifascist counterprotester, Heather Heyer, with his car afterward. Patriot Front’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, was photographed standing with Fields and other Vanguard America marchers. He was a Vanguard America member at the time.
Click through for details, and through again for all the data if you’re up to it. Idid manage to get the accompanying video into yesterday’s Video Thread – it gives yu an idea.

Miami Herald – Black lawmakers blast plans for monument to Justice Thomas
Quote – [State Sen. Emanuel] Jones, a Democrat, cited opinions by Thomas that he said would hurt African Americans. “We’re not here talking about Justice Thomas as the man,” he said. “We all have a great deal of respect of his many accomplishments. It’s his policies. It’s his rulings. It’s his decisions that we find extremely offensive.
Click through for story. Jimmy Carter has a statue already, and they are trying to use that as a precedent. Barf.

The 19th – More Black women are leading U.S. law schools and changing the conversation on race and gender
Quote – The reality she faced, which is common for many women of color, can create feelings of isolation, insecurity and frustration. For years, Nelson was conscious of how her actions might affect Black women who wished to follow. “The sense that one possible mistake will reverberate beyond oneself and impact the ability of future generations coming up behind me to have the same opportunities weighs heavy,” she said. But she is less alone now. Last year, the number of Black women leading American law schools reached a high of 28.
Click thrugh for story. Seema to me that now is exactly the right time to put a progressive black woman constitutional scholar on the Supreme Court. We’ve never had so many qualified.

Food For Thought:

Just a small extra. I note that Democrats have a sense of humor strong enough to be able to laugh at ourselves, and isn’t that wonderful.

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Video Thread 2/8/22

 Posted by at 11:30 am  Open Thread, Politics
Feb 082022
 

Pence Says “Trump is Wrong” About his Ability to Overturn Election.

The Lincoln Project – Mark Will Be Fine

Unicorn Riot – Massive Leak Exposes Neo-Nazi Group Patriot Front

CNN – More than 140 Republicans condemn RNC’s censure of Cheney, Kinzinger

Ring of Fire – Ivanka And Jared’s New Florida Neighbors Are Already Sick Of Them

Corey Ryan Forrester – This Week in Southern History February 1

Beau – Let’s talk about Republicans getting sue happy….

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