"…The MAGA-mutts are not just deplorables; they R contemptible. Actually, they R beneath contempt but they aren't beyond pity – or sympathy at least. Not that I’m getting all mushy about MAGA-mutts. No. But…They wr played like cheap violins &,2 their shame, they were eager,…"
"…willing marks. Trump played them&now many refuse 2 acknowledge that they were marks. They stormed the Capitol&bought into the con. They bought into Donald Trump. Nearly a half-dozen dead, they played the con so thoroughly.
But Trump wasn’t the only one playing the yokels…"
"…QAnon plays them as fools. So do the Anti-Vaxxer nudniks & the Anti-Maskers & the gun-rights/ammosexual/Incel/Proud Boy/OathKeepers. So do…
Well, you get the picture. Suckers get played. It would seem that a considerable chunk of the American electorate were played;…"
'…74,000,000 or so of them, in fact. Marjorie Taylor Greene and schmucks like her play both ends of the field; as a mark and as a shill for the grifters…"
"…It should be known that Greene is certainly the most out-spoken of the MAGA/Q breed of loonies in Congress but she is not the only one. Lauren Boebert is most assuredly another. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), is definitely in contention for QAnon-hood…"
"…How many more Republicans in the House and Senate are under the perverse, psychotic sway of Q? Or, are anti-science Ludites. Or white nationalists? Or are adherents or dabblers in any of the false ideologies that plague our society?…"
"…An end to the GOP as a political party would address a lot of issues but there would still be about 74,000,000 loose ends looking for a new cult-leader or a ‘sacred’ crusade. It leaves us with the question: What are we to do about [loony] ‘Uncle MAGA’, the poor dear?
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
"…She’s crass, she’s crude, and she’s still at it. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is an embarrassment to Congress, and she’s certainly useless to her constituents in Georgia’s 14th congressional district…"
"…Greene has more time on her hands now that she’s been stripped of her committee assignments, to which she added absolutely no value, but she isn’t using her newfound free time to work for her constituents or to rehabilitate her reputation. She’s back to the same old antics…"
"…and random conspiracy theories that got her into her predicament in the first place. Greene needs to be expelled, not given a bigger platform…"
Especially not those of us on the Labor side, the party of initiative and ideas, the party created and sustained by a belief in the power of government to change people’s lives for the better…"
"…But - so long as you are in Opposition - you have a fundamental responsibility to hold the government to account – not just on issues of policy but on questions of integrity…"
"…Two wks ago, AnthonyAlbanese asked me 2 take on the portfolio of Shadow Minister for Government Accountability.
This means it’s my job to call-out every gov-rort&racket,every broken promise,every instance of th-Liberals&th-Nationals puttin'their donors&their cronies ahead…"
"…fed-gov's attempt to use "extraordinary security powers to obstruct Bernard Collaery engaging a highly respected barrister in the Timor-Leste spying case was “disturbing” and “unfair”, a judge has ruled…"
"…Collaery is fighting allegations that he unlawfully shared protected information about a 2004 Australian spy operation that bugged allies in the Timor-Leste government to gain the upper hand in negotiations over oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea…"
"…The protracted case, which is shrouded in secrecy due to national security law, is winding its way to trial in the ACT supreme court…"
"…Of history’s four impeachments of US presidents, Donald Trump is the proud owner of half of them. Since he’s fond of superlatives he can truthfully say that no one gets impeached better than he does. He gets impeached strongly. All of his impeachments are tremendous…" [bigly]
"…Like a good sequel (here I’m thinking of Godfather II) this week’s impeachment trial is going to have a few interesting differences from the last one. For starters, Chief Justice John Roberts won’t be presiding…"
"…Senator Josh Hawley and his family had a good time on his donors’ dime. FEC records show the Republican Senator used $197 in campaign funds to pay for junk food from places like Voodoo Doughnut and Lard Lad during a family trip to Universal Studios back in March…"
"…Republican lawmakers R makin'their attempts 2 destroy democracy a family affair. Hawley&his family wr at th-park 2 partake in a lobbyist retreat hosted by Sen-RoyBlunt’s Rely on YourBelief’sPAC, which spent ov-$4,500 on admission, includin'tickets 4Hawley,his wife&2children…"
"…Hawley has spent his short congressional career attempting to turn his bootlicking into presidential gold by cozying up to Trump. The latest data shows he might be failing in this effort…"