Republicans from Trump on down to the voters have all realized that there is immense power to be had from simply refusing to acknowledge the obvious and to simply argue in bad faith.
Just like Trump has learned that saying "national security threat", "invasion", and "official duties" allow him to do anything he wants, Republicans across the land have learned to just say "most transparent administration in history" and "Biden's fault" and their party can have all the power it wants. I'm convinced that a lot of them know it's bulls%^t (Mike Johnson certainly does), but they also know that these are magic words that insulate them from all accountability so they keep saying them.
Yeah, this might be what kills democracy in the end: a critical mass of votes who just decide to engage the process in such bad faith that it breaks.
It truly is remarkable how easily they can lie directly to everyone's faces and it's an indictment of the media that they don't immediately call them on it. Yes, they are obviously hypocrites and we all know it at this point, but how hard is it to call them out as pathological liars as well? I will never understand how they are seemingly incapable of clearly and explicitly saying "what you just said is a lie, and the truth is XYZ."
"What's really important to point out is that some of the estimates by the CBO are wildly inaccurate."
Are they now, Mikey? Then let's see your estimates, with backup documentation and details of the calculations. Or are they too stinky, because you just pulled them out of your butt?
A decent reporter would have asked that very question — if they are so inaccurate, what are the accurate ones and you better be able to show your work with facts.
Recent news on Trump? He's given pardons to a couple of reality stars who're doing time for defrauding banks out of 30 million. And to a corrupt Virginia sheriff.
Fraud and grifting? Pardons all round, so long as you're not black!
"The Biden crime family, as they were named, earned that title."
The Biden crime family, as they were named, did not earn that title and were so named by a bunch of coprophagous liars, of whom the biggest coprophagous liar was Donald Trump himself.
And if Johnson is harking back to that tired accusation that Joe Biden had Shokin dismissed as Prosecutor General of Ukraine to protect Hunter from investigation - it's garbage. Biden urged Shokin's dismissal as an agent of the U.S. government's policy, not as Joe Biden, individual and dad.
The U.S. wasn't alone by any means. Viktor Shokin was not, as Trump called him, either "very good" or "a tough prosecutor." At best he was a lazy, inept prosecutor, and worst, corrupt himself. The World Bank wanted him gone. The International Monetary Fund wanted him gone. The European Union wanted him gone. Various anti-corruption movements in Ukraine itself wanted him gone. Shokin's own Deputy Prosecutor General resigned in protest over the rampant corruption in the department - about which Shokin was doing bugger-all.
Biden Crime Family? What about Trump Crime Family then, eh? What about that two billion (with a B!) Jared Kushner got from Prince Mohammed Bonesaw? Ah, but what's two billion from the Saudis and a 400 million jet from other corrupt oil states if it's Republicans getting it?
They've been lying about tax cuts for the rich resulting in so much "growth" to offset the cuts for literal decades. Were these reporters born yesterday? Do they have amnesia? Trickle down has never and will never work, unless you count "working" as allowing the top 1% to hoard even more wealth at the expense of everyone else.
You don't even have to go back very far — remember how the 2017 Tax Cut for Rich Fuckwads was supposed to pay for itself with growth that never actually happened and instead added to the debt?
As the saying goes, I was born in the morning but not this morning. I wish our media could say the same.
Sgt. Johnson speaks: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bPv8MCyyUbw
Johnson has turned out to be such an evil hypocritical monster, it's almost enough to make me wish for Kevin McCarthy back. Almost, I said.
Republicans from Trump on down to the voters have all realized that there is immense power to be had from simply refusing to acknowledge the obvious and to simply argue in bad faith.
Just like Trump has learned that saying "national security threat", "invasion", and "official duties" allow him to do anything he wants, Republicans across the land have learned to just say "most transparent administration in history" and "Biden's fault" and their party can have all the power it wants. I'm convinced that a lot of them know it's bulls%^t (Mike Johnson certainly does), but they also know that these are magic words that insulate them from all accountability so they keep saying them.
Yeah, this might be what kills democracy in the end: a critical mass of votes who just decide to engage the process in such bad faith that it breaks.
I hate that bastard. There's little that is worse than a religious hypocrite pretending to be holy while lying his ass off.
It truly is remarkable how easily they can lie directly to everyone's faces and it's an indictment of the media that they don't immediately call them on it. Yes, they are obviously hypocrites and we all know it at this point, but how hard is it to call them out as pathological liars as well? I will never understand how they are seemingly incapable of clearly and explicitly saying "what you just said is a lie, and the truth is XYZ."
Louisiana has 190,000 people too lazy to work?
I sure as fuck wouldn't site a business in that state.
"What's really important to point out is that some of the estimates by the CBO are wildly inaccurate."
Are they now, Mikey? Then let's see your estimates, with backup documentation and details of the calculations. Or are they too stinky, because you just pulled them out of your butt?
A decent reporter would have asked that very question — if they are so inaccurate, what are the accurate ones and you better be able to show your work with facts.
They're all so good at making general statements with nothing to back them up.
Ta, MM. As I say every week, I'm glad this is your job, not mine. Mike Johnson disgusts me.
Recent news on Trump? He's given pardons to a couple of reality stars who're doing time for defrauding banks out of 30 million. And to a corrupt Virginia sheriff.
Fraud and grifting? Pardons all round, so long as you're not black!
"The Biden crime family, as they were named, earned that title."
The Biden crime family, as they were named, did not earn that title and were so named by a bunch of coprophagous liars, of whom the biggest coprophagous liar was Donald Trump himself.
And if Johnson is harking back to that tired accusation that Joe Biden had Shokin dismissed as Prosecutor General of Ukraine to protect Hunter from investigation - it's garbage. Biden urged Shokin's dismissal as an agent of the U.S. government's policy, not as Joe Biden, individual and dad.
The U.S. wasn't alone by any means. Viktor Shokin was not, as Trump called him, either "very good" or "a tough prosecutor." At best he was a lazy, inept prosecutor, and worst, corrupt himself. The World Bank wanted him gone. The International Monetary Fund wanted him gone. The European Union wanted him gone. Various anti-corruption movements in Ukraine itself wanted him gone. Shokin's own Deputy Prosecutor General resigned in protest over the rampant corruption in the department - about which Shokin was doing bugger-all.
Biden Crime Family? What about Trump Crime Family then, eh? What about that two billion (with a B!) Jared Kushner got from Prince Mohammed Bonesaw? Ah, but what's two billion from the Saudis and a 400 million jet from other corrupt oil states if it's Republicans getting it?
Mike's phone app brings the thought police to the yard.
I just heard something on MSNBC that made me groan. Somebody said "Remember how upset how people got over Bill Clinton 'selling the Lincoln bedroom?"
How trivial does that seem now?
As Chosen his Infinite Piety places upon his Surimi-Rinsed Head a Crown-So-Glorious -- thorns removed of course.
Jesus, Johnson was doing so much air wanking that his son's phone burned a hole in the kid's pocket
"{CBO} don't account for the growth that will be fostered by all the policies that are in this big piece of legislation."
Of course they do, you nitwit. They try to model all the relevant factors. The "growth" you're looking for no doubt shows up as negative numbers.
They've been lying about tax cuts for the rich resulting in so much "growth" to offset the cuts for literal decades. Were these reporters born yesterday? Do they have amnesia? Trickle down has never and will never work, unless you count "working" as allowing the top 1% to hoard even more wealth at the expense of everyone else.
You don't even have to go back very far — remember how the 2017 Tax Cut for Rich Fuckwads was supposed to pay for itself with growth that never actually happened and instead added to the debt?
As the saying goes, I was born in the morning but not this morning. I wish our media could say the same.
Hear hear!
"Growth" is Johnson's fantasy. These people never stop telling us how great everything's GOING TO be. At some unspecified time in the future.
"So you're saying your own constituents are the problem?" "Yes." Winning!
Now I need a Silkwood shower.