Still processing Night One of the Republican National Convention in the Cleve? The shrieking and the wailing? The general unhingedness? The repetition of lies that were debunked (and then repeated, naturally) by the Republican members of the House? The embrace of blood and war and death and torture and shitcanning the Geneva Convention? The normalization of one party calling for its opponent to be imprisoned before the election?
"The answer to that last one is easy: it must not have been the anti-Islam video, because then their crazy pastors and others might bear some sort of culpability."
Admirable attempt to parse wingnut logic, but the real reason is that the Messiah had declared he had eliminated terrorism forever, and if it got out that he hadn't, he would lose the upcoming election, so it was crucial that they blame it on the video. No, really. Not a joke.
Thank you for doing what I could not . . . the warrior woman within me just could not stomach watching or listening to the shenanigans, and that is putting it politely, of the GOP. Just so disgusted by the chronic lying.
‘Mom, I am going to die.’ All security had been pulled from the embassy, he explained. And when he asked why, he never received a response. Nobody listened. Nobody seemed to care. The very next day, he was murdered by radical Islamic terrorists."
Gee, if only a certain party hadn't voted to cut funding!
It doesn't work for me no matter how you parse Benghazi. Four guys got killed while on dangerous duty in a post revolutionary anarchic shithole. That's just a day on the frontiers of empire. It's what happens from time to time. They were security contractors for Christs sake.
Starting to wonder about Luttrell. The 538 first day blog noted that the words on his teleprompter were exactly the same after he said "I'm not used to teleprompters, so I'm gonna speak from the heart now!" They called it "great theater". And Luttrell has a history of twisting everything to blame 'liberals' according to Mother Jones. I dunno. Sure, he's probly got some PTSD. But so does my Vietnam veteran father-in-law, and he's bigoted and crazy and has no trouble using that for his benefit when he can.
LBJ said it best...
Yes. Exactly. EXACT-FUCKING-LY.
"The answer to that last one is easy: it must not have been the anti-Islam video, because then their crazy pastors and others might bear some sort of culpability."
Admirable attempt to parse wingnut logic, but the real reason is that the Messiah had declared he had eliminated terrorism forever, and if it got out that he hadn't, he would lose the upcoming election, so it was crucial that they blame it on the video. No, really. Not a joke.
You're not suggesting that Trump means anything more than, "We should make it illegal to kill a policeman," are you?
Thank you for doing what I could not . . . the warrior woman within me just could not stomach watching or listening to the shenanigans, and that is putting it politely, of the GOP. Just so disgusted by the chronic lying.
NOBODY expects the Republican Convention!
‘Mom, I am going to die.’ All security had been pulled from the embassy, he explained. And when he asked why, he never received a response. Nobody listened. Nobody seemed to care. The very next day, he was murdered by radical Islamic terrorists."
Gee, if only a certain party hadn't voted to cut funding!
Poe?
It doesn't work for me no matter how you parse Benghazi. Four guys got killed while on dangerous duty in a post revolutionary anarchic shithole. That's just a day on the frontiers of empire. It's what happens from time to time. They were security contractors for Christs sake.
Purity Of Essence? That's about the only conspiracy theory that hasn't been invoked yet, although we have two more days.
oooh - that's a good one - thanks!!
Yeah, I've encountered a handful of those folks on my Facebook feed. I'm sure it's purely coincidental that they're all straight, white people.
Agreed. I want to thank all of the Wonketariat. (See, I can plagiarize, too!) I am proud to be a Wonkster.
Starting to wonder about Luttrell. The 538 first day blog noted that the words on his teleprompter were exactly the same after he said "I'm not used to teleprompters, so I'm gonna speak from the heart now!" They called it "great theater". And Luttrell has a history of twisting everything to blame 'liberals' according to Mother Jones. I dunno. Sure, he's probly got some PTSD. But so does my Vietnam veteran father-in-law, and he's bigoted and crazy and has no trouble using that for his benefit when he can.
I was told it wasn't far off Six Flags!
It could be Martin Luther King, we can never be sure.