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Being prepared is the way you deal with Fox News ambushes

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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 05:30
It’s infuriating that he had to deal with that but it’s a pleasure to watch someone so capably slap that nonsense into tomorrow. I don’t normally think Democrats should waste their breath on Fox because they are usually just there as target practice. Buttigieg is one of the very few who has the talent and the temperament to handle it with lethal class. These people are so shameless. When you think about how Trump took his toxic spawn on trips all over the world, including to meet the queen of England, it makes your head explode. He even had that airhead Ivanka running meetings at the G8. Please.

Kevin’s concession stand

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/06/kevins-concession-stand/
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 08:30
The Supremes bear responsibility for building it Denis Aftergut in Slate: Ultimately, in politics, only voters can deliver the message, “You’ve hit bottom, and you need to change your ways.” But the MAGA House majority’s inability to select a speaker may already be pushing voters to stage an intervention in 2024. There’s an irony in this early failure. Republicans came to it through a shameless addiction to power without principle. Starting in 2010, they gained political dominance across the country in state legislatures and wielded that power by gerrymandering congressional maps. The distorted districting maps they adopted herded minority voters and Democratic ones into electoral zones that looked like intoxicated amoeba. All that extreme gerrymandering has led directly to the current fiasco in the House. The effort has put more Republican members of Congress in safe seats, with fewer Democratic constituents to answer to. That left the victors free to test the limits of their extremism. Momentously, in 2019, a radical Supreme Court majority composed of Republican nominees issued a 5–4 decision in Rucho v.

Fox Confusion

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/06/fox-confusion/
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 10:00
Which side are they on? This has been very interesting to watch. They literally didn’t know what to do. So they did everything. Yeah, they just love democracy in action — unless a Democrat wins in which case it’s obviously cheating and requires many more restrictions. The right wing media didn’t know how to read this because the fact is that the entire GOP caucus is very extreme and they are basically on both sides. So they went both ways, sometimes during the same program. Some Fox hosts were concerned that the Republicans looked foolish but they’ve since realized that their audience doesn’t care about looking foolish. I mean, come on. This is a party, a media and a movement that has been genuflecting to Orange Julius Caesar for the past six years. Clearly, looking like a bunch of clowns is not a problem for them. By the way …

Does it matter who the Speaker is?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/06/does-it-matter-who-the-speaker-is/
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 04:01
Not really. The inmates will be running the asylum no matter what. Today is the second anniversary of the January 6 insurrection. On that day a group of right wing extremists breached the U.S. Capitol, declaring, “this is OUR house.” They ransacked the place and attempted to hunt down Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with the intention of staging a coup d’état. Two years later we are witnessing another group of right wing extremists attempting a takeover. This time, they’re staging an insurrection against their own party by refusing to allow a new speaker to be elected unless their demands are met. And unlike two years ago, they’re going to be successful. Yesterday, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy endured a third straight day of ritual humiliation as his party was unable to get the 218 votes needed to grant him the Speakership after 11 rounds of voting. This is the first time since 1859, on the cusp of the Civil War, that the process has taken this many votes.

Never Forget

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/06/never-forget-3/
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 07:00
If you have the time, click through to that link for a thorough January 6th timeline. It’s as astonishing today as it was then. And considering what these people are doing today on the House floor, it’s clear they were not in any way chagrined. They are still making a mockery of the United States by acting like petulant children who will burn the place down if they don’t get their way. And keep this in mind:
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