Russia had obtained the Republican emails by hacking a server hosted by Smartech the Tennessee outfit involved in the suspicious re-routing of Ohio’s 2004 election-night results by Karl Rove’s now deceased IT guru, Mike Connell. https://t.co/QySX8jiBOj
— c.im/@cdarwin (@Chas_Darwin) May 8, 2022
Category: It’s OK If You’re A Republican
Serving Trump and Turkey
NEW: A photograph of Oz casting a ballot in Turkey's 2018 presidential election is rankling national security experts — particularly after recently saying he has "never been politically involved in Turkey in any capacity."https://t.co/YEWACA4O9v
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) May 4, 2022
Another morsel saved for the book
Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters. Esper said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the WH following death of George Floyd, Trump said: "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?" https://t.co/30WvbL8nBz
— GoldenRule1 (@cooperchip1) May 2, 2022
I wonder how that happens
Part of the answer is because the media has led them to believe lies: https://t.co/Gdh3aEqk4I 2/3
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) May 1, 2022
Oh darn
At the GA-14 Republican primary debate today, Marge Greene and Jennifer Strahan had a heated exchange which resulted in the moderator cutting Greene’s mic because she wouldn’t stop talking. pic.twitter.com/TwBl3ekoHd
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 1, 2022
PA GOP Senate race
Btw it's three years since @droz co-authored a column advocating licensing for ALL guns, the assault weapon ban, and red flag confiscations.
So on top of everything else, he's a shameless hypocritical opportunist. https://t.co/SyhV2gwrja
— Keith Olbermann⌚️ (@KeithOlbermann) May 1, 2022
Fighting back
Republicans recklessly spread the sort of eliminationist rhetoric that preceded Rwandan violence. They willfully play with matches w/no fear of reprisal, says James Carville, b/c “no one fears" Democrats.
Enter Mich. State Sen. @MalloryMcMorrow. https://t.co/2dl8DyxhfS @digby56— @TomSullivan@mstdn.social (@BloggersRUs) April 21, 2022
The view from nowhere, Part 7,822
This is the kind of writing the NYT believes is normal for political coverage – as normal as the fascist movement infecting U.S. politics and threatening democracy. Note the tone. Disengaged. Far off observer. Neutral. "Caused a stir" passive voice. pic.twitter.com/GmrB27Y2ss
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) April 18, 2022
I guess the Times is going to run these every week
“This is not the America I remember growing up in.” Eight conservative men share their thoughts on living in America today. https://t.co/4ULDN1q8xz
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) April 12, 2022
Yeah, what’s the big deal?
Okay, so Clarence Thomas's wife was a chief organizer of a coup against the duly-elected government of the United States of America.
Is she not free to participate in a coup? Is that some kind of crime? https://t.co/UFZiVT8Xvc
— Eric Owens (@ericowensdc) March 30, 2022