Big Bird may be innocent but who can vouch for Elmo?

[lionheart]

thehill.com/homenews/senate/580426-ted-cruz-labels-big-birds-tweet-about-vaccination-propaganda

www.salon.com/2021/11/07/sesame-streets-big-bird-for-promoting-vaccine-brainwashing-children_partner/

Old thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4305074-To-filibuster-or-not-to-filibuster-Biden-needs-to-get-a-move-on-before-Doofus-Duck-waddles-back-into-the-swamp-Biden-Trump-Thread-128

Ah snap lionheart, just reading the same

edition.cnn.com/2021/12/21/politics/michael-flynn-lawsuit-january-6-committee/index.html

He can run but he cannot hide.

He sounds a bit more unhinged recently.

Ditto.

www.businessinsider.com/trump-announces-news-conference-mar-a-lago-january-6-2021-12?r=US&IR=T

www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/21/2070453/-QAnon-cultists-now-actually-drinking-the-punch-this-one-is-made-from-industrial-bleach

www.thedailybeast.com/the-obscure-charge-jan-6-investigators-are-looking-at-for-donald-trump?source=articles&via=rss

'As federal prosecutors increasingly use an obscure criminal charge to jail Jan. 6 insurrectionists, congressional investigators seem to be building a case that could result in that same charge against former President Donald Trump.

A third of the 700 people arrested by the Justice Department for attacking the U.S. Capitol building have been hit with a peculiar federal “witness tampering” law, according to researchers at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. Those 240 insurrectionists have been charged with corruptly obstructing an official proceeding, a never-before-seen tactic by prosecutors for an equally unprecedented event.'

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/24/our-favorite-photos-2021-guardian-us-photography

www.rawstory.com/boebert-christmas/ has some interesting stuff to say about the church reaction to evangelical facism, but it also mentions that the nutcase Massie said "I crossed guns with family and Christmas, and those are three things that really could trigger the leftists".

Now, guns being something that what he calls "leftists" get upset about I can understand, but why does he assume that these people would also be triggered by family and Christmas? Does he really think that eg Democrats such as President Biden, devoted to their family and members of the Roman Catholic church, find family or Christmas upsetting ideas? This is a very strange misapprehension; one might almost say it must be deliberate incomprehension.

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄

Massie is a real dumb-ass.

Guns don't 'trigger "leftists"'. People who USE guns inappropriately 'trigger "leftists"'. It's just that most people who 'use' (ie wave about, threaten with, take pics meant to 'incite' with, bellow about 'rights', vigilantism) are "rightists".

Guns have a 'place' in a Democracy. Hunting, skeet shooting, shooting competitions, country folk keeping down predators & vermin, even for self-defense are all valid reasons to own a gun. What IS needed is better laws to regulate legal types of guns, gun ownership & registration, a national database, and more enforcement of the laws we already have.

@DuncinToffee

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄

And to you, too!!

In fact;

"A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one!"

🎄🎄🎄🥂🥂🍷🍷🎄🎄🎄

Merry Christmas everyone.

www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-conundrum-shes-doing-a-great-job-but-her-storys-not-getting-out

www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-59787319

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you and all, as well.

It has occurred to me that perhaps the reason the Republicans seem to be hell-bent on destroying Democracy is that they have misunderstood slightly and think that democracy is the prerogative of the Democratic Party. They want a Republic instead -- probably the sort with a dictator.

It seems so.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lets-go-brandon-joe-biden_n_61c6ea91e4b061afe39e2a3c

Hope everyone had a wonderful joyful Xmas (and Boxing Day).

Wanted to let all know that we got the results of DH's PET scan and the doctor said the results "are as good as they could possibly be" so the treatment is considered successful. He won't be ruled 'cancer free' for 5 years but we're 'taking what we can get' and running with it!

That is really good news Across.

Hope you have had lovely Christmas and will have a restful New Year.

That is good to hear Across

@AcrossthePond55

Hope everyone had a wonderful joyful Xmas (and Boxing Day).

Wanted to let all know that we got the results of DH's PET scan and the doctor said the results "are as good as they could possibly be" so the treatment is considered successful. He won't be ruled 'cancer free' for 5 years but we're 'taking what we can get' and running with it!

Oh, hurrah, harrooo! Have a wonderfully celebratory Christmas Week and New Year.

@AcrossthePond55 So glad to hear about your DH, looking hopeful and hope it's onwards and upwards for him, and you of course.

Happy Christmas to you too, we've had a lovely family time so far and it's still continuing.

www.thebulwark.com/swing-voters-dont-like-the-january-6-committee-critics/

Good grief. Possibly even stun a stoat.

Nothing like being open about your treason.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-advisor-peter-navarro-lays-out-how-he-and-steve-bannon-planned-to-overturn-bidens-electoral-win

Also, this: www.salon.com/2021/12/26/de-blasio-sets-vaccine-precedent-in-new-york-will-california-follow_partner/

"This politicization has led to dramatic divides in vaccination rates. In October, the tenth of the country that skewed the reddest in the last election experienced COVID death rates that were six times higher than those of the bluest tenth, with much of the difference attributed to vastly lower vaccination rates in the reddest areas."

It's what I have been muttering about for a while: that the Republicans are reducing their vote by their own pigheaded stubbornness.

The Navarro is extraordinary.

A small distraction.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/28/robert-e-lee-time-capsule-statue-pedestal

Across, that's absolutely wonderful news! All best wishes to you and MrAcross for the coming New Year.