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

There is that! The death-rates from covid are indeed far higher in Republican counties.

(I was going to write red counties, and then I started laughing about the fervently anti-commie Republicans also being reds, and decided to make it a little less ambiguous.)

How will they respond, I wonder Duncin?

@lionheart

How will they respond, I wonder Duncin?

Same way they usually do. They'll file appeal upon appeal to stall.

So many delays and digressions.

I too would like to see the out-takes.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-footage_n_61d3db62e4b061afe3a9dbb1

Well, if there are bloopers, thy will definitely be the best bloopers. And if they aren't, Trump will say that they are.

There won't be any new footage on January 6th.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-calls-jan-6-press-conference-relief-many-gop-n1286968?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

www.brookings.edu/techstream/prominent-political-podcasters-played-key-role-in-spreading-the-big-lie/

'On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, Steve Bannon encouraged the audience of his podcast not to waver in their faith. “We’re coming in right over target,” President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist intoned. “This is the point of attack we always wanted…today is the day we can affirm the massive landslide on November 3.”

In the aftermath of the ensuing attack on the Capitol, Bannon’s podcast stands out for its prescient blend of violent rhetoric and blatant disinformation. In the run-up to Jan. 6, Bannon and his podcast guests extensively promoted the false belief that Trump had rightfully and overwhelmingly won the November election, only to have it stolen from him by fraud. In doing so, Bannon was one of several prominent podcast hosts to champion the misleading electoral narratives known collectively as the “Big Lie.” While digital platforms like Facebook and Twitter have received significant scrutiny for their role in permitting the spread of those narratives, far less attention has been paid to podcasting. By virtue of both its intimacy and its scale, podcasting can serve as a powerful vector for misinformation, yet there has been comparatively little analysis to date of the role the podcasting ecosystem played in the lead up to the Jan. 6 attack.'

www.rawstory.com/merrick-garland-coming-for-trump/

www.dailykos.com/stories/2072629?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.

As long as they keep turning.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/05/merrick-garland-pledges-pursuit-jan-6-suspects-any-level/9090114002/

Good day, everyone, and a very good 2022 to you all. I haven't posted on here for a while, because I prefer to behave like an ostrich for the moment, but have just read this opinion piece by President Carter in the NYT and feel the need to share it. Sobering reading. What a genuinely good man. Talk about actions speaking louder than words, in most cases.
www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/jan-6-jimmy-carter.html?smid=em-share
I seem to remember, he was considered an ineffective President at the time, but his behaviour since leaving the post seems to me to have been consistently admirable.

Huh. So I signed in to the New York Times to read that, and before I have even started they tell me "you have reached your limit of free articles". The limit would be none, then.

How do you remove your details from the NYT?

President Biden

Here is the truth: The former president of the United States has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.

He’s done so because he values power over principle. Because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or Constitution.

Asking clear cookies or try using a private browser

From the BBC live reporting

From his resort home in Florida, the former president was watching President Biden's speech.

Donald Trump has just released an angry statement accusing Biden of "destroying our nation".

The current president "used my name today to try to further divide America", Trump said.

Slamming the speech as "political theatre" and "a distraction from the fact Biden has completely and totally failed", Trump laid out a series of grievances with his successor's policies.

He also delved into false claims about the 2020 election. "The complicit media just calls it the Big Lie, when in actuality the Big Lie was the election itself", the former president said.

"The Democrats want to own this day of January 6th so they can stoke fears and divide America," he said.

"I say, let them have it because America sees through their lies and polarisations.”

(I can't be bothered to look up his full statement )

Hello Lweji.

www.politico.com/news/2022/01/06/social-media-donald-trump-jan-6-526562

@DuncinToffee

Asking clear cookies or try using a private browser

I use a desktop machine which nobody else has access to, and have it set up to clear cookies automatically every time I leave a site. Not sure what more I can reasonably do, because I am not sure how enthralled I am by the NYT, the only site that's done this to me. I mean, eg Vanity Fair warns me I have two more articles left, but it waits until I am in one before it does it!

Not sure what else you can do then Asking.

Used a different browser: Chrome instead of Firefox. Well said that ex-President, say I. (Thanks for the advice; I just assumed their site was on the fritz rather than it being a browser which has always allowed me access to it before.)

A long read here on censorship and education.

pen.org/report/educational-gag-orders/

I'm glad that Joe called out Doofus by name, at last. I know it was supposedly 'respect for the protocol' surrounding the previous office holder or whatever that caused him to 'sort of' tiptoe around it up til now. Protocol that Doofus obviously didn't observe when speaking of his predecessor.

I'm hoping it means that they're so close to really 'having the goods' on Doofus that Biden doesn't have to worry about being caught with his foot in his mouth. Not that the Cult will believe anything anyway, but hopefully it will at least start to raise questions in some waffling minds. Biden could bring stone tablets down from Mt Sinai and the Cult would still follow Doofus like lemmings.

I am just so, so tired of it all. I think we all had hopes that by now the Doofus-mania and the GOP dirty dealings involving the Big Lie would have gone the way of the dodo. I know the experts told us that we'd be dealing with this for years, but my inner Pollyanna just wouldn't believe it. I believe it now.

But I will keep on fighting.

Shocking

At the moment of silence for the Capitol Police officers who died, there were only two Republicans who showed up.

Rep. Lynn Cheney. And her father. The 80 year old former Vice President.

An extraordinary image of where this country’s politics are right now. t.co/IJ2YS2y2yN

But I thought the Republican Party was all for Law'n'Order and Back the Blue and Blue Lives Matter and so on. Didn't they know this was for the policemen who died?

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

But I thought the Republican Party was all for Law'n'Order and Back the Blue and Blue Lives Matter and so on. Didn't they know this was for the policemen who died?

With the GOP when it comes to principles and politics, principles fare ill.

I would have thought that their members in the police force would notice a slap in the face like this one, so it might have been bad policy even if it was unprincipled.