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In the SOTU Biden introduced a steel worker who’s union workers will benefit from the work.
Does Cincinnati deserve it?
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So sad
At least Democrats got it for seniors on Medicare
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“All of this amounts to a historic achievement. Not only did the ACA survive multiple attempts by Republicans to repeal the law and reduce outreach, but it also managed to drive down uninsured rate to a record low of 8 percent last year. That’s in large part because of the Biden administration’s competent management of the program and extension of subsidies over united GOP opposition”
“In the midterms, almost no Republican — other than Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — talked about repealing the ACA. That might be because the ACA is widely used in red states. Nine of the 10 states with the highest enrollment rates are led by Republicans. In other words, red states are getting a ride on the federal program their political leaders have long lambasted.
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“The best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter,” Emily Seidel, chief executive of the network’s flagship group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP)
Translation - Trump is a moron and it was a big mistake to elect him in the first place in 2016
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Not our resident idiot Wylted. Here’s his worst:
Biden gives speech blasting trannies.Trannie is not a derogatory term retard. Trannies literally made the term up to refer to themselves.
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Not only is the US sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but he is also sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Stryker Armored personnel carriers. Plus Germany and other NATO Allies are sending even more. Remember Russia invaded eastern Ukraine long before Biden was President.
Oh, and let’s not forget Trump was impeached for attempting to extort Ukraine - trying to trade weapons for help with his re-election campaign, in the “perfect phone call”. He ultimately lost his election, lied and said it was stolen, then encouraged a mob of idiots to raid the Capitol, thus ending our record of a peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history. What a disgrace!
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He declines to answer any questions because he is so innocent.
Here is Trump. So sad. He is a sad little man. Like a small child, he keeps saying how it’s not fair - that everyone is a against him. When he reads the statement prepared for him by his lawyers, he sounds like a 5th grader. His supporters are even sadder than Trump. They think if he wins then maybe they aren’t the losers that know they are.
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“The new rules will greatly limit the public release of lawmakers’ communications. State senators will not have to disclose any text messages sent on personal devices, even when dealing with state business. For lawmakers in both the Senate and the House, emails and other documents will be destroyed after 90 days — in many cases, well before members of the public know to ask for them”
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“It does seem like they’re just trying to find a way to be able to operate in the dark, which is incredibly anti-democratic. It’s anti-American, quite frankly,”
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The Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts were mostly a giveaway to the rich, cutting taxes for this country’s wealthiest people.
Republicans are again proposing the government cut Social Security and Medicare benefits that seniors rely on. They are trying to use the debt ceiling limit as leverage to get Democrats to agree.
Medicare could be strengthened by raising the Medicare tax from its current 1.45% rate for employee and employer. What would you rather do, pay another half percent tax or pay for your mother’s hip replacement yourself?
Social Security could be strengthened by changing the cap on earnings taxed to tax incomes over 500K, similar to the additional Medicare tax created to fund Obamacare. What would you rather do, see the rich pay the same percent on income as the middle class or have your parents move in with you in their old age?
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1. Rudy Giuliani - once called America’s Mayor and was extremely popular as the guy who took down the mob and led New York through the 9/11 response, now he is broke, lost his law license and faces numerous criminal and civil liability.
2. Micheal Cohen - was convicted and sent to jail for making illegal hush money payments to Trump love interests Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, and lying about it under oath.
Alina Habba - sanctioned for bringing a frivolous lawsuit for her client Donald Trump. Fined 1 million dollars.
Aileen Cannon - This judge was humiliated when her ruling on a Special Master for Trump’s classified documents case was resoundingly overturned.
John Eastman - Eastman emailed Giuliani several days after the storming of the Capitol, asking to be placed on the list of those to be given a presidential pardon before Trump's term in office ended. Eastman asserted his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination on December 1, 2021, in a letter in which he refused to testify to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.[94] CNN reported Eastman met with the committee but invoked the Fifth Amendment 146 times. On June 22, 2022, several FBI agents approached him as he was leaving a New Mexico restaurant and, pursuant to a warrant, seized his phone. According to the warrant, the phone was to be taken to a forensic lab of the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General. He also lost his job at two universities.
Sidney Powell
Christina Bobb
Pat Cipollone - On August 2, 2022, Cipollone was subpoenaed by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the January 6 United States Capitol attack. He had to testify to multiple Grand Jury proceedings and the 1/6 Select Committee.
Don Mcghan
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Trump is a “prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries,” wrote U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in his searing 46-page judgment published late Thursday.
“He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions,” said Middlebrooks. “As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba.”
I know many people on this site would never see this article on FOX or Alex Jones so I’m posting it just to keep you informed
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US Unemployment Rate is at 3.50%, compared to 3.60% last month and 3.90% last year. This is lower than the long term average of 5.73%.
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Thanks Joe for lowering gas prices especially in rural states where nobody wants to live and people earn a lot less.
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Matt Schlapp, the prominent and powerful Catholic conservative who leads CPAC has been credibly accused of sexually assaulting a male campaign worker.
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According to his principal assistant, Cassidy Hutchinson, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was breaking the law in the days after the election that Trump lost by destroying notes and papers “a dozen times” and not logging meetings with Republican wack jobs.
After the election, Congressman Scott Perry promoted false claims of election fraud.[73][74] Days after the election, in text messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Perry suggested John Ratcliffe should direct the National Security Agency to investigate alleged Chinese hacking. Perry also asserted "the Brits" were behind a conspiracy to manipulate voting machines and that CIA director Gina Haspel was covering it up. The next month, he sent Meadows a link to a YouTube video that asserted voting machines had been manipulated via satellite from Italy; Meadows later sent the video to former Acting Attorney General Richard Donoghue, seeking an investigation.[75][76][77] Donoghue told the committee the contentions in the video, originating from QAnon and far-right platforms which had been brought to the White House, were "pure insanity."
In August 2021, CNN reported that the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, had briefed top Justice Department officials that no evidence had been found of any foreign powers' interference with voting machines. Jeffrey Clark was reportedly concerned that intelligence community analysts were withholding information and believed Perry and others knew more about possible foreign interference. Clark requested authorization from Rosen and Donoghue for another briefing from Ratcliffe, asserting hackers had found that "a Dominion machine accessed the Internet through a smart thermostat with a net connection trail leading back to China."[84]
On August 9, 2022, Perry reported that three FBI agents had seized his cellphone after presenting him with a warrant.
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Former President Donald Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the election was corrupt in an attempt to help Republican members of Congress try to overturn the election result, according to notes of a December 2020 call Trump held with Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue.
During the December 27, 2020, call, Trump pressured Rosen and Donoghue to falsely declare the election “illegal” and “corrupt” even after the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud. The exact quote of Trump was:
“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump said on the call, according to Donoghue’s notes.
Trump also threatened to fire both Rosen and Donoghue and appoint Jeffrey Clark as Attorney General
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A map of areas that have few or no newspapers looks a lot like a map of Republican and Trumpy voting.
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“George Santos, a Long Island Republican who won a pivotal U.S. House race in November, acknowledged Monday night that he embellished his biography, seeking to explain his actions by saying in a radio interview that “a lot of people overstate in their résumés.”
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Just like Trump, they lied and they knew they were lying.
“A judge found on Election Day that the mechanical issues did not prevent anyone from voting. But in a 69-page filing, attorneys for Lake used a grab bag of unproven theories and anecdotal accounts to argue that “hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County.”
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“It’ll make the border worse, it’ll make inflation worse, it’ll make the economy worse, it’ll make the government worse,” McCarthy said, promising: “In 11 days, all this changes.”
- Kevin McCarthy talking about the ominbus bill to fund the government which passed this morning
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With Trump’s tax returns becoming available it has been revealed that Trump (and likely other wealthy people) pay a pittance in Federal Income tax.
His tax rate for 2018 was a ridiculous 4 percent! Four Percent! Yes, that’s right 4 percent. In 2019, his tax rate was 3 percent! But wait, it gets better - in both 2017 and 2020, Trump paid zero dollars in Federal income tax! Yeah America! Great job Republicans! Way to think Republican voters!
…in 2018, as he reported $24.3 million in adjusted gross income and paid nearly $1 million in federal tax…
“Mr. Trump’s 2019 tax returns show that he was in the black the following year as well, reporting $4.4 million in income and paying $133,445 in tax”
The fresh details of Mr. Trump’s taxes emerged from two reports released late Tuesday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
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3 parties
Democrat 50% of the country
Republican 10%
White 40%
This is why the Republican Party can’t condemn Trump
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his false assertion that the election had been stolen led to an insurrection against the U.S. government
His involvement in the creation of slates of false electors in states won by Joe Biden
His pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pence to hold up the certification of the election results
His pressure campaign on various state officials to add, delete, or modify votes to favor Trump
His pressure campaign on the Justice department to declare the election fraudulent
attempts by Trump to obstruct the 1/6 investigation including both threats and attempted bribery of witnesses
Trump watched the riot on television rather than taking action to stop it.
Trump’s actions led to the death or injury of nearly 200 Americans including police officers
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We know Trump is a moron, his own cabinet said so, but If you think this guy was a better President than Washington or Lincoln you are a moron.
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The charges referred to the Justice Department include:
1. Insurrection
2. Obstruction of an official proceeding
3. Conspiracy to defraud the US government
Republicans, the party, the voters and the politicians, will NEVER live down the fact they supported this guy.
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Trump, and his poor response to Covid slowed down immigration.
Now employers can’t find workers.
Economists estimate that ‘two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for close to half of the 3.5 million workers missing from the labor force
“The drop-off in foreign workers began soon after President Donald Trump took office, largely on an anti-immigrant platform. Although his administration didn’t make legislative changes, it slowed down visa processing through “a culture of extreme vetting and extreme delays” that was enough to deter immigration in all forms, especially among those without college educations, Peri said.”
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If you ever supported Donald Trump, or worse, you still support him, you are a moron.
CollectTrumpCards.com Only $99 each!
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A Twitter account that reported public information on the planes flying Musk around the world have been suspended
“…but when Sweeney woke up Wednesday morning, he was stunned to see that the 530,000-follower account on Twitter, the social media platform Musk bought in October, had been “permanently suspended” without explanation. A notice on Sweeney’s Twitter account said only that the company had, “after careful review … determined your account broke the Twitter rules,” without saying which rules it broke”
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Biden Devotes $36 Billion to Save Union Workers’ Pensions
The money comes from last year’s Covid-19 relief package and will avert cuts of up to 60 percent in pensions for 350,000 Teamster truck drivers, warehouse and construction workers and food processors.
Most of these workers were in the Midwest in states that typically vote Republican.
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Secretary Lloyd Austin, has characterized the vaccine mandate as a way of protecting troops from covid-19 and preventing sprawling outbreaks that sideline entire units, undermine the military’s readiness and endanger national security.
The looming reversal — spurred by Republicans who had threatened to block passage of the $858 billion spending bill if the mandate wasn’t struck down — creates a rat’s nest for the Pentagon. Commanders whose job it was to enforce the mandate will face the onerous task of assessing whether — and how — to allow back into uniform those already separated from the military for refusing to follow orders. Managing overseas deployments, especially in countries that require visitors to be vaccinated, will create burdensome logistical headaches as well, officials said.
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But Trump, who claims to be the greatest businessman ever, claims he had no idea what was going on at his company.
And his idiot supporters such as ILikePie will believe him.
In his testimony, Weisselberg detailed how he and the company’s comptroller, Jeffrey McConney, schemed to cheat state and federal tax authorities beginning in 2005 and lasting more than a decade. Weisselberg used the company to cover major personal expenses like rent for a luxury apartment on the Hudson River, Mercedes Benz leases for himself and his wife, and private school tuition for his grandchildren.
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Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of the Fox Corporation, is expected to be deposed on Monday as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for amplifying bogus claims that rigged machines from Dominion Voting Systems were responsible for Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020.
“Fox and Dominion have gone back and forth in Delaware state court since the summer in an escalating dispute over witnesses, evidence and testimony. The arguments point to the high stakes of the case, which will render a judgment on whether the most powerful conservative media outlet in the country intentionally misled its audience and helped seed one of the most pervasive lies in American politics”
“Although the law leans in the media’s favor in defamation cases, Dominion has what independent observers have said is an unusually strong case. Day after day, Fox hosts and guests repeated untrue stories about Dominion’s ties to communist regimes and far-fetched theories about how its software enabled enemies of the former president to steal his votes.“
NY Times 12/5
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The rapper Ye praised Adolf Hitler and Nazis in an interview Thursday with far-right provocateur Alex Jones, drawing a fresh round of condemnation for his incendiary antisemitism a week after he dined with former president Donald Trump alongside white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
“I like Hitler,” a fully masked Ye told Jones. Minutes later, the rapper said, “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”
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WASHINGTON — Representative Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican who is attempting to become the next House speaker, on Wednesday warned the special committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that members of his party planned to launch an inquiry of their own into the panel’s work next year when Republicans assume control of the chamber.
House Republicans plan not only to end the inquiry at the start of the new Congress, but also to attempt to dismantle and discredit its findings — the latest piece of a broader effort the party has undertaken over the past two years to deny, downplay or shift blame for the deadly attack by a pro-Trump mob.
Disgusting!
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The average price of gas is back to where it was before Russia invaded Ukraine. It is putting real money back in Americans’ wallets.
Well if Joe made it go up, I guess he made it go down too. He deserves all the credit for low gas prices!
Also helping keep prices low at the moment are some key U.S. oil refineries that returned to churning out gasoline after months of being out of commission for maintenance and repairs. JOE FIXED THE OIL REFINERIES!
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Lock Them Up! He will likely get 20 years in prison.
Will Trump ever pay for his role in the Big Lie? Lock Him Up!
So two guys, one named Kelly and one named Elmer (as in Elmer Fudd) are going to jail and Republicans think it was all perfectly normal conduct on 1/6.
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The richest 1% of taxpayers will get an average tax cut of $50,000 in 2020 from the Trump-GOP tax cuts. That’s over 75 times more than the tax cut for the bottom 80% of taxpayers, which will average $645.
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“The results from Arizona’s 1st Congressional District bear this out. The seat contains Scottsdale and other well-off, highly educated Phoenix suburbs…
They will vote for a certain type of Republican, just not the uber-Trump backers they had on offer this year”
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Instead they are focused on Hunter Biden.
Americans were so wise to vote Republican!
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“Vampires are cool people, are they not?”
Being stupid is a desirable trait that Republican voters look for.
We saw this with George W. Bush
Then Sarah Palin
Then Donald Trump
It was what former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal decried the Party of Stupid
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So all you guys who said Trump is irrelevant and in the past, now what do you say?
Republicans created this monster. It’s up to them to do something about him.
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During the Trump administration, Trump advisor Jason Miller knocked up a Trump campaign senior advisor named A J Delgado. Yes, Miller is married but hypocrisy is the key trait of any MAGA politician. Anyway, because it was so embarrassing for Miller to be in the same room as a pregnant Delgado, Miller and Trump told her to lose the baby or she would be fired. Miller even tried to induce an abortion by putting a drug in her drink when they were still together. Delgado ended up having the baby and she was fired long before she went into labor. Yeah Republicans!
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Where are all the posters here who kept saying see you on November 8?
I think Jim Carey said it best: LA WHO ZA HER!
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After the red wave of crazy flattens, Wall Street shows it’s approval with a 1200 point gain.
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If you answered Biden or Democrats you are an idiot.
We all know or should know that inflation is fundamentally caused by an imbalance between supply and demand. With increasing wages, low unemployment and an economy rebounding from the Covid-19 shutdowns we have higher demand. With supply disruptions, worker shortages, the War in Ukraine and an effort to punish Russia with sanctions, global and regional supply is constrained.
So how do we bring supply and demand back into balance? This is not a question any Republicans have made an attempt to answer.
How to lower demand?
We could trigger a recession and job losses that will curb demand. We can increase borrowing costs to consumers to curb demand but that might restrict supply by making it more expensive to buy new equipment to increase productivity.
We could curb demand by cutting the wages of those who have jobs and we could raise taxes leaving less money in peoples pockets to buy with.
We all remember the last time we had this high of inflation in 1982 under Reagan. Paul Volker, the Fed Chair pushed up the prime rate to 20% to knock down demand. The result was 10% unemployment and a recession. Is that what people want today? I guess it depends if you are one of the people to lose your job.
How to increase productivity and supply?
We need more workers. We need immigrants.
We need corporations to do their jobs, not to try to make more money by producing less like the oil companies do. Capitalism is failing.
We need the war in Ukraine to end.
Farmers get a lot a money and support from the government. Is this money going in their pockets or helping to lower prices?
We haven’t built a new refinery in the United States since 1973. Maybe the government should buy and operate one or two to keep the oil companies honest. It would be run like a public utility.
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The Trumpiest candidates are losing.
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In Brazil, when the tallies showed that the incumbent had been voted out after just one term, the government responded jointly, swiftly and decisively. The Senate President, the Attorney General, Supreme Court justices and the heads of the electoral agency went on television together and announced the winner. The House Speaker, perhaps the president’s most important ally, then read a statement reiterating that the voters had spoken. Other right-wing politicians quickly followed suit.
President Jair Bolsonaro, politically isolated, stayed silent for two days. Then, under pressure from his top advisers, he agreed to transfer power.
Thousands of Bolsanaro’s supporters took to the streets, blocking highways and demanding a military intervention, but the armed forces have shown no interest in disrupting the electoral process. The demonstrations quickly fizzled and the government began its transition.
Brazil, Brazil has a more stable democracy than the United States of America. Yeah Republicans
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The voice in the now-infamous 30-second political ad, created by supporters of George H.W. Bush during his 1988 presidential campaign against Democrat Michael Dukakis, sounds ominous as it tries to paint Dukakis as weak on crime
Ironically, the policy in question had been created years earlier, in 1972, by Massachusetts Gov. Francis Sargent, a Republican. He had implemented a program that allowed prisoners weekend time away from prison in exchange for good behavior.
During a 1988 debate against Dukakis, Al Gore brought up the case of Horton, asking Dukakis about “weekend passes for convicted criminals.” Dukakis explained “the Massachusetts furlough program for murderers sentenced to life imprisonment had been canceled”.
The issue did not take for Gore, but the exchange attracted the interest of the research director for the Bush campaign. After Dukakis won the Democratic nomination, Lee Atwater, a young but shrewd Republican political strategist who ran Bush’s presidential campaign, jumped on the issue.
The Willie Horton ad and Atwater’s political strategy would become a a symbol of the dark side and half truths of Republican politics. In his obituary, when he died in 1990, at the age of 40, critics, wrote “his success in elevating a black murderer-rapist named Willie Horton into a national figure used to crush the presidential bid of Michael S. Dukakis was a crude appeal to racism and the epitome of the negative campaign.”
Months before Atwater died a young man, he expressed regret for using divisive political tactics. Atwater wrote in a Life Magazine story: “In 1988, fighting Dukakis, I said that I ‘would strip the bark off the little bastard’ and ‘make Willie Horton his running mate.’ I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound like a racist, which I am not.”
Republican campaigns and lies have only gotten worse since the Willie Horton ad.
Ironically, the policy in question had been created years earlier, in 1972, by Massachusetts Gov. Francis Sargent, a Republican. He had implemented a program that allowed prisoners weekend time away from prison in exchange for good behavior.
During a 1988 debate against Dukakis, Al Gore brought up the case of Horton, asking Dukakis about “weekend passes for convicted criminals.” Dukakis explained “the Massachusetts furlough program for murderers sentenced to life imprisonment had been canceled”.
The issue did not take for Gore, but the exchange attracted the interest of the research director for the Bush campaign. After Dukakis won the Democratic nomination, Lee Atwater, a young but shrewd Republican political strategist who ran Bush’s presidential campaign, jumped on the issue.
The Willie Horton ad and Atwater’s political strategy would become a a symbol of the dark side and half truths of Republican politics. In his obituary, when he died in 1990, at the age of 40, critics, wrote “his success in elevating a black murderer-rapist named Willie Horton into a national figure used to crush the presidential bid of Michael S. Dukakis was a crude appeal to racism and the epitome of the negative campaign.”
Months before Atwater died a young man, he expressed regret for using divisive political tactics. Atwater wrote in a Life Magazine story: “In 1988, fighting Dukakis, I said that I ‘would strip the bark off the little bastard’ and ‘make Willie Horton his running mate.’ I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound like a racist, which I am not.”
Republican campaigns and lies have only gotten worse since the Willie Horton ad.
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Of the more than 440 extremism-related murders committed in the past decade, more than 75 percent were committed by right-wing extremists, white supremacists or anti-government extremists. The remaining quarter stemmed from a range of other motivations, according to a study by the Anti-Defamation League. There were 29 extremist-related homicides last year: 26 committed by right-wing extremists, two by Black nationalists and one by an Islamic extremist. The Department of Homeland Security has warned again and again that domestic extremism motivated by white supremacist and other right-wing ideologies is the country’s top terrorism threat.
There have been attacks on conservatives, too, but the number and nature of the episodes aren’t comparable, and no leading figures in the Democratic Party condone, mock or encourage their supporters to violence in ways that are common from politicians on the right and their supporters in the conservative media.
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