“The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about Covid vaccines, the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.” CNN. “[He] was apparently looking for Mrs. Pelosi at their San Francisco home and shouted, ‘Where is Nancy?’ before attacking the House Speaker’s 82-year-old husband [with a hammer].” Wall Street Journal.
So Kevin McCrudy sends "Thoughts and Prayers" to Nancy's husband. Sounds like the standard familiar and sickening response to unprovoked carnage. If you're a national political leader and you're not unequivocally condemning this act of violence and both the people who commit it and promote it you're condoning it.
The entire GOP is guilty of stochastic terrorism. The right wing media has been demonizing Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton for 40 or so years. I'm amazed neither has been hurt or murdered. Our mainstream media is determined to make every issue a "both sides" waffle, so no help there. Yes, we are in serious trouble.
Of course, the My Pillow guy makes an appearance in this nightmare. These limp dick MAGA fools , you know the ones who need to be festooned with quasi military dress and AKs to go to Walmart hate Pelosi because she’s got bigger ones than they do. I can only hope that this will trigger a response. The way overdoing and overstepping by killing Roe is apparently doing. Everyone, I know is really sick and tired of living in fear of what the next outrage should bring. Indict the orange pus sac already preferably before the midterms.
The Pelosi‘s live five blocks away from us on the same street — Broadway.
We drive past their beautiful home on an almost daily basis, and whenever they are in town, the presence of security is extremely conspicuous, whether it’s an SFPD squad car parked across the street on a 24-hour basis, or multiple black GMC SUVs.
And, of course, the insurrectionists made it quite obvious that Madame Speaker was a key target for their misdirected rage.
So, every time I drive by there, I think of that house as a likely target for some kind of right-wing craziness.
And today, lo and behold, it happened.
Like the vast majority of residents of this city, we all hope, (though, of course, many of us will not pray, since most of us are not deists), that Paul will get well and not have any permanent damage due to this attack.
But for those who believe it is overly paranoid to think that the right wing fanatics of America do not pose a grave threat to the health and safety of the rest of us, I refer you to Victor Klemperer’s three volumes, describing his and his wife’s life as Jews who, miraculously, survived living in Dresden during the Third Reich:
Thank you, Lucian, for this clear-headed analysis, connecting the obvious dots between the words of the GOP extremists and actions of their minions. It is probably naive of me, but I hope many people point out to Kevin McCarthy, not only his hypocrisy, but his responsibility in encouraging violence in response to HIS VIOLENT RHETORIC!
How do the MAGA loons sleep at night? These MAGA destroyers in our government and on Fuks Not News (and the like) know that they are constantly lying and scrounging around for more and more preposterous lies to avoid any accountability and maintain power. They have an avid audience of propaganda loving lemmings who will believe any dumbass whoppers, the stupider the better. What happened today to Pelosi’s husband is the natural outcome of all their deceit. They aren’t just the party that lacked courage to stand up to a painted clown faced blathering sociopath, they have become the same and care little for the havoc that follows their words and deeds.
Trump has NO BUSINESS being free to foment further division. LOCK HIM UP. And as for Elon Musk--he is getting off on his self-masturbatory grandiosity. Mr Pillow does that, too. “Protected Speech” does NOT INCLUDE incendiary rhetoric and lies. Maybe we should file a class action suit for inflammatory, offensive speech when so-called leaders make remarks like Kevin McCarthy’s
"On January 8, 2011, Gabrielle Giffords, a U.S. congresswoman from Arizona, is critically injured when a man goes on a shooting spree during a constituents meeting held by the congresswoman outside a Tucson-area supermarket. Six people died in the attack and another 13, including Giffords, were wounded. The gunman, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, was taken into custody at the scene."
Let's be clear, what congressional douchebag Kevin McCarthy was doing was 'preying', not 'praying'. McCarthy is a predator, and a pretty obvious one at that. His 'thoughts and prayers' is really 'lusting for predation'. McCarthy isn't even a good predator, he's more like a spotted jackal who feeds on the defenseless: the young, the aged, and the injured. Like spotted jackals, predators like McCarthy hunt in packs, because individually none of them can stand up in a fair fight with anything or anyone who can defend himself in any minimal sort of way.
The very idea of Kevin McCarthy being Speaker of the House of Representatives is a hoot. He's got this tinny, little-boy voice that whines incessantly. Kevin McCarthy is a whiny little bitch, forever begging for favors or making excuses for his own failures. From all appearances, McCarthy is a fairly tall fellow, something around six feet tall, and yet he whines and he snivels like a bully who's been caught stealing little kids' lunch money, and is now being punished. The one time in his political career that McCarthy showed any kind of courage was his reported phone call to then-president Donald Trump to chastise him for instigating the MAGAhat attack on the United States Capitol. The next moment we see him, McCarthy is in Florida, kowtowing to the former president. 'Fellatio' doesn't begin to describe the kind of sucking up to Trump that McCarthy reportedly did in order to retain Trump's favor. We saw this kind of self-abasement and the careers of Josef Stalin, Kim Jong-Il and his father Kim Ill Sung, Mao Tse-Dong, and a host of other autocratic contemptibles. Only heaven knows what McCarthy would do to save his life or save his skin, because all he is trying to do is get a job promotion; and the job that McCarthy is angling for is already bespoke to someone who is not even in Congress. It could be Trump, but Trump never had his shit together long enough at any one time to capitalize on the chaos he created. Trump has the cunning and soul of a Machiavelli, but the foresight and judgment of a five-year-old child. Trump is the brand, but what's in the package is as old and as evil as the Roman Emperor Nero, and those like him. So forget about 'thoughts and prayers'. Any prayers that Kevin McCarthy is offering could just as easily be offered to the ancient Phoenician deity Baal.
I'm pretty depressed that so many people are now seemingly insane. They're riddled with conspiracy theories, bad math, rotten demagogues, and tyrants unleashed.
There's nothing sane about this entire country right now, and voting is the most sane thing anyone can do-but how many of these people are voting this year?
How many of these people are there? Millions.
We're in serious trouble here, people.
I don't know where we fell off the precipice but the lunatics from the asylum are now in charge.
God help us all.
I voted, but at the same time I'm reminded of a saying my husband used to tell me:
"If voting was as important as everyone says it is, why do they allow everyone to vote?"
Which was his way of saying that voting is good, but politics doesn't depend on voters. It depends on who you know and how much money you have.
And doesn't include voting.
The more I see the more cynical I get. Old age sucks.
Donald Trump and his crazed followers, including the Trumpist Republicans in Congress, have poisoned our democracy. They are normalizing and mainstreaming fascism in our country. Be afraid; be very afraid. Yes, vote, but who is counting and reporting the votes? If you live in a Red state with a Trumpy Secretary of State and Governor, you cannot count on their reporting the true results. And if the SC approves the Independent Legislature concept, we are doomed.
i voted in person early. this attack on paul pelosi is making me sick. and close to tears. i can not believe that these repiglicans won't even speak out and condemn this horrific political attack. we are well and truly done. and i mourn our descent into political and spiritual violence, all of which i lay at the feet of drumpf, McConnell, McCarthy and other individuals of their ilk.
An age-old tactic, arouse the angry, the afraid and deluded and let them do your dirty work. Republicans should be careful. The crazed left might awaken and then all of us will live in fear.
When does “Free Speech” stop being free?? When the speech is nothing but lies causing people to attack the seat of our government? When the barrage of lies that fill the airwaves lead someone to try to assassinate a high ranking government official?? How about when the continual blanketing of “news” presenting lies as facts threaten our democracy, and our very way of life?? Will “free speech” ultimately lead to the demise of our government?? That is an awfully high price to pay for the privilege of being able to say whatever and whenever regardless of the consequences.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are more of these violent MAGA crazies every day, with more to come. And, they are all armed to the teeth. One of their other current projects is armed intimidation of voters under the guise of "poll-watching". The country is fundamentally broken, and I no longer believe it can be repaired.
So Kevin McCrudy sends "Thoughts and Prayers" to Nancy's husband. Sounds like the standard familiar and sickening response to unprovoked carnage. If you're a national political leader and you're not unequivocally condemning this act of violence and both the people who commit it and promote it you're condoning it.
Vote like your life depends on it.
The entire GOP is guilty of stochastic terrorism. The right wing media has been demonizing Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton for 40 or so years. I'm amazed neither has been hurt or murdered. Our mainstream media is determined to make every issue a "both sides" waffle, so no help there. Yes, we are in serious trouble.
Of course, the My Pillow guy makes an appearance in this nightmare. These limp dick MAGA fools , you know the ones who need to be festooned with quasi military dress and AKs to go to Walmart hate Pelosi because she’s got bigger ones than they do. I can only hope that this will trigger a response. The way overdoing and overstepping by killing Roe is apparently doing. Everyone, I know is really sick and tired of living in fear of what the next outrage should bring. Indict the orange pus sac already preferably before the midterms.
The Pelosi‘s live five blocks away from us on the same street — Broadway.
We drive past their beautiful home on an almost daily basis, and whenever they are in town, the presence of security is extremely conspicuous, whether it’s an SFPD squad car parked across the street on a 24-hour basis, or multiple black GMC SUVs.
And, of course, the insurrectionists made it quite obvious that Madame Speaker was a key target for their misdirected rage.
So, every time I drive by there, I think of that house as a likely target for some kind of right-wing craziness.
And today, lo and behold, it happened.
Like the vast majority of residents of this city, we all hope, (though, of course, many of us will not pray, since most of us are not deists), that Paul will get well and not have any permanent damage due to this attack.
But for those who believe it is overly paranoid to think that the right wing fanatics of America do not pose a grave threat to the health and safety of the rest of us, I refer you to Victor Klemperer’s three volumes, describing his and his wife’s life as Jews who, miraculously, survived living in Dresden during the Third Reich:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Klemperer#Post-war
Thank you, Lucian, for this clear-headed analysis, connecting the obvious dots between the words of the GOP extremists and actions of their minions. It is probably naive of me, but I hope many people point out to Kevin McCarthy, not only his hypocrisy, but his responsibility in encouraging violence in response to HIS VIOLENT RHETORIC!
How do the MAGA loons sleep at night? These MAGA destroyers in our government and on Fuks Not News (and the like) know that they are constantly lying and scrounging around for more and more preposterous lies to avoid any accountability and maintain power. They have an avid audience of propaganda loving lemmings who will believe any dumbass whoppers, the stupider the better. What happened today to Pelosi’s husband is the natural outcome of all their deceit. They aren’t just the party that lacked courage to stand up to a painted clown faced blathering sociopath, they have become the same and care little for the havoc that follows their words and deeds.
Trump has NO BUSINESS being free to foment further division. LOCK HIM UP. And as for Elon Musk--he is getting off on his self-masturbatory grandiosity. Mr Pillow does that, too. “Protected Speech” does NOT INCLUDE incendiary rhetoric and lies. Maybe we should file a class action suit for inflammatory, offensive speech when so-called leaders make remarks like Kevin McCarthy’s
Remember this?
"On January 8, 2011, Gabrielle Giffords, a U.S. congresswoman from Arizona, is critically injured when a man goes on a shooting spree during a constituents meeting held by the congresswoman outside a Tucson-area supermarket. Six people died in the attack and another 13, including Giffords, were wounded. The gunman, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, was taken into custody at the scene."
Vote....but also indict, NOW1
Let's be clear, what congressional douchebag Kevin McCarthy was doing was 'preying', not 'praying'. McCarthy is a predator, and a pretty obvious one at that. His 'thoughts and prayers' is really 'lusting for predation'. McCarthy isn't even a good predator, he's more like a spotted jackal who feeds on the defenseless: the young, the aged, and the injured. Like spotted jackals, predators like McCarthy hunt in packs, because individually none of them can stand up in a fair fight with anything or anyone who can defend himself in any minimal sort of way.
The very idea of Kevin McCarthy being Speaker of the House of Representatives is a hoot. He's got this tinny, little-boy voice that whines incessantly. Kevin McCarthy is a whiny little bitch, forever begging for favors or making excuses for his own failures. From all appearances, McCarthy is a fairly tall fellow, something around six feet tall, and yet he whines and he snivels like a bully who's been caught stealing little kids' lunch money, and is now being punished. The one time in his political career that McCarthy showed any kind of courage was his reported phone call to then-president Donald Trump to chastise him for instigating the MAGAhat attack on the United States Capitol. The next moment we see him, McCarthy is in Florida, kowtowing to the former president. 'Fellatio' doesn't begin to describe the kind of sucking up to Trump that McCarthy reportedly did in order to retain Trump's favor. We saw this kind of self-abasement and the careers of Josef Stalin, Kim Jong-Il and his father Kim Ill Sung, Mao Tse-Dong, and a host of other autocratic contemptibles. Only heaven knows what McCarthy would do to save his life or save his skin, because all he is trying to do is get a job promotion; and the job that McCarthy is angling for is already bespoke to someone who is not even in Congress. It could be Trump, but Trump never had his shit together long enough at any one time to capitalize on the chaos he created. Trump has the cunning and soul of a Machiavelli, but the foresight and judgment of a five-year-old child. Trump is the brand, but what's in the package is as old and as evil as the Roman Emperor Nero, and those like him. So forget about 'thoughts and prayers'. Any prayers that Kevin McCarthy is offering could just as easily be offered to the ancient Phoenician deity Baal.
I'm pretty depressed that so many people are now seemingly insane. They're riddled with conspiracy theories, bad math, rotten demagogues, and tyrants unleashed.
There's nothing sane about this entire country right now, and voting is the most sane thing anyone can do-but how many of these people are voting this year?
How many of these people are there? Millions.
We're in serious trouble here, people.
I don't know where we fell off the precipice but the lunatics from the asylum are now in charge.
God help us all.
I voted, but at the same time I'm reminded of a saying my husband used to tell me:
"If voting was as important as everyone says it is, why do they allow everyone to vote?"
Which was his way of saying that voting is good, but politics doesn't depend on voters. It depends on who you know and how much money you have.
And doesn't include voting.
The more I see the more cynical I get. Old age sucks.
Donald Trump and his crazed followers, including the Trumpist Republicans in Congress, have poisoned our democracy. They are normalizing and mainstreaming fascism in our country. Be afraid; be very afraid. Yes, vote, but who is counting and reporting the votes? If you live in a Red state with a Trumpy Secretary of State and Governor, you cannot count on their reporting the true results. And if the SC approves the Independent Legislature concept, we are doomed.
i voted in person early. this attack on paul pelosi is making me sick. and close to tears. i can not believe that these repiglicans won't even speak out and condemn this horrific political attack. we are well and truly done. and i mourn our descent into political and spiritual violence, all of which i lay at the feet of drumpf, McConnell, McCarthy and other individuals of their ilk.
An age-old tactic, arouse the angry, the afraid and deluded and let them do your dirty work. Republicans should be careful. The crazed left might awaken and then all of us will live in fear.
When does “Free Speech” stop being free?? When the speech is nothing but lies causing people to attack the seat of our government? When the barrage of lies that fill the airwaves lead someone to try to assassinate a high ranking government official?? How about when the continual blanketing of “news” presenting lies as facts threaten our democracy, and our very way of life?? Will “free speech” ultimately lead to the demise of our government?? That is an awfully high price to pay for the privilege of being able to say whatever and whenever regardless of the consequences.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are more of these violent MAGA crazies every day, with more to come. And, they are all armed to the teeth. One of their other current projects is armed intimidation of voters under the guise of "poll-watching". The country is fundamentally broken, and I no longer believe it can be repaired.