The Insane Rationalizations, Bigotry And Hypocrisy Of The Right

[JWB]

Tommy Tuberville pledged to ‘donate every dime’ to veterans. He hasn’t. (msn.com)

[JWB]

Tough on crime Republican busted for having fraudulent license plate on sports car: report (msn.com)

[Murph]

And they have been rightly called out for it.  

[urbanoid]

 

[Skywalkre]

I get she has limited influence and given she barely won reelection last time there seems to be a decent chance she's gone next year... but damn this whole incident was comedy gold.  🤣 

Getting thrown out of a show for being disruptive, vaping, using your phone, and fondling your date/being fondled by them (who happens to be a D who owns a bar that has done drag shows) while still not having your divorce finalized... then lying about what happened and then getting owned by the security cam footage was, as mentioned, hilarious to watch.  Even r/conservative was ripping into her afterwards.

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Boebert calls backlash, vape incident ‘difficult and humbling’

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) reflected on the controversy after she was kicked out of a Denver theater on Sunday, saying the incident has been “humbling.”

Boebert was kicked out of a theater during a production of the Beetlejuice musical for vaping and causing a disturbance. Her office initially denied the vaping claims, but video from the incident appears to prove them.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4207873-boebert-calls-backlash-vape-incident-difficult-and-humbling/

[FALightFighter]

Character matters, despite the desperate wishes of our society.

[rmgill]

Come on Skywalkre, rip on her for having a liberal date. 

[Ivanhoe]

She's a good-looking dame, but dang it looks like the RNC dodged a bullet. 

Both big parties in the US have onboarding briefings about "how things work" in Congress, but TMK neither has any sort of briefings on personal or financial conduct. Its bizarro world. 

 

[Ivanhoe]

[Ssnake]

Wow. So that is how it looks like when a total sociopath tries to fake character.

[Murph]

10 hours ago, rmgill said:

Come on Skywalkre, rip on her for having a liberal date. 

And some things are coming out that it was a setup all along.  Hot chick, doing far less than you find any LGBTWTF chester doing in public, in broad daylight in front of children on a daily basis.  Was she stupid, yep.  Does she deserved to be embarrassed, yep.  Has she done anything that many have not also done? Nope.  Not even close to the Democrrat blatant sexual escapades.  Second base at best.  

[Murph]

Interesting take, and could she have been set up and sexually abused?  Just asking the question.

 

[Harold Jones]

4 hours ago, Ssnake said:

Wow. So that is how it looks like when a total sociopath tries to fake character.

It's from the Bee https://babylonbee.com/news/lauren-boebert-attempts-to-smooth-things-over-with-new-line-of-purity-rings

[Ssnake]

Dang it, they got me this time.

[Harold Jones]

28 minutes ago, Ssnake said:

Dang it, they got me this time.

It was screenshot of the article so there was no URL to give it away.  It was just too on the nose so I searched the first few words of the headline.

[Ssnake]

Wellll... there actually was a light grey Babylonbee.com text on white background.

[Skywalkre]

7 hours ago, Murph said:

Interesting take, and could she have been set up and sexually abused?  Just asking the question.

Not that interesting at all.  First off there's zero reason to believe any of it... and second if it were true it makes Boebert out to be more of a braindead bimbo than the Ds already paint her as since nothing about this guy's background was hard to find out...

This is a pretty open/shut incident.  What she did was stupid and embarrassing... there's no defense.

[Murph]

A true believer of the Narrative.  Ignore.

[Skywalkre]

More proof that Rs are not remotely serious about cutting the deficit. 

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4287168-house-gop-israel-irs-bill-add-deficit-cbo/

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House GOP’s Israel-IRS bill could add more than $26 billion to deficit: CBO

The House GOP’s $14.3 billion Israel aid package, which is coupled with $14.3 billion in cuts to the IRS, could actually end up adding billions of dollars to the nation’s deficits, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday.

The estimate released by the nonpartisan office said the package could cost the nation $26 billion in revenue over the next 10 years by reducing what the IRS would take in through taxes.

I'm reminded when Rs were dead set on cutting back the funds passed in recent years to bolster the IRS because they claimed it would hurt lower and middle class Americans... yet if you looked at the CBO report they were referencing only an incredibly small fraction of the increased audits would target said Americans while the overwhelming vast majority would target wealthy Americans (Americans that the IRS has historically not had the resources to go after).  It was so bloody obvious they were just acting as tools for special interests/the wealthy and yet rank and file Rs lapped this shit up and supported it.

There's countless pork, waste, other programs that could be targeted.  Instead the Rs focus on the government agency responsible for collecting funds... and by cutting funding for it that means we go further into debt.  WTF are they smoking?

Rs today are a bloody embarrassment...

Edited November 6, 2023 by Skywalkre

[rmgill]

On 9/20/2023 at 2:32 PM, Skywalkre said:

Not that interesting at all.  First off there's zero reason to believe any of it...

#BelieveAllWomen? 

[rmgill]

18 minutes ago, Skywalkre said:

More proof that Rs are not remotely serious about cutting the deficit. 

 

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There's countless pork, waste, other programs that could be targeted.  Instead the Rs focus on the government agency responsible for collecting funds... and by cutting funding for it that means we go further into debt.  WTF are they smoking?

Maybe if they were actually going after tax dodgers and not enemies of the administration...

Biden's tax dodge for how many hundreds of millions gets the clock run out but Matt Taibbi gets an audit? Explain that please. 
 

[seahawk]

On 9/20/2023 at 8:32 PM, Skywalkre said:

Not that interesting at all.  First off there's zero reason to believe any of it... and second if it were true it makes Boebert out to be more of a braindead bimbo than the Ds already paint her as since nothing about this guy's background was hard to find out...

This is a pretty open/shut incident.  What she did was stupid and embarrassing... there's no defense.

Dude, you need a mainstream media detox.

[Skywalkre]

14 hours ago, rmgill said:

Maybe if they were actually going after tax dodgers and not enemies of the administration...

Biden's tax dodge for how many hundreds of millions gets the clock run out but Matt Taibbi gets an audit? Explain that please. 
 

You're just grasping for anything to defend something that's non-defensible... aren't ya?  Crazy idea - when Rs do something stupid why can't their base own up to it and call them out for it?

If you think the IRS is targeting folks just on politics you reform it, not just blindly cut funds to it.  Biden's 'tax dodge', if accurate (and quickly looking it up it seems to be overblown and misrepresented... like most R claims), is exactly the kind of thing more funds are supposed to help the IRS tackle effectively.  Remember, the CBO originally said all this extra money would result in more action against the wealthy and more revenue brought in... meaning less debt. 

So... again... how is increasing debt and letting the wealthy get off with paying what they're supposed to which is actually what would continue to happen (if not get worse) under IRS cuts pushed by Rs a good thing and holding true to this supposed newfound desire to reign in our budget? 

[Skywalkre]

15 hours ago, rmgill said:

#BelieveAllWomen? 

Did you bother to... read... the context of everything you're responding to?

Boebert has never claimed she was raped.  She owned up to her embarrassing behavior (eventually... after the vid was released to counter her initial claims of what happened... such integrity on her part).  Murph's post is just some nobody-MAGA-conspiracy-nutjob's brilliant theory based on nothing more than a few seconds of video showing the man holding Boebert's hand.  Honesty... it's a fucking insulting claim to make and repost.

[rmgill]

3 hours ago, Skywalkre said:

You're just grasping for anything to defend something that's non-defensible... aren't ya?

No, I'm disappointed in Bobert. I'm just pulling the rug out from under you because your side has been parroting a bunch of crap that it CLEARLY doesn't really believe. But Believe all women was a VERY large trope of the anti-west left for quite some time. 

So, why don't you apply yourself to those rules and at least give a modicum of doubt to the woman who couild not consent given her apparent inebriation? 

 

3 hours ago, Skywalkre said:

 Crazy idea - when Rs do something stupid why can't their base own up to it and call them out for it?

When R's do something stupid you'll find that the right is FAR more condemnatory than the left is of their own. I can show you some Shapiro condemnation of Bobert. Can you show me some young Turks condemnation of the Democrat who pulled the fire alarm? How about some Psaki coverage and criticism of the Democrats who are pro-Hamas? 

3 hours ago, Skywalkre said:

If you think the IRS is targeting folks just on politics you reform it, not just blindly cut funds to it. 

Reform it how? The ATF for example routinely breaks the law, is corrupt, goes after retarded people in stings, loses paperwork, violates their own regs, violates the Public notice requirements and the Left will not allow any sort of reform. So cutting Funding is the ONLY option. 

3 hours ago, Skywalkre said:

Biden's 'tax dodge', if accurate (and quickly looking it up it seems to be overblown and misrepresented... like most R claims), is exactly the kind of thing more funds are supposed to help the IRS tackle effectively. 

They didn't tackle it because of lack of funds. They were going to run the clock out and give him immunity. They were specifically BLOCKED from doing more by the FBI. This is in the public record. Even IRS members have noted this. This should be punished. But the anti-western crowd folks like you are fine with this. 

 

3 hours ago, Skywalkre said:

Remember, the CBO originally said all this extra money would result in more action against the wealthy and more revenue brought in... meaning less debt. 

Yes. While we're getting instead is Venmo payments being exposed down to what, $500 etc? There's NOTHING we little people can do without having full exposure to the government. But the anti-western crowd like yourself are FINE with the Biden Admin and folks like SBF doing what they want with millions or even Billions of dollars. 

Where was the IRS and or the FTC when SBF was stealing millions? Oh right, they were getting donations. 
 

3 hours ago, Skywalkre said:

So... again... how is increasing debt and letting the wealthy get off with paying what they're supposed to which is actually what would continue to happen (if not get worse) under IRS cuts pushed by Rs a good thing and holding true to this supposed newfound desire to reign in our budget? 

Because for the anti-western crowd, the IRS isn't a tool for even enforcement of the law, it's a tool for clubbing the opposition right.