Rupert Murdoch famously offered Gingrich a $4.5 million book deal in 1994. That started to smell a tad too stinky. If Gingrich writes his memoirs, he might consider as a title “The Audacity of Mendacity.”
It was Newt who pushed the ur-right-wing nutjob conspiracy that Clinton aide Vince Foster was murdered. That big little lie metastasized a quarter-century later into “Stop the Steal.” It was Newt who defended right-wing militias after Timothy McVeigh murdered 168 people in Oklahoma City. And it was Newt who, while leading a hot steaming mess of a personal life, fiercely agitated to oust Bill Clinton for playing hide-the-cigar with a 20-something intern.
More significant, perhaps, it was Newt who in 1990 poisoned the well by issuing a manual with 65 insults and abusive phrases for Republicans to deploy against Democrats: “traitors,” “sick,” “corrupt,” “betray,” “bizarre,” “pathetic,” “abuse of power,” “anti-flag,” “anti-family,” “anti-child,” etc. To a group of College Republicans he mused, “I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty.” Problem solved.
The purpose of his Devil’s Dictionary and his sermon on civility to peach-fuzzed Republicans was to inculcate demonization and to weaponize paranoia. And so here we are, in the era of “alternative facts,” QAnon, Jewish space lasers, anti-vaxxing, birthers and Alex Jones conspiracies about the dead children of Sandy Hook being ketchup-smeared actors in a government plot to seize our AR-15s. The Gazpacho police are watching.
Structure of the CO2 adsorption material. The blue part is made up of melamine and cyanuric acid, and the orange pendants are diethylenetriamine (DETA)
Uh, B-B4, transposing into the Giuoco Pianissimo?
Wanna Understand How The Fed Operates? No? Well read this interview anyway. So well-explained that even I understood at least 15% of it. Plus, you need to know about the ‘shadow banking system’.
All This Hand-Wringing Over D’s Boosting Extremist Rethugs In Primaries…pisses me off. First, it’s likely to work in quite a few races. And, second, it’s about time that we started playing by the rules that the other side has used for the better part of two decades. And, hey, we didn’t even have to bring in the Russians to do this. Besides, I’m all for anything that causes Chris Coons to chafe.
“It’s likely to work in quite a few races.” Yeah, right.
I well remember that I was assured Donald Trump’s nomination meant Democrats would win the 2016 election. So no, I don’t agree that Democratic campaign donations should be steered to Republicans, of any stripe.
Hmm, let’s make a bet. If I’m right, you owe me a case of 2018 Domaine De La Romanee-Conti La Tache Grand Cru. OK, a bottle will do. Each bottle is a mere $7999 American.
If you win, I’ll take you to Stoney’s for fish ‘n chips.
The trouble is twofold: First, there’s no way to know if the less-loony Republican would have won or lost. You take any loss to be proof of your position, when it’s not.
Second, it only takes one mistake to make the whole thing a poor gamble. See Trump, Donald.
BTW, overpriced wine is just that: Overpriced. It’s fucking grape juice.
You are so so wrong. The French themselves have celebrated their insularity. Perhaps the little-known lyrics of their original national anthem will set you straight:
“Garçon, s’il vous plaît,
Encore Chevrolet coupé;
Papah, pooh, pooh, pooh!
À vous tout dir vay à vous?
Garçon, qu’est-ce que c’est?
Tra la, Maurice Chevalier!
J’adore crêpes Suzette
Et aussi Lafayette!
And now we give the meaning of this song:
We’re fifty million Frenchmen and we can’t be wrong!
We’re fifty million Frenchmen and we can’t be wrong!”
What does insularity have to do with what the international jet set overpays for wine? What you say is true, but I don’t think it says much about their attitude towards wine. Most of them drink reasonably priced everyday wine from the grocery store; the better-off buy modestly priced everyday wine by the case from the winery.
Sure, there are wine snobs, but I know more American ones than French ones. The French are about selling the stuff, not buying it.
Top marks there, El Somnambulo. You had me scratching my head on that one! At first I thought it might be a G&S I wasn’t familiar with, but they certainly wouldn’t have mentioned Chevrolet coupe. So I had to look it up: “Of Thee I Sing,” written by the Gershwins and George S Kaufman, which debuted in 1931.
This looks like interesting technology and I’m glad to see there’s a lot of research going on in the field of carbon capture. I would still put this in the realm of academic research – we will have to see if this can be translated into practical use.
Nixon was a crook, but he had nothing on Gingrich, it was Gingrich who slammed the door on Coon’s beloved “bipartisanship” and indeed made it a dirty word. Since then the Fascist tendencies of the Republicans have grown every year since to the point where they all deny they want a dictatorship, even as they worship at the idols of Putin and now Orban.
Republicans managed to remove $35 insulin in the vote-a-rama, with an assist from the parliamentarian:
“All but seven Republican Senators voted to strip a provision placing a $35 price cap on insulin in private insurance plans. Because the Senate parliamentarian (confusingly) ruled that the price cap did not meet reconciliation rules, 60 votes were needed to keep the measure in the bill. Only 57 votes could be mustered.”
“It’s likely to work in quite a few races.” Yeah, right.
I well remember that I was assured Donald Trump’s nomination meant Democrats would win the 2016 election. So no, I don’t agree that Democratic campaign donations should be steered to Republicans, of any stripe.
Hmm, let’s make a bet. If I’m right, you owe me a case of 2018 Domaine De La Romanee-Conti La Tache Grand Cru. OK, a bottle will do. Each bottle is a mere $7999 American.
If you win, I’ll take you to Stoney’s for fish ‘n chips.
Fair?
The trouble is twofold: First, there’s no way to know if the less-loony Republican would have won or lost. You take any loss to be proof of your position, when it’s not.
Second, it only takes one mistake to make the whole thing a poor gamble. See Trump, Donald.
BTW, overpriced wine is just that: Overpriced. It’s fucking grape juice.
If the leaders of France knew what you just wrote, they wouldn’t let you back in the country.
I think they realize it’s grape juice. The French people I know, even the rich ones, tend to brag about how little they paid for wine, not how much.
You are so so wrong. The French themselves have celebrated their insularity. Perhaps the little-known lyrics of their original national anthem will set you straight:
“Garçon, s’il vous plaît,
Encore Chevrolet coupé;
Papah, pooh, pooh, pooh!
À vous tout dir vay à vous?
Garçon, qu’est-ce que c’est?
Tra la, Maurice Chevalier!
J’adore crêpes Suzette
Et aussi Lafayette!
And now we give the meaning of this song:
We’re fifty million Frenchmen and we can’t be wrong!
We’re fifty million Frenchmen and we can’t be wrong!”
Game. Set. Match.
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What does insularity have to do with what the international jet set overpays for wine? What you say is true, but I don’t think it says much about their attitude towards wine. Most of them drink reasonably priced everyday wine from the grocery store; the better-off buy modestly priced everyday wine by the case from the winery.
Sure, there are wine snobs, but I know more American ones than French ones. The French are about selling the stuff, not buying it.
Was just looking for an excuse to use those lyrics.
Betcha nobody on the blog knows where they came from…
I’m guessing Gigi.
Good guess. But IN-correct.
Top marks there, El Somnambulo. You had me scratching my head on that one! At first I thought it might be a G&S I wasn’t familiar with, but they certainly wouldn’t have mentioned Chevrolet coupe. So I had to look it up: “Of Thee I Sing,” written by the Gershwins and George S Kaufman, which debuted in 1931.
That is definitely an obscure reference!
Only reason I knew is b/c I played the part of the French Ambassador when the Brandywiners did the show back in 1974.
This looks like interesting technology and I’m glad to see there’s a lot of research going on in the field of carbon capture. I would still put this in the realm of academic research – we will have to see if this can be translated into practical use.
Nixon was a crook, but he had nothing on Gingrich, it was Gingrich who slammed the door on Coon’s beloved “bipartisanship” and indeed made it a dirty word. Since then the Fascist tendencies of the Republicans have grown every year since to the point where they all deny they want a dictatorship, even as they worship at the idols of Putin and now Orban.
Nancy Pelosi must go. Sorry, but when someone causes global tensions because — I’m not making this up — she feels a connection to China because she was told as a little girl that if she dug a hole deep enough she’d reach China, I think it’s time for an intervention.
Alot of this neofascist stuff dates back to Pat Buchanan.
Correct. He authored that Spiro Agnew ‘nattering nabobs of negativism’ speech.
‘nattering nabobs of negativism’ was written by William Safire, according to himself.
BREAKING: Senate passes landmark climate legislation, 51-50. House will return on August 12 to pass the legislation and send it to President Biden:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/07/us/climate-tax-deal-vote
Republicans managed to remove $35 insulin in the vote-a-rama, with an assist from the parliamentarian:
“All but seven Republican Senators voted to strip a provision placing a $35 price cap on insulin in private insurance plans. Because the Senate parliamentarian (confusingly) ruled that the price cap did not meet reconciliation rules, 60 votes were needed to keep the measure in the bill. Only 57 votes could be mustered.”