Comments on: The Durham report is out https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 17 May 2023 11:38:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: windbag https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679992 Wed, 17 May 2023 11:38:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679992 neo,

Dems and GOP are two sides of the same filthy coin. They agree on the overwhelming majority of what they’re doing to us, with a miniscule handful of hot-button issues that they can bluster and babble about to sound tough, but in the end, they are working together.

They occupy the bridge while we swab the deck. We get into fights with the other deck-swabbers over those hot-button issues, while they gleefully take turns at the helm, giddy over their power, and caring not which party steers us ever closer to the rocks.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679990 Wed, 17 May 2023 11:19:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679990 is probably off the table,
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Due to learned helplessness in Congress more than anything else.

]]> By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679985 Wed, 17 May 2023 09:45:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679985 I’ll take windbag’s advice: I am a Patriotic non-voter. But perhaps my reasons remain different from his? (Or yours, Neo?)

After the ‘60s, one leading libertarian bumper sticker read “Don’t Vote – It Only Encourages ‘em.” Encourages ‘em to use and abuse Power against others.

It was as a plea for Pacifism court over-match ruling power. Yet it was naive to expect anything like this to succeed.

Revolution against tyranny is now mandatory. I can only organise to achieve that now.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679962 Wed, 17 May 2023 01:27:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679962 windbag:

The GOP has many flaws, but it doesn’t even begin to compare to the left, and it is not allied with it.

As for “reining McCain in,” he gave them no hint of what he was about to do with the Obamacare vote.

]]> By: windbag https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679952 Tue, 16 May 2023 23:57:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679952 neo,

The GOP didn’t rein McCain in, so it is on them collectively, not individually. As far as an alternative goes, if I have a skunk in my kitchen, weighing whether to replace it with a badger vs. a porcupine isn’t the thing to do. Getting the skunk out is the proper approach. The GOP has failed consistently, as have all our politicians. Our country is a wreck thanks to both parties.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679939 Tue, 16 May 2023 22:14:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679939 Yes, the GOP had trouble deciding how to replace it,
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They had ample time to develop an alternative. They just didn’t. McConnell and the people who keep him there are bagmen for corporate donors. They’re not interested in the welfare of their voters; those voters are marks to them. Paul Ryan favored schemes like replacing Medicare with vouchers, which incorporates crippling problems.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679916 Tue, 16 May 2023 20:28:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679916 Here’s an “interesting” twist:
“Durham Report holds lingering consequence for Joe Biden, Congress and U.S. allies;
“Current president was briefed in August 2016 about Clinton plan for Russia collusion dirty trick”—
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/durham-reports-lingering-consequence-joe-biden-congress
Opening grafs:
“Special Counsel John Durham’s final report will have lasting consequences far beyond the FBI failures he unmasked in the now-discredited Russia collusion scandal….”

In short, America as “Banana Republic” is now out of the bag.

“Transformation” always had ONE basic goal…with the cherry on the top being that the country is being “led” by a dementia-addled, vindictive crook; which really means that the country is being “led” by a crooked, vindictive corporate politburo.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679913 Tue, 16 May 2023 20:10:51 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679913 Turley not backing down:
“‘Russia case’ against Trump was a shocking conspiracy that continues today”—
https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/russia-case-against-trump-was-a-shocking-conspiracy-that-continues-today/

+ Related (again):
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1658534187132145664?cxt=HHwWgMDS_cmDpoQuAAAA

]]> By: The Durham Report: in the eye of the beholder - The New Neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679911 Tue, 16 May 2023 20:02:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679911 […] on the right. On the left, it’s minimized, ignored, or subject to goalpost-moving, as I wrote yesterday. Here are some of the articles on the right; there are plenty more: this, this, this, this, this, […]

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/15/the-durham-report-is-out/#comment-2679908 Tue, 16 May 2023 19:26:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125878#comment-2679908 windbag:

It was John McCain who sabotaged the efforts to start to repeal and replace Obamacare. It was not the GOP as a whole. Yes, the GOP had trouble deciding how to replace it, and certainly there were other RINOs that stood in the way (Collins and Murkowski), but it was McCain who defected at the last minute and stunned the rest by sinking it.

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