Posts made by hubrys

The modern Democratic Party is not the same party as the pre-1970's Democratic Party due to shifting demographics. For a better explanation, see:

History Channel Article Explaining How the Parties Changed over Time

‘Bulls**t’: Senate Republicans Rip Fox News' Tucker Carlson For Whitewashing Jan. 6 Riot

No one's buying Tucker Carlson's attempt to whitewash the Jan. 6th attack. Personally, I refuse to be gaslighted. I was watching the news and twitter feeds in real time on that day, and Tucker Carlson's selective editing won't make me forget my own memories.

@raphjd said in Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests that if Democrats move to a red state, they shouldn't be allowed to vote for five years:

It figures you would downplay what liberals say, no matter how vulgar and hate-filled.

I don't agree with what Behar said either. You realize liberals aren't monolithic, right?

Again, Behar's just a talk show host. MTG is an elected official and right there alongside the GOP leadership. Is Disenfranchisement part of the official GOP platform now?

@blablarg18 said in Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests that if Democrats move to a red state, they shouldn't be allowed to vote for five years:

You also caught Joy Behar saying, the other day, that the Trump voters of East Palestine, OH deserves their toxic disaster w/ future cancers. Right?

You do understand the difference between the speakers, right? Joy Behar is just a TV talk show host.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is an elected Congresswoman entrusted with representing the values and interests of approx. 800,000 people in Georgia's 14th District. And she's literally advocating for disenfranchisement...not to mention an unconstitutional violations of the right to Interstate Travel, a right our government has recognized even before the Constitution itself (i.e. in the Articles of Confederation).

Can one of those libertarian nuts please PLEASE please give Marjorie Taylor Greene one of their little pocket Constitutions and make her read it?

@raphjd I have it on both Xbox Series X and Playstation 5, but I haven't gotten to play it much on either of them. I think I've only gotten so far as visiting Hogsmeade on the Xbox version.

It has been fun so far, but I just don't have as much time as I'd like to game at the moment.

Technically, the allegation of rape against Kavanaugh has not been recanted. This particular nut just tried to take credit for an anonymous letter of someone else; the original anonymous accuser is still out there.

NYTimes: Fox Stars Privately Expressed Disbelief About Election Fraud Claims. ‘Crazy Stuff.’

From the article:
"Newly disclosed messages and testimony from some of the biggest stars and most senior executives at Fox News revealed that they privately expressed disbelief about President Donald J. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, even though the network continued to promote many of those lies on the air."

Everything Everywhere All that Once is a fantastic movie. And it has a LGBT element to the story as well.

Is anyone else anticipating this game? I just want to be able to walk around freely inside Hogwarts and its grounds in this open world RPG.

@raphjd said in George Santos claimed he produced Spiderman Musical:

Also, how would you be able to stalk me on the internet, as you threatened previously, if you can't connect the dots?

When have I ever threatened to stalk you on the Internet? One, I don't believe in doxxing. And two, I don't care enough about you to think about you, good or ill, when I'm not literally staring at this website.

@raphjd and @blablarg18, you claim not to be defenders of Santos, yet here you are defending him. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. No one made you participate in this thread. YOU chose to come here and post defenses and deflections from Santos. You can't choose to do that and then pretend to be ambivalent on Santos.

@raphjd said in George Santos claimed he produced Spiderman Musical:

Why are you so fixated on Santos, while ignoring the massive list of lies Biden tells?

Here's why your Whataboutism doesn't work against me: I'm not a fan of Joe Biden. I'm not a fan of Hillary Clinton. I'm even not a fan of AOC.

All of the litany of people you keep throwing in my face....I'm not a fan of. Your argument fails. This discussion isn't about all liars; this post is about George Santos.

And none of you conservatives can bring yourself to admit how awful he is.

Oh, the Whataboutism is strong with the conservative idiots in this post.

Why can't you just admit that Santos is an embarrassment to your party? Doing so doesn't mean other people haven't ALSO lied. But you can't even bring yourself to admit Santos is a comical-level liar.

Which just goes to show, you guys will support anyone so long as the correct letter is after his name (R).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/george-santos-produced-broadway-s-spider-man-musical-at-least-he-claims-he-did?

Man, oh man, George Santos is just the gift that keeps on giving. Now, come to find out, he lied to donors and said that he was one of the producers of the Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark.

So, he's now been caught lying about:

• His actual name (he has at least 5-6 aliases, e.g., Anthony Santos, George Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky and George Anthony Santos-Devolder, and Anthony Devolder).

• Faking a Jewish heritage (He's not Jewish; he now claims only to be "Jew-ish").

• Claiming his grandparents fled the Holocaust (They did not).

• Claiming his grandparents were from the Ukraine (They were born and raised in Brazil).

• Claiming his mother was the first female executive at a financial institution (She was a cleaning lady and nurse).

• Claiming his mother was in the South Tower of the Twin Towers on 9/11 (She was verifiably in Brazil at the time).

• Claiming his mother died of 9/11 induced breast cancer a couple years after 9/11 (She died in 2016).

• His early education (He never went to Horace Mann for prep school).

• His college education (He never went to Baruch College or any other college. He has no college-level degree).

• Being a volleyball champion while at Baruch College (He never went there; he never played there).

• That he worked for Goldman Sachs (They'd never heard of him).

• That he worked for Citigroup (They'd never heard of him).

• That he never committed a crime (Brazil has reopened its case involving him having stolen his mother's patients' checkbooks, now that Brazil can locate him in the US).

• That he's the survivor of an assassination attempt (No record has been produced that supports someone having tried to kill him).

• That four of his employees had died in the Pulse Nightclub shooting (He couldn't name a single victim and has since retracted this lie).

• That he did not perform as a drag queen named Kitara while in Brazil (The LGBTQ community in Brazil has come forward with photographic and video records of him performing drag).

• Claims to have ran an official animal charity called Friends of Pets United (No such charitable organization has been registered anywhere).

• As an unofficial charity, Santos (via Friends of Pets United) swindled a US veteran out of at least $3,000 in a GoFundMe scam set up to raise money to pay for surgery for the veteran's aide dog (Records of the GoFundMe account exist and GoFundMe reports that Santos email addresses have been banned by their service).

• He claims to have survived having a brain tumor (Yet no one recalls him ever being sick).

• He claims his family is rich because of real estate holdings (No one can locate any real estate holdings for his family. The only property other than his current residence reported to be owned by Santos on his financial disclosures is an apartment in Rio).

• He claimed that his campaign was funded by a $700,000 loan from himself (His attorneys have amended his election disclosures to withdraw this loan claim; however, where the money came from since it wasn't a personal loan has not been explained. He's under FEC investigation now).

• He worked at Harbor City Capital, which was declared a Ponzi Scheme by the SEC (And yet he demanded that Republicans seat him on a financial committee in Congress, which thankfully they refused).

• He has ties to Russian oligarchs, mobsters, and human traffickers.

If McCarthy had been telling the truth when he said that he wasn't going to seat certain people on committees because "integrity matters," then he should never have seated Santos on TWO committees. Yes, Santos has "voluntarily" stepped down from his committees, but that's likely because they took him into the backroom and explained to him that he's going to lose them anyway the moment he's under Federal indictment. If he didn't step down now, they weren't going to help him then when that happens.

Frankly, I think the GOP just wishes that he'd sit the fuck down and never say another word for the next two years.

Flash, but early Flash is better than later Flash. I liked when Flash was more monster-of-the-week early in its run than the drawn-out melodrama of the later seasons.

If you haven't watched The Last of Us on HBO yet, then you should. It is one of the best video game adaptations ever done. It's a post-apocalyptic world wherein a fungus has taken over the bodies of billions of humans and turned them into "zombies."

Episode 3 is a bottle episode about a gay couple who grow old with each other in the post-apocalypse world.

Failed GOP candidate for New Mexico's state House couldn't handle losing his election and decided to shoot up people's houses, including two election officials responsible for certifying the election against him.

Not only did he have an easily discoverable criminal history, but also had copious amounts of bonkers, conspiratorial Internet postings; however, the GOP neglected to vet him and instead gave full-throated endorsements of him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/solomon-pena-new-mexico-shootings.html

But, I'm sure the crazies on the Right will do what they usually do and accuse him of being a Democratic plant or part of some false flag stunt. I'm sure it wasn't he that shot up those houses; it was Antifa!!

Looks like Heartstopper won big, which it deserves.

@blablarg18 said in ‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story:

Matthew 7:3-4 then.

I agree @blablarg18. That's another good quote regarding why @raphjd shouldn't be complaining about lying Democrats, since he's NOT complaining about lying Republicans. Go back and read the verse right before:

"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

@raphjd said in ‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story:

You are still intentionally ignoring that not a single Dem is calling out any of your liars.

Here's some reading for you:

Wikipedia: "Whataboutism"