Wedge Issue Bingo
It’s time for Wedge Issue Bingo! In a desperate effort to stay in power, Republicans invent new wedge issues lies every two years designed to piss off the base and drive them to the polls. AND, they invent these divisive issues while howling about how Democrats are being divisive. The really amazing thing is that it works like a charm election after election.
So, let’s list all the wedge issues that republicans have conjured up in the last 20 years or so. Feel free to add to my list. I’ll start with the Golden Oldies, then add newer issues:
God
Guns
Gays
Christian Nation
Death Tax
Wedding Cakes
School Vouchers
Welfare Queens
Deficit Spending (only when Dems are in office)
Gun Grabbers
Tort Reform
ACORN
Planned Parenthood
Abortion on Demand
Partial Birth Abortion
Gang Wars
Government is the Problem
Government Takeover of Healthcare
Death Panels
Voter ID
Vote Harvesting
Voter Fraud
Hillary’s Emails
Transgender
Public Bathrooms (related to Transgender)
Boys Playing Girls’ Sports
Concealed Carry of Guns
Open Carry of Guns
Unlicensed Open Carry of Guns
Rioters (Only Non-White)
Immigration
Open Borders
Taco Truck on Every Corner
Illegals Vote and get Welfare
Vote by Mail Fraud
Massive Voter Fraud
Anthony Fauci
Vaccines will Kill You
Science Isn’t Real
Mandates are Equal to the Holocaust
Critical Race Theory
Critical Thinking is Bad
White Replacement Theory
Books are Actually Porn
Parental Control of Education
January 6th was “legitimate political discourse”
That’s my list, but I’m sure I’ve missed some. Ready, Set, Go!
FREEDOM
1Ice fishing chanties as cat houses
2BLM
3From my illustrious congresswoman, Refund The Police.
4Fetal stem cell research
5Virtue Signaling. You know what they sneer about anytime anybody does the unthinkable and and even suggests people oughta give a crap about anybody else.
6Inflation, recession and you need to mention high taxes about fifty times.
7Don’t forget the ever popular “War on Christmas.”
8Librul Media
Persecution of conservatives
Godless Commie Demonrats
Democrat Corruption [contrasted with pure as fresh snow Rethugs]
Hunter Biden [China, Ukraine] [ignore Jr, Eric, Jarvanka, DJT & ‘gifts’ DC hotel Mar-A-Pendejo…]
Joe Biden weak vs China/Russia, compared to DJT, riiggght
Sleepy Joe [fuzzy, inattentive, senile, et al.; don’t compare to DJT and incoherence umbrellas wandering offstage stumbling on ramps etc]
Dems are MEAN lie cheat steal evile…[compare to innocent Rethugs]
COVID19 hoax
Dem babykillers vs. 1,000,000+ COVID19 dead in 2yrs
Dems are the real segregationists [ignore that was 70+ years ago]
Dems want to tax you, take away your beef/cattle gas/diesel vehicles aircond-gunz freedumb-wimmen
Now illegal to disparage beef/meat vis veggies [and various new absurd illegalities]
Classroom parental surveillance et al.
School bible thumping vs. commie atheist hedonist Demonrats
Solar/Wind alt energy causes cancer hearing loss blindness sterility kills critters costs x-times dino juice birth defects brain damage…
ad infinitum…
[yeesh, it’s dinnertime and 75 degrees outside]
9Obama wasn’t a real US citizen.
10Hillary Clinton is really the head of a child porn ring and she spied on trumpf.
Biden was/is in bed with China.
Hunter Biden
War on unionization of workers
War on teachers and professors.
The war on entitlements like SS and Medicare. They forgot that we the citizens PAID for them.
11Sandridge, I was writing while you were posting so I got a couple of repeats. Good list the the way.
12Rinse, repeat and by all means ignore all their contradictions. Qcumber conservatives could almost make me believe I have memory lapses. For instance, if memory serves, didn’t they support Dubya and his “our kids be learning” initiative known as Common Core? Now they want loco (not to be confused with local) control of the school curriculum. None of that CRT or critical thinking stuff for them. Again, ignore the very real contradiction therein since CRT is a graduate level course and is not taught in grade schools.
We’ll leave “family values” for Nick to dissect. He types way better and has the patience to sort through all their hypocrisy, hubris, and convoluted faux outrage.
13Wokeness
14Cultural Marxism
Sharia Law
Pallin’ around with terrorists
Terrorist fist bump
Birth certificate
Taxes – because they will get spent on the others
Mr. Potato Head
Muppets
Unauthorized kneeling
15Invasion via caravans
Steve from Beaverton @12, Nobody can possibly keep up with their calculated insanity. Although I’m sure that there are some rational watchdog groups-types out there that try to keep tabs on it.
The Rethugs have a continuous loop of ‘issues’ wheeling by on a media ‘mobius band’-lazy-susan that they just keep turning around, and adding to.
16And the braindead MAGAots never ever get tired of chasing after it, like dogtrack greyhounds romping after the fake rabbit [but with none of the qualities of a good doggie].
Oh Jane and PKM, I can only tackle these things one at a time. Family values is way too broad and daunting of a subject with the bandwidth I have going today.
17Let’s not forget Qcumber conservative cancel culture since before it was an issue with them. Remember the Dixie Chicks? Or, how about Hillary Clinton? They’ve been ragging and dragging on her since before Bill & Hilz evuh left Arkansas. Now they’ve kept conservative tRump appointee John Durham digging into Hilz yet again in like the umpteenth time in an attempt to cancel her.
Some said Hilz sounded a little paranoid when describing the “vast right wing conspiracy.” Nope. It is not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
Add the professional “victim card” oft played by $carah Palin and the new “free get out of jail free” card for conservatives.
18Immigrants taking/stealing our jobs
19Mark and John, et al, Yeah, one forgets so many of the really funny and absurd issues that can spin up the Encephalitic Elephant GQPee’rs:
Muppets– Elmo’s a commie, Big Bird is an evil homicidal vaxxer, and a soshuliscommie [per DetesTed Cruzz and chingoes more Rethugs], Bert and Ernie are hoemoosekshuls, Miss Piggy is a tart…
And the “caravans” are -always- a bighugemassive hit.
Y’all remember that another gigantic caravan heading for the border popped up just before the last election [and every other election before]?
Abbutt and all the rest of the Rethuglikans went into a ballistic frenzy, the MAGAots imploded. Biden and the Demonrats would surely doom us beneath a rogue brown wave.
Then after the election, that caravan just –disappeared–, woofa-gone…WTF?
https://www.bing.com/search?q=big+bird+republican+controversy&form=OSASSB&pc=OSAS
Remember, 30%+ of the ‘Murikan public are certifiably batshit insane, more than 74 Million MAGAotty delusional cultists voted for the most corrupt evil piece of shit in ‘Merican history; and even more would in 2024…
20Ahhhh, summer has arrived:
Tuleta TX
Location Time
(cst) Sky/Weather Temp.
(ºF) Dewpt.
(ºF) Humidity
(%) Wind
(mph) Pressure
(in)
Victoria, Victoria Regional Airport 12:51 Fair 84 42 23 NW 13 G 21 29.93
Alice, Alice International Airport 12:53 Fair 83 25 12 NW 17 G 24 29.95
Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi International Airport 12:51 A Few Clouds 85 46 26 N 20 G 26 29.93
Rockport Aransas County Airport 12:53 Fair 84 43 24 N 16
Current conditions at
Beeville Municipal Airport (KBEA)
Lat: 28.36°NLon: 97.79°WElev: 269ft.
Fair
82°F 28°C
Humidity 5%
Wind Speed N 18 G 24 mph
Barometer 29.94 in
Dewpoint 5°F (-15°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Heat Index 80°F (27°C)
Last update 17 Feb 1:35 pm CST
https://forecast.weather.gov/obslocal.php?warnzone=TXZ232&local_place=Tuleta%20TX&zoneid=CST&offset=21600
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-97.7983261303245&lat=28.56681991705406#.Yg6mY4TMLAF
21Colin Kaepernick taking a knee = he hates Our Troops.
Drag Queen Story Hour at the library turnin’ your kids GAAAAAY!
Any Black or Latina appointed by a Democrat is Affirmative Action
January 6 rioters just like Rosa Parks/political prisoners
China Plague
22Gingerbread persons got Tucker’s panties in a twist
23Dr. Seuss
24Big Bird
My favorites
Compassionate conservative
Moral majority
25Sponge Bob Square Pants is GAY!
26Although it’s outside the 20 year limit, my favorite was flag burning. In the Reagan era, that was the most important issue facing the nation. After the Supreme Court ruled it was protected speech, then the Republican Stark Raving Loonies decided that an emergency constitutional amendment was needed to stop the horror.
Of course when they had control of the presidency, the senate, and congress, and could have proposed such an amendment … suddenly it dropped off the list. To be replaced by Tax Cuts for Everyone(*).
(*) where “everyone” means every wealthy person or corporation.
27Off topic, but whoo-hooo!
New York supreme court justice orders Trump, children to answer questions about their business practices under oath, upholding the subpoenas issued by Attorney General Letitia James.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-trump-children-answer-questions-business-practices-oath-rcna16659
28How did we get this many submissions without mentioning George Soros?
29OMFG!!
Been watching the Belle Ile Dossin Detroit River webcam, and the Chan 4 weathercast video [driving on I-696]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5hbEO2UQns
https://www.clickondetroit.com/4live/
What a difference—
Around here:
https://forecast.weather.gov/obslocal.php?warnzone=TXZ232&local_place=Tuleta%20TX&zoneid=CST&offset=21600
.
30Like the Trump Crime Family are going to sing like canaries… [it’ll be a perjury palooza; emphasis on the ‘looza’]
And how could we overlook the Rethug’s Soros fixation/fetish?
The sky is ALWAYS falling in Republicanland.
31The annual War on Christmas.
32Don’t forget social justice warriors (SJW).
33Gay Pride parades
Pornographic halftime shows
INCOMING!
Here’s the SCNYNY Part 37, Hon. A. Engoron, Presiding Justice, Decision + Order on Motion , NYAG v. Trump Crime Family.
Either link will pull the full 8 page pdf.
Below is page 1, converted to text [not an easy task].
Very highly reccomend reading it all, especially the Mazar Accnt digs, summation and verdict, pages 6-8 [Judge rips their glutes off].
A few words from the The Judge:
“The idea that an accounting firm’s announcement that no one should rely on a decade’s worth of financial statements that it issued based on numbers submitted by an entity somehow exonerates that entity and renders an investigation into its past practices moot is reminiscent of Lewis Carroll (“When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said it means just what I chose it to mean — neither more nor less”); George Orwell (“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”); and “alternative facts.”
The New Trump Respondents’ lawyers have submitted serious, substantive, Sophisticated legal arguments in support of quashing the subject subpoenas. Although this Court finds those arguments wanting, they are plausible and learned, and counsel made them in good faith. To proclaim that the Mazars’ red-flag warning that the Trump financial statements are unreliable suddenly renders the OAG’s longstanding investigation moot is as audacious as it is preposterous. ”
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=R85K9RHIWmy7LYdcdoE4kQ%3D%3D&system=prod
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21232082/451685_2020_the_people_of_the_stat_v_the_people_of_the_stat_decision___order_on_653.pdf
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ‘
34NEW YORK COUNTY
PRESENT: ‘HON. ARTHUR ENGORON PART 37 Justice
X INDEX no. 451685/2020
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BY
LETITIA JAMES, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE “07’0“ DATE M3932—
OF NEW YORK,
MOTION SEQ. NO. 008
Petitioner,
.. v –
THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, INC.. DJT HOLDINGS LLC,
DJT HOLDINGS MANAGING MEMBER LLC, SEVEN DECISION + ORDER ON
SPRINGS LLC, ERIC TRUMP, CHARLES MARTABANO,
MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP, SHERI DILLON,
DONALD J. TRUMP, IVANKA TRUMP, and DONALD TRUMP, JR.,
MOTION
Respondents.
1‘ The following e-filed documents, listed by NYSCEF document number (Motion 008) 321, 322, 323, 324, 325,326,327,328,329,330,331,332,333,334,335,336,337,338,339,340,341,342,343,344,34, 346,347,348,349,350,351,352,353,354,357,358,359,360,361,362,363,364,365,366,367,36, 369,370,371,372,373,374,375,376,377,378,379,380,381,382,383,384,385,386,387,388,38, 390,391,392,393,394,395,396,397,398,399,400,401,402,403,404,405,406,407,408,409,41, 411,412,413,414,415,416,417,418,419,420,421,422,423,424,425,426,427,428,429,430,43, 432,433,434,435,436,437,438,439,440,441,442,443,444,445,446,447,448,449,450,451,45, 453,454,455,456,457,458,459,460,461,462,463.464,465,466,467,468.469,470,471,472,47, 474,475,476,477,478,479,480,481,482,483,484,485,486,487,488,489,490,491,492,493,49, 495,496,497,498,499,500,501,502,503,504,505,506,507,508,509,510,511,512,513,514,51, 516,517,518,519,520,521,522,523,524,525,526,527,528,529,530,531,532,533,534,535,53, 537,538,539,540,541,542,543,544.545,546,547,548,549,550,551,552,553,554,555,556,55, 558,559,560,561,562,563,564.565,566,567,568,569,570,571,572,573,574,575,576,577,57, 579,580,581,582,583,584,585,586,587,588,589,590,591,592,593,594,595,596,597,598.59, 600,601,602,603,604,605,606,607,608,609,610,611,612,613,614,615,616,617,618,619,62, 621,622,623,624,625,626,627,628,629,632,633,634,635.636.637.638,639,640,641,642,643 644,645,646,647,648,649,650,651
were read on this motion to ’ QUASH SUBPOENAS
Upon the foregoing documents, it is hereby ordered that the motion by respondents Donald J. Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. to quash subpoenas issued by petitioner is denied, and petitioner’s cross-motion to compel is granted.
Background V
The instant special proceeding arises out of an investigation commenced by petitioner, the People of the State of New York, by Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York (hereinafter, “OAG”), into the financial practices of respondent the Trump Organization, its employees, and its affiliates.
45168512020 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF vs. TRUMP ORGANIZATION, INC. Page 1 of 8
Motion No. 008 ‘
the candidate for Georgia Governor has a succinct summary in red letters on the side of her campaign’s RV…
“In a photo posted to her Twitter on Thursday, Taylor debuted her campaign ride, which bears a picture of her on the side, flanked by her bulleted platform points: “Jesus, Guns, Babies.” None of the points has additional descriptors or explanations.
“WHO’S THAT COMIN’ DOWN THE TRACK? A BIG MACHINE THATS RED AND BLACK… AINT NOTHIN’ FINER IN THE LAND, THAN A CONSERVATIVE KANDISS TAYLOR FAN!!!!” Taylor captioned the tweet.
[I’m thinking she may have a communication team that is heavy on high school pep squad alumni.]
35Jesus guns babies?
I’m sorry to hear that.
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