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John D.'s avatar

Meet Representative Andy Ogles, Tennessee’s gift to the United States. Yesterday on his official account he wrote Muslims have no place in American society.

I am told Tennessee has good people, but you would never know it by who they send to Congress. Our degradation continues.

Anthony j. Santo's avatar

A man in the House of Representatives who is, apparently, unaware of the first amendment, or the constitutional prohibition of religious tests for office.

Is he dumber than Tuberville, Gosar, Boebert, Mullin?

John D.'s avatar

Society has always had its fringe Gosars and Ogles. But things are different now. They win elections. It is an indictment of a large swath of Americans.

Anthony j. Santo's avatar

Ogle's response to critics:

"My comments wouldn't even be a news story if I had said this about Christians.

Spare me your moral outrage. Cry harder.

Christ is king."

Ogle is a truly unmitigated asshole.

John D.'s avatar

As are the people who voted for him. They knew what they were electing.

Betty Moyers's avatar

Actually they didn’t. They are too ignorant as are the people they vote for.

Donna K. White's avatar

Today (imo), we still have Americans living in the past/pre Civil War days; believing in white supremacy, and enslaving the black and brown. And if that is not allowed, then take away their rights as American citizens, and as human beings. Lock them in cages, and throw away the key! However, unlike the Civil War period, these type of Americans are spread out all over the country, in every state! They are allowed to be elected, so they can spread their hate, their prejudices, their dirty tricks, in order to infiltrate into our local, state and federal governments. IMO: That is where we are now! These white supremacists, christian nationalists, whatever you want to call them have saturated the land. There idea of a pre-civil war period is engrained in them. So, they voted for a crazy man (twice), who is as dumb as a door knob; but it doesn't matter, because he is a white supremacist! He reflects everything that they want America to be: white, tough, mean, blood thirsty. He chooses like-idea people to be on his cabinet. He hates his enemies; Democrats, people living in "blue states", judges, voting laws, anyone and anything that gets in his way! He will even go to war, so he won't be sent to jail for raping young teens! And still, 20% of Americans will follow him to their death! It is unfortunate, that the rest of us have to live through this hell!

I am so sick of these so called "Americans" who think that they can take Our America away from us! We will be celebrating(?) America's 250 years of flawed history; and who will be POTUS-a person who hates everything of what our Founding Father's dreamed of an America that could be! I could cry, but I have run out of tears.

Thank you, for allowing me to vent!

Anthony j. Santo's avatar

You have summed up the message in the book, "How the South Won the Civil War," by Heather Cox Richardson.

Betty Moyers's avatar

I am a Tennessean and couldn’t be more embarrassed. I’m educated and liberal, but my legislators are ignorant and call themselves Republicans. I call them idiots.

Michael Rapp's avatar

And.......Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.......Blackburn. Ugh!

Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto: A Traitor Working Before Our Very Eyes

We’ve known for some time Cheeto’s cozy relationship with Russia and Putin but the intolerable Benedict Arnold actions of recent are beyond the pale We the People watch as this scumbag puts out troops and military accessories at risk by allowing Russian intelligence to feed targeting information to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard(IRGC) Meanwhile he perversely lifts American sanctions on Russian oil when the price of oil has gone through the roof so Putin can continue to fund his Ukrainian war Meanwhile Cheeto has turned his back against the Ukraine people

This is blatant betrayal and the American electorate should be incensed and enraged at what this illegitimate dictator is doing to the country He knows what he’s doing and so he’s laying the groundwork for obvious voter suppression tactics heading into the 2026 midterms Like the 2024 election where he lied through his teeth to stay out fo jail, this up coming election is to try to rig the election so he won’t be impeached a 3rd time

Marc Elias over at Democracy Docket is pointing out the confiscation of ballots from Fulton county Georgia and Maricopa county Arizona as just the beginning of the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) attempts to claim that the results of the midterms will be null and void Laws and rules do not apply anymore so everyone has to be prepared Show up in mass numbers to throw this traitor and has complicit Nazis out of power It’s up to us WE the People

gwpriester's avatar

George W Bush standing on the deck of the aircraft carried under the banner Mission Accomplished.

Husaria's avatar

When this all goes to shit……as it will, they should play his rant on loop repeat 24 / 7 / 365

Janis Elliott's avatar

Gas is close to $10 per gal in Los Angeles…. Just hearing their voices: my eye twitches and my blood pressure rises….lies lies lies lies lies lies ….

Ali Silverman's avatar

the fact that he refers to this war as an "excursion" is telling. An excursion is a pleasurable event. He's clueless and so damn dangerous. We must safeguard our voting process because he's all about voter suppression. This is where I'm putting my efforts.

Elaine Seal's avatar

An excursion includes cabana boys & cocktails. And they don't include people dying.

Betty Moyers's avatar

Trump is an idiot and a sociopath, criminal, pedophile,narcissistic piece of white trash and you elected him. You got him. Enjoy!

Anthony j. Santo's avatar

"Idiot" you say! You are correct, as idiot was the psychological term used to describe those with the lowest I.Q.'s; morons and imbeciles were more intelligent. We've stopped using those words in polite society; however, Trump is an IDIOT:

President Donald Trump held a press conference at his Doral ballroom

in Florida on Monday amid the ongoing war in Iran and across the

Middle East, during which he referred to people that have been killed

by "roadside bombs" who are now "walking around with no legs."

"All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are,

right now, walking around with no legs, no arms," Trump said during

the news conference, following remarks to Republicans. The oxymoronic

comment came after Trump had offered oscillating statements on the

projected length of the joint U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and its

stated objectives.

https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-mocked-bizarre-rant-people-225949703.html

Elaine Seal's avatar

and why didn't one reporter ask "what the fuck are you talking about, walking around with no legs, you ignorant bloated lying fool"??? WHY?? So he insults you back, grow some balls, corporate media.

Betty Moyers's avatar

He owns them now so they have to lick his balls or lose their job. Haven’t you noticed? That’s part of voting for a dictator.

Elaine Seal's avatar

They're just like congress. God forbid they go against him and lose their jobs.

Such weakness, they're all cowards.

Anthony j. Santo's avatar

I was re-reading these comments about Trump's reference to legless walking dead men. He is a soulless, twisted, sociopath. Is it possible he was trying to be funny?

Betty Moyers's avatar

Never. He doesn’t possess a sense of humor. I’m not even sure he is human. The Devil.

Anthony j. Santo's avatar

However, it is said that Hitler laughed at the misfortune of others. It is possible Trump shares that "sense of humor" about things that are not at all funny to mentally healthy people.

Faren Siminoff's avatar

Let’s all get out for March 28th “No Kings”. We must vote either our feet.

Assemblywoman Debra Mazzarelli's avatar

God, I can’t listen to 45 and his lies…

Charles Hendrickson's avatar

Google's definition of "excursion": "A short journey or trip, especially one engaged in as a leisure activity". Only bone spur plagued Trump, the guy who said his Vietnam was avoiding venereal disease in New York, and who disdained being on the hallowed ground of the fallen, only he would call sending Americans into all out war an excursion. And he did.

Dana Strong's avatar

please stop playing his voice or johnson’s voice - just narrate yourself what he says

James Sexton's avatar

Trump lied as usual when he implied it was probably the Iranians at the start of the U.S. attack that sent a Tomahawk missile to kill over one hundred and sixty Iranian school children, even before the Iranians launched missiles in retaliation. The U.S. military already knows exactly which ship or base launched that missile and when, yet Trump will lie to his adherents, and they will believe him as usual. Those in Congress need to ask the Trump administration to identify which ship or base launched this attack.

RIC C's avatar

How to tell when Trump Lying ? When his mouth is open and moving !!

" EVERYTHING "Trump says is a lie/ He is always winging it. Up until now he has been able to CON, talk his way out of situations that make him look band and portray him in a negative light..

This time concerning Iran, Not so. He views himself now as the rightful leader of the planet. No longer just the USA. Delusions of Grandeur . Trait of a Sociopath, Malignant Narcissist. Habitual Liar.

With the consequences now arriving, he may not be able to charm and smoooze his way out of the War and the turmoil that it is causing this time. Caught again in his web of lies and deception.To be continued.........................................

Patricia Baron's avatar

Every time Trump opens his mouth the air pollution index goes up.

KJGallegos's avatar

The world respects us LESS than ever before! The orange monster is delusional. Russia and Israel are calling the shots!

elliottobermanprofile's avatar

Prices shocks from Trump's new war have begun battering an American economy and American consumers already battered by his reckless policies.

Patricia Baron's avatar

Stalinesque is the right word, Steve. I could not be more frightened right now, not only for what we are doing but for what we have become. Hegseth is an obscenity. This was all planned long ago. It's why he changed the name to the Dept. of War. It's why he forced all the top military personnel all over the world to assemble for an abusive lecture on the warrior ethos as he sees it. It's why the Pentagon terminated its open journalism policy, a move that even Fox couldn't abide. All along he and Trump and Miller were planning the strikes on Venezuela, and all the other strikes, leading up to the big one - Iran. It was foreplay for them, and now they're having their all night orgy.

Thank you for addressing the topic of the bombed frigate in the Indian Ocean. For some reason, of all the atrocities, that one makes me grieve the most. Maybe it's the historical comparison of our USS Arizona going down and all the sailors who died a gruesome death. Only this time, we're the evil aggressors.

I was in my car today, listening to the radio and some news came on about the War in Iran. For a brief second my mind drifted back to a time when we would have been the good guys in all of this. Then I woke up and realized, oh no...we're the deviates that are perpetrating this atrocity! We are living the "Twilight Zone" moment when the guy looks in the mirror and sees a monster looking back at him.

Bill's avatar

Mike Johnson is deluded! ……..”Trump never sleeps”…..really? We have video of him sleeping in meetings, hearings, and at his own trials.