Obviously "cancel culture" is just being politized. Both sides play this game, and have for a very long time. It's just become more prevalent in the era of social media. It's not a Leftist idea, and it didn't begin with any single person or group.

What happened to Al Franken when that photo of him groping that woman surfaced, taken prior to him being elected? He resigned. The "argument" for Green not resigning has been over her actions and words occurring before she was elected. What happened when nude photos (from a disgruntled ex of all people) surfaced of Katie Hill along with the staffer affair reports? She resigned.

And now you have the GOP out in AZ, WY, and I believe one more state, censuring their own members and Congress reps for voting a certain way.

The right does the same thing.

Transgenders are a vocal minority that Democrats afraid of being cancelled also have been “bending over backwards to appease them”, denouncing noteworthy feminists like JK Rowling who don’t fall in line, Just a decade ago, I would guess that less than 10% of Democrats would support transgender procedures for kids before puberty, but now it’s a position supported by Joe Biden.

The level of current public shaming openly by society against QAnon currently (including less hostility from the right, like referring to them as Qtard) and trying to get anyone outed as supporting QAnon fired from their jobs, I feel that transgender are one group that can emphasize with their plight. Whether they truly have mental health issues or not (like has been attributed to transgenders), those bullying QAnon do see them as having mental health issues, so i do see it as an act of bigotry like those who publicly shame transgenders.

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There appears to be greater repercussions from Trump quitting the SAG. Apparently news talk shows guests on current networks are made temporary SAG members, so he can’t appear on any big media networks. If Trump does start his own network, his employees and guests might likely be barred from SAG union work. I could see say if Ted Cruz appears on Trump network, then SAG might no longer allow Fox News to have Cruz on their shows anymore,

Regardless of how congress acts, in the bigger picture it is obvious that censorship and illiberalism is far more popular on the left than the right at the moment eg. Dorsey and Zuckerberg couldn't name a single "liberal" account they've banned while there's been about a million conservatives expelled. For people on the left, your side now has a ravenous mob of people who thinks they need to hunt down and destroy all political opinions they disagree with, to pretend they're not there is no better than the right acting like Qanon doesn't exist

The Dixie Chicks got cancelled for speaking out against the war in Iraq. They said that you should respect the President no matter what. Then those same people spent the next eight years calling Obama an undercover muslim from Africa who was hell bent on destroying America.

In early 2000s the right had more censorship than the left eg. bible thumpers not liking rap lyrics, however it has flipped. Much like how in early 2000s the Republicans were the war party and now the Democrats are the war party.

How are the Dems the war party? In the last 40 years, only one war has been started by a Democratic president (Libya) and it ended in a few days. Meanwhile, the Pubs still haven't finished their last two wars and its highly likely we'd be bombing Iran right now if not for coronavirus.

And again lets rewind to the fact that Republicans now think someone who legitimately believes in jewish space lasers is less crazy than someone who believes the government could be doing more to help people. That is the party in a nutshell right now.

The only comparison that really matters is Obama vs Trump and Trump was the more anti-war one, the current Democrats have more in common with Bush than Trump did and they've acted like it such as him being part of their gang at the inauguration, same for them being the ones who like McCain now. Biden also hired a ton of warmonger people. With that said if they press the gas on the war machine this might reset things in terms of conservatism being accepted again since patriotic good ol boys are needed for the military.

They are called "The Chicks" now. Don't ever use the D-word again or terrible things might happen.

But if I said The Chicks were censured by Republicans that would only narrow it down to a couple billion people.

Well, propaganda works perfectly and, if necessary, on television, in social networks, young people will be given thoughts of the right content, with the right mood. And then we will get an army of volunteers who are negatively opposed to those who will be pointed out to them as an external or internal enemy.

Trump's defense team, somehow, managed a worse job than expected. I question if they purposefully failed to prepare anything.

Obviously not expecting a conviction here, but unless they get the bar off the floor, it could cost them a few votes. Cassidy looks like a potential conviction vote after day one. And if they don't get their defense out of the gutter, it's going to make some of those voting not to convict no matter what look pretty silly when they're up for reelection. Maybe a couple more won't even bother running for another term in 2022.

This impeachment is mainly just a public shaming session

Well if we’re gonna take Bush out of the equation then we may as well take Obama out too. When compared to only Joe Biden, Trump is the most militaristic president in history.

See how that works?

The point is Trump's views are highly different than GWB, he almost made it into a different party. Biden OTOH is clearly Obama term 3.0

As I said GWB was not invited to RNC, but he was at Biden inauguration

Anyways, just wait a few months, sure looks like things will be going down in Syria. I would be happy if Biden proves me wrong

What is going on in this hearing?

"Mr. Emmer. Are you okay?"

"Is this a metaphor?" "I don't know but you can stand on your head."

"Can someone turn him right side up?"

And then people are talking about cats, and someone then says at least you're not a cat?

With all the outrage about everything these days, is the world finally ready to admit that Cuomo and other governors ordering covid patients into nursing homes (and now it appears covering it up) was one of the worst things anyone has done in years???

I actually have seen a lot of left leaning accounts trashing on Cuomo for that lately. Encouraging.

Cuomo is a buffoon. I've thought that for a long time.

He initially impressed me with his response to the pandemic but I pretty quickly reversed that opinion.

I’ve been hearing about Cuomo, but I didn’t realize so many Democrat governors did the same thing. In California there’s been a big petition to recall Newsom, but there was no mention that he did this too. After I found out today I saw only one article about it here, as it seems there had been coordinated media blackout to protect the Democrats. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/06/ ... ases-soar/

All of these governors need to be recalled. There is no justification for this other than to kill off likely Republican demographic voters and inflate the Covid spread and deaths for political reasons and extended profitable lockdowns.

The Senate voted to allow witnesses after news broke yesterday that, according to Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, minority leader of the House Kevin McCarthy told her that Trump had sided with the rioters during the time they stormed the Capitol.

Hours later, House impeachment managers and Trump's defense lawyers struck a deal to avoid summoning witnesses.

I think the phone call in which Trump told Georgia election officials to "find the votes" he needed to win the state and to reverse the certified results was more damning evidence that Trump directly interfered with the election process and abused his presidential power to pressure state election officials. It was a very bad look for a democracy when a contestant in an election could attempt to overturn an election result like this and faced no consequences.

It sounds like the Democrats were going to call witnesses but then the Republicans said that if they do that they were going to cross examine people like Pelosi. So they got scared off and decided not to.