Tag: Right Wing Nuts

A “Post-Birth Abortion”

WTF?

I would like to point out that there is already on this….it is called murder…..or if you need the official academic term it is infanticide.

A post-birth abortions is murder, right?

This stupidity came out of the mouth of a person who personifies stupid, Ron DeSantis.

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a recent interview that some states allow abortion after an infant has already been born.

CNN host Jake Tapper asked DeSantis whether he would support a federal abortion ban as president. DeSantis, who signed Florida’s contested six-week abortion ban in April, said he would be a “pro-life president,” but gave no direct answer.

“In some liberal states,” he said, “you actually have post-birth abortions and I think that’s wrong.”

Some on social media thought DeSantis misspoke, but the post-birth abortion claim is something that Republicans and anti-abortion activists have repeated for years, before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

The claim was wrong then, and it is wrong now: Willfully terminating a newborn’s life is not legal in any state.

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When asked for evidence to support his claim, a DeSantis campaign aide pointed us to two resources, neither of which established that states sanction killing newborns.

One was a press release outlining Republican support for a bill advocates say would require infants get medical care after attempted abortions. Opponents say the new bill is redundant under the “Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002.“

The other was a webpage from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an anti-abortion organization, that explored cases in which it said abortion attempts failed and babies were born. But it contained a number of irrelevant or erroneous citations. For example, one 2018 study that it cited referred to second-trimester abortions in Europe, not the U.S., and found that half resulted in live births, with most babies dying within minutes. The study’s authors said the abortions were sought because of anomalies or genetic abnormalities. The gestational age represents a range when many fetuses cannot yet survive independently.

https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2023-07-25/desantis-false-claim-post-birth-abortions

What sort of moron believes this shit?

NO one advocates the killing of newborns….NO ONE!

Infanticide is illegal in all 50 states…..in case you are an idiot.

These anti-choice people will make up shit and have it become everyday….this has been picked up by another Floridian, Marco Rubio, another drooling half-wit.

This is pure bullshit….like everything else that comes from the mouth of a Republican. and the supporters that buy into manure.

When characterizing a Repub all I can say is….’ignorance in and stupid out’.

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Dems To The Rescue

Freedom Caucus ideologue MTG has made it clear that she does not want Speaker Johnson to remain in the position and she will lead the charge to oust him from the speakership.

But it looks like her effort was dashed ……Johnson was saved by the Dems….

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson was met with boos, laughter, and 359 votes against in the House on Wednesday, quelling the Georgia Republican’s long-threatened revolt. Greene’s measure won the support of only 10 other Republicans and 32 Democrats, 163 of whom backed keeping Johnson while seven voted present. GOP members booed as Greene introduced her measure earlier in the day, the Washington Post reports. When Majority Whip Steve Scalise immediately moved to kill it, nearly all members yelled their approval, with only the voices of Greene and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie heard to say “nay.” Laughter followed.

“This is the uniparty for the American people watching,” Greene said as she was being booed. Afterward, Johnson expressed appreciation to the members who declined to end his speakership after six months. “Hopefully, this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress,” he said. “It’s regrettable, it’s not who we are as Americans, and we’re better than this.” He had the support of Donald Trump, who posted online Wednesday that “this is not the time” for a motion to vacate. Trump called Johnson a “good man who is trying very hard,” per CBS News.

ohnson and Greene had met a couple of times this week, though he denied negotiating with her to keep the job. Demands by Greene and Massie, per the Post, included that Johnson act to:

  • Allow no more aid to be sent to Ukraine this year.
  • Put only bills on the floor that most Republicans support.
  • Move to defund all Justice Department investigations of Trump.
  • Pass a dozen individual spending bills or institute a 1% reduction across government agencies.

Johnson did not give the pair an answer.

Did Trump in his insistence that the GOP unite help save Johnson’s job?

Did the Dems save Johnson’s speakership out of the kindness in their hearts?

Did the Dems get anything for their help?

Is MTG done with her symbolic antics?

How much more time will be wasted in the attempts to make a Speaker resign?

Do they not realize that the country is circling the drain and they play games.

Once again please tell me what we pay these slugs to do.

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Like 8 Year Old Brats

While the Speaker tries to work around the BS in the House there is a war of words and insults kinda like a couple of kids in the sand box sniping at each other for whatever reason…..

We have MTG the most laughable dork and then there is Gaetz who just likes being a thorn in the side of whoever gets in his sight.

But back to the war of words…..

One of Speaker Mike Johnson’s seconds and one of his opponents tossed insults Thursday in the course of a confrontation on the House floor over the speaker’s performance. Three Republicans gathered around Johnson to give him an earful about his plan to put aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan to a vote this week: Reps. Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Tim Burchett. Rep. Derrick Van Orden went up to the three and dared them to file a motion to remove Johnson; he later told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was trying to “call their bluff.” During the ensuing debate, Van Orden called Gaetz “tubby.”

The Wisconsin freshman said he only used “tubby” after Gaetz called him a “squish”—which Van Orden said he assumed meant he was being insulted as a soft person. The term is sometimes used by Republicans to imply colleagues are insufficiently Republican. Gaetz, who has not committed to the effort to oust Johnson, later told reporters he found his clash with Van Orden “puzzling and concerning.” He added, “The only thing I gleaned from it is that Mr. Van Orden is not a particularly intelligent individual.”

Van Orden said he went up to the group to back Johnson because “everybody needs a swim buddy.” He said Gaetz and other GOP hard-liners are “destroying our majority.” If they succeed, he said, and Donald Trump wins the election, he’ll be dealing with an “obstructionist House of Representatives run by Democrats.” As for Gaetz as an individual, Van Orden said he’s a bully. “The only way to stop a person from bullying you is to push back hard,” he said.

I have been saying for years what a collection of idiots and morons the House has become…..and they just keep proving me right almost daily.

These people are not in DC to govern in the best interests of the country….no they are there to disrupt and act up.

By the way…..Speaker got his foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel and others but needed the Dems to help…..

With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, including for humanitarian support, as a coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyperpartisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance 316-94. Final House approval could come this weekend, when the package would be sent to the Senate, per the AP. It was a victory for the strategy Johnson set in motion this week after he agonized for two months over the legislation.

Still, Johnson has had to spend the past 24 hours making the rounds on conservative media working to salvage support for the wartime funding, particularly for Ukraine as it faces a critical moment battling Russia, but also for his own job as the restless right flank threatens to oust him over the effort. “There’s a lot of misinformation about what we’re doing here and why,” Johnson told the conservative host of The Mark Levin Show. “Ukrainians desperately need lethal aid right now. … We cannot allow Vladimir Putin to roll through another country and take it,” he added. “These are very serious matters with global implications.”

What will this cost the Speaker?  What did the Dems want in return?  Will the Freedom Caucus take this lying down?

These people , Freedom Caucus, make me sick!

We deserve better!

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A Bridge Too Far

By now everyone has seen the video of that ship in Maryland hitting the bridge….and there has been a lot of ‘investigation’ into what happened…..and there has been a lot of rightg wing silliness about the collision.

That’s right I said silliness!

Here are some right wing excuses…..just a short rundown of stupidity…..

+ In the age of Clickbait Politics, it pays to offer an instant conspiracy theory to explain any major catastrophe. The wilder, the more profitable.

+ FoxNews’ Maria Bartiromo (the former Money Honey who people used to take financial advice from) blamed it on “wide-open borders.”

+ Marjorie Taylor Green asked: “Is this an intentional attack or accidental?”

+ Andrew Tate, from whatever dungeon he’s hooking up from these days, warned: “This ship was cyberattacked…Black Swan event imminent.”

+ CPAC’s Matt Schlapp blamed the bridge collapse on…the COVID lockdowns.

+ Republican Senator Eric Schmitt pointed his finger, inexplicably, at the “weaponization of the Justice Department.”

+ And former 60 Minutes reporter, Lara Logan, says “intelligence sources” (Mike Flynn?) told her the bridge collapse was…wait for it… a cyberattack “just like the attack on 2020 on the voting machines that you cannot see.”

+ Others, naturally, blamed DEI, the far right’s latest euphemism for the N-word.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/roaming-charges-114/

Now that we have seen just how stupid the right wing can be….let’s look into the real problem with this ship…..

This ship has had a history of problems…..

The mega-container ship that lost propulsion before toppling Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in a Tuesday morning collision was involved in a previous crash, and was cited last year for propulsion-related problems.

Newsweekreported that the Maersk Line Limited-chartered MV Dali—which crashed into the Interstate 695 Patapsco River crossing just before 1:30 am, causing the span to collapse and sending a construction crew into the water—collided with a wall in the harbor at Antwerp, Belgium in 2016. The accident, which was reported by Vessel Finder and other outlets at the time, was attributed to errors made by the ship’s master and pilot.

The 9-year-old Dali was also detained by port officials in San Antonio, Chile last June after inspectors discovered a problem related to the vessel’s “propulsion and auxiliary machinery,” according toThe Washington Post, which cited records from the intergovernmental shipping regulator Tokyo MOU.

The ship’s owner, Grace Ocean Private Ltd., and operator, Synergy Marine, “have been sued at least four times in U.S. federal court on allegations of negligence and other claims tied to worker injuries on other ships owned and operated by the Singapore-based companies,” according toThe Associated Press.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/maersk-dali

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Closing Thought–10Jan24

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!

I remember that intro from the news round-up on the original SNL (by far the best SNL)….

The reason I bring up Franco is because there are some on the Radical Right that are trying to resurrect this fascist dictator.

Is the fascism? Or is it the popped fur collar? The jaunty cape itself? The military fatigues? The teeny tiny mustache? Maybe it’s Maybelline. No, it’s probably the fascism.

Whatever it is, some on the Right are now pretty hot to trot for Generalissimo Francisco Franco — which I can honestly say is not a take I have heard outside of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and the whole bit there was that she was actually quite daft and thought the fascists were just super into art and that being into fascism herself made her seem very chic and European. Though now that I’m reading up on it, it seems that William F. Buckley was also a fan.

This week, noted Pizzagate idiot Jack Posobiec embarked upon a quest to rehabilitate the image of Franco, a brutal, oppressive, authoritarian falangist/fascist dictator who killed hundreds of thousands of people. I’d love to be surprised by this, but it seems only natural after they all embraced Pinochet so eagerly.

“The communists were slaughtering everyone,” he cried. “Someone had to stop them. His name was Francisco Franco.”

I’m not going to get too into it, but this is a not a man who is very good at timelines. The Red Terror happened after the attempted 1936 military coup that lead to the Spanish Civil War and would eventually lead to Franco declaring himself dictator of Spain. Yes, communists in Spain at that time did kill people and they specifically targeted Nationalists, Royalists, Spanish nobility and members of the clergy. Estimates of this range from 38,000 to 110,905. I can “condemn” it now, just as it was condemned by many socialist and liberal Republican leaders during the Spanish Civil War, because I am not a psychopath.

The thing is, at the time the Red Terror was happening, the White Terror — committed by the Nationalists and Royalists — was also happening, was far worse and lasted far longer, with death tolls ranging from 160,000–200,000. Unlike the Red Terror, the White Terror was organized and calculated, as well as supported by the right-wing leaders at the time.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/guess-which-brutal-authoritarian

That is just what we need here….let democracy die so the rest of us can as well.

If you cannot see a problem then we are in serious trouble come November.

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Trump Will Not Win–But….

I know I have written some really disturbing stuff about Trump and the possibility of him winning the 2024 election….and most of it I believe will be disastrous for this country and its citizens…..but there are those among us that do not believe he can win and the aftermath that will ensue if he doesn’t.

Buried deep in an analysis of all of the reasons why Donald Trump will go down to defeat against President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, a columnist suggested that history is not on his side and that the MAGA movement is winding down.

Writing for the Atlantic, Hussein Ibish of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington explained that there are multiple roadblocks that will deny Trump a second presidency, including his extensive list of criminal trials that are casting a cloud over his campaign, his disparaging comments about the military that are resurfacing, and the fact that he is not the man he was in 2016 when he won his surprising victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

More to the point, he added, has been the string of losses at the polls suffered by MAGA candidates he has endorsed and a general dissatisfaction with the Republican Party overall.

“Trump has a strong record of electoral losses with his 2016 upset, which apparently surprised even him, as the lone exception,” Ibish wrote. “His party suffered the standard midterm defeat in 2018. Then he lost the 2020 election. Then Republicans lost control of the Senate after Georgia’s runoff in early 2021. Then his party was denied the standard midterm victory in 2022, barely eking out a four-vote House majority thanks in large part to his own handpicked, election-denying candidates, almost all of whom lost in competitive races.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maga-2024/

Beating Donald the Orange will only be the beginning….more horror will come….

Democrats have framed the 2024 presidential election as a battle for American democracy, but a new column argues that making sure Donald Trump loses is just part of that ongoing struggle.

The former president actively attempted to overturn the results in 2020 to remain in power, yet he almost certainly will be the Republican nominee next year and has promised to act as a “dictator” — at least for a day. His allies are plotting to help him seek “retribution” against his enemies, wrote New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie.

“The American republic is genuinely at stake,” Bouie wrote. “But as Democrats and their allies gear up for that battle, they should understand that beating Trump is the beginning of the beginning. We need to fight political despair everywhere we find it, which means this country needs an overhaul of its economic system, its political institutions and its public life.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-threat-to-democracy/

We can only hope that this prediction is spot on….but then there is the aftermath that we should watch closely….for we know he and his lunatic supporters hate to lose.

More to think about while you mull over what was written….

In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future.

They just disagree over who poses the threat.

A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 62% of adults say democracy in the U.S. could be at risk depending on who wins next fall. Majorities of Democrats (72%) and Republicans (55%) feel the same way, but for different reasons.

President Joe Biden has attempted to paint a dystopian future if GOP front-runner and former President Donald Trump returns to the White House after promising to seek retribution against opponents and declining to rule out that he would abuse the powers of the office. The former president has tried to flip the narrative lately, saying the election subversion and documents cases against him show Biden has weaponized the federal government to prosecute a political opponent. He has called Biden the “destroyer of American democracy.”

“I think from the side of the left, it’s pretty obvious that they’re concerned about electing a president who is avowedly authoritarian, someone who clearly wants to reduce checks and balances within the government to strengthen the presidency and to do so in ways that give the executive branch kind of an unprecedented reach across the population and sectors of the government,” said Michael Albertus, political science professor at the University of Chicago.

https://apnews.com/article/democracy-2024-election-trump-biden-poll-39309519c8473175c25ab5a305e629ba

Win or lose I think the country is in for some rough seas…..

Any thoughts on these two possible outcomes?

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Screw The Constitution!

Let me say in the onset that this is not my sentiment but rather that of one of this country’s leading political figures.

To me the US Constitution laid down the laws of the land and set forth detailed the rights of the individual and those rights need to be protected and preserved but recently there have been attacks on those very laws and rights.

Some rally around the flag or the pledge or the national anthem…but none of those are as important as the precepts set down by the Constitution….if they truly want to show their support for this great nation then the preservation of the Constitution should be priority one.

Now the meat of this post.

Trump has told the court that he does not have to support the Constitution as president.

Former President Donald Trump is arguing to a judge in Colorado that he was not required to “support” the Constitution as president, reported Brandi Buchman from Law & Crime.

The argument came as he seeks to dismiss a lawsuit filed in the state by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), seeking to have him disqualified from the ballot in the state under the 14th Amendment. The Insurrection Clause of the amendment prohibits those who have “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding a civil, military, or elected office unless a two-thirds majority of the House and Senate approve.

But Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the specific language of the Constitution argues that this requirement only applies to people in offices who are bound to “support” the Constitution — and the presidency is not one of those offices.

“The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution — not to ‘support’ the Constitution,” said the filing by Trump’s attorneys. “Because the framers chose to define the group of people subject to Section Three by an oath to ‘support’ the Constitution of the United States, and not by an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President.”

The former president has already tried to remove the 14th Amendment case to federal court, but this motion was denied.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-wont-support-constitution/

Do you agree…..that the president does not have a duty to follow the Constitution?

Anybody that follows this person deserves none of the guarantees the Constitution provides…..in my opinion.

This is a scary turn of events….but everything about Trump is a scary turn of events.

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She’s A Super Freak

Most people that follow politics will know about Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado antics…..the theatrics on the floor of the House, her mouthy conspiracies and her very public argument with fellow Freedom Caucus member, MTG…..but last week her (Boebert) antics got bit sticky while attending a play…..

Lauren Boebert’s Beetlejuice controversy is not fading away in media coverage in her home state of Colorado. The Republican congresswoman was booted from a Denver theater over the weekend after people around her complained she was vaping and generally being too loud and disturbing during the musical. Boebert sarcastically acknowledged she got thrown out for “laughing and singing too loud,” though she denied the vaping part. Now, however, NBC affiliate 9News has obtained video that it says “clearly shows Boebert vaping.” The video is here. And the Denver Post further reports that the woman who asked Boebert to stop vaping is pregnant. Boebert rejected her request, the woman said.

“The guy she was with offered to buy me and my husband cocktails,” the woman tells the Megan Schrader of the Post, who slammed Boebert’s “astounding sense of entitlement” in the opinion piece. “I’m pregnant!” An incident report from the Buell Theatre said ushers received three different complaints about Boebert and her partner “vaping, singing, (and) causing a disturbance,” per 9News. “These people in front of us were outrageous,” the woman tells Schrader. “I’ve never seen anyone act like that before.” 9News adds this description: “The footage shows her taking photos with the flash on during the performance. She’s also seen raising arms and clapping while almost everyone is seen sitting quietly.”

All that was bad enough for a standing member of Congress but there is more to this story….(Cue Rick James and Super Freak)….

As more and more details are being revealed about Rep. Lauren Boebert‘s wild night out in Denver last weekend — having been kicked out of “Beetlejuice” the musical for vaping and just generally being a public nuisance with her male companion — a full picture is coming together of what the other theater patrons around her that night had to endure.

Newly released footage of the night in question appears to show Boebert’s exposed breasts being fondled by her date for an extended period of time while she, in turn, dawdles around in his lap with her hand. As many have pointed out on social media, having seen this footage, children were seated all around the couple that night, within viewing range of what they were up to.

“Laurent Boebert was jerking her date off in public while he gropes her in a theater where children were present and yet she continues to attack LGBTQ people as ‘threats to children,'” writes journalist and clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo on X, sharing the footage of Boebert in the act. 

(salon.com)

Girls just want to have fun.

To be fair I have been able to see this footage because it is on “X” and I am not because I am a bad person and will not support Musk blindly….but anyone still on the platform should look it up and see what all the hoopla is about.

There some interesting photos in this piece….

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12525153/Lauren-Boeberts-Democrat-boyfriend-apology-Beetlejuice.html

The AP reports that Boebert has now issued an apology for the Sunday disturbance at Denver’s Buell Theatre. In her statement.

Will anything come out of this slide down the station she has perched herself on….or will it just be more antics for attention?

Will McCarthy act like a leader and do something about her performance?

Is there more that we do not know?

Stay tuned!

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Besmirching Eisenhower’s Memory

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Old farts like me know who Eisenhower was….the general that lead the Allies into victory over the Nazis in Europe and then president of the United States.

Eisenhower was a champion in the fight against authoritarianism plus was a champion of the common man….as a young boy I helped my grandfather with distribution of leaflets for Ike in 1956….a look at the GOP platform of 1956 (this shows just how far the GOP has sank in the passing years.)

  1. Provide federal assistance to low-income communities
  2. Protect Social Security
  3. Provide asylum for refugees
  4. Extend minimum wage
  5. Improve unemployment benefit system so it covers more people
  6. Strengthen labor laws so workers can easily join a union
  7. Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of sex

President Eisenhower has given us a statement of principles that is neither partisan nor prejudiced, but warmly American:

The individual is of supreme importance.

The spirit of our people is the strength of our nation.

America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.

Government must have a heart as well as a head.

Courage in principle, cooperation in practice make freedom positive.

To stay free, we must stay strong.

All that historic stuff aside….what is this about Besmirching?

Kansas’ own Dwight D. Eisenhower served as supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II and defeated a rising tide of fascism and authoritarianism. As a popular two-term president, he governed as a pragmatic conservative — sustaining prosperity, supporting integration and supporting international alliances.

In every way, he lived and governed as the opposite to former President Donald Trump, a man who has made no secret of his love for chaos, racist impulses and dislike of global allies. Trump tore a page from authoritarian regimes’ playbook on Jan. 6, 2021, as he egged on an armed insurrection of his own government.

So why is Eisenhower’s foundation in Abilene making common cause with a traitor?

In case you missed it, the foundations and institutions representing nearly every U.S. president since Hoover united for the common good late last week. They issued a stirring statement calling for a renewed commitment to civic institutions, public civility and protecting this precious representative democracy.

https://www.alternet.org/eisenhower-foundation/

So sad the the Foundation has chosen to side with an authoritarian a/hole like Trump….his foundation is besmirching the name of Eisenhower and crapping on the man, an American hero.

It is also a shame that the GOP has taken an alternate path than it was traveling in 1956…this would be a much better nation if they had stayed on track.

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“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”

I love these Right wing d/bags….they just cannot help themselves….

Pretty much every Americans knows that quote by Patrick Henry before he was hanged by the British….

It seems that Radical Right winger Josh Hawley, senator from Missouri is so enamored with Patrick Henry that he used another of his quotes in one of Hawley’s 4th of July stump stops.

The quote goes like this….

“Patrick Henry: ‘It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.’,”

How lovely….but it is total bullshit!

The catch: Founding Father Patrick Henry — a slave owner most famous for his declaration, “Give me liberty or give me death,” — never said the quote Hawley tweeted.

Nor did any of the other Founding Fathers.

The line was reportedly originally published in a white nationalist publication in 1956 — 157 years after the founding father’s death.

It is similar to all those quotes by Jefferson that the Right are always throwing about…..the problem there as well he made none of those quotes….like…”My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government”

Jefferson never said that!

There is a wealth of spurious quotes by Jefferson…..read some the others.

https://www.businessinsider.com/thomas-jefferson-quotes-that-were-actually-just-made-up-2013-9

Cherry picking quotes and even making up quotes from the Founding Fathers has fed the misinformation fire.

Politicians, pundits and angry uncles all enjoy sharing quotes from the Founders. But they often don’t particularly care if Jefferson, Madison or others actually wrote what they claim they did. Invoking the words of key figures from the Founding period is a rhetorical strategy that aims to mobilize the intellectual giants of American history to support modern-day political positions.

It is the very opposite of what history should be. Serious scholars begin with questions and then seek answers in historical sources. Politicians (both the professional and the amateur variety) do the opposite. They begin with answers — their preferred political positions on an issue of the present-day — and then seek out a short, pithy quote from the Internet to help bolster their argument.

The Internet, I think we’ve all learned over the past few years, is not the most reliable source. Cyberspace is awash with bogus quotations from the Founders and other key historical figures, like Abraham Lincoln. You can easily shop around to find Washington or Theodore Roosevelt espousing a 21st century political cause that would have been completely unimaginable to them in their own time; Alexander Hamilton did not go on the record about his views on cryptocurrency. The danger to our political discourse, though, is that many of these fraudulent quotes are all too easy to believe when you’re looking to confirm what you’ve already decided.

https://www.inlander.com/comment/cherry-picking-quotes-from-founding-fathers-has-become-another-insidious-form-of-misinformation-24099356

I do not mind the use of quotes just please get them right and do not make them up to suit your bias.

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