MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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GOP Trump Loser Pardons Beheader, Rapists, Murderers
By NCD on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 7:22pm |Trump backed loser for KY governor Matt Bevin issued over 400 pardons for murderers, rapist, child rapists and other criminals before leaving office. He didn't publicize the list, shocked local Kentucky prosecutors had to file open records requests to find out who Bevin has set loose on the community. Bevin is the deplorable guy who said striking teachers "would be responsible" if students left home got raped by KY folks hanging around their homes. It's Ok because I am sure he prayed on it. Some criminal pardons were family members of big GOP contributors.
"The list of pardons includes Blake Walker, who was convicted in 2003 of killing his parents; Kurt Smith, who as a teenager was found guilty of murdering his 6-week old son; Delmar Partin, who was convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her in a barrel; and Kathy Ann Harless, who left her newborn baby to die in an outhouse."
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/former-kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-pardons/index.html
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Hey this excerpt sound familiar:
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 9:10pm
Deplorable. One pardon was for a child rapist just convicted in 2018, he was sentenced for over 15 years.
by NCD on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 9:57pm
here I think this is on the case you are referring to, NCD:
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 10:01pm
Can't use that word, NCD - off limits, beyond the pale, hurts conservatives' feelings, shows a political tin ear. They're all God's children, just doing their atrocities to set the world on fire, but plain misunderstood and worthy of our sympathies if not adoration.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 4:39am
I forgot Trump supporters are the bullied people on earth, led by Melania, the "most bullied person in the world."
It's not the Republicans fault that they elected the most venal, inhuman, ignorant, incurious, spiteful, indecent, vile, cowardly, deceitful, tax dodging, fraudulent, adulterous scumbag of a man on the planet to be president.
by NCD on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 10:42am
We are in perilous times. Republicans are insane. Both sides are not doing this.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 10:01pm
I'm sorry, all Republican governors are not doing this! Your tendency to hyperbolic politicization of everything is nearly as bad as Trump's. Except he does it for narcissist aims mostly and you do it as true Khmer Rouge style political propaganda.
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 10:22pm
You are tiresome.
Republicans are insane. Look at their behavior in the House during the impeachment hearings. All they have is yelling. Look at Republican governors taking away voting rights and food stamps. Mitch McConnell openly states that the Senate trial will be based on the desires of Trump. This is in front of your face and you ridiculously suggest that merely pointing it out on a blog is the same thing that the Republicans are doing. I'm giving an opinion on a blog post. Republican are impacting the lives of real people. You are in a bubble. I can't take you seriously.
Edit to add:
McConnell blocked a Supreme Court nominee. McConnell blocked federal court nominees under Obama.
William Barr is obstructing justice for Trump.
Stephen Miller is in the White House.
Yeah, all this is due to my expressing an opinion.
If only, make my posts were more "civil", this would not be happening.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 11:17am
Arta didn't claim you have the same amount of influence as Trump. Only that your style is nearly as bad. Reading is a skill you have proven time and time again that you lack.
To attempt to tar all republicans with Brevin's pardons is insane as every republican in the state is objecting forcefully and calling for some sort of investigation.
I stopped taking you seriously years ago.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 12:03pm
Then why are you still reading me?
Obstructing justice, concentration camps, threatening people, etc is the same style as my posts? Sane people voted Bevin out. Brevin's style matches Trump who pardoned military members who abuse the power of their uniforms.
You are the one who is ridiculous.
Edit to add:
Oh dear, I need to soften my writing style or the Republicans won't become sane again.
BTW, those sane Republicans were thinking about contesting Benin's loss by tossing the decision to the Republican led state legislature
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/6/20952144/kentucky-republican-governor-matt-bevin-recanvass-concession
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 2:30pm
Then why are you still reading me?
What an incredibly stupid thing to say. You're here spouting nonsense. I'm here to point it out. Why are you still reading Arta? Asking me that question when I simply repeated your response to her is the height of hypocrisy.
Typical though, reading comprehension is not your strong point.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 2:30pm
My comments are not stupid. Your willingness to give Kentucky Republicans the benefit of the doubt is stupid. They considered a legislative coup.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 2:34pm
The benefit of the doubt? What doubt?. They unequivocally and forcefully spoke out against the pardons. Again reading comprehension is your weak point.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 2:51pm
Kentucky Republicans considered a legislative coup.
Bevins was caught red handed.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 2:59pm
You're attempting to change the subject because you realize you made an ass out of yourself with you original comment. If you want to discuss the so called legislative coup make a blog on that subject. Don't do it on a thread titled, "GOP TRUMP LOSER PARDONS BEHEADER, RAPISTS, MURDERERS."
by ocean-kat on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 3:17pm
You make the mistake of thinking that I care about your opinion
I'm looking at the full scope of things. You think I'm giving KentuckyRepublicans a hard time.
Republicans condemned Bevins because what he did was so outrageous even Republicans couldn't justify his actions.
Republicans were ready to stage a legislative coup.
They also had no problem trying to take away health care from the citizens of Kentucky. When they couldn't do that in full, they took away dental and health benefits. It required a federal judge to overturn what the Kentucky Republicans wanted to do
https://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/tns-kentucky-bevin-vision-dental.html
The Kentucky Republicans are "outraged" by Bevins' pardons. They are still deplorables.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 7:02pm
I think you're a partisan hack constantly spinning every situation to further your agenda. That makes it impossible to have a rational conversation with you. Not just because of the nonsense you spew but because you never address anyone's arguments. I never expect to have any real or meaningful engagement with you.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 7:15pm
I'm obviously partisan. There is nothing to celebrate about Kentucky Republicans finding themselves "shocked" by Bevins' behavior. My argument is that the real diversion is coming from you.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 7:27pm
The problem is not so much that you're partisan, it's that you're a hack.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 7:56pm
The Republicans who you are concerned about are the same ones who were thinking about staging coup and took away health care.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 8:51pm
Has nothing to do with Republicans traditionally being quite tough on "law and order" issues and this governor issued many pardons most of that type would abhor. You like to twist reality to create a Manichean narrative and that, too, is like Trump.
Since I want a U.S. back that doesn't play Trump like games with reality and narratives, I dislike very much when you twist and spin to make Republicans = evil and Democrats = good, ignoring even the basic reality that most voters call themselves Independents now. So I speak up if I am in the mood.
But the real mystery is why you do it as you full well know nearly everyone participating here is going to vote against Trump. SO FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME: who are you lecturing to and why? Most of us are here because we don't like political spin but prefer to try to help each other how to deconstruct spin. Not only that, we know you know this because you create strawmen to argue spin with all the time when we refuse to fuel your buy-in to the Trumpian divisiveness....
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 9:05pm
The current Republicans are evil. The current Democrats are our best options. Flavius creates fictional racists that can be convinced to vote for Democrats. You dismiss complaints of blacks but are injured when complaints about Confederates are launched. Why would I want to live in your world?
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:11pm
AA's a Reb? Hee-haw, Granny, come here, got sumtin to show ya.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:13pm
I'm not concerned with any republican. I'm concerned with the quality of the dialog on this site. When you post nonsense it degrades the quality of that dialog. So I'm going to point it out.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 9:47pm
Except maybe the back and forth from pointing it out sucks up all the oxygen.
I dunno myself. We keep spinning around more and more, seldom address new & intriguing ideas, left in our (dis)comfort zone. The world's huge, but we're hunkered down.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 5:38am
There's plenty of oxygen for many more things to happen here. We could discuss what we'd like and the reasons why they might not be happening but I don't think it's because of these arguments with rmrd.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:07pm
Dialog in right comments column washes away the rest. Crowded out.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:10pm
We disagree about things like blackface and Confederates. I don't see why I have to agree with your position. I see no arguments that Democrats can make to appeal to Trump supporters. A recent poll shows 52% don't believe that Trump should e impeached.That is a reality. What argument do you have that would improve things?
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:14pm
That 48% disagree.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:23pm
That is the minority.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 2:05pm
/shrug. If you see it as a problem stop responding. You engage him more often than I.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:18pm
"I dunno myself."
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:22pm
There was a pretend "Lincoln anecdote " with the punch line " Go it old lady; go it bear".
Not pretending I actually think "Go it ocean-kat" (et al), go it rmrd00000 "
by Flavius on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 12:22pm
This guy say it's true (tho man vs bear)
https://greatamericanhistory.net/humor.htm
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:08pm
AA: Since ABC ran an AOC is the Khmer Rouge ad on national TV during the Sept. Dem debate,complete with her face on fire, paid for by Republican Party donors, the bar and impact is pretty low for using the Khmer Rouge to attack people. And the company not bad, (AOC).
Trump and his Republicans by far take the cake for "hyperbolic politicization of everything" from bathrooms to light bulbs, to using aid and White House meetings to extort foreign nations for partisan "announcements" of fake investigations.
by NCD on Sat, 12/14/2019 - 11:13am
A recent poll shows 52% don't believe that Trump should e impeached.That is a reality. What argument do you have that would improve things?
That 48% disagree
That is the minority.
Every poll you cite simply shows that some people are reachable, whether a majority or a minority, and can be moved to our side. Your black/white scenario is clearly wrong.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 2:56pm
Lessons from UK election
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/15/what-we-learned-about-t...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 3:45pm
I see Independents and previously unenthusiastic Democrats coming out for Democrats in 2020. Trump's positive numbers remain high among self declared Republicans.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/the-middle/2020-election-up-to-the-independents-who-outnumber-dems-gop-1883684/
I don't see much data that Democrats are converting many Republicans.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 4:08pm
It doesn't have to be many. It only has to be some. If democrats just got the Obama to Trump voters back we'd win in a landslide.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 4:47pm
For chrissake, DOH, what do you think we are always talking about here? Diehard Republicans?
You like links, so here's some--
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-deciders-independents/difference-maker-independent-voters-in-u-s-presidential-election-crosshairs-idUSKCN1VK128
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/independents-insight-2018-midterms
Simpler if you can't get that:
Why can't you understand the reality of swing voters mostly being in control of the results of our national elections?!! Why do you refuse to acknowledge that a sizable percentage of the electorate is neither Democrat nor Republican? And that results in surprising wins like both Obama and Trump!
Why is that so hard for you to get? Too many bible lessons or what? For some strange reason you need to constantly turn every narrative into a Manichean situation, as if the news junkies here are going to buy that, as if we are stupid and don't know that much of the rest of the country's voters don't think that way anymore! A lot of the rest of the world doesn't think that way anymore either It is not your Manichean world anymore, if it ever was. Things are more complex than a two way fight between good and evil, welcome to the 21st century, it's not 1965 anymore. We should probably have at least 4 parties, not two, but you need to make it simple and Manichean. "Us" vs. "them", Hatfield's vs. McCoy's, t hat's how to lose.
Hot tip: liberal people can and do vote for Republican governors. Republican governors are not all the same as Trump. Example: Hates Trump, is working against gerrymandering, but is still a Republican, ran a big suppposedly blue state for 8 years. Oh and you now have a Dem candidate for president who is known to give a shit about party labels because he can tell party hacks to shove their money: was a Dem who ran for mayor of a big blue city as a Republican (because he hates the Dem machine and political correctness) and won, switched to Independent for second term win, and now running for a Dem nomination for president. But to rmrd, it's still a 1960's Dem vs. Repub. world and the Civil Rights bill has yet to pass.
by artappraiser on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 4:51pm
Cut the crap.
Flavius gave an example of a racist, Confederate flag loving employer. Flavius talked about outreach to the racists to get votes for Democrats. That position was questioned by NCD. You agreed with Flavius that we were kicking poor, racist Ted in the shins. You set the criteria.
My post talked about winning 2020 with rational white voters and ethnic minorities in a coalition.
Edit to add:
Your billionaire Republicrat championed "Stop and Frisk" and now says he was never questioned about the practice until now because he is running for President. He is as much a liar as Nikki Haley.
Wow. We found ONE good Republican Governor who knows the Republican base would slaughter him if he ran against Trump.
Reminder:
Blacks complaints = pity olympics
Racist Ted = kicked in the shins by Progressives
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 12/16/2019 - 12:11am
I think many see discussing Hutus, etc. as expanding the discussion. I see it as a dodge because all you have is Lost Cause-like arguments. When we argue about things like blackface, the Confederates, hairstyles, etc, we are coming from polar opposite positions. I see no problem with that. I provide links because, while you make personal attacks about my intellect, I see myself providing a different POV and providing supporting data. I am indicating that I am not alone in my position.
I don't see why Kentuckh Republicans get special credit for being "outraged" by pardoning a beheader. I don't see Democrats as flawless. I have problems with Biden and his fond memories of segregationists. I think Buttigieg is not ready for prime time viewing his handling of police matters in South Bend. Warren is promising things she can't deliver. I will still vote for whatever Democrat is left standing. I think Russia is going to target black communities again, and will be working as hard as I can to GOTV.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 6:32pm