By adamg on Sat., 7/2/2016 - 7:48 pm
Ted Busiek is a Republican running for the Middlesex and Worcester state-senate seat now held by Jamie Eldridge (and once held by Paul Cellucci). Today, he tweeted:
DONALD TRUMP. Putting self-righteous faggots in their place since 1993. How I love this fellow.#MAGA https://t.co/wqCxfa4pI2
— Ted Busiek (@TedBusiek) July 2, 2016
And then doubled down with:
Just imagine what an unsafe world we'd live in if not for the language police to tell us what words we can't say. https://t.co/k7xurz3aOe
— Ted Busiek (@TedBusiek) July 2, 2016
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Straight from the Republican playbook
By anon
Tue, 07/05/2016 - 3:02pm
Make something up that's not true, deny you said it, pretend you said something else, and criticize or insult anyone who points it out. Rinse, repeat, ad nauseam
Yes, I'm a Republican
By Roman
Thu, 07/07/2016 - 1:02am
I'm registered as a Republican, I voted in the primary, and everything.
Are you really so sheltered that you think of 'Republican' as an insult that can work against...wait for it...an actual Republican?
I can't even
By erik g
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 10:33pm
So, equating Republicans with bigotry and racism is wrong, because the guy running as a Republican in Acton is a big ol' racist bigot? And that is somehow the Democrat's fault for pointing out that he's a big ol' racist bigot?
If the Republican party wants to pull itself back from the margins, it can start running on platforms that aren't dogwhistle racism and economic games of chicken. It can do that with or without the help of the other party. So far, the MA GOP has done a pretty OK job locally (see: Baker, Charlie), but can't hope to compete nationally because the average Republican voter outside of the northeast is completely unhinged.
I thought the same thing. Don
By Matt Frank
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 10:59pm
I thought the same thing. Don't blame the Democrats for the Republicans being out of control lol. Classic Republican answer though. Blame everything on the Democrats, even when their own party malfunctions.
Oh no
By Roman
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 11:32pm
You don't get to twist out of it so easily.
It's the left's fault for delegitimizing right-wing positions by repeatedly and incessantly conflating them with bigotry and playing the race card with abandon.
Example I've seen on this very forum in regards to Baker, Charlie:
Putting the brakes on a billion-over-budget greenline extension for a fiscal reassessment, not going all-in for a north-south rail link, and imposing a fiscal control board on the same MBTA that screwed up so fantastically in 2015. Good management? Careful evaluation? Sensible caution?
Nope. All racist against the poor people that ride the T and aren't white.
The purpose is quite deliberately to starve the opposition of talent by making smart people embarrased to vote or run for office as Republicans. And guess what, you've won. The national party got itself Trumped because it couldn't come up with anyone better. Now you get to enjoy your victory.
Projecting much?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 1:29am
Seems to me that you are doing in this exchange exactly what you accuse the Democrats of doing.
The Republican party has been marginalized by its own name calling - not because Democrats reframed anything. Dogwhistle and teaparty politics were fine with the leadership so long as they didn't get funny ideas about actually taking over the party - which they appear to have done.
The GOP wasn't framed as a monstrosity - it turned itself into a monstrosity.
Not much. Just the right amount.
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 1:53am
Tea party is a perfect example. It started out as generic grass-roots anti Obamacare. Obama's surrogates deemed the them racists (Obama's the first black president, you see). And it turned into the Michelle Bachman Show (remember her?).
Even now, Obama still gives interviews where he ascribes nearly all (not some, not a bit, but nearly all) of the opposition to his policies to the fact that he's the first black president. When he doesn't give campaign speeches in foreign countries, that is.
The Tea Party was a grassroots movement for about five seconds
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 11:19am
before it was co-opted by professional astroturfers Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity, both funded by the Kochs. I would be amused by the irony that the monster is now terrorizing Dr. Frankenstein, but there's nothing funny about the prospect of Trump getting elected.
Tea Party was never grass roots,
By anon
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 12:01pm
not even for 5 seconds. It was fully created by, and funded by Republican and right wing money, and fully promoted by the Republican propaganda machine, Fox News, assisted by CNN, because "both sides" nonsense.
Yeah, five seconds.
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 12:09pm
And just after those five seconds rolled over Scott Brown won in '10 because the vast right-wing conspiracy did it. It had nothing to do with winning a majority of votes cast in of all places Massachusetts.
Sometimes you need to be at peace with the fact that your side did something stupid and got boxed on the nose for it by the voters.
Brown didn't win because of a grassroots movement,
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 12:25pm
whether real or a fake one like Tea Partyism. He lucked into running against Martha Coakley, who was jaw-droppingly awful.
She was awful enough to win state-wide before
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 12:46pm
and his campaign platform explicitly and repeatedly stressed his planned 'no' vote for Obamacare. Spin it how you want (and I don't disagree that Coakley phoned it in) but Brown won the first time around because people generally liked what he was selling.
Coakley didn't just phone it in: she was actively terrible.
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 1:08pm
When Brown took his alleged Tea-Party populism up against a slightly more formidable candidate, he showed his juvenile, Trump-level-taunting true colors, and got his ass handed to him. Buh-bye, featherweight. Maybe that shit will play in your real home in New Hampshire? Errrr....
Not wrong, but not relevant
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 1:51pm
We're talking about '10, not '12 here. And yeah...I was more than a little disappointed when Brown brought out 'Fauxcahontas' as his campaign platform when there were so many other good and substantive ways to go after Warren.
Yes, I know '10 vs. '12: my point was
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 2:09pm
that if Brown allegedly rode a grassroots wave in '10, it had utterly fizzled a mere two and half years later. I imagine part of it was that MA voters got to see how much of a boot-licking Wall Street toady he turned out to be, mint-in-box barn coat notwithstanding.
I'm not disagreeing with you
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 2:13pm
Obama won in '12, didn't he?
My point was that first came the grass roots, then came the charges of racism, and then came the nutters, in that order.
The Tea Party, even in its first five seconds, always
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 2:24pm
stank of racism to me. Just curious timing, that the great populist debt and deficit hawks stayed quiet during eight years of W, only to suddenly emerge the moment the brown guy got in.
Thanks for making my point for me
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 2:52pm
And for accusing me of supporting W's socialism. Kerry would've definitely held the line on the deficit.
Take it easy. I wasn't accusing you of anything.
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 3:16pm
But I stand by my observation about the very odd timing of the rise of the Tea Party. W started ballooning the debt and the deficit (from the starting point of a Clinton surplus) very early in his administration. Where were all those angry old white people then?
Oh no?
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 3:37pm
To borrow your phrase, there's a very odd timing to your repeated allusions to racist motivations for opposition to Obama. And it's odd for you to keep referring to any opposition to large-scale deficit spending as the sole provenance of "angry old white men," who incidentally would have been voting against W in the '00 primary.
To the point: The timing of the opposition is not odd at all. Obama ran on a platform of more spending, more taxation, casually flirted with the idea of authoritarian imposition of single-payer healthcare and mandatory national service, and made no effort to dispel any notion that he was some messianic figure who would turn back the oceans and heal the planet.
McCain ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism. McCain lost, Obama won. The opposition that voted for McCain was still there and still had the same opinions. Obama said he didn't care and didn't feel like compromising because he thought he had a mandate for Hope And Change. And it was only racism that could possibly motivate continued opposition.
Sorry, but if the angry old white people who clearly
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 4:03pm
made up the bulk of the Tea Party early on were purely deficit and debt hawks, they had plenty to squawk about for years before 2008. But suddenly, the month Obama was inaugurated, before he had a chance to make a single policy decision. out they sprang. Do you really find it so difficult to connect those dots?
Yeah, I do
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 4:50pm
Because it wasn't the first, nor will it be the last time that the fiscal hawks remained politely quiet while the Republicans were in power only to come out of the woodwork, as it were, when their party isn't in charge anymore. Call it hypocrisy if you like (I certainly do), but don't call it racism just because the guy in the oval office isn't white.
Certainly the GOP party elites demonstrate that kind of .
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 5:34pm
naked hypocrisy: ask Dick "Deficits don't matter" Cheney. But the rank-and-file angry old white people who came out to those early Tea Party rallies, with their clearly racist signage? I don't ascribe the same sophistication to their motives that you do.
Regardless, you're still pretending that the GOP hasn't been playing dog-whistle racist politics since the Civil Rights era, and that is clearly patently false. The only difference between Trump and every GOP leader since the LBJ administration is that Trump has dropped the whistle.
What racist signage?
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 6:07pm
The made-up kind? Or the one that says "I disagree" which is clearly racist if a white man says it to black man?
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By John-W
Mon, 07/04/2016 - 8:45pm
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just checking
By John-W
Tue, 07/05/2016 - 11:17pm
what happens when you reply and it's gotten down to one letter per line already?
Conspiracy
By Suldog
Wed, 07/06/2016 - 1:45pm
This reply is now right wing. It's a conspiracy!
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By John-W
Wed, 07/06/2016 - 5:36pm
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Still in denial ? We all see what you did there.
By anon
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 2:49pm
It's only "charges of racism", because there is no real racism in the Republican Party. Right.
MA has the best test scores
By Kinopio
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 6:13pm
MA has the best test scores and wages in the country. The least educated and poorest states are MS, WV, AL, LA, KS, etc. All red as hell and all shitholes. I'm perfectly happy being in a democratic run state because I like being literate and not having type 2 diabetes.
WV is blue
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 6:56pm
And MA also has the third highest cost of living after NY and CA. And ranks quite low on govt transparency. Keep on enjoying the echo chamber, though.
Edit: Oh yeah. Now that I recall, two Speakers in a row convicted of corruption and a third one who willed away the term limits for the post. And a state senate president whose brother...well you know.
Compare to, say, my home state of PA where the (Republican) president of the senate got primaried and lost his job for voting himself a pay raise.
WV is blue? Funny, but it voted W, W, McCain and
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 7:19pm
Romney in the last four Presidential elections. Governor: D, AG: R, both houses of the state legislature: R, US Senators, 1xD, 1xR, US Reps, 3xR. That doesn't seem very blue to me.
Yeah, if you want high quality of life from public services, it comes at a tax cost. There's no free lunch. But MA ranks 31st of 50 states on tax burden. Our high cost of living is driven more by our relatively thriving economy, how desirable it is to live here, not our tax rates.
Sure, you could live a lot cheaper in Fort Wayne or Tucson or Boise, but then you'd have to live in Fort Wayne, Tucson, or Boise.
OK not bright blue
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 7:33pm
but not deep red either.
And who said anything about tax burden? I did say (on several other threads) that the roads suck, and tax dollars aren't being spent wisely as evidenced by said disrepair, but I said absolutely nothing about taxes being too high.
But now that you mention it, the centralization of revenue collection as disbursement as "local aid" is also an easy mechanism for corruption and abuse of power.
Also, snob much?
My job has taken me all over the USA, including many places
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 7:58pm
you presumably envy for their low cost of living. You can have them.
I suppose Boston isn't for everyone, but I've lived here for 30 years, high cost of living and tough winters and corrupt State House speakers and all, and there aren't many places in the States I'd trade it for.
And why exactly were you going on about red and blue states and cost of living if not to correlate the two somehow? If not tax burden, how else do you connect our political makeup to cost of living? I think we're among the lowest dozen or so states in unemployment. Our big growth drivers, tech biotech and healthcare, are thriving. We ranked in the top 20 business-friendliest states.
Feel free to move to Idaho for its low, low cost of living. I'm happy paying for high quality of life here.
You're just looking to change the subject
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 10:42pm
The topic of conversation was the less-than-robust and less-than-responsive government in Mass, which lurches from silly scandal (Olympics, F1) to not-so-silly scandal (DCF, Annie Dookhan). The fact that a whole bunch of smart people live here and a whole bunch of profitable corporations are headquartered here doesn't really have anything to do with the fact that this is a single-party state with the aforementioned objective deficiencies.
You're the one who turned the discussion to how well-ranked we are on education and tax burden (which you will note I did not dispute).
I guess I'm not clear on your point.
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/04/2016 - 3:50am
You seem to be trying to connect blueness with awfulness in terms of quality of life. I think that's ridiculous, based on my own anecdotal experience of living in MA, seeing a lot of the rest of the US, and citing a lot of third-party indicators that suggest that quality of life in the Commonwealth outperforms 80% of the rest of the country.
If it sucks so bad here, why aren't you moving to Indiana, or some other imagined paradise where you don't have to pay taxes for public services, and state and local politicians aren't somehow corrupt? Let me know what state that is, and how that works out for you when you get there.
My point is that Mass isn't a worker's paradise either
By Roman
Mon, 07/04/2016 - 1:09pm
and that despite all the good, there are some glaring deficiencies in governance that you libs just want to pretend don't exist. And my claim is that what is essentially a one-party political system is less apt to respond to and remediate those problems than a balanced two-or-more party system is.
Roads I've talked about before. In this case, I claim that a state with a healthy major party opposition would not have an utter nut like this guy running for office on the ticket of that major party.
worker's paradise? change the MA house
By Chris Lynch
Tue, 07/05/2016 - 2:20pm
What have Republicans done for workers?
Right to work means you can work in a union shop and not pay membership dues or even agency fees-- you can freeload, benefit from higher wages and better benefits and not pay the union whose negotiations won them. Nobody can afford to work for free. Right to work is a cynical attempt to defund unions. Republicans do it for politics but the victims are workers.
Remove the right to collectively bargain and limit raises to less than or equal to inflation for public workers. Scott Walker passed this with Act 10.
US Senators opposing workers voting to unionize a VW plant in Chattanooga. VW wanted a union and a work council. They believe labor should be at the table with management to discuss strategy to meet goals. Germany has the most robust economy in Europe.
List Republican proposals to address income inequality.
Any? Bueller? Bueller?
Federally funded research, like the kind that produced the Internet (DOD) and Velcro (NASA) has been cut back to pre WWII levels.
GOP policy is formed almost exclusively by the self-interest of the richest Americans. Political science professors from Princeton and Northwestern have determined that public opinion has negligible influence on public policy, only the very rich who fund campaigns matter. This is called oligarchy. The Republican party enables it.
When DeLeo said he'd raise the min wage if we cut unemployment insurance workers spoke up loudly and said screw you, the unemployed shouldn't pay for low wage pay increase. The MA house is owned by the business lobby. If you want to make Mass a better place to work, you have to change the MA house.
Wow!
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 10:04pm
This isn't just stupid burning, but stupid accomplishing nuclear fission!
Is he the same guy with the Obama/Pelosi truck with the expired tag?
We need to get some Scots on twitter to properly describe him.
Belligerent Cypher
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 10:19pm
He doesn't mention any experience or qualifications anywhere that I could find on his web page. No idea where he works or has worked, what he does, etc.
Graduated from high school in
By Matt Frank
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 10:30pm
Graduated from high school in 2004 which puts him at around 30. He moved in 2006 to work for a Congressional candidate (turns out the candidate was anti gay, what a shock.) Looks like he spent some time in the military , some time in sales and is currently pursuing a degree.
http://acton.wickedlocal.com/article/20160329/NEWS...
Oh, I found that, too
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 10:49pm
However, one would think that he would have worked that all into a coherent story line for his campaign web page.
I also don't get the pictures of Boston splashed around when I believe there are other landmarks in his own district to preen beside?
Oh, there certainly are
By perruptor
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 7:58am
Let's see ... there's the Town of Concord's water supply, Nagog Pond -- it's very scenic, but if you loiter near its shore, the police will interview you. Maybe they would pose for some photos with the candidate before hustling him off the property. Could bolster his Law n' Order cred, if he can keep the context quiet.
There's a town arboretum, but I suspect our candidate would try to avoid being associated with that. Some tree-huggers or flower children might spoil his photo op.
There's a nice Children's Museum, but that doesn't seem to resonate with the candidate's message.
The Kelly's Lanes bowling alley is popular for kid's birthday parties, but again, no real support for the agenda.
I guess a random photo of some Boston buildings is as good as anything for a background on his website.
Arabic Translator
By Irma la Douce
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 10:56pm
Worked as Arabic translator in Air Force, A.D. from Defense Language Institute. Currently studying electrical engineering at Merrimack College.
Sounds just like Hillary.
By Doug1001
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 2:32am
:-0
Can't believe he left out Volvo-driving,
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 12:39am
latte-swilling, quinoa-and-kale-horfing, NPR-donating, bike-lane-loving, and terrorist-coddling. I suppose one can blame the limits of Twitter. But at least he led with his risibly backward, playground-level homophobia.
Watching Trump supporters vent is clearly analogous to hearing post-Brexit chavs feel Free at Last to air their nastiest, most loathsome bigotry. That's instructive, useful.
Arugala-Eating
By Roman
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 4:00pm
That's the one that's missing
Never heard of TFG before,
By Dave
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 12:52am
Never heard of TFG before, but be sure to ascribe his views to everyone who's voting against Milhous McPantsuit.
I liked the description of Hillary I saw
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 1:11am
somewhere online as the person in the office who is really good at her job but that no one invites to the happy hour after work.
I'll take the unlikable, highly competent, extravagantly experienced, and modestly corrupt candidate over the racist, vindictive, narcissistic sociopath who lacks the faintest grasp of macroeconomics, realpolitik, science, the Geneva Conventions, and the Constitution any day of the week.
I missed you...
By Doug1001
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 2:59am
Highly competent?!?!? Only modestly corrupt?!?!? I can't even reply to that...Your comments confirm what I've always thought about you and your contributions. You frighten me....Please seek help immediately. Please stick to your worthless food reviews if possible. Thanks in advance.
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