Bilge: 1 :the bulging part of a cask or barrel. 2a :the part of the underwater body of a ship between the flat of the bottom and the vertical topsides. b: the lowest point of a ship's inner hull. 3: stale or worthless remarks or ideas. Bilge.
Bilge water
the dirty water that collects in
the bottom inside part of
a ship
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Today, I looked quickly at a Chryon below a
News Story on Television that I thought read: GOP & Trump Continue to push ‘Bilge’.
What
it actually said was – ‘Continue to push big lie’. Hmmm…I thought; pretty much the same thing.
My
friends down in St. Pete Beach, FL, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and the Rockaways
in Queens, NY all understand what Bilge is, and how to manage it. I’m sure that
not all of them agree with me that the ‘Big Lie’ is Bilge but as ‘many people’
say – It is what It is
The ‘Big Lie’ is really filthy, dirty, contaminated Bilge and like Bilge, It needs to be expelled and disposed of. The January 6th Congressional Select Committee is now engaged in that work. This is truly worthy work to preserve our Democracy from American Autocrats, and needs our enthusiastic support. There are at least 150 prominent Republicans who agree with this, and made the case in an Op-Ed in Monday’s New York Times,
https://www.nytimes.com/
‘We Are Republicans. There’s Only One Way to Save Our Party From Pro-Trump Extremists.’
By
Miles Taylor and Christine Todd Whitman
Mr.
Taylor served at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019,
including as chief of staff, and was the anonymous author of a 2018 guest essay
for The Times criticizing President Donald Trump’s leadership. Ms. Whitman was
the Republican governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and served as E.P.A.
administrator under President George W. Bush.
‘This year we joined more than 150 conservatives — including former governors, senators, congressmen, cabinet secretaries, and party leaders — in calling for the Republican Party to divorce itself from Trumpism or else lose our support, perhaps with us forming a new political party. Rather than return to founding ideals, Republican leaders in the House and in many states have now turned belief in conspiracy theories and lies about stolen elections into a litmus test for membership and running for office….’
‘…we agree on something more foundational — democracy. We cannot tolerate the continued hijacking of a major U.S. political party by those who seek to tear down our Republic’s guardrails or who are willing to put one man’s interests ahead of the country. We cannot tolerate Republican leaders — in 2022 or in the presidential election in 2024 — refusing to accept the results of elections or undermining the certification of those results should they lose.’
Also, Ben Rhodes had some insightful commentary today on twitter and Deadline White House.
Benjamin J. Rhodes (born November 14, 1977) is a former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications under President Barack Obama. Rhodes attended Rice University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 2000 with majors in English and political science. (No slouch, he.).
3h "We've already been going down this road of turning
into something like... an autocracy... you have a very methodical, very
transparent, very deliberate effort to try and turn this country into a Donald
Trumpian, autocratic reality" -
