(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Ted, we need to talk about what "evil" is [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-07 Looking for evil? Check your caucus meetings more and the Grammys less, Ted Ted Cruz denounced as “evil” the Grammy performance by Sam Smith and Kim Petras of their song “Unholy”: Perhaps you don’t like the song (about a husband and father committing infidelity — a type of unholiness with which many of your GOP colleagues past and present are all too familiar). But it is a performance and hardly “evil.” Here are a few actual examples of evil: Hundreds if not thousands of Russian war crimes (www.pbs.org/…) as they target civilians in their effort to invade Ukraine — and which many of your GOP colleagues now appear unwilling to oppose with continued aid to support Ukraine as it fights for its freedom Separating children from their parents, caging them, and leaving no paper trail for reunifying them with parents in order to “punish” immigrants seeking asylum and a better life in the U.S., as the previous administration did with broad GOP support www.splcenter.org/… The murder of 20 people (and wounding of 26 more) through a mass shooting aimed at defending white supremacy against Hispanic “invasion”, which the GOP empowered through its refusal to limit availability of high-powered guns and promoted through its spread of anti-immigrant white supremacist rhetoric www.dailykos.com/… Ditto with the mass shooting targeted LGBT people in Colorado Springs, encouraged by GOP rhetoric about “groomers” www.dailykos.com/… The murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi under orders of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman — which the previous administration happily swept under the rug as the Saudi’s made some convenient investments benefiting the Trump crime family www.vanityfair.com/… www.vanityfair.com/… Banning age appropriate gender-affirming care for highly vulnerable transgender youth who are already at higher risk for depression and suicide — sacrificing those kids in order to score points with anti-LGBT extremists ahead of the 2024 primaries, as your GOP colleagues are doing www.hrc.org/… Eliminating the expansion of a child tax credit that kept 3.7 million children out of poverty www.cwla.org/… because we couldn’t afford the price tag — while maintaining tax cuts for those who least need them that cost some three times as much; the GOP was plenty eager to consign children to poverty and hunger in order to further pad the pockets of those who already have the most White supremicist anti-Semites inciting violence including the murder by car of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville — while TFG continued to claim those who created the dynamics that led to that murder were “very fine people” www.dailykos.com/… Actually Ted, it seems like you just want to get some right-wing culture war cred with your attack on Sam Smith and Kim Petras, while in reality it is you and your party that make a habit of excusing and even promoting actual evil. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/7/2142182/-Ted-we-need-to-talk-about-what-evil-is Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/