what happens to the republican party

[Winehole23]

2nd coming of JFK Jr, doodHe's coming back to save the Republican Party.

He's young, he's good looking, there's that dynastic thing...

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a whiff of (temporary) sanity in AZ

Arizona Supreme Court struck down more than a ban on mask mandates in schools.

Here's everything that's no longer law.

A ban on face mask mandates and critical race theory in schools were highest-profile laws that were thrown out when the Arizona Supreme Court tossed numerous provisions of the state budget (https://www.azmirror.com/2021/11/02/supreme-court-unanimously-strikes-down-mask-mandate-critical-race-theory-bans/) for violating the Arizona Constitution,

included prohibitions on colleges and universities requiring students to wear masks, get vaccines or submit to regular testing;

barring K-12 schools from requiring students to take vaccines that have received emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;

and barring cities and counties from requiring “vaccine passports" or otherwise imposing pandemic-related restrictions on private businesses, schools and churches.

now-defunct laws would have severely curtailed future governors' ability to use emergency powers to manage health emergencies such as the coronavirus outbreak.

Various election laws were also scrapped

One provision would have required counties that wanted to include anti-fraud countermeasures in their ballots to use specific kinds of types of paper and specific technologies, such as holographic foil, special inks and watermarks.

A $12 million “election integrity fund" that the state treasurer would have administered to fund
election security measures at the county level is also now gone.

a trial court ruling in a separate case on Tuesday rejected a provision of fifth budget bill, also on single-subject grounds, that

would have barred the City of Phoenix's plans for civilian review of its police department (https://www.azmirror.com/2021/07/06/new-laws-take-the-civilian-out-of-civilian-review-boards-overseeing-police/).

The courts struck down all of the laws on procedural grounds,

meaning that nothing would stop the legislature from passing them anew once they're back in session.

All they would have to do is pass them as standalone bills — the same way most legislation is passed — or in another manner that didn't violate the single-subject rule.

https://www.rawstory.com/the-supreme-court-struck-down-more-than-a-ban-on-mask-mandates-in-schools-here-s-everything-that-s-no-longer-law

[SnakeBoy]

Ideal situation would be Repugs take the Senate '22, Breyer dies in office, Mitch blocks new appointment until the peoples decide in '24

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Meet the new Alex Jones: Conspiracy nut with a troubling criminal past is MAGA's new favorite 'shock jock'

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/stew-peters-photos-screen-captures.jpg?id=27908052&width=800&height=450

Stew Peters the new and less-unhinged version of Alex Jones -- and their feature reveals a slate of police reports showing Peters has had quite a few run-ins with the law.

His problems with the law started as far back as his teen years.

He was convicted of theft as a youngster,

years later he was arrested in Florida in 2006 for falsely impersonating an officer and robbery with a deadly weapon among other things.

When Peters was arrested in February, he told the police that it would hurt his bounty-hunting career.

"You are ruining my kids' lives, I'll never earn a goddamn dime!"

refused to take a COVID test, going so far as to threaten the officers.

"If someone sticks something up my nose while I'm in handcuffs you will be arresting me for something a lot more serious,"

the problems with Peters in his bounty hunting career.

He would frequently dress as if he was an officer (https://www.postbulletin.com/news/news/politics/lawmakers-crack-down-on-bounty-hunters/article_5ebd79b6-91fe-50bd-8b81-a3ead7aad586.html),

leading his state to pass a law restricting what bounty hunters could wear.

launched a YouTube channel touting his own victories, which were mostly just videos of him tasing people.

Two of Peters' staff found the man and attempted to detain him,

but the suspect pulled a gun, resulting in a shootout in a car dealership filled with customers and staff.



"At the end of the gunfight, the suspect and the two bounty hunters had all been fatally shot.

Later, the dealership's owner claimed the bounty hunters had falsely identified themselves as federal agents,"

https://www.rawstory.com/stew-peters-violence-crime-history

The Best People

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Trump-loving Florida congressional candidate is a convicted felon who's not eligible to hold office


Jason Mariner won Tuesday's primary in Florida's 20th Congressional District,

has not gone through Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' new clemency process for ex-felons.

"Mariner had served roughly two years total in the Palm Beach County Jail over 2007 and 2012 on charges that included

felony theft,

burglary,

cocaine possession,

obstruction and violently resisting arrest, :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/jason-mariner-florida

The Best People

[Winehole23]

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[boutons_deux]

Steve Bannon's popular podcast is a 'dangerous' fantasyland of election lies

Steve Bannon's aggressive campaign (https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/politics/steve-bannon-january-6-capitol-riot/index.html) to undermine American democracy didn't stop on January 6.

In the fantasyland of Bannon and friends,

Trump won the 2020 election "in a landslide" (he lost),

Trump's victory (which didn't occur) was ripped from his hands by a sprawling list of cheaters (pure fiction),

and President Joe Biden's win can still be decertified (nope (https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/politics/arizona-audit-finchem-decertify-fact-check/index.html)).

Bannon spoke (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/listen.warroom.org/e/episode-1333-**B-the-continued-search-for-truth-of-jan-6thw-darren-beattie-dr-carol-swain-bernie-kerik-terry-schilling-cleta-mitchell/__;4oCT!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!1L-k-Dk-fSge-GI7Yi3tEHc2OXaEtikIiqIQT8m63HPva-n0SQCKI2T7nyh2LQID426Xl3pt$) approvingly in October about how his efforts have reduced Americans' faith in "the legitimacy of Joe Biden's regime."

He has made frequent pleas for supporters to reshape the Republican party by signing up

to serve as "precinct committeemen." :lol election riggers/cheaters

"It is hard to overstate how dangerous Bannon's words and actions are,"

"He's creating an army of duped people

who will go into positions helping to run elections with the false understanding that the 2020 election was stolen.

Who knows what such people are capable of doing when in charge of running polling places or counting votes."

counties around the country had seen an unusual surge in people looking to sign up for Republican precinct positions after Bannon began advocating the idea early this year.

tens of thousands of members in "War Room" fan groups on Telegram, an app popular for its group chats.
"The fans can then extend the beliefs of the show, sometimes in harmful ways,"

Here are just 10 of the election lies that have been told on the podcast since mid-July.



Bannon said Trump not only won the 2020 election but "won in a landslide." (Trump lost (https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president) by 74 votes in the Electoral College and more than seven million actual votes.)
Navarro said that, at midnight on Election Night, "it was very clear that President Donald J. Trump had won the election." (To anyone who actually understands elections, it never seemed (https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/politics/fact-check-trump-election-night-speech/index.html) that Trump had won. Trump did have midnight leads in some key states, but it was clear at the time that many mail-in votes and votes from Democratic-leaning cities hadn't been counted yet.)
Lindell said Trump "won New Hampshire and Minnesota" in 2020. (Trump lost each (https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/new-hampshire)state (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/election-results/2020/2020-general-election-results/__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!1L-k-Dk-fSge-GI7Yi3tEHc2OXaEtikIiqIQT8m63HPva-n0SQCKI2T7nyh2LQID48slAEU5$) by more than seven percentage points.)
Former Trump White House aide Boris Epshteyn (https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/25/politics/epshteyn-leaving-white-house/index.html) said Arizona's Maricopa County was "polluted" with "74,000 extra ballots"; Giuliani said those ballots were "made out by Democratic operatives." (False and false. The claim about 74,000 unexplained ballots in Maricopa, which came from the person hired to run the sham Republican "audit" in the county, had already been definitively debunked (https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/18/politics/fact-check-maricopa-audit-arizona-cyber-ninjas-74000/index.html) by the time Giuliani repeated it.)
Giuliani said that in Georgia, 68,000 people voted even though they were under the legal voting age of 18. (There was no evidence (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sos.ga.gov/admin/uploads/Letter*20to*20Congress*20from*20Secretary*20Raffen sperger*20(1-6-21).pdf__;JSUlJSUl!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!1L-k-Dk-fSge-GI7Yi3tEHc2OXaEtikIiqIQT8m63HPva-n0SQCKI2T7nyh2LQID47z5l9a8$) that any underage person voted in Georgia, let alone tens of thousands of underage people.)
During a conversation about Arizona, Giuliani asserted that undocumented immigrants would be shown to be responsible for "30 (thousand), 40,000" illegitimate votes. (There is, again, no evidence for these figures. And there is no evidence that a large number of undocumented people voted illegally in any state.)
Keshel, the supposed data analyst, said there was a "67-county operation" to fraudulently "shave" Trump's vote totals in Pennsylvania. (This is just completely imaginary.)
Keshel said "there was a plan in place" to rig Florida, which only failed because Trump did better than expected with voters in the south of the state, and that the election results were "tremendously off" even in Texas. (Nonsense and nonsense. There was simply no such Florida plot; the Texas results, showing that Trump won by more than five percentage points, are accurate.)
Radio host John Fredericks (https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/) said the Georgia counties of Cobb, Fulton, DeKalb and Gwinnett "represent the majority of fake Democratic voters in Georgia, where they had all the fraud." (There is no evidence of widespread election fraud in Georgia, nor any evidence that any Georgia county has a significant problem with "fake" voters.)
Lindell said the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems was a key player in rigging the election and then engaged in a "cover-up." (There is zero (https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/fact-check-trump-rigged-election-dominion-georgia-pennsylvania/index.html) indication of any wrongdoing involving Dominion, let alone extensive fraud, and thus, obviously, no cover-up. Dominion has sued (https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/business/dominion-voting-systems-sues-mypillow-ceo/index.html) Lindell for defamation, seeking $1.3 billion in damages.)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/politics/bannon-podcast-war-room-election-lies/index.html

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Newsmax White House Correspondent:

'I don’t want a multi-cultural society'

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/newsmax-white-house-correspondent-i-dont-want-a-multi-cultural-society-684001

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Jim Jordan Could Be Out Of Congress As Proposed Ohio Map Removes His Seat



A proposed redistricting map of Ohio would consolidate Rep. Jim Jordan's district with that of Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty,

virtually kicking Jordan out of the House.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/politicususa/fJAl/~3/zM8dRcbGT1s/jim-jordan-could-be-out-of-congress-as-proposed-ohio-map-removes-his-seat.html

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GOP ad attacking Biden 'chaos' uses footage that took place under Trump's presidency

A new Republican ad attacking President Joe Biden for overseeing "chaos" features images of events that took place under former President Donald Trump's tenure.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-anti-biden-ad

[koriwhat]

The one on the left is a GED holder and CNN's chief climate expert

"The most trusted name in news" :lol

Nah she's a bona fide retard!

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...

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BigLie after BigLie after BigLie, with more to come

Repug fascism considers all opposition, eg Dems, to be illegit, and denies them the right to govern

GOP digs in on blocking Biden diplomatic picks

Republicans are putting up an intense series of roadblocks to confirmation for President Biden (https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden)’s diplomatic nominees,

issuing maximalist demands and raising objections to both policies and personalities.

More than 10 months into Biden's administration,

the Senate has confirmed only seven of his ambassadorial picks,

while more than 50 nominees for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are awaiting votes, many of them held up by GOP objections.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/580339-gop-digs-in-on-blocking-biden-diplomatic-picks

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Rep. Paul Gosar's siblings say he helped 'incite' Jan. 6 Capitol attack and must resign (https://theweek.com/politics/1003241/rep-paul-gosars-siblings-say-he-helped-incite-jan-6-capitol-attack-and-must-resign)


his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot were a "betrayal" to the country.

Dave Gosar, Jennifer Gosar, and Tim Gosar said they have been aware of

their brothers's "unhinged behavior for years,"

and disagree with him on everything from his claim that COVID-19 was overblown to his support of Roy Moore's Senate run in Alabama,

The siblings called it "shocking" that

Gosar is "trying to gaslight everyone" by saying Ashli Babbitt, ... was "somehow an innocent bystander."

https://theweek.com/politics/1003241/rep-paul-gosars-siblings-say-he-helped-incite-jan-6-capitol-attack-and-must-resign

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‘Would you like to see some of my ammo?’:

NC Lt. Gov. ‘jokingly’ threatens IRS’s ‘revenuer man’

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/resign-why-nc-republicans-see-no-political-gain-to-buck-mark-robinson.jpg?id=27934969&width=980&height=604

North Carolina extremist Christian nationalist Lt. Governor, Republican Mark Robinson (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Mark+Robinson)

Robinson first made national headlines when he called LGBTQ people "filth (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/10/nc-lt-governor-accused-of-open-discrimination-after-calling-lgbtq-people-filth-and-demanding-christians-take-control/)."

Right Wing Watch, which has been reporting on Robinson's extremist remarks, got name checked by the Lt. Governor: "Right Wing Watch, that's A-M-M-O. Ammo."

https://www.rawstory.com/would-you-like-to-see-some-of-my-ammo-nc-lt-gov-jokingly-threatens-irss-revenuer-man

The depraved sickness of American gun culture, soon to be further deepened by right-wing ACTIVIST corrupt SCOTUS

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Greene Touts Her 'Common Ground' With Anti-Semite Farrakhan

Greene (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Marjorie+Taylor+Greene), who repeatedly has used Nazi and Holocaust rhetoric (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/07/marjorie-taylor-greene-again-uses-hitler-holocaust-and-nazi-references-in-paranoid-anti-vaxx-attack-on-biden/) and has been labeled antisemitic (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/a-look-at-marjorie-taylor-greene-s-antisemitic-anti-muslim-conspiracy-theories-1.9510858)

on Monday declared she has found "common ground" with the hate group Nation of Islam (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam),

founded by the far right wing extremist, anti-LGBTQ activist, and anti-semite (https://www.adl.org/education/resources/reports/nation-of-islam-farrakhan-in-his-own-words)Louis Farrakhan (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Louis+Farrakhan).

claimed the "DC Jail offered Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam newspaper."

She posted an article that

claims Ivermectin, a horse dewormer that is also used to treat lice infestations in humans has been "overwhelmingly successful" in treating COVID-19, which (https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19) is false (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/health/covid-ivermectin-prescriptions.html) and a lie.

Greene says (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1457727371826565123)

she "found out that the Nation of Islam sees the use and benefit of Ivermectin and is very angry that our media, Democrats, and Dr Fauci have attacked the drug and

refuse to save people's lives by not promoting it and shunning the use of it. We have common ground there."

Courts across the country have refused to support religious exemptions for vaccines.

No major organized religion formally supports religious exemptions from vaccines.

in the Patriot Wing with the J6 defendants."

"Most of them have Bibles and pray and do Bible study daily," she claimed. :lol

https://www.nationalmemo.com/marjorie-greene-touts-her-common-ground-with-anti-semite-farrakhan

Will she be re-elected? It's fucking Georgia, so her re-election is possible.

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Ted Cruz: Joe Rogan for president in Texas secession


In a startling address at Texas A&M, Cruz talked about “taking NASA” and “the oil” AND Joe Rogan becoming the “president” of Texas should the state secede from the union.


In a startling address to constituents, Sen. Ted Cruz (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/ted-cruz) (R-Texas) recently talked about controversial COVID-19 conspiracist Joe Rogan (https://www.huffpost.com/topic/joe-rogan) becoming the “president” of Texas if the state secedes from the union.

“I’m not there yet,” :lol Cruz told an audience

But “if there comes a point where it’s hopeless, then I think we take NASA, we take the military, we take the oil,” he said to loud applause

Cruz insisted, Texas has a “responsibility” to the nation :lol including secession!

because “right now it’s an amazing force keeping America from going off the cliff, :lol shithole TX is already off the the cliff, it re-elected Cruz

keeping America grounded in the values that built this country.” :lol LGBT hate, guns, racism, misogyny, BigLies

But he’s prepared to change his mind. :lol

https://news.yahoo.com/ted-cruz-talks-joe-rogan-045915044.html

A fucking shitbag TX Senator!

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Snowflake U: Conservatives spark avalanche of mockery with

announcement of a scam university

Bari Weiss, the notorious Islamophobe who

started her career in grievance preaching by trying to get Palestinian professors fired from their jobs (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-falsely-denies-her-years-of-attacks-on-the-academic-freedom-of-arab-scholars-who-criticize-israel/) at Colombia University and

infamously quit her cushy editorial job at the New York Times in a public tantrum because her colleagues thought she was stupid and her ideas sucked, (https://deadline.com/2020/07/new-york-times-bari-weiss-resigns-bullying-1202985236/)

announced on Monday morning that she and a group of other right-wing losers were

opening a new university, where a racist can be a racist!

this obsession with the “truth” makes it clear that this is not going to be a “university” so much as

it is a “propaganda multi-level marketing scheme” in the vein of famous fake universities like Trump University and the University of Phoenix.

they don’t actually offer any degrees, aren’t accredited, and have a lawyer’s office as their listed address.

the entire American right-wing movement from top to bottom

exists solely to funnel money out of the pockets of angry rubes into the bank accounts of devious rubes

while entrenching the dominance of white supremacists ideology in the minds of its followers.

https://occupydemocrats.com/2021/11/08/snowflake-u-conservatives-spark-avalanche-of-mockery-with-announcement-of-a-scam-university

What caused the scammers to choose Texas?

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Repug party, in the Conferacy, spawns seditionist assholes

Josh Hawley ridiculed after his bizarre interview:

'It’s hard to be a leader and a victim at the same time'

men aren't really "a man" if they play video games, aren't fathers or husbands and various other things.

McCaskill prefaced.

"He's said stuff like this before.

At one point, he gave a speech to a group of ministers :lol

where he talked about that it was

the birth control pill and women discovering sexuality that caused sex trafficking.

So, this is not a shocker."

Hawley's quote, explaining,

"I want everyone to understand the three virtues that he called the manly virtues.

He said these are the traditional masculine virtues that women are taking away from men.

He named courage, independence, and assertiveness."

he thinks by making men the victim, he becomes their champion, and he's the new Donald Trump."

"Josh Hawley is trying to make his followers victims and he is going to be their champion to lead them out of victimhood into dominance again.

what he's basically saying to the women of America,

you have got to quit having courage, being assertive and quit being independent

so we can go back to a time where everybody in college was a man.

https://www.rawstory.com/josh-hawley-plays-victim-savior

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QAnon MAGA cult refuses to leave Dallas after JFK Jr. no-show

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1005933/story_image/GettyImages-97736237.jpg?1636401344

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063012/-After-JFK-Jr-no-show-QAnon-cult-waits-in-Dallas-says-they-ve-also-seen-Elvis-MJ-and-Prince

[Winehole23]

"Christian patriots will rule you" is very normal politics in 2021

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[Winehole23]

https://boingboing.net/2021/11/08/republican-lawmaker-misses-his-own-anti-vaccine-rally-after-catching-covid-19.html

[Isitjustme?]

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[Winehole23]

Death threats for reaching across the aisle to pass a bill with Brandon

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEK_KefX0AsVPus?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Winehole23]

Ostracism of dissidents.

No longer a big tent, now it's a Trumpist straitjacket.


The Wyoming Republican Party will no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a member of the GOP in its second formal rebuke for her criticism of former President Donald Trump.


The 31-29 vote Saturday in Buffalo, Wyoming, by the state party central committee followed votes by local GOP officials in about one-third of Wyoming’s 23 counties to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican.


In February, the Wyoming GOP central committee voted overwhelmingly to censure Cheney, Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative, for voting to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-liz-cheney-wyoming-casper-1966d793df2baa85e0fecad4026b0e99

[Winehole23]

Noted Marxist-Leninist legal scholar Orin Kerr

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[Trill Clinton]

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Bruh

[benefactor]

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Bruh
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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEVmu4bXIAQQ1aL?format=jpg&name=medium

[Winehole23]

Reporting credible, terroristic threats against teachers and administrators to LE is tyranny.

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[spurraider21]

why does that picture include lincoln and not jefferson davis?

[Winehole23]

why does that picture include lincoln and not jefferson davis?I was wondering why only Teddy Roosevelt is lacking ear protection...

[DMC]

I was wondering why only Teddy Roosevelt is lacking ear protection...

He was deaf in one ear. He'd only need a plug in the right ear. Reagan was also left handed as depicted.

[Winehole23]

It's even worse than the Great Recession of 2008-9

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEP4vRHXMAIJWft?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Winehole23]

"Let others do the hunting, I'll be back to pounce on the kill."

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[ElNono]

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[Winehole23]

Collectible trinkets

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2021/11/16/michigan-ammo-store-sells-bullets-inscribed-with-anti-biden-phrase-lets-go-brandon

[Winehole23]

pretty much

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[spurraider21]

:lol

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[Winehole23]

she's a woman, understands banking and was nominated by a Democratic administration.

a communist, in other words

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[benefactor]

:lol

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:lmao

[SnakeBoy]

she's a woman, understands banking and was nominated by a Democratic administration.

a communist, in other words

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I'm not a commie is what commies always say

[spurraider21]

I'm not a commie is what commies always say
are you a commie?

[SnakeBoy]

are you a commie?

Ye...N...

Dammit!

[Winehole23]

I'm not a commie is what commies always sayOmarosa isn't a Commie, she fled the Soviet Union so she didn't have to be one.

In my own limited experience, commies are rare as hen's teeth in the USA, but if you happen to find one, they're typically proud to admit it.

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/258764913_257400133158235_535488852608987284_n.jpg ?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=N7oVvbNMxxMAX8SpwiI&tn=WRdSzePY7CfZqM2j&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=3db32d697a3aa56333cca4a748ec3930&oe=619CE075

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DeSantis signs new anti-vaxx bill in Brandon, Florida, because

killing people is just a game to him

Republicanism is now a movement that is actively hostile towards governing. It cannot abide it.

It exists now only as a series of trolls intended to disparage Americans outside their membership,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/18/2065085/-DeSantis-signs-new-anti-vax-bill-in-Brandon-Florida-because-killing-people-is-just-a-game-to-him

[Winehole23]

Pro-vigilante, pro-violence

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[DMC]

Sorry this is happening to you.

[Winehole23]

Sorry this is happening to you.Nothing happened to me, tbh. I already knew your side glorifies vigilantism and political violence.

[DMC]

Nothing happened to me, tbh. I already knew your side glorifies vigilantism and political violence.

The jury disagreed with you. They actually viewed the evidence and heard the testimony.


Maybe try again in Georgia. That one looks to be a slam dunk. You could get a whole thread of memes and tweets with nary an interruption on that one.

[Winehole23]

The jury disagreed with you. They actually viewed the evidence and heard the testimony.


Maybe try again in Georgia. That one looks to be a slam dunk. You could get a whole thread of memes and tweets with nary an interruption on that one.I wasn't commenting on the jury verdict, the post was about Madicson Cawthorn and Republicans glorifying violence and vigilantism. Kyle Rittenhouse is a vigilante and a killer, period.

[Winehole23]

taking it out on flight attendants


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEfiO5VUYAEjFg2?format=jpg&name=large

[ElNono]

:lol

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Perception:
65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence: Results of two nationally representative surveys
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029792/

Reality:
US adults are dumber than the average human
https://nypost.com/2013/10/08/us-adults-are-dumber-than-the-average-human/

[Winehole23]

"not all fascists"

(interesting and informative article, but the news that political slurs are "not well-grounded" in historical understanding is neither as illuminating nor as devastating as the author presumes.)

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[Winehole23]

(Aside: Paul Gottfried's writing in Telos was an influence during my college days, particularly his concept of the therapeutic-managerial state, and I've posted about John T Flynn in this forum, back during my asshole libertarian phase. Both are worth reading imho whether you agree with them or not. )

[boutons_deux]

GOP chair: Under Trump,

‘we’ve become a working-class party’ :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2021/11/1118-MCDANIEL.jpg?alias=standard_900x600nc

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2021/1118/GOP-chair-Under-Trump-we-ve-become-a-working-class-party

Repugs do absolutely NOTHING for the working class LOL

Disagree?

list Repug laws, regs that enrich the working class, in the past 40 years?

union busting?

wage suppression?

against increasing minimum wage?

[koriwhat]

I'm a fucking retard, period.

[koriwhat]

Repugs do absolutely NOTHING for the working class LOL

Disagree?

list Repug laws, regs that enrich the working class, in the past 40 years?

union busting?

wage suppression?

against increasing minimum wage?

You'd be better off asking all those working on that pipeline who were let go day 1 of Biden's fraud presidency.

[boutons_deux]

The Republican Party's Murderous New Normal

This telling moment heightens the

feeling of apprehension provoked by recurring threats and incidents of actual violence emanating from the far right and then

justified, usually with indignant enthusiasm, by Republican elected officials at the highest level.

The anger and hatred that have long simmered within that party are rapidly devolving into homicidal rage.

All but two House Republicans voted to excuse Gosar's glorification of political violence.

What has changed in the past few years is

the accelerating acceptance of violence among Republicans

since the defeat of former President Donald Trump and

his encouragement of sedition and insurrection by his followers,

who now form the Republican Party's boiling base.

McCarthy, it is no longer possible to act with decency and principle against the neo-fascist element in his caucus if he ever wants to be speaker of the House.

McCarthy is a leader only in one respect: he leads in Republican cowardice.

At a public event in Idaho, where a man asked when he could "kill these people," meaning Democrats, and was applauded loudly;

at school board meetings across the country, where "concerned parents" threaten to murder public officials and their families;

at the homes of election officials who answer the phone at night and hear obscenely menacing words.

the justification of it by Republican officialdom — and their attacks on officials who seek to investigate and discourage those threats.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/instances-of-republican-party-violence

The fascist Capitalist oligarchy is financing the Repugs' descent into violence.

[boutons_deux]

fascist brownshirts out in force and gaining in strength

Fueled by Trump-inspired grievance, attempts to terrorize public officials escalate

Through public records requests, several previously unreported incidents came to light —

while Capitol Police officials say the agency expects to log more than 9,000 threats this year.

even elections officials (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/1-3-election-officials-report-feeling-unsafe-new-survey-finds-n1270968) — a less prominent rung of public service that is nonetheless central to democracy — are reporting threats.

records detailing any threats over the last year to 37 public officials.

The list included congressional Republicans who voted to impeach or convict Trump;

Democrats who, like Neguse, served as impeachment managers;

and high-profile governors and secretaries of state.

Most agencies reported having no relevant documents or cited legal exemptions that prevent the disclosure of a public official’s security concerns.

they feel that they can say whatever they want to say and actually make threats against your life

What's distressing is … the reason that they believe this is that they've been lied to.”

sinister tone of political dialogue has expanded to smaller partisan grievances and debates over policy, with

Trump and Republicans egging on the vitriol.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fueled-trump-inspired-grievance-attempts-terrorize-public-officials-escalate-n1284291

This is the degraded, intolerant, violent America that FASCIST Trash and Repugs want

[boutons_deux]

Federal investigation finds a key part of the 2020 Republican National Convention was illegal

back in August 2020 when former unlawfully appointed (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/14/1969214/-Legislators-demand-resignations-after-GAO-finds-DHS-leaders-were-unlawfully-appointed-to-positions) acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf presided over

a political stunt (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/26/1972445/-Trump-tries-to-erase-years-of-attacks-on-legal-immigration-system-with-naturalization-stunt) that used immigrants as human props as part of an effort to reelect the previous president?

A number of the immigrants who were sworn in as U.S. citizens in that White House naturalization ceremony would later say (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/27/1972737/-Immigrants-from-Trump-s-naturalization-stunt-say-they-didn-t-know-it-would-be-used-at-convention) they weren't informed prior to the stunt that it would be broadcast as part of the Republican National Convention.

the Office of Special Counsel has determined that

at least 13 officials with the previous administration violated the Hatch Act, "illegally mixing campaign and government events."

Among those named is, unsurprisingly, Unlawful Chad.

The Office of Special Counsel said in the report (https://osc.gov/Documents/Hatch%20Act/Reports/Investigation%20of%20Political%20Activities%20by%2 0Senior%20Trump%20Administration%20Officials%20Dur ing%20the%202020%20Presidential%20Election.pdf) that the administration had been warned repeatedly that such an event would be unlawful.

The stunt went on anyway.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/special-counsel-chad-wolf/

so what's the punishment? Repugs KNOW they will be none.

[boutons_deux]

Most White Women Without College Think Biden Didn’t Legitimately Beat Trump in 2020

While 95 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of independents said “yes” Biden did legitimately defeat Trump,

only 23 percent of Republicans recognized this verifiable fact.

Seventy-seven percent said “no,” President Biden did not legitimately beat Trump.

a disturbingly large minority — 39 percent — of independents who believe that President Biden did not legitimately beat Trump.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-most-white-women-without-college-think-biden-didnt-legitimately-beat-trump-in-2020/

America is SO FUCKED

[boutons_deux]

Untraceable 3D-printed guns are now an epidemic, and

the GOP is making it worse

Between 2016 and 2020, over 23,000 unserialized firearms were used in crimes, including 325 homicides and attempted homicides.

One man, whose family claimed he suffered from mental illness (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-california-shooting-spree-needed-mental-help-sister-says-n821216) and was forbidden from obtaining firearms, ordered kits to build multiple AR-15 assault rifles. He proceeded to go on a deadly rampage (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-mass-shooter-made-his-own-killing-machines-n821516)at several locations, including an elementary school.

A gunman in Baltimore also constructed an AR-15, which he used to shoot at four police officers (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/cmte_testimony/2020/jpr/3401_03032020_102736-675.pdf).

​The Obama administration’s State Department stopped a libertarian activist, Cody Wilson, from publishing blueprints (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3d-printed-gun-blueprints-pulled-from-internet-at-request-of-state-department/) of 3D-printed weapons on the internet, and multiple courts ruled in favor of this policy.
However, once Trump came into office, that decision was reversed. In fact,

Wilson said the Trump administration gave him “everything they wanted (https://www.wired.com/story/a-landmark-legal-shift-opens-pandoras-box-for-diy-guns/),”

allowing Wilson to not only publish his blueprints,

but reimbursing him $40,000 for legal costs.

With Republican obstruction, Democrats and victims have been forced to get creative, and they have with civil suits (https://ktla.com/news/california/san-francisco-suing-3-california-based-ghost-gun-makers/).

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2057099

[spurraider21]

update:

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[boutons_deux]

Bannon Sidekick Unleashes WILDLY Misogynistic Twitter Rant Against Reporter, Repeatedly Calls Her a ‘Dumb Cunt’


https://am14.mediaite.com/med/cnt/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-22-at-4.58.46-PM.jpg

https://www.mediaite.com/online/raheem-kassam-misogynistic-rant/

[Winehole23]

Kinney County's sheriff is Nathan89/Wild Cobra-level bonkers.

1431600084358242307Fundraising for private enforcement of immigration and deputizing anti-immigrant militias, allegedly.

Operation Lone Star had to release a couple hundred detainees a month or two back because Kinney County was too incompetent to appoint them lawyers and charge them in a timely fashion.


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[rmt]

GOP chair: Under Trump,

‘we’ve become a working-class party’ :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2021/11/1118-MCDANIEL.jpg?alias=standard_900x600nc

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2021/1118/GOP-chair-Under-Trump-we-ve-become-a-working-class-party

Repugs do absolutely NOTHING for the working class LOL

Disagree?

list Repug laws, regs that enrich the working class, in the past 40 years?

union busting?

wage suppression?

against increasing minimum wage?




bou, what say you about the $80,000 SALT provision that is so prominent in BBB? Which side was it that limited this give away to the wealthy? And which side wants to gift this $80,000 giveaway to the rich? Working class, my foot.

[Winehole23]

"not all fascists"

(interesting and informative article, but the news that political slurs are "not well-grounded" in historical understanding is neither as illuminating nor as devastating as the author presumes.)

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from Jeet Heer's close reading


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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFR7PnVXwAg6h-0?format=jpg&name=900x900

[DMC]

:lol

Claims the right are Nazis
Shows a gun store poster where Hitler is being compared to Joe Biden

WH doesn't know whether to shit or go blind

[Winehole23]

:lol

Claims the right are NazisI didn't.

Libs buy guns too, but I doubt you'll see any liberal-branded gun shops with Hitler moustaches on Trump.

DMC's grudgeposting :lol

[spurraider21]

:lol

Claims the right are Nazis
Shows a gun store poster where Hitler is being compared to Joe Biden

WH doesn't know whether to shit or go blind
It’s projection. Derp would call the Dems nazis too but then he’d heap the praises of actual nazis. Said the world would have been better if the axis powers would have won. I agree that it doesn’t make much sense to say hitler wasn’t all that bad and simultaneously use Nazi as a perjorative but it happens

[DMC]

I didn't.

Libs buy guns too, but I doubt you'll see any liberal-branded gun shops with Hitler moustaches on Trump.

DMC's grudgeposting :lol

You should be thankful someone responded to your necro conversation with yourself. Lately you've become bipolar. I'll tell you again when the other side shows up.

[Winehole23]

You should be thankful someone responded to your necro conversation with yourself. Lately you've become bipolar. I'll tell you again when the other side shows up.your free psych workup isn't worth the price of admission, profe. your avoidance of the open apologies for fascism coming from your side is telling.

[Winehole23]

Oh well, what you cannot correct you can at least insult. Once again you've failed to address the topic and are just grousing about me -- a very typical outcome.

[DMC]

your free psych workup isn't worth the price of admission, profe. your avoidance of the open apologies for fascism coming from your side is telling.

:lol You post an image of a gun store with right wing posters and then comment that liberals buy guns too. You're one dishonest fuck but I cannot fault you for it, you're not playing with a full deck. I think you could believe what you say.

[Winehole23]

Thanks for underscoring my point :tu

[DMC]

Thanks for underscoring my point :tu

That you didn't really look at the photo before you posted it right after posting that the right are Nazis? :lol Yeah that and the "not playing with a full deck" comment are spot on.

[Winehole23]

That you didn't really look at the photo before you posted it right after posting that the right are Nazis? :lol Yeah that and the "not playing with a full deck" comment are spot on.where did I post that the right are Nazis? you’re chasing a ghost.

[Winehole23]

Category/member.

Not all fascists are Nazis, as the AmCon article posted upstream is at pains to point out. I didn't call right wingers and Republicans Nazis, that was just you throwing your voice again.

[Winehole23]

There won't be any need for behind the scenes machinations to throw out the election results next time if GOP controlled states do it for him.

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[SnakeBoy]

It's time to cure this country of commies

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[Adam Lambert]

It's time to cure this country of commies

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:lmao :lmao :lmao

[boutons_deux]

Category/member.

Not all fascists are Nazis, as the AmCon article posted upstream is at pains to point out. I didn't call right wingers and Republicans Nazis, that was just you throwing your voice again.

The Repugs certainly have created an "unofficial" corps of Nazi-style brownshirts to harass, intimidate, murder the opposition.

The Repugs are using Hitler-style BigLies, MANY BigLies.

A Nazi by any other name would fascist the same.

[boutons_deux]

Rep. Debbie Dingell's Michigan office was heavily vandalized,

late husband's memorabilia destroyed

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066824/-Rep-Debbie-Dingell-s-Michigan-office-was-heavily-vandalized-late-husband-s-memorabilia-destroyed

Repug BROWN SHIRTS

[boutons_deux]

Repug MISOGYNY, Idaho division

Professor at public university rants about feminism,

suggests women shouldn't go to medical school

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066852/-Professor-at-public-university-rants-about-feminism-suggests-women-shouldn-t-go-to-medical-school

[boutons_deux]

Huge amounts of drugs have been seized at the border and

Republicans are very mad about it

very visibly Congressional Republicans, who are apparently super pissed off over the seizure of huge amounts of drugs by the Biden administration. Seriously.

Elise Stefanik tweeted (https://twitter.com/RepStefanik/status/1465406458317660163?s=20) that “800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our Southern Border in October. This is Biden’s Border Crisis.” :lol

”Under Joe Biden, enough fentanyl to kill 238 million Americans was seized at the southern border last month,” Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs tweeted (https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1417178280738820098?s=20) in July. “Where's the outrage in the media?” :lol

“In May, 934 POUNDS of fentanyl was seized at our southern border, this is a 300% INCREASE from May 2020,” :lol

tweeted (https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1404480205096431618?s=20) the House Republican caucus itself.

“Biden’s border crisis becomes more deadly with each passing day and Vice President Kamala Harris is still MIA.” “899 lbs of fentanyl and 15,631 lbs of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in October alone,” tweeted GOP Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel.

“That much fentanyl is the equivalent of 204 MILLION lethal doses. We need border security!” :lol

“Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where 10,000 pounds of fentanyl hv been seized by Customs & Border patrol so far this fiscal yr :lol

which is enough to kill over 2 billion ppl or more than 1/4 of the world’s population,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opined (https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1455180010646646786?s=20) this month.

Republicans’ seemingly pro-drug tweets are very fucking weird,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066826/-Huge-amounts-of-drugs-have-been-seized-at-the-border-and-Republicans-are-very-mad-about-it

Repugs bitching and whining, fully scripted, about SUCCESSFUL drug seizures, iow, a CLOSED BORDER to drug traffic? :lol

[boutons_deux]

Andy Borowitz (https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz?__cft__[0]=AZX3tGowTN3XK5vrBPprOns6jsmXVhtoeQN9t7APVMeF_Za7B Jb7lLAqMcE9Ue6WZF1kbfud6z0MOjfujo4Of_f7XcLQ_3o5NVL ZVSmIlvx2TFsgMEQyK1TYLyC2i6G3my_jeqew7WO_Y6Ys0fTSY YwqMRaJbMeBWMuwFX9mjGLeWHbdKhGQ5EXiQjLC5WoNKA0&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R)

In the many times he’s grilled Dr. Fauci,

has Rand ever asked him about the health benefits of magic coffee beans or umckaloabo-root extract?” Oz said.

================

Dr. Oz Hopes to Replace Rand Paul as Biggest Quack in Senate

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/dr-oz-hopes-to-replace-rand-paul-as-biggest-quack-in-senate (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/dr-oz-hopes-to-replace-rand-paul-as-biggest-quack-in-senate?fbclid=IwAR35IYZ2pZRk-aZbsirdOiXQ8GUwarL_FTgi4ebhSbn0rq9yBCwlFHE7CPA)

[boutons_deux]

Texas Republicans call for government shutdown over Biden's 'tyrannical' vaccine mandate

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/23/04/16/21775253/3/1200x0.jpg

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Rep-Chip-Roy-calls-for-government-shutdown-16666267.php

shitbags, every one of them

[boutons_deux]

Ocasio-Cortez takes GOP Leader to the woodshed after Ilhan Omar receives death threat voicemail

“You will not live much longer,” the man says on the message.

“We see you Muslim sand knitter bitch, we know what you’re up to.

You’re all about taking over our country. :lol

Don’t worry, there’s plenty that will love the opportunity to take you off the face of this fucking earth. Come get it.

But you fucking Muslim piece of shit.

You jihadist. We know what you are. You’re a fucking traitor.”

https://occupydemocrats.com/2021/12/01/ocasio-cortez-takes-gop-leader-to-the-woodshed-after-ilhan-omar-receives-death-threat-voicemail

[boutons_deux]

Capitol rioter enters Texas GOP primary, because this is what Republicans are now

Violently attempting to overthrow the U.S. government

on behalf of clammy fascist Donald Trump is apparently

a feather in your cap if you’re running for office in Texas (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/11/29/north-texas-man-charged-with-assaulting-cops-during-capitol-insurrection-is-running-for-texas-house/).

A North Texas man facing federal charges for allegedly assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/04/23/north-texas-couple-accused-of-assaulting-officers-during-capitol-insurrection-fbi-says/) and siege at the U.S. Capitol is now running for a Texas House seat.

Mark Middleton,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066830/-Capitol-rioter-enters-Texas-GOP-primary-because-this-is-what-Republicans-are-now

[boutons_deux]

Andy Borowitz (https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz?__cft__[0]=AZVrNQzcLqJetaM86bARynMD7SmWGIxwVy3idXzpOahPO1sD2 4cFyEPjqfGYDC4879o2GBvCznVf9d4VYrdeye16NLn8aafHzjl q7RGxt6Dh3PTHlumPiRiXeOHXzgeUGNZTEBJI0V6-7zp1GWkXI98a3_KuyDF0eWB6osXEcPB3S12yuZKJ1yBtLnIdFR NIYfE&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R)

Scientists Believe Thousands of Lives Could Be Saved By Dr. Oz Leaving TV

[DMC]

Yep, Boutons.exe has hit a loop. The Boutons screen of death.

[BackHome]

Capitol rioter enters Texas GOP primary, because this is what Republicans are now

Violently attempting to overthrow the U.S. government

on behalf of clammy fascist Donald Trump is apparently

a feather in your cap if you’re running for office in Texas (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/11/29/north-texas-man-charged-with-assaulting-cops-during-capitol-insurrection-is-running-for-texas-house/).

A North Texas man facing federal charges for allegedly assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/04/23/north-texas-couple-accused-of-assaulting-officers-during-capitol-insurrection-fbi-says/) and siege at the U.S. Capitol is now running for a Texas House seat.

Mark Middleton,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066830/-Capitol-rioter-enters-Texas-GOP-primary-because-this-is-what-Republicans-are-now

Bro you seriously need to get back on your meds

[boutons_deux]

Sen. Johnson Spreads Lie That Vaccines Caused 'Over 19,000 Deaths'



https://www.nationalmemo.com/ron-johnson-vaccine-falsehoods

[boutons_deux]

The line between right-wing trolling and violence is collapsing

Gaetz of Florida, Madison Cawthorne of North Carolina, and Paul Gosar of Arizona — all Republicans more interested in trolling than governance — made showily public offers of an internship to Rittenhouse (https://www.salon.com/2021/11/18/matt-gaetz-praises-kyle-rittenhouse-for-helping-the-country-offers-him-a-congressional-internship/).

Cawthorne even took it to the next level, instructing his supporters to "be armed and dangerous."

Greene of Georgia let loose (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1462447643939033089) with some truly unhinged tweets about "radical Marxists" who are trying to start "a race war," proclaiming that "gun rights are the only thing holding back the Communist Revolution the Democrats are waging."

Right-wing pundits joined in on all the gleeful trolling, as well.

Ann Coulter tweeted a meme equating Rittenhouse with superheroes,

Steven Crowder (https://www.mediamatters.org/steven-crowder/youtube-steven-crowder-encourages-people-take-arms-against-protesters-its-not-only) celebrated the verdict by insisting, "it's so wrong that we teach young men that violence is immoral,"

They got attention and garnered liberal outrage.

"Liberal tears" are the most valuable commodity in Republican circles these days, and

nothing brings forth tears like senseless violence.

illustrates how violence is the logical endpoint of the right-wing obsession with trolling liberals.

By celebrating this violence, congressional Republicans and right-wing media are openly inviting more of it

The flashpoints of Republicans and conservatives promoting political violence have become ceaseless, to the point of frightening normalization,"

but nearly all Republicans stood by Gosar (https://www.salon.com/2021/11/17/rally-to-paul-gosars-side-refuse-to-support-vote-to-censure/). The excuse used to defend Gosar's behavior was that he was just trolling liberals for fun.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/right-wing-violence/

Political violence normalized by Repugs and rightwing hate media? outright FASCISM

[boutons_deux]

American Stormtroopers Organize a Kyle Brigade

https://miro.medium.com/max/870/0*5pkZWydvtFCHoGv4

the “militia movement” has been organizing thousands of trigger-happy American white men into paramilitaries.

Just like the Nazi SA “brownshirts,” this will function as the armed wing of the Party, which is easily

deployed to intimidate and kill political opponents and designated scapegoat groups:

Jews first and foremost in Nazi Germany,

Blacks first and foremost here in America,

though “illegal aliens,” Jews, Muslims, noncompliant school boards(!) and others will not be far behind.

Setbacks like the conviction of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers will only further inflame the Party and its stormtroopers.

When the dictator returns to power in triumph, if he is shrewd enough to let more organized planners run things for him, or if some such figure should himself come to take the dictator’s place at the head of the Party and the country,

then the American Stormtroopers will have served their purpose

At that point, a revamped FBI, a greatly expanded ICE, or a new federal secret police agency will step in to fill the role of the Gestapo and the S.S.

https://medium.com/@khazar.dreamer/american-stormtroopers-organize-a-kyle-brigade-7cd2ad98d153

[Thread]

American Stormtroopers Organize a Kyle Brigade

https://miro.medium.com/max/870/0*5pkZWydvtFCHoGv4

the “militia movement” has been organizing thousands of trigger-happy American white men into paramilitaries.

Just like the Nazi SA “brownshirts,” this will function as the armed wing of the Party, which is easily

deployed to intimidate and kill political opponents and designated scapegoat groups:

Jews first and foremost in Nazi Germany,

Blacks first and foremost here in America,

though “illegal aliens,” Jews, Muslims, noncompliant school boards(!) and others will not be far behind.

Setbacks like the conviction of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers will only further inflame the Party and its stormtroopers.

When the dictator returns to power in triumph, if he is shrewd enough to let more organized planners run things for him, or if some such figure should himself come to take the dictator’s place at the head of the Party and the country,

then the American Stormtroopers will have served their purpose

At that point, a revamped FBI, a greatly expanded ICE, or a new federal secret police agency will step in to fill the role of the Gestapo and the S.S.

https://medium.com/@khazar.dreamer/american-stormtroopers-organize-a-kyle-brigade-7cd2ad98d153

Your BLM wrote the script, bouts.
You've nary room, sonny-boy.

[boutons_deux]

Republican official says he’s the victim after being arrested on harassment charges: This puts ‘my livelihood in jeopardy’

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=28149628&width=800&height=450


​John Lorenzo, the Republican chair of the Rostraver Township Board of Commissioners in Pennsylvania has been arrested on harassment charges for using social media and burner phones to try to ruin his political rivals — but claims he's the victim in all this.






https://www.rawstory.com/john-lorenzo

[boutons_deux]

North Carolina community stunned after viral video shows

teacher blurting out N-word in class


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/jack-jensen-screengrab.png?id=28149225&width=800&height=450

"In the video the teacher is appearing to explain who can use the N-word. :lol

The teacher is seen in the video standing next to a student, a person of color.

'I’m a white man, so I can’t say knitter,' the teacher is heard saying in the video," reported Caitlyn Penter.

"Students are heard in the video expressing shock by what they heard.

'Did you get him saying it,' one student is heard saying in the video.

In August, a teacher in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana was investigated after she wrote on Facebook (https://www.rawstory.com/racist-louisiana-educator/) that a certain part of town was "knitterville" after dark.

And in October, a theater arts teacher at a school near Houston, Texas resigned (https://www.rawstory.com/norman-grueneich/) after a rant demanding there be a "white history month" and

complaining that he doesn't get to use the N-word when his students of color can.

https://www.rawstory.com/mcdowell-high-school-teacher-racial-slur

Once a slave state, always a slave state.

[boutons_deux]

Missouri GOP political consultant gets probation in felony tax fraud case

Passanise also provided the judge with numerous letters of support vouching for Barklage’s character, most coming from his clients and other political consultants.

the indictment says he failed to report $443,633 in income and failed to pay $151,843 in taxes.

Barklage deposited all of these funds into his personal bank account, the indictment says, instead of his business bank accounts.

These funds and earnings “were not included on Barklage’s tax returns for the years 2012, 2013, and 2014,”

https://www.rawstory.com/missouri-gop-political-consultant-gets-probation-in-felony-tax-fraud-case

If he were Black in fucking Missouri ...

[boutons_deux]

Ron DeSantis Wants His Own State Militia

One that would “not be encumbered to the federal government,” and

would instead answer to him.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbbyx/ron-desantis-wants-to-recreate-florida-state-guard

[boutons_deux]

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/image.png?id=28157129&width=379&height=204

on the left:

"Lucas Denney.

They call him #PoleTosser, a nicknamed earned when

Denney launched a giant wooden pole toward a line of police officers

in the midst of a pitched battle on the West Plaza as rioters lobbed projectiles and the two sides exchanged blasts of chemical spray."

https://www.rawstory.com/lucas-denney

aka, "A Friend Of Ted"

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Of course, a former KKK member, ex-con believes

he can win a seat in Georgia—he’s a Republican

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/3/2067357/-Man-who-claims-to-be-ex-KKK-neo-Nazi-running-for-a-seat-on-Georgia-county-board-of-commisioners

[boutons_deux]

Repugs and rightwing hate media have normalized political violence, political murder

‘Stretch that rope’: Prominent right-wing activist suggests Colorado Gov. Polis should be hanged

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/a-bus-and-a-bucket-of-cash-no-one-in-colorado-politics-saw-jared-polis-coming.jpg?id=28161775&width=980&height=550

A prominent right-wing activist with ties to many Colorado Republicans on Friday called for the mass executions of politicians he said were “traitors” to the country, including Gov. Jared Polis and many U.S. senators.

Joe Oltmann, founder and president of the activist group FEC United and host of the “Conservative Daily” podcast,

read aloud the names of the 19 Senate Republicans who this week voted with Democrats to approve an 11-week stopgap spending bill,

amid far-right demands to force a government shutdown over federal vaccine mandates for employers.

https://www.rawstory.com/jared-polis/?traffic_source=Connatix

Thanks, RWNJ Spurstalkers

[Thread]

Repugs and rightwing hate media have normalized political violence, political murder

‘Stretch that rope’: Prominent right-wing activist suggests Colorado Gov. Polis should be hanged

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/a-bus-and-a-bucket-of-cash-no-one-in-colorado-politics-saw-jared-polis-coming.jpg?id=28161775&width=980&height=550

A prominent right-wing activist with ties to many Colorado Republicans on Friday called for the mass executions of politicians he said were “traitors” to the country, including Gov. Jared Polis and many U.S. senators.

Joe Oltmann, founder and president of the activist group FEC United and host of the “Conservative Daily” podcast,

read aloud the names of the 19 Senate Republicans who this week voted with Democrats to approve an 11-week stopgap spending bill,

amid far-right demands to force a government shutdown over federal vaccine mandates for employers.

https://www.rawstory.com/jared-polis/?traffic_source=Connatix

Thanks, RWNJ Spurstalkers




You've nary room as it was you who struck the mold when Madonna threatened to blow up the White House on the day President Trump moved into it.

Nobody said a word. Ya's skinned & ya's grinned.
Your regrets are your own.
I've no sympathy for you.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFxzs73XsAAA0vO?format=jpg&name=900x900

[DMC]

Thanks, got my pillow.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFyLqoSXMAE1YYt?format=jpg&name=large

[DMC]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFyLqoSXMAE1YYt?format=jpg&name=large

:tu

That Thompson on the right looks pretty sweet.

[boutons_deux]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFyLqoSXMAE1YYt?format=jpg&name=large

Epitomizes The American (violence-for-profits) Disease, unique among developed nations.

[boutons_deux]

Ben Carson: We have a Constitution because 'lions eat gazelles'

host Maria Bartiromo :lol

argued that a bipartisan bill to improve vaccine infrastructure (https://kuster.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4115) :lol AKA save lives and the economy

would increase the Center for Disease Control's "surveillance" on Americans. :lol

"Lions kill gazelles and eat them not because they are bad animals but because they're lions. :lol

And that's why we have a Constitution. :lol

The Constitution was given to the people of this country so that they could control the growth of government." :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/ben-carson-lions-eat-gazelles

the intellectual heft of the Repugs and RWNJs continues to be hilariously low

The Constitution was written by white male, slave-owning, anti-democratic oligarchy to block citizens, esp non-white, non-male citizens from electing Presidents unsuitable to the oligarchy and to pander to slave-owners.

[Trainwreck2100]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFyLqoSXMAE1YYt?format=jpg&name=large

that m60 has real small dick energy, but at least they practice proper trigger discipline

[DMC]

that m60 has real small dick energy, but at least they practice proper trigger discipline

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2020_38/3411968/200914-joe-biden-uaw-se-130p.jpg

Here's the POTUS glorifying murder weapons

[Trainwreck2100]

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2020_38/3411968/200914-joe-biden-uaw-se-130p.jpg

Here's the POTUS glorifying murder weapons

both unnecessary big trucks and m60s got that small dick energy tbqh

[boutons_deux]

Repugs and right wing hate media HATE Jews (but not their money)

Anne Frank Memorial vandalized in Boise, Idaho - police

The Anne Frank Memorial in Boise, Idaho was vandalized with graffiti, Boise Police said on Twitter Saturday.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/anne-frank-memorial-vandalized-in-boise-idaho-police-687896

[DMC]

both unnecessary big trucks and m60s got that small dick energy tbqh

:lol You sure know your small dick energy. The Prius is obviously a car for a real man, eh?

[Trainwreck2100]

:lol You sure know your small dick energy. The Prius is obviously a car for a real man, eh?

I applaud you're attempt at turning this from a gun thing to a car thing for legit no reason. But you believe what you want, eh?

[DMC]

I applaud you're attempt at turning this from a gun thing to a car thing for legit no reason. But you believe what you want, eh?

I mean, the car was responsible for those parade deaths. Deadly weapon.

[Trainwreck2100]

I mean, the car was responsible for those parade deaths. Deadly weapon.

Ok has fuck all to do with that guy holding an M60 though

[boutons_deux]

Nebraska's GOP governor is ramping up the 'nuttiness' as he embraces Trump's policies


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/gays-are-scum-of-the-earth-republican-governors-aide-attacked-lgbt-black-and-jewish-people-on-social-media-site-popular-with-alt-right.jpg?id=28165845&width=980&height=522

trying to turn himself into a national player in the Republican Party by ramping up the "nuttiness quotient" and embracing far-right conspiracies (https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-nebraska-governor-pete-ricketts-acting-extra-crazy?ref=home).

"embracing" the way the former president gained a mass audience while using the president's extremist playbook.

his 'crazy' refusal (https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-ricketts-dangerous-nebraska-reopening-plan) to lock down the state despite a surge of COVID-19 cases,

the unearthed racist messages (https://www.thedailybeast.com/nebraska-gop-gov-pete-ricketts-former-field-director-bennett-bressman-pushed-white-nationalism-in-leaked-chats) from his former campaign field director, and

his maskless gabfest (https://www.thedailybeast.com/filming-maskless-nebraska-gov-pete-ricketts-got-her-fired-server-says) at a sports bar on election night 2020.

(The restaurant worker who filmed the governor was fired)," the report states before adding,

"Yet in recent months the nuttiness quotient has somehow metastasized."

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-ricketts-2655923136

[Thread]

Nebraska's GOP governor is ramping up the 'nuttiness' as he embraces Trump's policies


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/gays-are-scum-of-the-earth-republican-governors-aide-attacked-lgbt-black-and-jewish-people-on-social-media-site-popular-with-alt-right.jpg?id=28165845&width=980&height=522

trying to turn himself into a national player in the Republican Party by ramping up the "nuttiness quotient" and embracing far-right conspiracies (https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-nebraska-governor-pete-ricketts-acting-extra-crazy?ref=home).

"embracing" the way the former president gained a mass audience while using the president's extremist playbook.

his 'crazy' refusal (https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-ricketts-dangerous-nebraska-reopening-plan) to lock down the state despite a surge of COVID-19 cases,

the unearthed racist messages (https://www.thedailybeast.com/nebraska-gop-gov-pete-ricketts-former-field-director-bennett-bressman-pushed-white-nationalism-in-leaked-chats) from his former campaign field director, and

his maskless gabfest (https://www.thedailybeast.com/filming-maskless-nebraska-gov-pete-ricketts-got-her-fired-server-says) at a sports bar on election night 2020.

(The restaurant worker who filmed the governor was fired)," the report states before adding,

"Yet in recent months the nuttiness quotient has somehow metastasized."

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-ricketts-2655923136



Under MF Biden...last 7 day average...

120k of new cases every day.
1660 new dead every day.

[baseline bum]

Under MF Biden...last 7 day average...

120k of new cases every day.
1660 new dead every day.

Get vaccinated or you can end up on his ledger too

[boutons_deux]

Blatant, rampant MISOGYNY of white male supremacists' War on Women


Next Up On GOP’s Agenda: Stripping Women Of Political & Economic Power

banning most forms of birth control used today, including birth control pills and the IUD.

Step one is to hyper-regulate “morning after pills.”

the Texas legislature passed SB4 (https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/billtext/pdf/SB00004F.pdf#navpanes=0).

This particularly insidious law (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/22/texas-abortion-inducing-drugs-law-greg-abbott) makes it a crime for women to be prescribed abortion-inducing Mifeprex (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/mifeprex-mifepristone-information) (works up to 70 days after the last menstrual period), Cytotec (https://safe2choose.org/safe-abortion/abortion-pills/types-abortion-pill-brands/cytotec) (works up to the 13th week of pregnancy) and methotrexate (works up to the 9th week of pregnancy) any later than three weeks after missing a period.

The law specifically criminalizes physicians and healthcare institutions who prescribe or provide these drugs outside of that parameter.

Greg Abbott (said) straight up if he’d be able to ban birth all control pills in Texas he suggested it was still possible (https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1447947406600032271).
step two in the GOP’s War on Women.

Republicans — most famously Rick Santorum (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-birth-control-sodomy_n_1181291) — have run for president saying that states have the right to ban birth control pills,

“Personhood” bills that would define any birth control method that prevents the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall — which includes IUDs and all birth control pills — have passed at least one legislative branch in Montana (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2021-03-18/montana-house-advances-personhood-bill-to-limit-abortions), Kansas (http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2014/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2253_enrolled.pdf), Virginia (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/va-house-passes-personhood-abortion-bill/), Tennessee (https://republicandaily.com/2021/05/bill-declaring-personhood-begins-at-conception-passes-tennessee-general-assembly/), North Dakota (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/personhood-bills-introduced-gain-traction-across-us/), Arkansas (https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=SB&source=Bills&bill=417&ddBienniumSession=2013%2F2013R), and Mississippi (http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2017/11/07/us-roman-catholic-bishops-and-national-right-to-life-do-not-support-personhood-legislation/) and been introduced by Republicans in Ohio (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ohio-introduces-personhood-bill-to-recognize-all-abortions-as-murder/), Georgia, Maine (http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_126th/billtexts/HP083701.asp), Texas, South Carolina (http://christiansforpersonhood.com/), Oklahoma, Iowa and in the US Congress. (https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-the-personhood-bill-hr-586-is-affront-to-women-everywhere-33079)


During Mike Pence’s first year as governor of Indiana, his state put a young woman in prison for having a miscarriage, alleging that she’d taken an abortion-causing drug. Purvi Patel (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/02/it-isnt-justice-for-purvi-patel-to-serve-20-years-in-prison-for-an-abortion) didn’t have a trace of such a drug in her system, but Pence’s state sentenced her to 20 years in prison anyway.

Bei Bei Shuai (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/30/indiana-prosecuting-chinese-woman-suicide-foetus) for 435 days in the brutal maximum security Marion County prison, facing 45 years to life for trying to kill herself and, in the process, causing the death of her 33-week fetus.



Utah charged 28-year-old Melissa Ann Rowland (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mom-arrested-after-utah-stillbirth/) with murder because she refused a C-section, preferring vaginal birth for her twins, and one of them died.


Sixteen-year-old Rennie Gibbs (https://www.propublica.org/article/stillborn-child-charge-of-murder-and-disputed-case-law-on-fetal-harm) was charged by the state of Mississippi with “depraved heart murder” when her baby was born dead because his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck: her crime was that she had cocaine in her bloodstream, according to prosecutors.
Angela Carder (https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/08/opinion/the-fruit-of-angela-carder-s-agony.html) was ordered to have a C-section to deliver her baby before she died of cancer; both she and the baby died from the procedure.

there were 413 documented—and probably thousands of lesser-known—cases of women being prosecuted for having miscarriages or attempting abortions between the time Roe v. Wade became the law of the land and 2005.






Next up on the GOP’s agenda to strip women of political and economic power will be banning most forms of birth control used today, including birth control pills and the IUD.


Step one is to hyper-regulate “morning after pills.”


While Texas’s 100% GOP SB8 law that puts $10,000 bounties on friends of women who get abortions receives all the attention, that same week the Texas legislature passed SB4 (https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/billtext/pdf/SB00004F.pdf#navpanes=0).


This particularly insidious law (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/22/texas-abortion-inducing-drugs-law-greg-abbott) makes it a crime for women to be prescribed abortion-inducing Mifeprex (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/mifeprex-mifepristone-information) (works up to 70 days after the last menstrual period), Cytotec (https://safe2choose.org/safe-abortion/abortion-pills/types-abortion-pill-brands/cytotec) (works up to the 13th week of pregnancy) and methotrexate (works up to the 9th week of pregnancy) any later than three weeks after missing a period.

The law specifically criminalizes physicians and healthcare institutions who prescribe or provide these drugs outside of that parameter.

Which, of course, is step two in the GOP’s War on Women.

Republicans — most famously Rick Santorum (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-birth-control-sodomy_n_1181291) — have run for president saying that states have the right to ban birth control pills, and multiple states are pushing so-called “personhood” bills that specify that human life begins at the moment of fertilization in the fallopian tubes.

“Personhood” bills that would define any birth control method that prevents the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall — which includes IUDs and all birth control pills — have passed at least one legislative branch in Montana (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2021-03-18/montana-house-advances-personhood-bill-to-limit-abortions), Kansas (http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2014/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2253_enrolled.pdf), Virginia (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/va-house-passes-personhood-abortion-bill/), Tennessee (https://republicandaily.com/2021/05/bill-declaring-personhood-begins-at-conception-passes-tennessee-general-assembly/), North Dakota (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/personhood-bills-introduced-gain-traction-across-us/), Arkansas (https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=SB&source=Bills&bill=417&ddBienniumSession=2013%2F2013R), and Mississippi (http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2017/11/07/us-roman-catholic-bishops-and-national-right-to-life-do-not-support-personhood-legislation/) and been introduced by Republicans in Ohio (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ohio-introduces-personhood-bill-to-recognize-all-abortions-as-murder/), Georgia, Maine (http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_126th/billtexts/HP083701.asp), Texas, South Carolina (http://christiansforpersonhood.com/), Oklahoma, Iowa and in the US Congress. (https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-the-personhood-bill-hr-586-is-affront-to-women-everywhere-33079)

Next summer it’s safe to assume women will lose abortion rights in at last half of American states. If the personhood advocates in the GOP have their way, that could soon expand to birth control pills and extend across the entire nation.

And now the GOP’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is on its way. It’s not as if we weren’t warned:
These cases have exploded in recent years (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/opinion/pregnant-and-no-civil-rights.html), as the GOP and

the nation’s law enforcement system have embraced the American “Christian” version of Sharia law

which dictates that women are the property of men and their principal purpose for existence is reproduction.

According to Duke University’s Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/38/2/299/13533/Arrests-of-and-Forced-Interventions-on-Pregnant), there were 413 documented—and probably thousands of lesser-known—cases of women being prosecuted for having miscarriages or attempting abortions between the time Roe v. Wade became the law of the land and 2005.

Between 2005 and 2014, the Guttmacher Institute documented another 380 (https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2012/03/troubling-trend-more-states-hostile-abortion-rights-middle-ground-shrinks) cases.

any woman in that state who has a miscarriage at risk of 30 years in prison (https://www.businessinsider.com/women-30-years-prison-miscarriage-georgia-abortion-2019-5) or even the death penalty.

Other states are in line, and in those states, like Georgia, with the death penalty, many are proposing legislation to put women who have abortions to death.

Romania, ... At least 10,000 women died of botched illegal abortions (that’s the official number; the real number is probably 10 times that) before Nicolae Ceaușescu was deposed and the law was repealed.

maternal death was higher than any other country in Europe by a factor of ten (https://tinyurl.com/y5fm6y6z) and poverty exploded.

Given that one out of four pregnancies ends in miscarriage (and new research suggests (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33224477/) it may be as many as half of all pregnancies), laws like Georgia’s and Alabama’s may well require a substantial addition to our police systems.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/5/2067207/-Next-Up-On-GOP-s-Agenda-Stripping-Women-Of-Political-Economic-Power

[boutons_deux]

Jim Jordan:

Liberals must be destroyed because they are successors to 'evils' of Nazis and slavery

https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-nazis-slavery

brutalized? killed?

Thanks and fuck youi, Ohio

[boutons_deux]

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[Thread]

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/265279408_10227740821484932_6558330204794917473_n. jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=-HD8QKTT96wAX_Zo8IL&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=e3a94321678dd10703bb8f15480912c9&oe=61B46B39

Bottom left hand corner quadrant..."You hit him, he'll hit back 10x harder."

Mel Trump, like 48 hours into it.

You was duly warned, bouts.

Your regrets are your own.

I've no sympathy for you. Nary!!!

[boutons_deux]

it be God who dunnit

'God had cornered me': :lol

Mark Meadows explains why he had no choice but to work in Trump's White House


God as the one responsible for the path of his life.

said that he never wanted to be in Congress, but that God had other plans for him.

his tenure in former President Donald Trump's administration an act of divine intervention.

"The president of the United States was asking me to serve my country, and the answer was going to have to be yes.

As my wife would put it later, God had cornered me."

It was God, which is part of the doctrine of Divine Command Theory (https://iep.utm.edu/divine-c/), which puts God at the source of any and all actions in one's life.

“We didn’t have any choice,” Meadow's wife said. “God cornered us.” :lol no "free will"?

Meadows was caught lying about his education

he changed it to reflect that he had an associate's degree.

Meadows's congressional office was the source of an expensive ethics scandal after it was found that his chief of staff sexually harassed women in his office (https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-mark-meadows-aide-says-sexual-harassment-in-congressmans-office-was-known-earlier-than-reported).

Meadows was fined $40,625, to match the "salary that was not commensurate with his work."

another ethics scandal involving $60,000 in campaign expenditures (https://www.salon.com/2020/10/21/mark-meadows-fec-filings-raise-questions-of-unlawful-spending-campaign-coordination/) that came after Meadows said he wouldn't seek reelection.

https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-god-cornered-us

[boutons_deux]

Old Times There Are Not Forgotten

Feds bust dozens in 'modern-day slavery' operation, migrants held at gunpoint on Georgia farms

The over 100 victims were smuggled from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras

and brought to the farms where

they were “imprisoned” under “inhumane” and “brutal” conditions, and

forced to work for little or no money.

At least two workers died,

and one was allegedly raped repeatedly.

dig onions with their bare hands and

were paid only 20 cents for each bucket harvested.

Two dozen accused members and associates of the “Patricio” crime ring face myriad felony charges.

The alleged scheme netted over $200 million,
laundering the funds through cash purchases of land, homes, vehicles, and businesses,

after buying cashier’s checks and then funneling the millions through a casino.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/6/2067791/-Feds-bust-dozens-in-modern-day-slavery-operation-migrant-held-at-gunpoint-on-Georgia-farms

[boutons_deux]

Another one of Trash/Federalist Soc political/fascist judges blocks Dems from governing

motherfucker judge blocks Biden's mandate for federal contractors

[Winehole23]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/30/america-years-of-lead-political-violence-trump-election/

[DMC]

Ok has fuck all to do with that guy holding an M60 though

Has everything to do with it. Why do you think an M60 is a small dick energy weapon? You ever fired one?

[DMC]

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/265279408_10227740821484932_6558330204794917473_n. jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=-HD8QKTT96wAX_Zo8IL&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=e3a94321678dd10703bb8f15480912c9&oe=61B46B39

Because liberals are notorious Jesus lovers.

[boutons_deux]

Republicans' trust in doctors is eroding.

It's a symptom of a larger disease.

Republicans are feeling increasingly shaky about the medical profession:

The number who say they are confident in their physician's medical advice has dropped 13 points since 2010.

Twenty-two percent report they trust their doctor less than they did just a year ago.

Roughly 40 percent (https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-november-2021/) of self-identified Republicans remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus,

egged on by hypocritical (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/fox-news-anti-vax-messaging-policies) conservative "thought leaders" — like Fox News' Tucker Carlson (https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-brian-stelter-cnn-fox-covid-vaccine-misinformation/) — who have promoted anti-vax hysteria (https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/tucker-carlson-goes-full-anti-vaccine-robert-f-kennedy-jr).

Gallup reported in July that Republican confidence in science itself has declined (https://news.gallup.com/poll/352397/democratic-republican-confidence-science-diverges.aspx) from 72 percent in the mid-1970s to 45 percent this year,

withering (https://theconversation.com/many-conservatives-have-a-difficult-relationship-with-science-we-wanted-to-find-out-why-165499) under decades-long conservative assaults on questions like climate change (https://newrepublic.com/article/147729/war-science-over-republicans-won) and the teaching of evolution (https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/us/politics/05darwin.html).

Doctor mistrust might be part of the same phenomenon.

https://theweek.com/politics/1007820/what-happens-when-republicans-dont-trust-their-doctors

What is the Repug, Carlson, right wing hate media end point spewing BigLies and subversion?

[Winehole23]

Because liberals are notorious Jesus lovers.You've pointed out many times that a solid majority of Dems self-identify as Christian.



https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/compare/christians/by/party-affiliation/

[Trainwreck2100]

Has everything to do with it. Why do you think an M60 is a small dick energy weapon? You ever fired one?

What? You're saying some guy in a car has everything to do with a different seperate guy holding an M60? Makes no sense

[boutons_deux]

Keep the pandemic and inflation going to hurt the Dems, human life be damned

As deaths mount in Republican counties, party leaders find advantage in letting them continue

Republican governors have singled out government pandemic experts as named enemies.

The party has banded together to challenge safety programs with declarations that obliging Americans to wear cloth masks in public, during a worldwide health crisis, is an affront to their "freedoms."

Fox News and other conservative outlets have been relentless in turning a pandemic into yet another culture war, and

safety measures as something akin to flag-burning.

The "new" Republican Party had turned itself into a misinformation and disinformation dispensary before the virus ever emerged,

The moment the then-Republican White House proved unable to mount a response equal to the severity of the task that faced them,

the party's infrastructure was mobilized to instead argue that inaction was the proper—even patriotic—course of action, and

that all the safety measures the nation's experts had prepared to combat a biological crisis were not just unnecessary,

but a conspiracy meant exclusively to annoy you into submission.

it's not that conservative-minded Americans are willingly attempting to kill themselves off.

There's an entire political infrastructure dedicated to killing them.

The party is devoted to stoking all possible culture wars,

denying all possible points of national agreement, and

portraying each prior societal consensus as, now, evidence of "communist" thought.

Republicanism, now fully merged with Trumpism, finds political advantage in

egging Americans to reject whatever a non-Trumpist government is telling them.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2068051/-As-deaths-mount-in-Republican-counties-party-leaders-find-advantage-in-letting-them-continue

[boutons_deux]

Four horsemen of the dumbocalypse hold outrageously ignorant press conference on Jan. 6 insurrection (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2068064/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-says-Jan-6-rioters-being-persecuted-because-of-the-color-of-their-skin)

promoting every conspiracy theory under the sun and attacking anybody who dares call into question the actions of the people we all saw on television, on our computers, and on our mobile devices attacking the Capitol building.

these elected officials have made it their brand to lie in almost every setting as they use their positions of power to do virtually nothing to promote a better, more prosperous American citizenry.

Donald Trump, and that bizarre balance has made him king of these sociopaths.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says January 6 defendants are getting pumped full of "critical race theory training" in jail

“They were isolated in a separate wing of the jail,

where they are abused,

where they are ridiculed,

where they are mocked because of their political beliefs and because of January 6, and because of the color of their skin.”

"We are going to take power after this next election. When we do, it's not going to be the days of Paul Ryan, and Trey Gowdy, and no real oversight, and no real subpoenas. It's going to be the days of Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Dr. Gosar, and myself."

Gaetz told him “that if Republicans win the House in 2022, he will move to install Trump as House Speaker.” (https://twitter.com/alexnazaryan/status/1468290308987363329)

Gohmert continued to press the new Big Lie about J6 today, but took it a step further saying phantom FBI agents should be arrested for insurrection: “Agents for the Fed Govt that were there stirring things up trying to get people to engage in violence.”

Greene answered that with a tremendous series of lies, including the statement that

she and Gohmert wanted to give the Capitol Police medals of honor.

Sadly, Texas’ Gohmert, Georgia’s Greene, Florida’s Gaetz, and Arizona’s Gosar were four of the 21 Republicans who voted against the House bill

that would award Capitol Police officers present during the Jan. 6 insurrection with Congressional medals of honor.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2068064/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-says-Jan-6-rioters-being-persecuted-because-of-the-color-of-their-skin

[boutons_deux]

'We just don't feel safe':

Woman sets fire to New Mexico's oldest and largest Islamic Center

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1014439/story_image/Nweslettereditorialframes-2.png?1638829080


Multiple fires were set near the prayer hall of the Islamic Center of New Mexico by a woman captured on surveillance video, local news outlet KOB 4 (https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/surveillance-video-shows-woman-setting-fires-at-albuquerque-islamic-center/6320621/) reported. The fire also spread to the facility’s playground.

worshippers believe it may be connected to a woman who showed up at the center last week and was hostile toward them.

it has not yet been declared a hate crime. :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2067824/--We-just-don-t-feel-safe-Woman-sets-fire-to-New-Mexico-s-oldest-and-largest-Islamic-Center

Christian fascists inflame hate against non-Christians

[DMC]

You've pointed out many times that a solid majority of Dems self-identify as Christian.



https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/compare/christians/by/party-affiliation/

Dems are not necessarily liberals.

[DMC]

What? You're saying some guy in a car has everything to do with a different seperate guy holding an M60? Makes no sense

You saying a gun has something to do with penis size makes no sense. Maybe you need a mulligan on this one.

[DMC]

Dems are not necessarily liberals.

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ft_2020.01.17_demideology_01a.png

[Ef-man]

True tipoff that it hit a nerve is when the idiot acts as though he is not compensating. :lol

[SnakeBoy]

'We just don't feel safe':

Woman sets fire to New Mexico's oldest and largest Islamic Center

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1014439/story_image/Nweslettereditorialframes-2.png?1638829080


Multiple fires were set near the prayer hall of the Islamic Center of New Mexico by a woman captured on surveillance video, local news outlet KOB 4 (https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/surveillance-video-shows-woman-setting-fires-at-albuquerque-islamic-center/6320621/) reported. The fire also spread to the facility’s playground.

worshippers believe it may be connected to a woman who showed up at the center last week and was hostile toward them.

it has not yet been declared a hate crime. :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2067824/--We-just-don-t-feel-safe-Woman-sets-fire-to-New-Mexico-s-oldest-and-largest-Islamic-Center

Christian fascists inflame hate against non-Christians

Methhead burned some trash

https://d21yqjvcoayho7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/09/thumbnail_islamiccenterfire.jpg

ENHANCE

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/breakingbad/images/2/2e/Wendy_smoking_-_Half_Measures.png/revision/latest?cb=20131025094740

[Winehole23]

Dems are not necessarily liberals.Self-identified conservatives according to polling who voted for Bolshevik Brandon, for some reason.

Or do you suddenly think Joe Biden isn't liberal?

I happen to think he's a pretty conservative, for a Dem.

[boutons_deux]

'Get them ready now': Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon discuss plan to take over government with 'shock troops'

a plan to use "4,000 shock troops" to take over the jobs of federal government employees.

Bannon has previously said (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bannon-fires-shock-troops-next-gop-white-house-n1280591) that the so-called "shock troops" need to be prepared prior to Republican control of the executive branch.

Gaetz went on to say that he is pushing to be named as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

"I don't need a new committee, I just need a gavel," he said.

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-steve-bannon-shock-troops

If these two pricks were Blacks or Muslims ...

aka, white fucking privilege

[boutons_deux]

Mark Meadows possessed 'insane' blueprint for military seizing ballots after Trump's 2020 defeat

there was a blueprint for members of the National Guard and U.S. Marshals to take control of the U.S. election system following former President Donald Trump's defeat.

Meadows had provided the committee (https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-documents-jan6-committee/) with an email containing a 38-page PowerPoint slideshow titled

"Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN."

National Guard in each state would be federalized to count only "legitimate" paper ballots.

Meanwhile, U.S. Marshals would be tasked with providing a "protective perimeter around the locations."

Other recommendations include declaring a national security emergency.

All electronic votes would be declared invalid under the plan and

NASA astronaut Sid Gutierrez was slated to lead the task force.

The slideshow is dated Jan. 5, 2021,

https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-slide-show

[Trainwreck2100]

You saying a gun has something to do with penis size makes no sense. Maybe you need a mulligan on this one.


I'm going to pretend you're trolling when you are pretending to not know what compensation means. And I mean that gun in particular

[boutons_deux]

Explicit woman-hating

'Not what the founders wrote!' Fox host fumes after Biden says 'all women and men' are equal at democracy summit

"We hold these truths to be self-evident," said Biden.

"That all women and men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,

But Fox News Primetime's Tammy Bruce took particular offense at Biden's insertion of "women" into the speech.

"You notice how he added women and men are created equal," she said.

"Not just men. It matters, right, that's not what the founders wrote.

Apparently the sacred words of our founders weren’t inclusive enough for Sleepy Joe."

https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-biden (https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-biden/[email protected]&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9434&recip_id=298460&list_id=1)

God must love dumb bitches, Fox has nothing but

[boutons_deux]

Here's the shitstorm we receive with billionaire's own a state

‘The absurdity is stunning’:

Chief of Wisconsin GOP's election review blasted for effort to arrest mayor of Madison

Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman

Gableman, who is reviewing the election on behalf of Speaker Robin Vos and other Assembly Republicans, has filed a petition in Waukesha County Circuit Court that would enable Ramirez

to have the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office travel to Madison and Green Bay,

arrest the mayors and detain them in the county jail in order to force them to testify about the election.

https://www.rawstory.com/the-absurdity-is-stunning-chief-of-wisconsin-gop-s-election-review-blasted-for-effort-to-arrest-mayor-of-madison

[boutons_deux]

Fox says the Christmas tree burning is another Pearl Harbor

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/265807632_282310494000532_4766082607067833549_n.jp g?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_aid=0&_nc_ohc=1avrIkaVxPMAX9cpr_F&tn=8csZxlbUL7GHVpMm&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=5924d58863912eacf9c6d40c62c25fff&oe=61B905EB

[ElNono]

McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms

Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader.

Why it matters: Every midterm cycle, there are Republican donors and operatives who argue the party should release a positive, pro-active governing outline around which candidates can rally. McConnell adamantly rejects this idea, preferring to skewer Democrats for their perceived failures.

https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-no-agenda-midterms-91c73112-0a2e-441b-b713-7e8aa2dad6bf.html

---

This is what he GOP really boils down to these days, tbh... "owning the libs" has overtaken any substantive policy position/proposal.

It's the modern version of "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"...

[Winehole23]

McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms

Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader.

Why it matters: Every midterm cycle, there are Republican donors and operatives who argue the party should release a positive, pro-active governing outline around which candidates can rally. McConnell adamantly rejects this idea, preferring to skewer Democrats for their perceived failures.

https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-no-agenda-midterms-91c73112-0a2e-441b-b713-7e8aa2dad6bf.html

---

This is what he GOP really boils down to these days, tbh... "owning the libs" has overtaken any substantive policy position/proposal.

It's the modern version of "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"...The 2020 GOP platform foreshadowed this. None.

They didn't want to tie the great man's hands.

[DMC]

Self-identified conservatives according to polling who voted for Bolshevik Brandon, for some reason.

Or do you suddenly think Joe Biden isn't liberal?

I happen to think he's a pretty conservative, for a Dem.I think Joe is pretty conservative. This is why I voted for him. I've said so before. I don't know why you would say "suddenly think".

Also, the rest of your post makes no sense. It's like you're having an internal dialogue.

I said liberals aren't notorious Jesus followers. You've disagreed by using Dems.
I said not all Dems are liberals. You offered up Joe Biden who you claim is more conservative but then I was referring to liberals, not just Dems. Joe isn't liberal.

Maybe try again, or don't.


I'm going to pretend you're trolling when you are pretending to not know what compensation means. And I mean that gun in particular

You can pretend all you like. Using the "compensating for dick size" argument is something women do to men, it's not something men do to men. Why would you care about another man's dick?

(cue SR21's mad search to find a gotheem quote from me)

[DMC]

McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms

Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader.

Why it matters: Every midterm cycle, there are Republican donors and operatives who argue the party should release a positive, pro-active governing outline around which candidates can rally. McConnell adamantly rejects this idea, preferring to skewer Democrats for their perceived failures.

https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-no-agenda-midterms-91c73112-0a2e-441b-b713-7e8aa2dad6bf.html

---

This is what he GOP really boils down to these days, tbh... "owning the libs" has overtaken any substantive policy position/proposal.

It's the modern version of "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"...

As if the Dems didn't spend 2 years, even ignoring COVID onset, to try to have Trump removed from office multiple times. :lol

[ChumpDumper]

And yet, they had a legislative agenda.

:lol "ignoring"

[boutons_deux]

McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms

Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader.

Why it matters: Every midterm cycle, there are Republican donors and operatives who argue the party should release a positive, pro-active governing outline around which candidates can rally. McConnell adamantly rejects this idea, preferring to skewer Democrats for their perceived failures.

https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-no-agenda-midterms-91c73112-0a2e-441b-b713-7e8aa2dad6bf.html

---

This is what he GOP really boils down to these days, tbh... "owning the libs" has overtaken any substantive policy position/proposal.

It's the modern version of "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"...

Repugs

When in power, cut taxes for the oligarchy (see them doing it right after getting power 2001 and 2017)

... behind closed doors: implement Bannon's "destruction of the administrative state" (to enrich their bribers while sickening, killing Americans)

When out of power, obstruct every attempt of the "illegit opposition" Dems to govern

Financed by Capitalist oligarchy, the Repugs are within a few years of total fascism, say Jan 2025, not by doing anything illegal. Repugs are realized that their Bad Faith "coup d'etat" is unstoppable.

The Dems are guilty in feckless silence. Biden and the Dems will not expose the blatant, in-your-face Repug takeover strategy towards fascism.

[Trainwreck2100]

You can pretend all you like. Using the "compensating for dick size" argument is something women do to men, it's not something men do to men. Why would you care about another man's dick?

(cue SR21's mad search to find a gotheem quote from me)

That's not even true at all. Caring about dick size is something women do for men, noticing compensation is just noticing compensation

[ChumpDumper]

:lol it's telling that the worst insult DMC can think of is calling someone a w:cryman. No wonder he has to compensate.

[boutons_deux]

Trump demands undermine unity of GOP leaders

The main source of division between the two top Republicans in Congress is their contrasting relationships with former President Trump (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump),

whose day-to-day comments on events in Washington have a major influence over the GOP.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/585398-trump-demands-undermine-unity-of-gop-leaders

[boutons_deux]

As deaths mount in Republican counties, party leaders find advantage in letting them continue


https://images.dailykos.com/images/583245/story_image/GettyImages-1008609864.jpg?1535632726

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2068051/-As-deaths-mount-in-Republican-counties-party-leaders-find-advantage-in-letting-them-continue

The Repug judges are also promoting the slaughter by blocking Biden mandates.

[boutons_deux]

More Missouri Health Departments Stop COVID Services After Threats From AG Eric Schmitt

Attorney General Eric Schmitt threatened legal action if they were to continue.

At least six health departments issued statements Thursday night saying they would

halt all COVID-related work, including case investigations, contact tracing, quarantine directives, and public announcement of the number of cases and deaths.

Agencies in Stoddard, Pemiscot, New Madrid, Scott, Dunklin, and Laclede Counties were included, according to The Kansas City Star (https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article256483746.html).

threatening legal action if they didn't obey a ruling made the previous month by Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green that banned COVID regulations and health orders from local health departments,

The attorney general on Wednesday also urged parents to report districts with mask and quarantine rules to his office.

https://www.newsweek.com/more-missouri-health-departments-stop-covid-services-after-threats-ag-eric-schmitt-1658448


"Green attended Trevecca Nazarene College for his bachelor of arts

Judge Green ruled that there would be no new trial for Ryan Ferguson, who was convicted of a 2005 murder, despite recanted testimony."

https://ballotpedia.org/Daniel_Green"

btw, Ryan Ferguson is WHITE

[Winehole23]

I think Joe is pretty conservative. This is why I voted for him. I've said so before. I don't know why you would say "suddenly think".

Also, the rest of your post makes no sense. It's like you're having an internal dialogue.

I said liberals aren't notorious Jesus followers. You've disagreed by using Dems.
I said not all Dems are liberals. You offered up Joe Biden who you claim is more conservative but then I was referring to liberals, not just Dems. Joe isn't liberal.

Maybe try again, or don't.We agree that Joe isn't very liberal and actually kind of conservative.

You seldom make your own points clear, thanks for unpacking this one a little bit. :tu

[Winehole23]

BTW, why did you vote for Obama over McCain?

Certainly not because Obama was more conservative, did you have a beef with McCain?

[ChumpDumper]

As deaths mount in Republican counties, party leaders find advantage in letting them continue


https://images.dailykos.com/images/583245/story_image/GettyImages-1008609864.jpg?1535632726

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2068051/-As-deaths-mount-in-Republican-counties-party-leaders-find-advantage-in-letting-them-continue

The Repug judges are also promoting the slaughter by blocking Biden mandates.Trumptards have decided any number of COVID deaths is acceptable.

They trigger the Dems, so they can't be bad, right?

[ElNono]

As if the Dems didn't spend 2 years, even ignoring COVID onset, to try to have Trump removed from office multiple times. :lol

That actually implies they had a legislative agenda... not to mention they were first in line to vote for the COVID relief that orangina sent out...

It's not very difficult to see where Dems stand in policy like healthcare, immigration, etc. You might not like where they stand, but it's not difficult to see it.

[DMC]

That actually implies they had a legislative agenda... not to mention they were first in line to vote for the COVID relief that orangina sent out...

It's not very difficult to see where Dems stand in policy like healthcare, immigration, etc. You might not like where they stand, but it's not difficult to see it.

The agenda was to do no legislation, only to try to stymie the WH. What you're talking about is commonplace politics for "both sides". I see where the dems claim to stand. That's the problem with the dems, they aren't cohesive enough to do anything about their convictions. Enough of them are career politicians who would rather salve the beltway relationships than make any real changes. They had the WH and the majority in both the house and senate. What did they do? Then the constituents have the gall to claim "if we only had 4 more years we could blah blah on gun control, or abortion, or Gay rights, or immigration, or minimum wage, or the environment". Still, nothing. WH23 showed it was likely worse.

How's the gun control thing doing? How about federal minimum wage hike? What do they have to show? I voted for Biden because Trump was too much of a showman, not really suited for leadership, too self centered and borderline psychotic. I have to admit though that the dems haven't provided anything but a relief from seeing Trump.

[DMC]

BTW, why did you vote for Obama over McCain?

Certainly not because Obama was more conservative, did you have a beef with McCain?

I never thought McCain would be a good leader on a world stage. I didn't trust him to be honest, thought he built his maverick reputation for selfish reasons. However I was more concerned about Sarah Palin. Anyone who would pick her as a running mate wasn't right in the head, and I am pretty sure John didn't have a lot to do with it. I thought Obama seemed like a good person IRL. I thought other leaders might feel that way as well. John would have been a international disaster, probably would have bombed Hanoi.

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/266742852_284620270436221_4531209749484529971_n.jp g?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=Lp2gsUj-rlUAX8Tapg3&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT-N91DCPectuaxl8YtvhjgFSeLNSLuUhF8FbAT8-u4mPA&oe=61BBEBDC

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/p843x403/265950822_282296950668553_1312231296237414645_n.jp g?_nc_cat=111&_nc_rgb565=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=wp4HimFnL6oAX8HCKJZ&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT_-isA303UOVF6gZFappjZKVKqENG20bgDTU-IpE-brGA&oe=61BC0BEC

[boutons_deux]

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Rand Paul Opposition to Previous Disaster Relief Resurfaces

as He Seeks Aid for Kentucky

https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-opposition-previous-disaster-relief-resurfaces-he-seeks-aid-kentucky-1658537

Let's take up collection to buy paper towels for Rand

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGbeUL1WQAwsUo_?format=png&name=small

[Adam Lambert]

To be fair to Trumpists, that's been a hallmark of conservative discourse since Trump was a Democrat.

[Winehole23]

To be fair to Trumpists, that's been a hallmark of conservative discourse since Trump was a Democrat.been a GOP go-to for at least 80 years, tbh

[DMC]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGbeUL1WQAwsUo_?format=png&name=small

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/021/818/hitlerbook.JPG

[Winehole23]

The next time I play the Hitler card will be the first, tbh

[boutons_deux]

Repugs want all those loopholes held open, and will looking for more. Repugs want Repug President a "unitary executive" fascist.

Despite Trump Abuses, 208 House Republicans Vote Against Bill to Ensure 'No President Is Above the Law'

"The overreach and abuses of the last administration exposed a series of loopholes and problems that urgently need to be addressed."

House of Representatives voted Thursday almost entirely along party lines in favor of proposed legislation to

curb executive power and bolster transparency,

would require presidents and vice presidents, as well as major-party presidential and vice-presidential candidates, to disclose their income tax returns.

It would also increase penalties for violations of the Hatch Act,

ban presidential self-pardons,

and strengthen Justice Department and congressional subpoena powers, among other reforms.

former President Donald Trump, who faces civil (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/09/escalation-weve-been-expecting-new-york-ag-seeks-donald-trumps-testimony-civil-fraud) and criminal probes,

"abused the powers of his office to protect and enrich himself, family, and friends

while targeting his political opponents and

soliciting foreign interference to help his election."

twice-impeached Trump "took a sledgehammer to the foundations of our democracy and left our democratic institutions teetering on the edge.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/09/despite-trump-abuses-208-house-republicans-vote-against-bill-ensure-no-president

Repugs want democracy to teeter and fall

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that's one fucked up knitter

Christian Nationalist MAGA Pastor Mark Burns Declares ‘We’re Here to Take Over!’

https://files.rightwingwatch.org/uploads/Mark-Burns-800x458.jpg

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/christian-nationalist-maga-pastor-mark-burns-declares-were-here-to-take-over/

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GOP lawmaker to pack heat because Wisconsin election audit is ‘jazzing up’ dangerous people

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/wisconsin-state-sen-kathleen-bernier.jpg?id=28222401&width=800&height=450

Republican state Sen. Kathleen Bernier,

who chairs Wisconsin's Senate Elections Committee, suggested

she would be armed to protect herself

during an upcoming hearing with former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gablemn,

who is conducting widely-panned (https://www.rawstory.com/michael-gableman/) partisan investigation into the 2020 election.

"GOP state Sen. Kathy Bernier says Gableman is 'jazzing up' people who don't know what they're talking about regarding elections,"

https://www.rawstory.com/wisconsin-audit-2656020825/

Kock money?

"Gableman's election in 2008 was seen as part of a trend of outside big-money interests becoming a major factor in state judiciary elections."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gableman

[ElNono]

The agenda was to do no legislation, only to try to stymie the WH. What you're talking about is commonplace politics for "both sides". I see where the dems claim to stand. That's the problem with the dems, they aren't cohesive enough to do anything about their convictions. Enough of them are career politicians who would rather salve the beltway relationships than make any real changes. They had the WH and the majority in both the house and senate. What did they do? Then the constituents have the gall to claim "if we only had 4 more years we could blah blah on gun control, or abortion, or Gay rights, or immigration, or minimum wage, or the environment". Still, nothing. WH23 showed it was likely worse.

How's the gun control thing doing? How about federal minimum wage hike? What do they have to show? I voted for Biden because Trump was too much of a showman, not really suited for leadership, too self centered and borderline psychotic. I have to admit though that the dems haven't provided anything but a relief from seeing Trump.

The legislative agenda is there though. That they can't pass it because of Manchinema is a different issue altogether. You know where they stand on healthcare, like expanding Obamacare, because they actually put pen to paper and it's part of laws that might or might not pass.

The last time the GOP had anything to do with healthcare, they wanted to only repeal Obamacare and still didn't know what to do next, because they don't have any plan or policy position. "Obamacare bad" is a fine criticism, but it's not healthcare policy.

Same thing with the Green New Deal, which BTW, was introduced in 2019, while they held the House and despite that there was no chance of it passing. But that's not the point. You know where that party generally stands on the environment as well.

The only thing clear as far as the GOP platform is the bare minimum necessary to pander to the religious base, like abortion or anything related to the 2nd amendment (mostly to trigger dem libs). They also used to hold the fiscal responsibility and smaller government hat, but after the last few GOP administrations, it's entirely pretend now.

[DMC]

The next time I play the Hitler card will be the first, tbh

Of course, you just post tweets that make the comparison and support others who do that. You'd never risk tarnishing your holy gown of righteousness by openly taking a stance.

[DMC]

The legislative agenda is there though. That they can't pass it because of Manchinema is a different issue altogether. You know where they stand on healthcare, like expanding Obamacare, because they actually put pen to paper and it's part of laws that might or might not pass.

The last time the GOP had anything to do with healthcare, they wanted to only repeal Obamacare and still didn't know what to do next, because they don't have any plan or policy position. "Obamacare bad" is a fine criticism, but it's not healthcare policy.

Same thing with the Green New Deal, which BTW, was introduced in 2019, while they held the House and despite that there was no chance of it passing. But that's not the point. You know where that party generally stands on the environment as well.

The only thing clear as far as the GOP platform is the bare minimum necessary to pander to the religious base, like abortion or anything related to the 2nd amendment (mostly to trigger dem libs). They also used to hold the fiscal responsibility and smaller government hat, but after the last few GOP administrations, it's entirely pretend now.

Sure we know what the Dems say they are for, until they get power and then do nothing about it. Being powerless to affect change while you have power is about as worthless as you can be.

[Winehole23]

Of course, you just post tweets that make the comparison and support others who do that. You'd never risk tarnishing your holy gown of righteousness by openly taking a stance.You're projecting. I probably give more topical handles on straight news than anyone here, tbh. You unwillingness to take the handles or give your own stands out.

[Winehole23]

DMC: You play the Hitler card

Me: Not really.

DMC: I can't pull a single quote, but you do!

[DMC]

You're projecting. I probably give more topical handles on straight news than anyone here, tbh. You unwillingness to take the handles or give your own stands out.

:lol Of course you think shit that reflects your own opinion is straight news. You support the shit through the "blind eye" and regurgitating other people's comments as "food for thought" but at the same time you make sure you distance yourself from it for sake of plausible deniability. You're not fooling anyone. You're about as chickenshit as they come.

[DMC]

DMC: You play the Hitler card

Me: Not really.

DMC: I can't pull a single quote, but you do!
I never said you played the Hitler card.

[Winehole23]

:lol Of course you think shit that reflects your own opinion is straight news. You support the shit through the "blind eye" and regurgitating other people's comments as "food for thought" but at the same time you make sure you distance yourself from it for sake of plausible deniability. You're not fooling anyone. You're about as chickenshit as they come.Transference, profe.

It's understandable you're mad at me. Self-encounter is a bitch.

[DMC]

Transference, profe.

It's understandable you're mad at me. Self-encounter is a bitch.
1440155683324764165

Transference, profe.

:lol

[Winehole23]

DMC only bitching about me now

I'm just a pony on his carousel of SpursTalk grudges.

[DMC]

Cue: I didn't say it, someone else did.

Exhibit A: The chickenshit

[Winehole23]

Where did the topic go? :lmao

[DMC]

DMC only bitching about me now

I'm just a pony on his carousel of SpursTalk grudges.
:cry "stop picking on me" he cries after being shut down yet again.

[Winehole23]

Compulsion of the last word and spiking the football.

DMC's white flag.

[Winehole23]

When did I mention Hitler relative to the GOP?

[Winehole23]

I didn't, so you win again.

:lmao

[Winehole23]

As you may recall, my recent comparisons were the "strategia della tensione" in Italy, and "the troubles" in Ireland.

Nothing to do with Hitler or Nazis.

[DMC]

Compulsion of the last word and spiking the football.

DMC's white flag.


When did I mention Hitler relative to the GOP?


I didn't, so you win again.

:lmao


As you may recall, my most recent comparisons were the "strategia della tensione" in Italy, and "the troubles" in Ireland.

Nothing to do with Hitler or Nazis.

:lol

[ElNono]

Sure we know what the Dems say they are for, until they get power and then do nothing about it. Being powerless to affect change while you have power is about as worthless as you can be.

But that's a different topic altogether. I'll be happy to address it, but you have to acknowledge that there always was a legislative agenda that went past lip service to actually put it on a piece of paper and take it to a vote. That's miles better than standing for nothing, or just doing lip service.

It's very difficult to tell what the GOP even claims to be for these days. It didn't used to be like that.

As to the powerless bit, it simply boils down to politics being messy. Sometimes you can make it work, sometimes you don't.

Obamacare, tax cuts, medicare part D, COVID relief... all things that happened in different administrations, and none of which were easy. On the other hand, military funding apparently is more important than defaulting on the debt these days.

Just like everybody on the right thought they were on the same page about repealing Obamacare, and yet, when the opportunity arose and they had all the power, as you say, they couldn't do it.

[Winehole23]

:lolWell, those were my most recent historical analogies.

[Winehole23]

Still waiting for the "Hitler card" pull quote.

Got any?

[DMC]

But that's a different topic altogether. I'll be happy to address it, but you have to acknowledge that there always was a legislative agenda that went past lip service to actually put it on a piece of paper and take it to a vote. That's miles better than standing for nothing, or just doing lip service.

It's very difficult to tell what the GOP even claims to be for these days. It didn't used to be like that.

As to the powerless bit, it simply boils down to politics being messy. Sometimes you can make it work, sometimes you don't.

Obamacare, tax cuts, medicare part D, COVID relief... all things that happened in different administrations, and none of which were easy. On the other hand, military funding apparently is more important than defaulting on the debt these days.

Just like everybody on the right thought they were on the same page about repealing Obamacare, and yet, when the opportunity arose and they had all the power, as you say, they couldn't do it.

My point is about the product, not the precursor. What's the product? Well wishing?

The repealing thing you keep mentioning, is that as big as minimum wage, abortion, immigration, tax reform, gun control, environment, diversity, etc... ? Because those are the things the dems profess to believe and yet obviously many of them don't believe it enough to actually support it. I see the left here bitch about the ineptitude of the dems all the time. They might not like what the right is doing, but they like the ability to do it.

Excusing incompetence away as "messy politics" is too convenient with no accountability. In 4 years, 2 of those being impeached, Trump was able to possibly change the course of this country through supreme court nominations. No one is standing around carrying protest signs over the green new deal. The dems can't get out of their own way to get anything meaningful done. 12 years of Obama and the affordable HCA was all he really did and if you've talked to people who are familiar with it, it's not the bee's knees. It will be replaced by something but it's so interwoven into the fabric of healthcare that repealing it right out would create chaos and Trump had "muh legacy" on his mind, and knew a lot of his voters relied on free or lower cost healthcare, and chose instead to go after lower hanging fruit like building a fence.

[DMC]

I never said you played the Hitler card.


Still waiting for the "Hitler card" pull quote.

Got any?

Reading is fundamental

[Winehole23]

Reading is fundamentalWell, you strongly implied I was carrying them sub rosa. I just wondered what that was based on.

Your capitulation is duly noted.

[Winehole23]

The GOP is normalizing political violence against the "leftist" government of Joe Biden. That's not so much like Hitler as like Italy in the 1960s and 70s.

[Winehole23]

E.g., Jan 6th

A direct attack on the US Capitol to derail the certification of an election the right-winger lost. Coaxed and tended by the loser, with options for a military recount, had leftist counter-violence provided a suitable pretext for a state of emergency,

But it didn't.

Antifa doesn't give a shit about Joe Biden.

[ElNono]

My point is about the product, not the precursor. What's the product? Well wishing?

But we're not talking about the product. We're talking about what the parties claim to stand for, and the bills they put on the table backing that up.

When we talk about legislative agenda, that's what we're talking about. ie: what are the policy priorities for the parties.


The repealing thing you keep mentioning, is that as big as minimum wage, abortion, immigration, tax reform, gun control, environment, diversity, etc... ? Because those are the things the dems profess to believe and yet obviously many of them don't believe it enough to actually support it. I see the left here bitch about the ineptitude of the dems all the time. They might not like what the right is doing, but they like the ability to do it.

For Republicans at some point it was the #1 healthcare issue. Until it wasn't. See: https://www.kff.org/health-reform/press-release/poll-nearly-10-years-after-its-enactment-the-affordable-care-act-is-more-popular-than-ever-as-republican-voters-instead-target-medicare-for-all/

- Minimum wage: New federal contracts mandate a $15 minimum wage starting in Jan 2022. For non-federal contractors, see: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/603
- Immigration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Citizenship_Act_of_2021, https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6/text
- Tax Reform: Built right into the Build Back Better Act (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/24/tax-reforms-from-the-democrats-build-back-better-act-explained.html)
- Gun Control: Biden talked about it, but this is simply a non-starter in the current political climate. And, do you have any doubts where an assault weapon ban would be if Dems had the votes?
- Environment: The infrastructure bill that passed already provided historic levels of funding for climate projects (see: https://www.wri.org/insights/us-infrastructure-bill-makes-headway-climate-more-needed), more funding for same in the Build Back Better Act.
- Diversity: https://law.ucla.edu/news/biden-reverses-trump-executive-order-banning-diversity-training

The bitching doesn't come from the party at large putting these proposals in place, but from a small minority wielding major power in order to get them through the finish line.

There's plenty to criticize Democrats about, but relative clarity on where they stand in almost all of those issues isn't one of them.


Excusing incompetence away as "messy politics" is too convenient with no accountability. In 4 years, 2 of those being impeached, Trump was able to possibly change the course of this country through supreme court nominations. No one is standing around carrying protest signs over the green new deal. The dems can't get out of their own way to get anything meaningful done. 12 years of Obama and the affordable HCA was all he really did and if you've talked to people who are familiar with it, it's not the bee's knees. It will be replaced by something but it's so interwoven into the fabric of healthcare that repealing it right out would create chaos and Trump had "muh legacy" on his mind, and knew a lot of his voters relied on free or lower cost healthcare, and chose instead to go after lower hanging fruit like building a fence.

Trump didn't do squat about the SCOTUS. Nominations can only be approved by the Senate, and the guy that made that happen was Mitch by unilaterally removing the filibuster for SCOTUS nominations.
The only signature law Trump had was the Tax cuts for the rich, which is hilarious considering he ran on a largely liberal and progressive campaign, which really goes to show the lack of ideas coming from the right these days.

The same thing you're barking about Dems right now is what happened with the GOP in the first two years of Trump's presidency. He had a very flimsy majority and nothing got done either. So, yeah, it's messy.

And sorry, I'm not a fan of Obamacare nor Obama, but saying that's the only thing that got done is patently wrong. He inherited a absolutely disastrous economy, tanked by the subprime mess, and handed out a solid economy. Sniped Bin Laden. Made the US energy independent. Deported more immigrants than his successor. Protected Dreamers. His administration argued Obergefell v. Hodges and prevailed. You don't win back to back if you suck, tbh... ask Trump.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol DMC desperately trying to change the subject.

[boutons_deux]

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btw, "reports say" Hannity, spewing, propaganda, hate, lies, net worth is $300M+

Ain't America great? Same with Alex Jones and tele evangelist grifters

[Thread]

btw, "reports say" Hannity, spewing, propaganda, hate, lies, net worth is $300M+

Ain't America great? Same with Alex Jones and tele evangelist grifters

At least he's keeping his boodle, bouts. That idiot Chris Cuomo was making $7 million a year, every year from CNN and pissed that fuckin' thing away in the blink of an eye.

[boutons_deux]

Repug brownshirts harassing, intimidating the populace

'Enraged' homeowners calling cops on

Trump supporters as they go door to door looking for voter fraud

members of the New Hampshire Voter Integrity Group

who are going door to door throughout their state

attempting to find evidence of 2020 presidential election fraud,

homeowners are not pleased at the intrusions and

have been calling city officials and police to complain (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/election-fraud-conspiracy-groups-new-hampshire).


https://www.rawstory.com/new-hampshire-voter-integrity-group

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Trump-loving GOP Senate candidates are vowing to oust Mitch McConnell as leader


https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-2656039489/

[boutons_deux]

the party of hate of non-Christians, misogyny

Muslim Lawmaker Comes Under Fire in House Debate on ‘Islamophobia’

A conservative Republican accused Ilhan Omar, the sponsor of a House bill to combat anti-Muslim bias, of terrorist sympathies.

Representative Scott Perry, the incoming leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, :lol FreeDumb Kochus

assailed the measure, which would create a new special envoy position in the State Department to combat “Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement.”

But his harshest words were aimed at Ms. Omar, one of two Muslim women in the House (https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/us-house-of-representatives) and a co-author of the measure.

“American taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay terrorist organizations, organizations that the maker of this bill is affiliated with,

like the one that’s an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror finance case in the United States of America’s history,” Mr. Perry said.

The attack was a convoluted reference to a case more than a decade ago against the Holy Land Foundation,

an Islamic charity that in 2008 was convicted of funding Islamic militant groups.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a human rights group, was one of nearly 250 organizations and individuals named as co-conspirators.

A decade later, the council, which is modeled on the Anti-Defamation League, honored Ms. Omar, who gave a speech to its California chapter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/us/politics/ilhan-omar-house-debate-islamophobia.html

you motherfuckers are deplorable shits

[Ef-man]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/021/818/hitlerbook.JPG

Guess this does not mean poster b is bringing up hitler card.

[Ef-man]

I never said you played the Hitler card.

See

[DMC]

But we're not talking about the product. We're talking about what the parties claim to stand for, and the bills they put on the table backing that up.

When we talk about legislative agenda, that's what we're talking about. ie: what are the policy priorities for the parties.



But they don't get it done, even with control of the the WH, the house and senate. You're excusing the party for being inept as long as they meant well. Sorry, I don't hire contractors who mean well and cannot get the job done. This is my point. When you elect someone, you want something done. Would you vote for someone who's tag line is "Means' well" or "Status Quo, if nothing else"?

If you're ok with effort in place of results, do you really even need anything done?


For Republicans at some point it was the #1 healthcare issue. Until it wasn't. See: https://www.kff.org/health-reform/press-release/poll-nearly-10-years-after-its-enactment-the-affordable-care-act-is-more-popular-than-ever-as-republican-voters-instead-target-medicare-for-all/

- Minimum wage: New federal contracts mandate a $15 minimum wage starting in Jan 2022. For non-federal contractors, see: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/603
- Immigration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Citizenship_Act_of_2021, https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6/text
- Tax Reform: Built right into the Build Back Better Act (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/24/tax-reforms-from-the-democrats-build-back-better-act-explained.html)
- Gun Control: Biden talked about it, but this is simply a non-starter in the current political climate. And, do you have any doubts where an assault weapon ban would be if Dems had the votes?
- Environment: The infrastructure bill that passed already provided historic levels of funding for climate projects (see: https://www.wri.org/insights/us-infrastructure-bill-makes-headway-climate-more-needed), more funding for same in the Build Back Better Act.
- Diversity: https://law.ucla.edu/news/biden-reverses-trump-executive-order-banning-diversity-training

These are bills. These are not policies or laws. "If dems had the votes". Precisely the point. Even with a majority they don't support their own agendas. The BBB is going to be funneled to the wealthy. WH will bitch about it here and no one will give a shit.


The bitching doesn't come from the party at large putting these proposals in place, but from a small minority wielding major power in order to get them through the finish line.

There's plenty to criticize Democrats about, but relative clarity on where they stand in almost all of those issues isn't one of them.

Where they purport to stand. If they really stood there why have so many congressional and presidential terms pass without any of this getting done? The few bad apples?


Trump didn't do squat about the SCOTUS. Nominations can only be approved by the Senate, and the guy that made that happen was Mitch by unilaterally removing the filibuster for SCOTUS nominations.
The only signature law Trump had was the Tax cuts for the rich, which is hilarious considering he ran on a largely liberal and progressive campaign, which really goes to show the lack of ideas coming from the right these days.

So Mitch did what no democrat was ever able to do.

They all find ways to give money to the wealthy.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how well your team played. It matters if they won. If winning means getting your agendas passed, and you didn't, then you didn't win.


The same thing you're barking about Dems right now is what happened with the GOP in the first two years of Trump's presidency. He had a very flimsy majority and nothing got done either. So, yeah, it's messy.

And sorry, I'm not a fan of Obamacare nor Obama, but saying that's the only thing that got done is patently wrong. He inherited a absolutely disastrous economy, tanked by the subprime mess, and handed out a solid economy. Sniped Bin Laden. Made the US energy independent. Deported more immigrants than his successor. Protected Dreamers. His administration argued Obergefell v. Hodges and prevailed. You don't win back to back if you suck, tbh... ask Trump.

I'm just providing an assessment. I've voted for dems more often than for the right, but I know that these ideals that the dems espouse are mostly political talking points. They will never have any effective gun control because they don't understand guns or how or why to control them, and at the heart of it those in charge don't really want to, it's just lip service for their voter base. They won't do anything for the environment but they will put so many regulations on US businesses that foreign companies will sell more of their goods cheaper in the US than any US company can, due to their cost of operation. On so many of the talking points there are fundamental issues why they cannot move forward, but they will keep pretending they are going to (next term).

If the dems had any effectiveness the right should not have a snowball's chance in hell of ever seeing public office again, but the left is mostly platitudes and optics.

Which of those things Obama did were on the dem play list? GWB won back to back. GWB sucked.

[DMC]

Guess this does not mean poster b is bringing up hitler card.

He posted one about communism so I showed him one about the Hitler card. I didn't say he did it.

Can you prove otherwise?

Ok good talk

[Ef-man]

He posted one about communism so I showed him one about the Hitler card. I didn't say he did it.

Can you prove otherwise?

Ok good talk

So by analogy, what you are saying is: WH posting a picture of a specific bicycle he claims to own (Exhibit A) does not necessarily say he ever exercises on it, just like you posting pictures of your fat hands (Exhibit B) does not necessarily say you are admitting to being obese?

Hmm, what you post is entirely different with what you are trying to say. Got it.

Wait, no, that is just your ducks' level critical writing skills, idiot.

Your dossier on me grows, your grudge increases, and back to ignore I go. :lol


Exhibit A (WH's bicycle)
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-44ck0/images/stencil/640w/products/3325/23246/BianchiIseoDisc.2__48413.1632262456.jpg?c=2

Exhibit B (Poster B's fat hands)
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/Koolbreezey/DMCHand_zps86eecc97.jpg

[ElNono]

But they don't get it done, even with control of the the WH, the house and senate. You're excusing the party for being inept as long as they meant well. Sorry, I don't hire contractors who mean well and cannot get the job done. This is my point. When you elect someone, you want something done. Would you vote for someone who's tag line is "Means' well" or "Status Quo, if nothing else"?

If you're ok with effort in place of results, do you really even need anything done?

But "not getting it done" is not exclusive to a particular party. That has happened to both parties, for as long as there has been a Congress where you need to negotiate, which is pretty much since we had this form of government.

How I feel about it is immaterial to the discussion. We're discussing what the parties spend their time trying to legislate, that's exactly what a legislative agenda is.


These are bills. These are not policies or laws. "If dems had the votes". Precisely the point. Even with a majority they don't support their own agendas. The BBB is going to be funneled to the wealthy. WH will bitch about it here and no one will give a shit.

These are bills hoping to become law. This is how you write laws in this country. They also codify policies. This is a country of laws, how the sausage is made. If this would be a monarchy, then King Brandon would do as he pleases, but it isn't. So you have to work within the system.

Again, not having every single one on board doesn't mean that's not the overall party position. The lack of a sizeable majority is indeed a problem, and certainly not a flaw limited to Democrats.

It's very likely that the BBB will fill up some wealthy pockets as well, and it's certainly something to bitch about. But, at least, I think it'll also go fund some meaningful areas that need the funding.


Where they purport to stand. If they really stood there why have so many congressional and presidential terms pass without any of this getting done? The few bad apples?

They have passed some of that. Obamacare certainly was passed. And that came after failures like the Clinton healthcare plan. So because something is defeated doesn't mean that's it's dead.

Democrats campaigned heavily on healthcare as far back as the early 90s, and eventually did get it done, even if it wasn't on the first try.

Similarly, Clinton did pass the Assault Weapons ban, and it was law until it sunset.


So Mitch did what no democrat was ever able to do.

They all find ways to give money to the wealthy.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how well your team played. It matters if they won. If winning means getting your agendas passed, and you didn't, then you didn't win.

That's all cool, but nothing to do with what we're talking about. And Mitch did what you would expect a snake like Mitch to do.


I'm just providing an assessment. I've voted for dems more often than for the right, but I know that these ideals that the dems espouse are mostly political talking points. They will never have any effective gun control because they don't understand guns or how or why to control them, and at the heart of it those in charge don't really want to, it's just lip service for their voter base. They won't do anything for the environment but they will put so many regulations on US businesses that foreign companies will sell more of their goods cheaper in the US than any US company can, due to their cost of operation. On so many of the talking points there are fundamental issues why they cannot move forward, but they will keep pretending they are going to (next term).

If the dems had any effectiveness the right should not have a snowball's chance in hell of ever seeing public office again, but the left is mostly platitudes and optics.

Which of those things Obama did were on the dem play list? GWB won back to back. GWB sucked.

GWB won re-election via the "war on terror", which is the other sure fire way presidents get re-elected. You could even argue his dad didn't win re-election despite being a good President, due to withdrawing from the Middle East (which, IMO, was the right thing to do).

As far as effectiveness or even shooting themselves in the foot, I don't disagree. But, again, that's not what we're talking about.

A guy like Manchin does give the Democratic party a bad name, but it's also patently clear he's in the minority there.

[ChumpDumper]

But [filibuster]Jesus.

Republicans have no legislative agenda.

That's all anyone ever said.

Why did you have to lose your shit over a simple fact?

"Ignore" + emoji incoming

[Th'Pusher]

Jesus.

Republicans have no legislative agenda.

That's all anyone ever said.

Why did you have to lose your shit over a simple fact?

"Ignore" + emoji incoming

You can tell as these discussions unfold, he doesn’t have a fundamental understanding of most of what he argues. It’s why he constantly shifts his position to simply extend the argument. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person so addicted to online argument.

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You can tell as these discussions unfold, he doesn’t have a fundamental understanding of most of what he argues. It’s why he constantly shifts his position to simply extend the argument. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person so addicted to online argument.

He returns again to talk about me, again.

Rent free epitomized.

[Th'Pusher]

He returns again to talk about me, again.

Rent free epitomized.

Pipe down pip-squeak. We’re analyzing your addiction.

[Winehole23]

*forum gossip whines that others are gossiping about him*

[DMC]

But "not getting it done" is not exclusive to a particular party. That has happened to both parties, for as long as there has been a Congress where you need to negotiate, which is pretty much since we had this form of government.

How I feel about it is immaterial to the discussion. We're discussing what the parties spend their time trying to legislate, that's exactly what a legislative agenda is.


How you feel about it does matter, if you vote. If you've ever managed a group of people, you likely looked for results, not just agendas. You probably didn't give everyone a stellar review because they had an agenda, if their results were less than stellar. You cannot blame all the shortcomings on the other party, when people in your own party are in-fighting and thwarting the "agenda". As much as I despise party line politics, it's effective to meet agendas.


These are bills hoping to become law. This is how you write laws in this country. They also codify policies. This is a country of laws, how the sausage is made. If this would be a monarchy, then King Brandon would do as he pleases, but it isn't. So you have to work within the system.

But they don't fail to become law because of the other party, when you have a majority in both the house and senate. Someone on your team is pissing in the water. "We tried" keeps being the sounding call of the democrats. "There were just too many of them".. when people within the democratic party are thwarting progress.


Again, not having every single one on board doesn't mean that's not the overall party position. The lack of a sizeable majority is indeed a problem, and certainly not a flaw limited to Democrats.

That's a bit of a strawman. You don't need everybody on board. Failing to pass legislation introduced by your party because your own people vote "present" doesn't equate to losing because not every single person was on board. It means there was enough people not onboard, and often that's known well in advance. It seems much of the process is a dog and pony show for voters. Both sides do it, but the dems seem particularly adept at it, much to the chagrin of many voters (even here when posters criticize the left for being inept).


It's very likely that the BBB will fill up some wealthy pockets as well, and it's certainly something to bitch about. But, at least, I think it'll also go fund some meaningful areas that need the funding.

Same with all of these things. It seems like just another turn at fleecing the public to funnel wealth to the few. This has been happening for decades, maybe longer. There are things that need funded like roads and bridges, airports and such, but so much of it will instead go to shady, hard to follow mazes of money distributions.


They have passed some of that. Obamacare certainly was passed. And that came after failures like the Clinton healthcare plan. So because something is defeated doesn't mean that's it's dead.

Democrats campaigned heavily on healthcare as far back as the early 90s, and eventually did get it done, even if it wasn't on the first try.

Similarly, Clinton did pass the Assault Weapons ban, and it was law until it sunset.


Assault weapons were never banned. Only the manufacture for sale to the public of firearms after the date of the bill was banned. This is why many dem voters are so easily duped.

From Wiki

The 10-year ban was passed by the US Congress on September 13, 1994, following a close 52–48 vote in the US Senate, and was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton on the same day. The ban applied only to weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment. It expired on September 13, 2004, in accordance with its sunset provision. Several constitutional challenges were filed against provisions of the ban, but all were rejected by the courts. There were multiple attempts to renew the ban, but none succeeded.

Studies have shown the ban had little effect on overall criminal activity, firearm homicides, and the lethality of gun crimes. There is tentative evidence that the frequency of mass shootings may have slightly decreased while the ban was in effect.[1]


Placebo legislation isn't really addressing the agenda, which was to ban assault style weapons, since they were never banned. No one who owned one, no store who sold them, no gunshow.. ever had to stop selling them. They just couldn't buy new ones for a period of time.


That's all cool, but nothing to do with what we're talking about. And Mitch did what you would expect a snake like Mitch to do.

Sometimes you need an excessive asshole to deal with a group of assholes.


GWB won re-election via the "war on terror", which is the other sure fire way presidents get re-elected. You could even argue his dad didn't win re-election despite being a good President, due to withdrawing from the Middle East (which, IMO, was the right thing to do).

As far as effectiveness or even shooting themselves in the foot, I don't disagree. But, again, that's not what we're talking about.

A guy like Manchin does give the Democratic party a bad name, but it's also patently clear he's in the minority there.
Sans COVID Trump wins easily, there's less voter turnout and you're looking at Trump season 2. He had everything going for him (other than his mouth) that spells re-election.

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From the same faggot who posted that the dems didn't make folly of the event because they aren't psychopaths.

[DMC]

Pipe down pip-squeak. We’re analyzing your addiction.

You've been destroyed so many times on this forum that it's no wonder you make yourself scarce except to talk about me.

[ChumpDumper]

Cool meltdown, bro.

[Th'Pusher]

You've been destroyed so many times on this forum that it's no wonder you make yourself scarce except to talk about me.

Just stop. Men regularly line up to take a turn on your asshole on this forum and all you do is shift your argument to extend the pounding.

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Ted Cruz forgets his Cancun getaway as he attacks Democrats:

'In a time of crisis, character is revealed' :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-character-revealed

[DMC]

Just stop. Men regularly line up to take a turn on your asshole on this forum and all you do is shift your argument to extend the pounding.

Gas lighting won't help you here.

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Alex Jones blames Joe Biden's imaginary weather weapons for fatal tornados


https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-weather-weapons

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BUSTED:

Newly-released text reveals GOPer conspiring to overturn election ‘within hours of the polls closing’

https://www.rawstory.com/republican-election-fraud-2656044952

the overturn-election conspiracy was premeditated BEFORE the election

[Th'Pusher]

Gas lighting won't help you here.

Cool. I’ll let EN go back to smashing your avocado while you remain completely oblivious to how politics work and bills get passed in the US.

Have fun!

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MTG "logic" competing with Kelly Ann and Kayleigh for the most dishonest hilarity


Marjorie Taylor Greene:

Texts begging him to stop riot

‘completely show that President Trump is innocent’

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-innocent

Repug wimmen give their gender a bad rep

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[DMC]

Cool. I’ll let EN go back to smashing your avocado while you remain completely oblivious to how politics work and bills get passed in the US.

Have fun!

I know how bills get passed. I also know how they don't. Keep sniffing my farts.

See you next time I come to a sudden stop. :lol

[Th'Pusher]

I know how bills get passed. I also know how they don't. Keep sniffing my farts.

See you next time I come to a sudden stop. :lol

You understand the mechanics of how a bill is passed, but you’re ignorant of the politics. Otherwise you wouldn’t be anchored to your stupid arguments itt.

Or, you just want to rodeo with anonymous men on the internet.

It’s one or the other. Either way, it’s pathetic. have fun!

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Morning Joe panelists brutally mock GOP's Tom Cotton for 'petulant' stunt:

'One of the craziest things I've ever seen'

Cotton (R-AR) for holding up law enforcement nominations as part of a petty grudge against a Democratic senator.

Arkansas Republican refused (https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cotton-confirm-us-attorney-nominees-dick-durbin-interrupted-2021-12) to confirm some of President Joe Biden's nominees for U.S. Attorney until Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) apologized for interrupting him in a committee hearing nine months before,

"Tom Cotton held up qualified U.S. Attorneys nominations for eight months and on the explicit argument that

he was mad at Dick Durbin for interrupting him :lol in a hearing and not apologizing -- for eight months, he said this out loud.

"He said,

'I'm not going to allow these U.S. Attorney nominees to go forward until the gentleman from Illinois apologizes to me for interrupting me in a hearing eight months ago,"

"They're trying to own the libs, that's all. This is all performative politics."

https://www.rawstory.com/tom-cotton-dick-durbin/


Repugs fuck up govt, deny Dems ther right to govern because Repugs don't give the tiniest shit about governing, by Dems or by themselves.

The rigged status quo where their bribers are wealthy is all the Repugs value.

aka, fellate our bribers and fuck governing

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