what happens to the republican party

[Winehole23]

2nd coming of JFK Jr, dood

He'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 for violating the Arizona Cons ution,

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.

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'



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,

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...-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,

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

The Best People

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

Steve Bannon's aggressive campaign 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).

Bannon spoke 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." 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 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 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 eachstate by more than seven percentage points.)
• Former Trump White House aide Boris Epshteyn 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 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 that any underage person voted in Georgia, let alone tens of thousands of underage people.)
• During a conversation about Arizona, Giuliani asserted that undo ented 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 undo ented 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 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 indication of any wrongdoing involving Dominion, let alone extensive fraud, and thus, obviously, no cover-up. Dominion has sued 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/polit...-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"

Nah she's a bona fide re !

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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’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/internati...plomatic-picks

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Rep. Paul Gosar's 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...nd-must-resign

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

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



North Carolina extremist Christian nationalist Lt. Governor, Republican Mark Robinson

Robinson first made national headlines when he called LGBTQ people "filth."

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, who repeatedly has used Nazi and Holocaust rhetoric and has been labeled antisemitic

on Monday declared she has found "common ground" with the hate group Nation of Islam,

founded by the far right wing extremist, anti-LGBTQ activist, and anti-semiteLouis 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 is false and a lie.

Greene says

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.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/marjori...mite-farrakhan

Will she be re-elected? It's ing 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 cons uents, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently talked about controversial COVID-19 conspiracist Joe Rogan becoming the “president” of Texas if the state secedes from the union.

“I’m not there yet,” 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 including secession!

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

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

But he’s prepared to change his mind.

https://news.yahoo.com/ted-cruz-talk...045915044.html

A ing bag 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 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,

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

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://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-MJ-and-Prince

[Winehole23]

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