what happens to the republican party

[Winehole23]

too chicken to criticize Trump having dinner with an actual neo-Nazi.

are they afraid of taking a strong stand against antisemitism might turn off too many GOP primary voters?

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too chicken to criticize Trump having dinner with an actual neo-Nazi.

are they afraid of taking a strong stand against antisemitism might turn off too many GOP primary voters?

Repugs have no ethics, morals, principles. They know they need votes of Trash's MAGAtts, neoNazis, armed militias, Schutzstaffel, incels, misogynists, nutcases, etc.

Repugs feared Trash's base in 2017. So while they might detest Trash, they cannot alienate his base.

Repug base is a minority (-3M 2016, -7M 2020), so SCOTUS, gerrymandering, voter suppression are the only ways the Repugs can win at Federal level.

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Florida sheriff angry school kids no longer fear having their behinds 'torn off'

Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced it's "a new day," as he introduced a new disciplinary program for school children who he lamented no longer fear having "the cheeks of their ass torn off for not doing right in class.”

joined by Florida State Attorney Phil Archer, and School Board Chairman Matt Susin, who has ties to the far-right organization Moms for Liberty.

impose the 'most prolific school discipline policy this district has ever had,'"

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-she...orst-nightmare

asshole doesn't know the definition of prolific

Ignorant doesn't know that violence begets violence. It's the FASCIST way.

What hole FL is

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Right-Wing Extremist Boebert to Guide Policy on House GOP Leadership Team

"This is the Republican Party after a catastrophic midterm underperformance,"

was elected to join the party's policy committee.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...eadership-team

Fascist Repugs trolling America, proving they don't GAF about actual governing,

only All Corrupt Politics, All The Time

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McCarthy says Repugs will investigate the Jan6 Committee

Fauci
CDC
Student Loan forgiveness program
Biden's son's pics
Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan
FBI and DOJ as politicized.
etc, etc, etc.

One Repug says the list of investigations has 50 items.

[Winehole23]

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

[ChumpDumper]

Who actually backed the blue?

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San Antonio/Hill Country's very own Chip Roy, repladed equally repulsive Lamar Smith

'Trying to make Armageddon erupt':

GOPer Chip Roy hammered for

working to derail marriage equality bill


... trying to derail the Respect for Marriage Act with a “religious liberty” amendment that had already failed in the U.S. Senate,

telling him and his colleagues who claim there is no emergency for same-sex marriage,

“I’m not going to accept assurances from people who are working to overturn the right of gay people to get married in America.”

https://www.alternet.org/trying-to-m...ageddon-erupt/

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Sen. John Kennedy, slave state, warns Georgians against 'high IQ' people,

enthusiastically endorses Walker


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...ndorses-Walker

Repugs count on the mass of their voters being low-ed, low-wage, rural, ignorant, stupid, gullible, hate-driven, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, Christian fascists.

AND the minority of their voters who are the corrupting BigDonor class.

[ChumpDumper]

Sen. John Kennedy, slave state, warns Georgians against 'high IQ' people,

enthusiastically endorses Walker


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...ndorses-Walker

Repugs count on the mass of their voters being low-ed, low-wage, rural, ignorant, stupid, gullible, hate-driven, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, Christian fascists.

AND the minority of their voters who are the corrupting BigDonor class.

dude was a Rhodes scholar. He ing hates his dumbass supporters.

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GOP Rep. Gosar Deletes Tweet Agreeing With Trump’s Call to Terminate the Cons ution




https://www.mediaite.com/politics/go...-cons ution/

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<sub>Author of Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill indicted for fraud



Florida Republican state lawmaker Joe Harding, the author of the highly-criticized and some say uncons utional “Don’t Say Gay” law, has been

indicted by a U.S. Dept. of Justice grand jury on federal fraud charges.

“A federal grand jury has returned a six-count indictment against Joseph Harding, 35, of Williston, Florida,” the Justice Dept. said in a press release, detailing an alleged scheme, which included obtaining

“fraudulently created bank statements,” to defraud the U.S. Government’s Small Business Administration of $150,000.

https://www.alternet.org/dont-say-gay-author-fraud/</sub>

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A leader, even face of House Repugs

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To Impeach Biden For Bringing Brittney Griner Home


https://www.politicususa.com/2022/12...ey-griner.html

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How fascism operates in MT, intimidating, harassing, politicizing the judiciary

The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lie

Setting aside those at the national level, these efforts in Montana, are stunning, and include, by way of non-exclusive examples:

+ making baseless and vague charges of improprieties designed to lessen the reputations and integrity of members of the Supreme and District Courts and to destroy Montanans’ trust in the court and judiciary;

+ causing one Justice to have to (successfully) litigate his being subpoenaed by the legislature;

+ seizing judges’ emails off the Department of Administration server (many of which contained case-sensitive information and information pertaining to the deliberations of the court);

+ subpoenaing members of the Supreme Court and Court do ents for “investigative purposes;”

+ the Attorney General’s office blatantly refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order;

+ the legislature and Governor summarily scrapping the Judicial Nomination Commission and the merit selection of judicial appointments and replacing the merit system with a patronage system controlled solely by the Governor;

+ resurrecting the plan of electing Supreme Court justices by district, and ignoring, in the process, precedent which had determined the district-election plan was uncons utional. Indeed, this plan was and is simply a scheme to elect partisan justices from gerrymandered “districts;”

+ trashing Judges and Courts as being “partisan” and “activist;”

+ Turning the most recent Supreme Court retention election from, what should have been a nonpartisan contest, into a partisan free-for-all, with a hand-picked partisan candidate, financed in large part by money from the Republican State Leadership Committee;

+ And, finally, proposing a mind-boggling list of court and tort “reform” bills to be considered—and no doubt enacted— in the 2023 session by the Republican super-majority in the legislature.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12...e-rule-of-lie/

MT, where the govenor body slams a reporter for asking a question

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‘Stop Whining’: Ted Lieu Blasts Republicans for Playing Up Anti-GOP Violence After They Made Fun of Pelosi Hammer Attack

Conservatives railed against the protests and decried the threats to the court.

During Thursday’s hearing, Lieu called out conservatives who made light and spread conspiracy theories about the assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“When we talk about actual political violence, you know who had their skull hit by a hammer?” Lieu stated,

“It was a spouse of the speaker of the House.

Multiple Republicans made fun of that.

They circulated conspiracy theories.

They said all sorts of things that were not true.

Republicans should be ashamed for doing that. they have no shame, ethics,morals

So please stop whining about threats to Supreme Court justices

when the actual violence of a person being hit in the head with a hammer go to surgery was a spouse of the Democratic speaker of the House.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/stop-whining-ted-lieu-blasts-republicans-for-playing-up-anti-gop-violence-after-they-made-fun-of-pelosi-hammer-attack/

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Lauren Boebert celebrates Denmark mass shooting



After three people were murdered by a gunman who opened fire at a shopping mall in Denmark over the weekend, Boebert went to her Twitter account to pretend she had a point.


Writing,

“There was just a mass shooting in Denmark, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe.

It’s time to admit that gun laws DO NOT stop mass shootings!”,

Boebert was once again testifying to how utterly her existence is a waste of space in the world at large.

It’s hard to imagine a less intelligent statement being blurted out by a public official.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...et-proves-that

Boebert now has less compe ion of ignorance/stupidity in Congress since Gohmert is retiring

The Best People

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Former candidate for U.S. representative accused of threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Randy Weber

Keith Douglas Casey has been charged in connection with making a threat against a U.S. official, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.


Casey has run several times to unseat Weber from office. For instance, in 2022, he received some 5,178 votes, or 7.9%, compared to Weber’s 89%, or 58,439 votes, in the Republican primary.

In March 2022 Casey allegedly began

telling people he’d defeated Weber in the race for the spot — and that he was going to kill him,

according to the complaint.

Staff members in Weber’s office first reported the matter to federal law enforcement as early as March 29.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/art...t-17651144.php

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Typical tactic in classic FASCIST strategy, politicize/dumb down education

DeSantis-backed school boards begin ousting Florida educators

New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week.

dozens of conservative school board candidates across Florida during the midterms.

Now they’re in office — and are purging some educational leaders who enforced Covid-19 mandates.

school boards with ties to DeSantis pushed out three superintendents in November alone — and each of them served over districts that implemented student mask mandates.

In Brevard and Sarasota counties, embattled school leaders have faced immediate pressure from newly-installed board members and offered to leave voluntarily rather than risk a vote on their terminations.

The newly-elected board members in these cases support parental rights while opposing critical race theory and teaching gender orientation in schools.


https://www.politico.com/news/2022/1...covid-00071305

Desantis used the power of govt to punish Disney severely for a Disney stance, nothing illegal, that Desantis didn't like.

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Election denialism isn’t going away anytime soon,

because it’s such an effective far-right grift


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...ar-right-grift

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DeSantis announces grand jury to investigate ‘wrongdoing’ around COVID-19 vaccines

DeSantis on Tuesday vowed to hold accountable people in Florida who committed “wrongdoing” in relation to COVID-19 vaccines,

bring legal accountability for those who committed misconduct,”

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo in making claims against COVID-19 Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines and their approval process.

Many of these claims have been disputed or disproven by others in the medical realm.
The grand jury will bring legal action against en ies that spread misinformation,

“Anybody who knows anything about science is just slack-jawed,” said Kenneth Goodman, a bioethicist and director of the Ins ute for Bioethics and Health Policy at the University of Miami.
Goodman cited a study released Tuesday by the

Commonwealth Fund that found COVID vaccines saved more than 3 million lives and prevented over 18 million additional hospitalizations in the U.S.

“Why anybody who represents the people would want to publicly suggest otherwise is an absolute mystery. Unless, of course,

he reckons there’s some political gain for it. ...

That’s not good public health policy.

That’s political opportunism.”

https://nordot.app/97550809049877708...22757532812385

[Ef-man]

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'We want to get dirty':

Young Republicans Club founder doubles down on call for 'war' with American liberals

Gavin Wax, the president of the New York Republicans Club, doubled down on Wednesday on his call to wage a "war" against American liberals.



Appearing on Steve Bannon's podcast, ... he threw out violent rhetoric to denounce his political opponents.

Wax said, "This is a holistic, multifront war that we are waging!"

defended himself against charges that he was promoting violent conflict.

"This was a speech full of energy, full of passion!" he said.

"This is what people want to hear, they want this red meat!"

https://www.rawstory.com/gavin-wax

So civilized, so democratic, so America-loving

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you ST rightwing nut jobs are really ed up

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'They Messed with the Wrong ’:

Kari Lake Vows Retaliation Against ‘Evil Bas s’ She Claims Stole Her Election

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/th...-her-election/

[Winehole23]

Antisocial, antiscience Republicans are a literal public menace.