#Republican
The surest way to beat #DonaldTheDeplorable in the #2024election is to take him out in the #GOP *primary*. Moderate Democrats and Independents can join sane #Republicans and register to vote 🗳️ in the #Republican primary (if a #ClosedPrimary makes that necessary) and #PrimaryFromTheCenter. All together they greatly outnumber #BananaRepublicans in the #MAGA cult. It’s basic #MATH. 🤷🏻♂️
Despite exploitation: US states relax child labor laws amid rise in illegal work
> Amid a 69% surge in illegally employed minors since 2018, several US states are relaxing their child labour laws, raising concerns over the potential exploitation and safety of young workers in the country.
https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2116982.html #Republican #GOP #US
Trump legal news brief: Rudy Giuliani trial to start Dec. 11 to decide how much he must pay 2 Georgia election workers
> The former Trump lawyer also denied groping allegations made by a former assistant to the president’s chief of staff, while Peter Navarro, Trump’s former trade adviser, said the former president has chipped in $300,000 to help pay for his legal defense.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-legal-news-brief-former-trump-aide-molly-michaels-testimony-strengthens-classified-documents-case-against-him-185013932.html #RudyGiuliani #GOP #Republican
"Erosion of readiness."
A US Senator, who swore an oath to protecting America, places ALL OF US in danger.
Why will the US Senate allow this bullshit.
The #GOP, the #PartyofPutin, is a danger.
It's left to the #Democrats to fix another #Republican debacle...again.
#MAGA #Tuberville is an #Idiot #Fascist #Schumer
And you can thank Biden, not useless AOC, for all of the debt relief that former students have gotten so far.
#BusinessInsider #StudentLoanForgiveness #BidenDebtRelief #AOC #PaymentResumption #Republican #Politics #News
This is a preposterous claim by Rep. #AndyBiggs. There are a total of between 10-12 million #undocumented #immigrants residing in the United States. The idea that another 10 million have entered the United States in the 3 years #Biden has been #President is baseless nonsense. But this is the sort of deliberate dishonesty that #Republican lawmakers base their existence on. Just #vote them out. #VoteBlue
US #Republican party sends the House home for the week, after right wing barn burners defy the speaker and block consideration of defense spending. Government shutdown, an act of performative drama with real consequences for citizens, is increasingly likely https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/21/politics/house-government-shutdown-negotiations-latest/index.html
Tone deaf rich white guy who has money for $50 worth of drinks at one meal. #gag #whine #republican
There's 'absolutely still a chance' student-loan borrowers will get broad debt cancellation, AOC says — but 'you can thank a Republican' for payments restarting next month
#BusinessInsider #StudentLoanForgiveness #BidenDebtRelief #AOC #PaymentResumption #Republican #Politics #News
#USA: currently 5 representatives elected by a combined 830k people - less than one quarter of a percent of the US population - are holding the #Republican Party and the entire #USGovernment hostage. The #GOP not only can’t compromise with #Democrats - they can’t even come to agreements amongst themselves. That’s about the same number of people as the city of San Francisco. Can you imagine the outrage if San Francisco shut down the #government? #FreedomCaucus #GovernmentShutdown
Not being #Republican, I have no idea how this plays with "most" #GOP members back home. Existential tribal struggles between good and evil where one's own faction must win lest civilization falls? Or deeply embarrassing internecine buffoonery that likely lead to reduced voting next year?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/politics/house-government-shutdown-negotiations-latest/index.html
Let's be honest, Trump never had any union's back.
No #Republican in 50 years has ever had any union worker's back. They only represent the filthy rich.
#ThereAreNoGoodRepublicans
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-he-always-had-autoworkers-backs-union-leaders-say-his-first-term-record-shows-otherwise/ar-AA1h49z7
In this segment Cypher goes over why the #GOP field sucks, what the standout moments from the first #Republican primary debate for 2024, and who was the real winner. Check out the live news roundup every Thursday @ 8PM EST.
Republicans cannot seem to explain the second step in this logical leap.
#uspol #uspolitics #politics #republican #gop #economy #debt #spending #budget
In #NewBook, Former #TrumpAide #CassidyHutchinson Accuses #RudyGiuliani of #Groping
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cassidy-hutchinson
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/09/ex-wh-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-says
https://newrepublic.com/post/175673/rudy-giuliani-sexually-assault-cassidy-hutchinson-january-6
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/rudy-giuliani-grope-cassidy-hutchinson-claim-january-6-trump-aide
https://www.politicususa.com/2023/09/20/cassidy-hutchinson-says-rudy-giuliani-sexually-assaulted-her-on-1-6.html
#Republican #Official claims the Fascist State of Florida “does not #ban #books” after releasing #list of 300 #books that have been #banned.
One #district removed a whopping 177 #books from #SchoolLibrary shelves during the 2022-2023 school year.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
I appreciate that she testified and told the truth however she is still a #Republican. 😒
And she is correct just IGNORE HIM.
Cassidy #Hutchinson Refuses to Respond to Donald Trump’s Insults: ‘Being Ignored Drives Him Mad’ (Exclusive)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cassidy-hutchinson-refuses-respond-donald-120000821.html
> Expanding on an excerpt from her new memoir, the White House aide turned Trump whistleblower tells PEOPLE why she won't feed into the "vitriol" that has taken hold of American politics in recent years
#Zelensky arrived at the US Capitol at 9AM #Senate Majority Leader Chuck #Schumer & #House “Speaker” Kevin #McCarthy are expected to host Zelensky in separate meetings. McCarthy’s support is needed for #Congress to move ahead w/Biden’s #funding request. The #Republican “leader” told reporters that people had questions for Zelensky & concerns about “accountability.”
On Thurs afternoon, #Biden & Zelensky are set to hold their 6th in-person meeting.
This is why #Republican #workerism rings so hollow. #Trump's #GOP talks a big game about protecting "workers" (by which they mean anglo men) from immigrants and #WokeCaptialism, but they have *nothing* to say about protecting workers from bosses and bankers who see every dime a worker gets as misappropriated from their dividend.
20/
Another dirty #Republican election fraudster and liar!!
Investigators conclude N.H. lawmaker doesn’t live in the district he represents - The Boston Globe
> Troy Merner, a Republican from Lancaster, wrongfully claimed his office as his home. Now, the attorney general’s office is reviewing whether broke the law when he voted in local elections and claimed mileage for the wrong address.
#VoteOutTheGOP
#NeverVoteRepublican
#RepublicanLiar
#LockHimUp
The American #RepublicanParty wants to stop providing military aid to the #Ukrainains.
I suppose those #GOP elected officials don't realize they are helping the very same person who helped #Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Or maybe they do realize it and want that help to continue through the 2024 presidential election.
"Anything for Trump and Putin" should be the #Republican slogan.
"Rupert Murdoch stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp"
No one person has done more to promote #rightwing #fascist #propaganda since 1996 when Fox first started broadcasting in the #unitedstates
Fox, the #republican answer for #cnn and #nbc,
Likely will be #bankrupt soon. A reflection of it's #shabby self.
#foxcorporation
#foxnews
#foxbusiness
#foxsucks
#rupertmurdoch
#dominion
#Republican plays dumb with @petebuttigieg … he INSTANTLY regrets it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zIwDHqGiaU
#climate #EVs
#Republican Running on “Protecting” #Kids From #LGBTQ People Charged with #Child #Cruelty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnrOjxp_n6g
#Republican #JohnRaymond is running for a seat in #Louisiana’s state legislature on a platform of protecting children from LGBTQ people. However, there’s an issue with his campaign message. #Raymond has been charged with four counts of #childcruelty following multiple allegations of physical #abuse during his tenure as the headmaster of a #christian academy.
#religion #christianity
@6G Semi-RINO, Full-#RINO, #RepublicanCult Member, whatever!
Since the inexorable decline of the ‘Grand Old Party' to just a shell of what it was can be traced back to #Reagan, #Gingerich, the ‘#TrickleDown’ economy, #MAGA culminating to the stacked #SupremeCourt and the current #McCarthy ‘led’ #Republican House.
Let's hope they get voted out in 2024…please 🙏
Andrew Yang: Americans are fed up with both Republicans and Democrats | The Bottom Line
I don't critique the #republican party or #republicans much here, but that isn't because I don't find them utterly detestable.
Look, individual democrats are mostly good people (if a bit close-minded at times); like a batch of jelly beans with some funky flavors mixed in. Me telling people that one in one hundred jelly beans suck isn't going to stop them from snacking because they're willing to accept the bad beans... even if one of those bad beans is president.
Republicans are a swimming pool of syphilitic elephant feces. I don't need to tell you not to dive into that pool unless you're batshit deluded. Or I guess, elephant shit deluded. So I might call out particular issues but "don't dive into elephant poo" isn't something I feel I need to say.
But hey, if you need the "don't dive into elephant shit" warning on occasion, happy to oblige.
WSJ:
🇺🇲 🇺🇦 As #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returns to the U.S. capital in a bid to shore up American support for his embattled country, a group of #Republican lawmakers is vowing to oppose another aid package.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200705608/senate-tuberville-hold-military-promotions
#US - Over 1,900 library book titles targeted for censorship so far in 2023
> From Jan. 1 to Aug 31, the attempts sought to challenge or censor 1,915 titles, a 20% increase compared to the same months in 2022
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200647985/book-bans-libraries-schools #censorship #GOP #Republican #ChristoFascist #FarRight
Trump gets hit from all sides for testing a softer abortion message 'in order to win'
> The Republican knives are out for Donald Trump after he criticized anti-abortion legislation that conservative states across the country are pursuing, restrictions made possible by the three Supreme Court justices he chose as president.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-gets-hit-sides-testing-softer-abortion-message-order-win-rcna105802 #DonaldTrump #GOP #Republican
In this segment Cypher goes over why the #GOP field sucks, what the standout moments from the first #Republican primary debate for 2024, and who was the real winner. Check out the live news roundup every Thursday @ 8PM EST.
Conservatism is just what happens to the human brain when it can't get laid.
#republican #altRight #proudBoys #oathKeepers #maga #trump #gop #conservative #rightWing
it's PRIMARILY the fascists that are the problem. Had there been no fascists pressuring the system, the "system" would be just fine.
#Fascists are the problem. And since #Republican politicians and their most ardent supporters are currently fascists,
#RepublicansAreTheProblem
From President Donald J. Trump To Inmate P01135809:
#InmateP01135809 #DonaldJTrump #Donald #Trump
#Terrorist #Insurrectionist #Seditionist #CopKiller #Republican
(Yeah, I know it's a different number... #LOL! But #Drumpf's got more #Inmate Numbers coming!!! That I can tell you! #LMAO!)
...Looks like Drumpf likes "#tossedsalad"!
Y'all know trump's gonna be the biggest #tosser #prisonbitch! 🤣😂
BEFORE AND AFTER:
#USA watch live how #republican representatives are on the lower end of the intelligence spectrum😂
#SoundofFreedom Producer Admits to #Groping Possibly #Underage #Trafficking Victim’s #Breasts
https://consequence.net/2023/09/sound-of-freedom-producer-trafficking-victim/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mq5w/sound-of-freedom-producer-underage-trafficking-victim
#conservative #kid #teen #sexualassault #gop #republican #religious #maga #child #sexslavery
I’d add that there is usually a component where “reasonable Republicans” supposedly oppose extreme measures. Invariably these reasonable #GOP members line up behind their hostage taking colleagues. There is little or no independent thought within the #Republican party.
‘Tyranny of the Minority’
In this case, a bunch of wacko republicans 🤬
Please #Vote!
“House #Republicans appear to be barreling toward a government #shutdown, unable to agree even to debate a bill to fund the military. That rejection made #Republican leadership pull from the floor a continuing resolution to fund the government into October. Extremist members simply refuse to agree to any bill that doesn’t cave to their demands”
#heathercoxrichardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-19-2023
Shutdown
Chaos reigns
Funding stalls, tension mounts
House divided, Congress stalls
Chaos
#shutdown #congress #funding #republican #chaos #cinquain #poetry
https://www.msnbc.com/symone/human-consequences-house-gops-shutdown-chaos-rcna105718
Via the #TennesseeHoller
WATCH:
“My daughter was raped. She’s 12. You won’t do anything?”
“I’m a Republican… I won the election… It’s MY decision.”
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Every #Tennessee #Republican legislator voted not to let raped kids have #abortion care
@Hey_Beth There’s akso the Howler Monkey’s costumes, not to mention outbursts, on the House floor. It’s a pathetic #Republican attempt to distract from #Boebert.
In #Washington, meanwhile, a growing faction of the #Republican Party is rebelling against further spending on military #aid for #Ukraine, following #Trump’s lead in questioning whether it should be an American priority. Although most #Democrats & a significant portion of #Republicans remain staunchly behind #Kyiv, the blowback among #HouseRepublicans may be enough to derail an effort to approve a supplemental package of aid for #Ukraine.
Republicans really seem to suck at this whole governing thing. Little wonder they rely on the Democrats to constantly clean up their messes.
This is frightening!!
#democracy #missouri #democrat #voteblue #gop #republican #news #freed... | jayjay_jimmyjames | TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@matteo_il_pazzeo/video/7280205854224174379?_t=8foxBNJ46Ai&_r=1
> #democracy #missouri #democrat #voteblue #gop #republican #news #freedomofspeech #books
“In the video, I am taking a flame thrower to cardboard boxes representing what I am going to do to the leftist policies and RINO corruption of the Jeff City swamp,” Eigel said in a statement to The Star on Monday. “But let’s be clear, you bring those woke pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids, and I’ll burn those too - on the front lawn of the governor’s mansion.”
#Republican candidate for #Missouri governor vows to burn #books | The Kansas City Star https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article279475914.html
#Republican #TimScott, asked about #autoworkers #strikes, replied,
“I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike. He said, you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me.”
#UAW #WorkersRights #Unions
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/tim-scott-asked-auto-strikes-praises-firing-striking-federal-workers-rcna105716
During #GOP whip's meeting, Rep. Mike Lawler of NY told colleagues he is willing to support a so-called #DischargePetition – a procedural mechanism to force a floor vote on a bill & circumvent leadership – to move a short-term #spending bill if their #Republican plan stalls.
+ it was mentioned during a meeting w/elected leadership in #McCarthy's office that there’s a group of members talking about moving a temporary funding bill w/ #Democrats if other members are unwilling to #act….
#US - Speaker McCarthy is running out of options to stop a shutdown as conservatives balk at a new plan
> Speaker Kevin McCarthy was running out of options Monday as he pushed ahead with a plan to keep the federal government from shutting down, but even including hardline border security provisions wasn't enough to appease the far-right flank in his #Republican House majority. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/speaker-mccarthy-running-options-stop-shutdown-conservatives-balk-103285893 #GOP #KevinMcCarthy
(The girl was 9 when she was #raped & turned 10 before having the #abortion…. IN’s #legislature was the first post-#Roe to effectively ban all abortions.)
Forces in the #Republican-led state came after Dr. Bernard. Though an internal IU Health review CLEARED Bernard of wrongdoing, #Indiana’s medical license board deemed she had violated state & federal privacy laws — including #HIPAA — by discussing the girl’s case publicly. The board fined her $3,000.
#Republican #Indiana AG sues hospital over #abortion for 10-year-old #child who was #raped
The suit centers on Dr. Bernard publicly talking about, but not naming the patient in, the procedure she performed in late June 2022.
A stmnt provided by an #IU Health spox said the hospital system holds itself accountable every day for securing the #privacy of its patients.
#AbortionIsEssential #AbortionRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/18/abortion-bernard-rape-iu-rokita/
"It’s hard not to come away from this with a sense of futility. He’s the leading candidate for the #Republican nomination and, in that role, demands scrutiny. But we already know what interviews will produce.
Talking to #Trump means offering a platform for false claims while generating pledges to which he feels no obligation to adhere."
~@pbump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/18/trump-welker-interview/
#TrumpLies #Interview
#Journalism #Fail
#GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #USA #News
‘#GenderQueer’ #author #reacts to #Republican #senator #reading #sexualexcerpt #aloud in #congress
“Because the images on that page are not #salacious at all — it’s an illustration of me #sitting at my #job, which was in a #library, reading #textmessages from someone I was #dating.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#Republicans are losers. #WeakerOfTheHouse is a joke and can't control his disgusting party.
@MeidasTouch • BREAKING: The #Texas #Republican Youth Summit has now quietly dropped Lauren Boebert from speaking ... • Threads
https://www.threads.net/@meidastouch/post/CxVeermLNW_/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D
> BREAKING: The Texas Republican Youth Summit has now quietly dropped Lauren #Boebert from speaking at their event after originally adding her following her lewd behavior in a crowded theater.
#Republican boomers after voting for #Trump to make the planet worse
NH has its own version of lying #Republican frauds, Andy and Laurie #Sanborn who #stole more than $800,000 from COVID relief funds.
I never remember who pointed this out to me first, but it stands the test of time;
It doesn't matter if you're a #democrat, a #republican, or an #indepedent. You can support #socialism, #communism, #capitalism, #distributism, etc.
Pretty much no matter what, you're going to find quite a bit of common ground with the #libertarian cause. Really the only exception is if you're an #authoritarian.
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert Dates Bar Owner Who's Hosted Drag Shows
https://www.advocate.com/politicians/lauren-boebert-date-drag-shows
#LaurenBoebert #DragShows #Republican #BarOwner #Dating #NewsSource #Politics #News
@Bam
You saw Hillbilly Elegy.
“Get their corn from a jar!” from #RockyTop captures the Mountain Ways™ from the 19th century and the Industrial Revolution, brah.
The #LoyalMountaineer men of #EastTennessee voted overwhelmingly to remain in the Union 🇺🇸
As an #American, the Vols are baked into pro-Union, abolitionist, Radical #Republican narratives and I am into it.
Hundreds of Rightwing Laws Take Effect in Texas
> Texas ranked worst US state to live partially due to discriminatory state laws
> On Friday, over 770 new laws are set to go into effect across #Republican-dominated #Texas, the second most populous U.S. state, addressing several social issues dividing Americans.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Hundreds-of-Rightwing-Laws-Take-Effect-in-Texas-20230901-0010.html #GOP
ELON MUSK... 👎
AND ANYONE STILL ON TWITTER X... 👎
AFTER KNOWING THAT ELON MUSK IS AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN ARMY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NATO, AND OUR ALLY UKRAINE?!?!
YOU ARE NOT ONLY FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING A BAD PERSON AND COMPLICITE IN THE BAD DEEDS OF A BAD PERSON...
📌 YOU ARE A BAD PERSON!!!! 👎
BOYCOTT TWITTER X!!!! 👍
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-secretly-used-starlink-to-foil-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russian-ships-report
#ElonMusk #Musk #ElonSkum #Skum
#Republican #Republicans
#WhiteNationalist #WhiteNationalists
#Nazi #Nazis
#NeoNaziNationalist #NeoNaziNationalists
#PseudoChristianNationalist #PseudoChristianNationalists
#MAGA #MAGATS
#VladimirPutin #Putin
#Russia #Russian #Russians
#Communist #Communists
#National Security #NATO #Europe #US #USA #Scandinavia #Ukraine
ELON MUSK... 👎
AND ANYONE STILL ON TWITTER X... 👎
AFTER KNOWING THAT ELON MUSK IS AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN ARMY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NATO, AND OUR ALLY UKRAINE?!?!
YOU ARE NOT ONLY FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING A BAD PERSON AND COMPLICITE IN THE BAD DEEDS OF A BAD PERSON...
📌 YOU ARE A BAD PERSON!!!! 👎
BOYCOTT TWITTER X!!!! 👍
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-secretly-used-starlink-to-foil-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russian-ships-report
#ElonMusk #Musk #ElonSkum #Skum
#Republican #Republicans
#WhiteNationalist #WhiteNationalists
#Nazi #Nazis
#NeoNaziNationalist #NeoNaziNationalists
#PseudoChristianNationalist #PseudoChristianNationalists
#MAGA #MAGATS
#VladimirPutin #Putin
#Russia #Russian #Russians
#Communist #Communists
#National Security #NATO #Europe #US #USA #Scandinavia #Ukraine
ELON MUSK... 👎
AND ANYONE STILL ON TWITTER X... 👎
AFTER KNOWING THAT ELON MUSK IS AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN ARMY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NATO, AND OUR ALLY UKRAINE?!?!
YOU ARE NOT ONLY FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING A BAD PERSON AND COMPLICITE IN THE BAD DEEDS OF A BAD PERSON...
📌 YOU ARE A BAD PERSON!!!! 👎
BOYCOTT TWITTER X!!!! 👍
#ElonMusk #Musk #ElonSkum #Skum
#Republican #Republicans
#WhiteNationalist #WhiteNationalists
#Nazi #Nazis
#NeoNaziNationalist #NeoNaziNationalists
#PseudoChristianNationalist #PseudoChristianNationalists
#MAGA #MAGATS
#VladimirPutin #Putin
#Russia #Russian #Russians
#Communist #Communists
#National Security #NATO #Europe #US #USA #Scandinavia #Ukraine
"Best description of tRump I've read": https://londondaily.com/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-i-ve-read
In the great tradition of the #NH #GOP #REPUBLICAN #Sununu party, Andy and Laurie Sanborn are crooks. They STOLE relief funds from taxpayers and interfere with legislation to enrich themselves.
The #NHGOP is a den of crooks, liars and thieves.
NH Online Casino Bill Died in Sanborn-Led Committee
#GOP #Republican platform:
a) women are disposable baby machines
b) the government and police exist to maintain the whites first order
c) the economy is sink or swim or be born rich
d) #ReligiousFreedom means white cishet christian patriarchy only, maintained by force
e) fuck animals and the environment
f) ok to shoot and kill kids at school
if you vote Republican, and especially if you don't vote at all, you are supporting the above platform.
instead, #VoteBlue
"She appears to get an abrupt response from the feral congresswoman and it leaves her visibly taken aback. …
It’s literally right there on video. Just like the pregnant woman said. Boebert’s comical lies are all proven for all of us to see."
#LaurenBoebert #Republican #FamilyValue #Pro-Life
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Facing a #Shutdown, #Congress Melts Down
Just 2 wks from the end of the fiscal year, the #appropriations process is in chaos, not 1 of a dozen bills has passed, a shutdown looms, tempers are flaring & the endgame is barely beginning.
#Republican #Dysfunction #Disservice
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/facing-a-shutdown-congress-melts-down.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
On Friday, the #Biden #WhiteHouse proposed a new rule that would make it more onerous to reinstate Trump’s old executive order if #Trump or a like-minded #Republican wins the 2024 election.
But Trump allies who would most likely have senior roles in any second Trump admin shrugged off the proposed Biden rule, saying they could simply use the same rule-making process to roll back the new #regulation & then proceed. #Legal experts agreed.
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Jets owner Woody Johnson is privately lobbying GOP megadonors to donate to Trump's campaign
> New York Jets owner Woody Johnson is privately lobbying fellow #Republican #megadonors to donate to Donald #Trump, making him a rare figure in the GOP.
>>Johnson was Trump’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, and has remained close to Trump for years.
Despicable
Surveillance video…shows #Republican Rep Lauren #Boebert sitting in the theater… raise one of her hands to her face, & then a puff of smoke comes out of her mouth toward the person in front of her.
The… woman sitting behind Boebert leaned in to speak to her. The Denver Post said the woman was #pregnant & asked that Boebert stop #vaping, which the congresswoman refused to do.
I could care less that these jerks are having an affair. But how dare they preach "family values" and are taking away our rights.
Trashy Hypocrites!
Married #Republican Gov Kristi #Noem and #Trump Advisor’s Years-Long Affair Exposed
According to a new report from the Daily Mail, #SouthDakota Governor Kristi Noem and Trump advisor Corey #Lewandowski have been having “a years-long clandestine affair.”
#Trump says he’d #testify under #oath he never ordered #MarALago security video deleted
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker," Trump said, "They were my tapes. I could have fought them."
(I have no doubt he’d commit #perjury under oath)
#law #legal #Criminal #Obstruction #ClassifiedDocuments #Republican #MAGA #corruption #LyingLiarWhoLies
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-mar-lago-staffer-delete-security-footage-tapes-false-rcna104781
Romney is not going to switch parties to help the #Democrats, all y'all.
#Romney is a core #Republican. He only serves Mitt Romney.
He does not care about the plebs.
He discovered he could make a little more money peddling his book. That's it. Controversy sells books - so he's spinning up controversy.
Don't buy his book unless you'd like to contribute to his retirement fund - which is already nicely padded by #NRA and gun lobby money.
Is Tommy Tuberville Paving the Way for Trump to Fill the Pentagon with Lackeys?
> This is a naked power play, whose end goal, I suspect, is to fill every senior military position simultaneously with Trump loyalists and sycophants if Trump wins reelection in 2024.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175511/tommy-tuberville-trump-pentagon-lackeys #GOP #Republican #TommyTuberville #Pentagon
"but was also willing, in a tradition that is honestly dying, to do it all with a smile and dress it up in faux-compassionate language. He welcomed the authoritarianism of Trump and others if it was dressed in a disguise.
Why?
Because he was in aggressive self-denial about his own motivations and hopelessly, tirelessly concerned about how he was perceived by the media and the nation at large."
I'd say Romney's image-management style is quintessentially Mormon.
@georgetakei This is sick AF. They just make shit up. It’s disgusting and I’m freaking tired of it. These people can go to hell. 😤🖕#Republican #LGBTQ #Lies #Hate #Stupid #MAGA #GOP #Deplorables
“#Legal experts and the #Wisconsin attorney general have disputed the move by #Republican senators to remove Wolfe, a respected and accomplished non-partisan leader. Her removal would affect the administration of elections in 2024 and illustrates the increasingly wide reach of election deniers and rightwing conspiracy theorists in Wisconsin politics.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/wisconsin-republicans-vote-fire-meagan-wolfe-election-official?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@GottaLaff Really disheartening to see the “liberally-biased” #MSM mainstreaming #Republican #Crypto-Fascism like they did the #IraqWar and #ButterEmails
@AmandaMarcotte
They pro-baby? Great, they can resign and stay home and take care of some.
#Republican #Politicians
One of #Texas Attorney General #KenPaxton‘s former staffers testified Monday that the #Republican’s extramarital affair took a toll on employees who had to work long and odd hours because of the secret relationship that is now a factor in his impeachment trial.
https://apnews.com/article/ken-paxton-impeachment-texas-547f46284c7858905b067fefa2c48f0b
But eventually most of these issues are likely to be resolved by #SCOTUS, & the court’s 6-member #Republican-appointed majority has generally ruled in ways that favor the #conservative #social-policy priorities reflected in the #redstate actions. That inclination was most dramatically demonstrated in last year’s #Dobbs decision, when the Court overturned the #constitutional #right to #abortion.
The sweeping #redstate drive to roll back #CivilRights & #liberties
by Ron Brownstein
Since 2021, #Republican-controlled states have passed a swarm of #laws to restrict #VotingRights, increase penalties for #public #protest, impose new restrictions on #transgender youth, #BanBooks, & limit what #teachers, #college #professors, & #employers can say about #race, #gender, & #SexualOrientation.
#AbortionRights
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/09/supreme-court-republican-civil-rights/675265/
@georgetakei
The #Republican puppets on #SCOTUS are hopelessly compromised, and given they vote as instructed by the GOP and ultra-right-wing fascist billionaires, #SCOTUSIsCompromised
It's time for to expand the court, set term limits, and regulate their ethics.
@jeffjarvis
Bin Laden and his Arab benefactors knew that the United States would quickly fall to fascism if attacked on home soil.
They knew Bush would flail uselessly and stupidly while the #ChristoFascist forces growing in power would take control and begin dismantling our democracy.
9/11 is the second worst attack on the United States following only the #January6th #Republican #Terrorist attack and the attempted Coup by the entire #GOP.
@georgetakei
Not enough of us will listen, instead they’ll continue to believe crooked, lying #Republican politicians who are getting rich off fossil fuel companies.
#ElonMusk is naming and claiming le XCorp. #Nestle just said they can’t calculate their use of child and sex slavery because that would make them charge us more for food. The #Republican front runner for president is facing 91 criminal charges. This is the Matrix.
#LindseyGraham declades that supporting the #January6th #RepublicanTerrorist attack on the United States and working to overthrow America’s democracy as part of Trump’s coup attempt was “doing my job”.
Neither are the “job” of a US Senator.
So that begs the question, who does #Republican Lindsey Graham work for? It sure ain’t the American people or his constituents.
Red State Iowa gives Don the finger, and they're not saying he is #1! Donald #Trump got flipped off at the #Iowa-#IowaState game after getting booed — and he wasn’t the only #Republican presidential candidate to get the middle finger from the crowd.
"... marks the second member of Republican House Leadership to be involved in an ethics scandal involving COVID-19 relief funds, with House Majority Leader Jason Osborne taking over $4 million in PPP loans only to turn around and fire 500 employees from his family business"
#REPUBLICAN #GOP #NHGOP Ex-Senator and Wife Rep. Laurie #Sanborn defrauded the #COVID-19 Relief Fraud?
What a huge surprise.
Show me any Republican politician who isn't a hypocrite, crook, liar, abuser, rapist, thug or delusional.
I'll wait.
Hundreds of #military promotions are on hold as a #Republican senator demands end to #abortion policy
https://apnews.com/article/senate-military-nominations-holds-tommy-tuberville-e38d853526de044ac59338d32d7a0e10
There's nothing patriotic about today's GOP: https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/theres-nothing-patriotic-about-todays-e3c?r=1rtvr5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
"These are the stakes: dueling visions for America — not #Democratic or #Republican... but brutal #fascism or flawed #democracy. The #news media needs to stop with the horse-race coverage...
We need to hear from more experts on authoritarian movements, and fewer pollsters...
We need the media to see 2024 not as a traditional election but as an effort to mobilize a mass movement that would undo democracy"
~@willbunch
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html
Another Big Loss: Trump Found Liable in Second E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case
> A federal judge ruled Wednesday that #DonaldTrump is liable for defaming E. Jean Carroll in 2019 and owes her monetary damages, which will be set at a later trial.
> Trump was unanimously found liable in May for #sexualabuse and battery against Carroll in the mid-1990s and for defaming her in 2022 while denying the assault.
https://newrepublic.com/post/175401/trump-liable-second-e-jean-carroll-defamation-case #rape #rapist #GOP #Republican
#JenaGriswold, the #Colorado secy of state, said in a statement, “I look forward to the #Colorado #court’s substantive resolution of the issues, & am hopeful that this case will provide guidance to #election officials on Trump’s eligibility as a candidate for office.”
The #plaintiffs are #Republican & #unaffiliated voters who argue that #Trump is #ineligible & that they will be #harmed if he appears on primary #ballots.
The lawsuit, which was filed in a state district court in #Denver w/the help of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (#CREW), demands that the #Colorado secretary of state not print #Trump’s name on the #Republican primary #ballot. It also asks the court to rule that Trump is #disqualified in order to end any “uncertainty.”