Masthash

#conservative

Nonilex
3 hours ago

Members of the #FarRight faction of the party are coalescing around nominating a member of McCarthy’s leadership team, Rep. #TomEmmer (R-Minn.), to be the next #speaker if they can successfully #oust #McCarthy…. The members believe that #Emmer is more attuned to their concerns & will better deliver #conservative results than McCarthy.

Toni Aittoniemi
7 hours ago

What is the best book in Iain M Bank’s ”Culture” series, and why is it Surface Detail? 🤔

Ok. Player of Games, Use Of Weapons and Excession are awesome too. But if any should be made into a screenplay it would surely have to be Surface Detail.

It really puts forward where #conservative #values can lead to, if we let traditionalists have all the #technology in the world: They’ll just use it to enforce their hate & fear on everyone.

#amreading #bookstodon #scifi #iainmbanks #culture

Nonilex
14 hours ago

Inside the tactics that won #Christian vendors the right to reject #GayWeddings

Opponents accuse #conservative #legal group behind landmark #SCOTUS case of manufacturing #lawsuits to advance its #agenda

#ADF
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/09/24/alliance-defending-freedom-wedding-lawsuit/

Mike
1 day ago

#Trump hasn't "stepped away" from #conservative foundations. He was never there. Trump isn't a conservative or a progressive. He's in it for himself and no one else. He'd throw his own mother under a bus if it earned him a dollar.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4225599-karen-pence-trump-has-stepped-away-from-conservative-foundations/

Empiricism
2 days ago

#UK & #USA stupid rich folk #politics

next month’s #Conservative party conference will be held under a banner reading “Long-term decisions for a brighter future” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/rishi-sunak-long-term-thinking-suella-braverman

#Trump backs#Sunak on #netzero rollback https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/24/donald-trump-backs-rishi-sunak-net-zero-climate-alarmists/

Summary - two rich idiots with ties to #FossilFuel companies infer that #climate #scientists are "alarmists"

The Royal #Meteorological Society is the UK’s Professional & Learned Society for weather & climate https://www.rmets.org/publications/all
#science

Empiricism
2 days ago

#UK & #USA stupid rich folk #politics

next month’s #Conservative party conference will be held under a banner reading “Long-term decisions for a brighter future” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/rishi-sunak-long-term-thinking-suella-braverman

#Trump backs #Sunak on #netzero rollback https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/24/donald-trump-backs-rishi-sunak-net-zero-climate-alarmists/

Summary - two rich idiots with ties to #FossilFuel companies infer that #climate #scientists are "alarmists"

The Royal #Meteorological Society is the UK’s Professional & Learned Society for weather & climate https://www.rmets.org/publications/all
#science

Nonilex
2 days ago

The #lawsuit is 1 of 3 that #Blum's #Texas-based group had filed since Aug challenging #grant & #fellowship programs designed by the venture capital fund & 2 #law firms to help give #Black, #Hispanic & other underrepresented minority grps greater #career #opportunities.

A different grp founded by Blum was behind the litigation that led to the June decision, powered by #SCOTUS's 6-3 #conservative majority, declaring #race-conscious student admissions policies used by Harvard & the UNC unlawful.

Nonilex
2 days ago

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash during a hearing denied a request by #EdwardBlum's #AmericanAllianceForEqualRights for a preliminary #injunction blocking #FearlessFund from considering applications for #grants only from businesses led by #BlackWomen.

(#Blum is a #conservative #legal strategist known for his activism against #AffirmativeAction)

I don't always agree with him but he's bang on the money today.

https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/111130755914658314
simon_brooke - "Now the [#Conservative] party relies on an entitled class of the super-rich and dark monies from finance capitalism, which thinks and is told their money should buy access and influence, thus aiding the corrupting of the party, government and honours system" – Gerry Hassan

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23813064.death-tory-britain-approaching---comes-danger/

Simon Brooke
3 days ago

"Now the [#Conservative] party relies on an entitled class of the super-rich and dark monies from finance capitalism, which thinks and is told their money should buy access and influence, thus aiding the corrupting of the party, government and honours system" – Gerry Hassan

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23813064.death-tory-britain-approaching---comes-danger/

Nonilex
3 days ago

#McCarthy is unlikely to bring the eventual #Senate proposal up for a vote because it would require #Democrat votes to pass, acc/to multiple #Republican aides…. Members on the #FarRight, including many within the staunchly #conservative #HouseFreedomCaucus, have said that relying on #Democrats to move the bill would probably result in a Republican lawmaker filing a motion to #remove McCarthy from his speakership.

Steve Dustcircle 🌹
3 days ago

#Factcheck: You can eat a #burger and fries for less than $78 at #Newark #airport

https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/sep/22/fact-check-you-can-eat-a-burger-and-fries-for-less/

#DavidBrooks, a #conservative columnist for @nytimes, made a juicy claim about the #economy in a #socialmedia post about his airport lunch.
"This meal just cost me $78 at #NewarkAirport," Brooks wrote on X the night of Sept. 20. "This is why #Americans think the economy is terrible."

RememberUsAlways
4 days ago

#conservative #republicans associate with and focus on #deficits so they can overpay their friends to neglect #government.

#budget
#hypocrisy
#curious
#governmentshutdown

Mirthless End
4 days ago

“The central #conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society...The central #liberal truth is that #politics can change a #culture and save it from itself.”

#moynihan

JohnFLomax
5 days ago
brad m
5 days ago

“They’re going to continue the same business formula, which is whipping up hysteria around manufactured crises, they’ll continue to foster outrage and division, and gin up support for #conservative causes. I don’t see any of that changing dramatically anytime soon,” said @victorpickard
“They’ll continue to play this central role in #rightwing political discourse whether we’re talking about #FoxNews and its audience, #FoxNews and the #Republican party” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/23/fox-news-republicans-murdoch-2024-election

Nonilex
5 days ago

The National Institutes of #Health (#NIH) froze a $150 million program intended to advance the #communication of #medical #information, citing #regulatory & #legal threats. #Physicians told The Post that they had planned to use the grants to fund projects on noncontroversial topics such as #nutritional guidelines & not just “politically charged” issues such as #vaccinations that have been the focus of the #conservative allegations.

Nonilex
5 days ago

#Academics, #universities & #GovernmentAgencies are overhauling or ending #research programs designed to counter the spread of #online #misinformation amid a #legal campaign from #conservative politicians & activists who accuse them of colluding w/ #tech companies to #censor #RightWing views.

The escalating campaign — led by #JimJordan & other #Republicans in #Congress & state gov — has cast a pall over programs that study not just #political falsehoods but also quality of #medical info online.

Anthony Stevens 🇪🇺 🇯🇲 💙
6 days ago

#Tories #CONservatives #ClimateChange #NetZero

🚨Trouble for #Sunak as #Tory MPs in blue wall left ‘vulnerable’ by PM’s net zero U-turns🚨

The Tories are predicted to hold just 29 out of 52 seats in the southeast, according to analysis of over 20k voters by Survation, where #Conservative voters say climate policies are important to how they will vote.

Sunak was widely mocked for axing policies that didn't exist, such as the #MeatTax #7Bins & compulsory car sharing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-blue-wall-net-zero-election-b2416743.html

Rishi Sunak - 7 Deadly Bins meme
Nonilex
6 days ago

#ClarenceThomas spoke that year as well. He talked about his friend Justice #Scalia, who had recently died, acc/to a person who attended. Scalia, a #conservative luminary, had been a prominent advocate for the #Chevron doctrine, but Thomas said he believed his colleague was coming around to Thomas’ revised view on it before his death.

Thomas didn’t explain what he meant by that. “It was an aside,” the person said, “like he assumed most of the people in the room knew his position.”

Nonilex
6 days ago

(Probably as a result of their efforts) The #Koch network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent yrs. Once broadly supported by #academics & #judges on the #right, #Chevron is now #anathema to many in the #conservative #legal movement.

And there’s no more prominent convert than #ClarenceThomas.

Nonilex
6 days ago

After shepherding the case to the #court, #Koch network staff #attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old #precedent. (#Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent yrs. 🤔)

2 years ago, one of the network’s groups was the plaintiff in another #SCOTUS case, which was about #nonprofits’ ability to keep their #donors #secret. In that case, Thomas sided w/the 6-3 #conservative majority in the Koch group’s favor.

It’s impossible to know the full extent and details of Barre Seid’s #darkmoney giving to #conservative groups over the years because the law allows many nonprofits to keep their sponsors secret.

But tax records previously obtained by ProPublica show that between 1996 and 2018, he made at least $775 million in donations to nonprofit groups. Almost all of that money was given anonymously
https://www.levernews.com/how-a-secretive-billionaire-handed-his-fortune-to-the-architect-of-the-right-wing-takeover-of-the-courts/

T. T. Perry
6 days ago

Matt Bernstein: LGBT Conservatives (w/ Contrapoints)

LGBT conservatives: Why? How? Where did they come from? What can we learn from them, and how can we dismantle the LGBT #conservative that lives within all of us? Natalie Wynn (aka #Contrapoints) helps us psychoanalyze one of the more confusing political positions of our time. Jeffree Star makes an appearance, for better or for worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjeEoNQ5tw

#Youtube #LGBT #Queer #Feminism #Intersectionality #Politics #Shame #Stigma

#Conservative MPs were told not to post online or talk to media about competing protests on #ParliamentHill that saw protesters clashing over how schools should handle #LGBTQ2Splus issues.
The #CanadianPress obtained a copy of the message sent to members of #PierrePoilievre's caucus, which warned them not to speak publicly about the issue and provided talking points they could use to communicate with their constituents.

#ConservativesAreTheProblem

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/conservative-mps-told-not-to-talk-to-media-post-about-parental-rights-protests-1.6570570

Conservatism is just what happens to the human brain when it can't get laid.

#republican #altRight #proudBoys #oathKeepers #maga #trump #gop #conservative #rightWing

Anthony Stevens 🇪🇺 🇯🇲 💙
1 week ago

@adaliabooks

Oh dear! 😂😂😂

The amount of #Tories who've already stood down, or have indicated they won't stand for re-election at #GE2024 is quite telling.

#CONservative candidates are creating publicity saying "Local CONservatives", & not putting #Sunak's face on their leaflets just as they did with #Truss & Doris #Johnson before him.

#Starmer meeting world leaders on his world tour, & broaching #Immigration & #Brexit is the biggest indicator yet that the #Tories are in BIG BIG trouble! 🤷🏾‍♂️

beSpacific
1 week ago

American Library Assoc. Report - #Texas Had Most #Book Challenges #Books are not the sole target of attacks orchestrated by #conservative parent groups and #rightwing #media. Both #school and #PublicLibrarians are increasingly in the crosshairs of conservative groups during book challenges and subject to defamatory name-calling, #onlineharassment, #socialmedia attacks, and #doxxing, as well as direct #threats to their #safety, their #employment, and their very #liberty https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/by-the-numbers

Yet another reason NOT to vote #Conservative next year!

Rishi Sunak considering weakening key net zero policies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66857551

Donald Roy
1 week ago

@trabimechanic
Questionable relationships between #ukpoliticalparties and #hindutva were around even before the #brexitreferendum in June 2016. Much of the #conservative campaign for the #london #mayor and #assembly relied on stirring up #antimuslim feeling among #hindu communities by implying that #SadiqKhan would literally strip gold ornaments off their womenfolk. And this particular campaign was in the first half of 2016! It did not pay off then but they have persevered with it since!

#Trump #Biden #GOP #Republicans #GunControl #NRA

🚨*A #Conservative Appeals Court just ruled against the federal gun law used to charge #HunterBiden!*🚨

The Court of Appeal sided against the law in a case involving a Mississippi man who was convicted & sentenced to prison for possessing a firearm while being a marijuana user, & legal experts say it could come up in Biden's case.

The Court ruled that it was too broad when applied in this instance & tossed it out. 👀

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/a-conservative-appeals-court-just-ruled-against-the-federal-gun-law-used-to-charge-hunter-biden/articleshow/103699609.cms

Hunter Biden - Joe Biden
jd 🔆
2 weeks ago

New phrase spotted:

climatically challenged, adj

An adjectival phrase that accurately describes the Conservative Party of Canada, but hey, feel free to apply it wherever warranted.

#Climate #Conservative #Language #Linguistics

Cartoon: An oil tanker truck labelled “Oil Based Economy” is stopped on the road by a small man hold ing a stop sign. In the distance are road signs saying “Climate Change Ahead”, and “Danger.”
The man with the stop sign says, “There’s a dead end and a really deep ravine ahead.”
The truck driver says, “It’s a hoax. Dead ends don’t exist.”

Its sort of reassuring that the #Conservative opposition in #Norway has been hit by a conflict of interest case that has all the hallmarks of the UK #tories

Erna Solberg (once PM, now opposition leader) has admitted that her husband tradied in shares which may have related to insider information he gained from his spouse... and while high profile, there are also a number of other cases pending in Norway.

Should I be gratified that #corruption is not distinctly UK issue? Probably not!

ArtBear on Firefish
2 weeks ago

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org
The co-chair of the ruling UK Conservative party, ran a business to help Russian oligarchs gain influence in British life.

The son of a KGB colonel, became (bought) a LIFETIME legislator seat in the house of Lords.

Boris Johnson was a frequent traveller he discarded security details to go meet this man / the father. Including right after NATO briefings, the night before Johnson chose to come out in support of
#Brexit, and so on.

Many of the UKs most questionable politicians and pundits have
#Russian backing.

All investigations in to Russian interference in UK
#elections have been blocked by #Conservatives.

Just a few snippets.
#Russia #Tory #UKpol #Politics #FBPE #GTTO #UK #Conservative #DarkMoney

Russian flag background.
Picture of Aleksandr Yarovenko
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UK
2011-2019

 “WE HAVE CRUSHED THE BRITISH TO THE GROUND, THEY ARE ON THEIR KNEES AND THEY WILL NOT RISE FOR A VERY LONG TIME.”

Brexit = Russian Foreign Policy
ZhiZhu
2 weeks ago

"The thing about helping low-income Americans is... because their initial incomes are so low, fairly modest amounts of aid can make a huge difference to their well-being...

we could have significantly blunted the rise in child poverty by retaining just one piece of the #ChildTaxCredit enhancement, the part that made the credit fully refundable...

But we didn’t do any of these things... because of #conservative opposition. And the nation as a whole will pay a steep price."

#USPol #USA #News

Text from article:
About the immediate budgetary costs: The thing about helping low-income Americans is that precisely because their initial incomes are so low, fairly modest amounts of aid can make a huge difference to their well-being.

More than half of the rise in child poverty could have been avoided by extending the 2021 enhancement of the child tax credit. Such an extension would probably have had a direct budget cost of about $105 billion a year.

That may sound like a lot to people who aren’t familiar with the sizes of both the U.S. economy and other major social programs. But it’s actually a modest sum. It’s less than half a percent of the country’s gross domestic product. It’s a small fraction of what we spend on Social Security ($1.3 trillion) and Medicare ($800 billion). It’s only a bit more than half the annual revenue loss from the 2017 Trump tax cut.

Furthermore, we could have significantly blunted the rise in child poverty by retaining just one piece of the child tax credit enhancement, the part that made the credit fully refundable — that is, allowed the lowest-income households to get the entire $2,000 credit. The estimated cost of doing this would be around only $12 billion a year — pocket change in the context of the federal budget.

But we didn’t do any of these things, again, because of conservative opposition. And the nation as a whole will pay a steep price.
C.
2 weeks ago

So, to start looping back to #Canadian #politics - it's a bit of a journey...

All of the semi-serious or serious #national #federal #political parties - #Conservative, #Green, #Liberal, New Democrat in alphabetical order - fall in the upper-right quadrant of the chart. They're not even particularly close to the center; the closest to the center would be the Conservatives, but they're only a tiny bit closer than the Liberals, a bit more than the others.

8/x

#Canada #NewDemocrats #NDP #party

Nonilex
2 weeks ago

#Romney’s friends encouraging him…, & he was tempted by the open #Senate seat in Utah, a state where #Trump was… unpopular among #conservative voters. On his iPad, he typed out the pros & cons…—high-minded sentiments about #PublicService in 1 column, lifestyle considerations in the other. …at the top of the list, he wrote a line from Yeats he couldn’t get out of his mind:
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”

(first time I’ve actually liked Romney)

John Earle
2 weeks ago
Nonilex
2 weeks ago

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.

Nonilex
3 weeks ago

The case followed a highly unusual path —one blazed by a five-justice #conservative majority who seemed determined to strike a blow against #CampaignFinance restrictions.

Initially, the dispute centered on whether a conservative #nonprofit’s unflattering documentary on fmr Democratic presidential candidate #HillaryClinton violated campaign finance #laws.

Nonilex
3 weeks ago

Many people trace the start of the #conservative #legal movement to 1982, the year of the founding of the #FederalistSociety, which provided a forum for #law students & profs w/conservative ideas to incubate their theories.

But the movement that has had such a profound impact on the courts today — one that involves #money & #politics, more than legal theories or principles — gained steam in the wake of the #CitizensUnited decision.

#DarkMoney #Influence #Corruption #Minoritarianism

Nonilex
3 weeks ago

She (#GinniThomas) created a for-profit consulting biz using a similar name — #LibertyConsulting — that enabled her to perform consulting work for #conservative activist grps.

The #JudicialEducationProject supplied some of her biz: Docs indicate #LeonardLeo ordered at least 1 recipient of his groups’ funds, #KellyanneConway, to pay #GinniThomas for unspecified work, acc/to a #WaPo story….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

Nonilex
3 weeks ago

It funded #legal scholars to devise theories to challenge #liberal #precedents, helped to #elect state #attorneys general willing to apply those theories & launched lavish campaigns for #conservative judicial nominees who would cite those theories in their rulings from the bench.

Nonilex
3 weeks ago

…the #CitizensUnited ruling… upended nearly 100 years of #CampaignSpending #restrictions.

The #conservative #legal movement seized the moment w/greater success than any other group, & the consequences have shaped American #jurisprudence & #politics in dramatic ways.

From those early discussions among #Leo, #Thomas & #Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the #judiciary & #overturn longstanding legal #precedents on #abortion, #AffirmativeAction & many other issues.

Nonilex
3 weeks ago

The #SCOTUS 2010 #CitizensUnited decision transformed #politics. It loosened restrictions on #CampaignSpending & unleashed a flow of #anonymous #donor #money to *nonprofit* groups run by #political activists.

In the months before the ruling…, a group of #conservative activists came together to create just such an org. Its mission would be to, at the time, block then-President Barack #Obama’s pet #initiatives.

#DarkMoney #GinniThomas #LeonardLeo
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082

Empiricism
3 weeks ago

Rewards for Mismanagement - Dismissed #Conservative Ministers Pocket up to Seven Times Their Salaries https://bywire.news/articles/rewards-for-mismanagement-dismissed-conservative-ministers-pocket-up-to-seven-times-their-salaries

We all love a crony politician (not really). Someone who gets into politics to be a 'frontman' for their favourite business interests. It's no coincidence that most of the UK government are just glorified business folk. And just as with any venture capitalist, protecting the #environment is not high up on their 'to-do list'.

#Neoliberalism #capitalism #UK #politics

Peter Nimmo
3 weeks ago

IPSOS #poll: bad news for #SNP, but voters in #Scotland doubt #Labour would do any better on #health and #economy. This article has nothing about #Conservative ratings on these issues, but notes that #Tory leader #DouglasRoss has the lowest party leader #favourablity rating. Labour's #AnasSarwar has the least worst rating, but SNP's #HumzaYousaf's has seen his rating rise 20 points
#politics #ScotPol #NHS
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/ipsos-voters-think-scottish-government-could-do-better-on-economy-and-nhs-survey-finds

Nonilex
3 weeks ago

The theory that the #14thAmendment disqualifies #Trump has gained traction… since 2 prominent #conservative #law profs argued in an (Atlantic) article last month that his actions before & during the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the Capitol constituted engagement in an #insurrection. But it remains a #legal long shot. Trump would surely #appeal any #ruling that he was #ineligible, and a final decision could rest w/ #SCOTUS, which has a conservative #supermajority that includes 3 justices he appointed.…

Cory Doctorow
3 weeks ago

It represents a turning point in the system of lawless impunity for American plutocracy.

In the words of #FrankWilhoit, it is is a repudiation of the #conservative dogma: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect":

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

6/

John Earle
1 month ago

Why are schools falling apart when the Tory government had ALL SUMMER to fix them? | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/09/01/why-are-schools-falling-apart-when-the-tory-government-had-all-summer-to-fix-them/

If they were private schools, they would have been all over it

#RAAC #concrete #school #crumbling #falling #apart #down #collapse #Conservative #Tory #Tories #

ZhiZhu
1 month ago

@NewsDesk

"The push to disqualify #Trump under [the #14thAmendment] gained more traction when two members of the #conservative Federalist Society, William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulsen, recently supported the idea in the pages of the Pennsylvania #Law Review...

retired #conservative federal appeals judge J. Michael Luttig & Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe made the same argument in The Atlantic."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/state-election-officials-prepare-efforts-disqualify-trump-14th/story?id=102833123

#DisqualificationClause
#Jan6 #USPol #USA #News

News headline:
State election officials prepare for efforts to disqualify Trump under 14th Amendment:
New Hampshire, Michigan and Arizona are bracing for lawsuits.

ByIsabella Murray and Hannah Demissie
September 1, 2023, 8:40 AM
Concerned Citizen
1 month ago

@scalzi To be scared is TO BE A #Conservative... it is that fear of god thing...

About time!

Pope Francis blasts “backwardness” of U.S. conservatives in the church, saying they’ve replaced faith with ideology.

#PopeFrancis #Conservatism
#Conservative #Republican #evangelical https://therecount.com/watch/pope-francis-blasts-backwardness-of/2645891951