#republican
every single minute of a #Republican's day is spent finding ways to either twist the truth or convince themselves of a lie
The woman who won her court case today in #Texas to get the nonviable fatal-condition foetus she's carrying aborted?
#Republican AG Ken Paxton says who gives a fuck, we'll prosecute anyway.
A man who participated in the #insurrection by storming the #Capitol to interrupt the Congressional certification of the electoral vote is, himself, running for Congress. This week, he was convicted of his #January6th crimes. Yet he claims to have no idea Congress meets at the Capitol.
The House seat he's running for is now vacant because #Republicans' *last* choice there was a now-indicted lying conman named George Santos.
Ladies and gentlemen, the #Republican party.
@Homoevolutis0 When - not if - we #TurnTexasBlue , you can write the obituary of the #Republican Party. 💯
Two thirds of the #Republican Party are outright #criminals, #fraudsters, #grifters, and #traitorous foreign agents.
Nice to see someone is noticing it, finally.
"Cheney compared what Ramaswamy said to “Area 51 conspiracy theory garbage” in the interview Thursday. She said Ramaswamy is “the dream of the Chinese Community Party” and “of the Russian government.”
https://thehill.com/elections/4348525-cheney-goes-after-ramaswamy-inside-job-remarks/
Handing a win to #Trump?
"When I was young, the left I was a part of helped elect #Nixon. Please don’t make a similar mistake today...
Richard Nixon won a narrow victory over both #Humphrey and George Wallace... [But] a shift of less than 88,000 #votes from the #Republican to the #Democrat in just four states (Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, and Alaska) would have given Humphrey a majority in the Electoral College."
#Republican #Rep believes #trans #sports #bans will make #Trans people ‘#switch #back’ to their #sex #assigned at #birth.
Grothman and Perry’s #hateful #comments and #disinformation further prove #Republican #intentions to #restrict #trans #student-#athletes, not to #protect #women as they often suggest, but simply to make #trans #people’s #lives more #difficult.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/07/republican-trans-sports-bans/
#Republican #Congressman from #Wisconsin wants to Pass a #National #Sports #Ban To Make #Trans #People #Detransition.
#Representative #GlennGrothman said a trans sports ban must pass because otherwise, #trans #people won't "switch back."
— It doesn't work like that.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republican-congressman-pass-national
#Ohio’s #doctors, #LGBTQ+ #advocates #testify against #Fascist #Republican #trans #athlete, #healthcare #ban in a #hearing featuring #Antitrans #hatemonger #RileyGaines
“7% of #patients are #prescribed #medication as #minors, those who take the #medication consider it #lifesaving and #Crucial"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#AOC #shutsdown #Republican #bill that aims to #ban #trans #women from #sports in #hope that by being #banned from #sports we will #detransition back or our original #gender.
The New York #Democrat also called upon the #CEO of the #NationalWomensLawCenter, #FatimaGossGraves, to explain what “#sextesting” looks like in #states which have a #ban on #trans #youth in #sports
https://diva-magazine.com/2023/12/07/aoc-shuts-down-bill-that-aims-to-ban-trans-women-from-sports/
#AOC defends transgender Americans in heated congressional hearing.
Intense #debate highlights #Republican efforts to #legislate against #trans #rights, with #Democrats #countering #misinformation and #transphobia in #GOP-led hearing.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.advocate.com/politics/aoc-defends-transgender-americans
https://www.advocate.com/politics/aoc-defends-transgender-americans
In the fourth Republican debate, Nikki Haley said every 30 minutes spent watching TikTok makes people "17% more antisemitic."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xewz/nikki-haley-tiktok-antisemitic-goo?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Technews #TikTok #palestine #israel #GOP #republican #NikkiHaley
"Tuberville apparently didn’t want to be totally humiliated by this impending defeat, so he stubbornly kept in place his hold over 11 top military brass...
Tuberville must understand that he has already lost this fight. There is no good reason to keep these top level commanders out of their posts at a time of growing danger in several parts of the globe."
~ @jaykuo https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/tommy-tuberville-is-still-a-disgrace?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#Tuberville #blockade #military #USmilitary #GOP #Republican #Politics #USPol #USA #News
Fourth #Republican #Debate Serves Up Most #Transphobia So Far
There were #false #assertions about #genderaffirming #Healthcare, a #dig at #DylanMulvaney, and one #candidate calling #trans #identity a #disorder.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.advocate.com/politics/reppublican-debate-transphobia
facepalm mistake by #CNN fact checkers. this claim by #Ramaswamy is one of the few wild claims he made that IS true. or at least backed by *strong* public-known evidence!
Jan 6th *was* an "inside job"
led by then President #Trump & some of his #Republican allies in #Congress & possibly by at least one person in DoD
we were lucky that the executors of the #coup attempt were bumbling idiots & that enough *actual* Patriots showed courage, held the line
Trump's #Russian J6 coup attempt FAILED
Checking the final list of candidates registered for the Presidential Preferential Primary
https://oklahoma.gov/elections.html
#Oklahoma #OKVotes #OKVotes24 #POTUS #Democrat #Republican #Libertarian
#Trump and his #Republican #sycophants and #cowards will lead to the end of #Democracy as well as a #dystopian #America vulnerable to exploitation by our adversaries!
oh good god, the sickening unctuousness of #KevinMcCarthy, like if you made syrup from distilled mediocrity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQu39K9LPg #republican #bye
The #war against #Russia in #Ukraine could yet be lost in #Washington DC, thanks to the #MAGA #Republican friends of #Putin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67637679
Let’s permanently scrap the lame claim that today’s #Republican Party is “the party of #Lincoln.”
It is not, unless you live in #Orwell’s world of doublespeak.
Today’s Republican party woos White southerners and #WhiteSupremacists everywhere.
Lincoln fought them.
#Nixon was the first Republican president to win every southern state. Nixon, who resigned in disgrace to avoid certain impeachment, was no Lincoln.
Name one thing #MarjorieTaylorGreene has done for her #Georgia district, or even tried to. https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-dem-jim-mcgovern-scolds-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-her-censure-vote-outrage #GA #republican
Yes it's true, now #DeSantis massages #Trump's balls with his bare hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAOklZGSfHA #GOP #Republican
This debate was so pointless and uninteresting that it was done on @Newsnation, aka the News Island of Misfit Toys https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-debates-circular-firing-squad-made-them-all-look-silly?ref=home?ref=home #republican
Mike Johnson Likens Himself to Moses, Tells #Christian #Nationalists #God Charted His Path to Speaker
"These guys usually have some kind of kinky sexual sin they are guilty of. I'm anxious to find out what Mikey's is!"
Mike Johnson, delivering the keynote address to a far-right #Christiannationalist group Tuesday, likened himself to Moses and declared God had charted his path to become the #Republican Speaker of the House, after telling him in his #prayers to prepare
Another day, another #GunSlaughter in America.
This slaughter, unique to America, is all to protect gun industry profits and the fat envelopes of cash delivered to #Republican politicians by the NRA.
From #Acyn at the #Hellsite, here's #VivekRamaswamy at tonight's #Republican Presidential primary debate spewing a #FirehoseOfLies on #ElectionFraud in the 2020 and 2016 elections, #Jan6, and #911. So many lies and half-truths in seconds, it would take an hour to untangle all the #bullshit. See: Brandolini's Law.
#BrandolinisLaw #GOP #USPol #politics #propaganda #ConspiracyTheory
Julia Davis, of #TheDailyBeast, featured this video of translated #RussianPropaganda meant for domestic #Russian audiences. In it, presenter Vitaly Tretyakov savors the prospect of #Russia winning in #Ukraine in their #RussianUkraineWar and the punishments they'll met out to the #Ukrainian people because of #Republican obstruction with #war funding.
YouTube video below:
Among the names prosecutors have included on their almost 200-person #witness list: former Vice President #MikePence; ex-Attorney General #BillBarr; onetime #Justice Department officials #JeffreyRosen & #RichardDonoghue; U.S. Rep. #ScottPerry of #Pennsylvania; & #SteveBannon….
The District Attorney’s office could also call several of #Georgia’s top #Republican leaders, including Gov. #BrianKemp, AG #ChrisCarr, Secretary of State Brad #Raffensperger & former Lt. Gov. #GeoffDuncan.
The news aggregator web site #Memorandum I check in on a couple times a day is leading with
"My Next Chapter"
by #KevinMcCarthy via the #WallstreetJournal and i just threw up in my mouth
The #Republican religion needs to be excised from government or we will continue to see mass shootings and we will continue to see fascism devour our constitution.
Have they allowed support for Ukraine yet, or are they not quite done pleasuring themselves over the mass shooting at UNLV?
Billionaires are perverted pricks who get very excited by a big gun. Most hump the Republican party.
They are still just speculating on #MSNBC.
@DemocracyMattersALot
Meet Michael #McDonald, the Chairman of the #Nevada #Republican Party
This article is from 2015. He hasn't gotten better. He's scum.
As per #HarryLitman
Big news out of #Nevada. A whole separate #indictment of 6 #Republican false electors on charges like those #FaniWillis has brought in #Georgia. The Nev AG played it quiet and close to the vest, and now this has a seismic impact.
We could have common-sense gun laws but the Republican religion would lose the bodies on their altar before which they worship.
Meanwhile, Ukraine can't defend itself because Putin holds the light that they are drawn to like moths.
The 2nd amendment is a curse. The Republican religion is a curse.
"We did not know where it was coming from" - a student
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to Resign by the End of the Year
https://criticalreport.substack.com/p/kevin-mccarthy-resigning #USPolitics #Politics #USNews #USHouse #HouseOfRepresentatives #KevinMcCarthy #California #Republican #Republicans #GOP #2024Elections #Elections2024 #Elections
"Run hide fight" has replaced "sis, boom, bah" because Republicans led us to the throne of bloodshed. Hallelujah! Praise Jah for bringing us the holy Republican religion!
UNLV says the suspect has been located and is deceased. Ashes! Ashes! The beloved gun hath stopped firing!!
BREAKING!!! Press Conference 2:30 PM PST
A #Nevada grand jury has indicted the six #Republicans — including the #chair of the Nevada #Republican #Party — who falsely pledged Nevada’s electoral votes to Donald Trump following the 2020 election despite President Joe Biden’s victory in the state...
A press conference is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. today at the Grant Sawyer Building in Las Vegas.
From @pbump :
“…The resolution brought forward in the #House this week, however, did a little bit more than condemn #antisemitism. Instead, the resolution from members of the #Republican majority was a vehicle for putting Democratic legislators in a bind.
“…the resolution… offered tacit equivalences between those protesting the Israeli response in #Gaza & the rioters who stormed the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021.
That #Republican expressed skepticism about the #FakeElectors plan but told others he was going along w/it in part because he feared he would face blowback from #Trump supporters if he didn’t.
The lawsuit, filed last yr by 2 of the state’s rightful electors, alleged #Republicans had taken part in a #conspiracy to #defraud #voters & sought up to $200k from each Trump #FakeElector. No money is being exchanged as part of the #settlement.
@visedge It is not governing at all. #Politics is #compromise and the #MAGA cult (formerly the #Republican party) is unwilling to compromise. Therefore, no governing.
@Teri_Kanefield Let's admit that there is nothing but the "crazy wing" left in the #MAGA cult (formerly the #Republican party).
In the meantime, #McCarthy’s departure will further narrow a fractious #Republican *majority* in the #House at a time when the chamber faces major decisions on #government spending & foreign #aid.
McCarthy’s term was set to end in January 2025. He represents #California’s 20th District, which covers much of the state’s Central Valley.
#McCarthy’s #retirement will bring to an end a 16-yr #House career that saw him quickly rise through the ranks of #Republican leadership, culminating w/his stint as #speaker. His ouster marked the 1st time in history that the House voted to remove its #leader, a move that threw the chamber into a period of #instability.
McCarthy’s departure before the end of his term means #California Gov. Gavin #Newsom (D) will have to call a special #election to replace him.
#US #Senators Square off at Ukraine Briefing After #Zelensky Pulls Out
US #Senate in disarray on #Ukraine support and videolink with Zelensky cancelled.
Several #Republican senators walked out of a classified briefing on Ukraine Tuesday as it descended into a row over the border crisis, after President Volodymyr Zelensky unexpectedly canceled a videolink appearance to appeal for continued US funding.
Read more here🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/25094
@Free_Press I don't think you need a security clearance to know what those senators were told about #ukraine.
1. If you stop sending guns Ukraine will collapse.
2. If Ukraine collapses the #Baltic nations will be next.
3. That means you either go to war with #Russia or you abandon #NATO and leave Europe to #Putin. Both are bad choices.
4. So therefore you must #StandWithUkraine.
#Republican senators don't want to hear that, so it was a "waste of time".
#Senate lawmakers careen toward failed vote on #Ukraine
Billions in additional #aid stuck as #Republicans push #border security, walk out of classified briefing
Senators began blaming each other Tues for the looming potential failure to provide additional aid to Ukraine as fragile negotiations over a #NationalSecurity package continued to break down amid #Republican demands for far-reaching #immigration restrictions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/05/senate-ukraine-immigration-defeat/
#Republican U.S. Senator Tommy #Tuberville, who has blocked hundreds of #military promotions for months to protest the #Pentagon's payment of #abortion-related travel costs, said Tues he would lift his hold on some of them.
Tuberville's actions have affected ~400 military nominees & their families. Pentagon leaders have said the holds threatened #NationalSecurity.
#Republicans #GOP
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-senator-tuberville-says-he-will-release-some-military-holds-us-media-2023-12-05/
Hey, #repjamescomer
Lending someone $4100 and getting $4100 back does not include a "benefit".
However, YOUR Land-swapping $200K with your brother in exchange for $218K DOES include a benefit of $18K. Just FYI.
#LizCheney, one of the most vociferous critics of Donald #Trump in the #Republican Party, says she is weighing whether to mount her own #ThirdParty presidential candidacy for the #WhiteHouse, as she vows to do “whatever it takes” to prevent TFG from returning to office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/12/05/liz-cheney-trump-president-2024/
@paninid @georgetakei
She still calls herself a #Republican
Anyone who can, with a straight face, say that there are 'moderates' in the #GOP when party leadership has allowed #insurrectionist #Election deniers to wear their brand isn't someone to spend time listening to
After being expelled from Congress, #GeorgeSantos is trying to exact revenge on House members that he has ‘dirt’ on, including #NewYork #Republican #NicoleMalliotakis who he says confided with him that she conducted illegal #InsiderTrading after meeting with bank regulators and receiving privileged insider information. 🤔
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ousted-george-santos-plots-revenge-against-ex-colleagues-in-online-tear_n_656b80aee4b028b0f3d04b27
We should not be laughing.
#GeorgeSantos personifies the decay at the heart of today’s #Republican party:
#ElectionDenial.
Extremism.
Form over function (failure to govern).
Grandiosity.
Independent criminal investigations into #GOP members.
Lies, lies, lies and more lies.
https://themoderatevoice.com/santos-expulsion-vote-reflects-the-diseased-heart-of-the-gop/
Before the 2022 #US elections, a tiny local newspaper, the North Shore Leader, had reported on George #Santos. The editor was a #Republican and got info from party sources. But no other media outlet took notice until after the election. In October 2022, they wrote: "This newspaper would like to endorse a Republican for US Congress... But George Santos- is so bizarre, unprincipled and
sketchy that we cannot... he's most likely just a fabulist"
https://www.theleaderonline.com/_files/ugd/228b67_7a84d820e97347eeb286eb556a0c7f3e.pdf
"Never before had a president used his constitutional clemency powers to free or forgive so many people who could be useful to his future political efforts...
review of Trump’s 238 clemency orders found that dozens of recipients... have gone on to plug his 2024 candidacy through social media & national interviews, contribute money... or disseminate his false claims of voter fraud"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/trump-pardon-power-2024-benefit/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001
#Trump #Corruption #MAGA #GOP #Republican #Politics #USPol #USA #News
On Palestine, the gap between the US right and left is huge | The Bottom Line
That Donald Trump is a criminal does not change the fact that Joe Biden is a shitty president.
If you want to make me feel better about the choices, stop making the 'But their guy sucks too!' argument.
There's only one party and its rabid brainwashed followers that is embracing political violence. One. #MAGA #GOP #Republican #Twitter
America is Big Mad https://www.axios.com/2023/11/19/america-is-big-mad
#GeorgeSantos LITERALLY STOLE FROM OTHER #GOP CONGRESSMEN and yet the #Republican votes to expel him were 105 yea vs 115 nay. Showing the Republican party is made of grifters and suckers.
In any case, don't give the GOP credit for expelling him. Even after all of this, they BARELY could be bothered.
#GeorgeSantos is out The scandal-plagued #Republican has finally been expelled. It's the first time since the Civil War the House ousted someone without a criminal conviction.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/12/01/congress/santos-expelled-00129588
I’m going to have to boycott Home Depot. Wish I had my corner hardware store back!
What is it with these F…ing billionaires 🤬
#HomeDepot’s Billionaire Founder Says He’ll Fund Trump... Even If He’s Convicted
“The #Billionaire #Republican has admitted he’ll probably still donate to #Trump’s 2024 campaign even if the former president ends up being convicted in one of his four criminal cases that are expected to come to trial before the general election next November”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-marcus-donald-trump-2024-election_n_6567330be4b066e398b5ffa4
A growing number of Senate #Democrats appear open to making it harder for migrants to seek asylum in order to secure #Republican support for aiding #Ukraine and #Israel.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/28/senate-dems-asylum-ukraine-money-00128970
In #Arizona, two #Republican supervisors in #Cochise County have been indicted for refusing to certify the results of their county's 2022 general #elections. The pair of officials refused to certify the results because Democrats won several of the races. A judge later ordered the election to be certified.
Today's indictment charges each official with one felony count of Interfering with an Elections Officer and one count of conspiracy.
In this week's Truth About newsletter, Max Burns digs into the all-out assault on #voting #rights
"In red states, the situation has grown dire. #Republican #lawmakers last year crafted a record number of laws designed to strip away the #vote from millions of Americans ahead of the 2024 general #election"
Republicans have been going on and on about #HunterBiden for far too long now.
He agreed to testify before a #Republican-controlled #HouseGOP committee, as long as it was public.
The Republicans don't want that. What have they got to hide?
Utter clowns.🤡
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-hope-avoid-sunlight-hunter-biden-testifies-rcna127140 #USPol
While a second term of TFG wd be hell, plz look at #Project2025 for why no #Republican administration would be anything but straight up #Fascism
That woman running Italy rn? It wd be like that on steroids
The only answer to #US politics messing up dating is not to complain that #liberals are intolerant, but to demand that the #Republican Party cleaves to #democracy and #decency
Who would have guessed that two #Ohio #Republican legislators would lie about what a deep red county Democratic elected judge, reelected even during the MAGA movement, would say.
The bill’s sponsors insisted he supported the proposed bill’s amendment. He indicated no such support and was surprised when the Ohio Supreme Court contacted him with the information.
Representatives Pizzulli and Schmidt are liars.
HB 283 gets amendment https://www.peoplesdefender.com/2023/11/28/hb-283-gets-amendment/
Backstory
https://www.peoplesdefender.com/2023/11/16/hb-283-whats-the-emergency/
#Kentucky #Governor Calls #Transgender #Kids “#ChildrenofGod”
“We ought to be in the #Suicideprevention #business and not further #harming #kids who are going through too much already,” he said, adding that he did “the right thing” by #vetoing the #Republican #antitrans #omnibus #bill.
"That's what my faith teaches me," Governor Andy Beshear told MSNBC's Jen Psaki.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kentucky #DemocraticParty #Allies #Representation #Culture
https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/11/kentucky-governor-calls-transgender-kids-children-of-god/
#Koch network endorses #NikkiHaley for president as it looks to stop #Trump
The powerful #political network led by #conservative #billionaire Charles Koch endorsed Nikki Haley for president on Tues,
“#AFP Action is proud to throw our full support behind Nikki Haley, who offers America the opportunity to turn the page on the current political era, to win the #Republican primary & defeat Joe Biden next November,” Emily Seidel, snr adviser of the group, wrote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/11/28/koch-network-haley-president/
“Playing the chess board in front of us.”
“As I wrote several weeks ago, “Voting is a chess move, not a Valentine’s Day card.” Looking at the chess board in front of us, there is only one winning strategy: ensure the re-election of Joe Biden by increasing turn-out!”
#trump #biden #vote #election #fascism #republican #democrat #democracy
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/playing-the-chess-board-in-front
Mike Johnson Spent Years Defending Christian Speech In Schools. “The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing the Gospel," the Republican said in 2004 after Jewish parents sued a school for pushing Christianity on their kids.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-christianity-public-schools_n_65565dfce4b0998d699f5f0d
#MikeJohnson #ChristianSpeech #Schools #SilencingTheGospel #Republican #JewishParentsSue #Politics #News
@w7voa He might as well save a step and not run for the primary either. I totally expect No Labels will recruit him and that he'll think they're real because they flatter him.
I would be willing to bet money he's getting paid by #Republican dark money to do all this, whether he realizes or not. He strikes me as the kind of chump easy to flatter into a lot.
The Guardian: Iowa woman guilty of stuffing ballot box in husband’s Congress nomination race
“The wife of a north-western Iowa county supervisor was convicted on Tuesday of a scheme to stuff the ballot box in her husband’s unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020.”
#Moderates raising the alarm on House #Republican's position on #abortionrights ahead of 2024.
Kim Phoung Taylor — wife of #Iowa #Republican Jeremy Taylor — was found #guilty of 52 #criminal counts of 'false voting information', 'fraudulent registration' , and 'fraudulent voting' linked to the 2020 primary.
Surprise, surprise, surprise! Yet another Republican busted for voter fraud. 🤔
#RepublicanLosers #electoralSadness #GOPcheaters #voterFraud #RepublicansAreTheProblem #VoteBlue
@georgetakei #WRONG!
When our entire #American way of life... #Holidays included... Could soon fall to #Fascist #Fascists #Nazi #Nazis #Republican #Republicans... Now is NOT the time to sit quietly, play nice, and chew #Turkey with the #MAGATS!
#NOW is the time to #HoldThemAccountable!
Now more than ever... Hold your fellow #Americans accountable while we are still #America!
This #Thanksgiving #BlackFriday #Christmas #NewYear #NewYears you must let the entire gathering know that there will be no #peace until there is #justice.
#KeepItReal with your #family and #friends and let them know while you still can that you will oppose #Fascism and will not stand for the infectious #poison of #MAGA or #Trumpism at your #dinner table!
Let everyone know exactly what you think of #Trump #TheBigLie and #January6th #J6 #Jan6.
When #US #USA #Democracy #Freedom is on the line...
It is perfectly fine to ruin everyone's #Holiday #Vacation!
#NoJusticeNoPeace so #DoNotBeAfraid to #RuinTheHolidays!
🇺🇸 🎄🔥
#Wisconsin #SupremeCourt appeared poised 2 strike down current maps 4 state legislature after 3 hrs of oral argument Tues, decision that could end more than decade o #Republican dominance & eliminate some of most gerrymandered districts in the #US
The 4 #liberal justices on the court all seemed ready 2 embrace an argument frm challengers in the case, Clarke v Wisconsin elections commission, that maps violate state #constitution bcuz they include more than 70 districts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/21/wisconsin-supreme-court-redistricting-lawsuit
A #Republican political strategist was convicted of illegally helping a Russian businessman contribute to Donald #Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.
Jesse #Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime, months before he was indicted again on six counts related to facilitating an illegal foreign campaign donation. He was found guilty Thursday on all six counts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/17/benton-trump-russian-vasilenko-guilty/
Acyn at the hellsite catches this from the Thanksgiving Family Forum, in De Moins, WA.
Here, Bob Vander Plaat, a social conservative, speaks to a group of #Republican candidates. Referring to #Ohio #abortion ballot which enshrined #abortionrights by constitutional amendment and passed by landslide:
"What happened in Ohio is a travesty ... I think we also have to be reigning in the Governor Newsoms in California and others that are making their state an abortion destination." #politics #health
From Seth Meyers:
"“The #GOP frontrunner is facing four #criminal cases and a civil #fraud trial, but that has not stopped him from laying out his plan for a second term,” said Seth Meyers... “complete his #authoritarian takeover of government and install an #autocracy of cronies and loyalists if he’s elected next year...
and it’s clear he’s got the support of the #Republican party, which has become a movement fundamentally opposed to #democracy "
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/14/late-night-seth-meyers-trump-rallies-fascist-rhetoric
@thenewoil Translation; Nikki Haley vows to abolish right to privacy. And social media are private companies. Isn't minimal governmental intervention one of the Republicans cornerstones? Hippocrates.
#PresidentialElection #Candidate #Privacy #Anonymous #Republican #SocialMedia #Politics
@RollingStone "We’re violating His commands. We’re inventing new ways to do evil." #Republican #FreudianSlip
"House Speaker #MikeJohnson (R-La.) declared as he was elevated to that role, “This conference that you see — this House #Republican majority — is united.”
On Tuesday, Johnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy (R-Calif.), and Rep. #TimBurchett (R-Tenn.) featured in an angry & reportedly physical altercation — for the 2nd time this year. The scene played out even as their fellow House #Republicans continued to hurl childish insults at one another."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/14/an-ugly-scene-highlights-house-gops-descent-into-childish-infighting/
I made this meme last year and it was the first Image media I posted to Mastodon when I joined.
It's unfortunate that many Americans continue to promote extreme views that accept #fascism and #racism as a #republican platform.
#republicans will have the opportunity to re-write their party platform in 2024.
@dave #Trump lies about everything, but when he says things, believe him.
NEVER vote for a #Republican #MAGA
From @willbunch
"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, & 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"
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html
"It’s past time to reevaluate #political coverage. #Polling fixation is unenlightening if not misleading. (Maybe get out of the crystal-ball business entirely?)...
Many #media outlets after #Jan6 2021, vowed to focus more on threats to #democracy...
However, most are stuck in overhyped horse-race coverage & endless chatter over meaningless #Republican debates.
Americans deserve better. Our democracy needs better."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/12/political-coverage-broken/
So this is why #DonaldTrump is winning the #Republican primary. I hope #JoeBiden can defeat #Trump again.
👉🏾 Here is what Trump plans to do if he returns to the White House https://apnews.com/article/trump-policies-agenda-election-2024-second-term-d656d8f08629a8da14a65c4075545e0f
If #Biden loses Trump in 2024, Trump will try to force the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 to exit #NATO again: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-u-s-leave-nato-1234860016/
I need to renew both of my passports just in case Trump wins.
Last week, voters in suburban Philadelphia flipped their book-banning majority-#Republican school board to majority-#Democrat. All five open seats were won by Democrats.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1212185489/election-pennsylvania-school-board
#BookBans #Books #Censorship #Democracy #Libraries #USPolitics
News at 9AM: Australian tycoon Forrest pivots to green energy. #Hollywood actors end strike, securing better pay. Israeli forces penetrate #Gaza City; hundreds reported dead. Five #Republican candidates debate economy and #Trump. Disney's turnaround plan exceeds expectations with rising theme park attendance. McDonald's initiates sexual misconduct investigations. #Ukraine secures European Commission support for membership talks. #BBC #News
News at 6AM: Australian mining tycoon Andrew Forrest is pivoting to green energy. Hollywood actors have reached a deal with studios, ending a long strike. In #Gaza, the BBC reports from amidst Israeli forces as conflict continues. The #Republican debate saw five candidates discuss major topics including economy and #Israel. Disney's turnaround plan is showing progress, according to its boss. #BBC #News
In a huge win for #Democrats,
#Kentucky Governor #AndyBeshear has won a second term, defeating #MAGA #Republican #DanielCameron.
FYI, in 2020, #DonaldTrump had won Kentucky 62.09%-36.15%.