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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 4, 2024 7:06:54 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 4, 2024 8:48:02 GMT -5
Morons. I hope you destroy each other for the good of American democracy. Anyone wanna defend your morons? Good, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus and one of eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, has been at the center of internal GOP infighting that has left their party’s agenda in tatters and their conference embroiled in a bitter civil war. www.cnn.com/2024/03/31/politics/bob-good-primary-fight-virginia/index.html
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 4, 2024 20:53:59 GMT -5
All of the corrupt politicans who voted to acquit are cowards so of course they are "Republicans." They are disgusting. Anyone want to defend the indefensible? Portman was one of 43 Republican senators who voted against conviction. Sixty-seven votes were required to convict. If 10 additional Republican senators had joined the 50 Democrats and seven Republicans who voted for conviction, Trump would not today be the party’s presumptive nominee for president, and the country would not be one election away from a constitutional crisis and a possibly irreversible slide into authoritarianism. (Technically, a second vote after conviction would have been required to ban Trump from holding public office, but presumably this second vote would have followed naturally from the first.) It would be unfair to blame Portman disproportionately for the devastating reality that Donald Trump, who is currently free on bail but could be a convicted felon by November, is once again a candidate for president. The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, denounced Trump for his actions on January 6, and yet still voted to acquit him. Trump’s continued political viability is as much McConnell’s fault as anyone’s. The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, one of the world’s leading experts on authoritarianism, wrote in 2020 that complicity, rather than dissent, is the norm for humans, and especially for status-and-relevance-seeking politicians. There are many explanations for complicity, Applebaum argued. A potent one is fear. Many Republican elected officials, she wrote, “don’t know that similar waves of fear have helped transform other democracies into dictatorships.” On February 13, 2021, Romney was joined by six other Republicans—North Carolina’s Richard Burr, Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Maine’s Susan Collins, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, and Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey—in voting to convict. If the United States and its Constitution survive the coming challenge from Trump and Trumpism, statues will one day be raised to these seven. As for Rob Portman and his colleagues, they should hope that they will merely be forgotten. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/rob-portman-donald-trump-january-6-impeachment/677833/It's my view that Mitch is more responsible than any other Republican. He was the damn majority leader. If he had done what was right, it's possible that nine other Republican senators (including Portman) would have joined him. Perhaps not (I know that the Traitor Brothers, Cruz and Hawley, would not have done so), but we'll never know.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 6, 2024 14:32:21 GMT -5
Shocking, I know, but another MAGA GOP liar running for office. As one who has represented Navy SEALS in federal court litigation, I wonder how much of his Navy service is a lie as well. I guess all MAGA GOPers must emulate the lying POS Grifter that leads their cult. Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 Asked this week about the citation, which has not been previously reported, Sheehy told The Washington Post that the statement he gave the ranger was a lie. He said he made up the story about the gun going off to protect himself and his former platoonmates from facing a potential military investigation into an old bullet wound that he said he got in Afghanistan in 2012. He said he did not know for certain whether the wound was the result of friendly fire or from enemy ammunition, and said he never reported the incident to his superiors. Sheehy said he did not shoot himself in the park in 2015, but rather fell and hurt himself on a hike, necessitating a trip to an emergency room, where he said he told hospital staff he had a bullet in his arm, triggering his interview with the ranger. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/tim-sheehy-montana-senate-gunshot-wound-national-park/
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Post by tashoya on Apr 6, 2024 19:44:12 GMT -5
Shocking, I know, but another MAGA GOP liar running for office. As one who has represented Navy SEALS in federal court litigation, I wonder how much of his Navy service is a lie as well. I guess all MAGA GOPers must emulate the lying POS Grifter that leads their cult. Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 Asked this week about the citation, which has not been previously reported, Sheehy told The Washington Post that the statement he gave the ranger was a lie. He said he made up the story about the gun going off to protect himself and his former platoonmates from facing a potential military investigation into an old bullet wound that he said he got in Afghanistan in 2012. He said he did not know for certain whether the wound was the result of friendly fire or from enemy ammunition, and said he never reported the incident to his superiors. Sheehy said he did not shoot himself in the park in 2015, but rather fell and hurt himself on a hike, necessitating a trip to an emergency room, where he said he told hospital staff he had a bullet in his arm, triggering his interview with the ranger. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/tim-sheehy-montana-senate-gunshot-wound-national-park/As ever, SS, thank you for your service (and for the really cool hat you sent my way). As a person from a family of veterans (no, I did not serve), I find this kind of stuff detestable. I can't imagine how irate it must make those did to read this sort of stuff. Along with the BS like Tuberville pulled and how Trump spoke of those who volunteered to serve in order to provide and maintain our way of life for the rest of us that never sacked up.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 7, 2024 11:20:37 GMT -5
Chaos cultist conference continues its corrosion. Corruption is for losers. ‘Increasingly chaotic’: Why House Republicans are heading for the exits The decision to step back is yet another sign of the broader drop in morale within the GOP conference. Many Republican lawmakers have largely accepted that their inability to govern is a predicament of their own making. They acknowledge that overcoming their legislative impasse relies on not just keeping control of the House in November, but growing their ranks significantly to neutralize the handful of hard-liners who wield influence by taking advantage of the narrow margins. But many also continue to say privately what few have acknowledged publicly: Republicans believe they are likely to lose the majority. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/07/house-republicans-retirements-mike-johnson-majority-elections/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 9, 2024 5:25:29 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 9, 2024 9:24:36 GMT -5
Exhibit A on how moronic MAGA GOPers are. Loser McCarthy calls MTG a "serious legislator." Anyone with the common sense G-d gave them when they were born should be embarassed to be associated with the "Republican" party/cult. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) a “serious legislator” amid her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from his post. thehill.com/homenews/house/4581253-mccarthy-calls-greene-serious-legislator-amid-johnson-ouster-threat/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 9, 2024 12:22:09 GMT -5
Maybe you "Republicans" wanna take a stab at bringing back slavery, too. Returning to a 1864 law? FFS, building a bridge to the 19th century, morons. That Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 must look pretty good to you as well, you xenophobic racist mouthbreathers. Arizona’s conservative Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a near-total ban of abortion, invoking a 1864 law that forbids the procedure except to save a mother’s life and punishes providers with prison time. Under the 1864 law, anyone who administers an abortion could face a mandatory prison sentence of two to five years. That ban could force Arizona’s licensed abortion clinics to ramp down dramatically or shutter. Eight of the nine temporarily closed two years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe, ending national protections for abortion rights. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/09/arizona-abortion-supreme-court-ruling/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 9, 2024 17:07:49 GMT -5
Typical cheating racist MAGA GOPers. Dishonesty is in its DNA. Operatives must pay up to $1.25 million for robocall scheme to suppress Black votes Two right-wing political operatives must pay up to $1.25 million in fines after they were found liable for launching a robocall campaign designed to keep Black New Yorkers from voting in the 2020 election, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who have a history of concocting conspiracy theories to try to smear Democrats, were found liable last March of orchestrating a robocall campaign that reached about 5,500 predominantly Black New Yorkers in the summer of 2020. Targeted voters received automated calls — purportedly from a “civil rights organization” founded by Wohl and Burkman called “Project 1599” — that sought to dissuade them from mail-in voting. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/09/settlement-new-york-robocalls-black-voters/
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Post by hoyajinx on Apr 10, 2024 17:01:05 GMT -5
A county chair for Trump in New Hampshire, and a current state congressman, was fired from his job as a police officer upon finding that he was in a relationship with a high school student, after which he threatened to kill his colleagues, his boss, and to rape his boss’s wife. The Republican Party, where you can literally be one of the worst humans roaming the planet and still be welcomed with wide open arms as you find yourself in the company of the like-minded and equally depraved. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fired-police-officer-new-hampshire_n_6616de8ce4b0999df35397ba/amp
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Post by tashoya on Apr 10, 2024 18:13:35 GMT -5
A county chair for Trump in New Hampshire, and a current state congressman, was fired from his job as a police officer upon finding that he was in a relationship with a high school student, after which he threatened to kill his colleagues, his boss, and to rape his boss’s wife. The Republican Party, where you can literally be one of the worst humans roaming the planet and still be welcomed with wide open arms as you find yourself in the company of the like-minded and equally depraved. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fired-police-officer-new-hampshire_n_6616de8ce4b0999df35397ba/ampI'd like to be joking but is any of that disqualifying or even considered all that bad at this point for "Republicans?" I think the only thing really missing is getting the high school kid pregnant, amirite?
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 10, 2024 19:48:47 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 11, 2024 4:08:14 GMT -5
The cult that hates government cannot govern. What a shock. Morons. Threats to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are struggling to gain traction as his Republican colleagues fear the oblivion that would follow. Why it matters: House Republicans are vocal about not wanting to repeat last fall's chaotic, protracted speaker vacancy, with many acknowledging there may be no alternative to the current speaker. One House Republican told Axios any vacancy would "devolve" into chaos, with "nobody" seen as prepared to step into Johnson's shoes. www.axios.com/2024/04/10/republicans-mike-johnson-motion-to-vacate-greene
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 11, 2024 7:11:19 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 11, 2024 17:20:06 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 11, 2024 19:25:06 GMT -5
We can count on there not being a single truthful word spoken at this event. Perfect for the Fake News Network and its spawn.
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 13, 2024 7:58:36 GMT -5
Can’t wait for debate on these top issues to move America forward.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 13, 2024 8:11:21 GMT -5
Can’t wait for debate on these top issues to move America forward. Not The Onion? Ha ha.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 13, 2024 17:39:39 GMT -5
Can’t wait for debate on these top issues to move America forward. So will the performative moronic MAGA GOPers get to something like foreign aid to Israel after the Iranian attack instead of their meaningless performative politics for their imbecilic base? MAGA GOP lers truly disgusting morally-bankrupt PsOS.
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