Your Former Republican Party

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Are there any dumber morons than Moron McCarthy and the Clown Caucus?

Too cknsht to take questions.

Gym Jordan and Jim Goober Comer are as stupid as they sound.

Congrats HoyaTalk "Republicans"!

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Sept 12, 2023 11:38:55 GMT -5 DanMcQ said:

Cue up the circus music. GOTTA NAIL THAT BIDEN CRIME FAMILY! TRUMP? TRUMP WHO?

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[SSHoya]

Liars, cowards and hypocrites. Read it and weep HoyaTalk "Republicans".

“A very large portion of my party,” he told me one day, “really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” He’d realized this only recently, he said. We were a few months removed from an attempted coup instigated by Republican leaders, and he was wrestling with some difficult questions. Was the authoritarian element of the GOP a product of President Trump, or had it always been there, just waiting to be activated by a sufficiently shameless demagogue? And what role had the members of the mainstream establishment—­people like him, the reasonable Republicans—played in allowing the rot on the right to fester?

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/

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In what may the perfect distillation of the terroristic, fascist Republican Party: 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney pays private security $5000 PER DAY to protect him from threats FROM HIS OWN PARTY.

www.vice.com/en/article/93kng5/mccarthy-trump-biden-impeachment-romney-maga

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[Massholya]

Sept 16, 2023 4:21:52 GMT -5 DanMcQ said:

Caught in a lie? MAGA doesn’t care they enjoy being lied to. Fake news!

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Sept 16, 2023 9:03:38 GMT -5 DanMcQ said:

Perfectly on brand.

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[SSHoya]

Yee Haw, Texas!

To paraphrase Mark Twain,"There is no native American criminal class, except for MAGA GOPers."

Ken Paxton got a pass. Now comes a 2024 GOP civil war in Texas.

“Let it be known. Let it be clear now. The Bush era in Texas ends today.”

So much for the mountain of damning evidence in the impeachment trial of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. That statement in the closing argument of his defense attorney Tony Buzbee was a naked appeal to the tribalism that has reshaped the once-rational GOP in Texas.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/18/paxton-texas-impeachment-acquitted-attorney-general/

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[SSHoya]

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Soon to be a bankrupt clown and likely convicted felon.

A law firm that represented Rudy Giuliani during recent years of investigations and lawsuits is now suing him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees, as the former New York City mayor is facing growing bills related to fallout for his actions around the 2020 election for Donald Trump.

The law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron said Giuliani had only paid $214,000 of his total legal bill, leaving him $1,360,196 indebted to them for work the firm’s attorneys did on his now-closed foreign lobbying federal criminal investigation; the January 6, 2021-related investigations by Georgia state prosecutors, the House of Representatives and the federal special counsel’s office; and in various lawsuits and attorney discipline probes that materialized after the 2020 election, according to a complaint filed in New York state court on Monday.

www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/politics/rudy-giuliani-legal-fees-lawsuit/index.html

Rudy Giuliani’s former lawyer sues him for $1.36M over alleged unpaid fees

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-sued-lawyer-robert-costello/

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[SSHoya]

Barely gets a mention in the media - the criminality of "Republicans" may be just too ubiquitous to merit coverage . . .

NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. congressman from Indiana was sentenced Tuesday to 22 months in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information while working as a consultant and lobbyist after he left office.

Former U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer, 64, a House Republican from 1993 to 2011, was also ordered to forfeit $354,027, representing the amount of illegal gains, and to pay a $10,000 fine.

apnews.com/article/buyer-republican-congressman-indiana-insider-trading-conviction-793e0476d42dac34ba01d8c1b541976c

[SSHoya]

MAGA GOPers are nothing but radical nihilist hypocrites.

One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.

The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country.

Trump had the third-biggest primary deficit growth, 5.2% of GDP, behind only George W. Bush (11.7%) and Abraham Lincoln (9.4%). Bush, of course, not only passed a big tax cut, as Trump has, but also launched two wars, which greatly inflated the defense budget. Lincoln had to pay for the Civil War. By contrast, Trump’s wars have been almost entirely of the political variety.

Our national debt is now at its highest level relative to our economy since the end of World War II. After the war ended, the extraordinary military expenses disappeared, a postwar recovery began and the debt began to fall rapidly relative to the size of the economy.

www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

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Four years ago, Boris Johnson became prime minister. Almost overnight, the liberal-centrist tradition of the Conservative Party, which I had championed, was replaced by a right-wing, anti-immigrant platform for populists who reveled in stoking culture wars. The new prime minister threatened that MPs who tried to block his hard-Brexit proposals would be expelled from the party. Twenty-one of us chose to do so. He was true to his word: We all lost our seats. The party that I had served in Parliament for nearly a decade, and latterly for several years as a government minister, disinherited me. Friends turned against me.

Reckoning with Johnson’s legacy has made me very conscious of Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party, and I often wonder what general lessons can be drawn about alienation from a political party as it shifts from the center-right to the extreme. I can hardly claim to have found a formula, but I am beginning to believe that conservative populism can be defeated and that there is a route back to the center ground of democratic politics, where I believe most voters naturally are.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/tory-party-boris-johnson-brexit-proposals-expelled/675354/