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Post by SSHoya on Aug 26, 2024 7:25:54 GMT -5
Cult/party of weirdo, freaks and insurrectionists. FLINT — Michigan Republicans activists are united behind former President Donald Trump, but other strong divisions persist, a Saturday state party convention in Flint made clear. The party selected its two candidates for the Michigan Supreme Court early Saturday evening, but voting and counting continued for university boards and the State Board of Education until around 10 p.m., when full convention results were announced. Two university board incumbents — University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser and Michigan State University Trustee Dan Kelly, whose term as board chair runs until January — were rejected by delegates. The former state party chair, Kristina Karamo, who was ousted by party dissidents in January after less than a year in office, showed up at the Dort Financial Center and was soon escorted out of the building by security and local police. "Corruption," Karamo said as she exited. Former ambassador and congressman Pete Hoekstra, who was elected to replace Karamo two weeks after the vote to remove her and who has since worked to improve the party's shaky finances, was greeted with scattered but loud boos when he took the stage to address the convention. www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/24/michigan-gop-state-convention-flint-kristina-karamo-removed/74918884007/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 26, 2024 19:59:29 GMT -5
MAGA GOPers are simply despicable human beings. Soulless hypocrites. Freaks, weirdos and insurrectionists. Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election “on character.” No, really. But bear with me; the headline wasn’t quite accurate. Trump could beat Kamala Harris, Lowry wrote, not by running on his character but by attacking hers. According to Lowry, you see, one of Trump’s “talents as a communicator is sheer repetition, which, when he’s on to something that works, attains a certain power.” Thus, he argued, Trump could hammer Harris into the ground if he called her “weak” enough times—50 times a day ought to do it, according to Lowry—and especially if he gave her a funny nickname, like the ones he managed to stick on “Crooked Hillary” Clinton and “Little Marco” Rubio. All of this was presented in the pages of America’s newspaper of record, The New York Times. What’s going on here? Many journalists are reluctant to report on Trump’s obvious instability and disordered personality—the “bias toward coherence” that The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, has cautioned about. But Lowry’s article was different. I cannot know the actual thinking at the Times, although I suspect the paper accepted the article to offer a pro-Trump contributor as a way of displaying a diversity of views. The plunge that Lowry and others have taken into the muck of Trumpism, however, is not new, and has origins that are important to consider in the coming months of the 2024 election. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/08/the-conservatives-who-sold-their-souls-for-trump/679623/
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 27, 2024 18:57:53 GMT -5
MAGA GOPers are simply despicable human beings. Soulless hypocrites. Freaks, weirdos and insurrectionists. Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election “on character.” No, really. But bear with me; the headline wasn’t quite accurate. Trump could beat Kamala Harris, Lowry wrote, not by running on his character but by attacking hers. According to Lowry, you see, one of Trump’s “talents as a communicator is sheer repetition, which, when he’s on to something that works, attains a certain power.” Thus, he argued, Trump could hammer Harris into the ground if he called her “weak” enough times—50 times a day ought to do it, according to Lowry—and especially if he gave her a funny nickname, like the ones he managed to stick on “Crooked Hillary” Clinton and “Little Marco” Rubio. All of this was presented in the pages of America’s newspaper of record, The New York Times. What’s going on here? Many journalists are reluctant to report on Trump’s obvious instability and disordered personality—the “bias toward coherence” that The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, has cautioned about. But Lowry’s article was different. I cannot know the actual thinking at the Times, although I suspect the paper accepted the article to offer a pro-Trump contributor as a way of displaying a diversity of views. The plunge that Lowry and others have taken into the muck of Trumpism, however, is not new, and has origins that are important to consider in the coming months of the 2024 election. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/08/the-conservatives-who-sold-their-souls-for-trump/679623/This is despicable and revolting. What it is really saying is that Trump's greatest talent is to lie constantly, over and over again, until enough people believe it. This is exactly what Stephanie Grisham said at the DNC. Everything is a lie with him, and the bigger the better, and that's how he can win the election. Harris needs to be attacking him constantly.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 31, 2024 6:29:08 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 2, 2024 4:55:48 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! Any "Republicans" wish to defend thís racist POS and your fascist cult?? Paxton’s election fraud charges upend lives but result in few convictions SAN ANTONIO — Leticia Sanchez was a church deaconess, teacher’s aide and an activist in her majority-Latino community helping register people to vote before she was arrested in 2018 for the first time in her life. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) accused her and three other Hispanic women of forming an “organized voter fraud ring” that targeted elderly voters by applying for mail-in ballots they had not requested. Five years later, the case was dismissed after the state’s highest criminal court ruled Paxton didn’t have the authority to prosecute Sanchez. But even with her record cleared, the cost of being branded a felon was enormous. “It’s been difficult to move forward,” Sanchez, 63, said in her first interview since the arrest. “We didn’t do anything wrong. We were just helping people.” The church leader’s case fits a pattern that has emerged in Texas under Paxton: Aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that upend lives but result in few cases that go to trial and end in a conviction. The Republican attorney general and his supporters believe election fraud is rampant, and point to the large number of charges filed as proof. Yet many of those charged have stories like Sanchez’s. Civil rights groups say the charges tend to target Black or Latino voters and volunteers, many of whom are Democrats. The result has been a chilling effect on volunteers and community groups that for decades have worked to increase turnout in a state with one of the nation’s lowest voter participation rates. Critics say the charges are part of a wider effort by predominantly White, Republican state lawmakers to suppress votes in some of the fastest-growing parts of the majority-minority state: urban and suburban communities. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/02/paxton-texas-election-fraud-charges/
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 2, 2024 19:02:54 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! Any "Republicans" wish to defend thís racist POS and your fascist cult?? Paxton’s election fraud charges upend lives but result in few convictions SAN ANTONIO — Leticia Sanchez was a church deaconess, teacher’s aide and an activist in her majority-Latino community helping register people to vote before she was arrested in 2018 for the first time in her life. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) accused her and three other Hispanic women of forming an “organized voter fraud ring” that targeted elderly voters by applying for mail-in ballots they had not requested. Five years later, the case was dismissed after the state’s highest criminal court ruled Paxton didn’t have the authority to prosecute Sanchez. But even with her record cleared, the cost of being branded a felon was enormous. “It’s been difficult to move forward,” Sanchez, 63, said in her first interview since the arrest. “We didn’t do anything wrong. We were just helping people.” The church leader’s case fits a pattern that has emerged in Texas under Paxton: Aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that upend lives but result in few cases that go to trial and end in a conviction. The Republican attorney general and his supporters believe election fraud is rampant, and point to the large number of charges filed as proof. Yet many of those charged have stories like Sanchez’s. Civil rights groups say the charges tend to target Black or Latino voters and volunteers, many of whom are Democrats. The result has been a chilling effect on volunteers and community groups that for decades have worked to increase turnout in a state with one of the nation’s lowest voter participation rates. Critics say the charges are part of a wider effort by predominantly White, Republican state lawmakers to suppress votes in some of the fastest-growing parts of the majority-minority state: urban and suburban communities. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/02/paxton-texas-election-fraud-charges/Trump must love this guy. What a scumbag.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 4, 2024 18:48:20 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw!! New Paxton lawsuit targets mail-in voter registrations in Texas’s Bexar County SAN ANTONIO — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Wednesday against one of the state’s largest urban counties to stop lawmakers there from using taxpayer dollars to mail thousands of voter registration applications to its unregistered residents. Despite a warning from the attorney general, commissioners from Bexar County — home to San Antonio — approved a plan this week to pay Civic Government Solutions to send more than 200,000 forms to residents one month before the Texas registration deadline. It is the first time county leaders have contracted an outside company to send unsolicited registration forms to residents in an effort to boost voter participation. Paxton is seeking an emergency order to block the plan, which he derided as an effort by Democrats to boost their own numbers. He said it will “create confusion, facilitate fraud, undermine confidence in elections” and is illegal. He also argued it will worsen existing voter registration backlogs and that the firm hired has known ties to Democratic causes and candidates, according to the lawsuit. Commissioner Justin Rodriguez, who brought the idea to local leaders, said there was nothing nefarious about being proactive in increasing voter participation. The commissioners’ attorney told them the plan was legal, he said. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/04/paxton-mail-in-voter-registrations/
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Post by tashoya on Sept 6, 2024 21:30:42 GMT -5
Interesting watch:
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 9, 2024 5:50:41 GMT -5
Are HoyaTalk "Republicans" also bowing down to their dear leader like the spineless GOPers? Proud of your cult? Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump
Biden’s defeat of Trump in 2020 had seemed certain to weaken Trump’s grip on the Republican Party, if not end his political career. No relevant precedent existed for any one-term president to become his party’s default front-runner in the next election. Especially not an extremely unpopular one-term president who lost by 7 million votes, refused to concede, incited a lethal insurrection in an attempt to overturn the result, was impeached for a second time, defied long-honored tradition by skipping the swearing-in of his successor, left behind a traumatized nation (with 25,000 National Guard troops defending the capital against his own supporters), became the first former president to be indicted … and the rest of the whole loser litany. Yet the speed with which Trump has settled back into easy dominance of his party has been both remarkable and entirely foreseeable—foreseen, in fact, by Trump himself. Because if there’s been one recurring lesson of the Trump-era GOP, it’s this: Never underestimate the durability of a demagogue with a captive base, a desperate will to keep going, and—perhaps most of all—a feeble and terrified opposition of spineless ciphers (“weak like a baby”). The party that allegedly reveres the Constitution is going all in on someone who has called for its termination. A party that cherishes freedom is willing to cede authority to a candidate who says he would be a dictator on his first day in office. A party that supposedly venerates law and order is re-upping with an actual felon. A party whose rank and file overwhelmingly wants Russia to defeat Ukraine believes that Biden stole the 2020 election, and that Trump’s legal shambles are entirely a Democratic plot. This is now a party whose standard-bearer has not been endorsed by any former Republican president or nominee, or even his own vice president, who barely escaped death by hanging the last time. And to what end, any of it? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/trump-gop-support-jd-vance-2024/679564/
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 9, 2024 14:14:55 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Sept 9, 2024 14:44:26 GMT -5
Just goes to show, no matter where you're from, you can dunk on MTG because she's an idiot.
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 9, 2024 18:25:27 GMT -5
Are HoyaTalk "Republicans" also bowing down to their dear leader like the spineless GOPers? Proud of your cult? Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump
Biden’s defeat of Trump in 2020 had seemed certain to weaken Trump’s grip on the Republican Party, if not end his political career. No relevant precedent existed for any one-term president to become his party’s default front-runner in the next election. Especially not an extremely unpopular one-term president who lost by 7 million votes, refused to concede, incited a lethal insurrection in an attempt to overturn the result, was impeached for a second time, defied long-honored tradition by skipping the swearing-in of his successor, left behind a traumatized nation (with 25,000 National Guard troops defending the capital against his own supporters), became the first former president to be indicted … and the rest of the whole loser litany. Yet the speed with which Trump has settled back into easy dominance of his party has been both remarkable and entirely foreseeable—foreseen, in fact, by Trump himself. Because if there’s been one recurring lesson of the Trump-era GOP, it’s this: Never underestimate the durability of a demagogue with a captive base, a desperate will to keep going, and—perhaps most of all—a feeble and terrified opposition of spineless ciphers (“weak like a baby”). The party that allegedly reveres the Constitution is going all in on someone who has called for its termination. A party that cherishes freedom is willing to cede authority to a candidate who says he would be a dictator on his first day in office. A party that supposedly venerates law and order is re-upping with an actual felon. A party whose rank and file overwhelmingly wants Russia to defeat Ukraine believes that Biden stole the 2020 election, and that Trump’s legal shambles are entirely a Democratic plot. This is now a party whose standard-bearer has not been endorsed by any former Republican president or nominee, or even his own vice president, who barely escaped death by hanging the last time. And to what end, any of it? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/trump-gop-support-jd-vance-2024/679564/To what end? Why, to keep the Big Insurrectionist out of prison, of course.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 10, 2024 6:15:17 GMT -5
MAGA GOP moron Tuberville at it again. Did SECDEF Austin and staff screw up regarding disclosure of his illness? Absolutely. Does it warrant this fake tough guy moron holding up this promotion? Absolutely not. But you chicken hawk "Republicans" have no concept of military service whatsoever. GFY. Sen. Tuberville blocks promotion of Lloyd Austin’s top military aide Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, people familiar with the matter said, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon just weeks before the presidential election while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief’s medical secrecy. Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ronald P. Clark to become the four-star commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific, according to the senator’s spokeswoman, Mallory Jaspers, and two other officials familiar with the emerging standoff. The maneuver, which has not been previously reported, restricts Clark’s nomination from coming up for a vote in the Senate and could mark the beginning of the end of his 36-year military career. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/09/tommy-tuberville-ronald-clark-lloyd-austin/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 10, 2024 15:32:46 GMT -5
Still MAGA morons. Johnson’s government funding bill advances despite GOP defections The House on Tuesday advanced Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to prevent a government shutdown by a slim margin with two GOP defections, dealing a blow to Republicans’ negotiating position in government funding talks just weeks before a shutdown deadline. The dissenting Republicans joined Democrats in a vote that almost took down what’s known as a rule, a procedural step that governs debate on the House floor. Without it, the underlying bill cannot proceed to a vote. Johnson is attempting to pair a six-month stopgap government funding bill to avert a shutdown on Oct. 1 with unrelated legislation to require proof of citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections. www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/10/republicans-defect-government-shutdown/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 10, 2024 22:42:36 GMT -5
Morons. Former President Trump drew near instantaneous pushback from establishment Republicans for pressing GOP lawmakers to take a hard line on shutting down the government. Why it matters: Trump dropped a bomb into the government funding fight Tuesday by urging Republicans to hold out for "election security" language that Democrats will never accept. That has spiked the fears among Republicans, particularly moderates and those in swing districts, about a shutdown just five weeks before the election. One swing-district House Republican told Axios: "We are not going to shut the government down. Trump must want a Democrat majority in the House. We don't." www.axios.com/2024/09/10/trump-house-republicans-mike-johnson-shutdown
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 11, 2024 19:17:55 GMT -5
Morons. Former President Trump drew near instantaneous pushback from establishment Republicans for pressing GOP lawmakers to take a hard line on shutting down the government. Why it matters: Trump dropped a bomb into the government funding fight Tuesday by urging Republicans to hold out for "election security" language that Democrats will never accept. That has spiked the fears among Republicans, particularly moderates and those in swing districts, about a shutdown just five weeks before the election. One swing-district House Republican told Axios: "We are not going to shut the government down. Trump must want a Democrat majority in the House. We don't." www.axios.com/2024/09/10/trump-house-republicans-mike-johnson-shutdownBring it on, imbeciles. Mike Johnson thinks Trump clearly won the debate, so maybe he feels he's acting from a position of strength.
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