The Corruption of the Republican Party

Too true. And so many of the sheep are asleep.

"Moral relativism" in the pursuit of trying to be fair and balanced to all sides eventually leads to requiring neutrality when confronting Nazi-ism and the Ku Klux Klan.

And banning picture books about the Holocaust because they show "naked mice."

If you made this up nobody would believe it. Shades of SINA.

Kinzinger and Cheney have been censured by the GOP for having the temerity to oppose coup politics.

Maybe they could switch parties, and give Democrats a majority.

And what a fucking dickless coward Richard Cheney is. He hasn't said ONE WORD to publicly defend his daughter, for choosing democracy over tyranny.

richard09 wrote:

A Former Republican Lawmaker Was Taken Into Custody On Felony Election Fraud Charges

A Memphis black woman was sentenced to six years in jail after asking her parole officer if she was eligible to vote after serving her full sentence, and getting a written certificate that she was, which was signed by her local Board of Elections and turned in with her ballot.  Turns out the advice she was given was wrong, and she was arrested, tried, convicted, and sent back to jail.

Meanwhile four white Republican men were given nothing more than verbal rebukes for knowingly illegally casting ballots for Trump in the name of their dead relatives.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-men-hardly-punished-for-illegal-votes-black-woman-given-six-years-for-sign-up-error-132422213543
Https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/politics/fact-check-republicans-voter-fraud-kirk-hartle/index.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/21/pennsylvania-man-charged-with-voter-fraud-for-casting-ballot-for-trump-under-dead-mothers-name/?sh=5680f95659bf
https://www.inquirer.com/news/bruce-bartman-election-fraud-delaware-county-20201221.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/04/despite-gop-rhetoric-there-have-been-fewer-than-two-dozen-charged-cases-voter-fraud-since-election/

This is not Ronald Reagan's GOP.

Madison Cawthorn's removal from candidacy is moving forward. Good. Once it's a done deal, maybe entities nationwide will see this pathway to extract justice from the 160+ other elected Republicans who sought to overthrow the 2020 election.

Darn that Nancy Pelosi and her "gazpacho police"...

They say MTG and Lauren Boebert are latter day Sarah Palins, but with less brains.  I think that's being charitable.

NoCoPilot wrote:

Today's GOP bears no resemblance to the Republican Party.  People should stop referring to it as "the Republican Party."

Richard Galant at CNN has finally come up with the new name for the Republican Party: "The Know-Nothings."

The AUDACITY of the far-right spokespeople is just jaw-dropping.

In the recent tradition of "speaking the quiet part out loud," Senator Rick Scott has issued a warning about what Republicans will do if(when) they take back Congress.

Rick Scott wrote:

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Monday released an 11-point plan detailing his party’s agenda if they win back the Senate later this year, something other GOP leaders have pointedly avoided doing in order to minimize divisions within their ranks. The document outlines Scott’s vision for America, one shared by other prominent figures on the far right, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The plan is a campaign document, not a practical governing agenda. If enacted — something that stands no serious chance of happening — the plan would radically downgrade the federal government, drastically cutting spending on social services, raising taxes on the poor and instituting “race-blind” policies.

The plan also calls for completing Donald Trump’s border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and naming it after the former president; declaring “there are two genders,” part of the anti-LGBTQ push on the right; eliminating questions about race on government forms and instituting term limits for members of Congress to 12 years of service.

Scott’s plan starts off with requiring children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at school and disallowing teachers from portraying American history in a negative light, following state GOP legislatures in their efforts to ban the teaching of critical race theory.  “Public schools will teach our children to love America because, while not perfect, it is exceptional, it is good, and it is a beacon of freedom in an often-dark world,” it says.

Another proposal: All federal laws would have to be reauthorized every five years, potentially affecting such popular programs as Social Security and Medicare.

Scott also calls for prohibiting debt ceiling increases unless the government is at war. The debt ceiling is a legal limit on how much the government can borrow in order to pay for previously authorized spending; failing to increase the debt ceiling could spark a financial crisis and a recession.

“My plan will be ridiculed by the woke left, mocked by Washington insiders, and strike fear in the heart of some Republicans,” Scott said in a statement on Monday. “Americans deserve to know what we will do when given the chance to govern.”

But he's still willing to take credit for legislation he voted against.

NoCoPilot wrote:

Madison Cawthorn's removal from candidacy is moving forward.  Good.  Once it's a done deal, maybe entities nationwide will see this pathway to extract justice from the 160+ other elected Republicans who sought to overthrow the 2020 election.

Cawthorn's removal had been blocked, but now it's back on. As is Marjorie Taylor Greene's.

People are again saying the quiet part out loud:

Quote :

Evgeny Popov, a Russian state TV host who also happens to be a member of the Duma, Russia’s parliament, declared it time to call on Americans to bring regime change in the US before Biden’s term expires and “again help our partner Trump to become president.”

Where's that quote from?

It was widely reported. Here are just a few:
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/russian-evgeny-popov-americans-trump-b2047439.html
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-putin-popov-partner-donald-trump-1693210
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-state-tv-host-evgeny-162118886.html
https://www.citizenstringer.com/russian-tv-host-calls-for-regime-change-in-us-after-biden-demanded-putin-be-removed-from-power/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10666625/Russian-state-TV-host-called-former-President-Donald-Trump-reinstated.html
https://www.cengnews.com/news/biden-should-be-fired-for-being-a-partner-of-russia-according-to-a-russian-host-369952.html
https://granthshala.com/now-russian-tv-host-calls-for-regime-change-in-us-after-biden-demanded-putin-be-removed-from-power-and-clamors-for-partner-donald-trump-to-be-reinstated-as-president/
https://www.mediaite.com/news/russian-tv-host-calls-for-regime-change-in-us-and-our-partner-trump-to-be-put-in-power/
https://secondnexus.com/trump-russia-popov-our-partner
https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1011934/trump-urges-russia-to-release-dirt-on-hunter-biden-now-that-putin-is-not

Wow. I'm not really following the news so much, because it's just too depressing. But let me guess. The Trumpanzees think this fake news.

Follow the damn money.

It DRIVES ME NUTS that Joy Reid and Lawrence O'Donnell talk on their shows about the inexplicable reversals of Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell (and others), becoming Trump acolytes just days after denouncing his role in the January 6 insurrection. "Unbelievable! Inexplicable!" they crow.

Well, follow the fucking money. Trump controls the spigot of Russian organized crime money, and unfortunately Congress has become dependent on Putin's "don't say democracy" funding. The only thing that explains the sudden about-faces of the GOP over the insurrection is Russian money -- whether they know the true source of it or not. Trump has been instructed to buy Republican silence on Ukraine, buy Republican silence on the insurrection, and buy Republican destruction of democracy by disenfranchising non-Republican voters.

It has Putin's fingerprints all over it. It is not "inexplicable." Open your fucking eyes Joy. Open your fucking eyes Lawrence.

Ron DeSantis is spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on defending his frivolous edicts in court.
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/regional/florida/lawsuits-legal-expenses-florida-taxpayers/67-ff34df89-c94d-41f0-86ff-dd0f6ae25b39

If he loses his re-election bid he should have to reimburse the state.

Meanwhile Florida taxpayers are on the hook for a billion dollars in bond obligations, as well as ongoing fire protection, policing, garbage and water and sewer service, and more. The profit margin of Disney World just went through the roof, and Ron DeSantis unilaterally raised taxes on every Floridian without them having a vote.

We'll see how that plays out in the upcoming election.

looks like the Germans are following the money.

Deutsche Bank raided

Dear Mark Meadows,

When you say somebody else is using your own words to vilify you, you need to stop and do a little self-reflection.