Discussion: The REPUBLICAN Party - - - - - Part 20

[DJ Kornphlake]

NBC News- Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a 'national divorce' between liberal and conservative states

I'm guessing she doesn't realize Georgia is currently a blue state.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

NBC News- Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a 'national divorce' between liberal and conservative states

I say we give Ku Klux Karen what she wants. Then she’ll just how screwed up the red states are without the blue states to bail them out

 

[Teelie]

Almost every red state relies heavily on Federal Aid which is lost on these morons and the people who vote for them.

 

[squeekness]

Almost every red state relies heavily on Federal Aid which is lost on these morons and the people who vote for them.

I'm sure their politicians conveniently leave that bit out.

 

[Babillygunn]

Almost every red state relies heavily on Federal Aid which is lost on these morons and the people who vote for them.

Reminds me of a friend of mine. (Decent guy except for his politics.) He was telling me that he was at the social services office turning in some paperwork for his son, who received services through Medicaid. He dragged on for 10 minutes about how terrible entitlement programs were and about how everyone who gets Medicaid are lazy. But his hypocrisy was not registering and it didn’t occur to him that he was there to turn in his paperwork for a government program.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Almost every red state relies heavily on Federal Aid which is lost on these morons and the people who vote for them.

States/D.C. Biden won (57% of the electoral college) account for 62% of the U.S. economy (Q3 2022) (excluding territories). States Trump won account for 38% (43% of the electoral college).

GDP by State | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

(If we're breaking it down to only counties not states, the disparity was/is even bigger.)

Wall Street Journal - Biden Counties Account for 70% of U.S. GDP (November 2020)

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - Pro-Putin GOP continues attack on Biden for (checks notes) historic trip to war-torn Ukraine (liberal blog)

The New Republic - How the GOP Lost Its Brain
The recent fight over the speakership proved the point yet again: Today’s Republican Party is driven by egos and power rivalries, not ideas. The GOP once had ideas—lots of them. The problem was that they were unpopular and bad.

Detroit Free Press - I spent a night at The Nuthouse and glimpsed the future of the Michigan Republican Party (column)
I went to the Nuthouse to gain insights into who Michigan Republicans would choose for their next leader.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Taniel, BoltsMag EIC: “Dems tonight —won a legislative special in NH, overperforming Biden in 2020 —won a congressional special in VA, also overperforming Biden —won a legislative special in KY, also overperforming Biden For now, they're also overperforming Biden in the supreme court first round in WI.”

“So, Wisconsin Republicans appear to be moving through to the state Supreme Court runoff a former justice who lost his seat by 10 points in 2020, and was recently revealed to have been in touch with those conspiring to reverse the 2020 presidential election.” “Confirmed: Daniel Kelly moves to the Wisconsin runoff. He'll face Janet Protasiewicz, who'll be the liberal candidate.” “With nearly all ballots counted in Wisconsin, the two liberal candidates combined for 54%, and the two conservatives combined for 46%. A very strong showing for the de-facto Democrats. (Very few recent precedents; in 2020, the liberals combined for 49.9% & then 55% in runoff.)”

Overall a horrible Election Day yesterday for Republicans and a good one for Democrats.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - Arizona's ex-attorney general [Republican Mark Brnovich] concealed findings showing Republican election fraud claims were false

 

[squeekness]

Daily Kos - Arizona's ex-attorney general [Republican Mark Brnovich] concealed findings showing Republican election fraud claims were false

Is the whole party full of crooks?

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Wow.... And he still has a job?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Daily Beast - Kyle Rittenhouse Begs for Donations as ‘Legal Bills Are Piling Up’

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Better start working on those crocodile tears again.

 

[squeekness]

Oh, boo hoo. Besides, I thought he was acquitted.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - Alaska House censures GOP lawmaker over child abuse comments

The House voted 35-1 to censure Republican Rep. David Eastman of Wasilla, with Eastman the lone dissent. Eastman was previously censured, in 2017, over comments he made suggesting there are women in Alaska who try to get pregnant to get a “free trip to the city” for abortions.

Well at least some people don't want to be associated with his comments.

 

[squeekness]

Associated Press - Alaska House censures GOP lawmaker over child abuse comments



Well at least some people don't want to be associated with his comments.

He should be fired. Just the fact that he was emboldened to speak the quiet bits out loud.....

 

[InCali]

The Daily Beast - Kyle Rittenhouse Begs for Donations as ‘Legal Bills Are Piling Up’

Reminds me of a time when I got an (supposedly) overnight prepaid envelope from some dirtbag, right wing organization asking me to send them money so they could build their coalition.

I sent them a brick from my backyard along with a note telling them that they should use it to start building their coalition. I'm pretty sure the shipping costs were based on weight.

Never got another one of those. So sad......

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Again, they want to cut the program without stopping the payroll tax for it. Tax increase for us, for nothing.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Vice - [Republican House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy Is All in for Pro-Coup Propaganda

 

[squeekness]

Vice - [Republican House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy Is All in for Pro-Coup Propaganda

He's a Matt Gaetz butt kisser.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

GOP Ex-Sen. Inhofe Retired Due To Long COVID After Opposing COVID Aid

 

[squeekness]

GOP Ex-Sen. Inhofe Retired Due To Long COVID After Opposing COVID Aid

Karma!

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Independent (U.K.) - Ukraine’s other enemy: US Republicans
‘The biggest threat to Ukraine is our domestic politics,’ fomer GOP operative tells Eric Garcia

CBS News - Florida county Republican Party votes to ban the COVID-19 vaccine

USA Today - Idaho bill would criminalize administration of mRNA COVID vaccines

Cancer.gov - Can mRNA Vaccines Help Treat Cancer? (Jan. 2022)

MarketWatch - Moderna stock pops after [mRNA] cancer-vaccine candidate gets FDA breakthrough designation

These idiots are holding back public health and scientific progress toward that end.