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

[blueharvest]

The Republicans’ new party platform is scary – because it can win | Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara

The manifesto rebrands historically liberal stances, like guarding entitlements and growing bluecollar jobs, as Republican

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Trump presidency was anti-labor and anti-union and pushed cuts to healthcare (thanks to McCain one of them didn’t pass.)

 

[squeekness]

Kissing the ring for that VP spot or a cabinet position.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

If they are angry they should vote for someone else.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

And we wonder why Americans are getting more stupid......

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Project 2025 leader runs an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men

In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

www.salon.com

McEntee often makes these opinions as shocking as he can, so the videos get outraged reactions and press. In May, for example, he made a video claiming he gives homeless people fake money, so they'll be arrested if they try to spend it. It's unlikely to be true since the Secret Service tends to go after the person distributing counterfeit money, and not the victims who mistakenly take it. But it worked to get people talking about his feed, attracting more attention and perhaps more gullible men downloading the app.

 

[Teelie]

And we wonder why Americans are getting more stupid......

There is no wonder behind it. Republicans are openly and actively attempting to dumb down the population to make them easier to manipulate.

 

[Sithborg]

Saw pretty much one sentence of Project 2025 that sums it up for the theocrats.

"Our Constitution grants each of us the ability to do, not what we want, but what we ought".

The Handsmaids Tale isn't far off

 

[blueharvest]

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF

Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

19thnews.org

 

[blueharvest]

Read the furious texts the Heritage Foundation sent furry hacking collective SiegedSec after breach

'Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are,' Howell said.

www.dailydot.com

 

[DA_Champion]

Senator Josh Hawley calls for higher corporate taxes and more private sector unions.

 

[blueharvest]

Opinion | With its 2024 platform, the GOP isn’t even pretending to have principles

A platform proclaims what a political party wants known about its priorities What the GOP's 2024 platform proclaims is that its positions are whatever benefits Trump.

www.msnbc.com

 

[squeekness]

Saw pretty much one sentence of Project 2025 that sums it up for the theocrats.

"Our Constitution grants each of us the ability to do, not what we want, but what we ought".

The Handsmaids Tale isn't far off

With Democrats seeming to implode, the reality is that much closer.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Heritage Foundation Denies Penetratation by ‘Gay Furry Hackers’

Alleged chat logs show a foundation executive having a meltdown.

gizmodo.com

 

[squeekness]

Heritage Foundation Denies Penetratation by ‘Gay Furry Hackers’

Alleged chat logs show a foundation executive having a meltdown.

gizmodo.com

I'll bet, lol.

 

[blueharvest]

The GOP's latest anti-Garland gambit fails, despite Trump’s push

Donald Trump urged House Republicans to approve an “inherent contempt” resolution targeting Attorney General Merrick Garland. It failed anyway.

www.msnbc.com

 

[blueharvest]

Republican call to return US to 1960s sparks backlash

Rep. Glenn Grothman told his colleagues on Thursday that he hopes "we work our way back to where America was in the 1960's."

www.newsweek.com

 

[Morg]

MAGA candidate says he'll take 'tough questions' from press — then rejects one immediately

 

[blueharvest]

MAGA candidate says he'll take 'tough questions' from press — then rejects one immediately

Here's hoping Sherrod Brown can defeat him this November.

Also, here's the article without a paywall:

https://archive.ph/2024.07.12-010025/https://www.rawstory.com/bernie-moreno-2668732600/

 

[blueharvest]

Young content creators drive messaging on Project 2025: ‘It just needed to be out there’

The playbook of conservative priorities has been championed by some creators as a guide to less government oversight and slammed by others as an authoritarian takeover of America.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[InCali]

Republican call to return US to 1960s sparks backlash

Rep. Glenn Grothman told his colleagues on Thursday that he hopes "we work our way back to where America was in the 1960's."

www.newsweek.com

Ahhhhh......segregation, Vietnam War, gay people living in the closet and unable to marry, killing college protestors, assassinations. Those were the days....

 

[squeekness]

Ahhhhh......segregation, Vietnam War, gay people living in the closet and unable to marry, killing college protestors, assassinations. Those were the days....

Lots of active serial killers too.

 

[blueharvest]

Republicans to descend on Milwaukee – where they’ve been trying to dilute Black voting power

The decision to hold the convention in the city is a ‘slap in the face’ for Black voters who have come under attack by the party’s voter ID measure and move to limit early voting

www.theguardian.com