“Because here is real danger in what Katie Britt did. And I want to take a moment and sit in the danger and talk about the fact that she weaponized someone's story, not to actually get something done, not to make someone's life better, but to score political points. It's just about the ugliest thing you can do in American politics.” — Alicia Menendez, on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
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Katie Britt is now a joke to an additional 20M people.
#KatieBritt #Alabama #GOP #GOPLiars
Kimmel knocks Britt for SOTU rebuttal at Oscars: She's an 'adult woman with the brain of a child' https://thehill.com/homenews/4522991-kimmel-knocks-britt-for-sotu-rebuttal-at-oscars-shes-an-adult-woman-with-the-brain-of-a-child/
"WOW! Like Buck, Mike Gallagher carefully timed his departure. Under Wisconsin law, congressional vacancies occurring 'prior to the 2nd Tuesday in April' in an election year get filled on a faster timeline.
"An April 19th resignation will keep Gallagher's seat vacant until November." -Aaron Fritschner, Congressional strategist
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Edit: added placeholder image so you don't have to see Mike Johnson's disgusting smirk
Since billionaire Jeff Yass is in the news for his involvement in #TikTok and #Trump's #TruthSocial, here's our deep-dive look into the #GOP megadonor who avoided $1 billion in #taxes and poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support #election deniers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jeff-yass-susquehanna-tiktok-tax-avoidance
Throughout the recent fascist/GOP quest to "protect" children they don't care about, and women's sports they don't watch, trans people have warned that the war on gender affirming care applied to everyone and represented an attempt to literally eliminate trans people from public life, perhaps even existence itself. In response, Very Serious PeopleTM who are also covert transphobes, have insisted that this position is alarmist and we couldn't possibly know cryptofascist lawmaker's ultimate intentions. Well maybe, they should simply ask Republicans? In a late January story that wasn't widely reported in mainstream media, it turns out that GOP lawmakers from Michigan and Ohio met on Twitter spaces and more or less gave the game away entirely:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ohio-michigan-republicans-in-released
"After this exchange, Representative Shriver continued by arguing adults consenting to gender-affirming care should not be allowed, going as far as to compare it to consent for "self-mutilation" and "euthanasia." He then repeated, "we have to be looking at the endgame simultaneously, maybe even using that to move the window to say that this isn't just wrong 0-18, it's wrong for everyone and we shouldn't be allowing that to happen."
Representative Click confirmed the plan, stating, “ We have to take one bite at a time, do it incrementally.”
The conversation did not stop there. Prisha Mosley, an anti-trans detransitioner and right-wing political figure, lauded the discussion, "I did want to say that I've kind of been waiting for a state or a representative or anyone to be brave enough to address that... you cannot consent to a lie. Most of these doctors are straight up lying about the effects and saying it'll magically cure every bad feeling you've ever had and that you can magically change sex."
At the end of the conversation, Representative Schriver states that they should "ban this for all people," to which Representative Paquette responds, "We’ll chat offline about all this good stuff."
Folks, I dunno how many times we have to go over this but the plain truth is that whenever fascists who support child labor and want to make poor kids go hungry tell you they're doing something "to protect children" you need to immediately recognize that this is a lie, and start looking for the bigger picture being concealed behind that rhetoric. The reactionary Pig Empire Right could not make it any clearer that what they're after here is the persecution and ultimate elimination of trans people - and denying gender affirming care recognized as necessary and even life-saving by virtually every qualified medical body in the so-called Western world is absolutely part of that strategy. These nazis mean to end us; trans folks know it, and if cis people were being honest, they'd admit they know it too.
Republicans Somehow Find Worst Possible Nominee to Replace Ken Buck
The new republican candidate has a criminal record, including domestic violence and drunk driving.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
https://newrepublic.com/post/180267/greg-lopez-republican-nominee-replace-ken-buck-violent-past
Hey, remember when Rashida Tlaib, my least-hated U.S. politician and the only Palestinian-American representative in Congress, was censured for sharing a video that called for freedom "from the river to the sea" in support of Gazans being targeted for literal genocide by the IDF? What do you think GOP congressman Tim Walberg will get for *checks notes* boldly declaring we should nuke Gaza like "Nagasaki and Hiroshima" and then calling for the U.S. to end all humanitarian aid to millions of people literally suffering from an engineered famine in Gaza?
"The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations also weighed in, saying “this clear call to genocide by a member of Congress should be condemned by all Americans who value human life and international law”.
“To so casually call for what would result in the killing of every human being in Gaza sends the chilling message that Palestinian lives have no value,” CAIR executive director Dawud Walid said.
“It is this dehumanization of the Palestinian people that has resulted in the ongoing slaughter and suffering we see every day in Gaza and the West Bank.”
Look, Walberg's minions can cry about it being a metaphor all they like, but the fact is the video evidence available online and the fact that he suggested the same solution to ending the war in Ukraine, makes it very clear that it wasn't. There really isn't a whole lot of room to parse quotes like "we shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid" and "it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick." This was definitely Timmy boy signaling to his cracker base (which hates Michigan's urban Muslim population) his willingness to "kill 'em all" while backing his party leader's (Trump) longstanding policy position of starving Palestinians out of Gaza by blocking U.S. aid to one of the most vulnerable populations on Earth; in the middle of an IDF genocidal campaign of collective punishment against Gazans no less.
Of course, given that murdering Palestinians en masse is officially a bipartisan policy position in American politics and the GOP doesn't do accountability in its own party, I'm willing to bet you a fresh Tang sandwich that absolutely nothing will happen to Walberg in response.
PS: sorry about the Tribune link but most of the major national "liberal" media outlets were hiding this story behind a paywall when I was searching it up online late last night.
Inside the Historic #Lawsuit That the Gun Industry and #Republicans Are on the Verge of Killing
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For 25 years, gunmakers have repeatedly tried to end one city’s lawsuit over illegal #gun sales.
Meanwhile, illicit purchases of #firearms continued at an unrelenting and hazardous pace.
#News #Indiana #Chicago #Crime #CriminalJustice #GOP #Guns #Law
“#Montana #GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015
Tim Sheehy was cited for illegally discharging a weapon in a national park but says he made up the gunshot to cover up a bullet wound he received as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan that he never reported to superiors”
Gift: https://wapo.st/3JbuTO5
“They are now being outshot by the Russian side five to one. So the Russians fire five times as many artillery shells at the Ukrainians than the Ukrainians are able to fire back. That will immediately go to 10 to one in a matter of weeks,” #Cavoli said. “We’re not talking about months. We’re not talking hypothetically.”
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-ammunition-military-b263dfaceef57fb2c1f74c53861734da
Sell Trump Media Stock (DJT) Now - An Implosion Is Likely
Trump has done this before - made a fortune off the backs of gullible supporters who are left with nothing after trusting Trump.
Your only hope is to cut your losses and sell your DJT stock NOW.
Having already lost 50% of its value, DJT is on a downward spiral to $2 per share - it's ACTUAL stock valuation!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Trump #DJT
Marjorie Taylor Greene gets destroyed by Professor Timothy #Snyder regarding her lies about #Ukraine and #Russia.
Keep in mind when you read this piece that the only conservative in the story is Gonzalez. The others are far-right pols who want to burn it all down—the antithesis of conservatism. #media #gop
https://punchbowl.news/article/tony-gonzales-brandon-herrera-primary-runoff/
A must-read.
Texas isn't the only state pushing for an end to no-fault divorce--Nebraska, Mississippi, & Louisiana are, too, & many more will follow. Red states want to trap women in pregnancy & in marriage, & they don't care how many of us die as a result. They're misogynists & abusers, & they want to take us back to a time when (white) men had all the power & we had none. #GOP #WarOnWomen #NoFaultDivorce https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/no-fault-divorce-texas-republican-gop-crowder/?ref=shedissents.us
Sent from a friend - honestly spot on.
#Politics #USPol #Election2024 #GOP #Republicans #Funny #Meme #Cats #AltText
Uniparty? Hardly.
Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues
Here's how the candidates stand on 10 key issues: abortion, climate / energy, democracy, federal government, immigration, Israel / Gaza, LGBTQ issues, NATO / Ukraine, trade, taxes
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-rematch-policies-abortion-immigration-gaza-1a904cd70f14581f264b851a5cb2f9e4?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share #USpolitics #Politics #USnews #JoeBiden #Democrats #BidenHarris #Elections #WomensRights #WomensHealth
#GOP #Republicans #DonaldTrump #trumpism #fascism #fascist #SCOTUS
North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two #GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
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The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.
#News #NorthCarolina #Law #Courts
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-supreme-court-republican-judges-violations
Your periodic reminder that #TikTok is co-owned by (and he did the initial funding for #ByteDance) #JeffYass.
Jeff Yass is *the* largest #GOP donor.
Jeff Yass funded a right wing #Israel thinktank to corrupt the judiciary for #Netanyahu.
Jeff Yass was the largest investor in #TrumpMedia (#TruthSocial), they sold recently.
Oh and look at the news today:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-joins-tiktok-years-trying-ban-app-rcna155072
"#Trump joins TikTok years after trying to ban the app"
Get
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ignorant petty cruel
not even some grand political strategy. this is simply who they are and what they do. this is all they know of existence. what calls to them. what fills them with purpose and meaning: weak schoolyard bullying
so fucking pathetic:
"Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in #SouthDakota public university employee emails"
did anyone tell these geniuses what "dakota" means?
https://apnews.com/article/pronouns-tribal-affiliation-south-dakota-66efb8c6a3c57a6a02da0bf4ed575a5f
#Trump 2nd term #mandatory #military service
#ChrisMiller, Trump’s last #DefSec who led the #Pentagon during the chaotic closure of Trump’s tenure in Washington [& author of the #MillerMemo], is among a cluster of fmr admin ofcls & #GOP lawmakers who are proposing a #NationalServiceMandate & other measures as part of #Project2025, the #conservative #HeritageFoundation’s govt-wide game plan.
#conscription #draft #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/trump-military-draft-mandatory-service/
#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
#BidenHarris2024
https://time.com/6984970/joe-biden-2024-interview/
"#Colorado #Republican Party issues call to burn all #Pride flags"
Is there anyone out there who thinks the #GOP means anything anymore except "I'm a bigoted sadistic asshole and it's my entire identity"?
🤦🏻♀️House passes $895 billion defense policy bill that targets #abortion access and #diversity protections, advances other #GOP priorities - WaPo
BANNON JAILED MONDAY!
Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal
Bannon, a former Trump adviser, was convicted of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee and sentenced to four months.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking