Winning back the House would be a swell idea, don'tcha think?
"House #Republicans to Take 2-Week Vacation Amid National Security Threat, Mass Shooting
There is a March 1 deadline to avert another shutdown."
Winning back the House would be a swell idea, don'tcha think?
"House #Republicans to Take 2-Week Vacation Amid National Security Threat, Mass Shooting
There is a March 1 deadline to avert another shutdown."
As Paul Waldman points out, in case we need reminding, how Republicans have been acting lately tells us all we need to know about their priorities:
Though they scream about immigration and an imaginary invasion, they don't really care about immigration except as a tool to attack Democrats.
Nor do they care about the economy, despite nods to pretend they do.
#Republicans #immigration #border #economy #TaxCuts
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-to-tell-what-political-parties
"Eighty percent of conservative outrage is just someone finding out how stuff works for the first time," said someone, and I can not agree more.
#Truth #Conservatives #RightWing #maga #Republicans #Change #Progress
#POTUS #Biden is planning to make a visit to the southern #border on Thurs, acc/to 2 people briefed on the plans, traveling to Brownsville, #Texas, on the same day that #Trump has scheduled a border trip.
#immigration #political #politics #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #Democrats #law #election
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/us/politics/biden-trump-border.html?smid=url-share
In his newsletter today, Robert P. Jones provides an eye-popping rundown of the race to theocracy that we're seeing now with the Republican party — if our eyes are open.
As he notes, on February 16, the Alabama supreme theocrats delivered their IVF ruling. He notes that chief justice Parker cited the King James bible, bible commentaries, and theologians as he stated that Alabamians live by a "theologically based" understanding of this issue.
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/ivf-cpac-and-maga-christian-nationalism
Donald Trump appears close to invincible in the Republican primaries and caucuses, but despite his commanding victories, the front-runner’s strength among general election voters remains unclear.
AP reports: "His voters so far are overwhelmingly white, mostly older than 50 and generally without a college degree. This, however, is very different than the electorate he could face in November."
Ignoring Warnings, #GOP Trumpeted Now-#Discredited Allegation Against #Biden
#Republicans in #Congress built their #impeachment case against #POTUS Biden around a #bribery accusation that the #FBI had warned them was #uncorroborated.
#HouseRepublicans #RussianAsset #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #CultOfPersonality #Gaslighting #Propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/politics/gop-smirnov-allegation-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X00.r4n3.WHg71dYeGf2P&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
What drives Trump supporters, John Pavolvitz asks? His answer: spite:
"MAGA voters would rather give a strident middle finger to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton even at the expense of the air their kids breathe and the schools they attend."
They're happy to tear it all up — for themselves and their own children — as long as they feel they're owning the libs.
#Trump #Republicans #PoliticsofDestruction #PoliticsofChaos
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/destroying-america-to-own-the-libs
"Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word."
- Trump at weekend rally
Trump crowd goes silent as he confuses Biden and Obama again
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-biden-obama-b2506194.html
Noting that the "Christian nationalist" dictator of Hungary, Orbán is being welcomed this week at Heritage Foundation and Mar-a-Lago, Amanda Carpenter asks why MAGA lionizes this dictator.
Then she notes how Orbán's story parallels Trump's. He was in office, then rejected by voters, and he spent time prior to his next run for office laying groundwork for a total takeover of government when he was next elected.
https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-maga-model-for-returning-to-power
"If he gets the chance, Donald Trump will cut Social Security and Medicare. I am confident of this not only because Trump has repeatedly said as much1 and not only because he repeatedly tried to do so when he was president but because a desire to cut Social Security and Medicare has long been central to the Republican cause."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #Republicans #SocialSecurity #Medicare
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https://www.findinggravity.net/p/work-at-the-mill-until-you-die
Heather Cox Richardson on the Republican rebuttal to Biden last night, delivered by Alabama’s Katie Britt:
“The fact that the Republicans had a female senator give what could be the most important speech of her life in a kitchen seemed to tell its own, more powerful, story.”
#Republicans #women #WomensRights #Alabama #Biden #SOTU
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https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-7-2024
Heather Cox Richardson notes that the image of the ideal woman Republicans offered the word with Kate Britt's response to the SOTU in a kitchen is the result of years of attacks on women's equality and feminism, with the white evangelical base of the Republican party leading the way.
She concludes,
I'm so old I remember Republicans pushing out a completely made-up story about pres Clinton holding up air traffic at LAX so he could get a $500 haircut and the media fell for it and much of the public still believes it was true.
That's how smears work.
"One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another. ...
It is not a new thing for Republicans to treat disasters in blue areas as less deserving of our collective attention than disasters in red areas."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #Republicans #Baltimore #CrueltyIsthePoint
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https://newrepublic.com/article/180286/magas-ugly-hateful-response-bridge-horror-get-worse
Here's what we're reading today:
A #Ukraine aid bill may be passed after the recess and will include "important innovations," announced House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Despite not specifying the changes, the speaker mentioned extending a loan as a possible way to meet #republicans ' demands.
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
Lisa Needham notes that Republicans pushing Project 2025 are now out and proud about their plan to make Trump president for life:
"Republicans want to permanently enshrine their minority policies into law despite the fact that what they want is broadly unpopular. … Project 25 is all about enacting minority rule in America immediately upon Trump’s election."
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #democracy #Project2025 #MinorityRule
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/project-2025-trump-president-for-life
Why are Trump and Republicans relentlessly attacking judges?:
"Authoritarianism involves arranging government to keep the leader safe from prosecution and allow him to commit crimes and corrupt acts with impunity. That means judges and prosecutors are always among those harassed and persecuted, along with lawyers who defend dissidents or don’t fall into line with the government."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #crime #judiciary
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/judges-and-prosecutors-targeted-by
It should have been clear to everyone from the start that #Republicans were gonna hit #Biden for being insufficiently supportive of #Israel or "soft on Hamas." https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/house-vote-biden-gaza-ceasefire
The #Republicans will NOT stop with the overturning Roe v Wade. This is NOT their end goal.
They want to strip #women of all rights. We've seen this with bills introduced to prevent no-fault divorce in Texas, Nebraska, Louisiana and South Dakota.
It will not stop here.
#VoteBlue like your lives depend on it... because it does.
The House has passed $60.8 billion in aid to #Ukraine!
All #Democrats voted for the bill.
More than half of #Republicans voted against it, because they support #Putin.
Alex Finley looks at the revelation that the Russians have been paying a wide network of European politicians to spout pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine rhetoric and asks if this can be happening in the US, too. He concludes:
"It is naïve to think the same pattern does not exist in the United States, given the ample evidence of coordinated pro-Russian talking points from several Republican politicians."
#Russia #Putin #Republicans #MarjorieTaylorGreene #MikeJohnson
https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america
Veteran Democratic strategist Joe Trippi warns us to be skeptical of claims now being pushed by Republicans that RFKJr's candidacy may hurt Trump. Trippi thinks that RFK's threat is primarily to Biden, and Republicans are trying to run a bait-and-switch with the claim that RFK may hurt Trump
#RFKJr #Biden #Trump #Republicans
https://newrepublic.com/article/180912/dont-fooled-heres-know-rfk-jr-tacitly-boosting-trump
A Gallup survey of 83 countries and territories found that 41% approve of US leadership, which “is lower than all but one of the ratings under President Barack #Obama but is higher than any of those under Presidents Donald #Trump and George W. #Bush.”
#Republicans always undermine our soft power.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/643853/no-soft-power-shake-ups.aspx