Trump did this. He used trash talk in his campaigns. The nastier he got, the more attention he got. He loves attention. All narcissists do. He uses those right wing white women with big mouths and guns to incite the right wing radicals, Q Kooks, racists, and uneducated idiots. He idolizes authoritarians and dictators, and wants to reign forever. He just plays the part of some American Patriot so dedicated to his country that he gave up his salary. The gullible just didn't realize that he made that much off housing secret service to protect him every weekend he went golfing at his resorts. Trump doesn't do anything that doesn't profit him personally, one way or another.
Sen. John Kennedy compares the hard work of Washington lawmakers to an "ugly stripper" Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) made an astute assessment of how Washington is handling the GOP's politically motivated Hunter Biden claims, comparing the hard work of lawmakers to that of not just a hard-working stripper, but an ugly one at that. "I do know this, and I think the American people can see it. The Washington establishment, if you will, is working harder than an ugly stripper to cover up whatever happened," he said, in all seriousness, to Fox News. I think we can all guess where this misogynistic, conservative Christian spends his free time.
I hear this election denier is practically living at Mar a Lago now. She's sucking up in hopes of being Trump's running mate like MTG. Trump and Lake are just a couple of pathetic hateful losers, who can't accept the truth. Lie, deflect, spurt hateful propaganda, repeat.
Abbott said in the past, "And what you don't know, and what your child does not know, is whether or not a pill that they were given at that party, is laced with deadly fentanyl." Not true. You can easily tell whether a drug has been laced with fentanyl by simply testing it. But under the Texas Controlled Substances Act, such testing equipment is classified as "paraphernalia." That means fentanyl testing strips, which are inexpensive and exceptionally accurate, are currently illegal in Texas. State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, introduced a bill in January 2021 to decriminalize fentanyl testing strips. The GOP-dominated Texas House quashed it. As a result what we actually have "no possibility of discerning," to quote the governor, is just how many of those 1,700 dead Texans would not have unintentionally overdosed had he and his party backed Crockett's legislation more than a year and a half ago. While the Grand Old Party of unregulated capitalism have been somewhat reluctant to cast aspersions on the Big Pharma executives responsible for the opioid crisis, the party's had no trouble exploiting the rhetorical power of the War on Drugs to paint asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants as drug smugglers hellbent on poisoning the nation's children. https://www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-...e-looks-to-deflect-from-his-failures-29398229 Poor Abbott. If 90,000 Texans had died from COVID on your watch while you blocked mayors from issuing mask and vaccine ordinances, and hundreds of Texans froze to death due to a power grid you refuse to hook up with neighboring states, and if gun homicide rates rose 66% and three of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history occurred while you were governor, wouldn't you be trying to change the subject too?
So true. Republicans like women they can control. That tweet below is so ridiculous, when you see how Trump treated women his whole life. To him they are just objects to use, abuse, and discard. Retweeted by Team Trump...
There are some very disburd people in this world anyone that believes in 45 needs to be put in a home for crazy people.
Lindsey Graham who in 2016 warned that Trump would destroy the Republican Party but then has been one of the biggest suck ups to Trump gets booed by Trump supporters on the 4th. He then gets mocked by Trump from the podium. It’s hard to think of any one in Congress who has debased himself more to Trump. Who sold out the memory of his best friend in the Senate to support Trump. This what he gets, and he very well could still get indicted over the 2020 election.
Giving the Gerrymandered GOP-controlled state legislature the significant finger In contrast Governor Wheelie of Texas, Wisconsin's Tony Evers cares; he recently Increased School Funding for the next 400 Years in Brilliant Use of Veto Power The Republican-controlled state legislature had passed a budget bill that included a funding increase of $325 per student for the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 school years. It also implemented a $3.5 billion tax cut that would primarily provide relief to the wealthiest Wisconsinites. But Governor Evers, a Democrat and a former public school educator, used his line-item veto power to make about four dozen changes before signing the bill into law. First up, he struck out a hyphen and the “20” in the reference to the 2024–25 school year. As a result, Wisconsin public schools will now get an annual funding increase of $325 per student until 2425. Evers’s move to secure public school funding is welcome news, particularly as Republicans nationwide seem bent on kneecapping public education. State governments are gutting what can be taught and read and banning discussions of gender and sexuality and books about racism. fwiw, “What Governor Evers did was masterful, effectively restoring an automatic increase in school spending authority that had been in place starting in the 1990s. Doyle’s successor, Walker, and the GOP-controlled Legislature removed it.
What Evers did was a perversion of a veto power. If it is allowed to stand, it sets a terrible precedent, where any future governor can do whatever he wants if he can string together the right combination of letters by crossing out parts of passed legislation.
Except that previous Wisconsin governors including Scott Walker did similar things. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/us/wisconsin-school-funding-400-years.html “In 2017, Mr. Walker, the former governor, executed what came to be known as the “thousand year veto” by striking the figures “1” and “2” from the date “Dec. 31, 2018,” — changing the date to “December 3018.” The edit, to a law involving school districts and energy efficiency projects, was challenged in court, but upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on the grounds that the challenge was not brought in a timely manner.”
Also to note the Wisconsin GOP has been one Of the most aggressive in pushing all kinds of things to maintain their advantages. When Evers won in 2018 they stripped the Governor of many powers in the lame duck session thst was unprecedented. Now that they have an ideological minority in the Supreme Court they are considering impeachment and other ways of circumventing the court.
The turning point for the Republican Party I think was the 2008 election. While the party had Pat Buchanan, Lee Atwater and other figures who engaged in tough and extreme rhetoric they party still wanted to govern and wasn’t driven by the most extreme of their base like it is now. When McCain gave a very gracious and serious concession speech that was the past of the party why Sarah Palin standing next to him was the future.
It's just shocking how far they have fallen, now they have people like MTG leading the charge and not wanting to work with anyone......how do you govern and compromise like that, the freedom caucus is anything but. I guess the days of compromising and doing what's right for all Americans just isn't in their playbook, its all about power and proving the other side is a POS, as with the usual cast of suspects, they spout lies upon lies because they don't have anything of sustenance to run on.............no bills they can champion, its all just rhetoric. The best part is they all voted against the infrastructure but man they are the first ones with their hand out to reap the rewards.
To be fair to current Republican Mike Pence did respond back to a voter on the campaign trail about why he couldn’t overturn the election. The Rockets though probably have a better chance of winning next season NBA championship than Pence does winning the GOP nomination.
