injinji
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You know what they say about trans folks. Too weak to be a Navy Seal, but too strong for girl's softball.
Examples of GOP Leadership
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captainmorgan
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Think about how brainwashed and delusional you have to be to believe this shit.
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Fox News hosts discuss how to ban 'childless' liberals from voting
Fox News hosts on Sunday promoted the idea that "childless" Americans should not be allowed to participate in society by voting. The idea was recently floated by Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance. "Let's give votes to all children in this country, but let's give control over those...
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DIY-HP-LED
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What about all the incels in their base?Think about how brainwashed and delusional you have to be to believe this shit.
Fox News hosts discuss how to ban 'childless' liberals from voting
Fox News hosts on Sunday promoted the idea that "childless" Americans should not be allowed to participate in society by voting. The idea was recently floated by Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance. "Let's give votes to all children in this country, but let's give control over those...
injinji
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I think childless Americans (like me) should get a tax break. The more kids you have, the less you pay in taxes and the more you use services.Think about how brainwashed and delusional you have to be to believe this shit.
Fox News hosts discuss how to ban 'childless' liberals from voting
Fox News hosts on Sunday promoted the idea that "childless" Americans should not be allowed to participate in society by voting. The idea was recently floated by Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance. "Let's give votes to all children in this country, but let's give control over those...
The sandhills here are filled with big families who are living in a run down trailer on a 1/4 acre, ie, not paying any property tax. The joke used to be, the damned Yankee came south with a white shirt and 20 dollar bill and has never changed either of them.
DIY-HP-LED
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Dr. Fauci: Republicans Are Mentally Incompetent
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topcat
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Too true. I've been paying taxes that help pay for public education for many years and I'm okay with it. It just seems like I deserve some reciprocity, since I have no kids.
printer
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I can't wait to get my wizard wand in the mail.
topcat
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I still accept it, and I don't bitch about it, until I hear about those with much more money than me failing to do their part for society.
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Conservative Michigan Republicans who gave themselves bonuses out of COVID funds now forced to return it
Among the many that were allowed to use COVID-19 funds without much oversight was a conservative Michigan town where county commissioners used the allotted money to pay themselves bonuses. According to The Guardian, called out Shiawassee County commissioners were told by prosecutors that the...
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Conservative Michigan Republicans who gave themselves bonuses out of COVID funds now forced to return it
Among the many that were allowed to use COVID-19 funds without much oversight was a conservative Michigan town where county commissioners used the allotted money to pay themselves bonuses.
According to The Guardian, called out Shiawassee County commissioners were told by prosecutors that the payments were illegal and that they had to be paid back. The Argus Press reported the incident to the local community, explaining that the Michigan state constitution doesn't allow such compensation "after services had already been rendered," prosecutor Scott Koerner explained.
It was July 15 when commissioners voted 6 to 0 to give themselves all $65,000 out of the $557,000 they voted to give to 250 county staffers as "hazard pay" during the COVID disaster.
"The smallest amounts for recipients were $1,000 to $2,000. But the chairman of the county board, Jeremy Root, got $25,000. Two commissioners received $10,000 each, while four received $5,000 each," said the report.
They gave money to elected officials, the prosecutor included a sheriff and the county clerk.
"Since these payments were made, confusion about the nature of these funds has run rampant," a statement said.
Michigan Live reported commissioner Marlene Webster being "mortified" and claimed that she had no idea that she voted to pay herself.
One commissioner, Marlene Webster, insisted she had no idea she had voted to pay herself. She returned the money last week.
"It's a sad day ... I feel badly," the Republican said. "It's a blow to county workers' morale at a time when it's difficult to keep good workers ... I think (it shows) a serious lack of acknowledgment of what people did (during the pandemic)."
She went on to claim that she would never have voted to give herself that much money, if at all.
Another report over the weekend revealed that the commissioners violated the Open Meetings Act as well, by doing the vote in a closed session. Webster also noted that she wasn't surprised by that because "it's not the first time Shiawassee County has been sued over this." Its not clear why the commissioners continue then to do closed sessions like these.
DIY-HP-LED
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Some of these laws the republicans are passing can have unintended consequences, it makes voting harder for republicans too. Between the republicans suppressing the vote and killing their supporters with covid and bullshit, there might not be anybody voting in some states!
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‘We’re f---ed’: Dems fear turnout catastrophe from GOP voting laws
There’s growing concern — bordering on alarm — about the potential impact in 2022 of the raft of new voting restrictions.
ATLANTA — After Georgia Republicans passed a restrictive voting law in March, Democrats here began doing the math.
The state’s new voter I.D. requirement for mail-in ballots could affect the more than 270,000 Georgians lacking identification. The provision cutting the number of ballot drop boxes could affect hundreds of thousands of voters who cast absentee ballots that way in 2020 — and that’s just in the populous Atlanta suburbs alone.
It didn’t take long before the implications became clear to party officials and voting rights activists. In a state that Joe Biden carried by fewer than 12,000 votes last year, the new law stood to wipe out many of the party’s hard-fought gains — and put them at a decisive disadvantage.
Democrats in other states where similarly restrictive voting laws have passed are coming to the same conclusion. Interviews with more than three dozen Democratic elected officials, party operatives and voting rights activists across the country reveal growing concern — bordering on alarm — about the potential impact in 2022 of the raft of new laws passed by Republican legislatures, particularly in some of the nation’s most competitive battleground states.
“I’m super worried,” said Max Wood, founder and CEO of Deck, a progressive data analytics company that analyzes voting behavior. “I try to be optimistic, and I do think there are times when this kind of stuff can galvanize enthusiasm and turnout. … But I don’t know that that will be enough, especially with how extreme some of these laws are.”
Democratic efforts to model midterm turnout under the new laws remain in their infancy. But even without a sophisticated understanding of the practical effect, there is widespread fear that the party isn’t doing enough to counter these efforts, or preparing for an election conducted under, in some instances, a dramatically different set of rules governing voter access.
“If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f---ed,” said Nsé Ufot, CEO of the Stacey Abrams-founded New Georgia Project. “We are doing what we do to make sure that not only our constituents, our base, the people, the communities that we organize with, get it. We’re trying to make sure that our elected officials get it as well.”
Since Jan. 1, at least 18 states have passed laws that restrict access to the ballot, according to the Brennan Center’s voting laws tracker, ranging from voter I.D. requirements to provisions making early and absentee voting more difficult.
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‘We’re f---ed’: Dems fear turnout catastrophe from GOP voting laws
There’s growing concern — bordering on alarm — about the potential impact in 2022 of the raft of new voting restrictions.
www.politico.com
‘We’re f---ed’: Dems fear turnout catastrophe from GOP voting laws
There’s growing concern — bordering on alarm — about the potential impact in 2022 of the raft of new voting restrictions.
ATLANTA — After Georgia Republicans passed a restrictive voting law in March, Democrats here began doing the math.
The state’s new voter I.D. requirement for mail-in ballots could affect the more than 270,000 Georgians lacking identification. The provision cutting the number of ballot drop boxes could affect hundreds of thousands of voters who cast absentee ballots that way in 2020 — and that’s just in the populous Atlanta suburbs alone.
It didn’t take long before the implications became clear to party officials and voting rights activists. In a state that Joe Biden carried by fewer than 12,000 votes last year, the new law stood to wipe out many of the party’s hard-fought gains — and put them at a decisive disadvantage.
Democrats in other states where similarly restrictive voting laws have passed are coming to the same conclusion. Interviews with more than three dozen Democratic elected officials, party operatives and voting rights activists across the country reveal growing concern — bordering on alarm — about the potential impact in 2022 of the raft of new laws passed by Republican legislatures, particularly in some of the nation’s most competitive battleground states.
“I’m super worried,” said Max Wood, founder and CEO of Deck, a progressive data analytics company that analyzes voting behavior. “I try to be optimistic, and I do think there are times when this kind of stuff can galvanize enthusiasm and turnout. … But I don’t know that that will be enough, especially with how extreme some of these laws are.”
Democratic efforts to model midterm turnout under the new laws remain in their infancy. But even without a sophisticated understanding of the practical effect, there is widespread fear that the party isn’t doing enough to counter these efforts, or preparing for an election conducted under, in some instances, a dramatically different set of rules governing voter access.
“If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f---ed,” said Nsé Ufot, CEO of the Stacey Abrams-founded New Georgia Project. “We are doing what we do to make sure that not only our constituents, our base, the people, the communities that we organize with, get it. We’re trying to make sure that our elected officials get it as well.”
Since Jan. 1, at least 18 states have passed laws that restrict access to the ballot, according to the Brennan Center’s voting laws tracker, ranging from voter I.D. requirements to provisions making early and absentee voting more difficult.
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Dershowitz to Newsmax: Overturning Roe vs. Wade 'Death Knell' for GOP
The U.S. Supreme Court will likely chip away at the Roe vs. Wade abortion decision rather than overturn it altogether, and that's good for the Republican Party because if the decision is ever overruled, the GOP "would never win another national election," Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Friday.
"The vast majority of Americans believe that a woman should have a right to choose abortion and Roe vs. Wade has been a godsend to the Republican Party because it has taken abortion out of politics," Dershowitz said on Newsmax's "American Agenda." "If abortion is put back into politics, it's the death knell of the Republican Party."
Dershowitz's comments come after the state of Mississippi on Thursday urged the Supreme Court, in a major case set to be argued in its next term, to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
"The Supreme Court may chip away at the edges, and they probably will," said Dershowitz. "There's probably a majority for that. But there is not a majority for overruling Roe vs. Wade."
"The inclination of the justices is to make it harder to get an abortion but not to overrule Roe vs. Wade," said Dershowitz. "You're asking me my constitutional analysis, (and that) is that the Supreme Court won't overrule it, but will tinker with it, and it's been doing that now for the last decade or so."
Meanwhile, several states have tried to roll back the viability guidelines concerning when abortions can be performed, and Dershowitz said "they ought to be smarter about it."
"They ought to try to think about if they want to restrict it, (do) it in a way that doesn't run directly" into overruling Roe vs. Wade, said Dershowitz. "It's just not going to happen. If you ask the court to do something that Roe didn't assert as a constitutional right, there is some chance of doing that."
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The U.S. Supreme Court will likely chip away at the Roe vs. Wade abortion decision rather than overturn it altogether, and that's good for the Republican Party because if the decision is ever overruled, the GOP "would never win another national election," Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Friday.
"The vast majority of Americans believe that a woman should have a right to choose abortion and Roe vs. Wade has been a godsend to the Republican Party because it has taken abortion out of politics," Dershowitz said on Newsmax's "American Agenda." "If abortion is put back into politics, it's the death knell of the Republican Party."
Dershowitz's comments come after the state of Mississippi on Thursday urged the Supreme Court, in a major case set to be argued in its next term, to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
"The Supreme Court may chip away at the edges, and they probably will," said Dershowitz. "There's probably a majority for that. But there is not a majority for overruling Roe vs. Wade."
"The inclination of the justices is to make it harder to get an abortion but not to overrule Roe vs. Wade," said Dershowitz. "You're asking me my constitutional analysis, (and that) is that the Supreme Court won't overrule it, but will tinker with it, and it's been doing that now for the last decade or so."
Meanwhile, several states have tried to roll back the viability guidelines concerning when abortions can be performed, and Dershowitz said "they ought to be smarter about it."
"They ought to try to think about if they want to restrict it, (do) it in a way that doesn't run directly" into overruling Roe vs. Wade, said Dershowitz. "It's just not going to happen. If you ask the court to do something that Roe didn't assert as a constitutional right, there is some chance of doing that."
Dershowitz to Newsmax: Overturning Roe vs. Wade 'Death Knell' for GOP
The U.S. Supreme Court will likely chip away at the Roe vs. Wade abortion decision rather than overturn it altogether, and that's good for the Republican Party because if the decision is ever overruled, the GOP "would never win another national election," Harvard Law...
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Rand Paul sends official criminal referral on Anthony Fauci to DOJ
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) made good on his threat to refer Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden and director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to the Justice Department for allegedly lying to Congress about funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
As Changing America previously reported, Fauci said that the National Institutes of Health “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology” in response to Paul’s unsubstantiated claims to the contrary during a May hearing.
Last Tuesday, Paul asked Fauci if he would like to retract a previous statement, saying “as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress.”
Fauci said he would not retract the statement and was adamant that he has never lied before Congress.
“You do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you’re talking about...If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you,” Fauci said.
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Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) made good on his threat to refer Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden and director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to the Justice Department for allegedly lying to Congress about funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
As Changing America previously reported, Fauci said that the National Institutes of Health “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology” in response to Paul’s unsubstantiated claims to the contrary during a May hearing.
Last Tuesday, Paul asked Fauci if he would like to retract a previous statement, saying “as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress.”
Fauci said he would not retract the statement and was adamant that he has never lied before Congress.
“You do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you’re talking about...If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you,” Fauci said.
Rand Paul sends official criminal referral on Anthony Fauci to DOJ
Sen. Paul means business.
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House Democrats expand probe into political interference into CDC during Trump administration
Through letters, Democrats on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis requested interviews from eight former and current CDC and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials and employees and three former Trump appointees as the probe branches out.
Along with the letters, the subcommittee also released a new email suggesting that senior officials were informed of and planning to discuss how to respond to Trump adviser Paul Alexander’s email requesting an “immediate stop” to all of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR).
The subcommittee, led by Chairman James Clyburn (D-S.C.), has been looking into reports and emails indicating that Trump appointees tried to meddle in the CDC’s coronavirus response, including through efforts to edit and stop scientific reports on COVID-19.
The Trump administration has denied that any political influence affected the reports, traditionally considered to be untouched by politics.
Democrats opened an investigation into alleged political interference after Politico reported in September that Trump appointees had requested to adjust CDC reports. Days later, Caputo took medical leave, and the department said Alexander would “permanently” leave HHS.
The Trump administration has said Alexander’s emails did not affect HHS policy and strategy. In October, then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Alexander had no “authority over determining the final publication of an MMWR.”
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Through letters, Democrats on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis requested interviews from eight former and current CDC and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials and employees and three former Trump appointees as the probe branches out.
Along with the letters, the subcommittee also released a new email suggesting that senior officials were informed of and planning to discuss how to respond to Trump adviser Paul Alexander’s email requesting an “immediate stop” to all of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR).
The subcommittee, led by Chairman James Clyburn (D-S.C.), has been looking into reports and emails indicating that Trump appointees tried to meddle in the CDC’s coronavirus response, including through efforts to edit and stop scientific reports on COVID-19.
The Trump administration has denied that any political influence affected the reports, traditionally considered to be untouched by politics.
Democrats opened an investigation into alleged political interference after Politico reported in September that Trump appointees had requested to adjust CDC reports. Days later, Caputo took medical leave, and the department said Alexander would “permanently” leave HHS.
The Trump administration has said Alexander’s emails did not affect HHS policy and strategy. In October, then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Alexander had no “authority over determining the final publication of an MMWR.”
House Democrats expand probe into political interference into CDC during Trump administration
House Democrats on Monday widened their investigation into political interference at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during former President Trump’s administration b…
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Trump pressures McConnell, GOP to ditch bipartisan talks until they have majority
"Senate Republicans are being absolutely savaged by Democrats on the so-called 'bipartisan' infrastructure bill," Trump said in a statement as Senate negotiators work to finalize an agreement this week.
Trump claimed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Republicans working on the deal, such as Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio), Susan Collins (Maine) and Mitt Romney (Utah), were merely interested in proving they could work with Democrats.
"It is so important to [McConnell] that he is agreeing to almost anything," Trump said. "Don’t do the infrastructure deal, wait until after we get proper election results in 2022 or otherwise, and regain a strong negotiating stance. Republicans, don’t let the Radical Left play you for weak fools and losers!"
The statement marked the third time in recent weeks where Trump has issued a statement through his post-presidency political action group bemoaning Republicans' willingness to negotiate on a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
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"Senate Republicans are being absolutely savaged by Democrats on the so-called 'bipartisan' infrastructure bill," Trump said in a statement as Senate negotiators work to finalize an agreement this week.
Trump claimed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Republicans working on the deal, such as Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio), Susan Collins (Maine) and Mitt Romney (Utah), were merely interested in proving they could work with Democrats.
"It is so important to [McConnell] that he is agreeing to almost anything," Trump said. "Don’t do the infrastructure deal, wait until after we get proper election results in 2022 or otherwise, and regain a strong negotiating stance. Republicans, don’t let the Radical Left play you for weak fools and losers!"
The statement marked the third time in recent weeks where Trump has issued a statement through his post-presidency political action group bemoaning Republicans' willingness to negotiate on a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Trump pressures McConnell, GOP to ditch bipartisan talks until they have majority
Former President Trump on Monday urged Senate Republicans to abandon talks on a bipartisan infrastructure deal until after the midterm elections or when the GOP retakes majorities in Congress.̶…
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Budzbuddha
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Sen. Hawley’s Love America Bill :
(Brainwash American Children Act )
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/Love America Act.pdf
(Brainwash American Children Act )
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/Love America Act.pdf
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This is so pathetic.
Trump Jr. inches past DeSantis as most popular GOP figure in new poll: Axios
The poll from Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, first obtained by Axios, shows former President Trump's eldest son as the most popular of the GOP figures in the poll, followed closely by DeSantis.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) came in third, followed by Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). All three scored more favorably than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Meanwhile, Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) — who was stripped of her GOP leadership role earlier this year for speaking out against former President Trump's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — scored negatively among the 800 Republicans polled.
All eyes are on any GOP front-runners who might emerge in 2024 should the former president opt to not run for another term. DeSantis and Trump Jr. are among those who have been eyed as potential candidates.
"We found Mitch McConnell’s image has significantly improved since February, while Kevin McCarthy’s has remained consistent but positive," Tony Fabrizio said in a statement to Axios about the poll. "Liz Cheney is incredibly unpopular, while Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene have positive images but are largely undefined and driven by the far right of the party."
"Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, Jr. are well-known and very well-liked by most Republicans, doing best among President Trump’s biggest supporters," he added.
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Trump Jr. inches past DeSantis as most popular GOP figure in new poll: Axios
The poll from Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, first obtained by Axios, shows former President Trump's eldest son as the most popular of the GOP figures in the poll, followed closely by DeSantis.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) came in third, followed by Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). All three scored more favorably than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Meanwhile, Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) — who was stripped of her GOP leadership role earlier this year for speaking out against former President Trump's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — scored negatively among the 800 Republicans polled.
All eyes are on any GOP front-runners who might emerge in 2024 should the former president opt to not run for another term. DeSantis and Trump Jr. are among those who have been eyed as potential candidates.
"We found Mitch McConnell’s image has significantly improved since February, while Kevin McCarthy’s has remained consistent but positive," Tony Fabrizio said in a statement to Axios about the poll. "Liz Cheney is incredibly unpopular, while Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene have positive images but are largely undefined and driven by the far right of the party."
"Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, Jr. are well-known and very well-liked by most Republicans, doing best among President Trump’s biggest supporters," he added.
Trump Jr. inches past DeSantis as most popular GOP figure in new poll: Axios
A new poll shows Donald Trump Jr. and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis topping other GOP figures in a survey measuring the popularity of key Republicans. The poll from Fabrizio, Lee & Associ…
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