Examples of GOP Leadership

Double down on dumb and any woman who would vote for them would have to be pretty dumb to give up their basic human rights. However republicans have been known to fuck themselves before, so why should this be any different? It kinda takes them off the ballot for any sensible woman, other issues like fascism, J6, incompetence and misogamy aside. It's kinda like the males among them being be in favor of having themselves castrated, if Tucker tells them to.

DIY-HP-LED said:

Coffee makes you WOKE! I sure as shit hope so!
If the magats boycott coffee they will suffer withdrawal, while coffee prices drop for the rest of us from lack of demand! In war sacrifices have to be made, cause they is taking over!

Woke’s no joke: breakfast cafe’s name awakens US conservative ire

Carmen Quiroga called her cafe ‘Woke’ to signal to customers ‘Wake up and have a coffee’. What could possibly go wrong?

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This place is in Eugene

https://staywokepnw.com/

Sir Napsalot said:

This place is in Eugene

https://staywokepnw.com/

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Get lot's insurance because after Tucker mentions it, they will burn it to the ground!

Negotiate with Hitler, same thing, if they wanna fuck the country it will be on their heads, at least for people with common sense and brains. Some of them will crack eventually and they need a good stress test, that this will provide, the DOJ will present other stress tests for some of them in the future. If there are a half to a dozen from swing districts among them who will vote with the democrats on the debt ceiling, Kevin's house can be broken and so will Kevin as speaker. The lunatics are all from red or red gerrymandered districts and can do no wrong with their voters, no matter how stupidly and dishonestly they behave. Others from less red areas will suffer for it though and for things like anti abortion which is DOA in congress and well over it's best before date with the public.

DIY-HP-LED said:

Get lot's insurance because after Tucker mentions it, they will burn it to the ground!

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Not very likely in Eugene

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Not very likely in Eugene

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Those folks travel to cause mayhem...

You don't have to travel very far outside of Eugene to find yourself surrounded by knuckle-dragging trump supporters.

What happens to them when the meet real reporters, especially ones who were lawyers and who already busted a few of them on his show, Peter Navarro comes to mind...

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shimbob said:

You don't have to travel very far outside of Eugene to find yourself surrounded by knuckle-dragging trump supporters.

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To a redhat, Eugene looks like this

shimbob said:

You don't have to travel very far outside of Eugene to find yourself surrounded by knuckle-dragging trump supporters.

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Yep, the divide is sharp between urban and rural in that area. Eugene is the last liberal oasis going south on I-5 until Ashland. But the knuckle draggers are more concerned about finding their next toke on a meff pipe than whatever Tucker says. So, yeah, Woke Coffee may be villified and may be some day a target of vandalism. For the most part, its safe from the right wingers who live in The Hills Have Eyes territory to the south and east.

I wouldn't put that coffee shop in Medford. Just sayin'

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Republican House Oversight Committee disbands Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
“Let me be very clear: any topic that’s not mentioned in the subcommittee jurisdiction is reserved for the full committee,” Comer said. “We can have a committee hearing in this committee on basically anything we want.”

But Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is urging the committee to reinstate the subcommittee, saying the loss of it sends an “unmistakable message to the American people that their civil rights and civil liberties are no longer a priority to the 118th Congress.”

Crockett, a civil rights attorney, said she was appointed to the Oversight Committee on Friday, where she heard the news that the subcommittee had been removed.

In a statement, Crockett called the decision “reckless and cruel.”

“Rather than squandering their authority on investigations of the President’s family, the Chairman and House Republicans should use their authority to conduct oversight and investigate the merciless murders of innocent Americans – mainly Americans who look like me – at the hands of law enforcement,” Crockett said.

“Systemic policing and extremist violence are killing people, devastating our communities, and breaking the hearts of families we took an oath to defend and protect at all costs.”

On Tuesday, Crockett introduced an amendment that would reinstate the subcommittee.

“Especially in a time like this – when across the nation, from small towns to big cities, Americans are crying out against the horrible injustice that was perpetrated against Tyre Nichols and so many others every single day, it is undeniable that the civil rights of the American people are under threat and this committee must do something about it,” Crockett said on Tuesday.

Ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has thrown his support behind Crockett’s amendment.

Invoking the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who was chairman of the Oversight Committee before his death in 2019, Raskin said he feels an “obligation to stand in defense of this subcommittee.”

“Mr. Cummings was always adamant that there are two major purposes for the Oversight Committee and one is to make sure that the laws and programs that Congress adopts actually go to the benefit of the people that they’re intended for and not siphoned off in waste and self enrichment and corruption and other forms of fraud and abuse,” Raskin said.

“But the other purpose is to make sure that the government is always respecting the rights and the freedoms and the civil liberties of the people in the conduct of its operations.”

In previous years, Raskin said, the subcommittee was able to address things in a bipartisan manner, including the war on drugs, the treatment of marijuana, governmental seizures and forfeitures that violated the civil liberties, and extremist political violence across the country.

It’s unclear why the subcommittee was removed, or if it will be reinstated at any point. Comer’s office did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.

Priorities.

DeSantis: House GOP should probe DirecTV’s ditching of Newsmax
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is running to the defense of Newsmax, the conservative cable network that was ditched by carrier DirecTV last week.
“I mean I think there should be no ideological litmus test or any kind of test when it comes to these big companies who can make the decision to make or break a news network or any type of network,” DeSantis said during a press conference on Tuesday. “And they’ll give different rationales for why they don’t want to do it, but the reality is they have so much other content that is very lightly viewed and yet they keep that on and it seems it’s the One America News and the Newsmax who are being targeted, so I think it does warrant investigation.”

DirecTV, one of the largest cable providers in the country, dropped Newsmax from its channel lineup last week following a dispute with the network over carrier fees.

Newsmax, which carries a much smaller audience than that of the three leading cable news channels — Fox News, CNN and MSNBC — is accusing DirecTV of political bias. Much of the content on Newsmax is staunchly supportive of former President Trump and conservative causes.
DirecTV, which last year also dropped pro-Trump One America News, has said it “made it clear to Newsmax that we wanted to continue to offer the network,” but ultimately the network’s demands for rate increases in carrier fees “would have led to significantly higher costs that we would have to pass on to our broad customer base.”

Days later, DirecTV announced the addition of conservative opinion and commentary network The First to its lineup.
Trump, who is running for president in 2024 and has spent the last several months attacking DeSantis as a potential primary foe, has also blasted DirecTV’s decision to drop Newsmax.

“This is just one of many reasons why we must WIN IN 2024!!!” Trump said in a Truth Social post last week.

A contingent of House Republicans, who have made complaints about what they say is bias in Big Tech and media a tenet of their messaging in the new Congress, are threatening to investigate the matter.

“If Newsmax is removed from DirecTV, in less than a year House Republicans will have lost two of the three cable news channels that reach conservative voters on a platform that primarily serves conservative-leaning areas of the country,” a group of House GOP lawmakers wrote in a letter to the company earlier this month.

DeSantis, like Trump, has made a habit of attacking the mainstream media and has notably ignored some traditional outlets in favor of smaller media companies that cater to conservatives.

Close to 80 percent of voters in Santos’s district think he should step down: poll
Nearly 80 percent of voters who live in embattled Rep. George Santos’s New York district want him to resign from Congress, according to a new survey that comes the same day the first-term Republican told colleagues he’d be stepping down from his committee assignments.

A Newsday/Siena College poll released on Tuesday, which questioned voters from New York’s 3rd Congressional District, found that 78 percent of respondents think Santos should resign, including 71 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of independents and 89 percent of Democrats.

Thirteen percent of respondents overall said they didn’t think the Long Island Republican should step down, while another 9 percent said they did not know or did not have an opinion.

Three-fourths of respondents said they did not think Santos could be an effective representative for his district, including 65 percent of Republicans, 74 percent of independents and 84 percent of Democrats.

And 71 percent of respondents said that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was wrong to seat Santos on two congressional committees, including 59 percent of Republicans, 69 percent of independents and 82 percent of Democrats.

“Talk about buyers’ remorse. NY 3 voters elected George Santos by a comfortable margin not even three months ago. But today, the vast majority of his new constituents — including the vast majority of those who voted for him — want him gone,” Siena College Poll Director Don Levy said in a press release regarding the poll’s results.

“Discouragingly, three-quarters or more of voters of every party say that Santos’ behavior and now his refusing to resign show that our political system is broken, not that his behavior says little about the state of our politics.”

The polling comes as Santos has faced calls from Democrats and even his fellow Republicans in Congress, particularly New York members, to resign after he admitted he had fabricated parts of his identity and history and as news outlets continue to report discrepancies about his life. He’s also been under scrutiny regarding his financial disclosures.

Santos told his fellow House Republicans on Tuesday that he is walking away from his committee seats, but he has rejected calls to step down entirely, and McCarthy has refused to call for his resignation.

The Newsday/Siena College poll surveyed 653 residents from New York’s 3rd Congressional District Jan. 23-26. The margin of error is 4.4 percentage points.

Good luck with that.

Iowa Republicans file legislation making it a felony to manufacture, prescribe abortion drug
Republicans in the Iowa state legislature introduced a bill on Monday that would make it a felony to manufacture or prescribe mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions.

The bill would make it illegal to “manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell or transfer” generic or brand name mifepristone in the state, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill text notes that it “should not be construed” as imposing liability on a woman who receives an abortion or as limiting the use of contraceptives.

In Iowa, abortion is currently legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Republican-controlled legislature passed a law in 2018 banning abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy that was subsequently signed into law by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. However, the law was blocked by a permanent injunction in 2019.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June, Reynolds has sought to overturn the injunction. Her effort was rejected by a state court in December, which the governor has promised to appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Several other Republican-led states have also sought to restrict or ban the use of abortion drugs, like mifepristone.

Twenty-nine states, including the Hawkeye State, have implemented laws that specifically require physicians to administer the medications for an abortion, while 18 states require that a clinician be physically present when the medication is administered, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights group that broke off from Planned Parenthood in 2007.

Only two states have complete or partial bans on medication abortions that have not been temporarily or permanently blocked by the courts. Medication abortions are banned after seven weeks in Texas and after 10 weeks in Indiana, although mifepristone has only been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) up to 10 weeks.

printer said:

Good luck with that.

Iowa Republicans file legislation making it a felony to manufacture, prescribe abortion drug
Republicans in the Iowa state legislature introduced a bill on Monday that would make it a felony to manufacture or prescribe mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions.

The bill would make it illegal to “manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell or transfer” generic or brand name mifepristone in the state, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill text notes that it “should not be construed” as imposing liability on a woman who receives an abortion or as limiting the use of contraceptives.

In Iowa, abortion is currently legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Republican-controlled legislature passed a law in 2018 banning abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy that was subsequently signed into law by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. However, the law was blocked by a permanent injunction in 2019.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June, Reynolds has sought to overturn the injunction. Her effort was rejected by a state court in December, which the governor has promised to appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Several other Republican-led states have also sought to restrict or ban the use of abortion drugs, like mifepristone.

Twenty-nine states, including the Hawkeye State, have implemented laws that specifically require physicians to administer the medications for an abortion, while 18 states require that a clinician be physically present when the medication is administered, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights group that broke off from Planned Parenthood in 2007.

Only two states have complete or partial bans on medication abortions that have not been temporarily or permanently blocked by the courts. Medication abortions are banned after seven weeks in Texas and after 10 weeks in Indiana, although mifepristone has only been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) up to 10 weeks.

Iowa Republicans file legislation making it a felony to manufacture, prescribe abortion drug

Republicans in the Iowa state legislature introduced a bill on Monday that would make it a felony to manufacture or prescribe mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions. The bill w…

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American Taliban

printer said:

Good luck with that.

Iowa Republicans file legislation making it a felony to manufacture, prescribe abortion drug
Republicans in the Iowa state legislature introduced a bill on Monday that would make it a felony to manufacture or prescribe mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions.

The bill would make it illegal to “manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell or transfer” generic or brand name mifepristone in the state, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill text notes that it “should not be construed” as imposing liability on a woman who receives an abortion or as limiting the use of contraceptives.

In Iowa, abortion is currently legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Republican-controlled legislature passed a law in 2018 banning abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy that was subsequently signed into law by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. However, the law was blocked by a permanent injunction in 2019.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June, Reynolds has sought to overturn the injunction. Her effort was rejected by a state court in December, which the governor has promised to appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Several other Republican-led states have also sought to restrict or ban the use of abortion drugs, like mifepristone.

Twenty-nine states, including the Hawkeye State, have implemented laws that specifically require physicians to administer the medications for an abortion, while 18 states require that a clinician be physically present when the medication is administered, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights group that broke off from Planned Parenthood in 2007.

Only two states have complete or partial bans on medication abortions that have not been temporarily or permanently blocked by the courts. Medication abortions are banned after seven weeks in Texas and after 10 weeks in Indiana, although mifepristone has only been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) up to 10 weeks.

Iowa Republicans file legislation making it a felony to manufacture, prescribe abortion drug

Republicans in the Iowa state legislature introduced a bill on Monday that would make it a felony to manufacture or prescribe mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions. The bill w…

thehill.com

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These Red states give a whole new meaning to "fly over states"....

This can go here

Gym will know what Jack has on him when he indicts him... Considering how many J6 targets on the committee, that would be a no, and a no even if they were all clean as a cat's assholes, which they are not.


Rep. Jim Jordan demands details of pending DOJ investigations. DOJ tells Jordan to 'pound sand.'

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In his capacity as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan recently wrote a letter to the Department of Justice demanding non-public details about the ongoing probe into the classified documents found at Joe Biden's home and office. Not surprisingly, Jordan made NO REQUEST for information about Donald Trump's classified documents crimes or Mike Pence's improper retention of classified documents. Even-handedness, thy name is not Jim Jordan.

The DOJ just responded to Jordan's demand, saying, in substance, 'pound sand.' This video discusses why DOJ's refusal to divulge non-public investigating details to Jordan and fellow committee members is the right decision.

CCGNZ said:

Saw a reporter from Wash. Post on news this morn., shes digging deep on the state of politics in the US and how social media has enabled extremists are enabled to consolidate their views and influence the rep. party,and how the Constitution's framers had no way to anticipate this modern digital phenomenon that's hijacked the political discourse,she also states that the House of Reps. originally had a ratio of 1/30k and is now at 1/750K which advocates for a uncapping of house membership #'s. This could go a long way towards a complete redrawing of these ridiculous gerrymandered districts while also increasing the representation ratios,another 200-250 seats w/more geographically sensible districts would be good. As for the effect of social media in politics I think the loss of print media has had a major effect here,even if physical newspapers are unpopular they still could be consumed online,it's the loss of a vetted news product w/oversight,and confirmable sourcing that is enabling this misinformation,conspiracy spewing news in a tunnel BS that now pervades our society. I think philanthropy can help here in the establishment of non profit newspapers funded by well healed donors,conservative or progressive,who lament the lack of vetted,reliable impartial,objective news. The loss of all the print newspapers at the local level is stunning,driven by money hungry shareholders and conglomerates which were allowed to gobble up portfolios of local newspapers. Maybe it's to late or unfeasable to rectify this,but this loss combined w/the proliferation of unverified online news sourcing/ social media radicalization has blurred reality and empowered fringe beliefs into the mainstream.

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the newspaper is dead...they only continue to print them for the few diehard old bastards that insist on it, and are willing to pay for it.
it's a shame. I enjoyed reading the paper in silence, the only interruption my own snorts of derision or exclamations of disgust...now i have to close ads, ignore annoying videos, and close endless popups, even on most of the reputable sites.
Of course, the real attraction to reading the news was that you had a fair idea if they were telling you the truth or not, you could watch the noon or evening news and see if things jibed...now you have to wade through puddles of bullshit and trust fact checkers and adfontes media...which i'm not always sure i do.