This is nuts! What a pandering liar. No one who ever went to a public school thinks that kids walked the halls and sat in classes armed. What crazy hillbilly fever dream is this. Think of the hormones of kids raging, fights happening all the time, now add guns. Oh yes it would be like it is today with angry upset kids having too much access to guns. Hugs. Scottie
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The pledge, a vestige of the McCarthy Red Scare era, is not mandatory, but has been signed by candidates for decades, including by Trump in 2020 and 2016.
Former President Donald Trump did not sign Illinois’ loyalty oath when filing his nomination papers to run in Illinois in 2024. The oath, which is not mandatory, pledges he will not advocate for the overthrow of the government. Here, Trump gestures after speaking at a campaign rally at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center, Iowa, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Andrew Harnik / Associated Press
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President Joe Biden’s campaign Saturday condemned Republican former President Donald Trump for sidestepping a decades-old, Illinois ballot-access tradition this past week in which candidates pledge against advocating for an overthrow of the government.
The Democrat’s campaign statement comes in response to a WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times report published earlier Saturday that showed Trump did not voluntarily sign the state’s loyalty oath as part of his package of ballot-access paperwork submitted Thursday to the Illinois State Board of Elections.
That omission, coming just days before the third anniversary of the Jan. 6th insurrection for which Trump has been criminally charged, is a departure from his presidential candidacies of 2016 and 2020, when he affixed his signature to the oath both times.
“For the entirety of our nation’s history, presidents have put their hand on the Bible and sworn to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States – and Donald Trump can’t bring himself to sign a piece of paper saying he won’t attempt a coup to overthrow our government,” Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said in a statement Saturday. “We know he’s deadly serious, because three years ago today he tried and failed to do exactly that.
“This is the same man who thinks American troops who died protecting the ideals outlined in the Constitution are suckers and losers – yet calls the convicted felons who violently assaulted and killed police officers on January 6th ‘hostages’. He can’t fathom putting anything – our country, our principles, or the wellbeing and safety of the American people – above his own quest for retribution and power,” Tyler said.
The Trump campaign responded Saturday to the Biden jab.
“President Trump will once again take the oath of office on January 20th, 2025, and will swear ‘to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said.
Under Illinois law, presidential candidates wanting to be on the state’s March 19th primary ballot had to turn in their nominating petitions to the State Board of Elections on Thursday or Friday, and the loyalty oath is a time-honored part of that process.
A WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times analysis of those petitions found Biden and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis both signed the oath — as did several lower-tier Trump acolytes in Illinois, but not Trump.
Trump’s omission has stumped some of his critics.
“Why wouldn’t he sign it?” asked former Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who served on the House Jan. 6th select committee and said he signed the state loyalty oath in each of his six terms as congressman.
“Has he been advised maybe not to sign it because maybe there’s some legal exposures…given that oath, if he signed it, would be a violation of everything he actually did on Jan. 6th, 2021, and leading up to it?” Kinzinger said.
In part of the oath, candidates swear they are not communists nor affiliated with communist organizations. In the latter part of the oath, candidates attest that they “do not directly or indirectly teach or advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state or any unlawful change in the form of the governments thereof by force or any unlawful means.”
Signing it is entirely optional now after federal courts ruledit unconstitutional on free-speech grounds, but Illinois lawmakers left it in state law. Countless candidates, in flag-waving fashion, have signed it through the years even though it’s no longer compulsory.
It’s not clear why Trump chose not to sign the oath for the 2024 election cycle — a time when his nominating petitions are being challenged on grounds that he is allegedly disqualified to run by the 14th Amendment. That section of the Constitution bars insurrectionists from seeking public office.
Biden observed the Jan. 6th anniversary Friday with a blistering speech in which he characterized Trump as a mortal threat to democracy and described his conduct on Jan. 6th as “among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history.”
Trump was criminally charged last August by a federal grand jury for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The charges were connected to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election by spreading lies about election fraud and sending a crowd of supporters to the Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 with directions to “fight like hell.”
The ensuing overrunning of the Capitol, as presidential results were being certified, was linked to seven deaths, attacks on more than 140 police officers and criminal charges against 1,265 people, including for assaulting peace officers with deadly weapons, entering restricted areas with weapons and obstructing an official government proceeding.
More than 700 of those charged have pleaded guilty and entered into plea agreements, while nearly 140 more were found guilty at contested trials, Justice Department data show.
At least 42 Illinoisans are among those charged with Jan. 6th-related offenses, and several have been convicted, the Chicago Sun-Times has reported.
A voting-rights organization called Free Speech for People, five Illinois voters, and two Chicago law firms are contesting Trump’s nominating petitions based on his conduct before and during the insurrection.
Challenges against Trump are pending in 15 other states, according to an organization tracking them, and his name has for now been struck from the ballot in two others — Colorado and Maine. The Supreme Court Friday chose to hear Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from that state’s ballot. The case will be argued Feb. 8, the New York Times reported.
On Friday, a campaign spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, a frequent Biden surrogate, belittled Trump for his campaign’s decision not to sign the oath.
“Pledging not to overthrow our democracy is a hard thing to do when you’ve already attempted it once,” Pritzker spokeswoman Christina Amestoy told WBEZ.
Trump’s main 2024 rival, Biden, signed the Illinois loyalty pledge this year and ahead of his 2020 run. And one of his GOP opponents, DeSantis, did so this year as well.
State election records show that Trump’s other GOP primary opponents, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, did not sign the state loyalty oath. Christie signed the document during his 2016 run for president.
Some of Trump’s Republican political allies in Illinois did sign the oath.
State election records show U.S. Rep. Mary Miller and her husband, state Rep. Chris Miller, R-Hindsboro, both did for this election cycle.
Trump’s endorsement was pivotal in the congresswoman’s 2022 election win against Republican U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis.
Chris Miller attended Trump’s Save America Rally on Jan. 6th but said he did not enter the Capitol or participate in violence. Nonetheless, the Illinois House passed a resolution in March 2021 denouncing Chris Miller for having “participated and publicly promoted his role in a rally that led to a violent insurrection of the Capitol.”
The Millers’ Trump-endorsed ally, former GOP gubernatorial nominee and current congressional candidate Darren Bailey, also signed the loyalty oath. Now running to unseat fellow Republican Congressman Mike Bost in the March primary, Bailey signed the document in both 2022 and 2024, state records show.
On Friday, the Trump campaign observed the Jan. 6th anniversary with a litany of denouncements of Biden, accusing him of “attacking American democracy” and noting that some Jan. 6th criminal defendants “were prosecuted, convicted, or pleaded guilty to ‘parading’ which is simply an expression of political dissent.”
Kinzinger, though, told WBEZ Trump’s actions — he signed the loyalty oath before the insurrection, and didn’t now — should be interpreted literally by voters.
“What was the world like when he signed it in 2016 and when he signed it in 2020? Well, at that point, there had not been an attempted insurrection on the federal government,” Kinzinger said.
“The difference between the last two times he did it, and this time when he didn’t, is he has a track record of trying to overthrow the government,” Kinzinger said.
Dave McKinney covers Illinois government and politics for WBEZ and was the long-time Springfield bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of Covid-19, according to a study by French researchers.
The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, “despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits,” the researchers point out in their paper, published in the February issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
Now, researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. — may have died as a result.
That figure stems from a study published in the Nature scientific journal in 2021 which reported an 11 percent increase in the mortality rate, linked to its prescription against Covid-19, because of the potential adverse effects like heart rhythm disorders, and its use instead of other effective treatments.
Researchers from universities in Lyon, France, and Québec, Canada, used that figure to analyze hospitalization data for Covid in each of the six countries, exposure to hydroxychloroquine and the increase in the relative risk of death linked to the drug.
In fact, they say the figure may be far higher given the study only concerns six countries from March to July 2020, when the drug was prescribed much more widely.
Hydroxychloroquine gained prominence partly due to French virologist Didier Raoult who had headed the Méditerranée Infection Foundation hospital, but was later removed amid growing controversy.
It was also considered something of a “miracle cure” by the then-U.S. President Donald Trump, who said: “What do you have to lose? Take it.”
And why? I still don’t fully understand what made Trump and the GOP decide to deny vaccines publicly (while often taking vaccines privately) and to turn every medical decision into a toxic political decision based on misinformation. Why was this in their interest? Once they started down this path, they just kept doubling down, leading to the ridiculously unqualified and dangerous Florida State Surgeon General currently in power.
It’s exactly why Rand Paul invested in hydroxychloroquine early on in the early months of COVID, and then regularly attacked Dr Fauci…as the good doctor was bad for Brillohead’s bottom line.
I think it’s a combination of things. It brews mistrust of experts, education, science, and medicine, which keeps people afraid. It’s a cult in that way, you must trust the leader and exclude information that might potentially prove them wrong. By putting in a mistrust of one area of expert, it can be extended to others as well, cementing that only the in group can be trusted.
By denying that people are dying, they make people distrust reports of people dying. When people do get sick, they wait or take ineffective ‘treatments’, which then overtax the hospital facilities if/when the person actually goes in for real treatment – and then the cult leaders can say that the hospital system is failing and can’t save you, only dear leader can.
But ultimately, I think they simply don’t care. As you say, they privately take the vaccines and have top flight health care. Everyone else is less than a pawn on the board to them.
At this point on the right the tail wags the dog. These memes are coming from somewhere and being picked up by people looking around down the Q and other right wing rabbit holes. The Republican leadership has little in the way of actual leadership. First it was Limbaugh and company but now it’s faceless, nameless internet bot farms setting their agenda. They can’t hold on to power without pandering to this shit and they are more afraid of losing power than killing their own supporters.
There’s little leadership in our politics. Few Democrats supported gay marriage until public polling showed a majority in favor. If that had been the case earlier in our history how long would it have taken for civil rights laws to be enacted or interracial marriage to be legal. We didn’t get to 50% in favor of interracial marriage until the late 80s! I realize you can’t be too far off public opinion and get elected, but leaders should be leading public opinion, not following it. Consensus can be created if people with good writing and oratorical skills get out there and make the case. Of course that means risking your access to power if you don’t succeed and that right there is the big problem we face in our politics.
Remember, it’s all part of Putin’s plan to undermine democracy. Part of that is to undermine the trust in any institutional authority. As soon as Covid hit, they realized it was easy to spread lies and made up stories, and they did. Eventually, it pitted some people against other people, which is exactly the goal. And when a mass of people are distrustful of government all the grifters realize they can get viewers by fanning the flames. So it spreads around and feds on itself. And it worked! If some people die, who cares?
Echoing Randy Ellicott & Houndentenor. Republicans intentionally sow so much distrust against doctors and research that they can promote quacks into their ranks without consequence.
it was in their interest because these people gain power by making other people afraid of anything and everyone. It was in their interest because these people gain power by making other people not trust respectable and respected authorities. It was in their interest because fear, doubt, confusion, And the politics of resentment are always in the interests of authoritarians, conmen, and grifter.
Evangelicals (the MAGAt base) quite literally worship a genocidal deity. Extend that fantasy into their nearly hermetically sealed reality and voila, we have a cult with a full on death wish.
Politics because the CDC and the “Democratic appointed” Fauci had to be opposed by GOP and for no other reason. Well, yes, because Trump had no idea how to act as President.
See, the problem was that they didn’t follow all of TFG’s advice and drink bleach and stick UV light in their butts after taking the hydroxychloroquine. /s
Republicans’ successful sowing of distrust towards science and doctors during the pandemic is the biggest consequence. When President Obama successfully led the creation of the H1N1 vaccine, no one blinked. But Trump and his like-minded lackeys lied and lied and lied about the vaccine that many Republican voters trust a rando podcaster or anti-vax preacher on the street more than peer-reviewed research.
And while these anti-vaxxers scam their viewership and rake in the $$, they take the vax behind the scenes.
Touting quack remedies instead of effective treatment for a disease that can kill you, or leave you seriously disabled for long stretches, is not the finest re-election tactic–especially when your opponent is urging his voters to get highly effective vaccines.
Touting quack remedies instead of effective treatment for a disease that can kill you, or leave you seriously disabled for long stretches, is not the finest re-election tactic–especially when your opponent is urging his voters to get highly effective vaccines.
This is profit. Yet Republican James Comer claims that Biden getting a loan repaid by his brother and his son when he was not in office is corruption. He mocked the reporting of tRump doing what they are trying to impeach Pres. Joe Biden for, which again Biden did not gain any profit. The republicans are so full of bull. They want to do to Biden what they did to Clinton with the Benghazi hearings. They held 9 hearings, were going to hold a 10th, even after the first 9 found no wrong doing or crime by Clinton. But the constant accusations on Fox and other right wing media tarnished her for something she did not do and brought her poll numbers down. The republicans are desperate to do that to Biden because their candidates suck. Hugs. Scottie
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Donald Trump’s businesses received nearly $8 million in payments from foreign governments while Trump was president, according to new research by Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Unlike Republicans in their efforts to pin corruption on President Joe Biden, Democrats on the House oversight committee have receipts — more than 400 pages of them — that show payments to Trump’s businesses from foreign officials likely seeking to influence the U.S. government.
Trump refused to divest from his business empire when he became president, creating an opportunity for anyone hoping to win his favor to put money straight into his pocket by staying at his hotels.
“When he arrived in the White House, Trump was determined not only to keep this well-branded global corporate empire going but to seize a new and unprecedented opportunity to make it ever more lucrative for himself and his family,” the oversight committee’s Democratic staff, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), said in their report.
Democrats and nonpartisan ethics experts have long argued that Trump’s refusal to divest violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban on presidents accepting gifts or “emoluments” from kings, princes or foreign states. Trump faced emoluments lawsuits, but the Supreme Court declared the cases moot after he left the White House in January 2021.
Meanwhile, since 2019, Democrats on the House oversight committee have sought records from Trump’s accounting firm reflecting his foreign income. After a federal court awarded access in 2022, Democrats said they’d found records reflecting more than $750,000 in payments from foreign officials at Trump’s hotel in Washington, D.C. Despite a court order requiring more material to be turned over, Republicans quietly shut down document production last year as they launched their quest for dirt on Biden.
Using documents obtained by the court order, plus already-public records, Democrats tallied $7.8 million in foreign payments from 20 countries during Trump’s presidency. Most of the sum came from Chinese sources, including China’s embassy in the U.S. and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a state-owned enterprise that leased property at Trump Tower in New York. Democrats suggest in their report that the payments from ICBC could have affected the Trump administration’s decision not to sanction the bank for ties to North Korea in 2017.
Democrats stressed Thursday that their report was based on records from only two years of Trump’s time in the White House, and that the $7.8 million is likely an undercount of the full money Trump received from foreign governments.
“What we have is essentially the tip of the iceberg,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) told reporters. “So this $7.8 million is just a small window ― obviously a significant amount of money, but a small window ― into what is likely a fairly large sum of money and gifts.”
Though Democrats presented their report as a continuation of their investigation into Trump’s violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, it’s clearly intended as a rebuke of the impeachment inquiry against Biden. The House of Representatives could hold an impeachment vote sometime in the coming months.
Republicans have accused Biden of improperly benefiting from his son Hunter Biden’s business deals, through which the younger Biden received millions of dollars from foreign nationals in China and Ukraine during and after Joe Biden’s time as vice president. Republicans have said Joe Biden may have accepted foreign bribes through his son’s work.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) speaks to journalists on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13.
The only problem with the allegations is that there’s not much proof. Republicans have sifted through years of Hunter Biden’s bank records without finding any significant cash flows to the president ― except for four $1,380 transfers that were apparently reimbursements for truck payments the president made on his son’s behalf in 2018. House oversight committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has nevertheless said that because Hunter Biden’s money came from foreign sources, the payments to his father were tainted, even if they were loan reimbursements.
As HuffPost has previously reported, the foreign payments that went directly to businesses controlled by Trump himself might be better examples of the kind of corruption Republicans are talking about.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a leader of the impeachment inquiry against Biden and one of the former president’s top defenders in Congress, deflected a question last year about Trump’s conflict of interest by pointing out that the former president donated his pay back to the government.
“President Trump didn’t take a salary,” Jordan said. “President Trump did so many good things for the country, did more of what he said he would do as president than any president, certainly in my lifetime.”
Raskin on Thursday ridiculed the no-salary argument.
“You don’t get to choose to refuse your salary and then take money from foreign governments instead,” he said. “The founders were emphatic that the president of the United States be someone who gets his money not from foreign governments, but rather from Americans.”
As for the impeachment inquiry against Biden, Raskin called it a hopeless wild goose chase.
“They found nothing, and look what we’ve been able to determine when we finally were able to extract just two years of information,” Raskin said.
Using documents from the Mazars settlement, Democrats tally $7.8 million Trump's business received from foreign governments while he was president https://t.co/8EOqw0RGHD
Donald Trump’s businesses during his presidency received at least $7.8 million in payments from the foreign governments and officials of 20 countries, according to a report released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. https://t.co/VqLafn1JOS
Donald Trump’s businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his presidency, according to a new report released by House Democrats.
Of course Stinky has received buttloads of cash from foreign governments, while president. Hell, the goddam Saudis were perpetually renting out 2 floors of Trump’s DC hotel, despite no one staying there most of the time.
This is why Trump likely assumed that Biden also received boatloads of foreign cash, because he has, OR he’s following Goebbels’ protocols.
Or when he’s accused of quoting Hitler, unwittingly reveals that he’s familiar enough with Hitler’s speeches to claim that he has used somewhat different phrasing. He’s ever the dangerous imbecile.
Watch the MEDIA let this SLIDE like ALL his other OUTRAGES! Never a WORD of media complaint or warning about his relentless FASCIST rhetoric, even about his stochastic terrorism!
Every DAY we heard about Hillary’s emails in 2016! WHEN do we hear about the REAL danger posed to the national security by the over 100 documents dealing with nuclear secrets that Trump held on to ILLEGALLY after he left office?! MEDIA, WHERE ARE YOU?!
Like all people who put their feelings before the facts, that value their feelings / dislikes / hates over medical science, Ladapo is convinced only he is correct on these things no matter what or how hard people try to explain things to them. They refuse to hear what they don’t want to. In the case of Ladapo his pay check requires him to be against the medical science, approved medical facts, and accepted best practices of the majority of medical providers. Hugs. Scottie
“We’ve seen this pattern from Dr. Ladapo that every few months he raises some new concern and it quickly gets debunked,” said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s public health school who led the White House’s national coronavirus response. “This idea of DNA fragments — it’s scientific nonsense. People who understand how these vaccines are made and administered understand that there is no risk here.”
Florida’s health department did not respond to questions about whether Ladapo’s new stance would affect vaccine access for the state’s patients, or whether his decision to repeat debunked claims could create doubts about other routine vaccinations. Scott Rivkees, a DeSantis appointee who preceded Ladapo as Florida surgeon general, called Wednesday’s announcement “surprising and disappointing” and at odds with settled science.
Grateful to live in a state where Big Pharma does not dictate health policy recommendations. Thank you @FLSurgeonGen Dr. Ladapo for standing up for scientific integrity. https://t.co/M9IwUsJV6X
I feel sad for the regular people in Florida being used as a pawn by the Florida government to create a batshit crazy talking point for the GQP to exploit their ignorance. It’s gotten people killed and will continue to do so as covid spreads.
Florida is an extremely fragile state, with inevitable disaster looming. We live on the beach. 5 weeks ago, they just had 365 trackloads of sand per day x 7 days to refurbish the dunes in our tiny area (maybe 1/4 mile) and one week later half of the sand was already gone. 3 million just washed out to sea. No climate change here folks -nothing to see. High tides with wind can easily wash across the back streets on the Canal in Indian Rocks Beach. They use water here like it is an endless resource, allowing the freshwater aquifier to be depleted as water demand from urban areas and unsustainable agricultural practices continually increase and cause salt water intrusion. Hard to fathom really.
She channels Humpty Dumpty, who says to Alice, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Pushaw, like Humpty, has a whimsical approach to language and meaning, and does not let herself be overly bothered with reality… which does lead to tragic fatal falls.
Especially, in the quote in the picture of the article, he says “when the vaccines are known to be contaminated with foreign DNA”… no, dumbass. It’s mRNA, not DNA. Ribonucleic, not dioxyribonucleic. Big difference.
There is no compromise to be had with these republicans anymore as they are openly racists. The only thing they will accept is no more letting brown people in the US. Period. Look at all their proposals, remain in Mexico which makes it a Mexican problem the US is causing, no more processing and releasing until hearing which as he whines lets those people into our country, and build the wall which is proven not to work.
I listened to half of the video because I couldn’t read the article and it was all I could stand of the republican talking points of fear fear fear and Biden doesn’t care, Biden is out of touch, Biden needs to go to the border. When it was pointed out to him that Biden did go to the border, Johnson replied yes but it was just a photo op. Well what do you think he and his republican buddies are doing? The 14 million does have more money for processing asylum seekers so there is not such a big backlog of cases waiting in detention at the border. It also includes more money for beds, more money to house and care for the people, it has solutions to the problem. But again the republicans don’t want solutions, they want the problem to run on.
If you listen to him, he makes claims that instill fear in people especially white people. He claims over hundreds of thousands of “known terrorist” have crossed the border and are in the country planning terrorist attacks on US citizens. When he was corrected that these people were flagged but not known to be terrorists and that their where they were was known, he moved to the large number of crooks from prisons that are coming here. Again he was corrected by Tapper that has gone on forever under all administrations, so he switched the large number of people crossing the border, 6 million he whined. Yes six million have come seeking asylum and are waiting hearings. If we had the money the republicans refuse to vote on they could be processed. And this country can handle 6 million and millions more. Every store around here has help wanted signs up. Let these people work while they wait. But the republicans want the issue for the elections. When that did not hit, he moved to illegal drugs, fentanyl, and people trafficking. Again, addressing fentanyl was in the bill that the republicans won’t pass or even here. Also fentanyl and other drugs come in by legal crossings, not by asylum seekers. The republicans like to bring up the coyotes helping people get here because they like to use the word trafficking, which they make sound as scary as possible. It brings to mind sex trafficking of little girls, little boys, and young women for sex. Sorry that shit is happening all over the US and not at the border. Yes they are moving the people to the border and over it. But hey what do you think DeathSantis and Abbot are doing with the mass immigrant bussing they are doing, yes people trafficking.
Just before I shut it off Johnson whines that these things he is saying are not just republican talking points they are real bad things happening right now. Again back to be afraid, be very afraid, along with Biden doesn’t know or care. Yes all republican talking points. No solutions, but lots of whining. Lots of racist dog whistles. Elect us and we will keep the brown people out. Hugs. Scottie
Republicans have had over a year being in charge of the House plenty of time to write their own bill on how to fix the border problem. Has anyone seen it? These assholes have no desire to fix anything instead they just want to blame Biden for everything. They are unfit to serve and they have to go.
They’ve lost the ability to write sane bills because all the sane GOP are gone from office. All that is left are morons and people trying to get a Fox News gig after they are voted out.
I believe they are rooting around in Hunter’s tighty whiteys trying desperately to find some vestige of daddy that simply isn’t there and spending the entirety of their efforts on protecting the actions, deeds and words of their mango messiah. It’s a lot of work and money to do both of those things. I’m sure it’s exhausting. Just look at Gym. He looks totally worn out. To be honest, I don’t think Johnson is there to be much of a speaker. He has one job and that is to disavow the election results when they don’t go blumpies way. Not sure how all of that is going to turn out but I’m curious to see if he’ll even be in that seat at the time. rethuglicans are seeing their way out as quickly as they can get. And we’re happy to see them go.
Republicans already are using the border crisis as their primary campaign argument for the 2024 election. It’s how they hope to help Donald Trump get back to the White House.
The worst thing that could happen to them, politically, would be for Republicans and Democrats of good faith to reach a bipartisan deal on the border.
Republicans led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, all of whom made the trip to make speeches, make the news, make (perhaps) some campaign cash, and accomplish … nothing.
Andy Biggs: ”Shut the border down, or we’ll shut the government down,”
Their base may fall for this but everyone else sees this for what it is….Bullshit.
Thanks to our worthless media, those low-info voters don’t understand that it takes congress to actually enact laws and funding for those laws. They also fail at understanding basic concepts like cause and effect.
Media doesn’t help. But lack of civics education (and crappy history, literature ,and math* education) is a bigger driver in my book. Apathy and the feeling that nothing I do matters doesn’t help the situation.
*I say math, because well taught, math teaches logical thinking and reasoning, history which should look at cause and effect and how nothing happens without a multitude of factors, and literature because it explores empathy and the power of words and meaning.
Please. This way the situation at the border stays stagnant and they can blame Biden, so it’s a win/win as far as they’re concerned. Shows you how much they really care about the border “crisis,” except as a political tool.
Well, they have to turn somewhere other than abortion after SCrOTUS overturned Roe. And they have to avoid being blamed for that as well. So create / worsen any existing issue to use against Dems.
Well if you count separating children and infants from their parents, let some sexual abuse happen, didn’t keep records of the kids and their parents then proceeded to lose children in the process…. they didn’t solve it but made it MUCH worse.
If only there had been money set aside for a string of border signs that say “WETBACKS GO HOME!” , Johnson would have gleefully accepted it. Remember, hatred is the point.
Follow the money. Corporations make billions off of powerless illegal migrants who can’t report wage theft or unsafe working conditions. Their repellent minions use the issue as a racist dog whistle but block all attempts to address the issue.
Remember, this is the man who married his teen-aged daughter in a “purity” wedding. He put a ring on her finger and she’s not allowed to take it off until he finds her a husband and hands her over.
Ag, hospitality and construction all rely on both documented and undocumented labor. They contribute heavily to the GOP because they like tax cuts and some of them like white Jesus and tax cuts. They do so knowing that their labor supply will not be fucked with.
It isn’t immigration policy or regulations, it’s IMMIGRATION LAWS. It’s basic civics: who passes laws in our government? Who’s in control of the House?
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