#MAGAMike parrots his mentor's xenophobic rhetoric & says he'll help #TFG round up undocumented immigrants & deport ppl who've paid taxes & contributed to their communities & the workforce for years, sometimes, decades:
"Less than 24 hours after Democrats saved his job, Speaker Johnson vows to ‘round Up’ 11 million undocumented people, & likely deport them."
Rep Scott Perry said in a closed door briefing with lawmakers on Tues that the KKK is the “the military wing of the Dem party” & that migrants coming to the US “have no interest in being Americans,” acc to audio of Perry’s comments.
Perry has repeated elements of the anti-immigrant & antisemitic replacement theory before, said this during the House Oversight CMTE's member briefing.
We need to amplify Republican's deceit, their plan to further cut taxes will be so costly, that the social safety net will be eliminated:
"Within this new document from the Congressional Budget Office, you can see that Trump’s current plan to extend every expiring tax break in his 2017 tax law would cost $4.6 trillion — with trillions of that going exclusively to very wealthy households."
-Bharat Ramamurti
How does this dude not get punched in the face every time he steps out of his house? He's claiming that "lots" of #undocumentedImmigrants are #voting in #federalElections, despite the fact that it's already illegal for them to vote. And his evidence for this massive #fraud is that there's no evidence. If you or I said something like this at work we'd be fired for incompetence.
"Top NYT Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump."
"The failure to clearly describe Trump's plan to cancel prosecutions of himself & other elements of his legal strategy as threats to the system itself, that is, as efforts to put himself above the law."
The biggest GOP donors in America—Dick & Liz Uihlein—are targeting Tammy Baldwin. Their Super PAC is spending millions on a blatantly dishonest ad that'd to be recut due to inaccuracy🚨.
An ad declaring that Sen Baldwin voted to "cut MDCR funding & use that$ to subsidize EVs" was pulled & replaced with a new ad: Baldwin voted "to use MDCR$ for EV subsidies, instead of seniors."
Support Sen Baldwin & the other vulnerable Dem Senators & candidates.
How could anyone seriously consider voting for the #Republicans? They've proven time and time again that they're gleefully willing to sacrifice the best interests of the American people for the sake of sticking it to #JoeBiden. A cure for cancer? Naaaa... It's more important to kick dirt on the President.
In #Texas, #doctors face a real #SophiesChoice. They can either practice #medicine the way they’ve been taught, regardless of the personal consequences to themselves; they can try their best to comply with the arbitrary edicts of the #Republican state legislature and their own hapless medical board, and still risk #prison; or they can choose to leave the state of Texas and practice elsewhere.
#Republicans appear committed to politically dying on a number of hills that time has passed by. Their commitment to gutting voting rolls and restricting #votingRights, their obsession with women’s reproductive abilities, and their hatred of #regulations and #democracy in the workplace are increasingly seen by average American voters as out-of-touch and out-of-date.
Poor ppl aren't the problem, it's oppression by...
Ppl were dying of famine -but shared a sense of solidarity; while poor ppl did prey on each other -more the exception than the rule.
Poverty doesn’t cause the societal disintegration that leads to most crime, it turns out: #inequality does. America is now -most unequal developed county in the entire world.
The majority of Americans are struggling to get by -number in “middle class” below 50%.
We've known that the Republicans' "trickle-down economics" was bogus & that the rich just got richer, but there was evidence in 2020:
Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" & eventually boost jobs & incomes for everyone else. But a study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group -the rich.
A rotten week for #MAGA is a good week for Americans & democracy: “Raskin’s tongue-lashing does more than provide emotional satisfaction to Democrats fed up with reckless Republican antics (although no one should dismiss the value of an occasional dollop of Schadenfreude). In a media environment in which Comer’s farce is, in some corners, treated as though it were a legitimate oversight hearing, Democrats must go out of their way to draw bright lines.” #GOPLIes
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Republican leaders have lied to voters about their party’s “Christian values” for decades, & used their leverage to gain allegiance to the GOP. An egregious lie: Putin embraces their beliefs more than Pres Biden. Russia has systematically tortured & killed Christians in #Ukraine: “RU’s war on evangelical Christians. By hurting those who practice an “American” religion -the Kremlin can claim it is striking against American power—while picking on the powerless." #GOPLieshttps://time.com/6969273/russias-war-against-evangelicals/
At what point are the #Democrats going to start engaging in coordinated #messaging, and pushing content to combat the flood of #rightwing bullshit? The clock is ticking, and we can't afford to wait til the night before the election to suddenly realize that effort is needed to inform the voters of the facts.
Rs don't govern, they waste time/💰investigating innocent ppl for pol points, that no longer work:
At no point in recent months have GOP lawmakers in either chamber treated this process with even a hint of seriousness -entire impeachment ordeal was a cheap stunt, & Sen. Rs all but admitted that they wanted a trial as part of an election-season public-relations gambit. They weren't serious about border policy -quick to kill the bipartisan plan they requested-.
#RWMedia, #TFG, & most Republicans, have been successful at gaslighting voters. +It's an election interference case -the framing is poor from many in MSM.
"Only ~1/3 of Americans believe Trump did something illegal in the hush-$ case.
Recent reporting revealed that Rep. #JamesComer has been in talks with at least one publisher regarding a book on his #impeachmentInquiry into #PresidentBiden. #Comer and his #Republican colleagues have spent the past 15 months relentlessly investigating the president and his family, and failed to find any evidence of wrongdoing by President #Biden, let alone anything impeachable.
Commander #MikeJohnson just flew to #MarALago on your tax dollars to tell you that he's pushing a bill he knows won't even pass that aims to make illegal what is already illegal. Then hid behind #Trump because he's scared to death of #MarjorieTraitorGreene. Name a more impotent, ineffective Speaker.
WhatsUp with #Republicans refusing to comply with lawful #subpoenas? Ever since #Trump brought his fat ass down the escalator, refusing to comply with subpoenas has become the default #Republican response. This petulant refusal to be held to account is pissing in the face of every American. We have a system of checks and balances that Republicans are committed to destroying.
"If not for the Bush tax cuts, debt/GDP would be⬇️indefinitely. Extending the Trump tax cuts would⬆️upward pressure on debt/GDP by >50%. Rs who pretend to care about debt are left pretending tax cuts pay for themselves.
Why do I say extending the Trump tax cuts would⬆️upward pressure on debt/GDP by more than 50%?
The fiscal gap measures how much primary deficit reduction you need to stabilize debt/GDP.
It's ~1.5% of GDP now.
Extending the Trump tax cuts would⬆️it to ~2.5%."
-B Kogan
Speaker Johnson: "Shamefully since #Oct7, Biden has transformed into a anti-Israel pres... He’s more concerned, seemingly, with placating the anti-Semitism in his base than standing with our historic & vitally impt. ally... it’s shocking to us, but it continues. Just days ago, >50 HSE Dems called for Biden to withhold the arms transfers to Israel. It’s wrong & it’s dangerous & it shows the Dems are losing their MORAL CLARITY." #GOPLies#GOPDeathCulthttps://www.mediaite.com/news/mike-johnson-rips-anti-israel-biden-for-placating-the-anti-semitism-in-his-base/
Gov Abbott continues to militarize the border, wasting$, resources...
"TX has spent $10B on Operation Lone Star so far, which has had virtually no impact at all on overall migration across the southern border."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
TX is building a massive new $400M anti-migrant MIL base. The "Forward Operating Base” outside of Eagle Pass will house up to 1,800 NG members, incl. an armory & have "surge" capacity for 2,300 troops.