The dishonesty exhibited by #Christofascist loon #MikeJohnson is truly boundless. His flavor of Christianity is based on hate. All his views are about discriminating against, and suppressing the civil rights of vulnerable communities he doesn't like. His worldview is objective nonsense that inciudes believing the Earth is 6000 years old, that climate change is a hoax, that homosexuality is responsible for gun violence, and that abortion is to blame for a labor shortage.
@retrohondajunki@GW Of course Mike Johnson was one of 147 insurrectionary congressional "Republicans", who criminally voted to overturn the 2020 election, an expression of their approval of crime, as incorporated by Donald Trump, the major beneficiary of their unconstitutional & rebellious turpitude.
@TexasObserver The intention of Abbott & his interstate co-insurrectionists seems to be pretty clear: Full on attack against the Reconstruction Amendments.
Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1, Clause 2:
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States..."
@RollingStone Notorious "Republican Attorneys General Association", which notorious Paxton is a member of, appears to also be the "GOP's" morality police, as despotically aggressive as its Iranian counterpart.
@thepoliticalcat@jwalk1230 Scalise in the past reportedly called himself "David Duke without the baggage" & attended a white supremacist gathering organized by Duke in 2002.
Confedereds usurping the United States House's gavel? Has the bad smell of rebellion/insurrection.
Even more, when Scalise is enthusiastically cheered by Trump's hand-extension Matt Gaetz.
Jim Jordan should not be Speaker, he should be a co-defendant in Trump’s attempted coup case. As the Jan 6 report details: Jordan was "a significant player in President Trump's efforts" to overturn the election. Jordan led meetings plotting the attempted coup and even ignored the Jan 6 committee's subpoena. My article details why Jordan should be charged with crimes: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/jim-jordan-should-not-be-speaker
@DeanObeidallah 1. Jim Jordan didn't inform law enforcement, after OSU wrestlers told him they had been sexually assaulted by their coach. Jordan obstructed justice.
Obstructor of justice Jim Jordan "discussed" pardons with presidential-powers-abusing Trump, and keeps on insulting the Rule of Law by chairing (!) the House Judiciary Committee.
Jim Jordan endorsed & still supports Gaetz's lunacy-mate MTG, who (with their subversive "freedom caucus") plotted to kick McCarthy off the speaker's seat.
“Thirty years ago, if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane,” he said.
“But it’s no longer insane. It’s now real. There are those people out there,” Linker added. “The question is: will they get their chance.”
@rberger Kevin Slack's talk of "post-Constitutional rule" means removal of the constitutional order of the United States — activities, that usually constitute criminal "un-American" acts against the authority & continuity of the United States.
More work for the FBI to do.
One side effect of a government #shutdown is people are going to get a reminder of how important the government actually is.
Here's an example.
The National Flood Insurance Program expires alongside the government's funding at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. If lawmakers do not reauthorize the program, about 1,300 property closings each day could be delayed.
There will be thousands of other reminders of what the government actually does for us.
@GreenFire@petergleick It's McCarthy's parliamentary duty to keep the radical insurrectionary Confederate extremists in his organization's ranks from sabotaging the functionality of the people's U.S. government for the benefit of & in service for Putin & Xi.
He'd better call on the microscopic remainder of "Republicans", who got the kinda balls to put country over treason & insurrection to join the Dems for a vote to avoid a devastating & anti-American government shutdown initiated by the enemies of the Union, democracy & the people of the United States.
Forced government shutdown is sabotage threatening national security.
@marcelias Updated translation of not only Wisconsin's insurrectionary "GOP":
*** Gang Of Putschists ***
What else but disqualification should the organized subversion of electoral process & infrastructure, including election officials & judiciary earn the criminal network constantly violating constitutional regulations & rules it's deliberately offending & breaking, in its organized rebellion against the authority of the United States?!
@marcelias Making it harder to vote & easier to cheat in elections is the successive "Republican" way to rebel against the authority of the United States & the laws thereof, after their January 6 conspiracy failed.
HB 544 “Divisive Concepts” bill prohibits teaching of racism, sexism, materials that claim “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, wh. consciously/unconsciously”
@persagen Keep the sectarian extremist rebels away from education!
Unnecessary to add, that President Ulysses Grant didn't want revanchist southern rebels to dictate & pervert the contents of library shelves or curricula of students.
"Resolve that neither the state nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, Pagan, or Atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate."
— President & U.S. Army General Ulysses S. Grant —
@realTuckFrumper On Jan 6, 2021 the degree of "belief" of the "GOP" in the United States Constitution could be witnessed by all the world.
When inside the Capitol a majority of congressional "Republicans" attempted to overturn the 2020 election, while outside the Capitol a mob of "Republican" Trump's supporters attacked & severely injured law enforcement officers to get inside to catch & kill U.S. gov's #2 & #3, the then-Vice president & the then-Speaker of the House.
Trump privately discussed Biden impeachment with GOP lawmakers
Just two days ahead of McCarthy’s announcement, Trump met with #MTG at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. Greene said in an interview with The Times that she told Trump that she wanted the impeachment inquiry to be “long and excruciatingly painful” for Biden.
Greene also wanted to have a “long list of names” of co-conspirators in alleged crimes committed by Biden’s family,
Conservative state libraries are leaving American Library Association because ALA is against book bannings
from AP:
"This summer, the state libraries in Montana, Missouri and Texas and the local library in Midland, Texas, announced they’re leaving the ALA, with possibly more to come. Right-wing lawmakers in at least nine other states — Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming — demand similar action."
Death Star brought to you by the Texas #GOPDeathCult: Goal: TX legislature wants to effectively deny cities -state’s lg. Dem-leaning cities, esp. Houston/San Antonio/Austin -the ability to pass local laws & regulations in 8 major policy areas: AG, bus & commerce, FIN, INSUR, labor, natural resource law, occupational law, & prop. law -does all this in a bill -doesn't aim to affirmatively lay out regs. at the state level -simply attempts to thwart local regs🚨. #GOPFascismhttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/greg-abbott-texas-attacks-austin-with-death-star.html
@KimPerales Almost 160 years after 1865 & ~ 150 years after Reconstruction it's definitely time to remove leftover Confederate zombies like Abbott, DeSantis & their ilk from positions of political power they're abusing to push anti-constitutional, anti-American & anti-human agendas.
I hope these Republican members of Congress take their complaints to Donald Trump, who appointed the US Attorney who negotiated this "corrupt" plea deal with Hunter Biden
@juddlegum We mustn't forget, that the overwhelming majority of "Republican" Members of Congress would've forced tears of wrath into Republican Abraham Lincoln's eyes by their double refusal to bring a career criminal to justice, who incited an insurrection, lies daily in concert with acts of Obstruction of Justice & gives/gave aid & comfort to an enemy of the United States.