@Jquigley48@BigBoppa@Tengrain Since "MAGA" is code for "Make America Grey Again" (as seen on Jan 6, inside U.S. Congress), they'll probably declare it "St. Lee's Day".
If there aren’t 9 Republicans in the Senate who want to put their money where their mouth is and show Tuberville he’s out of his league, they ought to fold up as a party once and for all.
@TonyStark At the end of the day, "MAGA" cons serving Trump to obstruct U.S. government & U.S. military's defense readiness & thus national security are #ServingPutin!
In such situations, the former House Committee on Un-American Activities' functions shouldn't be administered & directed by a House Judiciary Committee chaired by an insurrectionary MAGA representative like Jim Jordan!
@flexghost Refusing to play by the rules & accept the choice of the majority of voters, "GOP" is naturally disqualifying itself from being part of any electoral process.
@DemocracyMattersALot The "Republican" proposal to slash IRS funding alone constitutes a corrupt act & underlying bribery by the "GOP's" richest donors, to the disadvantage of low- & medium-income Americans.
Connecting that proposal with the alternative to stop aid to Israel is an act of illoyalty & corruption in favor of America's richest tax evaders, which can hardly be outperformed.
@marcelias Replacements should have to undergo security clearance procedures & tests scrutinizing loyalty & adherence to the U.S. Constitution.
And neutralization of/accountability of terrorists attacking election officials verbally or physically, to disrupt the electoral process as fair & free as it should be.
@realTuckFrumper Mike Johnson no longer has his Confederacy (has been defeated), but is still on his own crusade against the Fourteenth (Reconstruction) Amendment, which Louisiana & the other ex-Confederate states had to ratify to regain representation in Congress.
SCOTUS's 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (use of contraceptives) was based on the Fourteenth Amendment.
P.S.: Leonard Leo's protégé Johnson is either intellectually unable or unwilling to tell contraception from abortion.
@Free_Press Individuals, who are defendants in fraud trial(s) better shut the fuck up publicly fantasizing about "rigged elections", like Trump did in 2016 before the election, when polls (accurately) predicted he was gonna lose to Hillary — which didn't happen due to Putin's interference & habitual/traditional "Republican" voter suppression, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, intimidation & other regularly practiced methods of fraudulently obstructing the electoral process.
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.
@marcelias "Republicans" brazenly want to sow public distrust towards the electoral system & process they themselves are rigging (per voter suppression & -intimidation, gerrymandering & disenfranchisement & other instruments of fraud).
Disqualify all of Trump's co-conspirators inciting & engaging in insurrection against the authority of the United States & the laws thereof, and giving aid & comfort thereto.
@marcelias As for Louisiana's resistance against Reconstruction & incarceration, it's worth to revisit SCOTUS's remarkable reasoning in Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897), especially elaborating on the noun "liberty" contained in the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause:
"The 'liberty' mentioned in [the Fourteenth] amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties, to be free to use them in all lawful ways, to live and work where he will, to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling, to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary, and essential to his carrying out to a successful conclusion the purposes above mentioned."
Liberating the metal from the statue of a insurrectionist and racist for better purposes seems like a great idea to me. The Washington Post has some excellent photographs of this moment.
This article is a gift. It poses some great questions about how the past and the future are tied together. Probably a good read for people who seem to forget the “Unite the Right” rally.
Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace- https://wapo.st/3FEaVd3
And of course Arkansas was a member state of the traitorous Confederacy, many citizens of which evidently couldn't let go of the disgraceful slaveholder-past until today.
@GW@FrankFrank@retrohondajunki Never forget, what "Republicans" did to America on Jan 6, 2021 equals,
what Confederate rebels did on April 12, 1861.
Never forget the infamous Confederate war flag(s) inside the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 & make sure it will never happen again!
@marcelias (Ex-) Confederate state passed new, highly gerrymandered congressional & legislative maps as well as a county board of commissioners map.
Reminder: The states of the defeated Confederacy needed to ratify the Fourteenth & 13th & 15th (Reconstruction) Amendments to regain U.S. congressional representation.
The other way round, their continued subversion of their own mandatory ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments should strip them of congressional representation again.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Section 2 might offer a friendly path to remind them of their duties & obligations to strictly abide by the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment.
@marcelias An election subverter is elected speaker of the House by a majority of other election subverters. What a disgrace.
"The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."
— Nancy Pelosi on House "GOPers", who signed amicus brief supporting TX v. PA —
@marcelias The obsessively voter-defrauding so-called "Republican party" needs to be taken off the ballots as they would be in any properly working free democratically governed country intent to ensure free & fair elections on behalf of all voters, whose voices deserve to be indiscriminately heard & counted.
Time to stop today's Confederate "GOP" from going on to sh*t on Abraham Lincoln's grave & legacy.
@marcelias A slate of 9 supporters of electoral fraud is running for the 3rd-most important office of U.S. government.
In any normal country you'd call the cops.
Suppression of voters is an act of insurrection against the authority of the United States & their Constitution, especially the Reconstruction Amendments.
@marcelias You cannot achieve long-term "bipartisan" agreements with an entity committed to eradicate pluralism & democracy from a country's & nation's vocabulary — and parliaments.
@marcelias 😎 And that's called insurrection against the authority of the United States.
"... last week’s battle over Alabama’s congressional maps makes Republicans’ purported efforts to protect the high court’s legitimacy ring even more hollow. GOP state lawmakers in Montgomery effectively defied a month-old Supreme Court ruling on Friday by refusing to draw a second majority-Black congressional district—a rare instance of American elected officials openly refusing to abide by a federal court order."
@flexghost Americans must not pay the price for "Republican" chaos & incapability to act, sabotaging congressional legislation & national defense & security for the benefit of Russia's Putin & China's Xi.