The Republican Party has become a criminal protection racket, and only Asa Hutchinson (and a wishy washy Chris Christie who helped it GET where it is) wants to take it back.
Folks: We actually don't KNOW whether the GOP is a dying party or a rising single party of an authoritarian state.
Unless and until the traditional press presents those as the stakes, it is very much unclear which it'll end up being. #media#fascism#Republicans
Before "disruption" turned into a punchline, it was a genuinely exciting idea. Using technology, we could connect people to one another and allow them to collaborate, share, and cooperate to make great things happen.
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🤦🏻♀️They got nothin’ so they do this instead of, you know, their JOBS:
House #Republicans on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam #Schiff (D-Calif.), a rare reprimand of a sitting lawmaker that the GOP conference delivered as a rebuke for his efforts against #Trump
Honestly, before Dems help, I want #Republicans to confess publicly that for the last 3 Republican Speakers before McCarthy, Pelosi was doing the counting for the boys.
Then MAYBE Dems will think about helping.
Sahil Kapur:
🔥🔥 Rep. Mike Rogers leaves meeting unhappy, says 8 Repub “traitors” (he used the word 4x) have “paralyzed” the House by removing McCarthy. He tells me #Scalise has the same problems & GOP may NEVER get 217 votes for a #Speaker. He says Dems must help.
"The United States has the highest economic growth rate of ANY country in the world since the pandemic."
President Joe Biden
Joe Biden and the Democrats have delivered!
The Republicans - they are busy talking about Hunter Biden's laptop, reneging on their debt ceiling agreement, and supporting twice impeached, twice indicted (with at least two more coming) and three-time Adulterer Donald Trump! #News#GOP#Politics#USA#Trump#MAGA#Republicans#democrats
🤦🏻♀️🤢House #Republicans nominated fascist traitor Rep. #JimJordan (R-Ohio) for Speaker on Friday, the conference’s second attempt to find a candidate who can win the gavel on the House floor. #GymJordan
#Republicans are shifting their anti-immigrant rhetoric into wartime rhetoric. They are using more language indicating an "invasion" that is a threat to America itself. They are also increasingly calling immigrants "terrorists." This has all existed before, but it is getting worse
#Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: "This is an invasion from third world countries. They're coming here with health issues, they're uneducated, unemployed, and all they do is commit crime on the streets"
Oliver Willis on how many of us need to wake up and stop pretending that those who are sticking with Trump through thick or thin are being "duped" by him or taken for a ride by Fox News.
They are, Willis thinks, truly malicious people who are energized by the cruelty and hatred of minorities:
Congrats to #Republicans for being such aggressively vile pieces of shit in every possible respect that you got nigh-completely fuckhoused yet again. Remember, gang, whenever YOU fail and are subsequently sad, it is materially and spiritually good for America. Keep up the good work of being ambulatory garbage and sucking vast amounts of balls.
David Weiss now says the salacious conspiracies were false. With the indictment yesterday of Alexander Smirnov, the source of those false claims, Weiss confesses he is a direct witness in an attempt to frame President Joe Biden, even as Weiss attempts to bury it.
#Emmer (MN), the #House maj whip, was elected as the #GOP pick on a 5th ballot in an internal race that drew 9 #Republicans. It’s not clear, however, that he has enough support to be elected on the House floor. To prevail, Emmer would need a majority of the full chamber.
Emmer, who has been in #Congress since 2015, previously chaired the #National Republican Congressional Cmte — the House campaign arm — for 4 yrs.
8 #Republican senators announced Fri they would boycott #Democratic#legislative priorities & nominations as payback for #Trump’s #guilty#verdict.
In a joint statement, the senators said they would not “allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare.”
Let’s be clear. If a Democrat shared the readily available nude pictures of Melania Trump on the House floor it would be unacceptable. The Republican Party has no standards.
MTG just committed a crime in congress by showing Hunter Biden nudes non-consensual nudes considered revenge porn in the congressional hearing.
The #Georgia shill, seeker of a pardon for crimes against America herself just violated FCC laws by broadcasting obscene & indecent content on a public broadcast & the poster she created is being shared. Posting porn, in any form, without consent from the person depicted, is a crime. Hunter Biden, a private citizen, should sue.
This may be a felony (with a 10-yr max sentence). The commission of a felony is not protected by Article I's speech or debate clause.
▪️She apparently emailed copies out to constituents in her newsletter, and in Hutchinson v. Proxmire, 443 U.S. 111 (1979), SCOTUS said the Speech and Debate Clause doesn’t extend to newsletters.
"Unless we summon the political will to stop Trump, MAGA extremists, and reactionary judges, hundreds of millions of women will be denied their right to make the most fundamental decisions regarding their lives and bodies."
Multiple insider sources have told me they expect Trump to turn himself in for arrest at the Fulton County jail either immediately before or DURING the first Republican presidential debate this Wednesday in Wisconsin.
Kentucky Republican pushes bill to make sex with first cousin not incest (www.newsweek.com)
The bill would remove first cousins from the list of family members with whom it's illegal to have sexual relations in the state....