Republicans suck

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

53 hits for Debt Ceiling on since 2007.

Here’s one more.

No link needed, y’all know the drill.

[LarsMac]

In the "Imagine That" category,...
Republican who called drag shows a threat to kids quits after sex with intern

Texas lawmaker gave alcohol to intern, 19, and another young staffer, and had sex with intern when she was intoxicated

Aren't you glad we have folks like this guy out there looking out for the morality of our kids?

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by Ari

I’ve found others only treat disabled people ‘nicely’ if the person is disabled in an acceptable way and some people are always trying to figure out who’s faking it and who really needs the help.

I’ve known multiple people who have had to explain to others that not everyone who uses a wheelchair can’t walk, and that they can indeed ‘appear normal’ but that it’s often a decision of where to appear normal, do they take a wheelchair to the plane so that on the plane and at their destination they have enough energy to appear normal, or do they trek the airport, be a wreck on the plane and sleep through the rest of their trip?

About a year after I got ran over by a car while crossing the street in a marked crosswalk, I visited friends in Georgia and Alabama. I still walked with a limp at the time.


While visiting my friend Sam in Birmingham, her mother-in-law told me that most of the time, it’s the people who get hit by cars who are at fault but she didn’t think I did anything wrong.



Of course she did, after all, I was a college educated white guy. I’m the good kind of temporarily disabled person.

[Stephen Maturin]

Is this any way to treat the man who cured polio?

[specious_reasons]

Remember when we had slightly classier right wing grifters like Newt Gingrich?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

More

George Santos Indicted for Fraud, Money Laundering, More – NBC New York

[beyelzu]

The article is about Republicans restricting ballot initiatives in part to avoid a referendum on Roe

https://apnews.com/article/democracy...ece0da975818cb

Not all Republicans in the state think that’s a good idea. Former Republican House Speaker Pro Tem Carl Bearden said the proposal would infringe on the rights of Missouri voters while noting that the initiative process is intended to be a check on the power of the Legislature.

“It is not a conservative policy,” he said of the Republican plan.

I’m sorry to break it to you 50 year old Republican but your party has been anti-democracy for longer than your lifetime and conservatism has always been anti-democracy.

Conservatism literally originated as anti-democratic support of monarchy. Now, it’s just tradition and custom and vague appeals to old white dudes, but anti-democracy all the way.

[beyelzu]

MTG posted a vid with her confederate cooler visible.

"A confederate flag just means you like the old south culture. So do most of us," on person said on Twitter.

That’s true, they do just love the Old South things like slavery are very appealing to people who fly that flag.


Marjorie Taylor Greene shows off her Confederate beer cooler in a new workout video | Salon.com

[LarsMac]

I grew up in the South, too.
Only thing I ever really liked about it is the food.

[Stephen Maturin]

lol

Meatball Ron is going to kick off his POTUS campaign onTwitter with Apartheid Karen in attendance.

Maybe he's trying to duplicate PAB's success in persuading stupid hippie anti-vaxxers to vote for him with dipshit tweets about vaccines and autism, only with Meatball targeting the smooth-brained lolbertarian edgelord cryptobro crowd.

[beyelzu]

“My conservative colleagues for the most part support, ‘Limit, Save, Grow,’ and they don’t feel like we should negotiate with our hostage,” Gaetz told Semafor on Tuesday, doubling down on his support for the House-passed GOP bill that would cut spending by an average of 18 percent in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.

Gaetz says most in GOP ‘don’t feel like we should negotiate with our hostage’ | The Hill

Yes, they know they will crush the economy, they don’t care.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Holy shit. Democrats just burst out laughing at Marjorie Taylor Greene as she’s presiding over the House when she told them to have “decorum.” She kept hitting the gavel and they kept laughing at her. (@acyn) pic.twitter.com/r3mhFgWOC6

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 24, 2023

[LarsMac]

Was she still wearing that big coat she wore during POTUS' State of the Union Adress?

[viscousmemories]

Originally Posted by beyelzu

Yes, they know they will crush the economy, they don’t care.

This is why game theory is interesting to me, despite being way over my head. They probably don't care, but on the other hand they know Biden won't let that happen so in a sense there is no real risk of it happening.

[Stephen Maturin]

@ pant-hooting, shit-flinging howler monkey calling for "decorum."

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

How dare he get caught.

[Stephen Maturin]

Now that is funny! Paxton is the undisputed Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler of serial vexatious litigation on the taxpayers' dime.

Meanwhile, Paxton is accusing Texas House of Representatives Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Of Course) of being hammered while presiding over the House and calling for Phelan's resignation. As if "debilitating intoxication" and "negatively impact[ing] the legislative process" are grounds for resigning from the TX House of Representatives.

[Stephen Maturin]

Tort and workers' comp "reform" in the push-button world of tomorrow:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed into law a spaceflight bill that protects companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin from legal liability if crewmembers or passengers are injured or killed during missions.

The Spaceflight Entity Liability bill, or CS/SB 1318, was one of 27 bills he signed a day after launching his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination during an event on Twitter with its owner, Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX.

It's almost a bit comforting to see that liability "reform" legislation is still a pillar of the ever-burgeoning Welfare for Billionaires system.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

They will only defend you if your name is Trump, Ken.

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

If there's anyplace in the most dire need of drag queens, it's Tennessee.

A federal judge in Tennessee - a Trump appointee, no less - found that "drag show ban" statute not just unconstitutional but you-gotta-be-shitting-me-go-fuck-yourself unconstitutional. The opinion, available here with a brief scroll, is 70 pages long but a very good read.

[Stephen Maturin]

Get ready for war all you patriotic militia fucks, sez Rep. Clay Higgins! This fuck IS the contemporary GOP:

Here is a riddle for you: What do you call a meathead who has been married four times, fired from a succession of jobs in various police departments for such infractions as using unnecessary force and refusing to tone down the racist and demeaning comments about suspects on publicity videos but nonetheless still brags about his career in law enforcement, believes in lunatic conspiracy theories, publicly shouts out militias, and recently manhandled a protestor and labeled him a mental case because the guy dared to keep asking him questions?

Give up? The answer is “Congressman.”

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Q: "Was that a good look for the former president to have boxes in a bathroom?"

Kevin McCarthy: "I don't know. Is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? A bathroom door locks." pic.twitter.com/aEmOfz77kX

— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 12, 2023

From the inside, Kevin.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

In an unexpectedly progressive move, Abbott bans cheerleader squads in Texas.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This reboot of Mean Girls sucks.

House GOP members not happy with Lauren Boebert for forcing a vote to impeach Joe Biden. In conference, Speaker McCarty argued against it, per attendees. Many are opposed. And even a backer, MTG, critcized Boebert for copying her impeachment resolution, calling her a “copy cat”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 21, 2023

What MTG was overheard telling Lauren Boebert on the House floor today:

“I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a little bitch to me... And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them.”https://t.co/xLvrSRbwc9

— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) June 21, 2023

[Stephen Maturin]

Imagine living in a world where syphilitic howler monkey Mad Madge Greene is too much of a milquetoast RINO for the bugfuck insane House Freedom caucus.

j/k No need to imagine that.