Republicans: continued

[Tero]

70 to 80% of Americans, the house and Trump want 2000 for Americans. Trump would even sign it. Less than 50 senators are holding it up.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yeahbut the deficit! Don't forget all of those who are unworthy and will just spend it on booze and cigarettes. Republicans much prefer that nice respectable corporations are given any aid funding. They are Republicans, after all, who've made it clear for several decades that their agenda is screw the poor and disadvantaged, it will encourage them to be more productive like the wealthy, large corporations, and Wall Street.

[Tero]

Not really a republican, only a two timer at best.

He will cast his vote for the libertarian in 2024.

[Tero]

[Tero]

Mitch will retire from senate by 2026. Who is going to be president then?

Also, he made a mistake once:
Personal life

McConnell is a Southern Baptist, baptized at age 8.[175] He was married to his first wife, Sherrill Redmon, from 1968 to 1980, and had three children.[176] Following their divorce, she became a feminist scholar at Smith College and director of the Sophia Smith Collection.[177][178] His second wife, whom he married in 1993, is Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush and Secretary of Transportation under President Donald Trump.[

[Tero]

emboldened by trumpian moves, PA republicans attempt to oust Democrat

In a highly unusual move, GOP leaders forcefully seized control of the proceedings from Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman after Fetterman tried to insist on seating Sen. Jim Brewster, who is from the Pittsburgh area, for a new term.

The Republican majority voted to remove Fetterman from presiding as he attempted to keep control over the chamber while other Democrats joined in. Anthony Williams, a high-ranking Democrat from Philadelphia, shouted out Brewster's name as a clerk read off the names of other confirmed senators.

"We will not participate in this farce," Williams told Republican members.

Brewster's race has been the most intensely contested of all the commonwealth's 2020 down-ballot races.

The Department of State has confirmed that Brewster, the incumbent Democrat, won another term by 67 votes over Republican Nicole Ziccarelli — a verdict only reached after the state confirmed that certain mail ballots on which voters had failed to mark dates properly could still be counted.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/95373815 ... ic-senator

[Tero]

He was a nevertrumper!
https://mobile.twitter.com/alexthomp/st ... Mm7_z5J4ro

[Tero]

In the post-Trump era (in his era it was enough to suport him, sort of) a new criterion comes up: how many conspiracy theories do you need to support to get elected for the GOP?

[Tero]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Nice.

On the topic of rodents abandoning ship: The Trump stink isn't going to come off so easily. However, like many in that administration, DeVos arrived with her own stink. They'll just have an extra component to their nauseating aroma.

[Tero]

Noem:
“Republicans got our butts kicked in Georgia on Tuesday,” Noem said, according to a condensed version of the Thursday speech published by The Federalist. “A 33-year-old with no accomplishments and a smooth-talking preacher wiped the floor with us. The idea that Georgia, of all places, could elect two communists to the United States Senate was ridiculous.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gov-krist ... communists

[L'Emmerdeur]

To be fair, for a thorough Trumpist like Noem it makes sense to assume that a black Democrat and a Jewish Democrat are communists. What else could they be?

[JimC]

It's interesting that the "communist" slur is still used by right-wing America as though it was still the 50's, and as if Communism in any real sense of the word has not vanished into the mists of history...

[Sean Hayden]

Why doesn't being wrong all the time change these people? We aren't talking about philosophical differences either, just ordinary facts eg Limbaugh wants to know why Trumpers are being arrested when nobody from BLM protests were arrested, except they were... and on and on... --just wtf

[Seabass]

Why doesn't being wrong all the time change these people? We aren't talking about philosophical differences either, just ordinary facts eg Limbaugh wants to know why Trumpers are being arrested when nobody from BLM protests were arrested, except they were... and on and on... --just wtf

This is how authoritarianism works. Putin, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Trump... they replace objective truth with their own version of truth. When the autocrat forces everyone to live in his version of reality, then anything is possible. Trump can lock up Hilary because in the new reality, Hilary actually did those things of which she was accused.

None of this is new. One would think that rise of the internet and proliferation of mobile phones with cameras would have made The Big Lie more difficult to pull off, but if anything, it seems to have actually become easier.

Limbaugh knows he's full of shit. It's kind of the point. It's his job. People like him don't think like us normies...