Republicans: continued

[rainbow]

the "Million MAGA March"

Please explain to an uneducated African why a march that has 10 000 people is called a million?

...do they not teach mathematics in your schools anymore?

[NineBerry]

the "Million MAGA March"

Please explain to an uneducated African why a march that has 10 000 people is called a million?

...do they not teach mathematics in your schools anymore?

https://www.glaad.org/blog/its-not-one- ... ddling-mom

[Tero]

Trump ruining 2024 Republican candidates already. If they fail, we get Kamala 2024.

Some Republicans say the best hope for 2024 aspirants is for Trump to gradually fade away — either when the realization sets in with voters that he is a defeated former president or because of damage suffered in potential post-White House legal battles.

But others say that’s unlikely. As he leaves the White House, Trump has an iron grip on his party, with legions of loyalists who aren’t ready to move on to someone else.

“If Donald Trump wants the Republican nomination in 2024 that’s his,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a staunch Trump ally. “That may leave a lot of thirsty presidential aspirants still thirsty. I say, ‘Stay thirsty my friends.’”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/1 ... eld-436864

[Brian Peacock]

At this point it doesn't just seem that the GOP are riding Trump's back to secure the support of his base. The base of the party is Trump's base - they appear one-and-the-same. The Birther in Chief has done what the Tea Party failed to achieve and turned the GOP into a de facto white nationalist party in all but name.

[L'Emmerdeur]

the "Million MAGA March"

Please explain to an uneducated African why a march that has 10 000 people is called a million?

...do they not teach mathematics in your schools anymore?

I'm going with a straight answer, sorry. The Million Man March of the 90s got significant attention at the time, and made an impression on the right wing in the United States. I'd say that the effective demonstration of black political presence and will was somewhat traumatizing for many bigots.

Its effectiveness as political theater and the publicity it got has inspired some subsequent political gatherings over the intervening years to try to use the formula "Million X March" in hopes of duplicating the impact of that event. The actual number of participants rarely even approaches fulfilling the promise of the title, which can lead to ridicule if the disparity is large enough, so it can be a risky move to use the name.

[Sean Hayden]

Ga. secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude ballots

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that he has come under increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who he said questioned the validity of legally cast absentee ballots, in an effort to reverse President Trump’s narrow loss in the state.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

Graham asked the guy if he could find a way to make legally cast ballots go away.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Graham was an attorney before he got into politics, and knows perfectly well you can't make up rules on the fly for an election that's already taken place.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah but when you're born to rule you can.

[Brian Peacock]

Blessed are the King Makers, for they shall inherit a position on the board.

[Sean Hayden]

Legislation introduced by U.S. Senate Republicans to fund the United States Department of the Interior for fiscal year 2021 has excluded language intended to protect the Greater Chaco region from increased oil and gas drilling.

In 2019, New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich included a rider to the fiscal year 2020 Interior appropriations bill directing the Bureau of Land Management to refrain from approving new oil and gas lease sales within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

That language has been removed from the updated appropriations legislation.

continued...

https://ladailypost.com/department-issu ... ions-bill/


The end of this short clip shows the extent of existing oil and gas leases. They worry that the plan is to protect individual sites, but still allow them to be circled by drilling operations.

This video is a simulated Flyover of Chaco Culture National Historical Park and a set of nearby Oil and Gas leases which were auctioned off in January of 2017. The park is displayed in green, the auctioned leases in red.

The video also denotes the location of several existing oil and gas wellpads using red arrows, and closes by showing the extent of existing oil and gas leases in the state of New Mexico.

[Tero]

While Trump has nothing to do, Senate has list of Trump commissioners to push through.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/ ... den-437959

They have terms in varied numbers of years. See article.

Trump can STILL punish China.

[Tero]

Mitch trying to get credit for vaccines for himself and Trump:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51-l1j6NI88

This will actually delay vaccine funding and distribution.

[Tero]

State funding ending. GOP wants to give Trump a gift: the Wall.

Forbes
A Government Shutdown Is Just Days Away, Here's What That Means For Stimulus Funding

But negotiators encountered roadblocks, including over the nearly $2 billion that the GOP wants to allocate for a border wall and a proposed change from both parties to healthcare funding for veterans.

If the deadline comes and goes before Congress passes a spending bill, federal agencies will be forced to shut down some of their discretionary functions (excluding essential services) until new funding legislation is enacted, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. That could affect federal retirement benefits from the Social Security Administration, Medicare benefits, IRS mortgage and loan approvals, air travel, national parks, and more, the CRFP said. 

[L'Emmerdeur]

One imagines Mnuchin cackling with glee over this.

'Mnuchin puts $455B in COVID-19 relief funds beyond successor's reach'

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has moved $455 billion in COVID-19 relief from the Federal Reserve back into the Treasury's General Fund, making it harder for his successor to access the emergency funding.

Mnuchin said last week that he was shuttering a handful of the Fed's emergency lending facilities, a move the central bank opposed in a rare critical statement. Those facilities, though little used during the pandemic, were seen as confidence boosters for capital markets.

The amount being returned by Mnuchin was part of a $500 billion allocation in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that President Trump signed into law in late March.

Mnuchin at the time requested the Fed return the funding, which Congress appropriated to cover potential pandemic-related losses, saying the CARES Act set a legal deadline for the facilities to expire by year's end.

Putting the cash back into the general fund would make it harder for former Fed chair Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden's reported pick to lead the Treasury Department next year, to deploy the funds, and may require another act of Congress to do so.

[Brian Peacock]

They're going to wreak as much as possible before they go aren't they?