Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Cocaine OK while tweeting from Congress, forbidden if you are poor

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[Tero]

Gaetz associate rats on him..video
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[L'Emmerdeur]

It's clear that what the US Republican party says it stands for is not what they actually care about. One of their main claims is that they are the party of 'family values.' When it comes to dictating women's decisions about their own bodies, they're all up in your face, but so many of their other positions clearly demonstrate that they don't actually value families, nor motherhood.

'Boebert, Cawthorn, Greene on List of 101 "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Family" GOPers Who Just Voted Against Pregnant Workers'

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a bill to protect the rights of pregnant workers, but 101 Republican members of Congress who claim to be both “pro-life” and “pro-family” voted against the legislation.

The bill, sponsored by New York Democrat Jerry Nadler, was first introduced 9 years ago. It passed Friday in a 315-101 vote. All the no votes were from Republicans. No Democrat voted no.

The bill was supported by the right wing U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which called it “a balanced approach that clarifies an employer’s obligation to accommodate the known limitations of employees and job applicants that accompany pregnancy.”

The website Motherly put it even more simply: “No one should have to choose between their paycheck and a healthy pregnancy.”

Democratic Rep. Val Demings of Florida:

Pregnant workers have been fired or discriminated against simply for being pregnant. Today we passed legislation to protect pregnant Americans. This is just basic fairness. Proud to cosponsor this legislation.

- Rep Val Demings · May 14, 2021

Apparently, 101 Republican lawmakers disagree.

[JimC]

The rights of employers to squeeze the maximum benefit from their slaves workforce trumps any other consideration, obviously...

And anyway, the pregnant women and their babies aren't real people. They're workers...

[Seabass]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Missouri Republicans have a genius answer to the question of guns in American society.

Last night, Missouri Senators voted along party lines to pass a Federal Firearm Nullification Bill, which would give domestic abusers easy access to guns. They celebrated with a pile of long guns inside the statehouse.

2020 was the state’s deadliest ever for gun violence.

- Shannon Watts · May 14, 2021

'Missouri Senate approves bill seeking to nullify federal gun laws'

State and local law enforcement would be prohibited from enforcing certain federal gun laws under legislation approved Thursday night by the Missouri Senate.

For more than six hours, Democratic Senators tried to add an amendment to the bill aimed at keeping people convicted of domestic abuse from buying and keeping firearms — but ultimately failed.

The bill now goes back to the House. If it passes there, which is expected, it would head to the governor’s desk.

The bill creates a “Second Amendment Preservation Act,” which would mandate that law enforcement officers face fines if they “infringe” on Missourians’ Second Amendment rights.

Some of those laws would include imposing certain taxes on firearms, requiring gun owners to register their weapons and laws prohibiting “law-abiding” residents from possessing or transferring their guns.

“The passage of the Second Amendment Preservation Act sends a strong message to those in Washington, D.C. that we will not stand idly by as those in the federal government try to limit the Second Amendment rights of Missourians,” said Senate President Pro Tem Dave Schatz, R-Sullivan, in a statement.

The bill would also fine any law enforcement agency $50,000 every time their officer deprives Missouri citizens of their rights to bear arms.

It goes without saying at this point, the American right wing being what it is, that Democratic legislators received threats from patriotic gun owners for their opposition to the bill and in fact were receiving threats during the floor debate.

Speaking in opposition to the domestic violence amendment, Sen. Rick Brattin said a person convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence crime wasn't a danger and could have just had "a really bad night" — and therefore shouldn't be kept from owning guns.

- Shannon Watts · May 15, 2021

[JimC]

They seem awfully close to becoming secessionists...

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's mostly larping. The Missouri bill is unconstitutional on its face, but when it becomes law and is challenged in court a Trumpist judge could say otherwise.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Sorry for the geo-blocked video.

[Hermit]

Sorry for the geo-blocked video.

Gogo cyberghost

Fucking hilarious. For those who cannot see the video, titled "Unsolved Mysteries: Why Can’t Republicans Say “Joe Biden Won The Election”?": A number of talking heads of the totally unbiased right wing media are asked: "Did Biden win the election?" None of them can bring themselves to reply: "Yes, Biden won the election." None of them can even reply with a clipped "Yes." On the other hand, none of them can bring themselves to lie by asserting the long-discredited assertion that Biden stole the election either. So they unanimously contend themselves with acknowledging that "Biden is the (current) president", studiously avoiding to mention how the fuck he got there.

The video is chockablock with related quips and funny asides.

[Joe]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Maybe Bill Barr should have a thread of his own. His corruption in service of Republican politicians and dirty tricks operators goes back decades, and his tour as US Attorney General under Trump was more of the same. There have been a few items about him in the US legal news since he slouched out of the US Justice Department, none of them positive.

Latest to come out: Barr's abuse of the power of the office to help one of Trump's political henchmen to go after whoever was behind a Twitter account that the henchman found irksome.

Those horrible cancel culture leftists have nothing on the Republicans when it comes to trying to stomp on free speech. The right-wingers who love to yalp about free speech rights appear oblivious to that, and this story is unlikely to get mention on right wing podcasts.

'Trump DOJ Tried to Unmask User Behind Devin Nunes Parody Twitter Account'

A newly unsealed court filing reveals an attempt by the Justice Department, in the waning days of the Trump administration, to force Twitter to identify the person (or people) behind a parody account that poked fun at Republican congressman and Trump sycophant Devin Nunes (CA). On November 24, 2020, Twitter was served with a subpoena demanding the name of whoever was running @NunesAlt, along with a gag order prohibiting the company from going public about the request.

...

“After receiving the Subpoena, Twitter’s counsel promptly contacted the Assistant United States Attorney who had issued it,” according to the filing. “Twitter’s counsel explained Congressman Nunes’s history of litigation and the Congressman’s numerous prior attempts to unmask accounts critical of the Congressman.” In the past two years, Nunes and his campaign committee have brought no fewer than nine lawsuits against various entities for criticizing him, two of which were other Twitter parodies, @DevinCow and @DevinNunesMom, it continues. “In each of these cases, Congressman Nunes sought damages for what he believes were targeted attacks against his reputation, by being called names such as a ‘treasonous cowpoke’ on Twitter, and sought to unmask anonymous commenters critical of his job as a politician,” the filing says. The feds tried to tell Twitter that it was looking into “potential violations of 18 U.S.C. Section 875(c) (threatening communications in interstate commerce).” But the government wouldn’t—or couldn’t—provide any examples or further information.

In response, Twitter argued, “As the custodian entrusted with the private identifying information that the government seeks, Twitter is concerned the Subpoena may not be supported by a legitimate law enforcement purpose, and that therefore, there cannot be any need—let alone a compelling need—for the government to unmask the user.”

[Seabass]

I'm sure our Canadian free speech champion will be along shortly to denounce Trump and Barr over these attacks on free speech.

[Cunt]

Fuck twitter.

Fuck anyone trying to devalue free speech, too.

As to unmasking or using 5-eyes to spy on Americans, I thought it was fine by you guys...

At least it was back when the shoe was on the other Flynn.

[Seabass]

Fuck twitter.

Fuck anyone trying to devalue free speech, too.

As to unmasking or using 5-eyes to spy on Americans, I thought it was fine by you guys...

At least it was back when the shoe was on the other Flynn.

Yeah because what Flynn did is totally equivalent to what the fictional Twitter cow did.

Another dumb equivalence.