Republicans: continued

[JimC]

Female Republican politicians are not allowed to be President. They can be Vice-President in charge of cookies...

[Tero]

Republican Governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, became the latest to express her frustration and placed the blame on unvaccinated people, many of whom are hers and Trump's voters.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidBegnaud ... le-alabama

[Tero]

I don't know where this is all going. Rich people having their urges fullfilled. Not Bill Cosby, he just used pills. Gaetz, Tiger Woods listed.
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/ ... ssion=true

[JimC]

I used to have urges to fulfil...

[Tero]

Republicans in congress are raising money continuously. The term is only 2 years. A million in a quarter for Gaetz, the gains to his pr firm:

The Logan Circle Group, which the campaign hired in early April, made off with more than a million dollars in the second quarter of 2021. While the majority of that money came from Gaetz—$825,000 over the course of one month—the firm nudged past the million-dollar mark with the $250,000 it received from Put America First. Those payments, nearly 90 percent of the committee’s total budget, were for “event production and management,” according to FEC filings.

Individually, Gaetz and Greene raised $1.34 million and $1.31 million in the second quarter of 2021, respectively.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-matt- ... -cash-fire

[Seabass]

Republican senator falls out of portal from alternate dimension to say some weird stuff that makes no sense in our reality.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tenness ... ift-2021-7

Sen. Marsha Blackburn escalates feud with Taylor Swift, says singer would be the 'first victim' of socialism


"If we have a socialistic government, if we have Marxism, you are going to be the first ones who will be cut off because the state would have to approve your music," she said.

"When you look at Marxist socialistic societies, they do not allow women to dress or sing or be on stage or to entertain or the type of music she would have. They don't allow protection of private intellectual property rights."

"Taylor Swift came after me in my 2018 campaign, but Taylor Swift would be the first victim", she said.

Because, you know, conservatives totally aren't known for policing art and attire.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The politically motivated gratuitous election audit bozos are determined to make money for Dominion Voting Systems. New voting machines will have to be ordered now, same as Arizona.

'Posts distort reason for Pennsylvania voting machine decertification'

CLAIM: Pennsylvania has decertified voting machines in the sparsely populated Fulton County after a software company called Wake TSI looked over the machines and confirmed the machines would have to be “retired.”

AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid did decertify voting machines in Fulton County, but she did so because a third party had been given access to the machines, not because of any problems the company found.

THE FACTS: Pennsylvania’s top elections official this week told Fulton County officials their voting machines would need to be replaced because the county had allowed an inspection into the machines by the software firm Wake TSI.

In a letter to county officials Tuesday, Degraffenreid said that the third-party inspection, which was requested by local Republican lawmakers, violated state law. It was done in a manner that “was not transparent or bipartisan” and the firm had “no knowledge or expertise in election technology,” Degraffenreid wrote.

However, articles on conservative websites this week twisted the news to promote a false narrative that Degraffenreid decertified the machines because Wake TSI found problems with them.

[Tero]

The Lincoln Project
@ProjectLincoln
Montana man to
@TuckerCarlson
: “You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that.”
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/stat ... 1815798785

[Tero]

Fox News hosts on Sunday promoted the idea that "childless" Americans should not be allowed to participate in society by voting.

The idea was recently floated by Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance.

"I don't know about that solution, that seems not feasible," Campos-Duffy said. "But I will say that I agree with the premise of it, that it is absolutely true that people like [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], Pete Buttigieg -- you can name the left-wing politicians, people who think that we should legalize marijuana because they don't have kids and they don't really have a stake in what that looks like."

"And if you're Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- our favorite comrade -- and you've said the world is going to end in 12 years, what do you care?" he added. "It's this idea of absolute pessimism that the world's going to end and as a result, we're the problem and don't have kids."

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/fox-news-c ... ssion=true

[Tero]

From Bella.

[Tero]

Michigan Republicans will return Covid relief funds used to pay own bonuses
Six commissioners voted to pay themselves $65,000 in total

The commissioners voted on 15 July to award themselves $65,000 as part of a plan to give $557,000 to 250 county employees as “hazard pay” for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

The smallest amounts for recipients were $1,000 to $2,000. But the chairman of the county board, Jeremy Root, got $25,000. Two commissioners received $10,000 each, while four received $5,000 each.

The vote was 6-0 with one commissioner absent.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ds-bonuses

[JimC]

An excellent article from our ABC on the issues involving the Arizona audit:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-26/ ... /100313184

Here is the final section:

Arizona isn't an anomaly

Any day now, Cyber Ninjas is expected to release a report detailing their findings and advising the state on election security.

Polls are finding anywhere from 29 to 51 per cent of Republican voters think that the information they share could lead to Trump's return to office.

At this point, that belief is more valuable than the truth.

As the audit progressed over the last month, the Cyber Ninjas began offering audit tours to elected Republican officials and up-and-coming candidates, who were all openly courting Trump's base, fundraising off their visits.

Nine months after the election, a push to conduct Cyber-Ninjas-style audits is gaining traction in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Hampshire.

Across the US, Republican legislatures are using the fraud belief as justification for passing laws that Democrats say actively suppress the vote. They've introduced 400 laws already.

And here is the lesson that any citizen of a democratic government needs to know:

If Arizona's approach is so easily imported to other states, it can also be exported to other countries.

Election fraud claims are already pushing Peru to the edge of violence, throwing Germany's upcoming election into question and injecting controversy into the British parliamentary agenda.

Arizona alone was never going to dismantle democracy.

But it sure looks like it was the first domino to fall.

[Seabass]

MAGA Republican and Arizona State senator:




Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were Confederate generals who literally rebelled against the US and killed US soldiers to preserve the institution of slavery. Republican ignorance is astounding.

Actually, these people aren't just ignorant. They're worse. They have everything back asswards. Ignorance is a lack of information. These people have information that is 180 degrees opposite of the truth.

[Seabass]

Not all Republicans are fascist, but this motherfucker is pretty much unambiguously fascist.

Josh Hawley Got Dragged After He Proposed Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation Called The ‘Love America Act’

[Tero]

Republicans now 100% Trumpsters.