#GOP failures

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Four More Years

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 22, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

APR 23, 2024

With the passage of the national security supplemental bill through the House of Representatives on Saturday, Punchbowl News noted today, President Joe Biden became the winner of this Congress. When the Republicans took control of the House in January 2023, they vowed to impeach Biden and members of his Cabinet, overturn the signature legislation the Democrats had passed in 2021 and 2022, and force the Democrats to accept draconian  immigration policies. 

Instead, the impeachment effort against Biden collapsed into ridiculousness as, after months of hearings by the Committee on Oversight, Democrat Jared Moskowitz of Florida moved to impeach Biden and asked committee chair James Comer (R-KY) to second the motion. Comer refused. That admission that the point of the investigation into Biden was to create media soundbites against him was widely assumed to be the end of that project. Last week, on April 17, the top Democrat on the committee, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, called it “a propaganda experiment” and asked Comer: “What is the crime that you want to impeach Joe Biden for and keep this nonsense going?... Tell America right now.” Comer answered: “You’re about to find out very soon.”  

The House did, in fact, vote to impeach Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas—the first time that a cabinet secretary has been impeached in almost 150 years—but senators refused even to hold a trial, saying that Mayorkas’s implementation of Biden’s policies in the absence of congressional legislation to provide more security at the border was not a high crime or misdemeanor. 

House Republicans did not get the deep cuts they wanted to funding for the Internal Revenue Service, measures to address climate change, social welfare measures, or the budget in general. Instead, leaders have had to rely on Democrats to carry the weight of keeping the government funded, while Republicans have repeatedly been caught touting the internal improvements they voted against. Republicans demanded a strong border security measure, forced senators to spend months hammering one out, and then killed it in an astonishing own goal, at Trump’s demand. And the extremists did not succeed in abandoning Ukraine. 

Instead, they have had a bruising fight in which they threw out their own speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and had trouble replacing him. Shortly thereafter, he left Congress, leading the way for more than 20 Republican representatives, including five committee chairs, who have said they will not seek reelection. They had to expel one of their own members, George Santos (R-NY), a serial liar who is under indictment for crimes associated with campaign financing—only the sixth time in U.S. history the House has expelled a member. 

In November 2023, extremist representative Chip Roy (R-TX) charged his colleagues with throwing away their shot at changing the country. He demanded one of them “explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.” 

Now those opposed to the extremists are firing back, publicly charging them with killing border security. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) went further, telling Dana Bash of CNN on Sunday: “It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz [R-FL], he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good [R-VA] endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime.”

The chaos of the House has shifted the weight of governance toward the White House, and Biden has taken advantage of that shift to put in place measures popular with the majority of Americans. Today, on Earth Day, Biden also honored the idea of a government that works for the people when he spoke at the Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, a national park developed in the 1930s by the government’s Works Progress Administration under the New Deal.

Biden called attention to the country’s historic investment in addressing climate change under his administration. He noted that that investment has created a clean-energy manufacturing boom that has attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in private-sector investment and created more than 270,000 new jobs. 

In Virginia, Biden announced $7 billion in federal grants for solar projects for more than 900,000 low- and middle-income households, saying those projects would save those households about $400 a year annually, more than $350 million total. The projects will also create nearly 200,000 jobs. 

Biden also announced the launch of the website to apply to join the American Climate Corps (ACC), an initiative modeled after New Deal president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Over its nine-year existence, the CCC employed more than three million young men improving the nation’s public lands, forests, and parks, many of whom earned their high school diplomas thanks to the educational opportunities connected to the program. 

When the administration unveiled the American Climate Corps program last year, more than 42,000 young people expressed interest within weeks. The first ACC jobs will start in June. Beginning this summer, ACC members will have access to training in trades, thanks to a partnership between the program and the North America’s Building Trades Unions’ nonprofit partner TradesFutures. 

This national shift toward a government focused on the good of ordinary Americans is facing a backlash.

As right-wing voices have lost control in Congress, they have worked aggressively to take over states. There, they have pushed extreme abortion bans, gutted labor laws including for child labor, restricted voting, banned books from public schools, worked to privatize education, and so on—precisely the sort of reactionary state movements the U.S. Supreme Court used the Fourteenth Amendment to undermine from the 1950s to the 1970s. 

Today, on Earth Day, The Guardian reported that Louisiana’s flagship state university, Louisiana State University (LSU), has permitted oil and chemical companies to influence research and teaching activities concerning climate change in exchange for donations to the university. 

The attempt to cement right-wing dominance in the states in opposition to a more liberal national government is a political tradition almost as old as this country, but in 2024 it is being challenged. On Friday, April 19, Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), despite a letter from the Republican governors of six southern states—Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas—warning the workers that unionization would stop auto manufacturers from expanding in their states.

Similar votes, with similar opposition from Republican leaders and business interests, failed in 2014 and 2019. This time, 73% of the workers voted to join the UAW, which has just negotiated strong contracts with the Big Three U.S. automakers. In a statement, Biden said: “Let me be clear to the Republican governors that tried to undermine this vote: there is nothing to fear from American workers using their voice and their legal right to form a union if they so choose. In fact, the growing strength of unions over the last year has gone hand-in-hand with record small business and jobs growth alongside the longest stretch of low unemployment in more than 50 years. I will continue to stand with American workers and stand against [Republicans’] effort to weaken workers’ voice.”  

Tennessee reporter Phil Williams noted that the Beacon Center, a right-wing think tank in the state, tried to tell Tennesseans that the UAW has a “radical political agenda,” but its own latest poll shows that the people of Tennessee view the UAW’s unionization efforts in the state favorably. (The research also shows that only 12% of likely voters in Tennessee believe the current U.S. tax system is “fair and effectively supports public services.”) 

Today also saw the opening statements of The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. The prosecution outlined a 2015 meeting in Trump Tower in which Trump, his then-fixer Michael Cohen, and David Pecker, the chief executive officer of American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, struck an agreement to influence the 2016 election by finding negative information about Trump and hiding it, publishing flattering stories about Trump, and attacking Trump’s political opponents. 

The defense said Trump is innocent and called Cohen a liar, pointing out that he is a convicted felon (without noting that he committed crimes in Trump’s service). 

Pecker took the stand for about 20 minutes before court ended for the day. He is expected to testify again tomorrow. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Biden #Harris #Biden Administration #accomplishments #4 more years #history #Labor unions #Inflation Reduction act #GOP failures #GOP propaganda

[muddypolitics]

#Stealing Women's Rights #not a popular move #GOP failures

[tomorrowusa]

« Donald Trump is someone you should think carefully about hitching your financial fortunes to. The guy is a gifted carnival barker, no doubt. But when it comes to serious business, he is a bad bet. Many of his ventures, from vodka and steaks to casinos and “university” degrees, have flopped like dying fish. Declaring corporate bankruptcy seems to be one of his favorite hobbies. And even when he wriggles away from failure largely unscathed, the other parties involved aren’t always so fortunate. Where money is involved, anyone still foolish enough to crawl into bed with him should be prepared for the experience to end in tears.

[ ... ]

Republicans have fallen in line behind a guy who has zero loyalty to the party, who cares only how it can serve him and who would rather strip it for parts than invest a nickel in its general well-being. »

— Michelle Cottle at the New York Times.

Republicans had the chance to get rid of Donald Trump at the second impeachment in early 2021. But they showed the same sort of wisdom as those Russian troops who dug trenches and camped out on the grounds of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor early in Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Now the GOP is saturated with debilitating Trump radiation.

Republicans know better but are too cowardly to do anything about their situation. They care too much about their short term personal political careers to be concerned about the long term prospects for the US.

A sweeping GOP defeat this year would push them into a state of recriminatory chaos and possibly lead to them going the way of the Whigs,

#donald trump #trump the con man #trump's business failures #trump's narcissism #grifting the gop #republican party #republican shortsightedness #michelle cottle #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[mudwerks]

How do you even talk about what’s going on in our country? This isn’t even just gun control. This is women’s rights, this is the LGBTQ+ community, this is systemic racism, this is our prison reforms that still haven’t happened. This is the foundation of America...I’m tired of pointing the finger at all these different countries like, they suck, they suck, we’re superior. We are trash. We are actual trash. And it’s frustrating…because we can utilize our platforms. We can do marches. We can try to educate people. But if our representatives don’t do their jobs, if they don’t fulfill their oaths that they took to serve their communities, to not line their pockets, to not worry about their own power…what can we do when [we] have corrupt-ass individuals in those positions of power?

The Only Good Political Speech This Week Came From a WBNA Player

Natasha Cloud,  Washington Mystics (WNBA)

#Natasha Cloud #wnba #washington mystics #sensible gun control #US failure #GOP corruption

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

When Kentucky Attorney General turned Republican gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron discovered that an elected state Judge had accepted a campaign contribution of $250 from an attorney in a case before him last month, Cameron cited the donation as a reason that the judge had to recuse.

“These facts, individually and together, could cause a reasonable observer to question the impartiality or bias of the presiding Judge,” Cameron said.

But previously unreported public records information obtained by The Daily Beast shows that Cameron was in the same position at the same time—he just never acknowledged it.

In March and April, Cameron accepted $6,900 from officials at an addiction recovery center tied to an ongoing state investigation. Despite the donations, Cameron did not recuse himself from that investigation before he attacked the Judge. Instead, he waited until an open records request threatened to reveal the existence of that investigation, personally withdrawing from the case two days after the request came in.

The full timeline of events raises questions about Cameron’s conflict of interest, what he knew, and when. It will also almost certainly add fuel to bipartisan accusations that the outspoken, politically polarizing, Trump-supporting Republican has abused the power of his office during his tenure.

The company in question is Edgewater Recovery Center, a Kentucky-based addiction resource provider. According to the open records correspondence obtained by The Daily Beast, Edgewater is currently party to an investigation run by Kentucky’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse, a division of the Office of Attorney General. The Cameron donors include Edgewater’s owner, its general counsel, and directors for the recovery center’s medical, human resources, and clinical practices.

No Edgewater employee has given to Cameron previously, Kentucky campaign finance records show. And the donations appear to have come in the late stages of the investigation, which was opened sometime in 2022, according to a public records response obtained by The Daily Beast.

The donations all came in March and April, per state campaign finance records. But Cameron only recused himself from the investigation on May 19—those two days after his office received a May 17 request for a list of his recusals, and one week after his conflict-of-interest broadside against the Judge. It then took another week for Cameron’s office to answer the request, which included a copy of Cameron’s notice of recusal, dated May 19. To explain the recusal, Cameron’s office cited “an abundance of caution.”

But the recusal came three days after Cameron won the GOP primary, which the donations were designated to support, according to state campaign finance filings. (The Judge he’d attacked earlier that month was eventually removed, but not for the political donation—he had also “liked” a political post on Facebook in support of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.)

Additionally, records reviewed by The Daily Beast show that while Cameron recused himself from other cases in the time after receiving the Edgewater donations, he didn’t recuse from that case until the public records inquiry.

The campaign eventually returned the money from Edgewater donors on June 14, campaign finance filings show—nearly a full month after winning the primary election that the donations helped fund. But those refunds came five days after Cameron’s office received a follow-up request for more details about the probe. The OAG didn’t reply to that June 9 request until June 16—two days after the Cameron campaign issued the refunds.

According to the public records information, the Edgewater donations appear to have come late in the probe, after the OAG had already completed extensive investigative work and was contemplating punitive action.

In its response to the records request, the office claimed that the case file was exempt from public disclosure because the release might “harm an ongoing criminal investigation.” The reply also cited “information to be used in a prospective law enforcement action or administrative adjudication” and “documents prepared for or in anticipation of [criminal] litigation or a trial.”

The OAG noted that the withheld information includes witness interviews, subpoenas, correspondence with Medicare Managed Entities, financial information, and documents still under court seal.

The case number indicates that Cameron’s office opened the probe sometime in 2022. It is not immediately clear whether any Edgewater officials are targets. Edgewater did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment. Neither Cameron’s office nor his campaign replied either.

This wouldn’t be the first ethical quandary Cameron has faced while running Kentucky’s law enforcement operations. Cameron first drew national attention—and condemnation—after he defended the “no-knock” police shooting death of Breonna Taylor in 2020, calling the killing “justified.”

But the Edgewater investigation wouldn’t even be the first ethics dilemma tied to Cameron's campaign contributions this year.

In April, Cameron’s campaign and office defended a combined $100,000 in political donations from a gaming company that is currently suing the state, with Cameron named as one defendant.

The money came from gaming company Pace-O-Matic and two of its executives, and it went to a PAC backing Cameron’s campaign, called “Bluegrass Freedom Action,” the Louisville Courier-Journal reported at the time. Pace-O-Matic had just spent months throwing cash at lobbyists, seemingly in a failed attempt to ply the Kentucky legislature to block a bill that would have restricted its gambling activity in the state.

When the bill passed, Pace-O-Matic sued the state. The $100,000 gift to the pro-Cameron PAC came in the weeks after the bill was blocked and before the company filed the lawsuit. Additionally, Pace-O-Matic executives and their family members—16 people in all—also gave nearly $30,000 directly to Cameron’s campaign, according to the Courier-Journal. All 16 contributions came on March 27—the day before the company filed its lawsuit.

The donations prompted a lawyer and donor to Cameron’s primary opponent, Kelly Craft, to file an ethics complaint. But Pace-O-Matic, the Attorney General’s office, and Cameron all rejected suggestions of impropriety.

“In this specific instance, the Attorney General’s office has already been defending the legislation passed by the General Assembly. No matter who asks, he does the same thing, which is that he will stand up for what’s right and defend the laws of Kentucky,” Cameron's gubernatorial campaign manager Gus Herbert said in a statement at the time.

Last year, Kentucky Democrats alleged that Cameron violated state ethics rules when he announced his gubernatorial campaign while his office investigated sitting Democratic Gov. Andy Beshears. An ethics complaint at the time cited rulings that prohibit the Attorney General from investigating a sitting Governor. (In January, Cameron’s office ruled that Beshears had violated open records laws by withholding information related to school closures during the COVID pandemic.)

But Cameron, who denied wrongdoing in that matter, has also cried foul when it comes to investigations against Republicans. This month, he attacked the federal indictment against ally Donald Trump, saying that “Kentuckians continue to be concerned about the political weaponization of government power.”

Other ethics concerns linger among Democrats. This Thursday, the Cameron campaign lashed out at a political ad attacking him for his connections to efforts to score controversial pardons from former GOP Gov. Matt Bevin, who in his final months in office issued pardons to people convicted of grisly crimes, including murder and rape.

While Cameron initially vowed to investigate the pardon scandal, he handed it off to the FBI. He later hired two top officials who advocated for controversial pardons while working in Bevin’s office.

Cameron also has donor ties to another major player in Kentucky GOP politics who pushed Bevin to pardon a friend of his. That megadonor—Kentucky financial and nursing home magnate Terry Forcht, a longtime ally of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—contributed to Bevin while advocating for the pardon of the son of a Forcht family friend.

But the Forcht family also donated to Cameron himself—in 2019, according to state filings.

Earlier this month, Cameron was photographed meeting personally with the Republican financier at Forcht’s office.

#us politics #news #republicans #conservatives #gop #Kentucky #2023 #Daniel Cameron #conflict of interest #failure to recuse #abuse of power #Edgewater Recovery Center #Kentucky’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse #Gov. Andy Beshear #campaign donations #campaign funding #Pace-O-Matic #Bluegrass Freedom Action #Louisville Courier-Journal #Kelly Craft #Gus Herbert #Matt Bevin #pardon scandal #pardons #Terry Forcht #sen. mitch mcconnell #the daily beast

[random2908]

Here’s a quick MSPaint approximation of what I’m talking about, with the bounding circle because being in the corners is contradictory.

Everything here, including my position (which spans a range depending on the issue) is extremely approximate. But I want to at least show that I’m both more left and more liberal than the Democratic party, and try to be as much of both as I can (which does sometimes mean sacrificing one for the other, as per my previous post, and which one I choose depends on the issue).

The US political party arrows are very much a function of the fact that I was born early in the Reagan administration. If I were a decade or two older, the Dems arrow in particular would show a U-turn because the Democratic party used to be considerably farther left (but also a lot less liberal) when my parents were kids than it was when I was a kid.

Some of the major demagogues of the Republican party, meanwhile, including Reagan himself but especially Newt Gingrich, were ahead of that curve when I was growing up, and actively dragging the party along up it toward religious authoritarianism (which always existed as a significant faction, but had been mostly out of power within the Republican party for decades at the time I was born). The party in general didn’t catch up with its leaders in that respect until the aftermath of 9/11. After that, as the leaders continued to move, so did the party. Anyway, that’s why the line starts farther down than you might think.

Also, both arrows should be wide and with varying shapes over time, because neither party is a monolith. But that was too hard to do, especially in MS paint.

#at first I was thinking both parties moved authoritarian-ward and leftward but with very different angles #but then I decided with Dems it REALLY depends on the issue #and I couldn't decide #so I split the difference and made it flat #like dems have been getting more liberal wrt identity politics (that is they've been getting more anti-racist and feminist and pro-queer) #but more authoritarian wrt to protections against government and oligarch overreach and personal privacy and that kind of thing #like specifically look at their capitulation to the GOP after 9/11 and then their failure to walk any of that stuff back when they had power #(even now) #anyway that's compared to when I was a kid #when my parents were kids the Dems were more authoritarian across the board--as I said in the main text of the post #also I do not really believe that either party is anywhere near the center

[meandmybigmouth]

Investigate the trump era covid response!

there should be a forensic financial audit when you have a blowing up of the deficit like trump and the GOP's looting of the treasury during covid!. not to mention the deaths of almost a million americans!

OF ALL THE BOGUS INVESTIGATIONS THE REVENGE MINDED GOP WILL PLOT INVESTIGATING THE COVID ERA WILL NOT BE ONE OF THEM!

#donald trump #republicans #congress #corrupt gop #covid pandemic failures

[sublimeobservationarcade]

The Very Idea Of Presidential Immunity Is Deeply Disturbing

As the late David Graeber emphasised, elections are not democratic, they are aristocratic. A truly democratic way of appointing leaders is via a lottery. The Presidential election is all about two elite candidates going around spruiking their noble lineage and exclusive qualities for the top job. There is nothing democratic about those who vie for the presidency of the United States. It takes enormous sums of money and bucket loads of influence to even get a start in this contest. It is much more kingly than democratic. Therefore, the very idea of Presidential immunity is deeply disturbing.

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SCOTUS Hears Trump Presidential Immunity Appeal

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has decided to hear Donald J Trump’s legal appeal from prosecution on the grounds of his presidential immunity. The federal court of appeals unanimously denied this immunity in December 2023. Most legal pundits predicted that SCOTUS would refuse to hear this appeal. They were wrong and SCOTUS also granted a stay on the court case scheduled to try the election interference indictments brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith. It is hard not to infer political partisanship in their decision and support for the idea that the justices are slow walking the Trump indictments.

Partisan Politics On The Supreme Court

SCOTUS is made up of 6 conservative justices appointed by Republican administrations and 3 of these by Trump. There are 3 more justices on the full bench considered to be more liberal appointments by Democratic administrations. The US system of government places the Supreme Court in the position of final catcher when all else has failed to resolve itself via Congress and the Senate. The justices are appointed for life and have few to no oversights in place regarding their own official behaviours. There have been numerous reports about members of SCOTUS receiving lavish gifts and money from billionaire benefactors who happen to be on the conservative side of politics.

Photo by Aaron Kittredge on Pexels.com Clarence & Ginny Thomas Doing The Dirty For Trump Indeed, there are real questions about the independence and integrity of Clarence Thomas. His wife Ginny Thomas was, also, closely involved with the Trump attempt to steal the 2020 election via the fake elector scheme. There is no evidence that Clarence Thomas has or will recuse himself from hearing these matters. There is no doubt that the GOP has shifted to a new level of shamelessness in their blatant disregard of the rule of law in America in the 2020’s. Trump is clearly a compulsive liar and the whole world knows this. He has been convicted in a New York civil court of massive business fraud and fined some half a billion dollars. Trump has also been convicted, again in a New York civil court of libel against E. Jean. Carroll and fined a  further $92 million dollars. It is clearly inferred in that matter that he raped the plaintiff and then denied that. That the Republican Party would nominate a rapist, liar, and convicted business fraud as their candidate for the 2024 presidential election is a damning indictment on America. Trump: Getting Away With It Getting away with it – could be the tagline for the Trump campaign in 2024. That the highest court in the land is seemingly a co-conspirator in the crimes committed by Donald J Trump should make the international community think twice about their ongoing involvement with the US. Former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called the Donald Trump threat to democracy and the international community a very real and impending danger. In a two party political duopoly, if one of these parties is blatantly involved in criminal activities, then, this nation can no longer be relied upon to play its part as a democratic leader in the international community. Until this situation is resolved through the successful criminal prosecution of Trump and his associates and the GOP cleansed of this taint I would not be depending upon the just behaviour of this once great ally.

U.S. President Donald Trump at the 101st by U.S. Department of Agriculture is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Autocratic Misuse Of Power & Corruption In America The very idea of Presidential immunity is deeply disturbing in the 21C. The whole concept reeks of autocratic misuse of power and corruption. The Republican Party under Nixon embraced the slaver, white supremacist, evil of the south in return for the votes it would bring. Ever since then, it has been a slippery slope for what was once Abraham Lincoln’s party. Politics has been the undoing of the American experiment. Politicians turning away from doing the right thing for the political advantage of doing business with scumbags and repellent human beings. Big business has bought most of Congress and purchased their silence on matters that most affect the American people. Gun laws - where a clear majority of Americans support a tightening of laws around buying them. Military grade automatic weapons should not be available to members of the public. A woman’s right to control her own body and reproductive rights is not something that a minority of GOP politicians should be determining. Crazy Bronze Age notions from the Old Testament should not be guiding lives in the 21C. There is a strong unscientific taint amid the backwater strongholds of the Republican party in the US. The politics of grievance is their specialty, where they focus on blaming others for stuff in people’s lives. The so-called culture wars and anti-woke. Meanwhile, the real culprits, Corporate America, goes about fleecing the working poor of whatever they can. The GOP is a strange mix of big business, Christian Nationalism, and non-college educated folk. Stupid is as stupid does, I suppose.

Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Trump wanted to become President of the US because he knew that it would provide him with the greatest level of immunity from prosecution in the land. He has been breaking the law and lying compulsively for most of his life. He was born into extreme wealth via his father Fred Trump, a Queen's property developer. Trump has never know what it is like to have to make your own way in life without material advantages. People who abide by the law and do the right thing are left impotent following encounters with Trump. The blatant lies he tells and the front he presents to the world leaves most flummoxed. Dealing with a virtual mob boss is outside of most folks remit. Trump has left the old GOP stunned in his wake. American institutions have failed to deal with Trump. The glaring holes in the nation’s regulatory fabric have allowed him to waltz through. The rule of law does not apply to the very wealthy and the politically powerful, it clearly seems. Only money talks in America. Robert Sudha Hamilton “The legal question the court will decide is "whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office," the order said. Even if Trump loses, the trial could not take place until well into election season, raising questions about whether it will take place at all before Election Day in November. If Trump were to win his appeal before the court, the charges would be dismissed.” - (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-trumps-immunity-claim-election-interference-case-rcna139026) ©HouseTherapy

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#America #differentrulesapply #failures #GOP #justice #partisanpolitics #powerful #President #presidentialimmunity #SCOTUS #Trump #USA #wealthy

[onenakedfarmer]

MAGAt failure after MAGAt failure after MAGAt failure.

#Lauren Boebert #Bigfoot #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #impeachment #Alejandro Mayorkas #GOP failure #US Congress #House of Representatives #Representative Al Green #republican failure #Donnie D-Cups

[zeruch]

Anyone Else Think [Episode 37]...

…irony eludes the GOP? The two following headlines explains this well I suspect: Republicans Are Starting to Worry They Suck at Governing. They do. They could not suck harder if they were a porn-star using a Dyson as a scene prop. Republican senator censured by Oklahoma GOP for negotiating with Democrats on fragile border deal. To be so disingenuous and servile to use the immigration issue…

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#failure #gop #sedition #trump

[muddypolitics]

(via Republicans Blame Silicon Valley Bank Failure on ‘Wokeness’)

when you got nothing

you make shit up and see what the gullibles do...

#Silicon Valley Bank Failure #GOP claims wokeness

[tomorrowusa]

The truth is plain for America to see. Republicans don't REALLY care about the border. They would actually prefer to have 50,000 migrants show up every day to help stoke culture wars.

The Democrats' lead negotiator on a $118 billion bipartisan national security bill says GOP efforts to tank the bill are not based on its merits, but an effort to support former President Donald Trump's reelection bid. "Right now most Republicans are prepared to listen to Donald Trump, who says he wants chaos to continue at the border because that will help him politically," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told Morning Edition's Michel Martin. At least two dozen GOP senators are casting doubt on the chances of the $118 billion bill, which would result in the most significant change to U.S. immigration law in some four decades.

Republicans don't bargain in good faith. They waste your time for months and then do an abrupt U-turn when ordered to by their Lord and Savior Donald Trump.

"We did exactly what Republicans told us to do," Murphy said. "We got a bipartisan border reform bill, a historic one. And now those same Republicans are saying that they are going to oppose the bill that they asked for because Donald Trump wants chaos at the border."

^^^ emphasis added

Instead of going ahead with border fixes, House Republicans tried to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. With the House GOP in shambles all through the 118th Congress, things went about as you'd expect.

House GOP Suffers Spectacular Double Fail on Mayorkas, Israel Package

Republicans are unfit to govern. They kowtow to Trump who needs chaos at the border to keep voters from being reminded of his Nazi rantings, numerous legal problems, and reputation as an adjudicated sex offender.

The MAGA Republican version of immigration reform involves putting up incredibly low-grade barriers that fall apart when it rains or gets windy. These pictures of Trump's "wall" were taken during his term.

The Trump wall was what Russians would call a показуха which could be translated as window dressing or possibly staged event. Though the barrier equivalent of a Potemkin village also would be an appropriate description for this failed project.

#chris murphy #immigration reform #national security #republicans #donald trump #gop concern about the border is a sham #republican chaos at the border #trump's failed border wall #alejandro mayorkas #house gop failure to impeach mayorkas #us house of representatives #house republicans #“maga mike” johnson #republicans are unfit to govern #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[alizarddidit]

oh I need to not make myself angry reading shit about why the kids are voting third party this year

#smidge smudging #can't even say it's the boomers fault this year I know FULL WELL its the 18-35 bloc #because none of y'all know how our government works #and don't realize that all of his failures are because the gop set him up to fail

[qupritsuvwix]

Yeah. That money wasn’t needed elsewhere.

#trumpster fire #nikki haley #ron desantis #gop failure

[nando161mando]

"It's impressive that the PF guys managed to lose that conspiracy to riot case. They obviously weren't conspiring to riot. There are like 5 Nazi lawyers and they're all terrible."

#new england patriots #patriot front #pf #161 #1312 #antifa #patriotism #gop patriots #patriotfart #patriotfail #failure #failnation #failarmy #fail #lol #lmao #lulz #hilarious #punch nazis #nazisploitation #nazis #any and every sumbitch we find wearing a nazi uniform they gon die #nazi #neofascism #neoliberal capitalism #fuck neoliberals #neoliberalism #neonazis #neofascist #neonazi

[101now]

GOP Reacts to Murphy’s Failure to Use Millions in COVID Relief  

A just released budget report from the State Auditor’s office reveals the Murphy Administration is still sitting on more than $5 billion in unspent COVID relief funds doled out by the Feds nearly two years ago. That stunning revelation immediately drew a sharp response from both State Senate Minority Leader Steven Oroho (R-24) and Senate Republican Budget Officer Declan O’Scanlon (R-13). “Senate…

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#blog #covid #failure #gop #millions #murphy’s #reacts #relief #use