#end the gop

[sordidamok]

The story above this in my news feed was about cops murdering a 15-year old girl who was doing what they told her to do. But Trump can post pictures of Biden as a murder victim and threaten a judge's daughter.

#trump is a criminal #vote blue #vote democrat #democrats #democracy #social democracy #vote biden #vote blue to save democracy #vote blue 2024 #democratic socialism #democrats now socialism later #vote biden/harris #biden/harris 2024 #vote blue to save america #both sides are not the same #vote democratic #vote blue all the way down the ticket #end the gop

[notumbusbumbus]

The Wrong Wing is Never Right

Time to stop calling it the Right Wing - it's too far gone for that. Call it the Wrong Wing - of democracy. The Wrong Wing of decency. The Wrong Wing filled with hate. The Wrong Wing bent on fascism. The Wrong Wing that wants to crash the plane. The Wrong Wing of the cristian apocalypse. The Wrong Wing of America. The Wrong Wing from a wrong basket of deplorables.

Vote them off the island for good, before they break the wings of the world.

#wrong wing #not right wing #fascism #the voices of hate #end the GOP

[gigglepuffpixie-pol]

overturning Roe v Wade is just the start too. more and more rights will be stripped from us.

we need aggressive change. i don't know if people will actually bother to vote (those that can anyways). but i'm not sure that's enough. we need to be sueing republicans every chance we get. we need UN involvement. something.

without aggressive change today, it seems that the next step is violence. and i'm not convinced that there is another option. these "justices" are extremely far right, to the point of undermining basic human rights. and they are there for life. this won't end. not until they resign or die...

we've been screaming this since the 2016 elections.

i am so tired

as long as we consider republicans worthy of debate, the fight for basic human rights will never be won. they have become criminals against humanity. they must be stopped

i am tired... and terrified

#republican #conservative #is evil #can’t be conservative and a good person #acab #gop #end the gop #pro life #pro life is anti choice #vote

[emperornorton47]

#Brian krassenstein #marjorie taylor greene #End the GOP #Waco rally

[zacharialend]

#america #end the GOP

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#project 2025 #Koch network #heritage foundation #mass deportation #nation abortion ban #end of social security #end of birthright citizenship #never trump #republican hypocrisy #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #corporate greed #gop #republican party

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

This has been out in the open but tv/cable news is just now taking an interest. Yes it’s Project 2025 and it is terrifying. Republican Senators Tuberville, Rand, and Cruz have been blocking Biden’s appointments so that Republikkkans can fill nearly every single government position with an army of brainwashed MAGA loyalists on day one of what they hope will be Trump’s return to the White House.

#project 2025 #maga loyalists #fuck Tommy Tuberville #fuck Rand Paul #fuck Ted Cruz #republican hypocrisy #traitor trump #slow moving coup #fascist takeover #the end of democracy #donald trump #gop #republican party

[alwaysbewoke]

#mlk #mlk day #mlk jr #republicans #gop #white supremacy #racism #social justice #equality #end hate #anti-racism #racial equality #stop racism #no to hate #dismantle racism

[sher-ee]

#donald trump #maga lies #maga bs #it never ends #gop #Republicans #ron filipkowski #politics #election fraud #suckers #flyer #vote blue #vote democrat #blue all the way down

[localanimequeerio-17]

In these dark times, I just wanna say: TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS! STOP BANNING BOOKS! STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! STOP THE WILLOW PROJECT! DONT OVERTURN ICWA! GUN CONTROL IS A MUST! MY BODY MY CHOICE! BLACK LIVES MATTER! The state of the U.S (probably the whole world, too) is so shitty right now, and honestly I am genuinely scared for our futures. The core of the U.S is being rewritten and destroyed. It is no longer free, and it hasn’t been for a while.

#fuck the world #fuck the gop #fuck the govt #we need an age restriction for congress #trans lives are human lives #trans rights are human rights #gun control #save icwa #protect icwa #my body my choice #stop police brutality #stop willow project #end the war #end the wars #blm #blm ally #black lives matter #literally i wanna flee to Canada or Scotland— #the government is corrupt #very corrupt

[imagine-all-the-people]

No words. 😖

#fuck the nra #gop hypocrisy #this is america #end gun violence

[gigglepuffpixie-pol]

as some of you may have heard, the festival know as Music Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), has been canceled because of a new "Guns Everywhere" ruling. in short, some guy (gun toting asshole) sued for getting kicked out (Atlanta Botanical Gardens) because he insisted on carrying his gun. the result of the ruling is that guns may be carried in public parks. please note: im glossing over a lot.

Music Midtown is a festival that as been going on for nearly 25 years. And it was planned to be held in Piedmont Park. enter Phil Evans, aka gun toting asshole. he sent a letter to the the people who put on Music Midtown (LiveNation), and basically told them "ha ha you have to let in guns"

reeks of "well i didn't want to go anyways." and just look at that racism! (for those that don't know, "criminals" is a code word in this area for black people. it's part of the reason we weren't able to expand public transportation, looking at you Cobb County)

LiveNation has decided to cancel the event due to the gun problems. they're getting a lot of support, as they should. to the point that Atlanta has a new mural in gun toting asshole's "honor"

without getting into details, allowing guns into an event like this problematic for a number of reasons, even excluding the obvious "guns + alcohol + racism = bad idea" situation. a fair number of performers have no gun policies in their riders. additionally, there are several other venues in town that will be affected

all in all, it was a shit decision in favor of a group of people so scared of "criminals" that they need their security blankets guns to go grocery shopping and to look at flowers.

hopefully this destroys kemp's (Georgia's governor) chances at reelection. i know he was banking on public amnesia to get him through the shit he's screwed up in the past, but this close enough.

#atlanta #georgia #music midtown #guns everywhere bullshit #maybe with kemp gone we can fix that insane 'heartbeat bill' #republican #conservative #is evil #can’t be conservative and a good person #end the gop #vote

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A white supermajority of the Mississippi House voted after an intense, four-plus hour debate to create a separate court system and an expanded police force within the city of Jackson — the Blackest city in America — that would be appointed completely by white state officials.

If House Bill 1020 becomes law later this session, the white Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court would appoint two judges to oversee a new district within the city — one that includes all of the city’s majority-white neighborhoods, among other areas. The white state Attorney General would appoint four prosecutors, a court clerk, and four public defenders for the new district. The white state Public Safety Commissioner would oversee an expanded Capitol Police force, run currently by a white chief.

The appointments by state officials would occur in lieu of judges and prosecutors being elected by the local residents of Jackson and Hinds County — as is the case in every other municipality and county in the state.

Mississippi’s capital city is 80% Black and home to a higher percentage of Black residents than any major American city. Mississippi’s Legislature is thoroughly controlled by white Republicans, who have redrawn districts over the past 30 years to ensure they can pass any bill without a single Democratic vote. Every legislative Republican is white, and most Democrats are Black.

After thorough and passionate dissent from Black members of the House, the bill passed 76-38 Tuesday primarily along party lines. Two Black member of the House — Rep. Cedric Burnett, a Democrat from Tunica, and Angela Cockerham, an independent from Magnolia — voted for the measure. All but one lawmaker representing the city of Jackson — Rep. Shanda Yates, a white independent — opposed the bill.

“Only in Mississippi would we have a bill like this … where we say solving the problem requires removing the vote from Black people,” Rep. Ed Blackmon, a Democrat from Canton, said while pleading with his colleagues to oppose the measure.

For most of the debate, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba — who has been publicly chided by the white Republicans who lead the Legislature — looked down on the House chamber from the gallery. Lumumba accused the Legislature earlier this year of practicing “plantation politics” in terms of its treatment of Jackson, and of the bill that passed Tuesday, he said: “It reminds me of apartheid.”

Hinds County Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten, who served in the House before being elected judge and would be one of the existing judges to lose jurisdiction under this House proposal, also watched the debate.

Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell, who oversees the Capitol Police, watched a portion of the debate from the House gallery, chuckling at times when Democrats made impassioned points about the bill. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, the only statewide elected official who owns a house in Jackson, walked onto the House floor shortly before the final vote.

Rep. Blackmon, a civil rights leader who has a decades-long history of championing voting issues, equated the current legislation to the Jim Crow-era 1890 Constitution that was written to strip voting rights from Black Mississippians.

“This is just like the 1890 Constitution all over again,” Blackmon said from the floor. “We are doing exactly what they said they were doing back then: ‘Helping those people because they can’t govern themselves.'”

The bill was authored by Rep. Trey Lamar, a Republican whose hometown of Senatobia is 172 miles north of Jackson. It was sent to Lamar’s committee by Speaker Philip Gunn instead of a House Judiciary Committee, where similar legislation normally would be heard.

“This bill is designed to make our capital city of Jackson, Mississippi, a safer place,” Lamar said, citing numerous news sources who have covered Jackson’s high crime rates. Dwelling on a long backlog of Hinds County court cases, Lamar said the bill was designed to “help not hinder the (Hinds County) court system.”

“My constituents want to feel safe when they come here,” Lamar said, adding the capital city belonged to all the citizens of the state. “Where I am coming from with this bill is to help the citizens of Jackson and Hinds County.”

Opponents of the legislation, dozens of whom have protested at the Capitol several days this year, accused the authors of carving out mostly white, affluent areas of the city to be put in the new district.

In earlier sessions, the Legislature created the Capitol Complex Improvement District, which covers much of the downtown, including the state government office complex and other areas of Jackson. The bill would extend the existing district south to Highway 80, north to County Line Road, west to State Street and east to the Pearl River. Between 40,000 and 50,000 people live within the area.

The bill would double the funding for the district to $20 million in order to increase the size of the existing Capitol Police force, which has received broad criticism from Jacksonians for shooting several people in recent months with little accountability. The new court system laid out in House Bill 1020 is estimated to cost $1.6 million annually.

Many House members who represent Jackson on Tuesday said they were never consulted by House leadership about the bill. Several times during the debate, they pointed out that Republican leaders have never proposed increasing the number of elected judges to address a backlog of cases or increasing state funding to assist an overloaded Jackson Police Department.

Democratic members of the House said if they wanted to help with the crime problem, the Legislature could increase the number of elected judges in Hinds County. Blackmon said Hinds County was provided four judges in 1992 when a major redistricting occurred, and that number has not increased since then even as the caseload for the four judges has exploded.

In addition, Blackmon said the number of assistant prosecuting attorneys could be increased within Hinds County. In Lamar’s bill, the prosecuting of cases within the district would be conducted by attorneys in the office of Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who is white. Blackmon said the bill was “about a land grab,” not about fighting crime. He said other municipalities in the state had higher crime rates than Jackson. Blackmon asked why the bill would give the appointed judges the authority to hear civil cases that had nothing to do with crime.

“When Jackson becomes the No. 1 place for murder, we have a problem,” Lamar responded, highlighting the city’s long backlog of court cases. Several Democrats, during the debate, pointed out that the state of Mississippi’s crime lab has a lengthy backlog, as well, adding to the difficult in closing cases in Hinds County.

Lamar said the Mississippi Constitution gives the Legislature the authority to create “inferior courts,” as the Capitol Complex system would be. The decisions of the appointed judges can be appealed to Hinds County Circuit Court.

“We are not incompetent,” said Rep. Chris Bell, D-Jackson. “Our judges are not incompetent.”

Democrats offered seven amendments, including one to make the judges elected. All were defeated primarily along partisan and racial lines. An amendment offered by Rep. Cheikh Taylor, D-Starkville, to require the Capitol Police to wear body cameras was approved. Lamar voiced support for the amendment.

Much of the debate centered around the issue of creating a court where the Black majority in Hinds County would not be allowed to vote on judges.

One amendment that was defeated would require the appointed judges to come from Hinds County. Lamar said by allowing the judges to come from areas other than Hinds County would ensure “the best and brightest” could serve. Black legislators said the comment implied that the judges and other court staff could not be found within the Black majority population of Hinds County. When asked why he could not add more elected judges to Hinds County rather than appointing judges to the new district, Lamar said, “This is the bill that is before the body.”

#us politics #news #2023 #Mississippi today #Mississippi #conservatives #republicans #gop #institutional racism #end institutional racism #Mississippi Supreme Court #House Bill 1020 #jackson #Mississippi Legislature #Rep. Ed Blackmon #Chokwe Antar Lumumba #1890 Constitution #jim crow #Rep. Trey Lamar #Jackson Police Department #Mississippi Capitol Police #Hinds County #Lynn Fitch #Mississippi Constitution #racism #racists

[raspberrykraken]

GOP Logic

Abortions: Ban them!

Gay marriages: Ban them!

Critical race theory: Ban it!

Controversial books: Ban them!

Drag shows: Ban them!

Guns: Look, banning things doesn’t work. If people really want guns, they’ll find ways to get them, whether they’re illegal or not. If it’s not going to be absolutely 100% effective, then there’s no point in even trying.

#gop #american politics #it never ends

[antidrumpfs]

  Cartoon by Andy Marlette

Cartoon by Walt Handelsman

#gun violence #end gun violence #gun regulation #fuck the GOP #vote blue #Bluewave #recall every republican

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#Tax the rich #make the 1% pay their share #end corporate subsidies #end corporate welfare #billionaire tax #Republicans are owned by billionaires #oligarchs own GOP #corporate greed #republican party #never trump #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy #tax cheat Trump