Republicans

[foenix]

It's the same place where Stewart Rhodes was a FBI informant

[captkirkcanada]

who continue to tear down statues

The problem with tearing down statues is that a violent act does not heal a racist wound.

i'm pretty confident civil rights leaders are not running around pulling down statues. fact is we all cheered when saddams statue famously came crashing down so we are guilty of that to.
i myself think they should be moved by the states to museums . humans shouldn't hold politicians above themselves.

[The Green Barbarian]

i'm pretty confident civil rights leaders are not running around pulling down statues.

Not anymore, because Trump made it a $20,000 fine to pull down statues.

fact is we all cheered when saddams statue famously came crashing down so we are guilty of that to.

What? This makes no sense whatsoever.

humans shouldn't hold politicians above themselves.

Especially not politicians on the Left, that's for sure.

[foenix]

i'm pretty confident civil rights leaders are not running around pulling down statues.

Not anymore, because Trump made it a $20,000 fine to pull down statues.

Another lie.....it was a Trump tweet threat after his precious racist Andrew Jackson stature was threatened.....

President Donald Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to say that he had "authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act."

"Last night we stopped an attack on a great monument of Andrew Jackson and Lafayette Park," Trump told reporters, adding that "numerous people" are already in jail and more are going "today."

Here's the real story.......

However in relation to the Veterans' Memorial Preservation Act, federal law enforcement already had this authority and they have for a while.

The act was passed in 2003 in the wake of a rash of vandalism incidents at military cemeteries in Hawaii and elsewhere.

Bradley P. Moss, partner at the Washington, D.C., law office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C., told ABC News that federal law enforcement already had that authority and that President Trump's tweet is "redundant and irrelevant because it doesn't change what they can and will do."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-ch ... d=71415427

Just more of the hot gassed Republican Trump blowing himself up with false bravado.

[Pappywinkle]

Everyone knows the Republican party includes all the worst racists. And Republican racism was on full display when Moscow Mitch "accidentally" suggested that black Americans weren't real Americans - at least not in the eyes of evil and disgusting Republicans. Republicans truly are just the worst people, and being caught making horribly racist remarks proves this yet again.

Mitch McConnell Comments Comparing 'African Americans' and 'Americans' Spark Outrage

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has sparked a fierce backlash for a comment where he distinguished between African American voters and Americans.

McConnell made the remark at a news conference on Wednesday, before two Democrat senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster that was preventing the passing of voting rights legislation.

During the debate, McConnell had accused Democrats of "fake hysteria" over the Senate filibuster in order to pass the legislation.

The Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would have expanded voting access, made Election Day a national holiday, ensured access to early voting and mail-in ballots, and more.

At the news conference, reporter Pablo Manríquez asked McConnell what his message was for voters of color who are concerned about their voting rights ahead of November's midterm elections.

"Well, the concern is misplaced," McConnell replied. "Because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans."

He continued: "A recent survey, 94 percent of Americans thought it was easy to vote. This is not a problem. Turnout is up, biggest turnout since 1900… they're being sold a bill of goods to support a Democratic effort to federalize elections… this has been a Democratic Party goal for decades."

https://www.newsweek.com/mcconnell-comp ... ge-1671077

[Ka-El]

The biggest, most petulant goof unfortunately still around ...

Former GOP head: Republican officials are buying into Trump's unquenchable thirst for revenge

Dear Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee,

I am writing to express my concern over the recent Republican National Committee resolution censuring Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and calling the events of January 6 "legitimate political discourse."

My objection to your resolution is based on my respect for, and adherence to, the US Constitution, common sense, human decency and plain old political smarts. At a time when our focus as a party should be on the Biden administration and Democrats at every level of power, you made former President Donald Trump's unquenchable thirst for revenge against Republicans who disagree with him the political story of the week.

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newspoli ... li=AAggFp5

[foenix]

Nice!!! One thing a person can count on is the " bull in a china shop " damage Trump can create in just about anything he touches. I think the GOP is finding that out time and time again. Talk about insanity

Trump sets off yet another GOP civil war, risking party's midterm strategy

Yet again, the GOP is being dragged into internal recriminations and down an extreme road that could lead to violence and fresh assaults on democracy by the demagoguery, loyalty demands and obsessions of the ex-President.

The RNC's whitewashing of the true nature of the insurrection is typical of the cult-like subservience many in the party still show to Trump. It made clear that the price of entry to the 2022 campaign for Republicans is now not just acceptance of Trump's stolen election delusions but a willingness to deny the truth of the worst attack on democracy in modern American history.

But such radicalism threatens to turn the midterm campaign into yet another public therapy session for the ex-President, who still cannot accept his 2020 election defeat. It will not be lost on McConnell that Trump's post-election tantrum helped cost the party two US Senate seats in Georgia runoff elections that would have made him majority leader.

This time, Trump's fury threatens to drown out the searing attacks planned on Biden's presidency by Republican strategists and remind critical suburban voters why they soured on the GOP during Trump's presidency.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics ... ar-AATDqus

[Rjamer]

It is hilarious watching the Trump supporters pull up in their clown car and start making excuses for their orange master.. Trump has got the mental age of a 10 year old so they have a lot to work with...

[The Green Barbarian]

It is hilarious watching the Trump supporters pull up in their clown car and start making excuses for their orange master..

Why are people still babbling about Trump? There are so many awesome Republicans to be talking about and lauding for doing such great jobs, especially holding the inept bumbling Democrats to account on so many fronts. Keep up the great work Repubs!

[Pappywinkle]

It is hilarious watching the Trump supporters pull up in their clown car and start making excuses for their orange master.. Trump has got the mental age of a 10 year old so they have a lot to work with...

Haha so true! The fact that the loser Republicans have married themselves to Dementia Donny will forever tarnish the GOP, and rightly so!

[The Straken]

Why are people still babbling about Trump?

Because Republicans still support him for Nov. 5 2024.

[The Green Barbarian]

Because Republicans still support him for Nov. 5 2024.

Some do, some don't, who cares?

[Pappywinkle]

The evil and disgusting GOP continues to fracture over the Big Lie, this time with Moscow Mitch publicly stating the Jan 6 was indeed a violent insurrection. Now Republicans and their apologists who for over a year insisted Jan 6 was a normal tourist visit have to decide if Mitch McConnell is a liar or is Dementia Donny a liar.

Maybe Dementia Donny's promise of 'draining the swamp' is finally coming true with the implosion of the GOP.

McConnell breaks with RNC: Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized the Republican National Committee (RNC) for its censure of Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and broke with their language on the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, calling it a “violent insurrection.”

“It was a violent insurrection with the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election. ... That’s what it was,” McConnell said.

The RNC sparked fierce backlash after it described Jan. 6, when a mob of former President Trump’s followers breached the Capitol, as “legitimate political discourse” in a resolution censuring Kinzinger and Cheney.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel appeared to try to clarify the resolution, alleging in a statement that the two GOP lawmakers were involved in persecuting citizens "engaged in legitimate political discourse" but "that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol." The last section was not in the RNC resolution.

McConnell said he had confidence in McDaniel but that the job of the RNC was supporting all Republicans, not "singling out" members of the party.

“This issue is whether or not the RNC should be sort of singling out members of our party who may have different views from the majority. That’s not the job of the RNC,” he added about the censure resolution.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/593 ... ction?rl=1

[JLives]

Because Republicans still support him for Nov. 5 2024.

Some do, some don't, who cares?

I know you don't walk to talk about him because your stance is the right wing can do no wrong but he is presently the head of the GOP. That alone makes him very relevant to talk about without getting into him trying to overthrow an election he legally lost or the many crimes committed by his crime family. Or how many women he's sexually assaulted. Or his money laundering scheme with Russians. Or stealing White House records and artifacts (that was just reported this week). Or private communications with foreign actors and heads of state without disclosure. I could go on but I only have so much time in the day.

[Pappywinkle]

The GOP fracturing continues! What an embarrassing time to be a right winger having to watch the right completely implode both north and south of the border.

Ted Cruz breaks with Mitch McConnell and says it's a 'mistake' for Republicans to call January 6 an 'insurrection'

Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday criticized his Republican colleagues who have called the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot an "insurrection," a day after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell described the attack as a "violent insurrection."

"I think it is a mistake for Republicans to repeat the political propaganda of Democrats and the corporate media," the Texas Republican told CNN's Ted Barrett.

The senator also pushed back on the phrase "armed insurrection" being used by Republican leadership to describe the attack, CBS News' Scott MacFarlane said.

In the aftermath of the Capitol riot, Cruz condemned the violence as a "terrorist attack" and repeatedly used that language to describe the day's events.

...

"We were all here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next," McConnell told reporters on Tuesday.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cru ... ion-2022-2