Just months into his dark horse speakership, Mike Johnson (R-LA) tries to scuttle across the same tightrope his predecessor toppled from, shepherding through the chamber, without sparking a mutiny, the bare minimum legislating Congress has to pass.
Just incompetence from the GOP
Sad
My cat told me not to post his image right now…
The cult of Trump subsumes all else. So many of these GOP-elected representatives have no idea how government works. They don’t care to learn, either.
Letting it all hang out
MLK Was An Inferior Pastor And ‘Communist,’ Said Top GOP Candidate For N.C. Governor (msn.com)
Martin Luther King Jr. was just an “ersatz pastor” and a “communist,” and the 1960s civil rights movement was “crap,” according to a series of Facebook posts by Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate to be North Carolina’s next governor.
Robinson, who is currently the state’s lieutenant governor, regularly criticized King and the civil rights movement for years on Facebook ― specifically on MLK Day ― HuffPost found amid a review of his posts. The Black politician also downplayed slavery, rejected the idea that he’s part of the African American community, and attacked the late congressman and civil rights icon, John Lewis.
These posts are surfacing at a time when Robinson, who is on track to be the GOP nominee for governor in November, has been trying to soften his rhetoric, and celebrate King and the civil rights movement.
“The last vestiges of the Paul Ryan party, the Medicaid slashers and Social Security privatizers, sit uncomfortably beside the new crop of mini-Trumps, more interested in impeaching various members of the Biden administration than making policy.”
Over the weekend Nikki Haley was blathering on the head shows about how of course she’s all-in for saving Social Security – by cutting it. She says she’ll ask the grandchildren of current recipients to forego early retirement and raise the Social Security age “in line with rising life expectancy.”
Except for one thing – US life expectancy, unprecedented in the developed world, has been dropping, particularly among blue-collar whites in GOP-dominated states. Another 30 years of Republican “ideas,” and US life expectancy will have fallen to about 55, thus solving the Social Security solvency problem for all time.
I also noticed that despite the Civil War howler, the media have returned to puffing the Nikki Haley candidacy to the best (worst) of their ability.
ADDENDUM: this longish WaPo piece directly compares three communities with similar demographics in the eastern Great Lakes region. Two are in states with purplish/blue politics (PA and NY) and one is Ohio, where the GOP has dominated the legislature for 30 years and now has a supermajority.
The piece goes on to show how simple measures like seat-belt enforcement and higher taxes on cigarettes directly contribute to longevity. In the case of Ohio, the GOP legislature is hell-bent on making things as dangerous as possible.
So, yes – vote as if your life depended on it, because it does.
Never be reported on you mainstream media
‘Unpopular’ Biden Raises $97 Million In Final 2023 Quarter | Crooks and Liars
I’m a little confused, because the New York Times newspaper keeps telling me that nobody likes Joe Biden and he should go eat worms. So can they explain where on earth all this money came from? Via the New York Times:
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The iron rule of political reportage is that Biden can’t win with reporters. They ding him claiming he isn’t doing enough campaigning, and then when he touts a good fundraising number, they dismiss it as "counter programming."
Trump sends sick supporters caucusing in Iowa: “If you vote and then pass away, it’s worth it.”
One very confused man
NFTs of Hunter dic pix?
Turkey in favor of Traditional Thanksgiving…
The Republican Party: A Confederacy of Assholes
Back during Reagan they jumped at the chance to repeal the Fairness Doctrine and started filling the airwaves with propaganda. Now their “base” has swallowed it, this is the result.
I don’t know how we fix this without restoring the Fairness Doctrine and getting the airwaves back to neutrality.
Confused? No, No… he is very clear headed in what he’s doing.
Saying racist shit is how you get elected as a republican in the south. Being a black man allows him to go further attacking civil rights in general and civil rights icons in particular.
We now have a Republican Party where power, divorced of any cogent, animating policy aims, is king. Spectacle, muscle flexing, reflexive opposition and, most importantly, owning the libs, is the currency of the realm.
@kate_riga Well done! I always appreciate your writing and this descriptor of the party is spot on. Thank you.
They’re all sick.
I heartily concur with this.
Back during Reagan the airwaves mattered. Cable TV and the internet don’t care. So, I don’t know how we fix this either.
Well, if you want to tout the horse race, you need another horse – besides that one with the dyed mane and incontinence.
Nothing missing but the coolaid
Jamie Raskin Compares GOP’s Support For Trump To ‘Religious Cult’ (msn.com)
The last vestiges of the Paul Ryan party, the Medicaid slashers and Social Security privatizers,
…and the granny starvers.
I was telling my wife that tonight’s cluster in subzero temperatures couldn’t happen to a more deserving political party.
(Apologies to TPM members in the Upper Midwest and Plains states – please stay home and stay warm.)