Most Vulnerable Republican Senator Sees No Reason To Say No To Trump

Originally published at: Most Vulnerable Republican Senator Sees No Reason To Say No To Trump - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Hello. It’s the weekend. This is The Weekender :coffee: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has every reason to at least perform independence.  Up for reelection in 2026 in a state where Democrats can win, he’s often plunked next to Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) as a member who has either personal or political…

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Hard to get more than a few lines in without understanding that America is dead.

The Department of Justice is no longer interested in justice. An unelected foreign-born billionaire is wading through the government that made him a billionaire trying to find ways to take from the poor.

Racism no longer exists unless it is against the subgroup of our population that was responsible for hundreds of years of race-based beatings, rape, and profiteering from the sale of human children into lifelong bondage.

My head hurts and my heart is broken every time I look up. Tell me when the pogroms start, and the amphetamine-laced sons of the rich are racing through the streets, mad for murder.

This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, or a whimper, but the bloody shrieks of a feral band of monkeys.

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It appears this morning that CNN online has gone completely to a subscription service. Adios CNN. They seem to have done it incrementally over the past few weeks. This morning, every article I clicked on requires a subscription/login to continue reading.

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Thom Tillis is vying with John Kennedy for the title of “Senator Foghorn Leghorn.”

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Regarding last night’s Learjet crash in Philadelphia -

The medical jet was transporting a pediatric patient from Shriner’s Hospital in Philadelphia back to Mexico, with a stop in Missouri to re-fuel. A pilot, co-pilot, doctor, paramedic, the patient, and her mother were on board. All six were Mexican nationals.

Officials do not yet know how many people on the ground have been killed.

:gift: Link

A medical jet with six people on board — including a pediatric patient — crashed Friday evening near the Roosevelt Mall in Northeast Philadelphia, erupting into a massive fireball, scattering debris throughout the streets, and setting multiple homes and cars ablaze in a devastating scene.

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Actually worth a look, I loved the part where Jon Stewart jabs back at DEI talking point of Republicans. And, obviously Chris Christie is not my list of favorite politicians, but he actually had a few good points. And it is a good counterpoint to all the MAGA yes-people to Donald Trump in the Republican party.

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While I somewhat understand it, I would think if a person has a cable subscription that includes CNN that the online written content should be included with that subscription. It is not.

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Trump’s cabinet will be the Confederacy of Dunces.

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OT, but maybe not. I finally figured out the third c that we can change to k and get KKK. Chaos, cruelty and corruption. Kaos, Kruelty and Korruption.
Works for me.

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I sort of wondered about the Branson, MO info because no where on the local St Louis media had details. So now it makes sense that Branson was just a refueling stop.

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I would have gone with bobble heads myself…but hey why have a cabinet when Elon will be running the whole shebang.

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To showcase meritocracy.

To rub his balls.

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Elmo and TSF have apparently decapitated the US government in the last week, removing the upper echelons of DOJ, locking out the top tier of Treasury, purging the FBI, and setting up internment camps. Plus, not satisfied with all that damage, they decided internment camps would be a good thing. Not much blocking TSF’s apparatchiks unless somebody finds a spine. I don’t think any of them are going to obey court orders, so we’re basically down to some worker bees that have enough knowledge and guts to push back (FBI, Treasury folks, DOJ folks, etc.) and the military. Don’t know where we go from here.

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The folks at electoral-vote.com today recapped the story of Boebert and Mace accusing a ciswoman of being trans in a highly entertaining fashion. Here’s the intro:

There are three Republican members of the House who share two important commonalities. First, they very desperately want to send out tweets and do Fox interviews about those horrible trans people (particularly their new colleague, Rep. Sarah McBride, D-DE). Second, they are women, and so are in a position to patrol the women’s restrooms, in hopes of catching McBride breaking the newly established “only people assigned female at birth can use the women’s restroom” rule. The three Republican members we speak of, of course, are Nancy Mace (SC), Lauren Boebert (CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA).

Further down, the author referred to the three as the “Witches of Itsadick”.
:laughing:

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This is the upshot of that crap Reagan started. “Government is the problem.”

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Backwards.
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But there’s an even bigger story being re-written. It involves Canada’s place in the world after 90 years of increased tethering to the U.S. If Trump plows forward he’d be interrupting far more than a few decades of Canada-U.S. free trade; he’d be ending an era that stretches back even longer.

Canada and the United States have steadily built closer economic ties with each other since 1935, as they clawed out of an interminable depression.

On Nov. 18, 1935, The New York Times reported that, after a full year of negotiations, the countries would remove hundreds of tariffs and consumers would see cheaper radios, automobiles, clothes, fruits and vegetables.

The integration continued, notwithstanding the occasional disputes — with an auto pact in 1965, then a free-trade agreement in 1987, and more trade agreements in 1994 and 2018 with Mexico.

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Tough morning for all connected to that medic jet crash …on the jet and on the ground.

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Too bad that Maryanne Trump Barry died. I wonder what she would of thought about how doing his homework worked out for the country.

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If the feds are openly defying court orders regarding taxpayer money, that gives states some cover to stop forwarding paycheck withholdings to them. California (and NY) holding the money in escrow and maybe starting the process of redirecting said funds to in-state claims could do some damage to Trump and help said states, while publicizing the whole mess.

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Most employers remit tax and FICA withholding directly to the Feds (IRS). Changing that to remit to the state tax dept. would take a bit of work but might be worth the effort. However, the state government would need to stand up and indemnify all the citizens, businesses and employers for failing to submit their taxes to the IRS.

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