GOP – The Political Rave and Drool

Never Forget That Trump Purged the Pentagon Leadership Between the Election and January 6

And that the new leadership he installed seized direct control over deploying the National Guard that day. And that deployment was delayed for hours.
— Read on www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a38447325/january-6-national-guard-delayed-trump-pentagon-officials/

Who is Jeffrey Clark and Why Does He Matter?

There’s no good reason you should know Jeffrey Clark’s name. Before the 2020 election, he was just another run-of-the-mill Republican lawyer with a cushy appointment in the federal government. Post-election, he became a star in Trump’s eye as he proved that he was willing to do all the election subversion…
— Read on www.thebulwark.com/who-is-jeffrey-clark-and-why-does-he-matter/

Republican Idiot Brigade Debuts Dumbest COVID Claims Yet | Vanity Fair

Marjorie Taylor Greene, for one, has suggested cancer is as transmissible as COVID, while Matt Gaetz wants people to actively contract the virus.
— Read on www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/republicans-covid-marjorie-taylor-greene-matt-gaetz-ron-johnson

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson commissioned data on masks but didn’t release it after it showed they were effective

Parson fired back at the claims, calling the journalist who reported the story a “political blogger” who wrote a “purposefully misleading article.”
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/parson-didnt-release-data-analysis-showing-masks-worked-report-2021-12

Coolheaded Cornyn vs. crude-mouthed Cruz

One showed leadership while the other showed who he is.

How many times have voters told politicians they want the federal government to just function, to simply work as an organization?
— Read on www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2021/12/04/cool-headed-cornyn-vs-crude-mouthed-cruz/

Florida’s governor celebrated his anti-mandate Covid laws. Now Omicron is here

Ron DeSantis struck ‘a blow for freedom’ with his lax measures, but those could allow the new variant to circulate faster
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/04/covid-omicron-florida-republican-ron-desantis

Come On Ted, Don’t Tease. Just DO IT!

I can’t help it, I just think they’re so cute when they’re sitting around waiting for the other nut to drop. I just find it adorable when a US Senator who was born in Calgary, Alberta, and who fled with his family to Cancun, Mexico in the middle of a power crisis in his state, is now officially the biggest badass in The Lone Star State.
— Read on politizoom.com/come-on-ted-dont-tease-just-do-it/

GOP – The Do-Nothings — McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms

McConnell prefers to skewer Democrats for their perceived failures.
— Read on www.axios.com/mcconnell-no-agenda-midterms-91c73112-0a2e-441b-b713-7e8aa2dad6bf.html

American Grifters From The House — Sidney Powell filed false incorporation papers for non-profit, grand jury finds

Trump’s lawyer falsely claimed two men as fellow directors of Defending the Republic in an apparent effort to attract donors
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/03/sidney-powell-filed-false-incorporation-papers-for-non-profit-grand-jury-finds

What? No Pizza? — Duggar Seeks to Bar Child Molestation Witness, Citing Clergy Privilege

Josh Duggar’s attorneys are trying to prevent a family friend from testifying about his alleged child molestation confessions in the early 2000s.
— Read on www.insider.com/josh-duggar-trial-filing-child-molestation-witness-clergy-privilege-2021-11

Red State Socialism — Red states are now paying unemployment benefits to anti-vaxxers who quit their jobs

Republican governors have decided to coddle vaccine refusers, even as they cut benefits for everyone else.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/red-states-are-now-paying-unemployment-benefits-to-anti-vaxxers-who-quit-their-jobs.html

GOP, The Domestic Terrorist Party — Omar Plays Threatening Voicemail From Man After Boebert’s Islamophobic Comments

“Don’t worry, there’s plenty that will love the opportunity to take you off the face of this… earth,” the unnamed caller said.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/ilhan-omar-voicemail-boebert-islamophobic-will-not-live-much-longer-2021-11

Lincoln Project slams GOP’s ‘violence and domestic terror tactics’ in scathing new ad

The Lincoln Project has laid out a roadmap to defeat Republican candidates in key congressional races in next year’s midterms.The PAC set up by current and former Republicans who oppose Donald Trump says the GOP cannot be reformed and must be defeated to preserve American democracy, and the group’s …
— Read on www.rawstory.com/latest-lincoln-project-ad/

‘Jan. 6 wasn’t a fantasy’: Top Missouri paper says it’s ‘long past time’ for senate to investigate Josh Hawley

On Sunday, the editorial board of the St Louis Post-Dispatch called on the U.S. Senate Ethics Panel to investigate Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) over any possible involvement he may have had in the Jan 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.Hawley
— Read on www.alternet.org/2021/11/josh-hawley-2655880018/

Right now, the GOP views threats of violence as offering a political advantage with no real downside. Normalization of this behavior by President Biden or the media will only make it worse.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/politics/gop-violence-trump/

Because Reasons — Texas Governor claims SOUTH AFRICANS ‘illegally crossing US border’

We take it geography was never Greg Abbott’s strong suit, then? The Texas Governor has made a very bizarre statement about SA immigrants.
— Read on www.thesouthafrican.com/news/us/breaking-who-is-texas-governor-greg-abbott-south-africans-crossing-us-border/

Never Forget

Because White Domestic Terrorism — Why Republicans are embracing Kyle Rittenhouse as their mascot

Congress members float the idea of offering the 18-year-old internships as experts say their use of him is ‘a very dangerous thing’
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/27/kyle-rittenhouse-republican-party-trump

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