You’re all set, the GOP has the house

[Jim in CT]

pete, florida didnt keep people from earning a living, or
keep kids out of school, after data showed there was no upside. His states unemployment didn’t increase nearly as much as the national average as a result.

He’s right. other states kept lockdowns in place long after the data was clear there was no upside. that’s crazy.

That’s why the state of florida has become synonymous with affordable freedom, and 850 people a day are moving there. 850 a day.

it’s also why the deranged, terrified, hating liars, like you, are left sh*tting themselves at the thought of him, and all you can do is ignore his accomplishments and desperately hope everyone else does too.

i’d pay anything to see him debate the alzheimer’s patient we have now. anything.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

pete, florida didnt keep people from earning a living, or
keep kids out of school, after data showed there was no upside. His states unemployment didn’t increase nearly as much as the national average as a result.

He’s right. other states kept lockdowns in place long after the data was clear there was no upside. that’s crazy.

That’s why the state of florida has become synonymous with affordable freedom, and 850 people a day are moving there. 850 a day.

it’s also why the deranged, terrified, hating liars, like you, are left sh*tting themselves at the thought of him, and all you can do is ignore his accomplishments and desperately hope everyone else does too.

i’d pay anything to see him debate the alzheimer’s patient we have now. anything.

Unlike in California and New York, a huge portion of those deaths came after the development of vaccines, and, according to a Yale study, largely among the very Republican voters who were most likely to believe the anti-vaccine lies offered by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.

Is that enough sanity for you?
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Unlike in California and New York, a huge portion of those deaths came after the development of vaccines, and, according to a Yale study, largely among the very Republican voters who were most likely to believe the anti-vaccine lies offered by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.

Is that enough sanity for you?
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what was the death rate in FL compared to NY? Which state has more seniors? Which state opened up first? Which governor was cooking the books? hat was your side saying about Cuomo? he was the good standard, Hollywood invented awards to give him. And he was a big fat lying incompetent loser, and a pervert to boot. But you’re in a position to bash desantis when you had orgasms
when Cuomo was on TV?

Stick that up your kooky azz.

[Jim in CT]

desantis said of critical
race theory, that it does no good to teach children to hate their country and hate each other, and the state of FL isn’t going to spend one red cent in it.

When your side was saying defund the police, he was offering signing bonuses to out of state cops who moved there. And gee whiz, guess how many FL cities were burned down by your ilk in the summer of 2020? Zero.

He single handedly took a large, diverse purple
state, and turned it red

Ivy league, ivy league law then the military. yeah what a loser!!

Your best response is “Flori-duh.”. good one pete!!

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

desantis said of critical
race theory, that it does no good to teach children to hate their country and hate each other, and the state of FL isn’t going to spend one red cent in it.

When your side was saying defund the police, he was offering signing bonuses to out of state cops who moved there. And gee whiz, guess how many FL cities were burned down by your ilk in the summer of 2020? Zero.

He single handedly took a large, diverse purple
state, and turned it red

Ivy league, ivy league law then the military. yeah what a loser!!

Your best response is “Flori-duh.”. good one pete!!

Actually he offered signing bonuses to cops from other states that refused to get vaccinated, because cops shouldn’t have to obey rules…
Never mind that the most prolific killer of cops by far was Covid.

Your ilk tried to overthrow the government, spread literal feces on the walls of the capital.
But they were tourists.

Nothing excites you more than a budding fascist, well maybe with the exception of a goat.
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[wdmso]

The first bill Republicans are bringing to the floor once the rules package is adopted would increase the deficit by more than $114 billion over a decade, according to a nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis released Monday. The measure from Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) would roll back about $80 billion in IRS funding and decrease revenues by nearly $186 billion.

In the stroke of a pen cutting 80 billion to lose a net 114. billion that makes no sense

More grandstanding

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by wdmso

The first bill Republicans are bringing to the floor once the rules package is adopted would increase the deficit by more than $114 billion over a decade, according to a nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis released Monday. The measure from Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) would roll back about $80 billion in IRS funding and decrease revenues by nearly $186 billion.

In the stroke of a pen cutting 80 billion to lose a net 114. billion that makes no sense

More grandstanding

You're missing the point. The deficit only matters when Ds are in office.

They want to do away with the ethics committee bccccc I guess ethics don't matter to them.

Lower funding for the IRS bc they don't care if people cheat on their taxes - which goes w/trying to get rid of the committee that looks at member ethics. Seems to be a pattern.

[Pete F.]

It’s rumored that Ron DeSantis plans to fly 300 gas stoves to Martha's Vineyard.
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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

It’s rumored that Ron DeSantis plans to fly 300 gas stoves to Martha's Vineyard.
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I saw this latest outrage from Republicans framed as an attack your way of life not surprising more lying

Republican lawmakers are claiming that the Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to take away people’s gas stoves, in what they say is the latest example of the Biden administration’s regulatory overreach,

In reality, the commission is not going to snatch anyone’s stove. It is merely considering regulations that would seek to curb pollution from new gas stoves on the market, rather than existing appliances inside people’s homes.

There is about 50 years of health studies showing that gas stoves are bad for our health, and the strongest evidence is on children and children’s asthma,”


Cities tried to cut natural gas from new homes. The GOP and gas lobby preemptively quashed their effort

Again in bed with the energy lobby


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I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!

Wow what a MAGA hero this drunkard is

2014. Republicans are still trying to save traditional lightbulbs.

Yep same old song and dance from the Party who’s only skill is looking backwards

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by wdmso

Yep same old song and dance from the Party who’s only skill is looking backwards

tell that to the children of FL who enjoyed being in school
when kids in blue states were shut out of school. Tell that to the workers in FL who stayed on the job while their peers in blue states were on welfare.

Kids in cages? Swell when Obama did it, a crime when trump did it.

Lying to get elected? No problem when Biden, Liz Warren, and Richard Blumenthal do it, but disqualifying when Santos does it.

politically motivated congressional hearings? Awesome when democrats looked into a fake Russia hoax, irresponsible when republicans do it.

Denying election results? Nothing to worry about what Hakeem Jeffries does it, but revolting when any republican does it.

there’s a pattern here, and it’s not subtle.

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

tell that to the children of FL who enjoyed being in school
when kids in blue states were shut out of school. Tell that to the workers in FL who stayed on the job while their peers in blue states were on welfare.

Kids in cages? Swell when Obama did it, a crime when trump did it.

Lying to get elected? No problem when Biden, Liz Warren, and Richard Blumenthal do it, but disqualifying when Santos does it.

politically motivated congressional hearings? Awesome when democrats looked into a fake Russia hoax, irresponsible when republicans do it.

Denying election results? Nothing to worry about what Hakeem Jeffries does it, but revolting when any republican does it.

The Broken record speaks.


the entire republican party ready to start a full on war over the mere discussion, because the culture war and conflict is literally their entire party ideology, who care neither about evidence nor what is actually being said or by whom.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by wdmso

The Broken record speaks.


the entire republican party ready to start a full on war over the mere discussion, because the culture war and conflict is literally their entire party ideology, who care neither about evidence nor what is actually being said or by whom.

every equivalence that appears to show the democrats using a double standard, is a “false” equivalence. That’s your standard. if it makes the left look bad, it can’t be a valid equivalence. you don’t even care what’s being equated. If it paints democrats in a negative light, it’s a false equivalence.

our party ideology also includes not allowing living babies to whither and die, fiscal responsibility, limited federal government, string national defense. The horror!

[Pete F.]

Kevin McCarthy claims House Republicans are transitioning.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
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[PaulS]

Rs plan to make everyone sacrifice. Poor people will have to have lower benefits and rich people will have to have lower tax rates.

[Pete F.]

I don't think anything shows how hollow the culture wars are more than the governor of Florida, the state with one of the lowest rates of gas stove ownership, making gas stoves his biggest issue.

If you can outrage 5% of the electorate enough that they vote - you can swing an election.
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[wdmso]

Republicans now want to
eliminate

the national income tax and replace it with a national consumption tax.

A consumption tax is a tax on what people spend, rather than what people earn.

Love Republicans logic by they assume all voters are as dumb as republican voters.


Household earnings $87,431

Total household expenditures $66,928

Housing expenditures $22,624

Transportation expenditures $10,961

Food expenditures $8,289

Increase in household expenditures from 2020 9.1%

Percent of people’s income devoted to living expenses 76.5%

Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class

consumption taxes is that they tend to be regressive. Regressive taxes absorb a larger share of the earnings of people with lower incomes than of people with higher incomes. This is because people with lower incomes use a larger portion of their income for consumption than do those with higher incomes.

Do republicans actually think the use the same % of their income to live as middle class Americans

Ya ok
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[Pete F.]

I suppose all the things Jim names were in the 2020 Republican platform?
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[Got Stripers]

If you think it’s crazy now, wait until November, when they realize the only play left is stopping any raise in the debt ceiling. We all know how fiscally responsible the republicans are, so let’s hold that hostage, no need to pay our bills.

[Pete F.]

McCarthy agreed to a secret deal to actually breach the debt limit and shut down everything the govt does beside the military and social security. no faa, border patrol, DOJ, school lunch, education, medicaid, food safety. Everything torched.

Time to mint the trillion dollar coin

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[wdmso]

Ryan Zinke stepped up to the microphone and into the Twilight Zone.
“Despite the ‘deep state’s’ repeated attempts to stop me, I stand before you as a duly elected member of the United States Congress and tell you that a deep state exists and is perhaps the strongest covert weapon the left has against the American people,” he told the House. The Montana Republican, who has returned to Congress after a scandal-plagued stint in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, informed his colleagues that “the deep state runs secret messaging campaigns” and is trying “to wipe out the American cowboy.” Yee-haw! Zinke was speaking in support of a new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, or,


And Democrats call it, the “Tinfoil Hat Committee.” In substance, it’s the QAnon committee, with a remit to probe the “deep state” and other wacky conspiracy theories.


Republicans making everyone’s predictions a reality
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[wdmso]

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., plans to form the "first-ever Anti-Woke Caucus" within the congressional ranks, a group that believes "wokeness" has become the "greatest domestic threat to America today."

Wokeness greatest domestic threat to America today."

Republicans got new prescriptions for their glasses .. they can see woke but not insurrection

Cowards
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[Pete F.]

Spineless Kevin McCarthy just said he will “look at” bringing a vote to expunge Trump’s impeachment.

In case you were wondering who owns him.
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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Spineless Kevin McCarthy just said he will “look at” bringing a vote to expunge Trump’s impeachment.

In case you were wondering who owns him.
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Facts can’t be erased like pencil marks. Nor can facts magically disappear.

But the Cult will try as hard as they can to re write History

[wdmso]

A group of Republican state legislators in Wyoming have proposed a ban on electric vehicles in the state until 2035 in an attempt to protect the oil and gas industries.

Like I’ve said the party that only looks backwards
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[wdmso]

Jordan: House Subpanel to Probe Treatment of Jan. 6 Defendants

More maga conspiracy omg criminals treated like criminals
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[Pete F.]

Kevin McCarthy
“ House Republicans are on a mission to end wasteful Washington spending.

From now on, if a federal bureaucrat wants to spend it, they have to come before us to defend it.”

For context, roughly 25% of our total national debt incurred over the last 230 years actually occurred during the 4 years of the Trump administration. That's right. 25% of our entire national debt, all during the Trump years.
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[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Kevin McCarthy
“ House Republicans are on a mission to end wasteful Washington spending.

From now on, if a federal bureaucrat wants to spend it, they have to come before us to defend it.”

For context, roughly 25% of our total national debt incurred over the last 230 years actually occurred during the 4 years of the Trump administration. That's right. 25% of our entire national debt, all during the Trump years.
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Now wait, Jim claims he despises Trump the man, but loves his policies, so he loves the decisions resulting in that bump in debt?

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Now wait, Jim claims he despises Trump the man, but loves his policies, so he loves the decisions resulting in that bump in debt?

Also the debt ceiling was raised 3 times while Trump was in office

Saw this

New species discovered: Republicans who (sometimes) care about deficits

Breaking scientific news: Researchers have identified a previously unknown species in D.C. Like cicadas, this species stays underground for years at a time, typically in four- or eight-year intervals. Its members hide away until there is an auspicious change in the ecosystem. Then, they bust out and wreak havoc.
This species: Republicans who care about deficits.

From 2017 through early 2021, members of the species lay dormant. Coincidentally, though, a nearly identical-looking sister species, Republicans who love debt, ruled Capitol Hill in their stead. With unified control of the House, Senate and White House, these debt-loving Republicans gleefully spilled red ink across the nation’s capital and beyond.
The GOP’s budgetary bloodletting began with a 2017 tax cut that cost $1.8 trillion. Their fiscal rampage then continued over the next few years, mostly on the other side of the ledger. In fact, between 2017 and early 2020, President Donald Trump added roughly as much to deficits through new spending as through tax cuts, appending his signature to more than $2 trillion in unfunded spending program expansions, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

During all that time, there was rarely a peep from the right side of the aisle about deficit concerns. The debt limit — the statutory ceiling on how much the federal government can borrow to pay off its existing bills — was raised several times with little fuss, and no conditions. No one tried to hold it hostage.

Then, the ecosystem changed. Specifically: A Democrat reentered the White House


No one’s is shocked and its not usual the GOP and their supporters suffer from amnesia

[PaulS]

Interesting article:

In his paper “Public Opinion Roots of Election Denialism,” published on Jan. 6, the second anniversary of the storming of the Capitol, Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at M.I.T., argues that “among Republicans, conspiracism has a potent effect on embracing election denialism, followed by racial resentment.”

According to Stewart’s calculations, “a Republican at the 10th percentile of the conspiracism scale has a 55.7 percent probability of embracing election denialism, compared to a Republican at the 90th percentile, at 86.6 percent, over 30 points higher. A Republican at the 10th percentile on the racial resentment scale has a 59.4 percent probability of embracing denialism, compared to 83.2 percent for a Republican at the 90th percentile on the same scale.”

In other words, the two most powerful factors driving Republicans who continue to believe that Trump actually won the 2020 election are receptivity to conspiracy thinking and racial resentment.

“The most confirmed Republican denialists,” Stewart writes, “believe that large malevolent forces are at work in world events, racial minorities are given too much deference in society and America’s destiny is a Christian one.”

Along parallel lines, Neil Siegel, a law professor at Duke, argues in his 2021 article “The Trump Presidency, Racial Realignment and the Future of Constitutional Norms,” that Donald Trump “is more of an effect than a cause of larger racial and cultural changes in American society that are causing Republican voters and politicians to perceive an existential threat to their continued political and cultural power — and, relatedly, to deny the legitimacy of their political opponents.”

In this climate, Siegel continues, “It is very unlikely that Republican politicians will respect constitutional norms when they deem so much to be at stake in each election and significant governmental decision.”

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Interesting article:

In his paper “Public Opinion Roots of Election Denialism,” published on Jan. 6, the second anniversary of the storming of the Capitol, Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at M.I.T., argues that “among Republicans, conspiracism has a potent effect on embracing election denialism, followed by racial resentment.”

According to Stewart’s calculations, “a Republican at the 10th percentile of the conspiracism scale has a 55.7 percent probability of embracing election denialism, compared to a Republican at the 90th percentile, at 86.6 percent, over 30 points higher. A Republican at the 10th percentile on the racial resentment scale has a 59.4 percent probability of embracing denialism, compared to 83.2 percent for a Republican at the 90th percentile on the same scale.”

In other words, the two most powerful factors driving Republicans who continue to believe that Trump actually won the 2020 election are receptivity to conspiracy thinking and racial resentment.

“The most confirmed Republican denialists,” Stewart writes, “believe that large malevolent forces are at work in world events, racial minorities are given too much deference in society and America’s destiny is a Christian one.”

Along parallel lines, Neil Siegel, a law professor at Duke, argues in his 2021 article “The Trump Presidency, Racial Realignment and the Future of Constitutional Norms,” that Donald Trump “is more of an effect than a cause of larger racial and cultural changes in American society that are causing Republican voters and politicians to perceive an existential threat to their continued political and cultural power — and, relatedly, to deny the legitimacy of their political opponents.”

In this climate, Siegel continues, “It is very unlikely that Republican politicians will respect constitutional norms when they deem so much to be at stake in each election and significant governmental decision.”

The current democratic leader in the house, Hakeem Jeffries, repeatedly denied that Trump won in 2016. That didn't stop democrats from making him house minority leader. Doesn't that suggest that your side doesn't actually care about election deniers?

The guys you cite here, interestingly, have absolutely zero to say about that. Same with Stacey Abrams' moronic, self-serving claims. Because it's only concerning when Republicans do it.

"“It is very unlikely that Republican politicians will respect constitutional norms "

This must explain why red states are rounding up all their political opponents and killing them.

During the pandemic, blue states ordered churches to be closed and allowed anti-police rallies to continue.

For every single example you want to cite of a republican trampling on a generally-accepted constitutional norm, I can cite an example of a democrat doing the same thing. But again, as always, it's only worrisome when republicans do it.

Yes, liberal democrats are much more likely to abide by what the constitution says, than republicans. Republicans are motivated by denying all elections we lose, and by racism. That's it.

the nice thing about truly demonizing your opposition, is that when you occasionally lose elections, you can always blame the other side. Nothing is ever your fault when the other side are a bunch of deplorable, racist, hate mongering barbarians. as long as you oppose them, you must be on the correct side of every single
issue.

That’s a lot easier than explaining why tax and spend economics like we enjoy here in CT is good policy, easier than defending the idea that living babies post birth, still are not human beings. Easier than explaining why it’s not discriminatory to have higher admissions standards for Asian Americans at Ivy League colleges. Easier than explaining why there’s no downside to letting men share bathrooms and locker rooms with girls. Easier than defending the brilliant idea that the solution to crime, is less police. Just smear the other side rather than defending your own platform. Makes life a lot easier.