Republicans

[JackLuis]

Rand Paul worries Dems want to ‘soften the amount of suffering’ from job losses

On Wednesday, during a Fox News interview, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued that it would be problematic if the government did too much to “soften the amount of suffering” from the job losses around the country — because then governors wouldn’t feel an urgency to reopen the economy and would wait for the threat of COVID-19 to subside.

“If you give people money and you make it less painful to be in a recession, we can stay in a recession longer. The recession is created by the government. The government shut the economy,” said Paul, in an interview reported by Axios. “So all of these governors, Democrat and Republican, will not have an incentive to open the economy if you soften the amount of suffering that they have created.”

Rand should think about dealing effectively with the pandemic first, to get the economy back on line. A good start would be his resignation.

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Since Donald Trump was sworn into office I've heard Republicans proclaim that collusion isn't a crime, fraud isn't a crime, sexual assault isn't a crime, perjury isn't a crime and lying to the FBI isn't a crime.

Once upon a time, didn't the Republican Party claim to be the Party of Law and Order? How did they become the Party of Obstruction and Cover-Ups?

I was reading in the news where Steve Bannon was just arrested for fraud.

It’s funny. Trump claims that he only hires the “best people”, but the people he hires keep getting arrested.

 

[JackLuis]

Conservative goes off on ‘bigots and wackos’ that now make up the Republican Party

Conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin attacked the Republican Party for being the party that welcomes “bigots and wackos” in her Thursday column.

This month, the GOP has earned two new candidates among their ranks that are avid supporters in the “satanic cannibalism” conspiracy theorists group QAnon.

“It is a favorite game in politics to take the most extreme member of the other party and then paint the entire party as extreme,” wrote Rubin. “However, when many candidates and officials plus the head of the party evidence nuttiness, it is fair to label the party as such.”

 

[jaF0]

I was reading in the news where Steve Bannon was just arrested for fraud.

It’s funny. Trump claims that he only hires the “best people”, but the people he hires keep getting arrested.

Be cool if they could tie him into something while at the Orange House.

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Trump's Former Campaign Manager and White House Strategist Has Been Arrested


With the arrest of Steve Bannon — the president’s former campaign chair and White House strategist — and a group of his allies on Thursday, the world received confirmation of what many have long said about the conservative movement: The right-wing, ethnonationalist, populist rhetoric is often little more than a scam to win support from the massive to fund the desires of elites.


At least, that’s the narrative told in the indictment of Bannon and others leading “We Build the Wall, Inc.” — an organization that raised money from private donors, supposedly to build parts of President Donald Trump’s border wall. (Don’t ask about the fact that Mexico was supposed to pay for the wall.) According to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, despite, Bannon’s claim that the organization was run entirely by volunteers, he and his allies was cashing in.

“While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss.


Bannon, on the other hand, “through a non-profit organization under his control (‘Non-Profit-1’), received over $1 million from We Build the Wall, at least some of which [Bannon] used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in [Bannon’s] personal expenses,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/th...onald-trump-jr/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[JackLuis]

Matt Gaetz unanimously admonished by House Ethics Committee over misconduct

The House Committee on Ethics announced in a report released Friday it had voted unanimously to admonish U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, over a tweet he sent which some saw as an attempt to intimidate a witness ahead of his testimony before Congress.

The Ethics Committee reviewed “allegations that Representative Gaetz sought to threaten, intimidate, harass, or otherwise improperly influence the President’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, in connection with Mr. Cohen’s testimony before a congressional committee.”


Rep. Gaetz, a hard-core conservative who last week announced he was “proud” to endorse a QAnon-believing GOP House candidate, in 2019 had tweeted:

Hey @MichaelCohen212 – Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot…

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

Be cool if they could tie him into something while at the Orange House.

After Bannon got arrested, Trump got very nervous and claimed he had nothing to do with Bannon's "Build the Wall" scam.

Trump is now saying that he “didn’t like it” and thought it was “showboating and maybe looking for funds.” In a stumbling response, he repeatedly said he never approved of the project and Bannon aside, that he didn’t know anyone involved. A quick perusal of the facts says otherwise.

Trump's OWN SON, Donald Jr, praised Bannon's project, calling it "private enterprise at its finest" and saying that what Bannon was doing was "amazing".

Trump's Acting Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf, called the group’s work a “game changer” and said he “welcomed” their efforts.

Right now Trump is nervously attempting to place a huge amount of distance between himself and Bannon's group of con men, but he welcomed this group’s efforts right up until ProPublica reported on the shoddy construction of the privately built wall, which was in danger of falling over. Nevertheless, the contractor, Fisher Industries, was awarded a massive government contract to build Trump’s wall and Trump “personally and repeatedly” intervened to make sure Fisher was awarded the project.

 

[allison22]

After Bannon got arrested, Trump got very nervous and claimed he had nothing to do with Bannon's "Build the Wall" scam.

Trump is now saying that he “didn’t like it” and thought it was “showboating and maybe looking for funds.” In a stumbling response, he repeatedly said he never approved of the project and Bannon aside, that he didn’t know anyone involved. A quick perusal of the facts says otherwise.

Trump's OWN SON, Donald Jr, praised Bannon's project, calling it "private enterprise at its finest" and saying that what Bannon was doing was "amazing".

Trump's Acting Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf, called the group’s work a “game changer” and said he “welcomed” their efforts.

Right now Trump is nervously attempting to place a huge amount of distance between himself and Bannon's group of con men, but he welcomed this group’s efforts right up until ProPublica reported on the shoddy construction of the privately built wall, which was in danger of falling over. Nevertheless, the contractor, Fisher Industries, was awarded a massive government contract to build Trump’s wall and Trump “personally and repeatedly” intervened to make sure Fisher was awarded the project.

This is standard operating procedure for Trump.

Every time one of Trump's co-conspirators is arrested, Trump pretends that he barely knows the newly arrested guy. Steve Bannon ran Trump's campaign and served as senior adviser for months in the White House, but Trump is all like, "Steve who? I never met the man!"

Trump pulled the same sort of childish stunt with Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn and Roger Stone.

If Donald Trump Jr. or Ivanka Trump get arrested be prepared for Trump to say that he's never met either of them and that they had no role in his administration.

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

Once upon a time, didn't the Republican Party claim to be the Party of Law and Order?

They did.

Now, they're the My Ass Got Arrested Party!

Thursday’s arrest of Steve Bannon, the last manager of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, carries powerful messages that strike fear in The Donald. The arrest of Bannon and three others on fraud charges grows from a pair of 2019 DCReport articles by Grant Stern.

If federal prosecutors can flip Bannon, a 66-year-old man ill-suited by health or personality to prison life, it would be devastating for Trump. Although the president enjoys immunity from federal indictment, that privilege ends the moment his presidency does.


Subpoenaed records are virtually certain to result in the indictment of Trump.

The Bannon arrest also helps explain why Trump tried, and failed, to install his own man in the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan.

ps://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/bannons-arrest-has-trump-quaking-in-his-golf-shoes/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[JackLuis]

Republicans have ‘major doggy doo on their shoes’ for sticking with Trump: Nancy Pelosi

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Republicans will regret backing Donald Trump for over three years, telling host Jake Tapper the GOP lawmakers have “major doggy doo on their shoes.”

Addressing attempts by Republicans — led by Trump — to suppress voting in November, the Democrat said her party needs to make sure people know to turn out to vote.

“They must vote early because their [the Republicans] playbook is one that has all kinds of obstacles to participation in our country,” Pelosi told host Tapper. “It’s so sad to see Republicans marching to this drummer. They’re going to have, as I’ve said over and over, major doggy doo on their shoes for a long time to come. But you know what? Ignore it.”

Is that why the Senate smells so bad?

 

[JackLuis]

‘Where’s the evidence?’ GOP lawmaker gets stumped on CNN after railing against mail-in voting

On CNN Monday, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) tried to defend President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about mail-in voting — only to be fact-checked in real time by anchor Jim Sciutto.

“I want to ask you about mail-in voting because, as you know, the president claimed with an increase in mail-in voting, this will be the ‘most rigged election in history,'” said Sciutto. “Georgia, where you’re from is one of 34 states that offers mail-in voting without an excuse. It’s done so since 2005. Do you believe that policy needs to be reversed in Georgia?”

“Two different things,” said Hice. “You have absentee voting been here for a long time. No one that I know of is opposed to absentee ballots.”

“What is the difference?” said Sciutto. “They vote through verified by signature, et cetera.”

The argument grew more combative, with Sciutto and Hice raising their voices over each other. Hice ultimately admitted that widespread mail-in voter fraud “has not happened yet,” and Sciutto instructed him to “please bring some data to support your claims” next time.

 

[JackLuis]

Jim Inhofe caught in decades-long corruption scandal to get government contracts to his close associates

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) turns 86 this year, and it’s unclear if he’s forgotten the promise he made to his voters to root out corruption in Washington. The four-term incumbent has been linked to a lobbyist-turned-senate-staffer-turn-lobbyist-then-staffer again for the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Meet John Bonsell, who was appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee (which Inhofe chairs) in 2018, and that promotion was a long time in the making.

Bonsell started working for Inhofe in 2001, but he left in 2007 to become a Vice President of Robison International Inc, a D.C. lobbying firm. The following year he joined an Altus, Oklahoma company named Aviation Training Consulting (ATC), because they hoped to obtain some contracts from the federal government. Bonsell appeared to have delivered because, by September, he’d scored $582,295 worth of contracts for the company in a single month.

Aviation Training Consulting received its first-ever defense contract, acquiring $582,295 worth of contracts his first month on the job.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

Since Donald Trump was sworn into office I've heard Republicans proclaim that collusion isn't a crime, fraud isn't a crime, sexual assault isn't a crime, perjury isn't a crime and lying to the FBI isn't a crime.

Once upon a time, didn't the Republican Party claim to be the Party of Law and Order? How did they become the Party of Obstruction and Cover-Ups?

Right around the civil rights act.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

I was reading in the news where Steve Bannon was just arrested for fraud.

It’s funny. Trump claims that he only hires the “best people”, but the people he hires keep getting arrested.

He meant the best people at committing crimes.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

I was reading in the news where Steve Bannon was just arrested for fraud.

It’s funny. Trump claims that he only hires the “best people”, but the people he hires keep getting arrested.

Trump's Former Campaign Manager and White House Strategist Has Been Arrested


With the arrest of Steve Bannon — the president’s former campaign chair and White House strategist — and a group of his allies on Thursday, the world received confirmation of what many have long said about the conservative movement: The right-wing, ethnonationalist, populist rhetoric is often little more than a scam to win support from the massive to fund the desires of elites.

They couldn't build a wall anyway. Most of it is government land. You need congress's approval to built it. Otherwise, it'd be illegal and they just tear that shit down. And Even Trump couldn't get his wall built. This was just a way for slightly smarter racists to scam dumber racists out of their money.


At least, that’s the narrative told in the indictment of Bannon and others leading “We Build the Wall, Inc.” — an organization that raised money from private donors, supposedly to build parts of President Donald Trump’s border wall. (Don’t ask about the fact that Mexico was supposed to pay for the wall.) According to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, despite, Bannon’s claim that the organization was run entirely by volunteers, he and his allies was cashing in.

“While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss.


Bannon, on the other hand, “through a non-profit organization under his control (‘Non-Profit-1’), received over $1 million from We Build the Wall, at least some of which [Bannon] used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in [Bannon’s] personal expenses,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/th...onald-trump-jr/?utm_source=push_notifications

They couldn't build a wall anyway. Most of it is government land. You need congress's approval to built it. Otherwise, it'd be illegal and they just tear that shit down. And Even Trump couldn't get his wall built. This was just a way for slightly smarter racists to scam dumber racists out of their money.

 

[JackLuis]

Time is running out for Republicans to finally stand against Trump’s malignant narcissism and sociopathy

Donald Trump’s narcissism and his sociopathy and his sadism have been dominant in his political life as president. It is this psychopathology that underlies his yearnings for power and control and greed. He has felt empowered and emboldened to push the limits on the guardrails of democracy. As Philip Rotner writes in his 2019 Bulwark piece, “Americans have spent generations during which the largest threats to our political system were external. Today, the threat is coming from inside the house.”

For four years Republican-elected officials have been complicit by allowing Trump to attack and diminish the Constitution, the rule of law, and our democracy. And they have permitted him to totally mishandle and botch the coronavirus pandemic. The truth is Trump could have been stopped in his tracks had Republicans had the spines and integrity to put country over their own political calculations. As Alex Shephard writes in 2019, Republicans’ silence has been “deafening.” Their silence has been condoning.

In truth there is no Republican party any longer. The latest RNC has shown that they have devolved into authoritarian grifters, no longer supporting the Constitution's call for freedom and justice, but only following the instructions of their donor class which is composed of uber-wealthy ideologues who want to rig the economy for their own interests.

The Republicans have supported Moscow Mitch's obstruction of Congress for a decade and allowed idiots like Gomert and Cruz to infest the nations highest offices. They have proven to lack the most basic ethical or intellectual principals to govern.

Time for a new "conservative" party!

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/22/1797264/-Trump-administration-to-cut-Head-Start-cancer-research-to-fund-their-child-detention-camps[/url]

You shouldn't use dailykos.com as a news source.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-kos/

 

[allison22]

I was reading in the news where Steve Bannon was just arrested for fraud.

It’s funny. Trump claims that he only hires the “best people”, but the people he hires keep getting arrested.

In the past few years we've caught the Republicans perpetrating crimes such as Assault and battery, bank fraud, bribery, electoral fraud, extortion, falsifying government documents, incitement, lying to Congress, lying to the FBI, marketing fraud, money laundering, Medicare fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury, plagiarism, sexual assault, sexual harassment, statutory rape, tax evasion, tax fraud, voter suppression, war profiteering and witness tampering.

The Republicans have forever lost the right to lecture anyone about law and order!

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

In the past few years we've caught the Republicans perpetrating crimes such as Assault and battery, bank fraud, bribery, electoral fraud, extortion, falsifying government documents, incitement, lying to Congress, lying to the FBI, marketing fraud, money laundering, Medicare fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury, plagiarism, sexual assault, sexual harassment, statutory rape, tax evasion, tax fraud, voter suppression, war profiteering and witness tampering.

The Republicans have forever lost the right to lecture anyone about law and order!

Rand Paul is also stealing fake crimes from Jimmy Smollett. Guess real crimes aren't good enough for them anymore. Maybe he wants a pay raise?
Don't worry Ted Cruz was quick to condemn this imaginary attack. Of course, no comments on anyone actually attack or killed by police. But he has got that made up shit on lockdown.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sen-rand-paul-says-attacked-092626817.html

 

[JackLuis]

‘I blame Mitch McConnell the most. At least Pelosi was trying’: Anger at GOP over economic pain grows

With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday ripped the Trump White House for “abandoning” tens of millions of workers and children after her brief conversation with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows yielded zero progress.

“The administration’s continued failure to acknowledge the funding levels that experts, scientists, and the American people know is needed leaves our nation at a tragic impasse
“This conversation made clear that the White House continues to disregard the needs of the American people as the coronavirus crisis devastates lives and livelihoods,” the California Democrat said in a statement after speaking with Meadows, an ultra-conservative former congressman, by phone for less than half an hour Thursday afternoon.

 

[jaF0]

I think there's plenty of blame to go around. Form what I read, they all need to get off their high horses.

 

[KeithD]

I think there's plenty of blame to go around. Form what I read, they all need to get off their high horses.

OK, what more could the Democrats be doing that they aren't? I don't buy this "all sides are to blame" crap. All roads lead to Donald Trump.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

OK, what more could the Democrats be doing that they aren't? I don't buy this "all sides are to blame" crap. All roads lead to Donald Trump.

Thought it was All roads led to Putin?
The only thing I can really blame Dems on is sabotaging Bernie TWICE in a row and replacing him with senile,'Nothing would fundamentally change' Biden. Dems would rather have Trump win Re-election then someone who might take away their sweet, sweet, big business bribe money. So it's a choice between an actual sociopath and Mr. Magoo.

 

[KeithD]

Thought it was All roads led to Putin?
The only thing I can really blame Dems on is sabotaging Bernie TWICE in a row and replacing him with senile,'Nothing would fundamentally change' Biden. Dems would rather have Trump win Re-election then someone who might take away their sweet, sweet, big business bribe money. So it's a choice between an actual sociopath and Mr. Magoo.

Yes, if you keep going on the road from Donald Trump, it goes directly to Vladimir Putin.

Bernie wasn't/isn't a Democrat. And it would be a slam dunk for the Republicans to paint him as a Commie to over half of the electorate. Bernie was never a viable option for president and has done squat even in the job he has, because he won't network and compromise in the direction of his goals. You have been following a pie-in-the-sky gadfly.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

Yes, if you keep going on the road from Donald Trump, it goes directly to Vladimir Putin.

Bernie wasn't/isn't a Democrat. And it would be a slam dunk for the Republicans to paint him as a Commie to over half of the electorate. Bernie was never a viable option for president and has done squat even in the job he has, because he won't network and compromise in the direction of his goals. You have been following a pie-in-the-sky gadfly.

Anyone still listening to Republicans are dipshits anyway. Facts don't matter. Reality doesn't matter. Truth doesn't matter. They could claim Bernie is an illegal alien from Mars and Republican voters will demand an Intergalactic Space Wall to be built.
Compare Bidens and Bernie Twitter followers and see what it says.

Nothing, huh?
https://www.berniesandersfacts.com/criticism-bernie-hasn-t-passed-anyt