Republicans

[JackLuis]

WATCH: GOP senator discusses how far up his ‘rear end’ he can insert his head

On Fox News Tuesday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) chose a colorful turn of phrase to attack Democrats after they pushed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) into accepting new hospital and testing funds in the small business relief bill for coronavirus.

“I don’t know how many thousands of businesses we have lost as a result of this weeks delay,” said Kennedy. “And it does make me angry, you can tell. I think it was wildly irresponsible. I’ve tried to see it from their point of view, but frankly I can’t get my head that far up my rear end.”

I don't agree with him but THAT was funny!

 

[bodysong]

Quote of the Week

“Fear of contracting COVID-19 does not amount to a sickness
or physical condition as required.”

– Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a April 15 press release, moments before
District Judge Tim Sulak said he’ll issue an order allowing voters fearful
of contracting COVID-19 to qualify for Vote-By-Mail through the disability
clause in Texas’ election code.


https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-04-17/headlines/

 

[JackLuis]

‘That’s really ignorant’: Anderson Cooper destroys Las Vegas mayor as she argues to reopen casinos

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman on Wednesday struggled in a CNN interview to defend her desire to immediately reopen casinos.

During the interview, CNN host Anderson Cooper seemed mystified by the push to reopen the Las Vegas strip without the necessary measures to mitigate the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

At one point, Goodman disagreed with a study which found that one person at a restaurant in China infected at least nine other people who were eating nearby.

“This isn’t China!” Goodman exclaimed. “This is Las Vegas, Nevada.”

“Wow,” Cooper shot back. “Okay, that’s really ignorant… That’s an ignorant, ignorant statement. That’s a restaurant. And yes, it’s in China but they are human beings too.”

“It just seems really irresponsible,” Cooper advised. “You’re not out there doing anything about trying to improve testing… or improve contact tracing. You’re simply sitting there and saying, ‘Get back to work, get these casinos open again.'”

“And you have no idea or plan,” he added. “You’ve done nothing to try to figure out what’s the best way to make that happen. How far apart should a dealer be from the people? I mean, you’re offering nothing other than being a cheerleader.”

 

[JackLuis]

TX Lt. Gov Dan Patrick Insisting Everybody Die For Mammon. Again.

So very ‘pro-life.'

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told Tucker Carlson Monday that the economic hardship many Americans are suffering because of the coronavirus has “vindicated" his crazy-making statements from last month when he suggested that old coots like himself are willing to croak to keep the economy humming. Just think of all the caskets you'll buy! And if patriots violate social distancing and hold big, crowded funerals, they'll generate even more business. It's a perpetual death machine.

PATRICK: When you start shutting down society and people start losing their paychecks and businesses can't open and governments aren't getting revenues ... I'm sorry to say that I was right on this.

As my dad would say, Patrick is sorry, all right. Like the brain-deprived shutdown protestors, Patrick assumes governors responding sensibly to a pandemic is the only reason the economy is shattered. If Americans happily ignored reality and kept everything open, we could enjoy our normal lives for the remaining few minutes we had them.

43,000 Patriots sacrifice themselves for Mammon! Dan just wants a few more, maybe another 57,000 will turn the trick?

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Andrew Cuomo unloads on ‘grim reaper’ Mitch McConnell for saying states should declare bankruptcy amid COVID-19 crisis

During his usual TV coronavirus briefing this Thursday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ripped into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his comments that states should be allowed to declare bankruptcy instead of getting unrestricted funds from the latest coronavirus relief package.

According to Cuomo, “this is really one of the dumb ideas of all time,” adding that not funding state and local governments is “incredibly short-sighted’ Cuomo went on to say that McConnell’s plan ignores police and fire departments, teachers and schools.

“States should declare bankruptcy? That’s how you’re going to bring this national economy back? By states declaring bankruptcy? You want to see that market fall through the cellar?” Cuomo continues. “Let New York state declare bankruptcy. Let Michigan declare bankruptcy. … You will see a collapse of this national economy.”

Later during the briefing, Cuomo referring to McConnell as a “self-proclaimed grim reaper.”

@Moscow Mitch is the reason FOR the Second Amendment.

 

[JackLuis]

Mitch the bitch, aka Moscow Mitch, AKA Dickus Maximus was in the news today.

McConnell To Kentucky: Drop Dead

The Senate Republican leader is blocking aid to his own state, which is facing one of the worst pension crises in the entire country

It’s not every day that a U.S. Senator explicitly enriches his out-of-state Wall Street donors while telling his own constituents to drop dead. Usually that kind of behavior is somewhat obscured by legislative machinations and spin. But if there was going to be any lawmaker who would be unabashedly blatant about it, you had to know it would be Mitch McConnell.

The Senate Republican leader just finished up shoveling trillions of dollars of federal largesse to businesses and billions of dollars of tax cuts to the super-rich. Having allocated all that cash to the interests that bankroll his political career, McConnell is now taking a hardline stance against a modest amount of aid to states because he says he doesn’t want resources used to prevent cuts to government workers’ retirement and health benefits.

"There’s not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations,” McConnell said.

His goal is to use the coronavirus crisis to realize one of the most radical long-term goals of the conservative movement: empowering states to break existing contracts and slash previously pledged pension benefits for teachers, firefighters, cops, first responders and other public-sector employees.

In a half-assed play to avoid looking like he’s deliberately enriching his elite financiers and starving the peasants, McConnell cast himself as a principled opponent of “blue state bailouts” -- a seemingly shrewd anti-coastal framing for his own potentially difficult reelection campaign.

That’s right: for all the talk of pension shortfalls in blue states like Illinois and California, the bright red state of Kentucky has one of the most underfunded pension systems in the country. The gap between promised benefits and current resources has been estimated to be between $40 billion and $60 billion. One of the state’s pension funds is less than 15 percent funded.

Those shortfalls are not the product of Kentucky’s public-sector workers being greedy or lavishly remunerated -- Kentucky teachers, for example, are paid 23 percent less than other workers with similar educational credentials, and they do not receive Social Security benefits.

The Kentucky Plantation System is still in place.

 

[bodysong]

(Mitch) McConnell didn’t say he might favor state and local aid some time in the future.
He simply said no, so there was no state aid in Phase 4. And now it’s becoming clear
that “No” really meant “Never.”

Meanwhile, his office is calling aid to states “Blue State Bailouts” —
as though it’s only states with lots of Democrats that need help to
avoid having to lay off teachers and cops, and not every state in the Union.

(reference to Igor Bobic's twitter account for the quote about Blue State Bailouts)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/22/mitch-mcconnell-states-drop-dead/

Igor Bobic ✓
Twitter › igorbobic

Congress Sets Up Another Mad Dash For Small Business Cash
By Arthur Delaney, Emily Peck, Igor Bobic

The House on Thursday is set to allocate another $310 billion to a small business
loan program it established to provide relief to Americans out of work due to
the coronavirus epidemic. The bill, which the Senate passed earlier this week,
also includes additional funding for hospitals, emergency disaster loans, and
a national program to expand testing for the disease.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-small-business-loans-ppp_n_5ea1a1cac5b6d987ba8a177a

 

[Yerkiddin]

Early removal of coronavirus restrictions and social distancing:

My guess (I'm not a doctor, and while I have a bachelor's degree in science and a juris doctorate, none of my education has been in medicine or biology) is that when our government removes restrictions early, we will see infections skyrocket, and a lot of people will die. It will be like Italy, but on a much larger scale. I'm thinking we will overload our medical system, and there will be places where people won't try keeping older or other high-risk patients alive, as there won't be beds and ventilators enough.

I will blame the Republican party when this happens, but that's just my opinion. I do have some other guesses, though:

With all the Republican propaganda to reopen, and all of the independent/Democrat mistrust of that propaganda, it will be the Republican voters that do more of the dying. Since elderly voters were a big supportive group for Republican candidates, it will be interesting to see what this does to the voting this election.

I do worry for our postal employees. They are out in public, and that is going to be even more hazardous when they remove the restrictions.

It still strikes me as funny to see Republican demonstrators, armed and at the capital, demanding a removal of restrictions, armed to the teeth, with signs about this "democrat hoax" of a pandemic, but they're still wearing breathing masks and in some cases gloves and other gear. I wonder what they would say if people of color were trying to demonstrate at the state capital while armed. It's a good thing most of the WWII guys are gone, since many of the demonstrators have Nazi flags.

 

[hogjack]

Vasectomies Do Not Need to Be Painful or Uncomfortable

 

[phrodeau]

Vasectomies Do Not Need to Be Painful or Uncomfortable

If you make the text blue, then maybe your links will work.

 

[JackLuis]

It's A 'Kick Mitch McConnell In The Dick' Contest, And Everyone Is Playing!

Well! Seems like people really didn't like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's little comments about "blue state bailouts" and telling states like New York to just declare bankruptcy very much! And they are expressing their displeasure by punching him in the face while saying bless your heart at the same time, and it is just lovely.

It started yesterday with New York Governor/Acting American President Andrew Cuomo, who during his daily press briefing jumped McConnell's ass behind the gym, noting that hey you turtle-ass motherfucker, you wanna talk about bailouts, how about we talk about how your shitty red state wouldn't even exist if blue states like New York didn't foot your fucking bill, you wanna talk about that? Yeah I thought not.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Incredibly stupid’ Mitch McConnell burned to the ground by NY lawmaker over ‘ignorant’ bankruptcy proposal

On MSNBC Saturday, Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) excoriated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for saying he’d rather let blue states go bankrupt than give them federal money.

“But let’s not forget about what Mitch McConnell just said is incredibly stupid,” continued Rose. “At a moment where consumer demand is going down, as a consequence, tax revenue is going down, confidence in our economy is going down, to allow for our cities and states to go bankrupt, will hit the market in ways that we cannot even understand at this point.”

Mitch knows that Rethuglicunts will lose the Senate this year. He is just hopping to get enough RWNJ Judges on the bench to fuck up America for decades after his demise!

 

[JackLuis]

Republicans want Trump to scapegoat China to win re-election — but he can’t even get that right

Trump may be forced to scapegoat China to deflect blame from himself if the death toll continues to rise and the economy remains moribund, and recent polls have found Americans don’t trust what he says about the pandemic and feel the federal government’s response was inadequate.

The Inadequacy of Ignorance

 

[JackLuis]

Is ‘Grim Reaper’ Mitch McConnell finally facing his day of reckoning?

Thursday’s White House coronavirus rally will go down in history as the day the president directed the scientists to investigate whether ultraviolet light can somehow be put inside COVID-19 patients to kill the virus, or whether disinfectant can be injected into their lungs to clean them. He was very proud of himself, obviously believing that he’d discovered some kind of breakthrough after hearing a briefing about how ordinary people can kill the virus in their homes.

One shudders to think what it must be like to be in meetings with this person. It brings to mind former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s famous quote after trying to teach him some basics about international relations: “He’s a fucking moron.”

He (Moscow Mitch) said these states and cities can use this crisis to solve their “pension problem,” and that he’s saving future generations from their fiscal irresponsibility. He later made clear just exactly which states he was talking about by putting out a memorandum in which he described the states requesting help as “Blue State Bailouts.”

Of course the man who blithely passed massive tax cuts for the rich and allowed military spending to grow to unprecedented levels over the past three years, without batting an eye, is now deeply concerned about budget deficits in Democratic states.

McConnell famously said back in 2009 that his job was to make Barack Obama a one-term president. He failed. It looks as though he may get the job done for Donald Trump instead — while destroying the country in the process.

"Pitch Mitch into the Ditch!"

 

[jaF0]

Will the COV wipe the GOP?

 

[JackLuis]

GOP in disarray as members revolt over how to respond to COVID-19 pandemic with election looming

According to a report from the Washington Post, the Republican leadership is battling with some members of the caucus over another financial package designed to help Americans through the coronavirus pandemic.

On one side are senior Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who want to hold off on any more large stimulus packages that can help keep the economy afloat, and on the other side are senators who want more money for their desperate constituents.

According to the Post, “The economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic is opening up a rift in the Republican Party — as the Trump administration and some GOP senators advocate for more aggressive spending while senior party leaders say now may be the time to start scaling back.”

Grim Reaper vs Republicans?

 

[JackLuis]

Tom Cotton: Ban Chinese students from learning science so they can’t ‘steal’ coronavirus vaccine

They let this idiot wander around unsupervised!

 

[JackLuis]

Mitch McConnell is ‘floundering’ after sucking up to Trump and is now ‘out of touch’ with his own party: conservative columnist

Under a headline boldly stating the Kentucky senators is no more a “stable genius” than the president is, Rubin wrote, “There is a tendency in the mainstream media to attribute nearly unlimited political prowess to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Certainly, his hard-line gamesmanship has worked to fill the courts (and two slots on the Supreme Court) with conservative judges. Beyond that? He failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and he routinely gets boxed about the ears by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), as she did again in achieving — with a strong assist from Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer — many (but not all) of Democrats’ aims in the coronavirus relief package passed last week. McConnell’s hard line collapsed, and then he really made a mess of things,” before adding, “In rejecting the plea of governors and mayors for additional funding to make up for huge expenditures and revenue shortfalls stemming from the coronavirus, McConnell made himself a target.”

Pitch Mitch into the Ditch!

 

[KeithD]

Tom Cotton: Ban Chinese students from learning science so they can’t ‘steal’ coronavirus vaccine

They let this idiot wander around unsupervised!

This is hardly news, though. I was being told over forty years ago to beware of (and watch for) Chinese national university students soaking up as much U.S. technology they could get hold of to send home and replicate and build on.

 

[akatrex]

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?

Oh I thought you were referring to Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC . . .

What difference at this point does it make?

 

[Fuzzy1975]

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?

Oh I thought you were referring to Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC . . .

You clearly have a comprehension problem, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, are not Republicans. To make matter worse CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC are news organizations, not Politicians.

Are those voices in your head causing some confusion? If so, seek help while you can.

 

[magicalmoments]

So how many republicans know that impeached president trump is a total nut job and not just misrepresented by the mainstream media?
I can tell you that everyone in New Zealand is laughing at him and wondering what's wrong with USA citizens that they tolerate him.

 

[KeithD]

So how many republicans know that impeached president trump is a total nut job and not just misrepresented by the mainstream media?
I can tell you that everyone in New Zealand is laughing at him and wondering what's wrong with USA citizens that they tolerate him.

SOME U.S. citizens. But, yes, too many of them.

 

[JackLuis]

National GOP Senatorial Committee warns candidates: ‘Don’t defend Trump’ on pandemic response

The Republican Party has seemingly given up on defending President Donald Trump’s widely criticized response to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now advising its Senate candidates to instead put the blame on China.

Politico reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is making attacks on China the centerpiece of its efforts to deflect blame for the crisis, while at the same time trying to paint Democrats as being “weak” on China.

Rethuglicunts blaming China, but...

The difficulty for the party is that President Donald Trump has repeatedly praised the Chinese government for its handling of the virus, including specific praise for President Xi Jinping.

“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus,” Trump wrote just three months ago. “The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”

The problem is if they lambast China, how do they NOT lambast Lumpy too???

 

[KeithD]

Rethuglicunts blaming China, but...

But that doesn't account for the six weeks Trump farted around after his own people told him it was going to be a pandemic.