Republicans

[JackLuis]

Fox News poll spells doom for GOP in Arizona

The GOP’s chances in Arizona have not looked this bad in years.

A new Fox News poll of registered voters in the Grand Canyon State shows Democrat Mark Kelly miles ahead of Republican Sen. Martha McSally — 50% to 37% — with 8% undecided.

Further, McSally’s problems appear to come from within her own party. While Kelly enjoys the support of nearly 90% of Democrats, only 73% of Arizona Republicans back McSally.

Trump himself did not perform well in the same survey, getting edged out 46% to 42% by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, with 5% of voters undecided. (The poll has a 3.5 percent margin of error.)

The further into the poll you go, the worse it looks — for McSally, as well as for Trump and the Republican Party in general.

 

[JackLuis]

GOP scrambling to find delegates willing to attend Trump’s convention after he bailed on North Carolina: report

On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Republicans are struggling to find delegates to attend the GOP convention.

“Adding to the uncertainty surrounding the convention is the trepidation delegates are feeling about attending a crowded gathering,” reported Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman. “Already, states like Indiana are having difficulty filling both their delegate and alternate spots. Many convention delegates are over 60 and therefore more vulnerable to the virus.”

“Indiana, Vice President Mike Pence’s home state, has struggled to fill its slots with the party donors and activists who typically compete for the highly coveted positions to represent the state on the convention floor,” the report continued.

How many Repug's who spent thousands of dollars to get a picture with Trump are turning those pictures to the wall?

 

[JackLuis]

‘Awful news for Republican Senate candidates’: Odds of GOP holding Senate collapsing over support for Trump

According to an analysis by Politico’s Jeff Greenfield, recent voting trends combined with Donald Trump’s unpopularity with the electorate will likely see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lose his power following the November election.

First proposing, “It’s a question as obvious as it is critical: How will the trio of crises—the pandemic, the economy, the demands for racial justice—affect the 2020 race for the White House,” the columnist said it will be a major factor this election cycle and that is not good news for Republicans.

“History has some powerful answers to this question—and they leave Republican partisans with a strong case of agita,” he wrote. “As a general proposition, when the nation is in a state of crisis, things do not go well for the President’s party. When a war becomes a quagmire (Korea in ’52, Vietnam in ’68), when the economy craters (1980, 2008), voters look for a different leader. Far from a ‘retreat to safety’ or a ‘rally round the flag’ sentiment, there is an instinct to show the people in charge the way to the exit.”

Bye Mitch!

 

[JackLuis]

Susan Collins skipped Trump’s visit to Maine after president threatened colleague Lisa Murkowski

Protesters were expected to meet President Donald Trump on his Friday afternoon visit to Maine, but Senator Susan Collins, caught in the middle of a hotly contested re-election race this fall, did not.

Instead, the embattled Republican senator will be in Washington, where she has “several federal and non-federal events on her schedule,” a Collins spokeswoman told NBC News.

People flee the Republicans and Republicans flee the PeeResident! Can Trumpski make to to November?????

 

[jaF0]

will likely see Senate Majority Leader [Moscow] Mitch lose his power following the November election.

Bye Mitch!

Insufficient. He must lose his seat. Or his ass if you will.

 

[JackLuis]

Gay Porn Star Threatening To Out Homophobic GOP Senator ‘LG’

You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that Lindsey Graham is the Republican senator gay porn star Sean Harding says has hired "every sex worker I know."

It seems to have started with yesterday's tweet in which Harding put out a call for sex workers to speak out against "a homophobic republican senator."

"There is a homophobic republican senator who is no better than Trump who keeps passing legislation that is damaging to the lgbt and minority communities. Every sex worker I know has been hired by this man. Wondering if enough of us spoke out if that could get him out of office?"

"Fellow sex workers I invite you to stand with me during this crucial time. EVERY major news network is in my inbox including high profile lawyers willing to take this case. There's strength in numbers - I KNOW you're out there because EVERYONE has a story about LG when we talk. "

Just in case there’s any doubt who “LG” is, The Gaily Grind noted, “When a Twitter user responded to his threat with a GIF of GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, Harding responded with a winking face emoji.”

The point, of course, is not Graham’s sexual behavior, per se, but his hypocrisy. Rolling Stone wrote about the long-standing rumors about Graham's sexuality in January:

The rumors are only relevant insofar as Graham’s record on gay rights, which, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ civil-rights organization, has been largely atrocious. The group describes Graham as “a consistent opponent of everything from marriage equality to protecting LGBTQ workers from employment discrimination” (though in 2015, he called for the GOP to drop its demand for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a woman and a man).

Harding says he wants to wait for more to join him before he speaks further. But there are plenty on Twitter willing to talk now. And meanwhile, “Lady G” is at the top of U.S. Twitter trends as I write this.

Ms Lindsey must come out, errr.. refute this egregious slur. Come on Lindsey refute that!

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

Trump tweets LAW AND ORDER, then dangles pardons for his criminal cronies.

 

[JackLuis]

Kentucky sports-talk host endorses Black legislator pulled over while campaigning against Mitch McConnell

Progressives rebelled against conservative Democrat Amy McGrath with the hashtag #BookerBeatsMitch, supporting her primary opponent state Rep. Charles Booker in the race to dethrone Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones almost decided to run against McConnell, but he’s come out for Booker instead.

He told his 200,000-plus Twitter audience in a video that they should vote for whoever they want on whichever side of the aisle they want.

“After a lot of thought, I’m voting for Charles Booker,” Jones said. He went on to explain that he’s watched Booker for a while and has been impressed by the leadership role he’s taken on over the past several weeks of unrest.

Also in the article, Kentucky Cops.

Last December, Booker was on a “listening tour” across the state of Kentucky when he was pulled over by police for looking suspicious.

“We’re on the road here to Eastern Kentucky, leaving my neighborhood in the West End, and our team got pulled over,” Booker explained. “The officer said we looked suspicious, we don’t belong around here, what are you doing?”

In March, McConnell whined that it wasn’t fair that he was being attacked by his Democratic opponents because of coronavirus.

Tough titty Mitch, what isn't fair is that you are still around after the Merritt Garner fiasco.

 

[JackLuis]

GOP’s 2020 election plans crippled by out of control cops: report

According to a report from Politico, Republicans who were planning to run on a law and order platform as part of their pitch to remain in power in the 2020 election are seeing it slip away due to an avalanche of viral videos showing out-of-control cops assaulting — and sometimes killing — Americans.

With Republican plans to run on a strong economy in tatters due to fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that has added 40 million to the unemployment rolls, Republicans had hoped to run as the party of law and order — which President Donald Trump continues to tweet every day — only to see the tide turn against police since the videoed killing of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis cops.

Gross Old Patriarchs losing their shit as the country wises up to their lies and deceit.

Unable to control the media, which is now liberated from the Power of the Printing Presses in the Information Age, Grumpy Old Pricks wail in fear!!!!

 

[JackLuis]

‘I’m fed up’: Ex-NBA player attacks Mitch McConnell for caring more about his donors than Kentucky

Speaking to Stephanie Ruhle, the outstanding former outside shooter said that he thinks Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul prioritize their own pocketbook over the voters in Kentucky. After addressing Paul standing in the way of the anti-lynching bill, Chapman said that McConnell is “out of touch with the people of Kentucky.”

“Our leadership is really lacking and I want to say one thing here, real quick, Steph, if you don’t mind, I spent about 15 years in drug addiction from painkillers,” Chapman confessed. “We had a senator here in my home state, he was elected my junior year in high school, 35 years ago, I was 16, and we didn’t have an opioid epidemic then and nor was this man a rich man at the time. Fast-forward about 15 years, and it is 2000, I became addicted to Oxycontin. This senator expected more money from big pharma than any politician in American history. He’s failed to hold Perdue pharma, or big pharma, accountable for anything in congress.”

Least Wanted Man in America#2, Moscow Pharma Mitch McConnell! With out him Trump would be just another asshole from New York.

 

[jaF0]

McConnell Under Water on Approval in Kentucky
Public Policy Polling|20 days ago
PPP's newest Kentucky poll finds that Mitch McConnell continues to be unpopular in the state, with only 41% of voters approving of the job he's doing to 48% who disapprove.

 

[JackLuis]

McConnell Under Water on Approval in Kentucky
Public Policy Polling|20 days ago
PPP's newest Kentucky poll finds that Mitch McConnell continues to be unpopular in the state, with only 41% of voters approving of the job he's doing to 48% who disapprove.

Can someone hold him down until the bubbles stop?

 

[JackLuis]

Incompetence or Voter Suppression???


‘Complete meltdown’: Election chaos in Georgia as voters face long lines, broken machines and confused poll workers

According to reports, Georgia election workers and voters are experiencing major issues in Atlanta this Tuesday during the state’s primaries, mainly due to problematic election machines, forcing people to stand in long lines and cast provisional ballots.

In a post to Twitter, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said that people have been waiting in line since 7am this morning.

See what happens when you elect Republicunts!

 

[jaF0]

Lindsey Graham Shaken After Latest S.C. Polls Show His Demise

Graham's general election challenger, Jaime Harrison, publicly responded to the latest available polling. He posted on Twitter: 'New @Civiqs poll shows Lindsey Graham is under water with a 35% approval rating.

 

[JackLuis]

Republican rips ‘drunk with power’ GOP governor — and announces she is running against him in 2020 primary

The incumbent Republican governor in New Hampshire is being challenged in the Granite State’s 2020 GOP primary.

Karen Testerman, the host of the “We Hold These Truths” radio show, is challenging Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) in the September 8th primary, according to a new report by WMUR reporter John DiStaso.

Testerman says Sununu has become “drunk with power” over executive orders to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

What? Republicunt Hubris? Never heard of it.

 

[JackLuis]

Ivanka ‘dissociated princess’ schtick is no longer ‘viable’: Trump family biographer

On Tuesday, writing for Vanity Fair, Trump family biographer Emily Jane Fox revealed how first daughter Ivanka Trump’s political strategy of playing the “dissociated princess” has played to her advantage — and how recent events suggest her strategy is reaching its limits.

“Ivanka’s ability to operate on this otherworldly separate track — both from the president and from the everyday realities and rules that surround most Americans — was both an asset to the kind of power she cared about and a contrast from her father,” wrote Fox. “She ignored the harsher realities of the administration she was part of by creating a distinct narrative that she could market to those who were open to buying it as a way to both aid her father and whatever role she would ultimately decide to take on once he leaves the White House. It is a kind of impulse control and compartmentalization that the elder Trump does not possess. Her father is temperamentally unable not to dwell on and rave about exactly what is on his mind or the public consciousness at that precise moment, even when it’s in his obvious political interest to do so.”

Princess Ivanka is the 'Soft racism of Trumpville.' Not her fathers 'road apples,' but the cow pats of Trumpublicunts!

 

[JackLuis]

Lincoln Project throws Iowa GOP senator’s words back in her face in new campaign ad

A new ad from the Lincoln Project uses words from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) to call out her deafening silence on the massive amount of government debt that’s accumulated under President Donald Trump.

The ad starts off by showing a clip of Ernst in 2014 saying that she would make “big spenders” in Washington D.C. “squeal” just like the pigs she used to castrate while growing up on a farm.

However, the deficit has only continued to grow since Ernst’s election, and is projected to hit several trillion dollars this year.

“It’s been six years, Joni,” the ad states. “All we’ve heard so far are crickets.”

"We will see you in November, when we send you back to the farm again!"

 

[Ziggins]

Re: the civil war, one explanation I've seen is ambition. So many officers joined the South because they saw more opportunities for advancement. The South was loaded with ambition and the North was left with guys like McClellan and 75 year old Winfield Scott.

 

[KeithD]

Re: the civil war, one explanation I've seen is ambition. So many officers joined the South because they saw more opportunities for advancement. The South was loaded with ambition and the North was left with guys like McClellan and 75 year old Winfield Scott.

That's weird. They joined because of where they came from and with the understanding at the time that states had a right to secede if they wanted to. (It only became treasonous because the North won and wrote history). Can you name a couple of northerners who took officer positions in the southern army? If not, the argument doesn't hold water.

 

[jaF0]

That's weird. They joined because of where they came from ...

Not really. It was a matter of what they believed and which ideology they supported. Jeff and Abe were born about 100 miles apart. Many families/households were separated as one brother went Blue and the other Grey. It wasn't north or south as such, it was Union or Confederacy. Some states were more or less undecided and therefore divided, like Kentucky. There are small town, family and church cemetaries with gravestones of both sides.

 

[KeithD]

Not really. It was a matter of what they believed and which ideology they supported. Jeff and Abe were born about 100 miles apart. Many families/households were separated as one brother went Blue and the other Grey. It wasn't north or south as such, it was Union or Confederacy. Some states were more or less undecided and therefore divided, like Kentucky. There are small town, family and church cemetaries with gravestones of both sides.

That's not relevant to the challenge I made to the premise given. The premise was that some army officers went with the South in the Civil War for better chance at advancement. I said that I thought the determination to go to the South was based on where they were from and asked for specific examples of a northern-origin officer going with the South. Robert E. Lee, for instance, was offered the command of the Union Army two days before he resigned to go with his home state, Virginia. Couldn't have been advanced in the smaller southern army any more than that. He went with the South because he was a southerner. There was no southern army for officers to be in before the war. So, southern officers in the Union Army had to either stick or go with their states.

The premise was that at least some officers went for advanced placement. If true, there had to be northern officers going with the South for better placement opportunity. If so, who were some of them? That was my challenge. Name some. I think the premise is false or has only very rare examples.

I could see a premise that some southern officers in the Union Army went with the South because they were afraid they'd be demoted or marginalized in the Union Army because of suspicions of their loyalties. But that wasn't the premise given. And, on the face of it, it wasn't a big issue. Lee, a southerner, was offered the top spot in the Union Army. That wasn't a demotion or a hint at suspicion of loyalties.

 

[Ziggins]

Can you name a couple of northerners who took officer positions in the southern army? If not, the argument doesn't hold water.

Civil war history is not so interesting that I know all the generals, but there is John Pemberton of Pennsylvania.

 

[KeithD]

John Pemberton was born and raised in Georgia (the South).

 

[Ziggins]

John Pemberton was born and raised in Georgia (the South).

That is Lt. Colonel John Stith Pemberton. General John Clifford Pemberton was born in Pennsylvania.

 

[KeithD]

That is Lt. Colonel John Stith Pemberton. General John Clifford Pemberton was born in Pennsylvania.

OK. The Pennsylvania Pemberton was married to a Virginian and served extensively in the South before the war. His marriage is given as the reason he went with the South, but it's true that he was kicked up a rank between being in the Union Army (brevet major) and in the CSA army (lt. colonel).