Republicans

[jaF0]

John C. Breckinridge
Bushrod Johnson
Samuel Cooper

https://www.history.com/news/6-generals-who-fought-against-their-home-state-in-the-civil-war

 

[JackLuis]

Jacksonville emerges as most likely site for GOP convention

While the search for new venues goes on, the Florida city could be the site for President Donald Trump's acceptance speech

WASHINGTON — As the Republicans scout new cities for the public-facing portion of their August convention, Jacksonville, Florida, is emerging as the most likely location for President Donald Trump’s official acceptance speech, according to four Republicans familiar with the discussions.

No final decision has been made and several other states are still being considered after the president uprooted the spectacle portion of the event from Charlotte, North Carolina, last week following a back-and-forth with the Democratic governor over health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Roy Cooper said he could not, in good faith, guarantee thousands would be able to gather together in a large arena, so the Republican National Committee said it was “forced” to evaluate other cities for the president’s speech. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that he would be open to having the convention in his state.

Or maybe the Repugs could select a real candidate?

 

[JackLuis]

Ousted IG says State Department tried to bully him into dropping Saudi arms probe

Recently ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was carrying out five separate reviews into potential wrongdoings by the department when he was terminated.

That’s according to a 253 page-transcript of Linick’s June 3 video conference interview with top lawmakers released Wednesday that also revealed the watchdog was “shocked” when he learned of his firing and was the target of bullying efforts by State Department Undersecretary Brian Bulatao.

Questioned by the lawmakers why he thought Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked President Donald Trump to remove him, Linick said any valid reasons have yet to materialize.

It was already known that Linick’s office was reviewing two matters—one regarding Pompeo and his wife’s potential unlawful use of government funds and another regarding the administration’s use last year of emergency powers to dodge congressional oversight and sell billions of dollars in arms to Saudi Arabia.

In the interview, Linick told lawmakers there were also audits of three other matters that “involve the Office of the Secretary in some way.”

Pompeo, for his part, responded to the transcript Wednesday by dismissing Linick as a “bad actor in the Inspector General Office here. He didn’t take on the mission of the State Department to make us better.”

Better at Fuckery, Mike?

 

[KeithD]

John C. Breckinridge
Bushrod Johnson
Samuel Cooper

https://www.history.com/news/6-generals-who-fought-against-their-home-state-in-the-civil-war

Thanks, but again, no evidence of supporting the premise that they went to the south for advancement opportunities. All were slavery sympathizers from before the war, with Breckinridge and Johnson having connections to a slave border state, Kentucky, and the cause of slavery after their connections in the North, and Cooper, like Pemberton, married a Virginian (with old family Virginia connections).

The premise we're working against is military men from the North going with the South instead seeking opportunities for advancement. All mentioned so far had a greater connection to the South and its ideals/underpinnings than any evidence of seeking advancement in position.

 

[JackLuis]

Thanks, but again, no evidence of supporting the premise that they went to the south for advancement opportunities. All were slavery sympathizers from before the war, with Breckinridge and Johnson having connections to a slave border state, Kentucky, and the cause of slavery after their connections in the North, and Cooper, like Pemberton, married a Virginian (with old family Virginia connections).

The premise we're working against is military men from the North going with the South instead seeking opportunities for advancement. All mentioned so far had a greater connection to the South and its ideals/underpinnings than any evidence of seeking advancement in position.

Who fucking cares, Pilot?

 

[KeithD]

Who fucking cares, Pilot?

Oh, so sorry. I forgot it was all about you.

 

[JackLuis]

Oh, so sorry. I forgot it was all about you.

Read the thread title, Pilot.

 

[KeithD]

Read the thread title, Pilot.

I followed the discussion going. I didn't introduce new material. Stop being a jackass. If you don't like topics being discussed, just don't read them. You don't own this Web site or even this thread. If you think you do, show me the receipts for the check you sent.

 

[JackLuis]

John Bolton’s spinelessness has come back to haunt him

For one magic moment, the eyes of the nation were on former National Security Adviser John Bolton. The impeachment of President Donald Trump was ongoing, and Bolton was known to have played a critical role behind the scenes of the Ukraine scheme at the heart of the proceedings’ charges. Reports indicated that his potential testimony would be explosive.

But Bolton refused to testify before the House of Representatives’ impeachment hearing, later saying he was only willing to testify for the Senate. Yet the Republican Party that would ultimately acquit Trump in the Senate refused to call any witnesses, so Bolton’s voice was never heard. At a critical moment in the nation’s history, Bolton chose to withhold potentially vital information from the public and from the officials tasked with adjudicating the president’s fitness to serve.

Now that cowardice has come back to bite him.

Bolton may yet get his book published, though the White House could move once again to block him. But his struggle to get it to the presses would probably have been much easier if he had just done the right thing and testified in the first place.

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

I've always felt really sorry for the American electorate. Time after time, election after election, they are faced with the most unpalatable of choices. On the one hand you have the Republicans, who are the most appalling shower of arseholes ever to draw breath. They are liars and crooks and hypocrites, who care nothing for the people who vote for them. They are truly despicable, awful people who do terrible lasting damage to the country every time they are elected.

Then you have the Democrats, who are perhaps a smidge better, but they happen to be the biggest bunch of fucking pussies who have ever graced God's green earth. I suppose I understand why some people vote Republican, they at least seem to try and fight for what they believe, even if what they believe is mostly toxic, evil and wrong.

I don’t envy the average American voter, but on this occasion, I would suggest that Trump is so awful, so incompetent, so egregious, the Democrats are the only reasonable choice available...

 

[Veroe]

I've always felt really sorry for the American electorate. Time after time, election after election, they are faced with the most unpalatable of choices. On the one hand you have the Republicans, who are the most appalling shower of arseholes ever to draw breath. They are liars and crooks and hypocrites, who care nothing for the people who vote for them. They are truly despicable, awful people who do terrible lasting damage to the country every time they are elected.

Then you have the Democrats, who are perhaps a smidge better, but they happen to be the biggest bunch of fucking pussies who have ever graced God's green earth. I suppose I understand why some people vote Republican, they at least seem to try and fight for what they believe, even if what they believe is mostly toxic, evil and wrong.

I don’t envy the average American voter, but on this occasion, I would suggest that Trump is so awful, so incompetent, so egregious, the Democrats are the only reasonable choice available...

Well there's always the green party candidate...whoever the hell that is?

Right now and last election voting the green party is the vote of "Fuck both of you and your parties!"

I was seriously considering it since I can't stand Trump but hate Biden almost as much as I hated Hillary. But then Trump had to go and be Il Presidente Trumpellini of the Banana Republic of Trumponia and violate the first amendment using millitary to quash protestors for something as stupid and selfish as a photo op.

Damn it now I feel like I have to vote Joe. All he had to do was nothing dictatorly and fascistic, and he couldn't even do that for me. So fuck him I have to vote for Joe now, damn it.

 

[JackLuis]

Devin Nunes at ‘dead end’ in legal battle to expose identity of fake Twitter cow: Lawyer

On Friday, The Fresno Bee reported that an attorney for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) says he is at a “dead end” in the legal case to expose the true identity of @DevinCow, a satirical Twitter account that pretends to be a cow belonging to Nunes and continually mocks him.

“Judge John Marshall did not issue a ruling on Twitter’s motion. He raised pointed questions about Nunes’ arguments, citing the federal law that broadly protects social media companies from defamation lawsuits,” said the report. “Even if Twitter had done what Nunes alleged, the immunity provided by Section 230 does not depend on whether Twitter is a neutral site, Marshall said. ‘I don’t know of any requirement in the law that says these sites have to be neutral,’ Marshall said. ‘Just because you don’t like it and asked to have them take it down, doesn’t mean they’re liable if they don’t take it down.'”

GFY, Devin!

 

[Veroe]

Devin Nunes at ‘dead end’ in legal battle to expose identity of fake Twitter cow: Lawyer



GFY, Devin!

I don't think it isn't actually about winning the case.

I think that's just Nunes trying to confirm the rightwing delusion that twitter is biased against them. Now he can go to his voters and say "Poor me I fought the Liberal media agenda and lost, but vote for me again and I'll fight to make twitter nicer to right wing nut jobs too delusional to realize nobody really likes them."

 

[Articulate_and_Analytical]

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?

The Republican Party is now some sort of hybrid

Part religious cult, part crime family and part white supremacist terrorist group.

Trump has spent three years engaging in profiteering, obstruction of justice, inciting violence, betraying our foreign allies, attacking NATO, leaking secrets to the Russians, waging war on America's Free Press, waging war on America's public schools, waging war on Social Security, waging war on affordable healthcare, waging was on the United States Postal Service, waging war against America's intelligence agencies, giving aid and comfort to right-wing domestic terrorists and encouraging millions of Americans to engage in reckless behavior that would spread the COVID-19 virus and getting many more Americans killed.

If the Republicans were a legitimate political party (and not a criminal enterprise), they would have been doing everything they could to reign Trump in, force him to obey America' laws, defend the Constitution of the United States of America and work on behalf of the American People.

But instead, the Republicans have become accomplices in Trump's law-breaking. They're actively working to cover-up Trump's crimes and obstruct criminal investigations into Trump's criminal behavior.

That's lunatic fringe behavior for a political party.

However it's perfectly normal behavior for a crime family, a terrorist organization, or a religious cult!

 

[JackLuis]

‘The GOP is in a lot of trouble in a lot of places’: Analysis of new Iowa poll is bad news for Republicans

The Republican Party could be facing “soft” support in the midwest according to a new poll of voters in Iowa that is considered the “gold standard” for polling in the state.

“Fresh off a four-way primary race that drew millions in outside spending, Democrat Theresa Greenfield leads Republican Sen. Joni Ernst by 3 percentage points in Iowa’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows,” the newspaper reported Saturday. “According to the poll, 46% of likely voters say they would back Greenfield if the election were held today, and 43% say they would back Ernst.”

 

[JackLuis]

Republicans have decided they aren’t ‘twisting themselves in pretzels’ to defend Trump anymore: report

Politico reporter Jake Sherman explained in a PBS “Washington Week” discussion that it has become clear Republicans aren’t defending Trump anymore.

“Republicans have just basically decided, as we put it in Playbook, almost to just pat him on the head – Pres. Trump that is – and move on with their day. They’re no longer really twisting themselves in pretzels to defend him,” Sherman said Sunday.

Instead, they’re replying to reporters asking questions with, “we didn’t really see that” or claiming they need more information. While they still haven’t moved to be brave enough to criticize Trump, refusing to defend him is a huge step for Republicans who protected the president from a legitimate impeachment investigation.

The Week is just getting started, Trump will fuck up again in 5...4....3...

 

[JackLuis]

Devastating new anti-Trump ad puts Lindsey Graham in an awkward spot: MSNBC’s Morning Joe

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough wondered how a new anti-Trump ad will effect Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), whose effusive praise for Joe Biden serves as the centerpiece of the new commercial from Republicans Against Trump.

Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken allies, is shown voicing his respect and fondness for Biden, a longtime Democratic senator, and the “Morning Joe” co-hosts said that could make things awkward for the South Carolina Republican.

Who do we believe, Old Lindsey or New Lindsey?

 

[KeithD]

Devastating new anti-Trump ad puts Lindsey Graham in an awkward spot: MSNBC’s Morning Joe



Who do we believe, Old Lindsey or New Lindsey?

Tomorrow's Lindsey? Or the day after that Lindsey?

 

[jaF0]

Ousted Lindsey.

 

[JackLuis]

GOP senator: Proposal to remove Confederate names from military bases 'picks on South unfairly'

Change Ft. Benning to Ft. Sherman. He was a victor not a traitor.

 

[JackLuis]

Republican strategists fear a ‘historic wipeout’ in November: report

The possibility of President Donald Trump losing to Vice President Joe Biden in November isn’t the only thing that Republican strategists are worried about: they also fear that Democrats will achieve a majority in the U.S. Senate and increase the majority they presently hold in the U.S. House of Representatives.

And in a new piece for Vice, Journalist Cameron Joseph reveals the worries of Republican insiders who fear that November could be another Democratic wave election.

Democrats could fuck it up again, but it would be hard. Republicans could DUMP TRUMP and go with Haley?

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Republican strategists fear a ‘historic wipeout’ in November: report



Democrats could fuck it up again, but it would be hard. Republicans could DUMP TRUMP and go with Haley?

Republicans had their chance to dump Trump in January, they chose not to...what goes around....comes around....

 

[jaF0]

Democrats could fuck it up again, but it would be hard.

What's that thing about chickens, eggs and hatching?

 

[Schlank]

Corrupt senate Republicans would make impeaching Barr a waste of time

House Democrats will not impeach attorney general William Barr because corrupt Republicans in the Senate would prevent his removal from office.

Democrats have sounded alarms over Mr Barr's decision to remove a federal prosecutor in New York overseeing multiple investigative inquiries into Donald Trump's associates, including his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

House judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler, who chairs the House panel that authored impeachment articles against Mr Trump for abusing the power of his office in foreign policy with Ukraine, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Democratic lawmakers would be justified in trying to impeach the attorney general, but that the fight is not worth their time.

"They are a waste of time at this point, because we know that we have a corrupt Republican majority in the Senate which will not consider an impeachment no matter what the evidence and no matter what the facts,” he added. “We’re instead going to do what we have to do without that.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...giuliani-cnn-nadler-republicans-a9578021.html

 

[Schlank]

65 faculty members from AG Barr's law school alma mater say he has 'failed to fulfill his oath of office'

Law professors and faculty from George Washington University Law School, Attorney General William Barr's alma mater, said in a letter Tuesday he has "failed to fulfill his oath of office to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States.' "

The rebuke comes after continued fallout over the departure of Geoffrey Berman, the federal prosecutor ousted over the weekend by the Trump administration, and adds to a chorus of criticism over Barr's actions as attorney general. Barr received his Juris Doctor degree from the law school in 1977, and while serving as attorney general under then-President George H.W. Bush he received an honorary degree from the university in 1992.

In a statement signed by 65 faculty and professors from the law school, the group wrote that Barr's actions as attorney general "have undermined the rule of law, breached constitutional norms, and damaged the integrity and traditional independence of his office and of the Department of Justice."

Barr obfuscated and misled the American public about the results of the Mueller investigation. He wrongfully interfered in the day-to-day activities of career prosecutors, and continues to do so, bending the criminal justice system to benefit the President's friends and target those perceived to be his enemies.

The group also criticized the attorney general for reportedly ordering the clearing out of protesters with police tactics ahead of President Donald Trump's walk across Lafayette Square and the President's subsequent photo-op in front of St. John's Episcopal Church earlier this month.
"At a critical moment in American history, Attorney General Barr could have been a leader in protecting Americans' First Amendment right to express their outrage at our nation's long history of institutional racism, and police brutality against people of color. Instead, Attorney General Barr stands on the wrong side of history," the statement also said.

Barr's actions, the statement continued, "have posed, and continue to create, a clear and present danger to the even-handed administration of justice, to civil liberties, and to the constitutional order."

In February, more than 2,000 former Justice Department officials signed a statement calling for the attorney general to resign.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/george-washington-law-william-barr/index.html