Republicans

[JackLuis]

Nancy Pelosi bashes Mitch McConnell for making excuses for Trump’s COVID-19 response: ‘They can’t handle their jobs’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to fast-track the next round of coronavirus relief, but the Republicans are dragging their feet and blocking any progress.

Speaking to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Thursday, Pelosi explained “the American people are very concerned about three things right now, at least three things right now: One, how are we protecting our first responders, our health care providers who are risking their lives to save other people’s lives? They need their personal protective equipment. They need ventilators to help save lives. So, we’re calling upon the president to do the Defense Production Act full throttle so that these needs are being met. None of us are worthy to pay respect to these workers unless we’re doing everything in our power to protect them.”

Secondly, Pelosi said people are concerned about their own safety and when they’ll get the benefits from the CARE Act.

Third is the recovery.

She noted that the “Republican Tax Scam” bill from 2018 killed the mandate to get or give health insurance. That means that a number of companies refused to give health insurance and some people stopped getting policies. Now that the coronavirus is sending hundreds of thousands of people to the hospital, having affordable care couldn’t be more important.

When Mitchell asked about Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blaming impeachment on the coronavirus crisis, Pelosi called into question the Republicans’ ability to do their jobs.

“That’s sad. They can’t handle their jobs, I guess, because — what are they saying? We ignored it? It was self-evident. Most people knew about it and certainly those of responsibility,” Pelosi said. “So I say of that, either you can’t handle your job, but don’t blame impeachment on that. Just blame it on the fact that you didn’t want to face the reality. That denial and that delay cost lives.”

No, the Chamber of Commerce, worried about the DOW, delayed the response by telling Trumpski to soft peddle the virus threat! Mitch was just a front man!

 

[JackLuis]

Georgia GOP Leader: More Absentee Voting Will Help Turnout, Be ‘Devastating To Republicans’

The Republican speaker of the Georgia state House is not happy that election officials are making it easier for residents to vote from home in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

The state is mailing every registered voter a form so that they can request an absentee ballot for the May 19 primary election. Voters will also be able to cast ballots in person on Election Day, as well as during the three weeks of early voting beginning on April 27, but the state is trying to make it easier for people to vote from afar.

David Ralston, the state House speaker, has deep concerns about this system, in part because the “possibilities of fraud are incredibly prevalent in this kind of voting,” as he said in an interview with the Georgia news site FetchYourNews. (See video below.)

Yeah there is a lot of fraud in Georgia, isn't there?

 

[JackLuis]

‘Monsters!’ Florida Republicans ignite fury by admitting they purposefully mangled state unemployment system

Republicans admitted Florida’s unemployment system was “designed to fail” — and then whined about their election chances now that the system was overwhelmed by thousands of suddenly jobless people.

The U.S. economy collapsed under the weight of the coronavirus outbreak that’s nowhere near abating, and Florida Republicans are forming a circular firing squad now that unemployed workers are finding the “Connect” system was purposefully designed to discourage new claims to keep jobless numbers down.

“Everyone we talk to in that office when we ask them what happened tells us, ‘the system was designed to fail,’” one adviser to Gov. Ron DeSantis told Politico. “That’s not a problem when unemployment is 2.8 percent, but it’s a problem now. And no system we have can handle 25,000 people a day.”

The system was implemented by former Gov. Rick Scott, now a GOP senator, and the state’s Republican-led legislature, which promised business groups Connect would grant them tax breaks while delivering just $275 in unemployment benefits to jobless workers for a maximum of 12 weeks.

‘Senator, stop it’: MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle cuts off Marco Rubio’s attempt to spin Florida’s COVID-19 debacle

"Vote Blue, no matter Who!"

"Vote Red if you wish to be DEAD!!!!!"

 

[JackLuis]

‘Why are you on TV?’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demolishes Laura Ingraham’s attempted mockery

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) shut down Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s attempt to mock her claims on the coronavirus.

The New York Democrat, whose hometown is being ravaged by the COVID-19 outbreak, pointed out that deaths from the viral infection was disproportionately occurring in minority communities.

“COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities,” the lawmaker tweeted. “Why? Because the chronic toll of redlining, environmental racism, wealth gap, etc. ARE underlying health conditions.”

That observation and prescribed solution seemed to outrage the right-wing broadcaster, who tried to belittle Ocasio-Cortez by reminding her followers the lawmaker had once worked as a bartender.

Ocasio-Cortez responded by asking Ingraham why she had promoted unproven claims about a coronavirus treatment, and which Twitter eventually deleted as misinformation.

“Didn’t you just put a doctor on your show who faked their employment at Lenox Hill hospital and touted a COVID ‘treatment’ that you tweeted & Twitter had to remove because a man may have died trying self-administer it?” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “I’m sorry, why are you on TV again?”

Laura tried prostitution but nobody would fuck her with that mouth!

 

[JackLuis]

Devin Nunes warns of ‘zombie apocalypse’ from homeless people: ‘We let our criminals out’

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) suggested on Sunday that homeless people are the “zombie apocalypse” even though they have not seen large numbers of infections during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The situation out here in California with the homeless population is quite dire and that was before the coronavirus,” Nunes explained to Fox News. “It’s almost like zombie apocalypse. You’ve seen the pictures.”

The Homeless are not the worst, That is reserved for Re-fucking-publicans!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Reckless’: Chaos expected in Tuesday’s elections after Wisconsin Republicans refuse to cancel in-person voting

“The whole country should tune in to what Republicans are doing now in Wisconsin. It’s a preview of how they’ll politically weaponize coronavirus on a national scale.”

Despite warnings from public health experts and legal challenges by voting rights groups, the Democratic primary and state and local elections are set to go forward on Tuesday after Republican state legislators refused to take up a proposal to cancel most in-person voting in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

"Who's afraid of the mail in Vote,
the Mail in Vote!
La la la la LA"

Trumpublicunts!

 

[JackLuis]

Furious Morning Joe goes off on ‘reckless’ Trump in shouting tirade

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough went off on a shouting rant against President Donald Trump’s bungled response to the coronavirus outbreak that has killed thousands and shut down the U.S. economy indefinitely.

The “Morning Joe” host lamented that Trump and his administration wasted crucial weeks of preparation that eroded any advantages the United States could have had in fighting the pandemic, and he said the president was still failing his test of leadership.

Says the man who gave Trumpski millions of dollars of free publicity in 2016 and kept him in the race when he was failing!

 

[JackLuis]

Coronavirus is forcing the GOP to admit its theory of governance is a myth: op-ed

In an op-ed for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer this Tuesday, Eric Levitz writes that as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spiral out of control, the Republican Party is silently admitting one thing: that its theory of governance is a “lie.”

According to Levitz, the three principles of GOP governance is the assumption that undocumented immigrants are a scourge on society; the gutting of federal agencies will make government run more efficiently, and the super rich are solely to be credited for their exorbitant incomes.

“But conservative orthodoxy has always been too detached from reality to command strict adherence,” Levitz writes. “A theory of government assembled out of the self-affirming delusions of the reactionary rich — and seething, amnesia-laden nostalgia of white cultural traditionalists — is bound to be a poor compass for guiding the ship of state.”

Gutting the GOP, sounds like a plan!

 

[JackLuis]

Colorado Republicans pass anti-vaccine resolutions — as coronavirus continues to spread

In what was an apparent attempt to resist any upcoming coronavirus vaccine, Republicans in more than one Colorado county voted overwhelmingly to block any potential state vaccination programs, the Colorado Times Recorder reports.

The Times Recorder reports that a resolution in Adams County that condemned “any form of mass vaccinations” passed 58 to 19 in favor of Republicans. According to the chair of the Adams County Republican Party, the resolution was intended to protect the rights of parents to choose what’s best for their children,” and it would apply to “any type of shot.”

Rethuglicunts revolt! will Kansas, Wyoming, et al seal the borders?

 

[JackLuis]

Wisconsin proves GOP’s ongoing war on voting is about ending democracy — and not just winning

The Wisconsin Republican Party has been at the cutting edge of the efforts to make sure few, if any, Democratic voters ever make it to the polls again. Under the guidance of former Republican governor Scott Walker, a stalwart opponent of food having flavor, the state enacted a dizzying program of voter suppression, requiring people to have updated government-issued IDs while simultaneously making those IDs much harder to get, especially for people of color. They also suppressed the college student vote by banning most student IDs as a legitimate form of identification.

From the beginning of this war on voters, which has been spread out across the country, it’s been understood primarily as a partisan power grab, an attempt to keep certain constituencies from voting because they tend to vote for Democrats.

Even Donald Trump, always saying the quiet parts out loud, said recently that if voting by mail becomes widespread, “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

 

[Schlank]

Sadism, crime and a love of lies: What 3,500 lawsuits reveal about Trump’s true nature



American presidents before Donald Trump had some record of public achievement in politics, government or the military before they were elected. Donald Trump lacked any of those credentials, but brought his astounding history of involvement in thousands of lawsuits to the nation’s highest office. This trove of cases from more than 45 years reflects Trump’s contempt for ethical standards and for the US Constitution and the rule of law, the foundation of American democracy.


As a perennial litigant, Trump weaponized the law to devastate perceived enemies, to consolidate power, to frustrate opposing parties, as former federal prosecutor and acclaimed author James D. Zirin illuminates in his compelling and disturbing history of Trump’s use and abuse of the law, Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits (All Points Books).


Mr. Zirin is a distinguished veteran attorney who spent decades handling complex litigation. He is also a self-described “middle of the road Republican.” Plaintiff in Chief stands as his response to Trump’s disrespect for law and our legal system. He stresses that the book is a legal study, not a partisan takedown.


In his book, Mr. Zirin scrupulously documents Trump’s life in courts of law. Based on more than three years of extensive research, the book examines illustrative cases and how they reflect on the character and moral perspective of the current president. The details are grounded in more than 3,500 lawsuits filed by Trump and against Trump. Litigation usually involves sworn affidavits attesting to accuracy and testimony given under oath if a trial occurs, so Mr. Zirin is able to reference page after page of irrefutable evidence of Trump’s legal maneuvering, misstatements, hyperbole, and outright lies.

As Mr. Zirin points out, Trump learned how to use the law from his mentor, the notoriously unprincipled lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn whose motto was “Fuck the law.” Trump took Cohn’s scorched earth strategy to heart and used the law to attack others, to never accept blame or responsibility, and to always claim victory no matter how badly he lost.

”Trump saw litigation as being only about winning,” Mr. Zirin writes. “He sued at the drop of a hat. He sued for sport; he sued to achieve control; and he sued to make a point. He sued as a means of destroying or silencing those who crossed him. He became a plaintiff in chief.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/sa...500-lawsuits-reveal-about-trumps-true-nature/

 

[JackLuis]

‘Stuck on stupid’: Ex-RNC chair slams ‘ridiculous’ Florida governor DeSantis for allowing Easter services during pandemic

On MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele warned people to exercise good judgment about social distancing and isolation — whatever GOP governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis allow.

“[COVID-19] is not going to remain only in states like New York and blue states,” said host Joy Reid. “You’re seeing swing states like Michigan get hit. Florida is setting itself up, let’s be blunt. The governor there has had an odd response, where he seems reluctant to do what you need to do. So I wonder what it looks like when it does start to hit in states, hit hard, which it is already starting in Alabama, in Louisiana, in red states. This is coming. What do see happening?”

“I think that there will be a level of sort of revisionist history and, again, sort of saying that all the appropriate efforts were made to get in front of the virus and this was to be expected that, you know, this wave would come as we saw it come across the country from Washington state,” said Steele. “So I think that the rhetoric obviously won’t meet up with the facts, it won’t meet up with the reality. And I think the rest of us have to be prepared to deal with that part of this and move forward.”

Be a Republican like Michael, not a Trumpublicunt like Mitch!

 

[JackLuis]

‘You own this mess’: GOPer Susan Collins tried to rally Maine with a hopeful COVID-19 message — and it didn’t go well

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) claimed credit for bringing Maine $1.5 billion in forgivable loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.

The disaster assistance effort, however, has been harshly criticized for its gaps in coverage, which became clear in many responses to her message.

Collins is up for reelection in 2020.

With any luck she will be filing for unemployment soon!

 

[JackLuis]

BUSTED: Florida governor caught pressuring law firm to kill public records lawsuit into coronavirus spread

The Miami Herald published a blockbuster report on Saturday evening documenting the extraordinary steps Florida’s Republican governor went through to keep COVID-19 information from the public.

“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ general counsel called a representative of the Miami Herald’s law firm seeking to quash a public records lawsuit that would force the state to divulge the names of all elder-care facilities that have had a positive test for the coronavirus,” the newspaper reported.

“The back-door pressure — through an attorney that had no involvement in the case — paid off. The law firm, Holland & Knight, told Sanford Bohrer, a senior partner with decades of representing the Miami Herald, to stand down and abandon the lawsuit,” the newspaper reported.

The newspaper’s publisher and executive editor, Aminda Marqués González, vowed the suit would still be fired by a different law firm.

What a Dick!

 

[JackLuis]

‘This is not a pandemic!’ Fox News guest compares COVID-19 to flu — even after 22K die in one month

And Napoleon's retreat from Moscow was a nice stroll thru the woods, eh?

 

[JackLuis]

GOP lawmaker whines that ‘hype about fatalities’ from COVID-19 is preventing economy from reopening

Many Republican lawmakers are antsy to reopen the American economy — and now one is openly complaining that the media focus on people who are dying from COVID-19 is hindering their plans.

In an interview with Politico, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) said that it’s time for lawmakers to get together and have frank discussions about just how much death they’re willing to tolerate in exchange for relieving the economic pain being felt throughout the country.

“You’re dealing with a lot of hype about fatalities,” he said. “I don’t know anybody that wants to be the person who says, ‘33,000 deaths is okay, but 100,000 is not acceptable.’ But that’s what officials are elected to do.”

Buck also recently wrote an op-ed with Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) for the conservative Washington Examiner that asked the question, “Is Anthony Fauci helping or hurting?”

Why won't the Government help our suffering Investors?

Doesn't it realize that Investors are the real victims, along with the Real Estate and Wall Street Banks?

 

[KeithD]

Why won't the Government help our suffering Investors?

Doesn't it realize that Investors are the real victims, along with the Real Estate and Wall Street Banks?

And don't forget reality show hosts who specialize in bankruptcy and venality.

 

[JackLuis]

‘I ain’t gonna do a God damn thing you want’: Kentucky GOP lawmaker arrested on DUI stop

On Thursday, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that a first-term GOP lawmaker was arrested after being pulled over for suspected drunk driving — just hours after the end of the state legislative session.

“Police arrested first-term state Rep. Derek J. Lewis of London early Thursday on a drunken-driving charge,” reported Bill Estep. “Lewis became belligerent and cursed police during the arrest, according to a citation filed by Gary Mehler, an officer with the Laurel County Sheriff’s office.”

Typical Rethuglicunt, drive his truck into a ditch and then bitches that he gets no respect!

 

[JackLuis]

New Mexico governor’s office dunks on Republicans after they freak out over criticism of the coronavirus ‘death cult’

In the wake of a post on Twitter where the chief spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham referred to people who want to quickly reopen the economy as a “death cult,” the state’s Republican Party is demanding an apology, calling the comments “absurd,” “offensive” and “disgusting.”

The tweet’s author, Tripp Stelnicki, has not commented on the fallout yet.
“You don’t have to ask the death cult their opinion or publish their quotes,” Stelnicki wrote Thursday on Twitter. “False equivalence now is actually life or death. There is no ‘both sides’ to this. There is one group preaching accelerated illness & death because they ‘love’ ‘business’ & if you can’t see through that?”

In a press release, the New Mexico Republican Party stated: “This outrageous tweet, suggesting that Republicans want to get more New Mexicans to contract COVID-19, is shocking and disgraceful. The tweet shows to what lengths the Governor’s Office will go to scare the public and politicize the pandemic.”

 

[YDB95]

‘I ain’t gonna do a God damn thing you want’: Kentucky GOP lawmaker arrested on DUI stop



Typical Rethuglicunt, drive his truck into a ditch and then bitches that he gets no respect!

How much do you want to bet he ran on a platform of Personal Responsibility with a capital PR?

 

[JackLuis]

McConnell and GOP frantic they’re about to lose control of the Senate as more seats come into play

According to a report from Politico, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as well as other Republican higher-ups, are fearful of losing their Senate majority in the November election with the Democrats about to put forward a strong slate of candidates backed by cash-rich warchests.

As Politico’s James Arkin wrote, “Republicans started this election cycle as heavy favorites to keep their Senate majority, with a lineup of elections mostly in red-tinted states and GOP incumbents favored over a slate of relatively unknown and untested challengers. Now, nearly six months out from the election, Democrats are making them sweat.”

Well if we just lose Mitch and Ms Lindsey that'll be good enough for me.

 

[JackLuis]

Republican governors resisting pressure from Trump and donors to reopen states

#Fuckyou@RealDoandTrump is trending in Rethuglican circle jerks now

 

[JackLuis]

GOP’s Louie Gohmert busted for hyping nonexistent ‘magic powder’ that purportedly kills COVID-19 instantly

A professional fact checker recently brought the hammer down on Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) for promoting a nonexistent “mist” that he claims is capable of instantly killing COVID-19.

In a fact-check piece published in the Houston Chronicle, PolitiFact’s Madlin Mekelburg picks apart Gohmert for hyping up a miracle treatment for COVID-19 that he falsely claimed was being used to protect health care workers in Germany.

“It is being used in Germany as a mist,” Gohmert said in an interview with a local Texas news station earlier this month. “Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed it is killed.”

Germans say, "NOPE"

 

[bodysong]

Rep. Louie Gohmert and his "magic powder"

Dr. Jörn Wegner, the head of the German Hospital Association, tells Mekelburg
that literally nothing about Gohmert’s claim is true.

April 20, 2020

“What your congressman said is absolute nonsense,” he explained.
“There are no such tents and there’s no powder or magical cure.”

Thomas Ruttkowski, the spokesman for the German Society of Hospital Hygiene,
literally laughed at Gohmert when told about his claim.

“I’m sorry, but we did not heard (sic) about that magic powder,” he wrote
in an email to Mekelburg. “Thank you for your mail…
Finally, something to laugh about.”

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/fa...er-that-purportedly-kills-covid-19-instantly/

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...s-congressman-touts-product-that-15209376.php

 

[bodysong]

Louisiana Cops Arrest COVID-19-Defying Pastor Tony Spell for Aggravated Assault

April 21, 2020

Earlier today, Pastor Tony Spell of Louisiana’s Life Tabernacle Church, who held
in-person church gatherings and put countless people in harm’s way, was arrested
on a charge of “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon” and taken to Baton Rouge
Parish Prison.

There is also a second warrant out for the arrest of the person driving a white truck
that appears to swerve off the road in a separate attempt to hit a protester standing
on the side of the road near the church.

“And he [man in white truck] was going very fast. He just pulled over at me and turned
into the church. That was much faster than what Tony Spell was doing when he drove
the bus at me,” said Bennett.


https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...ing-pastor-tony-spell-for-aggravated-assault/

April 21, 2020

Pastor Tony Spell allegedly backed a church bus in the direction of protester
Trey Bennett on Sunday.

Central, La., Police Chief Roger Corcoran said authorities have a warrant for Spell’s
arrest. He is wanted on a charge of aggravated assault related to the bus incident,
which took place Sunday.

According to Corcoran, Spell was driving a bus and backed it up on the shoulder
of the road, stopping the vehicle within a few feet of a protester. A parishioner is
also facing charges for swerving his car toward a protester. No one was hurt in
either incident.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/21/coronavirus-latest-news/