The Current Republican/Trumpublican Party Currently Embarrassing Themselves AND America,

AND THE REPUBLICAN SNOOPS AND ANTI-FREE SPEECH HITS KEEP ON COMING: 

 North Dakota Republican floats fining state-funded groups $1,500 if they use 'wrong' pronouns 

"House Bill 2199 restricts the definition of gender to the person's natural gender at birth and then requires that all pronoun use be reflective of that same gender. Any violation by an institution that receives state funding, including public schools, would be subject to a $1,500 fine."

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Republican Governor Youngkin's Virginia:  

Youngkin's handpicked Department of Education head, Aimee Rogstad Guidera, deleted references to MLK Day and Juneteenth from its history curriculum. According to a report in LGBTQ Nation, Ronald Reagan is mentioned five times, but President Obama, who made history as our first bi-racial POTUS, just once.

"VA Education Dept. Backtracks from Labeling Native Americans as “America’s First Immigrants” 

The commonwealth of Virginia is home to seven federally recognized tribes: the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Nansemond and Monacan. 

 Alton Carroll, a history professor at Northern Virginia Community College who is of Mescalero Apache descent, told Native News Online that his initial read of the proposed standards stood out to him for being “so glaringly wrong, and so heavily partisan.”

"...so glaringly wrong, and so heavily partisan?" How about disrespectful, spiteful, and cruel? I'd add those two descriptions as well.

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Insane:

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Who Pushed 9/11 Conspiracies, Will Sit on Homeland Security Committee 

The new GOP-controlled House is letting liars and conspiracy theorists lead its agenda 

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"DeSantis COVID-19 advisor/radiologist, Tim Boyett doesn’t take vaccines but 'encourages people to reach out and call out to Jesus and seek first the Kingdom of God' at state sponsored DeSantis event 11/17/23. 

Florida Surgeon General Ladapo appears on anti-vaccine podcast, promotes medical falsehoods 

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Wisconsin GOP makes conversion therapy legal again 

"The Republican-controlled Joint Committee for Review and Administrative Rules in Wisconsin voted to strike down a ban on conversion therapy last week, effectively making the practice legal. 

 Conversion therapy is a broad term that can describe many practices that generally involve trying to force homosexuals and other LGBTQ+ people to be straight. The methods involved in these practices are highly discredited by medical professionals, and those who have been victims of conversion therapy have described it as torture."

If  you could "de-gay" a person, could it be possible to "de-hetero" someone too? That would make sense to the homophobic wackos in Wisconsin, I guess.

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A Republican/Trumpublican loser and thug tried to take revenge on Democrats, because he obviously learned from a champ, (See 6th, Jan. 2021)  that that's the way to settle political scores. Amirite?

New details emerge about plot to shoot at New Mexico Democrats’ homes Solomon Peña, a defeated candidate for the state legislature, paid people to fire on the houses of four Democratic office-holders, authorities say. 

 Former GOP candidate arrested in shootings at N.M. Democrats’ homes 

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This is still, IMO, the stupidest of the stupid nincompoopery from the current  Republican/Trumpublican Party:

Missouri Republicans Ban Female Lawmakers From Sporting Bare Arms 

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Below is the Republican/Trumpublican Party's most admired US Representative's opinion about student debt he never incurred to go to a college he never attended.

(The coward and cajones-less Speaker of the House, McCarthy, has assigned this Liar, Cheat, and Fraud to House committees because, let's face it, the current GQP rewards folks who Lie and Cheat, and George Anthony DeVolder Santos is the kind of fake conman the current Republican/Trumpublican Party admires and believes is a great representative of Conservative Republican Christian values.

 George Santos once bragged about having no student debt from a school he never actually attended: 'I hate looking at youth today and seeing them sitting on their behinds'

 Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe 

Two New Jersey veterans say George Santos promised to raise funds for a lifesaving surgery for a service dog — then disappeared.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2023

 

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING

 

Trumpublican Tax Dollars At Work?

The Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives used its session’s opening day Wednesday to tighten the dress code for female legislators, while leaving the men’s dress code alone. 

 The changes were spearheaded by state Rep. Ann Kelley (R), a co-sponsor who was among the Republicans seeking to require women to wear a blazer when in the chamber. She was met by swift opposition from Democrats who called it “ridiculous.”

 

No. Not bear arms. Bare arms. They  a passed a dress code that would ban female legislators from wearing clothes that reveal their arms.  

"The caucus that lost their minds over the suggestion that they should wear masks during a pandemic to respect the safety of others is now spending its time focusing on the fine details of what women have to wear (and specifically how many layers must cover their arms) to show respect in this chamber," Merideth tweeted. 

You know who else makes laws like this? The sharia laws the GOP was warning everyone about." 

Another Republican politician not doing anything to help her constituents:

 "Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bans ‘Latinx’ From Use in State Government On her first day of office, Sanders signed an executive order banning the term "Latinx" from official use in the state government."

George Santos: The Grift That Keeps On Giving

 

UPDATE: 

" The Mysterious, Unregistered Fund That Raised Big Money for Santos 

A review of records and newly uncovered documents reveals that efforts to elect George Santos may have run afoul of campaign finance rules." 

Via Vox:  "On Wednesday, it was revealed that he lied to Republican officials about playing on a championship-winning volleyball team at Baruch College — not only did Santos not play on the team, he did not attend Baruch College. 

The New York Times also published a copy of the résumé that Santos had circulated when running for office, which included false claims about his college education and employment history."

Kevin McCarthy to grant George Santos* committee assignments despite national security concerns.

*George Santos, a Republican Liar, Cheat, and Fraud, was fraudulently elected to Congress from New York's 3rd Congressional district. Everything he claimed about himself and family was a blatant lie.

The Squeaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy thinks this Liar, Cheat, and Fraud should have committee assignments because McCarthy is a cojonesless weakling who is afraid of his own caucus.

NY Republican leaders and lawmakers call on GOP Rep. George Santos to resign over campaign liesHouse Republicans from New York joined state and local GOP leaders in calling for Santos to step down less than a week after he officially took office.

George Santos Took Donation From Migrant-Smuggler

LA FAMIGLIA

Serial liar and border-hardliner George Santos accepted support from an Italian caught piloting a yacht full of Chinese migrants and from his prominent restaurant-owning family.

Here's the Liar, Cheat, and Fraud's answer to his fellow Republicans from New York:

"I was elected to serve the people of #NY03 not the party & politicians, I remain committed to doing that and regret to hear that local officials refuse to work with my office to deliver results to keep our community safe and lower the cost of living. I will NOT resign!"

Hey, Santos, everything out of your mouth has been a LIE. So we look forward to your resignation from the office you fraudulently took from the people of New York's 3rd Congressional district.

The Stupids of the McCarthy House...

  

UPDATE:

Squeaker of the House McCarthy bragged today, 1/12/23: 

In the first 5 days of the Republican-controlled House we: Stripped funding for 87,000 IRS agents

He, like Trump, loves the poorly educated. Why else would he make such a false statement.

In actuality, the Gooper House didn't "strip" funding for the 87,000 IRS employees. 

The Gooper House merely placed a vote against funding for the IRS. Squeaker McCarthy failed to mention the next step, which is the Senate, where it's certain to be DOA. 

If, by some miracle, it survives, it will be vetoed by Biden.

TRUTH: Squeaker McCarthy is gaslighting his "poorly educated" Trumpers.

Carry on.

...are wasting taxpayers' money by threatening to rescind funding allotted to the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law last summer.  

President Biden will veto it. 

First CBO score of the new Congress is here. It says that the GOP IRS funding bill would reduce spending by $71.5B and reduce revenue by $185.8B. 

Net deficit increase of $114B.  

Goopers want to protect the rich tax cheats that line their pockets.

“This reckless bill would increase the deficit by nearly $115 billion over 10 years per an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office by enabling wealthy tax cheats to engage in additional tax fraud and avoidance,” the administration said in a statement, citing the score released Monday. --TPM

Andrew Wortman: 

 "1.) The funding has already been provided. It cannot be “repealed” nor rescinded. 

 2.) The IRS did not “hire 87,000 new agents.” 

The funding enables them to hire that many agents over the course of TEN YEARS; including agents who retire or leave in that time. 

 3.) The GOP is useless. 

 I understand that the GOP knows their base doesn’t read, but I still am lost as to who they are even trying to pander to with this: the bloc of voters that doesn’t pay their taxes or something? 

Pretty sure most of those people are ultra-rich Republicans."

They have no policy agenda but revenge, gaslighting, lying, and feeding the base with more red meat. 

DARWIN SAVE US FROM THE PATHETIC IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT THIS BEFORE THE SCOTUS!

 

From Raw Story:

The Supreme Court has denied a longshot lawsuit from three brothers who sought to remove President Joe Biden from office and reinstate Donald Trump. 

"Brother Raland Brunson was listed as the plaintiff on the Supreme Court petition. The brothers said that members of Congress violated their oaths of office by failing to investigate fraud in the 2020election. 

 "The complaint asks that the 387 members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s election be immediately thrown out of office and barred from ever running again. Biden and Harris would also be removed from the White House and banned from running, as would former Vice President Mike Pence," the Salt Lake Tribune reported recently. 

 In an order issued Monday, the high court said that the case was "denied" but gave no explanation."

Good Gawd! Who are the whackos who read and believe this tripe? Oh, wait! QAnon and the deplorables who believe Trumpie won the 2020 election, that's who.

From the "Highland County Press," a dubious news source that apparently has no acquaintance with truth or reality.

"The important national security interests implicated in this case allowed the Brunsons to bypass an appeal that was frozen at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit and get the case to the Supreme Court which has now scheduled a hearing for January 6, 2023. The Brunson Petition for a Writ of Certiorari would require the votes of only four justices to move the case forward. 

It seems astounding that the Court would wade into such waters two years to the day after the Congressional vote to install Joe Biden as president. But these are not normal times. Democrats may well push legislation in this month’s lame duck session of Congress to impose term limits and a mandatory retirement age for justices, and thereby open the door to packing the Court."

Utterly insane!

HAKEEM JEFFRIES IS BRILLIANT

Representative Jeffries is a gifted orator and exceptional Minority Leader in the House of Representatives.

He outshone McCarthy and is smarter and far more intelligent than the anti-democracy weakling the radical Trumpers installed as Speaker.

 

Hakeem Jeffries' speech:

“We will never compromise our principles. 

House Democrats will always put: 

American values over autocracy. 

Benevolence over bigotry. 

The Constitution over the cult. 

Democracy over demagogues. 

Economic opportunity over extremism. 

Freedom over fascism, 

Governing over gaslighting. 

Hopefulness over hatred. 

Inclusion over isolation, 

Justice over judicial overreach. 

Knowledge over kangaroo courts, 

Liberty over limitation. 

Maturity over Mar-a-Lago. 

Normalcy over negativity. 

Opportunity over obstruction, 

People over politics. 

Quality of life issues over QAnon. 

Reason over racism. 

Substance over slander. 

Triumph over tyranny. 

Understanding over ugliness. 

Voting rights over voter suppression. 

Working families over the well connected. 

Xenia* over xenophobia. 

Yes, we can over you can’t do it, and 

zealous representation over zero sum confrontation.” 

 *Xenia means hospitality. My late niece's name, "Xenia."

"Hakeem Jeffries' speech is a clarion call to have faith, be courageous, and to hold on. It was a love letter to democracy, a pledge to defend it, and to stand up for the American people always. It was in language the GOP will never understand and the rest of us will never forget." --Larry Middleton

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." --H. L. Mencken

SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING

 

In keeping with the Clown Show in the US House, brought to you by the Trumpublicans:

THE WEEK IN CARTOONS

 

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DID ANYONE ELSE SEE THIS TODAY?

 

The newest lying liar Trumpublican who lied about his own mother's death TWICE did this today when voting for Kevin McCarthy:

“Newly elected freshman Rep. George Santos (R-NY) flashed the white power symbol as he voted for House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy in the 10th round of voting for Speaker of the House on the 3rd day of Congress.”

Disgraced felon, Michael Flynn:

Zina Bash flashed it several times during the Kavanaugh hearings, so there's that.

MT GREENE: WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS:

 

The GOP used to stand for something; now it's just a gang of thugs, malcontents, and disrupters, caring not one wit for their own constituents. The GOP is nothing more than a Revenge Party, useless and pathetic:

The Biden Crime Family?

Marge T. Greene is EVERYTHING that's wrong with the Trumpublican Party, all wrapped up in one sad, ignorant pile of useless flesh.

And this sane Republican explains it all:

We are all this guy:

NEVER FORGET:  Two years ago today, the Trumpublicans tried to overthrow the US government and illegally install Trump, the loser of the 2020 election, as POTUS:

The Trumpublicans believe America wants more of their seditious chaos.

THIS EXPLAINS THE CHAOTIC TRUMPUBLICAN WING OF THE GOP:

 

As of Wednesday, Jan. 4,: 

As of Thursday, Jan. 5:

As of Friday, Jan. 6:

 McCarthy LOST a fourth FIFTH SIXTH SEVENTH EIGHTH NINTH TENTH ELEVENTH TWELFTH THIRTEENTH vote for speaker as the deadlock continues.

"The paralysis underscored the dilemma facing House Republicans: No matter the concessions made to some of those on the far right, they simply will not relent and join their colleagues even if it is for the greater good of their party, and perhaps the nation. They consider themselves conservative purists who cannot be placated unless all their demands are met — and maybe not even then. Their agenda is mostly to defund, disrupt and dismantle government, not to participate in it."  --NYTimes

Tim Miller

@Timodc

The Republican Party attracted members who are childish, petty, desperate for fame, with no real concern for policy or the public welfare? Huh. I wonder how that happened?

Ryan Struyk

@ryanstruyk

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Jan 3

CRENSHAW: "They're like children. This is such a childish attempt at gaining attention... This is about petty, personal issues that they have, or petty attempts to gain notoriety. It's unbelievably frustrating and they should be held accountable for it by the American people."

A little background on Byron Donalds

 

This is who the GQP hardliners are voting for Speaker: 

"In 1997, Donalds was arrested for marijuana distribution.  It wasn't a possession charge; it was a distribution charge. 

In 2000, he pleaded guilty to a felony bribery charge as part of a scheme to defraud a bank, which was expunged after he entered the Florida House." 

(Question: How does one get a felony bribery charge 'expunged' just because one enters politics in Florida?) 

I'm surprised more hasn't been mentioned about his Jan 6, 2021, vote against certifying electors. 

A convicted drug dealer and a felon guilty of trying to defraud a bank, and a man who tried to overturn the 2020 election on blatantly false grounds. Not exactly the kind of guy I'd like to see 2nd in line for the presidency.

Trying to overturn a democratic election after a violent coup attempt IMO disqualifies him from public service.

FUNNIEST HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

 

The Trumpublican Embarrassment Machine and Twice Impeached, epic lying, pro-insurrectionist who paid off his mistresses as a tax write-off warns about embarrassing the GOP?

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Trump urges support for McCarthy, warns GOP about embarrassment

DAY TWO OF HOUSE BALLOTING FOR SPEAKER

 h/t Michael Beschloss

Lindsey Graham predicted this:

Political chaos not seen in the chamber in a century.

 

Third Vote for Speaker Concludes Without a Winner

Kevin McCarthy Loses 2nd Vote for Speaker

McCarthy lost on the first ballot for Speaker of the House. That hasn't happened in a century!

Out of the 434 votes cast in the first roll call, Hakeem Jeffries received 212 and Kevin McCarthy received 203. (That does not mean Jeffries won; he was still short of the 218 majority.)

Hilarious screenshot:

This is the embodiment of the current GOP: A Fraud.

UPDATE:

International alleged criminal takes "oath of office" as US Representative for Republican Party:

And this fraudster, who even lied about his own mother's death, will laughingly take an "oath of office" today, swearing that oath on a Bible. What a disgusting joke he and the Republican Party is.

There is no shame, no scam, no lie that the current GOP will not embrace in their wanton greed for power.

The GOP worshipped and empowered the  country's biggest scam artist, liar, and conman, Donald J. Trump, and gave him the presidency. No one's surprised to see this world-class fraudster, liar, and conman welcomed into their ranks.

George Santos, or whoever the hell he is, IS today's Republican Party.

THE GOP'S FRAUDSTER HERO:

Santos sits alone in the chamber, waiting to be sworn in. So far, no Speaker!