Examples of GOP Leadership

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DIY-HP-LED

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mooray said:
Maybe...I want to think so, anyway. I worry that we're seeing a teeter totter balanced in the middle, with republicans on one side and domestic terrorist trumpers on the other and once it starts leaning one way, it all goes that way.
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American democracy is one election away from extinction, but then again so are they, if the democrats gain solid majorities in the house and senate. The GOP are coming apart at the seams while circling the drain of history, Trump and his mob of maniacs has full control of the party and whatever agenda they have, Mitch and the establishment crowd are along for the ride and hoping for the best.

Ironically your best hope is Trump! Hopefully he will destroy what's left of the bastards on his way down, he's fucked up everything he's ever had control over and he owns the GOP. As the heat builds Donald will panic and become even more extreme and erratic, wait until the indictments drop on his family and him if you wanna see crazy and desperate. He viewed his buddy Barrack as a peer and he's in an LA jail cell until his plea hearing on Monday. That's gotta amp up Trump's stress level, cause I'm sure they shared many "secrets", he did recommend Manafort for the job of campaign manager after all.
 
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Sounds like you're envisioning a fracturing, with the super crazy ones being forever separated from the "normal" ones, but what the normal ones have already shown us already is that they're willing to make a concession of morals in order to win. Sure they were turned off by 1/6, but give it a little time, they'll eventually make their way to saying, "oh yeah that was no good, but let's keep going with the same people and behaviors that took us there and we'll pretend like that's not going to happen again, pinky swear this time".

I don't see a lack of unification for very long, because they realize it's needed to win. The question will come down to which side concedes in order to join the other and if the crazy side concedes to join the normal ones, it won't last, because at least half of their base wants more of it. Then it'll just be an upward trending cycle, like gas prices cycling up and down, going from $2 to $5 with the goal of making you happy at $4, then going from $4 to $8 in order to make you happy at $7, on and on until it breaks.
 
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Mississippi's attorney general asks Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade
alling the court’s precedent on abortion “egregiously wrong,” Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) explicitly set the dispute over Mississippi’s restrictive law on a collision course with the landmark 1973 decision in Roe that first articulated the constitutional right to abortion.

“This Court should overrule Roe and Casey,” Fitch wrote, referring also to the court’s 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. “Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong. They have proven hopelessly unworkable. … And nothing but a full break from those cases can stem the harms they have caused.”

Supreme Court precedent tracing back to Roe prohibits states from banning abortion before fetal viability, which occurs around 24 weeks. The Mississippi law to be reviewed during the court’s upcoming term, which begins in October, creates only narrow exceptions from its 15-week ban.

“The court cannot uphold this law in Mississippi without overturning Roe’s core holding,” Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, told reporters in May when the court took up the case. “The stakes here are extraordinarily high.”

Mississippi’s appeal comes after losing two rounds in the lower courts. In 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit held that the state’s restriction was an unconstitutional ban on a woman’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy before viability.

The appeals court found that Mississippi’s restriction violated “an unbroken line dating to Roe v. Wade” in which the Supreme Court has consistently reaffirmed “a woman’s right to choose an abortion before viability.”

But Fitch, in her 60-page brief filed Thursday, made no secret of Mississippi’s desire to see that line of cases broken.

“On a sound understanding of the Constitution, the answer to the question presented in this case is clear and the path to that answer is straight,” Fitch wrote. “Under the Constitution, may a State prohibit elective abortions before viability? Yes. Why? Because nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion.”
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Mississippi’s attorney general asks Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade

Mississippi’s attorney general urged the Supreme Court in a Thursday brief to overrule Roe v. Wade next term when the justices review Mississippi’s ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of …
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MAGA Crime Spree: See 12 Indictments Caught On Tape

The chair of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee was recently arrested, but he’s just one of many Trump associates charged with crimes. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by The Nation’s Elie Mystal to discuss the barrage of indictments and convictions surrounding citizen Trump.
 
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Modern day republicans don't give a shit about the constitution. As if people should listen to some gym pincushion over the founding fathers.
 
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Freedom Caucus presses McCarthy to force vote to oust Pelosi
A bloc of House conservatives on Friday pressed Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to force a floor vote by next week to oust Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for blocking two Republicans from serving on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Such a vote on what’s known as a “motion to vacate the chair” would be quickly rejected by Democrats, who control the majority, and some moderate Republicans.

But the one-page letter from the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus represents a test for McCarthy, who likely will need Freedom Caucus support in his quest to secure 218 votes and become speaker if Republicans win back the House in 2022.

“We, the House Freedom Caucus, respectfully request that you … bring up a privileged motion by July 31, 2021 to vacate the chair and Nancy Pelosi’s authoritarian reign as Speaker of the House,” the Freedom Caucus wrote to McCarthy.

In the letter, the Freedom Caucus also cited other reasons why Pelosi should be removed: She has allowed remote, proxy voting by lawmakers due to the coronavirus pandemic, and she had metal detectors installed at the entrances to the House floor after the Jan. 6 attack

“Speaker Pelosi’s tenure is destroying the House of Representatives and our ability to faithfully represent the people we are here to serve,” the group wrote.

But their main gripe was her decision this week to essentially veto two of McCarthy’s five GOP picks for the Jan. 6 select committee: Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Both are die-hard Trump loyalists and Jordan was the founding chairman of the Freedom Caucus. In response, a furious McCarthy said Republicans would boycott participating in the committee, which kicks off its first hearing Tuesday.

“Less easily reversible” than proxy voting and metal detectors “is the damage done to the institution by the Leadership of one party dictating the ability of members of another party to serve in roles at the discretion of their own conference,” the letter said. “That abuse cannot go unchecked."
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Freedom Caucus presses McCarthy to force vote to oust Pelosi

A bloc of House conservatives on Friday pressed Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to force a floor vote by next week to oust Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for blocking two Republicans fro…
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Oh I can just hear the hurt in their words.
 
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Freedom Caucus presses McCarthy to force vote to oust Pelosi
A bloc of House conservatives on Friday pressed Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to force a floor vote by next week to oust Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for blocking two Republicans from serving on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Such a vote on what’s known as a “motion to vacate the chair” would be quickly rejected by Democrats, who control the majority, and some moderate Republicans.

But the one-page letter from the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus represents a test for McCarthy, who likely will need Freedom Caucus support in his quest to secure 218 votes and become speaker if Republicans win back the House in 2022.

“We, the House Freedom Caucus, respectfully request that you … bring up a privileged motion by July 31, 2021 to vacate the chair and Nancy Pelosi’s authoritarian reign as Speaker of the House,” the Freedom Caucus wrote to McCarthy.

In the letter, the Freedom Caucus also cited other reasons why Pelosi should be removed: She has allowed remote, proxy voting by lawmakers due to the coronavirus pandemic, and she had metal detectors installed at the entrances to the House floor after the Jan. 6 attack

“Speaker Pelosi’s tenure is destroying the House of Representatives and our ability to faithfully represent the people we are here to serve,” the group wrote.

But their main gripe was her decision this week to essentially veto two of McCarthy’s five GOP picks for the Jan. 6 select committee: Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Both are die-hard Trump loyalists and Jordan was the founding chairman of the Freedom Caucus. In response, a furious McCarthy said Republicans would boycott participating in the committee, which kicks off its first hearing Tuesday.

“Less easily reversible” than proxy voting and metal detectors “is the damage done to the institution by the Leadership of one party dictating the ability of members of another party to serve in roles at the discretion of their own conference,” the letter said. “That abuse cannot go unchecked."
thehill.com

Freedom Caucus presses McCarthy to force vote to oust Pelosi

A bloc of House conservatives on Friday pressed Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to force a floor vote by next week to oust Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for blocking two Republicans fro…
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Oh I can just hear the hurt in their words.
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Fuck them, they had their chance and were out maneuvered by Pelosi because Trump ordered them not to cooperate, he's obstructing justice again and doing stupid shit, nothing new.
 
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