Examples of GOP Leadership
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Roger A. Shrubber
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You do realize that i'm not being completely serious? Cannibalism is wrong...I do understand that...But redistributing the wealth of some particularly
reprehensible American oligarchs? I'm dead damn serious about that.
Roger A. Shrubber
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this occurred to me the day this story started...
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/experts-talk-on-impact-of-expulsion-votes/51-7d855b72-3d71-4c9a-938f-e0e5a12b9597
They were elected by their districts...They can and will run again...What makes the fuck nut republicans think the same people who just elected them won't send them back? Especially after the RACIST, shady, mean ass fucking shit the republicans just pulled?
CunningCanuk
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Yes, I know you’re not being completely serious or I wouldn’t like you.
You still crazy though.
CunningCanuk
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Defense officials warn of potential impact Tuberville hold on nominations will have on military
Roger A. Shrubber
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The world is crazy...being sane in a crazy world doesn't get you anywhere.Yes, I know you’re not being completely serious or I wouldn’t like you.
You still crazy though.
how does sanity compete with
Roger A. Shrubber
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tubashit doesn't give a fuck, as far as he's concerned, an America where a woman can get an abortion is an America that shouldn't exist...
I've already reported here that inside the concrete jungle and hi-rises of Ft. Lauderdale, hidden in almost a circular fashion so that tourism doesn't end up there by accident, are Section 8 duplexes; dirt roads and no laundry facility. I found them through Lyft and took them to laundry. They asked me if it would be okay..I guess they've gotten driver cancels. I wasn't going to be that person.
You haven't even posted the best. You've got the guy who can't hold his head up..the guy who pounds the desk in The House. I think next time we're in Session we should all start clicking our pens but not at the same time. Maybe learn a song to pen clicking..one of Trumps faves- YMCA!
It is not beneath us to fight fire with fire when appropriate.
Expelled Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones: I was voted out for being ‘an uppity negro’
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Look like hens have come home to roost, @Roger A. Shrubber
Expelled Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones: I was voted out for being ‘an uppity Negro’
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) said his race played a role in his expulsion from the state House on Thursday. “I basically had a member call me an uppity Negro,” Jones, who is Blac…
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Look like hens have come home to roost, @Roger A. Shrubber
topcat
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Tumorville
Herb & Suds
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Roger A. Shrubber
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I dunno, seems a little unfair...To tumors. They're sometimes benign.
printer
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Clarence Thomas says he ‘was advised’ he didn’t have to disclose trips paid for by GOP donor
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he “was advised” that he did not have to disclose a series of trips reportedly paid for by a Republican mega-donor.
The trips, which were revealed on Thursday by a ProPublica investigation, led to outrage from Democrats and judicial watchdog groups.
“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable. I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines,” Thomas said in a statement, his first public comments since the report.
ProPublica reported on Thursday that Harlan Crow, a Dallas-based real estate developer who has donated millions to conservative causes, paid for Thomas to join multiple vacations, including trips on Harlan’s private jet and 162-foot yacht.
Supreme Court justices are required to file annual financial disclosures, and the federal judiciary’s policy-making body last month quietly adopted stricter gift reporting requirements that clarified the “personal hospitality” exception does not apply to gifts at commercial properties and only spans certain gifts from someone with a personal relationship with the justice in a nonbusiness context.
“These guidelines are now being changed, as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance. And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future,” Thomas said.
The ProPublica investigation detailed a series of purported trips Thomas took at Crow’s expense that stretch back years, from Indonesia to the Bohemian Grove in California to the Adirondacks.
“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” Thomas said Friday.
It’s not the first time Thomas has come under scrutiny for judicial ethics. He faced calls to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack after it surfaced that his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, was involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
ProPublica’s investigation quickly led to condemnation of Thomas from those who have advocated for stronger ethics rules at the Supreme Court and who have previously raised concerns about reported efforts to wine-and-dine the justices to gain influence and the extraordinary leak of the court’s draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday called for Thomas’s impeachment, while Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said his committee “will act.”
A group of Democrats in February reintroduced a bill to implement a binding code of ethics for the justices, like the one in place for lower federal judges, although some legal observers suggest such a proposal could create separation-of-powers issues.
In his 2011 year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts said the justices consult the code of conduct in place for other federal judges but also look to a “wide variety of other authorities” to resolve ethical issues.
“They may turn to judicial opinions, treatises, scholarly articles, and disciplinary decisions,” Roberts wrote. “They may also seek advice from the Court’s Legal Office, from the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Codes of Conduct, and from their colleagues.”
“For that reason, the Court has had no reason to adopt the Code of Conduct as its definitive source of ethical guidance. But as a practical matter, the Code remains the starting point and a key source of guidance for the Justices as well as their lower court colleagues,” he added.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he “was advised” that he did not have to disclose a series of trips reportedly paid for by a Republican mega-donor.
The trips, which were revealed on Thursday by a ProPublica investigation, led to outrage from Democrats and judicial watchdog groups.
“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable. I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines,” Thomas said in a statement, his first public comments since the report.
ProPublica reported on Thursday that Harlan Crow, a Dallas-based real estate developer who has donated millions to conservative causes, paid for Thomas to join multiple vacations, including trips on Harlan’s private jet and 162-foot yacht.
Supreme Court justices are required to file annual financial disclosures, and the federal judiciary’s policy-making body last month quietly adopted stricter gift reporting requirements that clarified the “personal hospitality” exception does not apply to gifts at commercial properties and only spans certain gifts from someone with a personal relationship with the justice in a nonbusiness context.
“These guidelines are now being changed, as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance. And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future,” Thomas said.
The ProPublica investigation detailed a series of purported trips Thomas took at Crow’s expense that stretch back years, from Indonesia to the Bohemian Grove in California to the Adirondacks.
“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” Thomas said Friday.
It’s not the first time Thomas has come under scrutiny for judicial ethics. He faced calls to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack after it surfaced that his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, was involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
ProPublica’s investigation quickly led to condemnation of Thomas from those who have advocated for stronger ethics rules at the Supreme Court and who have previously raised concerns about reported efforts to wine-and-dine the justices to gain influence and the extraordinary leak of the court’s draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday called for Thomas’s impeachment, while Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said his committee “will act.”
A group of Democrats in February reintroduced a bill to implement a binding code of ethics for the justices, like the one in place for lower federal judges, although some legal observers suggest such a proposal could create separation-of-powers issues.
In his 2011 year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts said the justices consult the code of conduct in place for other federal judges but also look to a “wide variety of other authorities” to resolve ethical issues.
“They may turn to judicial opinions, treatises, scholarly articles, and disciplinary decisions,” Roberts wrote. “They may also seek advice from the Court’s Legal Office, from the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Codes of Conduct, and from their colleagues.”
“For that reason, the Court has had no reason to adopt the Code of Conduct as its definitive source of ethical guidance. But as a practical matter, the Code remains the starting point and a key source of guidance for the Justices as well as their lower court colleagues,” he added.
Clarence Thomas says he ‘was advised’ he didn’t have to disclose trips paid for by GOP donor
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he “was advised” that he did not have to disclose a series of trips reportedly paid for by a Republican mega-donor. The trips, which were reveal…
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Fogdog
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The old "appeal to authority" logical fallacy.Clarence Thomas says he ‘was advised’ he didn’t have to disclose trips paid for by GOP donor
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he “was advised” that he did not have to disclose a series of trips reportedly paid for by a Republican mega-donor.
The trips, which were revealed on Thursday by a ProPublica investigation, led to outrage from Democrats and judicial watchdog groups.
“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable. I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines,” Thomas said in a statement, his first public comments since the report.
ProPublica reported on Thursday that Harlan Crow, a Dallas-based real estate developer who has donated millions to conservative causes, paid for Thomas to join multiple vacations, including trips on Harlan’s private jet and 162-foot yacht.
Supreme Court justices are required to file annual financial disclosures, and the federal judiciary’s policy-making body last month quietly adopted stricter gift reporting requirements that clarified the “personal hospitality” exception does not apply to gifts at commercial properties and only spans certain gifts from someone with a personal relationship with the justice in a nonbusiness context.
“These guidelines are now being changed, as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance. And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future,” Thomas said.
The ProPublica investigation detailed a series of purported trips Thomas took at Crow’s expense that stretch back years, from Indonesia to the Bohemian Grove in California to the Adirondacks.
“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” Thomas said Friday.
It’s not the first time Thomas has come under scrutiny for judicial ethics. He faced calls to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack after it surfaced that his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, was involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
ProPublica’s investigation quickly led to condemnation of Thomas from those who have advocated for stronger ethics rules at the Supreme Court and who have previously raised concerns about reported efforts to wine-and-dine the justices to gain influence and the extraordinary leak of the court’s draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday called for Thomas’s impeachment, while Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said his committee “will act.”
A group of Democrats in February reintroduced a bill to implement a binding code of ethics for the justices, like the one in place for lower federal judges, although some legal observers suggest such a proposal could create separation-of-powers issues.
In his 2011 year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts said the justices consult the code of conduct in place for other federal judges but also look to a “wide variety of other authorities” to resolve ethical issues.
“They may turn to judicial opinions, treatises, scholarly articles, and disciplinary decisions,” Roberts wrote. “They may also seek advice from the Court’s Legal Office, from the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Codes of Conduct, and from their colleagues.”
“For that reason, the Court has had no reason to adopt the Code of Conduct as its definitive source of ethical guidance. But as a practical matter, the Code remains the starting point and a key source of guidance for the Justices as well as their lower court colleagues,” he added.
Clarence Thomas says he ‘was advised’ he didn’t have to disclose trips paid for by GOP donor
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he “was advised” that he did not have to disclose a series of trips reportedly paid for by a Republican mega-donor. The trips, which were reveal…
"I asked about it with other judges and they said it's OK. So, blame it on them. If taking free trips, vacations and meals from a Billionaire who has benefitted from some of my rulings regarding taxes, labor, free speech and on political issues in ways that he favors gives the appearance of corruption, take my word for it. it wasn't. I asked about it with other judges and they said it's OK. Refute that."
Slimy as a hagfish.
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printer
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House Oversight Democrats say Chairman Comer held back evidence, misled on witnesses
House Oversight Democrats on Thursday accused Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) of withholding evidence or misleading the public about the witnesses Republicans have spoken with in their investigation into President Biden’s family.
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said in a letter to Comer that he was troubled by the chairman’s recent claims that Republicans had spoken with four witnesses in the Biden family investigation.
“Your repeated statements about ‘four people’ suggest that either you have intentionally misrepresented the Committee’s investigative progress to your conservative audience or that key investigative steps have been deliberately withheld from Committee Democrats,” Raskin said in Thursday’s letter.
“In either case, this failure to act transparently and candidly, and to provide the Minority with equal access to Committee information, undermines your pledge to pursue ‘a credible investigation based on facts that is fair and balanced,’” he added.
Raskin claimed that Democratic staff had asked Comer’s staff about any new witness information following the first media appearance in which he claimed Republicans had spoken with “four different people.”
However, Comer’s staff reportedly said there was no new witness information and suggested that the chairman’s comment referred to two witnesses, Eric Schwerin and Kathy Chung, about whom Democrats had already been informed.
Comer reiterated the claims earlier this week, telling Fox Business that he was “in communication with four former Biden family business associates” who are cooperating with the investigation.
Raskin also slammed Comer’s refusal to share a copy of the hard drive reportedly obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop with Oversight Democrats.
“Indeed, your misrepresentations and refusal to disclose relevant information to the Committee call into serious question your investigative techniques, the ‘facts’ you have uncovered, and the narratives you appear intent on composing,” Raskin added.
Comer hit back at the ranking member in a statement on Thursday, accusing him of lodging “baseless accusations.” However, the chairman did not respond to Raskin’s specific concerns.
“Multiple individuals have approached the Oversight Committee as whistleblowers with a desire to share information confidentially. It should be no surprise that whistleblowers do not trust Ranking Member Raskin,” Comer said, without specifying whether such information had been shared with Oversight Democrats.
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House Oversight Democrats on Thursday accused Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) of withholding evidence or misleading the public about the witnesses Republicans have spoken with in their investigation into President Biden’s family.
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said in a letter to Comer that he was troubled by the chairman’s recent claims that Republicans had spoken with four witnesses in the Biden family investigation.
“Your repeated statements about ‘four people’ suggest that either you have intentionally misrepresented the Committee’s investigative progress to your conservative audience or that key investigative steps have been deliberately withheld from Committee Democrats,” Raskin said in Thursday’s letter.
“In either case, this failure to act transparently and candidly, and to provide the Minority with equal access to Committee information, undermines your pledge to pursue ‘a credible investigation based on facts that is fair and balanced,’” he added.
Raskin claimed that Democratic staff had asked Comer’s staff about any new witness information following the first media appearance in which he claimed Republicans had spoken with “four different people.”
However, Comer’s staff reportedly said there was no new witness information and suggested that the chairman’s comment referred to two witnesses, Eric Schwerin and Kathy Chung, about whom Democrats had already been informed.
Comer reiterated the claims earlier this week, telling Fox Business that he was “in communication with four former Biden family business associates” who are cooperating with the investigation.
Raskin also slammed Comer’s refusal to share a copy of the hard drive reportedly obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop with Oversight Democrats.
“Indeed, your misrepresentations and refusal to disclose relevant information to the Committee call into serious question your investigative techniques, the ‘facts’ you have uncovered, and the narratives you appear intent on composing,” Raskin added.
Comer hit back at the ranking member in a statement on Thursday, accusing him of lodging “baseless accusations.” However, the chairman did not respond to Raskin’s specific concerns.
“Multiple individuals have approached the Oversight Committee as whistleblowers with a desire to share information confidentially. It should be no surprise that whistleblowers do not trust Ranking Member Raskin,” Comer said, without specifying whether such information had been shared with Oversight Democrats.
House Oversight Democrats say Chairman Comer held back evidence, misled on witnesses
House Oversight Democrats on Thursday accused Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) of withholding evidence or misleading the public about the witnesses Republicans have spoken with in their investigation i…
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He's half brain dead..just got there and following the crowd. Waste of space.
doublejj
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North Dakota senators vote to boost their own meal reimbursements after rejecting free school lunch bill
Thirteen Republican senators voted to increase meal reimbursements for state employees after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students.
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Thirteen Republican senators voted to increase meal reimbursements for state employees after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students.
North Dakota senators vote to boost their own meal reimbursements after rejecting free school lunch bill
Thirteen Republican senators voted to increase meal reimbursements for state employees after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students.
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doublejj
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Think Florida Is Already an Orwellian Hellscape? Ron DeSantis Is Just Getting Started
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Think Florida Is Already an Orwellian Hellscape? Ron DeSantis Is Just Getting Started
The Florida governor, who’s never met a ban he didn’t like, is coming for abortion next.
Bagginski
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BINGO! that was one of those things I referred to that went into my riff/rant: when I was a kid growing up in the piney-woods south, there’d be tracks, like a dirt driveway where there were no houses, just pines, blackberries & kudzu with a break in the trees, wandering out of sight. Eventually, I went exploring…and I found black people living - in cabins, shacks, lean-tos…. Over time I learned that no one would sell land to black people (even then, when that was in the process of becoming formally outlawed) - but that some white landowners would allow blacks to live on their property, provided they caused no trouble, drew no attention, and didn’t ask for anything.
Generally, they were as comfortable as they could make themselves, but of course they had no water, no plumbing, no sewage, no electric or gas. Those are services. To access services, you need an address. To get a driver’s license, you need an address. To get a job, you need an address. Need a phone? A bank account? An ambulance? Want to vote? Want to stay out of jail? At the very least, you need a picture ID, and you need an address. No census. Except for the landowner, no one knows you’re there - and that’s the safest you can be…even though the pay will suck your entire life, and every injury, every illness will mean less money and the chance of a shorter life.
No existence as people. Alone and endangered in ways they don’t teach us about, ever.
‘Woke’ is the enemy because once you wake up, you have to deal with being awake: same for every one of us, every day we wake up.
ok, I’ll stop now