Examples of GOP Leadership

That man does another poo from his mouth.

BudmanTX said:

yeah the GOP debate is coming up....and Don Don won't be there....guess all those things going on is keeping him from it....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1706772033739067436

now here is the funny thing....Don Don said he refused the invite, while the Regan Center....honestly never sent him one..period....

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If you look at what they are trying to do in the house, any working person or pensioner would have to be a fucking idiot to vote for these clowns, I can see it if you are a greedy billionaire, but only if you are so greedy as to warp your mind. Any ordinary person who votes for these fucks is cutting their own throats, forget Trump's drama and the culture wars bullshit, just look at what they are doing, or I should say trying to do while holding the country hostage, again FFS. There are a lot of morons in America who are willing to fuck themselves, Canada too lately. They serve the rich, con the base and have contempt for poor and middle-class people, they totally depend on foxnews and the white trash vote at all income levels. They are ready to screw themselves economically and democratically too. Every roadblock thrown up for minorities to register and vote, is one they throw in their own way too. It is their voters who will have the most difficulty registering and voting in the end, they are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, the complexities and barriers might get the best of them.

All this bullshit and culture wars are just a distraction from the real wars, the economic one and the one for liberal democracy. The one for a new deal 2.0, instead of trickle down, that is just another analogy for pissing on ya.

cannabineer said:

That man does another poo from his mouth.

Trump breaks with McCarthy, pushing Republicans to shut down the government

The former president endorses the tactics of far-right GOP members, telling them to force a shutdown unless Democrats give them “EVERYTHING” in negotiations.

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He will force Kevin to make a deal with the democrats, he can't hold out until Trump is jailed, disqualifying him will just make it worse for Kevin. He also can't shut the government down over utter bullshit and for no reason at all. If people miss their social security and pay checks there will be Hell to pay, and the republicans will pay it.

Kevin McCarthy Wanted Bob Menendez To Resign Until Someone Mentioned George Santos
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was one of many people calling for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) to resign, but it only took two words to get him to change his mind.

Menendez was indicted last week on bribery charges. On Saturday, McCarthy called for the senator’s resignation, saying that the indictment was “very damaging” and that the evidence presented by prosecutors “seems pretty black and white.”

But McCarthy seemed to flip-flop on Tuesday after CNN’s Manu Raju asked him a cagey question: “Do you think that George Santos, who’s been indicted on federal criminal charges, should also resign?”

The partisan divide in the House is very slim ― 221 Republicans to 212 Democrats ― and McCarthy needs every possible vote he can get.

So after Raju pointed out the hypocrisy of asking a Democrat to resign and a Republican to fight their charge in court, McCarthy decided Menendez should also be presumed innocent until found guilty.

“I think George could have his day in court, and I think Menendez could have his day in court,” he said.

Raju then reminded McCarthy of his earlier comments, saying, “Mr. Speaker, why do you think [Menendez] needs to resign, then?”

McCarthy immediately flip-flopped.

“It could be his choice of what he wants to do, yes,” he said.

Although many Democratic lawmakers have suggested Menendez resign, he is refusing to do so.

Meanwhile, Business Insider notes that no Republican senators have called on him to step down, and some, like Arkansas’ Tom Cotton, have even expressed support.

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Kevin McCarthy Wanted Bob Menendez To Resign Until Someone Mentioned George Santos
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was one of many people calling for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) to resign, but it only took two words to get him to change his mind.

Menendez was indicted last week on bribery charges. On Saturday, McCarthy called for the senator’s resignation, saying that the indictment was “very damaging” and that the evidence presented by prosecutors “seems pretty black and white.”

But McCarthy seemed to flip-flop on Tuesday after CNN’s Manu Raju asked him a cagey question: “Do you think that George Santos, who’s been indicted on federal criminal charges, should also resign?”

The partisan divide in the House is very slim ― 221 Republicans to 212 Democrats ― and McCarthy needs every possible vote he can get.

So after Raju pointed out the hypocrisy of asking a Democrat to resign and a Republican to fight their charge in court, McCarthy decided Menendez should also be presumed innocent until found guilty.

“I think George could have his day in court, and I think Menendez could have his day in court,” he said.

Raju then reminded McCarthy of his earlier comments, saying, “Mr. Speaker, why do you think [Menendez] needs to resign, then?”

McCarthy immediately flip-flopped.

“It could be his choice of what he wants to do, yes,” he said.

Although many Democratic lawmakers have suggested Menendez resign, he is refusing to do so.

Meanwhile, Business Insider notes that no Republican senators have called on him to step down, and some, like Arkansas’ Tom Cotton, have even expressed support.

Kevin McCarthy Wanted Bob Menendez To Resign Until Someone Mentioned George Santos

The House speaker wanted the New Jersey senator to resign, but he changed his mind after someone asked why he hadn't asked Santos to do the same.

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He has the backing and support of the corruption caucus, grifters have to stick together.

DIY-HP-LED said:

Actually, America needs workers, particularly in the low skill service industry and other sectors too, small businesses are desperate for workers. The problem is not the number of migrants, American needs immigrants, it's getting them green cards and putting them to work building the economy that is the real problem. Of course, the republicans are at the root of the problem, most new immigrants coming to America these days, legal or otherwise, are black, brown, Muslim or somebody else they don't like. We are letting so many immigrants in here in Canada it's exacerbating and driving a housing crisis and according to demographics we need more people. People in the developed world stopped having enough kids, that goes for America, Europe and Asia too, China and Japan are facing demographic crises over falling birth rates.

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BINGO: the logic - the economic pressures - has ALWAYS required workers, maybe always will.

The will to enslave & work others unto death is baked into “the better class(es) of people”; de-facto enslavement happens here, every day. A commoditized & financially desperate workforce is a positive good for neo-feudal, ‘free-market’ economists & their employers

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Bagginski said:

BINGO: the logic - the economic pressures - has ALWAYS required workers, maybe always will.

The will to enslave & work others unto death is baked into “the better class(es) of people”; de-facto enslavement happens here, every day. A commoditized & financially desperate workforce is a positive good for neo-feudal, ‘free-market’ economists & their employers

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My son, who is quite interested in politics, predicts the return of company towns in this nation, with the workers paid in (not enough) scrip. Slavery has more than one manifestation.

I fear he’s onto summat.

Budzbuddha said:

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A crisis of faith can lead to personal growth.

So can deep-fried Brie.

topcat said:

"...you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
Trump says Republicans would ‘never’ be elected again if it was easier to vote | Donald Trump | The Guardian

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Works for me, works for all of us

Budzbuddha said:

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Please father, just say you love me, and leave the rest to me and...uh...leave the rest to me.

Start with the soft targets and work your way up to the real pricks like Stephen Miller and others. Trump ended Session's political career, so there is no love lost there.

The privates, NCOs, generals and their families won't be blaming Joe and the democrats for fucking them over and no pay checks, neither will veterans and their families. Trump supporters and magats are about to get a very hard time on the home front, friends might not be as friendly or relatives without paychecks won't want to hear them whine about woke and how bad Biden is while they are fucking them. A lot of people working at military bases in the south will be laid off too, many of them magats who cut their own throats.

Bagginski said:

BINGO: the logic - the economic pressures - has ALWAYS required workers, maybe always will.

The will to enslave & work others unto death is baked into “the better class(es) of people”; de-facto enslavement happens here, every day. A commoditized & financially desperate workforce is a positive good for neo-feudal, ‘free-market’ economists & their employers

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Well, capitalism has problems on the horizon, and they are rapidly approaching in the form of population collapse among nations with emancipated women and technology with AI, robots and automation disrupting things. Capitalism needs growth and that means a steadily growing population, but with reduced birth rates and people living much longer than their prime consumption years and retired, replacement and supporting the large numbers of elderly becomes an issue. At the same time population is crashing and employers are having issues, robots, automation and AI are on the rise, along with a lower maintenance electric energy future. Electric driverless trucks and humanoid robots will begin to do useful shit in the next decade. If a humanoid robot can do the job for the cost of a couple of years' worth of wages and benefits, guess who gets the job and it will be more so for office work like accounting and such with AI.

We have two trends, machines producing more and doing more things that humans used to do and doing it better and cheaper and a long-term decline in population as more women are emancipated and choose to have fewer children. What will it be like in 20 or 30 years at the exponential rate of progress we are experiencing in some fields like biology, medicine, robotics, AI and computing. One thing we can say for sure, it will be a lot greener with most energy produced by renewables and stored by way better batteries than we have today.

However, there is another problem, that of wealth imbalance, the rich can afford the robots, AI and other tech that will increasingly throw people out of work. The wealth gap is a big enough problem now, so are our descendants going to live lives of luxury and recreation as citizens of a free country or are they gonna be useless mouths to be feed and warehoused as economically as possible by a small number of pathologically greedy people. The richer everybody is, the less impact money has, the less power, desperate people are easy to buy and control and some of the rich would miss that. We will be plenty rich enough for the life of luxury and recreation for all while humanoid robots serve the drinks by the pool. However, if the brown folks get some too, then fuck it, the warehouse will do just fine, along with a slave collar.

Fewer and fewer good examples.

Cassidy Hutchinson says Liz Cheney’s ‘spine of steel’ inspired her to speak up
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, said on Wednesday that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) inspired her to speak up about what she witnessed during the final days of the Trump administration.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Willie Geist asked Hutchinson how strong of an ally the former Wyoming congresswoman was to her throughout the process of getting herself to testify before Congress.

“Liz Cheney is the leader that we all need to aspire to be, and she is the leader that we need as a country to come together and find people to elect people like Liz Cheney,” Hutchinson told Geist. “Liz Cheney has a spine of steel, and she also cares deeply about this country.”
Hutchinson added that seeing Cheney sit with several Democratic members in a committee shows “how dangerous of a moment that we are in as a country,” noting that she’s forever grateful for Cheney’s help.

“I would like to think that without Liz Cheney I still would have come to his moment, but I know that I came to this moment because of Liz Cheney,” Hutchinson added. “I am forever indebted to her for that and for helping… get me to where I am today.”
Cheney, one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol, was severed as co-chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the insurrection. Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the now-defunct select committee last year about the Capitol insurrection, being the first member of the Trump administration to do so.

Cheney’s stance against Trump resulted in her being ousted from her leadership position with the House Republican Conference in 2021 and led to her eventual loss to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman in her state’s primary race last year.
Hutchinson’s remarks come a month after Trump, along with 18 of his allies, were indicted by a Georgia grand jury on charges tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Trump, who announced his third presidential campaign last November, has been hit with three other indictments this year relating to his business dealings, handling of classified documents, and his behavioral actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Hutchinson also released a new book titled “Enough,” which details her experience working under the Trump administration and the events that led to her testifying before Congress.