What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

[Teufel]

Vivek parrots Russian propaganda and Putin's bogus rationale for invading Ukraine by calling Zelenskyy a Nazi.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1722428417293893845

At one point in tonight's debate Nikki Haley called Vivek "scum", and yeah. That's about right.

 

[Ironbite4]

But they were such good friends at one point. I wonder what changed?

Ironbite-I mean, besides spending 5 seconds in this man's relative zip code.

 

[The Predaking]

God, guns and "the woke."

That is pretty accurate.

 

[Ironbite4]

Ahh this is fun.

Republican pushes to overturn Ohio election result

North Dakota Republican Brandon Prichard said the Ohio abortion vote shows why "direct democracy should not exist."

www.newsweek.com

So a state rep in NORTH DAKOTA! is urging Ohio to just say hug it to the results of their election because direct democracy always kicks Republican ass. What a moron.

Ironbite-I think we should ignore this guy right out of office.

 

[Rhinox]

I think the best part of the voting results are all of the political reporters saying why this should scare the hell out of Biden because somehow this means that Donald Trump may yet with the presidential election.

So desperate for a horse race they're willing to ignore realities to create a narrative for eyeballs and clicks.

 

[Pale Rider]

Ahh this is fun.

Republican pushes to overturn Ohio election result

North Dakota Republican Brandon Prichard said the Ohio abortion vote shows why "direct democracy should not exist."

www.newsweek.com

So a state rep in NORTH DAKOTA! is urging Ohio to just say hug it to the results of their election because direct democracy always kicks Republican ass. What a moron.

Ironbite-I think we should ignore this guy right out of office.

Rick Santorum said the same thing.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1722092355770016036

 

[DefaultOption]

Funny how they spent all this time justifying their desire to overturn Roe because 'it should be up to the states', but now that states aren't doing what they want they're unhappy with the states having that power.

 

[wonko the sane?]

That's also part of the reason the more "moderate" republicans have fled the party. They went from "It's a states rights issue" to "national ban" literally overnight. No transition, no real change in context, literally just showing the voters what they thought of them and how much they consider their opinions.

Beau of the fifth has been preaching this: They don't want to represent, they want to rule.

 

[Pocket]

It's exactly the same thing that happened during the Civil War. For all their talk of "states' rights", the very first thing they did after seceding was make it explicitly unconstitutional for any Confederate state to outlaw slavery.

 

[Paladin]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vivek-ramaswamy-canada-border-wall-1.7023226

At this point I have to think Canada would just say "Good Riddance, eh!"

 

[Ungnome]

Having the worlds longest unfortified border is something both the US and Canada should be proud of. Throwing it away due to xenophobic nationalism would be a travesty.

 

[Paladin]

Ohio is the best demonstration yet that Republicans never actually gave a damn about voting.

Republican faction seeks to keep courts from interpreting Ohio's new abortion rights amendment

Reps. Jennifer Gross, Bill Dean, Melanie Miller and Beth Lear said that they’ll push to have the Legislature, not the courts, make any decisions about the amendment passed.

apnews.com

 

[DefaultOption]

As W Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in 2018; "If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."

 

[Axaday]

I wish government shutdowns were funny, because I'd like to laugh if Johnson cannot get a deal to stop it.

 

[wonko the sane?]

As W Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in 2018; "If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."

As a response to Mr Frum: If they are unwilling to abandon conservatism when they cannot win democratically, they were never conservatives, they were always authoritarians.

I wish government shutdowns were funny, because I'd like to laugh if Johnson cannot get a deal to stop it.

A shutdown always was the goal. mikey wikey carries water for trump, and trump still thinks a shutdown will prevent his prosecution. The order given to gaets still stands, and is entirely why the last speaker was tossed.

So there will be a shut down, and it won't be because they can't get a make a deal, it will be because the architect of the trump coup decided to include a bunch a stuff which will NEVER pass a vote (and even if it did, biden will veto it.) and cannot be convinced to remove it. There will be another shutdown, it will be openly and blatantly the republicans fault, they will blame it on the democrats, and it will be because they are all ******* monsters.

 

[abates]

Kevin McCarthy accused of elbowing fellow Republican

The incident prompted Mr McCarthy's long-term adversary, Matt Gaetz, to call for an ethics investigation.

www.bbc.com

Tim Burchett was talking to a reporter when Kevin McCarthy gave him a shove from behind. McCarthy is saying the contact was accidental. Twitter thread by the reporter here.

Matt Gaetz has filed an ethics complaint regarding the incident.

When informed of Mr Gaetz's complaint, Mr McCarthy replied "oh, good," before adding that "Ethics is a good place for Gaetz to be".

 

[Axaday]

Your post has everything!

Edit - We're kind of used to sexual abuse in government at this point, but does there have to be shoving?

 

[Ironbite4]

McCarthy is gonna get Gaetz if it's the last thing he does.

 

[Pocket]

When informed of Mr Gaetz's complaint, Mr McCarthy replied "oh, good," before adding that "Ethics is a good place for Gaetz to be".

OK, point to McCarthy, that did make me laugh.

 

[Axaday]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/11/14/markwayne-mullin-challenges-witness-fight-gop-bernie-sanders-congress-vpx.cnn

Senator Markwayne Mullins was ready to go have a tussle on the Senator floor. Perfect.

He scoffs at a tweet saying he is a clown and needs to quit the tough guy act and then stands up to go have a fistfight in a Senate hearing.

He still doesn't think he is clown?

Edit - Weirdly, after Bernie won't let them have a fist fight, Markwayne had to come back and summarize that he had accepted the challenge to fight but the Teamster President got quiet. He has to establish for the room that he still won somehow. But all you have to do is roll it back and see that the Teamster President did NOT get quiet. Bernie had to quiet him down too.