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

[Paladin]

Free Speech unless it helps women somehow.

Texas bill would ban hosting online speech about abortion pills

Abortion battles are becoming tech policy battles.

reason.com

 

[Ungnome]

Text not inciting violence, not defaming another person, not causing a panic. Hopefully, if that bill does pass, it gets slapped down by the federal courts. Guess the 1st amendment only applies to political donations and racist speech.

 

[Autobubbs]

Text not inciting violence, not defaming another person, not causing a panic. Hopefully, if that bill does pass, it gets slapped down by the federal courts. Guess the 1st amendment only applies to political donations and racist speech.

The only rights Conservatives care about is their own. Everybody else can bugger off.

 

[Pale Rider]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1858560884576022986

 

[Axaday]

It would be a shame to start making cuts before the massive tariff money starts rolling in.

 

[Pale Rider]

The tariff money that Trump promised is the only thing that keeps me going these days. I can hardly wait.

 

[Wheelimus]

"I want my tariff g's" to the tune of the Dire Straits "Money For Nothing".

 

[Paladin]

Rep. Nancy Mace says her anti-trans bathroom bill 'absolutely' targets Rep.-elect Sarah McBride

McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, will serve in the House starting next year, and Mace doesn't want her using women's bathrooms at the Capitol.

www.nbcnews.com

The pettiest of *****.

 

[Pale Rider]

Conservative virtue-signaling.

 

[NovaSaber]

Vice-signaling.

 

[NovaSaber]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens to Unveil Republican Party's Sex Crimes and Settlements

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses GOP leaders of harboring sexual predators, using taxpayer funds to silence victims, and suppressing evidence tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

www.washingtoninformer.com

Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) have joined the growing calls for releasing the Ethics Committee report on Gaetz, further exposing the GOP’s internal divisions.

Greene, however, made it clear that if Gaetz is targeted, she will not hesitate to bring down others with him, threatening to reveal evidence that could implicate Republican leaders in the Epstein scandal and beyond.

Does she even understand that publicly making the threat means she's already admitted to knowing about these things?

 

[abates]

She's a Qanon wacko, so I'm not surprised she doesn't know how to do blackmail properly.

I'm not convinced she has any evidence that could change anything either though.

 

[Rhinox]

If she had any ethical standards to begin with, she'd have already released whatever evidence she had. Whoever runs against her should absolutely be pointing this out continually. Start now, why wait for an election cycle?

 

[Axaday]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens to Unveil Republican Party's Sex Crimes and Settlements

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses GOP leaders of harboring sexual predators, using taxpayer funds to silence victims, and suppressing evidence tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

www.washingtoninformer.com

Does she even understand that publicly making the threat means she's already admitted to knowing about these things?

There's a lot to unpack there.

Freedom Caucus really feel like they are a small 3rd party.

It also means she considers her buddy Gaetz' ethics report to be damning. She specifically believes that releasing it will be importantly damaging. So she either KNOWS it is or in her very small list of friends she includes a guy that she just THINKS it is. And I'm not sure which I prefer for her. It is so important that the buddy who paid for sex with minors (apparently not a problem) gets to be in charge of the Justice Department that if her own party stops it, she's going to reveal who else IN HER PARTY paid for sex with minors (apparently a real problem).

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

She's mad because she didn't get picked for a cabinet position. That's all this boils down to.

That and, by all reports, nobody likes Gaetz, even his own party.

 

[Ungnome]

There's a not to unpack there.

Freedom Caucus really feel like they are a small 3rd party.

It also means she considers her buddy Gaetz' ethics report to be damning. She specifically believes that releasing it will be importantly damaging. So she either KNOWS it is or in her very small list of friends she includes a guy that she just THINKS it is. And I'm not sure which I prefer for her. It is so important that he buddy who paid for sex with minors (apparently not a problem) gets to be in charge of the Justice Department that if her own party stops it, she's going to reveal who else paid for sex with minors (apparently a real problem).

To MTG: DO IT!!! Sure it's likely a half baked conspiracy theory with no evidence, but that's her bread and butter. It would have one of two consequences. Either A, we get a lot of resignations/people voted out on the R side in congress or B) MTG becomes a pariah in the Republican party and looses all her funding for her re-election campaign in 2026. Either of those would be fine by me.(There is also the possible third option where both happen).

 

[Axaday]

She's mad because she didn't get picked for a cabinet position. That's all this boils down to.

That and, by all reports, nobody likes Gaetz, even his own party.

If Markwayne is demanding the report, I don't think Gaetz is getting confirmed. He already resigned, which I thought at the moment was a confident move, but I guess it was a strategy to try to make his ethics report officially irrelevent.

But I guess if the notion of his new job fizzles out fast enough, he can be nominated to replace himself in Congress.

 

[Axaday]

To MTG: DO IT!!! Sure it's likely a half baked conspiracy theory with no evidence, but that's her bread and butter. It would have one of two consequences. Either A, we get a lot of resignations/people voted out on the R side in congress or B) MTG becomes a pariah in the Republican party and looses all her funding for her re-election campaign in 2026. Either of those would be fine by me.(There is also the possible third option where both happen).

There is also the supervolcano possibility.

 

[KidTDragon]

There is also the supervolcano possibility.

Which is...?

 

[Wheelimus]

Which is...?

supervolcano blows and kills MTG?