Category: GOP

GOP March 4, 2024

Opinion | MAGA’s Plan to “Legally” Steal the 2024 Election | Common Dreams

Rep. Mike Johnson

Fuck Voting

Then, regardless of how many votes Biden won by, electoral or popular, the House simply refuses to certify the electoral college votes of enough states that the minimum of 270 isn’t reached. Under the 12th Amendment, like with the election of 1876, that throws the election to the House, where each state has one vote.

While a majority of Americans live in a state run by Democrats, a majority of the states themselves are run by Republicans. Each state gets one vote for president in the House, and right now 26 state delegations are GOP-controlled, meaning that a majority of the House would simply vote to put Trump back into the White House, 26-23 (Pennsylvania’s delegation is 50/50). All totally legal.

Source: Opinion | MAGA’s Plan to “Legally” Steal the 2024 Election | Common Dreams

GOP August 1, 2023

The GOP’s Billionaire Primary Is Just Getting Started | HuffPost Latest News

And a big chunk to pay one man’s legal bills

But the 2024 Republican primary, which is just entering its adolescence, is set to be defined not by the passions of donors chipping in $20 in response to an email, but by millionaires and billionaires cutting checks worth tens of thousands of dollars, if not tens of millions, in response to a PowerPoint presentation and a sales pitch from a super PAC official.

Source: The GOP’s Billionaire Primary Is Just Getting Started | HuffPost Latest News

GOP January 4, 2023

I’m a Professional Comedy Writer — The GOP Has a ‘Punching Down’ Problem | The Smirking Chimp

“Punching down” is more than being mean, rude, or vulgar. It’s the intentional act of attacking those in powerless positions. Going after the people who are most vulnerable. A specific type of cruelty and cowardice.

Source: I’m a Professional Comedy Writer — The GOP Has a ‘Punching Down’ Problem | The Smirking Chimp

GOP January 2, 2023

The Hell With “Compassionate Conservatism”: In 2023, Expect All MAGA Sadism, All the Time | The Smirking Chimp

So it is across most of the GOP leadership. The ever-nastier behavior we saw after the 2022 midterms wasn’t a show performed for the benefit of the Fox News-drunk base, or at least not entirely. That’s just who these people are: privileged bullies who can’t stand the idea of treating people different than themselves as equals. The more they come face to face with clear evidence that they’re losing the battle for hearts and minds, the more they’ll use the authority they still possess — which is a lot — to enforce ever more baroque punishments on the most vulnerable people in our society, out of their misbegotten desire for revenge.

Source: The Hell With “Compassionate Conservatism”: In 2023, Expect All MAGA Sadism, All the Time | The Smirking Chimp

GOP September 26, 2022

QMaga: How QAnon, MAGA and Christian Nationalism Have Pushed the GOP Into Madness | The Smirking Chimp

The Australian Liberal Party has gone down the same rabbit hole due to their lack of imagination,and desperation to hold on to power. The LNP, ACL,IPA, News Corp and extreme right fruitcakes have become bedfellows. Dutton even flew to America of all places to take advice and raise the funding Pauline Hanson tried to do but got caught doing it. Unlike America Australians have simply sat back and watched the LNP destroy itself.

Corn continues,

“Both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were QAnoners before they were elected to Congress in the last election. But perhaps of greater concern is that the entire GOP, which has supported Trump’s authoritarian Big Lie crusade, is now willing to follow Trump further into the depths of fearmongering and madness.”

Source: QMaga: How QAnon, MAGA and Christian Nationalism Have Pushed the GOP Into Madness | The Smirking Chimp

GOP September 25, 2022

Surprise! GOP’s ‘Commitment To America’ Video Features Images Of Russia | Crooks and Liars

Surprise! GOP's 'Commitment To America' Video Features Images Of Russia

Republicans simply think they can Fool America

House Republican leaders unveiled their “Commitment to America” plan for 2023, which contained, unsurprisingly, an inspirational video full of scenes presented as imagery of America that was stock footage from Russia and Ukraine. The video narrator says that America is “exceptional,” and then shows quite a few photos that were not taken in America.

Source: Surprise! GOP’s ‘Commitment To America’ Video Features Images Of Russia | Crooks and Liars

GOP April 10, 2022

Why Is the GOP Siding With Putin? | The Smirking Chimp

The GOP are Anti- Democracy like the LNP its Nope, Nope Nope to any bipartisan policies but that was never the case with Rudd/Gillard and nor will it be with an Albanese Government. That’s the primary difference between autocrats and democrats. Autocrats exist to retain power at all cost the ALP is there to serve the nation not themselves and donors only.

The Republican Party is committed to tearing America apart by pitting us against each other. Why would they do this? Here’s a clue: 63 Republicans voted this week against a resolution in support of NATO.

Source: Why Is the GOP Siding With Putin? | The Smirking Chimp

GOP February 25, 2022

Is It Amnesia or Hypocrisy That Fuels the GOP’s Crazy Response to Putin? – Mother Jones

In recent days, as Putin has threatened a conflagration, top conservatives and GOP officials have practically pinned “I’m-with-Vlad buttons” onto their lapels. One example: Mike Pompeo, Trump’s final secretary of state and before that his CIA director, had only praise for the corrupt Russian autocrat, describing him as “talented” and “savvy.” Donald Trump, speaking to a conservative podcaster on Tuesday, hailed Putin’s moves in Ukraine as “genius.” Referring to Putin’s invasion of eastern Ukraine, Trump said, “Putin declares a big portion of…of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful…I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper…Here’s a guy who’s very savvy.” Later in the interview, Trump continued to gush: “I knew Putin very well. I got along with him great. He liked me. I liked him. I mean, you know, he’s a tough cookie, got a lot of the great charm and a lot of pride. But the way he—and he loves his country, you know? He loves his country.”

Source: Is It Amnesia or Hypocrisy That Fuels the GOP’s Crazy Response to Putin? – Mother Jones

GOP August 26, 2021

Trump Brutally Represents an American Version of the Taliban | The Smirking Chimp

Today’s GOP, on the other hand, has become something that would be entirely unrecognizable to Nixon or Eisenhower. It’s become an American version of the Taliban. Lest you think that’s hyperbolic, consider these parallels:

Source: Trump Brutally Represents an American Version of the Taliban | The Smirking Chimp

GOP June 23, 2021

How Far Will the GOP Go To Steal the 2022 Election? | The Smirking Chimp

Legal or not, moral or not, consistent with American values or not, honestly or blatantly dishonest, they’ll do whatever it takes to seize and hold power. The For The People Act will clean up a lot of this, but not the GOP’s resetting how election systems work in the states so GOP officials can simply throw out votes from precincts or areas they simply “believe” (but cannot demonstrate or prove) have “fraud” (also known as “Black voters”). That’s going to require additional federal legislation.

Source: How Far Will the GOP Go To Steal the 2022 Election? | The Smirking Chimp

GOP June 20, 2021

New Body Cam Footage From Jan 6 Shows A Lack Of ‘Tourists’ | Crooks and Liars

New Body Cam Footage From Jan 6 Shows A Lack Of 'Tourists'

Anyone who argues the Trump Republican rioters were mere tourists, were sekrit FBI agents, or Antifa in disguise, are lying. It’s clear what the Republican Party is defending in this video: rabid white nationalists using violence in an attempt to overthrow democracy.

Source: New Body Cam Footage From Jan 6 Shows A Lack Of ‘Tourists’ | Crooks and Liars

GOP May 9, 2021

The Insurrectionist Caucus Turns to Schoolyard Bully Tactics to Take over the GOP — and It’s Working | The Smirking Chimp

Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene are trying to scare anyone in the GOP who is even suspected of still having remnants of conscience into falling in line with Trump’s Big Lies: That the election was stolen and that the insurrection didn’t happen. It’s about paving the way for Trump to regain the White House, this time with the anti-democratic machinery shored up so that he doesn’t have to accept it the next time he loses an election. So while McCarthy isn’t a sympathetic figure in the slightest, that this is working on him should terrify us all.

Source: The Insurrectionist Caucus Turns to Schoolyard Bully Tactics to Take over the GOP — and It’s Working | The Smirking Chimp

GOP May 8, 2021

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs a Voter Suppression Bill, and Fox News Has the Only Camera – Mother Jones

After Republican Gov. Brian Kemp drew widespread outrage in March for signing Georgia’s controversial voter suppression law behind closed doors—an event that also saw the arrest of a Black lawmaker who knocked on them during the signing—it appears as though Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is ready to one-up him. According to local reports from Thursday morning, DeSantis prohibited the press from covering a signing ceremony for Florida’s own new voter suppression bill, instead giving Fox News an “exclusive” to the event. The result was every bit as dystopian as you’d imagine.

Source: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs a Voter Suppression Bill, and Fox News Has the Only Camera – Mother Jones

GOP April 17, 2021

Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine: GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden | Salon.com

main article image

Source: Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine: GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden | Salon.com

GOP April 5, 2021

The GOP Has No Interest in Actual Governing | The Smirking Chimp

Source: The GOP Has No Interest in Actual Governing | The Smirking Chimp

GOP April 5, 2021

As Corporate America Comes Out For Voting Rights, Where’s Next? – Mother Jones

Source: As Corporate America Comes Out For Voting Rights, Where’s Next? – Mother Jones

GOP, Republicans, Republicans Rule, Republicans Wrong April 5, 2021

As Republicans Fume, Georgia Dems Have Mixed Reactions to MLB’s All-Star Game Relocation | Common Dreams News

Citizens United Party the GOP now wish they can have it removed. All self-interest forget about their princples. They so wish they were the Chinese Communist Party and could rid America of Democracy

“Businesses and organizations have great power in their voices and ability to push for change, and I respect the decision of the players to speak out against this unjust law,” said Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Source: As Republicans Fume, Georgia Dems Have Mixed Reactions to MLB’s All-Star Game Relocation | Common Dreams News

GOP, Uncategorized February 17, 2021

57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection | HuffPost Australia

At least 57 state and local Republican officials attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington that turned into a deadly insurrection, according to an updated HuffPost tally. Almost all of them are resisting calls to resign.
57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection | HuffPost Australia

GOP January 26, 2021

Larry Hackett: Republicans and Trump loyalists go head to head

Trump can diminish both the GOP and himself. The question is by how much?
Yes, there is a deep schism in the GOP between the traditional budget-conscious, business-friendly old guard and the nativist culture warriors still loyal to Donald Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, having exploited the useful idiot in the White House for conservative judges and a tax cut, now wants nothing to do with him or his ilk. (McConnell, according to a revealing New Yorker piece, is particularly terrified of the GOP losing corporate donors in the wake of the Trump-stoked putsch on Jan. 6.)
Larry Hackett: Republicans and Trump loyalists go head to head

GOP December 17, 2020

The 126 GOP House Reps Who Tried to Overthrow Democracy Must Not Be Seated | The Smirking Chimp

This treason must not be allowed to prosper, and those 126 servants to Trump’s authoritarian binge vocally and proudly committed treason to serve his various shabby ends. They have no business in the House of Representatives or in any office that serves the public they sold out on the cheap. There must be a reckoning, and this must be a small yet vital part of it.
The 126 GOP House Reps Who Tried to Overthrow Democracy Must Not Be Seated | The Smirking Chimp

GOP, Uncategorized December 17, 2020

Loeffler’s Attacks on Warnock in Georgia Runoff Are Racist Dog Whistles

Raphael Warnock, U.S. Democratic Senate candidate, speaks during a news conference in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Republican willingness to go along with President Donald Trumps extended fight over the presidential election may have as much to do with the Georgia runoffs that will determine control of the Senate as with resolving the presidents grievances over the vote count. Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Senator Kelly Loeffler is doing damage control after a photo surfaced of her posing with former KKK Leader
Loeffler’s Attacks on Warnock in Georgia Runoff Are Racist Dog Whistles

Kelly Loeffler Poses For Photo With Notorious KKK Leader

Klux Klan “Grand Klaliff” Chester Doles, a longtime fixture in the north Georgia white supremacist movement. Doles posted the selfie with Loeffler on VK, a Russian social media site (the pre-Parler stomping grounds of the white supremacist right) over the weekend. Doles — who spent years in jail after beating a Black man nearly to death as part of his white nationalist activism — has been trying to legitimize his “America Patriots USA” group for the last few years, with little success. And here he is. With one hand, Loeffler is claiming that her well-staffed campaign didn’t know who he was when they approached her. Georgians might find that hard to believe; Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon-supporting incoming congresswoman from North Georgia, threw Doles out of a joint rally with Loeffler a month ago.
Loeffler’s Attacks on Warnock in Georgia Runoff Are Racist Dog Whistles

GOP November 25, 2020

The Republican conmen

Trump's republican party: America's greatest con artists. 64136.jpeg

Either there is some perverse, self-destructive reverse psychology driving Trumpian Republicans, or politicians in this party are the greatest con artists on earth.
The Republican conmen

GOP September 5, 2020

There’s nothing left of the Republican Party but Trump’s Maniacal Cackle

Republican senators, governors, captains of industry, elders, and others who once had power, prominence, some prestige, and maybe even a little pride now meekly wear Trump’s collar and kowtow to his conceits, leaving an entire party with a sole operating principle: “What he said” — even when they can’t figure out what he’s actually saying, or why, or what it means for the U.S. and its people. That’s not a party, it’s a national embarrassment.
There’s nothing left of the Republican Party but Trump’s Maniacal Cackle

GOP, Uncategorized December 10, 2019

Republicans Embrace Strategy of Trying to Gaslight the Nation Instead of Legislating | The Smirking Chimp

While Pelosi and House Democrats are trying to do the work of the people and keep the nation moving forward into the 21st century, Trump and McConnell’s Republicans are trying to rocket us back to the 19th.

via Republicans Embrace Strategy of Trying to Gaslight the Nation Instead of Legislating | The Smirking Chimp

GOP, Uncategorized November 27, 2019

Impeachment Inquiry Proved America Can’t Be Saved From a Cult Called the GOP | The Smirking Chimp

With Trump’s Roy Cohn-inspired attorney general William Barr acting as his authoritarian wingman, who can even predict how far a GOP-acquitted Trump will go next spring in retaliating against public servants that he and his angry mob have branded as “the Deep State” or the journalists he calls “the enemies of the people” — or in encouraging Vladimir Putin or other bad actors to meddle in his reelection?

No, the challenge for 2020 seems increasingly less about how to prosecute a president’s bribery and extortion, or even how to defeat such a bad actor in a general election, but whether America can figure out how to deprogram a cult before it’s far too late.

via Impeachment Inquiry Proved America Can’t Be Saved From a Cult Called the GOP | The Smirking Chimp

GOP, Uncategorized August 11, 2019

A Wave of Trump-Fueled Republican Retirements Puts Texas in Play | The Smirking Chimp

Rather than speak out, these departing Republicans have chosen to flee. Had they spoken up earlier like Rep. Hurd and offered any sort of collective resistance to Trump’s white supremacist policies, the situation we find ourselves in might not be as dangerously wretched.

Of course, they didn’t resist. Soon they will be gone, and we will all be the better for it.

via A Wave of Trump-Fueled Republican Retirements Puts Texas in Play | The Smirking Chimp

GOP, Uncategorized August 10, 2019

Republicans halt Twitter spending after platform locks McConnell account

The GOP’s criticism of Twitter comes as Trump and McConnell are being pressured to endorse gun control measures after last weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Canton, Ohio, that left 31 people dead.

Trump’s denigration of minorities and immigrants has prompted many to blame him for contributing to an anti-immigrant atmosphere.

McConnell has long led Republican efforts in the Senate to stifle gun control proposals and is resisting Democrats’ cries to interrupt Congress’ recess and approve new restrictions.

Republicans halt Twitter spending after platform locks McConnell account

and

Texas, mid El Paso grief, is about to loosen gun laws

GOP, Uncategorized August 8, 2019

#MoscowMitch And The NRA: Why 90 Percent Of Americans Who Want Gun Control Can’t Get It | Crooks and Liars

#MoscowMitch And The NRA: Why 90 Percent Of Americans Who Want Gun Control Can't Get It

via #MoscowMitch And The NRA: Why 90 Percent Of Americans Who Want Gun Control Can’t Get It | Crooks and Liars

GOP July 24, 2019

America’s red scare is back. And it’s racially tinged | Kate Aronoff | Opinion | The Guardian

GOP FINALLY Denying Trump’s Racist Rants. It’s Socialism (ODT)

The Republican party has come out swinging against socialism – a strategy sure to be a mainstay of its 2020 campaigns. “Our opposition to our socialist colleagues,” the Wyoming senator Liz Cheney claimed, referring to the congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, “has absolutely nothing to do with their gender, with their religion, or with their race. It has to do with the content of their policies. They are wrong when they attempt to impose the fraud of socialism on the American people. They are wrong when they pursue policies that would steal power from the American people and give that power to the government.”

via America’s red scare is back. And it’s racially tinged | Kate Aronoff | Opinion | The Guardian

GOP June 14, 2018

If Obama had met with Kim Jong Un, the Republican Party would have had a Cow

The depths of hypocrisy of the Republican Party in supporting Trump’s meeting with the North Korean dictator in Singapore are hard to plumb. This is a party whose leading members adopted the Ostrich Foreign Policy Principle for decades. If you don’t like a country’s government or political and economic system, pretend it does not exist.

There was that time when Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans lambasted Obama for visiting Cuba while there were still political prisoners in that country. So the principle is, no talks with leaders who have prisoners of conscience in their jails? Trump has broken that principle every which way from Sunday. Sen. John McCain even compared Obama’s handshake with Castro to the Hitler-Chamberlain meeting. Seriously. That’s what he said.

via If Obama had met with Kim Jong Un, the Republican Party would have had a Cow

GOP January 5, 2018

The GOP Civil War Is ON! Furious Trump Paints Steve Bannon As A ‘Nobody’ | Crooks and Liars

GOP January 5, 2018

Donald Trump Responds To Steve Bannon Bombshell: ‘He Lost His Mind’

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with county sheriffs in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

via Donald Trump Responds To Steve Bannon Bombshell: ‘He Lost His Mind’

GOP February 25, 2017

On CNN, Paul Begala Declares “This Is Steve Bannon’s Movement … The Reagan Republican Party Is Dead”

From the February 23 edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360:

Source: On CNN, Paul Begala Declares “This Is Steve Bannon’s Movement … The Reagan Republican Party Is Dead”

GOP November 30, 2016November 30, 2016

Clint Eastwood, still a jerk: His new Michael Moore threat, and the GOP’s Fox News derangement problem – Salon.com

Eastwood denies threatening Michael Moore, then does it again. The tough-guy act’s wearing thin for his whole party

Source: Clint Eastwood, still a jerk: His new Michael Moore threat, and the GOP’s Fox News derangement problem – Salon.com

GOP August 16, 2016

Obama Did Not Found Islamic State, Mr. Trump—the GOP Did (Video) – Juan Cole – Truthdig

In his daily free-association exercise, the Republican presidential nominee accused the president of creating the terrorist organization by withdrawing troops from Iraq in 2011. But the timetable for withdrawal was set by the Bush administration.

Source: Obama Did Not Found Islamic State, Mr. Trump—the GOP Did (Video) – Juan Cole – Truthdig

GOP July 24, 2016

Here’s an extraordinary GOP resignation letter from a lifelong Republican

York Township Republican committeeman Chris Ladd quit his party because of Trump and posted an open resignation letter to the GOP that has gone viral.

Source: Here’s an extraordinary GOP resignation letter from a lifelong Republican

GOP June 21, 2016

Dump Trump? Paul Ryan leaves door open to Republican convention revolt | US news | The Guardian

Speaker of House says delegates ‘write the rules, make the decisions’ as divisions in party threaten hopes of White House and Congress majority

Source: Dump Trump? Paul Ryan leaves door open to Republican convention revolt | US news | The Guardian

GOP June 5, 2016

Chomsky: Today’s GOP is a Candidate for Most Dangerous Organization in Human History—Part 2 | Democracy Now!

In Part 2 of our wide-ranging conversation with the world-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky, we talk about the conflict in Syria, the rise of ISIS, Saudi Arabia, the political crisis in Brazil, the passing of the pioneering lawyer Michael Ratner, today’s Republican Party and more.

Source: Chomsky: Today’s GOP is a Candidate for Most Dangerous Organization in Human History—Part 2 | Democracy Now!

GOP June 1, 2016

Donald Trump exposes the GOP’s dirty secret: They build everything by nurturing white rage – Salon.com

For decades, GOP has used the war on drugs or voter ID laws as cover for race-baiting. Trump just blew their cover

Source: Donald Trump exposes the GOP’s dirty secret: They build everything by nurturing white rage – Salon.com

GOP April 20, 2016

5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Sarah Palin hasn’t the foggiest idea what she’s talking about – Salon.com

The gun-toting ex-governor of Alaska takes aim at Bill Nye, while Bill O’Reilly lectures black America on racism

Source: 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Sarah Palin hasn’t the foggiest idea what she’s talking about – Salon.com

GOP April 18, 2016

Poverty Kills As The Rich Live Longer Than Ever (INFOGRAPHIC)

The Republican war on poor people has been killing Americans and now we have the proof.

Source: Poverty Kills As The Rich Live Longer Than Ever (INFOGRAPHIC)

GOP April 10, 2016

GOP candidates are sounding a lot like Israel’s leaders | +972 Magazine

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the 2016 AIPAC Police Conference in Washington D.C., March 21, 2016. (Photo courtesy of AIPAC)

Remarks by the most outlandish Republican candidates represent, in the best case scenario, the more moderate positions of Israel’s prime ministers since the state’s founding. By Abed Abu Shehada Let’s imagine for a second that…

Source: GOP candidates are sounding a lot like Israel’s leaders | +972 Magazine