Republicans: continued

[Tero]

If measles does not get us, or crashing planes, or hurricanes, or lack of FEMA, GOP looking for a big 2026 win. "Trump is doing what he said he would do."

Republican officials and committees are using the violence in Los Angeles as a cudgel to bash Democrats.

"If you look at what's going on in L.A., it shows exactly what [former President] Biden and the Democrats did by opening their borders the way they did and allowing millions and millions and millions of people coming here unvetted. They've caused all this," Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida claimed on Tuesday. "I think President Trump is doing what he said he was going to do on the campaign trail. He's going to keep the country safe."

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the campaign arm of the House GOP, charged that "While LA is burning and law enforcement is being attacked, radical House Democrats are 'scoffing' at any thought of condemning the violent riots. The party has completely lost their minds."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump- ... l-playbook

[Tero]

Let's see how Fox handles this.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-54 ... n-policies

[pErvinalia]

Handles what?

[Tero]

Handles what?

Protests now and saturday. "George Soros pays for 500 000 to protest Trump." 50 dollars each.

[Tero]

Screen shots of Threads post. Republicans think Biden transported millions here.
https://bsky.app/profile/tero88jarvi.bs ... fyqbhkqc2v

[L'Emmerdeur]

Who are the real useless eaters?

'Blaming the Poor While the Rich Sneak Off With the Welfare'

Republicans want to stop subsidizing Americans who benefit from government-funded health programs. But by far the greatest American subsidies go to the millionaires, the 10% of Americans who own 93 percent of the stock market.

That's in part because of the so-called tax expenditures, which include mortgage deductions, interest and dividend exclusions, and reduced rates on capital gains, and which go almost entirely to the 13.7% of Americans who report enough income to itemize their taxes. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "the cost of all federal income tax expenditures was higher than..the combined cost of Medicare and Medicaid."

A 2015 NBER study found that 70 percent of federal spending on housing was in the form of tax-based deductions that largely benefit the rich. Families with expensive homes can take a tax break of up to a half-million dollars when they decide to sell. And the wealthiest among us can take a mortgage interest deduction for a second home, which might even be a yacht.

Yet while the millionaires subsidize their estates, the proposed Republican budget would make drastic cuts to low-income housing programs.

It gets worse. The tax designers have figured out how to gift their heirs with billions in redirected tax revenue. In a massive subsidy for the super-rich, the tax code includes a so-called stepped-up provision which allows the super-rich to leave much of their multi-trillion-dollar stock market fortunes to their children with all the accumulated gains magically erased, and thus, in many instances, without a single dollar in taxes coming due.

If daddy and mommy's stock has grown from $10 to $100 over the years, the kids won't pay any taxes on that $90 gain, and society's potential revenue is wiped out. As baby boomers age and pass away, more and more privileged children will become accidental millionaires.

Yet while the kids of millionaires skip out on taxes, Republicans want to take food stamp benefits away from millions of poor kids.

[More, mostly on how the US lets pharmaceutical companies bilk the American public and how millions of Americans will lose their healthcare due to the Republican bill.]

Republicans say they only want to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. To do this they're wasting lives, defrauding their constituents, and abusing the privilege of leadership.

[L'Emmerdeur]

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[Tero]

Senate set on removing Biden from office, even if it is a bit late.
https://www.threads.com/@ronaldfilipkow ... dGOO9OYbVg

[L'Emmerdeur]

The felon president is literally censoring government websites and extorting universities that he deems guilty of thought crimes. Meanwhile the Republicans and their sycophants grind their teeth over an imagined 'free speech' slight supposedly inflicted upon Vice President Vance by 'liberal' Bluesky.

It appears that in reality, the site put his account in limbo while they determined whether it had been created by the actual vice president rather than a troll or bot. Trumpists aren't likely to let any opportunity to air their grievance get past them.

Evil two-faced clowns, bellowing and thumping their chests.

'MAGA Melts Down Over JD Vance’s Short-Lived Bluesky Suspension'

JD Vance joined Bluesky on Wednesday and was swiftly suspended, prompting furious accusations of bias from his base on X.

The vice president signed up for the social media platform—which many disaffected users joined to escape Elon Musk’s increasingly right-leaning X—and was quickly suspended after making his first post. His account was restored a short time later.

A Bluesky spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Beast that Vance’s account was temporarily shut down.

“Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past.

“The account was quickly restored and verified so people can easily confirm its authenticity,” the spokesperson added. “We welcome the Vice President to join the conversation on Bluesky.”

...

“Why’d it take BlueSky *17 whole minutes* to ban @JD Vance?” GOP Senator Mike Lee posted on X. “What kind of self-respecting, leftist censorship takes that long to stamp out free speech?”

Right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk accused the platform of banning Vance “for offending them.”

“And thanks to Elon Musk, we get to point and laugh at them instead of howling in anger about censorship. And thanks to us using our free speech on X, mocking and laughing at them, they’ve been forced to reinstate him!” he added.

[etc.]

[Tero]

Preppers be prepping now (Charlie Kirk)
https://www.threads.com/@theheatherashl ... f4SXWpbWkg

[Tero]

When you are Republican and get pregnant.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -pregnancy

[Tero]

"All six conservative Supreme Court justices voted to let Trump deport people to countries they aren’t even from.

Every single Republican is eviI."

[pErvinalia]

Who said that?

[Brian Peacock]

Some random guy/gal/other on the internet.

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Why do we care?