Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Business Insider:

[Tero]

Rubio 2020 vs Rubio 2021

[Tero]

There is no global warming because Al Gore has a big mansion. Also:

Boothe also cited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., illegally parking her "$59,000" Tesla outside a Whole Foods store and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry "exclusively [flying] private" as examples of "limousine liberal issues … [that] hurt hardworking Americans the most."

Want proof that President Biden is just another "limousine liberal"? Check out his 85-vehicle motorcade through Rome this weekend ahead of Sunday's COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, says Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe.

Boothe called climate change a "limousine liberal issue" during an appearance on Fox News' "The Big Saturday Show" in the aftermath of Biden's extravagant vehicular display overseas.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bidens-85 ... isy-boothe

[Tero]

PBS
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, and Louie Gohmert are believed to have been involved in the planning of the Jan. 6 protest that result in violence at the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gop-l ... port-shows

[Sean Hayden]

It is a limousine liberal issue. Unfortunately that doesn't make the threat any less real.

You might want to consider it though the next time you're shopping for a Tesla.

[Tero]

Oops...only gives the headline. Will look for it. https://www.businessinsider.com/manchin ... ge-2021-10
Joe Manchin is screwing over Appalachia to try and milk more money from a dead industry. I should know, I live here.

[Tero]

Our most Republican Democrat, who would be Republican in Alaska, is still messing with us. He is looking for "entitlements" to take out.

[Brian Peacock]

Why?

[Tero]

Nobody understands Manchin other than the coal thing.

[JimC]

We have some equivalents here in our Labour Party, sometimes in seats where the coal industry is big. They dig their heels in over transitioning away from coal...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Oy, another long spiel on a world view and ambition that underlies a powerful element of the Republican Party. Fucking Dominionists. Yeah, from Salon but I appreciate any piece that will make a point of quoting this enlightened sentiment:

Freedom of speech and freedom of press are, in fact, applied seriously only to giving government protection to instigators of riot and rebellion, as well as those who would undermine human order by more subtle attacks on morals and customs.

Damn those who would undermine human order with subtle attacks on morals and customs.

'How extremist Christian theology is driving the right-wing assault on democracy'

Progressive policies and positions are supposed to be rooted in reality and hard evidence. But that's not always the case when it comes to the culture wars that have such an enormous impact on our politics — especially not since the unexpected evangelical embrace of Donald Trump in 2016, culminating in the "pro-life" death cult of anti-vaccine, COVID-denying religious leaders. If this development perplexed many on the left, it was less surprising to a small group of researchers who have been studying the hardcore anti-democratic theology known as dominionism that lies behind the contemporary Christian right, and its far-reaching influence over the last several decades.

One leading figure within that small group, Rachel Tabachnick, was featured in a recent webinar hosted by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [...], as part of its Religion and Repro Learning Series program, overseen by the Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson. Tabachnick's writing on dominionism can be found at Talk2Action and Political Research Associates, and she's been interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air.

Her presentation sheds important light on at least three things: First of all, the vigilante element of the Texas anti-abortion law SB 8. Second, the larger pattern of disrupting or undermining governance, including the "constitutional sheriffs" movement, the installation of overtly partisan election officials and the red-state revolt against national COVID public health policies. While Donald Trump has exploited that pattern ruthlessly, he did not create it. And third, the seemingly baffling fact that an anti-democratic minority feels entitled to accuse its opponents — including democratically elected officials — of "tyranny."

[Tero]

I'm confused about this "getting things done" business. What have they done?

[Scot Dutchy]

Brainwashing is complete.

[Tero]

Unsolved mysteries: CRT
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheDailyShow ... 0488637440

[Sean Hayden]

How the Democrats Lost Virginia

The pollster Sean Trende believes that the outcome of the gubernatorial election has less to do with debates about critical race theory than with the economy and the typical disadvantages of the party in power.

...

On Tuesday night, I spoke about the results with Sean Trende, the senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed what the results suggest about next year’s midterms and the future of the Republican Party, and why the most boring explanation for an electoral outcome is often the correct one.

https://www.newyorker.com/tag/virginia