Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Damn courts keep stopping governors from making abortion illegal
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... tid=Zxz2cZ

[L'Emmerdeur]

You'd think the frequency with which Christians (and to be fair other religions) must rely on dishonesty in their attempts to promote their positions on science and on government might give them pause. I suppose they're well practiced at dealing with cognitive dissonance. Bonus scurrilous slur against peacocks. Mea culpa, Brian Peacock.

'Josh Hawley rings in July 4 with fake quote with antisemitic, white nationalist roots'

Maybe it’s time for Josh Hawley to get out of the history business.

Missouri’s senior senator on Tuesday decided to celebrate July 4 with another bit of online trolling. He took to Twitter to celebrate that great American patriot Patrick Henry. His tweet took the form of a quote.

Hawley wrote: “Patrick Henry: ‘It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.’”

The problem? Henry never said that. The quote is false. Made up.

Instead — as Hawley’s readers pointed out in a fact-checking Community Note appended to his tweet — the line from a 1956 piece in a magazine, The Virginian, that was about Patrick Henry. Not by him. Another magazine, The American Mercury, [published it] as a Henry quote later that year and apparently took off from there.

The kicker? As historian Seth Cotlar of Willamette University pointed out, The Virginian was “virulently antisemitic (and) white nationalist magazine.” The American Mercury, for that matter, was also an “antisemitic rag.”

That ugly provenance comes through in the piece that originated Hawley’s quote. “There is an insidious campaign of false propaganda being waged today,” the magazine complained, “to the effect that our country is not a Christian country but a religious one — that it was not founded on Christianity but on freedom of religion.”

“I’d like to put a plug in for this thing called “Google,” Cotlar pointed out. “If you type in a quote from a Founding Father you’re thinking of tweeting out, in a matter of seconds you can quite easily discover if it’s for real or not.”

Good advice for us all.

Anybody can be fooled by a false quote online, though. But we’re noticing a pattern. It’s only been a couple of weeks since Hawley decided to celebrate Juneteenth with a distorted history of slavery. “Today is a good day to remember: Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die,” Hawley wrote on Twitter.

We’ve already written about why that statement was so wrongheaded. And we find it remarkable that Hawley, an honors history major at Stanford University, keeps getting this wrong. It’s sloppy work by the senator.

The problem, we suspect, is that in both cases Hawley was less interested in truly celebrating freedom — the ostensible reason we celebrate Juneteenth and Independence Day in the first case — and instead wanted to make a spectacle of himself with right-wing tweets he knew would attract attention. He was peacocking.

[Brian Peacock]

He was peacocking.

Hmm.

[pErvinalia]

He was Brianing.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Maybe can allow mention of the Black Wall Streeet massacre in Oklahoma schools, but there's certainly no reason to bring skin color into it. Critical Race Theory!

'[State Superintendent of Public Instruction] Ryan Walters faces heated questions at Norman public forum, attendees left unsatisfied'

"It doesn't matter how much the radical left attacks me," Supt. Walters said. "It doesn't matter how much the teachers union spends against me. I will never stop speaking truth."

Then, the crowd had a chance to ask the State Supt. some questions.

"Why are you banning books and coming to speak at a library," Someone asked.

Someone asked how the Tulsa Race Massacre doesn't fall under Walters’ definition of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

"Let’s not tie it to the skin color and say that the skin color determined that," Walters said.

[Brian Peacock]

Is that from The Onion?

[rasetsu]

Is that from The Onion?

Ixnay on the itewhay uitfray.

[Tero]

Republicans have probably given up on Joe Biden and Hunter in Ukraine. But they still have not given up on putting Hunter in jail.
https://news.yahoo.com/top-republicans- ... 29588.html

Comment there:

Donald
3 minutes ago

Very well said.

I'm a conservative minded person and at 62 can verify this Congress, along with a few preceding, have gone off the rails.

The DOJ is being villianized to the Trump rabble seemingly incapable of independent thought and the work of the Departments of the DOJ, which is to defend AMERICA at home and abroad, is being seriously impeded by the Jim Jordan's and Marjorie Taylor Greene's of the Trump cult and their followers who disgrace the very Constitution they claim to so vigorously defend with every word and action.

When they used the voicemail of President Bidens call to his son who was battling addiction and belittled him because his voice was breaking I was both ashamed at the depths to which the party had sunk and furious as a fellow Father who has faced the same horrific circumstances.

My little girl died despite everything both she and I and my late wife tried to do and the demons we fought so hard to defeat.

I know the cost of addiction as a parent who watched his beautiful vibrant daughter, my only daughter, turn into someone I no longer recognized but loved no less.

I'm sure there are voicemails on what was her phone from me tearfully begging her to come home, to get help, all to no avail. I can't imagine how I would have reacted had someone made those public and used them for the purpose of attack and ridicule. I know, had that occurred I would be writing this from a cell.

I know the pain the President felt in that moment and my heart broke for him.

[Tero]

A Threads post. Has video
https://www.threads.net/t/Cuc2KwGsosk/? ... IwNjQ2YQ==

So not quite Twitter yet but videos work.

[Tero]

Bream also pressed Christie on his support of FBI Director Wray, who many Republicans have said needs to be fired or have vowed to oust him if they win the presidency. Christie said last month on CNN that he would keep Wray in his administration if elected president and had recommended Wray to Trump as FBI director in 2017.

Wray is slated to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and he is expected to face questions from Republican critics who say the FBI director politically weaponized the bureau against churches, parents and political opponents of the Biden administration. Whistleblowers have also accused the FBI of mishandling the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/christ ... loss-biden

[Tero]

California school board:

After just six months in office, those officials face a recall effort on top of a civil rights investigation launched by the state’s Democratic-led education department. Students have held protests, and irate parents and teachers are swarming the board’s meetings, feeling that their town — the fast-growing, politically diverse suburb of Temecula in Riverside County — has become consumed by partisan warfare.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/0 ... a-00105259

[Tero]

Millions of fake votes...the ones that made Trump lose...now stopped with measures making it easier to vote in Georgia if you are white and own a house.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republ ... -deception

Loudermilk, who represents the district that includes Marietta, told attendees the bill put incentives in place for other states to pass bills similar to the voting law Georgia passed in 2021, S.B. 202, that set off a wave of criticism from Democrats, who dubbed it "racist," "voter-suppression," "Jim Crow 2.0," and "a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie."

The committee stressed the significance for the roll-out of the new bill to be in Georgia because of the vast damage the state endured following the backlash to its bill. The damage included the MLB moving the All-Star game from Atlanta, which resulted in what some estimates said was a more than $100 million hit to the local economy.

[Tero]

Nebraska blocked surgery for trans but hormone therapies remain undecided. Republican trying to avoid it in 2024 but abortion ban at 12 weeks still an issue.

Lawmakers this year passed the gender care restrictions on a 33-15 vote, banning transition surgeries before the age of 19 and setting the stage for restrictions on puberty blockers and hormone therapies for minors. The state’s chief medical officer will have the final say on the policies for blockers and hormones, which might not be in place before the 2024 session.

The policies Tesmer will implement must include prescribing such blockers or hormones only to minors who have a “long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria which began or worsened at the start of puberty.”

The rules must also include criteria, obligations or conditions prior to the medications, such as:

The minimum number of gender-identity-focused therapeutic hours required.
Patient advisory requirements necessary for informed patient consent.
Patient medical record documentation requirements.
A minimum waiting period between informed patient consent and the administration, prescribing or delivery of such drugs.

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/06/22 ... h-in-2024/

[L'Emmerdeur]

Maybe the reason Republicans never passed any infrastructure bill when they were in control under Trump is they don't care about infrastructure and in fact consider it a waste of money. The public good? Fuck that!

'"Far-Right Radicalism": GOP Wants to Cut Funding for Clean Water Programs by 64%'

The advocacy group Food & Water Watch on Thursday called out Republicans on a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee panel for pushing a 64% cut to a pair of federal clean water funds in the next fiscal year.

"House Republicans should be ashamed of themselves," declared Mary Grant, the group's Public Water for All campaign director, in a statement. "Their spending proposal threatens the very safety of our country's water and wastewater systems for the sake of political showmanship."

The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), on Thursday marked up a GOP appropriations bill for fiscal year 2024. A Republican fact sheet celebrates proposed "cuts to wasteful spending" and "claw-backs of prior appropriations," highlighting that it "reins in" the Environmental Protection Agency, "limits abuse of the Endangered Species Act," and provides protections for the fossil fuel industry.

The GOP proposal would slash appropriations for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF). The former provides low-interest loans for infrastructure projects like wastewater facilities while the latter provides assistance for initiatives like improving drinking water treatment and fixing old pipes.

Grant stressed that the targeted programs "are widely popular across the political spectrum and have historically enjoyed bipartisan support," as communities in every state rely on them "to make necessary improvements to keep water and sewer systems safe and reliable."

[Tero]

Talk show gotcha not working on Pete B
https://youtu.be/o_K5qulTPCI