Republicans: continued

[Tero]

https://www.threads.net/@adamparkhomenk ... sV9PUVrwDQ

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy says he is not speaker because Matt Gaetz wanted him to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17 year old

[Tero]

Newsmax: Africa now a country.
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C5nzPU7gDFg
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"Biden didn't know that Africa was a country ... very embarrassing stuff" -- Newsmax host Rob Finnerty attacks Biden

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MTG
Marjorie Taylor Greene is out with a new conspiracy about Ukraine waging a war on Christianity.

https://www.threads.net/@shawnharrisfor ... x5ZdzXaHxQ
On Nov. 5th, we're going to kick Vladimir Putin's official surrogate out of Congress.

W T F ?????
Ukrainians are especially devout as eastern slavs go... the Patriarch in Kiev is second only to the one in Constantinople, and st Sophia hasn't been a christian church of 5 centuries.. of course there's a lot of arguing with his colleagues in Moscow and Athens...

[Svartalf]

The economy can’t be as good as claimed. It doesn’t make sense. I’ve pointed out before that people have no savings, debt is climbing, and despite doing better than others with inflation things are still very expensive, especially where people feel it most, groceries, housing, transportation —healthcare, my family’s case ~800 a month just to carry insurance (plus another 200 a month in bills to specialists) and that’s not likely to be on the high end.

When the wealthy get wealthier we all feel the benefit, right?

Poor people like me only wish we did...

[Sean Hayden]

You just don’t work hard enough or smart enough. Bezos said getting rich is easy. Give me $200 and I’ll show you what he meant, for just $1,800 more I’ll teach you the fastest way to get there…

[Tero]

"You will produce as many whire babies as we tell you to. Otherwise no medicare or soc sec."

[Svartalf]

"You will produce as many whire babies as we tell you to. Otherwise no medicare or soc sec."
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that's a strawman, the Repu gnants would try to destroy medicare and socsec anyway

[L'Emmerdeur]

Marjorie Agressively Fucking Blockheaded Greene has a cunning plan. (#11 in the list.)

'Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants a Space Laser to Stop Migrants'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is pushing for the creation of a space laser to defend the U.S.-Mexico border. Yes, really.

The MAGA congresswoman, who has notoriously made bizarre comments about “Jewish space lasers” in the past, called for the technology in a proposed amendment to a bill that would provide funding for Israel during its war against Hamas in Gaza. “By the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border,” the text of her amendment reads.

“Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world,” Greene wrote in an X post Wednesday. “I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense. America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses.”

It’s not clear what previous space laser funding she was referring to. The bill to which she proposed her amendment would include $1.2 billion for Israel’s Iron Beam defense system—a not yet operational high-energy laser defense system designed to intercept rockets and mortars. But the Iron Beam is not a space-based system.

[Brian Peacock]

Definitely a space cadet.

[Tero]

MJT very angry at murder industry and waving foreign flags (Ukraine) in US congress
https://www.threads.net/@tomwellborn3/p ... lbNhFkRTUg

[L'Emmerdeur]

I admit, I've always appreciated the deep irony and ignorance behind the 'Nazis were actually leftists' schtick that has currency in some elements of the pseudointellectual American right. In reality there has been a strain of fascism and unwavering racism in the American right since at least the mid 20th century, sometimes less prominent than we see currently but always there. An interview with the author of a book which examines some of that history.

'A prehistory of MAGA: "Mainstream" conservatives never really purged the fascists'

You write that 20th-century conservatism evolved out of a popular front with fascist and quasi-fascist elements, and that while William F. Buckley explicitly tried to reject or expel the far right, his actions and associations reveal a more complicated reality. If that’s fair, how would you characterize that more complicated reality?

I would characterize the complicated reality as one of deep intertwinedness. Buckley does explicitly reject the so-called popular-front approach with the far right in the mid-1960s. He comes to this position over time, it’s not something he starts out with in the 1950s. He comes to it less, I would say, on principle and more because the far right is — at the time, at least — an electoral loser. Barry Goldwater goes down in 1964 in large part because of his association with the far right, because the John Birch Society is providing organizational muscle behind his campaign.

But even after the so-called purge of the racists and the Nazis and antisemites in the mid-1960s, you still see these elements very close to the so-called mainstream of American conservatism. People like Pat Buchanan, of course, who emerges in the 1990s as a far-right presidential candidate, but also in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. You see it in National Review with Joe Sobran, who was Buckley's protégé there, and became a Holocaust denier and rabid antisemite.

So this idea that there's a firm wall of separation between the responsible conservatives and the far right is what I'm trying to press against. The reality has always been more messy, complicated and overlapping, and that's true both in the pre-war and postwar periods.

[Svartalf]

Definitely a space cadet.

who goes to school in the short bus

[Tero]

Fox & Friends this morning featured one million white dudes at a Pennsylvania diner saying the Pledge of Allegiance
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/po ... akENR4hLgw

[macdoc]

The comments are wonderful

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