Republicans: continued

[Tero]

[Sean Hayden]

[Sean Hayden]

[Sean Hayden]

On a more serious note: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/10117816 ... on-in-2020

—white women

[pErvinalia]

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[Tero]

The little guy from the South.

Speaker Mike Johnson is about to drop to a one-vote majority, as retiring Rep. Mike Gallagher has decided he will exit the House as soon as next month, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

In a statement shortly after this story published, Gallagher said he planned to leave April 19.

Wisconsin law dictates that Gallagher’s seat — in a solidly red district — will stay empty for the rest of his term. Departing before April 9 would have triggered a special election.

It's bad timing for Johnson, who is now potentially facing a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) filed the so-called motion to vacate on Friday, over Johnson working with Democrats to pass a massive spending bill.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... y-00148586

[Tero]

Foreigner...part of the replacement gang himself...supports anti-foreigner movememt.

Trump’s inner circle includes the far-right representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia; Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat turned rightwing media personality and outspoken critic of aid to Ukraine; and Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who has pushed the “great replacement” theory and claimed that the 6 January 2021 insurrection was an inside job.

Guardian

[rasetsu]

On Wednesday, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) — a caucus that represents 80 percent of House Republicans, including the party’s entire leadership — unveiled a budget that calls for cutting Social Security benefits and establishing that human life begins at conception.

The RSC tried to obscure the implications of its Social Security policy by describing its proposal as an increase in “the retirement age,” and declining to specify what the new age should be.

But that is just an opaque way of describing a large cut in benefits. As Matt Bruenig notes, Social Security does not have a single retirement age: It has 96 different retirement ages, each associated with a different level of benefits.

When lawmakers talk about “raising the retirement age,” they are really calling for an increase in the “full retirement age” — a variable in a formula that determines benefit levels at all 96 retirement ages. Raising the full retirement age to 69 — as the RSC proposed last fall — would translate into a roughly 14 percent cut to Social Security benefits, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The RSC’s proposal would not impact existing beneficiaries, but those retiring as soon as 2033 would have to get by on lower monthly incomes.

The RSC budget falsely suggests that its reforms would leave future retirees better off than Biden’s entitlement policies would. The caucus notes that, absent policy change, Social Security’s trust fund will become insolvent by 2033, a development that would trigger a 23 percent cut to benefits, and it claims that simply letting Social Security go bankrupt is Biden’s actual plan.

But this is a description of Trump’s position, not the president’s. The likely GOP nominee has offered no explanation for how he would keep Social Security funded. To the contrary, he has signaled plans for slashing federal tax revenues by trillions of dollars, policies that would make preserving existing benefit levels even more fiscally challenging.

Biden, on the other hand, has called for substantially raising payroll taxes on Americans earning over $400,000 a year in order to sustain Social Security in its current form.

It is true that this by itself would not be enough to preserve benefits indefinitely; as boomers continue retiring and America’s ratio of retirees-to-workers rises, larger tax increases would be required to sustain today’s benefit levels through the 2040s. But there is a simple way to alleviate this problem: We could allow more prime-age adults to come to the United States and contribute to its economy. Alas, Trump and his party would like to do the opposite.

https://www.vox.com/politics/24108954/r ... tion-biden

[Woodbutcher]

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They could sell their brains, those organs never get used by his supporters anyway.

[Tero]

Don't waste money on this...Ukraine that MAGA can't find on a map.
https://www.threads.net/@bidenharrishq/ ... H9WtrD1xrg

What would MAGA folk be doing with a world map?

[Tero]

"We are truly sorry that our abortion ban killed you..."

..but....thoughts and prayers!

[rasetsu]

Joe Biden declares Sunday to be Trans Visibility Day.

Republicans lose their shit.

[L'Emmerdeur]

They're also up on their hind legs yapping about the White House requesting no overt religious symbolism in an Easter egg decorating contest. The same request has apparently been made for previous editions of the contest, going back 45 years, including during the former president's administration.

[Tero]

No easter bunny! He is a symbol of Ēostre. (though he is usully the wrong sex).

[JimC]

I believe the Easter Bunny to be non-binary...