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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Sean Hayden » Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:30 pm

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Sean Hayden » Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:33 pm

I mean, who goes around giving everyone the bird on their Christmas postcards? "Fuck y'all, and Merry Christmas!" --durr :drool:

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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:52 pm

Tero wrote:I dislike cocoa, so I will only have it for the "christmas spirit," as americans call it, with the marshmallows
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Add a tot o' rum for an authentic pirate Xmas yarr! :pirate:
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:42 pm

ORRIBLE!
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Post by Tero » Wed Dec 08, 2021 4:54 pm

Arrested and charged Bannon still running show:
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Post by Tero » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:54 pm

They weren’t alone in reacting swiftly to the events of Jan. 6. Major corporations and their lobbying front groups in Washington called the insurrection “appalling,” an “assault on our democracy,” and “an attack on all those things that people cherish and associate with America.” Numerous major corporations from Pfizer to Chevron made pledges to freeze financial contributions to the House and Senate Republicans who had voted against certifying Biden’s election, many of them citing vague or baseless claims of election fraud. But by the fall of this year, those corporations have resumed donations to members of the so-called Sedition Caucus as well as party committees that work to reelect Republican members.

Now, the same pattern is playing out with Big Law.

The biggest law-firm donor to Republicans voted against Biden’s certification and to GOP party committees appears to be Holland and Knight, a firm with 1,600 employees across 40 countries. In response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and the attempt to overturn Biden’s election victory, the firm said it was freezing all federal donations. Federal campaign records show the firm has given $30,000 to the two leading Republican party committees, which offer an indirect avenue to support those same officeholders who opposed Biden’s certification. The firm has also directly donated $16,500 to multiple members who voted against certifying Biden’s election. (The firm did not respond to a request for comment.)
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Post by Tero » Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:01 pm

It was inevitable. Mandates aside, if Biden won the entire GOP took on a challenge to trash the gov't measures

NYT morning newsletter
In Republican-leaning communities, the biggest Covid problem remains a widespread refusal to take the pandemic seriously. About 40 percent of Republican adults have not received a vaccine shot, according to the most recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll. As a result, the Covid death rate is far higher in heavily Republican counties than in Democratic ones.

Red America’s Covid denialism doesn’t seem to be abating, either. Fox News continues to spread disinformation, as Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post has noted. Many Republican politicians spend more time complaining about mask and vaccine mandates than trying to persuade conservatives to get a potentially lifesaving shot.

Blue America, by contrast, has taken Covid seriously. Fewer than 10 percent of Democratic voters have not received a vaccine shot. Political liberals also tend to be comfortable wearing masks to reduce the spread of the Covid virus.

Although Covid presents relatively few risks to children and vaccinated adults under 50, it presents more to older people and some with specific immunodeficiencies. The current Covid surge has led to a modest rise in hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated and a much sharper rise among the unvaccinated. This surge justifies an increase in masking, testing and some other measures.

But it’s worth remembering that the point of those measures is to maximize people’s health and well-being. And maximizing health and well-being is not the same thing as minimizing Covid.

If that sounds strange, remember that society would cease to function if it tried to minimize every medical risk. Schools and offices don’t close each winter because of the flu. Families travel in cars even though crashes harm vastly more children than Covid does. People jog, play sports and ride bicycles even though thousands end up in emergency rooms.
Sometime by spring, the people will continue to fight the pandemic at the local and personal level. However, as news and politics it starts to fade.
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Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Fri Dec 10, 2021 4:19 pm

Standup politician Boebert...is destined to be voted out....into talk radio
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Post by Tero » Mon Dec 13, 2021 2:44 pm

I have a small hit in Twitter world.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Tue Dec 14, 2021 2:20 pm

Everything followed from goldwater. Even Trump
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Their mission was to undo welfare that was putvin after the depression
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun Dec 19, 2021 6:03 am

Whatever else, you have to admit that as a con man the former president has few equals outside a few megachurch 'pastors.' Gulling millions from his faithful, and being handed over a million more by the Republican Party to help pay his personal legal bills.

'The GOP agreed to pay $1.6 million of Trump's legal fees from NY investigations into his private businesses, reports say'
The Republican National Committee (RNC) agreed to pay $1.6 million towards former President Donald Trump's legal costs as he battles investigations into his private businesses by New York prosecutors, according to reports.

The payments, which were first reported by The Washington Post, were approved by the RNC's executive committee at a meeting in October in Nashville. The report was later confirmed by The New York Times.

Back in November it was reported that the RNC made two payments totalling $121,670 to the law firm of Ronald Fischetti.

He is representing Trump in investigations being conducted into his business interests by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The total sum the RNC approved for Trump's legal fees is in fact much higher, according to the reports, and will build over the coming months to total of $1.6 million.

The arrangement is unusual, as the investigations don't directly relate to Trump's political activities and his single term as a Republican president.

Instead they relate to his sprawling businesses and their umbrella company, the Trump Organization, and have a scope that extends well before his time in politics.

In a statement to The Washington Post, RNC spokesperson Emma Vaughn defended the arrangement, and confirmed that the party's executive committee approved "paying for certain legal expenses" related to Trump.

"As a leader of our party, defending President Trump and his record of achievement is critical to the GOP," she said.

"It is entirely appropriate for the RNC to continue assisting in fighting back against the Democrats' never-ending witch hunt and attacks on him."

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:02 am

Chumocracy pure and simple.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:04 pm

One of the voices of the id of the Republican Party. The sardonic poetry of

It will be over my dead body
that I'll have to get a shot.
I will not do that.


is something to behold.

'Sarah Palin Proudly Tells Raucous Turning Point Rally Crowd She Will Get Vaccinated "Over My Dead Body"'
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin electrified a crowd of conservatives over the weekend by boasting it will be “over my dead body” before she gets vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Palin appeared at Turning Point USA’s “AmericaFest 2021” conference in Phoenix, AZ — where she spoke on stage with the organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk. During this conversation, Kirk and the crowd cheered when Palin established her anti-vaccine stance and said “it’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot. I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either.”

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Post by JimC » Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:27 pm

Dead republican bodies are piling up for sure...
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Post by Tero » Sat Dec 25, 2021 11:19 am

Trumpster board of education member in Omaha get suspended from Twitter. He has trouble with "vaccination paprers" and sex education. Governor is part of the problem.
Earlier this year, the Nebraska Department of Education proposed health education standards, which called for teaching elementary school children about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Gov. Pete Ricketts called for scrapping the sex education topics, saying those issues should be left to parents to address, and opponents of the standards packed board meetings.

Advocates praised the first draft of the standards, saying the language — which recognized diverse family structures, gender identities and sexual orientations — would have made those children and families feel welcome instead of ostracized.
Earlier this year, the Nebraska Department of Education proposed health education standards, which called for teaching elementary school children about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Gov. Pete Ricketts called for scrapping the sex education topics, saying those issues should be left to parents to address, and opponents of the standards packed board meetings.

Advocates praised the first draft of the standards, saying the language — which recognized diverse family structures, gender identities and sexual orientations — would have made those children and families feel welcome instead of ostracized.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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