Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Dog? Goldfish?

[Scot Dutchy]

Dog? Goldfish?

No animals or plants.
My health problems are the result of buying expensive duvets filled with eider and goose down feathers. I like my comforts.

[Brian Peacock]

Comfort is the Devil's work!

[Seabass]

In June there was some harrumphing on right wing sites about antifa paying for demonstrators. I don't remember whether it was noted here, but it probably was, in some garbled form with no usable reference or source. The source has been identified.

'Registered Republican Behind Hoax Antifa "Protesters Needed" Craigslist Ad'

Officials in Nebraska managed to track down a person responsible for creating a hoax Craigslist ad which claimed antifa were offering people money to protest in two cities in the state.

The listing went viral in June after screenshots of it were widely shared on social media even after the original advert was taken down after just a few hours.

The advert read "protesters needed" before claiming that the far-left movement were offering to pay "up to 1,000 people $25 per hour for protesters in Lincoln, NE and Omaha, NE."

"Basically we want to cause as much chaos and destruction as possible," the ad said.

"This will take place every night through the BLM protest on June 13. You will be paid nightly, and can come and go as you please.

"We want chaos to help further our agenda."

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that a 33-year-old man from Lincoln has been confirmed to have created the hoax ad following an investigation by the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.

The man was visited by the sheriff's office and the FBI in October. The 33-year-old, a registered Republican, confirmed he never paid anyone to take part in a protest or cause disorder and that he "didn't want to cause any violence or unrest," Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said.

In lieu of being charged, the 'prankster' was apparently told that he was 'not very funny' by the authorities. Jobs done.

Since the Republicans always turn out to be guilty of everything they accuse the Dems of doing, does this mean that the Republicans are running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza restaurant and drinking the blood of children to stay young?

[Sean Hayden]

Well, Mitch McConnell is definitely wearing someone else's skin, so we can't rule out anything, regardless of how unlikely it may seem to normal people.

[Tero]

Fuck democracy. We want to win!

While some Republicans may truly fear Trump's base turning on them, the reality is that many of the GOP members of Congress, like Trump, appear to crave political power at all costs. And if Trump was somehow able to wrest the presidency away from Biden by undemocratic means, they would be all too happy to accept and wield that power.
This is not just my view. As experts on authoritarianism have recently explained, over the years the GOP has increasingly rejected democratic norms and embraced autocratic tactics to acquire and retain power.
A study released in October by experts from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden documented the GOP's descent toward authoritarianism. Anna Luehrmann, one of the lead authors of the study, told CNN the GOP's philosophy of "take all means necessary to achieve our policy" has left it resembling authoritarian ruling parties like Hungary's Fidesz and Turkey's AKP.
Trump is not an aberration. He's a manifestation of where the GOP has been heading. Until we hear GOP members of Congress say otherwise, we must assume they agree with Trump's agenda of overturning the 2020 election results and getting re-installed as President for four more years.
My message to Democratic leaders is that it's time to stop being timid about using words like "authoritarian," "un-American" and perhaps even "fascist" to describe Trump and the GOP's tactics. The stakes are too high not to call it like it is.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/opinions ... index.html

[Scot Dutchy]

Expect a dictatorship next. AMSOC anyone?

[Tero]

It's too late for Trump, because crooked state legislatures have certified the election. But for future elections, reject every signature that looks like a democrat:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... oter-fraud

[Tero]

Loeffler parody
Billy, did you flush a cherry bomb down the toilet?
Look, Mr Johnson, what's at stake here is the American dream!
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status ... 8444803073

[Tero]

Mitch McConnel's wet dream:
Deny 500 000 Americans disability benefits.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/529 ... s-from?amp

[Brian Peacock]

Mitch McConnel's wet dream:
Deny 500 000 Americans disability benefits.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/529 ... s-from?amp

[quote"ibid"]About 73 percent of denied applicants have little to no earnings (less than $100 a month). Labor market success is even less common among those who are awarded SSDI. Further, labor market success, while still uncommon, is more likely among younger SSDI applicants and beneficiaries. Hence the need to take account of older age as reflected in the law and current SSDI rules.
In short, SSA's proposal to tighten SSDI benefits fails to even advance past a very basic question about the suggested policy: What is the point?[/quote]
Indeed. What is the point?

[Sean Hayden]

You know the system's fucked when you need a lawyer to navigate it for you.

[Sean Hayden]

[JimC]

"I regret that I only have one life to give for Messiah Trump"...

[Tero]

Giving a university education to people is bad for the country!
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/20 ... titutions/