Republicans: continued

[pErvinalia]

I know laklak..

[Tero]

If Congress has 23% approval, why would any voter bother to vote?

Congress was at 23% approval and 63% disapproval. At this time last month, its approval rating was 22%. The highest approval rating Congress has received during Biden’s term is 36%, last seen on July 16, 2021, and the lowest approval rating it has received is 14%, last seen on Jan. 26, 2022.

https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/03/31 ... val-at-23/

How do Republicans think they would get voters to approve of congress? Wouldn't they all be voted out 2024 if nothing changed?

[Tero]

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Purin loyal idiots on Russian TV
https://mobile.twitter.com/Patrick57200 ... 6239300616

[Joe]

If Congress has 23% approval, why would any voter bother to vote?

Congress was at 23% approval and 63% disapproval. At this time last month, its approval rating was 22%. The highest approval rating Congress has received during Biden’s term is 36%, last seen on July 16, 2021, and the lowest approval rating it has received is 14%, last seen on Jan. 26, 2022.

https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/03/31 ... val-at-23/

How do Republicans think they would get voters to approve of congress? Wouldn't they all be voted out 2024 if nothing changed?

I remember eight or nine years ago they hit 9% approval. The joke was they were polling lower than lice, colonoscopies and Nickelback.

[Svartalf]

Well, at least bikini wrestling, or maybe a more peaceful game of beach volley...

[L'Emmerdeur]

If Congress has 23% approval, why would any voter bother to vote?

Congress was at 23% approval and 63% disapproval. At this time last month, its approval rating was 22%. The highest approval rating Congress has received during Biden’s term is 36%, last seen on July 16, 2021, and the lowest approval rating it has received is 14%, last seen on Jan. 26, 2022.

https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/03/31 ... val-at-23/

How do Republicans think they would get voters to approve of congress? Wouldn't they all be voted out 2024 if nothing changed?

It's an old story. Though 'Americans Down on Congress, OK With Own Representative' is from nearly ten years ago, it describes a consistent dynamic at play in American politics. Due diligence would be finding a more recent piece noting the continuation of this phenomenon but I doubt I will pursue it.

[Tero]

My 65% urban district is going to vote for another republican, despite the fact that the predecessor is going to jail or other stiff penalty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska% ... l_district

Despite being "urban" many residents insist on so called "acreage" on the outskirts of town. I ride past mini-mansion on a route that includes a couple of gravel roads. They need to drive half a mile on gravel to get to a paved road. It's so they can have a riding mower, dogs in a fenced area plus a flag pole with one of them weird flags. A few have horses.

[Woodbutcher]

My 65% urban district is going to vote for another republican, despite the fact that the predecessor is going to jail or other stiff penalty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska% ... l_district

Despite being "urban" many residents insist on so called "acreage" on the outskirts of town. I ride past mini-mansion on a route that includes a couple of gravel roads. They need to drive half a mile on gravel to get to a paved road. It's so they can have a riding mower, dogs in a fenced area plus a flag pole with one of them weird flags. A few have horses.

Nowadays it seems to be: "My party, right or wrong". Nobody thinks any more.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The ones who managed an answer had differing responses. No surprise there. It wasn't a serious question in the first place, but a culture war salvo from a blithering dipshit.

'What's A Woman? GOP Senators Stumble On Their Own Question To Ketanji Brown Jackson.'

Republicans mocked Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson last month for refusing to define the word “woman” during her Senate confirmation hearing.

But it turns out those same Republicans on the Judiciary Committee don’t agree on how to define a woman, and some wouldn’t ― or couldn’t ― give a definition when HuffPost asked Tuesday.

“I don’t have anything for you on that,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.).

“I’m not going to indulge you,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) dodged the question three times in a row, citing her policy of not talking to reporters in Senate hallways ― even though it was Blackburn who made this an issue with Jackson in the first place.

...

In a follow-up email to HuffPost, a spokesperson for Blackburn said her definition of a woman is “Two X chromosomes.”

The spokesperson did not respond to questions about whether Blackburn considers women born with only one X chromosome to be women, or if she considers men born with two X chromosomes to be women.

[Sean Hayden]

Jesus. WTH are women's issues? Why is my doctor a family and women's health clinic? Who are they talking about, it's such a mystery!?

[L'Emmerdeur]

Those horrible fact-checkers are going after the wonderful Governor DeSantis. Something should be done.

'Emails show one of DeSantis' stories backing the rationale for so-called 'Don't Say Gay' law didn't happen as the governor says'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly pointed to the case of a family in the state's Leon County to explain the need for a controversial new law, dubbed by critics the "Don't Say Gay" bill, that bans schools from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity, particularly to young children.

On several occasions since signing the bill into law, DeSantis has highlighted the story of a woman named January Littlejohn, a registered Republican, who says she was not fully consulted about the school's gender-affirming plan for her child.

...

DeSantis had told the same story in Palm Beach County last Thursday. "Her daughter was in school up in Leon County, and some of the people at school decided that her daughter was really a boy and wanted to identify as a boy. So they changed her name. They changed her quote pronouns. They did these things without telling the mother, much less getting the mother's consent," said DeSantis, who is considered a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate.

...

DeSantis' account of what happened in Leon County is not quite what a limited number of records that have been made public show, and the governor has continued to repeat the story even after those records were made public late last year. CNN obtained emails that show Littlejohn wrote the school in 2020 and notified a teacher that her child wanted to change pronouns. Contrary to the governor's portrayal of the story, Littlejohn also wrote that she would not stop her child from using preferred pronouns or name of choice at school. Littlejohn references these emails in her lawsuit against the school and they were reported by the Tallahassee Democrat in November.

Littlejohn did not respond to multiple requests from CNN about the emails, which show only one conversation in a much more complicated matter between a family and their child's school. Here's what we do know about the situation.

In an August 27, 2020, email to a teacher, Littlejohn stated, in part, "This has been an incredibly difficult situation for our family and her father and I are trying to be as supportive as we can. She is currently identifying as non-binary. She would like to go by the new name [redacted] and prefers the pronouns they/them. We have not changed her name at home yet, but I told her if she wants to go by the name [redacted] with her teachers, I won't stop her."

The teacher thanked Littlejohn and asked if she should share with other teachers.

Littlejohn explained it was difficult and confusing, and went on to write, "Whatever you think is best or [redacted] can handle it herself."

In another email the same day, Littlejohn told the teacher, "This gender situation has thrown us for a loop. I sincerely appreciate your support. I'm going to let her take the lead on this."

Nearly two months after the exchanges, Littlejohn and her husband, Jeffrey, filed a lawsuit against the Leon County School Board, as well as the district's superintendent and assistant superintendent, over how the district handled her child's gender identity. In the lawsuit, the parents claim school officials met with their child and created a Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Student Support Plan according to policy. In a copy of a blank student support plan filed with the lawsuit, the plan includes which pronouns the child preferred, which restrooms the child would use and "expectations regarding rooming for any overnight trips." According to the Leon County Schools, "less than 10 [students] in a district of 33,000" have student support plans.

Littlejohn claims that when she asked the school for more information, the school denied her access to meetings and information and tried to conceal information regarding her child.

"From the moment Mrs. Littlejohn first emailed her child's teacher to inform our staff of the situation, this has been handled together in partnership with clear communication. We understand that outside entities have now become involved, but the family clearly instructed the school staff via email to allow their child to 'take the lead on this' and to do 'whatever you think is the best,' " Chris Petley, Leon County Schools communications coordinator, said in a statement to CNN. "Additionally, our superintendent met with the family and committed to amend any vague or unclear policy language--of which we have created a committee and are working on currently. We truly hope for a swift outcome in this case in order to allow the student to continue to succeed in school."

[JimC]

Article about the possibilities of charging Trump:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/ ... /100969672

Right at the end, this:

"He could be in jail and that would confirm, for many of his supporters, his righteousness."

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, 'free speech is firmly on the right.'

'Officer, that scurrilous comedian threatened me!'

.@ABC, this threat of violence against me by @jimmykimmel has been filed with the @CapitolPolice.

[video of Kimmel ('Jimmy Kimmel Live!' show) making fun of Marge Space Lasers and asking, 'where is Will Smith when you really need him?']

- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene · Apr 6, 2022

[pErvinalia]

It's a bit like laklak's libertarian principles until it comes to government handouts

[L'Emmerdeur]

Article about the possibilities of charging Trump:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/ ... /100969672

Right at the end, this:

"He could be in jail and that would confirm, for many of his supporters, his righteousness."

Stands to reason. After all, we all know that the Deep State has had it in for the Duke of MAGA for like, ever. If the ridiculously remote possibility of some time in a federal pokey were to actually happen, it would only serve to confirm what the MAGAites already hold as an article of faith.