Republicans: continued

[Joe]

Yeah, the clown crown is up for grabs now that Louie Gohmert is retired.

[Tero]

What happened to Gohmert seat?

[Tero]

[Svartalf]

can I vote a rep out while having sex with a young meg ryan?

[Brian Peacock]

It's against the laws of physics I'm afraid.

[rasetsu]

Nature abhors, um, whatever that is.

[Tero]

There were moments when there was “no way back” for the GOP. One happened when Liz Cheney was ousted from leadership. At that point no opposition to Trump in public was allowed. It was a sort of wait and see situation. Then when the 2020 election gave the house to them they confirmed that they need to be with Trump for the next two years. What they were doing, nobody knew. Durintg 2023 the Trumpian measures were applied. It was a bit chaotic. Then with Mike Johnson it became the united front. With this vote, there is no way back. The old GOP may reshape itself. But not until 2025-2027, the first two years of the next presidency.

The actual impeachment documents won’t appear this fall of 2025, as it will not get anywhere in the senate. But it will get some press however.

[Tero]

Our own (state) congressman voted to go ahead, though he has a seat that is occasionally democrat:

During the House Rules Committee's Tuesday hearing on the impeachment inquiry vote, Representative Don Bacon told reporters he doesn't believe there's evidence that the president committed high crimes or misdemeanors—the bar set for impeachment. Even so, Bacon voted in favor of the measure on Wednesday.

"Currently, there is no vote for impeachment. Only an inquiry," Bacon's communications director, Danielle Jensen, previously told Newsweek. "He is voting for the inquiry because the administration has been stonewalling in the last couple of weeks, saying a formal impeachment inquiry has not been voted on."

https://www.newsweek.com/did-any-republ ... ry-1852207

[Tero]

[Tero]

If you repeat it enough on Fox they believe you.

"I can not sit idly by while Joe Biden and his disastrous policies continue to erode what makes America the greatest country in the world," Barr said. "Since Biden took office, we have seen record-high illegal immigration at the Southern Border, 40-year high inflation, and threateningly weak foreign policy that has invited aggression from our adversaries."

"American families’ incomes rose, and their small businesses flourished," he said, adding that none of those developments were "coincidences."

"They were a direct product of Trump’s low-tax, pro-economic growth policies," he told Fox News Digital, saying Biden’s policies have "resulted in the opposite."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-re ... ome-abroad

Were they better off in 2016? Who knows. 2020 not as good as 2019. But 2020 was better than Trump year 2016 at 63.6K

From 1964 to 2018, the average American’s real wage has only increased by $2.38.

When adjusted for inflation, the average wage of $2.50 in 1964 would equate to around $20.27. Meanwhile, the average wage as of 2018 was $22.65.

As of 2020, the average American real wage is $67,521.

That’s actually slightly lower than the average real wage in 2019, which was $69,560. Overall though, both of these averages are higher than the real wage at the tail end of the 2008 recession, which was only $60,200.

https://www.zippia.com/advice/average-american-income/

[Brian Peacock]

Every thread is looking the same these days.

[Tero]

A little more on the numbers. The biggest factor was not the president in charge but just the pandemic programs:
End of Pandemic-Era Expanded Federal Tax Programs Results in Lower Income, Higher Poverty

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/ ... ncome.html
Still, income in 2022 was $64,240 so about the same as Trump 2017

[Tero]

Ted Cruz penis power
Ted Cruz says liberal women are pissed off and unhappy all the time because liberal men don’t satisfy them in bed.
https://www.threads.net/@ronaldfilipkow ... IwNjQ2YQ==

[Tero]

Dukes of Hazzard star Schneider uses wrong form of hang;
In response to Joe Biden’s post calling Trump a threat to democracy, Schneider wrote, “I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung. Your son too.”

https://www.threads.net/@thedailybeast/ ... IwNjQ2YQ==

[L'Emmerdeur]

The red hats in Iowa are more or less behind Dear Leader's ambitions for a second term.

'Trump’s escalating rhetoric makes many likely GOP caucusgoers more likely to back him'

As Donald Trump seeks the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he has laid out his vision for a second term that includes locking up political opponents, conducting sweeping immigration raids and searching for replacements for Obamacare.

On the campaign trail, he has engaged in harsh rhetoric to describe political enemies as “radical thugs that live like vermin,” said that immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood” of the U.S., touted himself as “the only one who will prevent World War III,” and suggested suspending parts of the Constitution because of the “stolen” 2020 presidential election.

The former president’s comments have ignited concerns from critics and scholars who have warned that a second Trump administration threatens democracy — even as his advisers push back on those fears, dismissing them as baseless.

Many likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers have no issue with several of Trump’s recent controversial statements, a new Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll has found — and more often than not, they say the same statements make them more likely to support the former president.

Holly Rice, a 57-year-old poll respondent from Cumming, said she was backing Trump for his policy agenda, and “I don’t care what he tweets.”