Republicans: continued

[Tero]

You can't actually veto Obamacare. You have to pass a law to repeal it. it will most likely not pass. Trump will need to have the house and senate. trump can possibly get the electoral college votes. But it will not be a mass movement to the right.

The seats for W Virginia (Manchin) and Arizona are troubleosme for Democrats in the senate.

[Tero]

If you can't bus them to Mexico, fly them to Chicago
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigr ... d_ms_tw_lw

It will take a while to fly 1.7 million of them to Chicago

[Sean Hayden]

It’s probably a successful tactic. The message from the Democrats is that he’s cruel, but I think most people will see it as putting the question to the clueless: how do you like it? That’s straightforward, folksy, and people like that. So far it appears most of these other cities don’t like it, and can’t handle much of anything.

As for Texas, we’re a huge and mostly empty state, we’ve got the room and the resources. A great governor would be looking to show the world how it’s done, not whining about how the state’s success has attracted undesirables…

[Tero]

Biden putting drug dealers back on street. Maybe Chicago? It gets everybody now.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... rcna130876

[Tero]

Dukes of Hazard related. Poster brings up topic: Obama has a bigger penis than Trump.
https://www.threads.net/@patterson_proj ... 1IV-H3xUBf

[Tero]

The open borders...that we do not have. We stop and catalog them first.

Political issues
The Border Patrol stopped nearly 11,000 migrants along the southwest border Monday, Reuters reported, adding that Mexico recently reduced immigration enforcement for budget reasons and said the U.S. rail response might be related.

The criticism comes after the Biden administration moved to use funds appropriated during the Trump administration to allow for 20 miles of additional border wall along the South of Texas, in the process waiving 26 federal laws. (Getty Images)
Increased crossings and Border Patrol stats are part of the 2024 presidential election race. A Mexican government source told Reuters that crossings are expected to level out in January, once spending returns to normal levels.

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/12/22 ... llen-says/

[rasetsu]

There's a mid-November photo of senator Ron Johnson and he's clean-shaven. A recent photo from Fox News shows he's got a full beard. Honest, I think he's sleeping in his car.

[pErvinalia]

Is he the guy with no bank account (allegedly)?

[rasetsu]

I think that's Speaker Mike Johnson.

[Tero]

The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176854/ ... rain-drain

[Tero]

Tucker's bizarre Christmas
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/kevi ... 235142883/
(Kevin Spacey Fowler was born in South Orange, he is doing a character)

[Tero]

Texas is tempting fate with a new anti-immigration bill, known as S.B. 4, that makes entering Texas illegally a state-level infraction and grants state police the authority to enforce immigration law, usurping powers that are constitutionally granted to the federal government.

The law is already being challenged in court by civil rights and Latino advocacy groups. And it’s been denounced by the Biden administration too.

As Steve Vladeck wrote for MSNBC recently, the law mirrors an Arizona law known as S.B. 1070 that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012. The reason? The law was impossible to enforce legally, and it trampled on civil and human rights while subjecting people to racial profiling.

Reports suggest Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is seeking to have the U.S. Supreme Court rule on the law again, now that Donald Trump has packed it with right-wing ideologues. But for the time being, the law is in effect, leaving lots of Texans vulnerable to a political terrorism Arizonans remember all too well. And the chaos that could ensue as a result may well blow up in Abbott’s face.

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reido ... rcna130842

[Joe]

She's gonna miss the mountains.

Lauren Boebert jumps to Colorado's 4th CD in bid to improve reelection odds

In a stunning move, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert on Wednesday night announced that she plans to run next year for the seat held by retiring fellow Republican Ken Buck in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, rather than seek reelection in the district she barely won last year.

A Silt Republican serving her second term, Boebert joins a crowded GOP primary field in the heavily Republican neighboring district, which covers Douglas County and parts of Larimer and Weld counties, as well as much of the Eastern Plains.

Boebert won reelection last year by just 546 votes in the Western Slope-based 3rd District, which leans toward Republicans by 9 percentage points. The 4th District, which is more favorable toward Republicans, prefers GOP candidates by 27 points, according to a nonpartisan analysis prepared by Colorado's redistricting commission.

Buck announced in November that he isn't seeking a sixth term.

[Brian Peacock]

What's a Silt Republican?

[L'Emmerdeur]

A bit dirtier than a Loam Republican? (Leaving it to Joe's local expertise to give the proper answer.)

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South Carolina Republican doesn't want to alienate the Lost Cause demographic.

'Nikki Haley, asked what caused the Civil War, leaves out slavery. It’s not the first time.'

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked Wednesday by a New Hampshire voter about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn’t mention slavery in her response — leading the voter to say he was “astonished” by her omission.

Asked during a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, what she believed had caused the war — the first shots of which were fired in her home state of South Carolina — Haley talked about the role of government, replying that it involved “the freedoms of what people could and couldn’t do.”

She then turned the question back to the man who had asked it, who replied that he was not the one running for president and wished instead to know her answer.

After Haley went into a lengthier explanation about the role of government, individual freedom and capitalism, the questioner seemed to admonish Haley, saying, “In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word slavery.”

“What do you want me to say about slavery?” Haley retorted, before abruptly moving on to the next question.

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Issues surrounding the origins of the Civil War and its heritage are still much of the fabric of Haley’s home state, and she has been pressed on the war’s origins before. As she ran for governor in 2010, Haley, in an interview with a now-defunct activist group then known as The Palmetto Patriots, described the war as between two disparate sides fighting for “tradition” and “change” and said the Confederate flag was “not something that is racist.”

During that same campaign, she dismissed the need for the flag to come down from the Statehouse grounds, portraying her Democratic rival’s push for its removal as a desperate political stunt.

Five years later, Haley urged lawmakers to remove the flag from its perch near a Confederate soldier monument following a mass shooting in which a white gunman killed eight Black church members who were attending Bible study. At the time, Haley said the flag had been “hijacked” by the shooter from those who saw the flag as symbolizing “sacrifice and heritage.”