Republicans: continued

[Sean Hayden]

Maybe. I did used to say you could replace the president with a coin toss and we’d be fine. But that’s when I thought our institutions were solid, and only serious ideas could compete.

[Tero]

stonekettle
13m13 minutes ago
Republicans: Billionaires build rockets and they don't have no fancy engineering degrees because college is worthless and also you can't afford it anyway, public schools should replace woke with more Jesus, we need trade schools not a Department of Education, and sorry not sorry we replaced you with AI.
ALSO Republicans: We have to import foreigners to work our golf courses, warehouses, and rocket factories because Americans aren't smart or educated enough to work American jobs.

[Woodbutcher]

doesn;t fit on the Hat

Most Trump supporters have trouble fitting MAGA on their hats. The inscription reaches 3/4 of the way around their heads.

[Tero]

Boebert's district went to another Republican:

Jeff Hurd was born in Colorado and lives in Grand Junction. Hurd graduated from Grand Junction High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in liberal studies (classical literature and philosophy) from Notre Dame University, a J.D. from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, in 2008, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2010. His career experience includes working at the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, as a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich, and as the co-owner of a law firm.

https://ballotpedia.org/Jeff_Hurd

[Brian Peacock]

Local boy made good.

[macdoc]

[Tero]

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's as if David Barton (infamous for writing false and meretricious history about the founding of the US) was involved in writing Johnson's speech. I wouldn't be surprised; in Johnson's circles Barton is considered a visionary of almost heroic proportions.

'Mike Johnson Attributes Prayer to Thomas Jefferson. But There’s a Problem.'

Shortly after being reelected as House Speaker, Mike Johnson read a prayer that he claimed was from Thomas Jefferson, despite there being no evidence the third president ever said it.

In fact, the quotation has been falsely attributed to Jefferson so often over the years that the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has debunked it.

“I was asked to provide a prayer for the nation. I offered one that is quite familiar to historians and probably many of us,” Johnson said.

...

Johnson then read aloud the “National Prayer of Peace,” the text of which can easily be found on The Thomas Jefferson Foundation’s website as an example of a “spurious” quotation.

“We have no evidence that this prayer was written or delivered by Thomas Jefferson,” it states.

Beginning as they mean to go on. Alternative facts rule the day.

[Tero]

My state's Bacon (R) was talking about the US getting respect with Trump. Yeah.

Then he went on to say that the late 2024 bill was bad. Because it would "let in" 5000 people a day. Implying that all 5000 walk innand never go back.

The Trump bill will be different. Shoot the first 5000 trying to come in every day?

[Tero]

Look out deep state! Little Mike is after you!

[Sean Hayden]

If these men never say what they intend to do, but only what’s been decided beforehand works best to gain/maintain support, then why report it? Or why report it as news?

Doesn’t that in fact make you, the media, fake news?

[Tero]

No. It just confirms, he repeating it, that they will at least chip away at social security. Deep state can be anything. Trump is not saying much, he will celebrate himself. But after foreigners, this is next on the list.

Maga voters as disabled seniors will not have nursing homes to go to. That's Medicaid. And insulin, Medicare. All part of Deep State.

[Sean Hayden]

[Sean Hayden]

No. It just confirms, he repeating it, that they will at least chip away at social security. Deep state can be anything. Trump is not saying much, he will celebrate himself. But after foreigners, this is next on the list.

Maga voters as disabled seniors will not have nursing homes to go to. That's Medicaid. And insulin, Medicare. All part of Deep State.

Yeah, exactly, he’s not actually talking about what his party wants to do. It’s not code. It’s just fake, and the media passes it along.

[L'Emmerdeur]

I think he's promising support for the Schedule F scheme. Competence and experience are fine but loyalty to Trump is of supreme importance. Trump people are the best people so even if they have absolutely no experience in the remit of whatever agency, they'll soon be making changes that will render that lack of experience irrelevant. Competence is assumed under the rubric of 'best people.'

'Deep State' is a buzzword but Bannon and Project 2025 have explicitly pushed for a mass exodus of existing upper level government employees, replacing them with vetted Trumpist stooges: 'Dismantling the administrative state.'