The Republican Agenda 2021 and Forward

[Thomas Veil]

One of the phrases I live by is "K.I.S.S." or Keep It Simple Stupid.

With republicans like MTG, Boebert, and the wunderkind Cawthorn, it's Keep It Super Stupid.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1414739601403654144/

The idiot Cawthorn probably still thinks “Obamacare” death panels are gonna drag your grandma away to her doom.

As far as Trump goes, I give him less than a 50-50 chance of re-election. I think enough people are tired of his antics. I’m more worried about gullible voters going for DeSantis if he gets the nomination.

 

[JayMysteri0]

The idiot Cawthorn probably still thinks “Obamacare” death panels are gonna drag your grandma away to her doom.

As far as Trump goes, I give him less than a 50-50 chance of re-election. I think enough people are tired of his antics. I’m more worried about gullible voters going for DeSantis if he gets the nomination.

Yeah, I'd be careful not to take bets yet...

Trump easily wins CPAC 2024 GOP presidential nomination straw poll

Former Presidentv Donald Trump easily won the 2024 GOP presidential nomination poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering this weekend in Texas.

www.foxnews.com

DALLAS – Former President Donald Trump easily won the 2024 GOP presidential nomination poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering this weekend in Texas.

Trump, who’s repeatedly flirted with making another presidential run in 2024 to try and return to the White House, captured 70% of ballots cast in the anonymous straw poll, according to results announced by CPAC on Sunday afternoon.

That's a boost from the 55% support he won in the hypothetical 2024 Republican primary matchup straw poll at CPAC Orlando in late February.

The plan seems to be to push enough suppression thru, as they eagerly supplicate to the former president, so he can avoid future legal jeopardy.

 

[User.45]

One of the phrases I live by is "K.I.S.S." or Keep It Simple Stupid.

With republicans like MTG, Boebert, and the wunderkind Cawthorn, it's Keep It Super Stupid.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1414739601403654144/

Biden isn't wrong about taking the vaccine to the community. My wife and I have been taking care of patients regularly who experienced medical disasters due to simple lack of transportation. I listened in on a zoom call with our local Black community leaders so I know that something like this would make sense. While Cawthorne broke his spine to ever have to experience transportation issues, so somehow managed to still miss the nuances. Also, he sounds drunk here.

 

[User.45]

As far as Trump goes, I give him less than a 50-50 chance of re-election. I think enough people are tired of his antics. I’m more worried about gullible voters going for DeSantis if he gets the nomination.

Yeah, I'd be careful not to take bets yet...
The plan seems to be to push enough suppression thru, as they eagerly supplicate to the former president, so he can avoid future legal jeopardy.

I'll take @Thomas Veil's position here. Trump running again has so much hazard encoded I have yet to see that route less risky for the GOP than running like an actual palatable candidate.

 

[lizkat]

I'll take @Thomas Veil's position here. Trump running agains has so much hazard encoded I have yet to see that rout less risky for the GOP than running like an actual palatable candidate.

Yeah. tbh i think the RNC is just hedging by making Trump their nominal head of party again. They don't really want him. He's a pile of trouble, clearly. Having a President who thinks he is a King turns out to be an insurmountable problem vis a vis original text in our Constitution.

But the Republicans do want votes, so they want the Trump supporters to stay active and motivated to turn out "against socialism, marxism, communism" through at least the midterm elections, which the GOP hopes will flip the House or Senate gavel back to them.

Their problem though is that Trump is an unreliable assistant to the party when it comes to Congressional races. He's probably going to do in his own chances at a 2024 nomination by how he behaves running up to the midterms. Those, for an opposition party, which is now the GOP, are supposed to be races with the focus on Congressional candidates proposing policy changes based on what their party can plausibly disparage of the current majority party's policymaking.

The thing is, they probably need to sharpen the focus a little past being "against socialism, marxism, communism"... but so far they're just treading water and spouting platitudes about Trump to keep the base interested.

But anyway Trump is not about policy stuff, he's about "look at me, I can put anyone in a House or Senate seat by endorsing them." He wants the spotlight of being at stump speeches because he lacks a social media platform. And so he's gonna be out there on the hustings in 2022 still talking about how Joe Biden stole "the election" and should be investigated (the way he talked for four years about Hillary Clinton as if he hadn't even won the 2016 election!) and crucially in 2022 for GOP concerns, he'll be ranting about how there's been so much voter fraud that you can't even believe election results.

Mind you, that is certainly not what the 2022 GOP Congressional candidates want their potential voters to start thinking about. Why turn out to vote anyway if the results aren't credible?

And that is not the message the Dem candidates will be pitching. They'll be talking about GOP state legislation that attempts to suppress votes. And they'll be offering rides to polls and before that rides to the DMV to get photo ID or whatever else is needed to enable registration to vote in 2022.

So looking past the midterms to 2024, I'd be surprised if Trump's a nominee for anything again, ever.

 

[JayMysteri0]

I'm sorry, was anyone NOT sure of what I said about cawthorn, SOME republicans, and 'keeping it super stupid'?

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn deletes swastika tweet after criticism, media questions

A tweet featuring a picture of Nazis by Western North Carolina's Republican member of Congress Madison Cawthorn has been deleted following criticism of people on Twitter.

www.citizen-times.com

A tweet featuring a picture of Nazis by Western North Carolina's Republican member of Congress Madison Cawthorn has been deleted following criticism by people on Twitter.

Cawthorn posted the tweet just before 9 p.m. July 9, promoting flying the flag and criticizing Black Lives Matter members quoted as linking racists with the practice of flag flying.

"The American flag symbolizes unity, patriotism, independence, pride, and love for our country. BLM continues to expose their radical hatred of this country," tweeted Cawthorn, who represents North Carolina's far-western 11th District, including Asheville.

He linked to a July 8 New York Post story "BLM chapter calls American flag ‘symbol of hatred’ only used by racists."

The main image for the article — and the main one for his tweet — showed members of the National Socialist Movement in 2008 marching from the Washington Monument to the grounds of the United States Capitol Building. One man wears a shirt that says "skinhead" while he holds the hand of a boy with a shirt with a large swastika, the symbol of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany during the World War II.

People responding to the tweet criticized the picture, asking what message the congressman was intending to send.

Following July 12 questions sent by the Citizen Times to Cawthorn spokesman Micah Bock about the tweet, it was pulled from Twitter.

"Rep. Cawthorn has denounced fascism in all its forms," Bock said in a statement responding to the Citizen Times. "The American flag has stood for freedom since the founding of our nation, and the BLM movement would do well to remember that during World War II, the flag waved proudly as American soldiers destroyed Nazism in Europe."

Bock confirmed Cawthorn pulled the tweet, but declined to say why, instead referring the Citizen Times back to the statement.

Ladies & Gentlemen, A future of the republican party...

For those of you doubting the previous president & his chances for re election... I refer you to anything said about the man in 2016 when he oozed down that escalator. 2020 was the wakeup call for republicans that the majority of the country isn't in agreement with them, so they will want to rerun 2016 when no one took orange would be dictator seriously, by curbing as much of the vote of opposing Americans as possible.

 

[SuperMatt]

I'm sorry, was anyone NOT sure of what I said about cawthorn, SOME republicans, and 'keeping it super stupid'?





Ladies & Gentlemen, A future of the republican party...

For those of you doubting the previous president & his chances for re election... I refer you to anything said about the man in 2016 when he oozed down that escalator. 2020 was the wakeup call for republicans that the majority of the country isn't in agreement with them, so they will want to rerun 2016 when no one took orange would be dictator seriously, by curbing as much of the vote of opposing Americans as possible.

And considering that a number of states now put rules in place that basically allow their (gerrymandered) legislatures to decide the winner of an election instead of the voters, I hope everybody is ready for 4 more years of the orange man.

 

[JayMysteri0]

Seriously, republicans are damned to determined to make me change that mantra for them...

It will no longer be K.I.S.S. or Keep It Super Stupid, but they want to make it K.I.S.S. M.E. or Keep it Super Stupid Malicious Evil

Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19

Tennessee halted all vaccine outreach to minors, not just for COVID-19, amid pressure from Republican lawmakers. A vaccine expert was also fired.

www.tennessean.com

The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean. If the health department must issue any information about vaccines, staff are instructed to strip the agency logo off the documents.

The health department will also stop all COVID-19 vaccine events on school property, despite holding at least one such event this month. The decisions to end vaccine outreach and school events come directly from Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey, the internal report states.

Additionally, the health department will take steps to ensure it no longer sends postcards or other notices reminding teenagers to get their second dose of the coronavirus vaccines. Postcards will still be sent to adults, but teens will be excluded from the mailing list so the postcards are not “potentially interpreted as solicitation to minors,” the report states.

These changes to Tennessee’s vaccination strategy, detailed in an COVID-19 report distributed to health department staff on Friday, then reiterated in a mass email on Monday, illustrate how the state government continues to dial back efforts to vaccinate minors against coronavirus. This state's approach to vaccinations will not only lessen efforts to inoculate young people against coronavirus, and could also hamper the capacity to vaccinate adults and protect children from other infectious diseases.

And these changes will take effect just as the coronavirus pandemic shows new signs of spread in Tennessee. After months of declining infections, the average number of new cases per day has more than doubled in the past two weeks – from 177 to 418. The average test positivity rate has jumped from 2.2% to 5.4% in the same time period.

WTF?!!!

The changes to Tennessee's vaccination strategy will impact the majority of the Volunteer State, which lags behind most of the nation in the race to immunity. Only 38% of Tennesseans are fully vaccinated, and at the current pace the state won't be 50% vaccinated until March, according to health department estimates. The agency holds responsibility for public health in 89 of Tennessee’s 95 counties, excluding major metropolitan areas where local agencies wield more authority.

'No proactive outreach regarding routine vaccines'​

After the health department's internal COVID-19 report was circulated on Friday, the rollback of vaccine outreach was further detailed in a Monday email from agency Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tim Jones.

Jones told staff they should conduct "no proactive outreach regarding routine vaccines" and "no outreach whatsoever regarding the HPV vaccine."

Staff were also told not to do any "pre-planning" for flu shots events at schools. Any information released about back-to-school vaccinations should come from the Tennessee Department of Education, not the Tennessee Department of Health, Jones wrote.

"Any kinds of informational sheets or other materials that we make available for dissemination should have the TDH logo removed," Jones wrote.

Decisions to ratchet back outreach comes amid pressure from conservative lawmakers, who have embraced misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine, said Dr. Michelle Fiscus, Tennessee's former top vaccine official.

Fiscus was fired without explanation on Monday. Fiscus said she was scapegoated to appease lawmakers, who had described routine vaccine outreach as “reprehensible.”

“This is a failure of public health to protect the people of Tennessee and that is what is ‘reprehensible,’ Fiscus said Monday. “When the people elected and appointed to lead this state put their political gains ahead of the public good, they have betrayed the people who have trusted them with their lives.”

After this story published online, the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement offering a “strong and enduring endorsement” of vaccines. The organization also celebrated Fiscus as a “tireless champion for children and vaccines.”

"Actions that weaken Tennessee’s overall public health readiness are clearly a step in the wrong direction at the wrong time,” said chapter President Dr. Anna Morad in the statement.

THIS is why you don't let politicians interfere with public health matters. Feelings from a side take over, where science should be leading the way.

 

[JayMysteri0]

When the Q wing of the party decides to get an early start on eating it's own tail

Qanon Thinks the Senate Candidate Who Supports Them Might Just Worship the Devil

Jackson Lahmeyer has been accused of Satanism and child sex trafficking by QAnon after posting a photograph of his daughter wearing red shoes

jezebel.com

An evangelical pastor hoping to unseat Oklahoma Senator James Lankford by embracing QAnon has, ironically, been accused of devil worship and child sex trafficking by QAnon after he posted a photograph of his daughter wearing red shoes—an unequivocal sign that one is a Satan-worshipping pedophile to the fringe conspiracy group. Who would have thought that a group that finds Satanists and child traffickers behind every pizza oven would turn on one of their own over some inconsequential detail!

Not Jackson Lahmeyer, who has spent months on the conspiracy circuit with Michael Flynn and Lin Wood, and who has had to deny via social media that he is involved in “Child Sex Trafficking [sic], pedophilia, or devil worship” as well as allegations that he is a “creation worshipper” and a “new world order globalist.” (I am not delusional enough to be familiar with the latter terms but they sure sound like a lot of words that would certainly titillate people looking to Da Vinci Code every political photograph they see in order to bolster their own sense of self-importance.) However, perhaps those validation seekers wouldn’t be quite so rabid if power-hungry philistines like Flynn and Wood weren’t holding conferences to get them all riled up with religious leaders like Lahmeyer attempting to win elections by going along with it. Per Vice:

“[Lahmneyer] has sought and secured the endorsement of Flynn and Wood, both of whom are held in high esteem by QAnon followers. Bennett’s endorsement is seen as another signal that embracing conspiracy theories is no longer fatal to a successful run for Congress. Lahmeyer has appeared on stage at a number of the conspiracy conferences organized by Tulsa businessman Clay Clark in recent months, and is scheduled to appear at several more in the coming months.”

But even in his denial of Satanist child sex trafficking and defense of his toddler’s footwear, Lahmneyer is careful to blame just one conspiracy theorist and not the lot of them, whose votes he presumably still needs. “It was a harmless post but there is an individual out there who has been spreading things about me that are not true,” Lahmeyer wrote on Facebook.

Lahmeyer entered the race after his opponent refused to repeat lies about fraud in the 2020 elections, which lost him the support of the Oklahoma Republican Party Chair, who pivoted support to Lahmeyer. Thus far, Lahmeyer appears to be running on a platform that consists mostly of pretending to believe in stolen elections, anti-trans bigotry, anti-vax rhetoric, and nodding while people make shit up on conference stages. But perhaps in order to compromise with his voter base, he should add mandatory beige footwear for his and all other children to the ticket as well. After all, if you’re not going to agree with these shrieking Facebook people every time they see Satan behind a tree election fraud in a functioning Democracy, then what use are you?

 

[JayMysteri0]

Also, whenever you can, ...ALWAYS embellish

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1415293689799270406/

 

[lizkat]

Also, whenever you can, ...ALWAYS embellish

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1415293689799270406/

Right? Well once the GOP decided facts don't matter, right-leaning journos signed up in droves.

Gee, every time I turn around now another media outlet or reporter from one of them is talking about Carlson. It's like he's the new Donald Trump, a substitute fallback any time a slow news cycle pops up...

And when will mainstream media realize that they're helping Carlson play the "TV host converts to politician" card? Name recognition is everything in politics, so Carlson's now doubling down on that "for free" -- as both a well known TV host and as subject of other media outlets' reporting. Doesn't matter if coverage by other media outlets is favorable, a put-down or carefully just short of libelous, it's a spotlight that keeps Carlson's name in the public view even for those who never watch Fox.

Who knew that journos would latch onto one of their own (well sorta their own) after they swore off giving oxygen to every little bit of blather emanating from "the former guy"? But of course they needed something to fill column inches and empty on-air slots... and of course Fox News doesn't mind one of their guys breaking the old rule about journos "not becoming the story". And of course the longer this goes on, the more newsworthy Carlson might seem. Ugh.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Saw an article with pictures of looting happening in South Africa and two thoughts instantly sprung to mind.

1. Republicans will instantly think “black people” and not investigate further.

2. Within 6 months a Republican politician or conservation news “reporter” will show the pictures or footage from South Africa and say it was filmed in the US.

 

[lizkat]

Saw an article with pictures of looting happening in South Africa and two thoughts instantly sprung to mind.

1. Republicans will instantly think “black people” and not investigate further.

2. Within 6 months a Republican politician or conservation news “reporter” will show the pictures or footage from South Africa and say it was filmed in the US.

Sometimes that stuff originates with a private citizen putting something up on social media and mischaracterizing it... and then some media outlet picks it up and splashes it on page one without checking out the source. Happened notoriously to Breitbart when they [supposedly] picked up some guy's false attribution of a Cavaliers' victory parade to some Trump rally in Jacksonville. Oops. Or anyway that's how they told it when it was noticed.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Sometimes that stuff originates with a private citizen putting something up on social media and mischaracterizing it... and then some media outlet picks it up and splashes it on page one without checking out the source. Happened notoriously to Breitbart when they [supposedly] picked up some guy's false attribution of a Cavaliers' victory parade to some Trump rally in Jacksonville. Oops. Or anyway that's how they told it when it was noticed.

I honestly don’t think they care at this point. Like their leader, they’ll find imagery that fits their narrative and just roll with it. At best you’ll maybe get “Well, maybe that didn’t happen where and when I said it did, but it’s still happening!” long after the image has been burned into their supporters' brains and they’ll just continue to accept it as originally advertised.

A lot of people voted for Trump because they were tired of politicians’ lies but then Trump, Republicans, and their media shifted to just telling even bigger and easily disproven lies and their base went “That’s more like it!”. Just like youth is wasted on the young, an advanced brain is wasted on humans.

 

[JayMysteri0]

Saw an article with pictures of looting happening in South Africa and two thoughts instantly sprung to mind.

1. Republicans will instantly think “black people” and not investigate further.

2. Within 6 months a Republican politician or conservation news “reporter” will show the pictures or footage from South Africa and say it was filmed in the US.

Well, it does seem like a situation that group would identify with

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1415296889956802561/

Although the reasons for it are more complex

S.African govt plans troop surge to quell unrest -reports

South Africa plans to deploy up to 25,000 soldiers in two provinces where security forces are struggling to quell days of looting, arson and violence, its defence minister told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, according to local news channel eNCA.

www.reuters.com

• Summary

• Worst violence in years breaks out after Zuma jailing
• Anger at post-apartheid inequalities underpins riots
• Residents organise to protect property, confront looters
• Presidency considers further military deployment

 

[JayMysteri0]

45 Jr =

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Well, it does seem like a situation that group would identify with

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1415296889956802561/

Although the reasons for it are more complex

• Summary
• Worst violence in years breaks out after Zuma jailing
• Anger at post-apartheid inequalities underpins riots
• Residents organise to protect property, confront looters
• Presidency considers further military deployment

It sounds like they slowly slid back into white supremacy economically with the key difference being a lot less white people. Our white supremacists would probably look at that and go "So why can't we pull that off? We've got the numbers."

 

[JayMysteri0]

FFS -the projection & rationalization
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1415532324888879109/

 

[JayMysteri0]

Watching as Chris Hayes covers this disturbing story...

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article252829818.html

Two Bay Area men have been indicted on charges of plotting to blow up the Democratic headquarters building in Sacramento because of their belief that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and authorities have seized 49 weapons — including machine guns and bombs, court records say.

A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted two men — Ian Benjamin Rogers of Napa and Jarrod Copeland, a former resident of Vallejo who recently moved to Sacramento — on charges of conspiracy to destroy a building, possession of destructive devices and machine guns and obstruction of justice.

The two men allegedly began plotting attacks on Nov. 25, following Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden, court papers say.

“By November 29, 2020, they had identified the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento, California, as their first target, and made plans to attack it using incendiary devices,” according to the indictment, which was unsealed this week. “Rogers and Copeland believed that the attacks would start what they called a ‘movement.’

“They discussed the attack in detail and on numerous occasions.”

What caught my eye was something that was found amongst the men's possessions.

What caught my attention was in another thread there's lamenting about identifying some 45 supporters as racists, when SOME proudly want everyone to know they are. Like these guys who decided against going after George Soros, and instead blowing up DNC headquarters...

WTF?!!!

This is the group crying about progressives? Who's trying to blow up shit & possibly kill, based on a lie?

 

[Huntn]

Watching as Chris Hayes covers this disturbing story...




What caught my eye was something that was found amongst the men's possessions.

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What caught my attention was in another thread there's lamenting about identifying some 45 supporters as racists, when SOME proudly want everyone to know they are. Like these guys who decided against going after George Soros, and instead blowing up DNC headquarters...

WTF?!!!

This is the group crying about progressives? Who's trying to blow up shit & possibly kill, based on a lie?

There are always going to be kooks, Koolaid drinkers, misfits society’s goal has to be reducing them to negligible manageable numbers. While this kind of news is always alarming and I am not making light of it, I am really concerned about the Trump Patriots trying to “legally” dismantle US democracy in State Houses around the country,