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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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When Newsmax turns on you, yeah.....

And can't wait for Trump's tweet bashing Newsmax and telling everybody to go to OAN.

Ohhh......

Everyone is afraid of catching a Dominion law suit these days.  So they are turning on him by trying to prove what great journalists they are.

(I think the guy in you gif is wearing a Munsinger shirt).

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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/02/beth-wessel-kroeschell-jeans-iowa-house-floor-protest-lack-mask-mandate-pat-grassley/4364658001/

 

Ed. Note:  Grassley is the grandson of Senator Chuck Grassley, (R) Iowa

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Iowa's Republican House Speaker Pat Grassley has repeatedly said this year that he can't require lawmakers to wear masks on the House floor. So one Democrat decided to find out how he would enforce the chamber's dress code.

Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, D-Ames, said she told her Democratic colleagues Sunday night that she would be wearing jeans on the House floor all week in violation of the dress code.

 

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House rules adopted last month state that "no member of the general assembly or legislative employee or intern shall be admitted to the floor of the House if attired in jeans of any color without leave of the speaker." The jeans rule has been in place for several years, dating back to before Grassley was speaker.

"They’re brand-new, they’re clean, they don’t have any holes in them. They’re not hurting anybody," Wessel-Kroeschell said Tuesday night. "Not wearing a mask can kill people, and we have had people here — we have a member who was exposed to it and is now COVID positive at home. And there are five or six of their members who are never wearing masks. This is dangerous and they’re putting all of us in danger. So if they can enforce a denim dress code they can also enforce a mask mandate."

 

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The House rules do not require mask wearing on the floor or elsewhere in the building. Democrats attempted to add a mask mandate and other COVID precautions to the rules, but Republicans voted them down.

The Capitol safety protocols set by Republicans, who hold majorities in both chambers, encourage but do not require mask wearing. Those protocols also recommend but do not require disclosure of a positive COVID-19 test or contact with someone who tested positive.

 

 

 

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When Wessel-Kroeschell tried to speak during Tuesday night's floor debate, Grassley said he wouldn't recognize her because she was violating House dress code.

"You will not be recognized to speak for debate. You can continue to vote from the floor," Grassley said.

Melissa Deatsch, a spokesperson for Grassley, said the speaker has discretion to handle rules violations.

"The speaker has been clear and consistent since the start of session. There is no way to enforce a mask mandate short of having state patrol remove a duly-elected representative from the floor, which is not something he is willing to do, for masks or for jeans," she said in a statement.

Grassley, R-New Hartford, told reporters on multiple occasions last month that he couldn't stop members of the House from taking votes on the floor, either because of a lack of mask wearing or a violation of the dress code. At a virtual news conference on Jan. 21, he said he would allow members in violation of the dress code to vote, but would not call on them to speak.

"At the end of the day if a legislator, male or female, wants to walk in here in their bathing suit and take a vote on the House floor they will be given that opportunity to do so. If a member wants to be recognized using proper decorum, from the chair’s perspective, I will not be recognizing those members," he said at the time.

 

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2 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

Man that GOP civil war sure wrapped up in a hurry.

Put it on a secret ballot, discover that there are people with some core beliefs.

Of course, publicly those people are scared shitless of Trump.

Makes me almost wish we'd get a secret ballot for Trump's impeachment.

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Who among us here is surprised by this revelation.  The GOP is dead.  Long live GQP.

 

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Conspiracist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is far more popular than Rep. Liz Cheney among Americans who align with the Republican Party, Axios' Margaret Talev writes based on a new Axios-SurveyMonkey poll.

Why it matters: As the House GOP caucus is being torn over calls to yank Cheney from congressional leadership for backing Donald Trump's impeachment, and strip Greene from committee assignments for her baseless conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric, these findings show how strongly Trumpism continues to define most Republicans.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is much more popular with Republicans than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the survey finds.

 

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By the numbers: McCarthy enjoys the highest favorable versus unfavorable ratings (net favorability) of the four among Republicans, at 38%-16% (+22); followed by Greene, at 28%-18% (+10); McConnell, at 31%-46% (-15); and Cheney, at 14%-42% (-28).

Greene is the least well known of the four, with 51% of Republicans and Republican leaners saying they don't know enough to say whether their impression is favorable or not. Respondents have the most fully formed views of McConnell.

 

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Republican respondents are three times as likely to say their views align with Greene than with Cheney, but nearly one-third say they don't align with either, and half say they don't know enough to say.

Republican respondents who voted for Trump in November gave McCarthy a high net favorable rating (+31) and McConnell a high net unfavorable rating (-18).

 

 

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The intrigue: People who identify with Greene are disproportionately likely to have lost faith in democracy or believe despite evidence that voter fraud is rampant in their state.

The survey also finds that Democrats, who have strongly unfavorable opinions of Greene, are far more likely than Republicans to say they know enough about her views to form opinions about her.

 

 

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What they're saying: SurveyMonkey's Laura Wronski tells Axios the findings highlight the impact of major political figures questioning American democracy and underscore how Republicans disproportionately are "choosing party over the form of government we all rely on."

Methodology: This SurveyMonkey online poll was conducted Feb. 1-2, 2021, among a national sample of 2,691 U.S. adults, including 1,024 who identified as Republican or Republican-leaning.

Respondents for this survey were selected from the more than 2 million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day.

The modeled error estimate for this survey is ±3.0 percentage points for the national sample, and ±4.5 for the sample of Republicans and Republican leaners.

Data have been weighted for age, race, sex, education and geography using the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States age 18 and over.

 

 

 

 

 

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Still a war, with a group of pussies in the middle 
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The pussies will go with the true believers. Which makes the GOP 2/3 Qanons. And the other third will fall in line, too.

See below.

Who among us here is surprised by this revelation.  The GOP is dead.  Long live GQP.
 
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What they're saying: SurveyMonkey's Laura Wronski tells Axios the findings highlight the impact of major political figures questioning American democracy and underscore how Republicans disproportionately are "choosing party over the form of government we all rely on."
Methodology: This SurveyMonkey online poll was conducted Feb. 1-2, 2021, among a national sample of 2,691 U.S. adults, including 1,024 who identified as Republican or Republican-leaning.
Respondents for this survey were selected from the more than 2 million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day.
The modeled error estimate for this survey is ±3.0 percentage points for the national sample, and ±4.5 for the sample of Republicans and Republican leaners.
Data have been weighted for age, race, sex, education and geography using the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States age 18 and over.

 
 
 
 
 



There is no GOP but Qanon and anti-democratic nuttery. They are all-in on being a maniacal, fanatical terrier insurgency. If you thought 1/6 was bad, just wait. They’re just getting started.

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On the one hand, if McCarthy has her removed rather than leaving it to a floor vote, Gaetz, MGT, etc. are going to be gunning for him, and they are going to be calling up Donnie non-stop.  It preserves the false unity he claims they have, and it keeps vulnerable Republicans from going on the record, but it means he will be under enormous pressure from a small group of radicals.

On the other hand, it's now going to be a very public record, and we will see if there are any sane Republicans left in the House outside of a handful.  McCarthy will now see in black and white, just where everybody stands.

But the problem for the Republicans, and why McCarthy and Co. should have sidelined her rather than going to a public vote, is that the Democrats will definitely be able to use this in 2022 when going after House Republicans.

And it's going to get people's attention when they hear a Republican was booted off of her committees, and the batshit videos will be all over the place, not to mention the Jewish laser memes.

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I’ve noticed that my reasonable GOP friends on Facebook have gone silent about politics, even the ones that immediately acknowledged trump lost in November. They seem to be treating this gop battle like a bad dream that they hope resolves itself.

these are the types that would 100% defend Liz Cheney in private but don’t want the spotlight of talking about it.

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I’ve noticed that my reasonable GOP friends on Facebook have gone silent about politics, even the ones that immediately acknowledged trump lost in November. They seem to be treating this gop battle like a bad dream that they hope resolves itself.

these are the types that would 100% defend Liz Cheney in private but don’t want the spotlight of talking about it.

I have noticed this with friends and family as well.  None of them are rushing out to defend Ms. Jewish Space Lasers, and in fact, very few of them are even talking politics these days.  I think they really want to put some time and space between themselves and the current GOP shitshow.

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I have noticed this with friends and family as well.  None of them are rushing out to defend Ms. Jewish Space Lasers, and in fact, very few of them are even talking politics these days.  I think they really want to put some time and space between themselves and the current GOP shitshow.

Time? Good luck.

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I have noticed this with friends and family as well.  None of them are rushing out to defend Ms. Jewish Space Lasers, and in fact, very few of them are even talking politics these days.  I think they really want to put some time and space between themselves and the current GOP shitshow.

it's just sticking their fingers in their ears and going la la la la la la la.  gotta keep out disagreeable information so you can continue to agree.

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