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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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Casual racism from the GOP?  You bet.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/03/greg-abbott-rescinds-endorsement-texas-republican-rick-miller/

Oh, and let's be clear....“inappropriate and out of touch with the values of the Republican Party" means "it's a heavily Asian district, so he might lose, and that's the only value the GOP has -- holding on to power."

The GOP is well on its way to losing Ft. Bend County.  That's amazing.

I went to high school there, spent several years off and on there in the 90s.  

Never thought it'd flip, but it went for Hillary in 2016.

https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/Fort_Bend/64723/184359/Web01/en/summary.html

Ft. Bend County is lost for the Republicans. It may take one more cycle, but it's lost.

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To be fair, there are a lot of Asians in Sugar Land.  

Oh, there definitely are (a lot of south Asians in particular).  And while that demographic is generally well-to-do in that area, and thus should be reasonably friendly to moderate economic conservative party politics...the party going all-in on xenophobia means it's poison.  Because a lot of those folks recall well having slurs slung their way (terrorists, etc. -- and yes, I know it's stupid, so do they, that's the point).

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A fundraising letter sent last week by the campaign of George Buck, a Republican running for Congress in St. Petersburg, suggested a member of the House of Representatives and other Democrats should be executed.

The lengthy email dated Nov. 26 repeated an unsupported accusation that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born Democrat representing Minnesota, secretly works for the country of Qatar and should be gravely punished for it.

“We should hang these traitors where they stand,” the email said.

 

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/12/03/we-should-hang-ilhan-omar-florida-congressional-candidate-writes-in-fundraising-letter/

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https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/12/03/we-should-hang-ilhan-omar-florida-congressional-candidate-writes-in-fundraising-letter/

On the one hand, how perfectly on-brand for the party of peace and tolerance.  Classic authoritarian/fascist bullshit.

On the other hand....I mean, if that's how we're gonna roll in this new era....I suggest we build a few guillotines, cuz I got a list....

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp30105492/republicans-give-president-trump-more-power-pew-poll/

43% of republicans support more executive power less checks and balances. Stated another way, 43% of republicans support authoritarian government for our county. Article is esquire but the polling was pew research.

Can I say wow?

What the hell is going on??

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5 hours ago, troph said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp30105492/republicans-give-president-trump-more-power-pew-poll/

43% of republicans support more executive power less checks and balances. Stated another way, 43% of republicans support authoritarian government for our county. Article is esquire but the polling was pew research.

Can I say wow?

What the hell is going on??

A lot of dumb white people were ok with democracy when they were the clear majority but don’t like it so much when they’re not and have all decided to congregate in the nihilistic Republican Party so that hopefully trump will establish apartheid or some sort of dictatorship thus destroying America. 

Argue against that trolls. 

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7 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

A lot of dumb white people were ok with democracy when they were the clear majority but don’t like it so much when they’re not and have all decided to congregate in the nihilistic Republican Party so that hopefully trump will establish apartheid or some sort of dictatorship thus destroying America. 

Argue against that trolls. 

Even for trolls, that's gonna be a tough task.  I mean, they'll yell "NUH-UH!" and "BOTH SIDES," but they won't really put much heart into it.

"Fair play" is fine so long as you have all the 400 lb linemen and two Heisman winners in the backfield.  But as soon as the other guys start getting some talent, well then, you're gonna pay off the refs and hold all day long.  The REAL fucking tragedy?  WE'RE NOT ON OPPOSING TEAMS.  We can all be in this together.  But the current ruling class/race assumes that the next iteration of a power structure is gonna fuck them over as hard as they fucked over the weak when they had absolute power, and that stark fear that maybe everyone else is as shitty as they are drives them to panic.

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Yes.  It had ZERO racist connotation before then.  For example, it was just a coincidence that Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama added elements of the confederate flag to their flags during [checks notes] the rise of Jim Crow and the birth of modern lynching culture.  And another coincidence that Georgia added it in 1956 amid [checks notes again] the Civil Rights struggle.

Nikki Haley can go fuck herself in the ass with a rusty Confederate bayonet. 

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Oh, there definitely are (a lot of south Asians in particular).  And while that demographic is generally well-to-do in that area, and thus should be reasonably friendly to moderate economic conservative party politics...the party going all-in on xenophobia means it's poison.  Because a lot of those folks recall well having slurs slung their way (terrorists, etc. -- and yes, I know it's stupid, so do they, that's the point).

That group, particularly south asian muslims, used to be solidly Republican. There's a convincing argument that solid Muslim support for George Bush is the biggest single reason he beat Gore. 

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Also:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/04/trump-nominee-who-is-anti-ivf-surrogacy-was-deemed-unqualified-she-just-got-confirmed/

 

 

 

 

Pitlyk is also the latest of Trump’s nominees to receive a “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association, which has long reviewed the competence of nominees for the federal bench. In a Sept. 24 letter to lawmakers, William Hubbard, chair of the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, wrote that Pitlyk’s “experience to date has a very substantial gap, namely the absence of any trial or even real litigation experience.” “Ms. Pitlyk has never tried a case as lead or co-counsel, whether civil or criminal,” Hubbard wrote. “She has never examined a witness. Though Ms. Pitlyk has argued one case in a court of appeals, she has not taken a deposition. She has not argued any motion in a state or federal trial court. She has never picked a jury. She has never participated at any stage of a criminal matter.”

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And it gets worse 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/a-new-federal-judge-appointed-by-trump-has-fought-against-abortion-fertility-treatments-and-surrogacy/

 

 

 

 Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to confirm Sarah Pitlyk, who has argued against in vitro fertilization and surrogacy and touted the (debunked) “eugenic origins of the birth control movement,”...

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Things I want from a trial judge: ridiculously extensive knowledge of procedure and the ability to sniff out bullshit. This lady exhibits neither.

 

 

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13 hours ago, troph said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp30105492/republicans-give-president-trump-more-power-pew-poll/

43% of republicans support more executive power less checks and balances. Stated another way, 43% of republicans support authoritarian government for our county. Article is esquire but the polling was pew research.

Can I say wow?

What the hell is going on??

i bet you it was lower than 10% five years ago.

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What did the fine folks running South Carolina think in 1861?

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We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendment of the said Constitution, are here by repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of "The United States of America," is hereby dissolved.

Oh, they wanted to leave the USA.  How unpatriotic. Wonder why they wanted to leave?

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The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due." 

This stipulation was so material to the compact, that without it that compact would not have been made. The greater number of the contracting parties held slaves, and they had previously evinced their estimate of the value of such a stipulation by making it a condition in the Ordinance for the government of the territory ceded by Virginia, which now composes the States north of the Ohio River. 

The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States. 

The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation. 

The ends for which the Constitution was framed are declared by itself to be "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." 

These ends it endeavored to accomplish by a Federal Government, in which each State was recognized as an equal, and had separate control over its own institutions. The right of property in slaves was recognized by giving to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the right to represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twenty years; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor. 

We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.

Oh, they were unhappy that their slaves weren't being returned to them when they escaped.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp30105492/republicans-give-president-trump-more-power-pew-poll/

43% of republicans support more executive power less checks and balances. Stated another way, 43% of republicans support authoritarian government for our county. Article is esquire but the polling was pew research.

Can I say wow?

What the hell is going on??

With current trends going the way they are, the GOP is within a few election cycles of being be completely out of power for a long time to come.  Assuming they don't get their shit together and wise up and change direction.

Or to put it more bluntly: Mitch and Co. give no fucks what happens to the country after they are dead - they are going to try and keep power for as long as their clammy little hands can hold on.

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We're going to see a whole raft of judicial impeachments in the coming decades.  The idiots that keep getting appointed are not up to the task and will self destruct at some point.

I wish. We’ve already got plenty of crazy or dumb judges and nothing happens to them, although they are a definite minority. 

In fact of all the things trump is fucking up and taking a wrecking ball to, the federal judiciary is pretty low on my areas of concerns. This is simply because trump is basically appointing the same type of judges that republicans have been appointing for the last 40 years.

So it’s not like it’s getting a whole lot worse, just more of the same.  The only solution/cure is to have a Democratic President and senate who usually (but not always) appoint better judges. 

Now if trump gets to appoint another Supreme Court Justice that will fuck things up. But that’s not because he’s trump. President pence would be just as bad. 

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Mike Huckabee has filed a bar complaint against a high school classmate of mine who has been making jokes about him on Twitter.

He tweeted his secret service code name should be “beach thief” because Huckabee has been meddling around in beach access issues in Florida and retweeted stuff critical of him.

My friend is an activist in his part time for keeping Florida beaches from being even more overdeveloped and pressuring the state and federal governments to follow through on their promises to clean up the beaches still suffering for over a year after Hurricane Michael.

He had 422 Twitter followers before the story broke that Huckabee was trying to get him censured by the Florida Bar for being mean to him on Twitter.

His follower count 10 hours later?

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He went to Stanford undergrad and Georgetown and UF for law school. Also, Daniel was an up and comer and mover and shaker in the Florida Republican Party - worked for Jeb Bush when he was governor and worked in the Bush White House and for Senator Connie Mack (R-FL).

And denounced the GOP when Trump came along and became an outspoken advocate when DeSantis won.

Y’all give him a follow if you do Twitter - he may need some help in this fight and sticking it to Huckabee is always a worth it.
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I do not believe she is deserving of her own thread, so I am dumping her ish in the Republican Party thread because she follows the playbook. To whom am I referring? Why Trump appointed Administrator, Seema Verma, who oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA or, more accurately, oversees the dismantling of said programs. Already under scrutiny earlier this year for spending over a million dollars using a private public relations firm to bolster her public profile. Critics have accused her practices as not being transparent as well as violating ethics rules.

That was earlier this year; now she is requesting reimbursement to the tune of $47,000 for items that were stolen from her government SUV while she was giving a speech. Ultimately, the Feds reimbursed her for $2,852.40 so thank you unnamed public servant with a conscience. So, too bad about the Ivanka Trump branded pendant (valued at $5300). Since it says your items weren't insured, what were you thinking? That insurance is a luxury so make taxpayers pay for it? Weird that our tax dollars pay for luxury items like health care and you want our dollars to go for ugly trinkets instead.

 

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On 12/4/2019 at 12:16 PM, Brisketexan said:

Casual racism from the GOP?  You bet.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/03/greg-abbott-rescinds-endorsement-texas-republican-rick-miller/

Oh, and let's be clear....“inappropriate and out of touch with the values of the Republican Party" means "it's a heavily Asian district, so he might lose, and that's the only value the GOP has -- holding on to power."

The GOP is well on its way to losing Ft. Bend County.  That's amazing.

Fort bend county is probably the most diverse county in the country.   GOP winning there easily are ending.

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Fort bend county is probably the most diverse county in the country.   GOP winning there easily are ending.

Since I didn't have Texas history growing up, I try and find out more about places as their names come up. Prior to European settlement, it was the home of the Karankawa tribe and eventually became majority African-American due to the cotton plantations and continuing through Reconstruction.

This was from Wiki: "The minority whites struggled to control freedmen and their descendants through violence and intimidation."  Sounds like Abbott is familiar with this play. I hope it doesn't descend into resembling the Jaybird-Woodpecker War, not a bright spot in history:
 

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Fort Bend County was the site of the Jaybird–Woodpecker War in 1888-1889. After a few murders were committed, the political feud culminated in a gun battle at the courthouse on August 16, 1889, when several more people were killed and the Woodpeckers were routed from the county seat.[10]

Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross sent in militia forces and declared martial law. With his support, the Jaybirds ordered a list of certain blacks and Woodpecker officials out of the county, overthrowing the local government. The Jaybirds took over county offices and established a "white-only pre-primary," disenfranchising African Americans from the only competitive contests in the county.[10] This device lasted until 1950, when Willie Melton and Arizona Fleming won a lawsuit against the practice in United States District Court, though it was overturned on appeal. In 1953, they ultimately won their suit when the Jaybird primary was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in Terry v. Adams,[11] the last of the white primary cases.[12]

 

I probably need to find a good Texas history book and read it cover to cover, but my bedside pile is getting pretty tall as it is.

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Rather humorous coming from the man who also said:
 

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“For nine months we’ve asked for documents… and what we’ve found is that subpoenas have been ignored, information has been hidden and the efforts have been stonewalled,” Meadows said on Fox News Wednesday of their effort to “investigate the investigator.”

Sitting next to Meadows during the same Laura Ingraham interview, Jordan added: “We are tired of the Justice Department giving us the finger and not giving us the information we are entitled to to do our congressional duty!”

 

Article was in relation to the Mueller report, and that was Jim Jordan joining Meadows on Fox, but I almost wish Schiff had used little whiteboards like the House GOP did during the Inquiry and used these two quotes.

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