Examples of GOP Leadership

Fogdog

Fogdog

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cannabineer said:
While I agree, the GOP and their base have painted themselves into an ideological, perhaps an existential corner. They’re all in.

“Break” is an apt word. It is becoming less likely imo that the change will be incremental. Something somewhere in the party will have to change catastrophically. It doesn’t have to be everything all at once, and it probably must await that man’s passing from the scene, perhaps from cumulative hamberder toxicity, preferably from incarceration and the cutting of the strings to his puppet leadership.

But watching Republicans thrash at all levels of government suggests to me that the crisis point still is not at hand. When and what that will be — I have no idea.

(add) Holding Ukraine hostage to their politics of division and grievance is especially shameful. It showcases their institutional contempt for democratic government.
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Yeah, I know it's not actually time but it is high time that they realize the abusive relationship has drifted from a few harsh words to a suffocating endurance of threats and increasingly worse trips to the hospital when he completely lets loose. At first they could pass it off as if he didn't really mean to do it and it won't happen again but now, after all that's happened, they simply can't say it was just a joke or a mistake. He really means to hurt them.

I can't say that I was ever close to them but it's getting hard to see them lose their own self esteem over someone that is only going to get worse. So, now he's clearly dragging them down with them. He seems intent to avoid living in the bottom of the pit he's dug himself into by standing on their dead bodies.

I mean, this is downright abusive:


Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
The Republican front-runner slams bipartisan talks in the Senate for a deal as Biden calls for emergency authority to address surging crossings

This could have been a good day for Republican Senators. They could have achieved much that seemed out of reach before now. Trump just told them they can't have nice things.
 
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cannabineer

cannabineer

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Fogdog said:
Yeah, I know it's not actually time but it is high time that they realize the abusive relationship has drifted from a few harsh words to a suffocating endurance of threats and increasingly worse trips to the hospital when he completely lets loose. At first they could pass it off as if he didn't really mean to do it and it won't happen again but now, after all that's happened, they simply can't say it was just a joke or a mistake. He really means to hurt them.

I can't say that I was ever close to them but it's getting hard to see them lose their own self esteem over something that is only going to get worse. So, now he's clearly dragging them down with them. He seems intent to avoid living in the bottom of the pit he's dug himself into by standing on their dead bodies.

I mean, this is downright abusive:


Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
The Republican front-runner slams bipartisan talks in the Senate for a deal as Biden calls for emergency authority to address surging crossings

This could have been a good day for Republican Senators. They could have achieved much that seemed out of reach before now. Trump just told them they can't have nice things.
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I bear witness to these things with (I imagine) a similar horror to yours. I agree that they need to break with his policies of naked hatred. In fact, a healthy party would never have enabled his hunger games in the first place.

So I too conclude that it’ll get worse before it gets better. We live in a time that is more politically adrift than any since the war over slavery. Even 1968 does not compare.

My single driving hope is that we have a republic at the end of it. We can come out stronger once this lawless destructive cycle has bottomed. Those Federalist Society justices won’t be there forever.

And perhaps, more wishfully, we can shatter and dispose of the atavistic idea that this nation is at its core a libertarian capitalistic evangelical etc. patriarchy.
 
Fogdog

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Is anybody surprised by this?


Intro:
Putin interview with Tucker Carlson shows Kremlin outreach to Trump’s GOP

MOSCOW — As Russian state television propagandists salivated over Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Vladimir Putin, the first of Carlson’s falsehoods about his visit to Moscow was punctured, fittingly enough, by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who presumably helped arrange the whole strange venture.

The MAGA slant:
The Kremlin’s decision to allow the interview demonstrated Putin’s interest in building bridges to the disruptive MAGA element of the Republican Party, and it seemed to reflect the Kremlin’s hope that Donald Trump would return to the presidency and that Republicans would continue to block U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Halting aid from the United States, which is Ukraine’s biggest Western supporter, could provide Russia with a path to victory in the nearly two-year war. Although the war is largely at a stalemate, Ukraine is facing critical shortages of soldiers, ammunition and weapons as it battles a much larger and better-equipped Russian force.

Putin portrays himself as a guardian of traditional conservative values, showing common cause with MAGA conservatives, who have opposed gender-neutral bathrooms. Putin has made repeated, derisive references about the West’s promotion of transgender rights.

So, there it is. Putin and MAGA agree on gender neutral bathrooms and so, the GOP is cutting aid to Ukraine. Yeah, right. Never mind that Russia has deep pockets and close ties to Trump, the GOP and other right wing political organizations. No, it's family values that brings them together. And in the darkness bind them.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Fogdog said:
Is anybody surprised by this?


Intro:
Putin interview with Tucker Carlson shows Kremlin outreach to Trump’s GOP

MOSCOW — As Russian state television propagandists salivated over Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Vladimir Putin, the first of Carlson’s falsehoods about his visit to Moscow was punctured, fittingly enough, by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who presumably helped arrange the whole strange venture.

The MAGA slant:
The Kremlin’s decision to allow the interview demonstrated Putin’s interest in building bridges to the disruptive MAGA element of the Republican Party, and it seemed to reflect the Kremlin’s hope that Donald Trump would return to the presidency and that Republicans would continue to block U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Halting aid from the United States, which is Ukraine’s biggest Western supporter, could provide Russia with a path to victory in the nearly two-year war. Although the war is largely at a stalemate, Ukraine is facing critical shortages of soldiers, ammunition and weapons as it battles a much larger and better-equipped Russian force.

Putin portrays himself as a guardian of traditional conservative values, showing common cause with MAGA conservatives, who have opposed gender-neutral bathrooms. Putin has made repeated, derisive references about the West’s promotion of transgender rights.

So, there it is. Putin and MAGA agree on gender neutral bathrooms and so, the GOP is cutting aid to Ukraine. Yeah, right. Never mind that Russia has deep pockets and close ties to Trump, the GOP and other right wing political organizations. No, it's family values that brings them together. And in the darkness bind them.
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It's why the EU might sanction him as aiding a war criminal, no European vacations for Tucker and no polite company either. Europe is at war, or preparing themselves for it and this idiot managed to get himself caught in the crossfire. There are rumors he might be Trump's VP pick and if that is the case he needs to be vetted by Vlad personally, they are in a dire situation and it's all fascists on deck! :lol:
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Looks like someone got thrown under the bus......

BREAKING: Trumper Congressman Matt Gaetz is hit with devastating legal news as the The New York Times drops a major bombshell about his underage sex scandal investigation.

Gaetz thought that he was out of the woods and now he's right back in the thick of it...

According to the new reports, the House Ethics Committee is taking a major step towards reviving its inquiry into Gaetz's alleged sex trafficking of minors.

The Justice Department conducted an investigation and ultimately decided not to file charges — but that doesn't mean that Gaetz is innocent, only that the DOJ's case wasn't strong enough yet.

Now, a lawyer for the chief witness against Gaetz has revealed that the witness is cooperating with the House Ethics committee's investigation into whether the MAGA congressman had sex with an underage girl while serving in Congress.

Fritz Scheller, the attorney in question, represents Gaet'z former friend, political ally, and alleged perverted wingman Joel Greenberg. Scheller said that he has provided documents to the committee related to Greenberg's allegation that he witnessed Gaetz have sex with a 17-year-old child.

"Mr. Greenberg has and will cooperate with any congressional request," said Scheller.

Greenberg pleaded guilty in 2021 to sex trafficking and is serving an 11-year prison sentence. The fact that Gaetz willingly and gleefully associated with such a monster for so long tells you everything that you need to know about Gaetz — and where there's smoke there's fire.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1756028382742274351
 
printer

printer

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Shame the GOP members in the House only do what is right when they have nothing to loose. Shame it will go maga.

Wisconsin Rep. Gallagher will not seek reelection
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) announced Saturday that he will not seek reelection this fall after four terms in office.

Gallagher, the chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, released a statement via social media where he said when he ran for office eight years ago, he “promised to treat my time in office as a high-intensity deployment.

He served seven years in the U.S. Marines before running for Congress. Gallagher said through his time on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committee, he has “accomplished more on this deployment than I could have ever imagined.”

“But the Framers intended citizens to serve in Congress for a season and then return to their private lives. Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old,” his statement said. “And so, with a heavy heart, I have decided not to run for re-election.”

Gallagher was one of three Republican members in the House who went against their party this week, voting against the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and tanking the bill. He refused to reveal his stance against the impeachment all day but ultimately cast his vote against the effort on Tuesday.

On the House floor, top GOP lawmakers swarmed the Wisconsin lawmaker in what appeared to be an effort to convince him to change his vote. In an op-ed, he argued that impeaching Mayorkas would have “opened Pandora’s box.”

A day later, a GOP consultant, Alex Bruesewitz, who is aligned with former President Trump, weighed running against Gallagher for Wisconsin’s 8th District. A source confirmed to The Hill that Bruesewitz had “a ton” of interest from members of Congress and the “Trump orbit” about challenging Gallagher after he voted against the Mayorkas impeachment.

In his statement, Gallagher thanked “the good people of Northeast Wisconsin for the honor of a lifetime.” He said the four terms he served in Congress strengthened his conviction that “America is the greatest country in the history of the world.”

“And though my title may change, my mission will always remain the same: deter America’s enemies and defend the Constitution,” he concluded.

Gallagher joins a growing list of GOP and Democratic members in the House who are not seeking reelection. According to Cook Political Report, his district is a solidly Republican district.
thehill.com/homenews/house/4460632-wisconsin-rep-gallagher-will-not-seek-reelection/
 
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