Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[donquixote99]

I don't think even the 13th Amendment is safe. Not originalist, and a bunch of states were prevented from voting on it....

[Chicks]

Missouri FOP revokes endorsement of Republican whose children say he abused them

https://missouriindependent.com/2020...used-of-abuse/

Just your typical Repube pol...

[bobabode]

"Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York filed a testy memo opposing an attempt by non-parties We Build the Wall and its general counsel-cum-advisory board member Kris Kobach to intervene in the criminal fraud case against Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage. Prosecutors said Tuesday that the We Build the Wall-Kobach request to get involved in the criminal matter was legally baseless and would “seriously jeopardize” an ongoing investigation that may also implicate other people and entities."
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile...be-implicated/

Baldfaced crooks.

[RickeyM]

It seems nobody loves you when you're down. Lindsey Graham constantly begging for money, Faux News had enough. If he loses his reelection bid I expect Miss Lindsey, about three seconds after it's called, to beg tRump to investigate "obvious" fraud.

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Vermont Secretary of State’s Office @VermontSOS

Justice Kavanaugh is incorrect about VT here while upending WI voting one week from the election. We held to an election day ballot receipt deadline because of the other changes we made - all voters had a ballot & prepaid return envelope in hand 30 DAYS before the election.

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Tierney Sneed @Tierney_Megan

Wrong! Vermont has made a major change: it’s mailing everyone a ballot! There’s almost no risk of someone receiving a ballot when it’s too late to mail it in, as is the case in Wisconsin.

https://twitter.com/srl/status/1320914198378020864
https://twitter.com/VermontSOS/statu...20521421324289

11:08 AM · Oct 27, 2020·Twitter Web App

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So, the drunken frat boy thinks it's OK to lie in his SCOTUS opinions, too, just like he lied during his confirmation. So much for a non-politicized SCOTUS.

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Vermont Secretary of State’s Office @VermontSOS

We have formally requested that #SCOTUS correct the erroneous claim by Justice Kavanaugh that #VT has not changed voting procedures for the #2020Elections due to #COVID19. When it comes to issuing decisions on the voting rights of American citizens, facts matter.

1:22 PM · Oct 28, 2020·Twitter Web App

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How will the drunken frat boy respond? He's clearly wrong here.

[Chicks]

Time is up for the racist know-nothingism of the GOP
By Jennifer Rubin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...othingism-gop/

Time has been ticking for the political dominance of resentful, mostly rural and mostly male Whites. Before the Clinton era, these voters — once the Dixiecrats of the Jim Crow era — enjoyed a strange alliance with Big Business (joined in common antagonism toward the federal government) and anti-communists (who celebrated military valor pitted against godless communism). That coalition fell apart with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the growth of income inequality, in which the interests of corporations and the rich diverged from the struggling working class.

The obscure conspiracy theories from Trump and the right-wing media now only provoke eye-rolling. The public will no longer tolerate the ludicrous lies that Republicans must rely upon to sustain power (e.g., covid-19 has been conquered, Blacks are coming to destroy the suburbs).

The upside-down world of the MAGA crowd cannot right itself. Covid-19 is real. Systemic racism is real. Economic suffering is real. Trump is unfit for the presidency. It’s the Republican Party and its media handmaidens who are fake. Their time is up.

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Raffi Melkonian @RMFifthCircuit

Related to @DavidAFrench's observations today, these are all (meritless) lawsuits filed by either the Texas Republican Party or Republican activists or candidates to prevent Texans from voting. As someone who has voted many times for Texas republicans, I am not amused.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Elg1ru0W...ng&name=medium

10:25 AM · Oct 29, 2020·Twitter Web App

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...because they can't win by playing fair...

[Chicks]

Newly Released Emails May Reveal Why Susan Collins Dropped Her Own Amendment to Trump’s Tax Bill

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile...umps-tax-bill/

The day before lawmakers voted on President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax bill in 2017, Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine offered an amendment that would have closed the carried interest tax loophole favored by private equity firms and hedge funds to pay for a refundable credit for child care. The following day, however, Collins mysteriously dropped her support for the amendment and voted in favor of the bill. A Thursday report from ProPublica and Politico shed further light on Collins’ swift change of heart and how she’s currently the top recipient of donations from the private equity industry.

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