What happens to the Republican Party now? (16 Viewers)

Optimus Prime said:

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The debate over the meaning of free speech took another turn recently when a federal judge announced that he would no longer take clerks who had graduated from the Yale Law School, which is down the street from where I’m writing this in New Haven.

US Circuit Judge James Ho told Reuters that Yale Law “not only tolerates the cancelation of views — it actively practices it.” He added: "I don’t want to cancel Yale. I want Yale to stop canceling people like me."

At least one other federal judge heard Ho’s call to join him. In a statement to National Review, a “conservative” magazine, Federal Appeals Court Judge Elizabeth Branch said she would follow suit.

"Like Judge Ho, I am gravely concerned that the stifling of debate not only is antithetical to this country’s founding principles, but also stunts intellectual growth,” Judge Branch said last week. “Accordingly, I accept Judge Ho’s invitation to join him in declining to consider students from Yale Law School for clerkships with me.”

According to Fox pundit Leo Terrell, boycotting Yale Law grads is the right thing to do, because clerks should remain nonpartisan. “You cannot have law clerks who are going to serve as members of the federal court system canceling half this country's viewpoint," he said.

The fundamental requirement for any law clerk is to be fair and to allow a marketplace of ideas. What these law clerks, these students at Yale want to do, they want to indoctrinate Americans from the federal court system and basically use it as a propaganda tool. You cannot cancel half of this country simply because you do not like their viewpoint.

There’s a lot going on here. For one thing, we’re told that “cancel culture” is bad — except, apparently, when it’s the right people doing the canceling and the right people being canceled.

That’s the only way to understand “conservative” judges thinking that canceling Yale Law grads is not the same thing they accuse Yale Law of doing.

Evidently:

When they cancel people, it’s a moral crime.

When we cancel people, it’s righteous action...........

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The irony is overwhelming when a guy like Ho claims he acts impartially. Most of his opinions read like something from a Rush Limbaugh screed.

How do they not see the obvious hypocrisy?

MT15 said:

How do they not see the obvious hypocrisy?

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When your whole worldview is "own the libs" as long as whatever you're doing does that, there is no such thing as hypocrisy

This is why the traumatization of its own base is so critical: It conditions them to accept these illiberal arrangements as just, by making them susceptible to the belief that the revocation of democracy is the beginning of liberty. Unhealed political traumatization blurs that line between fact and fantasy; democracy and tyranny.

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Yep

How is this even legal?
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Governor Ron DeSantis has made voting easier in certain Florida counties battered by Hurricane Ian – but only Republican-leaning ones.

DeSantis signed an executive order on Thursday that eases voting rules for about 1 million voters in Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties, all areas that Hurricane Ian hit hard and that all reliably vote Republican.

Meanwhile, Orange county, a Democratic-leaning area which experienced historic flooding from the storm, received no voting exceptions, reported the Washington Post.

The accommodations include extended early voting days and the ability for voters to send mail-in ballots from addresses not listed in voting records.

Voting rights groups had previously asked the governor to extend the statewide voting registration deadline, which ended on Tuesday, and to add more early voting days, as well as implement other accommodations.

DeSantis complied – but only for the three Republican counties.

“Tens of thousands of Floridians have been displaced, and today’s executive order fails to meet the moment and ensure voting access for all Florida voters,” said Jasmine Burney-Clark, founder of voter rights organization Equal Ground, in a statement. “Instead, Governor DeSantis is politicizing a natural disaster.”…….

They aren't trying to hide it anymore, so they may as well just throw it in everyone's face.

whatever else DeSantis is, he‘s not subtle. Personally, I don’t think he’s very smart - but I understand he has elite credentials. He doesn’t act like a serious person, so to me his education was wasted.

True.

I’ve never seen a major political party so lost, so willing to embrace pure fantasy. Rs need to be voted out up and down the ballot, until they can inhabit the real world again.

CNN Business) - Kanye West is acquiring Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by many conservatives.

Parler's parent company announced the deal on Monday morning, saying West had made "a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again."……

Today's GOP is beyond redemption. They've sullied themselves by tying themselves to trump, jettisoning any principles or ethics, embracing hypocrisy with breathtaking ease. It needs to be completely eradicated, and a new conservative movement started.

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CNN) - The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service "exorbitant rates" -- upwards of $1.4 million over four years -- to protect the former President and his family at properties they owned, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

The committee found that the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service "excessive nightly rates on dozens of trips" as high as $1,185 per night despite claims by the former President's company that federal employees traveling with him would stay at those properties "for free" or "at cost."……

The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene (Published 2022)

What the rise of the far-right congresswoman means for the House, the G.O.P. and the nation.

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The Problem of
Marjorie Taylor Greene

What the rise of the far-right congresswoman means for the House, the G.O.P. and the nation.

By Robert Draper

• Oct. 17, 2022Updated 12:03 p.m. ET

“There’s going to be a lot of investigations,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said, describing what she anticipates if the Republicans regain the House majority this November. “I’ve talked with a lot of members about this.”

It was early September, two months before the midterm elections,and Greene, the first-term congresswoman from Georgia, was sitting in a restaurant in Alpharetta, an affluent suburb of greater metropolitan Atlanta. Among the fellow Republicans with whom Greene said she had been speaking about these investigations was the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy. Just a couple of weeks later, on Sept. 23, Greene sat directly behind McCarthy in a manufacturing facility in Monongahela, Pa., as he publicly previewed what a House Republican majority’s legislative agenda would look like. Among the topics she and her colleagues have discussed is the prospect of impeaching President Joe Biden, a pursuit Greene has advocated literally since the day after Biden took office, when she filed articles of impeachment accusing Obama’s vice president of having abused his power to benefit his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine. “My style would be a lot more aggressive, of course,” she told me, referring to McCarthy. “For him, I think the evidence needs to be there. But I think people underestimate him, in thinking he wouldn’t do it.”

This article is adapted from “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind,” published this month by Penguin Press.

In Greene’s view, a Speaker McCarthy would have little choice but to adopt Greene’s “a lot more aggressive” approach toward punishing Biden and his fellow Democrats for what she sees as their policy derelictions and for conducting a “witch hunt” against former President Trump. “I think that to be the best speaker of the House and to please the base, he’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway,” she predicted in a flat, unemotional voice. “And if he doesn’t, they’re going to be very unhappy about it. I think that’s the best way to read that. And that’s not in any way a threat at all. I just think that’s reality.”

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CNN) - The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service "exorbitant rates" -- upwards of $1.4 million over four years -- to protect the former President and his family at properties they owned, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

The committee found that the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service "excessive nightly rates on dozens of trips" as high as $1,185 per night despite claims by the former President's company that federal employees traveling with him would stay at those properties "for free" or "at cost."……

Trump's company charged Secret Service 'exorbitant' hotel rates to protect the first family, House committee report says | CNN Politics

The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service "exorbitant rates" -- upwards of $1.4 million over four years -- to protect the former President and his family at properties they owned, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

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Funny how the same ones who will defend this were the ones yelling when Obama visited Africa and were yelling about how much Michelles hair styling was..lol

This is how majority of the Rs feel, but she just said it out loud... SMDH

Bigdaddysaints said:

This is how majority of the Rs feel, but she just said it out loud... SMDH

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I was "shocked" to find out that Candace Owens has a white husband.

samiam5211 said:

I was "shocked" to find out that Candace Owens has a white husband.

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He runs a hedge fund and comes from English elite. He actually was head of UKs Turning Point at one point.

And the best part is im almost certain he is aligned with Parler. ( CEO or CFO and i think his hedge fund may have invested )

Money doesnt travel far outside the inner circle for many Republicans. It just kinda "switches hands"

Bigdaddysaints said:

This is how majority of the Rs feel, but she just said it out loud... SMDH

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Well we know what genre of pron she likes to view.

I find it FASCINATING that the conservative, old guard Rs have embraced the likes of Kanye, Candace and Walker, when 10 years ago, they would have been shunned.

How crazy would it be if these ( and other influential African Americans ) are actually infiltrating the R party, with something else in mind in the long game?