What happens to the Republican Party now? (2 Viewers)

superchuck500 said:

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fooferdoggie said:

I can see where they are coming from but they as a church dont deal with it either. the whole protecting the children but when the church or your members abuse children and are allowed to get away with it you cant claim you protect the children. This is why people are leaving the churches because religion is is more important then the people. protect the church screw the people. often literally.

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i get its a slippery slope, but these GOP guys love to throw out their "save the children at all costs" but then they slip in the "except when"...

superchuck500 said:

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This dude must not know who the teamsters are.. I hope one of them catches him in a parking lot and shows him...

superchuck500 said:

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O'Brien should have just stood up and started walking towards him.. the senator was the one who challenged him, he was just taking up the offer.

Ah, now I get it. “There are those who think little of him . . . “

superchuck500 said:

Ah, now I get it. “There are those who think little of him . . . “

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Small man syndrome is a real thing yo.

Am I the only one who loves that Sean O'Brien's Twitter handle is his initials... @TeamsterSOB

superchuck500 said:

Ah, now I get it. “There are those who think little of him . . . “

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needs some of those DeSantis lifts

But you can certainly call them in your office for a dressing down afterwards right? "Get your shirt together Senator!"
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he doesn’t view it as his “responsibility” to police the behavior of other Republicans, especially aggressive physical behavior, acknowledging it’s “very difficult to control the behavior of everybody who’s in the building.”

McConnell said he was not aware of two incidents from earlier in the day in which Republican lawmakers made headlines for acting aggressively.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) had to be verbally restrained by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) from getting into a fight with the president of the Teamsters during a heated committee hearing.

And Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) accused former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of giving him a kidney shot by elbowing him in the back while he was talking to reporters.

“It’s very difficult to control the behavior of everybody who’s in the building. I don’t view that as my responsibility. That’s something the Capitol Police will have to deal with,” McConnell told reporters..............

Optimus Prime said:

But you can certainly call them in your office for a dressing down afterwards right? "Get your shirt together Senator!"
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he doesn’t view it as his “responsibility” to police the behavior of other Republicans, especially aggressive physical behavior, acknowledging it’s “very difficult to control the behavior of everybody who’s in the building.”

McConnell said he was not aware of two incidents from earlier in the day in which Republican lawmakers made headlines for acting aggressively.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) had to be verbally restrained by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) from getting into a fight with the president of the Teamsters during a heated committee hearing.

And Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) accused former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of giving him a kidney shot by elbowing him in the back while he was talking to reporters.

“It’s very difficult to control the behavior of everybody who’s in the building. I don’t view that as my responsibility. That’s something the Capitol Police will have to deal with,” McConnell told reporters..............

MSN

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Bull shirt, it’s only difficult when your party has been filled by Congressional arse Hats sent to DC by the want their cake and eat it too Dispicables back home.

A Republican senator said his constituents would've been 'pretty upset' with him if he hadn't attempted to fight a labor leader during a congressional hearing.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who's represented Oklahoma in the Senate since 2023, made the comments in a Tuesday evening appearance on Fox News.

Earlier in the day, during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing titled "Standing Up Against Corporate Greed; How Unions are Improving the Lives of Working Families," Mullin got into an argument with the president of the Teamsters, Sean O'Brien.

After a brief back-and-forth, Mullin challenged O'Brien to a fight and proceeded to stand up and adjust the ring on his hand before Sen. Bernie Sanders quelled the commotion.

Hours after the brouhaha, Fox News host Sean Hannity fanned the flames even more.

"I think any other response would've been gutless," Hannity mentioned to Mullin, who agreed.

"I mean, what do people want me to do?" Mullin answered. "If I didn't do that, people in Oklahoma would be pretty upset with me."

For a brief period of time before he joined Congress, Mullin actually competed in mixed martial arts events, compiling a record of three wins and zero losses.........

LOL.

As promised, Ohio’s Republican leadership is stepping up its efforts to alter the successful cannabis legalization initiative that passed on November 7 by a comfortable margin.

President of the Ohio Senate Matt Huffman (R) said he is in agreement with Gov. Mike DeWine (R) that lawmakers should quickly revise the approved initiative before cannabis possession and cultivation become legal on December 7. DeWine is urging lawmakers to make changes before it's too late.

“If we wait and blow by that date, some of that stuff is going to start, and then how do you put the genie back in the bottle?” DeWine asked.

With the deadline looming, Huffman also expressed a sense of urgency.

"It's kind of all hands on deck here," he told reporters in Ohio.

Though DeWine has been giving lip service to respecting voters’ wishes, it seems he and his colleagues are already discussing moving cannabis sales tax from support for social equity programs to local law enforcement, among other changes they're mulling over.

While the Republican leadership picks and chooses what they want to alter in the legalization initiative, they’re leaving out the 57% of Ohioans who voted for it, says state Rep. Casey Weinstein (D).

“It’s a slap in the face to Ohio voters,” Weinstein said. “What I really don’t like and that I see a lot at the Statehouse is decisions being made behind closed doors. Well, Ohio voters have earned a seat at the table.”

Weinstein says there may be room for some changes in the law, but he doesn’t trust the Republicans to discuss them outside of their own circles.

In fact, he doesn’t trust the GOP not to completely change the approved initiative. “I fear that could happen now, especially given the rushed timeline that the governor has put on the legislature here.”...............

Optimus Prime said:

As promised, Ohio’s Republican leadership is stepping up its efforts to alter the successful cannabis legalization initiative that passed on November 7 by a comfortable margin.

President of the Ohio Senate Matt Huffman (R) said he is in agreement with Gov. Mike DeWine (R) that lawmakers should quickly revise the approved initiative before cannabis possession and cultivation become legal on December 7. DeWine is urging lawmakers to make changes before it's too late.

“If we wait and blow by that date, some of that stuff is going to start, and then how do you put the genie back in the bottle?” DeWine asked.

With the deadline looming, Huffman also expressed a sense of urgency.

"It's kind of all hands on deck here," he told reporters in Ohio.

Though DeWine has been giving lip service to respecting voters’ wishes, it seems he and his colleagues are already discussing moving cannabis sales tax from support for social equity programs to local law enforcement, among other changes they're mulling over.

While the Republican leadership picks and chooses what they want to alter in the legalization initiative, they’re leaving out the 57% of Ohioans who voted for it, says state Rep. Casey Weinstein (D).

“It’s a slap in the face to Ohio voters,” Weinstein said. “What I really don’t like and that I see a lot at the Statehouse is decisions being made behind closed doors. Well, Ohio voters have earned a seat at the table.”

Weinstein says there may be room for some changes in the law, but he doesn’t trust the Republicans to discuss them outside of their own circles.

In fact, he doesn’t trust the GOP not to completely change the approved initiative. “I fear that could happen now, especially given the rushed timeline that the governor has put on the legislature here.”...............

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>Though DeWine has been giving lip service to respecting voters’ wishes, it seems he and his colleagues are already discussing moving cannabis sales tax from support for social equity programs to local law enforcement, among other changes they're mulling over.

Thes arse Hats can never get anything right…

Huntn said:

>Though DeWine has been giving lip service to respecting voters’ wishes, it seems he and his colleagues are already discussing moving cannabis sales tax from support for social equity programs to local law enforcement, among other changes they're mulling over.

Thes arse Hats can never get anything right…

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Yay! My state showing it hasn’t given up on becoming Alabama. Yeesh.

DES MOINES — Donald Trump was conspicuously absent at a conservative Christian forum here, where his long-shot rivals for the Republican presidential nomination were asked how they could be role models from the White House. The host brought up Trump’s insulting nicknames: “How do we raise the bar?” he asked.


The next day, Trump swooped into Iowa for his own event — where he lobbed insults, made crude references and casually tossed out baseless and false claims designed to belittle his opponents and critics in vicious terms. Children wandered around in shirts and hats with the letters “FJB,” an abbreviation for an obscene jab at President Biden that other merchandise spelled out: “F--- Biden.”


During his speech inside a high school gym in Fort Dodge, former president Trump called one GOP rival a “son of a b----,” referred to another as “birdbrain” and had the crowd shrieking with laughter at his comments on Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), who he called “pencil neck” before asking, “How does he hold up that fat, ugly face?”

He brought the house down while mocking Biden, at one point baselessly suggesting Biden is using drugs and can’t get offstage “by the time whatever it is he’s taken wears off.”


One of Trump’s introductory speakers from the Iowa state legislature declared anyone who kneels for the national anthem is a “disrespectful little s---,” quickly drawing a roaring response.

And outside the packed venue, vulgar slogans about Biden and Vice President Harris were splashed across T-shirts: “Biden Loves Minors.” “Joe and the Ho Gotta Go!” One referred to Biden and Harris performing sexual acts.

Trump’s coarseness and cruelty have come to define the Republican Party since his rise to the presidency — and many GOP voters relish and emulate the approach, while others tolerate it.

The split-screen on display in Iowa on Friday and Saturday highlighted one of the defining dynamics in the Republican race, in which Trump is the dominant polling leader overshadowing a roster of candidates running more traditional campaigns.


Offered the chance to support other presidential hopefuls who champion similar agenda to Trump in a less abrasive package, Republicans are for now sticking with the former president — underscoring how his personality and shattering of behavioral norms have long been a major part of his appeal.

Conservative evangelicals influential in Iowa — the first state in the GOP nominating calendar — have previously set aside some distaste for Trump’s personal behavior as he took up their causes, including appointing antiabortion judges to the Supreme Court, and next year’s caucuses will test whether anything has shifted.


Trump’s rhetoric has alienated voters across the political spectrum and made him a particularly galvanizing opponent for Democrats.

Within the GOP, however, it has spread, with others down the ballot and even some of his rivals looking to replicate his shock tactics. Saturday afternoon’s event in Fort Dodge served as a stark illustration of the crudeness, meanness and unfounded accusations that he has helped normalize in politics.


T-shirts on sale at the event neatly summed up that appeal with images of Trump giving a middle finger. “Even my dog hates Biden!” one of the merchants yelled each time someone walked up to look…….

Optimus Prime said:

T-shirts on sale at the event neatly summed up that appeal with images of Trump giving a middle finger. “Even my dog hates Biden!” one of the merchants yelled each time someone walked up to look…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/11/19/donald-trump-insults-vulgarities-republicans/

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I've never seen someone so proud to equate their critical thinking skills to those of a dog.