What happens to the Republican Party now? (1 Viewer)

[MT15]

This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?

 

[Optimus Prime]

these people must be a real joy to be around at Halloween

 

[Optimus Prime]

So are we going to just collectively blow off a terror attack on our soil that killed power for 40,000 people?
I mean, I heard one media source call it vandalism ffs.
Vandalism is spray painting a dick on the water tower, shooting out a substation is terrorism.

FBI agents said they thwarted a plan by a neo-Nazi and his girlfriend to take out Maryland's power grid after the couple blabbed to an informant in an online chat room.

The Department of Justice filed charges in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on Monday against Sarah Beth Clendaniel and Brandon Clint Russell. Clendaniel and Russel were charged with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility.

"This alleged planned attack threatened lives and would have left thousands of Marylanders in the cold and dark," Maryland US Attorney Erek L. Barron said in a press release shared with Insider. "We are united and committed to using every legal means necessary to disrupt violence, including hate-fueled attacks."

In a probable cause affidavit, the FBI detailed the accusations against Clendaniel and Russell and alleged that the couple planned an attack on an "encrypted communication application."

Russell, who the FBI said admitted to subscribing to Nazi beliefs during an interview, "made statements in direct messages to [an FBI informant] throughout much of 2022 regarding conducting critical infrastructure attacks, including statements about sniper attacks against substations, and how conducting a small number of attacks on electrical substations could cause a 'cascading failure,'" the affidavit said.

"The threat posed by domestic violent extremists is evolving and persistent," FBI Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Sobocinski said.

The FBI alleges that starting in September of last year, Russell encouraged the informant to plot their own infrastructure attack before including the informant in his planned attack on the Maryland electrical grid.

Russell told the informant he "wanted to 'maximize impact' and '[w]ould love to coordinate to get multiple [substations] at the same time,'" the FBI alleges in the affidavit.

The FBI alleges that Clendaniel was brought in on the plan in January 2023, telling the informant she wanted to "accomplish something worthwhile" before her death. Clendaniel said the plot would be "legendary" if they pulled it off, the FBI alleges in the affidavit..............

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

article doesn't say specifically but I have a pretty good idea of how the comments went
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COVENTRY — A new restaurant in town is stirring controversy with its ambiguous name.

When owner Carmen Quiroga opened Woke Breakfast & Coffee on Main Street recently, she meant to convey, "Wake up and have a coffee," she said. The immigrant to the U.S. from Mexico said she had no idea about conservatives' use of the word as a slam on liberal overreach.

"I'm a Mexican," Quiroga said. "I don't know anything about what 'woke' means to some people."

Residents, however, say divisions over the name have been heated.

"Just a word of warning, anymore ridiculous comments about the name of the new breakfast place in town will be deleted," the administrator of The Coventry CT Citizen's Open Forum on Facebook wrote Thursday.

"If you are that close-minded that you can't grasp that the name is referring to the fact that it is a breakfast establishment and nothing more, then just keep that to yourself and move on," administrator Tonya Landrie Ohlund wrote. "It's disgusting to read that residents are going to refuse to support a business that is trying to grow in our awesome little town because you don't like what they've named it, without even knowing anything about how they chose that name. Just stop."

Patrons who filled every table in the restaurant Friday morning said they cared nothing about the name as long as the food and service was good. Leslie Poirier, a town resident who was waiting to be seated, said some residents declared they would boycott the restaurant because of the name, which she called "crap."

"I think they should hang a sign that says, 'Idiot-free zone,' " Poirier said.

Paul Carter of Coventry, who was seated alone at a small table, also dismissed the critics, saying the name is clearly meant to convey "breakfast." The restaurant's logo, Carter noted, uses a sunny side up egg for the "O."..................

Woke restaurant in CT stirring up controversy

A new restaurant in Coventry, Woke Breakfast & Coffee, is stirring controversy with its ambiguous name.

www.ctinsider.com

The flip side. Curious what their Yelp and Facebook comments are like

 

[MT15]

How are so many Rs just crazy?

 

[GrandAdmiral]

How are so many Rs just crazy?

Hell, put some horns on his forehead and he looks like... you know...

 

[coldseat]

How are so many Rs just crazy?

"His friends" belief about the doctrine/methodology of Democrats/Satanist killing Republicans makes no sense at all. If Democrats where aligned with Satanist to kill Republicans, why would they care about "moral responsibility"? Critical Thinking doesn't even pop it's head up in a room like that. I bet not a one of them even thought about that contradiction.

 

[Optimus Prime]

While Americans looked to the skies for a glimpse of the infamous Chinese spy balloon, a Mississippi state senator joined many of the millions who couldn't see it and took to Twitter.

He is now facing accusations of racism after his tweet about the now-popped balloon received more than a million views and thousands of replies, some from prominent figures.

Sen. Joel R. Carter, R-Gulfport, shared a photo of a weather balloon on Saturday morning, with drawn-on red text that seemed to mock a stereotypical Asian-American accent. The image text on the balloon says, "Weather Barroon" and "Totary NOT For Spying."

The replies came in fast, and Carter was quickly "ratioed," a term used by Twitter users when replies to a post get more likes than the post itself, often indicating that the original post was not widely agreed with or well-received. As of 12:30 p.m. Monday, the tweet had 326 likes, but more than 2,600 replies.

"Does the "R." in your name stand for "Racist"?" reads a reply from MSNBC host Katie Phang, which received more than 4,300 likes.

"I get it, it’s funny because it’s so pathetically racist," read another from historian Kevin Kruse, which received more than 4,500.

Carter also initially posted the image on Facebook, though it is no longer visible on that platform.............

Chinese spy balloon tweet from MS state senator goes viral, leads to accusations of racism

Sen. Joel Carter is facing criticism after a viral tweet about the Chinese spy balloon that seemed to mock a stereotypical Asian American accent.

www.clarionledger.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele called out Fox News host Tucker Carlson for an on-air meltdown over President Joe Biden’s selection of judges.

Specifically, Carlson seems to think Biden isn’t appointing enough white men.

“Out of 97 federal judges confirmed under Joe Biden, total number of white men: Five,” he griped on Monday night. “Twenty-two are Black women, so this is race-based hiring. It’s illegal!”

The federal judiciary is overwhelmingly white and male. The American Bar Association said last year that 70 percent of all sitting Article III federal judges are male while 78 percent are white. In addition, the organization said 16 states have no federal trial judges of color at all.

The problem only got worse under Donald Trump, who appointed the smallest share of nonwhite judges in more than 25 years (with no complaint from Carlson).

Steele was blunt in pointing that out on Twitter:...

The clip was part of a larger rant where Carlson complained “no administration has ever looked less like America... than the Biden administration” and said the administration was “discriminating against certain classes of people who don’t vote for them.” .........

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[MT15]

Tucker just flat out tells on his racist arse all the damn time.

 

[Optimus Prime]

On Monday, the official GOP Twitter account posted a picture of a swath of farmland from an aerial view and included the caption, "Wait until the coastal elites find out that this is where their food comes from!"

The tweet was clearly meant to be a jab at hypothetical wealthy Democrats who look down on rural farmers, despite the fact that those farmers produce a majority of the nation's food. There's only one problem with the tweet: The land in the picture appears to be in California, the home of many so-called "coastal elites." Moreover, it appears to be an area that elected a Democratic congressman...........

"All you had to do was find a picture of farmland in the Midwest and you somehow screwed that up. Amazing," historian and author Kevin Kruse said.

Clara Jeffrey, the editor-in-chief of the progressive magazine Mother Jones, also mocked the post, pointing out that California is actually a leading producer of some of the nation's agricultural goods. (She did, however, identify the land in the photo as Fairfield, California, though it's actually Manteca, about 70 miles southeast.)

"Bow down to CA's food production," she tweeted. "With 4% of nation's farms, we produce 13% of all ag products, 1/3 of all veggies, 2/3 of nation's fruit and nuts, 81% of wine..."............

Calif. Dem bluntly responds to GOP's wrong 'coastal elites' tweet

The official GOP Twitter account made a post mocking "coastal elites." It backfired spectacularly.

www.sfgate.com

 

[Eeyore]

Iowa state congressman Jason Schultz, Republican, has filed a bill that would allow children as young as 14 to work in mines and other industry as well as serve alcohol. The bill provides for a special driver's license for 14.5 year olds to drive themselves to work.

The bill absolves the employers of guilt due to negligence on their part should the children be injured.

The good and the bad of Iowa's bill that would bring big changes to child labor laws

The bill would maintain a list of banned jobs currently banned for teens 14-17, but would allow sweeping exemptions for training programs

www.desmoinesregister.com

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Iowa state congressman Jason Schultz, Republican, has filed a bill that would allow children as young as 14 to work in mines and other industry as well as serve alcohol. The bill provides for a special driver's license for 14.5 year olds to drive themselves to work.

The bill absolves the employers of guilt due to negligence on their part should the children be injured.

The good and the bad of Iowa's bill that would bring big changes to child labor laws

The bill would maintain a list of banned jobs currently banned for teens 14-17, but would allow sweeping exemptions for training programs

www.desmoinesregister.com

"Yeah, parents, you can sacrifice your kids. You can always do the Lord's work and make more."

 

[coldseat]

AOC always throws the boomerang that hits the Republicans in the back of their heads in these House committees.

 

[MT15]

This is why MTG shouldn’t be on committees, lol

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Republican-dominated Mississippi house of representatives has passed a bill to create a separate, unelected court system in the city of Jackson that would fall outside the purview of the city’s voters, the majority of whom are Black.

The bill, which local leaders have likened to apartheid-era laws and described as unconstitutional, would also expand a separate capitol police force, overseen by state authorities. The force would expand into all of the city’s white majority neighborhoods, according to Mississippi Today. Jackson’s population is over 80% Black.

Speaking after House Bill 1020passed on Tuesday evening, Jackson’s mayor Chokwe Lumumba branded the proposed law “some of the most oppressive legislation in our city’s history”.

“It’s oppressive because it strips the right of Black folks to vote. It’s oppressive because it puts a military force over people that has no accountability to them. It’s oppressive because there will be judges who will determine sentences over people’s lives. It’s oppressive because it redirects their tax dollars to something they don’t endorse nor believe in,” Lumumba said.

The bill passed largely along party lines in a 76-38 vote and will now travel to the state senate, where Republicans also hold a significant majority. The passage was preceded by an intense, four-hour floor debate in which members of the state’s Black caucus made impassioned pleas to reject the legislation and compared the bill to the state’s Jim Crow-era constitution of 1890.

The legislation was proposed by house Republican Trey Lamar, who is white and represents a district in the state’s north-west, which is majority white…….

Mississippi Republicans pass bill to create separate, unelected court in majority-Black city

Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, calls proposed law ‘some of the most oppressive legislation in our city’s history’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

AOC always throws the boomerang that hits the Republicans in the back of their heads in these House committees.

I'm guessing we'll see no "twitter files" on this....

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

Now here's a Republican I can enjoy.

A Republican Makes Jokes About an Unlikely Subject: Her Own Party (Published 2023)

In frequently bawdy terms at a press club dinner, Representative Nancy Mace brought down the house with her barbs at fellow House members and other Republicans.

www.nytimes.com

In a jab at Mr. McCarthy, she said: “I haven’t seen someone assume that many positions to appease the crazy Republicans since Stormy Daniels,”
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“I know everyone thinks Republicans aren’t funny,” she said. “But if you get a bunch of us together, we can be a real riot.”

 

[Optimus Prime]

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly screamed and cursed at Biden administration officials during a closed-door briefing for not shooting the Chinese spy balloon down earlier.

Ms Greene seemed proud of herself when she recounted the meeting.

“I had to wait in line the whole time. I was I think the second to last person, and I chewed them out just like the American people would’ve,” Ms Greene told The Hill. “I tore ‘em to pieces.”

House lawmakers were asked to attend a classified debriefing Thursday regarding the shot-down alleged spy balloon.

One lawmaker who attended the meeting and spoke to The Hill said Ms Greene was ranting and screaming.

"When she got to ask questions she was yelling out, saying 'bulls***' and, you know 'I don't believe you,'" the lawmaker told the outlet. "Just screaming and yelling, irrational in my estimation."

Mr Biden said he had wanted to shoot the balloon down earlier, but his military advisors had warned that doing so could bring debris crashing down on homes, businesses, or other ground structures below. They reportedly told him to wait until the balloon was over water to blow it out of the sky.

Ms Greene apparently had no qualms with the possible fallout of shooting down the balloon, as she insisted it should have been destroyed earlier because it made him "look weak."..........

Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of ‘screaming and cursing’ through private China spy balloon briefing