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    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?



     
    Yesterday another bus of migrants arrived in LA - during a tropical storm. Abbott is a Peice of work.
     
    LA - L.A. said:
    I didn't make my point clear. Yes, they are definitely going to pay attention to losing elections. They are already doing that.

    What I'm pointing out is that the Republican response has not and will not be "let's figure out how to win fair elections in a fair way." Very few people in the Republican party have that mindset anymore.

    With very few exceptions, Republicans have embraced authoritarianism. They are going to try to take and keep positions of power by undermining elections, intimidation and/or outright force. The Republican party will not change back to what it once was.

    The Republicans that haven't liked what has happened under Trump have already left the party. Meachum and others make the false assumption that the "quiet" Republicans have an issue with the corruption and authoritarianism in the Republican party. They are wrong. Those "quiet" only have an issue with Trump as the leader. They aren't saying "hey, we need to clean up our act." They are saying "we need to get rid of Trump."

    The problem and threat of the Republican party is not Trump. The problem and threat of the Republican is they want to rule as authoritarians, even if it's not with Trump as the figure head. The only reason they embraced Trump in the first place is because Trump boldly said aloud what they feel, think and want. That's not going to change, because they are losing elections. Republicans may turn on Trump. but they will not change their ways from within.
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    SFIDC3 said:
    I totally agree with above, Trump is not the problem, it's the millions of cult members that support him. Trump is going away (hopefully soon) but they are not, they will find another cult leader, possibly even worse than Trump......
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    The problem lives among us, just look around. 😳
     
    What does this GOP school board do when its policies prove to be very unpopular with the patrons of their school district? Respond to the wishes of their constituents? Nah!

     
    In OK, the GOP Education Superintendent is a far-right MAGA, and has posted LibsofTikTok videos of a school employee in OK that were deceptively edited. There have been 4 straight days of bomb threats to OK schools. There are calls for his resignation now as well.

     
    Newt also in a call in to Hannity that Democrats want to abort babies the day before birth and up to 30 days after birth - they have to keep telling more and more ridiculous lies to keep people agitated.

     
    Optimus Prime said:
    I'm half surprised they aren't saying dems want to kill newborn babies if the mother changes her mind after birth
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    Well, that’s pretty much exactly what he is saying - up to 30 days after birth - right? I don’t know if Hannity pushed back on that, somehow I doubt it. It’s just about as ridiculous a lie as can be told.
     
    MT15 said:
    Well, that’s pretty much exactly what he is saying - up to 30 days after birth - right? I don’t know if Hannity pushed back on that, somehow I doubt it. It’s just about as ridiculous a lie as can be told.
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    yikes somehow missed the 'after birth' part

    sorry about that
     
    Ted Cruz falls for another false meme. How did this man pass law school? Or does he do it on purpose to spread disinformation?

     
    its well established that R's have no care for facts, they deeply care about alternative facts. Their followers believe the alternative fact over real facts because well, its convientent for them and helps fit their personal narrative.
     
    What's the problem with Rumpelstiltskin?
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    The message Michael Farris had come to deliver was a simple one: The time to act was now.

    For decades, Farris — a conservative Christian lawyer who is the most influential leader of the modern home-schooling movement — had toiled at the margins of American politics. His arguments about the harms of public education and the divinely endowed rights of parents had left many unconvinced.

    Now, speaking on a confidential conference call to a secretive group of Christian millionaires seeking, in the words of one member, to “take down the education system as we know it today,” Farris made the same points he had made in courtrooms since the 1980s. Public schools were indoctrinating children with a secular worldview that amounted to a godless religion, he said.

    The solution: lawsuits alleging that schools’ teachings about gender identity and race are unconstitutional, leading to a Supreme Court decision that would mandate the right of parents to claim billions of tax dollars for private education or home schooling.

    “We’ve got to recognize that we’re swinging for the fences here, that any time you try to take down a giant of this nature, it’s an uphill battle,” Farris said on the previously undisclosed July 2021 call, a recording of which was obtained by the watchdog group Documented and shared with The Washington Post. “And the teachers union, the education establishment and everybody associated with the education establishment will be there in full array against us — just as they were against home-schoolers.”

    Nevertheless, Farris assured the conservative donors, their money would be well spent on this legal campaign. A conservative supermajority reigned on the nation’s highest court. In statehouses and at school boards, political activism over parental rights had reached a fever pitch.

    “The time is right,” he said, later adding, “Sometimes it does take a while for seed to be planted and to germinate.”

    The 50-minute recording, whose details Farris did not dispute in a series of interviews with The Post, is a remarkable demonstration of how the ideology he has long championed has moved from the partisan fringe to the center of the nation’s bitter debates over public education.

    A deeply religious evangelical from Washington state, Farris began his career facing off with social workers over the rights of home-schoolers and representing Christian parents who objected to “Rumpelstiltskin” being read in class...........

    Yet it is outside the courtroom that Farris’s influence has arguably been most profound. No single figure has been more instrumental in transforming the parental rights cause from an obscure concern of Christian home-schoolers into a GOP rallying cry.

    When former president Donald Trump called for a federal parental bill of rights in a 2023 campaign video, saying secular public school instruction had become a “new religion,” he was invoking arguments Farris first made 40 years ago. The executive order targeting school mask mandates that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed on his first day in office cited a 2013 state law guaranteeing “fundamental” parental rights that Farris helped write.

    In Florida, a home-schooling mom introduced Farris’s ideas to a state lawmaker, setting in motion the passage of the state’s Parents’ Bill of Rights in 2021. The law, repeatedly touted by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on the presidential campaign trail, laid the groundwork for the state’s controversial Parental Rights in Education Act, dubbed by its critics the “don’t say gay” bill.............

    Yet to those who have followed Farris’s career, the adoption of his arguments by so many families unconnected to home schooling is a measure of his success. In the eyes of his critics, he has masterfully imported an extreme religious agenda into the heart of the nation’s politics through the seemingly unobjectionable language of parents’ rights. Some argue that it has always been the goal of the most radical Christian home-schoolers not merely to opt out of the public schools but to transform them, either by diverting their funding or allowing religion back into the classroom.

    “Everyone should be aware of Michael Farris and his influence on the Christian right,” said R.L. Stollar, a children’s rights advocate who was home-schooled and has long warned of the conservative home-schooling movement’s political goals. “To Farris’s credit, he is really good at what he does. He is really good at taking these more extreme positions and presenting them as if they are something that would just be based on common sense.”.............

     
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    MT15 said:
    What does this GOP school board do when its policies prove to be very unpopular with the patrons of their school district? Respond to the wishes of their constituents? Nah!

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    Hillsdale, the sewer of colleges.
     
    House GOP doing everything they can think of to stop justice from being served.

     

    House Majority Leader Steve Scalise diagnosed with blood cancer​

    Colleagues on both sides of the aisle offered well wishes for Scalise after the announcement.
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    When a Democrat gets sick or something happens to them, they critisize, take shots and make up odd conspiracies..

     

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