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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?



     
    DaveXA said:
    Why are the Democrats tolerating this any longer? They keep complaining about it but haven't done a damn thing about it. It's not like they have zero leverage. Fight fire with fire and maybe some Republicans will come to their senses.
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    Must have heard you (at least for a few)...

    www.cnn.com

    Senate votes to confirm C.Q. Brown as chairman of Joint Chiefs | CNN Politics

    The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm the nomination of Gen. C.Q. Brown to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following a monthslong hold of over more than 300 military promotions by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
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    Many animals raised for meat in the US spend their lives in spaces barely bigger than their own bodies. Pregnant pigs are held in gestation crates so small they can only sit, stand or lie down in them.

    Chickens are packed into battery cages so crowded they often can’t extend their wings. And calves raised for veal are packed into crates without enough room to turn around.

    While these conditions are part of what makes factory-farmed meat so cheap in the US, a growing number of consumers are rejecting these brutal practices, with more than a dozen states even enacting their own laws to ban them.

    But a new proposal in Congress would reverse these advances in animal welfare, threatening to upend years of work – and victories – by animal rights activists, farmers and food safety advocates.

    The Republican-led Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression, or Eats, Act aims to end the authority of states and localities to set animal welfare and food safety standards.

    If passed, it could also jeopardize more than 1,000 state and local health and safety laws that set food-quality requirements and stop the spread of invasive species and zoonotic diseases like avian flu.

    Experts say that legislation this extreme would ordinarily be unlikely to pass, but its supporters are pushing the Eats Act as part of this year’s critical package of agriculture policies known as the farm bill, so there’s a greater possibility of it becoming law…….

    www.theguardian.com

    From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections

    A proposed federal law would wipe out existing state laws that prevent farm animal brutality and the spread of disease
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    Optimus Prime said:
    Many animals raised for meat in the US spend their lives in spaces barely bigger than their own bodies. Pregnant pigs are held in gestation crates so small they can only sit, stand or lie down in them.

    Chickens are packed into battery cages so crowded they often can’t extend their wings. And calves raised for veal are packed into crates without enough room to turn around.

    While these conditions are part of what makes factory-farmed meat so cheap in the US, a growing number of consumers are rejecting these brutal practices, with more than a dozen states even enacting their own laws to ban them.

    But a new proposal in Congress would reverse these advances in animal welfare, threatening to upend years of work – and victories – by animal rights activists, farmers and food safety advocates.

    The Republican-led Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression, or Eats, Act aims to end the authority of states and localities to set animal welfare and food safety standards.

    If passed, it could also jeopardize more than 1,000 state and local health and safety laws that set food-quality requirements and stop the spread of invasive species and zoonotic diseases like avian flu.

    Experts say that legislation this extreme would ordinarily be unlikely to pass, but its supporters are pushing the Eats Act as part of this year’s critical package of agriculture policies known as the farm bill, so there’s a greater possibility of it becoming law…….

    www.theguardian.com

    From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections

    A proposed federal law would wipe out existing state laws that prevent farm animal brutality and the spread of disease
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    The party of states' rights...
     
    He’s been the mayor of Dallas for years. What will he do to address crime and homelessness now as a Republican and whatever that answer is why couldn’t he have done it as a Democrat?

    The comments said is he has statewide ambitions and knows he he’s much more likely to win a state election as a republican and that’s what this is really all about
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    The mayor of Dallas is switching parties afterserving in public office for years as a Democrat, making the north Texas city the country’s largest led by a Republican.

    Eric Johnson, a former Democratic Texas state lawmaker, wrote in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he was switching parties because “too many Democrats insist on virtue signaling,” and argued that Democratic policies have not sufficiently addressed crime and homelessness.

    “Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary,” Johnson wrote in a piece with the headline “America’s cities need Republicans, and I’m becoming one.”

    Johnson was elected to the nonpartisan office — meaning candidates don’t run as Democrats or Republicans — in 2019 and reelected in May, but said he will leave the position in 2027 as a member of the GOP

    “American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities,” Johnson wrote.

    He went on to say that he was switching because American cities are “in disarray,” as local Democratic leaders haven’t, in his view, made public safety a priority. He also claimed Democrats spent tax dollars in a way that made homelessness worse while “finding new ways to thumb their noses at Republicans,” rather than focusing on solving problems.

    Johnson called for other mayors to stand up for law and order while reducing taxes……

     
    Academics, universities and government agencies are overhauling or ending research programs designed to counter the spread of online misinformation amid a legal campaign from conservative politicians and activists who accuse them of colluding with tech companies to censor right-wing views.
    The escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans in Congress and state government — has cast a pall over programs that study not just political falsehoods but also the quality of medical information online.

    Facing litigation, Stanford University officials are discussing how they can continue tracking election-related misinformation through the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a prominent consortium that flagged social media conspiracies about voting in 2020 and 2022, several participants told The Washington Post. The coalition of disinformation researchers may shrink and also may stop communicating with X and Facebook about their findings.

    The National Institutes of Health froze a $150 million program intended to advance the communication of medical information, citing regulatory and legal threats. Physicians told The Post that they had planned to use the grants to fund projects on noncontroversial topics such as nutritional guidelines and not just politically charged issues such as vaccinations that have been the focus of the conservative allegations.
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    Apparently it is ok to spread disinformation but not ok to inform about disinformation.... It is totally absurd for me that those who cry the loudest about freedom of speech, are those who will ban or punish everyone who points out disinformation. Especially when those people are those who has sworn to protect and serve their country.

    But allow people to potentially die because of medical mis/disinformation - well that is apparently ok

     
    Dragon said:
    Apparently it is ok to spread disinformation but not ok to inform about disinformation.... It is totally absurd for me that those who cry the loudest about freedom of speech, are those who will ban or punish everyone who points out disinformation. Especially when those people are those who has sworn to protect and serve their country.

    But allow people to potentially die because of medical mis/disinformation - well that is apparently ok

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    Was just coming to post this
     
    So, in a development I had hardly been paying any attention to, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has gotten herself into a bit of a pickle early in her governorship. She evidently used state funds to buy herself a $19k wooden podium. Stupid, but almost normal wastage of taxpayer money, right?

    Turns out now it seems to be a payoff to a friend for a trip to Paris, because said friend needed to pay her credit card bill. They just used the podium to hide the payoff. Meanwhile state GOP has quietly reimbursed state coffers for the purchase, which violated all state procurement procedures. And nobody can find the actual lectern?

    Edited to add: now I am reading that Hannah had some sort of involvement in Jan. 6? You just cannot make this stuff up.

     

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