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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?



     
    guess this can go here

    Seriously doubt that Youngkin would sign this, but we'll see
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    RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Senate has approved a bill to strip certain Confederate organizations of their tax-exempt statuses.

    “Our code should reflect our values and what we want the Commonwealth to be now,” said the bill’s patron, Delegate Alex Askew (D-Virginia Beach).

    Askew’s bill, along with a companion measure in the Senate would require several organizations, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to pay certain property taxes if the bill becomes law.

    Askew says the bill is intended to ensure fairness throughout the state’s tax code.

    “It doesn’t mention historic organizations like NAACP and other groups that are really moving things and have had connections within our community in pushing what we believe forward,” Askew explained.

    In recent hearings, members of the Daughters of the American Revolution spoke against the bill.

    “I have done a lot of work in the Civil War, the war between the states,” said one member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. “We would all do well to learn and really not punish the soldiers and the families of those who lose ones in that struggle.”

    Askew says his bill does nothing to prevent the United Daughters of the Confederacy from continuing to operate.

    “It’s about who we are giving special privileges to and what they stood for,” said Askew. “We know that the United Daughters of the Confederacy has continued to push the narrative of the lost cause and we don’t need to continue to support that in our tax code.” ..........

    www.dcnewsnow.com

    Senate passes bill to strip United Daughters of the Confederacy, other Confederate organizations of tax breaks

    The Virginia Senate has approved a bill to strip certain Confederate organizations of their tax-exempt statuses.
    www.dcnewsnow.com www.dcnewsnow.com
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    guess this can go here

    Seriously doubt that Youngkin would sign this, but we'll see
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    RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Senate has approved a bill to strip certain Confederate organizations of their tax-exempt statuses.

    “Our code should reflect our values and what we want the Commonwealth to be now,” said the bill’s patron, Delegate Alex Askew (D-Virginia Beach).

    Askew’s bill, along with a companion measure in the Senate would require several organizations, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to pay certain property taxes if the bill becomes law.

    Askew says the bill is intended to ensure fairness throughout the state’s tax code.

    “It doesn’t mention historic organizations like NAACP and other groups that are really moving things and have had connections within our community in pushing what we believe forward,” Askew explained.

    In recent hearings, members of the Daughters of the American Revolution spoke against the bill.

    “I have done a lot of work in the Civil War, the war between the states,” said one member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. “We would all do well to learn and really not punish the soldiers and the families of those who lose ones in that struggle.”

    Askew says his bill does nothing to prevent the United Daughters of the Confederacy from continuing to operate.

    “It’s about who we are giving special privileges to and what they stood for,” said Askew. “We know that the United Daughters of the Confederacy has continued to push the narrative of the lost cause and we don’t need to continue to support that in our tax code.” ..........

    www.dcnewsnow.com

    Senate passes bill to strip United Daughters of the Confederacy, other Confederate organizations of tax breaks

    The Virginia Senate has approved a bill to strip certain Confederate organizations of their tax-exempt statuses.
    www.dcnewsnow.com www.dcnewsnow.com
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    I'm guessing Youngkin is going to veto this.
     
    Don Bolduc is a patrolman on the police force of Pittsfield, N.H., population 4,100. But this is not the job he had hoped to be doing in February 2024.
    In September 2022, he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, earning the right to face off against Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in November. He lost by a wider margin than polls had suggested, hence his unexpected new career in law enforcement.

    The Concord Monitor checked in on him last week. The conversation focused mostly on Bolduc’s unusual employment trajectory but also explored a bit of his 2022 ambitions. And it was in that part of the conversation that Bolduc offered an important insight.

    When he was running in 2022, Bolduc gained national attention for his inconsistent approach to a key issue: whether Donald Trump legitimately won the 2020 election.

    In August, he told a cheering audience of Republican primary voters that “Trump won the election.” In September, after winning that primary, he went on cable news to say that “President Biden is the legitimate president of this country” and that “the election was not stolen.”

    Then he flipped back the other way. In a general election debate in October, Bolduc suggested that there was, in fact, rampant fraud in his state.
    “We need to make sure that school buses loaded with people at the polls don’t come in and vote,” he said. Some in the audience chuckled. “You can laugh about it,” he added, “but people in New Hampshire aren’t laughing about it.”

    Pressed on the claim by the moderator — since it’s an old, unfounded assertion — Bolduc insisted that this is what he had been hearing and, therefore, needed to be addressed.

    That was Candidate Bolduc. Speaking to the Monitor this week, Officer Bolduc offered a slightly different perspective.

    “I do believe there was fraud,” Bolduc told the reporter. “That’s something that can’t be disputed, but at the end of the day, I played a political game, right? So then I decided no more political games. I’m going to say what I honestly believe, and that is the election wasn’t stolen.”

    In fact, it cannot be disputed that there was fraud. There have been dozens of people arrested around the country for having violated voting laws. A handful were arrested in New Hampshire, too. But this in no way proves or even suggests that the election was “stolen” — as Trump has so often claimed and as any Republican seeking his party’s nomination in 2022 might have been tempted to claim.

    As Bolduc was. He “played a political game,” elevating an assertion he didn’t believe.

    We understand that such things happen with regularity. Candidates make claims that they believe will appeal to voters rather than ones they believe or are ready to defend. The divergence between assertion and belief can be wide or narrow, the presentation nuanced or reckless. But it’s politics.

    The difference here is that the “political game” Bolduc felt he should play was so dangerous. It was demonstrably dangerous by the point at which Bolduc was espousing it, having served as the basis for the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021..............

     
    The Teamsters’ political committee has given $45,000 to the Republican National Committee, according to federal records, a significant departure for a powerful organized labor group that has more recently supported Democrats, such as President Biden, who have championed workers’ rights.


    The union sent out the contribution — the maximum allowed from the union’s political action committee — to the RNC the same day former president Donald Trump met with Teamsters’ leadership for the second time in January.
The Teamsters also sent $135,000 to the Democratic National Committee last December plus a $15,000 donation in March.


    Neither the Teamsters nor the RNC immediately responded to a request for comment.


    The gift to the RNC, which is facing fundraising woes, magnifies tensions for unions that have benefited from Biden policies making it easier for workers to unionize and subsidizing projects to create union jobs, even as Trump remains popular among a lot of rank-and-file union members, especially in battleground states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania……

    The Teamsters occasionally make small political contributions through its political action committee to Republican candidates and PACS, but the donation to the RNC departs from its usual spending. It is the union’s first contribution to the RNC since it donated $15,000 in 2004, according to data on Open Secrets, a Washington nonprofit that tracks campaign finance contributions…….




     
    fooferdoggie said:
    of course they dont see their moral decline at all. they dont realize their moral decline is why less people go to church. Plus f course they think only they are moral.
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    Johnson is a true Catholic hypocrite.....Moral decline? Let me know when the Catholic church has a leg to stand on in that regard....
     
    SFIDC3 said:
    Johnson is a true Catholic hypocrite.....Moral decline? Let me know when the Catholic church has a leg to stand on in that regard....
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    It possibly does not take away from the point of your post, but Google states that Speaker Johnson is a Baptist.
     

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