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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?



     
    Optimus Prime said:
    And back to the DeSantis we all know and love

    At least we’ll always have HOAs
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    The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has launched a political action committee that is targeting popular ballot amendments on abortion access and marijuana legalization that will be voted on in November.

    The group, known as the Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May, Politico first reported. The committee is chaired by James Uthmeier, DeSantis’s chief of staff who was previously the Republican’s campaign manager during his unsuccessful presidential primary run.

    In addition to targeting ballot initiatives, the committee will get involved in school board races, Politico reported, citing an individual who is familiar with the group’s plans.


    Florida Republicans have attempted to maximize their political control of local school boards, especially amid book bans and far-right education laws banning discussions of race and sexual identity being passed in the state, WUFT reported.

    A spokesperson for the governor told Politico that the goal of the political action committee is to support issues and candidates that are “committed to preserving Floridians’ freedom”.

    “From up and down ballot races to critical amendments, we’re steadfast in our mission to keep Florida free,” a DeSantis spokesperson, Taryn Fenske, said.

    Reproductive-rights activists have been pushing for voters to support an upcoming ballot initiative that would enshrine broader abortion access in Florida’s constitution, Axios reported…..

    www.theguardian.com

    DeSantis ‘freedom fund’ Pac targets abortion and marijuana ballot initiatives

    Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    What DeSantis means by freedom is the freedom for him and his cronies to tell everyone else what they can and cannot do. This has been obvious since forever.
     
    Guess this can go here

    Op Ed by Merrick Garland
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    Last week, a California man was convicted of threatening to bomb an FBI field office where hundreds of agents and other employees work. In one of his threats to the FBI, the man wrote: “I can go on a mass murder spree. In fact, it would be very explainable by your actions.”


    These heinous threats of violence have become routine in an environment in which the Justice Department is under attack like never before.


    In recent weeks, we have seen an escalation of attacks that go far beyond public scrutiny, criticism, and legitimate and necessary oversight of our work. They are baseless, personal and dangerous.


    These attacks come in the form of threats to defund particular department investigations, most recently the special counsel’s prosecution of the former president.


    They come in the form of conspiracy theories crafted and spread for the purpose of undermining public trust in the judicial process itself. Those include false claims that a case brought by a local district attorney and resolved by a jury verdict in a state trial was somehow controlled by the Justice Department.

    They come in the form of dangerous falsehoods about the FBI’s law enforcement operations that increase the risks faced by our agents.


    They come in the form of efforts to bully and intimidate our career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out.


    They come in the form of false claims that the department is politicizing its work to somehow influence the outcome of an election.

    Such claims are often made by those who are themselves attempting to politicize the department’s work to influence the outcome of an election.


    And media reports indicate there is an ongoing effort to ramp up these attacks against the Justice Department, its work and its employees.
We will not be intimidated by these attacks.

    But it is absurd and dangerous that public servants, many of whom risk their lives every day, are being threatened for simply doing their jobs and adhering to the principles that have long guided the Justice Department’s work…….

     
    First election since the Trump conviction, a special election in an Ohio district that Trump won by 29% in 2020:

     
    The House today voted to hold Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing their demand for an audio recording for which they have had a full transcript for months and months. This breaks a norm that has held for 70 years, but they don’t care. As the second tweet says, they have to cheer up the felon somehow.

     
    Okay, what law was broken? Biden used executive privilege, there was no law broken.



    ALSO, my God does he have no shame? Trump broke the law, and he calls it illegitimate, Garland follows the executive privilege standard, and he calls it breaking the law?
     
    MT15 said:
    Okay, what law was broken? Biden used executive privilege, there was no law broken.



    ALSO, my God does he have no shame? Trump broke the law, and he calls it illegitimate, Garland follows the executive privilege standard, and he calls it breaking the law?
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    They create chaos to afford them misdirection and distraction from the real stories. We keep giving them a platform and acceptance.

    We see that same tactic employed here every 3 or 4 days.

    The difference is we consistently check the misdirection and lies. Whereas the Fox and NewsMax just amplify.
     
    Are there any actual consequences for Garland with the MAGA house voting him in contempt? They can't enforce anything. It's not like the DOJ is going to prosecute Garland, lol. The only thing to do with this is ignore it, just like with Mayorkas impeachment. That story lasted a day and everybody moved on because it was stupid.
     
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    Donald Trump’s presidency delivered to Christian conservatives some of their most coveted goals:

    Hundreds of sympathetic judges joined the federal bench. The U.S. Embassy in Israel moved to Jerusalem. And the center of gravity on the Supreme Court shifted firmly to the right.


    Since Trump lost his reelection bid, they have claimed additional successes, with Republican-run red states enacting legislation that restricts transgender care and limits the books that can be taught in school or borrowed from the library. The Supreme Court in 2022 ended the legal right to abortion.

    Last year, Sen. Mike Johnson (R-La.), an evangelical Christian who has said his worldview is the Bible, became speaker of the House.


    But far from declaring victory, those who advocate for a more pronounced role for hard-line conservative Christian doctrine in American public life are actively planning to enact a fresh wave of changes in a second Trump term.

    Should Trump reclaim the presidency in November, they say, it would represent a historic opportunity to put their interpretation of Christianity at the center of government policy.

    To advocates for civil, women’s and gay rights, the proposals represent something else: a threat to basic freedoms and a dangerous blurring of boundaries between church and state.

    Among the proposals being pushed by the Christian right’s various groups and leaders:

    • Removing the words “gender” and “abortion” from federal program documents, as well as the related funding.


    • Imposing new restrictions on abortion pills, perhaps through the authority of the Food and Drug Administration.

    • Carving out greater exemptions to anti-discrimination laws intended to protect LGBTQ people.

    • Establishing a more visible role for Christianity in public schools, including more prayer led by both teachers and students.


    Trump advisers have stressed that outside groups and allies do not speak for the campaign and its policy plans. But Trump has made politically conservative Christians a bedrock of his base and has signaled he remains attuned to their priorities, even as many in the community appear prepared to back him no matter what specific promises he makes……

     
    Donald Trump’s closest congressional allies were forced to walk through protesters while they marched to meet with the former president during his first visit to the Capitol since a mob of his supporters stormed the halls of Congress on January 6.

    Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan passed through protesters blasting them for their “failed coup” to reverse Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.

    Others shouted out “bootlicker” and “don’t drink the Kool-Aid.”

    Another protester in a bear costume held up a sign reading “bigger tax breaks, bigger profit.”....................

    www.the-independent.com

    Trump’s MAGA allies forced to face heckling protesters before meeting ex-president

    Republican lawmakers were greeted by a bear costume and cries of ‘bootlicker’ in the former president’s first visit to Capitol Hill since his felony convictions
    www.the-independent.com www.the-independent.com


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