What happens to the Republican Party now? (6 Viewers)

[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]

Last month, the White House issued a proposed budget to Congress that completely eliminated funding for Head Start, the six-decade-old early childhood education program for low-income families that serves as a source of childcare for large swaths of the American working class.

The funding was restored in the proposed budget after an outcry, but large numbers of employees who oversee the program at the office of Head Start were laid off in a budget-slashing measure under Robert F Kennedy Jr, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

On Thursday, Kennedy said funding for the programwould not be axed, but more cuts to childcare funding are likely coming: some Republicans have pushed to repeal a five-decade-old tax credit for daycare.

The White House is entertaining proposals on how to incentivize and structurally coerce American women into bearing more children, but it seems to be determined to make doing so as costly to those women’s careers as possible.

That’s because the Republicans’ childcare policy, like their pro-natalist policy, is based on one goal: undoing the historic gains in women’s rights and status, and pushing American women out of the workforce, out of public life, out of full participation in society – and into a narrow domestic role of confinement, dependence and isolation.

The New York Times reported this week that the White House is now not only looking for ways to make more women have children, but to encourage “parents” to stay home to raise them.

“Parents” here is a euphemism. Roughly 80% of stay-at-home parents are mothers: cultural traditions that encourage women, and not men, to sacrifice their careers for caregiving, along with persistent wage inequalities that make women, on the whole, lower earners than their male partners, both incentivize women, and not men, to drop out of the workforce and stay home when they have children.

This state of affairs has been worsened by the dramatic rise in the cost of childcare, which is prohibitively expensive for many parents. The average cost of childcare per child per year in the US is now well north of $11,000, according to Child Care Aware of America, an industry advocacy group.

In major cities such as New York, that price is significantly higher: from $16,000 to $19,000 per year. Existing tax credits need to be expanded, not eliminated, to reduce this burden on mothers and their families and to enable women to join the workforce at rates comparable to men and commensurate with their dignity and capacities.

Currently, 26% of mothers do not engage in paid work, a figure that has barely budged in 40 years. Largely because of the unequally distributed burdens of childcare, men participate in the paid labor force at a rate that is more than 10% higher than women.

One might think that the solution would be to invest more in high-quality childcare, so that providers could open more slots, children could access more resources, and women could go to work and expend their talents in productive ways that earn them money, make use of their gifts and provide more dignity for women and more stability for families.

This is not what the American right is proposing: Brad Wilcox, a sociologist who promotes traditional family and gender relations, has called such policy initiatives “work-ist”. Conservatives are proposing, instead, that women go back to the kitchen.

The Trump administration, and the American right more broadly, wants the rate of women’s employment to be even lower, because it is advancing a lie that women are naturally, inevitably, uniformly and innately inclined to caregiving, child rearing and homemaking – and not to the positions of intellectual achievement, responsibility, leadership, ingenuity or independence that women may aspire to in the public world.

“We cannot get away from the fact that a child is hardwired to bond with Mom,” saysJanet Erickson, a fellow at the rightwing Institute for Family Studies, who once co-authored an op-ed with JD Vance calling on “parents” to drop out of the workforce to raise children. “I just think, why should we deny that?”

This kind of vague, evidence-free gesturing toward evolutionary psychology – the notion that babies are “hardwired” to prefer mothers who are not employed – is a common conservative tick: a recourse to dishonest and debunked science to lend empiricism to bigotry.

There is in fact no evolutionary reason, and no biological reason, for mothers, and not fathers, to abandon independence, ambition or life outside the home for the sake of a child. The only reason is a sexist one.……….

Republicans are attacking childcare funding. Their goal? To push women out of the workforce | Moira Donegan

The right wants American women to bear more children and withdraw from full participation in society

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

The GOP Senators will vote to overturn waivers for the California law phasing out gasoline powered vehicles, ignoring the Senate Parliamentarian’s decision that they cannot vote on that. This might be foreshadowing a way they will get around the filibuster in the future without repealing it. The Senate Parliamentarian decides what can go in the budget bill, which isn’t subject to filibuster, and what has to be voted on separately from the reconciliation bill, which opens those items up for a filibuster. If they can ignore her decisions, they can put any sort of policy they want into the reconciliation bill and enact it with 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to override a filibuster.

Senate Republicans Say They Will Overrule the Parliamentarian to Overturn EPA Policy

Republicans are planning to break decades of precedent to prevent California from phasing out gas cars.

www.notus.org

“Republicans are planning to break decades of precedent and overrule the Senate parliamentarian to undo a Biden-era environmental policy.

Majority Leader John Thune announced Tuesday morning that the Senate will take up the vote to overturn waivers the Environmental Protection Agency granted to California that allowed the state to phase out gas-powered cars. The Senate parliamentarian ruled that the Congressional Review Act — the legislative vehicle Republicans plan to use to overturn the policy — does not apply to waivers.”

 

[superchuck500]

When (EDIT 40%) of your constituency is literally stupid enough to believe that the Covid vaccine definitely or probably killed more people than the virus, what hope is there for the Republican party? How can they ever change when their constituency is completely and dangerously unhinged from reality?

 

[MT15]

When (EDIT 40%) of your constituency is literally stupid enough to believe that the Covid vaccine definitely or probably killed more people than the virus, what hope is there for the Republican party? How can they ever change when their constituency is completely and dangerously unhinged from reality?

They have elevated a dangerous liar in RFK, Jr and demonized a great scientist like Fauci. The GOP itself is doing these things. They are letting the lunatics lead. They need to go.

 

[coldseat]

Volume Up!

 

[DaveXA]

Volume Up!

Lol.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump Jr says the ‘calling is there’ for him to run for president

President’s eldest son remains a popular figure within MAGA movement and an influential voice in his father’s ear despite playing no direct role in administration

www.independent.co.uk