Wingnutties out of control!

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Greene's being thrown in the spotlight. The Trump effect a la 2015 is in full force. She's going to continue to gain more and more exposure and continue to grow in popularity among the GOP. She's not an abberation; she represents the average republican voter's views pretty well. We're going to see a lot more of her in the future.

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Greene's being thrown in the spotlight. The Trump effect a la 2015 is in full force. She's going to continue to gain more and more exposure and continue to grow in popularity among the GOP. She's not an abberation; she represents the average republican voter's views pretty well. We're going to see a lot more of her in the future.

Yup.

Conservative Group Calls Out Republicans By Name In Scathing New Fox News Ad

A conservative group is calling out members of the Republican Party by name for promoting “lies, violence and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” in a scathing new ad that will air on Fox News during “Hannity” in Washington, D.C. next week.

The spot from the Republican Accountability Project ― part of Defending Democracy Together, a never-Trump conservative group ― praises the members of the party who turned on former President Donald Trump after the violent insurrection carried out by his supporters in the Capitol on Jan. 6.

But some members of the party still support Trump and they’ve attacked those who’ve stood up to the former president. Others have repeated Trump’s lies about the election.

The ad specifically names representatives Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.):



The Republican Accountability Project maintains a “Hall of Shame” on its website featuring Republican lawmakers who “have made it clear that they cannot be trusted with power.” That list includes Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas (“one of Trump’s most loyal enablers”) and Gaetz (“a Trump sycophant for as long as Trump’s been in office”)....

billy.pilgrim and I "win" again.

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House removes GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees

... The resolution to strip Greene from her seats on the budget and the education and labor committees passed 230-199, with 11 House Republicans joining Democrats in voting for Greene’s removal.

Those GOP members were Mario Díaz-Balart (Fla.); Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.); Carlos A. Giménez (Fla.); Chris Jacobs (N.Y.); John Katko (N.Y.); Young Kim (Calif.); Adam Kinzinger (Ill.); Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.); Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.); Chris Smith (N.J.); and Fred Upton (Mich.)....

NY and FL 3 each, none from GA.

Not Voting:
Fudge Democratic Ohio
Wright Republican Texas

"unprecedented vote"

... Hoyer pointed out that two years ago, House Republicans removed Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, of his committee assignments after he questioned publicly why the phrase “white supremacy” was considered offensive. (King was defeated by a primary challenger later that year and is now out of Congress.) ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and the Repugs are too cowardly to take action against their terrorist wingnuts now.

Marco Rubio Blames Media For Marjorie Taylor Greene And Gets Humiliated

You enable them by not immediately denouncing them.

Then you play the victim saying that you get generalized with white supremacists and Q anon people because you’re Republican.

You know why that happens?
Because you don’t denounce those things until weeks after- if ever.

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) February 3, 2021

Marco, she literally said she believes 9/11 was an inside job, that the Sandy Hook and Parkland shootings were staged, and that Jewish people are using space lasers to start forest fires.

Your framing here is so incredibly weak and cowardly.

Article and more scathing responses at the link. Other related tweet:

Not only is his framing cowardly, his decision to disable replies is also cowardly.

The thing Trump got most right these last five years was “little Marco”.

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When I first saw this headline it made me think of Ted Cruz but turns out it's about another animal.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chimeric-bea ... 09390.html

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Calamity Jane takes a stand

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When I first saw this headline it made me think of Ted Cruz but turns out it's about another animal.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chimeric-bea ... 09390.html

I can see how you got misled.

The Chimeric Beast Overrunning Texas and Spreading Disease

... a prized draw for hunters ... has also become a uniquely Texan pest....

Speaking of chimeric disease-ridden Texas pests:

Inconceivable! Ted Cruz And ‘Princess Bride’ Star Cary Elwes Cross Swords On Twitter
The star of Cruz’s favorite film called him a “miserable ROUS (Rodent of Unusual Size)” ― the name of a giant rat from the 1987 classic.

The 1987 fantasy classic “The Princess Bride” might be the favorite film of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), but the feeling is definitely not mutual for the movie’s leading actor Cary Elwes.

Elwes clashed with Cruz on Wednesday after podcast comments that the senator made regarding “rabid environmentalists” in modern movies like “Avengers: Endgame” went viral.

According to Cruz ― who was apparently attempting to criticize liberals for injecting such characters into their cinema ― figures such as Thanos, the antagonist of “Endgame,” “buy into the Malthusian line that there are too many people in the world, that people are bad, and everything would be better if we had fewer people.”

Numerous commentators on Twitter picked apart Cruz’s argument, pointing out that the senator seemed confused and had forgotten the fact that Thanos was a villain....



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Twitter Users Snap Back At Ted Cruz’s Clueless Thanos Analogy
The Republican senator made nonsensical comparisons to the “Avengers” and “Watchmen” series while going on a bizarre rant about environmentalists.

... “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn also chimed in about something that might have bothered listeners put off by Cruz’s pronunciation of “Thanos.” ...


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So the left is represented by Thanos? But the people who made the movie are liberals who made the villains environmentalists?

I think it's time we just stop deluding ourselves that Cruz is not stupid, he just pretends. He is stupid.

I wish Thanos could snap his fingers and make Ted Cruz go away

More mocking tweets at the link. Other related tweets:

On behalf on Texas, I am so sorry @SenTedCruz exists, and doesn't know how to shut up. We all aren't batsh!t crazy, I promise!

THANK YOU! His "thesis" makes ZERO sense, and falls apart on its face. He seems to conflate CGI CHARACTERS with the human beings who help bring them to screen, and then conflates them all with The Bugaboo---i mean, The Left.

Yeah Cruz just keeps spewing pop culture and it’s backfiring every time because he doesn’t get it

It doesn't help that before he even opens his mouth he's already Ted Cruz.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene declares she is 'freed' after being booted from House committees

Sour grapes are wussy.

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I just watched Al Sharpton deploring former PINO's "acquittal on technical grounds" . He urged us to fight back by becoming involved, including running for office. To those who think they aren't qualified, he cited 2 examples:

CO Rep Lauren Boebert, who finally got off her lazy butt at 33 years old and obtained her GED in 2020, about a month before her first election primary.
AL Sen Tommy Tuberville, a Southern Arkansas University grad who thinks that the three branches of the U.S. federal government are "the House, the Senate, and the executive."

Pretty humiliating to be called out on national TV for your party's low standards.

Btw, Tuberville erroneously said that the European theater of World War II was fought "to free Europe of socialism" and said that he was looking forward to raising money from his Senate office, a violation of federal law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tub ... #Elections

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Ala fucking Bama.

Nuff said.

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Ala fucking Bama.

Nuff said.

'Like We're Being Cursed': First COVID and Now Waterlogged (TX) Homes

Thanks for both, Re fucking Pugs.

Nuff said.

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Putting a little whipped cream and a cherry on top of his I'm a detestable scumbag personal Sundae.

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But, but, but the DEFICIT....

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I didn't know this. Amongst her many defects, she's a carpetbagger as well.

How a wealthy businesswoman moved to a depressed, rural corner of Georgia, won over its voters, and got them to send her to Congress

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TN state legislature has a problem with college athletes kneeling during national anthem. Nutjobs.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/tennessee- ... 11033.html

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TN state legislature has a problem with college athletes kneeling during national anthem. Nutjobs.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/tennessee- ... 11033.html

Did Oak Ridge spillover affect the mental development of Republicans?

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TN state legislature has a problem with college athletes kneeling during national anthem. Nutjobs.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/tennessee- ... 11033.html

Did Oak Ridge spillover affect the mental development of Republicans?

I really don't know what happened; I was in NC from 84 until 2015 and after coming back here I was amazed at how goddamn stupid the people running things here had degenerated to. Not long ago they considered letting anyone who could legally buy a gun go around in public with the gun concealed. Lately they've been squawking about making the state a "2nd amendment sanctuary state" whatever the fuck that means. I just try to ignore them and vote against them when the chance to do so happens.

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TN state legislature has a problem with college athletes kneeling during national anthem. Nutjobs.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/tennessee- ... 11033.html

Did Oak Ridge spillover affect the mental development of Republicans?

I really don't know what happened; I was in NC from 84 until 2015 and after coming back here I was amazed at how goddamn stupid the people running things here had degenerated to. Not long ago they considered letting anyone who could legally buy a gun go around in public with the gun concealed. Lately they've been squawking about making the state a "2nd amendment sanctuary state" whatever the fuck that means. I just try to ignore them and vote against them when the chance to do so happens.

I'm not sure I'd ever read local news. It'd drive me insane.

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Speaking of Tennishoe.....


Limp dicked asshole.

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TN state legislature has a problem with college athletes kneeling during national anthem. Nutjobs.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/tennessee- ... 11033.html

Did Oak Ridge spillover affect the mental development of Republicans?

I really don't know what happened; I was in NC from 84 until 2015 and after coming back here I was amazed at how goddamn stupid the people running things here had degenerated to. Not long ago they considered letting anyone who could legally buy a gun go around in public with the gun concealed. Lately they've been squawking about making the state a "2nd amendment sanctuary state" whatever the fuck that means. I just try to ignore them and vote against them when the chance to do so happens.

I'm not sure I'd ever read local news. It'd drive me insane.

Well, they're still at it. I went out earlier to replenish my beer supply and noticed on the newspaper rack the front page story today in the local paper is about how a bill has passed the TN state house that will "prohibit forced vaccinations" even though as far as I know nobody has mandated forced vaccinations. These goddamn people are out of control. I may have to get even more beer. Dipshits.
It made me want to puke or shit on the newspaper rack and then watch as people avoided it and then noting how many of them seek some sort of vaccine or medical attention.

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Well, they're still at it. I went out earlier to replenish my beer supply and noticed on the newspaper rack the front page story today in the local paper is about how a bill has passed the TN state house that will "prohibit forced vaccinations" even though as far as I know nobody has mandated forced vaccinations. These goddamn people are out of control. I may have to get even more beer. Dipshits.

It made me want to puke or shit on the newspaper rack and then watch as people avoided it and then noting how many of them seek some sort of vaccine or medical attention.

Tennessee bill barring vaccination mandate with exceptions for health care facilities moves forward

A Tennessee bill aiming to prohibit government from mandating COVID-19 immunization passed the House Health Subcommittee Wednesday — but not without compromises.

HB13/SB187, sponsored by Rep. Bud Hulsey, R-Kingsport, and Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, would bar government authorities from mandating COVID-19 vaccination entirely.

Is Hulsey your Rep?

Following a lengthy debate Wednesday afternoon, the bill was amended to exclude health care facilities, such as hospitals and nursing homes, from the legislation, meaning health care institutions would have the ability to require their employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

The bill also does not affect private businesses and only deals with entities with government ties, Hulsey said. Under the amendment, employees could still waive the vaccine due to medical and religious reasons.

The vaccination-related bill is part of a broader legislative push this year to restrict the role of government officials over health policies. The flurry of bills would effectively restrict government control over mask wearing, vaccination and large gatherings at home and churches....

Tennessee has never enacted a statewide mask mandate and has enacted few regulations to curb the spread of COVID-19. Democratic lawmakers and physician groups in opposition, who have pleaded for more government involvement to address the pandemic, expressed concerns that reduced governmental action could lead to another surge.

Hulsey, however, said his bill addresses what he described as a governmental overreach that has "never ever happened in the history of the United States." He said government regulations have increased, but the pandemic has a smaller death toll and lower death rate compared to previous health emergencies, such as the 1918 Flu Pandemic. That pandemic killed roughly 675,000 in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We never shut down one school, shut down one business, closed one church, or told people to go home and lock themselves in their house (and) cower in fear," he said of the government response to previous health crises.

"When public health becomes the highest law, and liberty and freedom gets set aside, then because (public health) is all-inclusive, (the state's power) is unlimited," he said.

Hulsey said his legislation would take away governmental power to "force" vaccines onto Tennesseans, although no state or local authorities have proposed a similar mandate. He also falsely claimed the vaccines may cause genetic modification, which is unfounded, according to fact checks by The Washington Post, Associated Press and other media outlets.

2018 is his model for success?!

Physician raises concerns about bill

Rep. Sabi Kumar, R-Springfield, said the death rate of COVID-19 is lower due to scientific development over the years that allowed people to be more informed than before. He is a physician.

"At this time, unfortunately, we still have half a million people that have died in the United States despite those (safety) measures," he said. "I would submit to you that those measures played a role in keeping the number of those deaths to the level we are at. Things could have been much worse."

Kumar said he was afraid the bill would "create an anti-vaccine attitude." Vaccines have saved lives and have been proven effective, he said, and the legislation could "set a tone and a precedent" to ban vaccination mandates for responding to future health crises.

"Certainly, down the road, if another condition comes along, this could be used as a precedent," he said. "The fact is that, today we are better informed about the spread of viruses."

Rep. Pat Marsh, R-Shelbyville, said the bill utilizes "scare tactics" to attack a problem that does not exist.

"I haven't heard anybody say, with any truth at all, that they are going to mandate vaccines," Marsh said....

Hospitals excluded from bill

Others expressed concerns the bill would bring about unintended consequences on health care professionals. Rep. Bob Ramsey, R-Maryville, said roughly 45 hospitals across Tennessee with state ties would be affected. He proposed an amendment that would exclude hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities from the purview of the bill.

The amendment was drafted by the Tennessee Hospital Association, Ramsey said. Joe Burchfield of THA told lawmakers Wednesday some hospital employees are required to receive flu vaccines, and the ability to require immunization protects health care workers and patients from viral exposure.

"We wanna make sure all hospitals have the ability to appropriately manage their employees and ensure patient safety throughout the facility," he said....

I was required to get flu vaccines and was fine with it. Idk, but this amendment might mean that the Hulsey-Bowling tantrum will have little real world effect . Otoh, it might make the paranoid stupidity more likely to pass and get signed .