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Cont: The thread for stupidity from GQP politicians who don't have their own thread Part II

Norman Alexander said:
Don't know about anyone else, but I would think failing but then lying brazenly and openly about that failing, while in the second-highest position in the military hierarchy, is hardly an honourable course of action befitting the US military. It's the sort of thing that would get officers dishonorably discharged on the spot. But Heggy, a former military officer himself, is going that route. What a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ arsehole. The uniformed folks must detest him...
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Hegseth won't be ousted until his purse is stolen.
 
It's not gonna pass there, but . . .

Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com)

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison. [contains...
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Resume said:
It's not gonna pass there, but . . .

Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com)

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison. [contains...
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Oh come on! Please let these guys be the first to die from COVID mk2.
 
The Don said:
"If" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that post.

Hegseth is brazening it out at the moment doing the usual MAGA thing of insisting that the well known facts are simply wrong and that everyone is out to get him - exactly as Trump does. As long as he continues to do this, Trump has no need to get rid of him.
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Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary

The White House has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace Pete Hegseth, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy over sharing military operational details in a group chat.

The defense secretary is under fire after revelations that he shared classified information in a group chat with his wife, brother and lawyer, according to the official.
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Republicans see economy improving? How? How are they improving their states if in congress? The tax cuts will not revive what tariffs broke.
But 83% of Democrats and 54% of independents see the economy getting worse. Among those believing the president's policies will have a positive impact, 27% say it will take a year or longer. However, 40% of those who are negative about the president's policies say they are hurting the economy now.
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www.cnbc.com

Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds

President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.
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Tero said:
Republicans see evonomy improving? How?
But 83% of Democrats and 54% of independents see the economy getting worse. Among those believing the president's policies will have a positive impact, 27% say it will take a year or longer. However, 40% of those who are negative about the president's policies say they are hurting the economy now.
www.cnbc.com

Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds

President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.
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But they're great numbers! No-one has ever had negative numbers like that before! People are coming up to me in the streets...yadda yadda yadda.
 
Tero said:
Republicans see economy improving? How? How are they improving their states if in congress? The tax cuts will not revive what tariffs broke.

www.cnbc.com

Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds

President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
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Its no longer about facts, it's all about "feels".

The majority of Americans were better off at the end of Biden's term than they were at the start but the changes were marginal for most people so they didn't feel better off and they'd been bombarded with messages about how expensive everything had become. Rises in prices are remembered, rises in income are forgotten.

People who believe in Trump and his administration will feel that they're better off - especially if the media they consume tells them that they are, or at least soon will be.

If you have to resort to facts these days, you've already lost the argument.
 
Norman Alexander said:
It is a contraction of the phrase "I'm desperately hoping that if..."

Don't know about anyone else, but I would think failing but then lying brazenly and openly about that failing, while in the second-highest position in the military hierarchy, is hardly an honourable course of action befitting the US military. It's the sort of thing that would get officers dishonorably discharged on the spot. But Heggy, a former military officer himself, is going that route. What a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ arsehole. The uniformed folks must detest him...

Won't matter where her emails are now. Her ID alone could easily give access to a clever hacker...someone from, say, Moscow or Beijing or Pyong Yang may be able to do it. So yeah, typical MAGA playbook - being a useful moron for Pootie.
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Hegseth is a former weekend warrior who won his medals for doing such valorous acts as ordering underlings to make his bed properly.
 
atlantablackstar.com

Remember Rep. Al Green's Cane? Republican Congresswoman Claims, Without Evidence, 'There's a Gun In There,' Calls the Black Man a 'Boy'

It was a signature moment of the Democratic resistance to Donald Trump as he began his second term: Longtime Texas congressman Al Green frantically waving
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Remember Rep. Al Green’s Cane? Republican Congresswoman Claims, Without Evidence, ‘There’s a Gun In There,’ Calls the Black Man a ‘Boy’​

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It was a signature moment of the Democratic resistance to Donald Trump as he began his second term: Longtime Texas congressman Al Green frantically waving his cane, jeering the president as he delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress in early March.

Green was eventually escorted from the chamber after ignoring repeated requests from House Speaker Mike Johnson to sit down. He was later censured by the Republican-dominated House.

But some Republicans just can’t seem to let go of Green’s protest. Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who tried to shout down former President Joe Biden at his 2022 State of the Union address, said Green didn’t need the cane to walk, adding, “If that gold-plated cane isn’t a pimp cane, I don’t know what is.”
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Now, another GOP lawmaker, Tennessee Rep. Diana Harshbarger, is claiming the cane is just a prop to conceal a firearm. She also seemed to disparage her 77-year-old Black colleague by referring to him as “boy” in an interview with a conservative Christian podcaster Booney Crawford.

The two were discussing how members interact behind the scenes when talk turned to the Democrats’ response to Trump during his March address.

“Is it like, you know, like here locally, or I guess it’s everywhere, where attorneys will get in a courtroom and they’ll fuss and fight with each other, but as soon as it’s over, they go out to dinner, have coffee, whatever?” Crawford asked in a recent interview.

“Well, Lord Jesus, they make money that way, too,” Harshbarger replied. “They get up and rant and rave and tweet, or X, or whatever it is.”

“Hold their signs up during the State of the Union,” Crawford noted.
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Harshbarger said she wanted to grab some of those signs from the Democrats but didn’t because “Al Green was over here with his cane, and I’m like, gosh, dang it, boy, put that … He does not need that cane. That cane is a prop.”

“I swear it’s not real,” Harshbarger continued. “And I’m wondering, one of my colleagues said, ‘screw the gold part off of that and see if there’s a gun in there. ‘”

“I’m like, I don’t know about that man,” she concluded, “He’s just weird Al.”
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And you're just a racist piece of ◊◊◊◊.
 
Norman Alexander said:
A mental institute for the criminally bewildered.
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Probably, but just in case someone forgot the reference, "beneficial skills" was the term used by DeSantis in passing the Florida law that mandates the teaching of the benefits of slavery. I think De Santis lacks some of those skills, and a visit to the beckoning shores of El Salvador might rectify the situation.
 
The only reason this is getting any traction is because the FL state legislature is angry with DeSantis for not bowing to Trump earlier than he did. OTherwise this would be neatly swept under the carpet.
 
bruto said:
Probably, but just in case someone forgot the reference, "beneficial skills" was the term used by DeSantis in passing the Florida law that mandates the teaching of the benefits of slavery. I think De Santis lacks some of those skills, and a visit to the beckoning shores of El Salvador might rectify the situation.
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Yep, I remembered. Hence my recommendation of his removal to a prison farm permanently. He can get to live the rest of his life with nothing to look forward to.
 
Norman Alexander said:
If Noem gets the flick, and Hegseth gets the flick...any bets on how soon RFK Jr. gets the memo?
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Trump doesn't seem as keen on firing people this term. He burned through a bunch of fairly qualified people in his first admin and in his second there seem to be a lot of loose cannons smashing into things, but if they're fired I don't think there is going to be a large pool of potential replacements. If he fires someone, he's tacitly admitting he was wrong to hire them and I'm not sure he's capable of that at this stage. Also even his big fans might be a little leery of attaching themselves to him at this point. They may love him to pieces but it's hard not to see the downside of a boss who changes his mind on major policy issues every 1-2 days and who is, even with Congress on his side, something of a lame duck. There are some cracks showing: The flip-flopping on tariffs, his stance on Russia/Ukraine, even his "Trump 2028" hats are alienating a few people. Not to the point where they regret voting for him, but enough to give some pause.
 
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I'm extremely leery of media reports at this point. In my list of Trump's vulnerable points I didn't bring up the Signal thing because I don't see that many people grumbling about it on conservative forums. I am NOT saying that NPR is making it up, just that, we all have a bias toward believing what we want to believe. I'm sure they have good contacts, but it's not hard to get people to talk when you promise them anonymity.

I kind of hope it's true, but I'm not sure the next pick would be any better. If Trump wants Hesgeth out - I'll believe it when I see it.

ETA: Thanks for the post though. I want to stay informed but constantly trying to read the tea leaves is a little crazy-making.
 
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Ya, Legal Eagle brought that up last year. 2 lawyers using AI to research and write documents to submit, citing cases and statutes that do not exist.

 
shemp said:
By that standard, she must be a member of three gangs!
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Carrying suspiciously large sum of cash. Associating with bag thieves. And how did the criminal get away when she was supposedly under protection? Shall we add abetting? Off to the gulag with her.

She's a citizen? Okay where's her driver's licence? No? Well then where's her passport? No?

Gulag.
 
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shemp said:
Do they have any idea how they're going to define political memes or enforce this? Or is it just the usual performative stupidity?
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Like pornography, they'll know it when they see it. Anything that makes fun of liberals or minorities, anything that seems to be inciting violence against those groups, any slander against any out group is protected free speech.

Anything less than fully supportive of the MAGA project is a political meme and must be banned.
 
Trebuchet said:
There's only one amendment Republicans care about and it isn't that one.
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Just to be clear, if you're referring to the 2nd Amendment, they don't really care about that one, either. Even the far right extremist perversion of it that they've been pushing for political reasons. From the start, black people's "right to bear arms" has been restricted, one way or another, after all, and Republican support of the 2nd Amendment, actual or perversion, suffers from much the same issues as all the rest of the "principles" that they claim to adhere to as a collective.
 
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Noem claims "Immingrants hate us!"

Yeah, that's why they're risking everything to come here.

I saw another maga-idiot praising Donnie Diapers for saving her daughters from the raping immigrant hordes, and a recent CNN poll results confirm that Trump's incessant gaslighting of migrants as criminals has done its job, as a large majority of those polled believe all migrants should be deported.

Bull ◊◊◊◊ is king now, though both-siders will claim it was alway thus, but no, not like this.
 
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ZiprHead said:
Before you all get your undies in a bunch you can read the bill here.
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Read it.
Am I allowed to bunch my undies?
It is so unconstitutional as to be anti-constitutional.

It outlaws political speech by whoever isn’t in charge of the “commission”

All elected or appointed republicans at the state or federal level are violent enemies of Americans and should face consequences that I’ll not mention here
 
autumn1971 said:
Read it.
Am I allowed to bunch my undies?
It is so unconstitutional as to be anti-constitutional.

It outlaws political speech by whoever isn’t in charge of the “commission”

All elected or appointed republicans at the state or federal level are violent enemies of Americans and should face consequences that I’ll not mention here
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I am wondering if we're reading the same bill. Or maybe I'm missing something. The bill linked appears to forbid AI generated or altered audio, video or images of candidates or office holders in order to influence an election, unless there is a distinct notice that the image in question is artificial. If it forbids political speech, I'm missing that part, I guess. I do think it an oversight, ambiguous at best, that the law does not state whether the ban includes caricature, cartoons, and the like. But for the rest, I am not sure what the problem is. What am I missing?
 
bruto said:
I am wondering if we're reading the same bill. Or maybe I'm missing something. The bill linked appears to forbid AI generated or altered audio, video or images of candidates or office holders in order to influence an election, unless there is a distinct notice that the image in question is artificial. If it forbids political speech, I'm missing that part, I guess. I do think it an oversight, ambiguous at best, that the law does not state whether the ban includes caricature, cartoons, and the like. But for the rest, I am not sure what the problem is. What am I missing?
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I was going to post the first section but it comes out in a funky format and I'm not sure it's allowed. But the issue I see is this is incredibly broad and subjective. It doesn't have to be "AI" generated. Just that it did not occur "in reality." To me it seems this would include some fairly innocuous editing practices such as "flipping" a picture - running a mirror image because it works better for your layout, for some reason. That's not, IMO, acceptable in journalism but it is done in advertising all the time.

In the newspaper business we'd code that in the credit: Instead of "Photo by ...." it would be labeled "photo illustration."

Photoshop an image to make you look a little better or your opponent a little worse? Hike up contrast to make something look sinister? Obama's blue-and-red-toned "Hope" poster from 2008? Anything animated, obviously, did not occur in reality. Anything with a filter applied did not occur in reality. A 30-second ad made of excerpts that shows someone lying 30 times? It didn't actually occur over a 30-second period. That

It appears to apply only to candidates and PACs. Individuals can circulate it, video services can air it, etc.

Add a disclosure and you're apparently off the hook.
 
shemp said:
Do they have any idea how they're going to define political memes or enforce this? Or is it just the usual performative stupidity?
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Anything that doesn't glorify the führer, gauleiter or the party is political.

So "ceiling cat is watching you" is strictly verbotten unless he's wearing a swastika armband.
 
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