The Republican National Committee is trying to raise money for Trump’s re-election by sending out bogus surveys designed to look like census forms, the Washington Post and Huffington Post reported Thursday. “Two civil rights groups demanded that the Republican National Committee immediat[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Repugnants’
October 17th, 2019 - 5:05 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP fundraising mailers scam citizens by posing as census surveys
October 9th, 2019 - 10:01 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
Lindsey Graham, then and now
Then: Now: “Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday tried to derail the possible impeachment of President Donald Trump by asking Senate Republicans to sign a loyalty oath. … According to the South Carolina Republican, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats ‘are about to destroy t[...]
September 24th, 2019 - 5:01 pm § in Donald Trump
“Mitch McConnell criticizes ‘Washington Democrats’ opening an impeachment inquiry into Trump”
That was CNN’s headline on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, after House Democrats met to decide on a course of action. (Read story here.) Screw him.* If a Democrat did a fraction of what Trump has done, he’d be calling for his head. McConnell is loyal to his party and its agenda, not his country[...]
September 17th, 2019 - 1:16 pm § in Politics
GOP lawmaker claims rape is consensual
CNN reports that Barry Hovis, a Republican and ex-cop elected to Missouri’s legislature in 2018, claimed in support of an unconstitutional anti-abortion bill that most rapes are “date rapes or consensual rapes.” Read story here. I think a lot of women would be surprised to learn th[...]
September 14th, 2019 - 5:36 pm § in Donald Trump
Chickenhawk math: They lose 150 million people. We lose only 20 million people. We win.
“President Donald Trump’s acting national security adviser, former Reagan administration official Charles Kupperman, made an extraordinary and controversial claim in the early 1980s: nuclear conflict with the USSR was winnable and … in a scenario in which 20 million people died in the [...]
September 13th, 2019 - 9:50 am § in Politics
Texas GOP legislator threatens Beto O’Rourke over proposed assault rifle ban
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s not-entirely-unreasonable remark in Thursday night’s debate that, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47, we are not going to allow them to be used against fellow Americans anymore,” prompted an angr[...]
August 6th, 2019 - 12:16 pm § in Politics
McConnell’s campaign uses tombstone to depict his opponent
On the same weekend as deadly mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign circulated this photo depicting his Amy McGrath, Democratic opponent as dead and buried (lower right in photo). Honestly, this is how today’s Republicans think about people[...]
TRUMP TAKES TROPHIES IN GOP TAKEOVER
Trump administration legalizes elephant trophies. In a nod to the GOP roots in Teddy Roosevelt’s day as a great hunter, the Trump Fish and Wildlife Service announced a repeal of the ban on the importation of elephant-hunt trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. This will allow Americans to brin[...]
Fox News pastor calls Democrats “godless”
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of a Dallas megachurch with about 13,000 members, a Fox News contributor, and an ardent Trump supporter, told attendees at an evangelical conference in Washington D.C. on Saturday that the Democratic Party is “a godless organization” and urged the crowd to be [...]
Concentration Camps: an America First Phenomenon