The Republican Agenda 2016 forward

[SouprMatt]

Apparently, Christian nationalism is the top item on the agenda of House Speaker Johnson.

Johnson delivered a prayer he claimed was written and recited every day by Thomas Jefferson, prefacing it thusly:

“I was asked to provide a prayer for the nation. I offered one that is quite familiar to historians and probably many of us,” Johnson said.

“It is said each day of his eight years of the presidency and every day thereafter until his death, President Thomas Jefferson recited this prayer,“

Except Tommy J didn’t write that prayer, nor did he believe in a president offering any public prayer. The one true statement is that historians are quite familiar with this fake story. It’s debunked on the Monticello website in fact.

National Prayer for Peace (Spurious Quotations)

www.monticello.org

We have no evidence that this prayer was written or delivered by Thomas Jefferson. It appears in the 1928 United States Book of Common Prayer, and was first suggested for inclusion in a report published in 1919.

Ultimately, it seems unlikely that Jefferson would have composed or delivered a public prayer of this sort. He considered religion a private matter, and when asked to recommend a national day of fasting and prayer, replied, "I consider the government of the US. as interdicted by the constitution from intermedling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises."

But hey, people stupid enough to vote for Trump don’t care that this is completely made up. So expect much more of this nonsense!

 

[shadow puppet]

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[lizkat]

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Yeah well the Republican Party cannot erase the spreading stain of 1/6 on their piece of our modern American history no matter what they do now to try to minimize its importance.

It's too late. The whole world saw it on live TV, we all witnessed it, it's recorded on tape, in documents from hearings, in tears and broken hearts and painful memory (right along with our recollection of all those who first denounced the insurrection, then "somehow" got amnesia and have ever since embraced Trump's election denialism).

Trying to disavow the significance of that insurrection now just makes the crimes of January 6, 2021 all the more heinous. One wouldn't think anything could add more tarnish to the original event, but Republican efforts to discount it are doing exactly that.

Behold the damned spot! Darker than ever.

This is not China, managing to quash all mention of what happened in Tienanmen Square in 1989. Not yet.

 

[SouprMatt]

Republicans consider Elon Musk to be their “Prime Minister”????

With ‘prime minister’ talk, the GOP line on Elon Musk takes a weird turn

One House Republican declared, “It feels like as if Elon Musk is our prime minister.” The closer one looks, the worse the comment appears.

www.msnbc.com

Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, on Sunday compared tech mogul Elon Musk to a “prime minister,” praising Musk for speaking out against an early version of a stopgap funding bill last week. “It’s kind of interesting,” Gonzales said during an interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “We have a president, we have a vice president, we have a speaker. It feels like as if Elon Musk is our prime minister.”

Forget the fact that this Congress critter doesn’t seem to understand the form of government he was elected to participate in. He seems to think an unelected unofficial prime minister is a good thing?

It’s just going to get dumber from here, isn’t it? 🤦‍♂️

 

[lizkat]

Republicans consider Elon Musk to be their “Prime Minister”????

With ‘prime minister’ talk, the GOP line on Elon Musk takes a weird turn

One House Republican declared, “It feels like as if Elon Musk is our prime minister.” The closer one looks, the worse the comment appears.

www.msnbc.com

Forget the fact that this Congress critter doesn’t seem to understand the form of government he was elected to participate in. He seems to think an unelected unofficial prime minister is a good thing?

It’s just going to get dumber from here, isn’t it? 🤦‍♂️

Yep. That hiccup in the Speaker's election was a message. There was already an earlier agreement to change the House rules so that it will take nine members, not one, to bring a motion to vacate the speaker's chair. That may not save Johnson's grip on the gavel for long though.

Initially, exactly ten votes were withheld from Johnson by GOP congress critters declining to cast a vote for him in the first roll call on Friday after Jeffries and Johnson had been nominated. That vote was then held open for 40 minutes. Seven of those ten members then voted for Johnson when their names were called again, one actually voted for Jeffries and two of the ten did flip their votes to Johnson after speaking with Trump. So the speaker won with the exact minimum of 218 needed to get the gavel after some arm twisting and showboating.

That was just a preview of the GOP's clown car for the 119th Congress.
Wait until they have to pick up where they left off in December (with a continuing resolution to fund the government through March 14).

The seven guys who initially withheld their votes for Speaker, and the three who at first voted for three other (not nominated) Republican House members, have all voiced objections to raising the debt ceiling. These are guys from the hard right who had won primaries and then general elections in their conservative districts by appealing to voters who claim to be opposed to most government spending.

The arithmetic does not favor Johnson getting GOP spending bills through the House (that the Senate will pass) without Democrats' help. And using that assistance is another thing that the hard right looks on with disfavor, possibly enough to cause a motion to ditch the Speaker.

So we're back to a House that's majority R but lacks proven ability to govern... and its margin is even skinnier this time around.

I've been admiring images from a search on "clown car" since Friday. There are some pretty imaginative ones really. But the GOP aisle of the 119th Congress looks to be in a class of its own. 🙄

 

[P___X]

Yep. That hiccup in the Speaker's election was a message. There was already an earlier agreement to change the House rules so that it will take nine members, not one, to bring a motion to vacate the speaker's chair. That may not save Johnson's grip on the gavel for long though.

Initially, exactly ten votes were withheld from Johnson by GOP congress critters declining to cast a vote for him in the first roll call on Friday after Jeffries and Johnson had been nominated. That vote was then held open for 40 minutes. Seven of those ten members then voted for Johnson when their names were called again, one actually voted for Jeffries and two of the ten did flip their votes to Johnson after speaking with Trump. So the speaker won with the exact minimum of 218 needed to get the gavel after some arm twisting and showboating.

That was just a preview of the GOP's clown car for the 119th Congress.
Wait until they have to pick up where they left off in December (with a continuing resolution to fund the government through March 14).

The seven guys who initially withheld their votes for Speaker, and the three who at first voted for three other (not nominated) Republican House members, have all voiced objections to raising the debt ceiling. These are guys from the hard right who had won primaries and then general elections in their conservative districts by appealing to voters who claim to be opposed to most government spending.

The arithmetic does not favor Johnson getting GOP spending bills through the House (that the Senate will pass) without Democrats' help. And using that assistance is another thing that the hard right looks on with disfavor, possibly enough to cause a motion to ditch the Speaker.

So we're back to a House that's majority R but lacks proven ability to govern... and its margin is even skinnier this time around.

I've been admiring images from a search on "clown car" since Friday. There are some pretty imaginative ones really. But the GOP aisle of the 119th Congress looks to be in a class of its own. 🙄

and people still vote them in... if the guvmint were "run like a business," these fools would have been fired.

Of course, the "fuck your feelings" folks suddenly desire political correctness when they are called fucking stupid for failing any kind of consistency test.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

This deserves to be revisited every now & then, as a reminder that we knew this was coming eventually.

 

[SouprMatt]

This deserves to be revisited every now & then, as a reminder that we knew this was coming eventually.

I was just watching this last week. The other panelists were so disdainful of him, but he was absolutely correct. Brilliant!

 

[P___X]

This deserves to be revisited every now & then, as a reminder that we knew this was coming eventually.

I was just watching this last week. The other panelists were so disdainful of him, but he was absolutely correct. Brilliant!

wow. It's pretty interesting to see how well he dodges these guys trying to talk to him like he is a kid. I bet none of those people from this panel are alive to see how right Zappa was.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

It's impressive that these grown folk can't hide themselves even for a few moments in public on a grand stage.

GOP Senator's Husband Snubs Harris' Handshake During Swearing-In Ceremony

Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer's husband also appeared to refuse eye contact with the vice president.

www.yahoo.com

The husband of a Republican senator refused to shake Vice President Kamala Harris’ hand during his wife’s swearing-in ceremony on Friday, as seen in a now-viral video that captured the awkward exchange.

Sen. Deb Fischer (R.-Neb.) appeared to be all smiles while being sworn in by Harris for her third term in the U.S. Senate while standing alongside her husband, Bruce Fischer.

The moment appeared to turn frosty, however, as the senator repeatedly nudged her husband to stand closer to the vice president as he held a cane with one hand and a Bible in the other.

“It’s OK, I won’t bite. I’m not going to bite. Don’t worry,” a smiling Harris is heard telling him as he appears to avert his gaze and keep his eyes on the Bible.


Deb Fischer shook Harris’ hand after completing her oath and thanked the vice president. When Harris expressed congratulations to the senator’s husband, he offered a short “thank you” and then dropped his newly freed left hand and put it in his pants pocket, prompting a raised-eyebrows reaction from Harris.

The senator shared photos of the event on her social media account along with a pledge about continuing to stand together.

“Together we will continue to stand tall for our shared values and take care of our people. We will protect this nation. We will build a stronger Nebraska. And we will secure that brighter future for our children and grandchildren,” her post read.

Representatives for her office did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment Monday on the handshake (or lack thereof).

 

[P___X]

Trump's the undisputed champion of inheriting wealth:

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

The group that hates people's feelings, are back in their's over the dumbest shit

Center for Democracy and Technology - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Emo doesn't like them ( as he doesn't like most news sources that aren't him these days ) and they say mean things about their dear leader. So, like their children, if they think you are coming for their feelings, they're coming for you.

 

[SouprMatt]

The group that hates people's feelings, are back in their's over the dumbest shit






Emo doesn't like them ( as he doesn't like most news sources that aren't him these days ) and they say mean things about their dear leader. So, like their children, if they think you are coming for their feelings, they're coming for you.

Oh look, more right-wingers displaying epic levels of ignorance.

Most public radio and TV funding comes from donations. They get some money from government, but if that dried up, they’d make it up from people who would love to donate a little more. After all, if Trump hates NPR, a LOT of people will see donating as an act of fighting back. Wikipedia got record donations after Musk promised to shut it down.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

Courtesy of Substack

Y'know, I never thought of it that way. 🤔

 

[Hrafn]

Courtesy of Substack

Y'know, I never thought of it that way. 🤔

That's just rude. Not wrong, just rude.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Here's another way to look at things.



...and a great comment that followed it.

 

[SouprMatt]

Here's another way to look at things.



...and a great comment that followed it.

Thanks for sharing these bits of wisdom. We're going to need it going forward.

 

[lizkat]

and people still vote them in... if the guvmint were "run like a business," these fools would have been fired.

Of course, the "fuck your feelings" folks suddenly desire political correctness when they are called fucking stupid for failing any kind of consistency test.

Yeah well unless the saner economic advisors prevail in the Trump 2.0 White House, this guvmint will be run like a typical failing Trump biz.

Here is a gift link to a Phila Inquirer piece good for 30 days that suggests it's so far obvious Trump & fauxFriends have not read it.

Let’s hope Trump’s mass deportation and more tariffs are campaign promises he doesn’t keep, says economist Joel Naroff

How would a huge removal of undocumented workers impact the economy? And how would tariffs affect prices for U.S. consumers?

share.inquirer.com

 

[Thomas Veil]

Yeah well unless the saner economic advisors prevail in the Trump 2.0 White House, this guvmint will be run like a typical failing Trump biz.

Here is a gift link to a Phila Inquirer piece good for 30 days that suggests it's so far obvious Trump & fauxFriends have not read it.

Let’s hope Trump’s mass deportation and more tariffs are campaign promises he doesn’t keep, says economist Joel Naroff

How would a huge removal of undocumented workers impact the economy? And how would tariffs affect prices for U.S. consumers?

share.inquirer.com

I actually saw a different piece that said that Trump should be allowed to fail, and then that failure should be shoved down his throat.

Shove the Presidency Down Trump's Throat — The New Republic

Liberals spent the president-elect’s first term trying and failing to kick him out of office. This time out, they need to turn the White House into a prison.

apple.news

 

[ronntaylor]

I actually saw a different piece that said that Trump should be allowed to fail, and then that failure should be shoved down his throat.

Yes, Dems need to do their F-ing job and stop worrying about so-called norms. Mango is not a normal pol. He's a wannabe dictator and imbecile. They should do what the GOP did to Obamacare: muddy any prospective GQP legislation and then call it out when it inevitably fails.