That would be Trump, and his Son in Law. Jared Kushner gets $2B Saudi investment, drawing Hunter Biden comparisons

So, by extension, it would be probably would also include people like you, who support people like them. After all, the Saudis are big Republican supporters.

Yup.

Economic toll in Texas worsens as trucks remain stopped at Mexico border

Economic fallout worsened Thursday even as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R, moved incrementally to roll back new inspection rules for commercial trucks entering from Mexico, with some companies saying they aren't able to fulfill orders because trucks are stuck in multi-mile backups at a number of entry points.

Well, this might hurt Abbot's aspirations for the white House, as he competes with Desantis for who can be the next Trump.

Ron DeSantis has a lot of aspiration for the White House in 2024, and often leads in the polls among other likely GOP candidates - while stewing over Trump teasing another run. Therefore, he is doing all sorts of crazy shit as Florida's Governor to get attention, and support, from Trump's base. He's using the current culture wars as a pretense to go after his critics, science, teachers, businesses, and other groups, with the Florida/s GOP controlled legislature aiding him with laws that he then signs.

How nutty it is? Teachers can be sued by parents if if they are accused of discussing sex and gender in their classroom. The state has gone after solar panels, which is already increasing energy costs in the state. And his Department of Education is going through math-books with a fine toot pick to find anything that maybe offensive to the right. And, they are going after Disney.

It's one thing to counter some of the nuttiness on the left, but it's another thing to go so far in the opposite direction that you are worse than what you bitch about.

Kyle Rittenhouse is a right wing "hero" extremist

I admit disappointment that Edy hasn't already covered the legalized pedophilia "penis inspection day" laws that Republicans in Florida have passed.

You mean the prank?

No, this.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-transgender-sports-ban-b1833166.html

I think this was already brought up in separate topics last year. I think it has also been recently undermined by their next poorly written bill "Don't say gay". which prevents school from talking about "sexual orientation or gender identity". So if they can't talk about it, then they can't enforce the trans sports ban.

Just the daily craziness:

Michigan state senator hits back at GOP colleague accusing her of 'grooming' kids

McMorrow responded Tuesday morning to accusations made in a fundraising email by Republican state Sen. Lana Theis that her Democratic colleague wanted to “groom and sexualize kindergarteners.”

“I didn’t expect to wake up yesterday to the news that the senator from the 22nd district had, overnight, accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an email fundraising for herself,” McMorrow said at the beginning of her remarks. “So I sat on it for a while wondering: Why me? And then I realized: Because I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. Because you can’t claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of ‘parental rights’ if another parent is standing up to say no.”

Outgoing GOP Lawmaker Issues Dire Warning About Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

A retiring Republican lawmaker says the extremist members of his party could make it difficult for the GOP to govern if they retake control of the House of Representatives in November with a slim majority.

“It will be very hard to govern for Republicans if we’re under 230, knowing that we’ve got the MTG element that’s really not a part of a governing majority,” Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

Ron Johnson pursues a scorched-earth path to reelection

Ron Johnson’s approval ratings are underwater in a swing state that President Joe Biden won.

Instead of moving to the center, though, as he faces reelection this fall, the Wisconsin senator has become the face of conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and the 2020 election in the Senate. He has said that gargling mouthwash can kill the coronavirus, Jan. 6 was a mostly “peaceful protest,” and unvaccinated people around the world are being sent “basically into internment camps.”

For a vulnerable senator staring down a tough campaign, the string of head-turning remarks seem to defy political logic. But it turns out that Johnson’s shoot-from-the-lip style is a feature, not a bug, of his campaign for a third term. GOP strategists and officials say his unfiltered remarks are generating enthusiasm among a party base conditioned by Donald Trump, and appealing to independents who loathe Washington.

'A dangerous precedent.' In Northern Kentucky, the Republican party is at war with itself

Cancel culture:

Trump-backed House candidate removed from ballot by Tenn. Republicans

‘A racist move’: Florida’s DeSantis threatens Black voter power with electoral maps

Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis is brazenly trying to curtail Black political power in his state as he redraws its congressional districts to significantly benefit Republicans.

The Florida legislature is meeting this week to consider a proposal from DeSantis that would give Florida Republicans a 20-8 advantage over Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation. That’s a four-seat increase from the 16-11 advantage Republicans hold now (Florida gained an additional seat in Congress because of population growth).

DeSantis’s plan severely undercuts the voting power of Black Floridians. There are currently four districts in the state where Black voters can elect their preferred candidates. His plan would leave just two.

Just some context... For the last 50 plus years Republicans were the party of business. They hated socialism, communism, business regulations, worker rights, anything that got in the way of a business making money... Neo conservatism, free marketism, voodoo economics, trickled down economics, whatever you want to call it, they were all about protecting business interests, arguing that business knew what was best for them and the country, and that it benefited everyone.

But the recent actions by Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and his cohorts in the state capital who helped him, have upended this cozy relationship, more so than Trump. They still believe in many of these these ideas, but it's now predicated on loyalty, and zero criticism, of the party, and using government to retaliate against those who don't fall in line with the partisan whims of an increasing authoritarian governor.

I mean you can register for whatever party you like, but do you really and can you honestly say with a straight face that you identify primarily with the Republican party and that you consider yourself aligned with them? I think your posting history strongly suggests otherwise, so I find this ironic.

I would pin you as Democrat. Not a doubt.

I identify as a Maoist

I've been a Republican for around 30 years, now. I know what the party is better than most on this board, who simply think it's a left and right issues that is all about what side you stand on in the culture war - and that is a huge fucking problem these days.

Despite what people may think, I still, very much, vote for Republicans, not on their cultural shit, but on their actual political platforms - which is getting harder to find these days. And it's always case by case, since I don't vote for crazies (of any party). I will vote for Democrats if I view them as the lesser evil, though they have their own set of problems I dislike.

I am not a party purist, and I am to stubborn to switch to independent. But I am a firm believer in our two party system, our democracy, and I would love to get rid of the current rot in the Republican party and bring it back to it's sanity of the 80' and 90's. To that end, I will continue to vote for sane Republicans even if they continue to lose.

So, don' t tell me that I am disingenuous over things you know shit about, because you are the one being superficial.

One, that's from another thread, and yes I do believe you were being disingenuous in that thread, but do keep to topic. Criticize it in that thread, if you like. It's off-topic here.

Two, nothing I have said is false. And I didn't say you couldn't register as whatever party you liked (whether you identified with this party or not) as there could be potential political strategy to it. I just said I found it ironic is all.

I would not consider you a Republican, regardless if you consider yourself to be one. Should this matter to you? Not at all. But I doubt I am alone in this thinking.

Then maybe don't hound me any time I lenin out.

I don't care what you believe. I just said I am a registered Republican, not a party purist. But I am no Democrat.

No wonder why they keep winning elections...

Mark Meadows Was Simultaneously Registered To Vote In 3 Different States

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states ― North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, according to records obtained by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.

The ex-Trump aide was removed from voter rolls in North Carolina earlier this month while he is being investigated by state election officials for possible voter fraud. Meadows, who represented the state in the House before his time in Donald Trump’s White House, was registered to vote using an address where he reportedly never lived.

Meadows remains registered to vote in both Virginia and South Carolina, per the Post.

Like his former boss, Meadows constantly talked up “election integrity” and the threat of purported voter fraud during the 2020 presidential campaign and after Trump’s defeat. There has been no significant evidence of either, despite Trump’s continued insistence that he won.

At the White House, Meadows was deeply involved in Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election, which led to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

What was all that fuss about voter fraud again?

I just came across this beauty:

DeSantis Defends Law Stripping Disney of Autonomous Status, Says Company Tried to ‘Commandeer’ Democratic Process

This from a guy who publicly supports Trump after Jan 6th, enacted heavily gerrymandered districts that favor Republicans, and passed voting laws that make it harder for many low income people to vote - and ignored the will of the people over restoring voter rights to people with criminal records.

The only thing Dsantis is good at is projecting his own bad qualities onto others, while playing victim. If his political opponents were smart they would point some of this basic shit out, while also pointing to his campaign funds coming from millionaires/billionaires, and corporations, to buy his ear off to subvert democracy.

School library bill advances, sponsor suggests book burning

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans advanced legislation Wednesday that would place more scrutiny over what books are placed in public schools libraries, moments after the bill’s House sponsor said any inappropriate book should be burned.

DeSantis using Black kids as Critical Race Theory props is political child abuse | Frank Cerabino

For the record, CRT, or Critical Race Theory, is a college-level course that is already banned in Florida’s K-12 schools. And the idea that any of those elementary-school children had an understanding of what it is strains the boundaries of credulity.

But what takes real chutzpah – and a measure of smallness, even for DeSantis – is to stage this political event while putting the anti-CRT signs in the hands of unwitting Black children, whose primary role would be to have their Black faces photographed next to DeSantis as a silent endorsement of the whitewashing of their own history.

Yup.

Ohio Republican lawmaker says pregnancy resulting from rape is an 'opportunity' for the person who was sexually assaulted

Oklahoma GOP Congressional candidate John Bennett calls for execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci

GOP Concocts New Fake Threat: Vote Fraud by Unauthorized Immigrants

The champion of free speech,...

DeSantis' Bonkers Claim About Cartoons Has Twitter Destroying Him With Acme Dynamite

'Can't you just shoot them?': Former defense secretary says Trump wanted violence against Floyd protesters

Manufacturing outrage to emotionally excite people to support Republicans by Conservative media, while offering no substance, with mostly Republican candidates running away from debates because of that.

A Fox employee said executives at the network said they wanted to purposely air 'grievance' to 'get people boiled up': NYT

• The New York Times reported that Fox News executives seek to highlight "grievance" in the network's coverage.
• The driving narrative, an employee suggested, was one that made viewers believe they're in danger.
• "They're coming for you, the Blacks are coming for you, the Mexicans are coming for you," the employee told The Times

Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'

Night after night, the host of the most watched show in prime-time cable news uses a simple narrative to instill fear in his viewers: “They” want to control and then destroy “you.”

A New York Times analysis of 1,150 episodes reveals how Tucker Carlson pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households, five nights a week. He’s done so since the beginning, but the show has gotten darker. Carlson, 52, has one of the largest megaphones in all of cable television. When President Donald Trump left office, Carlson filled the void on the right. Here’s how the show works.

When you enter Carlson’s world each night, you are among his 3 million-plus viewers — and part of a Fox News audience that is 92% white and overwhelmingly older, according to Nielsen data. They are the “ruling class.” They threaten everything you believe in.

Herschel Walker, other candidates test skipping debates

ATLANTA (AP) — Herschel Walker is expected to skip a second debate against his Republican rivals for a crucial U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday after missing the first one.

Ted Budd has skipped four Republican primary debates in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina. GOP candidates for governor in Ohio, Nevada and Nebraska also have refused to engage with their opponents from the debate podium.

As the most competitive phase of the midterm primary season unfolds this week, many candidates for leading offices — often Republicans — are abandoning the time-honored tradition of debating their rivals before Election Day.

For some gaffe-prone candidates such as Walker, avoiding the debate stage reduces the chance of an embarrassing moment. For others, it's an opportunity to snub a media ecosystem they find elitist and cast themselves in the mold of former President Donald Trump, who made a show of missing some debates during the 2016 campaign.

We are so fucking back

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision 

Yup, and it may energize the left to turn out to vote if it is actually is overturned.

Holy shit, you actually take pride in stifling social progress.

Yes! Yes, he does, while always trying to play the victim card.

Progress is anything that gets us closer to the 1800's, give or take a few things. I don't know how you define it.

Considering your mind is stuck in the 1600s, that would probably be a good thing.