Republicans behaving badly

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

He went to Harvard.

[neonzx]

Wait, so not all Asians are Chinese? Who knew?

/s

[keith]

Wait, so not all Asians are Chinese? Who knew?

/s

I suspect thT the Japanese and the Koreans knew.

[Sam the Centipede]

He went to Harvard.

— and that will forever be Harvard's shame.

[raison de arizona]

https://x.com/timkaine/status/1752829338347581568?s=20

So let me get this straight:

Republicans want to "fix" the border but don't want to pass a bill to do so because they want to attack Biden over it.

AND now they don't want to pass a tax cut for families because it's an election year?

This isn't how we should be governing.

GOP Sen. Grassley tells me he’s concerned passing Wyden-Smith tax bill might aid Biden’s re-election:

“I think passing a tax bill that makes the president look good mailing out checks before the election, means he could be reelected and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts”

[raison de arizona]

Good point.
https://x.com/ElieNYC/status/1752781933904384387?s=20

Both Tom Cotton and I went to undergrad and law school at Harvard at roughly the same time... so hopefully that helps you understand why I react with near homicidal rage when someone tells me *I'm* the one who didn't get in on merit.
I've been smarter than that kid my whole life.

[raison de arizona]

I'm old enough to remember Obama issuing Executive Orders, and oh. The. Drama. So what does Congress do exactly then?

Republican Rep. Troy Nehls on border security:

“Congress doesn't have to do anything.”

Story: https://rollingstone.com/politics/polit ... 234958223/

[raison de arizona]

NEW: Those 10 Oregon republicans who WALKED OUT for 6 weeks last year to BLOCK bills on abortion, trans rights, and gun reform ARE NOT ELIGIBLE to run for reelection: per Oregon Supreme Court.

The opinion: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-cont ... 1-copy.pdf

[raison de arizona]

Cognitive dissonance.

Rand Paul warns that we could become a country where politicians use the judicial system to prosecute their political enemies before complaining that the DOJ hasn’t prosecuted Fauci

[p0rtia]

He's not wrong. If fuckhead were to win, of course.

[bob]

NEW: Those 10 Oregon republicans who WALKED OUT for 6 weeks last year to BLOCK bills on abortion, trans rights, and gun reform ARE NOT ELIGIBLE to run for reelection: per Oregon Supreme Court.

The opinion: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-cont ... 1-copy.pdf

"For completeness," the voters approved a measure to ban legislators who had more than 10 unexcused absences. (To deter stunts like this.)

SCOOR upheld the SCoOR's enforcement of it (the walkerouters argued it didn't go into effect until next term).

A similar appeal remains pending in the 9th. ("And good luck with that.")

[raison de arizona]

I dunno, maybe he learned something.

[Suranis]

For more context, the US was giving Missiles to Saddam Hussein to defeat Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time they were trading Missiles to Iran to get back Hostages who Iran had kidnapped. Of course Iran just captured more hostages to keep getting missiles. Thumbs up Ronnie.

[Dave from down under]

There was more to it iirc

Ronnie & Oliver was selling those missiles to Iran to get money to fund the right wing CONTRA terrorist as well as to get the release of hostages. Resulting in more hostages taken..

So supporting terrorism in both the Middle East and South America
A twofer!!

[raison de arizona]

WWE founder Vince McMahon is under federal investigation surrounding sex trafficking allegations, sources say
The revelation comes after a former employee sued McMahon last week alleging she was the victim of sexual assault and trafficking at WWE, and after his exit from its parent company, TKO Group.

Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon is under federal criminal investigation as prosecutors try to determine if federal law was broken in conduct surrounding recent allegations of sex trafficking that have been made public in lawsuits, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Last week, the company, McMahon and a former WWE executive were sued by a former employee alleging those crimes.

McMahon has also discussed being under federal investigation and having a phone seized by federal officials, a senior-level WWE executive and another personal friend told NBC News.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ww ... rcna136941

[raison de arizona]

These f$%kers just straight up bald face lie. It's really quite breathtaking. And astonishing. I hate alternative facts, they shouldn't be a thing.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/ ... 47603?s=20

A straight-up brazen lie, which I am guessing he won’t even bother to correct or apologize for because facts don’t matter in the Fox Cinematic Universe.

All of the 9/11 attackers were present in the US illegally. We shouldn’t wait until the next horrific terror attack to realize that our wide-open southern border is a national security risk.

As the 9/11 Commission found, all of the hijackers entered the country legally on nonimmigrant tourist or student visas. Many hijackers, including the pilots, remained in the country legally on nonimmigrant visas until the attack.

https://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_st ... av_Ch1.pdf

Senator James Lankford, you sir are a liar and an asshole and don't deserve to be U.S. Senator.

[Ben-Prime]

These f$%kers just straight up bald face lie. It's really quite breathtaking. And astonishing. I hate alternative facts, they shouldn't be a thing.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/ ... 47603?s=20

A straight-up brazen lie, which I am guessing he won’t even bother to correct or apologize for because facts don’t matter in the Fox Cinematic Universe.

This is, in fact, exactly why when I first *heard* the term 'Fox Cinematic Universe' I immediately corrected it to faux-French as 'Fox Univers Cinematique' just so I could abbreviate it as FUC and refer to its adherents a certain way.

[keith]

These f$%kers just straight up bald face lie. It's really quite breathtaking. And astonishing. I hate alternative facts, they shouldn't be a thing.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/ ... 47603?s=20

A straight-up brazen lie, which I am guessing he won’t even bother to correct or apologize for because facts don’t matter in the Fox Cinematic Universe.

This is, in fact, exactly why when I first *heard* the term 'Fox Cinematic Universe' I immediately corrected it to faux-French as 'Fox Univers Cinematique' just so I could abbreviate it as FUC and refer to its adherents a certain way.

Shouldn't that be "Faux Univers Cinematique"?

[Ben-Prime]

These f$%kers just straight up bald face lie. It's really quite breathtaking. And astonishing. I hate alternative facts, they shouldn't be a thing.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/ ... 47603?s=20

This is, in fact, exactly why when I first *heard* the term 'Fox Cinematic Universe' I immediately corrected it to faux-French as 'Fox Univers Cinematique' just so I could abbreviate it as FUC and refer to its adherents a certain way.

Shouldn't that be "Faux Univers Cinematique"?

It should be but I didn't want to multi-layer the pun.

[raison de arizona]

That’s the whole point of HAVING cake, EATING it. Why would I want a cake that I can’t eat?

REPORTER: "You would be okay with the Supreme Court leaving the issue of interracial marriage to the states?"

SEN. MIKE BRAUN (R-IN): "Yes. If you are not wanting SCOTUS to weigh in on issues like that, you’re not going to have your cake and eat it too."

[Sam the Centipede]

As a kid I wondered about that apparently absurd proverb but I guessed its interpretation was (in modern English) more like you can't keep your cake and eat it, meaning you must make the choice, or perhaps that the relevant option can only be exercised once. That is, "have" has a sense of possess, own, retain.

Off Topic

Also as a kid, my interpretation of the proverb "a friend in need is a friend indeed" was that it was a nugget of cynical advice, meaning that someone who wants something will pretend to be a good friend so you will give them what they desire. So its warning is to be wary of people pretending to be friendly just because they want something.

Only later did I appreciate from context that the preferred (more generous) interpretation was that if you are in a mess and someone steps in to help, that person is a proper friend, to be cherished.

Proverbs aren't always clear and unambiguous.

[pipistrelle]

What is the interracial marriage issue? Is that a thing?

[northland10]

What is the interracial marriage issue? Is that a thing?

IIRC, Braun made that comment in 2022, and trying to basically support the repeal by saying that Loving was also judicial activism and it is all states rights.

Whether he was against interracial marriage, I do not know for certain, but he stupidly thinks that SCOTUS has no business protecting the Constitutional rights of Americans and states can do whatever they want, as long as long as him and his world agree with it.

[June bug]

Loving v. Virginia. SCOTUS outlawed Virginia’s ban on inter-racial marriages in 1967.

In Thomas’s Dobbs opinion, he called into question the constitutionality of previous SCOTUS decisions allowing gay marriage and contraception. Notably he did not include the Loving decision, but there’s been a lot of right wing discussion of that as well since Dobbs.

[Frater I*I]

As a kid I wondered about that apparently absurd proverb but I guessed its interpretation was (in modern English) more like you can't keep your cake and eat it, meaning you must make the choice, or perhaps that the relevant option can only be exercised once. That is, "have" has a sense of possess, own, retain.

If I recall correctly the proper quote is "You can't eat your cake, and have it too", fun fact the use of the proper quote is one of the things that caused the Unibomber's brother to realize that the manifesto was written by his brother...