[Where's the GOP headed?] Conservatism isn't always conservative anymore

By artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 5:33pm |

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022

Previous thread here starting with "House Republicans privately stunned over testimony" of Cassidy Hutchinson on 6/28 and ending with the start of Jonathan Swan's important deep dive into Trumpist plans for 2025 on 7/22.

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Before Sarah Matthews even opened her mouth, the Elise Stefanik aligned House GOP Twitter feed that has been thirsty for Trump’s approval attacked her. It never attacked Matt Pottinger, who was sitting next to her. https://t.co/iMUVFdBT80
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 6:12pm

The other striking thing about this @jonathanvswan piece and its companion is that there’s rather fleeting attention being paid by folks to policy. It’s about personnel and grievance. https://t.co/is1m5oqDqH
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 6:18pm

Trump is headlining Turning Point’s student action summit in Tampa tonight. According to excerpts shared ahead his speech he will talk about “draining the swamp” by reimposing “Schedule F,” as reported by @jonathanvswan: pic.twitter.com/JDtk6teThB
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) July 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 6:19pm

Aaron again, watching so we don't have to

not really digging this year's SummerSlam pic.twitter.com/wsLIwIOvAs
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 6:57pm

.@DcExaminer's @jimantle says Jan. 6 hearings are shifting some Republicans on Trump https://t.co/iPGbe6teaq
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 24, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 10:55pm

GOP military won't like

Just heard Jonathan Karl say (MSNBC) that Mike Flynn called his former deputy, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, then a DepSecDef, for help in overturning the 2020 election. The episode is in this book. Karl says we have a lot still to learn about the coup/insurrection.https://t.co/ui4Xkl0Jsd
— Rick Petree (@RickPetree) July 22, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 6:15am

GOP women may be moved

Liz Cheney's Women in White Fighting Donald Trump's Deceithttps://t.co/os3CoNdQqt
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 22, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 6:18am

Is he okay??

pic.twitter.com/4H6ehl0kjw
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 24, 2022

The cocaine jokes are getting tiresome and might not be true, I prefer Jong-Fast's simple question. He sounds hysterical like this on videos that he himself makes.

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 4:48am

proof that Don. Jr. is capable of political sense:

Don Jr. pleaded with Meadows to push Trump to deliver a more forceful statement condemning the rioters or else “they” would “fuck his entire legacy on this.” pic.twitter.com/wUhWuXnsWt
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 22, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 12:00am

Rick Wilson -

1/ I find it amusing how few Republicans understand that Trump is a fundamentally vengeful and petty person.

They think shanking him now by stacking the deck for President Ron DeSantis and VP Stefanik will make him go away.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 24, 2022

2/ Make no mistake, that is what is happening.

The titanic forces inside the gentry GOP, the money crowd, Fox, and the consultant class are have set their hearts on DeSantis and are telling all the other aspirants to "wait their turn."

It's not just that Trump...
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 24, 2022

3/ ...will run in the GOP primary and cause endless torture and chaos.

No, Trump's real vergeltungswaffen has the benefits of extending the grift, allowing him to play by no rules at all, and to keep the lidless eye of every camera on him.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 24, 2022

4/ The worst case for the GOP is simple and awful, a bane they can't overcome if he does it.

Imagine for a moment that Trump declares he's running as an independent.

Play it through from there, and the ramifications are...spectacular.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 24, 2022

edit to add, he also retweeted this

He will run.
He will destroy them.
I will savor every fucking minute. https://t.co/ueS6iexJzm
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) July 24, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 6:06pm

A lot of the 'kids' attending TPUSA Student Summit are not all right:

This is the line to meet Marjorie Taylor Greene at TPUSA’s student summit. #SAS2022 pic.twitter.com/PZDousL3ht
— PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) July 23, 2022

And I am not surprised as I think MTG, even more than Trump, is talented at making up zany narratives that resound with people who feel bullied by the woke and politically correct elite that rule the institutions they either attend as students or work at. Even if they don't buy her whole shtick as reality, they enjoy her show.

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 11:41pm

dril me all you want in the responses, but I will be issuing no correction: sometimes you gotta hand it to Newt Gingrich. https://t.co/Bvp681tSPT pic.twitter.com/pPKut6pzQS
— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) July 25, 2022

Would it surprise you to learn that Nancy Pelosi got a round of applause at a meeting of the Trump-backed America First Policy Institute? Because that’s exactly what just happened, when Newt Gingrich declared support for her upcoming trip to Taiwan. “I commend Nancy,” said Newt pic.twitter.com/FJ1Xh8H0PK
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 6:33pm

Fuck that. Newt asshole Gingrich is not your friend, no matter how many times you click your heels. He's out to destroy government as we know it - he's always been shameless.

In his speech Sat, Trump failed to mention his reported plan to issue an executive order in a 2nd term allowing him to fire civil servants without cause. Newt did it today: “We have a seasoned enough cadre, that if we work at it methodically .. we can reshape the federal govt.” pic.twitter.com/5XE3UoeXR2
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 25, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 10:30pm

I think his stated political *strategery* is correct, though. And be aware that not everyone in the middle is a fan of big federal government for everything much less woke culture warriors setting national standards on everything. The national GOP is cowering to the Trump fan minority and he's saying: you gotta stop doing that.

Edit to add, it's right here > This emerging New American Majority requires base broadening—not base mobilization strategies. Don't mobilize the passionate Trumpie base, cut that out, lay them low and broaden the base. It's Reaganism of course.

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 11:09pm

really really stoopid moron politics - they've got like, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, on their side for now, but they are trying hard to chase him away by totally making up that electric cars are a *librul culture wars* thing -

Why are electric cars a left thing or a right thing? Imagine if we had this level of polarization when smartphones we're coming out, some people would just own those Nokia flips to own the other side? https://t.co/qTMB7tDsdV
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 6:52pm

Wtf! I love Marc Short now. https://t.co/vu46ZBPHMW
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 26, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 9:56pm

Rick Wilson retweeted this on Gaetz:

"The Republican Party [seems] hellbent on hitting the self-destruct button before” midterms, @kurtbardella says of Matt Gaetz’s remarks on pro-choice women.

He “is writing the next barrage of Democratic Party ads…[It’s] Kevin McCarthy’s and Mitch McConnell’s worst nightmare.” pic.twitter.com/CWj1XMPBtl
— Zerlina on Peacock (@ZerlinaShow) July 26, 2022

and this:

My opponent @JDVance1 calls rape "inconvenient" and believes women should stay in violent marriages.

We can't let him anywhere near the U.S. Senate.
— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) July 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 1:32am

McCarthy's 2022 election talking points:

How does Congress withhold money from local prosecutors? https://t.co/JLrk3QnSdI
— Kevin Ring (@KevinARing) July 26, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 4:28pm

Trump and Pence delivered dueling speeches just blocks away from each other in Washington, DC. @KristenhCNN compares what the the GOP leaders had to say https://t.co/kU5r1jS32x
— CNN (@CNN) July 26, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 7:01pm

Wisc: learning law on the clock

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-election-fraud-wisconsin-probe-judge_n...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/28/2022 - 1:34pm

Hyerbole about the end of democracy aside, the primaries today are important about the near term future of the GOP:

Shocking how much is on the line for democracy in today's primaries. Trump is targeting numerous Republicans *precisely because* they refused to steal 2020 or told the truth about 1/6. He may defeat them. Hard to sustain democracy under such conditions.https://t.co/d7xujKSY1L
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 12:54pm

I noticed this article yesterday which basically says that total pandering to Trump has not been found useful in Wisconsin:

Tim Michels, Donald Trump's endorsed candidate for Wisconsin governor, refuses to commit to backing 2024 presidential run https://t.co/Zh59tIzwGf
— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 1:25pm

Big primary day in five states — with three of 10 GOP members who voted to impeach facing primaries, GOP leaders watching Missouri Senate nervously with Greitens’ possible emergence, Dem member v. member in MI, key GOP gov primaries and Mark Kelly’s foe https://t.co/4khtj0pTNg
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 2, 2022

Former President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel are aiming for a second Republican primary victory as they work to bolster 2020 election denier Blake Masters in Arizona’s Senate contest https://t.co/5Be9T7eblb
— Bloomberg (@business) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 5:48pm

heh I'll believe it when it happens Oct. 14; betcha he'll get Covid or something

Walker says he will debate Warnock in high-stakes Georgia Senate race

BY THEHILL.COM - 08/02/22 10:32 PM ET

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 10:54pm

The biggest surprise of the night so far? Pro-impeachment Rep. Peter Meijer's (R) strength in the #MI03 GOP primary. If he maintains this pace in Kent Co., he's got a great chance to hang on.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 3, 2022

Edit to add: BUT UNFORTUNATELY, no cigar for him, at the same time better chances for the Dem:

I've seen enough: Trump-endorsed John Gibbs (R) defeats pro-impeachment Rep. Peter Meijer (R) in the #MI03 GOP primary and will face Hillary Scholten (D) in November.

Rating change: @CookPolitical will be moving #MI03 from Toss Up to Lean D.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 12:36am

Senate GOP reversed course on the 'burn pits' bill for the Vets, it passed today on a 86-11 roll call. Betcha it will all be forgotten except by those who already care a great deal

Republicans reverse course as Senate passes burn pits legislation after days of pressure #TheReidOut https://t.co/08IjXMrjzM
— jenbeccyRN (@jenbeccyRN) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:01am

Ron Watkins, one of the most influential figures of the QAnon conspiracy theory, seems set to lose the Republican primary for Arizona's second congressional district, currently dead last with 43% reported. pic.twitter.com/xxSU63jCIS
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) August 3, 2022

All these folks that hate government can’t stop trying to get into it. https://t.co/6SsETmaHyN
— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) August 3, 2022

As for "big $", the rough thing for establishment Republicans is the $ boosting Gibbs wasn't even that big. Meijer and outside groups backing him spent $4 million. The DCCC buy was a few hundred thousand dollars, and total spending for Gibbs was under $1 million. That was enough.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 3, 2022

This is not JB Pritzker burying Richard Irvin under an eight-figure pile of cash.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 3, 2022

Tired: GOP is a Trump cult
Wired: Trump endorsees only win when Democrats help https://t.co/sEULnvQ0ae
— Bill Scher (@billscher) August 3, 2022

This is why the DCCC tactics are so bad because this is exactly the logical response from Republicans https://t.co/aTaeDGn1X8
— Brendan Stands With Ukraine (@Lawlorbrendans) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:21am

Meijer was one of a few Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. This is how Democrats thanked him: by helping a Trumpist to primary him. https://t.co/6ghSkB0m4V
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 2:27am

I've seen enough: pro-election conspiracy theory state Rep. Mark Finchem (R) wins the GOP primary for #AZSOS and will likely face Adrian Fontes (D) in the fall.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 3, 2022

Keep an eye on Republican Mark Finchem in Arizona running for Secretary of State. That's one of the scariest races. He's an open member of the Oath Keepers; he was at Jan 6th; he promotes the big lie. A complete extremist backed by Trump.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 3, 2022

Democrats need to heavily invest in the Arizona Secretary of State and Attorney General elections. Finchem and Hamadeh are fucking insane. pic.twitter.com/hlCaa70qXC
— Jay (@JayAtarah) August 3, 2022

GOP primary winner 4 AZ Secty of State Mark Finchem is a Trump loyalist & election denier. A danger to AZ & our nation.

Capitol-rioter Mark Finchem is one step closer to running Arizona's elections after winning the secretary of state Republican primary. https://t.co/AlVlfnB2fS
— 45-”I tell the truth when I can” (@cosme_gene) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:35am

Using Trump's bad example in sowing election doubt, after he tried to steal the presidency in 2020, lots of mini-Trumps sprung up, like Kari Lake. So, is poor Arizona going to have to pay for and endure even more ridiculous audits and fruitless recounts? https://t.co/Soq4LX4Okr
— Teri Goodson (@TeriGoodson) August 3, 2022

Breaking: Kari Lake just declared herself the WINNER in Arizona EXCEPT, she is WAY BEHIND her opponent. YIKES! Kari is a TRUE TRUMPER. Right off Steve Bannon's strategy.....declare yourself a winner even if you LOST.
— Mary (@lovealaska1105) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:40am

YOU'RE FUCKING LOSING LIKE ALL THE OTHER TREASONOUS COWARDS WHO THOUGHT THEY WEREN'T THE US CONSTITUTION'S BITCH#Arizona PRIMARY
Aug 3, 2022, 1:25 AM
60.6% of votes counted

Karrin Taylor Robson
236,136 votes48.7%

Kari Lake
198,458 votes41% pic.twitter.com/Y0YUzpzJ7a
— Jean Putski (@JeanPutski) August 3, 2022

It’s their blueprint going forward. The fat orange clown started this crap.
— ArizonaTerry (@ArizonaTyjo) August 3, 2022

it seems like Arizona is plagued with influence from Arizona.
— Xander (@4XanXan) August 3, 2022

Arizona is Goofy land
— William Miller (@William80323524) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:52am

He is currently ahead by fewer votes than Kari Lake is behind https://t.co/9lmQX1E8Jq
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 2:29am

well Kari Lake actually did win

and what's more, here's a probably pretty accurate suggestion that she's just like Trump, very much like him

these election twitter fascist basement dwelling frreaks stanning Kari Lake is hilarious bc she's literally a liberal TV actress behaving like the most absurd stereotype of a Trump supporter. They're transparently getting mocked and scammd and they're still eating it up https://t.co/9pFSPHKuXq
— left-litwick (@leftistlitwick) August 5, 2022

and takes one to know one

I’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to the Media. The more you attacked me, the higher I climbed in the polls.

When will you learn? pic.twitter.com/0OC6FSq6CV
— Kari Lake for AZ Governor (@KariLake) August 4, 2022

and here I question whether Ted Lieu is really that naive or he's being intentionally obtuse

Oh cool, Kari Lake is now going to contest her own win.

Yep, MAGA Republicans are batshit crazy. https://t.co/0ZhBbJ4rtH
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 4, 2022

I think the real mystery is how she would actually govern! It's all a show to win over the Trump idiots right now.

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 1:35pm

NEW: Adam Steen, who Trump just endorsed in a primary against Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, not only wants to overturn the result of the 2020 election, he also would ban contraception.

“Yes, I would definitely outlaw contraception,” Steen told me.https://t.co/eiZNfCC9gh
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:56am

Trump made 42 endorsements in recent primaries. Here's who won — and who we're still waiting on. https://t.co/ynwjx02Jvs
— POLITICO (@politico) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 4:16am

Man, I feel like a spectator at a cannibal jamboree! Never thought I'd find so much satisfaction watching a group turn on each other and eat their own! How you doin' over there, Ronna @GOPChairwoman https://t.co/m3yUxjJgmq
— Jinx aka Michele (@JinxyWillVote) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 12:40pm

YEZ!

Like Greene, Cruz, Tuberville and others, Boebert has ZERO interest in doing the job for which taxpayers pay her $174K a year. I'm sure she finds actual governance boring compared to the thrill of whipping low-information voters into a frothing rage. Sure beats waitressing! pic.twitter.com/awNos9o7In
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) August 3, 2022

More of this kind of criticism could actually have an effect. Colleagues roll their eyes in private - why not just say something like: why don't you get right on it?

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 12:55pm

Now this sounds real familiar, I heard nearly the same thing from more than a couple family and acquaintances in 2020, very bitter about it actually, seemed to be like a last straw type thing -

"When the George Floyd riots were happening [public health experts] said...we don't believe rioting is bad for covid. It's so important that you have to do it. But if you're protesting lockdowns...then you can't do that. And that's when I knew these people are a bunch of frauds." pic.twitter.com/2ls8NRgZ9T
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 3, 2022

BTW she claims he is going to announce something bigly irritating to libruls tomorrow

MAJOR announcement tomorrow morning from @GovRonDeSantis.

Prepare for the liberal media meltdown of the year

Everyone get some rest tonight
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 4, 2022

He already announced he’s running for re-election as governor All I can say about the surprise announcement tomorrow is that it’s not about anything campaign related. It’s official business https://t.co/K4udVhxU6K
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) August 4, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 12:22am

and here's the new De Santis thing - very smart framing of culture wars issues as usual - he will have prosecutors that enforce the law or else

Ron DeSantis suspended Andrew Warren for pledging not to enforce the state's new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minors. https://t.co/JjHaSEBvld
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 4, 2022

Prosecutors have a duty to enforce the law, not pick and choose which laws they agree with.

The State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit, Andrew Warren, has instituted nonenforcement policies and has declared that he will refuse to enforce laws he doesn’t like. pic.twitter.com/EbSbCRrLHa
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) August 4, 2022

In Florida, we will not allow a prosecutor to be a law unto himself.
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) August 4, 2022

A REMINDER THAT IN blue cities like CHICAGO PROSECUTORS ARE QUITTING IN DROVES basically for the reason that D.A.'S (like Kim Foxx) are impeding their ability to enforce the laws (link below)

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 3:51pm

i.e., you are supposed to compare the Democrat way - currently not pro law and order - as in Chicago

http://dagblog.com/comment/319523#comment-319523

or the accused lawbreaking as well as mismanagement by Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore

or the constant complaints about Alvin Bragg in NYC,

or the recall of Chesa Boudin in SF.....

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 3:46pm

I was right, De Santis' culture wars stuff is kabuki for non-Florida voters in like, Iowa GOP - Warren uses the word sideshow instead of kabuki- these shows are not of much consequence to most Floridians, it's a Trump mask he puts on

Suspended Florida prosecutor hits back at Ron DeSantis and reveals suspected motive

Raw Story via MSN- Yesterday 7:36 PM

[....] “We’re protecting people’s rights; we have fought so hard for public safety and fairness and justice," Warren said. "If the Governor thinks he can do a better job, then he should run for state attorney — not President. The Governor wants to do his sideshow with his cronies. I’m the one who’s upholding the law.” He added that regarding abortion and gender-affirming care prosecutions, "None of those cases have been brought to us. We’re not anticipating those cases being brought to us," and urged any concerned to ask the county sheriff if any such cases are even being investigated.

“I think the Governor is trying to make a good impression on the Iowa caucus voters,” Warren added.

This comes as DeSantis, thought to be a potential presidential rival to former President Donald Trump in 2024, wages furious culture wars on a number of fronts, even playing chicken with a federal requirement that schools protect LGBTQ students' rights as a condition of receiving meal funding.

[....]

Even looks to me like the editor here went and and found a 2019 picture of him playing Kabuki

Florida Governor Rob DeSantis speaks at the University of Miami in 2019. (Shutterstock.com)

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 1:23pm

Dick Cheney in new ad: No individual is ‘greater threat to our Republic’ than Trump https://t.co/7UnSQC4KD7
— Peter Concerned Citizen and V (@Pajjr2016) August 4, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 4:33pm

big money therefore smart political operatives working on the GA Senate race:

GOP messaging on Raphael Warnock: from "Radically wrong for America" to "means well" in less than two years.

Shows just how effective Warnock's team was in defining him positively in the 2020 Senate race. pic.twitter.com/6l5HqAoH6O
— Jacob "Inside Elections is hiring" Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) August 5, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 2:24pm

is the second time I've seen GOP reps talk what used to be labeled touching the "third rail"- wanting to unprotect Social Security and/or Medicare from Congress budget - entitlement funds to which everyone already paid in all their working lives

I'm listening to Senator Lindsey Graham on the Senate Floor trying to BASH the Inflation Reduction Act. The man has lost touch with REALITY. No wonder he speaks so openly and with cruelty about cutting and gutting Social Security. He FORGETS that it is OUR money!
— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) August 7, 2022

don't know what that's about, why they are going there

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 3:53pm

Lindsey Graham says Joe Biden deserves credit for bipartisan accomplishments - Washington Times https://t.co/u7yOWVIyCS
— Sandy (@sj_pete) August 7, 2022

Lindsey Graham on CNN says that "I think states should decide the issue of marriage," but when Dana Bash asks him if states should also decide whether interracial marriage is legal, he dismisses the question as a distraction from inflation pic.twitter.com/L1rGv6ZGBi
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 3:59pm

all 50 GOP Senators voted against the "Inflation Reduction Act" but it was passed with the VP breaking the tie (and it should be noted that they knew that would happen, that it would pass)

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 4:03pm

Republicans have already started lying to their constituents about their shameful NO votes. Chuck Grassley, who voted NO on the insulin price cap...now claims he voted yes...what a liar...
— Heal the Planet -- #BetoForTexas (@fwtoney) August 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 6:25pm

Retweeted by The Lincoln Project:

Election-deniers are winning key primaries that could put them in the position to oversee pivotal elections in 2024. @kaitlancollins tells @abbydphillip that in AZ, the GOP Secy of State nominee said if he were in charge, he would've made sure Trump won in 2020. #InsidePolitics pic.twitter.com/qCeYdcwXEA
— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics) August 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 6:50pm

and they have this new ad about CPAC:

The rhetoric spewed from the CPAC attendees and the Republicans that support them is straight out of Nazi Germany.pic.twitter.com/ml7iWwlFkr
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 6:52pm

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