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There are 100% Republicans in

artappraiser — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 04:32:01 +0000

In reply to [Where is the GOP headed?] Vivek Ramaswamy?

mistake, see below

There are 100% Republicans in

artappraiser — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:55:34 +0000

In reply to There are 100% Republicans in

There are 100% Republicans in DC *right now* talking about how they have to find a way to back away from Trump before he ruins the party.

They’re also probably already scheduled to go on the Sunday shows and defend Trump because they’re invertebrates.
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) April 8, 2023

There's no way that AOC's proposed Thomas impeachment goes anywhere with this congress, right?
— @11demo everywhere else (@11demo11) April 8, 2023

It’s a nonstarter with a GOP House. And even if it weren’t, there’s not enough bipartisan support in the Senate to do anything about it.

If we change the House calculus, we might see a scenario in which Roberts urges Thomas to resign, but we aren’t there yet. 1/2
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) April 8, 2023

Protasiewicz WON the race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat flipping control of the court to liberals. This is touted as a harbinger for the 2024 election… do you believe it is such an indicator?
— Lisa Baran (@LisaRoseBaran) April 8, 2023

I think it’s probably too early to call this a bellwether, but it proves that the media was 100% wrong when they said abortion wouldn’t be that big of an issue.

FWIW, the GOP is behaving like they think they don’t have a chance in hell at winning in 24.
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) April 8, 2023

Has nothing to do with ye

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:06:19 +0000

In reply to Does Clarence's luxury vaycay

Has nothing to do with ye olde "evangelicals are an evil cult plotting to take over the U.S.", so no.

Republicans need to figure

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:39:45 +0000

In reply to [Where is the GOP headed?] Vivek Ramaswamy?

Republicans need to figure out the abortion issue ASAP. We are getting killed by indie voters who think we support full bans with no exceptions.

Time for everyone to suck it up and unify behind @LindseyGrahamSC’s 15-wk bill w/ exceptions. That’s the play.

The alternative is…
— Jon Schweppe (@JonSchweppe) April 5, 2023

first tweet continues with suiciding the pro-life movement. We are months away from that happening.

We just lost Wisconsin by like 15. If the pro-life movement doesn’t figure this out and get the GOP on board, the GOP is gonna just abandon the issue and eventually start telling voters they don’t care about saving babies.

Ego checks need to happen now. It’s do or die time.
— Jon Schweppe (@JonSchweppe) April 5, 2023

It’s not going to get better until we figure this out. We will lose 2024 over it too — and that would probably be the end. https://t.co/Q5R22zKuPH
— Jon Schweppe (@JonSchweppe) April 5, 2023

Please listen to me. The death of the pro-life movement is at hand — we have no time to waste on disagreements over strategery. We need to give GOP politicians a winning message on life NOW. If we don’t, they will abandon us and embrace “no federal role.”https://t.co/44RAsVK4x9
— Jon Schweppe (@JonSchweppe) April 5, 2023

found retweeted by Josh Marshall

and has some interesting first replies as well

Does Clarence's luxury vaycay

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:23:30 +0000

In reply to Alternately, maybe he just

Does Clarence's luxury vaycay sponsor also sponsoring Ginni's work on Citizen's United way back in Nov 2009 still count as liberal conspiracy theories?

Unfortunately it's hard to find an exact date on so many of these older records, but NYT apparently knew in Oct, 2010:

"She began the group in late 200with two gifts of $500,000 and $50,000" pic.twitter.com/Xscb0t47Za
— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) April 7, 2023

DeSantis making culture war

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 02:49:09 +0000

In reply to [Where is the GOP headed?] Vivek Ramaswamy?

DeSantis making culture war attacks on The Federal Reserve:

No, Ron DeSantis, the Federal Reserve is not coming for your guns

Op-Ed by Catherine Rampell @ WashingtonPost.com, April 6

Don’t get me wrong. The Federal Reserve has made mistakes in recent years. It’s not immune from criticism, including criticism of its record on financial oversight or inflation.

And yet, somehow, it still seems pretty bonkers for a major, supposedly mainstream politician to attack the Federal Reserve for trying to steal your guns. Which is what Florida governor and likely 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis (R) suggested in recent remarks.

As the Miami Herald noted, DeSantis has lately turned his ire toward the central bank and its chair, Jerome H. Powell. This is partly, the Herald noted, a veiled attack on presumed GOP front-runner Donald Trump, who as president had elevated Powell to the Fed’s top job.

Hence, DeSantis’s rhetoric referring to Powell, by name, as “a total and complete disaster” who wrecked the economy, the banking system, etc. Some of DeSantis’s material is pretty standard, the sort of thing that might resonate with voters frustrated by inflation and economic uncertainty.

But like so many other politicians, DeSantis can’t help but pivot from tangible, kitchen-table economic issues to bizarre culture-war concerns. And that’s where we get into looney-tunes territory.

In a speech this past weekend in Pennsylvania, DeSantis suggested that the real reason to fear the Fed is that central bankers are “colluding” with other (unnamed, presumably evil) communist-style elites to block your ability to buy gasoline and guns.

“They want the Fed to control a digital dollar,” he said. “Guess what’ll happen? They’re going to try to impose an ESG agenda through that. You go and use too much gas, they’re going to stop it. They’re not going to honor the transaction because you’ve already bought more than what they think. You wanna go buy a rifle, they’re going to say no, you have too many, too many of those, you can’t do it. So it’s ceding the power of our financial freedom to a central bank which does not have our interest at heart.” [....]

The point was Lindell wasn't

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:03:42 +0000

In reply to Alternately, maybe he just

The point was Lindell wasn't caught up in this heavy fundamental Christian stuff until 2015/6 - he was just a normal businessman, usual nothing special christian beliefs, and sounds like his immersion into The Family or whatever (not just a palrayer breakfast) turned him i to a much more pronounced believer very quickly.

And you know Trump's not a good example of anything, but nice try.

Alternately, maybe he just

artappraiser — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:05:33 +0000

In reply to Pillow guy in 2016 - not so

Alternately, maybe he just went nuts.I'm real skeptical now when I read liberal journos try to imply a grand conspiritorial politcal plot by evangelical Christians, especially when they do it by trying to relate high dollar donations to conservative causes, and imply it's all a plot. Are most evangelical Christians interested in promoting 'traditonal' values and are socially conservative? Yes, they are; not a surprise!. But Jimmy Carter is also a bonafide evangelical, also 'born again" and participated in National Prayer Breakfast like for decades. Similarly, I see attendees at the 2021 National Prayer Breakfast also included Joe Biden and Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush, with TRUMP notably ABSENT. Maybe just maybe the National Prayer Breakfast people aren't evil plotters turning pillow business guys into nuts

Pillow guy in 2016 - not so

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:47:13 +0000

In reply to [Where is the GOP headed?] Vivek Ramaswamy?

Pillow guy in 2016 - not so long ago

3/ Sept 2021 article https://t.co/rsoezP3zRW
— jennycohn@toad.social (@jennycohn1) April 6, 2023

One of those "cancel culture"

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 09:45:59 +0000

In reply to MTG's fascist lies getting

One of those "cancel culture" firings was an actress comparing current hating people for political beliefs with 30s Nazis targeting Jews - I guess some whack "slippery slope" argument, but still not as bad as MTG's Soros (moneyed Jew) & international Jewish conspiracy implications.