Monday, April 15, 2024

Vote Blue. Here's Another Slew of Reasons Why

Here we are again, with a wee taste of the lunacy, racism, criminality, and bigotry and hate inside the GOP …

WASHINGTON DC

House Speaker and Good Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson went down to Mar-Illegal this week and came back to tell us that he is proposing a bill to make it illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote and the Cult cheered.

Of course, none of them made note of the fact that it’s already illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote.

You cannot fix stupid … and liars.

COLORADO

Don Wilson, a Republican state representative left a loaded, semiautomatic handgun in a bathroom at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday night at the same time that Democrats are trying to ban firearm possession in the building and the GOP is fighting them.

And yet the Wilson’s idiotic actions have proven why the Democrats stance in needed when even a so-called legislator can’t keep track of a loaded firearm.

KENTUCKY

Brian Ormes, a Republican candidate for state House of Representatives was arrested and booked for first-degree strangulation, menacing and fourth-degree assault with no visible injury.

According to Fort Wright police, the incident happened on Monday night when a 17-year-old male reported being assaulted by Ormes  inside the Walmart. Police say Ormes admitted to being in an altercation with juveniles because of their unruly behavior in the store, which he said impacted the safety of his child.

So he strangled a kid?

FLORIDA

While family and friends distributed posters of George Riley Jr., a missing Republican Party of Florida executive director, it was discovered that he was holed up in a Hampton Inn, where authorities say he trashed his room.

Riley was kicked out of a room at the Hampton Inn in Kissimmee after a desk clerk observed him “under the influence;” employees of the hotel had talked to Riley in his hotel room and found that he had “urinated and vomited throughout.” The assistant general manager noted that Riley was purchasing alcohol while staying at the hotel, and that he had bought so much booze from the store inside the hotel that the manager had to order more.

The party of Family Values, pissin’ and pukin’ …

ARIZONA

After the Arizona Supreme Court upheld their 1864 abortion law, which calls for 2-5 years in prison for anyone involved in performing an abortion, Kari Lake fired off a statement saying that she disagrees with the decision and hopes that the voters will overturn it in a referendum this November when her Senate race is also on the ballot against Ruben Gallego.

There’s just one big problem for lying, hypocritical fraudster Kari Lake … when she was running for Governor in 2022 she said the exact opposite repeatedly, saying she hoped that the Supreme Court would “do the right thing” and overturn Roe.

Huh, Kari Lake is a liar? Go figure …

IOWA

Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law this week making it a crime for an undocumented immigrant to be in Iowa. The law, which takes effect July 1, has elevated anxiety in Iowa’s immigrant communities and mirrors part of a Texas law that is currently blocked in court.

Even local police officers in the state are confused about the bill; Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert says immigration status does not factor into the department’s work to keep the community safe and that most police agencies are “not equipped, funded or staffed” to take on federal government responsibilities.

But, hey, the Governor wants Brown people arrested.

LOUISIANA

The Louisiana House Committee on Education advanced House Bill 121 by GOP Representative Raymond Crews that prohibits the use of transgender and nonbinary youth’s chosen names and pronouns in public K-12 schools without parental permission. In addition, House Bill 122 by GOP Representative Dodie Horton would limit discussion of gender and sexuality in public K-12 schools.

The Legislature approved both bills last year, though then-Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, vetoed them, and Republicans were unable to overturn his action. But now Louisiana has a GOP Governor, Jeff Landry, who  filed a card in support of both Crews’ and Horton’s Hate Bills.

GOOD NEWS

MAINE

After a fiery debate over a bill to protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from out-of-state lawsuits crossed a line in the Maine House and lead to lawmakers censuring two Republicans.

GOP Representative Michael Lemelin claimed that the mass shooting that killed 18 people last October in Lewiston, Maine and the recent winter storms were God’s revenge for “immoral” laws adopted by legislators, and he described the shield bill as “inspired by Lucifer himself” another GOP lawmaker, Shelley Rudnicki, announced that she agreed with Lemelin’s remarks.

House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross told Lemelin and Rudnicki that the remarks were “extremely offensive and intentionally harmful to the victims and the families of the Lewiston tragedy, the House of Representatives, and the people of Maine.”

But, hey, God …

KANSAS

Democrat Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bill that would ban transgender minors from receiving gender transition surgeries and hormone therapy, setting up another veto override fight over GOP efforts to regulate the lives of trans residents.

Kelly says the bill dictates to parents how to best raise and care for their children, adding that the legislation is not a “conservative value, and it’s certainly not a Kansas value” and “tramples parental rights.”

The measure passed in the Senate 27-13 with a veto-proof majority. The House vote was still two votes short of a veto-proof margin. But if two House Republicans who were absent from the initial floor vote now vote to override, the House would gain the two-thirds majority necessary.

And that’s just a small taste of GOP lunacy ... pardoning traitors for political points; gibberish speakers; anti-military criminals; lunatics and Big Liars; Christian Nationalist Nazi sympathizers; party over country fools; unfit for political office; liars and flip-floppers; and Arizona.

So what do we do? We ...

32 comments:

  1. Why don't Kansas Repugs ask Lauren BooHoo for advice on how to raise kids? She sure knows how! .......Oh, shucks! They already did?!

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    1. Sadly, BoBo is in Colorado, not Kansas ... although they deserve her!

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    2. Lauren Gropert needs to have her kids taken from her before they all become criminals like mommy and daddy.

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    3. I'm just a-waiting one of her kids to shoot and kill someone - with an ensuing comment from their 'good' Xtian mom to the effect of "Well, none of us are perfect."

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    4. You've got her down pat, sir!

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  2. Religion has a lot to answer for; the Israeli government bombs an Iranian consulate; the Iranians respond by attempting to bomb Israel. Senior Hindu priests ask that 2 million Muslims be killed (see article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/14/i-was-told-id-be-killed-if-i-didnt-leave-himalayan-state-is-a-testing-ground-for-modis-nationalism). Throughout history more people have been killed in the name of religion than any other reason. But still we persist in demonising the other; you're bad, I'm good and then killing the other to prove your point.

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    1. Well, since most of these so-called faithful believe their religion is the one true religion there will be no peace.

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  3. Anonymous10:38 AM

    the dog's mother
    Glad to see some good news! whew!
    xoxo :-)

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  4. As a Washingtonian, I was concerned when I saw Washington, but then realized that it was DC and not my state. Whew! The insanity continues. :(

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    1. I should have put DC; I'll change it now.

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    2. Thank you, Bob! There are crazies in WA too, but certainly not as many as in many of the places you've named.

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  5. Jee-sus! What did JOhnson and Drumpf proudly accomplish this week. They proposed stopping undocumented immigrants who aren’t permitted to vote from voting. If you made this shit up, no one would believe it.

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    1. Sadly, the MAGAts will believe them.

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  6. Cleora Borealis12:23 PM

    Before the lunatics in the AZ lege voted to time-travel back to 1864, they gathered in the chamber, knelt on the state seal and "prayed" for guidance from their sky daddy. They did it by "speaking in tongues" which is one of the oldest cons in the book!! Anyone who really believes in speaking in tongues should be very upset with these evangedouches...it only happens after much time with the congregation praying and singing and begging and snakes and such!! You don't just kneel where you shouldn't be kneeling and whoop, there it is!! Even among evangelizing frauds these guys are frauds!!

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    1. Faux-Christians using their so-called faith, and the ability to reach back to a time when AZ wasn't a state and women couldn't vote, to punish women.

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  7. aussieguy1:06 PM

    Geez, after all of these wonderful testimonials, who wouldn't want to be a Rethuglican? Fuckin' idiots!

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    1. Some still do because, you know, Gays, Women, Transgender, Atheists, Immigrants, People of Color, need to be controlled and only they can do it.

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  8. The first 3. WOW. They just get more stupid.

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    1. That's the Party of Family Values for you.

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  9. Laura Kelly is right -- that bill is NOT conservative at all. It's amazing how Republicans are so quick to intrude on parental rights when the parents are doing something they don't like. (Same for women and women's rights.)

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    1. It's stunning that the GOP says they want less government and then ask government to control women and parents, etc!

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  10. Surely, there must have been a time when most Republican Americans were level-headed, fair-minded people who just saw the world through conservative spectacles. Where have they gone? And - How long ago was that? Why aren't they calling out Trumpism?

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    1. The true Conservative Republicans have been overthrown by radical racist faux-Christians who think their way is the only way. It began under Reagan and has gotten progressively worse. Only a few call out Hair Furor; politicians don't because they're afraid of him, and MAGAts don't because he feeds and encourages their fear of everything.

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  11. SERIOUSLY.
    I really don't know how much MORE do people need to learn that the Repugs are bad for the country and for us! And by us I mean anybody LGBTQ+, anybody who can have children, anybody BIPOC, anybody not WASPy, anybody not cisgender and anybody smart enough to know that one issue voting is dumb.

    XOXO

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    1. Well, MAGAts are afraid of gays and women and liberals and brown people and immigrants and this GOP feeds those fears with lies.
      Only when, and IF, the MAGAts ever wake up and realize they've been fed nothing but lies, will the tide turn.
      That's why Blue needs to vote, up and down ballot in every single election.

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  12. A mass shooting is God's revenge?? Oh boy! i will keep my fingers crossed for a huge % of blue votes, like 95%, thta would be great!

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    1. All bad things that happen, even eclipses according to some in the GOP, are a sign that God is angry about Democrats ... according to the GOP.

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  13. He was shopping at Walmart, that alone is reason enough to not vote for him, even before be strangled someone.

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    1. Right? I'm with you on that!

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  14. Hopefully this is all one step back, and the election will bring the USA two steps forward with the election of a Democratic government. Should IQ45 be re-elected, I feared the country will move 10 steps backward.

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    1. Or move as backwards as Arizona to the 1800s.

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