Twitter LinkBREAKING: I’ve learned that the Trump administration is suspending virtually all asylum claims processing for the regions served by the Newark and Boston offices. There are over 40,000 cases pending in those offices.
Twitter LinkBREAKING: I’ve learned that the Trump administration is suspending virtually all asylum claims processing for the regions served by the Newark and Boston offices. There are over 40,000 cases pending in those offices.
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Health Care Rationing? It’s Already A Reality Here, And This Report Proves It.
Almost 18% of working-age diabetics are skipping meds because of cost. And, in some cases, those people are dying because of that onerous expense.
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Jewish Leaders Blast Trump’s Accusations Of ‘Disloyalty’
His claim that Democrat-leaning Jewish Americans are ‘disloyal’ is outright anti-Semitic, the ADL says. Not to mention moronic too. I'm sure Republican leaders feel the same way, of course, they won't actually criticize Trump for what he said, they don't have the balls to do that. Meanwhile....
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Donald Trump’s Last 24 Hours Have Been Particularly Stupid And Offensive And Weird
The president attacked Democratic-voting Jews, called himself “the chosen one” and got mad that Denmark won’t sell him Greenland. And the GOP remains silent about Trump's insanity. If Barack Obama said even a fraction of Trump's bullshit, Republicans would've stormed the Oval Office and had him hauled off in a straitjacket.
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Trump Targets ‘Ridiculous’ Right To Citizenship For Anyone Born In U.S.
This isn’t the first time the president has said he was looking to end birthright citizenship, which is granted by the 14th Amendment. Predictably, Trump's anger is aimed at people of color, meanwhile, white folks can continue enjoying that "ridiculous" right without any problems.
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Democrats Cite ‘Evidence Of Possible Misconduct’ With Trump Tax Returns
A whistleblower apparently contacted House Democrats this summer about potentially “inappropriate efforts to influence” an audit of the president. But hey, Trump has nothing to hide, right? RIGHT?
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Joe Walsh is apparently kicking around the idea of a Republican primary challenge.
It woudl be nicer if there one, single, really strong Republican challenger to primary Trump. But still still, even multiple weak challengers could be interesting. If they can draw off enough voters, it could give trump and other elected Republicans a scare and food for thought.
Bottom line, how many Republican Voters are not all that happy with Trump and are looking for an alternative? if the number turns out to be high enough, it might break some of Trump's control over the party. If not, then the Republican Party is going down the toilet.
edit: Sorry for the typos
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Bunn for Deadpool's Main Book!
Walsh is slightly interesting because he literally has no political career to factor in. If the guy decides to go on the political equivalent of a Wile E. Coyote trying to get the Road Runner, his career won't really suffer for him having done so.
Sorry about the lack of a CSGOPOTD yesterday guys, I was a bit under the weather. (But it wasn't ass cancer. Yet.)
Double shot coming up...
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On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, a man so inept that he couldn’t handle two inches of snow without declaring it a state of emergency, a man so corrupt he’s been under ethics investigations for half a decade, and a man so bigoted that he appointed a former spokesman for an anti-immigrant hate group to a state immigration board, wants the 14th Amendment repealed, tried to block Syrian refugees from coming to his state, wrote the White House to demand a copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and made it a point to justify why Georgia should have Confederate-themed license plates. Oh, and Deal was forced to apologize after he referred to African Americans as “colored people” in November of 2016. Mercifully, Nathan Deal left office in early 2019, and has yet to run for any other office. We’ll set aside his profile at this time and go ahead and take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 774-40, since this was established in July 2014.)
Jim Renacci
Welcome to the 774th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today we’ll be discussing Jim Renacci, who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio’s 16th Congressional District, first arriving in the Tea Party Wave in 2010. He was the tenth wealthiest member of Congress at the time, and that had a lot to do with his acquisition of a car dealership in 2007 by buying it off a guy about to go to prison for apparently laundering drug money. Renacci won re-election three times after the GOP gerrymandered the Congressional map, and then after a brief flirtation with running for Governor of Ohio to replace John Kasich, opting for an ill-fated attempt at getting elected to U.S. Senate in the 2018 Blue Wave year, thinking he could knock off Demoratic Senator Sherrod Brown.
Late in that last campaign, as Renacci was trailing by double-digits, he and Ohio Republicans led a misinformation campaign to accuse Sherrod Brown of committing sexual harassment against supposedly multiple three decades prior. Bizarrely, while they deemed Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against Brett Kavanaugh as “not credible”, with all her ability to show she had been attacked and said as much years prior to going public to her therapist and others… Brown’s accuser never came forward publicly, who had no one to corroborate her, at all, as “credible”. Effectively, Renacci said, “I heard from a woman that said…” and never produced that woman.He might have well have been touting an imaginary girlfriend from Canada. Instead, he also decided to accuse Sherrod Brown of also committing domestic abuse back in 1986, again, without any evidence.
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So, it turns out we have Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) to blame for the Greenland debacle:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...et-with-danish
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Other than being a scumbag of a campaigner, we’ll also note that Renacci actually had the balls to defend Donald Trump’s comments about “s***hole countries” in 2018. Feel free to peruse his voting record, which includes such sad moments as:
- On January 5th, 2011, Rep. Renacci votes the first attempt by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
- On February 18th, 2011, Jim Renacci votes to defund Planned Parenthood.
- March 17th, 2011: Rep. Renacci votes to cut funding to National Public Radio.
- September 15th, 2012: Rep. Renacci votes for the "No More Solyndras Act".
- September 21st, 2012: Renacci votes for the "Stop the War on Coal Act".
- January 15th, 2013: Jim Renacci votes against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
- June 19th, 2013: Jim Renacci votes against restoring $20.5 billion towards the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
- September 30th, 2013: Rep. Renacci votes for the 2013 Government Shutdown.
- Feb 26th, 2014: Jim Renacci goes "all in" on the faux-scandal surrounding the IRS researching SuperPACs by voting for the "Stop the Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act".
- July 10th, 2014: Renacci votes for House Amendment 1040, to prevent the implementation of the dreaded United Nations Agenda 21 Treaty, that in spite of just being recommended climate change guidelines, have many conspiracy theorists within the extreme right convinced it’s a plot for global domination.
- January 22nd, 2015: Jim Renacci votes for HR 7, an anti-abortion bill that makes even some Republicans pause before voting for it because of its language that tries to define the conditions for what “rape” is, in it.
- February 3rd, 2015: Rep. Renacci votes for the 60th Republican attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act.
- March 3rd, 2015: Renacci votes against funding the Department of Homeland Security as part of a Republican protest of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
- September 11th, 2015: Renacci votes against the United States' nuclear treaty with Iran.
- September 18th, 2015: Rep. Renacci votes for a bill with most House Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood, based on highly edited “sting” videos submitted by a Pro-Life advocacy group that have been repeatedly debunked by investigators.
- November 19th, 2015: Renacci votes for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, reacting to the terror attacks in Paris by jihadists from France and Belgium by trying to create greater restrictions to keep out Syrian refugees, of whom exactly zero were involved in those attacks.
- February 2nd, 2016: Jim Renacci votes for HR 3762, the 61st attempt by Congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (which is still working better than was predicted).
- February 16th, 2017: Renacci votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping.
- March 16th, 2017: Jim Renacci votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge's written order.
- March 28th, 2017: Rep. Renacci votes for SJ Res 34, which allowed internet providers to sell the data information of their customers' internet usage to businesses.
- May 4th, 2017: Renacci votes for the GOP's healthcare plan, that would allow 24,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions, and would treat pregnancy, post-partum depression, and sexual assault as "pre-existing conditions". Oh, and a provision in the bill would make sure that Renacci would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country. He and his Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference, as well./
- June 8th, 2017: Jim Renacci votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd-Frank financial reform, because what the country really needs is to allow the big banks to make the same mistakes that imploded the economy only a decade earlier.
- October 3rd, 2017: Renacci votes for HR 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that would try to create an unconstitutional ban abortion at 20 weeks (even though medical science tells us fetuses do not have the capability to feel pain until 29 weeks).
- December 19th, 2017: Jim Renacci votes for HR 1, the GOP’s $1.7 trillion tax cut to benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations permanently that coincidentally also removes the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and kicks 13 million people off their health insurance.
- February 18th, 2018: Rep. Renacci and his fellow Republicans decide that poor big businesses are suffering too much at the hands of the Americans with Disabilities Act too much, and vote for HR 620, which would strip most of the civil rights protections guaranteed by it.
We personally hope he never runs for office again, and just goes back to being a shady car salesman.
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Man, this is the most grievous slander I've ever seen against the Eagles, mixing up their Joe Walsh with that racist miscreant.
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Singapore tells Elon Musk to **** off.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...le-not-climate
Singapore has a message for Elon Musk: Taking mass transit is a better climate-change solution than tooling around in one of his Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicles.
The city-state, which has said its efforts to cope with climate change are as crucial as military defense, has prioritized greater use of its trains and buses, Masagos Zulkifli, minister for environment and water resources, said in an interview Wednesday. Musk has criticized the country for being slow to adopt EVs and said in a January tweet the government “has been unwelcome.”
“What Elon Musk wants to produce is a lifestyle,” Zulkifli said Wednesday when asked about the entrepreneur’s comments. “We are not interested in a lifestyle. We are interested in proper solutions that will address climate problems.”
Conservatives’ Freakout Over the 1619 Project Reveals Their Fear of America’s Actual Past: It turns out conservatives love history—unless it’s true.
How conservatives react to the 1619 Project I think is a good litmus test for what really matters to them.
Is it the expansion of the American creed to all those implicated in the project, including the descendants of slaves? Or is it racial animus?
Are conservatives interested in the Founding Fathers of actual history? Or are they interested in a certain myth of the Founding Fathers?
The 1619 Project is the best popularization of what academic historians have known for some time. In short, it’s the elaboration and corrective of the shorter, simplistic stories we learned in middle school and high school about American history. The New York Times is doing a great public service in rendering the massive amounts of scholarship digestible for the general public. What we do with this information is up to us, but ignoring the information entirely, or claiming that it is false, or that the NYT are motivated by animus against the United States, is both absurd and deeply revealing of what really matters to conservatives.
If you truly care about your country, then you should want to know its history, including its darkest moments.
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