|
| Conservatives thrust the House back into chaos on
| Wednesday, grinding business to a halt in protest of the
| spending deal Speaker Mike Johnson struck with Democrats to
| avert a government shutdown and leaving the funding package
| in limbo.
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/house-republicans-johnson-deal-shutdown.html>

--bks

|
| Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after
| facing blowback from angry election deniers
|
| When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections
| director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last
| spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up
| professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the
| community matched his own.
|
| After all, Bartelsmeyer, 67, believed the falsehood
| subscribed to by millions of MAGA Republicans that the 2020
| election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.
|
| But instead of getting a warm reception, Bartelsmeyer got a
| wakeup call: Not even he - whose social media posts
| promoted Trump's claims of election fraud, was equipped to
| handle the extreme level of distrust in elections felt by
| residents in this county, which had become an unsettling
| case study in how democracy in an American county can break
| down.
| ...
<https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/politics/arizona-election-director-maga-invs/index>

--bks

bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in
news:unu92q$2v7$2@reader1.panix.com:

> |
> | Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after
> | facing blowback from angry election deniers
> |
> | When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections
> | director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last
> | spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up
> | professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the
> | community matched his own.
> |
> | After all, Bartelsmeyer, 67, believed the falsehood
> | subscribed to by millions of MAGA Republicans that the 2020
> | election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.
> |
> | But instead of getting a warm reception, Bartelsmeyer got a
> | wakeup call: Not even he - whose social media posts
> | promoted Trump's claims of election fraud, was equipped to
> | handle the extreme level of distrust in elections felt by
> | residents in this county, which had become an unsettling
> | case study in how democracy in an American county can break
> | down.
> | ...
> <https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/politics/arizona-election-director-maga
> -invs/index>
>
> --bks
>

Even when they win MAGA revolts
against officials who follow the law.

Trump won Hood County in a landslide.
His supporters still hounded the
elections administrator until she
resigned.
OCT. 12, 2021

An elections administrator in North
Texas submitted her resignation Friday,
following a monthslong effort by
residents and officials loyal to former
President Donald Trump to force her out
of office.

Her critics sought to abolish her
position and give her duties to an
elected county clerk who has used
social media to promote baseless
allegations of widespread election
fraud.

Critics accused Carew of harboring a
secret liberal agenda and of violating
a decades-old elections law, despite
assurances from the Texas secretary of
state that she was complying with Texas
election rules.

David Becker, executive director of the
Center for Election Innovation and Research,
a nonprofit that seeks to increase voter
participation and improve the efficiency of
elections administration, said Carew�s
departure is the latest example of an
ominous trend toward independent election
administrators being forced out in favor of
partisan officials.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/12/hood-county-elections-
administrator-trump/

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:09:14 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

> |
> | Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after
> | facing blowback from angry election deniers
> |
> | When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections
> | director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last
> | spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up
> | professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the
> | community matched his own.
> |
> | After all, Bartelsmeyer, 67, believed the falsehood
> | subscribed to by millions of MAGA Republicans that the 2020
> | election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.
> |
> | But instead of getting a warm reception, Bartelsmeyer got a
> | wakeup call: Not even he - whose social media posts
> | promoted Trump's claims of election fraud, was equipped to
> | handle the extreme level of distrust in elections felt by
> | residents in this county, which had become an unsettling
> | case study in how democracy in an American county can break
> | down.
> | ...
><https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/politics/arizona-election-director-maga-invs/index>
>
> --bks

Both you and the story do a terrible job explaining the claim of the
first line.

Does the media even try anymore?

On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 11:08:10 -0500, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:09:14 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
>Sherman) wrote:
>
>> |
>> | Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after
>> | facing blowback from angry election deniers
>> |
>> | When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections
>> | director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last
>> | spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up
>> | professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the
>> | community matched his own.
>> |
>> | After all, Bartelsmeyer, 67, believed the falsehood
>> | subscribed to by millions of MAGA Republicans that the 2020
>> | election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.
>> |
>> | But instead of getting a warm reception, Bartelsmeyer got a
>> | wakeup call: Not even he - whose social media posts
>> | promoted Trump's claims of election fraud, was equipped to
>> | handle the extreme level of distrust in elections felt by
>> | residents in this county, which had become an unsettling
>> | case study in how democracy in an American county can break
>> | down.
>> | ...
>><https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/politics/arizona-election-director-maga-invs/index>
>>
>> --bks
>
>Both you and the story do a terrible job explaining the claim of the
>first line.
>
>Does the media even try anymore?

And Bradley has run away.

|
| Outrage as Oklahoma Republican's bill labels Hispanic
| people 'terrorists'
| ...
| In addition to "a member of a criminal street gang" and
| someone who "has been convicted of a gang-related offense",
| the bill defines a terrorist as "any person who is of
| Hispanic descent living within the state of Oklahoma".
| ...
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/oklahoma-bill-labels-hispanic-people-terrorists>

--bks

Life-long conservative Republican Charlie Sykes:
| ...
| The Party of Reagan is deceased, departed, demised, and no
| more. It's Trump's party; and the usual suspects are all
| stampeding to fall in line.
|
| This herd mentality is worth noting for the moment: Before
| even a single vote was cast in a primary, Republicans
| rushed to declare their fealty to Trump and insist that the
| race was over. This required them to ignore (waves hands)
| all this, but if all of your friends -- every one of them
| --are joining hands to jump off the cliff together, it's so
| much easier.
| ...
<https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/the-herd-of-independent-minds-stampedes>

--bks

>Life-long conservative Republican Charlie Sykes:
> | ...
> | The Party of Reagan is deceased, departed, demised, and no
> | more. It's Trump's party; and the usual suspects are all
> | stampeding to fall in line.

|
| The longest-serving district judge on the federal bench in
| Washington, D.C., warned Thursday that false rhetoric about
| the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol -- including the sorts of
| lies hurled by former President Donald Trump and some of
| his congressional allies -- poses an ongoing danger to the
| nation.
|
| Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee to the bench, said
| the "destructive" misinformation, spread by political
| leaders who have downplayed and misrepresented the attack,
| had become pervasive.
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/25/judge-lamberth-jan-6-trump-00137960>

--bks

>>Lifelong conservative Republican Charlie Sykes:
>> | ...
>> | The Party of Reagan is deceased, departed, demised, and no
>> | more. It's Trump's party; and the usual suspects are all
>> | stampeding to fall in line.

|
| The latest conspiracy theory in GOP circles is that the RNC
| members who are not 100% MAGA are likely foreign agents,
| possibly Communists, who are working with the Deep State to
| take down Trump and destroy America. These are lifelong GOP
| activists and donor they're talking about
|
| [Fascimile of such claims at URL]
|
<https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social>
(History professor)

--bks

On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:24:21 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

>>>Lifelong conservative Republican Charlie Sykes:
>>> | ...
>>> | The Party of Reagan is deceased, departed, demised, and no
>>> | more. It's Trump's party; and the usual suspects are all
>>> | stampeding to fall in line.
>
> |
> | The latest conspiracy theory in GOP circles is that the RNC
> | members who are not 100% MAGA are likely foreign agents,
> | possibly Communists, who are working with the Deep State to
> | take down Trump and destroy America. These are lifelong GOP
> | activists and donor they're talking about
> |
> | [Fascimile of such claims at URL]
> |
><https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social>
>(History professor)
>
> --bks

If the guy can't post a link to the direct post that supports the
claim, he's lying (just as you did when you posted this).

W's Homeland Security Secretary says:
|
| Don't Impeach Alejandro Mayorkas
|
| House Republicans are misusing the process to target an
| official who has done nothing wrong.
| ...
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-impeach-alejandro-mayorkas-misuse-of-process-for-policy-differences-1f0ba02c>

--bks

I cite lifelong conservative Republicans. My interlocutors make shit up.

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:53:06 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

>W's Homeland Security Secretary says:
> |
> | Don't Impeach Alejandro Mayorkas
> |
> | House Republicans are misusing the process to target an
> | official who has done nothing wrong.
> | ...
><https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-impeach-alejandro-mayorkas-misuse-of-process-for-policy-differences-1f0ba02c>
>
> --bks
>
>I cite lifelong conservative Republicans. My interlocutors make shit up.

The story is in The Hill as well. Bush's DHS Sec, Michael Chertoff told House Republicans
in no uncertain terms that they're wrong to carry forward this impeachment.
<https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4435297-chertoff-republicans-dont-impeach-mayorkas/>

Swill
--
A Republican making sense:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/10/15/sotu-crenshaw-full.cnn

It's really hard to screw up America.
A lot of people have been trying for well over 250 years
but we're still on top. - Dan Crenshaw (R) Texas

GO TRUMP! Go farther . . . FARTHER . . . I CAN STILL HEAR YOU!

Heroyam slava! Glory to the Heroes!

Sláva Ukrajíni! Glory to Ukraine!

Putin tse prezervatyv! Putin is a condom!

Go here to donate to Ukrainian relief.
<https://www2.deloitte.com/ua/uk/pages/registration-forms/help-cities.html>

| ...
| For years, Trump has attacked and obliterated anything like
| virtue in the Republican Party, a process that regularly
| features Republicans pulling their political souls from
| their bodies and handing them to Trump in jars for display
| on his mantle at Mar-a-Lago. (Ted Cruz going from the
| potential conscience of the 2016 GOP convention to a
| Trump-praising, phone-banking flunky is only one such
| example.)
| ...
<https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/the-gops-ongoing-moral-surrender-to-trump/677286/>

--bks

The new Republican normal:
|
| Trump braces for fraud trial verdict as allies pledge 'holy
| war' against Taylor Swift: Latest
| ...
<https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-federal-election-case-paused-081120649.html>

--bks

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:01:01 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

>The new Republican normal:
> |
> | Trump braces for fraud trial verdict as allies pledge 'holy
> | war' against Taylor Swift: Latest
> | ...
><https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-federal-election-case-paused-081120649.html>
>
> --bks

Goddamn magoos. As psychotic a bunch as anybody ever knew. They eatin' mushrooms for
breakfast every day?

Swill
--
A Republican making sense:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/10/15/sotu-crenshaw-full.cnn

It's really hard to screw up America.
A lot of people have been trying for well over 250 years
but we're still on top. - Dan Crenshaw (R) Texas

GO TRUMP! Go farther . . . FARTHER . . . I CAN STILL HEAR YOU!

Heroyam slava! Glory to the Heroes!

Sláva Ukrajíni! Glory to Ukraine!

Putin tse prezervatyv! Putin is a condom!

Go here to donate to Ukrainian relief.
<https://www2.deloitte.com/ua/uk/pages/registration-forms/help-cities.html>

|
| GOP senator doesn't want to pass a tax bill because it
| could make Biden 'look good'
| ...
<https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-senator-doesnt-want-pass-tax-bill-make-biden-look-good-rcna136649>

--bks

Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
> |
> | GOP senator doesn't want to pass a tax bill because it
> | could make Biden 'look good'
> | ...
> <https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-senator-doesnt-want-pass-tax-bill-make-biden-look-good-rcna136649>
>
> --bks
>

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/01/17/oklahoma-bill-targets-furries-in-schools-threatens-animal-control/72256727007/

Before the 2024 Oklahoma legislative sessions begin, thousands of
bills will be filed, and most will never come close to becoming law.

One Oklahoma lawmaker, Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, decided to
file a bill targeting "furries," or people in a subculture
interested in anthropomorphic animal characters, in Oklahoma schools.

Humphrey's bill, House Bill 3084, would ban "students who purport
to be an imaginary animal or animal species, or who engage in
anthropomorphic behavior commonly referred to as furries at
school" from participating in class and school activities.

The bill would require parents or guardians to pick the student up
from school.

But, if parents are unable to pick the student up, the bill says
"animal control services shall be contacted to remove the student."

--
Siri Seal of Disavowal #000-001. Disavowed. Denied. @
'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' /|\
The Church of the Holey Apple .signature 3.2 / \
of Discordian Mysteries. This post insults Islam. Mohamed

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 14:48:33 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

> |
> | GOP senator doesn't want to pass a tax bill because it
> | could make Biden 'look good'
> | ...
><https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-senator-doesnt-want-pass-tax-bill-make-biden-look-good-rcna136649>
>
> --bks

Once again Republicans prove that they're more interested in power than in the American
people.

And, once again Republicans prove they won't support their own policies if Democrats agree
to them.

Finally, they again demonstrate that tax cuts are only for the rich.

Swill
--
The Cold War then and now:
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%40yarkot&src=typed_query&f=top>

https://www.forwardparty.com/

Go Trump! Go farther . . . FARTHER . . . I CAN STILL HEAR YOU!

Heroyam slava! Glory to the Heroes!

Sláva Ukrajíni! Glory to Ukraine!

Putin tse prezervatyv! Putin is a condom!

Go here to donate to Ukrainian relief.

|
| US House Fails to Impeach Homeland Security Secretary
| Mayorkas
| ...
<https://www.voanews.com/a/us-house-fails-to-impeach-homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-/7477235.html>

--bks

> | US House Fails to Impeach Homeland Security Secretary
> | Mayorkas

|
| It's 10 minutes of humiliation that will live in House lore.
| ...
| Even in an era of ousted speakers and wild, daily internal
| disarray, Tuesday night's back-to-back defeats for House
| Republicans were epic.
|
| o Speaker Mike Johnson lost by one vote -- a Republican
| vote! -- the first impeachment of a Cabinet official in 148
| years.
|
| o Then the House rejected the GOP's heavily hyped package
| of aid for Israel.
| ...
<https://www.axios.com/2024/02/07/house-republicans-mike-johnson-impeachment-israel>

--bks

>> | US House Fails to Impeach Homeland Security Secretary
>> | Mayorkas

> | It's 10 minutes of humiliation that will live in House lore.

Lifelong conservative Republican, Thomas Massie (R-KY):
|
| Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into
| an unmitigated disaster.
| ...
<https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1755202140325183786>

--bks

>Lifelong conservative Republican, Thomas Massie (R-KY):
> |
> | Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into
> | an unmitigated disaster.

And the Senate GOP is following the House GOP into madness:
|
| [Senate Majority Leader] Schumer [D-NY] confirms -- Senate
| will adjourn until tomorrow at noon "to give our Republican
| colleagues the night to figure themselves out"
|
<https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1755385502297948255>

--bks

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 19:17:44 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

>>> | US House Fails to Impeach Homeland Security Secretary
>>> | Mayorkas
>
>> | It's 10 minutes of humiliation that will live in House lore.
>
>Lifelong conservative Republican, Thomas Massie (R-KY):
> |
> | Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into
> | an unmitigated disaster.
> | ...
><https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1755202140325183786>
>
> --bks

ROTFL! The more the Cons play this stupid "myway or the highway" game, the more they fail
to get down *any* road!

Swill
--
The Cold War then and now:
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%40yarkot&src=typed_query&f=top>

https://www.forwardparty.com/

Go Trump! Go farther . . . FARTHER . . . I CAN STILL HEAR YOU!

Heroyam slava! Glory to the Heroes!

Sláva Ukrajíni! Glory to Ukraine!

Putin tse prezervatyv! Putin is a condom!

Go here to donate to Ukrainian relief.
<https://www2.deloitte.com/ua/uk/pages/registration-forms/help-cities.html>

On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 00:40:09 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

>>Lifelong conservative Republican, Thomas Massie (R-KY):
>> |
>> | Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into
>> | an unmitigated disaster.
>
>And the Senate GOP is following the House GOP into madness:
> |
> | [Senate Majority Leader] Schumer [D-NY] confirms -- Senate
> | will adjourn until tomorrow at noon "to give our Republican
> | colleagues the night to figure themselves out"
> |
><https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1755385502297948255>
>
> --bks

The Cons are so fractured now, they can't wipe their ass because they can't decide which
brand of toilet paper to use.

Watching them act like a bunch of babies, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Swill
--
The Cold War then and now:
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%40yarkot&src=typed_query&f=top>

https://www.forwardparty.com/

Go Trump! Go farther . . . FARTHER . . . I CAN STILL HEAR YOU!

Heroyam slava! Glory to the Heroes!

Sláva Ukrajíni! Glory to Ukraine!

Putin tse prezervatyv! Putin is a condom!

Go here to donate to Ukrainian relief.
<https://www2.deloitte.com/ua/uk/pages/registration-forms/help-cities.html>

>>>Lifelong conservative Republican, Thomas Massie (R-KY):
>>> |
>>> | Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into
>>> | an unmitigated disaster.

>> | [Senate Majority Leader] Schumer [D-NY] confirms -- Senate
>> | will adjourn until tomorrow at noon "to give our Republican
>> | colleagues the night to figure themselves out"

| ...
| "It's been a total disaster," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
| declared to reporters about how GOP leaders handled the
| border bill. "Why would voters look at what goes on over
| here, this circus, and say we want more of this? ... I
| don't think the last three months could have been handled
| any worse than it has been handled from a leadership
| perspective."
| ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/07/republicans-disarray-house-senate-border/>

--bks