On Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:26:22 +0000, Mitchell Holman
<noemail@verizon.net> wrote:

>bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in
>news:ualeo8$av8$2@reader2.panix.com:
>
>> |
>> | Democrats are drastically overperforming in 2023's special
>> | elections.
>> | ...
>> | "Republicans have not had a good election night since
>> | before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. And,
>> | honestly, it seems like post-Roe Republicans couldn't find
>> | their groove even if a DJ played their favorite song on
>> | repeat," Nuckels said. "So I think Democrats are in a very
>> | good position here going forward."
>> | ...
>> <https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-overperforming-2023-special-
>> elections-clue-biden-trump/story?id=101850305>
>>
>> --bks
>>
>
>
> Biden is the most uninspiring Democrat in
>years but everyone prefers him over Trump.
>
>

Apparently Mitchie hasn't checked polls.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/

So much for "everyone"...

Kremlin Girl <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> |
>> | Democrats are drastically overperforming in 2023's special
>> | elections.
>> | ...
>> | "Republicans have not had a good election night since
>> | before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. And,
>> | honestly, it seems like post-Roe Republicans couldn't find
>> | their groove even if a DJ played their favorite song on
>> | repeat," Nuckels said. "So I think Democrats are in a very
>> | good position here going forward."
>> | ...
> ...
>And yet the Republicans took the house after R v W was tossed into the
>dustbin as it should have been. So ABC news start with a lie.

Wrong again, Kremlin Girl!
|
| How bad the 2022 election was for the GOP, historically
| speaking
| ...
| As we've emphasized many times, midterms are almost always
| good for the party that doesn't control the White House.
| But this one has clearly not been -- in multiple ways.
|
| Republicans will still likely grab a narrow majority in the
| House, but it also seems likely they will fail to gain
| seats at every other major level. They'll apparently lose
| modest ground at both the gubernatorial and state
| legislative levels.
| ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/10/republican-losses-2022-midterms/>

--bks

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 13:44:29 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

>Kremlin Girl <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> |
>>> | Democrats are drastically overperforming in 2023's special
>>> | elections.
>>> | ...
>>> | "Republicans have not had a good election night since
>>> | before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. And,
>>> | honestly, it seems like post-Roe Republicans couldn't find
>>> | their groove even if a DJ played their favorite song on
>>> | repeat," Nuckels said. "So I think Democrats are in a very
>>> | good position here going forward."
>>> | ...
>> ...
>>And yet the Republicans took the house after R v W was tossed into the
>>dustbin as it should have been. So ABC news start with a lie.
>
>Wrong again, Kremlin Girl!

You mean the Republicans didn't take the House after RvW was
overturned? Do tell...

On Mon, 07 Aug 2023 07:01:54 -0400, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 13:44:29 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
>Sherman) wrote:
>
>>Kremlin Girl <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>> |
>>>> | Democrats are drastically overperforming in 2023's special
>>>> | elections.
>>>> | ...
>>>> | "Republicans have not had a good election night since
>>>> | before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. And,
>>>> | honestly, it seems like post-Roe Republicans couldn't find
>>>> | their groove even if a DJ played their favorite song on
>>>> | repeat," Nuckels said. "So I think Democrats are in a very
>>>> | good position here going forward."
>>>> | ...
>>> ...
>>>And yet the Republicans took the house after R v W was tossed into the
>>>dustbin as it should have been. So ABC news start with a lie.
>>
>>Wrong again, Kremlin Girl!
>
>You mean the Republicans didn't take the House after RvW was
>overturned? Do tell...

And Bradley the propagandist has vanished.

|
| A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald
| Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn
| President Joe Biden's win have done nothing to slow the
| geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former
| president and his supporters.
| ...
<https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-2020-election-lies-georgia-misinformation-4b2269d68dad3024bd5afa711478505a>

--bks

|
| The Michigan Republican Party is starving for cash. A group
| of prominent activists -- including a former statewide
| candidate -- was hit this month with felony charges
| connected to a bizarre plot to hijack election machines.
| And in the face of these troubles, suspicion and infighting
| have been running high. A recent state committee meeting
| led to a fistfight, a spinal injury and a pair of shattered
| dentures.
|
| This turmoil is one measure of the way Donald J. Trump's
| lies about the 2020 election have rippled through his party.
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/us/politics/trump-michigan-republican-party.html>

--bks

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:53:52 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:
> | The Michigan Republican Party is starving for cash. A group
> | of prominent activists -- including a former statewide
> | candidate -- was hit this month with felony charges
> | connected to a bizarre plot to hijack election machines.
> | And in the face of these troubles, suspicion and infighting
> | have been running high. A recent state committee meeting
> | led to a fistfight, a spinal injury and a pair of shattered
> | dentures.
> |
> | This turmoil is one measure of the way Donald J. Trump's
> | lies about the 2020 election have rippled through his party.
> | ...
><https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/us/politics/trump-michigan-republican-party.html>
>
> --bks

"Michigan GOP fight left official with broken dentures, bruised ribs: police report"

<https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/02/michigan-republican-party-brawl-broken-dentures-bruised-ribs-clare-doherty-hotel-kicked-in-groin/70507104007/>

"Michigan Republican Party's bank accounts down to $93K, recording reveals"
<https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/07/14/michigan-republican-party-bankruptcy-kristina-karamo-financial-problems-debt-clare-meeting-fight/70414759007/>

Yeah . . . that's gonna help win the '24 election.

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| ...
| Mr. Ramaswamy's pattern of falsehoods has been the subject
| of intensifying scrutiny by the news media and, more
| recently, his G.O.P. opponents, who clashed with him often
| during the party's first debate last Wednesday.
|
| There are layers to Mr. Ramaswamy's distortions: He has
| spread lies and exaggerations on subjects including the
| 2020 election results, the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol
| and climate change. When challenged on those statements,
| Mr. Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who is the first
| millennial Republican to run for president, has in several
| instances claimed that he had never made them or that he
| had been taken out of context.
|
| But his denials have repeatedly been refuted by recordings
| and transcripts from Mr. Ramaswamy's interviews -- or, in
| some cases, excerpts from his own book.
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/ramaswamy-2024-lies.html>

--bks

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:37:14 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

> | ...
> | Mr. Ramaswamy's pattern of falsehoods has been the subject
> | of intensifying scrutiny by the news media and, more
> | recently, his G.O.P. opponents, who clashed with him often
> | during the party's first debate last Wednesday.
> |
> | There are layers to Mr. Ramaswamy's distortions: He has
> | spread lies and exaggerations on subjects including the
> | 2020 election results, the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol
> | and climate change. When challenged on those statements,
> | Mr. Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who is the first
> | millennial Republican to run for president, has in several
> | instances claimed that he had never made them or that he
> | had been taken out of context.
> |
> | But his denials have repeatedly been refuted by recordings
> | and transcripts from Mr. Ramaswamy's interviews -- or, in
> | some cases, excerpts from his own book.
> | ...
><https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/ramaswamy-2024-lies.html>
>
> --bks

Of course he lies. He's running as a Republican. Republicans used to value honor and
integrity. Not anymore.

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Go here to donate to Ukrainian relief.
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Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
> | ...
> | Mr. Ramaswamy's pattern of falsehoods has been the subject
> | of intensifying scrutiny by the news media and, more
> | recently, his G.O.P. opponents, who clashed with him often
> | during the party's first debate last Wednesday.
> |
> | There are layers to Mr. Ramaswamy's distortions: He has
> | spread lies and exaggerations on subjects including the
> | 2020 election results, the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol
> | and climate change. When challenged on those statements,
> | Mr. Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who is the first
> | millennial Republican to run for president, has in several
> | instances claimed that he had never made them or that he
> | had been taken out of context.
> |
> | But his denials have repeatedly been refuted by recordings
> | and transcripts from Mr. Ramaswamy's interviews -- or, in
> | some cases, excerpts from his own book.
> | ...
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/ramaswamy-2024-lies.html>
>
> --bks
>

He is the very model of a modern Magoo politician.

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|
| U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert [R-CO] was escorted out of a
| Sunday night performance of the "Beetlejuice" musical in
| downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping,
| singing, recording and "causing a disturbance" during the
| performance.
| ...
<https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/12/lauren-boebert-removed-beetlejuice-musical-denver/>

--bks

|
| A prominent New York Republican congressman Tuesday trashed
| fellow GOP lawmakers as clowns and "lunatics" as a new
| round of bitter infighting killed the latest effort to
| avert a government shutdown.
|
| Rep. Mike Lawler angrily lashed out at far right-wing
| colleagues in the fractious GOP caucus after House Speaker
| Kevin McCarthy was forced to pull the plug on a stopgap
| funding measure.
|
| "This is stupidity. It's a clown show," said Lawler, who
| faces a tricky reelection fight in his Westchester
| County-based district next year. "You keep running
| lunatics. You're going to be in this position."
| ...
<https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/19/ny-republican-fellow-gop-members-as-clown-show-as-congress-hurtles-toward-government-shutdown/>

--bks

> | "This is stupidity. It's a clown show," said Lawler, who
> | faces a tricky reelection fight in his Westchester
> | County-based district next year. "You keep running
> | lunatics. You're going to be in this position."

Speaking of Republican lunatics:
| ...
| "We always get the blame," said Rep. Mike Simpson
| (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator. "Name one time that we've
| shut the government down and we haven't got the blame."
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/republicans-villains-government-shutdown-00117191>

--bks

>> | "This is stupidity. It's a clown show," said Lawler, who
>> | faces a tricky reelection fight in his Westchester
>> | County-based district next year. "You keep running
>> | lunatics. You're going to be in this position."

> | "We always get the blame," said Rep. Mike Simpson
> | (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator. "Name one time that we've
> | shut the government down and we haven't got the blame."

|
| Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] on House Republicans voting down
| their own defense bill for the second time:
|
| "This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want
| to burn the whole place down. That doesn't work."
|
| [15-second CNN video at URL]
|
<https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1704891328243339683?s=20>

--bks

> | Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] on House Republicans voting down
> | their own defense bill for the second time:
> |
> | "This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want
> | to burn the whole place down. That doesn't work."

| ...
| They are eager to impeach the president and even oust their
| own speaker if he doesn't accede to their every demand.
| They have refused to allow their own party to debate a
| Pentagon spending bill or approve routine military
| promotions -- a striking posture given that unflinching
| support for the armed forces has long been a bedrock of
| Republican orthodoxy.
|
| Defying the G.O.P.'s longstanding reputation as the party
| of law and order, they have pledged to handcuff the F.B.I.
| and throttle the Justice Department. Members of the party
| of Ronald Reagan refused to meet with a wartime ally,
| President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, this week when he
| visited the Capitol and want to eliminate assistance to his
| country, a democratic nation under siege from an autocratic
| aggressor.
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/republicans-congress-freedom-caucus.html>

--bks

>> | Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] on House Republicans voting down
>> | their own defense bill for the second time:
>> |
>> | "This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want
>> | to burn the whole place down. That doesn't work."

|
| Rep. Garret Graves, one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's
| closest allies, told CNN that he's fed up with conservative
| critics dangling the threat of McCarthy's ouster, saying
| that he's prepared to put the debate to rest by forcing a
| vote on the threat.
| ...
| The Louisiana Republican also came down on the right-wing
| hardliners who have tanked GOP efforts to pass a stopgap
| funding bill to provide more time to finish the House's
| appropriations bills for the next fiscal year.
|
| "It's a huge concern that I have," Graves said.
| ...
<https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/23/politics/garret-graves-oust-mccarthy-vote/index.html>

--bks

On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:39:23 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

>>> | Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] on House Republicans voting down
>>> | their own defense bill for the second time:
>>> |
>>> | "This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want
>>> | to burn the whole place down. That doesn't work."
>
> |
> | Rep. Garret Graves, one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's
> | closest allies, told CNN that he's fed up with conservative
> | critics dangling the threat of McCarthy's ouster, saying
> | that he's prepared to put the debate to rest by forcing a
> | vote on the threat.
> | ...
> | The Louisiana Republican also came down on the right-wing
> | hardliners who have tanked GOP efforts to pass a stopgap
> | funding bill to provide more time to finish the House's
> | appropriations bills for the next fiscal year.
> |
> | "It's a huge concern that I have," Graves said.
> | ...
><https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/23/politics/garret-graves-oust-mccarthy-vote/index.html>
>
> --bks

Nothing crazy about this at all. Some Republicans would like a
change. If there are enough of them it will happen. So much for your
BS hype.

On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 11:06:39 -0400, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:39:23 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
>Sherman) wrote:
>
>>>> | Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] on House Republicans voting down
>>>> | their own defense bill for the second time:
>>>> |
>>>> | "This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want
>>>> | to burn the whole place down. That doesn't work."
>>
>> |
>> | Rep. Garret Graves, one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's
>> | closest allies, told CNN that he's fed up with conservative
>> | critics dangling the threat of McCarthy's ouster, saying
>> | that he's prepared to put the debate to rest by forcing a
>> | vote on the threat.
>> | ...
>> | The Louisiana Republican also came down on the right-wing
>> | hardliners who have tanked GOP efforts to pass a stopgap
>> | funding bill to provide more time to finish the House's
>> | appropriations bills for the next fiscal year.
>> |
>> | "It's a huge concern that I have," Graves said.
>> | ...
>><https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/23/politics/garret-graves-oust-mccarthy-vote/index.html>
>>
>> --bks
>
>Nothing crazy about this at all. Some Republicans would like a
>change. If there are enough of them it will happen. So much for your
>BS hype.

Once again, Bradley is unable to respond to basic logic.

|
| Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, vented frustration at his
| Republican colleagues who are opposing a stopgap proposal
| to avert a government shutdown cobbled together by the
| conservative House Freedom Caucus and the more pragmatic
| Main Street Caucus.
|
| "If a Republican opposes a 30-day, 8% cut to the
| non-defense, non-veteran federal government with the best
| border security bill we've ever had attached to it, I
| honestly don't know what to say to my fellow Republicans
| other than you're gonna eat a shit sandwich, and you
| probably deserve to eat it," Roy told Fox News Digital on
| Wednesday.
|
| I'm an equal opportunity basher of stupid, and I think this
| is stupid."
| ...
<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chip-roy-furious-at-fellow-republicans-over-spending-debacle-eat-a-s-sandwich>

--bks

|
| Amid GOP confusion, U.S. braces for 'first-ever shutdown
| about nothing'
| ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/29/government-shutdown-gop-seinfeld/>

Jewish Space Laser Lady and Silicone Handy Lady are running the GOP.

--bks

Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
> |
> | Amid GOP confusion, U.S. braces for 'first-ever shutdown
> | about nothing'
> | ...
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/29/government-shutdown-gop-seinfeld/>
>
> Jewish Space Laser Lady and Silicone Handy Lady are running the GOP.
>
> --bks
>

The joke is republicans who say they are mad can join with
democrats and run the House. If republicans really want adult
supervision can have it. Unless they're lying.

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"We're tired of fucking around with these whack jobs""
| ...
| "There was an outcry from rank-and-file that want a
| [continuing resolution]. We're tired of fucking around with
| these whack jobs. They voted against it yesterday, so let's
| just put up a clean CR," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.),
| among those who had repeatedly pushed for the speaker to
| ignore his right flank.
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/30/congress/stopgap-passes-00119280>

--bks

> | "There was an outcry from rank-and-file that want a
> | [continuing resolution]. We're tired of fucking around with
> | these whack jobs. They voted against it yesterday, so let's
> | just put up a clean CR," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.),
> | among those who had repeatedly pushed for the speaker to
> | ignore his right flank.

|
| Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO] points out on Fox News that Gaetz
| yells at House Republicans for working with Democrats, but
| at the same time wants to work with Dems to remove McCarthy
|
| [36-second video at URL]
|
<https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1708489667971023250>

--bks

>> | "There was an outcry from rank-and-file that want a
>> | [continuing resolution]. We're tired of fucking around with
>> | these whack jobs. They voted against it yesterday, so let's
>> | just put up a clean CR," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.),
>> | among those who had repeatedly pushed for the speaker to
>> | ignore his right flank.

> | Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO] points out on Fox News that Gaetz
> | yells at House Republicans for working with Democrats, but
> | at the same time wants to work with Dems to remove McCarthy

Newt Gingrich [R-GA] is back, and he's pissed:
|
| Is Gaetz secretly an agent for the Democratic Party? No one
| else is doing as much to undermine, weaken and cripple the
| House GOP
|
<https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1708537232821239847>

--bks

>>> | "There was an outcry from rank-and-file that want a
>>> | [continuing resolution]. We're tired of fucking around with
>>> | these whack jobs. They voted against it yesterday, so let's
>>> | just put up a clean CR," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.),
>>> | among those who had repeatedly pushed for the speaker to
>>> | ignore his right flank.

>> | Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO] points out on Fox News that Gaetz
>> | yells at House Republicans for working with Democrats, but
>> | at the same time wants to work with Dems to remove McCarthy

>Newt Gingrich [R-GA] is back, and he's pissed:
> |
> | Is Gaetz secretly an agent for the Democratic Party? No one
> | else is doing as much to undermine, weaken and cripple the
> | House GOP

RWEC Godzilla Mark Levin never left, but he's pissed, too:
|
| As I explained over and over last week, Matt Gaetz and the
| 4 other clowns undermined the Freedom Caucus and all
| conservatives when they sabotaged an 8 percent cut in
| Domestic spending and strong border control measures. They
| rant and rave without a plan and without a real objective
| and now we get this 45 day CR. THEY did this. And
| predictably, they desperately blame everyone else.
| ...
<https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1708486924422332864>

--bks