What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

[Wheelimus]

But it's funny, and should have been mentioned. Can't even get cheered in your own state.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Not just his own state, but his literal HOME. He said he lived 15 minutes from the rally location. Those are practically "his neighbors" booing him for not cow toeing to Trump. That's damned impressive, in some ways.

Not that I think it'll do much to prevent him from being re-elected, though. Granted, any potential replacements for him would probably be worse.

 

[Ironbite4]

Welp, Freedom Caucus just raised their collective IQs.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Booted From Right-Wing House Freedom Caucus

But the Georgia congresswoman got backup from an unlikely ally: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).

www.thedailybeast.com

Imagine being so dumb as to pick a fight with a fellow member of a caucus you enjoyed being able to shape the agenda of an entire political party and think you'll escape consequences. AND THEN! the person you called a "little bitch" gets to be the more mature one and express that "Oh I defended her on freedom of speech grounds because that's her right to call me names". Like holy hell MGT.

Ironbite-oh and this is gonna cause her stock to plummet with House Leadership.

 

[Teufel]

Actually, that may have been the final straw or excuse, but the main drivers of this were her coziness with McCarthy and voting for the debt limit deal. She wasn't too stupid for the Freedom Caucus, she was too "establishment" for it.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Jewish space laser lady was too mainstream...

The absolute dumbest time line ever.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

It really pisses me off that the GOP gets away with positioning itself as the political party against child trafficking. This is the same party which keeps trying to defend child marriage, for ****'s sake.

They took an issue which almost everyone agrees with but which they have a spotty record on, pretended to be the great champion warriors to protect us from it, and then insinuated that because Democrats don't make as much noise about this issue, they must be taking the opposite view.

Conservatives who describe themselves as "constitutional conservatives" are the worst, because their self-righteousness is bolstered by the belief that they have heritage, tradition, and law all on their side. This means they are absolutely unwilling to compromise.

I don't understand. Can't these Republican women simply pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? Why are they upset about DeSantis adjusting the alimony formula so they won't get as much money from their ex-husbands? They're Republican: surely they must believe that the market will provide.

‘This is a death sentence for me’: Florida Republican women say they will switch parties after DeSantis approves alimony law

'My fears are that they can take you back to court, and I don’t have the money for an attorney.'

www.orlandoweekly.com

 

[DefaultOption]

It really pisses me off that the GOP gets away with positioning itself as the political party against child trafficking. This is the same party which keeps trying to defend child marriage, for ****'s sake.

Every accusation is a confession.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

At some point, someone needs to just wait for a Republican to make an accusation and then immediately start investigating them for it.

Of course, this would only matter if their actions actually had any consequences for them.

 

[Ironbite4]

You know, I thought most of the stupid from Jan 6th was just MAGA Morons being MAGA Morons. But I didn't think Tucker and Faux News was this stupid. And it might even cost them a fair chunk of change.

Fox News Faces Defamation Lawsuit From Trump Supporter Ray Epps

Right-wing conspiracy theorists believe Epps to be an undercover federal agent who urged a pro-Trump mob to provoke violence on Jan. 6, 2021.

www.huffpost.com

Ironbite-though some people aren't aware that Tucker's no longer with Fox won't stop this lawsuit from going forward.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

If Ray Epps was a genuine insurrectionist we should not be rooting for him to get a payday out of it. If a judge rules in his favor the award should be reduced to zero.

 

[abates]

It's odd since it does say in the article that the FBI interviewed him but he wasn't charged.

 

[Ironbite4]

So let's see how MTG is doing since being booted from the Freedom Caucus because she's a brainless moron who's only real value was propping up Trump.

Majority of Republicans vote down Greene, Gaetz Ukraine bills

Five House Republican-backed initiatives to curtail aid to Ukraine using the annual Pentagon policy bill were shot down Thursday afternoon in votes that saw a consensus from both sides of the aisle…

thehill.com

JESUS!

So that's about two amendments that Green's tried to add to bills that have been shot down. The first one was earlier this year when she was a member of the Freedom Cacus.

Marjorie Taylor Greene amendment flops as only 13 Republicans back her

The House of Representatives rejected a number of proposed amendments to a bill dealing with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

www.newsweek.com

She is not very popular within her own party now is she? Makes me wonder if it was the cheerleading of McCarthy that did it or that she's that uncouth within the halls of Congress.

Ironbite-it just tickles me pink...now can her own district wake up and do the same to her.

 

[abates]

According to Tim Burchett, the relationship between Boebert and Taylor Greene is slightly strained:

GOP lawmaker says Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are on the verge of a fistfight at 'any moment'

Greene is reportedly angry over her ouster from the House Freedom Caucus, which Boebert supported after Greene called her a "little bitch."

www.businessinsider.com

"I am friends with both of them," Burchett told the publication. "It's entertaining to think that a fistfight could break out at any movement. I kind of dig that."

 

[Rhinox]

. . . . I'd pay $5 for that pay per view.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Maybe we'd get lucky and they'd both get their jaws and hands broken. Anything to shut those two screaming idiots up for a while.

 

[Spin-Out]

they're both narcissistic, sadistic sociopaths who happen to be gun nuts. they'll probably shoot each other

 

[Pale Rider]

Too bad Jerry Springer is no longer with us. He could have hosted them on his show, with predictable results.

 

[DefaultOption]

 

[Spin-Out]

Greg Abbott is a child-murdering monster.

Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.”

The July 3 account, reviewed by Hearst Newspapers, discloses several previously unreported incidents the trooper witnessed in Eagle Pass, where the state of Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande.


According to the email, a pregnant woman having a miscarriage was found late last month caught in the wire, doubled over in pain. A four-year-old girl passed out from heat exhaustion after she tried to go through it and was pushed back by Texas National Guard soldiers. A teenager broke his leg trying to navigate the water around the wire and had to be carried by his father.

The email, which the trooper sent to a superior, suggests that Texas has set “traps” of razor wire-wrapped barrels in parts of the river with high water and low visibility. And it says the wire has increased the risk of drownings by forcing migrants into deeper stretches of the river.

The trooper called for a series of rigorous policy changes to improve safety for migrants, including removing the barrels and revoking the directive on withholding water.

“Due to the extreme heat, the order to not give people water needs to be immediately reversed as well,” the trooper wrote, later adding: “I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane.”

Department of Public Safety spokesman Travis Considine did not comment on all the contents of the trooper’s email, but said there is no policy against giving water to migrants.

Considine also provided an email from DPS Director Steven McCraw on Saturday calling for an audit to determine if more can be done to minimize the risk to migrants. McCraw wrote troopers should warn migrants not to cross the wire, redirect them to ports of entry and to closely watch for anyone who needs medical attention.

In another email, McCraw acknowledged that there has been an increase in injuries from the wire, including seven incidents reported by Border Patrol where migrants needed “elevated medical attention” from July 4 to July 13. Those were in addition to the incidents detailed by the trooper.

“The purpose of the wire is to deter smuggling between the ports of entry and not to injure migrants,” McCraw wrote. “The smugglers care not if the migrants are injured, but we do, and we must take all necessary measures to mitigate the risk to them including injuries from trying to cross over the concertina wire, drownings and dehydration.”

The incidents detailed in the email come as Abbott has stepped up efforts in recent weeks to physically bar migrants from entering the country through his Operation Lone Star initiative, escalating tensions between state and federal officials and drawing increased scrutiny from humanitarian groups who say the state is endangering asylum seekers. The most aggressive initiatives have been targeted at Eagle Pass.

The state has also now deployed a wall of floating buoys in the Rio Grande, which triggered complaints over the weekend from Mexico.

Federal Border Patrol officials have issued internal warnings that the razor wire is preventing their agents from reaching at-risk migrants and increasing the risk of drownings in the Rio Grande, Hearst Newspapers reported last week.

The DPS trooper expressed similar concerns, writing that the placement of the wire along the river “forces people to cross in other areas that are deeper and not as safe for people carrying kids and bags.”

The trooper’s email sheds new light on a series of previously reported drownings in the river during a one-week stretch earlier this month, including a mother and at least one of her two children, who federal Border Patrol agents spotted struggling to cross the Rio Grande on July 1.

According to the email, a DPS boat found the mother and one of the children, who went under the water for a minute. They were pulled from the river and given medical care before being transferred to EMS, but were later declared deceased at the hospital. The second child was never found, the email said.

The governor has said he is taking necessary steps to secure the border and accused federal officials of refusing to do so.

“Texas is deploying every tool and strategy to deter and repel illegal crossings between ports of entry as President Biden’s dangerous open border policies entice migrants from over 150 countries to risk their lives entering the country illegally," said Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary. "President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable, and we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis.”

The DPS trooper’s email details four incidents in just one day in which migrants were caught in the wire or injured trying to get around it.

On June 30, troopers found a group of people along the wire, including a 4-year-old girl who tried to cross the wire and was pressed back by Texas Guard soldiers “due to the orders given to them,” the email says. The DPS trooper wrote that the temperature was “well over 100 degrees” and the girl passed out from exhaustion.

“We provided treatment to the unresponsive patient and transferred care to EMS,” the trooper wrote. A spokesperson for the Texas National Guard did not respond to a request for comment.

In another instance, troopers found a 19-year-old woman “in obvious pain” stuck in the wire. She was cut free and given a medical assessment, which determined she was pregnant and having a miscarriage. She was then transferred to EMS.

The trooper also treated a man with a “significant laceration” in his left leg, who said he had cut it while trying to free his child who was “stuck on a trap in the water,” describing a barrel with razor wire “all over it.” And the trooper treated a 15-year-old boy who broke his right leg walking in the river because the razor wire was “laid out in a manner that it forced him into the river where it is unsafe to travel.”


In another instance, on June 25, troopers came across a group of 120 people camped out along a fence set up along the river. The group included several small children and babies who were nursing, the trooper wrote. The entire group was exhausted, hungry and tired, the trooper wrote. The shift officer in command ordered the troopers to “push the people back into the water to go to Mexico,” the email says.

The trooper wrote that the troopers decided it was not the right thing to do “with the very real potential of exhausted people drowning.” They called command again and expressed their concerns and were given the order to “tell them to go to Mexico and get into our vehicle and leave,” the trooper wrote. After they left, other troopers worked with Border Patrol to provide care to the migrants, the email said.

This is a crime against humanity, and he and all of his sycophants should be hung for it.

 

[Ironbite4]

Large Marge has put porn into the Congressional record.

I for wish I hadn't had to write that sentence but she did. And I saw it with my own two eyes. And now so do you!

Marjorie Taylor Greene Inflicts Hunter Biden Nudes on Congress

MAGA congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once again caused chaos at a House hearing—this time by waving around X-rated images of the president’s son.

www.thedailybeast.com

So the GOP is having another hearing on Hunter Biden, thinking they've got the smoking gun to impeach the President because somehow his son's actions affect his presidency, the hearing goes as you would expect for the first few hours until Green decides that's enough and adds some stolen porn that allegedly shows Hunter Biden having sex and drugs with various prostitutes. I say alleged because the GOP hasn't yet figured out that any evidence they got off that laptop is inadmissible in a court of law. Why? Because the laptop itself never went through proper channels for evidence.

Ironbite-not that they care.