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

[Ungnome]

Unfortunately yes....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1498842160816443395

Thankfully they didn't make as big a deal about it as some of their other 'outrages', but it was mentioned by a few of them.

If I ever, somehow, end up in Congress, I think I'll wear and IDIC pin instead.(Not that I really have any political aspirations. I find arguments and confrontation quite draining.)

 

[Paladin]

This is the most accurate Republican celebration of Black History Month I ever could've pictured.

Lawmakers want to rename a portion of Rep. John Lewis Way for former President Donald Trump

The change would only affect less than a third of a mile of the roadway near the Capitol building.

www.wkrn.com

 

[abates]

Of all the things to claim you were involved with:

George Santos Reportedly Told Donors He Produced Spider-Man on Broadway

George Santos reportedly told donors he was one of the producers of the Spider-Man musical on Broadway.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Ungnome]

Reminds me of the faction symbol for 'Dah Boys' in Gammarauders(I know that was a tommy gun, not an AR-15, but...)

 

[NovaSaber]

Idaho Republicans Introduce Bill Removing Student IDs and Provisional Ballots From Photo ID Law

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

House Bill 54 would remove student IDs from the acceptable list of identification, while continuing to accept concealed carry permits and more. Additionally, for voters who lack acceptable identification, H.B. 54 would remove the option to sign a personal identification affidavit swearing one’s identity.

House Members Waste Our Time and Money To Pass Bill “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism”

A whopping 328 House members, including 109 Democrats, voted for the bill.

newrepublic.com

In a country ailed by the callousness of capitalism—as people are subject to a continual stream of mass shootings, ruthless police brutality, and having to resort to GoFundMe in order to pay for rent and hospital bills—members of Congress spent their workday, instead, denouncing socialism.
After Republican members on Thursday shamelessly voted to oust Representative Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 109 Democrats joined them to pass a bill “denouncing the horrors of socialism.”
In total, 328* House members—75 percent of the chamber—participated in the farce taking place in the people’s House. The 109 Democrats, many led by the New Democrat Coalition, decided that, instead of deriding the resolution as a meaningless exercise, they’d participate in the Republican-led charade.

 

[Patch]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623350837182357504

 

[Pocket]

"flanked by huge boxes of gas stoves" certainly had my mind going in a different direction at first.

 

[NovaSaber]

Republicans are really putting the gas back in gaslight, aren't they?

And it's because the Republican voters spend less time online that they're less likely to fact-check the lies they're told.

 

[wonko the sane?]

"flanked by huge boxes of gas stoves" certainly had my mind going in a different direction at first.

I mean... given what desantis IS, my mind went to the exact same place.

 

[NovaSaber]

MTG, Tucker Carlson, and Donald Trump Jr are stoking a moral panic over Sam Smith dressing as Satan at the Grammys

Conservative influencers including Donald Trump Jr said the Grammy performance was part of a sinister devil-worshipping agenda.

www.businessinsider.com

You can probably guess which Republican got involved in this just by how stupid and conspiracy-based it is...

"The Grammy's featured Sam Smith's demonic performance and was sponsored by Pfizer. And the Satanic Church now has an abortion clinic in NM that requires its patients to perform a satanic ritual before services. American Christians need to get to work," said Greene.

 

[Nevermore]

Can't someone already start the rumor that MTG is secretly a witch?

 

[wonko the sane?]

Can't someone already start the rumor that MTG is secretly a witch?

My brother is actually married to a witch.

Please don't defame witches by comparing them to that miserable excuse of a human being.

 

[Ungnome]

Frankly, Boebert is the one who looks more like a cheap knockoff of Bayonetta so part of me is kinda upset it wasn't her instead of MTG in this case.

 

[Covert Agent Rodimal]

My brother is actually married to a witch.

Please don't defame witches by comparing them to that miserable excuse of a human being.

 

[NovaSaber]

Bill would ban the teaching of scientific theories in Montana schools

A bill in the state Legislature seeking to regulate science curriculum in public schools got its first hearing Monday. The legislation’s sponsor says by banning scientific theories, the policy aims to prevent kids from being taught things that aren’t true.

www.mtpr.org

 

[Ungnome]

What WILL they be able to teach in science class then? The bulk of scientific knowledge IS theory. Theory is as close as we can get to truth given current evidence, after all. Even what we tend to call scientific laws have had to be revised as new evidence has come to light(Newton's laws of motion were found to be more of an approximation of reality than actual reality after all).

 

[wonko the sane?]

Given it's montana, it probably means creationism all the time. Beau of the fifth did a video on this, and IF they even do it (cause no one is really that stupid, are they?) all it will do is cripple montana's future and population.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

(cause no one is really that stupid, are they?)

Please don't tempt fate like that.

 

[KidTDragon]

(cause no one is really that stupid, are they?)

You know they are.

 

[NovaSaber]

A New (Alleged) Liar in Congress Just Dropped

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) claims her father raised her as Jewish. He's Catholic and his father served in the Nazi army, according to a damning new story.

jezebel.com

By now, many people know about serial liar Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) who made up almost his entire resume and claimed to be Jewish on the campaign trail. He’s facing various investigations and stepped down from his committee assignments but is still somehow in Congress. And now, the House GOP appears to have another fabulist on their hands!

According to a damning story in the Washington Post, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) is an Air Force veteran and former Obama supporter who used to go by Anna Paulina Mayerhofer before she switched parties to run for Congress. She’s now a member of the House Freedom Caucus and has argued that House members should be able to carry firearms to committee meetings.

Luna claimed on the campaign trail that while she is a Christian, her father, George Mayerhofer, raised her as a Messianic Jew and that she’s part Ashkenazi Jewish. (Messianic Jews identify as Jewish but believe Jesus is the Messiah.) She said these things during an interview with Jewish Insider in which she stood by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who had made antisemitic comments. “MTG did endorse me, and I was raised as a Messianic Jew by my father,” Luna said. “I am also a small fraction Ashkenazi. If she were antisemitic, why did she endorse me?”

Well, Luna’s relatives dispute that fact and say that not only was George a Catholic who never practiced any form of Judaism, but that his father, Heinrich Mayerhofer, served in the Nazi army in the 1940s. Luna’s estranged uncle even provided the Post with a photo of Heinrich in uniform, which an independent expert said “was consistent with that of a member of the Wehrmacht, which was the armed forces of Nazi Germany.” Luna’s aunt told the Post that Heinrich had no choice but to serve in the German army. It’s worth noting that the reason Luna is estranged from this uncle, Edward Mayerhofer, is that he used social media to draw attention to “inconsistencies” in Luna’s biography during her first Congressional bid.

If Christians turn violent it's drag queens’ fault. That’s the new far-right talking point. - LGBTQ Nation

Kari Lake agreed that if the right causes violence its drag queens' fault.

www.lgbtqnation.com

Failed anti-LGBTQ+ Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) agreed with far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters as he bashed trans people and drag queens.

“I don’t know how much longer the people can take it,” Lake said after Peters decried “this transgender freak show craze that’s happening in front of kids.”