The ascendance of extreme views, abetted in recent years by Fox News, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and the tea party movement, increasingly made the House Republican caucus ungovernable. The far-right Freedom Caucus drove House Speaker John A. Boehner into retirement in 2015. His successor, Paul D. Ryan, lasted only three years. Ryan’s retirement signals the final repudiation of an optimistic, inclusive brand of Reaganesque conservatism focused on enhancing economic opportunity at home and promoting democracy and free trade abroad. The Republican Party will now be defined by Trump’s dark, divisive vision, with his depiction of Democrats as America-hating, criminal-coddling traitors, his vilification of the press as the “enemy of the people,” and his ugly invective against Mexicans and Muslims. The extremism that many Republicans of goodwill had been trying to push to the fringe of their party is now its governing ideology.
That’s why I can no longer be a Republican, and in fact wish ill fortune on my former party. I am now convinced that the Republican Party must suffer repeated and devastating defeats beginning in November. It must pay a heavy price for its embrace of white nationalism and know-nothingism. Only if the GOP as it is currently constituted is burned to the ground will there be any chance to build a reasonable center-right party out of the ashes. But that will require undoing the work of decades, not just of the past two years.
The ascendance of extreme views, abetted in recent years by Fox News, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and the tea party movement, increasingly made the House Republican caucus ungovernable. The far-right Freedom Caucus drove House Speaker John A. Boehner into retirement in 2015. His successor, Paul D. Ryan, lasted only three years. Ryan’s retirement signals the final repudiation of an optimistic, inclusive brand of Reaganesque conservatism focused on enhancing economic opportunity at home and promoting democracy and free trade abroad. The Republican Party will now be defined by Trump’s dark, divisive vision, with his depiction of Democrats as America-hating, criminal-coddling traitors, his vilification of the press as the “enemy of the people,” and his ugly invective against Mexicans and Muslims. The extremism that many Republicans of goodwill had been trying to push to the fringe of their party is now its governing ideology.
That’s why I can no longer be a Republican, and in fact wish ill fortune on my former party. I am now convinced that the Republican Party must suffer repeated and devastating defeats beginning in November. It must pay a heavy price for its embrace of white nationalism and know-nothingism. Only if the GOP as it is currently constituted is burned to the ground will there be any chance to build a reasonable center-right party out of the ashes. But that will require undoing the work of decades, not just of the past two years.
A repub calling for violence against repubs? Oh the horror!
She's my candidate. I despise Dave Bratt. I have had to listen to him at local meetings, high schools, etc. He's a terrible speaker and a terrible person. He was also a professor of Economics at Randolph-Macon College before, as was my father in law before he recently retired. My father in law knew him well and worked with him a long time, and had nothing good to say about him as a person.
Republican pair apparently pose as communists to make Democratic donation
Two young Arizona Republicanstried to make a donation to a Democratic congressman as members of the Communist party in an apparent attempt to tie him to the far left.
On Friday afternoon, two men who called themselves Jose Rosales and Ahmahd Sadia walked into the campaign office of first-term Democrat Tom O’Halleran with $39.68 and an urgent desire for the Northern ArizonaUniversity Communist party to be given a receipt for the donation.
The pair initially walked in to sign up to volunteer but had brought along a jar full of money that they wished to donate. After being directed to a finance staffer, they were told to fill out paperwork. In doing so, they identified themselves as members of the Northern Arizona University Communist party. They made clear they were not an official group but were holding meetings. But they also insisted upon a receipt.
When told they get only an emailed receipt, Rosales immediately scratched out one email and wrote another. The entire process raised eyebrows among O’Halleran’s staff.
Lindsay Coleman, the finance director for the campaign, then drove to the local Republican field office to return the money. Almost immediately, the man who identified himself as Rosales appeared from a room inside the office and was identified as Oscar. He accepted the money from Coleman.
Speaking to the Guardian, Coleman identified the second man as a field organizer for the Arizona Republican party and said Ahmahd Sadia was not his real name. Neither the Arizona Republican party nor Wendy Rogers, O’Halleran’s Republican opponent for Congress, responded to requests for comment.
Making federal campaign contributions under a false identity is a crime. However, as a dirty trick, the attempt to smear opponents by linking them to unsavory political groups has a long history. In 1972, Roger Stone, then a young campaign staffer for Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, sent a donation to Nixon’s anti-war primary opponent in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance. Stone went on to serve as Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser, a role he left early in Trump’s presidential campaign.
The rural Arizona district was narrowly won by both Donald Trump in 2016 and Mitt Romney in 2012. However, the non-partisan Cook Political Report classifies the race as Likely Democratic.
That's what I was thinking. This guy obviously hasn't played golf in over 30 years. My golf shoes are so comfortable I forget to take them off after rounds, but thirty years ago they were a concealed weapon that made walking on concrete like tip-toeing across ice and could end a fools life with a JCVD spinning kick to the throat.
That's what I was thinking. This guy obviously hasn't played golf in over 30 years. My golf shoes are so comfortable I forget to take them off after rounds, but thirty years ago they were a concealed weapon that made walking on concrete like tip-toeing across ice and could end a fools life with a JCVD spinning kick to the throat.
Part of the MAGA doctrine includes golf spikes when they were actual spikes.
That's what I was thinking. This guy obviously hasn't played golf in over 30 years. My golf shoes are so comfortable I forget to take them off after rounds, but thirty years ago they were a concealed weapon that made walking on concrete like tip-toeing across ice and could end a fools life with a JCVD spinning kick to the throat.
Part of the MAGA doctrine includes golf spikes when they were actual spikes.
https://www.voanews.com/amp/4614355.html This is the kind of shit that’s just so wrong they are still being persecuted in 2018 , the GOP has no apathy these folks don’t live in a neighborhood with white picket fences with lawns perfectly manicured for fucks sake !!!!
Honestly, how does the USA get away with such flagrant racism and discrimination? How do these two-bit officials get to do things like this?
Georgia County Orders Elderly Black Voters Off Bus Taking Them To The Polls
Dozens of black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered off a bus bound for the polls after county officials said the event constituted prohibited “political activity.”
A Jefferson County clerk reportedly told staff members from the Leisure Center in Louisville on Monday ― the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia ― that roughly 40 black people couldn’t take part in the trip after receiving a complaint from an unnamed caller.
The trip had been organized by the nonpartisan Black Voters Matter, which is embarking on a bus tour across several southern states with the goal of urging black people to vote. The caller said the bus, which was painted with the words “The South is Rising Tour,” should not be allowed to bring people to the polls, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Jefferson County Administrator Adam Brett said the trip, set to depart from a county-run senior center, was political and therefore violated guidelines imposed on county-sponsored events, the AJC reported. Although Black Voters Matter is a nonpartisan organization, Jefferson County Democratic Party Chairwoman Diane Evans helped organize the event.
Officials “felt uncomfortable with allowing senior center patrons to leave the facility in a bus with an unknown third party,” Brett told the AJC. “No seniors at the Jefferson County senior center were denied their right to vote.”
A representative for the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
But Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown pushed back on Brett’s reasoning for ending the trip.
“We knew it was an intimidation tactic,” Brown told the AJC. “It was really unnecessary. These are grown people.”
The hopeful voters were initially told by the senior center’s staffers that they could ride in a county van to cast their ballots but were then instructed to go inside for lunch and vote another day, according to Brown.
A video posted to Black Voters Matter’s Twitter page shows the senior citizens dancing and cheering before boarding the bus.
“What happened was a real issue,” Brown says in the video. “But it ain’t going to stop us. Can’t stop, won’t stop.”
Georgia is home to one of the most contentious gubernatorial races in the country. Accusations of voter suppression have swirled as Democrat Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s first black female nominee for governor, faces off against the state’s Republican secretary of state, Brian Kemp.
The Associated Press reported last week that over 53,000 voter applications ― nearly 70 percent of which were from black applicants ― were on hold with Kemp’s office.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-intel-gop-withholds-rohrabacher-and-wasserman-schultzs-russia-probe-transcripts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/national/read-the-transcript-of-the-conversation-among-gop-leaders-obtained-by-the-post/2209/?noredirect=on
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/408923-house-intelligence-committee-votes-to-release-russia-transcripts
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/08/the-dark-side-of-american-conservatism-has-taken-over/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b28034566cc9
The ascendance of extreme views, abetted in recent years by Fox News, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and the tea party movement, increasingly made the House Republican caucus ungovernable. The far-right Freedom Caucus drove House Speaker John A. Boehner into retirement in 2015. His successor, Paul D. Ryan, lasted only three years. Ryan’s retirement signals the final repudiation of an optimistic, inclusive brand of Reaganesque conservatism focused on enhancing economic opportunity at home and promoting democracy and free trade abroad. The Republican Party will now be defined by Trump’s dark, divisive vision, with his depiction of Democrats as America-hating, criminal-coddling traitors, his vilification of the press as the “enemy of the people,” and his ugly invective against Mexicans and Muslims. The extremism that many Republicans of goodwill had been trying to push to the fringe of their party is now its governing ideology.
That’s why I can no longer be a Republican, and in fact wish ill fortune on my former party. I am now convinced that the Republican Party must suffer repeated and devastating defeats beginning in November. It must pay a heavy price for its embrace of white nationalism and know-nothingism. Only if the GOP as it is currently constituted is burned to the ground will there be any chance to build a reasonable center-right party out of the ashes. But that will require undoing the work of decades, not just of the past two years.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/11/us/anti-immigrant-flyers-found-in-queens/index.html
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Republican pair apparently pose as communists to make Democratic donation
Two young Arizona Republicans tried to make a donation to a Democratic congressman as members of the Communist party in an apparent attempt to tie him to the far left.
On Friday afternoon, two men who called themselves Jose Rosales and Ahmahd Sadia walked into the campaign office of first-term Democrat Tom O’Halleran with $39.68 and an urgent desire for the Northern Arizona University Communist party to be given a receipt for the donation.
When told they get only an emailed receipt, Rosales immediately scratched out one email and wrote another. The entire process raised eyebrows among O’Halleran’s staff.
Lindsay Coleman, the finance director for the campaign, then drove to the local Republican field office to return the money. Almost immediately, the man who identified himself as Rosales appeared from a room inside the office and was identified as Oscar. He accepted the money from Coleman.
Speaking to the Guardian, Coleman identified the second man as a field organizer for the Arizona Republican party and said Ahmahd Sadia was not his real name. Neither the Arizona Republican party nor Wendy Rogers, O’Halleran’s Republican opponent for Congress, responded to requests for comment.
Making federal campaign contributions under a false identity is a crime. However, as a dirty trick, the attempt to smear opponents by linking them to unsavory political groups has a long history. In 1972, Roger Stone, then a young campaign staffer for Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, sent a donation to Nixon’s anti-war primary opponent in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance. Stone went on to serve as Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser, a role he left early in Trump’s presidential campaign.
The rural Arizona district was narrowly won by both Donald Trump in 2016 and Mitt Romney in 2012. However, the non-partisan Cook Political Report classifies the race as Likely Democratic.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/11/us/ice-separated-families/index.html
A 4 year old for christ’s Sake.
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Despicable douche
Pennsylvania GOP gov candidate says he'll 'stomp' on Gov. Wolf's face 'with golf spikes' - Fox News https://apple.news/ASGMmYfRhSayzXuP9HEd3Cg
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Pro-Trump ‘Proud Boys’ Mob Beats Up Protesters Outside NYC Club - Splinter https://apple.news/ARf9XlgzARJeU06qvC7iDLw
Hosting a hate group at your club house? Nice.
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Trump’s First Annual Budget Deficit Rises to a Six-Year High - Bloomberg https://apple.news/AvMLokhdNSVW7AGhmfhAUkQ
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This is the kind of shit that’s just so wrong they are still being persecuted in 2018 , the GOP has no apathy these folks don’t live in a neighborhood with white picket fences with lawns perfectly manicured for fucks sake !!!!
Georgia County Orders Elderly Black Voters Off Bus Taking Them To The Polls
Dozens of black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered off a bus bound for the polls after county officials said the event constituted prohibited “political activity.”
A Jefferson County clerk reportedly told staff members from the Leisure Center in Louisville on Monday ― the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia ― that roughly 40 black people couldn’t take part in the trip after receiving a complaint from an unnamed caller.
The trip had been organized by the nonpartisan Black Voters Matter, which is embarking on a bus tour across several southern states with the goal of urging black people to vote. The caller said the bus, which was painted with the words “The South is Rising Tour,” should not be allowed to bring people to the polls, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Jefferson County Administrator Adam Brett said the trip, set to depart from a county-run senior center, was political and therefore violated guidelines imposed on county-sponsored events, the AJC reported. Although Black Voters Matter is a nonpartisan organization, Jefferson County Democratic Party Chairwoman Diane Evans helped organize the event.
Officials “felt uncomfortable with allowing senior center patrons to leave the facility in a bus with an unknown third party,” Brett told the AJC. “No seniors at the Jefferson County senior center were denied their right to vote.”
A representative for the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
But Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown pushed back on Brett’s reasoning for ending the trip.
“We knew it was an intimidation tactic,” Brown told the AJC. “It was really unnecessary. These are grown people.”
The hopeful voters were initially told by the senior center’s staffers that they could ride in a county van to cast their ballots but were then instructed to go inside for lunch and vote another day, according to Brown.
A video posted to Black Voters Matter’s Twitter page shows the senior citizens dancing and cheering before boarding the bus.
“What happened was a real issue,” Brown says in the video. “But it ain’t going to stop us. Can’t stop, won’t stop.”
Georgia is home to one of the most contentious gubernatorial races in the country. Accusations of voter suppression have swirled as Democrat Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s first black female nominee for governor, faces off against the state’s Republican secretary of state, Brian Kemp.
The Associated Press reported last week that over 53,000 voter applications ― nearly 70 percent of which were from black applicants ― were on hold with Kemp’s office.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/black-voters-matter-bus-georgia_us_5bc76a27e4b055bc947ce32b