These 112 Republicans voted against Ukraine aid

 These 112 House Republicans voted against Ukraine aid

 The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a more than $60 billion bill to provide military and economic aid to Ukraine.

A solid majority of Republicans voted against the bill, which passed by a 311-112 margin. 101 Republicans voted for it, and one Republican, Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, voted "present."

The Ukraine aid bill came to the floor after months of delay and despite staunch opposition from the hard right, including a threat from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to call a vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson if he allowed such a vote.

 

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151

Alford    Republican    Missouri    NAY
Allen    Republican    Georgia    NAY
Amodei    Republican    Nevada    NAY
Armstrong    Republican    North Dakota    NAY
Arrington    Republican    Texas    NAY
Babin    Republican    Texas    NAY
Baird    Republican    Indiana    NAY
Balderson    Republican    Ohio    NAY
Banks    Republican    Indiana    NAY
Bean (FL)    Republican    Florida    NAY
Bergman    Republican    Michigan    NAY
Biggs    Republican    Arizona    NAY
Bilirakis    Republican    Florida    NAY
Bishop (NC)    Republican    North Carolina    NAY
Boebert    Republican    Colorado    NAY
Bost    Republican    Illinois    NAY
Brecheen    Republican    Oklahoma    NAY
Burchett    Republican    Tennessee    NAY
Burlison    Republican    Missouri    NAY
Cammack    Republican    Florida    NAY
Carl    Republican    Alabama    NAY
Cline    Republican    Virginia    NAY
Cloud    Republican    Texas    NAY
Clyde    Republican    Georgia    NAY
Collins    Republican    Georgia    NAY
Comer    Republican    Kentucky    NAY
Crane    Republican    Arizona    NAY
Crawford    Republican    Arkansas    NAY
Davidson    Republican    Ohio    NAY
De La Cruz    Republican    Texas    NAY
DesJarlais    Republican    Tennessee    NAY
Donalds    Republican    Florida    NAY
Duncan    Republican    South Carolina    NAY
Estes    Republican    Kansas    NAY
Ezell    Republican    Mississippi    NAY
Fallon    Republican    Texas    NAY
Finstad    Republican    Minnesota    NAY
Fischbach    Republican    Minnesota    NAY
Fitzgerald    Republican    Wisconsin    NAY
Franklin, Scott    Republican    Florida    NAY
Fry    Republican    South Carolina    NAY
Fulcher    Republican    Idaho    NAY
Gaetz    Republican    Florida    NAY
Good (VA)    Republican    Virginia    NAY
Gooden (TX)    Republican    Texas    NAY
Gosar    Republican    Arizona    NAY
Graves (LA)    Republican    Louisiana    NAY
Green (TN)    Republican    Tennessee    NAY
Greene (GA)    Republican    Georgia    NAY
Grothman    Republican    Wisconsin    NAY
Guest    Republican    Mississippi    NAY
Hageman    Republican    Wyoming    NAY
Harris    Republican    Maryland    NAY
Harshbarger    Republican    Tennessee    NAY
Hern    Republican    Oklahoma    NAY
Higgins (LA)    Republican    Louisiana    NAY
Huizenga    Republican    Michigan    NAY
Jackson (TX)    Republican    Texas    NAY
Jordan    Republican    Ohio    NAY
Joyce (PA)    Republican    Pennsylvania    NAY
Kelly (MS)    Republican    Mississippi    NAY
LaMalfa    Republican    California    NAY
Langworthy    Republican    New York    NAY
Lee (FL)    Republican    Florida    NAY
Lesko    Republican    Arizona    NAY
Letlow    Republican    Louisiana    NAY
Loudermilk    Republican    Georgia    NAY
Luna    Republican    Florida    NAY
Luttrell    Republican    Texas    NAY
Mace    Republican    South Carolina    NAY
Malliotakis    Republican    New York    NAY
Maloy    Republican    Utah    NAY
Mann    Republican    Kansas    NAY
Massie    Republican    Kentucky    NAY
Mast    Republican    Florida    NAY
McClain    Republican    Michigan    NAY
Miller (IL)    Republican    Illinois    NAY
Mills    Republican    Florida    NAY
Moolenaar    Republican    Michigan    NAY
Moore (AL)    Republican    Alabama    NAY
Nehls    Republican    Texas    NAY
Norman    Republican    South Carolina    NAY
Obernolte    Republican    California    NAY
Ogles    Republican    Tennessee    NAY
Owens    Republican    Utah    NAY
Palmer    Republican    Alabama    NAY
Perry    Republican    Pennsylvania    NAY
Pfluger    Republican    Texas    NAY
Posey    Republican    Florida    NAY
Rose    Republican    Tennessee    NAY
Rosendale    Republican    Montana    NAY
Roy    Republican    Texas    NAY
Self    Republican    Texas    NAY
Smith (MO)    Republican    Missouri    NAY
Spartz    Republican    Indiana    NAY
Stauber    Republican    Minnesota    NAY
Stefanik    Republican    New York    NAY
Steil    Republican    Wisconsin    NAY
Steube    Republican    Florida    NAY
Strong    Republican    Alabama    NAY
Tenney    Republican    New York    NAY
Tiffany    Republican    Wisconsin    NAY
Timmons    Republican    South Carolina    NAY
Van Drew    Republican    New Jersey    NAY
Van Duyne    Republican    Texas    NAY
Van Orden    Republican    Wisconsin    NAY
Walberg    Republican    Michigan    NAY
Waltz    Republican    Florida    NAY
Weber (TX)    Republican    Texas    NAY
Webster (FL)    Republican    Florida    NAY
Williams (TX)    Republican    Texas    NAY
Zinke    Republican    Montana    NAY

Ah yes, good old Victoria Spartz.

The only Ukrainian American in Congress… votes NO on Ukrainian aid.

Full MAGA. Ukrainian American.

She NEEDS to have someone look into her, like yesterday.

Something definitely off with this one.

How many of the 112 supported the coup against our country?

How many voted against funding food for school kids?

How many of them voted against Infrastructure investments then claimed credit for them?

MTG is on a roll, russian payroll

Marjorie Taylor Greene Applauds Russia for 'Protecting Christianity'

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday said that Russia is "protecting Christianity" more than Ukraine, as part of what she described as a broader war against the religion.

Greene, the two-term GOP lawmaker out of Georgia, has been one of the more outspoken members of her party's conference over not providing continuous domestic aid to Ukraine in its two-plus year conflict with Russia since it was invaded on February 24, 2022.

She is a Kremlin mouth piece. A traitor in our midst.

She has publically called to end the Constitution and dissolve the United States of America into two nations. Treason is the reason for her existence as a politician.

Moscow Marge strikes again.

Make no mistake, MAGA wants the US to be run exactly as Russia is, with very little freedoms, no right to free speech, controlled state government press, all being run by Trump or similar who would of course have the power to assassinate anybody that gets in their way.

Every American should be against this, the fact that this isn’t the case is absolutely insane.

Funny because there’s evidence of Russian occupying forces persecuting Protestants. And evidence pro Russian rebels are going after evangelicals at the order of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Everything this troglodyte says is flat out wrong.

Trump falsely claims

 Fact check: Trump falsely claims that appeals court said ‘you won’ the civil fraud case he lost

Former President Donald Trump continues to make false claims about the New York civil fraud case he lost – including a wildly inaccurate declaration on Tuesday that an appeals court previously said that he had “won the case.”

Trump has made similar claims for months. He delivered an especially unequivocal version at a Tuesday campaign rally in Wisconsin, the day after he posted a $175 million bond to prevent New York Attorney General Letitia James from beginning to collect on Judge Arthur Engoron’s $454 million judgment against him.

Otherwise known as a lie, but for some reason the media likes using soft language when it comes to the shit Trump does.

Why are they so afraid to just say “liar”? It isn’t like he hasn’t lied before. It’s Trump’s way of life. Lie, lie, delay.delay and grift.

Claiming a person "lied" means you know their intent/state of mind. Since that's practically impossible to prove unless the person leaves a written trail of that. Trying to prove any sort of intent or understanding on the part of Trump would be a complete waste of time and resources. He regularly shows that he doesn't understand things

It would be very hard to defend against a well-crafted defamation suit if you claim he lied about something, without receipts to prove he knew he was lying and had intent to deceive. He's also a fucking moron showing signs of dementia, which complicates any such strategy.

So, if he believes getting his appeal bond reduced to only $175 million is 'winning'.. does that mean now they have rejected it, this means he's lost?

I mean I know I'm expecting a lot to get some narrative structure in his lies ...

False claims are the bedrock of this orange turd’s entire stenching existence

If Trump is speaking he is likely lying.

Banning Chemtrails

Tennessee is trying to ban 'chemtrails' from planes based on a wild conspiracy theory

Lawmakers in Tennessee are trying to ban chemtrails in a bill based on a conspiracy theory.

SB 2691 passed in the Senate on Monday, according to The Tennessean. It has not yet advanced in the house.

The chemtrail conspiracy theory claims that commercial aircraft spray chemicals into the atmosphere for malign purposes.

This is referenced in the state's bill, which claims the federal government "may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere."

We gots some Rocket Scientists in the Tennessee Statehouse!

I like how they’re worried about chemtrails but not ACTUAL pollution 🤦‍♂️

There are a few videos espousing the idea that these are never just ordinary contrails due to moisture, but they are chemicals being released under a program started 30 or 40 years ago involving all the high flying jet aircraft in the world, meaning every airline and every government. Like they could all agree on anything. LOL This is all being done under our noses in order to slow the heating of the earth by the sun.

Aircraft fuel is composed primarily of hydrocarbons, which generate carbon dioxide and water vapor as their main combustion by-products.

“Contrails” are formed when these hot exhaust gases mix with rarefied cool air. In a process similar to cloud formation, the water condenses around soot (particulate exhaust) and freezes quickly, forming a white haze of microscopic ice crystals which is essentially an elongated cirrus cloud.

 

Don Poorleone

 

Donald Trump lashes out as clock runs down on his $464m bond payment

The clock is ticking.

On Monday, Donald Trump will face a reckoning with the legal system as he never has before.

Alongside his four criminal cases - totalling 88 charges - the civil fraud case against the former president, his adult sons Don Jr and Eric, the Trump Organization and two of its executives, seems somewhat underplayed.

Trump said in a deposition last spring that his company had "in excess $400 million in cash," and that it was going up "very substantially every month." As of mid-March, Forbes estimated Trump's net worth at $2.6 billion. The bulk of his assets, however, are in real estate.

So is Trump admitting here that he is deliberately not paying out? Because his desperate efforts to find someone to foot the bill speak otherwise. It appears that even in his deposition, he was inflating his monetary value.

However, Mr Trump has claimed on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he has $500m in cash acquired through “hard work, talent, and luck”.

Pffftt... Bahaha, there he goes again I guess? But this time, he's inflating his own ego...

You mean inheritance, fraud and privilege?

Does Trump really expect anyone other than his mindless supporters to believe that he actually has the capacity for anything resembling "hard work"

And talent? What skills does he possess other than the ability to constantly grift the most naive, uninformed and shamefully susceptible among us?

Trump is a malignant narcissist who has managed to make it this far by appealing to the lowest common denominator.

I'll give him this, he's the first wannabe dictator who has turned artless demagoguery into an art form, only charming those who have made him into the conduit that they use to channel all of their petty resentments, their misery, their animosities, their exclusionary and discriminatory attitudes and their unfounded grievances through everytime he belligerently shares some fanatical sentiment or idea that they all sympathize with together.

In reality, he likely is relying on political action committees and the Republican National Committee to pay his mounting legal bills while he campaigns

Uhh, so for anyone not paying attention, is it starting to click yet? Why Trump, in another act of blatant and shameful nepotism, has installed his own daughter in law into a position he can use to enrich himself and pay off his mounting legal bills? Holy shit, and Biden is the corrupt one? 

Donald Trump needs to find $712m by tonight as part of a civil fraud case. Here's what happens if he fails

Donald Trump owes an enormous sum of money to the state of New York and he is running out of time to hand it over

After a judgement against him in a civil fraud case, the former US president was told he had roughly a month to pay $US450 million ($712 million).

But recent court filings indicate he has not managed to find the money yet. And the deadline to stump up the cash runs out tonight.

https://trumpdebtcounter.com/ & https://payupdonald.com/

In USD.

Numbers may not be exact 

Republicans don't want feed the kids

HOUSE REPUBLICANS WANT TO BAN UNIVERSAL FREE SCHOOL LUNCHES

ON WEDNESDAY, THE Republican Study Committee, of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members, released its 2025 budget entitled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” Tucked away in the 180-page austerity manifesto is a block of text concerned with a crucial priority for the party: ensuring children aren’t being fed at school.

Eight states offer all students, regardless of household income, free school meals — and more states are trending in the direction. But while people across the country move to feed school children, congressional Republicans are looking to stop the cause.

So let’s review.

Fuck women: national 15 week abortion ban.

Fuck children: ban on feeding hungry children

Fuck the elderly: cuts to social security

Fuck the sick: plans to fully privatize Medicare and Medicaid

Fuck the poor: cuts to food stamps.

But tax cuts for the wealthy and state money to churches.

That’s the modern GOP. 

US pass an $800B+ annual defense budget with barely a discussion but this is the hill Republicans choose to make their stand on when it comes to spending.

THE REPUBLICAN STUDY Committee is the largest ideological caucus in Congress, and for the past 51 years, it has served as a principle priority-setter for the party. The committee was chaired as recently as three years ago by House Speaker Mike Johnson. He and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise still sit on the Executive Committee, while Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern serves as chair. Its annual budget is not binding, but it does offer a useful window into conservatives’ policy priorities, which can best be summarized as accelerating the planet’s burning, an indifference to mass shootings, and actively threatening consumers and workers.

On the environment — amid the hottest year recorded on Earth — the word “climate” appears 110 times and the word “environment” 53 times in the budget. Not one of those instances has anything to do with a positive Republican vision to address climate change or protect the environment. The RSC instead opposes the creation of a carbon tax and wants to give oil and gas companies deductions on costs like labor and safety, ramp up oil and gas projects on federal lands, and defund the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Republicans also throw their weight behind bills like Virginia Rep. Bob Good’s “No American Climate Corps Act,” to stop federal funds from being used for the American Climate Corps — a revolutionary clean energy jobs program whose applications open next month. While millions of Americans have been surrounded by throat-scratching smog, livelihood-destroying wildfires, and relentless flooding and heat waves, the Republicans call to prohibit the use of emergency disaster or public health emergency declarations “from being used to address purported climate change.”

On guns, Republicans call to undercut or block an array of gun regulations. For instance, the budget supports “defunding the constitutionally dubious red flag provisions in the so-called Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.” That law allocates $750 million to support ongoing state implementation of red-flag laws that remove firearms from individuals who are deemed a threat to themselves or others; it doesn’t force any state to do anything.

On reproductive rights, Republicans call for the passage of an array of anti-choice bills, like Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles’s “Ending Chemical Abortions Act of 2023,” which would federally outlaw the use of abortion pills, and West Virginia Rep. Alex Mooney’s “Life at Conception Act,” which would designate embryos made through in vitro fertilization as being alive — even as many of the same Republicans have scrambled to claim they support IVF in the aftermath of a similar Alabama Supreme Court ruling that led multiple clinics to halt IVF procedures.

Like every good Republican fiscal document, the RSC budget threatens changes to Social Security, including by raising the retirement age. Other Republican budget priorities include eliminating all future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinian refugees; prohibiting federal subsidies for high-speed rail; getting rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; reducing funding for the famously under-supported Occupational Safety and Health Administration; and eliminating the National Labor Relations Board, which, under President Joe Biden, has done much to protect workers’ right to organize.

Not to be confused as completely frugal, the Republicans call to finish construction of border wall projects proposed by former President Donald Trump. And not to be confused as focused, the budget includes the word “woke” 37 times.

“As in previous years,” the Republicans say about their master plan, “the RSC budget also celebrates the work of House conservatives who have fought for legislation that preserves American values, combats Biden’s woke and weaponized government, and protects the freedoms that should be enjoyed by every American.”

Billionare Begs for fans to pay his legal fees and bonds

 ‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond

Donald Trump has sent out a panicked fundraising message to his supporters as he begs them to help foot his ballooning legal bills.

The desperate memo, titled “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!”, comes as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in his New York fraud trial judgement ticks ever closer.

They started idolizing him because he pretended to be a genius self made billionaire.

Now they give him their money to save his ass, and they don't even see how ridiculous this sounds?

The final paragraph is the shocker.

Asked in an interview with Fox News later on Wednesday whether Mr Trump could look to wealthy overseas donors in Russia or Saudi Arabia for help, Mr Trump’s attorney Alina Habba did not rule it out, stating instead that she could not discuss strategy.

Because yeah, why should they ever rule out a presidential candidate taking half a billion dollars from adversarial nations?

Donald Trump's Properties Have at Least $200M in Outstanding Loans

Donald Trump has multiple loans on his properties amounting to at least $200 million, which may devalue their worth and make it less likely that they will be seized to recuperate the costs of his legal fines.

200m in outstanding loans against the properties, but that's by far not a full picture of the debt he carries around. I believe The Economist or Business Insider said that he has about 472 million in loans all coming due before the end of the year, and even that isn't his total debt.

I would actually be very surprised if you even ended up with a positive number once you added together ALL of his assets and liabilities.

We're about to watch this man have his 7th bankruptcy while trying to convince us he'd better for the economy that guy who is currently in office saved.. from him..

This time it will be a personal bankruptcy, not a company. He's got nowhere to hide. He's so fucked, his cult of low education low income fascists are too poor to bail him out.

Trump’s invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press.

Nice, the destruction of the republican party is nearly complete.

If they donate - then it’s their loss. If they want to give him money that won’t go to down ballot candidates, that won’t be used to actually push vote Republican issues - then good for them.

Waste their money on his crimes. Every dollar that keeps another Republican for office is another chance to get a progressive agenda and really help Americans.