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.

 

 

Trumps decline is speeding

Trump crowd goes silent as he confuses Biden and Obama again

“I know them both very well and we will restore peace through strength. Get that war settled. It’s a bad war. And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Mr Trump added, seemingly in the false belief that Mr Biden’s former boss remains in charge.

He also mistakes million dollar properties for billion dollar ones.

This is the rare election where both candidates have actually served as president, so we can easily compare their accomplishments. Biden passed the largest piece of climate legislation ever. Trump gave massive tax cuts to the wealthy, and used the job to enrich himself aa much as possible. Biden safely landed the economy after the massive inflation caused by the pandemic. Trump told us to inject bleach.

So hard to choose!

They're just rolling with this one like they roll with everything he says. I've seen footage in the past few weeks of Trump supporters insisting Biden is a puppet president being controlled by Obama, who is secretly pushing his agenda behind the scenes. So when Trump calls Biden "Obama," he's just "telling it like it is."

I mean, keep sharing these flubs and mistakes... maybe it will remind independents he's unfit... but the MAGA crowd isn't going to be convinced he's ever said anything wrong in his life.

Donald Trump Mocked for Calling Obama President During Speech 

Ron Filipkowski, the editor-in-chief of the independent news network MeidasTouch, posted on X, formerly Twitter: "This will be yet another one of the 127 other instances where tomorrow Trump will claim he mixed up Obama and Biden again on purpose."

The dude up there mini-stroking his word salad but media has been focused on Biden's age? I feel like I'm the crazy one trying to understand this nonsense

Trump is deteriorating and the news media chooses to only focus on Biden’s age. If Biden made even one mistake like this then we would see non-stop coverage for weeks.

Biden, a man with a speech impediment, makes a single word mixup. The media harps it for weeks, wondering if he has dementia and if he's fit to lead.

Trump makes an uncountable number of word mixups, including inventing bizarre words out of whole cloth, which is an actual sign of dementia. The media ignores specifics, and instead focuses on that we've got two old guys running for president.

The media is a joke. They report on controversy because it gets more views and thus more ad revenue. Most people know Trump is a fucking idiot, there's no money in reporting on that. But going after Biden gets views, so that's what they report. It's sick, they are killing this country with unintentional propaganda by seeking the cheapest dollar. That combined with the actual propaganda from Fox and its ilk gives me very little hope for our society.

Stop calling it a gaffe or mistake. His mind is rotting and losing a linear footing. Happens to most old people. It's why they speak of the past in such detail.

From the President of the United States to shoe salesman is complete.

Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con,’ a day after a $355 million ruling against him

Trump booed as he hawks $399 ‘Never Surrender’ shoes at Philadelphia Sneaker Con

As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.”

Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Center as he introduced what he called the first official Trump footwear.

Imagine how apoplectic Rupert Murdoch's empire would be if any other presidential candidate made an appearance at Sneaker "Con."

The former president of the United States is peddling a $400 sneaker, at a sneaker convention, to pay his legal fees. This circus needs to end.

The John Mulaney joke about Trump being a homeless man's vision of a rich person gets more apt every day.

It seems that the desperation of Delinquent Donny’s various absurd schemes to generate cash is becoming increasingly apparent to the general public.

No one but a few people will buy these at full price.

The price will be lowered and lowered until they are something like 60 dollars. Because of their cheap quality and because Trump's base cannot afford it.

They will eventually be found at thrift shops and donation places.

Kanye West will wear them publicly once, causing a very brief resurgence of interest.

They'll be discontinued quietly and join the ranks of failed business ventures like Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Airlines.

In the years to come there will be a few articles about how "Remember when Trump tried to sell $399 golden sneakers?"

GOP: Fix the border, not like that!

In Huge Reversal, GOP Poised To Kill The Border-Ukraine Package It Demanded 

WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Monday signaled their plan to filibuster bipartisan legislation that paired tougher border policy with more U.S. aid to Ukraine, a stunning reversal less than 24 hours after the legislation had been unveiled.

With ex-president Donald Trump urging them to kill it, and many on the right up in arms about the proposal, top Senate Republicans emerged from a heated closed-door meeting and said they needed more time to review the agreement, suggesting that a scheduled Wednesday vote to advance the bill is all but doomed to fail.

If they address the border “crisis” now, they have nothing left to run on in November.

Good lord, November is a long ways away 

Also, the GOP is in a very serious financial crisis and the only way the Russians are still willing to keep them afloat is if they keep the Ukraine funding stalled...

It’s honestly more to do with the Ukraine aid. Russian influence has become too strong, specifically in regards to Trump.

Look at where Tucker Carlson is… look at what Trump said yesterday about wanting to help Putin. The Republican Party are now open traitors under the control of another nation. Every single one.

Never forget the July 4th GOP Moscow delegation.

The GOP is a compromised foreign intelligence asset.

Senate Republicans threaten to block border security bill they negotiated

In a striking turn of events, Senate Republicans threatened Monday to block a major, bipartisan border security and asylum restrictions package, just one day after their chief negotiator signed off on it.

GOP senators left a special closed-door meeting in the evening predicting that their party would not provide enough votes to move forward with the package on Wednesday, saying the senators agreed they need more time to discuss changes to the bill in the form of amendments.

“I would anticipate Wednesday the cloture vote does not pass,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., the lead GOP negotiator in the border talks, told reporters after the meeting. “People are saying, ‘Hey, I need a lot more time to be able to go through this.’”

Yes America, Republicans oppose anything that is likely to work.

Their entire agenda is designed to crash the country, and then out of that chaos hope voters install a strong man leader who will only need to be ‘dictator for a day’ (ha!). They would rather rule over ashes, than not rule at all. What sad traitors. 

By most accounts, the senate GOP leadership wanted both this and aid for Ukraine/Israel.

They delusionally believed their decades of leadership could drag the party with them on a easy win like immigration.

Nope. They ended their own era by enabling Trump to warp the party into its current form. Their own voting base is hostile towards them based on lies and fantasy.

Republicans are opposed to the border security that they demand.

The Senate unveiled its border bill. House Republicans immediately declared it dead.

Senate negotiators released the long-awaited text of their bipartisan border security deal Sunday night, a months-in-the-making effort that would dramatically reorganize the U.S. asylum system while giving the president new emergency powers to limit the flow of migrants into the country.

“We’re radically changing the way we’re spending dollars on border security and the asylum process,” said Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., who led talks alongside Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. and Chris Murphy, D-Conn.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans for a procedural vote on the new border bill Wednesday as part of a broad national security package wrapping the measure together with aid to Ukraine and Israel. His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, called on the Senate to “carefully consider the opportunity in front of us and prepare to act.”

I don’t see how Johnson not putting this up for a vote doesn’t backfire on Republicans. One of the biggest tools they have is Democrats being “soft on the border,” now Democrats can say:

We had a bipartisan agreement to pump money into the border and codify more strict immigration policy and Republicans wouldn’t even vote on it due to Trump’s fear of it helping Biden.

Good political messaging can be pitched in an elevator. 

MAGA Mike Johnson says it can't be done, because the Republicans have nothing to run on besides fear and hatred of brown people.

Border security is secondary to what Trump wants which is to not vote for this bill. He needs to be able to run on his migrant caravan fear campaign.

Presidency was for sale under Trump

 Trump Took $7.8 Million in Foreign Cash While in Office. He’d Do It Again.

Donald Trump and his businesses hauled in at least $7.8 million from foreign governments and officials of 20 countries during his presidency. The bulk of that came from China, but Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others also chipped in relatively modest amounts, according to a new report from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds

The transactions, detailed in a 156-page report called “White House For Sale” that was produced by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, offer concrete evidence that the former president engaged in the kind of conduct that House Republicans have labored, so far unsuccessfully, to prove that President Biden did as they work to build an impeachment case against him.

Trump’s Two-Year Take From Foreign Governments While He Was President Is Staggering 

If you still had any doubts as to whether Donald Trump had self-serving motivations as the nation’s forty-fifth president, then a new report detailing the millions of dollars he received from foreign governments should make it clear it definitely wasn’t America he was putting first.

China spent over $5.5 million at Trump properties while he was in office, documents show 

Democrats say the additional accounting records raise new questions about possible efforts to influence Trump through his companies while he was in the White House.

As an example, committee Democrats point to the fact that Trump declined to impose sanctions on the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), a state-owned entity that leased property at Trump Tower in New York.

Republican are doing things, not for the people, but against political rival

 House Republican says he won't accept a border deal because it may help Biden politically

"Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating," Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. "I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man's dismal approval ratings. I'm not going to do it. Why would I?"

Troy Nehls is the rep who, during the most recent speaker votes, explicitly said that his number one priority in every decision he makes is helping Trump get back in the White House.

They're literally saying we can't fund Ukraine help because it'd be better spent here, but when it's time to vote on funding more border security they all reject it. Republicans can entirely go fuck themselves!!!! What's worse is how they keep getting away with it never facing any pushback from media who just both-sides everything, framing everything as a loss for Biden.

"Today is Biden's birthday, here's how that's a bad thing" 

The almost outrageous thing about that argument is the vast majority we are spending on Ukraine is spent domestically on arms and support systems manufactured right here in the good old USA

I live in such a federally funded boom town. Yet the town remains overwhelmingly conservative and opposed to the hand that is literally feeding us.

It’s such an unbelievably disingenuous argument. But hey it goes down easy and don’t come up hard

Exactly. The other great thing about it is we get (or got by now) to decommission all this old equipment by sending it to Ukraine instead of going through the very expensive decommissioning process, saving money while helping them out.

Not only that but by fighting Russia by proxy, we'll eventually see Russia's collapse w/o sending any troops.

I've heard some military higher-ups estimates that we're getting at least 10x our money back by supporting Ukraine this way, as it'll pay off hugely years down the line.

Stupid Repubs only think about themselves and the now, never the future. Myopic cruel assholes.

If something is good for the country, of course it will benefit the party currently in the White House.

You might even think it would benefit the party currently in control of the House of Representatives, too.

Winning is clearly less important than making sure that Democrats, and especially Biden, lose.

House GOP is obstructing progress at the border by blocking staffing surge, White House says

Administration officials are ramping up the rhetoric as dozens of House Republicans on Wednesday traveled to Texas to visit the border to highlight what they see as President Biden’s failings. The comments, which called out House leaders for blocking consideration of emergency funding that would provide for the hiring of thousands of federal border and immigration personnel, also came ahead of the start of impeachment hearings into Homeland Security Department Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which lawmakers announced on Wednesday would proceed next week. 

The GOP doesn’t have an interest in solving problems, they just want to complain about them.

Creating a crisis (or adding to one) during Democratic administrations has been GOP policy for decades. They then run on that increased crisis in elections to fool voters who haven't been properly informed by the media what the GOP has been doing.

Nice to see the White House calling this out but for fuck's sake the media should have been reporting on this for the past year. 

While Abbot's goons are kidnapping people, putting them on busses, with lies about their destination, and then trafficking them to northern blue cities as a cheap political stunt that literally everyone can see right through.

Republicans don’t want a solution, they want something to blame on democrats

Trumps best bud Epstein

Donald Trump Flights on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express'—What We Know

There is speculation that former President Donald Trump could be among the high-profile names included in the unsealed court documents related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as the former president sometimes used the child sex offender's private jet.

The names of about 200 people linked to Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for child sex charges, could be revealed this week after U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled that they should no longer be redacted as part of a settled civil lawsuit between Ghislaine Maxwell, who was found guilty in December 2021 of helping Epstein abuse and traffic underage girls, and accuser Virginia Giuffre.

 

Trump has also never been implicated in the offenses committed by Epstein or Maxwell.

He was literally sued by a woman who says trump raped her when she was 13 at one of Epstein’s parties. I linked the court filing. It’s a short, but disturbing read. 

The suit was set for trial and she received so many death threats she backed away. This was news before the 2016 election. 

Here’s an article written by one of the woman’s lawyers soon afterwards.

Not only do we know that Trump and Epstein were friends, but we also know for a fact that Trump has flown on Epstein's plane. This is a matter of public record, and explained in the article. So yeah, his name is almost surely in these sealed documents of the investigation.

That said, there are much better reasons to believe Trump is a terrible person than just that he flew on an airplane that was owned by a trafficker. Like that we have a recording of him saying he likes to sexually assault women, and that multiple victims have told us he sexually assaulted them. There's no need to rely on speculation about his associates when he and his victims have all spoken about his assaults personally.