GOP people going at it as normal day job

 Colorado to Examine Lauren Boebert’s Mileage Claims and Tax Liens

Colorado officials are examining allegations that Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican representing the state’s western half, inflated the mileage she logged on the campaign trail in 2020 and then used more than $20,000 in reimbursements from donors to pay off years of tax liens on her restaurant.

Be nice to know why her pedo husband has a 600k a year consulting gig too. I’m sure nothing corrupt could be going on there.

You mean his energy consulting gig while she's a sitting member on the House Committee on Natural Resources?? Yeah, I'm sure that's all above board and nothing shady is going on there at all...

https://twitter.com/Marina4Colorado/status/1531813680295333888?s=20&t=6q8Sj8eVc4tmg-WZn51jnA

38k miles in 2020 on the campaign trail. Thats nearly a full month inside a car moving at 60+mph without stopping or slowing down. I understand she probably has to take the long route being married to a sex offender, but this is obvious fraud..

Colorado to Investigate Lauren Boebert for Alleged Misuse of Campaign Funds

Boebert allegedly used campaign funds to reimburse herself for $22,259 in mileage—a sum strikingly similar to the $20,000 she paid in tax liens for her previous failure to pay unemployment premiums on her restaurant, Shooters Grill. The allegations were brought to the Colorado attorney general’s office by the American Muckrakers PAC, which recently tanked Madison Cawthorn’s congressional run.

“Had Representative Boebert paid her restaurant staff properly and also paid the unemployment premiums to the State of Colorado, an investigation never would have been necessary,” David B. Wheeler, one of the PAC’s founders, told the Times.

As I reported last month, five former Shooters employees told me that Boebert did not pay them on time. Several said that they were paid in cash without taxes deducted. 

Pro-tip: failing to withhold payroll taxes and unemployment can often be handled by a former employee with a quick call to the Department of Labor and IRS. If she doesn’t have a tax preparing service, she might also be violating other labor laws. (I once did this and witnessed the glorious results first hand. OSHA, too. Apparently fume hoods are a big deal.) 

GQP will throw out Boehert and MTG and still continue on with their regularly schedule coup attempts. There just deposable idiots that are taking heat off everyone else.

GOP Lawmaker: Critics of Christian nationalism are ‘domestic terrorists’

In a bizarre straight-to-camera speech, conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said we should effectively embrace Christian nationalism because it would solve all of America’s problems… and anyone who disagrees with her is a traitor. Somehow.

This rhetoric is past the point of dangerous.

White Evangelical Christian Nationalists are always at the heart of every problem currently facing this nation. It is remarkably consistent.

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn failed to properly disclose up to $950,000 in cryptocurrency trades, including 'Let's Go Brandon' coin, bitcoin, and ethereum 

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina appears to have again violated a federal conflict-of-interest law by failing to properly report purchases and sales of six types of cryptocurrencies, according to a new congressional financial disclosure.

The reported value of Cawthorn's newly disclosed crypto trades is between $290,000 and $950,000, according to his disclosure, which he filed with the US House of Representatives on Wednesday morning.

Cawthorn reported his trades took place between January and March. By federal law, he had no more than 45 days to publicly disclose them in a certified document submitted to Congress.

You get the uneasy feeling that no punishment or investigation would have occurred had he not spoken out about GOP cocaine fueled orgies, which leads me to think that this is just about the only honest thing Madison Cawthorn has ever said while in office.

 The problem(s) with Cruz blaming Biden for Texas’ energy troubles

Texas isn’t just facing questions about the state of its power grid, it’s also struggling with rising energy prices. Sen. Ted Cruz, however, has a message for his constituents: Blame the White House. The Republican senator tweeted over the weekend:

“The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas.”

The same tweet referred readers to this Dallas Morning News report on rising energy prices in the Lone Star State.

Because Ted Cruz is a liar. Because Ted Cruz will blame Democrats for everything. He blamed doors for the Uvalde mass shooting. Republicans blamed Obama for 9/11. Why do media outlets ask these questions as if Republicans are capable of operating in good faith?

Ted Cruz and the GOP have become the party of blatant Soviet style misinformation because they simply have no other choice if they wish to stay relevant. They know that their policies adversely effect the self interests of a vast majority of Americans. They know they cannot win elections if they’re honest. Their strategy is misinformation and voter suppression. College graduates overwhelmingly reject the GOP because it’s difficult to bamboozle an educated person. The GOP understands that the yokels in the rural states will consistently vote on emotion rather than logic, therefore they need to keep their based constantly outraged with lies, half-truths and one manufactured crisis after another.

Two Weeks After Uvalde School Massacre, Texas GOP Vows Ban on... Taking Kids to Drag Shows

Two weeks after a gunman armed with a semiautomatic rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition massacred 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a Republican state lawmaker announced that he is taking action—against drag shows.

State Rep. Bryan Slaton said Monday he intends to file legislation "protecting kids from drag shows and other inappropriate displays" when the next legislative session begins.

GOP on gun reform legislation: “lEgiSLatiOn dOesN’t wOrK. PaSsIng lAwS woN’t fiX tHiS! tHoUgHts aNd PraYeRs!”

GOP on literally anything else: “Ram through that legislation. There needs to be laws on the books NOW and we need to start arresting children and women for thinking they know their own bodies and minds!”

Christians keep preaching that their way of life is what made people safe. Their "family values & moral value of life" bull. That if we all just gave into their narrow way of thinking, that all issues would magically solve themselves.

It's as if the crusades, inquisition, Salem witch trials, and religious imperialism for the last 2000 years were perpetrated by people other than them. What could be the common denominator within a nationwide network of liars?

 

 

Trump calls January 6 attempted overthrow the goverment as a hoax

 Trump calls Capitol attack an ‘insurrection hoax’ as public hearings set to begin

As the House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol by extremist supporters of Donald Trump prepares to start public hearings next week, the former president called the insurrection on January 6, 2021, a hoax.

Trump is an insurrectionist, he said it himself. He instigated it, he encouraged it, he fucking ran the whole damn thing.

Mitch McConnell also said he was responsible. Right before endorsing him. Because that’s how conservatism works, I guess.

Yeah, we all watched it live on TV. The MAGA stormed, looted, and trashed the Capitol to stop the certification of the vote and install Trump as president despite being a loser. All while on live TV and on their own live streams.

Addressing the sub-capacity crowd at a rally in Casper for Republican candidate Harriet Hageman, Trump slammed Cheney, saying: “As one of the nation’s leading proponents of the insurrection hoax, Liz Cheney has pushed a grotesquely false, fabricated, hysterical partisan narrative.” 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes Completely Off The Rails With Her Latest Beef 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is warning supporters that the government is planning to monitor their eating habits and “zap” them until they eat fake meat grown in a “peach tree dish.”

And the lawmaker who once warned the world of “gazpacho police” now claims the feds are planning to track bowel movements, too.

“You have to accept the fact that the government totally wants to provide surveillance on every part of your life,” Greene said in a rant from her podcast clipped and posted online by Patriot Takes, a right-wing watchdog group.

“They want to know when you’re eating,” the conspiracy theorist added. “They want to know if you’re eating a cheeseburger, which is very bad because Bill Gates wants you to eat his fake meat that grows in a peach tree dish.”

And if you’re not eating “peach tree dish” meat, the government ― of which she is a part ― will find a way to “zap” you into compliance.

“You’ll probably get a little zap inside your body and that’s saying ‘No, no. Don’t eat a real cheeseburger, you need to eat the fake burger, the fake meat, from Bill Gates,’” Greene said.

Along with tracking the food going on, she believes they will be tracking the food as it comes back out, too.

“They probably also want to know when you go to the bathroom and if your bowel movements are on time or consistent,” she said. “I mean what else do these people want to know?”

You know what the most terrifying thing about this is?

She can happily continue spouting these ludicrous claims without consequences, whereas Liz Cheney was ousted by the Republicans for refusing to push the bogus election fraud claims.

The Republican Party has drawn a very strange line in sand of what's acceptable. 

Full list of Republican senators who receive funding from the NRA

 Full List of Republican Senators Who Receive Funding From the NRA

The political influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) is once again in the spotlight in the wake of the mass shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The shooting reignited the debate regarding gun control laws in the U.S. after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at the Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.

While several Republicans tweeted after the shooting that they are offering their thoughts and prayers to the victims, others have pointed out that there are a number of GOP senators who have received millions of dollars of donations from the NRA over the years.

Republican Senators Who Receive Funding From the NRA

• Mitt Romney (Utah) $13,647,676
• Richard Burr (North Carolina) $6,987,380
• Roy Blunt (Missouri) $4,555,722
• Thom Tillis (North Carolina) $4,421,333
• Marco Rubio (Florida) $3,303,355
• Joni Ernst (Iowa) $3,124,773
• Rob Portman (Ohio) $3,063,327
• Todd C. Young (Indiana) $2,897,582
• Bill Cassidy (Louisiana) $2,867,074
• Tom Cotton (Arkansas) $1,968,714
• Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania) $1,475,448
• Josh Hawley (Missouri) $1,391,548
• Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee) $1,306,130
• Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) $1,269,486
• Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) $1,267,139
• Mike Braun (Indiana) $1,249,967
• John Thune (South Dakota) $638,942
• Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia) $341,738
• Richard Shelby (Alabama) $258,514
• Chuck Grassley (Iowa) $226,007
• John Neely Kennedy (Louisiana) $215,788
• Ted Cruz (Texas) $176,274
• Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) $146,262
• Steve Daines (Montana) $123,711
• Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) $109,547
• Roger Wicker (Mississippi) $106,680
• Rand Paul (Kentucky) $104,456
• Mike Rounds (South Dakota) $95,049
• John Boozman (Arkansas) $82,352
• John Cornyn (Texas) $78,945
• Ben Sasse (Nebraska) $68,623
• Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma) $66,758
• Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) $55,961
• Mike Crapo (Idaho) $55,039
• Jerry Moran (Kansas) $34,718
• John Barrasso (Wyoming) $26,989
• John Hoeven (North Dakota) $22,050
• Susan Collins (Maine) $19,638
• James Lankford (Oklahoma) $18,955
• Jim Risch (Idaho) $18,850
• Tim Scott (South Carolina) $18,513
• Kevin Cramer (North Dakota) $13,255

List of congressional candidates who received campaign money from the National Rifle Association

Madison Cawthorn is on a roll

 Madison Cawthorn Threatens Enemies With Rise of 'Dark MAGA'

Fresh off an election defeat, one current member of Congress is now taking aim at those in his own party.

North Carolina Republican Representative Madison Cawthorn took to social media to voice his frustration with the GOP because, as Cawthorn puts it, "the establishment turned their guns on me." Cawthorn, though, said it's now time for a new force in the MAGA world to coalesce and truly show what they are capable of accomplishing.

How much darker than they get? Are you going to start murdering minorities in there house instead of public places?

He may well want to take are real hard look at who he supports and his own behaviour, and throwing around threats sort of reiterates why he is on the fringe..

Vengeful Madison Cawthorn Vows ‘Dark MAGA’ Takeover 

Less than 48 hours after his shocking defeat in North Carolina’s primary election, Rep. Madison Cawthorn took to Instagram to post a defiant, vengeful, and typo-riddled message promising a “Dark MAGA” comeback.

After decrying the establishment-driven campaign to unseat him following a long series of scandals, Cawthorn credited those he called his true allies, specifically naming figures like former President Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), “the great Charlie Kirk,” and Tucker Carlson.

If you genuinely believe yourself to be a force for good, why would you call yourself Dark MAGA??

Reminds me of when Republicans were styling themselves after the Empire or Thanos. 

Madison Cawthorn says it’s time for ‘Dark MAGA,’ ‘new right’ to take over after scandal-propelled primary loss 

Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Thursday denounced those who didn’t have his back and said it’s time for the "new right" and "Dark MAGA" to take command two days after losing his Republican primary amid several scandals.  

"When the establishment turned their guns on me, when the Uni-party coalesced to defeat an America First member very few people had my back," the North Carolina congressman wrote on Instagram. He included a list of people who he said "came to my defense when it was not politically profitable." It included former President Donald Trump, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, Steve Bannon and Sen. Rand Paul, among others.

Fascists. He means fascists to take over. 

Madison Cawthorn Loses Primary After Brutal Barrage Of GOP Attacks

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) has twice been stopped trying to bring a gun onto a plane. He claimed his colleagues take cocaine and hold orgies. He suggested House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is an alcoholic, even though she doesn’t drink. He might be caught up in an insider trading scheme, and a GOP senator from his own state has called for an investigation. He has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.” Multiple women have accused him of sexual harassment.

And his constituents have decided they have had enough.

Madison Cawthorn is under investigation

Madison Cawthorn is under a House Ethics Committee investigation

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, which will determine whether the freshman lawmaker violated rules by promoting a cryptocurrency while having a personal financial interest invested and engaged "in an improper relationship" with a member of his staff.

The move comes less than a week after Cawthorn was defeated in the North Carolina Republican primary following weeks of scandals that resulted in backlash from Capitol Hill Republicans.

He’s a prick but I’ve never seen a more blatant smear

The republicans turned on him. This is like, daily behavior for republicans but they’re acting like it’s a problem to distract from their own disgusting crimes.

They have no problem with pedophiles and high school dropouts who failed their GED in congress, so why are they pretending they care about this?

I’m sure the homoeroticism didn’t help but honestly this would never have happened if he didn’t speak out against his party.

I hate him and if he did these things he should face consequences but it’s not lost on me that this isn’t actual progress 

Cawthorn under ethics probe for staffer relationship and insider trading allegations

Rep. Madison Cawthorn is now under investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Ethics over two questions: whether he engaged in insider trading and whether he had an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. The ethics committee declined to investigate Cawthorn over the charges against him of driving while his license is revoked and speeding, which are pending in court.

 

Those charges can be handled by local authorities, the committee said. Cawthorn told the committee he has already resolved one of the charges with a fine and would pay any fines he faces on the others.

Welp it looks like his big idea of outing DC orgies isn't working out too well. They do say in the Bible to let one without sin cast the first stone. Cawthorn threw a really stupid stone and couldn't back it up with his own moral behavior. 

 

Cawthorn under House probe for possible fraud, improper relationship

Outgoing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over allegations of financial fraud and an improper relationship with a staffer.

As far as the crypto goes, he was promoting it actively on his Instagram. It wouldn’t shock me that he had an improper relationship based on his sketchy fucking wife and how they met.

If I recall correctly he met her via an American colonel that he met in a (illegal?) casino in St. Petersburg (Russia). He, years later, invited him out of the blue to an cross fit event where he met her.

I guess he really struck a nerve with the cocaine and orgies comment.

 

 House Ethics Committee investigating cryptocurrency and sex allegations against Madison Cawthorn

The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into claims that North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn committed insider trading and engaged in a sexual relationship with a male staff member in violation of House ethics rules.

Just incredible to see what can happen to a candidate when the Republican Party disowns them.

Great, but can Gaetz issues be addressed first?

This is how you know the coke orgy stuff is true. Republicans don't think twice about pedophiles in their ranks, though. 

Another Russian asset holding aid for country in stress

 Rand Paul stalls quick Senate OK of $40B Ukraine package

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul defied leaders of both parties Thursday and single-handedly delayed until next week Senate approval of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia's three-month old invasion.

FYI Trump surrogates (including Donald Trump Jr.) are online today pushing for Republicans to oppose more defense funding for Ukraine.

Just further confirmation which side Trump is on.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1524806192014442497 

Rand Paul spouts Putin's talking points:

• Sen. Rand Paul says Putin only invades countries that ‘were part of Russia’
• Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday largely blamed NATO for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• In a fierce exchange with Blinken, he said Russia attacked because Ukraine was "part of Russia...part of the Soviet Union."

Part of the Soviet Union!! — I bet Rand wishes he could have that one back. A US Senator apologizing for an attempt to reinstate the Soviet Union is a sure tell your bank account is lined in Rubles. Many of us remember the 40-yr Cold War we waged to break up the Soviet Union.

Rand Paul blocks quick passage of $40 billion Ukraine aid package

Rand Paul blocks bipartisan effort to swiftly pass Ukraine aid

In a rare showing of public unity, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to press for quick passage of a $40 billion aid bill for Ukraine but were blocked by GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky who is demanding changes to the legislation.

Rand Paul would oppose firing the missile that would knock the asteroid off a collision course with Earth because people would benefit from government spending.

The GOP really is the Party of No. They don't fix anything, they do nothing that benefits anyone, they have no plans to repair, modernize, expand, heal or advance, all they do is sit on their mountains of cash and blood, and sabotage anything within their reach.

Rand Paul stalls Senate passage of $40 billion in Ukraine aid

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul defied leaders of both parties Thursday and delayed until next week Senate approval of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia's three-month old invasion.

What a profoundly petty little man. He doesn't like it so he tries to take the ball and go home despite it not being his to take.

Senator Rand Paul single-handedly holds up $40bn US aid for Ukraine 

The top Democrat and Republican in the US Senate joined forces in a rare moment of unity on Thursday in an attempt to pass $40bn in aid for Ukraine, only to be stymied by a single Republican lawmaker: the Kentucky libertarian Rand Paul.

Because he is more loyal to Russia than he ever was to the country he's living in. 

Rand Paul objection delays $40 billion Ukraine aid package

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) hit the brakes Thursday on bipartisan hopes that the Senate could quickly pass nearly $40 billion in Ukraine aid before leaving town for the week. 

He tanked it intentionally. If you want to know why, John McCain explained it years ago. 

John McCain Warning on Rand Paul and Putin Resurfaces After Ukraine Vote

Video of the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) saying that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was working for Russian President Vladimir Putin has garnered renewed attention online after Paul single-handedly blocked a vote on a new aid package to Ukraine on Thursday.

Notice that Rand Paul never defended himself against McCain’s accusation that Rand Paul works for Putin. Instead, he attacked McCain being too old and term limits. Tells you everything. 

The perfect President Trump

Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes

Rioters who smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, succeeded — at least temporarily — in delaying the certification of Joe Biden’s election to the White House.

Are we still pretending like we all don’t see exactly what happened. They did it on live TV while tweeting their support and potential plots

And many people seem to be forgetting this part:

Former President Donald Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the election was corrupt in an attempt to help Republican members of Congress try to overturn the election result, according to notes of a December 2020 call Trump held with Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue.

During the December 27, 2020, call, Trump pressured Rosen and Donoghue to falsely declare the election "illegal" and "corrupt" even after the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud.

"Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," Trump said on the call, according to Donoghue's notes.

The Republican congressmen.

So yes, we have the literal figurative smoking gun that Republican members of Congress were involved in the seditious conspiracy to commit a coup and overthrow US democracy.

Another smoking gun was when Trump's Director of Trade, Peter Navarro, went onto Ari Melber's program recently to pull the Trump/Giuliani tactic of just openly and shamelessly admitting the criminal conspiracy live on national television, and revealing that they called it "The Greenbay Sweep".

Devised by Steve Bannon, the Electoral College vote count would be blocked by repeated challenges to various state's vote counts by Republican members of the House and Senate favorable to Donald Trump. Each challenge could take up to two hours of debate by each chamber, individually, leading to as much of 24 hours of televised hearings.

According to the plan, public pressure created by the delay would lead state legislatures in six key battleground states with Republican-dominated legislatures – Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada – to de-certify election results, with the intended outcome that Trump would have more certified electoral college votes than the election's actual winner, Joe Biden.

Navarro claimed that then-president Trump was "on board with the strategy" and that up to 100 congressmen were committed to executing the plan. However the plan was dependent on Vice President Mike Pence's participation, and it was difficult to pressure Pence, said Navarro, because all communication passed through his chief of staff, Marc Short

Ari was pretty stunned when Navarro just blurted all of that out, but it shows how arrogant these traitors to the constitution have become. They believe that because so many Republican congressmen are complicit in the conspiracy, they are beyond reproach.

Will the DoJ prove them correct?

Will the mid-term election voters prove them correct? 

 President Who Was Wrong Countless Times Tells Cult Followers ‘I Was Right About Everything’

“I think I was right about everything!” Trump exclaimed at one point. (According to The Washington Post, Trump made false or misleading claims a total 30,573 times over his four years in office.)

This was Trump pulling a Putin. Amid the current crisis, Fiona Hill and other former advisors are connecting President Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine to Jan. 6. And they're ready to talk. 

Is there a connection between former President Donald J. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, the Russian invasion and the events of Jan. 6, 2021?

The journalist Robert Draper talked to Fiona Hill, John Bolton and other former Trump advisers to gauge the extent to which the ex-president’s actions had a ripple effect.

It’s like he knew from day 1 that he wasn’t going to win another election, so he spent his entire presidency planning how to steal it. It’s shocking how much effort, planning and coordination went into this. It’s as if regular Presidential duties were a giant hassle for him because it was interrupting his coup planning.

If only these people had spent even a fraction of the time, money and effort on actually doing their jobs. I can’t imagine where we’d be if we elected officials who actually worked towards bettering society for everyone.

The bar is so low nowadays and we’re so numb to the corruption that we just accept that politicians are going to spend all their time fundraising, enriching themselves, and trying to corrupt the system to their advantage so it’s easier to get re-elected.

All these people do is the absolute bare minimum and it’s fucking disgusting. And people are just fine with it.

Trump to Hold Rally for Candidate Accused of Groping Eight Women

Birds of a feather flock together. Former president Donald Trump will appear alongside Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster at a rally on Sunday. Both Herbster and Trump have been accused of sexually harassing multiple women.

Everytime I mention stuff like this to republicans it's "alligations innocent before proven guilty". Then they start saying all alligations against hunter Biden is God honest truth.  

Here’s your reminder that Trump endorsed serial child molester Roy Moore

Trump Touts Perfect Cognitive Test, Then Misspeaks Endorsing 'J.D. Mandel'