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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-04-29 at 10:48 AM UTCshits gonna blow da fuk up my nigga'sThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-29 at 2:25 PM UTCLook at Trump's tiny hands trying to cop a feel.
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2021-04-29 at 2:26 PM UTCWasn't that a great speech last night!!!
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2021-04-29 at 2:43 PM UTCperhaps you need to put ur glasses on cuz the hands with nail polish are other women not trump
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2021-04-29 at 2:43 PM UTCda blonde slut is cute
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2021-04-29 at 2:54 PM UTCSo easily -T-R-I-G-G-E-R-E-D-.
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2021-04-29 at 6:42 PM UTCMay Day on May day,,, May Day on May Day Motherfuckers
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2021-04-29 at 6:42 PM UTCthank god they didn't tell me about this back on the 4th
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2021-04-29 at 10:40 PM UTCMelania Should Have Gold Plated The Rose Garden...Just Like Her Toilet
Glamour
People Want Jill Biden to Reverse Melania Trump’s Changes to the White House Rose Garden
Christopher Rosa
Melania Trump was often roasted for her decorating decisions while serving as first lady, but there's one particular change she made to the White House that people want Jill Biden to reverse immediately.
In the summer of 2020, the Trump unveiled a redesigned version of the White House Rose Garden that felt conspicuously void of, well, garden.
Although the Rose Garden was created by first lady Ellen Wilson during President Woodrow Wilson's tenure in 1913, first lady Jackie Kennedy famously remodeled the landscape into a lush garden with bright flowers in 1962. However, Melania Trump felt the garden needed a change to “fulfill the dynamic needs of the modern presidency,” according to CNN.
USA Today noted at the time that Trump chose to update the garden with “audiovisual equipment, cameras, paving, drainage, and lighting” but “removed 10 crab apple trees that lined the colonnade” in the process. She also “swapped out the vibrant roses and flowers for roses of white, cream, pale yellow, and pale pink.” According to the A.P., the White House had plans to replant the trees in another location.
While a Change.org petition asking Jill Biden to reverse Melania Trump's “update” was first posted in March, Refinery 29 reports that it recently picked up more steam. As of April 29, there are more than 45,000 signatures calling on Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, to “restore the Rose Garden to Jackie's original design.”
“Melania Trump had the cherry trees, a gift from Japan, removed as well as the rest of the foliage and replaced with a boring tribute to herself,” the petition created by user Liz Tapanes reads. “Jackie's legacy was ripped away from Americans who remembered all that the Kennedys meant to us.”
While Trump didn't respond to the backlash surrounding her garden overhaul, she did put out a statement to her critics while working on renovations to the White House Tennis Pavilion. “I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the @WhiteHouse to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities,” Trump tweeted in March 2020. “#BeBest.”
In December 2020, Trump unveiled the tennis courts in the middle of a global pandemic. -
2021-04-29 at 10:52 PM UTCThe "Burger Lie" on top of the Republican "Big Lie"
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"I'll Take My Burger Rarely True"
Salon
Kevin McCarthy can't stop spreading this very debunked lie
Molly Wilcox
Kevin McCarthy just can't help himself. While Republicans have long been known to spread debunked lies to their constituents, including but not limited to Trump's Big Lie and baselessly claiming that wearing masks inside cause cancer, the California Republican and leader of Republicans in the House of Representatives just can't seem to give up the right-wing's widely debunked smear about burgers.
Appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity on Wednesday, McCarthy reacted to President Joe Biden's first joint speech to Congress by falsely claiming that "he's going to control how much meat you eat."
It should comes as little surprise that this is a falsehood promoted by Fox News. It began on a Fox Business Network segment on Biden's supposed plans to create strict beef rations on Americans, which has since been debunked by fact-checkers. Former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow set off the chain of lies when he attacked Biden for establishing a climate plan that will ban meat, eggs, and dairy from the American diet.
"There will be no burgers on Fourth of July, no steaks on the barbecue," said Kudlow.
"Americans would have to cut red meat consumption by a whopping 90%. That means only one burger a month," said another Fox host.
"There's a study coming out of the University of Michigan which says that to meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has to…stop eating poultry and fish, seafood, eggs, dairy, and animal-based fats," a Fox host claimed this week. "Ok, got that? No burger on July 4. No steaks on the barbecue. I'm sure Middle America is just going to love that. Can you grill those Brussels sprouts?"
Almost instantly, Republican pandemonium ensued, including backlash from Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Biden's climate plans don't include any restrictions on red meat consumption and he didn't even mention red meat when he announced his plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.
Fox News host John Roberts has since retracted his lies about the burger myth.
"On Friday, we told you about a study from the University of Michigan to give some perspective on President Biden's ambitious climate change goals," he said on Monday's segment of America Reports. "That research, from 2020, found that cutting back how much red meat people eat would have a drastic impact on harmful greenhouse gas emissions."
He continued: "The data was accurate but a graphic and the script incorrectly implied that it was part of Biden's plan for dealing with climate change. That is not the case."
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2021-04-29 at 11:41 PM UTCHave you ever considered becoming a person who doesn’t eat?
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2021-04-30 at 12:01 AM UTC
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2021-04-30 at 3:47 PM UTCMSNBC
Maddow Blog | Ted Cruz admits a bit too much about influence of corporate cash
Steve Benen
Three years ago this week, Mick Mulvaney spoke to a group of banking industry executives, who were likely eager to hear what he had to say. By that point, the Republican was already a highly influential figure in the Trump administration, leading both the White House budget office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so when the former South Carolina congressman agreed to offer bankers some guidance, they were ready to listen.
"We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress," Mulvaney said. "If you're a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn't talk to you. If you're a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you."
As we discussed at the time, cynics who assume the worst of federal officials often suspect members of Congress sell access to lobbyists, but it was exceedingly rare to hear a prominent politician brag about such casual corruption in public. Mulvaney, ostensibly in a role to regulate financial industry excesses, was advising bankers on how to effectively purchase politicians' attention.
All of this came to mind yesterday while reading Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) Wall Street Journal op-ed, denouncing "woke corporations" -- a Republican concern that went from non-existent to mind-numbingly tiresome with amazing speed -- and executives who've had the audacity to criticize the GOP's voter-suppression efforts.
The ostensible point of the Texas Republican's essay was an announcement that he would no longer accept corporate PAC contributions. But while making this declaration, Cruz went quite a bit further about how he believes the system on Capitol Hill works:
This is the point in the drama when Republicans usually shrug their shoulders, call these companies "job creators," and start to cut their taxes. Not this time. This time, we won't look the other way on Coca-Cola's $12 billion in back taxes owed. This time, when Major League Baseball lobbies to preserve its multibillion-dollar antitrust exception, we'll say no thank you. This time, when Boeing asks for billions in corporate welfare, we'll simply let the Export-Import Bank expire.
Hmm. So according to this sitting Republican senator, he and his own GOP colleagues have been content to "look the other way" when corporations have failed to act in the public interest. Indeed, by Cruz's telling, it's worse than that: Republicans didn't just "look the other way," they also cut corporations' taxes and delivered "corporate welfare," too, while accepting the businesses' campaign contributions.
The Texan's op-ed added:
In my nine years in the Senate, I've received $2.6 million in contributions from corporate political-action committees. Starting today, I no longer accept money from any corporate PAC. I urge my GOP colleagues at all levels to do the same. For too long, Republicans have allowed the left and their big-business allies to attack our values with no response. We've allowed them to ship jobs overseas, attack gun rights, and destroy our energy companies.
Cruz concluded, in a message directed at corporate executives, "When the time comes that you need help with a tax break or a regulatory change, I hope the Democrats take your calls, because we may not. Starting today, we won't take your money either."
Again, it's striking to see a senator put all of this in writing. As Cruz tells it, Republicans didn't much care what corporations did, just so long as corporate PACs threw money at them and expressed indifference to the party's broader agenda. In fact, according to the senator's own op-ed, he and his colleagues would "help" executives with tax breaks and regulatory changes, in response to phone calls, thanks in part to the business' financial support.
But now that some executives have hurt Republicans' feelings -- by supporting Americans' voting rights -- Cruz is now uncomfortable with the pay-to-play dynamic he tolerated for nearly a decade.
Jon Chait joked, "I am not exactly a fan of the modern Republican Party, and even I think it's a little unfair and reductive to accuse them of allowing firms to destroy American jobs simply so they can vacuum up campaign donations. But Cruz is confessing to this. Not on a secretly recorded conversation. In public!"
As a headline on a Washington Post analysis added yesterday, "You're not supposed to say that out loud, Ted Cruz." -
2021-04-30 at 4:20 PM UTCbla bla bla nigger,, if it aint pro trump its fake ass news, stfu and go lay the fuck down
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2021-04-30 at 4:27 PM UTCThis thread would have died a long time ago except for me, Skunk.
And this is the thanks I get? -
2021-04-30 at 4:37 PM UTCwe don't thank commie faggots like youThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-30 at 4:54 PM UTCDrama Momma Trump
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The Disgraced, Twice Impeached, One Term Former President Still Mucking Things Up
The Hill
Trump drama divides GOP, muddling message
Jordain Carney
GOP drama is complicating what Republicans view as an opportunity to unite their increasingly fractious party against President Biden's $4 trillion spending package.
Republicans tried to focus their energy this week on attacks on Biden's plans, which include significant tax hikes on wealthy households, capital gains and corporations, as they look for a foothold heading into 2022.
Yet much of the focus all week was on the battling within the GOP - between House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the third-ranking member of his leadership team, and between former President Trump and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell.
"I don't think it's helpful," said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to McConnell.
Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican, called keeping GOP infighting from overshadowing more unifying messaging "our daily challenge."
"We all have our crosses to bear and we're trying to make sure that Republicans stay unified and instead of fighting each other, work on trying to make sure that we're articulating a vision for the country that's built around Republican principles and not a massive big government and high taxes policies," he said.
The latest round of infighting comes as Republicans are already facing big headaches on their political fortunes as they struggle to dent Biden, who many acknowledge they like personally, roughly 100 days into his administration.
Biden's approval ratings remain over 50 percent as people continue to get vaccinated, which is creating good economic news for the White House and new momentum. On Thursday, the government reported the economy grew at a 6.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter, increasing confidence in a strong rebound this year.
Democrats enjoy a tiny majority in the House and the Senate is evenly split, spurring hopes among Republicans that they can win back control of Congress in next year's midterm elections, when the sitting president's party has historically lost seats.
GOP leadership views opposition to Biden's infrastructure proposal and his plan to do undo parts of the 2017 tax bill as a unifier. And in a win for holding the 50 GOP senators together, several moderates were quick to pan the combined $4 trillion in spending proposed by Biden.
"I worry that it would ignite inflation, which is very harmful to our economy," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said about the combined $4 trillion price tag.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), another key swing vote for Democrats, said she "was not overly inspired," and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters, "I'm sure Bernie was happy."
But even as Republicans are unifying against the size of Biden's $4 trillion plan, that's being tested by a constant stream of headlines on their internal battles. Just 12 hours after they largely panned Biden's speech, Trump was putting the focus back on GOP feuding.
He teed off against McConnell during a Fox Business interview, urging Senate Republicans to get a different leader. The fight is largely personal, rather than results-orientated, because McConnell keeps a firm grip on the caucus and enjoys broad support.
"I think we're going to do very well. We need good leadership. Mitch McConnell has not done a great job, I think they should change Mitch McConnell," Trump said.
Trump, even as he's largely sequestered himself at Mar-a-Lago since he left office, has loomed over the future of the Republican Party.
Though the former president didn't attend the House GOP conference in Orlando, Fla., this week, and wasn't invited to speak, the party's fight over its post-Trump future was on full display and caused days of headlines about friction within the caucus.
The retreat, billed as a policy meeting, instead focused on the divide between McCarthy and Cheney, who are mostly battling over Trump.
Cheney, who voted to impeach Trump earlier this year, told reporters that she views McCarthy and McConnell, not Trump, as the leaders of the party.
Trump quickly hit back at Cheney, and McCarthy also took a shot when asked about her remarks.
"I think from a perspective if you're sitting here at a retreat that's focused on policy, focused on the future of making America's next century, and you're talking about something else, you're not being productive," he said.
With Trump seeking to stay in the news cycle and flirting with a presidential bid in 2024, it seems unlikely the GOP fighting will end.
An Axios-Ipsos poll released shortly before Trump left office found that 56 percent of Republican respondents labeled themselves "traditional Republicans," while 36 percent considered themselves to be Trump supporters. Between the two groups, 92 percent of Trump supporters want him to be the party's 2024 nominee compared to 41 percent of traditional Republicans.
A Suffolk University-USA Today poll survey of self-identified Trump supporters released in late February found that 46 percent compared to 27 percent said they would abandon the GOP if Trump started a new party. Seventy-six percent said they would support Trump if he runs again in 2024. And a Reuters-Ipsos poll released in April found that 6 in 10 Republicans believe Trump's false claim that the election was "stolen," roughly three months after the Capitol attack.
Senate Republicans, trying to keep the focus on policy and 2022, have largely avoided giving the former president a reason to train his ire on them.
McConnell repeatedly has signaled that he doesn't want to keep fighting in public with Trump, and he did not respond in kind to the former president on Thursday.
"Well look, we're looking to the future, not the past. And if you want to see the future of the Republican Party, watch Tim Scott's response to President Biden last night," McConnell told Fox News, referring to the GOP senator from South Carolina who provided the response to Biden.
Scott, the only Black Republican senator and a potential 2024 contender, touted wins from the Trump era but only said the word "Trump" just once in his address. McConnell's office, when it sent out a press release of his Fox News interview, highlighted his criticism of Biden's spending plan. Not directly mentioned were the questions he got about Trump.
But Republicans also acknowledge that preventing the infighting from overshadowing the party's larger message is in many ways out of their hands.
"That's the problem. There's no way anybody other than the former president himself can control that," Cornyn said.
Thune added that Republicans should be focused on a unified objective of winning back the House and Senate majority in 2022 and "hopefully even though we have at times what appears to be a lot of sort of finger pointing ... that in the end people will unify around that objective."
"I don't know there's a lot we can do. I think he's going to say what he's going to say," Thune said about Trump. "But if we want to save the country we've got to regain our majorities in the House and the Senate."
