#GOP hates everybody

[muddypolitics]

(via Tommy Tuberville Is a ‘Coward,’ Says Retired General – Rolling Stone)

“I have a huge problem with what Sen. Tuberville is doing. He’s a coward, in my book. He won’t even bring an amendment to the floor and get it voted on to change the [abortion] policy,” Punaro, who is also a former staff director of the Armed Services Committee, told Politico.

The Marines lack a commanding officer for the first time in over 150 years because of Tuberville’s blockade, which Punaro described as a “pathetic” push to prioritize fundraising over national security.

“It is having an impact,” he added. “And unfortunately, the only way you can ever prove it to somebody like Sen. Tuberville — who’s never served […] you’re not going to really be able to prove it to anybody until young Marines and young soldiers die in combat because they’re not as well led.”

- Retired Two-Star Marine Corps Major General Arnold Punaro

[thashining]

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[mudwerks]

this IVF thing

looks like the gop really shot itself in the foot with a fucking bazooka on this one

[tehjleck]

If you are a Veteran, and vote, RepubliKKKan, remember this picture when you go to vote.

[muddypolitics]

(via Bad Bunny Backs Kamala Harris, Shares Video Of Her Talking About Her Plans For Puerto Rico)

Bad Bunny‘s endorsement came as Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden in which one of the speakers, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, called Puerto Rico a “floating pile of garbage.”

[tehjleck]

true story

[tomorrowusa]

Here's a project for anybody who hates dictatorships.

Tell one person a day about Project 2025 – effectively the Trump equivalent of Mein Kampf. (I call Project 2025 Mein Trumpf.) Look through it and quote passages which may be of special interest to the person you're speaking with.

Nobody in Germany who read Mein Kampf can claim that they knew nothing of Hitler's plans. Don't think that Mein Trumpf is just some sort of theoretical exercise.

On Wednesday, Navigator released the third and final results from its latest survey about Project 2025. Conducted June 20-24, the survey found that the most salient and message about Project 2025 is that it “is an unprecedented, extreme Republican plan that will fundamentally alter the American government making Trump even more dangerous in a second term by granting him presidential powers like no president before him has ever had.”  According to Navigator, the most effective messages focused on the impact rather than on political consequences. The message that worked best for Democrats and independents was that Project 2025 would "roll back and eliminate Americans’ constitutionally protected rights and freedoms," while the message that worked best for non-MAGA Republicans—i.e., Republican voters who did not self-identify as supporting the MAGA movement—was that it would "hurt hard-working American families and seniors." “Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats (87%), 7 in 10 independents (70%), and about half of non-MAGA Republicans (48%) believed it would have a negative impact on them and their families after exposure to Project 2025’s policies and messaging,” Navigator found.  There’s plenty in the authoritarian plan to worry Americans. It seeks to end no-fault divorce and  restrict access to birth control—even condoms! It demands cuts to Social Security—raising the retirement age from 67 to 70—and wants to privatize Medicare. Then there are the proposals to curtail food assistance, eliminate Head Start, restrict help to disabled veterans, and roll back overtime pay requirements for hourly workers. Voters of all stripes know Trump, so all his efforts to distance himself from these policies won’t work. The majority of people surveyed by Navigator also believe that Project 2025 describes policy positions of the Republican Party and Donald Trump, and that Republicans would implement it if they win full control of the government in 2024.

Project 2025/Mein Trumpf seems hellbent on eliminating reproductive freedom in every form. They even wish to restrict condoms.

The authors, overwhelmingly Trumpist white males, want to return the US to a mythological 1950s which probably didn't really exist – except in their far right imaginations. Even Ward and June Cleaver might have difficulty recognizing the dystopia outlined in this proposal.

The big takeaway from Navigator’s three surveys on this is that the more people find out about it, the more unpopular it is. Navigator writes, “Project 2025 is underwater by 48 points at the end of this survey … with nearly 3 in 4 independents opposed to it … and Republicans split on the plan … [and] more than 9 in 10 Democrats are opposed to Project 2025 by the end of the survey.”

Learn all you can about Project 2025/Mein Trumpf and its most hideous proposals. Let everybody know what the MAGA GOP has in store for a second Trump term. If you post about it here or anywhere, use the tag #Project 2024

Being passive and quiet will only bring about a patriarchal dictatorship; dictators are still easier to prevent than get rid of.

Here is the text of Project 2025. (PDF) You might wish to download it before the far right Heritage Foundation removes it if it becomes too much of a political liability during the Republican National Convention.

[solarbird]

What they’re burying with the push to remove Biden

I wrote this yesterday, before they pushed Biden out. All this is still true.

Here’s what the major/legacy press are burying with wall-to-wall coverage of the massive billionaire-fuelled push to remove Biden:

The sheer, raw, overt racism and white supremacy of the Republican base. Not just mass booing a non-white speaker at the convention, but condemning their own VP nominee for not having a White wife. They’ll shut up about the latter, but we really, really shouldn’t.

That this includes outright calls to remove 15 to 20 million people in an ethnic purge. That’s not implied; that’s pre-printed official signs at the convention.

It will require a mass militarisation; Trump has been readying his supporters for horrific images for the last few months at his rallies. Popehat discusses the inevitable result: “We’re going to be an occupied nation. Detention of citizens and lawful residents is inevitable and in fact clearly intended. Large-scale violence against immigrants, suspected immigrants, and bystanders is inevitable and clearly intended.“

Citizenship won’t protect you; they intend to strip citizenship from naturalised citizens, too. They already had a task for on how to do it, back in 2018; this time, they will implement, and the Republican Supreme Court will let them.

Christian Nationalist Speaker of the House Mike Johnson backs this ethnic purge, by the way. When people say it’s “just Trump being Trump” point them at all this reality.

White nationalist speakers at the convention? Check! Core MAGAts calling Vice-President Harris a “coloured” “DEI hire”? Check!

The near-unity of his campaign with Project 2025, and all it entails – including not just his announced plans to bring its contributors to his next administration but six members of his previous cabinet, and his own chosen VP, JD Vance.

Medium has a whole page up on how to track Project 2025 contributors and involvement in the previous and a possible future Trump administration.

Did I mention that JD Vance supports Russia in its imperial invasion of Ukraine? Russian domestic propagandaists are downright giddy with his nomination.

And that he considers rape an “inconvenience” and that victims should be forced to carry and deliver their rapists’ babies?

And that police should be able to monitor medical records to search for possible abortions?

And that he praised Alex Jones and InfoWars as a “truth teller” – the same Alex Jones who directed hate and violence against parents of slaughtered children for years, until finally brought down in court?

The complete and open embrace of violence by him and his base – going back to 2016. The insurrection of 2020 was only a midpoint, not a culmination. From the national to the political to the personal, the GOP is a party of violence. So much so, that even a lot of old-line Republicans are talking about it openly.

Too bad that doesn’t include the legacy press. Too bad that doesn’t include the New York Times, or the Washington Post, or CNN, or so many others.

But it can include you.

That’s what’s needed right now. You, doing the job of that press, making sure everybody knows the real stakes of what’s going on.

Yes, there is some real support from Democrats for removing Biden. It wouldn’t be getting anywhere without the major donor and press frenzy, but some of it’s real. And I absolutely will back whoever comes out of this nonsense, as must we all.

No matter how mad we may and may not be about it. Am I clear on that? No matter how mad.

Because this Republican nightmare is what the press aren’t covering -it’s not even all of it, just some important highlights – all while instead going wall-to-wall 24-by-seven on this nomination fiasco.

Keep plugging away, team. It’s up to us to make up that gap.

And always remember – we win this, if we do the work. We win this, if we fight.

106 days remain.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

What is your thoughts on the supreme Court and is everybody exaggerating ?

Are these two separate thoughts? Like, do you want to know what I think about the Supreme Court and also what I think about people exaggerating? Because otherwise this is vague and if you're referring to something specific you should say so.

But I do think the Supreme Court is the last thing standing between American citizens and having their rights stripped away by leftists who hate the Constitution and a GOP establishment that has zero interest in doing anything but caving to Democrats and growing old in office.

[tehjleck]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

SCARMUCCI DROPS SOME MELANIA DIRT!

HATERS GONNA HATE

“I judge the hatred of Donald Trump by the Melania standard,” the former White House communications director said during a podcast appearance Saturday.

Updated Sep. 01, 2024 6:42PM EDT / Published Sep. 01, 2024 12:06PM EDT 

Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Anthony Scaramucci has claimed that Melania Trump wants Kamala Harris to win the 2024 presidential election, and that she “hates” her husband.

The former White House communications director recycled allegations that the former first lady is not keen on four more years in the White House during an interview with the MeidasTouch podcast over the weekend.

Claiming Melania “is tired of all this nonsense,” Scaramucci said of the 2024 presidential campaign,.“Nobody wants (Kamala Harris) to win more than me—maybe Melania Trump, that could be the only person I can think of.”

“I judge hatred of Donald Trump by the Melania standard,” he continued, adding that he could only think of one person (who he named as General Mark Milley, appointed by Trump as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2019) whose apparent hatred for the former president surpasses that of his wife.

Scaramucci’s hyperbolic claims come nearly two months after Melania Trump was last seen with her husband, having made a one-night-only cameo at the Republican National Convention in July.

Scaramucci’s tenure in the Trump administration lasted a historic 11 days, amid a period of particular turnover and upheaval.

“The Mooch,” who has since left the GOP and supported President Biden’s campaign in 2020, has become a vocal critic of his former boss.

The comments come following a Friday interview when Scaramucci called out Trump’s “contradictory” comments on abortion, claiming Trump knows “he’s in trouble.”

“He’s done a very good job of the last nine years of saying two contradictory things at the exact same time and giving enough food for everybody at the table,” Scaramucci told Alex Marquardt on CNN’s The Situation Room.

[secularprolifeconspectus]

I sent you a question about Trump and reproductive rights, thank you!

I’m very scared on the perspective of ban of contraception and birth control, I’m terrified to lose my freedom. His VP is extremely religious (even though he loves f*cking couches, very spiritual of him😭). The thing is, that there are so many political and religious extremists (Nick F*ntes, everybody?) that already claim that “your body [his woman’s body] is MINE”, which is scary AF.

I’m disabled, and even though I love kids wholeheartedly and wish to have them in future, I can’t have those Mormon families with 5+ kids. Respectfully, I’m not a breeder. It will fully destroy my health and I feel horror inside. It may kill me. Or what about r@pe? I can’t run away on a wheelchair. Those people don’t care about babies lives, are they really pro-life? They want to make women their slaves. I highly doubt any of them care about babies fr.

What’s the realistic chance they will try to implement it or do you think it’s just a wet dreams of neo-n@zis? And do you know how I can help myself?

Thank you! I’m truly horrified. I will appreciate any help and resources.

Obviously I condemn the "your body, my choice" thing. It is scary, and disgusting. Not only does that violate bodily autonomy, but it also is a justification for abortion. I still hold that bodily autonomy does not include violence, which is what abortion is.

However, restriction of contraception is an attack on autonomy. The problem is that many people lump abortion and contraception together as matters of sexual morality, but this is a categorical error – abortion is a matter of life or death. Again, I don't actually believe the extreme right will (successfully) come for contraception. And if they get close, we won't let them succeed; I'll join you in the streets.

Of course you're not a breeder, no person is (so don't let the abortion industry use you as one for their profit). Pregnancy doesn't usually become high-risk until after viability, so keep in mind that early induction may be a solution, and many conditions are preventable/manageable well before that. Emergency contraception ought to always be available to rape victims; even the Catholic Church would object if that were to be restricted.

I personally hate equivocating on what's really "pro-life"; it means anti-abortion, no more and no less. However, I have always agreed that it's hypocritical to support prenatal protections while holding policy positions that facilitate death outside the womb. It is frightening and frustrating how many people are pro-life for the wrong reasons. That being said, I think your average conservative doesn't want to treat anyone as slaves, and is generally caring.

So yeah, I mostly think it's neo-fascist nonsense and neoliberal fearmongering. Do I think the far-right is capable of monstrosities? Yes, I believe they have that power. But I also believe the GOP base is more socially moderate than the party, as are many of its politicians personally, and we've seen it respond to that. While Project 2025 is threatening, I also don't think it's got popular support.

So while I remain wary, and I think you should too, I'm also remaining realistic, and I really do think we will be alright. And if things become not alright, I trust my comrades will mobilize, fight back, and take care of one another, and in that way we will still be alright. No need for horror. Lessen your reliance on The State. Help yourself by finding your comrades and building networks of care. Radical hope is praxis. We keep us safe.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This whole thing is a wildly bad idea. First, it’s politically unhinged. The Democrats aren’t extreme leftists. The party’s main policy planks barely rise to the level of liberalism. Anywhere else in the world, they’d be a center-right or just-plain-right party. The idea that “polarization” arises out of Democratic “extremism” doesn’t bear even the most cursory scrutiny. The real problem is that the GOP has swung to the most extreme right, to the point where it is appointing militiamen in its caucus to powerful committee roles, from which perch they promote surreal fantasies about the supreme legal authority of sheriffs. The Republican party isn’t subtle about wanting to disenfranchise its opponents, or its mission to create a white, Christian nation. The fact that the GOP manages to call the Democrats “socialists” for supporting any public services and the universal right to vote doesn’t make the Democrats into socialists. This is real “we have both kinds: country and western” politics.

-Pizzaburgers: “Everybody hates this idea, so it must be great”

[mariacallous]

The GOP conference is SO funny rn!!!! They are such victim snowflakes abt everything like girl this wasnt a test from god everybody just hates you!! Also "selling your soul to the dems" you already sold your soul to matt gaetz and he wasted NO time collecting lol. I keep forgetting what legitimate losers these guys are and then they open their mouths. Even "moderate" repubs in the house are too victim complexed to actually do anything.

They are such a plague on the country and on the Congress.