Miscellaneous political stuff

Huh?

Why are they shooting truckers?

Do they not like to eat? wear clothing? (It can get damn cold in Maine ) or get their ammunition? ( it’s also trucked from the manufacturer )

That’s one of the most bizarre things I’ve heard yet.

Desantis hss signed a bill that ALL students and staff must register their political views in a survey for college in Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring Florida students, faculty and staff to register their political views in surveys in an effort to promote "intellectual diversity" at colleges and universities, and the measure set off backlash across social media.


www.rawstory.com/florida-desantis-survey/

This could be awkward....

A group of House Republicans is set to join Donald Trump's visit to the U.S.-Mexico border next week.

About a dozen members of the Republican Study Committee, the biggest caucus in the House GOP, plan to join the former president on the trip next Wednesday. The joint travel highlights not only Trump’s enduring influence over the party, but also the former president's ongoing focus on immigration — a topic that he made a centerpiece of his campaigns and administration, to polarizing effect.
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President Trump spent four years fixing the border. But the Biden administration broke it again, and we are now experiencing the worst border crisis in our history," Banks said in a statement. "That’s why the RSC has made carrying on the Trump legacy on immigration our top priority this Congress and why we are heading to the border with President Trump to explain how we can end this national embarrassment."

www.politico.com/news/2021/06/23/house-republicans-trumps-border-trip-495647

McCarthy having a very bad day!!

Republican leader nailed after freakout over a fake IRS poster actually made by an activist
Matthew Chapman
June 23, 2021

On Wednesday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took to Facebook to rage against a poster from the Internal Revenue Service advertising the expansion of the Child Tax Credit to millions of new families, one of the many new programs created under President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan.

"Infuriating," wrote McCarthy of the poster, which was headlined "A monthly check to you." "The IRS is literally spending taxpayer money to advertise a government handout. This is welfare without work requirements."

There's just one problem. The poster wasn't actually taxpayer funded, or even released by the IRS. It was a parody mocked up by education policy wonk Tobin Stone, based on an old poster explaining Social Security benefits.

www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-irs-poster-flop/

Particularly when he never hit 50% at all ever!!

How far he has fallen!

GOP has developed a pattern of attacking the military, Gaetz is just the lastest. Last week Cruz called the military "weak and emasculated" following Tucker Carlson.
Former started some of it with his attacks on John McCain, which continued for years.

"Before this, there are no known examples of one of the two major political parties in the United States calling for defunding the U.S. military over a simple desire to understand what was behind an attack against the United States Capitol and Constitution, as Milley made clear," said MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. "Nor is there any precedent for defunding the military over intellectual curiosity but here we are."

www.rawstory.com/republican-history-attacking-military/

So VP Harris finally goes to the border. BUT it is the wrong border, she went just to upstage Trump who is going next week, and she wore a **gasp** mask! This is so ridiculous. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Most interesting. Pence is still not talking bad about former... But ...,

Pence went on to say he would “always be proud that we did our part on that tragic day to reconvene the Congress,” while also sympathizing with “the disappointment many feel” about the election’s outcome.

“I can relate. I was on the ballot,” he said. “But, you know, there’s more at stake than our party and our political fortunes in this moment. If we lose faith in the Constitution, we won’t just lose elections. We’ll lose our country.”

www.politico.com/news/2021/06/25/pence-trump-jan-6-496237

Nice guy!