Oh, I've gotta think that Marsha Blackburn would make a much better VP than Kristi Noem!

#marshablackburn #kristinoem #voteblueifyouwanttolive #gopidiots #goptraitors

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Who doesn't need a Marsha Blackburn pizza cutter? Amirite?!?!

#gopidiots #gop #tennessee #marshablackburn

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Tommy Stupidville strikes again! Who voted for this guy?!?

Tommy Tuberville Celebrates Broadband Funding He Voted Against huffpost.com/entry/tommy-tuber

#alabama #tommystupidville #GOPLiars #gopidiots

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Stay with me...

Maybe Republicans and Elon can get together to move the Mexican border to Mars!

Problem solved!

#gopidiots #GOPfascists #gopracists #bigidea

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I hope they keep digging once they come out the other side.

House GOP members are 'in a hole and digging' as Democrats watch them squirm alternet.org/house-gop-members

#gopidiots #GOPLiars #goptraitors #fuckthegop

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Lauren Boebert blows up the GOP's biggest talking point | Salon.com salon.com/2023/03/20/lauren-bo




"As has been extensively documented, the Republican Party continues to use the Southern Strategy. GOP officials regularly deploy racist stereotypes about "black welfare queens" and "urban poverty" and "ghetto culture" as a way of encouraging white racial resentment and outright racism to get and keep political power. The idea that lazy and undeserving Black people are "stealing from white America" and are "takers not makers" who don't believe in hard work" and only want "handouts" is a centuries-old lie and fiction that continues through to the present.

By comparison, Republicans deploy a narrative that depicts poor and working-class white people as being especially noble, patriotic, and "real Americans" who are more deserving of government assistance... Alternatively, when judged to be politically advantageous, those same elites will quickly erase the white poor and working class, ignoring them as inconveniences whose very existence highlights the inherent inequalities of capitalism and other structural failings of American society.
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White people constitute the largest group of poor people in America. Red states receive a disproportionate amount of support from the federal government and blue states. In fact, White people are the greatest beneficiaries of "welfare" in American history.

...white people are actually very protective of welfare and other government supports for other white people, while simultaneously stigmatizing Black people. These new findings echo other research which has repeatedly shown that many white people change their assessment of a given individual's behavior and morality based on perceived racial group membership where Black people are judged more harshly than white people for doing the same things. Other research shows how white poor and working-class people who use food stamps and other welfare programs rationalize their behavior as somehow being morally superior and different as compared to other people who receive the same benefits.

Contrary to racist and white supremacist stereotypes about lazy and government-dependent Black and brown people, White America (and Whiteness itself) was in many ways created by white welfare programs.

The most obvious example is white on Black chattel slavery and land theft and genocide against First Nations where white people as a group benefitted from a particular type of "white freedom" where wealth, income, and other intergenerational upward mobility was literally built on stolen land and stolen labor.
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What economists and other experts have described as "the submerged state" (which consists of such programs as mortgage, education and other tax credits and subsidies) is another example of white welfare that disproportionately transfers money and other resources to white Americans as compared to Black and brown Americans

Ultimately, Boebert's "rural values" and the type of double standards and contradictions about race and gender such language embodies is why the American people do not have a real social democracy that would include such things as national healthcare, free college education, affordable housing, strong unions, a living wage, and long-term unemployment insurance.

As it has since before the founding of this nation, white racism and white supremacy hurts white people too. Boebert's thinly coded racist language of "rural conservative values" is one more example of how that dynamic works.

#socialism4menotthee #GOPHypocrisy #gopidiots #redstatesuckers

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Lauren Boebert blows up the GOP's biggest talking point | Salon.com salon.com/2023/03/20/lauren-bo




Boebert's grandchild will be the third generation of out-of-wedlock births in her family. She has been correctly criticized for being a hypocrite of the first order who moralizes about other people's families and lifestyles but failed to instill the same values she holds up as sacrosanct in her own son. Others have highlighted how the Boebert clan is very obsessed with guns but comparatively much less interested in teaching their son about proper contraceptive use.
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So, of course, Boebert's announcement was met by no small amount of liberal schadenfreude, mockery, jokes, and punchlines from comedians. But beyond the jokes and humor, the Boebert family drama and their pride in so-called (white) rural conservative communities is actually a much bigger story about American society.
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Single and teen mothers do not have adequate support or resources in rural red state America (and the country more broadly). Many red state leaders have also bought into the dogma and untrue belief that religious organizations and charities can replace the government in terms of providing an adequate social safety net. There is also more stigma and a lack of support for single mothers. Comprehensive sex education programs are also lacking in red states. Instead, because of the influence of White Christian fundamentalists, abstinence-only programs are common in those areas of the country. High-quality sex education is a matter of public health and human dignity. Moreover, the research shows that abstinence-only programs are not effective and in fact actually lead to higher rates of out-of-wedlock births, teen pregnancies, STIs and STDs. Such negative outcomes are also correlated with diminished life chances and life opportunities such as higher rates of poverty and a lack of intergenerational class mobility.

Boebert's "rural values" and the type of double standards and contradictions about race and gender such language embodies is why the American people do not have a real social democracy.

Boebert and other Christofascists are working diligently to take away women's reproductive rights and freedoms all over the country with the goal of imposing a regime of forced birth and force pregnancy where contraception is illegal. If put in place, such policies and laws will mean more unwanted children being born into families and communities that do not have the resources to properly care for them.

In a recent piece at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Heather MacDonald summarizes how:

In a state that has proven that straightforward sex education and birth control drop abortion rates, Boebert has denounced sex ed and called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood. Boebert's faux affinity for the preciousness of life does not extend very far, certainly not to transgender children, gay adoptive parents, or pregnant teens not ready to become a parent.

Boebert herself was a teen mom, as was her mother before her. Boebert dropped out of high school to raise her child and was eventually able to obtain her GED in 2020 when she was in her 30s.

Her son is now the 3rd generation of teenage parent in the same family. These are the lingering effects of early parenthood laid bare.

After winning re-election in November by less than 550 votes, Boebert has done nothing but double down on hatred in the name of religious morals that are clearly malleable for the in-crowd only.

A teen mom becoming a member of Congress is the exception not the rule, and despite her personal experiences, Boebert is creating a dangerous and false narrative that teenage pregnancy showcases "values." The selective morality on display is hypocrisy of the highest kind.
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Lauren Boebert trashes sex-ed — then announces teen son is making her a "36-year-old grandmother"

#GOPHypocrisy #gopidiots #forcedbirth #babymachines

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fleeing their own bill. Gee, who could have foreseen that executing women for abortion might be unpopular.

South Carolina Abortion Bill Loses Co-Sponsors After Death Penalty Backlash newrepublic.com/post/171273/so

#fuckthesegopmotherfuckers #gopidiots

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Her 17-year-old son will make Rep. Lauren Boebert a 36-year-old grandmother. This is the that will extinguish the human race.

Boebert praises high rural teen birth rates while announcing first grandchild thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/

#gopidiots #gopracists #LaurenBoebert #WhiteReplacement

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Amadandeanta · @Gedos
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Turns out the 2nd amendment in the bill of rights was all about short sleeves.

#2ndamendment #nra #gopidiots

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Watching Republican members of Congress talking about origin theories of COVID, I am reminded that they are the absolute dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

#gopidiots #goptraitors #cromagnongop

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RT: Will Oremus @WillOremus

Last night I watched my wife, an assistant professor, spend 30 mins Googling & practicing how to pronounce the names of all 25+ students in her grad class.

Rep. Comer, R-KY, just confidently mangled the names of 3 of the 4 witnesses at the House hearing he's chairing today.

#gopidiots #JamesComer

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DemocracyMatters :verified: · @DemocracyMatters
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What does it look like when a moron tries to rebrand?

From MAGA flamethrower to powerful committee chair: Jim Jordan’s effort to rebrand draws skepticism on Capitol Hill cnn.com/2023/02/03/politics/ji

#gymjordan #goptwats #gopidiots #gopliars

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kbkorb · @kbkorb
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Kevin McCarthy appointing George Santos to House committees "shows that the party stands for nothing."

I recall that in the 2020 election the GOP's party platform was literally empty.

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

#gop #gopliars #gopidiots

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Article: Former Trump Official to High School Students: 'Do Your Part, Get Married and Have Kids—Lots of Them'

"Roger Severino told Students for Life Saturday that they have an inherent advantage over the other side, because abortion rights supporters "don't reproduce."

flip.it/LhYL6Z


#gopidiots #goplies

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