DeSantis gave the contract to fly immigrants to a company that contributes to Republican coffers. He even gave them a million dollars for not flying immigrants to Delaware.
Ted Cruz told a crowd that the solution to school shootings is more police in the schools. The crowd booed him.
Speaking from experience, Mr. Toffeenose?
According to this site, the “White Malcolm X” movie is a hoax.
The line between satire and reality draws ever thinner with that lot by the day.
Cf. this actual clip of Loser Donald asking his cultists if they know what “the N-word” is.
So the “Commitment To America” plan uses…videos of people and places in Russia and Ukraine.
It’s a GOP tradition. (2016)
Except that’s exactly what a lot of people thought was their strategy surrounding all the noise they used to make about Roe vs. Wade. And then they finally won the power they needed to actually repeal RvW, and they went and did it.
At this point, no one should still be talking about what will “never happen”. With MAGAts in charge, anything is possible, no matter how bad an idea it is.
Hey, let’s not be so quick to dismiss our Ted’s idea. It just needs a bit of modification. How about we automatically deputize and swear in all students in a school who are at least 11 years old OR taller than 5 feet? Give 'em three weeks training on the shooting range, arm them, and bingo! a special police force right there in the school all day/every day at no extra cost to the city or county. Win-win!
So, more cops to stand around and do nothing while a shooter is loose in the school? Sure, Ted. That’s a great idea.
Especially since I read an article recently that talked about how the Republicans are only 4 states short of being able to call for a Constitutional Convention. If that happens then all bets are off.
Vlad gave a discount for their use, presumably.
Does anybody know if Putin’s forthcoming “campaign” is going to use the tagline “Commitment to Russia”?
Perhaps the GOP just borrowed Vlad’s entire platform and advertising and slapped some english translation on it.
I don’t know about that, but “Make Russia Great Again” has a nice ring to it.
He said nothing when Trump accused his father of being part of the Kennedy assassination. No back bone whatsoever. No wonder he fled to Cancun when Texas got snow.
And blamed his daughters.
Remember when Trump insulted his wife and Teddy fake-raged?
A few months later.
Before “all bets are off”, the convention has to be actually called. By Congress. Congress has to officially recognize the petitions, by some protocol that has never been formalized, cede their legislative authority to a body for which no standard of proceeding has been established, and then submit the resulting goulash to the states for ratification.
There are just so many uncodified points of failure here that the hazard is questionable. Already numerous petitions have been officially floated over the centuries that Congress probably should have called one ages ago – but, do petitions expire every 2 years (with change of leges), and how broadly/narrowly consistent in subject do the petitions have to be for Congress to decide that a convention is warranted?
The whole scheme is broken because the Constitution is decidedly vague on it and Congress never got around to clearing it up.
Thanks for that. Definitely makes me feel better about the odds of it not happening.
On the other hand, if 8 or 9 more states ratify the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, we could nullify the Electoral College.
However, that would only serve to tie the Democrats’ hands, because the first time it would cause Republican-won states’ electoral votes to flip, their most-likely-Republican led legislature would try to overturn it and the Supreme Court would probably agree with them. There’s even a small chance that the Supreme Court would rule the completely opposite way and rule that states do not have the right to determine their own electors, consistency be damned, in cases where a Republican won the state vote with a blue-controlled legislature who does not fight flipping the electoral vote, but the likelihood of that happening is small and the Supreme Court ruling less clear.