Get ready, JesusPac is coming again.
Fortunately for non-profits, they didn’t get that change through reconciliation.
That seems to be happening a lot, doesn’t it.
It’s the Prosperity Gospel.
Look it up, it’s a “thing”.
“a 1954 law that bans churches and other nonprofit groups from engaging in political activity” … “The change could turn churches into a well-funded political force, with donors diverting as much as $1.7 billion each year from traditional political committees to churches and other nonprofit groups that could legally engage in partisan politics for the first time, according to an estimate by the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.” , “Critics warn that the change could dramatically increase untraceable political spending and lead to the creation of “sham churches” to take advantage of the new avenue for political spending, which — unlike donations to candidates, “super PACs” and party committees — would allow donors to deduct contributions.”
I think that was a good law and should be in full effect… and enforced for a change.
I’m bumping this thread because a lot of malicious behavior by despicable GOPsters is ending up in the Stupid Republicans thread. For example:
Was Al Capone “stupid”? Vlad the Impaler? The man with the moustache?
Like top Mafia Godfathers, it is not stupidity which causes inhumane turds to float to the top of the heinous Republican Party. We should only wish more Gopsters were as “stupid” as Trump and Kushner.
In Minnesota, GOP legislator Quam yanked the microphone from the Democrat (Mahlberg) he was debating and tossed it onto the table in front of her when he was through speaking. A Minnesota newspaper said the yank “drew a gasp from the audience” and Quam’s toss at the end drew “commotion.”
Quam did not apologize to Mahlberg, but is quoted as “wanting” to apologize.
You thought that was “down”? You were mistaken, that is “up”.
Bad is, like, good. Newspeak is normal.
fuck
repost from the Stupid thread
Hey, black guy, fuck you, you’re black,
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R-Slime) tweeted “Thank you to @realDonaldTrump for signing legislation today to designate Medgar and Myrlie Evers home as a National Monument,” he tweeted. “@SenatorWicker & @SenHydeSmith have worked very hard on this for some time and are to be commended.”
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, called … Bryant “despicable” (for) ignoring the work of Rep. Bennie Thompson, the lone Democrat and African-American in the state’s delegation, who has advocated for years for Evers’ home to be named a national monument.
I’m crossposting these from another thread.
Police and prosecutors have great discretion about whether to arrest or prosecute. It’s safe to assume these laws would be applied very selectively. Poor people want to avoid wasting gasoline and may not have a car at all. The mind boggles to imagine such laws could be thought fair.
I thought I was cynical, but these laws stun me. Someone who’s on speaking terms with the Board’s Trumpists: Poke them and ask what they think about these laws. Too bad Bricker’s gone missing. It would be ticklish to hear his equivocating answer.
I don’t meet the above criteria, but I’ve already heard this one. Guess what? It contains zero concern that someone was denied the right to vote.
spits tobaccy
Hyuk hyuk. What’s a-matter Libby? Couldn’t vote? Hyuk hyuk. Shoulda got a job, then you coulda got a car, then you coulda voted, hyuk hyuk.
Of course it doesn’t concern them. These are the same people who will play con-law with you and say “Well we’re not a democracy, but a republic.”
“If it’s legal, then it should be done”
“If it is challenged in court, we must not comment until all the appeals are finished”
“After it is thrown out, then why comment? It’s all over and done with”
The trick that amazes me is how you’ll be accused of making a ‘caricature’ of modern day conservative positions if you just list off some things in actual laws that were passed, and in many cases are still in effect. If you don’t want to get painted as moustache twirling villains, don’t pass laws that literally do things like forbid research into global warming.
Just a 2019 variation on ‘The Narcissist’s Prayer’
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That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did…
You deserved it.
Can this motherfucker just have a fucking heart attack already? McConnell.
WASHINGTON — If a Supreme Court vacancy emerges next year, Mitch McConnell will fill it, the Senate majority leader said Tuesday.
The comment, however, diverges from his decision in 2016 to not consider President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia earlier that year.
At a chamber luncheon in Paducah, Kentucky, on Tuesday, McConnell was asked by a member of the audience, “Should a Supreme Court justice die next year, what will your position be on filling that spot?"
“I would fill it,” he responded, smirking, which drew loud laughter.
He’s laughing because he knows that there probably won’t be any consequences. We live in a country of morons that keeps re-electing people like Mitch McConnell.
By denying man-made climate change and protecting their corrupt, polluting corporate cronies, the right wing Republicans are trying to destroy the environment and, very likely, kill me. I’d say that’s pretty damn malicious.