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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

🚨🚨🚨Important 😬 Please Read This 🚨🚨🚨

What would a second Trump term really look like?

You no longer need to guess:

Former President #Trump has laid out, publicly and unambiguously, designs to stretch traditions, norms and accepted law in historic ways, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write

Why it matters: We've written for months that Trump allies privately are plotting loyalty tests and policy proposals to vastly expand presidential power and punish critics.

Trump himself is now saying the quiet part out loud. You should listen.

#Fascism #authoritarianism #rightwing #rightwingcult #voteblue #Republicancult
time.com/6972021/donald-trump-

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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Pathetic: Mitch McConnell Bends the Knee

“Less than 24 hours after #DonaldTrump swept to a series of victories across the nation on #SuperTuesday, #MitchMcConnell formally bent the knee to the de facto nominee.

“It is abundantly clear that former President #Trump has earned the requisite support of #Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States,” #McConnell said in a statement announcing the endorsement. “It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support.”

#chriscillizza #RepublicanCult #Republicans
chriscillizza.substack.com/p/m

Text Shot: McConnell’s decision was met with horror and disgust in some corners of the Internet. Which, I get! After all: McConnell and Trump have not spoken in more than 3 years In the wake of the January 6 insurrection, McConnell said that Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Trump has repeatedly derided McConnell in public, calling him, among other things, an “old broken down crow.” Trump actively sought to recruit someone from within the Senate GOP to take down McConnell as leader Trump attacked McConnell’s wife — and former Trump Labor Secretary Elaine Chao — for her alleged ties to China. He also referred to her as “Coco Chow.” Trump’s relentless focus on his 2020 election conspiracies contributed to Republicans losing the Senate majority (and costing McConnell his job as Senate leader) in early 2021. There’s more, but you get the idea. McConnell had AMPLE reason to withhold his endorsement from Trump — not to mention the fact that…
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

“America is almost unique in being able to keep #Election-losers in handsome employment within #Politics. There is always a television slot, a think-tank sinecure, a tax-exempt political action committee, a speaking gig, a book deal.

Sarah Palin, whose electoral career peaked as governor of one of America’s least populous states, sold a reported 2mn copies of her memoirs in hardback. There are European heads of government who can’t do that.

So lucrative and ego-feeding is America’s political industry that even non-Americans strive to crack it.”

#giftlink #Republicans #Republicancult #foxnews #trump #grift
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Text Shot: Think of the incentive structure here. Why moderate to win office if you can have the same trappings out of it? Fear of unelectability is what keeps political parties from embracing wild ideas. If that fear goes, if life in opposition is about as agreeable as life in government, an important check on extremism falls away. It becomes rational to cultivate activists over swing voters. In fact, a stint in Congress or the West Wing might be more desirable as a way of topping up one’s subsequent value on the circuit than as an end in itself. Palin-level opportunities are scarce, of course, but that just sharpens the incentive to be ever more vivid and strident to get them. No other democracy faces quite this problem
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Cartoon Friday 🤗

1. “With the arrest of Alexander #Smirnov — the main source of ‘evidence’ for the impeachment of Joe #Biden — for lying to the #FBI, and all the other witnesses refuting the notion that President Biden committed any high crime or misdemeanor, could the #House inquiry get any worse for the #GOP? Maybe.”-#RickMcKee

2. “The shoes are the least tacky aspect of the #WhiteSupremacist, #Fascist, neo-#NAZI-infested #MAGA movement.”-#DarrinBell

3. Historical (old Reagan gem by #HerbLock)

#republicans #republicancult #voteblue #counterpoint
counterpoint.substack.com/p/ho

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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

The #Republican Party isn’t interested in meaningfully addressing #immigration. They’ve been benefitting at the ballot box for decades for problems at the #border. They sabotaged immigration reform efforts by Presidents #Bush and #Obama.

And finally their scheme was played out in real time for all to see when they torpedoed a bipartisan border bill because Donald #Trump didn’t want to give President #Biden a win. This charade will continue until voters stop rewarding immigration demagoguery and vote for solutions.

#NIckAnderson #voteblue #elections #republicancult #republicans #mayorkas #impeachment
open.substack.com/pub/nickande

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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

“Once it was clear a deal was going to materialize, #Trump demanded it be shut down, likely because he has promised his base that on his first day back in office, he will “begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” and a new #border measure would both undermine his campaign message and stymie his plans.

PS: #HeatherCoxRichardson’s Letters from an #American are now available on audio, for free, at:

#Substack: heathercoxrichardson.substack.

#Apple #Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/.../letters

#Overcast: overcast.fm/+BGyw087xtY

#Johnson #house #immigration #bordersecurity
#republicans #republicancult #voteblue #elections

heathercoxrichardson.substack.comLetters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson | SubstackHeather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Do Nothing House speaker Mike #Johnson (R-LA) canceled tomorrow’s votes and sent the #House of Representatives into recess!

Before recessing, Johnson refused to take up the national security supplemental bill the #Senate passed early Tuesday morning, providing aid for #Ukraine, #Israel, and #Taiwan and humanitarian aid for #Gaza. Johnson said the House must “work its own will” rather than vote on the bill at hand because the measure did not include #border security measures (that they just snuffed🤬)

#heathercoxrichardson #nationalsecurity #trump #republicans #republicancult #putin #russia
heathercoxrichardson.substack.

Text Shot: But is it a rush? President Biden asked for additional national security funding in October 2023. A majority of lawmakers in the Senate and the House support such a measure, but Johnson bowed to the demands of MAGA Republicans and said he would not bring such a bill up for a vote unless it contained border security measures to address what they insisted was a crisis at the southern border of the U.S., apparently banking on the idea that such a compromise was impossible. But Democrats were so desperate to pass the Ukraine funding they see as crucial to our national security that they agreed to give up their demand for a path to citizenship for the so-called Dreamers, those brought to the United States as children and reared here but now stuck in citizenship limbo. So, after four months of work, Senate negotiators produced a bill that offered much of what Republicans demanded.
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