Republicans hate America 17: Iowa Governor Scrooge K. Reynolds takes food out of the mouth of the hungry on Christmas Eve

I'm "worried" about childhood obesity that's why
Iowa's only food products are Bacon and HCFS

"At this festive season of the year, Governor Kim Reynolds, ... it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, Ma'am."
Kim Reynolds -"Are there no federal funded prisons?"
"Plenty of prisons..."
Kim Reynolds -"And the Republican created concentration camps.  Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, Ma'am..."
Kim Reynolds - "Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
Kim Reynolds - "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

In a Christmas Eve tradition, Iowa Governor Kim Scrooge Reynolds is eager and able to ensure that poor children in Iowa go hungry for the holidays and beyond because poor Iowa children are too fat.  I doubt that Reynolds will have a Dickensian epiphany on Christmas Morn.

Iowa has decided not to participate in a federal program that would provide children with $40 a month in food assistance during the summer, the state announced late Friday.

"Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families. An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic," Gov. Kim Reynolds said in the news release.

Republicans hate you and want you to die.  Republicans don't even care if their policy decisions hurt their constituency.  Dying of Whiteness is a conservative shibboleth.  Republicans know they can lie with abandon, vote against funds for their voters and simply rely on the Corporate Media to blame Congress, or gridlock in DC, and reinforce the white man delusion of I Blame the Demmycrats!

As a Cuban, I hate Socialism
Which is why I vote against all 
government funding bills.
Now give me my money!

I mean just look at this disreputable Florida Representative María Elvira Salazar, who in 2022 voted against the Inflation Reduction Act while claiming Inflation is 40% and pocketing a cool $500,000 in inside trading, and then a week before Christmas 2023 Salazar decided to celebrate the Federal funds she voted against.  Taking credit for things they vote against is a Republican triumph.

Keep convincing yourselves that Republicans and Democrats differences in politics are a sincerely held divergence in what constitutes a healthy functioning government and Nation and you'll end up in the Trump brand detention camps.

Republicans yearn to purify this Nation and through brutal austerity programs and channeling of tax monies to fascist fundamentalist Christian organizations remold the Nation into a Neo-Confederate White Supremacist country buttressed by the twin pillars of White Power and Wage Slavery.  They explicitly declare their intent to use their Religious Liberty to harass, enslave, and kill you.

I've been hoping these policies and hypocritical actions would cause electoral defeats for Republicans.  But, Salazar has won two elections to the House of Representatives and Kim Reynolds easily won re-election to Governor in 2022 by a far larger percentage than in 2018.  It clearly seems policy choices and delivering on election promises doesn't matter white people do not vote based on what they claim to want; but, against themselves based on the fear and anger Republicans have cultivated within them.

Republicans Hate America 6: Gym Jordan doesn't have a Jacket or the Votes to be Speaker of the House

Jordan Knew all about
the Sexual Absue

We take break from the on-going atrocity in Gaza to bring you the continuing saga of the Republicans can't Govern, mainly because they hate America but, also because Republicans believe Governmental dysfunction, gridlock, and failure serves their overall goal of destroying the United States and turning the country into a NeoConfederate Nation of oppression and inequality.

John Kaisch the Former Republican Governor and Congressman was brought onto the "liberal" MSNBC yesterday to give his views on the 1st vote for Speaker today, in which Gym Jordan received 200 votes. And just like clockwork, Jaisch blamed the Demmycrats!

Since Kaisch was in Congress, it sure would be nice if someone could ask him to name one (ONE!) Republican who voted for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker.  He can't because it has never happened.  And a minority party has never supported fully,  partially, or even singularly for the Speaker of the Party in control of the House.  Ever.  In the history of the United States Congress.

Yet, the savvy take and Corporate Media talking points continues to be blame the House Dysfunction on the Demmycrats! 

"And we can't seem to come to an agreement on a leader. It's a real problem. I mean at the end of the week here with all of this chaos among Republicans but much graver circumstances around the world, I actually have my eye on Democrats. How long are Democrats going to stand by in the world of identity politics and zero-sum politics, and not be part of any solution?" - CNN David Gregory

"We"... and Gregory has his "eye on Democrats".  How long will the Democrats cause this!  It's always time for BothSides and even so I Blame the Demmycrats!  David Gregory was of course a big lover of George W. Bush's Global War on Terror fiascoes and couldn't help but dance and rap with Karl Rove during the height of the Iraq War.  Gregory also asks if the regular folk, the common clay of the west, are "wondering whether Washington has the ability to do their job".  It's always "Washington" writ large when Republicans are miserable failures, it's always Look at those Clowns in Congress!  Those Clowns sure are Clowns!  

The Corporate Media will justify, rationalize, whatbaout, both sides, and do everything in their power to defend and support the Republican Party.  It's their raison d'être  To make the Republican Party perfidy palatable and to obscure the truth of the Republican agenda of oppression, hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and adulation of the rich.

What's absolutely hilarious are the same Republicans who laughed and joked, enjoyed Paul Pelosi injuries and made snide remarks about how GAAAAY Paul Pelosi is and his GAAAAY tryst became violent ha-ha-ha-ha GAAAY!  Are now, facing death threats from conservatives for not supporting Gym Jordan 

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa said in a statement that she has “received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls” after flipping her speaker vote from Jordan on Tuesday to House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger on Wednesday. New York Rep. Nick LaLota, meanwhile, shared in a social media post a message he received that told him to “go f**k yourself and die.” 

Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas said his office has been flooded with calls and there’s been “lots of profanity,” but “no real substantive threats,” while Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon’s wife received menacing text messages.

Ha-ha-ha! Fuck you!  FUCK ALL YOU FUCKING REPUBLICANS!  Right now the twerp Speaker Pro Tempore Pat McWeenie has scheduled a 3rd vote for Jordan but, it seems the Republicans are coalescing around the idea of giving the Speaker Pro Tempore a raft of expanded powers.  This seems to be an extra-constitutional powers because Republicans are at the same time an unserious group whose evil actions have serious consequences for Americans.

The key understanding which can never be uttered is: Republicans hate America.  They have no interest in Government doing anything.  Republicans hold office to engage in lurid shit- flinging and ratfvcking.

 

Meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries continues to get every vote by the Democratic members of the House.

Republicans hate America 5: Speaker Shutdown Solipsism

As we all know Republicans view Government as a mechanism to harm as many of those people as possible.  Government is not a positive good in their minds but, a powerful tool which must be weaponized by Republicans to immiserate the lives of the downtrodden and afflict the afflicted. 

But, Republicans since Nixon knew the way to do this was The Madman Theory; in which Tricky Dick would try to convince overseas adversaries that Nixon was a volatile pyscho and irrational lunatic so they'd better not provoke him.  Modern Republicans have simply adopted this and applied the lessons learned abroad at home.

Of course, the American conservative movement has been stewing in noxious rightwing agitprop for 50 years so the useful idiot Republican voters are no longer merely the foot soliders of the Reactionary movement to destroy the United States and replace it with a Fascist NeoConfederate simulacrum of America but, are know the leaders both philosophically and politically.

In reality, Republicans are domestic abusers who always, always, always couch their abuse of America in the framing of Look what you made me do.  Thus, it should be of little surprise that Republicans, Rightwing Media, and Squeaker McCarthy himself Blame the Demmycrats! 

Conservatives know to blame "Congress" or
the Democrats for Republican Actions

"Do I regret the Democrats playing games with Jan. 6?  Yes,What they did to this institution, what they did to this building, was so wrong. I think today was a political decision by the Democrats, and I think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. My fear is the institution fell today.”  - Kevin should be "institutionalized".

What a mendacious scumbag.  That Squeaker McCarthy conspired to throw a last-minute CR at the Democratic Party with the intention and expectation they would vote it down so he could Blame the Demmycrats! for the Government Shutdown and then when Hakeem Jeffries got the entire Democratic House to vote yes (save for Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley who just so happens to represent Ukrainian Village in Chicago) and after the Democrats voted in support of the CR, Qevin McCarthy went on the Sunday Talk Shows to Blame the Demmycrats! is stupid and beyond shamless and into the realm of quixotic idiocy.

And even before this McCarthy proved himself an untrustworthy scoundrel having just this year betrayed the debt ceiling limit deal with President Biden.  But, the idea that the Democratic Party owed it to Qevin McCarthy and the Institution to save him from Republican Perfidy after months, if not years of his despicable behavior, including but not limited to the Benghazi bullshit, his last 10 months of inept and villainous Speakership, and his FUCKING WHITE-WASHING of the Jan6th Insurrection is the peak of Both Sides Do It (but, the Democrats are worse) Corporate Media coverage.  

And the Democrats didn't say one word during the Republican Speaker Fight.  They let the American-Hating Republicans make the both sides of the argument for why McCarthy along with every other Republican Representative is terrible.  The Democratic Party is expected to be the adults in the room, even as McCarthy insults and blames them for everything and are thus expected to save him from his own actions and the actions of his Party. 

But, understand this is only going to get worse because the Republican Party doesn't "govern" especially not for the betterment of the American People.  No, the Republican Party is a fascist cabal whose job is too cut taxes and regulation on the Rich and Corporate Power and to inculcate hatred and violence towards minorities, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, liberals, teachers, non-christians and anyone else who stands in the way of the creation of the NeoConfederate Nation held aloft by the 3 legs of White Power, Fundamentalist religion, and Corporate Hegemony. 

How AntiWar.com learned to stop worrying and love Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Such claims are dismissed by the
Pro-Putin "Antiwar" crowd.

I used to read Antiwar.com which was highly critical of the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and provided a counter-balance for the incessant drumbeat of War! War! War! by the Corporate Media and the War Boner reporting of embedded journalists.

I meandered back to their website recently and was aghast but unsurprised that most of the articles they are linking to are by conservatives and Antiwar's take on Ukraine and Russia is evil NATO made Russia invade, and it's only a matter of time until Russia wins so Ukraine should surrender now, and *ackshullay* Biden is the Warmonger and NATO is the one escalating the violence, and watch out Russia might Nuke everyone because we made them do it.

It's despicably shocking to see Antiwar embrace Putin and Russia's invasion of Ukraine and adopt the abusers framing of Look what you made me do while catapulting rightwing narratives of Ukraine the fascist backstabber, and embracing Republican threats of cutting off funding for Ukraine.  It's beyond "Tankie" and beyond Only America is Imperialist, it's fundamentally a pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine position.

"Peace Champions" adhere to C3PO's advice,
'Let the Putin Win'

Every article front paged, linked to, and commented upon simply ignores what Putin said were the intentions and goals of his unlawful war and invasion; the so-called "denazification" of Ukraine and the elimination of Ukraine as a sovereign state for the right and proper re-absorption back into Mother Russia.  Instead articles and their comment section are full of people denouncing the rapacious Biden White House, inventing all manner of conspiratorial events which supposedly triggered Russia's invasion, and preposterously pretends that, by pushing and agitating for Ukraine's defeat, they are the true peacekeepers and the defenders of international Law&Order. 

Why is "Antiwar" trumpeting Russian talking points and linking to rightwing writers who've written the same It's Time for Ukraine to Surrender article for all of 2022 while supporting Russian's invasion of Ukraine?  I don't know.