Republicans hate America 22 : Tradwife Katie Britt breathy lies

 You can tell how much Republicans hate you by how easily they lie to you.  It's despicable and shameless and designed with one goal in mind place their rightwing drones into a constant state of Fear & Anger.

Katie Britt started off her State of the Union response by claiming Senator isn't here job,

My name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States Senate.  However, that’s not the job that matters most.  I’m a proud wife and mom of two school-aged kids.

Love that Joker!

So... one of the most powerful people in the United States Government and therefore the world claims not to be a politician.  I've mentioned before that every Republican runs as an "Outsider" like Wisconsin Drunk Van Orden claims on his campaign website. It's so fucking trite and insulting and the Corporate Media lets them get away with it constantly. Trump claimed to love the title of "Outsider" in a Feb 2024 interview with Maria Bartolomo on Faux News. 

But, Britt's horrific creepy lie-fest was punctuated with one of the most brazen lies of omission yet tried by a Republican. First though, Britt's weird breathy voice is a "virtue signal" to the Fascist Fundamentalists that she's a docile Tradwife, as this "Fundie Baby Voice" has been adopted by evangelical and female TikTok influencers and is immediately recognized by the faithful.

And much has been made of Britt's attempts to go from happy warrior, to tearful mother, to assertive but not angry woman, all while Republicans told her to smile more during her empty Kitchen response.  Britt’s Kitchen was as empty and bereft as she is of morals, ethics, and principles.

But, Britt told a tale of woman subjected to horrific sexual violence from the time she was child. 

I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas, where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped.

We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it.

President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.

Now, I am in no way discounting this women's tale of violence and trauma or saying the story is untrue but, Britt's Lie is in telling this story as though it's a direct result of President Biden's border policies. It isn't.

The woman in question, Karla Jacinto Romero, is an incredibly brave activist who has told her story of subjugation and sexual abuse for decades now. Former AP report Jonathan Katz uncovered this and I recommend watching his video essay detailing the fundamental dishonesty in Britt's recounting of the incident.  I suppose in an irony of ironies despicable liar Katie Britt didn't even "SAY HER NAME" during this shameless co-option of Karla's trauma.

This is a shocking level of insincerity and brazen dishonesty which and I want you be clear, NO LONGER FUCKING MATTERS anymore. Republicans have successfully groomed and cultivated a cult and have no need to worry about lies, slander, misconduct, or even criminal conspiracies harming their electoral chances.

This was merely Britt's biggest lie as her awkward code switching and her stern breathy voice bore FALSE WITNESS against the President.  But, while on line Republican operatives were angry at Britt’s terrible presentation the right wing doesnt care about Britt's shameless.  Retreating to the well-worn canard, 'Oh they all lie. Especially Biden! He's the biggest liar' and therefore having condemned all politicians as exactly the same they absolve themselves of any moral conundrum in voting for Republicans, which is the whole fucking point of Corporate Media BothSides rhetoric, false equivocation, and constant push to excuse Republican perfidy.

We are in for a fight everyone.  Republicans hate You.  Do what you can to defeat these Republican monsters in the November Election because they see Trump's election, the Six Supreme Court Injustices, the compliant Corporate Media, and Authoritarianism Rising with in Europe, in South America, and the Fanatical Genocidal Wars in Ukraine and Gaza as the perfect opportunity to finally destroy the United States of America and replace it with a MAGA Empire held aloft by the pillars of White Supremacy, Corporate Hegemony, and Fascist Fundamentalism.

As always Be Brave if you can but, be ready to fight for your very lives because Republicans are coming for them.

Tommy Tuberville is holding up military appointments so Trump can fill them in 2025

Trump as Tiberius
Flynn as Sejanus

Does Florida Man Tommy Tubberbrain believe he is the next Sejanus?

Like, most Gen Xers my first encounter with the historical figure Sejanus came from the I, Claudius BBC series based on the two Graves' novels, and starring Derek Jacobi with Patrick Stewart as Sejanus.

In reality, I've thought Mike Flynn was a more apt comp to Sejanus based on his military history, personal aspirations, and the paramilitary organization Flynn has built in Venice, Florida at "The Hollow".

Tommy Tuberville is more akin to one of the nameless Senators who blithely lived during the early stages of the Roman Empire and the first dynasty, The Julio-Claudian.

Long ago I wrote the Republican slide into anti-democratic intransigence was turning the United States Senate into a simulacrum of the Medieval Polish Sejm, in which one Senator could express his singular Objection (The Golden Freedom) and hold up all the workings of the Congress.  Well, here we are with Tuberville.

Alt Jill Stein, Krysten Sinema, has conceived of an idea that she only can sit the boys down, flash her cleavage and get them to agree to a deal;

“I know that Coach does not want to undermine the readiness of our United States military,” Sinema said, referring to the former college football coach by his preferred title. “And I know that the United States military and the administration does not want to undermine the authority and the right of any United States senator. What we need are for folks to step off a little bit from their positions and find that middle ground to solve the challenge that we’re facing.” 

“I’ve volunteered to help do that,” she added. “We’ll see if they take me up on the offer.”

There's that "Golden Freedom" again...  But, calling Tubberbrain "Coach" is the give away.  Sinema has long admitted she uses her "sex appeal" to get male Republicans to go along but, she's deluding herself or trying to delude us here.  But, she's clearly male-identified and loves being the cool girl amongst the boys.  Also, Tuberville has a preferred mode of address?  Perhaps, weeping Jordan Peterson can tell him true American conservatives don't call people by what they prefer but, what they actually are, and Tuberville is a bigoted asshole or ironically just another "Florida Man", since it turns out he doesn't even live in Alabama...

“Yes, I am not an everyday resident of Alabama.  I’m a carpetbagger of this country,” He acknowledged to a group of voters in a video.

But, Tommy PotatoTown is illustrating his sheer disdain for the Military and professional Officer Corps so necessary to a 21st century military.  I'm certain "Coach" sees his disregard for these men and women's professional lives no differently than he saw the NCAA football players who went through his football program.  Not as people but, cogs to be used in his offensive schemes. 

Nowadays, Republicans continually run into the problem is active duty service members and younger veterans are trending liberal and voting Democratic, especially in 2020.  The Reactionary Reagan-Era military has long since retired and moved to Florida.

So, while Tommy PotatoTown knows he needs to intone Support Out Troops and Thank A Veteran rhetoric, he also seems to be aware the military is not on the side of his Trumpublican Party.  Tuberville isn't holding up military promotions out of some great moral stance but, in an effort to hamstring the US Military for the next Rightwing Insurrection in January 2025.  Because last time the military did not... 

“I stand with our veterans and I’m going to donate every dime I make when I’m in Washington, D.C., to the veterans of the state of Alabama. Folks, they deserve it. They deserve it a lot more than most of us.”

The Fact Checker contacted nine veterans’ organizations represented on the Alabama State Board of Veterans Affairs. Three state affiliates — Vietnam Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars — responded and said they have received no donations from either Tuberville or the Tommy Tuberville Foundation.

Republicans piss on active duty service members, spit on Veterans, hate America, and have nothing to offer the American people.  Tuberville's one man filibuster of military promotions reflects the spittle flecked rage which inhabits the spongy brains of every rightwinger in America.

Republicans wouldn't even piss on Veterans if they were in a burnpit, because Republicans hate Veterans

Terrorist Fist Jab

Republicans hate Veterans.  The GOP doesn't give a rat's hind tit about Veterans and never has.  Republicans only support Veterans like Tom Cotton, who call for using the US Military to put down Americans seeking to express their rights to speech and assembly. 

 

Republicans see Veterans and active duty service members as naught but little tokens to be used and tossed aside if one becomes broken or unresponsive to the rightwing agenda of hatred, intolerance and oppression.  And Republicans don't give a shit if you know it anymore.

The Republicans in the Senate voted against funding for Veterans affected by the toxic miasma which emanated from the burn pits used throughout Global War on Terror.  Republicans callous disregard for Veterans is borne from the fact that the majority of Republican Chickenhawk Warmongers didn't serve and don't know anything about the Bush/Cheney Wars and don't give a shit about Veterans except to use them as props for their re-election campaigns.

Once again we have a situation in this country were Republicans have been allowed to get away with claiming they love the troops, they support the troops, they cherish the troops while their actions are wholly, diametrically in opposition but, the Corporate Media has always let Republicans get away with such lies about everything. 

For years, Republicans paid lip service to Supportin' the Troops and Thank You For Your Service and Wounded Warriors.  It was all a con.  It was all a facade.  It was all a lie.  Republicans hate Veterans and see their healthcare as an unacceptable drain.  For Republicans Veterans and The Troops have always been a rhetorical cudgel to bash the left; for instance War Crimes Cheerleader Sean Hannity in the 2000's the only way to support the troops was to unquestioningly support the Iraq War and march in lock-step behind W(orst POTUS Ever).  Recall that Sean Hannity had his Oliver North/Hannity Freedom Alliance Charity concerts ostensibly for Wounded Veterans and their children's college funds but, in reality was little more than a way to funnel charitable donations into Hannity's bank account.

There is nothing good about this; but, this does highlight something Republicans aren't ready to accept or face.  They've lost any presumptive advantage amongst Veterans, even if conservatives are unwilling to accept it.  During the Phony GWoT, conservatives by and large eschewed military service.  And the Chickenhawk cowardice of right-wingers was noted and seen by a lot of the younger generation.  Hence in 2020, active duty service members and Veterans voted for Biden over Trump.  Because they see how they are actually disrespected and mistreated by the cowardly GOP.

Senator Mike Lee fancies himself a medieval Polish Nobleman

Pudgy Utah Republicon Mike Lee has been successful in using a procedural hold in the US Senate to keep $250 million in Federal Relief from the lead-poisoned residents of Flint, Michigan.

This is not surprising coming from Mike Lee, one of the scummiest sychophants in the Senate today. Lee ran for Senate on a platform of repealing Child Labor Laws, so he has no problem with children being harmed and sees protecting children as Unconstitutional, a function outside the scope of the United States Government. This, of course, also serves the right-wing mantra that government doesn't work.

Since, he's been in office Lee's "highlights" include; proudly marching on the White House with Sarah Palin, Senator Rafael 'Ted' Cruz, Larry Klayman, and a 100 conservative domestic terrorists under the banner of the confederate flag, the symbol of the worst arch-traitors in American History, to demand the arrest and lynching of President Obama.

He's also used the arcane procedural rules of the Senate to deliberately sabotage the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Lee demanded a constitutional amendment making it possible to raise taxes only when approved by 2/3rds of both the House and Senate and threatened if it wasn't approved "in his framework" he'd shut down the Government. When 'Ted' Cruz did shut down the government in 2013, Lee continued to enjoy all the financial perks of his office, "I’m working," Republican Senator Mike Lee. "I’ll continue to be paid*."

When he began his hold Lee stated, "If we create a precedent that suggests any time there’s a significant problem with a locally operated utility that operates entirely intrastate. I would ask, where’s the stopping point? What’s the limit?" - this is basically the same argument Lee touted after Hurricane Sandy and Republicons were screeching during Hurrucane Katrina, i.e. 'FYIGM*!'

Of course, Lee sang a different tune when it came to Federal Disaster Relief for Utah in 2011. In that case it was 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!'

It's no mystery why Lee is withholding the funds from the residents of Flint, Michigan; they are poor, mainly black, and they've been screwed by a Republican Governor. This is the essence of Republicon governance. Steal money, kill the poor, and use every piece of "legal" recourse to ensure those people stay screwed.

But, in using byzantine Senate procedure to withhold the money in the Energy Mordenization Bill, Lee is repeating history as farce. I wrote previously about the Polish Sejm and liberum veto,

The Golden Freedom, which the magnates defended with every bit of chicanery and power they commanded, was the freedom of the few to oppress the many... - James A. Michener's, Poland

In the novel Poland, Michener describes how the, "incredible liberum veto, by which one nobleman in the Seym (parliament) of hundreds could negate and prorogue the entire work of the Seym by merely crying, 'I oppose!', was a major cause of Poland's disappearance from the map of Europe". 

The Republicons are not interested the United States or 99% of its' citizens, what they are interested in and busily working towards, is the re-feudalization of America. They are in office to destroy the federal government, or more specifically those parts of the federal government which aid the poor and working class, and to create a Wage Slavery State in which every man, woman, and child is held at the whim of the Rich and shackled in Corporate Bondage.

* Fuck You I Got Mine.

Libertarians, Conservatives and Republicans still fighting for a Minimum Wage of $0

"We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with." - Republican Congressman Paul90X Ryan laments the good old days when men like him could teach generations of inner-city men the culture of work.

U.S. Senate Republicans refused to allow debate on raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Because of aristocratic parliamentary rules by a Vote of 42-54, millions of Americans have been told by the Republican Party that despite working full-time jobs they must be kept below the Poverty Line.

Republicans, of course, don't want to raise the minimum wage they want to lower it.

Senator Tom Coburn took to MSNBC's Morning Joke to call raising the Minimum Wage, "Malarkey", complaining the "benefit is small, the cost of lost jobs is great, it goes against free market principles." He then blamed President Obama's lack of leadership, the newest whine from the punk ass bitch Republican Party.

Senator Coburn proudly proclaimed "I don’t believe there ought to be a national minimum wage!" Because "I don’t believe you ought to interfere in the market!"

Coburn may view the benefit of a less than $3.00 USC raise in the minimum wage as small from his high perch in the bosom of bureaucratic largesse but, to millions of Americans this would have meant more time with family, more quality food choices and the the ability to purchase of basic medications.

But, then again with his yammering about Obamacare it's clear that Senator Coburn doesn't want Poor People to have medical care at all. But, Coburn's rhetoric is the Cry of the Plutocracy, raising the minimum wage will cost jobs! Of course, the Rich don't want to pay for labor; they became Rich by figuring out how to pay as little as possible for the productive labor of others stealing the surplus for themselves.

Now, while the Republican Party is busy working to re-enshrine Slavery into Law they can at least rest knowing the majority of conservatives and libertarians are with them. Republicans need not fear the epithet RINO when they push to punish the poor or eliminate the middle class. These are the goals of every Right-Winger in America.

Right-Wing activists are prized by the Plutocracy because they are willing and eager to sell their fellow Americans into Slavery.

However, it's one thing for Congressman Paul90X Ryan to lament the lack of work ethic by lazy inner-city males but the 1% also recognize the necessity of having hip against-the-grain thinkers to bolster their unceasing`l drive to impose Brutal Neo-Feudalism on this Nation.

Enter Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine, a paid professional propagandist for the Plutocracy who argues that slavery was better for minorities than a Minimum Wage. One of Gillespie's "Barriers to Work" is minimum wage laws that price young, unskilled black kids out of their first jobs.

Gillespie understands that young unskilled inner-city black kids should have the Freedom to work for Nothing in order to build the "skills" necessary so that one day they too may own the Los Angeles Clippers!

While Gillespie is a little more than a paid lap dog of the Rich, Libertarians are overwhelmingly young white males, the vast majority of whom believe that no woman should ever get an abortion and who couldn't care less about issues facing women or minorities. To their doom Libertarians can not envision a day when the Corporate Plutocracy they serve treats them the same way it treats women and minorities.

However, it appears the main reason Republicans, Libertarians, and Conservatives seem to be against raising the minimum wage is because they do not believe the Poor are Human Beings.

Reactionary puke Doctor Annette Bosworth, running as a Republican for the Senate seat in South Dakota, took to her Facebook Account to post poor people are like wild animals dependent on handouts and unable to take care of themselves. A sickening creed which ended with This Concludes Today's Lesson. Any Questions?

This isn't the first time a Republican has dehumanized the Poor nor is it the first time a Republican has equated Poor People with animals.

Republicans, Libertarians and Conservatives are wholly owned by the 1%. Their Owners have tasked them to: Crush the Working Class, fasten upon them the chains of Corporate Bondage, and usher in the Neo-Feudalist Wage Slave State.

Turning the US Senate into the Polish Seym

The Golden Freedom, which the magnates defended with every bit of chicanery and power they commanded, was the freedom of the few to oppress the many... ~ James A. Michener's, Poland

In the novel Poland, Michener describes how the "incredible liberum veto, by which one man in a Seym (parliament) of hundreds could negate and prorogue the entire work of the Seym by merely crying 'I oppose!' was a major cause of Poland's disappearance from the map of Europe". 

The Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom was "partitioned" out of existence by Prussia, Austria, and Russia during the 18th century by subverting the Polish Parliament.

Polish Magnates (Representatives) were bought off by the foreign nations to obstruct and Filibuster any and all reforms in the Parliament. Then having stymied and brought the Nation to a standstill they simply moved in and did as they pleased.

Filibuster Reform in the US Senate has apparently being undermined. The current Unconstitutional rules adopted by the Senate allow for secret holds, opposition and obstruction by singular Senators who cry 'I Oppose!'

The Republican Senators abusing this Unconstitutional rule are doing so for the Plutocracy and Powerful Interest Groups who own them.

The Agreement reached this Thursday morning would permit a Senate majority to bypass the filibuster on a motion to proceed to debate with the condition that either a group of senators on each side of the aisle agrees, or the minority is guaranteed the chance to offer amendments.

The new rules limit debate time for sub-cabinet and district court nominations and reduces the number of required hours between cloture and final confirmation from 30 to two. It also lowers the number of cloture motions required to go to conference with the House.

“This does very little to change how the Senate as a body functions,” said a pro-reform Democratic aide. “After these small changes the Senate will operate much the same way as it did yesterday.”

Like the Polish people of the 18th century We, the People are being held hostage to the whims of Rapacious Moneyed Predators. And the Plutocracy's Senators will stand up and oppose any efforts which hamper the efforts of the Rich to sink their talons deep into Us and drain the American populace of their Money and Lives.

Addendum:
Of course, the Partitioning of Poland did have a positive impact on American History as numerous Polish Officers came to the US and provided The Continental Congress and George Washington with an experienced Officer Core. Including, Chicago's favorite Polish Count Casimir Pulaski, the "Father of American Cavalry".

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