As long as they can get the media to repeat it, it will work into voters’ brains and that’s the entire point:
https://twitter.com/SIfill_/status/1707120300658163983
Category: Scary Crazy Wingnuts
Threats
Trump's former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper condemns the corrupt former president for threatening to execute General Mark Milley:
"That statement by the president is horrible. It’s intolerable. It should be condemned by everybody…We owe General Milley and his predecessors a… pic.twitter.com/u4HxeCeBmE
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 26, 2023
I’ve never seen this happen before
But some less-crazy Republicans are out pushing hard in the media to stop a GOP shutdown. Some people are determined not to lose their majority if they can help it:
Mike Lawler, Republican from NY, on hard-right and demands over spending.
“This is not conservative Republicanism. This is stupidity. … These people can't define a win. They don’t know how to take yes for an answer. It is a clown show.”
Says “lunatics” put them in this spot pic.twitter.com/Kp67wukgDl
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 19, 2023
Biden-district Rep. Don Bacon says he’s amenable to the conservative proposal to set topline spending in the CR at 2022 levels: “It would go to the Senate. We’d get a compromise back … so it wouldn’t be the final number when all is said and done.”
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 19, 2023
Right wing fairy tales
I read Chris Rufo’s book and spent an hour on the phone with him talking about it. I learned a lot about his dubious methods – and the illiberal project increasingly at the heart of the modern right https://t.co/TvL1V0A7is
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) September 10, 2023
Unpopular
https://twitter.com/JohnBurrowsCA/status/1701383086892593574
They lie, cheat, and steal
YOU MIGHT WANNA READ THIS 😆
So billionaire Harlan Crow was bribing the Supreme Court when Citizens United went through – and The Federalist Society helped and they ALL tried to overthrow the government in 2021?
Oh. 😂 https://t.co/o1qafxKHT0
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 10, 2023
The backbone of a jellyfish
"I won't go along with a coup, but I'll support your right to try it again" is the whole Mike Pence schtick and I do not know who he think that appeals to. https://t.co/cVyl2DMdym
— Hunter (@HunterDK) August 27, 2023
Dreamers
New: Several top GOP donors are panicked about their current choices and holding back 2024 money with the long-shot dream of luring in an alternative w/ Youngkin and Kemp getting secret overtures
w/@BarakRavid breaking news his first weeks herehttps://t.co/CcRpKNxIoQ— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) August 19, 2023
Florida is a corrupt hellhole
A prominent Florida lobbyist is now the dean of student affairs at the Sarasota campus of New College. The right wing takeover of the school continues to be a taxpayer funded job placement program for right wing grifters and cronies of DeSantis.https://t.co/bKeDKQ9Qkp
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) August 16, 2023
Bet he’s a winger
The Marine Corps has dismissed the top enlisted adviser at one of its two basic infantry training schools because the service has lost confidence in his leadership.https://t.co/loMpewGkn6
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 16, 2023