Republicans lie about almost everything that they think will benefit them:
"How the Media Falls for the Right’s Fentanyl Lies: The migrants being demonized for the drugs coming over the border aren’t responsible for the crisis, but you’d never know that from the news🚨.
Truth: Migrants who arrive at our southern border don't smuggle fentanyl... The evidence is clear on this point, in large part thanks to reports from the US BP."
Republicans lie about past GOP debts/deficits & under Pres Biden:
"CBO significantly reduced its projected primary deficits. Now that's a strong economy at work. -B Kogan
The growth in the annual deficit under TFG ranks as the 3rd-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any US pres. admin., acc to a calculation by E Steuerle. Economists agree -we needed massive deficit spending during the Covid crisis -but fed finances under TFG had become dire before.... -WaPo
There isn't an invasion or an emergency, Republicans have been lying to us. Apparently the CBP isn't busy at the border. Most CBP leaders/officers are GOP.
"Wait I thought y’all were so overwhelmed on the southern border. Almost like this border crisis is bs." -Jenn Budd
#GOPLies
"CBP is proud to lend its security expertise to large events across the country, incl. the Super Bowl. With less than a week to go before Super Bowl 58, learn how CBP secured SB 57 last year." https://go.dhs.gov/ZCi
Beto O'Rourke is correct, most Republicans are against immigration (nearly all are immigrants or their ancestry records indicate that they're in the US bc of immigration *allowed them to live here) that's needed for the economy. They're pro: #childlabor &
anti: abortion & birth control :
"There're 9.5M unfilled jobs in the US.
The GOP would rather gut child labor laws & ban abortion than allow immigrants to legally work them."
We have to shame Rs -they defunded the IRS for years -benefiting their wealthy donors. Biden admin's funding & strengthening of the IRS: produced impressive results.
The #IRS is fighting back against R efforts to shrink its budget. Study: extra investment would collect billions more from the rich -could convert the $80B it was allocated under the 2022 IRA into at least $561B in extra taxes collected over the next decade. $20B cut = >$100B cost of potential rev.
Most Rs LIED (& more Rs now) about fraud in the pres. 2020 election, & nearly everything else (for decades). It's their MO +using racism, threats, mob tactics...
“Neither Mr Weisenbach nor any other postal employee in Erie, PA, engaged in election fraud or any other wrongdoing related to mail-in ballots,” O’Keefe on X: “I'm aware of no evidence or other allegation that election fraud occurred in the Erie post office during the 2020 pres. election.”
How does #MarjorieTraitorGreene have any supporters? It makes no sense. She's in favor of the worst policies ever devised, and she opposes every piece of legislation that would improve the lives of the American people. How do people justify voting for this?
"Mayorkas impeachment markup -GOP has blamed the DHS Sec for fentanyl deaths, saying he no longer deserves his job, & says he's the kind of leader "the founders feared."
-R Beitsch
"A reminder that the #1 group of people smuggling fentanyl into the country are US citizens, & that fentanyl smuggling across the border (most often at ports of entry) 1st began increasing 8-9 yrs ago."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
Cornyn is another corrupt Republican Senator. He's from Texas, & understands the law, but lies, supports the impeachment of Sec Mayorkas, & disparages his character:
"If there is anyone in office today that deserves to be impeached, it is Alejandro Mayorkas."
-Senator Cornyn
According to #Newsmax gremlin #GregKelly, everyone needs to stop idolizing #TaylorSwift because the #Bible, but somehow idolizing Trump is divine. The hypocrisy and absurdity are truly boundless.
There’s no “invasion”, but Gov Abbott is ratcheting up the rhetoric, lying, not abiding by the supremacy clause, & placing the border issue all on Pres Biden. “Ukraine can give us a pretty good definition of what invasion is now,”-David Leopold, legal adviser of an immigrant agency advocates group. Abbott said that he’s prepared to continue building border barriers. His defiance is unconstitutional. Policy isn’t being addressed. #ImmigrationReform#GOPLies#GOPSabotagehttps://thehill.com/latino/4432459-southern-border-texas-abbott-immigration/
Abbott and his allies are adopting #Confederate rhetoric in his quest to seize control of the border and subject #migrants to anguish and death. By embracing the Confederate theory of the nation as a mere compact, he has freed himself to take even more aggressive measures against the federal government. We have been here before. It does not end well.
"Fake Crimes", that's more or less how many Republican leaders describe the 91 criminal counts against #TFG. Their talking points come from the Federalist Society & other conservative think tanks & organizations. Some GOP leaders say TFG's crimes are pardonable too:
"Are we concerned that Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi dismisses all the federal charges against Trump as "Fake Crimes"? -Mark Stern
NH's motto “Live Free or Die” is ironic -the impact of the “limited govt” obsession means to take power away from govts elected by & answerable to the voters & hand that power off to massive, monopolistic corps/wealthy. When govt operates properly -incredible efficiencies that the GOP has worked for decades to prevent you from knowing about. Govt should provide: social safety net -ppl get their needs met-.
#Transphobic#Republicans continue to pretend there are legions of trans people who regret transitioning. In reality less than 1% of trans people who have transitioned indicate a desire to detransition. But Republicans have to keep telling this brazen lie to justify the intentionally discriminatory, #unconstitutional, #antitrans laws they crave.
OK=FL=TX... Red🩸state GOP leaders are fascists, book banners...
Raichik's posts have regularly been followed by bomb threats agst the subjects. She's a dangerous purveyor of disinformation & some say: a domestic terrorist.
OK Supt of Schools, Ryan Walters' post:
"No one has done more to expose what the radical left is all about than Chaya Raichik & Libs of TikTok. Her's is a powerful voice to protect Oklahoma kids from porn in schools & woke indoctrination."
They don't give a shit about any of the things they claim to give a shit about. It's all an act. They only care about one thing. Power. Everything else is performative bullshit.
There’s a pervasive & poisonous idea that success or failure rests solely on the indiv & their effort. If you don’t make it -lift yourself out of poverty -can’t provide for your family -it's your own damn fault. Children born into low-income families face obstacles from birth *mostly unknown to their wealthier peers *most know-don't care: food/housing insecurity, underfunded public schools lacking resources, HC...
Despicable Republicans like #LaurenBoebert don't give a fuck about the facts. Instead, they just invent their own "alternative facts" to justify whatever conclusions they started with. Fortunately, Boebert is going to be out of a job come November, no matter what district she runs in.
This year brings an elevated threat of disinformation, & the perpetrators are armed with more tools than in recent years:
The US presidential election comes at a time of ideal circumstances for disinfo. & the ppl who spread it.
"This should feel like Jan 2020, but after a pandemic, an insurrection & a hardening of belief that the election was stolen, & congressional investigations into those of us who work in this field, it feels utterly diff-.”
#Republicans are laser-focused on the issues that really matter to the American people! This could be the single dumbest attempt at hurting the #LGBTQ community. Meanwhile, #JoeBiden has created more jobs than any president in American history, and has driven inflation down to around 3%.
Democrats need to amplify how #TFG & Republicans will treat immigrants once they’re in office, & also let them know that democracy will end. President Trump in Iowa: "As soon as I take the oath of office, I'll terminate ever open border policy of the Biden administration and begin the largest deportation operation in American history." In response, #Nazi#MAGA Stephen Miller posted: “The deportations will begin at noon, Inauguration Day.” #GOPFascism#GOPRacism
🚨 “Just as I wrote below yesterday (Sat.) would be coming. The GOP is keeping the whole border broken, the whole country hostage, until TRUMP is put back in the White House, come hell or high water.” -Pablo De La Rosa, TX public radio & NPR from the border. #GOPLies#GOPObstruction#GOPRacism