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It looks like there may finally be some progress with the gun bill working its way through the Senate. Across the country, however, Republican candidates are using guns as a campaign platform. But we’re not just talking support for the Second Amendment, we’re talking about commando raids intended to kill your political opponents.
The January 6th committee hearings are heating up as more jaw-dropping revelations come out as House members investigate Trump Republican plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Clearly, this was not a spur of the moment action but a concerted effort to install the defeated Donald Trump as president.
The first prime time January 6th hearing is upon us and Trump Republicans are going to do everything they can to undermine a full accounting of what happened on that awful day. But it’s not just about that one day, it’s about a coordinated effort within the Republican party to overthrow a legitimate presidential election.
After the horrible school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 elementary school children and two adults, Fox News and gun-crazy Republicans are trotting out scores of ways to “harden” our schools. From “man traps” and “ballistic blankets” to armed military contractors, gun-lovers are ready to do anything . . . except question our nation’s insane addiction to firearms and the weak gun laws that allow these mass shootings to continue.
With the awful school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Republican lawmakers are of course quick to offer prayers and vacuous condolences to the 4th-grade victims and their families. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and other top state politicos like Senator Ted Cruz are putting on their frowny empathetic faces . . . but not for too long!
Yet another racist mass-murderer has referenced “replacement theory” or the “great replacement” in his twisted manifesto. The 18-year-old in the horrific Buffalo Tops shooting repurposed much of the Christchurch, New Zealand shooter’s manifesto and appears to be equally enthralled with the white supremacist conspiracy theory.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito used a very unique way to uphold legal precedent — he dug back in history until he found a couple “legal” opinions he liked that supported his goal of overturning Roe v. Wade.
Sure, there are a few other things going on in the United States and the rest of the world, but for some reason, Republicans are still focused on imaginary cartoon characters. (I should talk.)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is waging a campaign against the Walt Disney Company because he didn’t like the fact that Florida’s largest private-sector employer opposed his “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Like many other states, Florida Republicans are currently obsessed with what we’re teaching our school kids — particularly when it comes to naughty things like sex education and gender roles.
House minority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy has gotten himself into hot water with his Republican colleagues for daring to suggest — soon after the January 6th insurrection — that he was going to tell President Trump he should resign. McCarthy denied that he ever said anything of the sort. Then, of course, an audio recording of him saying that very thing turned up.
Jared Kushner just raked in $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, even after the fund’s panel of top advisers called Kushner’s new hedge fund, Affinity Partners, “unsatisfactory in all aspects.” How did the boy wonder do it? By supporting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and turning a blind eye to the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, of course.
If Republicans were to pick a presidential nominee today, who do you think it would be? Not Mitch McConnell or Mitt Romney, that’s for sure. And at this point, even Ron DeSantis — no matter how much more Trump than Trump he tries to be — wouldn’t be the nominee. That’s right, it’s the party of Donald Trump.
The rulings are coming fast and furious from the now unabashedly Trumpian U.S. Supreme Court. With the no-holds-barred decision to completely chuck Roe v. Wade and toss a 109-year-old New York gun law, the gloves are off on the right-wing side of the Court.