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When The Truth Overtakes Politics . . .

Bill Haskell | June 11, 2021 4:32 pm

Politics

Sharing the truth while speaking to a 100% white and 70% male GOP Pennsylvania legislature body and telling them what is more important. PA Representative Brian Sims takes on the Republican majority in the state House.

PA Rep. Brian Sims: “Your boos mean nothing to me as I’ve heard for what you cheer. We are a legislature that has met more times to remove mask mandates, strip executive emergency powers, and overturn free and fair elections than we have to make strategic investments in Pennsylvania’s women, children, and families.”

When the truth hurts, you shut down the microphone. Crooks and Liars, Susie Madrak

📽️ @PAHouseGOP leader has meltdown on House floor after it was raised that his caucus is 100% white in a chamber that is 70% male while pushing bills that hurt women's health, especially Black and brown women.

He had it stricken from the record then they shut down the floor. pic.twitter.com/xy1qwI8eYG
— J.J. Abbott 🦅 (@jjabbott) June 9, 2021

8 Comments

EMichael says:

June 13, 2021 at 6:50 am

Almost every state is a Pennsyltucky.
Fred C. Dobbs says:

June 13, 2021 at 8:27 am

Inside the bizarre Arizona audit fueled
by Trump’s false claims of election fraud

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/12/nation/inside-bizarre-arizona-audit-fueled-by-trumps-false-claims-election-fraud/?event=event25

It’s easy to dismiss this as a sideshow, a weird epilogueto an election that some Trump supporters still aren’t ready to concede. But democracy experts and election administrators warn that the audit here speaks to a dark and worrisome current of distrust that has been intentionally stoked by GOP leaders.It’s a carefully cultivated atmosphere of paranoia that is eroding confidence in the country’s bedrock political processes and could lay the groundwork for fiercer challenges by losers inelections in 2024 and beyond. …

Rejected by the courts and proven wrong by recounts, Trump supporters are telling themselves Arizona will be the first “domino” to fall in a series of election “investigations” that will overturn the 2020 election result — which President Biden won decisively. Trump, who has sent out statements encouraging “forensic audits” in Georgia, New Hampshire, and Arizona, has reportedly told friends he believes he will be “reinstated” to the Oval Office this summer. And while that idea seems pure delusion, the ripple effects from the audit here are already obvious as state lawmakers and other Republican officials from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alaska, and elsewhere make their way to Phoenix and carry strands of the conspiracy theory back to their supporters at home.

”I gotta tell you, I’m impressed,” said state Senator Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania, in an interview with the far-rightblog The Gateway Pundit, after touring the Arizonasitelast week and before he held a rally at his own state Capitol calling for an audit there. “This is a model for any audit in any nation or the world.”
Pennsylvania has no plans to exhume the ballots of the November election, in which Biden beat Trump in the Quaker State by 80,555 votes. But Republicans are pushing efforts to reexamine the election results in several other states, a process that keeps a baseless narrative about election fraud alive, benefiting the former president. …
EMichael says:

June 13, 2021 at 8:34 am

Fred,

it’s even worse than that.

“A Republican election analyst who voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election said he’s “just aghast” at the way the GOP-backed election audit in Arizona’s Maricopa County has moved forward.

Meanwhile, a Republican state senator threatened to imprison Attorney
General Merrick Garland after he announced that the Justice Department would scrutinize any post-election audits to ensure they comply with voting laws….

In response to Garland’s speech, GOP Arizona state Senator Wendy Rogers threatened to put Garland in prison.

“You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison. Maybe you should focus on stopping terrorism. The Justice Department is one of the most corrupt institutions in the USA,” Rogers tweeted on Friday.”

https://www.newsweek.com/go…
- run75441 says:
  
  June 13, 2021 at 8:42 am
  
  EM:
  
  I see I will have a new batch of nut-jobs to contend with come Fall.
Fred C. Dobbs says:

June 13, 2021 at 8:46 am

The GOP’s struggle will continue. Given 30 states with GOP-majority legislatures and usually with GOP governors, yet with a roughly 25% (or less) non-majority in the US-wide electorate, they are just going to keep at it. They have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Fred C. Dobbs says:

June 13, 2021 at 9:05 am

If GA, AZ and NH can each elect 2 Dem senators then there is much hope for the future. Those of us in Blue states who want to support Dem efforts in Red states have to find unobtrusive but effective ways to do so.
MikeG says:

June 14, 2021 at 12:42 am

Talk about Cancel Culture.
Fred C. Dobbs says:

June 14, 2021 at 9:09 am

If the GOP learned anything from Trump, it is the ‘Art of Projection’, which in psychology is the trait of accusing others of behaving as you yourself behave. He has been seen to be doing that constantly, and now they all are. The ‘Cancel Culture’ is epitomized by their attempts to nullify the 2020 election, the one that resulted in Dem majorities in Congress and Biden as President. So, the GOP must cancel that.