Republicans love the “Pull Yourself Up by Your Own Bootstraps” myth; “if you work hard enough you can become wealthy” when most needed their parents help. Bill Gates’ mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM… Jeff Bezos’ garage-based start was funded by a quarter-million dollar investment from his parents. “Self-made billionaires” are a myth.

The national debt was increased by a projected 8 Trillion by Trump and Republicans due to military spending and tax breaks for the RICH

Click here to find out how Republicans exploded the
debt and deficits since Ronald Reagan was President

Former Chief Of Staff John Kelly accused Trump of having the IRS retaliate against perceived enemies: F.B.I. Director James Comey and former F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

John Kelly says Trump discussed using IRS to retaliate against FBI employees.

New York Times Washington correspondent Mike Schmidt and former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann discuss Schmidt’s reporting on new evidence of a potentially illegal pressure campaign by Trump. Jul 10, 2023

Weaponized the Federal Government Against Political Enemies

The Trump IRS Audited former F.B.I. Director James Comey and former F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe shortly after he called for Comey and McCabe to be “Punished”.  Former Chief Of Staff John Kelly accused Trump of having the I.R.S. investigate political enemies such as former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe. Nov 15, 2022

Former U.S. Attorney Berman Reveals How Trump Weaponized The DOJ

Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, details instances when Donald Trump abused the power of the Department of Justice.

Former F.B.I. Director James Comey and former F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were audited by the Trump Administration’s IRS, shortly after Trump called for Comey and McCabe to be punished. The audit was conducted under the leadership of a Trump appointee, who has now agreed to an internal probe of the audits.

New York Times: Trump sought tax investigations of political foes | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told his onetime White House chief of staff, John Kelly, that he wanted the Internal Revenue Service to investigate his political foes, Kelly told The New York Times.

Per the above article: “Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told his onetime White House chief of staff, John Kelly, that he wanted the Internal Revenue Service to investigate his political foes, Kelly told The New York Times.

Among the people Trump wanted to “get the I.R.S. on” were former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Kelly told the newspaper.

“I would say, ‘It’s inappropriate, it’s illegal, it’s against their integrity and the I.R.S. knows what it’s doing and it’s not a good idea,’” Kelly said he told Trump, according to the Times. “Yeah, but they’re writing bad things about me,” Trump responded, according to Kelly.

McCabe and Comey, both fierce critics of Trump, were ultimately selected by the Internal Revenue Service for an intensive tax audit. The Times noted earlier this year that the odds of any one person being selected for the audit are about one in 30,600, raising questions about how two of Trump’s most visible critics were both selected”.

Radical Right Wing Republican Ron DeSantis Rigged and stole House of Representative Seats from Democrats by Gerrymandering.

Florida Republican Gov DeSantis pushes redistricting map that splits up Black voters

DeSantis’ proposed map also splits up Black voters around the Orlando area and proposes the creation of 18 Republican-leaning and eight Democrat-leaning seats, helping to eliminate Democrats’ national redistricting advantage.

Florida Republican Gov DeSantis dissolved 4 black voting districts (violating the Florida constitution), helped House Republicans obtain a undeserved, rigged Majority.

This type of Election Rigging is DESTROYING Democracy and Freedom in the United States and is why ALL REPUBLICANS should be voted OUT.

Republicans couldn’t hold a majority in the United States House of Representatives without Gerrymandering. The only way they can “win” is by CHEATING and RIGGING elections in their favor.

Gerrymandering, a legal form of vote stealing, more entrenched now than ever

Republicans, who control a substantial majority of state legislatures, benefit significantly.

Per the above article: “In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a unanimous U.S. District Court decision that partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Although Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged that the practice leads to results that “reasonably seem unjust,” he maintained that partisan gerrymandering is a “political question,” beyond the reach of federal courts. Each state, Roberts indicated, should manage its own redistricting process.

Four justices dissented. In an emotional statement, which she read from the bench, Elena Kagan warned, “Left unchecked as the court does today, gerrymanderers like these may irreparably damage our system of government.”

The GOP’s Bid to Claim a Rigged House Majority

Voters repudiated the GOP congressional agenda. Court-sanctioned gerrymanders made sure it didn’t matter.

Per the above article: “An aggressive—and likely unconstitutional—partisan and racial gerrymander demanded by Governor Ron DeSantis helped provide Republicans with four of those seats from Florida alone. Maps that likely violated Voting Rights Act (VRA) protections against racial gerrymanders were allowed to proceed in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana”.

“Pretty soon, these gift-wrapped seats begin to add up, especially when the national voting margins seem to be tight. Four seats in Florida, three across the Deep South, another handful from Texas and Ohio, one in Wisconsin, a pickup in Iowa won from playing hardball with the state’s independent commission, one in Arizona from hijacking that state’s “independent” in name only commission, another gain in Tennessee by cracking Nashville in half: More than a dozen newly Republican seats came not from ousting Democratic incumbents but by redrawing districts to their advantage”.

Governor tainting Congressional maps

Despite state and federal laws designed to ensure voting equity and access. Gov. Ron DeSantis interjects partisanship into Congressional redistricting.

Per the above article: “The nonpartisan Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which analyzes redistricting nationwide to understand and eliminate partisan gerrymandering, rates DeSantis’ plan an “F” for partisan fairness. But that was the whole idea, to tilt the board to favor his party, rather than follow the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Florida’s Fair Districts amendments, which were meant to prevent such undemocratic game-playing.

If DeSantis follows through on his promise to veto the Florida Legislature’s maps and pushes the issue into the courts, he gains a chance to skew elections for years to come, if he succeeds in toppling precedents that favor fairness to minority voters.

A righteous politician might support policies that win votes by advocating equity and opportunity for all. In other words, if DeSantis and his party just did the right thing, they wouldn’t have to cheat. Instead our governor crafts ever-more-intricate ways to shunt minorities away from ballot boxes.

The maneuver follows a wave of voter suppression efforts across Florida and the nation to make ballot drop boxes less accessible, to add voter identification burdens where there’s no hint of fraud and to make it difficult or illegal for voters’ rights groups to pick up and drop off ballots for the elderly and infirm.

There’s one reason for all of this and one reason alone: African-Americans know that by and large, Republican candidates don’t have their interests in mind, so Republicans seek out every slimy, legalistic way they can to minimize those likely Democratic votes”.

Analysis: Ron DeSantis is drawing Democrats out of the equation in Florida | CNN Politics

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional boundaries that will likely help his party pick up four seats in the House this November. Here’s what experts have to say about this type of gerrymandering.

Per the above article: “Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional boundaries that will likely help his party pick up four seats in the US House of Representatives this November.

CNN’s Steve Contorno reports: “Like previous maps submitted by DeSantis’ office, the latest offering would likely reduce the number of districts where Black voters are a plurality and would make it difficult for Democrats to win anywhere north of Orlando or outside major cities.”

The consequences for the country are severe. Lawmakers in both parties speaking candidly admit that gerrymandering House districts is one of the big reasons that the chamber has become more partisan over the last several decades”.

Florida judge blocks DeSantis’ redistricting plan

A judge has ruled a congressional map drawn by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ staff and approved by the Legislature is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives. May 11, 2022

The ruling was overturned by a corrupt Partisan Republican Appeals Court so DeSantis redistricting remained in place ensuring an unfair advantage to Republicans

Rep. Lawson criticizes ‘unconstitutional’ congressional redistricting map from Gov. DeSantis

Florida Lawmaker Says Gerrymandered State Maps Are Part of Racist Strategy, “Not Just a Culture War”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a gerrymandered voting map that virtually guarantees Republicans four more seats in Congress while likely cutting the number of Black Democrats elected. The measure passed along party lines Thursday but was delayed when Black Florida lawmakers staged an impromptu sit-in protest. “Republicans cannot continue to disenfranchise Black voters,” says state Senator Shevrin Jones, a Democratic member of Florida’s Legislative Black Caucus who took part in the protest and who calls the gerrymandering part of a larger suite of “racist tactics” enacted by Republicans across the country.

RedShift: How The GOP Rigged Our Elections

Description from YouTube: “Voter Suppression has been a Republican tactic for the last 50 years! Thom reveals one particular effect of their voter suppression, Redshift”

DeSantis Wants to Bar Federal Election Monitors From Florida’s Bluest Counties

The DOJ is sending monitors to polling places to ensure federal election laws are being followed.

Per the above article: “Far right Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is attempting to bar federal monitors from being able to enter polling places in Florida to ensure federal election laws are being followed in some of the state’s most Democratic-leaning counties, saying that only his administration’s supposed election monitors will be allowed in.

Due to uncertainty and fear around election safety as armed right-wing vigilantes have swarmed early polling places, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced that it would be increasing the number of polling places it will send officials to monitor from 44 in 2020 to 64 this year. The DOJ’s list of polling places includes three counties in Florida — Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach — that have among the highest concentrations of Democrats in the state.

The purpose of the DOJ officials’ presence, the agency says, is to “monito[r] elections in the field in jurisdictions around the country to protect the rights of voters.” It says that the agency has monitored elections in the field in some capacity since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

But DeSantis’s administration sent an aggressively-worded letter to DOJ officials on Monday night, signed by Florida Department of State Chief Counsel Brad McVay, saying that Florida officials will not allow federal monitors to enter the polling sites, even though Florida does give other “law enforcement” officials access to polling places.

Over the past few months, DeSantis has been at the forefront of some of the most aggressively fascist anti-voting initiatives among Republicans nationwide; earlier this year, for instance, Republicans in the Florida legislature passed a bill at DeSantis’s behest that allows him to appoint his own election police force.

Those police have been used to intimidate voters who have been convicted of felonies — even if they are still eligible to vote — as a way to scare away formerly incarcerated people from attempting to vote or register to vote.

Earlier this year, DeSantis also ousted an elected official from office for criticizing him, appointing a far right ally in his place. The decision is being challenged in court, but even if it’s overturned, the move is a show of DeSantis’s willingness to exercise his power in increasingly undemocratic ways to chill dissent in his state”.

Florida Republicans Use Dirty Tricks to Rig 2020 State Elections

CNN reports how Republicans used “dirty tricks” to Rig Three (3) 2020 Florida State Senate Elections with Dark Money and 3rd Party Phantom Candidates.

(Per the article below from CNN) “A month before Election Day in Florida a mysterious company called Proclivity, Inc. contributed $550,000 to a pair of newly formed political action committees in the state. Two days later, the money flowed from the PACs to an Orlando-area print and advertising firm.

Shortly thereafter, came a torrent of nearly identical political fliers seemingly intended to siphon away support from Democratic candidates by tricking voters into casting their ballots for purported spoiler candidates who demonstrated no real interest in getting elected. None, for example, engaged in typical campaigning activities or raised significant funds.
In one case, the mailers appear to have helped a Republican—a co-founder of Latinas For Trump—unseat the Democratic incumbent in a state Senate race by a razor-thin margin of just 32 votes”.

HOW REPUBLICANS RIG ELECTIONS BY GERRYMANDERING

Most Americans are unaware that Republicans has rigged elections in their favor for years to come through gerrymandering.

Republicans began rigging elections in 2010 so they couldn’t be removed from office by hyper-gerrymandering every state they took control of. Republicans injected $30 million, much of it from dark money, often targeting vulnerable blue state Democrats in races that wouldn’t otherwise draw a lot of national funding. The plan was called REDMAP

Through Gerrymandering, Republicans has made it almost impossible to be removed from office in some districts. Since they feel safe from being removed from office, they have no motivation to compromise. They are pursuing radical right wing agendas such as cutting assistance to the poor, cutting planned parenthood funding and passing anti-aborting “War on Women” legislation when the majority of Americans do not support these policies.

GOP Gerrymandering: Democratic Votes Not Matched By Seats Gained

Rachel Maddow shows four states in which Democratic popular vote victories are not commensurate with representative legislative seats because Republican gerrymandering has tipped the playing field.

Republican Dominated Supreme Court “Justices” Legalized Partisan Gerrymandering by making sure Republicans can cement their stranglehold in States they control and never be removed from office. This is how Anti-Democratic Authoritarian Fascist take over counties (such as Hungary) and Eliminate Democracy

Democrats won 20 million More Votes and Lost

The United States constitution is severely flawed when more often than not in the last few elections the majority of people voting for a particular party did not receive their relative representation. Democrats received 20 million more votes in the Senate than Republicans in 2014, yet Republicans won big.

The same occurred in the House of Representatives in 2012.

House Democrats out-earned their Republican counterparts by 1.17 million votes. Read another way, Democrats won 50.59 percent of the two-party vote. Still, they won just 46.21 percent of seats, leaving the Republicans with 234 seats and Democrats with 201.

Full article at egbertowillies.com/2015/01/04/amazing-democrats-won-20-million-votes-lost/

The Party Of Voter Suppression

The Republican effort to make it harder to vote continues unabated, with hundreds of thousands purged from voter rolls in two key states. Aired on 12/17/19.

CAUGHT ON TAPE Listen to Trump 2020 Lawyer Admit to Voter Suppression by the Republican Party”

Republicans are corporate boot-lickers who’s bought and paid for by the RICH… determined to subvert the middle class and poor as described in the above video.

Wisconsin Republicans prove their Radical Right Wing Anti-Democratic Fascists who doesn’t believe in Democracy or care about Wisconsin citizens by rigging elections in their favor through extreme Gerrymandering. This is typical behavior out of Republican “Conservative” bullies who are determined to cram what they want down people’s throats… decency and democracy be DAMNED.

Statewide Win For Evers Exposes Distortion Of Republican Gerrymander Of Wisconsin

An MSNBC panel talks about how Republicans in Wisconsin have so thoroughly rigged the election maps that a Democratic governor and a near Republican supermajority can be produced by the same election.

Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nominee Tim Michels saying he’d ensure “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor” PROVE Republicans are Anti-Democratic Fascist who are determined to SEIZE and maintain POWER by any means necessary.

Wisconsin Republicans prove they don’t care about about Democracy or the Will of the People by threatening to impeach and remove newly-elected Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz before she can rule on any case.  They want to make sure their Anti-Democratic Rigged-by-Gerrymandering Majority stays intact.

Republicans threaten to impeach Wisconsin justice before she has ruled on any case

Even though she has not heard a single case in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Republican lawmakers are talking about impeaching and removing newly-elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz. And thanks to their gerrymandered state legislature, they may have the votes to do it before she can rule on a challenge to the state’s gerrymandered maps.

‘Undo the voice of the people’: Wisconsin GOP threatening to impeach newly elected judge

Editor-at-Large for the Bulwark Charlie Sykes, New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay, MSNBC National Affairs Analyst John Heilemann and Staff Writer at The Atlantic Franklin Foer join Nicolle Wallace to discuss how Republicans in Wisconsin are attempting to oust Justice-elect Janet Protasiewicz before she has yet to hear a single case.

Voter wrath flares as Wisconsin GOP tries to disregard election results

Rachel Maddow explains how Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in part because of her criticism of the state’s pro-Republican gerrymandering, and how Republicans are already trying to overturn her significant election victory by impeaching her before she has had a chance to hear a single case before the court. Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin describes how the move is motivating outraged voters.

Rep. Gwen Moore: WI GOP ‘afraid democracy will subvert their effort to stay in power’

Wisconsin’s GOP-led legislature is considering impeaching a liberal state Supreme Court justice after she criticized Republican gerrymandering in the state and spoke in favor of abortion rights. Democratic Congresswoman of Wisconsin Gwen Moore and the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Winkler join MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss.

The Republican Party’s plan to rule the state of Wisconsin forever, explained

Wisconsin’s legislature is gerrymandered to ensure that Democrats will never win it. Republicans have a plan to keep it that way.

Wisconsin Republicans prove their Radical Right Wing Anti-Democratic Fascists who doesn’t believe in Democracy or care about Wisconsin citizens by rigging elections in their favor through extreme Gerrymandering. This is typical behavior out of Republican “Conservative” bullies who are determined to cram what they want down people’s throats… decency and democracy be DAMNED.

Wisconsin Republicans caught cheering voter suppression

Robert Spindell, a Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission and a Trump fake elector, wrote an email saying he was “proud” about the effect of voter suppression efforts—particularly in “overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.”

REPUBLICANS RIGGING ELECTIONS BY GERRYMANDERING

Most Americans are unaware that Republicans has rigged elections in their favor for years to come through gerrymandering.

Through Gerrymandering, Republicans has made it almost impossible to be removed from office in some districts. Since they feel safe from being removed from office, they have no motivation to compromise. They are pursuing radical right wing agendas such as cutting assistance to the poor, cutting planned parenthood funding and passing anti-aborting “War on Women” legislation when the majority of Americans do not support these policies.

Republicans began rigging elections in 2010 so they couldn’t be removed from office by hyper-gerrymandering every state they took control of. Republicans injected $30 million, much of it from dark money, often targeting vulnerable blue state Democrats in races that wouldn’t otherwise draw a lot of national funding.  The plan was called REDMAP

GOP Gerrymandering: Democratic Votes Not Matched By Seats Gained

Rachel Maddow shows four states in which Democratic popular vote victories are not commensurate with representative legislative seats because Republican gerrymandering has tipped the playing field.

Republicans poised to rig the next election by gerrymandering electoral maps

A supreme court justice described the last round of gerrymandering as ‘dishonoring US democracy’. Another round is about to start – will this be another ‘political heist’?

Per the above article: “Republicans executed the plan, called Project Redmap, nearly perfectly and took control of 20 legislative bodies, including ones in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Then, Republicans set to work drawing maps that cemented their control on power for the next decade. Working behind closed doors, they were brazen in their efforts.

In Wisconsin, lawmakers signed secrecy agreements and then drew maps that were so rigged that Republicans could nearly hold on to a supermajority of seats with a minority of the vote. In Michigan, a Republican operative bragged about cramming “Dem garbage” into certain districts as they drew a congressional map that advantaged Republicans 9-5. In Ohio, GOP operatives worked secretly from a hotel room called “the bunker”, as they tweaked a congressional map that gave Republicans a 12-4 advantage. In North Carolina, a state lawmaker publicly said he was proposing a map that would elect 10 Republicans to Congress because he did not think it was possible to draw one that would elect 11.

This manipulation, called gerrymandering, “debased and dishonored our democracy”, Justice Elena Kagan would write years later. It allowed Republicans to carefully pick their voters, insulating them from the accountability that lies at the foundation of America’s democratic system. Now, the once-a-decade process is set to begin again in just a few weeks and Republicans are once again poised to dominate it. And this time around things could be even worse than they were a decade ago”.

Democrats won 20 million More Votes and Lost

The United States constitution is severely flawed when more often than not in the last few elections the majority of people voting for a particular party did not receive their relative representation. Democrats received 20 million more votes in the Senate than Republicans in 2014, yet Republicans won big.

The same occurred in the House of Representatives in 2012.

House Democrats out-earned their Republican counterparts by 1.17 million votes. Read another way, Democrats won 50.59 percent of the two-party vote. Still, they won just 46.21 percent of seats, leaving the Republicans with 234 seats and Democrats with 201.

Full article at egbertowillies.com/2015/01/04/amazing-democrats-won-20-million-votes-lost/

The Party Of Voter Suppression

The Republican effort to make it harder to vote continues unabated, with hundreds of thousands purged from voter rolls in two key states. Aired on 12/17/19.

CAUGHT ON TAPE Listen to Trump 2020 Lawyer Admit to Voter Suppression by the Republican Party”

Wisconsin Republicans Force Vote During Pandemic

‘They saw an opportunity to suppress the vote:’ Lt. Gov. on Wisconsin GOP forcing voters to polls amid pandemic

Mandela Barnes, the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, on the state holding an election amid a global pandemic: “We got to this point because of a long trend of voter suppression that’s been going on across the state and across the country.”

Democratic Senator Goes After Big Oil’s Massive Profits With ‘Windfall Tax’

As you continue to pay record-high prices at the gas pump, oil companies are making record profits — and that money is going straight into billionaires’ pockets. A ‘windfall tax’ could fix that. So why isn’t the legislation on Biden’s desk? Mehdi asks one of the bill’s backers in the Senate: Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey.

Arizona voter says they were intimidated when trying to vote.

New voter intimidation complaints have been filed in Arizona to the Department of Justice.

Voters report intimidation as they tried to use a ballot drop box in this key state

An Arizona voter and his wife were allegedly filmed and photographed as they tried to use a ballot drop box this week, according to a voter intimidation complaint, which is now in the hands of the Department of Justice.

“How trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House. This is an update of the 2020 FRONTLINE documentary, “United States of Conspiracy.” An investigation of the alliance among conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and the president — and their role in the battle over truth and lies”.

This is yet another example of how Right-Wingers are DESTROYING the United States of America

Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Almost $1B to Sandy Hook Families

Riggleman On Roger Stone: ‘Every Time They Open Their Mouth, They’re Lying’

Katy Tur sat down with former Representative Denver Riggleman to talk about his new book “The Breach,” in which dives into January 6 and the investigation.

Republicans have declared WAR on the Truth and Democracy

Trump is a compulsive, pathological liar. With over 30,000 documented false or misleading statements verified by fact checkers, NOTHING he says should be taken seriously or believed.

It is well known that Trump lies, yet Republicans continue to support and defend him further proving Republicans to be LAWLESS and CORRUPT.

In the above video, Ted Cruz calls Trump a “Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies” and claims Trump “is a narcissist at a level this country’s never seen”. Dr. John Gartner states; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies“.

Desperate that they are LOSING in the polls because their repressive policies are so unpopular (such as anti-abortion laws forcing 10 year old girls to give birth to her rapists child), Republicans invent a NEW conspiracy claiming; “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you”, “The “IRS is “Joe Biden’s new army” that will “hunt down and kill middle class that don’t pay enough” and Senator Chuck Grassley; “Are they coming for taxpayers with loaded AR-15’s?”.

Republicans are LIARS who will do & say whatever to takes to scare gullible people into voting for them to stay in power. Here’s some of Republican’s FEAR MONGERING tweets…

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele Calls out Republicans Chuck Grassley, Ted Cruz and others for lying about 87,000 IRS Agents coming after Businesses & the Middle Class

This is the same type of fear mongering and lies we heard from Republicans claiming there would be “Death Panels” after President Obama and Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act which gave millions of people Health Care. These are the same Republicans who echoed Trump’s “BIG LIE” that the 2020 Election was “Rigged”, “Stolen” and “Trump Won in a Landslide”. Believing Republican’s lies can have devastation consequences, such as deaths and incarceration of those who participated in storming the capital.

LIES and FEAR tactics is ALL Republicans have to offer.

The IRS is NOT increasing audits on middle class by hiring 87K new agent

Per the above article; “Republicans have seized on a particularly gross conspiracy theory to justify their ridiculous claim that all of this somehow impacts the personal freedoms of every day Trump voters: “87,000 new IRS agents.”

Less than a week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced a surprise agreement to pass the bill, Tucker Carlson was hosting segments on Fox News falsely claiming that because a small minority of IRS enforcement agents have to carry guns, Biden is “treating the IRS as a military agency” and “stockpiling” ammunition.

Republicans tried to make it seem personal for their audiences, with the GOP House Judiciary account tweeting, “If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you.” But as most Americans do not, in fact, have stolen classified documents about the nuclear program stashed in their broom closet, it’s a tough sell. And so a bunch of Republicans immediately seized on the already percolating “87,000 IRS agents” lie and built on it to spin out a conspiracy theory tying Trump’s false accusations of “persecution” to some larger lie about a “deep state” assault on MAGA America.

“The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies. And with 87K new IRS agents, they’re coming for YOU too,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., tweeted last Monday, always eager to be out there first with the most shameless Republican rhetoric.

“Who do you think they’ll weaponize the 87,000 IRS agents against? The answer is obvious. Their political enemies,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., tweeted, always eager to beat Cruz in the race to the bottom.

Unsurprisingly, the talking point spread, with the right-wing conspiracy theory machine hyping the idea that IRS agents are about to kick down a door and kidnap your family — and worse, your guns — any minute now. Fox News, always eager to muddy the waters when Trump commits crimes, got heavily involved.

Ex-Bush Speechwriter: A ‘Loyal’ Republican Is Now Either A Sucker Or A Liar

Michael Gerson also named the group of Republicans who have “the most to atone for.”

Former Bush Speechwriter Says Loyal Republicans Are Either “Liars Or Suckers”

Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, said in order for someone to call themselves a “loyal Republican” they would either have to be a liar or a sucker… because it takes both Liars and Suckers to keep the Republican Party alive today.

Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice

From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception

Republicans Must Lie to Survive: They have No Other Choice

Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.

Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.

But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”

“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”

“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”

The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.

Republicans Are Lying About Social Security

The REPUBLICAN party has NOTHING to offer except LIES, Divisive Social Issues, taking away Women’s Rights, Attacking / Demonizing LGBT’s, Rigging Elections by Gerrymandering, Voter Obstruction and other anti-democratic tactics to prevent people from voting who aren’t likely to vote for them, Cutting / Eliminating Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and giving Tax Breaks to the RICH.

The GOP’s Turn To Extremism Began Long Before Trump

It’s easy to think of Trump as the reason for his party’s embrace of extremism. But as Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank points out in his new book, that pivot toward extremism is decades in the making.

TODAY’S GOP: ROTTEN TO THE CORE!

Former Republican David Jolly unleashes on the ‘rotten to the core’ politicians of the GOP

These are, in today’s Republican party, spineless politicians rotten to the core without virtue, without any level of human integrity, devoid of self respect, self reflection…Without courage and without the moral compass to recognize their own malevolence.’

“There is no greater example of selling your soul to a charlatan than what Republicans are doing right now in the House and the Senate,” he added. “And their legacies are on the line just as much as Donald Trump’s.”

Jolly was a lifelong Republican until he jumped ship in 2018. Before then, he served in Congress from 2014 to 2017 following the death of his boss. He ran for Senate in 2016 but dropped out when Marco Rubio opted to seek a second term.  (Source: marketwatch.com/story/former-republican-unleashes-on-the-rotten-to-the-core-politicians-of-the-gop-2019-11-05)

Today’s Republicans have no principles or policies. The more insane & disruptive GOP politicians behave, the more they are liked & supported by GOP voters.

The GOP has been encouraging ‘loony’ views for years

Republican running ads with guns & depicting violence, prove they’re Radical Right Wing BULLIES

Alarming GOP Campaign Ad: Every Republican Needs To Call This Out

Eric Greitens, the former Missouri governor-turned-GOP Senate candidate, released a campaign ad Monday in which he and a group of armed men in tactical gear are on the hunt for ‘RINOs’ — Republicans in name only. Joe Scarborough discusses why members of Greitens’ party should call out this ad.

REPUBLICAN Senate candidate Jim Lamon’s runs ad showing him shooting Democrats… another example of how Republicans advocate and embrace violence.

Political Experts React to Unhinged Republican Gun Ads

Politicians Who Use Guns in Campaign Ads

Marjorie Taylor Greene using guns in political ads

Republican Rep Puts Loaded Guns on Full Display

‘Blood On Its Hands’: Conservatives Violent Rhetoric

Alicia Menendez walks through the burst of violent threats and extremist rhetoric on the right, now laced with talk about guns and civil war. This kind of language is something national security officials have been warning could have consequences even prior to the January 6th insurrection.

A CNN report claims Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session – [source: cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/michigan-gop-poll-worker-training-invs/index.html)

Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session | CNN Politics

The evening before Michigan’s state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers – warning them about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging them to ignore local election rules barring cell phones and pens from polling places and vote-counting centers.

Per the above article;

“(CNN) The evening before Michigan’s state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers — warning them about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging them to ignore local election rules barring cell phones and pens from polling places and vote-counting centers. “None of the constraints that they’re putting on this are legal,” former state senator Patrick Colbeck told trainees on the August 1 call.

As far as cell phones, “I would say maybe just hide it or something, and maybe hide a small pad and a small pen or something like that because you need to take accurate notes,” Cheryl Costantino, the GOP county chairwoman and host of the call, told participants.

Some participants raised concerns about being tossed out if they broke the rules. “That’s why you got to do it secretly,” Costantino replied.

While volunteer partisan observers have always been trained by political parties and non-profit groups in Michigan, the Wayne County GOP had also invited poll workers — people hired and paid by the local clerk’s office. They are in charge of running the election, and their responsibilities can include checking voter IDs, counting ballots, and even securing voting equipment at the end of the day. Poll workers are required to engage in non-partisan training overseen by the local clerk and are only identified as Republicans for the purposes of making sure there is equal representation of both major parties working the election, according to the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

During the Wayne County training call, obtained by CNN, the presumption that Democrats cheat — thus justifying Republican rule-breaking — permeated the discussion. It offers a snapshot of one of the ways Trump-backing, MAGA-minded conspiracy theorists are intervening in the election process across the country, sometimes encouraging poll workers or volunteer observers to violate election rules in hopes of finding evidence that Democrats might be doing the same.
It’s an approach election experts fear could spur chaos and conflict in November’s mid-term elections and in 2024.

“There is no exception to following the laws; there is no ‘two wrongs make a right,'” said Wendy Weiser, a vice president at The Brennan Center for Justice, which tracks potential insider threats to the election process. Weiser said the center is seeing a spread in efforts by election deniers to infiltrate and manipulate the voting and vote counting process.
“If poll workers are not committed to following the law, to following the directions of election officials, to protecting the integrity of the election process, they can do serious harm,” Weiser said.

Concerns mount over partisan election training

Like its counterparts in fellow battleground states Arizona and Pennsylvania, Michigan’s Republican Party has conspiracy believers pushing for influence over the election process at all levels, from candidates for statewide office down to poll workers and observers. As CNN has previously reported, that’s partly due to a strategy by Trump allies of ceaselessly recruiting conspiracy-minded MAGA volunteers for rank-and-file party positions.

Earlier this year, unsuccessful GOP gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley called on Michigan poll workers to unplug election equipment “if you see something you don’t like happening.” In June, Kelley was charged with trespassing and other crimes in connection with the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Michigan GOP group Election Integrity Force, which Colbeck helped start, pushes baseless claims about the 2020 election that feed suspicions about the fairness of upcoming elections. In a July session, as first reported by Politico, members of the group coached poll workers and observers to call 911 and bring law enforcement into election-related complaints.
The mounting efforts to influence poll workers have prompted concerns over election disruptions, forcing the state to establish a code of conduct for those individuals, said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Poll workers who don’t adhere to the rules will be removed “by the local clerk, if they violate the law … or in any way interfere with the administration of fair and secure elections,” Benson told CNN.

The GOP has “made a concerted effort to put election deniers in positions where they can gum up the works, afterward, if they don’t win,” said Jeff Timmer, former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party.

The training sessions are providing a thinly veiled, read-between-the-lines instructions that essentially show “people how to break the law without expressly telling them to break the law, in most cases,” said Timmer, an advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political action committee founded in 2019 by Republicans and former Republicans opposed to Trump.

Both Costantino and Colbeck, the trainers on the Wayne County call, have actively promoted 2020 election conspiracies that amount to make-believe.

In the lead up to the 2020 election, Colbeck posted on Facebook that Democrats were conspiring to commit electoral fraud and “manipulating the vote tallies transmitted from county election boards to the state board of canvassers.”
While serving as a poll challenger at a counting center in Detroit, Colbeck claimed he saw vote-tabulation machines connected to the internet. He submitted an affidavit to that effect for a lawsuit that Costantino filed a week after the election, seeking to stop the results from being certified and requesting an audit.

Costantino’s lawsuit, backed by Trump, drew national attention to her claims of election fraud. But a state circuit court judge dismissed the suit, stating that “no evidence supports Mr. Colbeck’s position.” Noting Colbeck’s Facebook posts, Judge Timothy Kenny said that his “predilection to believe fraud was occurring undermines his credibility as a witness,” before concluding that Costantino’s interpretation of events was “incorrect and not credible.”

Costantino filed an appeal, which was denied.

Colbeck’s continuing claims that machines hooked to the internet flipped votes in 2020 led Dominion Voting systems to demand a retraction from him last year, stating that his claims “are not just false but have been repeatedly debunked by bipartisan election officials, actual election security experts, judges, and numerous Trump administration officials and allies.”

Colbeck also has tried to get copies of election files and Dominion software, zeroing in on Canton Township — a part of his former state Senate district. Canton Township Clerk Mike Siegrist, a Democrat, wrote in an August memo to the town’s board of trustees that his office denied those parts of Colbeck’s public-records requests because releasing the files would “violate our contracts with Dominion and jeopardize future elections.”

Colbeck did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment”.