Republicans Support Madness 🇺🇸

American writer. Just say no to the Republican Party.

[Republicans Support Madness 🇺🇸 @RepubsSupport]

For the record, on November 13, 2024, at 9:09 PM, EST, I am writing: IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP.

Just tryin' to beat the rush.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Tennessee’s Republican House Speaker went to prison after stealing taxpayer dollars.

Trump just gave him a pardon.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley warned us last year: “In this moment, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. Insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak in America”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WHERE IS THE MEDIA??

Trump just said the number 25,000 is bigger than a MILLION. The decline of his brain is now catastrophic.

“Where Martin Luther King made his great speech…he had a million people and I had 25,000 people. I had more people.” Wow.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The Most Shocking Part Of The Alabama Redistricting Case Isn't The Map.

It's What The Supreme Court Said About It.

According to critics of the ruling, the Court acknowledged that Black voters were being denied equal political representation under Alabama's congressional map.

Yet despite recognizing the problem, the Court ultimately allowed the map to remain in place.

That's why opponents see the decision as so consequential.

The debate is no longer over whether discrimination occurred.

It's over what happens when a court identifies it and the map survives anyway.

It's a fight over whether voting rights protections still have teeth.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

I am not making this up: Secretary Rubio actually sat before Congress today and said “the war is over.”

It’s a bizarre lie to tell when Americans know there’s obviously a war underway - not just from seeing it on screens, but from paying its costs every day at home.

Leaders with this little respect for the American people have no business in office.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Arlington is the most sacred ground in America, where 400,000 of our fallen rest.

And Trump wants to build a 250-foot arch at its gates, taller than the Lincoln Memorial. Don’t take my word for who it’s for. When CBS asked him directly, Trump pointed at himself and said: “Me.”

That’s the whole story. Not the fallen. Not the country. Him.

Those buried at Arlington didn’t give their lives so one man could build a monument to himself at their gates. Congress must not allow it.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WARREN: Trump purchased up to $1m of Nvidia stock. A week later, he changed US policy and loosened the rules on export controls so Nvidia could sell its chips to China. Now the stock is through the roof. Should the SEC be knocking on his door?

BESSENT: Get your house in order, senator. Lead by example

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "I'm sure you're aware that Ukraine, country that at the time had third-largest nuclear arsenal, peacefully turned over their nuclear weapons in conjunction with Budapest Memorandum.

And in exchange for U.S. commitment to defend Ukraine if it ever came under threat. The U.S. gave its word to Ukraine that it would defend them.

And I find this amazing. In your opening remarks, as you took us all over the world and mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded — 15, the top 15 — not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing achievements that are there."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump appears to bragging about his crowd size on January 6th: They went there with love. Tremendous crowd. I believe it's the largest crowd I've ever spoken to by twice. Bigger than anything. There was so much love.

Collins: Republicans were upset that people who beat up cops would be eligible.

Trump: Let me finish!

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rep. Olszewski to Marco Rubio: "I may have to get you a new pair of glasses because the facts are right in front of you, and it seems like malpractice for the Secretary of State to not be able to see this president and his family enriching themselves by billions of dollars."

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning.

Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.

Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square.

Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020.

Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square.

Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately.

Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state.

Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration.

Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US.

Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.)

Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026.

Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite.

Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director.

Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America.

Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct.

Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.*

Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it.

More details: https://t.co/NtFk7PUfwN

[Republicans Support Madness 🇺🇸 @RepubsSupport]

If it is I suspect it will be a highly selective one.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Is that the first sign of a backbone emerging…..

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

President Trump is pissed over suggestions that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the one who convinced him to go to war. https://t.co/Um6ox3ZKUr

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

NEW: Lawsuit filed challenging DOD's effort to control Stars and Stripes. https://t.co/TGCleUoKiS

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Just wait until this goob learns that Trump, by claiming to get an IRS settlement past the statute of limitations for something IRS did not do, Hunter could get a second bid at filing for a gazillion dollars for the stuff IRS actually did do.

Weirdo goobs literally don't know they're saying Hunter was a victim.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Democracy depends on a fearless and free press.

Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media.

They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Reminder that Trump pardoned a criminal alien -- at least one -- on his first day on the job.

It's like @jim_jordan would loathe Trump more than Democrats if he were literate enough to read what Trump actually does.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

JUST YESTERDAY, @dagtoddblanche was defending the way Trump helped Iran violate sanctions by pardoning CZ.

JUST YESTERDAY, Blanche was like, "NBD if Iran violates sanctions so Daddy can sell crypto corruption."