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WATCH: GOP Rep. Nancy Mace Repeatedly Hurls Anti-Trans Slur During House Hearing

During a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on government oversight, right-wing extremist Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) decided to prove her bigot bona fides by repeatedly saying a anti-transsexual slur and continued to double down on her hatred when called out for it by Democrats on the committee.

When it was her turn to speak at the hearing, Mace remarked, “USAID awarded $2 million to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-affirming healthcare in Guatemala. Does this advance the interests of American citizens, paying for trannies in Guatemala to the tune of $2 million?”

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (D) replied, “I have no position.”

Mace: “Of course you don’t.”

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) objected to the slur.

“The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community and the transgender community.”

“Tranny! Tranny! Tranny!” Mace shouted. “I don’t really care! You want penises in women’s bathrooms, and I’m not going to have it!”

“To me, a slur is a slur, and here in the committee, a level of decorum requires us to try consciously to avoid slurs,” Connolly told the committee chairman, James Comer (R-KY). “You just heard the gentlelady actually actively, robustly repeat it, and I would just ask the chairman that she be counseled that we ought not to be engaged.”

“We can have debate and policy discussion without offending human beings who are our fellow citizens, and so I would ask as a parliamentary inquiry whether the use of that phrase is not, in fact, a violation of the decorum rules,” Connolly added.

Mace: “Mr. Chairman, I’m not going to be counseled by a man over men in women’s spaces or men who have mental health issues dressing as women.”

Comer pretended he didn’t know what constituted a slur.

“I will be honest with the ranking member,” he said. “I’m not up to date on my politically correct LGBTQ terminology. We’ll look into that and get back with you on that. I don’t know what’s offensive and what’s not. I don’t know much about pronouns or offensive terms.”

Mace’s hateful slur set off a torrent of commentary on Twitter/X:

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Congress Donald Trump GOP

Democrats Planning To Use GOP Tactic To Block Trump’s Extreme Agenda

 

For years, Republicans in Congress have repeatedly used one threat to gain concessions from Democratic presidents, and now they’re about to get a taste of their own medicine as they try to get Felon-in-chief Donald Trump’s legislative priorities passed.

As both the House and Senate prepare to consider budget cuts and other fiscal issues that are high on the Trump administration’s agenda, Democrats are looking to use the threat of a national default as a way to force major concessions from the White House, according to a report from the Washington Post.

“The days of Democrats just voting to raise the debt ceiling under a Republican president, they need to be over, period,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA), the top-ranking member on the House Budget Committee. “We need to make sure that Democratic priorities are met if we are in any way going to vote to increase the debt ceiling. But at the very least, we need to make sure there’s a permanent resolution to the perennial debt ceiling dysfunction.”

Boyle will introduce legislation that would authorize the Treasury Department to continue borrowing money to pay the federal government’s obligations. But it would also contain guarantees that would protect both Medicare and Social Security, which some Republicans have suggested should be slashed to offset the cost of massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. The same bill would also permanently eliminate the debt ceiling, something Trump has been advocating.

“He brings it up every time and all the time,” Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) remarked after attending a meeting at the White House last week.

Not surprisingly, the obstacle to any real debt limit reform can be found among the GOP. Many in the House Republican caucus are saying they cannot support an end to the borrowing limit unless they get massive cuts in federal spending.

But Republicans are also having to face the reality that their majority in the House is so small that they can’t pass anything without crossover votes from their Democratic colleagues, some of whom are unwilling to cooperate with the GOP.

“I am against these ideas to raise the debt ceiling in order to provide more tax breaks for billionaires — the end,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). “That is my prism and my test for getting into this issue.”

And that means Democrats have major leverage over the GOP, according to Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute.

“I think trying to trade their votes on suspending the debt ceiling for something like ‘don’t cut Medicaid or don’t cut food stamps,’ that’d be a wasted opportunity. That would just be kind of fiddling around the edges of these programs when they could do something more meaningful and lasting.”

In other words, Elon Musk and his superrich friends may not be getting any tax cuts after all, and there’s not a damn thing they or their handpicked president can do about it other than whine.

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GOP Congressman: Upcoming Spending Bills May Include Provisions For US Takeover Of Canada

Well, it’s now official: The Republican Party under the sway of Donald Trump has completely jumped the shark and is now operating via remote-control madness mixed with idiocy.

Proof of that was provided by Congressman Rep. Kevin Hurn (R-OK) during an appearance on CNBC this morning.

Speaking with host Andrew Ross Sorkin, Hurn was asked, “Congressman, do you have any realistic expectation that maybe something that would be added to this bill would include either buying Greenland or perhaps buying the Panama Canal or, I don’t know about buying Canada, maybe merging with Canada?” 

Hurn replied, “Well, I don’t — not sure yet. We’re all going down to Mar-a-Lago over the next three or four days to share different opinions, thoughts on some of the things that have been discussed.”

“I want to look at this and see what the opportunities are as recently in Panama,” he added. “The [president-elect] knows this, and he wants to make sure that we don’t get encircled, whether it be Greenland in Canada or the Panama Canal, and make sure that we have national security.”

“So one of the things we have the most important role to do in Congress is to protect this great nation,” the congressman said.

Sorkin noted that Canadian officials had countered Trump’s ridiculous talk about taking over their country by suggesting they might want to purchase Alaska and Minnesota.

“Well good luck on Canada buying anything out of America,” Hurn responded. “You know President Trump will push as we all know he’s a businessman.”

“He will set the boundaries and have everybody think twice before they do something that might be radical as that was suggested by the folks in Canada.” 

It has been said many times before but needs to be repeated: Today’s Republican Party is a cult, and they’re only too happy to drive this country off a cliff if Trump tells them to.

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Mike Johnson: Republicans Have No ‘Intention’ Of Cutting Medicare, ‘But…’

Throughout the 2024 election season, Donald Trump and his Republican allies repeatedly promised they would protect and secure both Medicare and Social Security and not make a single cut to either program.

That, however, was then, and now that the GOP has won control of both the White House and Congress, it’s clear that they have every intention of taking a meat cleaver to social programs so they can give another round of tax cuts to rich douchebags like Elon Musk.

How do we know that Republicans are going to cut the two programs? All you have to do is listen to what Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) said at a press conference today.

CNN correspondent Manu Raju asked Johnson what the GOP had planned for the two entitlement programs.

“Look, the president has made very clear, Social Security and Medicare have to be preserved,” Johnson replied. “And we are not, no one is coming in with the intention of cutting benefits in any way or anything.”

Johnson quickly added, “But we have to look at all spending and look at it very deliberately while maintaining those commitments. The Republican Party is not going to cut benefits, okay? We’ve made that very clear over and over and over.”

“We do know, however, at the same time, there are many, many areas of fraud, waste and abuse.”

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Republican doublespeak, here’s what Johnson actually meant: We promised not to cut Medicare, but we lie about everything and we lied about that, too. Cuts are coming. You can count on it.

So don’t be the least bit surprised when the first GOP budget after Trump’s inauguration features cuts to food stamps, programs for seniors, and enormous tax cuts for the richest Americans, including greedy South African douchebags like Elon Musk, who personally bankrolled Trump’s victory to the tune of at least a quarter of a billion dollars.

Bend over, America! Republicans are about to screw all of us while saying it’s for our own good.

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Could Today’s Certification Of The 2024 Election Hit A Roadblock?

Later today, the U.S. Congress will meet in a joint session to certify the results of the 2024 election, a process that was once considered little more than a formality before Republicans tried to stop certification in 2020 and thousands of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and attacked the police who were attempting to prevent the intrusion.

While security has been beefed up for this year’s certification, questions remain about whether or not some Democrats may protest Trump being named the 47th president of the United States since he played a major role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, which makes him ineligible to hold that office under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

However, based on what two key Democrats said Sunday, that seems unlikely.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) predicted that today’s certification will be free of violence and go off without any hitches.

“It is a very unnerving moment. I do not believe we will have a repeat of that,” Clyburn told MSNBC host Jen Psaki.

“We will have a vice president presiding on tomorrow who believes in the peaceful transition of the office, and she will preside over her own defeat,” Clyburn added. “I hope the American people will take time out to watch this tomorrow and hopefully have their faith in this great country renewed.”

During an appearance on “Meet the Press, Schiff noted, “If [Trump] goes forward with pardoning vast numbers of people involved in that violence, he will begin his new administration the way he ended his last administration, and that is by celebrating violence against our democracy,” Schiff said. “I think it would be a terrible start – send a terrible message about our democracy, about lawlessness, about people who attacked police officers. Exactly the wrong message and the wrong way to start out an administration.”

“The concern that I have, which is what I conveyed, is the precedent that it would set that you have an outgoing president giving a broad group of pardons to members of his party or others because I think the precedent could be abused,” Schiff continued. “Now, people have rightly pointed out, Donald Trump may abuse that precedent regardless. But the idea that each administration hereafter gives broad pardons to people who have worked in the administration or aligned with the administration, I don’t think that’s a road we want to go down.”

Democrats respect the Constitution and the electoral process. Too bad their counterparts in the GOP don’t.