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Abortion Elections GOP

Jasmine Crockett Has An Angry Message For Ted Cruz – And It’s Perfect

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is sick and tired of Republican politicians in the Lone Star state who continue to pass restrictive anti-abortion laws and then refuse to explain why they’re so obsessed with controlling women’s bodies.

Crockett teed off on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during an appearance on “All In With Chris Hayes” Friday evening, noting that he’s a politician and not a doctor.

“I don’t want my governor, I don’t want AG Paxton, I definitely don’t want Ted Cruz telling me what to do with my body if my doctor has a recommendation because the last time I checked, I don’t need any of them to be my doctor.”

She added, “I don’t want them to be my elected officials.”

Host Chris Hayes referenced the most recent case of preventable death in Texas: Nevaeh Crain, a teen who died when doctors delayed treating them after they miscarried, playing a clip of Cruz being asked about why he doesn’t support exceptions to the state’s draconian anti-abortion law.

“Why is this an issue you won’t address, about saying whether you support or oppose exceptions like rape and incest?” asked debate moderator Jason Whitely.

“Jason, I’m curious, why do you keep asking me that?” Cruz replied.

Crockett said this about Cruz’s refusal to answer a direct question: “When you can’t answer a question, that is the answer, right? And the idea that we should just trust you, we shouldn’t trust you. Not when people are dying. You guys are not going to save us. You are going to, again, inflict more pain.”

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Donald Trump Elections Kamala Harris

Jasmine Crockett Trolls Trump With A Hilarious Prediction About Whether Or Not He’ll Debate Harris

Having said numerous times that he’s ready to debate Vice President Kamala Harris anytime and anywhere, failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump is suddenly singing a different song, suggesting that he may not show up for the first debate scheduled for Sept. 10 in Philadelphia. The debate is being hosted by ABC News.

The Washington Post reported Monday that Trump is claiming ABC won’t be fair to him.

Trump criticized the host of the debate, ABC News, during a campaign stop after visiting Arlington National Cemetery, calling it “the single worst network for unfairness” and saying that ABC “really should be shut out.” Later, in a speech in Detroit, Trump suggested the debate might not happen, offering as an aside, “If there’s a debate.”

Trump’s remarks followed a statement he made on social media Sunday evening lambasting ABC News’s Jonathan Karl over his interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) earlier that day. “Why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?” Trump asked.

So will Trump show up for the first debate, or could it be that he’s afraid of facing Harris, a former prosecutor who is known to be a superb debater?

That question was posed to Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) when she appeared Monday on MSNBC with host Alicia Menendez.

Crockett made it clear she doesn’t expect Trump to debate in a couple of weeks.

“But if he does show up, he is about to get his butt handed to him. I’m here for it either way: He can go and cower in a corner, or he can show up and be lit on fire. Either way, I’m good.”

At last week’s Democratic National Convention, Crockett also went after the disgraced ex-president, noting, “America, looking at the two choices before you, who would you hire: Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris has a resume. Donald Trump has a rap sheet. She presides over the Senate, while he keeps our national secrets next to his thinking chair.”

If Trump does indeed have the gumption to debate Harris, it’s safe to say Crockett’s prediction of what will happen could become a reality for Donald. We can always hope so.

Here’s the video of Crockett’s appearance on MSNBC:

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Abortion GOP

Rep. Jasmine Crockett Skewers Republican Hypocrites By Mocking Their Love Of Viagra

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) used a Thursday meeting of the House Oversight Committee to mock her Republican colleagues’ fondness for erectile dysfunction drug Viagra and also proved that it’s much more frivolous of a medication than mifepristone, which is used by millions of American women to terminate pregnancy.

According to HuffPost, Crockett was questioning FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf.

Crockett asked … whether the “medical management of a miscarriage” could potentially be a “life-saving usage” before asking him about Viagra.

“Would you consider erectile dysfunction as a life-saving usage for Viagra?” Crockett asked.

“Not life-saving,” Dr. Califf answered.

“Not life-saving? OK. Well, I’m going to tell you that based on my research, that mifepristone actually has life-saving characteristics,” Crockett said.

The congresswoman then added, “Yet Viagra doesn’t, and for those that don’t know, Viagra, from my understanding, is actually nearly 10 times greater than as it relates to the risk of death. Yet, for some reason, it’s not sitting in the court right now.”

Noting that the FDA does exceptional work testing and approving drugs used by millions of Americans, Crockett ended her comments with this verbal salvo:

“After putting it through the wringer for decades, women’s lives have been saved, and as a representative from the area that Roe v. Wade actually initiated, I am appalled because, for whatever reason, some people want us to go back to horse and buggy in this country,”

A case before the United States Supreme Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, may lead to the banning of mifepristone by American women if the justices decide the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t have the power to approve the use of the drug. That ruling is expected by the end of June.

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Congress Impeachment Joe Biden

House Democrat Reveals How She Plans To Derail Biden Impeachment Hearings

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has a message for her Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives who voted this week to open a formal impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden: You’re going to regret that decision.

Appearing on MSNBC, Crockett told host Jonathan Capehart that she will be dragging failed former president Donald Trump’s crimes into the hearings and hinted that she may also go after Republicans who sit on the House Oversight Committee.

Capehart asked the Texas Democrat, “As a member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, what role do you expect to play in this impeachment inquiry process?”

“Yes, absolutely,” Crockett replied. “We are going to be the truth-tellers. We are the ones who cut through the noise and make sure that the American people know that this is nothing more than political theater and games. We are also going to try to juxtapose what it would look like if we had the adults in the room who were running this committee.”

“We will make sure that we juxtapose what it looks like when this committee runs the way that it is supposed to as well as we will bringing out the hypocrisy which exists.”

Crockett then elaborated on how she will contrast Trump with Biden.

“We have Trump on one hand and Biden on the other. We have all of these insurrectionists, congresspersons, and then we’ve got Hunter Biden, you know. We will make sure that the American people and know that this is just not the tree that they want to bark up on.”

When the dust settles, don’t be surprised if the GOP impeachment gambit winds up backfiring on them in a major way and costs them the 2024 election. The only reason they’re doing it is to appease Trump, and that’s not likely to sit well with most voters.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Explains Why She Calls Republicans A**holes – And It’s Perfect

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is making it clear that she’s convinced the vast majority of Republicans in Congress are complete jerks and need to be voted out of office in the 2024 election.

Why? Because they’re assholes.

Crockett was a guest Monday on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, and she was asked by host Charlamagne tha God why she had referred to members of the GOP as “assholes,” HuffPost reports.

“Cause they are, what do you mean?” Crockett replied with a laugh.

What specifically led Crockett to that conclusion?

The congresswoman noted that she sits on the House Oversight Committee and has to put up with some of the very worst Republicans have to offer.

“This is where the impeachment inquiry is, and it’s insulting that we have idiots like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Jim Jordan. You just name all of the nonsense Republicans, and they sit on this committee, and they sit there so high and mighty. And they talk noise constantly, and they’re like, ‘Oh, the Biden crime family.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m sorry. Have you met the Trumps?’”

Crockett added: “Like, who is it that’s in court like every day or every other day with something, whether it’s the fraudulent businesses that he’s run or whether it’s his criminal issues on the state level, on the federal level. And you’re trying to make something out of nothing? Is this what we’re doing?”

When Charlamagne brought up that the son of President Joe Biden, Hunter, had just been indicted on tax charges, Crockett countered that the current president’s son isn’t serving in the administration the way Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did while Donald Trump was in the White House.

The Republican-led impeachment inquiry being launched by House Republicans is nothing but payback for the two impeachments of Trump, both of which were based on evidence and facts.

Republicans aren’t just assholes. They’re also spiteful clowns who don’t have enough self-awareness to realize they’re in a cult of personality and on the verge of destroying their party just so they can curry favor with one man.