The GOP 3-ring circus: Georgia elections protocols, algae & Iran

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A Tuesday update on Georgia’s special legislative session takes us to one ring of a three-ring circus of GOP clown activity. As the AJC’s Caleb Groves & David Wickert reported – Republicans under the Gold Dome struggled to tackle a self-mandated deadline to eliminate QR codes from ballots ⁠while also trying to saddle local elections officials with an absurd burden to hand recount top-tier races⁠.
Stone Mountain Senator Kim Jackson ⁠took to the floor to rip the silliness⁠. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (REPUBLICAN) ⁠succinctly pointed out that Georgia Republicans in the assembly had 18 months, ten meetings with his office and multiple budget requests for funding⁠ to allow his office to do exactly what they mandated his office do – to no avail.
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Technically in the same “ring” of the current GOP circus, ⁠Democrats successfully blocked Georgia Republican efforts to create new taxes⁠ (they’d saddle county & city politicians with doing that to avoid shouldering any blame themselves) by passing property taxes only roughly 65% of the state’s residents would benefit from while 100% shoulder the additional taxes sure to come to cover for ’em.
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The lead clown in this three-ring circus is, of course, the clown with all the orange spray tan makeup. As ⁠James Tate on Twitter/X astutely lays out – point by point-⁠ Donald Trump has again successfully created a problem he now wants to fix while ⁠blaming “Antifa” for causing⁠. ⁠Ron Filipowski:⁠ ” So an Antifa scuba diver with a box cutter snuck into the Reflecting Pond to cut a 300 foot section out while evading all cameras and law enforcement in order to sabotage Trump. Do I have that right?”
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Meanwhile, ⁠Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene are both now washing their hands of the Republican Party⁠. I mean, their complicity in crafting what the GOP is now under MAGA & Trump is missing from their proclamations. They’re unhappy (among other things) that we a) went to war with Iran then b) negotiated a deal that’s a near-complete capitulation to Iran (from the “The Art of the Deal” leader they helped to return to the White House).
British comedian Jonathan Pie, in his caricaturish role of TV ⁠reporter Tom Walker, truly captured all that makes ZERO sense with Donalt Trump leading on negotiating with Iran and his treatment of allies⁠.