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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.
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