Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) introduced a bill (cosponsored by Boebert & Santos) making the AR-15 the “National Gun of America.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has a bill to award killer Kyle Rittenhouse with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says Ukraine is not our friend and Russia is not our enemy.

The GOP is far, far too extreme to govern.

@georgetakei Those are terrifying views from seriously unhinged people. I sit over here in the UK and quake when I consider the future of America and what that means for the rest of the world.
@redballoonsue @georgetakei I sit here in Romania and I approve your toot
@redballoonsue @georgetakei as an American, I am just as scared
@gavinisdie @redballoonsue @georgetakei
I am shopping for properties in Mexico.
Better people, better food.
@georgetakei
Isn't there a classic children's book about everything that's up is now down?
@kitsystratton @georgetakei Road Dahl is being censored now. Read every one of his wonderful books to my daughter.
@gdeihl @kitsystratton @georgetakei no one is censoring Dahl. Puffin Books and Dahl’s heirs took it on themselves to bowdlerize the books to cover up Dahl’s problematic and anti-Semitic views. The sanitization is counterproductive. It would be far better to read the books in the original forms and discuss why they are problematic.
@cadenza @kitsystratton @georgetakei I was unaware of Dahl's anti-Semitism. It wasn't something I picked up on reading his books with my daughter. I agree with your opinion about sanitization. Far better to learn from mistakes than pretend they didn't happen. I found this article on Dahl you may be interested in. https://time.com/5937507/roald-dahl-anti-semitism/
What to Know About Children’s Author Roald Dahl’s Controversial Legacy

Amid controversy over rewritten editions of Roald Dahl's books, concerns about reputed prejudices have raised questions about his legacy.

Time
@georgetakei Too silly to govern. None of these are actual policies, just performative bullshit
@georgetakei I remember a GOP loving coworker threaten me. Over Dubya’s criminal actions. From that point on? I realized this country has a mental health crisis. Trump made it much worse.
@georgetakei They're not interested in governing - they're interested in founding a fascist religious state and that requires the destruction of democracy. They're doing exactly what they need to do.

@Gojira1000 @georgetakei What's their motivation to overthrow American democracy?

They would never be able to win in any free & fair election, & they're aware their time to continue rigging elections without public resistance becoming more powerful than their concealment efforts to hide their fraudulent manipulation of elections is running out.

#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #DefendTheConstitution #UnelectableGOP #Insurrection #Overthrow #AntiConstitutionalGOP

@georgetakei UK politics is crazy so we can't gloat too much
@georgetakei these people need to be removed/forced to resign immediately.
@georgetakei Harry Callahan is gonna have a problem with that ... seeing the 44 magnum is more powerful.

@georgetakei Also in Alabama:

"Rep. Yarbrough to file bill to include abortion under Alabama homicide law"

From the article:

"[Anti-abortion advocate DJ] Parten said some women deserve to be prosecuted for seeking abortions. There certainly are exceptions where we don’t want them to face prosecutions. But women openly boasting about abortions, using that language, those women are not victims. Nobody by nature of being a woman should be immune from prosecution.”

https://www.alreporter.com/2023/02/22/rep-yarbrough-to-file-bill-to-include-abortion-under-alabama-homicide-law/

Rep. Yarbrough to file bill to include abortion under Alabama homicide law

The bill would effectively mean that women seeking abortions could be prosecuted for homicide.

Alabama Political Reporter
@georgetakei I live in Alabama, it's a beautiful state with an ugly, ugly government.
Saudi Arabia’s abortion laws are more forgiving than Alabama’s

Saudi women just got the freedom to drive last year, but it seems they have less to fear when it comes to terminating pregnancies than women in Alabama.

Quartz
@georgetakei And the GOP gets the votes
@georgetakei The thought that these people hold some sort of power and could even help get Trump back in the WH, scares me more than the mad man in Moscow.
@georgetakei ..Using government positions to do stupid is not democratizing the country...it is irrational behavior and dangerous to the health of America and to place country in war with each other, as Russia said the evil will be inside the country..set by them of course...
@georgetakei its fucking terrifying and disturbing at the same time

@georgetakei Code number 133 in North-West Fruit Cake.

*static hiss*

All available units dispatch. Code 10-96, take caution.

@georgetakei WTF…..surely this can’t be real!
@georgetakei what was your first clue

@georgetakei

Cannot imagine any sane man voting on this bunch of fools. They are the freaks that held the house hostage for a week. In fact, the midterms were not the red wave and the big success anticipated.

@georgetakei When did the Republican Party go so completely insane?
@georgetakei my goodness. I keep having to check to see if this stuff is true! And it is! Well, I was wondering the other day if that party was “for” anything, or just “against” stuff. Now I know.

@georgetakei

Well, the good news about that is that the Godless Oligarchical Plutocrats aren't trying to govern, they're just trying to make it impossible for anyone ELSE to govern.

</sarcasm>

McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson exclusive access to Jan. 6 riot video

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has exclusively provided a massive trove of U.S. Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has downplayed the deadly violence that occurred that day and claimed it was a “false flag” operation.

The Washington Post

@Str8nger @georgetakei

Is this even legal?

@xs4me2 @georgetakei as far as I know, it’s not illegal.

@Str8nger @georgetakei

Not in my logic, this is evidence in the hands of the people.

@Str8nger @georgetakei

Might cut his career as a speaker very short I guess. 😬

@xs4me2 @georgetakei How you figure? Qevin has made it abundantly clear that he will ALWAYS cave to Agent Orange & the #GQP #TRE45ONcaucus McCarthy even sold out his own power as #SpeakerOfTheHouse just to get the empty title. He effectively made #MGT the effective Speaker & there was not a single peep from supposedly “moderate” Republicans.

#Trumpism is the Frankenstein monster CONServatives built & now the monster is their master.

@Str8nger @georgetakei

Well, you pretty much nailed it indeed. As a European, I cannot wrap my mind around the utter stupidity of Trumpism and how there seems no decent soul left in the GOP.. McCarthy is ruled by vanity, as is Trump, it's a weakness. The midterms did not provide the anticipated landslide, and the QAnon faction will not help. But I'm just another common sense fella...

@xs4me2 @georgetakei sadly, common sense is currently in short supply.

@Str8nger @georgetakei

It seems… instead it is about power, polarization and conspiracy nonsense in no particular order…

@xs4me2 @georgetakei yes, it’s about money & power, by ANY means necessary.

@Str8nger @georgetakei

Exactly, and that traces back to Reagan and more in particular to Newt Gingrich after that. Machiavellian, how to stay in power.

@xs4me2 @georgetakei it’s another example of unethical vs illegal… GOP has made it clear that the former is no longer even a thing & even the latter is fungible.

@Str8nger @georgetakei

Machiavellianism with a mobster tough it seems. And an incline to authoritarianism.

@georgetakei And far too stupid and ignorant.
@georgetakei Why would the AR-15 be worthy of the "National Gun of America" title? so weird.
The Tories are bad enough as they are. We could do without them becoming THAT bad.
@georgetakei Can we all agree that America has “ jumped the shark”?
@georgetakei Since they don't really want to govern it suits them just fine.

@georgetakei

#GOP psychos!

A mere 7 years ago, these people would have been shunned not only by their own party but every American.

America's fucked!

@Lowie

@georgetakei They do nothing to help Americans put food on the table or get closer to home ownership or find affordable health care. This performative buffoonery dominates the party.