Here's today's sampler of evidence that the Christofascist Republican MAGA cult might not be running a smooth operation:
The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee — picked by former president Donald Trump — started firing dozens of employees days after taking over, according to three people familiar with the firings who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.
One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and communications staffers were affected, and notifications were made on Monday by Chris LaCivita, a senior Trump adviser who was at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters. LaCivita had complained about the staff of the RNC for several months, people who spoke to him said, and long planned to make changes. The Trump adviser had studied the organization’s payroll and employees for several weeks, the person said...
A group seeking to oust the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly over his handling of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection loss in the state submitted signatures Monday in hopes of forcing a recall election.
The group, Recall Vos, said it had collected 10,700 signatures, more than the roughly 7,000 signatures required from voters in the district Speaker Robin Vos represents. The deadline was Monday.
“The people of Racine County have spoken,” recall leader Matt Snorek said in a statement. “With more than 10,000 signatures on our recall petition, they’ve said it loud and clear: They’re tired of the status quo and demand new representation.”
Vos has cast doubt on the validity of the signatures and criticized the effort as a waste of time in a critical election year.
Trump supporters have been persistently targeting Vos since the 2020 election, when Trump narrowly lost Wisconsin, a crucial battleground state, after winning it four year earlier. While Vos launched an investigation into the results, he resisted Trump’s pressure to figure out a way to overturn the outcome, calling it impossible and unconstitutional. Biden’s 2020 win has endured throughout, and there has been no evidence of widespread fraud in the election...
Just a few seat losses in the bitter battle between Ohio House incumbents and candidates vying to kick them out of their jobs could make the state significantly more conservative, a WEWS/OCJ analysis found. Despite being Republican-controlled now, the state could move much further right under a new speaker.
Millions of dollars have poured into Ohio’s GOP primary at the Statehouse.
“These attacks are, quite frankly, outrageous,” state Rep. D.J. Swearingen, R-Huron, said.
This election is different than typical years because dozens of sitting representatives are facing brutal primaries — Swearingen is one of them.
“I know many of these members who are being accused of being RINOs (Republican in name only) or anti-gun or anti-Trump,” he said. “Those are blatant falsehoods.”...
This is not to mention cult members in Missouri, Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia engaged in the kind of chaos and simple-minded score settling that their cult leader has brought to everything with which he's associated. And, need we mention the ongoing drama in the U.S. House Republican clown caucus, with the Freedumb Caucus and the likes of braying ass Rep. Marjorie Taylor Traitor Greene holding sway over Speaker MAGA Mikey Johnson?
It's good to be a Democrat.
(Cartoon: Dave Whamond, via the Portland (ME) Press Herald)
