The Absurd GOP

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Call me cynical but that's just a Republican stunt to portray themselves as supposedly anti-crime. Republicans advocate for public executions, and when laws and common sense prohibit them, they blame Democrats for being soft on crime, whereas Republicans allow murderers, drug dealers, pedophiles, and other criminals to roam free.

Oh, I absolutely get why he’s saying it - there’s an election coming up (there’s ALWAYS an election coming up).

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

whereas Republicans allow murderers, drug dealers, pedophiles, and other criminals to roam free.

-for a price, ofc.

[Fake Messiah]

In secret recordings, Ted Cruz trashes Trump tariffs, Vance

The recordings — nearly 10 minutes in total — provide an unvarnished look at how Ted Cruz is positioning himself as a traditional free trade, pro-interventionist Republican ahead of a possible 2028 primary campaign against the less hawkish Vance.

During his talks, Cruz cast Vance as a pawn of conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson. Cruz has accused Carlson of promoting antisemitism and an anti-Israel foreign policy in their well-publicized spats.

Cruz warns donors that Trump's tariffs could decimate the economy and lead to his impeachment.

He tells them that after Trump introduced the tariffs in early April 2025, Cruz and a few other senators had a call with Trump in which they urged him to stand down. Cruz says the lengthy call, which stretched past midnight, "did not go well," and that Trump was "yelling" and "cursing."

Cruz says he told Trump: "Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people's 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we're going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath."
"You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week."

Trump's response, according to Cruz: "Fuck you, Ted."

Cruz repeatedly brings up Vance in the recordings, tying him to Carlson and accusing him of advancing the podcaster's anti-interventionist foreign policy.

"Tucker created JD. JD is Tucker's protégé, and they are one and the same," Cruz says.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/25/cruz-tr...cret-tapes

[Deesse23]

Revolution eating her own kids? 

[Fireball]

The Nudger has been calling it! I say we give them real knives and tie them up in triples.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Some TikTok users are claiming that, since the takeover of the platform by a group of Trump-loyalist investors, they have been unable to type the word 'Epstein' and that posts critical of ICE are being censored.

The company says the issues are the result of a power failure at one of its data centres which caused a 'cascading system failure.' Seems like an oddly specific system failure.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Much Like His Boss, Vance Has No Floor

Vice President JD Vance sparked outrage after comparing a Purple Heart–decorated U.S. Senator disabled by her Iraq War service to the titular character in Forrest Gump.

“Watching Tammy Duckworth obsessively interrupt Marco Rubio during this hearing is like watching Forrest Gump argue with Isaac Newton,” the vice president wrote.

Meanwhile, Vance—who also counts himself a vet—served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps Public Affairs Office. His service included a single six-month deployment to Iraq, during which—by his own admission—he did not see combat. He later used GI Bill benefits to attend Yale Law School.

Senator Duckworth’s response: . “Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam. Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs”

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

(NewsNation) — A new report from the Heritage Foundation suggests policies it says will strengthen the American family, including marriage camps for unmarried people and two-child families.

The group, which was behind the controversial Project 2025 policy document, is also advocating for other policies, including those designed to encourage people to marry young and forgo education in favor of starting a family.

One recommendation is marriage camps, which would serve as boot camps that would prepare couples for marriage with a communal wedding ceremony and a financial reward for completion. Couples would also be assigned a mentor to help them through married life.

The document emphasizes a policy geared towards two-parent, heterosexual families. It discourages online dating, calls for the end of “marriage penalties,” and enhanced work requirements for social programs.

The Heritage Foundation also recommends the creation of savings accounts similar to “Trump Accounts” created for newborns, which would be issued to couples who marry before the age of 30, with an initial deposit of $2,500 over three years. It also proposes additional tax credits for families where one spouse stays at home to care for children.

The report also pushes back against shifting cultural attitudes regarding child-rearing, objecting to the philosophy that having more children means less ability to spend quality time with them, and pushes parents to have larger families.

When it comes to in vitro fertilization, the report recognizes uses for the technology but warns against its use for non-married couples or individuals.

The group advocates for a push for more religion, noting that families in religious communities often have more children, and suggests a uniform day of rest that limits commercial activity.

Career ambition and education are derided in the report, which objects to attitudes in which people seek to find fulfillment through careers and achievements, and states that people should prioritize having families instead of waiting until they are stable in their careers and finances to have kids.

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_med...en-family/

1) How's that "small government" stuff working out for you?

2) Let's see a bunch of marriages followed by payouts followed by Dominican divorces, yah?

3) Let's see a workforce with little education or ambition fight against tariffs in order to increase our national wealth. I'm thinking this is both culturally and economically stupid beyond belief.

Government has absolutely no business getting involved in our private lives in anywhere near this depth, no matter what. But we already know these fascist pricks have no real principles except retaining the white patriarchy.

Kinder, Küche, Kirche (German pronunciation: [ˈkɪndɐ ˈkʏçə ˈkɪʁçə]), or the 3 Ks, is a German slogan translated as "children, kitchen, church" used under the German Empire[1] to describe a woman's role in society. It now has a mostly derogatory connotation, describing what is seen as an antiquated female role model in contemporary Western society.[2][3] The phrase is vaguely equivalent to the American "barefoot and pregnant",[4] the British Victorian era "A woman's place is in the home"[citation needed] or the phrase "Good Wife, Wise Mother" from Meiji Japan.[5][6]

[...]

When Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, he introduced a Law for the Encouragement of Marriage, which entitled newly married couples to a loan of 1000 marks (around 9 months' average wages at that time). On their first child, they could keep 250 marks. On their second, they could keep another 250. They reclaimed all of the loan by their fourth child.[citation needed]

In a September 1934 speech to the National Socialist Women's Organization, Hitler argued that for the German woman her "world is her husband, her family, her children, and her home",[19] a policy which was reinforced by the stress on "Kinder" and "Küche" in propaganda, and the bestowing of the Cross of Honor of the German Mother on women bearing four or more babies.[citation needed]

Concomitantly, social and legal mechanisms were set up to deflect women away from employment and into domestic life. Women's educational and professional choices were restricted, with the entire areas of law, civil service, and the upper end of medicine becoming exclusively male domains.[20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%...he,_Kirche

No coincidence it's summarized by "KKK". It's formalized bigotry against women.

[Deesse23]

Scary shit

Medals for having kids

Really, really scary shit

[Ivan Denisovich]

(NewsNation) — A new report from the Heritage Foundation suggests policies it says will strengthen the American family, including marriage camps for unmarried people and two-child families.

The group, which was behind the controversial Project 2025 policy document, is also advocating for other policies, including those designed to encourage people to marry young and forgo education in favor of starting a family.

One recommendation is marriage camps, which would serve as boot camps that would prepare couples for marriage with a communal wedding ceremony and a financial reward for completion. Couples would also be assigned a mentor to help them through married life.

The document emphasizes a policy geared towards two-parent, heterosexual families. It discourages online dating, calls for the end of “marriage penalties,” and enhanced work requirements for social programs.

The Heritage Foundation also recommends the creation of savings accounts similar to “Trump Accounts” created for newborns, which would be issued to couples who marry before the age of 30, with an initial deposit of $2,500 over three years. It also proposes additional tax credits for families where one spouse stays at home to care for children.

The report also pushes back against shifting cultural attitudes regarding child-rearing, objecting to the philosophy that having more children means less ability to spend quality time with them, and pushes parents to have larger families.

When it comes to in vitro fertilization, the report recognizes uses for the technology but warns against its use for non-married couples or individuals.

The group advocates for a push for more religion, noting that families in religious communities often have more children, and suggests a uniform day of rest that limits commercial activity.

Career ambition and education are derided in the report, which objects to attitudes in which people seek to find fulfillment through careers and achievements, and states that people should prioritize having families instead of waiting until they are stable in their careers and finances to have kids.

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_med...en-family/

1) How's that "small government" stuff working out for you?

2) Let's see a bunch of marriages followed by payouts followed by Dominican divorces, yah?

3) Let's see a workforce with little education or ambition fight against tariffs in order to increase our national wealth. I'm thinking this is both culturally and economically stupid beyond belief.

Government has absolutely no business getting involved in our private lives in anywhere near this depth, no matter what. But we already know these fascist pricks have no real principles except retaining the white patriarchy.

Kinder, Küche, Kirche (German pronunciation: [ˈkɪndɐ ˈkʏçə ˈkɪʁçə]), or the 3 Ks, is a German slogan translated as "children, kitchen, church" used under the German Empire[1] to describe a woman's role in society. It now has a mostly derogatory connotation, describing what is seen as an antiquated female role model in contemporary Western society.[2][3] The phrase is vaguely equivalent to the American "barefoot and pregnant",[4] the British Victorian era "A woman's place is in the home"[citation needed] or the phrase "Good Wife, Wise Mother" from Meiji Japan.[5][6]

[...]

When Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, he introduced a Law for the Encouragement of Marriage, which entitled newly married couples to a loan of 1000 marks (around 9 months' average wages at that time). On their first child, they could keep 250 marks. On their second, they could keep another 250. They reclaimed all of the loan by their fourth child.[citation needed]

In a September 1934 speech to the National Socialist Women's Organization, Hitler argued that for the German woman her "world is her husband, her family, her children, and her home",[19] a policy which was reinforced by the stress on "Kinder" and "Küche" in propaganda, and the bestowing of the Cross of Honor of the German Mother on women bearing four or more babies.[citation needed]

Concomitantly, social and legal mechanisms were set up to deflect women away from employment and into domestic life. Women's educational and professional choices were restricted, with the entire areas of law, civil service, and the upper end of medicine becoming exclusively male domains.[20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%...he,_Kirche

No coincidence it's summarized by "KKK". It's formalized bigotry against women.

It is something made by reactionaries so it can't be anything but stupid and tinged with nostalgia for times that never were.

As for small gov - well, conservatives want gov to be small enough to fit in everyone pants. Lastly "marriage camps" even sounds fucking awful without knowing anything else about it.