{"id":1025069,"date":"2023-08-04T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1025069"},"modified":"2024-05-21T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:58:55","slug":"maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Malarkey: The Extremism You Missed From Republicans This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MAGA Republicans\u2019 extremism, hypocrisy, chaos, and malarkey \u2014 as President Biden would call it \u2014 reached new lows this week. In case you missed it: Donald Trump is campaigning alongside Tommy Tuberville, who is blocking HUNDREDS of military nominations; DeSantis released a disastrous economic plan and doubled down on his claim that some enslaved people benefited from slavery and his endorsement of dangerous gun policies; Vivek Ramaswamy is leaning into 9\/11 conspiracy theories; Tim Scott and Mike Pence are once again calling for a national abortion ban; and MAGA House Republicans\u2019 conspiracy theories and political stunts continue to fall flat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is campaigning alongside Tommy Tuberville, who is actively undermining our military by blocking hundreds of military promotions and nominations. Ron DeSantis also doubled down on his support for Tuberville\u2019s blockade.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cSenator Tommy Tuberville, a conservative from Alabama, has been single-handedly blocking hundreds of promotions for high-ranking generals and admirals since February, refusing to relent unless the Defense Department scraps a policy \u2014 instituted after the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion last year \u2014 offering time off and travel reimbursement to service members who need to go out of state for abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alabama Today<\/a>: \u201cU.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville to introduce President Donald Trump in Montgomery on Friday\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bret Baier<\/a>: \u201cDo you support Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama blocking the military promotions for Pentagon policy, abortion policy?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis: \u201cI do, because I think the Pentagon\u2019s violating the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cGOP Sen. Tuberville\u2019s hold on nominations could cause armed forces to \u2018lose talent,\u2019 nominee for top military officer says\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cRepublican block leaves major branch of US military without a confirmed leader for first time in over a century\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin said a Republican senator\u2019s delay of the quick approval of nearly 200 military promotions poses a \u2018clear risk\u2019 to the nation\u2019s military readiness and directly affects the lives of service members\u2019 families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis\u2019s extreme MAGA agenda was on full display again this week, as DeSantis pledged to sign a bill allowing concealed carry of permitted firearms nationwide, unveiled his economic agenda in spite of his disastrous economic record in Florida, and doubled down on insisting some enslaved people benefited from slavery.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WMUR<\/a>: \u201cWould you, as president, sign a bill that would allow for national concealed carry of permitted firearms for responsible gun owners?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cRising cost of living in not quite so free Florida\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cFlorida is the least affordable place to live in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cFlorida is now America\u2019s inflation hotspot\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida Politics<\/a>: \u201cRon DeSantis continues defiant defense of Florida curriculum claiming slavery benefited the enslaved\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivek Ramaswamy continued to show how deeply unserious he is, refusing to denounce Florida\u2019s radical education curriculum regarding slavery and leaning into 9\/11 conspiracy theories.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a>: \u201cObviously, we should be teaching kids about the awful legacy of slavery, but even more importantly, we are not teaching them enough about the ideals that actually do define this country. Personally, I think the deeper problem in our schools today is many of them teaching young Black kids, students, and minorities that they are oppressed based on the color of their skin or their genetic attributes. That\u2019s the real psychological slavery in the present and that\u2019s what I have the biggest problem with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cRamaswamy: I \u2018don\u2019t believe\u2019 the 9\/11 Commission report\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News<\/a>: \u201cVivek Ramaswamy on 9\/11: ‘I don’t believe the government has told us the truth\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the 2024 Republican primary field \u2014 including Tim Scott and Mike Pence \u2014 reiterated their commitment to ripping away women\u2019s freedom to make their own health care decisions nationwide. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Scott<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans should not be retreating on life. We need a national 15-week limit to stop blue states from pushing abortion on demand. @sbaprolife defends the most fundamental right: life. Without life, nothing else matters. It\u2019s not a special interest. It\u2019s the only interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Pence<\/a>: \u201cWhen I am President, #ProLife Americans will have a champion in the White House! In the Dobbs decision, the question of abortion was returned to the states AND the American people. I will always champion protections for the unborn in states across the Country and in our Nation\u2019s Capital! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 https:\/\/sbaprolife.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/sba-ron-desantis-position-is-unacceptable-to-pro-life-movement<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Comer and House Republicans are tripping over themselves as their phony partisan investigations continue to crumble.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cConsider the first words out of Comer\u2019s mouth in that interview with Hannity: \u2018Every day this bribery scandal becomes more credible.\u2019 In fact, Archer\u2019s testimony pointed precisely in the opposite direction. That\u2019s the pattern here. Comer and Jordan and others hype claims of Joe Biden\u2019s involvement in Hunter Biden\u2019s work only to see those claims collapse as more information is made public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cDespite Comer\u2019s claim, though, the allegation is not becoming more credible every day. In fact, it is no more credible now than it was in early May, when Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) first introduced it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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In case you missed it: Donald Trump is campaigning alongside Tommy Tuberville, who is blocking HUNDREDS of military nominations; DeSantis released a disastrous economic plan and doubled down on his claim that some enslaved people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMAGA Malarkey: The Extremism You Missed From Republicans This Week - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-6\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-04T16:23:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-21T17:58:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MAGA-Malarkey.png?w=745\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-6\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-6\/\",\"name\":\"MAGA Malarkey: The Extremism You Missed From Republicans This Week - 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