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Lafayette Square, outside the White House, reopened this week to strolling couples, tourists and scampering children. After nearly a year sealed off by eight-foot metal fencing, it was one more sign of life in America getting back to normal.
Then thereâs the danger. For more than three months itâs been tempting for many to assume that, with Joe Biden in the White House and Donald Trump off Twitter, democracy survived its near-death experience, recovered and checked out of hospital. But the ousting of Liz Cheney by the Republican party shows that the potential for a relapse is all too real.
Liz Cheney leadership ouster shows GOP’s true stripes | Letter
Posted May 12, 2021
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The difference is that Cheney believes that President Joe Biden was properly elected, as confirmed by our intelligence agencies.
So, the Republican Party has become the party of lies and propaganda, along with the Fox News propaganda machine. Please do not call their content “news.”
Biden has done more in four months in office than Trump did in 48 months. Stock market indices, until recent days, have continued to climb. More than 260 million COVID-19 shots have been administered, 117 million Americans gave been fully vaccinated, and we are approaching herd immunity.
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Don t let the Dear Leader, the Master of Mar-a-Lago, catch wind of your seditious thoughts or you, too, could find yourself drummed out of the Republican Party for being a traitor to the cause.
There is only room for the thoughts of the man who skulks in his Florida resort, issuing press releases calling himself 45. Any other thoughts are forbidden.
It is futile to resist the Dear Leader.
And if you think the above description is more apt for a cult than a political party, you would be correct.
Because, if you are a Republican in 2021, you are a member of a cult of personality. One personality.
Local health officers across the Hoosier State have lost their independent authority to impose emergency disease prevention measures on individuals and businesses that are more stringent than state rules.
On Monday, the Republican-controlled Indiana Senate voted 36-10, and the Republican-controlled House 59-30, to put Senate Enrolled Act 5 into effect immediately, notwithstanding Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb s May 4 veto of the proposal.
The new law mandates the local governing body overseeing a county or city health officer approve any health order whose provisions go beyond state requirements during an emergency, such as continuing a face mask mandate or business capacity restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic now that the governorâs directives on those issues have expired.
South Carolina Considers Death Penalty By Electric Chair or Firing Squad
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South Carolina’s supply for lethal injection drugs has expired, causing the state to reconsider the firing squad or electric chair as viable options for capital punishment.
Approved by the House, the bill is heading to South Carolina’s governor, who will determine the fate of 37 death row inmates, MSNBC reported.
This provision will make South Carolina the fourth state to allow a firing squad and one of nine in the country to have the electric chair be among its choices for executions.
The bill is all but confirmed to be official as both the Republican-controlled House and Senate would most likely agree, and Gov. Henry McMaster (R-S.C.) is waiting to sign the bill after the Senate approves.