The last time we checked in with Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, he was fundraising on of the profoundly unscientific claim that Democratic officials wanted to “grant abortions up to 52 weeks.” Many of you will know from grade school that there are 52 weeks in a calendar year. Many of you will know from fifth or sixth-grade health class that human pregnancies, on average, last about 38-42 weeks.*
Guess who is back with fundraising misinformation about the Democratic Party? Mr. Tim Scott! HuffPost reports that during the first week of December, coming off a particularly gnarly set of midterm election disappointments for the Republican Party, Sen. Scott is fundraising on the claim that “Your heat will be turned off. Emergency Notice.” Now, is the Republican Senator from South Carolina saying liberals are going to turn off your heat?
No. That’s just the subject line of his team’s fundraising email.
*Fun fact: The longest pregnancy on record happened in 1945 when Beulah Hunter (25) gave birth to daughter Penny Diana in Los Angeles after a reported 375-day pregnancy. However, while Hunter’s doctor, Daniel Beltz, supported the claim, he did admit that Mrs. Hunter could have had a miscarriage and second pregnancy resulting in the seeming record-setting length of gestation.
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The email itself makes claims that President Joe Biden has “crippled our patriotic oil & gas industry and every American is paying the price.” How, you ask, has President Joe Biden done this? No idea. Like the claim that Democratic legislators want folks to carry babies three months past term and then murder them, Scott’s statements seem to be general misinformation hyperbole. The kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from a political party bereft of new policy ideas.
In fact, the tangential policy idea Sen. Scott is selling in this email phishing expedition is to take a survey concerning whether or not the United States should ramp up offshore drilling for oil and gas. Not surprisingly, two weeks ago the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs released a public warning about the prevalence of utility scams as we go into the colder months of the year.
Callers will try to cause you to panic so that you’ll pay money you really don’t owe. Utility imposters will tell you that your bill is late and your power will be cut off immediately, if you don’t pay right now. But officials with the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs says don’t fall for it
I’ll say this about the Republican Party, it is consistent about a few things. Those things are fear-mongering to generate money and two policy ideas: drill anything and everything for the fossil fuel resources we need to move away from, and cut taxes to the rich so they can have more power to drain our planet of more resources.
With the Republican Party gearing up to take the majority in the 2023 Congressional term, the disarray they have been experiencing the past six years is now at Keystone Cops-level hilarity. Markos and Kerry speak with Daily Kos Senior Staff Writer Joan McCarter. Joan covers the Congress day-in and day-out, and has done so for a decade. She gives Markos and Kerry an enjoyable blow-by-blow of the Republican mud wrestling match going on right now.
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