what happens to the republican party

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Criminalizing the vote:

GOP-led states enacted 102 new election penalties after 2020

Georgia’s Republican governor signed a law criminalizing people who give food or drinks to voters waiting at the polls.

Across the country, states have passed new laws that give the

green light to prosecutors to treat like criminals all kinds of people involved in the election process,

whether they are voters, election officials or third parties that assist voters.26 states have enacted, expanded, or increased the severity of 120 election-related criminal penalties,

102 of them — the vast majority — were enacted in 18 Republican-controlled states:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

https://www.rawstory.com/criminalizing-the-vote-gop-led-states-enacted-102-new-election-penalties-after-2020

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House Republicans Reject Effort To Track And Curb Neo-Nazis In Military

"direct the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Defense to publish a report that analyzes and sets out strategies to combat White supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in the uniformed services and Federal law enforcement agencies not later than 180 days after enactment and every six months thereafter."

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) denounced the amendment as "Orwellian"

and said it "attempts to create a problem where none exists."

He also predicted that potential military recruits would be so offended by even the existence of such a report that they would not join up :lol

https://www.nationalmemo.com/house-republicans-oppose-effort-to-track-neo-nazis-in-us-military/particle-1

Biggs is one very special mothefucker


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The Republican Problem with the Holocaust

For Republicans, teaching the histories of America and of the Holocaust is too dangerous to allow.

having difficulty deciding how they should think about Nazis and the Holocaust.

They deny actions they have publicly taken, propagate and then delete messages, verbally promote and legislatively limit teaching about what the Nazis did.

They seem confused, but aren’t.

Some Republicans cozy up to Nazis.

Some Republicans, often the same ones, call Democrats Nazis.

Many Republicans across the country are attacking the foundation of Holocaust teaching.

These three arms of Republican behavior around the Nazis have a single result: to trivialize the Holocaust.

Carl Paladino, Republican nominee for New York Governor in 2010, Trump’s NY campaign chair in 2016, and current House candidate, is simply the latest fascist advocate.

he praised Hitler (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/nyregion/carl-paladino-hitler.html):

“He would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just, they were hypnotized by him.

I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today.

We need somebody inspirational.

We need somebody that is a doer.”

Paladino combines admiration for Nazis and old-fashioned American racism (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/nyregion/carl-paladino-trump-ally-wishes-obama-dead-and-aims-racial-insults-at-michelle-obama.html): in 2016,

he hoped that Barack Obama would die of mad cow disease and

suggested that

Michelle Obama be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”

https://www.laprogressive.com/science-and-religion-2/the-republican-problem-with-the-holocaust

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House Republicans Reject Effort To Track And Curb Neo-Nazis In Military

"direct the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Defense to publish a report that analyzes and sets out strategies to combat White supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in the uniformed services and Federal law enforcement agencies not later than 180 days after enactment and every six months thereafter."

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) denounced the amendment as "Orwellian"

and said it "attempts to create a problem where none exists."

He also predicted that potential military recruits would be so offended by even the existence of such a report that they would not join up :lol

https://www.nationalmemo.com/house-republicans-oppose-effort-to-track-neo-nazis-in-us-military/particle-1

Biggs is one very special mothefucker


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The Republican Problem with the Holocaust

For Republicans, teaching the histories of America and of the Holocaust is too dangerous to allow.

having difficulty deciding how they should think about Nazis and the Holocaust.

They deny actions they have publicly taken, propagate and then delete messages, verbally promote and legislatively limit teaching about what the Nazis did.

They seem confused, but aren’t.

Some Republicans cozy up to Nazis.

Some Republicans, often the same ones, call Democrats Nazis.

Many Republicans across the country are attacking the foundation of Holocaust teaching.

These three arms of Republican behavior around the Nazis have a single result: to trivialize the Holocaust.

Carl Paladino, Republican nominee for New York Governor in 2010, Trump’s NY campaign chair in 2016, and current House candidate, is simply the latest fascist advocate.

he praised Hitler (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/nyregion/carl-paladino-hitler.html):

“He would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just, they were hypnotized by him.

I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today.

We need somebody inspirational.

We need somebody that is a doer.”

Paladino combines admiration for Nazis and old-fashioned American racism (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/nyregion/carl-paladino-trump-ally-wishes-obama-dead-and-aims-racial-insults-at-michelle-obama.html): in 2016,

he hoped that Barack Obama would die of mad cow disease and

suggested that Michelle Obama be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”
https://www.laprogressive.com/science-and-religion-2/the-republican-problem-with-the-holocaust

For Republicans, teaching the histories of America and of the Holocaust is too dangerous to allow.

Nazi's good in Z'Land.
Nazi's bad in America.
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I'm a trend setter.
I set trends.

[Winehole23]

"fellas, is AIDS prevention gay?"


“The PrEP mandate forces religious employers to provide coverage for drugs that facilitate and encourage homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity, and intravenous drug use,” the lawsuit states. “It also compels religious employers and religious individuals who purchase health insurance to subsidize these behaviors as a condition of purchasing health insurance.”https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/7/12/conservative-texas-lawyer-targets-prep-meds-after-abortion-rights

[Winehole23]

"discriminating against homos and queers is central to my religious belief. suck it, libs!"

[Winehole23]

culture of harassment and violent threat

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[Winehole23]

"without slavery, society would collapse"

1547631501323292672 (https://twitter.com/JimmyJenkins/status/1547631501323292672?s=20&t=RospeFXlZ0omrkZWzK_X6g)

[Winehole23]

Arizona will guarantee profitability by paying for empty cells.

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[Winehole23]

"forced birth for 4th graders"

[Winehole23]

"forced birth for 4th graders"the non-hyperbolic version of this take is that denying medical care and bodily autonomy to women is now the Republican mainstream

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

(said the Republican senator who says 13 year olds can consent to sex)

[Winehole23]

Who's really grooming kids here? Let's be real.

[Winehole23]

It's the no exceptions for rape and incest party.

[ElNono]

Who's really grooming kids here? Let's be real.


It's the no exceptions for rape and incest party.

Another white boomer finally caught...

Man, 70, charged in 1982 rape and murder of 5-year-old girl in Monterey County

Forty years after a 5-year-old girl was raped and killed in a small city on the Monterey Peninsula, authorities have charged a former soldier with her murder.

Robert Lanoue, 70, of Reno was charged last week with one count of first-degree murder with special circumstance allegations that he killed Anne Pham while committing kidnapping and a lewd act on a child younger than 14, according to the Monterey County district attorney’s office.

Anne was kidnapped Jan. 21, 1982, while walking to her kindergarten class at Highland Elementary School in Seaside, near Monterey Bay. Two days later, her remains were found outside Ft. Ord, a now-closed U.S. Army post east of the town.

The Seaside Police Department, FBI and U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division investigated the killing before the case went cold for nearly 40 years.

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[Winehole23]

megaphone for neo-nazis

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[Winehole23]

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shithole news

“PRO-LIFE” IDAHO REPUBLICANS DECLARE

WOMEN SHOULD BE LEFT TO DIE TO SAVE FETUSES

Abortion is apparently “murder,” but letting pregnant people die is cool.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/idaho-gop-abortion-life-of-mother

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A Trump-Appointed Judge Just Blocked Biden’s Protections for LGBTQ+ Students


https://www.them.us/story/a-trump-appointed-judge-just-blocked-bidens-protections-for-lgbtq-students

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Drop-box surveillance, central to CSPOA-Trumpist strategy,

already happening in Seattle area


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/20/2111546/-Drop-box-surveillance-central-to-CSPOA-Trumpist-strategy-already-happening-in-Seattle-area

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Bipartisan Senators Announce Deal To Stop Potential 2024 Trump Coup :lol

reform the Electoral Count Act and take away the path for a potential 2024 coup.

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/07/20/electoral-count-act-reform.html

The bill is bullshit,

since the christo fascist SCOTUS6 will approve "independent state legislature" BULLSHIT

that allows state legislatures

to ignore state supreme court,

state constitution, and

state's voters that elect a Dem President

and to send Repug electors to elect a Repug President

America is fucked and unfuckable

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right wing hate media influencer

Joe Rogan Suggests Shooting "The Homeless People" as a Way of Dealing With the Los Angeles Unhoused.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/19/2111396/-Joe-Rogan-Suggests-Shooting-The-Homeless-People-As-A-Way-Of-Dealing-With-The-Los-Angeles-Unhoused

[monosylab1k]

lol white people

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[Winehole23]

*whew*

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[Winehole23]

Neo-confederates get the nod.

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[Winehole23]

Racism is a selling point.

[Winehole23]

intentionally wrecking public goods like public education -- to replace them with theology

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[Winehole23]

Texas


It is a Russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple, Really, really wealthy people who are willing to spend a lot of money to get policy made the way they want it -- and they get it.

[Winehole23]

Antisocial is accurate, but sadistic fits too



The belief that society doesn’t exist, or shouldn’t, is a rejection of neighborliness and trust, a democratic civic culture, and the possibility of encountering those unlike yourself on equal ground. It is, in a way, an attempt to make the world your home — a place of safety and control. Of course the right despises “social justice”: it implies that domestic hierarchies and private prejudices will no longer be reproduced or tolerated “out there.” Nowhere are these tendencies better seen than in the right’s assault on public education. This shouldn’t be surprising: public schools are where a patriarch, or any parent, begins to lose the ability to superintend all their children see or hear or read, the place where the home begins to give way to society. In particular, the right is smearing some of our most dedicated public servants, public-school teachers, as pedophiles and groomers, while stoking a moral panic over transgender people—including the mere acknowledgement of their existence in public schools but, also, in places like Texas, targeting parents who affirm their transgender kid by investigating them for child abuse.


The conservative assault on society can also be seen in their attempt to turn our public spaces into zones of armed conflict — extending the privileges of defending your home or property to, well, almost anywhere. An armed society is not a polite society, as the trite bumper sticker asserts, but something closer to the state of nature, the war of all against all. Now that the Supreme Court has struck down most limits on who can carry firearms in public, routine conflicts and arguments that happen all the time in the course of our day-to-day lives — on the street, at the store — become potential shootouts. With stand your ground laws and laws that allow protesters to be run over with vehicles, reactionaries are empowered to patrol the public square with increasing impunity. Under such conditions, going out to a restaurant, taking your children to a museum or public park, or simply strolling through a city on a pleasant evening take on new risks.


Take the infamous bounty-hunter abortion law passed by Republicans in the Texas legislature last summer. It deputized private citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who performs or aids with an abortion after a so-called “fetal heartbeat” is detected (about six weeks), and offered a prize of $10,000 for anyone who did so successfully. Put differently, it turned neighbors, family members, old boyfriends — literally, almost anyone — into a potential informant empowered to pry into the most intimate and painful aspects of people’s lives, like making someone prove they really had a miscarriage. Similar cruelties have occurred since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned Roe. Doctors hesitate to treat a patient bleeding out from a pregnancy gone wrong, ectopic pregnancies are left to linger until extreme danger sets in, and vital medications that could possibly induce an abortion are being scrutinized or withheld from those who need them because, say, they’re immunocompromised.


These policies and others seem designed to sow paranoia and inflict pain, which is part of the point. The right benefits from people becoming more isolated, hunkered down, wary of others, and doubtful that a better future can be built. It is to such people that the reactionary message appeals: the best you can hope for is to hoard what you have, and attack the shadowy forces and alien others that you’re told imperil you and your livelihood.


https://www.gawker.com/politics/anti...-conservatives (https://www.gawker.com/politics/anti-social-conservatives)

[Winehole23]

Please welcome Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban to CPAC 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Gays, miscegenation, international Jewry and the whole panoply of degenerate liberal democracy will be part of his presentation.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/viktor-orban-cpac-2022-hungary-1380793/

[Winehole23]

Outside TPUSA, Florida, USA

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYdzj-NXoAMHLee?format=jpg&name=900x900

[spurraider21]

lol white people

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skip the trial

straight to the gallows

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Repug fascism on continuous, blatant display

Republicans Warn Google Not to Limit Search for Misleading Anti-Abortion Clinics...Or Else

They said attempts to limit "crisis pregnancy centers," in search results would, "constitute a grave assault on the principle of free speech."

A coalition of 17 state attorney generals are pressuring Google (https://gizmodo.com/youtube-google-abortion-1849318643) to prevent it from limiting the search results of so-called “crisis pregnancy centers (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/nyregion/crisis-pregnancy-centers-abortion-nyc.html)”

known for masquerading as legitimate abortion clinics and

persuading pregnant people away from receiving abortions.


could steer abortion seekers toward these clinics,

potentially putting their health at risk.

Republicans, on the other hand, say

efforts to limit those bad faith clinics in search results amounts to market discrimination against anti-abortion organizations.

claimed Google’s decision to moderate its results, “would constitute a grave assault on the principle of free speech.”

threaten Google if they didn’t get their way.


If you fail to resist this political pressure,

we will act swiftly to protect American consumers from this dangerous axis of corporate and government power,”

Republicans say they will conduct investigations to determine whether or not the actions violate antitrust or

religious discrimination laws. ( another example of weaponized freedom of expression)

In other words, don’t moderate your search results…or else.

https://gizmodo.com/abortion-google-crisis-pregnancy-centers-1849333088

CPC theatrical fraudsters wear scrubs and sport stethoscopes,

but nobody is a nurse, nobody is a doctor

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Repugs will certainly abandon Ukraine to fellate Pootin for his ongoing and future corruption of American politics

GOP civil war on Ukraine builds between MAGA, Reagan Republicans

A GOP civil war is building over U.S. policy toward Russia and Ukraine,

The Reagan Republicans have been winning the battle,

but the continued fight could shape future U.S. policy if the GOP takes the House or Senate in this fall’s midterms.



It may also shape the contest to be the next GOP presidential nominee,

GOP lawmakers who want to continue U.S. support for Ukraine are sending out warning signals, calling for the U.S. to keep up its backing for Kyiv regardless of which party holds the congressional majorities.

“If freedom is under assault by dictatorship and we don’t back up freedom,

then what message does that send?”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3573904-gop-civil-war-on-ukraine-builds-between-maga-reagan-republicans

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[Winehole23]

Bannonist-Leninism

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[ElNono]

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A Putler ally, no surprises there...

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for pure fascist DeSantis,

"(political, ideological) freedom is whatever I allow, and

I will punish you for politics/ideology I don't like"

Ron DeSantis Announces Moves to Regulate ‘Woke CEOs’ and Stop ‘Ideological Corporate Power’

a new legislative proposal and administrative actions on Wednesday aimed at stopping “woke CEOs” from imposing what he described as their radical agenda on Florida.

three main components:

Prohibit big banks, credit card companies, and money transmitters from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs.

Prohibit State Board of Administration (SBA) fund managers from considering ESG factors when investing the state’s money.

Require SBA fund managers to only consider maximizing the return on investment on behalf of Florida’s retirees.

speaking in front of a banner that read, “Government of Laws, Not Woke CEOs,”

“From Wall Street banks to massive asset managers and big tech companies,

we have seen the corporate elite use their economic power to impose policies on the country that they could not achieve at the ballot box,” DeSantis added during the speech.

“Through the actions I announced today,

we are protecting Floridians from woke capital :lol

and asserting the authority of our constitutional system over ideological corporate power,” :lol

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ron-desantis-announces-bill-to-regulate-woke-ceos-and-stop-ideological-corporate-power/

Yale and the Catholic church stained, damaged USA with thoroughly shitbag fascists.

Same shit in shithole Texas from shitbag Repugs

[boutons_deux]

for pure fascist DeSantis,

"(political, ideological) freedom is whatever I allow, and

I will punish you for politics/ideology I don't like"

Ron DeSantis Announces Moves to Regulate ‘Woke CEOs’ and Stop ‘Ideological Corporate Power’

a new legislative proposal and administrative actions on Wednesday aimed at stopping “woke CEOs” from imposing what he described as their radical agenda on Florida.

three main components:

Prohibit big banks, credit card companies, and money transmitters from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs.

Prohibit State Board of Administration (SBA) fund managers from considering ESG factors when investing the state’s money.

Require SBA fund managers to only consider maximizing the return on investment on behalf of Florida’s retirees.

speaking in front of a banner that read, “Government of Laws, Not Woke CEOs,”

“From Wall Street banks to massive asset managers and big tech companies,

we have seen the corporate elite use their economic power to impose policies on the country that they could not achieve at the ballot box,” DeSantis added during the speech.

“Through the actions I announced today,

we are protecting Floridians from woke capital :lol

and asserting the authority of our constitutional system over ideological corporate power,” :lol

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ron-desantis-announces-bill-to-regulate-woke-ceos-and-stop-ideological-corporate-power/

Yale and the Catholic church stained, damaged USA with thoroughly shitbag fascists.

Same shit in shithole Texas from shitbag Repugs

but DeSantis approves of any company refusing to sell to LGBT, knitters, transgender.

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Republicans treat their voters as 'rubes' and 'have no respect' for them: Ex-GOP strategist

Matthew Dowd previously worked to help get President George W. Bush elected, but since then he's walked away from Republican politics forever.

the GOP treats their own voters like they're fools too dumb to know better.

"They treat them as rubes.

They lie to them.

They talk about them in the back rooms knowing full well what the truth is.

But they think, 'I'm going to feed our voters a bunch of stuff that we don't even care about but we're going to do it because that's how they respond.'

They have zero respect.

That's what I'm amazed it has not come through clearer.

That's the argument I would be making if I were a Republican in that moving it is,

'These folks have no respect for you.

They don't care about you.

They think you are a bunch of idiots.

That's why they do and treat you the way they treat you.'

That's what I think the fundamental reality is."

https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-treat-voters-as-rubes/

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Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say

While tasked with protecting the nation,

Matthew Belanger was plotting a killing spree against minorities and

to rape “white women to increase the production of white children,”

according to federal prosecutors


They found “1,950 images, videos and documents related to white power groups, Nazi literature,

brutality towards the Jewish community,

brutality towards women, rape, mass murderers,”

along with “violent uncensored executions and/or rape” and

“previous mass murderers such as Dylan Roof.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marine-murder-rape-plot-rapekrieg-1388238/

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Navarro was always the nuttiest in Trash's cabinet

Peter Navarro’s Nuts ‘Dream Cabinet’ For Second Trump Term Would Have

Jeanine Pirro as Attorney General :lol


This dream cabinet (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-70ce1677-aae6-4edf-a2dd-916e8c6e6803.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top) for Trump’s second term includes returning choices such as former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Ben Carson for the Department of Health and Human Services and


former Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Kash Patel for Director of National Intelligence.

Navarro’s list also included new faces like former New York State judge turned Fox News host, Jeanine Pirro to head the Department of Justice as Attorney General.

Navarro argues in his book that Trump was weighed down by “bad personnel (https://www.yahoo.com/news/peter-navarro-floats-dream-cabinet-152413887.html)” :lol

during his term in the presidential office and intends to avoid this next term, :lol

Navarro pleaded not guilty to two charges of contempt of Congress (https://www.mediaite.com/news/peter-navarro-pleads-not-guilty-to-contempt-of-congress-charges-in-connection-to-jan-6-committee/) for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots.

dream cabinet proposals also included former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) as Secretary of Transportation,

Ken Cuccinelli to reprise his role heading the Department of Homeland Security, and

Oracle CEO Safra Catz or Trump’s daughter-in-law,

Lara Trump, as ambassador to the United Nations.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/peter-navarros-nuts-dream-cabinet-for-second-trump-term-would-have-jeanine-pirro-as-attorney-general/

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An insidious ideology called 'neoreaction' is creeping into GOP politics


in recent months, a strand of conservative thought whose

adherents are forthright in their disdain for democracy

has started to creep into GOP politics.

It’s called “neoreaction,” and

its leading figure, a software engineer and blogger named Curtis Yarvin (https://medium.com/@charles_91491/analysis-on-the-dark-enlightenment-and-of-curtis-yarvin-mencius-moldbug-160c6151366a), has ties (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets) to at least two GOP U.S. Senate candidates, along with Peter Thiel, a major GOP donor.

this as one of the more significant developments in right-wing politics.

Someone who calls himself a monarchist isn’t being relegated to the fringes of the internet.

He’s being interviewed by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and

has U.S. Senate candidates repeating his talking points.

Yarvin cites his political influences.

They include the 19th-century political philosopher Thomas Carlyle (https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2022.2026906), who disdained democracy and thought it could too easily veer into mob rule;

American 20th-century political theorist James Burnham (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/02/james-burnhams-managerial-elite/), who became convinced that elites would come to control the country’s politics while couching their interests in democratic rhetoric;

and economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who, in his 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed (https://mises.org/library/democracy-god-failed-1),” wrote of how all organizations – irrespective of size – are best managed by a single executive.

:lol Bill Barr/dickhead Cheney's "unitary executive! :lol

Yarvin is perhaps best known for his concept of “the cathedral (https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-brief-explanation-of-the-cathedral?s=r)” – his term for the U.S. ruling regime. Yarvis argues that (https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-brief-explanation-of-the-cathedral?s=r) virtually all

the “marketplace of ideas” is actually a “monoculture” that props up an oligarchy.

The cathedral is self-reinforcing

Another important neoreactionary figure is Nick Land (https://tripleampersand.org/nick-land-accelerationism/), whose main contribution to the philosophy is the concept of accelerationism (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in).

based on Vladimir Lenin’s notion (https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0423/042334.html) that “worse is better.”

the more chaotic conditions became, the greater the likelihood that his Bolshevik party could accomplish its goals.

, Yarvin has coined the acronym “RAGE” – Retire All Government Employees – as a crucial step

“neocameralism (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Neocameralism).”

He advocates for a centrally managed economy led by a monarch –

perhaps modeled after a corporate CEO –

who wouldn’t need to adhere to plodding liberal-democratic procedures.

https://www.rawstory.com/an-insidious-ideology-called-neoreaction-is-creeping-into-gop-politics/

It's all BS obscuring "strong man fascism", which always includes corruption favoring the oligarchy that in turn finances the fascists.

wikipedia:

"Fascism is a far-right (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right), authoritarian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism), ultranationalist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultranationalism) political ideology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ideology) and movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_movement),[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-1)[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEncyclopedia_Britannica_''Fascism''-2)

characterized by dictatorial power,

forcible suppression of opposition,

belief in a natural social hierarchy,

subordination of individual interests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism) for the good of the nation,

and strong regimentation of society and the economy"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Definitions

After holding CPAC in fascist Hungary, CPAC has invited fascist Orban to speak

[boutons_deux]

Jon Stewart delivers fiery speech against GOP's 'cruelty' toward veterans

Senate Republicans blocked a bill to expand healthcare coverage (https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3577296-gop-senators-block-bill-expanding-care-for-veterans-exposed-to-toxins/) for veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits.

The bill, the PACT Act, previously passed in the House,

but a procedural vote to advance (https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/senate-burn-pit-bill-fails/index.html) the latest version of it failed in the Senate on Wednesday.

https://theweek.com/speed-reads/1015498/instagram-shifting-new-format-after-negative-feedback

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'Circus': Louie Gohmert outraged after Cicilline has articles fact-checking GOP false claims put into congressional record

The Republican outrage was described as a "small political side circus (https://twitter.com/SarahNLynch/status/1552667302805573634)," after U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=David+Cicilline) (D-RI) succeeded on Thursday in having several fact-checking articles exposing Republicans' false claims made part of the Congressional Record.

The articles all debunked the false and baseless claims conservatives and the far right have been making for nearly a year, that Attorney General Merrick Garland (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Merrick+Garland) called parents speaking at school boards "domestic terrorists," and was investigating them.

Cicilline first tried to read the articles into the record, but Republicans immediately objected.

. He was forced to describe the articles to have them included in the official record – something the Republicans also caused a commotion over.

"McCarthy's false claims that Garland called parents 'terrorists' (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/28/mccarthys-false-claim-that-ag-garland-called-parents-terrorists/)" was the title of another article made part of the record.
"Attorney General never called concerned parents 'domestic terrorists' (https://www.factcheck.org/2022/04/attorney-general-never-called-concerned-parents-domestic-terrorists/)" was yet another article.


"Kevin McCarthy keeps repeating false claim that attorney general called parents terrorists for wanting to attend school board meetings (https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/fact-check-mccarthy-garland-parents-terrorists-school-board/index.html)," was the final article.




Cicilline then asked "unanimous consent" that Republicans "read these documents and stop making false claims," to which the Chair responded,

"Good luck with that."
Republicans were outraged.

"Point of order!" yelled one.




"The gentleman just impugned our integrity!" :lol Rep. Louie Gohmert (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Louie+Gohmert) :lol (R-TX) decried.

"I would demand that his words be taken down.

He is not allowed under the rules to impugn false statements by this side." :lol





Gohmert literally point his finger at Cicilline as he yelled.

"And as far as Politifact, and some of those, they couldn't find the truth with both hands," Gohmert, making what would likely be a "pants on fire claim," also charged.

The Jim Jordan Louie-Gohmert part of the GOP caucus did not appear to have the full support of their fellow members.

https://www.rawstory.com/circus-louie-gohmert-outraged-after-cicilline-has-articles-fact-checking-gop-false-claims-put-into-congressional-record/

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is she "concerned"?

Susan Collins under fire for threatening to tank marriage rights bill

threatening bipartisan support of legislation to protect same-sex marriage

because Democrats were finally able to put together a historic tax and climate change bill – a huge win for Democrats, the Biden administration, and Americans.

“I just think the timing could not have been worse and

it came totally out of the blue,”

“Collins warned that the manner in which that victory was secured,

where it appeared Democrats kept Manchin and Schumer’s negotiations

under wraps until a separate bipartisan computer chip production incentive bill was passed by the Senate,

hurt the effort to gather support among Republicans :lol :lol

to bring the gay marriage bill to the floor.”

https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/susan-collins-under-fire-rights/

She fucking knows the Repug bloc will not support gay marriage

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GOP Senators Appear At USO Photo Op,

Then Vote Down Vets Health Care



https://www.nationalmemo.com/gop-senators-2657777336

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"Didn't he already sell his manhood on Jan 6?":

Josh Hawley mocked for titling his book "Manhood"

"Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is writing

a book called "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues Americans Need," :lol

building off a speech he gave at a conservative conference

claiming the political left is waging a war on masculinity," :lol

theKansas City Star reported (https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article263913621.html) Thursday.

"Hawley's focus on masculinity comes at a time where politicians have leaned into stunts displaying performative masculinity, like shooting guns and carrying blowtorches."

The book is available for pre-order for $29.99.

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/29/didnt-he-already-sell-his-manhood-on-jan-6-josh-hawley-mocked-for-titling-his-book-manhood_partner/

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Watch: Video captures Ted Cruz fist-bumping Republicans

after blocking bill to help vets suffering from toxic burn pits

https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/watch-video-captures-ted-cruz-fist-bumping-republicans-after-blocking-bill-to-help-vets-suffering-from-toxic-burn-pits/

[boutons_deux]

John Bolton Drops New Polls Warning

Trump Could Hand Senate to Democrats With His Bad Candidates

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bolton-warns-latest-polls-show-trump-backed-senate-candidates-could-give-democrats-outright-senate-control/

Bolton isn't alone in the evaluation

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The Republicans' disturbing Holocaust problem

Republicans are having difficulty deciding

how they should think about Nazis and the Holocaust.

They deny actions they have publicly taken,

propagate and then delete messages,

verbally promote and legislatively limit teaching about what the Nazis did.

They seem confused, but aren’t.

Some Republicans cozy up to Nazis.

Some Republicans, often the same ones, call Democrats Nazis.

Many Republicans across the country are attacking the foundation of Holocaust teaching.

These three arms of Republican behavior around the Nazis have a single result:

to trivialize the Holocaust.

https://www.rawstory.com/the-republicans-disturbing-holocaust-problem/

Fundamental to Christian Nationalism is hatred for the Jews

[boutons_deux]

Bye, Felicia!

Entire North Carolina police force quits after

town hires Black city manager
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/29/2113368/-Bye-Felicia-Entire-racist-North-Carolina-police-force-quits-after-town-hires-Black-city-manager

Old Time There Are NEVER Forgotten

[boutons_deux]

‘The Coming Civil War…’:

Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro’s Big Dollar Rage Machine is

Promoting a Very Dangerous Message

the rage machine at the Daily Wire has kicked into overdrive as hosts like

Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, and even founder Ben Shapiro

drop culture war screeds hyping a civil war,

encouraging the government to take away people’s kids, and

coldly describing trans suicide rates as just a reality.

Walsh, who has more than a million followers on Twitter, has made a name for himself online by focusing his ire at the trans and LGBTQ community, drag queens, and women who would dare use terms like “girl boss.”

he is a “theocratic fascist,” which he later claimed (https://www.dailywire.com/news/theocratic-fascist-matt-walsh) is no joke and is a label he clearly tries to live up to in his commentary.

the Daily Wire has gone full bore on targeting the trans community

Owens calling for the government to hurt families in probably one of the most profound ways possible —

not to mention the impact on the children forced into government-run foster care.

Her argument is a full-fledged embrace of

using the government to punish ideological enemies

and raise their children with the values approved of by Owens – parents’ rights be damned.

Daily Wire, which with its recent hiring of Jordan Peterson, who gleefully (https://www.newsweek.com/jordan-peterson-stay-off-twitter-rather-die-delete0elliot-page-tweet-1721474) dead named a famous trans actor, only seems to be doubling down on this approach.

this kind of rhetoric and hate is swelling up in the country and the far-right is connecting it with justifications for illiberal policies and stripping individual freedoms.

a school board candidate in Pensacola, Florida said (https://www.kron4.com/news/florida-school-board-candidate-doctors-who-treat-transgender-kids-should-be-hanging-from-tree/) doctors who treat trans kids should be “hanging from the nearest tree” – she was quickly applauded.


https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-coming-civil-war-matt-walsh-and-ben-shapiros-big-dollar-rage-machine-is-promoting-a-very-dangerous-message/

ECOTUS 6 agrees with all of that hateful shit

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Repug Schutzstaffel never sleeps

There Will Be Blood

Sandy Hook parents isolate with security due to safety concerns during Texas Alex Jones trial


https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Sandy-Hook-parents-safety-concerns-Alex-Jones-17343325.php

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there will be more of Repug christo-fascist shit in failing American society

Former FedEx worker sues company over allegedly allowing religious discrimination, harassment

A Houston man is suing FedEx, his former employer, alleging the company subjected him to a

hostile and discriminatory work environment full of slurs, insults, jokes and other offensive comments because of his religion, race and national origin.

Parker says he was wrongfully terminated after reporting multiple instances of harassment and discrimination from his coworkers and even his supervisor because of his religion.

Parker identifies himself to be of Russian Jewish descent and said he and his wife, who is Indian and Pakistani, are practicing Muslims, according to the lawsuit.

https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/fedex-lawsuit-religion-17338309.php

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https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/297102986_3231396557188218_2390890683702066889_n.j pg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=PCIIwuggvOUAX-wsnve&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=00_AT9YaVFQZzjBA3I_WofR1b6Rt-Ds1Ztc6l60Ahm85v8Now&oe=62EC7FD6

[boutons_deux]

The oligarchy, Repug, Christian Nationalist strategies are based on slander, lie, fantasies, NEVER the truth

People Are Getting Very Misleading Texts as Kansas Votes on Abortion

People received the texts just one day before the first state vote on abortion since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzzmn/kansas-abortion-vote-text-messages

[boutons_deux]

Boebert says gun bans lead to people eating dogs

(there's more)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/1/2113860/-Boebert-says-gun-bans-lead-to-people-eating-dogs-there-s-more

[boutons_deux]

Lindsey Graham asks court to agree he's too important to testify in Georgia election investigation

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/1/2113898/-Graham-s-lawyers-insist-his-pressure-on-Georgia-election-officials-was-legislative-factfinding

[Winehole23]

closing public libraries


Amanda Ensing, one of the organizers of the Jamestown Conservatives group, emerged from the library Tuesday wearing an “I voted” sticker. “They are trying to groom our children to believe that it’s OK to have these sinful desires,” Ensing said of library officials. “It’s not a political issue, it’s a Biblical issue.”https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/upset-over-lgbtq-books-michigan-town-defunds-its-library-tax-vote

[Winehole23]

we're already there, Republicans are routinely refusing to concede when they lose and candidates routinely bend the knee to dominionist woo woo.

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CPAC goes to fascist Hungary

The CPAC brings Hungary's fascist to USA

Repugs are so confident of their fascist takeover of USA run by the Capitalist oligarchy that they make no attempt to hide their fascism



Authoritarian Orban at CPAC Texas delivers attack to standing ovation

Viktor Orbán ... delivered an anti-LGBTQ attack on same-sex marriage and same-sex families,

echoing the false "groomer" claims increasingly prevalent on the right by demanding same-sex couples must "leave our kids alone."

"Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as a union of one man and one woman," he decreed, to cheers.

"Family ties shall be based on marriage or the relationship between parents and children.

To sum up, the mother is a woman. The father is a man. And leave our kids alone. Full stop. End of discussion,"

he declared, as the crowd roared with applause and gave him a standing ovation.

https://www.rawstory.com/orban-cpac/

Orban is against "race mixing" which no doubt misogynist, racist, Christian-hero Pootin agrees with, so race-mixed and femaile, Griner, is the ideal scapegoat.

[Winehole23]

plus jew-baiting

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Trump's GOP Embraces Orban's Racist Eugenics

The authoritarian Hungarian leader's rhetoric is familiar to anyone who lived through the Nazi holocaust, but prominent American Republicans have rushed to his defense.

Orban has stripped Hungary of its democratic institutions and demonized immigrants.

He has also embraced a form of eugenics, in which he claims that the future of the West is threatened by the “racial mixing” of white Christian Europeans with others.



[We] do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.

This is why we fought at Nándorfehérvár/Belgrade,

this is why we stopped the Turks at Vienna, and – if I am not mistaken –

this is why, in still older times – the French stopped the Arabs at Poitiers.

Today the situation is that Islamic civilization, which is constantly moving towards Europe, has realized – precisely because of the traditions of Belgrade/Nándorfehérvár – that the route through Hungary is an unsuitable one along which to send its people up into Europe.

This is why Poitiers has been replayed; now the incursion’s origins are not in the East, but in the South, from where they are occupying and flooding the West.


Orban’s words and phrases were familiar to anyone who lived through the Nazi holocaust.

Prominent American Republicans have rushed to Orban’s defense.

Tucker Carlson smirked on his Fox television show, “So Viktor Orban is now a Nazi because he wants national borders?”

In Republican primary races this year, few issues have come up more frequently in TV ads than immigration — all featuring the word “invasion.” It’s pure Orban.

"We're gonna end this invasion," says Blake Masters, the Republican candidate for the Senate from Arizona,

The word “invasion” has a long history among white nationalists. It has been widely used by supporters of the "replacement theory"

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/05/trumps-gop-embraces-orbans-racist-eugenics

French stopping the Moors at Poitiers was military victory, not an immigration policy

France then colonized, brutally of course, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and then imported Ms of North Africans to do the dirty work in France, build cars, dig ditches, clean sewers, etc.

[ElNono]

:lmao CPAC looking to outdo the Onion this year. What a shitshow :lmao

[Thread]

https://conservativebrief.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1229927638-1024x576.jpg.webp

[Winehole23]

:lmao CPAC looking to outdo the Onion this year. What a shitshow :lmao

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Repugs weaponizing "freedom of expression" in the continuing attack on that foreign Muslim knitter's obamacare

TX judge who ruled in 2018 that ACA invalid is the judge presiding in Kelley v Becerra, so we know Kelley will win.

Reed O'Connor, appointed by shrub

================

Preventive care such as birth control, anti-HIV medicine challenged in Texas lawsuit

threatens to undermine one of the most popular provisions in the law, which

requires most health plans to provide coverage for preventive care with no copays.

If the judge rules in favor of the plaintiffs, :lol if??? :lol

access to free birth control,

cancer screenings,

vaccines,

PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis),

counseling for alcohol misuse,

diet counseling for people at higher risk of chronic disease, and

many more preventive services (https://www.healthcare.gov/preventive-care-adults/) would be in jeopardy,

"The lawsuit could cause millions of Americans, probably more than 150 million, to lose guaranteed access to preventive services,"


Kelley, an orthodontist who lives in Tarrant County, Texas,


"has no desire to purchase health insurance that includes contraceptive coverage because his wife is past her child-bearing years,"

"He does not want or need health insurance that covers Truvada or PrEP drugs because neither he nor any of his family members is engaged in behavior that transmits HIV," the complaint continues.

"Mr. Kelley is also :lol what a fucking convenient coincidence :lola Christian," :lol

and is unwilling to purchase health insurance plans that subsidize certain types of contraception or PrEP drugs "that encourage homosexual behavior and intravenous drug use."

The plaintiffs are represented by attorney Jonathan Mitchell (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/texas-abortion-lawyer-jonathan-mitchell.html__;!!Iwwt!XQTM8lp9bxBVXV89X29C0PqN2jw-77cPHvRPKViWOprrLOlK17U8HyvPE0gBboO7EOlDxMXD7p62ns-weVVgyW4I$),:lol TX SB8 / bounty hunter asshole

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/09/1115454627/preventive-care-such-as-birth-control-anti-hiv-medicine-challenged-in-texas-laws

If appealed to SCOTUS, the christo fascist Catholic political hacks will rule for Kelley

[Winehole23]

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[boutons_deux]

A Blaze TV Host is Calling

For the Execution of Covid Officials Over ‘Biomedical Fascism’


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/a-blaze-tv-host-is-calling-for-the-execution-of-covid-officials-over-biomedical-facism/


There Will Be Blood

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Armed man showed up at Cincinnati FBI office and started making threats



https://www.rawstory.com/cincinnati-fbi-threat

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Florida teacher resigns

after his photos of MLK and Harriet Tubman were deemed 'age inappropriate'


https://www.rawstory.com/florida-teacher/?utm_source=123456&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11027

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Unending, insane calls for fatal violence across all sectors of the right wing hate media.

'Gut them like a fish!'

Trump-loving lawmaker vows to lead fight to defund the FBI

https://www.rawstory.com/anthony-sabatini-2657849052/

[Thread]

Unending, insane calls for fatal violence across all sectors of the right wing hate media.

'Gut them like a fish!'

Trump-loving lawmaker vows to lead fight to defund the FBI

https://www.rawstory.com/anthony-sabatini-2657849052/

Please. You did the same thing to Kavanaugh. You've nary room.

[Isitjustme?]

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Fucking TX idiots pissed the Dems actually did something, including BIG giveaway to BigFossil

Texas GOP lawmaker floats government shutdown to force Democrats to repeal their signature law

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/chip-roy.jpg?id=29811713&width=1200&height=675

Roy suggested that an upcoming Republican House majority should

immediately force a government shutdown and

hold the entire federal civil service hostage

to force President Joe Biden to agree to repeal the legislation.

"shut it down until

they stop going after the American people. :lol

Stop screwing them with high energy bills. :lol Repugs' and TX BigFossil and TX BigElectric do the screwing

Stop screwing them with high gas prices. :lol BigFossil does the screwing

https://www.rawstory.com/chip-roy-2657854423

Roy no doubt gets plenty bribes from TX's BigFossil, just like the BigFossil bribes to all TX Repugs.

Roy's

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r-3558346797371983995&th=18292f452a94be15&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ90n4Lr9J1-i581aMjWMNvFsVNraEPhssZGDaCY-CI90Ug7Rri130VA4-yHBH4pxnQAmML1AExRs6sCV99c1jbR3tfxp6oK_ny7VNLnuimx yvKvkgzjQV8qATI&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l6qpcs0i0

TX 21st demographics

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-21-tx

[spurraider21]

:lol tulsi is guest hosting for tucker tonight?

[DarrinS]

:lol tulsi is guest hosting for tucker tonight?

And?

[ChumpDumper]

And?

:lmao

[ElNono]

And?

:lmao

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What happens to the country when the Repug are in control: degradation

Mailing It In?

Experts Doubt USPS Can Get a Handle on Ballots This Fall

If past is prologue, experts worry that the

US Postal Service will not be able to handle the number of absentee ballots that are expected to be cast during this fall’s midterm election.

In 2020, the Postal Service performed poorly in similar circumstances, with many ballots arriving late to voters’ homes or not at all.

During the 2020 election cycle, 1 percent of voters experienced problems with mail-in ballots, including delays and tracking errors, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center survey (https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/11/20/the-voting-experience-in-2020/).

In a tight election, that can make a difference.

The Postal Service stated in an email to WhoWhatWhy that

it is fully committed to the “secure and timely delivery of election mail during the 2022 election cycle.” :lol NOT under Dejoy

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/elections/mailing-it-in-experts-doubt-usps-can-get-a-handle-on-ballots-this-fall/

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https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/LFfHTRzQvUOvzuHp89_KfXvPXRcW2trNPksEj3xE5PUawoCldL hnC70aUomCphdr_sfP0tgJ1MMVnlSf4fiTk6lulUtqh8S8NhIz 5mbOk67HT8yPNSX2DXmHW24Wx30qZP6qyg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://s3.amazonaws.com/ak-dscc/images/Email_Hybrid_20220714_Ryan_Vance_Poll.png

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Ted Cruz comes out in support of voter misinformation on Twitter and

gets roasted

When it comes to voter misinformation,

Republicans seem to have reached an entirely new level of absurdism,

asking whether or not Twitter will enforce rules in providing people actual information about voting rights.

Yes, you heard that right. Apparently for Texas Sen. Ted

Cruz, providing accurate information about your right to vote might also deserve to be taken down.


https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/11/2115946/-Ted-Cruz-comes-out-in-support-of-voter-misinformation-on-Twitter-and-gets-roasted

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Medical boards in red states chock-full of GOP donors—70% of whom are men

Mother Jones reports (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/medical-boards-that-can-strip-abortion-providers-of-licenses-are-stacked-with-republican-donors/) that those seats in Republican-led states are being filled with anti-choice GOP donors who are there to do one thing: clamp down on reproductive health and abortion care.

According to Mother Jones, in the states with the most restrictive abortion legislation, over half of the board seats are filled with people (70% of whom are men) who’ve donated at least $1,000 to GOP campaigns,

“The more zealous people you get on the board who have extreme views, the more likely it is that the state medical board is going to more tightly aligned with the other arms of the government and go after physicians.”

in addition to protecting patients from “incompetent, unprofessional, and improperly trained physicians,”

medical boards “are the agencies that license medical doctors, investigate complaints, discipline physicians who violate the medical practice act, and refer physicians for evaluation and rehabilitation when appropriate.”

“You get a little bit more nervous and anxious when you start to see the state passing regulations restricting medical care. …

Then what’s the next step? The medical board saying,

‘Did you comply?’ And if not, now it’s going to come for your license,”

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/11/2115955/-Medical-boards-in-red-states-chock-full-of-GOP-donors-70-of-whom-are-men

All Politics, All The Time, even in medical care.

[Winehole23]

"people who are pretty fanatical and radical" run off county election staff in Fredericksburg, TX

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"people who are pretty fanatical and radical" run off county election staff in Fredericksburg, TX

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Repug SS / brown shirts winning

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Why (probably religious agnostic) CEO finance Christian fascists

Wealthy Donors Bankroll Christian Nationalists to Sustain Unregulated Capitalism


https://truthout.org/articles/wealthy-donors-bankroll-christian-nationalists-to-sustain-unregulated-capitalism/


CEO survey: 70% Repug vs 30% Dem

70% financing the oligarchy strategy of fascism because the corruption of fascism will enrich the oligarchy fantastically

[boutons_deux]

Here's an enforcement on BigFinance that would never happen under Repugs

Wall Street's Record Fines Over WhatsApp Use Were Years in the Making



SEC, CFTC struggled to access messages, prompting probes



Banks expected to pay $2 billion in US fines for recordkeeping



The scrutiny intensified at the SEC after Chair Gary Gensler took over in April 2021.

After investigating JPMorgan Chase & Co. (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/JPM:US) over the lapses,

the regulator opened an industrywide sweep across Wall Street to figure out how many business-related communications were missing.

The crackdown is now expected to result in about 10 banks paying fines totaling around $2 billion, with lenders from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GS:US) to Barclays Plc (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BARC:LN) saying they expect comparable penalties to JPMorgan,

which announced in December it would pay $200 million (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/jpmorgan-bosses-addicted-to-whatsapp-fuel-200-million-in-fines) in penalties to the SEC and CFTC. That dwarfs the $15 million (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/IUOR6P0D9L35) Morgan Stanley agreed in 2006 after being accused of similar lapses.

“There is some sticker shock,” Howard Fischer, partner at law firm Moses Singer and former senior SEC trial attorney, said of the fines.

“They’re basically as large as they can go, while both representing a great headline for the enforcement agencies without actually threatening the continuation of anyone’s business,” he added.

The speed of the dragnet caught some by surprise.

“We were not anticipating the $200 million charge,” Credit Suisse Group AG (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CSGN:SW)’s Chief Financial Officer David Mathers said on an earnings call last month.

“I think you will be seeing that across the industry, but I wasn’t expecting that at the end of the first quarter.”

Representatives at the SEC and CFTC declined to comment.

During a tense meeting over allegations that

JPMorgan executives routinely shirked surveillance duties by tapping out work communications on personal messaging platforms and email,

SEC officials said previous fines shouldn’t serve as guideposts for the penalty the bank would have to pay to settle the case.

Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal said past punishments hadn’t gotten banks to take recordkeeping seriously enough, according to people familiar with the conversation.

The irregularities included “records preservation requirements applicable to broker-dealer firms, swap dealers and futures commission merchants,” according to JPMorgan’s 2021 annual report.

The CFTC said in December it became aware of such breaches at the lender as it conducted a separate “investigation into certain of JPMorgan’s trading,” without providing further details.

Despite believing that their actions had been less severe than those uncovered at US competitors, executives at some European banks decided to try to settle as soon as possible, two people familiar with the matter said.

The regulators have taken the view that any use of personal devices for business communications is problematic, they said.

(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/why-wall-street-is-in-hot-water-for-using-whatsapp-quicktake)Beyond planning to pay hefty fines, some banks have already let go traders for improperly exchanging information on personal mobiles. HSBC Holdings Plc (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/HSBA:LN),

which said in February it was facing a US probe over the issue, recently fired a trader in London after scrutinizing the personal mobile phones of some staff in relation to the WhatsApp probe.

Fischer, the Moses Singer lawyer, expects more records preservation cases to come from the markets watchdogs as a result of much of the world of finance working from home during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic and as more companies accept hybrid work.

There will likely be a renewed push at some of the larger banks reminding staff to operate through official channels and preserve records, but that’s

unlikely to stop the widespread use of communications apps and personal devices, Fischer said.
Wall Street banks are concerned how realistically they can comply with the records rules “when they really run counter to the way a lot of business is done today,” he said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-16/wall-street-sticker-shock-whatsapp-fines-were-years-in-making

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Sarah Palin’s Former In-Laws Hold an Election Party – For Her Opponent



https://www.mediaite.com/politics/sarah-palins-former-in-laws-hold-an-election-party-for-her-opponent/

[Winehole23]

exotic press restrictions

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[GAustex]

Sent that bitch packing with arguably the worst election beat down on record

[ChumpDumper]

Sent that bitch packing with arguably the worst election beat down on recordWhy do you call her a bitch?

[hater]

Cheney :lmao

What a loser :lol

[GAustex]

Why do you call her a bitch?
Ding dong the bitch is dead

[ChumpDumper]

Ding dong the bitch is dead

Why do you call her a bitch?

Explain.

Don't be shy.

[GB20]

Ding dong the bitch is dead
Didn’t she vote with Trump 95% of the time?

[pgardn]

Why do you call her a bitch?

Explain.

Don't be shy.

Because she called him out for being a lying deadbeat.
And you dont fk with big mango if you are a pure Trumper like the Austex.
Fox news in the house says shes a bitch.

[GAustex]

Bush and Cheney dynasties gone
Great day for America

[boutons_deux]

Didn’t she vote with Trump 95% of the time?

yep 100% mainstream Repug who simply, correctly rejected Trash

[ElNono]

Anytime a Cheney is defeated is a good day for America in my book, tbh... don't care if she was against Yam Tits...

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Fascism subverts bona fide, conventional education. Repugs are fascists

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/299977683_3243539949307212_2535813589858393959_n.j pg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=dPS6WjL5xecAX8JZFuu&tn=VZPkDyQNk9-0xDX4&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=00_AT-yl_UhDU2eIXdT1s35vt6NA7tjjBw7g-UY4d_44CcGQw&oe=63010DF3

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It's gotten well beyond quiet part loud, it's an amplified rally.

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaU9piEWYAA_4TV?format=png&name=small

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Repugs are hard-core anti-democratic. Disenfranchise as many Americans as possible, even illegaly

Minnesota Republican candidate on disabled voters: 'Should they be voting?'


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/8/2115232/-Minnesota-secretary-of-state-candidate-questioned-whether-disabled-people-should-be-voting

[boutons_deux]

Nikki Haley says the biggest threats to the US are

transgender Americans and pronouns :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/8/2115085/-Nikki-Haley-says-the-biggest-threats-to-the-US-are-transgender-Americans-and-pronouns

[boutons_deux]

Repug/Christian Taliban christo fascism punishing innocent kids

A Christian school gives a 5-year-old the boot because her parents don't fit in with its 'values'

two days before the semester started, the school's director and pastor suddenly called Zoey’s parents, Emily, 28, and Jennie Parker, 31, a same-sex couple who have been married since 2016, into a meeting.

They informed Zoey’s parents that Zoey would no longer be welcome (https://www.kplctv.com/2022/08/08/kindergartner-removed-private-school-because-same-sex-parents/) at the school.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/11/2115936/-A-Christian-school-gives-a-5-year-old-the-boot-because-her-parents-don-t-fit-in-with-its-values

[boutons_deux]

fucking CARL PALADINO! :lol

Republican House candidate says Merrick Garland 'should be executed'

https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.png?id=31045100&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=46%2C0%2C0%2C0
https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/republican-house-candidate-merrick-garland/

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Repug FASCISM: Oppose me politically, and I will use govt to punish you"

DeSantis' proposed new rules for pension investments push Florida into fight against Wall Street

on the website of the agency that oversees Florida's pension fund,

state investment managers can weigh only the risk or return of an investment when directing the state's $200 billion in assets.

The directive is DeSantis' initial salvo against what he has called "ideological corporate power,"

and it follows efforts by other GOP state leaders that are targeting companies that venture into the political arena.

DeSantis has criticized financial institutions and corporate executives for considering factors like systemic racism and economic inequality when making business decisions, a practice known as environmental, social and governance, or ESG, investing.

DeSantis said, "and some of these businesses are going to have to choose between going down the ESG rabbit hole or being able to be invested with the state of Florida."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/politics/desantis-pension-rules-esg-investing/index.html

Corporate-Americans (are people, too) are having their "inalienable right to freedom" alienated by Repug fascists?

[boutons_deux]

Repug evangelists weaponizing their "religion" to punish, hurt, discriminate against kids and still get $100Ms from taxpayers.



Religious schools will continue to receive federal meal funding even if they do not adhere to new Title IX requirements, according to USDA guidance published Friday.



USDA in May said it would expand its definition of sex-based discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and schools would have to adjust their nondiscrimination policies to receive funding from the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), including for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).



The Biden administration granted a religious exemption to a private Christian school in Florida last week following a lawsuit.



Religious schools will not be required to follow new Title IX regulations in order to receive federal meal funding, the Agriculture Department (USDA) said in new guidance.

USDA in May announced it would be broadening its definition of sex-based discrimination (https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3478940-usda-launches-initiative-to-combat-discrimination-against-lgbtq-people-in-accessing-nutrition-programs/) to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and said schools and other qualifying organizations would need to update their nondiscrimination policies accordingly to receive funding from the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), including for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

The announcement set off a firestorm of protest from religious institutions who said the new mandate infringes on their rights to freedom of speech and religion,

and accused the Biden administration of holding school lunches hostage to further its agenda.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3603091-usda-says-religious-schools-will-be-granted-automatic-title-ix-exemption

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Fascism always targets, corrupts education to indoctrinate youth into fascist fantasy world


‘Mind-blowing what they tried to convince us of’:

Florida teachers on new, ‘very skewed’ curriculum

new curriculum training sessions designed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. :lol

This is the same person who made it

unlawful to say the word “gay” and

banned the teaching of critical race theory

in classrooms because it could make white people feel bad or guilty—even though it was never taught in K-12 in the first place.

“Stop WOKE Act.” It essentially bans teachers from teaching racially-focused subject matter

because it could make students or educators “feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress” based on their “race, color, sex, or national origin.”

the value of morals for what the state calls “desirable citizens (https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-curriculum-trainings-show-teachers-how-to-make-students-desirable-citizens/).”

the FDOE mentions the words “slave” or “slavery” 21 times,

but completely ignores the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era (https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american-odyssey/reconstruction.html#:~:text=After%20the%20Civil%20 War%2C%20with,former%20owners%2C%20seek%20their%20 own) and

skips straight ahead to the 1960s Civil Rights movement—

with no mention of Jim Crow.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/18/2117461/-Florida-s-new-K-12-curriculum-calls-enslaved-people-immigrants-says-Founders-hated-secular-laws

I suppose if kids educate themselves correctly outside of Repug indoctrination,

then ask a question about REAL history,

they will be intimidated, punished for apostasy.

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Historical rates of enslavement predict modern rates of American gun ownership, study shows

The higher percentage of enslaved people that a U.S. county counted among its residents in 1860,

the more guns its residents have in the present,

according to a new analysis by researchers exploring

why Americans' feelings about guns differ so much from people around the globe.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220818164046.htm

Just another way America was stained, crippled, degraded forever by slavery.

Also, Trump counties have higher rate of gun violence and covid deaths than Biden counties.

[boutons_deux]

Sam Harris Triggers MAGA World By Arguing Hunter Biden Story Worth Ignoring

When Compared to Dangers Posed by Trump

https://www.mediaite.com/news/sam-harris-triggers-maga-world-by-arguing-hunter-biden-story-worth-ignoring-when-compared-to-dangers-posed-by-trump/

Hunter Biden? :lol you rwnj are so ignorant, stupid, so reliably duped into fantasy world

[boutons_deux]

‘First Amendment Upside Down’:

DeSantis’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ Blocked by Federal Judge Decrying Free Speech Violations in Florida

federal judge suspended the enforcement of the Stop WOKE Act, ruling it violated free speech.

“In the popular television series Stranger Things, the “upside down” describes a parallel dimension containing a distorted version of our world.

Recently, Florida has seemed like a First Amendment upside down,” Walker wrote in the first paragraph of his opinion.
“

Normally, the First Amendment bars the state from burdening speech, while private actors may burden speech freely.

But in Florida, the First Amendment apparently bars private actors from burdening speech,

while the state may burden speech freely,” he added before citing various statutes.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/first-amendment-upside-down-desantiss-stop-woke-act-blocked-by-federal-judge-decrying-free-speech-violations-in-florida/

probably will be appealed to SCOTUS6 who will approve the WOKE Act

[boutons_deux]

'Big lie' advocates are dominating GOP primaries in battleground states

2020 conspiracy theorists are systematically seeking influential positions from which they can disrupt the democratic process.

In the battleground states that determined the 2020 election win for Joe Biden (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/several-fronts-biden-reason-celebrate-weeks-wins-rcna41756),

Republican candidates who contested the legitimacy of that election have won “nearly two-thirds of GOP nominations for state and federal offices with authority over elections” this year.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-backed-election-deniers-dominate-battleground-state-primaries-n1297992

Confederate and red states are lost causes

Repugs in battleground/swing states will steal elections for Repugs.

Dems, eventually, will never again win Congressional or WH power.

[boutons_deux]

AZ GOP Crashes And Burns

As Mark Kelly Leads By 8 In Senate Race
https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/18/mark-kelly-poll.html

[boutons_deux]

Parents of second & third place girls file complaint against winner claiming she’s transgender

She's cisgender, but that didn't stop parents from saying

she "doesn’t look feminine enough" :lol

and starting a state investigation.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/parents-second-third-place-girls-file-complaint-winner-claiming-shes-transgender/

"Show us your gonads!"

[Winehole23]

Rick Scott, notable Republican crook.

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[Monostradamus]

https://i.ibb.co/dBsWD9p/49-C1-C2-C5-0-D1-A-44-C4-A6-C3-3367138-C8-D26.jpg

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The face of the Repug party, compliant with christo fascist hate-driven party policy

Marjorie Taylor Greene just introduced a bill to make

transgender health care a felony (Federal)

-- marcusforgeorgia.com email

[Winehole23]

a cult for sore losers

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[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/301011781_477653531132893_491271379018943194_n.jpg ?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=tyKDCTdAGwgAX_edjej&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT9AM980ijToFdHEPZpcM-oZMBL_IIN69N79MabxScAppg&oe=63097488

[Winehole23]

even when they lose to other Republicans

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[Winehole23]

"no quarter for people who don't vote like me"


https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-utzhd6k7ku/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/592/1851/Black-Blackout-American-Flag-Etherton-Hardwoods-3x5__53770.1658918731.jpg?c=1

[Winehole23]

“I was trying to send a definitive message: this is hogwash,” Bowers said, “Taking away the fundamental right to vote, the idea that the legislature could nullify your election, that’s not conservative. That’s fascist. And I’m not a fascist.”https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/08/22/house-speaker-rusty-bowers-blasts-arizona-gop/7869841001/

[Winehole23]

The Watchman decree


Whereas, we have been given legal power from heaven and now exercise our authority, Whereas, we are God’s ambassadors and spokespeople over the earth. Whereas, through the power of God we are the world influencers. Whereas, because of our covenant with God, we are equipped and delegated by him to destroy every attempted advance of the enemy, we make our declarations: … 3. We decree that our judicial system will issue rulings that are biblical and constitutional. 4. We declare that we stand against wokeness, the occult, and every evil attempt against our nation. 5. We declare that we now take back our God-given freedoms, according to our Constitution. 6. We decree that we take back and permanently control positions of influence and leadership in each of the “Seven Mountains.”

https://www.amust.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/7-mountains.jpg

[Winehole23]

I agree with Mike Godwin, I wholly object to Biden's use of "semi." It's improper and inaccurate.

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[Winehole23]

"no quarter for people who don't vote like me"


https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-utzhd6k7ku/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/592/1851/Black-Blackout-American-Flag-Etherton-Hardwoods-3x5__53770.1658918731.jpg?c=1oh but they collapse on the fainting couch when Brandon callls them semi-fascist.

lol conservative crybullies.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Blaming the macroeconomic situation on AAs and gays working at the Fed

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[Winehole23]

teasing civil war

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fba_evfWIAIZWKF?format=jpg&name=small

[boutons_deux]

When Repugs take the House, they have laundry list of impeachments of Biden.

There will be no conviction,

so it's nothing but Benghazi type harassment and deflection.

[Ef-man]

Lindsey Graham asks court to agree he's too important to testify in Georgia election investigation

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/1/2113898/-Graham-s-lawyers-insist-his-pressure-on-Georgia-election-officials-was-legislative-factfinding


:lmao

Judge again denies Graham's effort to skirt Georgia subpoena

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that constitutional protections don't shield U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from testifying before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-again-denies-graham-s-effort-to-skirt-georgia-subpoena

[boutons_deux]

FTC is going after a company for collecting precise location data for cell phones and selling it
which would be of great interest of bounty hunters and the uterus police when going after ladies for abortions

A repug FTC would never start that investigation

[Winehole23]

Kevin Williamson at NR, yesterday



Regarding socialism, I once observed that either there’s something inherently wrong or it’s just the unluckiest ideology in history, one that just happens to keep producing tyrants and monsters. I find it difficult to look at the Republican Party in 2022 and not ask the same question. Does it just happen to end up hand-in-glove with Q-Anon kookery — with every quack, charlatan, cretin, crackpot, tiki-torch Nazi, and Brideshead-cosplaying dork across the fruited plain — or is there something profoundly wrong with this organization, its animating spirit, and its people?

I know what’s wrong with Blake Masters — he thinks Republican voters are shallow, rage-addled, and exploitable. And he’s probably not wrong.

How many clowns do you have to see getting out of the clown car before you realize you’re at the circus?https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-normal-politician/

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"Break out the pitchforks and torches"


Tim Michels (https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-wisconsin-donald-trump-campaigns-376cd7c0233e619f8574897b724854d9), who co-owns the state’s largest construction company, faces Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in the battleground state. If Michels wins, he will be in position to enact a host of GOP priorities passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature leading into the 2024 presidential election. Evers has vetoed more bills (https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-business-university-of-wisconsin-lifestyle-3f0fa3124230ed20cdbd86cabcbb4f52) than any governor in modern state history and is campaigning on his ability to serve as a check on Republicans.

Michels, a multimillionaire, this week reacted strongly to a story published (https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/08/31/tim-michels-foundation-gives-anti-gay-anti-abortion-groups-wisconsin-right-to-life-governor-race/7876354001/) by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailing charitable giving by he and his wife’s foundation, some of which went to anti-abortion groups and churches that have taken anti-gay positions.

Since the story’s publication, Michels has gone after not just Evers and Democrats, but also the Journal Sentinel and, more broadly, all reporters.

“I believe people should just, just be ready to get out on the streets with pitchforks and torches with how low the liberal media has become,” Michels said Thursday on a conservative talk radio show. “People need to decide ‘Am I going to put up with this? Am I going to tolerate this, taking somebody that gives money to churches or cancer research and use that as a hit piece in the media?’ I’m appalled. It’s disgusting.”
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-entertainment-health-donald-trump-79e3632493fb8c30a1edeb5e53844992

[boutons_deux]

Repug SS attacking children's hospitals

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Repug SS threatening the opposition

Violent threats against lawmakers have Congress on edge

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3626478-violent-threats-against-lawmakers-have-congress-on-edge

[boutons_deux]

Ignored by MSM but not ignored by the Repug SS

Caliing for murder


https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-speech-denouncing-trump-maga-ideology-sparks-threats-calls-for-violence-003139767.html

[Winehole23]

the Republican mainstream is extreme

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[Winehole23]

Under the independent state legislature doctrine, with regard to elections, legislatures are bound neither by federal courts, nor state courts, nor by state constitutions that protect voting rights.

Republicans really want to decouple elections from election laws and the voters for some reason.

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trying to think if any anti-democracy paramilitary orgs are affiliated with the Dems so I can both sides this

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[Spurminator]

the Republican mainstream is extreme

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Honestly figured the number would be higher.

[boutons_deux]

Repugs and r/w hate media gaslighting

While going full authoritarian, fascist, all the checkboxes, and claiming they aren't fascist.

[boutons_deux]

GOP candidate's donations went to sidewalk counseling, location tracking of abortion patients

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels

his donations supported two groups that use controversial methods, including

“sidewalk counseling” and

cell phone location tracking, to discourage people from getting an abortion.

“Utilizing our advanced Veritas Society digital technology, otherwise known as ‘Polygonning’

we identify and capture the cell phone ID’s of women that are coming and going from Planned Parenthood and similar locations,”

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-candidate-s-donations-went-to-sidewalk-counseling-location-tracking-of-abortion-patients/

[boutons_deux]

Amy Coney-Barrett to rule on LGBTQ case

whose anti-LGBTQ attorneys paid her 5 times for speaking engagements

https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-docket-2658159280/

Nothing but trash, the more unethical, the better, from Trash

[Winehole23]

Nixon more or less admitted the drug war was conceived to put minorities and hippies in jail.

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[Winehole23]

Honestly figured the number would be higher.More fully denied it than accepted it in any way.

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the drive to fascism is unmistakable

Out of 18 pro-democracy bills in 2022,

the US Senate filibuster torpedoed 17 of the 18

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/out-of-18-pro-democracy-bills-in-2022-the-us-senate-filibuster-torpedoed-17-of-them-report/articleshow/94033901.cms

Fascist Capitalist oligarchy and Repugs against any and all pluralism

Racial pluralism. whites only

Religious pluralism. Christians only

Ethic/racial pluralism. Euro-whites only

Gender pluralism. straight males supreme

Political pluralism. Repugs control forever

Judicial pluralism. extreme right wing judges only

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Nixon more or less admitted the drug war was conceived to put minorities and hippies in jail.

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war protesting hippies and blacks specifically.

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[Winehole23]

A WEEK BEFORE Jan. 6, on a Zoom call organized by far-right Christian Nationalists seeking to reinstall Donald Trump (https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/) in the White House, a man with a booming baritone voice bowed his bald head and began to pray. “We remember the promises of old,” he said, before invoking the book of Revelations and its account of the End Times: “We know we overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony and not loving our lives unto death.”

Seated before a Revolutionary War flag with the motto “An Appeal to Heaven,” the man spoke of the nation’s founding in biblical terms: “We remember 1776, our Declaration of Independence, speaking God’s Truth and Word over what would become the United States of America.” He tied Pennsylvania to God’s divine plan, from the Battle of Gettysbug to the fate of Flight 93, which crashed after a “strong Christian man” confronted Islamist hijackers on 9/11, with the cry, “Let’s roll!”

“God I ask you that you help us roll in these dark times, that we fear not the darkness, that we will seize our Esther and Gideon moments,” the man said, invoking a pair of Old Testament heroes who made themselves instruments of God’s vengeance. “We’re surrounded by wickedness and fear, and dithering, and inaction,” he added, “But that’s not our problem. Our problem is following Your lead.” Looking ahead to Jan 6, the man said: “I pray that… we’ll seize the power that we had given to us by the Constitution, and as well by You, providentially. I pray for the leaders also in the federal government, God, on the Sixth of January that they will rise up with boldness.”

The man was state senator Doug Mastriano (https://www.rollingstone.com/t/doug-mastriano/), now the Republican nominee to be the next governor of Pennsylvania. As he spoke, Mastriano held up letters (https://twitter.com/senmastriano/status/1344659659865677825) to Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy that he said Trump personally asked him to write to the Republican leaders “outlining the fraud in Pennsylvania.” He implored that Congress “disregard” the certified election results for the state, “in Jesus’ name, amen.”






https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doug-mastriano-donald-trump-christian-right-1234589455/

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eg. Desantis' personal army of voter intimidation cop

whining/lying about non-existent voter fraud has been a Repug tactic in their voter suppression strategy for 20+ years.

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Utah Republican advised Mormon Church not to report sexual abuse of very young children

Nelson said that one of the things he would “miss” was “having a voice and a vote on issues of public importance.

Particularly, I hope that my efforts to protect children and strengthen states’ rights prove beneficial.”

Nelson, who was also an attorney for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as the Mormon Church),

once “advised a church bishop not to report a confession of child sex abuse to authorities,

a decision that allowed the abuse to continue for years.” (https://apnews.com/article/religion-lawsuits-utah-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-government-and-politics-9f1607f4d308248ebf12dc32f70376ec)

This truly detestable allegation was filed in the Arizona Court of Appeals

by the abused children who are seeking to have the Church disclose their communications in an ongoing lawsuit.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/9/2121830/-Court-filings-show-Utah-lawmaker-advised-Mormon-Church-not-to-report-sexual-abuse-of-children

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Led by Tucker, Fox News amplifies far right’s stochastic terrorism against transgender Americans

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/9/2121894/-Fox-News-led-by-Tucker-amplifies-far-right-s-stochastic-terrorism-against-transgender-Americans

whatever the fuck, no matter the human suffering, and the more defenseless the better, enriches Fox and Carlson

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START THE STEAL is well under way

Trump Backers Accused of Weaponizing Records Requests to 'Destabilize' Midterms

Election officials across the U.S. are facing what many believe appears to be a coordinated effort to overwhelm their offices just as employees are mailing out absentee ballots and preparing for the 2022 midterms—

and critics say the deluge of requests hitting election offices is the work of prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump.

Election workers are bound by law to respond to records requests, which government watchdogs agree serve a vital purpose in ensuring a transparent, fair democratic system.

"They should not be used to harass or overwhelm a system as these coordinated requests from Trump supporters to local election offices appear intended to do,"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/12/trump-backers-accused-weaponizing-records-requests-destabilize-midterms

100% BAD FUCKING FAITH as Repugs push hard towards stolen elections and fascism.

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Election deniers on ballot: What does this mean for democracy?

Across America, Republicans who question the legitimacy of the last presidential election are on the ballot for the 2022 midterms.

At least 195 GOP Senate, House, governor, attorney general, or secretary of state nominees

have echoed Mr. Trump’s false charge that the presidential election was stolen

In poll after poll, about 70% of Republican voters say they do not think Mr. Biden legitimately won election to the presidency,

expressing mistrust in the Biden-Trump contest’s result

has become a foundational belief in particular for Republican primary voters, who are often the most motivated party faction.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0907/Election-deniers-on-ballot-What-does-this-mean-for-democracy

America is fucked and unfuckable. The BigLie(s) are as big and untrue as those told by Hitler

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'Unfit': PA Republicans devolve into 'childish' 4 am 'trash talk' against opponents

Pennsylvania Republican candidates began their trash-talking at 4 a.m. Monday morning, with Doug Mastriano lashing out at Attorney General Josh Shapiro over the gubernatorial debates.

Mastriano's name-calling of Shapiro as a "little man," presumably a play on Donald Trump's attack on "Little Marco" Rubio.

Shapiro refused to participate in a debate moderated by a former aide to Donald Trump, saying it was a "stunt."

Mastriano made it clear that he wouldn't agree to a standard debate format with an independent moderator, saying it would be "unfair" and a "trap" for him.

not surprising that the most extreme, out-of-touch candidate in Pennsylvania history

would spend his time tweeting childish insults at four in the morning rather than answering real questions from local journalists,”

https://www.rawstory.com/doug-mastriano-mehmet-oz-debate

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Repugs are now as 100% anti-democratic as is the Constitution

-- Boston Globe email:

"-- The Republican National Committee is training thousands of GOP poll workers and poll watchers across the country with orders to volunteer at voting locations in Democratic-majority precincts and

file challenges against Democratic voters. also for intimidation

According to audio and video recordings of RNC staffers obtained by Politico,

these recruits will have direct access to party lawyers via live chat on Election Day.

The RNC also has identified

GOP-friendly district attorneys willing to intervene on the spot to block vote counts at certain precincts.

Another part of the strategy is to

install election deniers on the local boards,

such as a Board of Canvassers, that are responsible for certifying election results.

So the scenario the GOP is setting up, Politico reports, is this:

Install politically motivated poll workers who hook up with zealous local lawyers to disrupt voting.

Then file a challenge with the Board of Canvassers claiming that there is so much chaos and disruption at the polling place (which they caused),

that GOP-controlled state legislatures have to intervene to declare the winners --

Republican candidates who actually lost at the ballot box.

"This is completely unprecedented in the history of American elections

that a political party would be working at this granular level to put a network together,"

Nick Penniman, founder and CEO of Issue One, an election watchdog group, told Politico.

"It looks like now the Trump forces are going directly after the legal system itself and that should concern everyone."

[Winehole23]

...the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: ‘Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?’ How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: ‘More taxes! Less bread!’? As Reich remarks, the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves? Reich is at his profoundest as a thinker when he refuses to accept ignorance or illusion on the part of the masses as an explanation of fascism, and demands an explanation that will take their desires into account, an explanation formulated in terms of desire: no, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be accounted for.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcjpPizWAAEo5kp?format=jpg&name=large

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Nixon more or less admitted the drug war was conceived to put minorities and hippies in jail.

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It's not more or less. There are recordings of Ashcroft and Nixon discussing the policy and how it would marginalize minorities through incarceration.

[Winehole23]

It's not more or less. There are recordings of Ashcroft and Nixon discussing the policy and how it would marginalize minorities through incarceration.yep. that's what I was referring to.

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yep. that's what I was referring to.

a recording has Tricky Dick and St Ronnie the Diseases laughing about knitters. both were racists for life.

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yep. that's what I was referring to.

a recording has Tricky Dick and St Ronnie the Diseases laughing about knitters. both were racists for life, 100% solid racist, misogynist Repugs in their bones

[Winehole23]

"NO, NOT LIKE THAT"

(story is more interesting than the headline)

1570411948684226560

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RealDoll says Marjorie Taylor Greene Copulation Companion is sold out

Trump supporters love RealDolls

Recently, the marketing team at RealDoll realized Trump-supporting evangelical Christians represent a huge growth market, one that already forms a large segment of their customer base.

Marketing Director Andrew Canard first came up with the

cutting-edge concept of specifically targeting evangelical MAGA fans

with female companion mannequins that look like celebrated champions of traditional morality.

“Why not furnish God-fearing men with dolls who look just like their QAnon (https://amzn.to/3ox0Beb)idols?

And that’s how the Marjorie Taylor Greene Copulation Companion was born.”


The pleasure doll can be set to either moan or scream a variety of classic sayings from the rightwing politician, such as:


“Pelosi is a traitor to our country, she’s guilty of treason. And it’s, uh, it’s a crime punishable by death is what treason is, you strong handsome man”
“Jewish space lasers are causing wildfires, ohhh, bzzt”
“Dominion Voting Systems stole the election from President Trump


https://onlysky.media/ahall/realdoll-says-the-marjorie-taylor-greene-copulation-companion-is-sold-out

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Santa Ana's revenge :lol

Hispanics are now the majority in Texas,

data shows on the day Hispanic Heritage Month begins

Hispanic Texans have surpassed white Anglo Texans by over 230,000 people,

becoming the state’s largest racial population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Texas-Hispanics-now-outnumber-Anglos-17443994.php

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Are MAGAtts, Repug voters possesed?

Catholic priest hospitalized after trying to exorcise cat

https://external-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/emg1/v/t13/1330250915697826191?url=https%3A%2F%2Fonlysky.medi a%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F05%2F58FEE1D0-2361-4336-BC39-897319254551-scaled.jpeg&fb_obo=1&utld=onlysky.media&stp=c0.5000x0.5000f_dst-jpg_flffffff_p500x261_q75&ccb=13-1&oh=06_AarG_FKj97NqUgcwbMssbpYgvR0GptcWkkJ6ulv0ws7f hQ&oe=6324EB26&_nc_sid=51f432

The Catholic Church officially considers these behaviors to be symptomatic of demonic possession. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_in_the_Catholic_Church#Signs)



Hatred towards religious objects.
Bizarre body positions.
Screeching and wailing.
Aggression.
Knowledge of events the individual couldn’t know about


The Maine Coon cat King had all of them.

https://onlysky.media/ahall/a-catholic-priest-tries-to-exorcise-a-cat-and-is-sent-to-the-hospital

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https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/307093694_494492172782362_5970475440501390176_n.jp g?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=giEynpF2uvUAX8qgu7c&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT8zYhdM3BBLyKLflMw9ZgV8ImzIJGON8qP0NtZ7rGgd FQ&oe=63292DD1

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evangelical shitbags and their shitty politics in comradeship with MAGAtts scaring away truer Christians

Christians Could Become A Minority In The US Within Decades

An increasing number of Americans are losing faith in Christianity.

https://www.iflscience.com/christians-could-become-a-minority-in-the-us-within-decades-65346

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Repug BLATANT FASCISM

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/305844656_510051524458678_7035584281630730358_n.jp g?stp=dst-jpg_p843x403&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=pKOOTTYXHTAAX97K75H&tn=Euxhru1pWdHoyPal&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT-9CuYHr2lPUeOa6OVBbVS9TRt5VaAd7cyDlqtFjGZlQQ&oe=6327E3AF

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transphobic Repug SS

Westfield woman charged with calling in bomb hoax to Boston Children’s Hospital

A Westfield woman has been charged in connection with a hoax bomb threat called in to Boston Children’s Hospital, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

She is charged with one count of making a false telephonic bomb threat in connection with an Aug. 30 call to the hospital. No bomb was ever found.

-- Boston Globe email

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Cleese describing ST Trash/Pootin fellators

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/241929347_10225804684602185_8903336148862997842_n. jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=gJvFVP90XAkAX8bIbix&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT_3Ws258jPXE3yB49gAY9mruJ-pwIx4xYuL1vhMhpazog&oe=6328203A

[FrostKing]

Welcome to Martha's Vineyard

:lol

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CBP promises probe after Texas account shares

Miller tweets, homophobic slur targeting Buttigieg

Immigrant and civil rights advocates have long warned of the

extremism within federal immigration agencies.

That extremism showed its ugly face this past weekend, when an official Twitter account for the West Texas division of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shared or liked a slew of right-wing propaganda,

including anti-immigrant tweets by noted white supremacist Stephen Miller.

Other tweets shared by @CBPWestTexas were authored by a Twitter user whose messages are frequently lifted up by anti-immigrant opponents.

One other tweet from a random user contained

a homophobic slur targeting Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,

the first openly gay cabinet secretary in U.S. history.

the problem isn’t just the tweets, it's the people behind the account, and

the racist and violent climate at federal immigration agencies like CBP.

“Documents and information obtained by the committee show that CBP determined that

60 Border Patrol agents engaged in misconduct related to secret Facebook groups during the Trump administration, and were subject to discipline,”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/12/2122423/-CBP-s-Twitter-account-promoting-anti-immigrant-homophobic-content-should-come-as-no-surprise

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How Ken Starr established 'proof of concept' for future bogus GOP investigations

Ken Starr demonstrated that

formal investigations into Democratic administrations are damaging, even if they amount to nothing.

Newt Gingrich had instilled suspicion in the public mind of deep corruption beneath all democratic institutions.

Starr’s investigation, though it was petty and vile, put flesh on the bones of this doubt.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/ken-starr-proof-of-concept/

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GA Kemp recorded saying that he was for banning contraception in GA,

nothing but a tactic in the christo fascist strategy based on Biblical misogynism.

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Flip Flop! Election Denier Bolduc Now Says Biden Is 'Legitimate President'

Two days after winning the New Hampshire Republican Senate nomination,

Don Bolduc has already done a complete flip-flop on whether the 2020 presidential election was stolen:

Just weeks after repeating the lie that former President Donald Trump was the real winner,

he said Thursday that President Joe Biden is "the legitimate president of this country."

https://www.nationalmemo.com/flip-flop-election-denier-bolduc-now-says-biden-is-legitimate-president

sucker the stupid MAGAtts in the primary, then switch to attract the middle.

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GOP-run state vows to ignore judge’s order after losing civil rights case to the ACLU

Montana is threatening to defy a federal judge's order

against their rule that makes it virtually impossible for transgender people to get their gender changed on their birth certificate.

https://www.rawstory.com/greg-gianforte-2658219940/

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Trump-appointed DHS inspector general made false claims under oath during Senate confirmation hearing

Cuffari told senators in 2019 that he'd gotten the stamp of approval from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency --

but it turns out that the panel made no such recommendation.

https://www.rawstory.com/joseph-cuffari-2658217145/

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Repug party of racists, xenophobes, inhumanity, slave states exchanging immigrants like chattel

Political stunts with human being is a vote getter with Repug shitbag voters.

Here’s where GOP governors have sent nearly 13,000 migrants

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (https://thehill.com/people/greg-abbott/)(R) and

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (https://thehill.com/people/doug-ducey/)(R) led the charge,

sending migrants north as early as April of this year, and

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (https://thehill.com/people/ron-desantis/)(R) initiated his own transport of migrants this week.

“There is a process in place to manage migrants at the border, and

Republican governors meddling in that process and

using desperate migrants as political tools is

shameful and it is wrong,” :lol Repugs have no shame, have no ethics


Where GOP governors are sending migrants

Republican governors in three border states have sent nearly 13,000 migrants to Democrat-led cities in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies.

Here's where they're going:

https://thehill.com/homenews/3647988-heres-where-gop-governors-have-sent-nearly-13000-migrants

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'I'm not that smart':

Herschel Walker sets low expectations ahead of debate with Raphael Warnock

on Friday, October 14, when Warnock and Walker have agreed to debate one another.

Warnock, often described as a great public speaker, is expected to outperform Walker in the debate.

But Walker may have a trick up his sleeve: setting expectations low and then overperforming.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/not-that-smart-herschel-walker/

Fucking Georgia, fucking Repugs, fucking slave states

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r-27335633734655481&th=1835671464dbd786&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-XonOVOxruiGv2eXRGQcVZ3qGfWT_1jeOnGCf6KiHqhrYfrhBbg yGf1QLZbqCIh98hLv9d1c-Xnnz3VwZsiJiJaXgCHpfTmXSe642f7BqbaNAvHzWasj-7pR0&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l88y17m40

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in the early 200s, Repug were scared to counter this shitbag who dictated Repugs policies, ideas

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/307551758_496948739203372_1012113149689299590_n.jp g?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=1LJy7yB7-YAAX-EGO2P&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT8atMemA3XQWy5JuKuNtem7bCSJOKO-ueAPmsYJVwn76Q&oe=632D578C

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Limbaugh, like AJ, made many $10Ms spewing Repug ideas of hate, misogyny, xenophobia, racism, toxic masculinity, jingoism, chauvinism

Repug have been shitbags for 70 years, going back to Ike campaigning for Joe McCarthy and spewed JM's shit, hate, conspiracies.

Trash, Limbaugh, A Jones, Desantis are not anomalies. They epitiomize hard core Repug crap.

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Trash/Repug SS continues political violence

'FJB!' Florida man yells Joe Biden slurs

while punching CVS clerk in the face :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/david-frick.jpg?id=31782371&width=1200&height=675

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-man-joe-biden-cvs

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

the sore loser party never loses -- it can only get robbed

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If Repugs take either chamber, it will be non-stop Benghazi shitstorms,

as well as shutting down EVERY Dem investigation

Congressional Dems need to get their info into DOJ before the election.

Jan 6 committee will be disbanded by the Repugs.


33 senators want special counsel privileges for Hunter Biden investigator

https://theweek.com/hunter-biden/1016827/33-senators-want-special-counsel-privileges-for-hunter-biden-investigator

[Winehole23]

1877, not 1939

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New evidence shows GOP’s Trump problem may be getting worse

Republicans are growing more concerned that President Trump could be a drag — and not a help — in tight midterm races

Republicans are growing more concerned that President Trump could be a drag — and not a help — in tight midterm races

just 34 percent of registered voters said they have a positive view of Trump,

compared to 54 percent who said they have a negative view of him.

That’s the lowest Trump has polled in NBC’s survey since April 2021.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3651178-new-evidence-shows-gops-trump-problem-may-be-getting-worse

out of Trash's 75M voters in 2020,

he's probably lost several M,

so he simply cannot win in 2024, just like 75M did not do it in 2020

No matter how insanely rabid his supporters are, numerical minority

otoh, Repugs, Trash SS, MAGAtts are in great position to steal as many elections as they want in November

Then when SCOTUS6 approves independent state legislatures, they will steal the Presidency from the Dem winner

America is unstoppably fucked and unfuckable

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'No different than fentanyl':

GOP AG nominee says Plan B has to be banned 'at the border'


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/matthew-deperno.png?id=30709436&width=1200&height=675

Matt DePerno, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Michigan,

"It's a state issue," he adds.

"The state has to ban it.

And it should be banned.

It's just an issue of how do you enforce it."

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-deperno-plan-b

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Another example of fascist Repug law breaking

'Big Lie' promoter True the Vote hacked data and targeted small election vendor with racist campaign

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/catherine-engelbrecht.png?id=29954087&width=1200&height=704

A defamation and computer fraud lawsuit filed this week against Texas-based True the Vote asks a judge to essentially determine whether the election-integrity group’s

campaign against a small election vendor constitutes slanderous lies or a participation in criminal acts.

alleges that True the Vote and its followers launched a stream of false and racist accusations against the company’s founder,

forcing him and his family to flee their home in fear for their lives and damaging the company’s business.

The suit cites

True the Votes’ public claims that it hacked the company’s servers and

accessed the personal information of nearly 2 million U.S. poll workers.

https://www.rawstory.com/catherine-engelbrecht

The Repug push towards fascism is in full swing and unstoppable.

Fascist Repugs and christo fascist SCOTUS6 will fuck America deeper in unfuckability.

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Graham throws another wrench into GOP’s abortion messaging
his claim that abortion is “not a states’ rights issue,” keeping the debate in the headlines and undercutting the party’s messaging heading into November’s midterms.

Democrats have spent roughly $124 million on ads centered on abortion — more than twice what the party has invested in any other issue.

https://www.rawstory.com/polio-2658314722

Graham is simply telling America that Repugs will pass a law to make abortion illegal Federally

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'What a waste':

High-profile Oz booster blasts him in leaked emails for

'gutter politics at its worst'

https://www.rawstory.com/mehmet-oz-2658317316

When we go low, we go lower.

There is not bottom is shitbag Repug fascist politics

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Zero GOP Senators Vote to Curb Dark Money's ( BRIBES ) Stranglehold on Democracy

"Instead of voting for the DISCLOSE Act and

cracking down on the dark money in our democracy,

Republicans blocked it,"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/22/zero-gop-senators-vote-curb-dark-moneys-stranglehold-democracy

Repugs, aka Capitalist oligarchy's cheap, reliable WHORES

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House passes Jan. 6 election reform bill

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3654586-house-passes-jan-6-election-reform-bill

Will be blocked by Repug Senate because

Repugs want the dark money bribes flowing and

they fully intend to steal every election that Dems win.

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Repug Schutzstaffel

Right-wing smear artists baldly lie about Idaho public schools teaching ‘porn literacy’ to children

The American right’s entire agenda now is driven by a singular narrative: Liberals are evil. Not merely bad, but beyond-the-pale foul and unholy, demonically possessed and intent on destroying the nation.

because they believe in the “greater truth” of their narrative,

they have no compunction about lying in the service of spreading it.

Baldfacedly.

Take for instance the latest utterly fake scandal generated by the Christopher Rufo-to-Libs of TikTok-to-Fox News pipeline, claiming that

Idaho’s public schools are teaching “porn literacy” to kids (https://www.inlander.com/spokane/no-idaho-schools-are-not-teaching-porn-literacy/Content?oid=24569006).

It’s just a flat-out naked lie.


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/16/2123392/-Right-wing-smear-artists-baldly-lie-about-Idaho-public-schools-teaching-porn-literacy-to-children

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House GOP Agenda Signals Push for Social Security and Medicare Cuts

"Republicans tell us over and over again that they will hand our earned Social Security and Medicare benefits over to Wall Street if they get power,"

a policy agenda that indicates the party would push for cuts to Social Security and Medicare if it retakes the majority in November.

expresses the GOP's commitment to "save and strengthen Social Security and Medicare." :lol

The House GOP's "Commitment to America" agenda, which was intentionally designed (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/mccarthy-brass-ring-unifying-agenda-00057886) to be light on policy specifics, also takes aim at historic Inflation Reduction Act provisions requiring Medicare to negotiate the prices

several Republican Senate candidates have

openly advocated privatization of Social Security and Medicare

on the campaign trail in recent weeks.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/22/house-gop-agenda-signals-push-social-security-and-medicare-cuts

[ElNono]

Democratic firms prevail in suit against Project Veritas
A jury returned a $120,000 verdict against purveyors of hidden-camera stings against liberals.

A federal court jury on Thursday awarded $120,000 in damages to Democratic consulting firms targeted by Project Veritas, a conservative group specializing in hidden-camera video stings, in connection with recordings made in 2016 by an operative who obtained an internship using a false name and story.

The jury of four men and five women concluded that the actions of the former operative, Allison Maass, breached a fiduciary duty to the consulting firms and amounted to fraudulent misrepresentation, according to the verdict form.

Recordings made by Maass and other operatives depicting what the group said were efforts to incite violence at rallies for then-President Donald Trump drew significant media attention in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. A key figure behind the Democratic consultancies, Robert Creamer, said the firms lost organizing contracts after the release of the videos. He adamantly denied encouraging violence during so-called bracketing efforts around Trump events.

:lol’Keefe
:lmao Veritas

[Winehole23]

It goes all the way back, he's always been like this

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It goes all the way back, he's always been like this

And they got a lot more than $120k from the phishing. Until they are held criminally liable this will just continue.

[boutons_deux]

dirty fucking Repug tricksters


Operatives linked to DeSantis promised to fly migrants to Delaware — but left them stranded


She brought them food and a message: They were being sent to Delaware. :lol Biden's place! :lol


The bus to the airport would be leaving at 5 a.m. the next day — Tuesday, Sept. 20 — she said,

according to interviews with six migrants housed at the hotel.

The migrants didn’t know that they were being swept up in an operation

that bore striking similarities to one organized the week before by operatives for Gov. Ron DeSantis

that ended with 48 Venezuelan migrants dropped off on a Massachusetts island.

Or that the trip to Delaware being dangled would never happen.



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article266089771.html#storylink=cpy

[boutons_deux]

Longtime Mehmet Oz confidant calls Doc Crock's

campaign a 'festival of fraudulence' and a 'disgrace'


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/21/2124322/-Longtime-Mehmet-Oz-confidant-calls-Doc-Crock-s-campaign-a-festival-of-fraudulence-and-a-disgrace (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/21/2124322/-Longtime-Mehmet-Oz-confidant-calls-Doc-Crock-s-campaign-a-festival-of-fraudulence-and-a-disgrace?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email)

[boutons_deux]

Obviously yet another shitbag racist Repug

Central Park Karen's loses case after being fired,

https://images.dailykos.com/images/809725/story_image/Amy-Cooper.jpg?1590522712

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/22/2124576/--Central-Park-Karen-bested-by-ex-employer-once-again-when-judge-rejects-wrongful-termination-claim

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/308110013_3273664879628052_5817560171958881414_n.j pg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=fOVQEV_uKS0AX_alv-d&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT_b6yERqgtIPJUEF80pGqfORul65phObpZxgyuq7GT4 mg&oe=6332057F

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Firing IGs they disagree with, and installing their own corrupt IGs is fundamental to Repug fascism

Employees in anonymous letter ask Biden to remove DHS inspector general

A group of employees who work for the internal watchdog at the Department of Homeland Security are

calling on President Biden (https://thehill.com/people/biden/)to remove their boss, saying they’ve lost hope the “ship will right itself.”

The request comes after

numerous congressional panels have asked DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari (https://thehill.com/people/joseph-cuffari/)to step aside from various investigations

after he failed to alert lawmakers in a timely manner that Secret Service text messages for Jan. 6 had been “erased.”

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3658713-employees-in-anonymous-letter-ask-biden-to-remove-dhs-inspector-general

Cuffari, among MANY others so far escaped, was part of the coup
,
why is Cuffari still there?

why is Dejoy still degrading USPS?

[boutons_deux]

Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Realizes the Dream of the Religious Right

For evangelicals and conservative Christians,

the former president’s cult-like rallies

have placed their ritualized militancy at the center of American politics.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-qanon

America is fucked and unfuckable, christo fascists will win, sooner or later

[Winehole23]

House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled their “Commitment to America” agenda for 2023 ― and with it, an inspirational video full of scenes presented as exceptional imagery of America that were actually stock footage from Russia and Ukraine.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-commitment-to-america-stock-footage-russia-ukraine_n_632dc7afe4b0d12b5404bab1

[boutons_deux]

Repug SS doing classic fascist intimidation, harassment

Republicans are filling precincts with MAGA thugs to challenge ballots, possibly including yours

just one important piece of the Republicans’ current plan to skew elections from this point forward,

including the 2022 midterms, in their favor.

The other major pieces involve creating a “paper trail” of perceived instances of MAGA-reported “fraud” at polling places,

with GOP lawyer operatives working in boiler rooms faithfully recording these fantasy “reports” of fraud on Election Day.

This, in turn, creates a ready

body of “evidence” for them to justify reversing election results to complicit GOP officials up the food chain,

including their election-denying secretaries of state who are tasked with certifying elections.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/21/2124374/-Republicans-seeding-voting-precincts-with-MAGA-thugs-to-challenge-ballots-possibly-including-yours

The nail in USA's mythical democracy will be SCOTUS6 validating the insane bullshit of "independent states legislatures"

There's an effort by "serious" Repugs, conservatives, libertarians, Dems to write some amendments to protect "democracy"

None of anything they're talking about touches the EC or the Senate, the two biggest FF fuckups

[boutons_deux]

Koch Network Showers Fascist Election Deniers With Campaign Cash Ahead of Midterms

"His choice is not unlike the choices that most German industrialists made in the Weimar Republic," one critic said of billionaire Charles Koch.

OpenSecrets shows that the powerful and deep-pocketed Koch network has spent more than $1 million supporting Republican congressional candidates who attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election,

adding to the tens of millions that corporate PACs have funneled to election deniers since the January 6 attack.

oil and gas giant controlled by billionaire Charles Koch—

"boasts a corporate PAC that has donated $607,000 to the campaigns or leadership PACs of 52 election deniers since January 2021,

making Koch's PAC the top corporate funder of members who opposed the election results."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/23/koch-network-showers-fascist-election-deniers-campaign-cash-ahead-midterms

Fascists Capitalists know they will amass $Ts more Capital when christo fascist Repugs control all three branches

[boutons_deux]

'Siding With Insurrectionists,'

203 House Republicans Vote No on Coup Prevention Bill









The Presidential Election Reform Act, which aims to prevent another January 6-style insurrection,

passed with the support of every House Democrat present—but only nine Republicans.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/21/siding-insurrectionists-203-house-republicans-vote-no-coup-prevention-bill

[boutons_deux]

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r3510913632572750139&th=183777d171de3a94&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9VoSkEK2FlRkkz6d9j7Urals4xEIZYAPqdzdd yDyXHvScHd2SlNQVAgIgX8BhWPRd4q0uoQg0MjNtY3F94lDBRZ n1pVWPe5ZFM4491Al0lqaUxdVX793feJ0M&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l8i44isu0

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Jim the “Waco Kid” consoles him with a little humor.

“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers.

These are people of the land.

The common clay of the new West.

You know … morons”

=======================

aka, The toxic Repug base

[boutons_deux]

NeoNazis are now the second largest party in Sweden

Italy just elected fratelli party that worships Mussolini

Bolsonaro will probably lose Sunday and order a military takeover

The fascist Capitalist oligarchy and the fascist repugs are an example to the rest of the world's democracies that democracy is finished

If the repugs control the house in November

The terminal fucking of America will begin

[boutons_deux]

No Law is Above Repug Dick

Ex-MI GOP House Speaker says sex with a minor was not assault because she consented

Leviticus 20:10 “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife — with the wife of his neighbor — both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.”

Lee Chatfield, 34, for sexual assault after Rebekah Chatfield, 27,

Rebekah accused Lee of sexually assaulting her starting when she was 14 or 15 (in 2009 or 2010)

— and ending in July 2021 when she was 26.

Chatfield himself may have confessed to a crime.

He did not deny the sex.

But said it had been a consensual “affair”.

However, the age of consent in Michigan is 16

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/26/2125429/-Ex-MI-GOP-House-Speaker-says-sex-with-a-minor-was-not-assault-because-she-consented

[boutons_deux]

75% of voters DID NOT vote for Fratelli fascists

she won with 25% of the vote

Fratelli govt is widely expected to fall soon like all other Italian govts.

[FrostKing]

NeoNazis are now the second largest party in Sweden

Italy just elected fratelli party that worships Mussolini

Bolsonaro will probably lose Sunday and order a military takeover

The fascist Capitalist oligarchy and the fascist repugs are an example to the rest of the world's democracies that democracy is finished

If the repugs control the house in November

The terminal fucking of America will begin
Left has only themselves to blame

Cried nazi fascism wolf too long and now the terms are meaningless. How long did you expect labeling all opposition a Racist, would work? The common European is no longer falling for labels. Demanding results they can see firsthand in their neighborhood.

[Winehole23]

hysterical ninnies call for the cancellation of Halloween


1574885070342479873

[boutons_deux]

Fox reflexively grabs onto any shit and blames it on the Dems, antifa, BLM, Biden, etc

So Dems or whoever is going to kill kids on Holloween by giving the colored candy fentanyl?

We can safely assume that Ms of Fox viewers will believe and spread this huge fucking slanderous Fox turd of lie

[boutons_deux]

GOP governor nominee once urged murder charges for women getting abortions

Doug Mastriano,

a Pennsylvania state senator who is the GOP nominee for governor,

once said that

women who violated his proposed abortion ban should be charged with murder.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/28/doug-mastriano-abortion

[boutons_deux]

Thanks, Mormon freak cult

Senator Mike Lee was behind getting Sidney Powell on Trump's legal team


https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lee-sidney-powell-trump/

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Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes out at news media after criticism over her feral hog hunting stunt

a video portraying her as some kind of lighting-powered superhero with a helicopter and an AR-15 shooting a feral pig and criticizing Democrats.

Greene takes a large AR-15-styled assault weapon into a helicopter so she can shoot and kill a feral hog from the air.

She later poses with the dead carcass on the ground.

Wednesday morning HuffPost published a story titled,

"Marjorie Taylor Greene Likens Dems To Hogs, Wants Help Shooting Them Dead."

https://www.rawstory.com/dont-call-us-fascists-marjorie-taylor-greene-blasts-news-media-after-criticism-over-her-feral-hog-hunting-stunt/

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Georgia conservatives are purging voter rolls with challenges allowed under GOP-passed law

Conservative activists are challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters under a law passed last year by the Republican-controlled state legislature.

“Anybody in your neighborhood, for whatever their reasons are, can challenge your voter eligibility.”


“Anybody in your neighborhood, for whatever their reasons are,

can challenge your voter eligibility.”

64,000 voters have been challenged across the state --

which is far greater than the 21,000-vote margin President Joe Biden won over Donald Trump in 2020 --

and at least 1,800 voters have been removed from the rolls.



growing segment of the country that seems

to believe lies that they have been told about the 2020 election and

that has them distrusting election officials,” :lol 70% of Repug voters believe the BigLie, fucking up America

challengers are most likely to affect minority voters,

who played a key role in making Biden the first Democrat to win the state in decades,

https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-voting-restrictions/?utm_source=123456&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11498

[Monostradamus]

1575492675364851714

[Winehole23]

1575883925515182081

[spurraider21]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fd8R4nHWIAEdZX_?format=jpg&name=medium

[spurraider21]

DEATH WISH

fucking psychopath

[Winehole23]

DEATH WISH

fucking psychopathHe's been teasing violence against opponents the whole way, tbh.

Contextually, he's pissed that Republicans voted to fund the US government, just basic keeping the lights on and keeping the US out of default.

[Winehole23]

"Coco Chow"

[baseline bum]

DEATH WISH

fucking psychopath

I mean this is the guy who called on his brownshirts to assassinate Clinton in 2016

[DarrinS]

I mean this is the guy who called on his brownshirts to assassinate Clinton in 2016

Lol, no

[Winehole23]

Lol, nodo you think McConnell deserves the crosshairs Trump just put on him?

[baseline bum]

Lol, no

LOL second amendment remedies

[Isitjustme?]

Lol, no

Darrin being absolutely forced into defending Trump (who he does not support) once again. Smh

[boutons_deux]

Georgia conservatives are purging voter rolls with challenges allowed under GOP-passed law

Conservative activists are challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters under a law passed last year by the Republican-controlled state legislature.

“Anybody in your neighborhood, for whatever their reasons are, can challenge your voter eligibility.”

New Georgia Project says 64,000 voters have been challenged across the state --

which is far greater than the 21,000-vote margin President Joe Biden won over Donald Trump in 2020 --

and at least 1,800 voters have been removed from the rolls.

https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-voting-restrictions

[boutons_deux]

GOP learning the hard way in Michigan that

Trump's backing means little to general election voters


https://www.rawstory.com/tudor-dixon-trump

[boutons_deux]

'Nobody on God’s green earth is scared' of 'spineless suckup' Kevin McCarthy: former RNC official

Tim Miller burned down House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (https://www.thebulwark.com/kevin-mccarthy-the-gimp-who-thinks-hes-a-master/) on Thursday

following a Washington Post report detailing how the House Republican worked behind the scenes to rid the party of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC).

allies of McCarthy, reportedly with his blessing, funneled contributions (https://www.rawstory.com/madison-cawthorn-2658346085/) to dark money groups who in turn worked to make sure that the controversial lawmaker didn't survive North Carolina's GOP primary.

Miller maintained that

McCarthy wants to be viewed as a GOP strongman who is primed and

ready to take over Rep. Nancy Pelosi's job if the GOP reclaims the House after the November midterms.

campaign to oust Cawthorn was successful, but it bears mentioning that it was also disgustingly homophobic boob bait.


https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-2658359259

[boutons_deux]

Herschel Walker says forget about him holding gun to his wife’s head because Jesus (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/30/2126191/-Herschel-Walker-uses-Bible-verses-to-defend-himself-against-domestic-violence-he-was-a-part-of)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/30/2126191/-Herschel-Walker-uses-Bible-verses-to-defend-himself-against-domestic-violence-he-was-a-part-of

[boutons_deux]

2,000 public school students taken to

traumatizing church event

instead of promised college fair

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/30/2126162/-2-000-public-school-students-brought-to-traumatizing-church-event-instead-of-promised-college-fair

fucking christo fascists have no bottom

[boutons_deux]

Judge rejects GOP request to

bar Pennsylvania counties from contacting voters about mistakes on their ballots

https://www.rawstory.com/pa-judge-rejects-gop-request-to-bar-counties-from-contacting-voters-about-mistakes-on-their-ballots

mistake on your ballot? your vote isn't counted, voter suppression

[boutons_deux]

Repugs, the party of racists

'Nobody' questioned slavery:

DeSantis roasted for remarks about early U.S. history

https://www.rawstory.com/nobody-questioned-slavery-desantis-roasted-for-remarks-about