what happens to the republican party

[Winehole23]

Trump put the crosshairs on election workers, his dutiful minions have been harassing and threatening them ever since.


Officials warn the U.S. is facing a shortage of election workers ahead of the November midterms due to a rise in threats against those performing such jobs that experts link to false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.


In an interview last month (https://www.cbsnews.com/video/cisa-election-chief-warns-of-workforce-problem-due-to-threats-to-poll-workers/#x), Kim Wyman, senior election security lead at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said because of those threats 1 in 3 elections officials and poll workers have quit their positions over fears for their safety, and state officials are having a hard time hiring for such positions.
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/3669329-us-faces-election-worker-shortage-ahead-of-midterms-due-to-rise-in-threats/

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Repug SS provide exactly same service as Hitler's SS

Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream

Threats of violence have become commonplace among a significant part of the party,

as historians and those who study democracy warn of

a dark shift in American politics. :lol it ain't BLM or antifa! :lol
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/politics/republican-violent-rhetoric.html

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Lawmakers Confront a Rise in Threats and Intimidation, and Fear Worse

Violent political speech has increasingly crossed into the realm of in-person confrontation for members of Congress in both parties, raising the prospect of a disastrous event.

In Queens, a man who had traveled across the country

waited in a cafe across the street from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office to confront her,

part of a near-constant stream of threats and harassment that has

prompted the congresswoman to switch her sleeping location at times

and seek protection from a 24-hour security detail.

She said her office can hardly keep up with the “astronomical” amount of threats she receives in a day —

more than any other member except House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, and Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota,

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/us/politics/violent-threats-lawmakers.html

The Repug SS has already killed and will kill again, while continuing non-stop threats and disruption.

The entire Repug party has come out against their own SS. j/k

[boutons_deux]

you heard it here

America is fucked by unfuckable, by Capitalisms and their hitmen the Repugs and Repugs SS

[boutons_deux]

MJT inflames the SS by saying the Democrats are killing Republicans

[boutons_deux]

Herschel Walker Reportedly Paid For Girlfriend’s Abortion,

Pro-Life Candidate Responds With Vow to Sue For Defamation

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bombshell-report-reveals-herschel-walker-paid-for-girlfriends-abortion-gop-candidate-responds-with-vow-to-sue-for-defamation/

[Winehole23]

1577706236258271233

1577719693573603329

[Spurminator]

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[Winehole23]

Probably older



In 1996, Snopes came across the below-displayed text that claimed each main character of the Scooby Doo (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scooby-doo-actually-scoobert/) universe represented a college within the eastern U.S.’s Five College Consortium — a group comprised of Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke, Smith College and University of Massachusetts Amherst.



Well…I have an awesome story about Scooby Doo, too. I go to Mt. Holyoke College and we are part of a five college system along with UMASS, Hampshire, Smith, and Amherst. It is a fact that the creator of Scooby Doo went to UMASS, so he fashioned all of the characters after the five colleges.
SCOOBY- this loveable, but REALLY STUPID mutt is the representative for UMASS.
SHAGGY- this freaky, stoned, weirdo is supposed to be a guy from Hampshire.
FRED- this gorgeous, intelligent gentleman is mean to embody Amherst College (even though THAT certainly doesn’t represent a current day Amherst guy!)
VELMA- she’s the lesbian…Smith…definitely.
DAPHNE- the beautiful chick is…of course…the grand prize for any UMASSHOLE, a Mt. Holyoke grrrl.
This theory has been backed up by many people. The stereotypes here are not necessarily true or up to date, but they are kinda funny!



https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scooby-doo-what-is-you/

[ChumpDumper]

1577666368471703556

Now?

[boutons_deux]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS

Repugs' Waffen-SS powering up to intimidate voters, esp non-whites, and then shoot the place when a Repug loses

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

Armed Fringe Groups Are Gearing Up to ‘Protect’ Midterm Ballot Dropboxes

The groups, inspired by conspiracy theories and the Big Lie about the 2020 election, could deter some voters, experts warn.

A “patriot group” in Arizona called Lions of Liberty :lol

—which is closely tied to the Oath Keepers :lol

—is organizing their supporters to go out and conduct round-the-clock surveillance of ballot dropboxes during the midterm elections.

Lions of Liberty is the “political arm” of a newly-formed nonprofit called

Yavapai County Preparedness Team (YCPT), :lol

led by the former vice president of Arizona’s Oath Keeper chapter, Jim Arroyo.

Ballot dropboxes have become the central focus of election fraud conspiracy theorists, thanks to the

debunked documentary 2,000 Mules, :lol

by right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza. ex-con D'Souza :lol

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7wvj/lions-of-liberty-oath-keepers-midterm-ballot-boxes

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A majority of GOP nominees — 299 in all — deny the 2020 election results (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/06/elections-deniers-midterm-elections-2022/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F381d2e7%2F633efc11f3d9003c5807d281%2F59740db3 ade4e21a8493fdae%2F8%2F72%2F633efc11f3d9003c5807d2 81&wp_cu=2d70772110872a2cda1d986e87dbf075%7C3558D57C0 6AD6290E0530100007FFC8B)

Experts say their dominance in the party poses a threat to the country’s democratic principles and

jeopardizes the integrity of future votes

-- wapo email

America is being tucked by the Capitalist oligarchy and christo fascist Christians,

with SCOTUS Catholics leading the fucking

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Texas repug Schutzstaffel

Texas Election Officials Are Fighting an Endless Battle With “Stop the Steal” Activists


Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud have made life more difficult and dangerous for poll workers,

nearly a third of whom have quit or retired since 2020.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-election-poll-workers-battle-activists/

[Spurminator]

lmao what an embarrassing party.

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LGBT HATE, like good Christians

In September, Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma decided that

Oklahoma Children's Hospital would get $39.4 million for a pediatric mental health facility

only if the hospital stopped providing gender-affirming care

-- wapo email

[ElNono]

1577666368471703556

What they mean by 'now'?

[Ef-man]

1577666368471703556

Reminds me of the conservative made-up outrage over Tinky Winky the gay Teletubby. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Senate Republican bill would repeal Democratic drug pricing law

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3678314-senate-republican-bill-would-repeal-dem-drug-pricing-law

Repugs always pro-oligarchy, anti-non-oligarchy

and the fucking rural rednecks, dirt scratchters, shit kickers, hate-drive Christians are the non-oligarchy

[boutons_deux]

Repugs will also

repeal the 15% tax

pass a law forbidding DC and PR statehood

etc, etc

[FrostKing]

Baseball playoffs are on

Take a breather from the politics

[Winehole23]

Reminds me of the conservative made-up outrage over Tinky Winky the gay Teletubby. :lol

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/13/21/3-Tinky-Winky-BBC.jpg?quality=75&width=982&height=726&auto=webp

[Trainwreck2100]

What they mean by 'now'?

cmon she was bi at best she was always shaggy's side girl

[Winehole23]

lmao what an embarrassing party.

1578174670854975491the swagger is kinda cringe, but maybe that's its selling point.

https://c.tenor.com/X_ykW7CwJnQAAAAC/depilada-bubbles.gif

[benefactor]

cmon she was bi at best she was always shaggy's side girl
Nah bro Im pretty sure her and Daphne got down when Fred was occupied with other shit. I say that because I feel like Shaggy is too dumb for her and Fred is too straight and narrow to get down on a threesome

[Winehole23]

Nah bro Im pretty sure her and Daphne got down when Fred was occupied with other shit. I say that because I feel like Shaggy is too dumb for her and Fred is too straight and narrow to get down on a threesomeThey were all getting down in the Mystery Machine, imho. No way Shaggy and Scooby were the only ones who toked.

Have you ever seen the inside of a proper 1970's custom van? Do you remember the 1970s?

[benefactor]

They were all getting down in the Mystery Machine, imho. No way Shaggy and Scooby were the only ones who toked.

Have you ever seen the inside of a proper 1970's custom van? Do you remember the 1970s?
Well yeah they were all smoking...but I was saying(pertaining to the subject) I think Velma and Daphne did the girl on girl thing from time to time.

[Winehole23]

Well yeah they were all smoking...but I was saying(pertaining to the subject) I think Velma and Daphne did the girl on girl thing from time to time.no doubt, but why stop there

:lol

[Winehole23]

is this standard in Indiana?

https://imageproxy.ifunny.co/crop:x-20,resize:640x,quality:90x75/images/d651c0b8cfcf8c830c8da5b6a8bb39046d8419d58fbb64702b 332b7261096a7f_1.jpg

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[boutons_deux]

MTG says EVs are emasculating

[boutons_deux]

Fired by Obama as nutcase, christo fascist Flynn rousing the evangelical rabble (for profit)

Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken Roadshow Recruits ‘Army of God’

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/michael-flynn-reawaken-america-tour (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/michael-flynn-reawaken-america-tour/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ICYMI&utm_content=100922)

[boutons_deux]

If Repugs control the Senate in 2024, Bitch McC says he will block any Biden nominees

November 2022 could be the beginning of the end of US's fake democracy.

[Trainwreck2100]

Just a follow up on the scooby doo thing, Shaggy's black now.

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Repugs, the party of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Jew, fascism

Indiana Republican Todd Rokita defends Kanye after anti-Semitic tweet —

saying it's just 'independent thinking'



https://www.rawstory.com/todd-rokita-kanye-west-anti-semitism

Indiana, the 1920s state with the most KKK

[boutons_deux]

Lying Repugs

No, VP Kamala Harris didn’t say Hurricane Ian relief would be based on skin color

Scott (R-Fla) was among the conservatives who seized on an out-of-context clip of Harris to make it seem as if she said federal storm relief would be based solely on race and equity.

conservatives, including Sen. Scott, seized on a shortened, out-of-context clip of Harris’ answer

to make it seem as if Harris said federal storm relief would be based solely on race and equity.

Scott claimed on CBS’ "Face the Nation" on Sunday that Harris said relief would be "faster" if you "have a different skin color."

https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/No-VP-Kamala-Harris-didn-t-say-Hurricane-Ian-17494181.php

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So now, the white male supremacist MAGAtts will hear that a black! female! Vice-Pres saying non-whites are prioritized for Ian aid.

There will be no undoing the lie, one of 1000s spewed by Repugs and right-wing hate media to inflame MAGAtts to violence.

[boutons_deux]

Repug party's thought leader interviews a nutcase, to amuse his racist viewers

Kanye West assures Tucker Carlson: ‘I will eventually be president.’

-- LA Times email

[boutons_deux]

Just like Trash and other fascists, fascist Desantis attacks the media to de-credibilize it as fake news,

and Desantis as sole source of truth, EXACTLY like Trash does

DeSantis steps up attacks on media

The rising Republican star has repeatedly taken punches at the “corporate press” as his national stature has grown

but appeared to escalate the attacks in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian’s destruction in the state.

he accused the press of rooting for the hurricane to strike Tampa.

“They don’t care about the people of this state. They don’t care about this community. They want to use storms and destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda,”

DeSantis is using a playbook common to GOP stars.

“‘National regime media’ is just fresh nomenclature for an enduring strategy,”

DeSantis has made it a point to go after mainstream news outlets

to boost his persona as an aggressive and brash politician who isn’t afraid to defy the establishment.

he blamed media outlets for causing “hysteria” around the COVID-19 pandemic :lol 20K+ covid dead in FL

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3678541-desantis-steps-up-attacks-on-media

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Repugs "justifying" cheating, stealing the 2022 and 2024 elections behind the BigLie

This QAnon Secretary of State Candidate Is Promising to Reinstall Trump in 2024

“President Trump and I lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election,”

Jim Marchant lied at a rally on Saturday night.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax7nm/jim-marchant-trump-qanon

America is fucked and unfuckable

Repug SS harassing, intimidating state election officials to quit, replaces by MAGAtts ,

MAGAtts running for Secy of State to rule over the elections

[boutons_deux]

Senator John Kennedy: If You Hate Cops, 'Call a Crackhead' for Help

The Louisiana Republican made the comment in his new political ad calling for more funding for police.

https://jezebel.com/senator-john-kennedy-if-you-hate-cops-call-a-crackhea-1849607091

For Confederate Louisiana, crackhead is codeword for knitter

[ChumpDumper]

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[Spurminator]

Just a follow up on the scooby doo thing, Shaggy's black now.

Dang, that totally disrupts the core of the Shaggy character, which is fundamentally that of a white person. I'm never watching Scooby Doo again.

[boutons_deux]

Dejoy part of the oligarchy strategy's fascist takeover

Judge finds DeJoy harmed the Postal Service in 2020 election balloting interference

Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan found that

the changes DeJoy made (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/louis-dejoy-post-office/index.html) to the U.S. Postal Service in the months leading up to the 2020 elections to remove sorting machines and prevent carriers from making extra deliveries hurt mail delivery.

He also found that DeJoy should not have made those operational changes unilaterally,

without permission from the Postal Regulatory Commission.

The judge put orders in place to prevent DeJoy from repeating those actions.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/7/2127514/-Louis-DeJoy-is-still-Postmaster-General-and-it-still-doesn-t-make-any-sense

BLACK Judge installed by Repug Presidents

[boutons_deux]

This Republican is so pissed about an ad, he's threatening to sue to overturn the election

tate Rep. Andrea Salinas, has been running a TV ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BPVaVCCdVk) highlighting

his 2016 arrest and conviction for drunk driving.

In that spot, the narrator notes that

in addition to the DUI, Erickson was “charged with illegal drug possession for illegal oxycodone”

—and it’s that word “charged” that has Erickson hot and bothered and wanting to subvert the will of voters.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/7/2127460/-Oregon-Republican-threatens-to-sue-to-overturn-the-results-in-his-own-House-race-in-case-he-loses

[Chris Fall]

Dang, that totally disrupts the core of the Shaggy character, which is fundamentally that of a white person. I'm never watching Scooby Doo again.

I always felt like Dave Chappelle's crackhead Tyrone Biggums character was loosely based on Shaggy. At least he gave me that vibe. So I personally can totally see it.

Update Shaggy to more current times, less hippie and more Rasta and it could work.

[boutons_deux]

Republicans are making no secret of their plans to shut down the government if they regain power

they're not interested in governing.

"Rather, GOP leaders are likely to

focus on gridlock,

impeachment crusades, and

extensive hearings into assorted conspiracy theories."

GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters who said that he's

prepared to shut down the government to force President Biden to reverse course on his border policies.

other Republican lawmakers are expressing the same sentiment, like

Chip Roy who “wants to see his party willing to

shut down the government to remove funds for policies that Republicans don’t support.”

https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-are-making-no-secret-of-their-plans-to-shut-down-the-government-if-they-regain-power

[Winehole23]

not a dog whistle but a foghorn

1578910976740536320

[Spurminator]

I always felt like Dave Chappelle's crackhead Tyrone Biggums character was loosely based on Shaggy. At least he gave me that vibe. So I personally can totally see it.

Update Shaggy to more current times, less hippie and more Rasta and it could work.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article27414252.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_Stranger-Things-fans-stunned-as-they-rush-to-call-Surfer-Boy-Pizza-number.jpg

[boutons_deux]

‘Global financial meltdown’:

GOP plans ‘catastrophic default’

if Dems don’t cut Social Security and Medicare

https://www.rawstory.com/global-financial-meltdown-gop-plans-catastrophic-default-if-dems-dont-cut-social-security-and-medicare-critics-warn

old, poor Repug voters, in toxic rural America, gonna lose on Medicare and SS,

but at least the Repugs hurt the hated people: women, Muslims, LGBT, blacks, browns

If the Repugs can't extort the Dems to do it, then ABSOLUTELY be assured that the Repugs will do it, and MUCH MORE when they control all 3 branches.

[Winehole23]

Jussie Smollette tho

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/denis-molla-brooklyn-center-arson-charges/Molla just pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

1579952078281388033

1579952741962911744

[spurraider21]

And?
:lmao

[benefactor]

:lmao
That aged well:lol

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm#inbox?projector=1

[boutons_deux]

House GOP promises vengeance on Democrats for doing good stuff while in power (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/10/2128082/-House-Republicans-It-ll-be-all-impeachment-all-investigation-all-the-time-if-we-win)
a summary of platitudes like
“support our troops,”
“exercise peace through strength with our allies to counter increasing global threats,”
“recover lost learning from school closures,” and
“uphold free speech.” And, of course, “rigorous oversight.”

All of which really means tax cuts (and defunding the IRS again (https://projects.propublica.org/represent/bills/117/hr9143),

which effectively means more tax cuts) and investigations.

Hunter Biden and the Biden Family have peddled influence across the globe to enrich themselves at the expense of American interests.

It’s clear that Joe was involved. The question is: to what extent?

We will get that answer for the American people.

It’s all about vengeance.

It’s been all about vengeance since the nation had the temerity to elect a Black man to the White House and

that president was able to do big stuff, like lower millions of people’s health insurance costs.

have one skill:

holding a grudge and making political hay out of it.

Democrats impeached Trump?

Republicans will impeach President Joe Biden, whether he actually did anything or not.

they’ve already filed 14 impeachment resolutions (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/30/biden-impeachment-republicans-trump-comparison) against Biden

as well as Vice President Kamala Harris,

Secretary of State Antony Blinken,

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and

Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“Those members will have his McCarthy balls in such a vice grip

that when they say ‘jump’,

he’ll say ‘how high’,

and it’ll be too late before he realizes the fall will kill them.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/10/2128082/-House-Republicans-It-ll-be-all-impeachment-all-investigation-all-the-time-if-we-win

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Social Security 'In Grave Danger' If GOP Retakes Congress, Advocates Warn

"Republicans plan to use the debt limit as the hostage to demand these cuts,

even though Social Security doesn't add a single penny to the deficit,"

new reporting on GOP plans to use a looming fight over the nation's debt ceiling to pursue benefit cuts.

"Social Security and Medicare eligibility changes,

spending caps, and

safety-net work requirements are among the top priorities"

for the GOP if it retakes the House in next month's elections.

"next year's deadline to raise or suspend the debt ceiling is a point of leverage" to extract concessions from Democrats, including potentially raising the retirement age and reducing Social Security benefits, the outlet noted.

GOP's recently released policy agenda (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/22/house-gop-agenda-signals-push-social-security-and-medicare-cuts), which opens the door to Social Security and Medicare cuts

"Our main focus has got to be on nondiscretionary—it's got to be on entitlements,"

their intentions are: reaching into the American people's pockets and stealing their hard-earned benefits," said Altman.

"Republicans plan to use the debt limit as the hostage to demand these cuts,

even though Social Security doesn't add a single penny to the deficit.

If Republicans take control of one or both chambers of Congress,

our earned benefits are in grave danger."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/11/social-security-grave-danger-if-gop-retakes-congress-advocates-warn

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UT Austin polling location closes due to non-compliance with American Disabilities Act

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/ut-austin-polling-location-closes-17503807.php

How about leaving the PCL polling open and

telling ADA students to go to LBJ school?

This really stinks. Why hasn't PCL been closed in earlier years?

[ChumpDumper]

How about leaving the PCL polling open and

telling ADA students to go to LBJ school?They're doing the latter, just with all the students.

[Winehole23]

just ignoring the will of the voters if they elect Democrats

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[Winehole23]

Forced birth for victims of incest, today's extremist Republican Party.


At least two child incest victims were denied abortion care since the state’s 15-week abortion ban—which lacks exceptions for rape and incest—took effect in July, Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida confirmed (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/abortion-florida-ban-incest) to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday. Laura Goodhue, vice president of public policy for the group, said both of these patients, one of whom was in middle school while the other was a young teen, were forced to travel “at least two, three states away” with help from Planned Parenthood.https://jezebel.com/two-child-incest-victims-denied-abortions-in-florida-1849652906

[Winehole23]

just ignoring the will of the voters if they elect Democrats

1580524393939161088

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfDIf_oWABQwaME?format=png&name=900x900https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/14/ron-desantis-florida-hurricane-ian-voting-rules

[Winehole23]

The accommodations include (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/desantis-agrees-to-election-changes-for-storm-battered-area-00061643) extended early voting days and the ability for voters to send mail-in ballots from addresses not listed in voting records.




Voting rights groups had previously asked the governor to extend the statewide voting registration deadline, which ended on Tuesday, and to add more early voting days, as well as implement other accommodations.


DeSantis complied – but only for the three Republican counties.

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[boutons_deux]

Ron DeSantis rally crowd cheers louder for tax-free pet food than tax-free goods for children


https://www.rawstory.com/florida-republicans-cheer-pet-food/

[boutons_deux]

More dead Repugs than Dems

New research finds that watching Fox News during a pandemic really can be deadly

citing previous research (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/03/pandemic-biden-trump-deaths/) that identified a clear correlation between being a Republican and foolishly dying of COVID.

Republicans have been killing themselves to own the libs for decades—most notably by opposing health care initiatives (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-share-of-americans-favor-a-single-government-program-to-provide-health-care-coverage/) that would greatly improve their lives and their prospects of reaching old age.

So this was just another data point in a long-term trend.

Fox News had an outsized effect in convincing Republicans to kill themselves even faster.

we can point to the interplay of partisanship itself.

As president, Trump tried to

play down the danger of the virus and, with an eye to reelection,

cast efforts (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/21/trumps-message-vaccines-isnt-powerful-trumpisms-message/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15)to contain the virus as power plays from an overbearing government.

This certainly helped

influence behaviors among Republicans on vaccination, masking and social distancing.

Fox News is reducing COVID-19 vaccination uptake in the United States, with no evidence of the other major networks having any effect,”

“[T]here is an association between areas with higher Fox News viewership and lower vaccinations,”

“media emphasis on minority viewpoints against scientific consensus is linked to vaccination hesitancy.”

“The other two major television networks, CNN and MSNBC, have no effect.”


Carlson ... hiselevation (https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20210506_050000_Tucker_Carlson_Tonight/start/159/end/175.5?q=vaccine)ofinaccurate (https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/scicheck-video-tucker-carlson-misrepresents-vaccine-safety-reporting-data/)numbers about purported deaths from coronavirus vaccines and \\

touting (https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20210601_050000_Tucker_Carlson_Tonight/start/420/end/480?q=vaccine)the idea that natural immunity was as effective as vaccination —

ignoring, of course, the risk posed by reaching natural immunity.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/12/2128590/-New-research-concludes-that-yes-watching-Fox-News-during-a-pandemic-really-can-be-deadly

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Kari Lake refused to say she would concede

Repugs will fuck up everything everywhere

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some insane, both-sides-ism

Chris Christie Clashes With Donna Brazile on January 6 Committee’s ‘Credibility Problem’:

‘Where’s the Other Side’ of the Capitol Riot? :lol

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-christie-clashes-with-donna-brazile-on-january-6-committees-credibility-problem-wheres-the-other-side-of-the-capitol-riot/

"Be fair, give insurrection a chance"

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r6467809562855623296&th=183e54f78011365c&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ95XUm5xkZeBzkukDTh1oPvcyOLK41UbYfB4eJ aUsLbQLTSApIC1MIVJVeOhj7Ki97E8rnrSC27Qu6KVnY4ENtFS JqoL10DI9pqOf0s1zy50Zin3kcza6GSbqA&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l9cl3rrx0

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Repug Schutzstaffel harassing, intimidating their "Jews", anybody they don't like, behind Trash's big "Jew Lie" of stolen election.

Repugs started the "election integrity" BULLSHIT in St Ronnie's years.

Election Administrators Are Under Attack. Here’s What That Means for the Upcoming Midterms.Harassment and threats have driven election officials to resign at unprecedented rates since the 2020 presidential election.https://www.propublica.org/article/election-administrators-harassment-david-becker

There's nothing new under the sun.

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-a:r-3285605175107046235&th=183e5a151f2c4600&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-NJ-_ZSdcwlFH_g8W-KFBlVS9eAZvkBvreF6V4pOWhQr_m8vNqJACmesLg9n9oNXR4eX KK_HeBuN6mlZY06FP5d8BIOVtxeXGLRUhH9lc_nqFftjRfaTO1 vWU&disp=emb&realattid=ii_l9coapw11

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‘Beyond Parody’:

Sen. Mike Lee Mocked for Writing Op-Ed in the Third Person Endorsing Himself :lol


The op-ed (https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/10/16/mike-lee-has-earned-reputation/) headlined “Mike Lee has earned a reputation as a principled conservative” had a byline of “Mike Lee.” It’s a short piece — only seven paragraphs comprised of less than 300 words — and adopts the overly earnest tone of a middle schooler’s book report.

“Mike Lee serves as a United States senator representing the state of Utah,” Mike Lee begins his op-ed writing about how great Mike Lee is.

“Since taking office, Senator Lee has earned a reputation as a principled conservative.

He believes elected officials are responsible for keeping the federal government within its constitutionally limited role.”

The op-ed continues,

touting how “Lee serves on various [Senate] committees important to Utah,”

“Senator Lee has fought for Utahns and their values,” and

“Senator Lee has remained committed to advocating for limited government and fiscal responsibility throughout his career.”

It appears that the Tribune invited both candidates to submit op-eds.

McMullin wrote one too (https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/10/16/evan-mcmullin-true-independent/), but his is in the first person — “like a normal person” would,

https://www.mediaite.com/election-2022/beyond-parody-sen-mike-lee-mocked-for-writing-op-ed-in-the-third-person-endorsing-himself/

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In a rare rebuke, 2 retired War College professors say Doug Mastriano is unfit to be governor


https://www.rawstory.com/in-a-rare-rebuke-2-retired-war-college-professors-say-doug-mastriano-is-unfit-to-be-governor

[ChumpDumper]

Also breaking: Parler exists.

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What the Hell Is MAGACommunism?

“MAGA Communism” went viral on social media last month, and

its supporters think it’s a serious theory that can reshape American politics.

A new ideology of prosperity and working-class unity, built on the ashes of America’s liberal democracy.

“It sounds crazy. It’s called ‘MAGA Communism,’ and the ‘communism’ thing means common wealth, common prosperity,”

“We all come together: the workers striking at the railways,

the MAGA industrial working class,

the small farmers,

we all unite with our power.

We kick out the globalists.

We kick out George Soros. :lol

We kick out Klaus Schwab.

Don’t forget to kick out Biden, either,” the man interjects.

“Absolutely,” Haz says. “Let’s go Brandon!”

We stop that Great Reset agenda in its tracks.”

Haz is one of a number of self-proclaimed communists

who are pushing the notion that anyone who cares about

the working class should abandon the liberal “culture war” and

ally with America’s largest anti-establishment populist movement—MAGA—ultimately in the name of inciting a populist revolution.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qk4b/what-the-hell-is-magacommunism

The ignorance, stupidity of these fuckoffs is hilarious.

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The Face of the Repug mob

Stakes Grow In The Midterm As

Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims

Kevin McCarty Will Give Her A Lot Of Power


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/16/2129308/-Kellyanne-Conway-suggests-Trump-s-election-lies-are-no-big-deal-because-they-ve-lessened-over-time

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Evan McMullin Rips Sen. Mike Lee Apart In Brutal Senate Debate

McMullin called out Lee for supporting Putin and being the only US Senator not sanctioned by Russia:

McMullin blasted Lee for telling Trump to listen to Sidney Powell:

McMullin told Lee that he betrayed the American republic, and “When the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in.”

. Lee’s texts to Mark Meadows showed that he brought up the idea of a fake slate of electors at least three times. (https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/mike-lee-texts-meadows-obscured-what-he-knew-overturn-election-duplicate-2/index.html)

The wildly popular in Utah, Sen. Mitt Romney has refused to endorse Lee, and the incumbent Republican is in a close race with McMullin.

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/10/17/evan-mcmullin-rips-sen-mike-lee-apart-in-brutal-senate-debate.html

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Deranged Marsha Blackburn Falsely Claims ‘Biden Cabal’ Conspiring to Keep COVID Going

“You just can’t make these things up.

He said very definitively more than once that Covid is over and the pandemic is over.

And because of that now – the team behind him, what I call that cabal in the White House – :lol

they have to keep this pandemic going so that they can spend more taxpayer money the way they want to.”

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/10/17/deranged-marsha-blackburn-falsely-claims-biden-cabal-conspiring-to-keep-covid-going.html

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Fox News leaders 'full on freaked out' over who leaked Kanye West rant from their unaired footage

they are desperate to find the leaker.

Carlson interviewed West, who now goes by the mononym Ye, and touted him as a brave truth-teller :lol

Ye claimed that he’d rather his kids learn about Hanukkah than Kwanzaa

since 'at least it would come with some financial engineering.'

His assertion that 'professional actors' had been 'placed into my house to sexualize my kids.'

He said he trusted Latinos more than 'certain other businessmen' —

a vague descriptor he used to 'be safe.'

Ye also told Carlson that he had 'visions that God gives me, just over and over,

on community building and how to build these free energy, kinetic, fully kinetic energy communities.'"

https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-leaders-full-on-freaked-out-over-who-leaked-kanye-west-rant-from-their-unaired-footage-report/

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Why Marjorie Taylor Greene is becoming 'the most powerful woman' in Trump's GOP

In his new book, "Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind (https://bookshop.org/a/2464/9780593300145)," journalist Robert Draper carefully details how

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is the true face of the 21st-century Republican Party.

Trump and his fever swamp-dwelling lieutenants successfully remade the Republican Party over in their own image.

In this deeply reported book, the New York Times Magazine contributor traces how the quisling leadership of the GOP,

plus a voting base drunk on decades of right wing propaganda,

brought us to where we are today — at the brink of democratic collapse.

Trump is without question the leader of the Republican Party.

His lieutenants like Marjorie Taylor Greene hold an outsized amount of influence in the party.

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2658467260/


We know the Repug party has totally failed into a fascist gang lead by Trash, MJT, etc.

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Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind

The disturbing eyewitness account of how

a new breed of Republicans--led by

Marjorie Taylor Greene,
Paul Gosar,
Matt Gaetz,
Lauren Boebert, and
Madison Cawthorn

--far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria t o even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edge

"the big steal" has become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans.

With a base whipped up into a perpetual frenzy of outrage by conspiracy theories--

not just about the big steal but about COVID and vaccines, pedophilia and Antifa and Black Lives Matter and George Soros and President Obama, and on and on and on--

the forces of reason within the GOP are on the defensive, to put it mildly.

He has never seen it this ugly.

this book tells the story of a

fearful test of our ability, as a country, to hold together

a system of government grounded in truth and the rule of law.

Written on the eve of the 2022 midterm elections, Draper's account of

a party teetering on the precipice of madness reveals how the GOP fringe became its center of gravity.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/weapons-of-mass-delusion-when-the-republican-party-lost-its-mind-robert-draper/18133583

Sooner or later, Capitalist oligarchy and their whores the Repugs will control all 3 branches to complete the Orban-ization of USA into fascism.

The American Dream, the American Experiment, both failed and dead.

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Perfecting the "art of polarization":

How these '90s conservatives created today's radicalized right

how Rush, Newt, Buchanan and an obsession with Clinton

remade the GOP

https://www.salon.com/2022/10/17/perfecting-the-art-of-polarization-how-these-90s-conservatives-created-todays-radicalized-right/

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Trump and allies have a new 'obsession' with destroying mail-in voting in Pennsylvania (https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pennsylvania-2658468142/)

the former president and his allies still harbor an "obsession" with mail-in voting, and have set their sites on repealing a bipartisan Pennsylvania law that passed in 2019 that allows for no-excuse mail-in voting.

Although Act 77 passed with bipartisan support,

Republicans have since turned against it after Trump blamed mail-in voting,

as well as a multitude of other conspiracy theories

including voting machines purportedly rigged by late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, :lol

for his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pennsylvania-2658468142

prediction:

Repugs will pass laws

1. DC and PR never to be states

2. Federal abortion ban, no exceptions

3. Federal mail-in voting banned, qualifying for exceptions will be extremely laborious

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Repug SS in action

Clown went to cheer up traumatized Uvalde kids —

then faced racist QAnon-style threat accusing her of pedophilia

she was distressed after receiving a racist QAnon-style (https://www.rawstory.com/trump-qanon-2658316925/) voicemail after she went to cheer up kids in Uvalde,

was shocked to receive such an unhinged voicemail that accused her of being a "pedophile" while

also hurling a racial slur.

she received a mysterious call the very next day in which

the caller tried to lure her to a particular location

but wouldn't provide any contact information whatsoever.

https://www.rawstory.com/clown-went-to-cheer-up-distressed-uvalde-kids-then-got-racist-qanon-style-voicemail-accusing-her-of-being-a-pedo

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McCarthy Signals GOP Plan to Attack Social Security, Medicare

"The future of Social Security and Medicare is on the ballot this November," said one advocate.

"Republicans, led by Kevin McCarthy, are united in a plot to reach into our pockets and steal our money."

McCarthy and other Republicans at their word when

they threaten to enact cuts to Social Security and Medicare despite the cost-of-living crisis

the expected fight over the raising of the debt ceiling next year

as leverage to pass several austerity policies and block additional aid for Ukraine, as well as blocking pandemic-related spending.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/18/believe-him-say-critics-mccarthy-signals-gop-plan-attack-social-security-medicare

[Winehole23]

translation: sore loser Republicans are afraid of losing at the polls again, so they're actively undermining public confidence in elections and legitimizing political violence.

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[Winehole23]

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McCarthy sez Ukraine will not get funding like Biden provides, just to spite Biden

McCarthy signalling to Pootin to again corrupt American elections to favor the Repugs, like Pootin has been doing for many years

McCarthy asking Pooting to corrupt America elections, AGAIN.

75% of Americans poll as supporting USA helping Ukraine.

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christo fascism out front, corrective "re-education", indoctrination, religious test for public job (unConstitutional)

Oklahoma GOP candidate vows to make teachers undergo 'patriotic education' based on 'Judeo-Christian values'

https://www.rawstory.com/ryan-walters-oklahoma

This Repug shitbag knows his shit is a vote getter in shithole Oklahoma

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Legal expert sketches out ‘grim scenario’ where Republicans impose minority rule for the ‘foreseeable future’


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/clarence-thomas.jpg?id=29809492&width=1200&height=675

poised to attain their longtime goal of a permanent majority if they retake Congress next month and

the U.S. Supreme Court rules in their favor in a major election case.

A GOP-led House would end the Jan. 6 investigation and

possibly impeach President Joe Biden, and

the Supreme Court could essentially hand the presidency to Republicans if they rule in favor of the so-called “independent state legislature theory”

"Republicans will keep control of the White House because Republican state legislatures will say so."

https://www.rawstory.com/republican-permanent-majority

America is fucked and unfuckable, not any possibility to unfuck it. USA will becomed 100% Orban-ized fascism

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff_ig8_XgAQHheS?format=jpg&name=medium

[Monostradamus]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff_ig8_XgAQHheS?format=jpg&name=medium
They 100% just raided DarrinS’s closet on a Thursday morning while he was passed out next to bottles of Hornitos.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff8ox2LUYAErCQf?format=jpg&name=mediumhttps://www.nationalreview.com/news/why-some-trump-country-pennsylvanians-still-arent-sold-on-dr-oz/

[Winehole23]

Conservatives are increasingly comfortable with discarding conservatism in favor of authoritarianism and reactionary violence.

democracy
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/





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Bannonist-Leninism


But he stands out among right-wing commentators for being probably the single person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly, the US government could be toppled and replaced — “rebooted” or “reset,” as he likes to say — with a monarch, CEO, or dictator at the helm. Yarvin argues that a creative and visionary leader — a “startup guy,” like, he says, Napoleon or Lenin was — should seize absolute power, dismantle the old regime, and build something new in its place.

[Winehole23]

To Yarvin, incremental reforms and half-measures are necessarily doomed. The only way to achieve what he wants is to assume “absolute power (https://graymirror.substack.com/p/principles-of-the-deep-right),” and the game is all about getting to a place where you can pull that off. Critics have called his ideas “fascist (https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-enigma-of-peter-thiel)” — a term he disputes (https://graymirror.substack.com/p/monarchism-and-fascism-today), arguing that centralizing power under one ruler long predates fascism, and that his ideal monarch should rule for all rather than fomenting a class war as fascists do. “Autocratic” fits as a descriptor, though his preferred term is “monarchist.”

[Winehole23]

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[boutons_deux]

The break-in to pelosi's home was the repug SS trying to assassinate NP

The assassin was yelling. Where's Nancy? Where's Nancy?

[Winehole23]

No, no, it's purely incidental that years of calling Democrats satanic bloodsuckers, child rapists traitors and commies has provoked a patriotic lone wolf to try to kill a prominent Democrat.

[RandomGuy]

No, no, it's purely incidental that years of calling Democrats satanic bloodsuckers, child rapists traitors and commies has provoked a patriotic lone wolf to try to kill a prominent Democrat.

The amount of constant vitriol leveled at Pelosi is kind of shocking if one were to compile it. I game with some very decidedly "conservative" people who do nothing but talk about Pelosi, much like cosmic cowboy.

The basis of modern conservatism is violence, dishonesty, and greed. in this case the guy was a conspiracy nut it seems. spurtacular level nuttery.

[ChumpDumper]

The break-in to pelosi's home was the repug SS trying to assassinate NP

The assassin was yelling. Where's Nancy? Where's Nancy?


No, no, it's purely incidental that years of calling Democrats satanic bloodsuckers, child rapists traitors and commies has provoked a patriotic lone wolf to try to kill a prominent Democrat.


The amount of constant vitriol leveled at Pelosi is kind of shocking if one were to compile it. I game with some very decidedly "conservative" people who do nothing but talk about Pelosi, much like cosmic cowboy.

The basis of modern conservatism is violence, dishonesty, and greed. in this case the guy was a conspiracy nut it seems. spurtacular level nuttery.

Didn't you hear? This guy watched an episode of South Park ten years ago.

[Winehole23]

Didn't you hear? This guy watched an episode of South Park ten years ago.Q-pilled Canadian hippie. Blame Canada.

[Winehole23]

dude really hates teh joos

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgMTBW-XkAEiTND?format=jpg&name=medium

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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

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“As democracy is perfected, the office [of president] represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people….

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and

the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

-- H L Mencken, 1920s

[boutons_deux]

President Donald J. Trump, The Son of Man - The Christ :lol

During the presidency of President Donald Trump, it became evident to me that the prophecies about the Son of Man, as predicted by Jesus in the Bible were, to a significant extent, fulfilled at the hands of Mr Trump.

The Bible speaks about two different Christs-or Messiahs. Jesus, the Son of God is the one Christ, whereas the Son of Man is the other.

Jesus always referred to the Son of Man in the third person.

The greatest distinction or significance between the Son of Man and the Son of God (the Lamb) is their respective positions at the throne of God.

There are numerous differences between the Son of God and the Son of Man, but overall, people read these scriptures and they do not realize that the Son of God (the Lamb) stands in front of the throne of God,

whereas the Son of Man, is positioned on the right hand of God.

Jesus spoke about two different killings in the four gospels of the New Testament.

People read these scriptures and are unaware that Jesus (the Son of God) predicted his own killing in the first person,

as opposed to the several prophecies that He made in respects to the Son of Man who will be crucified.

The New Testament speaks about "two Kings;" Jesus, the Son of God, is the "King of the Jews," whereas the Son of Man is the "King of Kings" who will be a world-ruler, and He will rule all the nations (the tribes) of the earth with a rod of iron.

This book will explain in depth how "Donald John Trump's" full name literally means: :lol

"The Ruler of the World, graced by Yahweh (the LORD) and a descendant of a Drummer." :lol

Upon reading this book, the reader will be captivated when they realize how

President Donald John Trump fulfilled most of the prophecies as the Son of Man. :lol

It speaks about End Time Prophecies and Biblical revelations regarding "President Donald J. Trump, the Son of Man. The Christ."

https://www.amazon.com/President-Donald-Trump-Son-Man/dp/1977249752

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Repugs, party of cheaters, liars, etc

Election-denying True the Vote leaders found in contempt during chaotic court hearing


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

a federal judge in Texas found Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips —

known as leaders of the group True the Vote —

in contempt of court.

They are facing accusations of defamation and computer crimes

from a company at the center of a viral right-wing social media campaign engineered by the conservative voting organization.

the latest in a string of twists in the civil suit filed in September (https://texas.votebeat.org/2022/9/14/23353874/true-the-vote-konnech-lawsuit-catherine-englebrecht-gregg-phillips-tiger-project) by Konnech, a Michigan-based company that provides poll worker management software to elections offices.

Konnech’s lawsuit, on the other hand, alleges (https://texas.votebeat.org/2022/9/14/23353874/true-the-vote-konnech-lawsuit-catherine-englebrecht-gregg-phillips-tiger-project) that

True the Vote’s baseless and racist accusations against the company’s CEO, Eugene Yu,

forced him and his family to flee their home in fear for their lives and

damaged the company’s business.

https://www.rawstory.com/true-the-vote/

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The immediate vociferous outrage by Repugs and right-wing hate media about pelosi's husband having his skull beat in by a hammer proves that Repugs only have America's best interest at heart in total Good faith!

[Winehole23]

Rick Scott founded Columbia/HCA, a company that ripped off Medicare so badly they paid $1.7B to settle criminal charges.

1587077753144283137

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How the GOP Could Win Its Long War Against Social Security

Republicans have wanted to end Social Security as we know it since its inception. They may finally get their chance.

Social Security is “the third rail Republicans can’t stop touching,”

With the congressional elections looming and their prospects rising,

Republicans are openly preparing a frontal assault on Social Security and other social programs.

Rick Scott (R-FL), the chair of Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, publicized a multipoint manifesto calling for

ending funding for Social Security, Medicare, and other so-called “non-discretionary” programs every five years,

unless a congressional majority explicitly voted to renew them.

Unless Republicans suffered major defeats,

Scott’s proposal amounted to a preprogrammed kill switch to cut or end the program.

Scott also proposed that all Americans should pay some (federal) income tax “to have skin in the game,

over half of Americans pay no income tax.”

includes many of the elderly, dependent, and disabled Social Security recipients whose income Scott would eviscerate with his kill-switch plan.

Republican leaders hastily distanced themselves from Scott’s proposal.


It was too honest, too soon.

https://prospect.org/politics/how-gop-could-win-long-war-against-social-security (https://prospect.org/politics/how-gop-could-win-long-war-against-social-security)

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Oz has several J6 insurrectionists/traitors on his staff

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Herschel Walker says Raphael Warnock should debate Joe Biden six times in 23 Sseconds


https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/herschel-walker-2658574738/

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Racist Stephen Miller Spreads Racist Lies In Racist Campaign Ads

https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMjAyMjE3NS9vcmlnaW4 ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTcxNzg0OTI4OX0.uTtn489Ud Hd_njNEEbhlLUERu-pwZAJCTnysNugn_HQ/img.png?width=1200&height=800&quality=85&coordinates=199%2C0%2C99%2C0

Stephen Miller's ad hoc racist organization, America First Legal, has launched a series of radio ads in Georgia and parts of Florida that claim radical leftist President Joe Biden wants to hurt whitey.

a recording of the ad, which it charitably describes as "one of the most openly race-based spots of the cycle, amplifying tropes that have historically been used to generate backlash to minority groups."

classic Reconstruction-era racist rhetoric that "subtly" encouraged if not outright promoted the violence against Black citizens that undermined their new freedom.

(it gets worse) etc, etc

https://www.wonkette.com/racist-stephen-miller-spreads-racist-lies-in-racist-campaign-ads (https://www.wonkette.com/racist-stephen-miller-spreads-racist-lies-in-racist-campaign-ads)

Repugs have The Best Rascists

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Trash's unqualified, corrupt political hack judges performing well

Trump-appointed judge in Arizona sides with the ballot box monitors, rejects lawsuits


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/28/2132002/-Trump-appointed-judge-in-Arizona-sides-with-thew-ballot-box-monitors-rejects-lawsuits

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Economists obliquely warn against letting the GOP economic terrorists get control of the House

House Republicans’ threat to hold the debt limit hostage (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/18/2129733/-McCarthy-confirms-GOP-will-crash-the-economy-unless-Democrats-agree-to-destroy-Social-Security) in return for drastic spending cuts if they gain the majority in next month’s midterm election

“If we go into recession, the response normally is stimulative fiscal policy,

but it seems like the appetite for that may be waning. So that could exacerbate any downturn,”
“in this political environment, you can’t be complacent about anything, and the debt limit is pretty high on the list of things that could prove disruptive for markets.”

The most responsible thing Democrats could do right now is to take the debt ceiling away from the GOP

—even if they manage to hold on to the House and Senate in this election.

There’s no good reason for it.

It was created in 1917

as an accounting tool for financing World War I,

allowing Congress to pass funding for the war effort with fewer votes.
It’s not in the Constitution,

it’s not required,

and it’s dangerous to leave lying around where Republicans can get their hands on it.

Making sure that it can’t be

used again by Republicans to create chaos is what any responsible adult would do.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/28/2131957/-Economists-obliquely-warning-against-letting-the-GOP-economic-terrorists-get-control-of-the-House

Only fascist Poland has debt limit. USA is perversely shitting in its own shoes

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Text messages direct Kansas voters to wrong polling location

https://www.rawstory.com/text-messages-direct-kansas-voters-to-wrong-polling-location/

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"I don't want everybody to vote.

Elections are not won by a majority of the people.

They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now.

As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."[ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich#cite_note-46)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich

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"We are different from previous generations of conservatives...

We are no longer working to preserve the status quo.

We are radicals,

working to overturn the present power structure of this country." – Soloma, John.

ditto

.. to be replaced with one-party-forever Repug fascism

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Court chaos continues as right-wing True the Vote leaders are thrown in jail

The two leaders of the far-right group True the Vote have been hauled off to jail as of Monday afternoon

Gregg Philips and Catherine Engelbrecht were told that until they follow a

federal judge's order to identify the man they say is an FBI informant in a defamation case they must remain in jail.

criminal case does not show anything resembling the election fraud True the Vote has falsely claimed went down in the U.S." said Votebeat Texas (https://texas.votebeat.org/2022/10/31/23433273/gregg-phillips-catherine-engelbrecht-jailed-contempt-konnech).

The group is the same one behind the 2,000 mules movie that alleges a slew of unfounded election conspiracies.

https://www.rawstory.com/true-the-vote-leaders-jailed/

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100% pure bad faith, cheating, corrupt sons of bitches


Top MD Republican's aide encouraged supporters to form ‘long lines’ late on Election Day

, a top Peroutka aide encouraged supporters to arrive two hours before the polls close on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

“Vote on November 8th as late in the day as possible,” said campaign coordinator Macky Stafford.

“If everyone could stand in long, long lines at 6 o’clock, that would actually help us.”

the Maryland Democratic Party, which issued a news release that accused

Maryland Republicans of “plotting to create chaos and

laying the groundwork to challenge the upcoming election.”

https://www.rawstory.com/michael-anthony-peroutka/

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The Right-Wing Media Is a Conspiracy Engine That Enables Political Violence

Conservatives' despicable reactions to the attack on Paul Pelosi tell a horrific story about

how dark the far-right's media ecosystem has become.

right-wing media, which has either

greeted the Pelosi family’s misfortune with mockery or derision, or—

in a darker turn, characterized it was a Jonesian conspiracy.

Some, like Ted Cruz, have fixated (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1587073960096800769) on DePape’s past as a nudist and

the fact that he was a Bay Area resident to try paint him as some leftist hippie—

despite the fact that DePape’s own writing show him to be an obsessive of right-wing rhetoric and conspiracy theories.

Many on the right have fixated on an absurd, homophobic alternate story (https://www.yahoo.com/video/republicans-push-homophobic-conspiracy-theory-162000946.html) in which DePape and Pelosi were lovers—

to the better to absolve the right of any complicity in the attack.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168386/paul-pelosi-right-wing-media

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Oz The Turk tells Hannity Pennsylvania is a coastal state, Atlantic beaches and shit

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GOP Nominee Under Fire For Promising

‘Republicans Will Never Lose Another Election in Wisconsin After I’m Elected Governor’


https://www.mediaite.com/news/gop-nominee-under-fire-after-vowing-republicans-will-never-lose-another-election-in-wisconsin-after-im-elected-governor/

People puting this shitbag "under fire" have no idea that his prediction is Repug strategy, more likely to succeed than fail.

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Battleground state voters overwhelmingly back pathway to citizenship, new polling shows

likely voters across five battleground states overwhelmingly back a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants,

and are more likely to support a candidate who favors pro-immigrant policy.

73% of voters across

Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin

support legalization if conditions like background checks are met.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/1/2132786/-Battleground-state-voters-overwhelmingly-back-pathway-to-citizenship-new-polling-shows

but in Confederate/red states, probably 73% want the brownies expatriated.

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Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the WH

St Ronnie The Diseased removed them

St Ronnie's Repug reign of error also shutdown Fed funding of geothermal research

There is no area where Repugs don't fuck it up. eg, Conservatives degrading, regressing UK into poverty.

A good time for Scotland and Wales to dis-unite from the United Kingdom.

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Rogan of the right wing hate media

Joe Rogan Admits He Lied About Schools Using Litter Boxes

walking back his claims from a month ago that have since been amplified (https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-nominee-for-new-hampshire-senate-don-bolduc-spreads-hoax-that-kids-use-litter-boxes) by Republican Senate Don Bolduc.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-gets-gop-crowd-to-boo-paul-pelosi

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nothing but shitbags in the Repug leadership, and 70M shitbags who vote for fascism

Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets GOP Crowd to Boo Paul Pelosi

“The only crime victim you hear about from Democrats and the media is Paul Pelosi,” Greene said to jeers from the rally-goers.

“Paul Pelosi was brutally attacked by a drugged-out illegal alien who should have been deported.

And Paul Pelosi should have been a gun owner and shot his attacker,” she added,

working as many Republican talking points into the 30-second soundbite as she possibly could.

Greene’s remarks came after GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake drew laughs in Arizona for her joke (https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-laughs-as-arizona-guv-candidate-kari-lake-makes-light-of-paul-pelosi-break-in-attack) at the attempted murder victim’s expense.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-gets-gop-crowd-to-boo-paul-pelosi

hey, shitbag, we hear about many massacres of 100s of people by Repug supporters, of kids, Hispanics, Jews.

There Will Be Blood, much more of it as MTG supporters rampage in the near future.

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The Dark Heart of the Republican Party

Embracing the politics of sadism, the GOP base hits a new low.

January 6 was not an outlier.

Laughing over a hammer attack on an old man,

the GOP has completed its transition from a political party to a brutal mob.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/the-dark-heart-of-the-gop/671965 (https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/the-dark-heart-of-the-gop/671965)

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GOP majority’s to-do list includes COVID-19 response, origins — and Fauci

sweeping investigations into the Biden (https://thehill.com/people/biden/)administration’s COVID-19 spending and are looking to tighten the purse strings on agency funding

Republicans are frustrated with what they see as the administration’s unaccountable coronavirus spending and are looking to shine a spotlight on where

the trillions of dollars doled out by the White House have gone. :lol ARP 2020 was Trash's team

they want to prioritize an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus,

as well as the administration’s policies in response to the virus, like school closures.

holding the administration accountable for the grants from the American Rescue Plan :lol 2020!

as well as the Inflation Reduction Act.

House Republicans have long complained about how states and localities are spending COVID-19 relief funding for things that are not pandemic-related, :lol biggest violators are Confederate/red states!

looking to bring in officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.

could lead to less money for agencies that are historically cash-strapped. :lol to Pay For tax cuts

lawmakers will be focused on lessening the impact of the drug pricing provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, :lol Gotta keep $Bs flowing to BigPharma donors

“Aggressive oversight by Republicans will just

eat up a lot of staff resources that could otherwise go to running the government and addressing public health,” :lol Repugs don't GAF

“Retirement can’t shield Dr. Fauci from congressional oversight,”

“It’s not about Fauci going to jail, although that probably would be appropriate,” Paul said

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3716392-gop-majoritys-to-do-list-includes-covid-19-response-origins-and-fauci

Repugs haven't GAF about governing, for decades. Only All Politics, All The Time (attacking Dems)

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465 Billionaires Have Pumped an Eye-Popping $881 Million Into the Midterms

the top 0.000002 percent of wealthiest people in the U.S. have spent nearly $900 million in the federal midterm runoffs this election cycle, a new report finds, and

could reach $1 billion in political spending by the time the cycle is over.

the vast majority of this spending — $643 million, or 73 percent — comes from just 20 billionaire households,

including prominent figures like the Koch family, Peter Thiel, George Soros, Michael and Susan Bloomberg and Jeffrey Yass (https://www.propublica.org/article/jeff-yass-susquehanna-tiktok-tax-avoidance).

Of the top 10 donor families, eight lean Republican while two lean Democrat.

the vast amount of influence that billionaires have over the political system that has been afforded to them by

conservative tax cutting (https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-says-reversing-trump-tax-cuts-could-fund-cancelation-of-all-student-debt/) and Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission,

this small group of billionaires has spent 27 times more on this election than they ever spent around 2010,

when Citizens United was decided; in the 2010 election cycle, for instance, billionaires spent $32 million.

https://truthout.org/articles/465-billionaires-have-pumped-an-eye-popping-881-million-into-the-midterms

Fuck the corrupt, illegit SCOTUS to hell

[boutons_deux]

Kari Lake Promises To Arrest FBI Agents Over Policy That Doesn’t Exist

If I were governor right now, and Joe Biden even thought he was gonna send his FBI or DOJ in to start coming after our parents,

they would be met at the airport with the state police and arrested for going after our rights.

We finally, as parents, have to rise up and say,

‘No, we’re gonna take this anymore, and they call us terrorists.

State Police cannot arrest the FBI if they are doing their jobs,

it is unbelievable that the FBI would be “sent” to arrest parent terrorists.

Literally “unbelievable” because none of this exists in the real world,

The actual FBI memo doesn’t mention parents, only the safety of teachers and district staff:

Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values.

Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment

deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/11/03/kari-lake-promises-to-arrest-fbi-agents-over-policy-that-doesnt-exist.html

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Florida Trumper convicted for opening fire on two people over (https://www.rawstory.com/eduardo-acosta/)Biden flag on jet ski :lol

a jury has convicted a South Florida supporter of former President Donald Trump who

shot at two people in a conflict that erupted over a flag supporting then-candidate, now President Joe Biden on a jet ski.

convicting Eduardo Acosta, 39, on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault with a firearm and armed robbery.

He faces up to life in prison, with a mandatory minimum of at least 20 years,

https://www.rawstory.com/eduardo-acosta/

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Unearthed video shows Sen. Mike Lee saying getting rid of Social Security is why he ran in 2010

Before Hannity could even form his mouth to allege on his show Tuesday that “not a single Republican” has ever said “they want to take away your Social Security and Medicare and cut it,” :lol

a video of Sen. Mike Lee of Utah saying exactly that in his 2010 campaign had already emerged on social media.

“It will be my objective to phase out Social Security,

to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it,” Lee said in the video.

"People who advise me politically always tell me that's dangerous,

and I tell them, in that case, it's not worth my running.

That's why I'm doing this, to get rid of that.

Medicare and Medicaid are of the same sort and need to be pulled up.”
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/3/2133293/--That-s-why-I-m-doing-this-2010-video-shows-Sen-Mike-Lee-vowing-to-get-rid-of-Social-Security

[boutons_deux]

'Go back to Mexico':

California woman kicks people at taco shop while awaiting charges for a separate hate crime

https://www.rawstory.com/hate-crime-arrest-2658596510

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https://scontent-hou1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/314556358_534461278785451_7055547397712595974_n.jp g?stp=dst-jpg_p843x403&_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=xs8DM9LURMUAX__DHRN&_nc_ht=scontent-hou1-1.xx&oh=00_AfCeHnaYFTVTYkqlTbiXS0EabfDnTR6lbHuCKXP2ShhP 3A&oe=636B2177

[boutons_deux]

Court Tells Florida Town That

Law Forbidding Resident’s ‘Fuck Trump’ Sign Is Unconstitutional


https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/04/court-tells-florida-town-that-law-forbidding-residents-fuck-trump-sign-is-unconstitutional/

Trump bootlicks taking it in the teeth

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Michigan's Democrat AG suggests she might flee the state

over threats and intimidation from right-wing extremists


https://www.rawstory.com/michigan-s-democrat-ag-says-she-might-flee-the-state-over-threats-and-intimidation-from-right-wing-extremists

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What HAS happened to the Repug party ...

... is that it is now a fully fledged fascist GANG trying every possible tactic to implement its strategy of one-party fascist control over police-state USA

indefinitely,

denying Dem party from ever again holding Federal power.

The fascists are enabled by the fucked up, unchangeable, anti-democratic, white-male-oligarchy Constitution with the its Senate and EC, as weaponized by SCOTUS over the past 45 years.

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another shitbag

What, Her Worry? Iowa’s Kim Reynolds Is Running a Dishonest and Nasty Campaign

But the Republican governor’s punch-down politics are no bar to reelection.

https://www.thenation.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=896,quality=80,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/nasty-campaign.jpg



. Reynolds ... preferring to embody the mean and stingy side of the American pioneer spirit that Wood’s painting sought to capture.

a cut in unemployment benefits (https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/16/gov-kim-reynolds-signs-law-cutting-iowa-unemployment-benefits-10-weeks-16-weeks-workforce/9570658002/) from 26 weeks to 16 weeks. “The safety net has become a hammock,” she said, and saw to it that unemployed workers would be forced to take any available job, even one well below their previous pay grade.

moved on to public school teachers, equally vulnerable since the Iowa legislature stripped them of their bargaining rights (https://www.thegazette.com/government-politics/iowa-justices-uphold-controversial-collective-bargaining-changes/) in 2017. No more “critical race theory” in schools, she and the legislature decreed (https://dailyiowan.com/2021/06/08/gov-kim-reynolds-signs-bill-prohibiting-critical-race-theory-in-iowa-schools/), despite CRT never having been taught in Iowa schools.

Whom to bully next? How about transgendered children and their families?

Reynolds met with parents concerned about school bathroom usage

but has never met with the kids and parents trying to navigate their way through difficult gender decisions.

Her latest television ad (https://www.kcci.com/article/iowans-still-know-boys-from-girls-political-ad-from-gov-reynolds-stirs-controversy/41837391) proudly boasts that in Iowa,

“We still know right from wrong [and] boys from girls.”

Anyone else to punch down on?

Well, a previous Reynolds ad talked about

crime in a state with one of the lowest rates in the country,

featuring the face of a Black congresswoman (https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/09/26/gov-kim-reynolds-race-baits-in-campaigns-new-tv-ad/) from Missouri.

Sheer coincidence that the Democratic candidate for governor is a Black woman.

The current governor has done nothing to alleviate racial disparities in Iowa, content to let

her state rank as third-worst for Blacks (https://www.kcrg.com/2022/03/01/new-study-shows-iowa-third-worst-state-black-americans/) in the country.

Reynolds announced last week that the state will

appeal a federal judge’s ruling that a mask requirement is a reasonable accommodation to protect students with disabilities or medical vulnerabilities.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/iowa-gop-kim-reynolds-franken

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Telling lies w/o punishment, to great advantage, creating an alternative "reality", is show of force, power

The reason Republicans like Tucker keep pushing Pelosi conspiracies:

It’s an assertion of power


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/4/2133651/-The-reason-Republicans-like-Tucker-keep-pushing-Pelosi-conspiracies-It-s-an-assertion-of-power

"We are not slaves to, not dedicated to finding, telling the truth.

We make up our own truthiness. And nobody can stop us"

10Ms, 100M?, WANT to be lied to

America is fucked and unfuckable

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So much for inflation and gas prices.

House GOP agenda is revenge.

Just revenge

top priorities:

Hunter Biden,

COVID-19 conspiracy theory hearings,

removing the metal detectors at the House chamber doors.

That’s along with forcing Social Security and Medicare cuts or

destroying the U.S. and global economies.

That’s their argument for their election.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/4/2133646/-So-much-for-inflation-and-gas-prices-House-GOP-agenda-is-revenge-Just-revenge

attacking Garland / DOJ / FBI as politicized by Dems

impeaching Biden for Afgan exit and causing inflation

etc, etc

Actual governing the country? GTFO, we're fascist Repugs, we don't govern, we punish

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Christian Nationalist BS at USAFA

How fucking stupid does the Air Force Academy think people are?

This being the last home game for the Air Force Academy players who are seniors, a banner was put up below

the scoreboard with each of the seniors’ jersey numbers on it.

The players’ numbers were 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9,11,12,15, and 16, and you think they would have appeared on the banner in that order, right?

The 3 was place in between the 15 and the 16, making the banner end with 3 16,


John 3:16, the sports world’s favorite Bible verse —

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,

but have everlasting life.’’

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1129901/large/John316-far.jpg?1667494040\\\\

a statement from the Academy, which is where we get to the ‘you just can’t make this crap up’ part of the story.

"There was no significance to the order of the senior jersey numbers posted in the soccer stadium during last weekend’s men’s soccer game.

The intent was to recognize the 10 seniors playing in their last home game.

Recognition was conducted in a pregame ceremony with the players and their families and with two banners inside the soccer stadium highlighting their jersey numbers (1,2,3,6,8,9,11,12,15,16).

The numbers were to be printed sequentially and attached to each banner.

After completing the first banner, our staff recognized that the number three was missing.

To correct the oversight, the number three was added to the second banner out of sequential order –

it was done simply to insure the player was represented as one of the ten seniors.

"Again, the only intent behind the banners was to celebrate the senior cadets at their final home soccer game."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/3/2133334/-How-f-ing-stupid-does-the-Air-Force-Academy-think-people-are

It was this Christian Natonalist SHIT at USAFA that caused the founding of

Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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shitbag Kari Lake embraces shithole AZ senator

who promotes

white Christian nationalism,

racist conspiracy theories and

election fraud claims

https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-wendy-rogers

[boutons_deux]

This cerainly to high-brow for ST nutcases, but anyway ...

GOP continues moving towards a dark and dangerous tradition

as they abandon 'small government' ideology

backing away from familiar “supply-side” dogmas and

moving instead toward seizing the power of the administrative state

to restore order and public virtue to Silicon Valley technocratic elites and to unruly masses,

all under the tutelage of a “truly” conservative ruling elite.

They’re edging closer to the

Roman Catholic “common good Constitutionalism” of Harvard Law Prof. Adrian Vermeule and several Supreme Court justices,

or to the old Ivy-Protestant, “Good Shepherd” guardianship of the republic,

“the conservative project failed” because it “didn’t take into account the revolutionary principle of technology, and its intrinsic connection to the telos [or over-determined trajectory], of sheer profit.”


want a conservative-led counter-revolution

against a corporate technocracy

whose fixation on maximizing profit has trapped Americans like flies in a spiderweb of come-ons that grope, goose, track, and indebt us, bypassing our brains and hearts on the way to our lower viscera and wallets.

they making only a tactical shift in their strategy to support the scramble for sheer profit and accumulated wealth, glossed by religiously inflected public discipline?

conservatism was about maintaining traditions and preserving Western civilization as a living and vibrant thing. Well, too late.

Western civilization is dying.

The traditions and practices that conservatives champion…

do not form the basis of our common culture or civic life,

as they did for most of our nation’s history.

conservatives must seize power instead of sharing it. :lol Dems excluded forever.

It's no small thing for conservatives to acknowledge that

they can’t reconcile their claim to cherish traditional communal and family values

with their knee-jerk obeisance to every whim and riptide of conglomeration or financialization.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-continues-moving-towards-a-dark-and-dangerous-tradition-as-they-abandon-small-government-ideology/

[boutons_deux]

Teacher alarmed by Kansas Republican taking photos of her home


https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=32056541&width=1200&height=675

TOPEKA — Sam Neill, a decorated public school teacher from Buhler, was alarmed Saturday to find Rep. Paul Waggoner taking photos of her house.

Waggoner wouldn’t tell her why he was taking the photos, and he didn’t respond to a phone call and email seeking comment for this story.

https://www.rawstory.com/teacher-alarmed-by-kansas-republican-taking-photos-of-her-home

W T F

[boutons_deux]

How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide

The rights reversal taking place in conservative states is just the beginning.

they will likely begin a project that could reshape the nation’s political and legal landscape:

imposing on blue states

the rollback of civil rights and liberties

that has rapidly advanced through red states since 2021.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/11/gop-congress-2022-midterm-elections-rights/671996

[boutons_deux]

fascist Repugs' Schutzstaffel operating

'You Will All Be Executed':

SHITHOLE Arizona Poll Workers Endure Right-Wing Midterm Threats

"It feels very much like predatory behavior and that we are being stalked,"

the shithole Maricopa elections director recently told county officials.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/07/you-will-all-be-executed-arizona-poll-workers-endure-right-wing-midterm-threats

but we should be gratified by the widespread condemnation by Repugs pols, leaders, right wing hate media

[boutons_deux]

Environmentalists Fear Flood of Deregulation Under Mastriano

Pennsylvania’s far-right gubernatorial candidate has vowed

to expand oil and gas production and

roll back regulations.
https://capitalandmain.com/environmentalists-fear-flood-of-deregulation-under-mastriano

People, babies will be diseased, some will die.

[Winehole23]

Trump thinks we should copy Xi and the PRC.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5039898/user-clip-trump-promotes-quick-trials-death-penalty-drug-dealers

[Winehole23]

"Remember, everyone kills 500 people."

[boutons_deux]

Meet the ‘Black Robe Regiment’ of Extremist Pastors Spreading Christian Nationalism

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgqk7/who-are-the-black-robe-regiment

The LIE and dupe their rubes that they are fighting for America,

but in fact, the fighting against the Constitution and democracy.

Christian Nationalist fascism ruling America is their objective.

Make all the claims about stolen election, election machinery, etc, without ANY evidence, just like Repugs.

[boutons_deux]

GOP candidate under fire after boasting

her staffers haven't been paid for 'several weeks'

https://www.rawstory.com/karoline-leavitt

Stiffing her people, following Trash's example

[boutons_deux]

Trump is hoping to jail ‘significant numbers of reporters’ in a second term

allegedly planning a significant escalation in his war against reporters if he is returned to the White House,

calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “an animal,”

championing the death penalty, and

giddily imagining the prison rape of the journalist

who reported on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade,"

wasn’t the first time Trump imagined journalists being raped in prison.

He laid out the same fantasy at a rally in Texas last month,

saying the reporter would give up the identity of the leaker

as soon as they realize they are 'going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly.'

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-journalists-2658616605/?utm_source=123456&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11906

[boutons_deux]

Florida warns US Justice Department that federal election monitors are not allowed inside polling places

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/politics/florida-justice-department/index.html

But Repug shooters around drop boxes is encouraged

[boutons_deux]

How (Confederate)Tennessee disenfranchised 21% of its Black citizens

While many states made it easier for people convicted of felonies to vote, Tennessee went in the other direction

In August, Scott tried to register to vote. That's when she learned she's not allowed to cast a ballot because she was convicted of nonviolent felonies nearly 20 years ago.

One in five Black Tennesseans are like Scott:

barred from voting because of a prior felony conviction.

Indeed, Tennessee appears to disenfranchise a far higher proportion of its Black residents — 21% — than any other state.

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/08/how-tennessee-disenfranchised-21-of-its-black-citizens_partner/

[boutons_deux]

Marsha Blackburn Pledges GOP Will Go Scorched Earth and

Halt ‘Federal Spending, Salaries, and Hiring’ If They Win

they will temporarily cease federal spending, including salaries for federal employees.

Republicans will “reverse” those policies (IRA and college loan forgiveness)

and also “freeze” spending:

I think the first thing that we should do is to freeze federal spending, salaries, and hiring,

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/marsha-blackburn-pledges-gop-will-go-scorched-earth-and-halt-federal-spending-salaries-and-hiring-if-they-win/

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao this party

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[boutons_deux]

Repug wimmen as nasty even more than the shitbag men

Fox News Anchor Alarmed By

Kari Lake’s Vow to ‘Reform the Media’:

U.S. Has a ‘Rich History of a Free Press’

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/fox-news-anchor-challenges-kari-lakes-vow-to-reform-the-media-u-s-has-a-rich-history-of-a-free-press/

[Winehole23]

"the salient appeal of our brand is that we like to make voters cry"

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[FrostKing]

:lmao this party

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It's a comedy duo. Notice the camera shot cuts...as does the audio.

The "Blue Team" comment section is gold :lol

[ChumpDumper]

It's a comedy duo. Notice the camera shot cuts...as does the audio.

The "Blue Team" comment section is gold :lolSo you believe there are no Republican voters who think many of their enemies have been arrested and are currently held in GITMO?

[Winehole23]

"we know elections are crooked because we cheat our asses off"

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[Winehole23]

"either that or we're lying again, are the two mutually exclusive?"

[Winehole23]

"My religion is the law of the land, I literally just gave the land of my state to my god."


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[FrostKing]

So you believe there are no Republican voters who think many of their enemies have been arrested and are currently held in GITMO?
I believe

Like I said comedy skit and yet comment section speaks for itself.

[Spurminator]

Get a load of this fuckin crybaby lol

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[Spurs Homer]

"we know elections are crooked because we cheat our asses off"

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i always knew gillum had been cheated
and a lot of the money/support/fraud assistance came from russia and desantis is bought and paid for by russia

im waiting for trump to continue to panic and throw tantrums and start singing like a canary about all their corruption and fraud and treason

[CosmicCowboy]

How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide

The rights reversal taking place in conservative states is just the beginning.

they will likely begin a project that could reshape the nation’s political and legal landscape:

imposing on blue states

the rollback of civil rights and liberties

that has rapidly advanced through red states since 2021.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/11/gop-congress-2022-midterm-elections-rights/671996

If you believe that you should support a weaker federal government. That would allow you to move to a state that agrees with your personal beliefs.

[CosmicCowboy]

i always knew gillum had been cheated
and a lot of the money/support/fraud assistance came from russia and desantis is bought and paid for by russia

im waiting for trump to continue to panic and throw tantrums and start singing like a canary about all their corruption and fraud and treason

:lmao

Suddenly you believe Trump, the pathological liar?

Only when it's convenient, right?

[ChumpDumper]

If you believe that you should support a weaker federal government. That would allow you to move to a state that agrees with your personal beliefs.

Why should I believe that any state should be able to have worse basic civil rights and liberties than another?

[CosmicCowboy]

Why should I believe that any state should be able to have worse basic civil rights and liberties than another?

Because that is exactly how the United STATES was created.

You are welcome to move to a state that agrees with your political affiliation.

Would you like the number to UHaul?

[ChumpDumper]

Because that is exactly how the United STATES was created.So the Bill of Rights was optional for states when it was created?

Explain the opt outs to me.

I apparently need to e educated about them.

[CosmicCowboy]

So the Bill of Rights was optional for states when it was created?

How are your rights being violated?

[ChumpDumper]

How are your rights being violated?Please answer the question I asked, CC.

So the Bill of Rights was optional for states when it was created?

A state can just say, nah?

[CosmicCowboy]

Please answer the question I asked, CC.

So the Bill of Rights was optional for states when it was created?

A state can just say, nah?

Please answer my question. How are your rights being violated?

[ChumpDumper]

Please answer my question. How are your rights being violated?CC immediately folds.

Not a surprise.

I will not bite on your attempt to change the subject.

[CosmicCowboy]

CC immediately folds.

Not a surprise.

:lmao Chump folds. His rights aren't being violated. He claims to love democracy until the majority votes against him.

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao Chump folds. His rights aren't being violated. He claims to love democracy until the majority votes against him.We weren't talking about my personal rights.

We were talking about civil rights and liberties. You completely folded and tried to change the subject when I asked you whether states could opt out of the Bill of Rights.

The correct answer that you were too chickenshit to post was a simple "No."

I don't know why that turned you into a little girl, but there you are.

Let me know if you want me to go easy on you in the future, princess.:tu

[CosmicCowboy]

We weren't talking about my personal rights.

We were talking about civil rights and liberties. You completely folded and tried to change the subject when I asked you whether states could opt out of the Bill of Rights.

The correct answer that you were too chickenshit to post was a simple "No."

I don't know why that turned you into a little girl, but there you are.

Let me know if you want me to go easy on you in the future, princess.:tu

whine, whine whine.

chump is having a hard time winning the internet tonight..

[Spurs Homer]

:lmao

Suddenly you believe Trump, the pathological liar?

Only when it's convenient, right?


i dont believe anything coming from that traitor-

however

i do believe that his thin skinned ass will get butthurt and he will spew enough for the DOJ to put two and two together with what they already have and the idiot will only incriminate himself and others with his spewing of random shit

that random shit will lead the DOJ to corroborate stuff

he cannot help himself especially now that desantis is the new nazi leader

[CosmicCowboy]

i dont believe anything coming from that traitor-

however

i do believe that his thin skinned ass will get butthurt and he will spew enough for the DOJ to put two and two together with what they already have and the idiot will only incriminate himself and others with his spewing of random shit

that random shit will lead the DOJ to corroborate stuff

he cannot help himself especially now that desantis is the new nazi leader

we agree. I hope they put him in jail and he disappears from the political scene.

[ChumpDumper]

whine, whine whine.

chump is having a hard time winning the internet tonight..You folded.

It's OK, princess. The yes or no question isn't going to pull your pigtails.

[CosmicCowboy]

chump whining is funny as hell.

[ChumpDumper]

chump whining is funny as hell.Your folding and declaring victory is funnier, princess.:tu

[Spurs Homer]

Finchem defeated in arizona also

trump butt boy loses

[spurraider21]

i didnt leave the democrat party, the democrat party left me.

also, welcome back to Tucker Carlson tonight. turns out rush limbaugh was totally based!

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[Trainwreck2100]

i didnt leave the democrat party, the democrat party left me.

also, welcome back to Tucker Carlson tonight. turns out rush limbaugh was totally based!

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in her defense she didn't know vlad was gonna get covid brain and start a land war in Europe. She just wanted free rubles

[baseline bum]

we agree. I hope they put him in jail and he disappears from the political scene.

No way, we had to deal with all the bad parts of Trump from Jan 20 2017 to Jan 20 2021. Now we get the good shit, watching him trash your party in what should have been a wave election with Biden's unfavorables. Hope he loses the nomination, calls it rigged, and runs third party to completely burn the American nazi party to the ground.

[boutons_deux]

With Black(s) in the class, male muddle school TX teacher, claiming ethnocentrist LOL, says his white race is superior

TX teacher fired.

[boutons_deux]

How Tennessee disenfranchised 21% of its Black citizens

While many states made it easier for people convicted of felonies to vote,

Tennessee went in the other direction

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/08/how-tennessee-disenfranchised-21-of-its-black-citizens_partner/

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/315443490_6057160874305727_6477625098189960405_n.j pg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=RRn98ZH7-8QAX9P0Vn7&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AfAGy1jdtpm_qL9N-sZI_aarCDxjuvc8LRMJcIV_5ixPwQ&oe=63792084

[boutons_deux]

Almost Twice as Many Republicans Died From COVID Before the Midterms Than Democrats
can’t say if this impacted the midterms,

but say that it’s “plausible given just how

stark the differences in vaccination rates have been, among Democrats and Republicans.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vjx8/almost-twice-as-many-republicans-died-from-covid-before-the-midterms-than-democrats

Everything Trash and Repugs touches DIES (except the oligarchy)

[boutons_deux]

Desantis is an blatant fascist,

setting up his private military force only he controls

He tricked felons into voting telling them they could vote so he could arrest them as a campaign tactic

state statistician tells the truth about covid cases, Desantis fires her.

Desantis tripling down on the fake issue of LBGT, grooming in schools, etc.

82K covid deaths in FL

Desantis mocked masks and blocked using masks in schools

sent a ratfucker to San Antonio to lie to San Antonio immigrants so they would get on the bus to Martha's Vineyard

[boutons_deux]

Fascists ALWAYS attack the schools, queer/rewrite history, replaced by info favorable to the fascists

Nearly 300 titles, including graphic novel about the Gettysburg Address,

banned in (slave state) Missouri schools

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/17/2136858/-Close-to-300-titles-including-a-graphic-novel-of-the-Gettysburg-Address-banned-in-Missouri-schools

[Winehole23]

too chicken to criticize Trump having dinner with an actual neo-Nazi.

are they afraid of taking a strong stand against antisemitism might turn off too many GOP primary voters?

:lol

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[boutons_deux]

too chicken to criticize Trump having dinner with an actual neo-Nazi.

are they afraid of taking a strong stand against antisemitism might turn off too many GOP primary voters?

:lol

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Repugs have no ethics, morals, principles. They know they need votes of Trash's MAGAtts, neoNazis, armed militias, Schutzstaffel, incels, misogynists, nutcases, etc.

Repugs feared Trash's base in 2017. So while they might detest Trash, they cannot alienate his base.

Repug base is a minority (-3M 2016, -7M 2020), so SCOTUS, gerrymandering, voter suppression are the only ways the Repugs can win at Federal level.

[boutons_deux]

Florida sheriff angry school kids no longer fear having their behinds 'torn off'

Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced it's "a new day," as he introduced a new disciplinary program for school children who he lamented no longer fear having "the cheeks of their ass torn off for not doing right in class.”

joined by Florida State Attorney Phil Archer, and School Board Chairman Matt Susin, who has ties to (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/moms-for-liberty-parents-rights/2021/10/14/bf3d9ccc-286a-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html) the far-right organization Moms for Liberty.

impose the 'most prolific school discipline policy this district has ever had,'"

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-sheriff-angry-school-kids-no-longer-fear-having-their-behinds-torn-off-vows-to-be-their-worst-nightmare

asshole doesn't know the definition of prolific

Ignorant fuck doesn't know that violence begets violence. It's the FASCIST way.

What shithole FL is

[boutons_deux]

Right-Wing Extremist Boebert to Guide Policy on House GOP Leadership Team

"This is the Republican Party after a catastrophic midterm underperformance,"

was elected to join the party's policy committee.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/02/right-wing-extremist-boebert-guide-policy-house-gop-leadership-team

Fascist Repugs trolling America, proving they don't GAF about actual governing,

only All Corrupt Politics, All The Time

[boutons_deux]

McCarthy says Repugs will investigate the Jan6 Committee

Fauci
CDC
Student Loan forgiveness program
Biden's son's dick pics
Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan
FBI and DOJ as politicized.
etc, etc, etc.

One Repug says the list of investigations has 50 items.

[Winehole23]

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

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[ChumpDumper]

:lol Who actually backed the blue?
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[boutons_deux]

San Antonio/Hill Country's very own Chip Roy, repladed equally repulsive Lamar Smith

'Trying to make Armageddon erupt':

GOPer Chip Roy hammered for

working to derail marriage equality bill


... trying to derail the Respect for Marriage Act (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Respect+for+Marriage+Act) with a “religious liberty” amendment that had already failed in the U.S. Senate,

telling him and his colleagues who claim there is no emergency for same-sex marriage,

“I’m not going to accept assurances from people who are working to overturn the right of gay people to get married in America.”

https://www.alternet.org/trying-to-make-armageddon-erupt/

[boutons_deux]

Sen. John Kennedy, slave state, warns Georgians against 'high IQ' people,

enthusiastically endorses Walker


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/6/2140315/-Sen-John-Kennedy-warns-Georgians-against-high-IQ-people-enthusiastically-endorses-Walker

Repugs count on the mass of their voters being low-ed, low-wage, rural, ignorant, stupid, gullible, hate-driven, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, Christian fascists.

AND the minority of their voters who are the corrupting BigDonor class.

[ChumpDumper]

Sen. John Kennedy, slave state, warns Georgians against 'high IQ' people,

enthusiastically endorses Walker


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/6/2140315/-Sen-John-Kennedy-warns-Georgians-against-high-IQ-people-enthusiastically-endorses-Walker

Repugs count on the mass of their voters being low-ed, low-wage, rural, ignorant, stupid, gullible, hate-driven, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, Christian fascists.

AND the minority of their voters who are the corrupting BigDonor class.

:lol dude was a Rhodes scholar. He fucking hates his dumbass supporters.

[boutons_deux]

GOP Rep. Gosar Deletes Tweet Agreeing With Trump’s Call to Terminate the Constitution


https://am14.mediaite.com/med/cnt/uploads/2022/12/Paul-Gosar-GettyImages-1232844431.jpg

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/gop-rep-gosar-deletes-tweet-agreeing-with-trumps-call-to-terminate-the-constitution/

[boutons_deux]

Author of Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill indicted for fraud

https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.jpg?id=32310758&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=62%2C0%2C6%2C0

Florida Republican state lawmaker Joe Harding (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Joe+Harding%22), the author of the highly-criticized and some say unconstitutional “Don’t Say Gay (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Don%27t+Say+Gay%22+Florida)” law, has been

indicted by a U.S. Dept. of Justice grand jury (https://floridapolitics.com/archives/575007-joe-harding-indicted-on-wire-fraud-money-laundering-charges/) on federal fraud charges.

“A federal grand jury has returned a six-count indictment against Joseph Harding, 35, of Williston, Florida,” the Justice Dept. said in a press release (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/florida-state-representative-indicted-wire-fraud-money-laundering-and-making-false), detailing an alleged scheme, which included obtaining

“fraudulently created bank statements,” to defraud the U.S. Government’s Small Business Administration of $150,000.

https://www.alternet.org/dont-say-gay-author-fraud/

[boutons_deux]

A leader, even face of House Repugs

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To Impeach Biden For Bringing Brittney Griner Home


https://www.politicususa.com/2022/12/08/marjorie-taylor-greene-impeach-biden-brittney-griner.html

[boutons_deux]

How fascism operates in MT, intimidating, harassing, politicizing the judiciary

The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lie

Setting aside those at the national level, these efforts in Montana, are stunning, and include, by way of non-exclusive examples:


+ making baseless and vague charges of improprieties designed to lessen the reputations and integrity of members of the Supreme and District Courts and to destroy Montanans’ trust in the court and judiciary;

+ causing one Justice to have to (successfully) litigate his being subpoenaed by the legislature;

+ seizing judges’ emails off the Department of Administration server (many of which contained case-sensitive information and information pertaining to the deliberations of the court);

+ subpoenaing members of the Supreme Court and Court documents for “investigative purposes;”

+ the Attorney General’s office blatantly refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order;

+ the legislature and Governor summarily scrapping the Judicial Nomination Commission and the merit selection of judicial appointments and replacing the merit system with a patronage system controlled solely by the Governor;

+ resurrecting the plan of electing Supreme Court justices by district, and ignoring, in the process, precedent which had determined the district-election plan was unconstitutional. Indeed, this plan was and is simply a scheme to elect partisan justices from gerrymandered “districts;”

+ trashing Judges and Courts as being “partisan” and “activist;”

+ Turning the most recent Supreme Court retention election from, what should have been a nonpartisan contest, into a partisan free-for-all, with a hand-picked partisan candidate, financed in large part by money from the Republican State Leadership Committee;

+ And, finally, proposing a mind-boggling list of court and tort “reform” bills to be considered—and no doubt enacted— in the 2023 session by the Republican super-majority in the legislature.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/08/the-rule-of-law-or-the-rule-of-lie/


MT, where the govenor body slams a reporter for asking a question

[boutons_deux]

‘Stop Whining’: Ted Lieu Blasts Republicans for Playing Up Anti-GOP Violence After They Made Fun of Pelosi Hammer Attack

Conservatives railed against the protests and decried the threats to the court.

During Thursday’s hearing, Lieu called out conservatives who made light and spread conspiracy theories about the assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“When we talk about actual political violence, you know who had their skull hit by a hammer?” Lieu stated,

“It was a spouse of the speaker of the House.

Multiple Republicans made fun of that (https://www.mediaite.com/politics/audience-laughs-as-kari-lake-jokes-about-pelosi-attack-apparently-her-house-doesnt-have-a-lot-of-protection/).

They circulated conspiracy theories (https://www.mediaite.com/crime/read-paul-pelosi-suspects-confession-debunks-conspiracy-theories-about-attack/).

They said all sorts of things that were not true.

Republicans should be ashamed for doing that. :lol they have no shame, ethics,morals

So please stop whining about threats to Supreme Court justices

when the actual violence of a person being hit in the head with a hammer go to surgery was a spouse of the Democratic speaker of the House.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/stop-whining-ted-lieu-blasts-republicans-for-playing-up-anti-gop-violence-after-they-made-fun-of-pelosi-hammer-attack/

[boutons_deux]

Lauren Boebert celebrates Denmark mass shooting

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1088430/story_image/GettyImages-959533944.jpg?1657036923

After three people were murdered (https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/denmark-theaters-closed-honor-mall-shooting-victims-86230087) by a gunman who opened fire at a shopping mall in Denmark over the weekend, Boebert went to her Twitter account to pretend she had a point.


Writing,

“There was just a mass shooting in Denmark, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe.

It’s time to admit that gun laws DO NOT stop mass shootings!” (https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1543684847171936259?s=20&t=9tltwBnCqfi04peOIMc7hQ),

Boebert was once again testifying to how utterly her existence is a waste of space in the world at large.

It’s hard to imagine a less intelligent statement being blurted out by a public official.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/5/2108545/-Lauren-Boebert-is-as-clueless-on-gun-control-as-she-is-on-everything-Her-latest-tweet-proves-that

Boebert now has less competition of ignorance/stupidity in Congress since Gohmert is retiring

The Best People

[boutons_deux]

Former candidate for U.S. representative accused of threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Randy Weber

Keith Douglas Casey has been charged in connection with making a threat against a U.S. official, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.


Casey has run several times to unseat Weber from office (https://ballotpedia.org/Keith_Casey). For instance, in 2022, he received some 5,178 votes, or 7.9%, compared to Weber’s 89%, or 58,439 votes, in the Republican primary.

In March 2022 Casey allegedly began

telling people he’d defeated Weber in the race for the spot — and that he was going to kill him,

according to the complaint.

Staff members in Weber’s office first reported the matter to federal law enforcement as early as March 29.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/candidate-threat-17651144.php

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Typical tactic in classic FASCIST strategy, politicize/dumb down education

DeSantis-backed school boards begin ousting Florida educators

New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week.

dozens of conservative school board candidates across Florida during the midterms.

Now they’re in office — and are purging some educational leaders who enforced Covid-19 mandates.

school boards with ties to DeSantis pushed out three superintendents in November alone — and each of them served over districts that implemented student mask mandates.

In Brevard and Sarasota counties, embattled school leaders have faced immediate pressure from newly-installed board members and offered to leave voluntarily rather than risk a vote on their terminations.

The newly-elected board members in these cases support parental rights while opposing critical race theory and teaching gender orientation in schools.


https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/30/desantis-school-board-covid-00071305

Desantis used the power of govt to punish Disney severely for a Disney stance, nothing illegal, that Desantis didn't like.

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Election denialism isn’t going away anytime soon,

because it’s such an effective far-right grift


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/13/2141721/-Election-denialism-isn-t-going-away-anytime-soon-because-it-s-such-an-effective-far-right-grift

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DeSantis announces grand jury to investigate ‘wrongdoing’ around COVID-19 vaccines

DeSantis on Tuesday vowed to hold accountable people in Florida who committed “wrongdoing” in relation to COVID-19 vaccines,

bring legal accountability for those who committed misconduct,”

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo in making claims against COVID-19 Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines and their approval process.

Many of these claims have been disputed or disproven by others in the medical realm.
The grand jury will bring legal action against entities that spread misinformation,

“Anybody who knows anything about science is just slack-jawed,” said Kenneth Goodman, a bioethicist and director of the Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy at the University of Miami.
Goodman cited a study released Tuesday by the

Commonwealth Fund that found COVID vaccines saved more than 3 million lives and prevented over 18 million additional hospitalizations in the U.S.

“Why anybody who represents the people would want to publicly suggest otherwise is an absolute mystery. Unless, of course,

he reckons there’s some political gain for it. ...

That’s not good public health policy.

That’s political opportunism.”

https://nordot.app/975508090498777088?c=592622757532812385

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/AndrewNordmeier/status/1602811622866636803

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'We want to get dirty':

Young Republicans Club founder doubles down on call for 'war' with American liberals

Gavin Wax, the president of the New York Republicans Club, doubled down on Wednesday on his call to wage a "war" against American liberals (https://www.rawstory.com/republican-party-wants-war/).

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=32348047&width=1200&height=673

Appearing on Steve Bannon's podcast, ... he threw out violent rhetoric to denounce his political opponents.

Wax said, "This is a holistic, multifront war that we are waging!" :lol

defended himself against charges that he was promoting violent conflict.

"This was a speech full of energy, full of passion!" he said.

"This is what people want to hear, they want this red meat!" :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/gavin-wax

So civilized, so democratic, so America-loving

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you ST rightwing nut jobs are really fucked up

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'They Messed with the Wrong Bitch’:

Kari Lake Vows Retaliation Against ‘Evil Bastards’ She Claims Stole Her Election

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/they-messed-with-the-wrong-btch-kari-lake-vows-retaliation-against-evil-bastards-she-claims-stole-her-election/

[Winehole23]

Antisocial, antiscience Republicans are a literal public menace.

1604256181807386625

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Antisocial, antiscience Republicans are a literal public menace.

1604256181807386625

Trash, his mafiya, right wing hate media killed 300 - 400K people, mostly Repug voters, by downplaying the deadly covid and agitating against covid vaccination.

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the anti-vax morons are now enabling spread of measles, whooping cough.

[spurraider21]

:lol boebert/gaetz and mtg feuding

[spurraider21]

:lmao party of obstructing over governing threatens to obstruct itself from governing. so its like, not even a threat

1605670108436738048

[Winehole23]

GOP in disarray

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a red spurt, no red wave, 2022

Repugs, having convinced their base that ALL elections are fraudulent, stolen, by early and mail-in voting

NOW

trying to get their ignorant, racist, hate-driven MAGAtt base to use early and mail-in voting

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

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George Santos Admits to Lying About College and Work History

(https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/qvk8Nb_J65VRqpZvg0xkNA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRljL6aP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi 8xMi8yNi9ueXJlZ2lvbi9nZW9yZ2Utc2FudG9zLWludGVydmll dy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTE5MCZlbWM9ZWRpdF91Zm5fMj AyMjEyMjcmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9ODExOTYmbmw9ZnJvbS10aGUt dGltZXMmcmVnaV9pZD04MDgyMTc5NyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTEyMD kwMyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9OTkyZDYwODIxNGI1MDUwMDNhYTA0 YmYxMGE1OTUwMzFXA255dEIKY6KaOapjDFKeDFITZGFybm9jbm VsQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)The congressman-elect told The New York Post that

he had not graduated from college or

worked at two major Wall Street companies,

as he had previously claimed.
-- NYTimes email
(https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/qvk8Nb_J65VRqpZvg0xkNA~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRljL6aP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi 8xMi8yNi9ueXJlZ2lvbi9nZW9yZ2Utc2FudG9zLWludGVydmll dy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTE5MCZlbWM9ZWRpdF91Zm5fMj AyMjEyMjcmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9ODExOTYmbmw9ZnJvbS10aGUt dGltZXMmcmVnaV9pZD04MDgyMTc5NyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTEyMD kwMyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9OTkyZDYwODIxNGI1MDUwMDNhYTA0 YmYxMGE1OTUwMzFXA255dEIKY6KaOapjDFKeDFITZGFybm9jbm VsQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)



He's Repug, so ...

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GOP appoints failed politician to judgeship despite her having zero judicial experience

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/michele-fiore.png?id=27708691&width=1200&height=675

https://www.rawstory.com/michele-fiore-2659035571/

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'This Must Be Stopped':

House Republicans Plan to Gut Ethics Office

"The MAGA House is more interested in

sweeping any corruption amongst their ranks under the rug and

performing political stunts against the Biden administration

than they are doing anything constructive,"


https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-republicans

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House Republicans gut their own oversight
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-republicans-gut-their-own-oversight-233111

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GOP seeks to prevent Archives handling of J6 trove

The Jan. 6 committee is running into resistance after a portion of the House rules package proposed by Republicans singles out the panel’s work, seeking to block its records from being managed (https://nxslink.thehill.com/click/30146652.40744/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9ob21lbmV3cy9ob3VzZS8zNz k2NjQ4LWdvcC1zZWVrcy10by1wcmV2ZW50LWFyY2hpdmVzLWhh bmRsaW5nLW9mLWphbi02LWRvY3VtZW50LXRyb3ZlLz9lbWFpbD 01NDJlYjMxZDk1OGU4NWRkZDVhNGMzY2NmM2ZhYWUxODUyNmE3 N2JkJmVtYWlsYT05OTJkNjA4MjE0YjUwNTAwM2FhMDRiZjEwYT U5NTAzMSZlbWFpbGI9NTRiMzYxMmFiOTcwY2UxM2E2NGExNjY2 NWIxOTg3MDgwY2E1YjcyZTJlZTc2MmI3MjJmYmJhNmFiMzc4Zj JmNSZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1h aWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTAxLjAzLjIyJTIwSkIlMjBEZWZlbn Nl/6230d9d2b246d1049531daf9B141350ca) by the National Archives.

The GOP rules package would require the Archives to turn over any of the committee’s work to the House Administration Committee by Jan. 17, sidestepping a requirement that would prohibit their release for at least 30 years.

An unusual address: It is unusual for House rules to address one committee — a sign Republicans may wish to do more to rebut the work of the Jan. 6 panel after the GOP released its own report on security failures at the Capitol the day of the riot.


The rules package will be weighed after a contentious vote to determine whether Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will serve as House Speaker.


McCarthy as recently as November flagged GOP interest in the documents.

Dodging rules: “The official Congressional Records do not belong to you or any member, but to the American people, and they are owed all of the information you gathered — not merely the information that comports with your political agenda,” McCarthy wrote in a letter to Jan. 6 panel chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).

-- The Hill email

This will go to SCOTUS that will rule for Repug politics

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As GOP Takes Over House, Officials Remove Metal Detectors Installed After Jan. 6

https://www.commondreams.org/news/metal-detectors-gop-house (https://www.commondreams.org/news/metal-detectors-gop-house)

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Elise Stefanik remains silent on Santos as her descent into ultra-MAGA madness continues

she has sown the seeds of her destruction. In one disastrously short-sighted play, she has remained silent on George Santos.

We should not be surprised. Stefanik has no spine. Nor any core beliefs or values.

She has become the most cynical of Republican politicians since

she made the political calculus that throwing all-in with Trump would grease her skids to power.

So far, it has worked like a charm. She is Chair of the House Republican Conference (#3 in the GOP House hierarchy) and

days away from being a senior member of the majority party.

It is a position she worked hard for and achieved by burning down at least as many political bridges as she built.

And it required a sea change in her philosophy.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/1/2144817/-Elise-Stefanik-remains-silent-on-Santos-as-her-descent-into-ultra-MAGA-madness-continues (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/1/2144817/-Elise-Stefanik-remains-silent-on-Santos-as-her-descent-into-ultra-MAGA-madness-continues?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email)

Repugs, the party of shitbags

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GOP House sets agenda for first few weeks, and yes, it's ridiculous

forced birth agenda includes codifying the long-standing Hyde Amendment that

prevents federal funding for abortion and “funding for any insurance plan that includes abortion on demand.”

That’s private health insurance coverage they’re talking about.

a cruel “born-alive” bill

that would require medical personnel provide care to infants born with conditions that will keep them from surviving outside the womb for any amount of time, torturing the babies in their only minutes on Earth with futile medical interventions and

preventing parents from having the experience of being with their newborn for whatever time they’ll live.

they have a gotcha bill to

try to force Democrats on the record “condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.”

Recent attacks?

On churches for being “pro-life”? In the U.S.?

Outside of the synagogues and the Black churches, that is.

some energy-related bills, mostly attempting to tie President Joe Biden’s hands

if we’re faced with another oil shortage with a bill that

“prohibits non-emergency drawdowns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve without a plan to increase energy production on federal lands.”

a bill that “requires the National Instant Criminal Background Check system (NICS) to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and relevant local law enforcement

when a firearm transferee is illegally present in the United States.”

So they found a gun restriction that they can support on a thing that probably never happens.

they’ll try to repeal the increase in funding for the IRS that Democrats passed this year.

They sure don’t want the agency to be able to investigate their well-heeled donors for tax fraud.

none of it will make it to the Senate floor.

But the Republicans don’t actually care about making policy.

They want to score political points and

give their shrinking base of fanatical bigots, because that’s all they got.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/30/2144568/-GOP-House-sets-agenda-for-first-few-weeks-and-yes-it-s-ridiculous

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If you don't agree with Repug fascist politics, they use the power of the state to punish innocent-of-crime you.

Kentucky's GOP Treasurer Falsely Claims Big Banks Are Boycotting Fossil Fuels

The Republican threatened to divest from financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup—

widely accused of failing to meet even modest climate goals—

under a state law banning "energy company boycotts."


https://www.commondreams.org/news/blackrock

Same with Desantis punishing Disney, and Abbott punishing ESG companies

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Why Incels Love Putin

Russian fascism and right-wing chauvinism share an emotional core.
https://www.thebulwark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-89594293b-1024x689.jpg


The genocidal dictator has children, palaces, and many rumored mistresses—

the power-hungry alpha male’s dream.

Why, then, is he so admired by prominent “incels”—

i.e., men who refer to themselves as “involuntarily celibate,”

mostly because they are transparent misogynists who are rightfully spurned by women?

in Western society, where nobody is really forced to like

Putin, some of his most ardent fans are deeply troubled people.

white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who doesn’t hold back on his admiration for Putin’s war in Ukraine (https://www.businessinsider.com/nick-fuentes-praises-putin-weeks-after-gop-lawmakers-attend-event-2022-3), and considers him to be a beacon of hope for the white race.

He is opposed to asking for affection.

Incels frequently complain that,

as women have been given more choice over their personal lives,

men must now woo them rather than dragging them off to a cave.

https://www.thebulwark.com/why-incels-love-putin-russia

[FrostKing]

Why Incels Love Putin

Russian fascism and right-wing chauvinism share an emotional core.
https://www.thebulwark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-89594293b-1024x689.jpg


The genocidal dictator has children, palaces, and many rumored mistresses—

the power-hungry alpha male’s dream.

Why, then, is he so admired by prominent “incels”—

i.e., men who refer to themselves as “involuntarily celibate,”

mostly because they are transparent misogynists who are rightfully spurned by women?

in Western society, where nobody is really forced to like

Putin, some of his most ardent fans are deeply troubled people.

white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who doesn’t hold back on his admiration for Putin’s war in Ukraine (https://www.businessinsider.com/nick-fuentes-praises-putin-weeks-after-gop-lawmakers-attend-event-2022-3), and considers him to be a beacon of hope for the white race.

He is opposed to asking for affection.

Incels frequently complain that,

as women have been given more choice over their personal lives,

men must now woo them rather than dragging them off to a cave.

https://www.thebulwark.com/why-incels-love-putin-russia



It's not so complicated. Putin was hated by mainstream Western society long before incel communities existed on the Internet

The correlation is both are counterculture.

[leemajors]

It's not so complicated. Putin was hated by mainstream Western society long before incel communities existed on the Internet

The correlation is both are counterculture.

It's not complicated, yet you came up with a dumb explanation, congrats.

[FrostKing]

It's not complicated, yet you came up with a dumb explanation, congrats.
Right. I'm sure an entire article was needed to explain why people that dislike mainstream Western society would celebrate mainstream Western societies biggest villian.

Such "deeply troubled people".

[Isitjustme?]

GOP appoints failed politician to judgeship despite her having zero judicial experience

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/michele-fiore.png?id=27708691&width=1200&height=675

https://www.rawstory.com/michele-fiore-2659035571/

Would smash hard

[benefactor]

Would smash hard
I don't think I'd go that far...but I wouldn't say no to a topless blowjob.

[Ef-man]

Would smash hard

That you Chucho?

[baseline bum]

Would smash hard

She looks like a highschool football coach in drag

[RandomGuy]

LOL Kevin McCarthy.

Looks like the Republican party's catering to the looney radical right has come home to roost.

It is increasingly easy for Democrats to make the case that the Republican party is too radical to trust with running governments.

Between Roe V Wade being overturned to this, wow.

[Isitjustme?]

I don't think I'd go that far...but I wouldn't say no to a topless blowjob.

Well I like thick girls if it's thick in the right spots even fat ones. Looked at her other pics online and she doesn't look as good elsewhere tho