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The Juggler said:

These are the people who believe everything they're told about democrats all being pedophiles and Disney and teachers grooming kids...whatever the fuck that means. This is not normal. 

Reminded me of this.

Halifax2TheMax

Ben and Jerry here—the ice cream guys.

Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel has been writing $10 million checks to GOP candidates running in this year's midterm elections.1

He's backing 16 Senate and House candidates, many of whom have embraced Donald Trump's Big Lie of a stolen election.2

There are some things you should know about Thiel: He says he's come to "no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" and regularly hosts and attends white supremacist events.3

He is also a tax dodger who has used stock deals unavailable to most people to amass a "$5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank," according to an exposé by ProPublica.4

You read that right: $5 billion.

Now, with control of Congress up for grabs in a few short months—the Senate is tied, 50-50, and Democrats have the narrowest majority in history in the House—we can be sure that Thiel and his right-wing billionaire buddies will spend whatever it takes to buy GOP control of Congress, paving the way for massive billionaire giveaways, attacks on our democracy and climate, and a preview of Trump's reelection schemes.

Halifax2TheMax

Yup, no impact. Its okay. Just tolerate the hatred.

Two dads took their kids on a trip. A stranger called them ‘pedophiles.’

The language mirrored rhetoric GOP lawmakers have used to criticize teaching LGBTQ topics in schools

On Tuesday morning, Robbie Pierce and his family boarded a train in Los Angeles and rode it up the coast of California — their favorite way to travel.

It was the start of spring break for Pierce, a substitute teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District, and he was excited to spend it in the San Francisco Bay area with his husband and their 6-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter.

Along the 10-hour journey, the kids watched as they zoomed pass the ocean and farmlands, marveling at the sun setting on the Pacific Ocean.

“It was such a peaceful experience,” said Pierce, 41. “Everything was just picturesque.”

But their evening was soon derailed, he said, when his family was accosted by another passenger on the train.

“All of a sudden, there was a man standing right next to me talking to my son,” Pierce said. “The very first thing he said is, ‘Marriage is between a man and a woman.’”

Pierce was stunned, he said, as the unidentified man proceeded to shout homophobic attacks, accusing the couple of stealing their children and calling them “pedophiles” and “rapists.” As his kids began to cry, Pierce said he grabbed them and moved them to another car while his husband, Neal Broverman, shouted the harasser away.

What weighs on him, too, is what an attack like this in a solid blue state like California means for LGBTQ families living in Republican-led states, he said: “The fact that this can even come here just makes me even more concerned for people who are in those parts of the country where their rights are being attacked.”

Nationwide, Republicans have filed nearly 200 state bills this year that strip protections for transgender minors or restrict discussion of LGBTQ topics in public schools.

“I’m privileged to live in Los Angeles and be working in the Los Angeles school district where, at least for the foreseeable future, those laws aren’t going to come here,” Pierce said, adding that other teachers fly Pride flags and talk openly about their same-sex partners.

Two dads called ‘pedophiles’ on California Amtrak in front of kids - The Washington Post

mickeyrat

Senate Candidate  from Ohio vying to replace Portman. douche .....

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-steve-bannon-josh-mandel-congress-ohio-06e64ac7ba0f8d84b608fb82f4e632eb

 

2022 Midterm elections Steve Bannon Josh Mandel Donald Trump Elections Ohio Congress

Trump backs GOP’s JD Vance in US Senate primary in Ohio

By JILL COLVIN and JULIE CARR SMYTH

56 mins ago

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is endorsing "Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance in Ohio's competitive Republican Senate primary, ending months of jockeying in a race where his backing could be pivotal.

In a statement, Trump described Vance as “the candidate most qualified and ready to win in November.”

“We cannot play games. It is all about winning!” he wrote.

The decision is a major blow for Vance's top rivals — former state treasurer Josh Mandel, investment banker Mike Gibbons and former Ohio Republican Party chair Jane Timken — who have been locked in a heated and contentious race for both the nomination and Trump's backing in a primary that is now less than three weeks away.

On Thursday night, dozens of Republican leaders in Ohio mounted a last-minute effort to urge Trump not to endorse Vance following a news report that said Trump had made a decision and was planning to go with Vance.

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2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

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While Gibbons and Mandel had been leading in recent polls, officials backing various candidates had long conceded that Trump’s coveted support would likely push his pick to the front of the pack in a race that has revolved, to a large extent, around him.

In addition to trips down to Mar-a-Lago, the candidates and their affiliated super PACs have spent millions trying to present themselves as Trump's favored option and paint one another as insufficiently loyal to the former president, who remains deeply popular with the GOP base, despite being impeached twice, and won the state in both 2016 and 2020.

But Vance, in particular, has also come under fire for old audio and since-deleted tweets in which he called himself a “never-Trump guy,” called Trump an idiot, and said he might have to hold his nose and vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Vance has since changed his tune, saying he regrets his past comments. In the race, he has closely aligned himself with the former president, making frequent appearances on Fox News and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s podcast, where he has echoed Trump’s rhetoric on issues including immigration.

Trump, in his statement, acknowledged that Vance “may have said some not so great things about me in the past." But he said that Vance, with whom he has been in frequent touch, “gets it now, and I have seen that in spades.”

Trump also referenced the other candidates who have gone to extreme length to win his backing. “This is not an easy endorsement for me to make because I like and respect some of the other candidates in the race—they’ve said great things about ‘Trump,’” he wrote, while calling on his supporters to unite behind Vance.

Trump had discussed the Vance endorsement with allies as recently at this week, according to two people familiar with his thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, and moved forward despite a desperate, last minute effort to change his mind by rivals and some party leaders.

While Trump had long been worried about Vance’s standing in the polls, the two been in frequent contact, speaking regularly. Trump, an avid TV viewer, also felt that Vance presented best on television and was impressed with his performance during the the last GOP debate.

He was equally turned off by what one person described as the “debate debacles” between Mandel and Gibbons, in which the two men nearly came to blows.

In an interview earlier this week, Vance, who had the support of Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, told talk radio host Hugh Hewitt that he wasn't sure whether Trump would end up endorsing in the race, but thought if he did it would come before Trump returns to the state for a rally on April 23.

“I think that he will. I’m not sure that he will,” said Vance. “He wants to endorse the person he thinks can beat Tim Ryan. He also wants to endorse a winner.”

The winner of the May 3 primary is likely to face Democratic frontrunner, U.S. Rep Tim Ryan, in November for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman.

continues.....

Lerxst1992

The Juggler said:

These are the people who believe everything they're told about democrats all being pedophiles and Disney and teachers grooming kids...whatever the fuck that means. This is not normal. 

Wow they indoctrinate their kids at a young age into the cult.


hey if Dems dressed like that at their rallies, maybe I’d show up. 

mickeyrat

Lerxst1992 said:

The Juggler said:

These are the people who believe everything they're told about democrats all being pedophiles and Disney and teachers grooming kids...whatever the fuck that means. This is not normal. 

Wow they indoctrinate their kids at a young age into the cult.


hey if Dems dressed like that at their rallies, maybe I’d show up. 

like what, strippers ready to go start a shift at Billy Bob's Shaved Beaver Bar and Whorehouse?

Lerxst1992

Sounds good to me.

GOP Cult are the new hippie party animals.

Bentleyspop

Only the best people

https://youtu.be/6oiFv6WNHZY

Bentleyspop

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1516468609828143119?t=9ufYQ1m5gNuk5Ja9tAsLXg&s=19

Gern Blansten

https://twitter.com/SternLevine/status/1516824713665863685

HughFreakingDillon

that's disgusting Gern. but remember when someone like this would be scandalous, even to Republicans? now it's just "well, the ends justify the means, so...."

Gern Blansten

HughFreakingDillon said:

that's disgusting Gern. but remember when someone like this would be scandalous, even to Republicans? now it's just "well, the ends justify the means, so...."

yep....it's insane

Lizard

Halifax2TheMax said:

Wherever that is, you can get a temporary tattoo too. Now that is the downfall of society.

would it shock you if I said that picture was taken on Fremont Street in Downtown Vegas?  
because i have seen that stupid flag there usually by the old guy dressed in the bright green Borat swimsuit

Halifax2TheMax

Lizard said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Wherever that is, you can get a temporary tattoo too. Now that is the downfall of society.

would it shock you if I said that picture was taken on Fremont Street in Downtown Vegas?  
because i have seen that stupid flag there usually by the old guy dressed in the bright green Borat swimsuit

No, not at all. And Borat didn’t wear a “swimsuit,” more like a unitard banana hammock.

Why do I feel like we’re living in Stephen King’s The Stand?

dankind

Gern Blansten said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

that's disgusting Gern. but remember when someone like this would be scandalous, even to Republicans? now it's just "well, the ends justify the means, so...."

yep....it's insane

mickeyrat

  https://youtu.be/Vv9GURQTNoM

mickeyrat

and this...

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/3274661-texas-and-florida-take-steps-to-limit-professor-tenure-at-state-schools/

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

  https://youtu.be/Vv9GURQTNoM

Fuck Tennessee. Another state I won’t visit and spend my dollars in. But hey, you gotta make up for the population you lost when pot was decriminalized, right?

mickeyrat

now with audio!!!

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-2022-midterm-elections-kevin-mccarthy-rachel-maddow-2dda5a508f77bb14fe31b0fa89b08197

2022 Midterm elections Capitol siege Donald Trump Kevin McCarthy Rachel Maddow Congress Elections

Audio: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and JILL COLVIN

Today

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show .

In the recording of a Jan. 10 House Republican Leadership call posted by the Times Thursday night, McCarthy is heard discussing the Democratic effort to remove Trump from office and saying he would tell Trump, “I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign."

It’s unclear whether McCarthy, who is in line to become House speaker if Republicans gain control during the fall midterm elections, followed through on his thinking or was merely spit-balling ideas shared privately with his colleagues in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol assault.

In the same conversation, McCarthy told his colleagues he doubted Trump would take the advice to step aside.

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CAPITOL SIEGE

Audio: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign

Audio: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign

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“That would be my recommendation,” McCarthy is heard saying in response to question from Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who would emerge as a staunch Trump critic. “I don’t think he will take it, but I don’t know.””

Earlier Thursday, after the Times published its initial story describing the conversation, McCarthy released a statement calling it “totally false and wrong.” His spokesman, Mark Bednar, had told the paper, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”

Bednar did not immediately respond to questions late Thursday night after the audio's release. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the tape.

The audio threatens to badly damage the relationship between McCarthy and Trump, who remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party, despite his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection and his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. And it could threaten McCarthy's standing with House Republicans aligned with Trump, whose support he will need for votes to become House speaker next year.

The audio depicts a very different McCarthy than the one who has been leading House Republicans over the last year and a half and who has remained allied with Trump even after delivering a speech on the House floor shortly after Jan. 6, during which he called the attack on the Capitol “un-American." At the time, McCarthy called the assault among the saddest days of his career and told his fellow Republicans that Trump “bears responsibility” for the violence.

Even after the violence, though, McCarthy joined half of the House Republicans in voting to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory.

Since then, the California Republican has distanced himself from any criticism of Trump and has avoided directly linking him to what happened. Within weeks of the siege at the Capitol McCarthy said he did not think Trump provoked the attack, as other prominent Republicans said at the time.

Instead, McCarthy has cozied up to Trump, visiting him at the former president’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago as he relies on the former president’s brand for campaign support this fall.

McCarthy indicated during an interview with The Associated Press this week in California that Trump will motivate voters to turn out for the party in this fall's midterm elections.

“He’ll motivate, get a lot of people out,” McCarthy said at a GOP event in Fresno.

The Times report Thursday was adapted from an upcoming book, “ This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” by Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.

In the audio, Cheney, who eventually lost her No. 3 leadership position after voting in favor of Trump's impeachment, can be heard asking McCarthy about a 25th Amendment resolution calling for Trump’s ouster and whether Trump might resign.

“I’ve had a few discussions. My gut tells me no. I’m seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight,” McCarthy is heard saying. “What I think I’m gonna do is I’m gonna call him.”

“I think it will pass and it would be my recommendation he should resign," he later adds. “I mean, that would be my take but I don’t think he would take it. But I don’t know.”

McCarthy, 57, has been strategically charting his own delicate course as he positions himself to try to take over as speaker if Republicans retake the House. He has begun to build out his leadership team and last summer tasked several groups of Republican lawmakers with drafting proposals on the party’s core legislative priorities in hopes of making a fast start in 2023.

But even as he inches closer to leading the chamber, McCarthy is well aware of the downside of power in recent months as hard-right members of the conference have created headaches with inflammatory actions and statements.

There was little immediate reaction Thursday night from fellow Republicans who could determine his future.

To be sure, no other Republican leader in the House has amassed the standing to challenge McCarthy for the leadership position.

McCarthy has recruited the class of newcomers bolstering GOP ranks and raised millions to bolster Republican campaigns. He has drawn his closest rivals into the fold even as he works to shore up the votes that would be needed to become speaker.

An outside group aligned with McCarthy has led fundraising ahead of the midterm elections, and rank-and-file Republicans working to regain the House majority are unlikely to be critical of the leader ahead of November.

Still, McCarthy has also been a person of interest for the House committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on Jan 6. The select committee, which Cheney vice-chairs, requested an interview with McCarthy in mid-January, hoping to learn more about his conversations with Trump “before, during and after” the riot.

They had also sought information about McCarthy’s communications with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days before the attack. Hours after the request was made, McCarthy issued a statement saying he would refuse to cooperate because he saw the investigation as not legitimate and accused the panel of “abuse of power.”

The committee has been especially focused on McCarthy’s communications with Trump and White House staff in the week after the violence, including a conversation with Trump that was reportedly heated.

Without his cooperation, it remains unclear whether the panel will be able to gain testimony from McCarthy or any other congressional allies of Trump. While the committee has considered subpoenaing fellow lawmakers, they have so far avoided doing so as it would be an extraordinary move and could run up against legal and political challenges.

Gern Blansten

Hilarious that after McCarthy denied he said these things Maddow ran them on her show....great stuff