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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    And now the Hunter Biden issue comes into focus a month before the elections.  Coincidence?  You be the judge.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,517
    Republicans want you in debt. Republicans want the federal government to fail. Republicans want the public school system to fail. 

    Stop voting for republicans. 


    Nope! Fuq that! Rs up and down the ballot. Everything the left touches turns to shit. 

    Same with the 100,000s and 100,000s around me. And before the left limp brains jump. All Dr's, surgeons, business owners. Seven digit homes. Six digit boats. I don't know any lefties within miles and miles. It's awesome!
    If their boat is six digits only, that’s weak.  Really if your talking rich their watch should be six digits easily 

    Plus that isn’t describing anything exclusive to republicans.  That’s a 2 bedroom house in L.A. 
    Anyone with half a brain and only a minor understanding of economics and fiscal responsibility knows that owning a boat is a dumb fu@$ing use of your money.
  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    edited October 2022
    Keeps getting worse. The mother of walker’s 10 year old says he paid for her to have an abortion in 2009, then she got pregnant again in 2011 and he wanted her to have a second abortion which she refused which caused him to end the relationship. That particular fetus is now his 10 year old son 

    no wonder there is family drama with Dad 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    Keeps getting worse. The mother of walker’s 10 year old says he paid for her to have an abortion in 2009, then she got pregnant again in 2011 and he wanted her to have a second abortion which she refused which caused him to end the relationship. That particular fetus is now his 10 year old son 

    no wonder there is family drama with Dad 

    And so many people think he should be elected to office???  Cra-a-a-a-zy!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,517
    brianlux said:
    Keeps getting worse. The mother of walker’s 10 year old says he paid for her to have an abortion in 2009, then she got pregnant again in 2011 and he wanted her to have a second abortion which she refused which caused him to end the relationship. That particular fetus is now his 10 year old son 

    no wonder there is family drama with Dad 

    And so many people think he should be elected to office???  Cra-a-a-a-zy!
    Idiots voting for idiots
  • brianlux said:
    Keeps getting worse. The mother of walker’s 10 year old says he paid for her to have an abortion in 2009, then she got pregnant again in 2011 and he wanted her to have a second abortion which she refused which caused him to end the relationship. That particular fetus is now his 10 year old son 

    no wonder there is family drama with Dad 

    And so many people think he should be elected to office???  Cra-a-a-a-zy!
    Idiots voting for idiots
    It’s really the equivalent of a Democratic nominee going to a white nationalist event and spouting off about white replacement and then expecting the democratic voters in the election to look the other way. That wouldn’t happen, that candidate would be done.

    abortion is that important (supposedly) to an evangelical.  It’s the line you aren’t supposed to cross 
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,768

     
    Herschel Walker centers pitch to Republicans on 'wokeness'
    By BILL BARROW
    Today

    EMERSON, Ga. (AP) — Herschel Walker pitches himself as a politician who can bridge America’s racial and cultural divides because he loves everyone and overlooks differences.

    “I don’t care what color you are,” Georgia’s Republican Senate nominee, who is Black, told an overwhelmingly white crowd recently in Bartow County, north of Atlanta. “This is a good place,” Walker said of the United States, “and a way we make it better is by coming together.”

    Yet the former University of Georgia football star who calls all Georgians “my family” has staked out familiar conservative ground on the nation's most glaring societal fissures, seemingly contradicting his promises of unity. Walker says those who do not share his vision of the country can leave and he blasts his opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and the Democratic Party as the real purveyors of division.

    Their “wokeness” on race, transgender rights and other issues, Walker insists, threatens U.S. power and identity.

    “Sen. Warnock believes America is a bad country full of racist people,” Walker says in one ad. It's a claim based on the fact that Warnock, who is also Black, has acknowledged institutional racism during his sermons as a Baptist minister. “I believe we’re a great country full of generous people,” Walker concludes.

    That approach is not surprising in a state controlled for most of its history by white cultural conservatives and it aligns Walker with many high-profile Republicans, including former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. But Walker's arguments make for a striking contrast in a Senate contest featuring two Black men born in the Deep South during or immediately following the civil rights movement.

    The strategy will face its fiercest test in the closing weeks of the campaign as Walker vehemently denies reports from The Daily Beast that he encouraged and paid for a woman’s 2009 abortion and later fathered a child with her. The New York Times reported Friday that he urged her to have a second abortion, a request she refused. The Daily Beast also published new details provided by the woman about Walker's lack of involvement with their child.

    Such developments would typically sink a Republican candidate, but Walker is betting the conservative ground he has staked out throughout the campaign will ultimately win over voters who are singularly interested in flipping a Democratic seat and retaking the Senate majority.

    His advisers believe Walker's rhetoric reflects the views of many Georgians, at least most who will vote this fall. Most specifically, it is an appeal to whites, including moderates who may be wary of the first-time candidate yet believe Democrats push too much social change. The outcome could turn on how Walker's pitch lands in an electorate that's gotten younger, more urban, less white and less native to Georgia since Walker, 60, and Warnock, 53, grew up in the state.

    Mark Rountree, a Republican pollster, said a narrow but solid majority of Georgia voters “responds favorably to Republican messaging broadly,” including socially conservative rhetoric.

    “I don’t know that they all use that ‘wokeness’ terminology but they’re not completely happy with all the cultural changes that have gone on in America,” he said, stressing that group includes metro Atlanta white voters who helped President Joe Biden win Georgia in 2020.

    Warnock, as minister of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, has long linked the civil rights leader's vision of a “beloved community” to 21st century discussions of diversity and justice, including religious pluralism, LGBTQ rights, ballot access, racial equity, law enforcement and other issues.

    But in Warnock's paid advertising, where most of the state’s 7 million-plus registered voters encounter the candidates, the pastor-politician casts himself mostly as a hardworking senator who has delivered results and federal money for Georgia.

    Walker saves his hottest rhetoric for campaign events, where crowds are measured in dozens or hundreds, rather than the thousands and millions watching carefully cultivated ads.

    In one such ad, a smiling Walker talks of unity after a string of Democrats — Warnock, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams — are heard discussing racism.

    Addressing fellow Republicans, Walker maintains the smile but goes harder at the left, especially on transgender rights.

    “They’re bringing wokeness in our military,” Walker said during a stop in Cumming, part of the critical northern suburbs of metro Atlanta. It was an apparent reference to the Pentagon allowing transgender people to serve and have access to medical care.

    “The greatest fighting force ever assembled before God (and) they’re talking about pronouns,” Walker said. “Are you serious? How do you identify? I can promise you right now China ain’t talking about how you can identify. They’re talking about war.”

    Walker sometimes presents his mores as humor.

    “Y’all see it. They telling you what is a woman. Think about it,” he said in Bartow County, drawing laughter from voters. “That’s right,” he continued with a broad smile. “They’re telling you a man can get pregnant. Hey, I’m gone tell you right now, a man can’t get pregnant.”

    Warnock, Walker says, “wants men in women’s sports.” Walker's campaign aides point separately to a Senate vote on a Republican amendment that would have limited federal money for any educational institutions “that permit any student whose biological sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls.” The amendment failed on a party-line vote.

    “That’s sort of like saying you want Herschel Walker to compete against your daughters,” Walker said in Norcross, eliciting more laughs.

    Children, Walker argued in Emerson, are especially vulnerable: “Our kids are behind because they want to be woke. What about teaching them how to write? ... How to read? ... How to spell?”

    Walker rarely identifies the policies he opposes or explains counterproposals. He sticks instead with broader cultural branding, and in perhaps the most direct contradiction of his unity messaging, recommends that those with a different vision for America consider moving. “If you don’t like the rules under our roof, you can go somewhere else,” he said in Bartow County, after recalling a similar message his father once delivered to him.

    Warnock seems reluctant to answer Walker’s broadsides directly. “My job is to represent all the people of Georgia across racial and ethnic and religious line, and all corner of this state,” he told reporters last week.

    Asked specifically about Walker's emphasis on transgender politics, Warnock said: “People love their children and they want to make sure that their children are safe from hatred and bigotry. So, you know, I will remain focused on all our young people and, at the same time, creating opportunities for young people.”

    Geoff Wetrosky, campaign director at the Human Rights Campaign, a national organization that advocates for LGBTQ rights, said Walker is recycling the well-worn political strategy of scaring voters using a marginalized minority.

    “He is spreading propaganda and creating more stigma, discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people,” Wetrosky said. “Their rhetoric is not about keeping kids safe, it’s about riling up a small number of base voters while interfering with the rights of parents of LGBT kids to provide stable, happy and healthy homes for the kids.”

    Walker does not link every cultural complaint to Warnock but comes at the incumbent aggressively on race and racism, even invoking King to suggest Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator is subservient to a white president.

    “Martin Luther King, he said when your back is bent, people can ride your back. Straighten up and quit letting people ride your back,” Walker said in Cumming, loosely quoting Warnock’s iconic predecessor at Ebenezer. “That’s what (Warnock) been doing all the time, 96% of the time he voted with Joe Biden.”

    After a recent campaign stop in suburban Atlanta, Walker told reporters “institutional racism still exists because you continue to talk about it.” He added, “It always exists (but) things have changed from years ago.”

    Pressed on whether government should combat racism and other discrimination, Walker insisted the Constitution already does. “If you do what it says on the paper, that means every man would be treated fair,” he said without elaborating. “Do we need to get better? Yes,” he allowed. “But right now we’re talking about separation. ... You have to bring together.”

    Walker’s methods, especially trying to use King against Warnock, rankle the senator’s aides and allies. Campaign manager Quentin Fulks said Warnock has “brought people together from the pulpit and in the U.S. Senate to get things done,” adding that Walker has “no vision” for Georgians. That's a twist on a line from Warnock's standard campaign speech: “People who have no vision traffic in division.”

    At the Human Rights Campaign, Wetrovsky argues that sweeping attacks on “wokeness” will not sway the middle of the electorate and could ultimately backfire.

    “We see this as a desperate attempt by politicians to either hold on to the power that they have or gain power by trying to rile up extremists in their base,” he said.

    Nonetheless, Walker's rhetoric solidifies strong support from voters such as Roy Taylor, a Canton resident who came to hear the GOP nominee speak in Cumming. Taylor said his opposition to “huge, massive government” drives his support for Walker. But his loyalties are intensified because he is “tired of Democrats trying to make Republicans out ... like we’re all bigots.

    “That,” Taylor said, “is just not true.”

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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,517
    The new Axis of Evil?
    Or
    The new Three Stooges?
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,405
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,918
    I love how the GOP fell in love with Kanye and within 48 hours he's talking about killing Jews.  Bunch of morons. 
  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,637
    mrussel1 said:
    I love how the GOP fell in love with Kanye and within 48 hours he's talking about killing Jews.  Bunch of morons. 
    The question is...did they fall out of love with him after that? 

    I tend to doubt it.
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,918
    OnWis97 said:
    mrussel1 said:
    I love how the GOP fell in love with Kanye and within 48 hours he's talking about killing Jews.  Bunch of morons. 
    The question is...did they fall out of love with him after that? 

    I tend to doubt it.
    Good point, let me rephrase.  Fox News fell out of love..  
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,768

     
    Conservative PACs inject millions into local school races
    By COLLIN BINKLEY and JULIE CARR SMYTH
    Today

    As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing number of conservative political action groups are targeting their efforts closer to home: at local school boards.

    Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms, libraries, sports fields, even building plans.

    Once seen as sleepy affairs with little interest outside their communities, school board elections started to heat up last year as parents aired frustrations with pandemic policies. As those issues fade, right-leaning groups are spending millions on candidates who promise to scale back teachings on race and sexuality, remove offending books from libraries and nix plans for gender-neutral bathrooms or transgender-inclusive sports teams.

    Democrats have countered with their own campaigns portraying Republicans as extremists who want to ban books and rewrite history.

    At the center of the conservative effort is the 1776 Project PAC, which formed last year to push back against the New York Times' 1619 Project, which provides free lesson plans that center U.S. history around slavery and its lasting impacts. Last fall and this spring, the 1776 group succeeded in elevating conservative majorities to office in dozens of school districts across the U.S., propelling candidates who have gone on to fire superintendents and enact sweeping “bills of rights” for parents.

    In the wake of recent victories in Texas and Pennsylvania — and having spent $2 million between April 2021 and this August, according to campaign finance filings — the group is campaigning for dozens of candidates this fall. It's supporting candidates in Maryland's Frederick and Carroll counties, in Bentonville, Arkansas, and 20 candidates across southern Michigan.

    Its candidates have won not only in deeply red locales but also in districts near liberal strongholds, including Philadelphia and Minneapolis. And after this November, the group hopes to expand further.

    “Places we’re not supposed to typically win, we’ve won in,” said Ryan Girdusky, founder of the group. “I think we can do it again.”

    In Florida, recent school board races saw an influx of attention — and money — from conservative groups, including some that had never gotten involved in school races.

    The American Principles Project, a Washington think tank, put a combined $25,000 behind four candidates for the Polk County board. The group made its first foray into school boards at the behest of local activists, its leader said, and it’s weighing whether to continue elsewhere. The group’s fundraising average surged from under $50,000 the year before the pandemic to about $2 million now.

    “We lean heavily into retaking federal power,” said Terry Schilling, the think tank’s president. “But if you don’t also take over the local school boards, you’re not going to have local allies there to actually reverse the policies that these guys have been implementing.”

    In a move never before seen in the state, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed a slate of school board candidates, putting his weight behind conservatives who share his opposition to lessons on sexuality and what he deems critical race theory. Most of the DeSantis-backed candidates won in their August races, in some cases replacing conservative members who had more moderate views than the firebrand governor.

    The movement claims to be an opposing force to left-leaning teachers unions. They see the unions as a well-funded enemy that promotes radical classroom lessons on race and sexuality — a favorite smear is to call the unions “groomers." The unions, which also support candidates, have called it a fiction meant to stoke distrust in public schools.

    In Maryland's Frederick County, the 1776 group is backing three school board candidates against four endorsed by education unions. The conservatives are running as the “Education Not Indoctrination" slate, with a digital ad saying children are being “held captive” by schools. The ad shows a picture of stacked books bearing the words “equity," "grooming," “indoctrination” and "critical race theory."

    Karen Yoho, a board member running for re-election, said outside figures have stoked fears about critical race theory and other lessons that aren't taught in Frederick County.

    The discourse has mostly stayed civil in her area, but Yoho takes exception to the accusation that teachers are “grooming” children.

    “I find it disgusting,” said Yoho, a retired teacher whose children went through the district. “It makes my heart hurt. And then I kind of get mad and I get defensive.”

    In Texas, Patriot Mobile — a wireless company that promotes conservative causes — has emerged as a political force in school board races. Earlier this year, its political arm spent more than $400,000 out of $800,000 raised to boost candidates in a handful of races in the northern Texas county where the company is based. All of its favored candidates won, putting conservatives in control of four districts.

    The group did not respond to requests for comment, but a statement released after the spring victories said Texas was “just the beginning.”

    Some GOP strategists have cautioned against the focus on education, saying it could backfire with more moderate voters. Results so far have been mixed — the 1776 Project claims a 70% win rate, but conservative candidates in some areas have fallen flat in recent elections.

    Still, the number of groups that have banded together under the umbrella of parental rights seems only to be growing. It includes national organizations such as Moms for Liberty, along with smaller grassroots groups.

    “There is a very stiff resistance to the concerted and intentional effort to make radical ideas about race and gender part of the school day. Parents don’t like it,” said Jonathan Butcher, an education fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

    The foundation and its political wing have been hosting training sessions encouraging parents to run for school boards, teaching them the basics about budgeting but also about the perceived dangers of what the group deems critical race theory.

    For decades, education was seen as its “own little game” that was buffered from national politics, said Jeffrey Henig, a political science and education professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who has written about outside funding in school board elections. Now, he said, local races are becoming battlegrounds for broader debates.

    He said education is unlikely to be a decisive issue in the November election — it’s overshadowed by abortion and the economy — but it can still be wielded to “amplify local discontent” and push more voters to the polls.

    Republicans are using the tactic this fall as they look to unseat Democrats at all levels of government.

    In Michigan, the American Principles Project is paying for TV ads against the Democratic governor where a narrator reads sexually explicit passages from the graphic novel “Gender Queer.” It claims that “this is the kind of literature that Gretchen Whitmer wants your kids exposed to,” while giant red letters appear saying “stop grooming our kids.”

    Similar TV ads are being aired in Arizona to attack Sen. Mark Kelly, and in Maine against Gov. Janet Mills, both Democrats.

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  • mickeyrat
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  • mickeyrat
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    Walker concedes giving check to ex-partner, denies knowing it was for abortion  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/17/walker-georgia-senate-abortion/ 

     Walker concedes giving check to ex-partner, denies knowing it was for abortion
    By John Wagner
    October 17, 2022 at 8:33 ET
    Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker acknowledged giving a $700 check to his then-partner in 2009, but in an interview broadcast Monday, he continued to deny the woman’s claim that the money was provided to pay for an abortion.
    Shown images of a receipt from an abortion clinic and a check dated days later with his name, Walker said, “Yes, that’s my check,” during the interview that aired on NBC’s “Today Show.”
    Walker said it was his signature on the check but rejected the allegation from the woman, who is the mother of one of Walker’s children, that it was to pay for an abortion.
    “It’s a lie,” said Walker, who has opposed abortion in all cases as a Senate candidate. “Prove that I did that. Just to show me things like that does nothing for me.”
    He also said he has “no idea what that could be for” when presented with a copy of the check.
    Asked why voters should trust him, Walker said, “I’ve been very transparent about everything I’ve done.”
    [GOP crisis in Herschel Walker race was nearly two years in the making]
    The woman said that Walker paid for her to have an abortion in 2009 and that he ended a relationship with her in 2011 after she refused to have the procedure again. The woman has told The Washington Post that reports in the Daily Beast, which first reported the story, and the New York Times accurately described her experiences. She spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her privacy and that of her child, who is now 10.
    Walker has denied that he paid for an abortion or knew about one at the time. The woman and one of Walker’s adult children by a different woman have accused him of failing to be present as a father.

    continues....

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,768
    I'll just leave this right here....

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,405
    mickeyrat said:
    Walker concedes giving check to ex-partner, denies knowing it was for abortion  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/17/walker-georgia-senate-abortion/ 

     Walker concedes giving check to ex-partner, denies knowing it was for abortion
    By John Wagner
    October 17, 2022 at 8:33 ET
    Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker acknowledged giving a $700 check to his then-partner in 2009, but in an interview broadcast Monday, he continued to deny the woman’s claim that the money was provided to pay for an abortion.
    Shown images of a receipt from an abortion clinic and a check dated days later with his name, Walker said, “Yes, that’s my check,” during the interview that aired on NBC’s “Today Show.”
    Walker said it was his signature on the check but rejected the allegation from the woman, who is the mother of one of Walker’s children, that it was to pay for an abortion.
    “It’s a lie,” said Walker, who has opposed abortion in all cases as a Senate candidate. “Prove that I did that. Just to show me things like that does nothing for me.”
    He also said he has “no idea what that could be for” when presented with a copy of the check.
    Asked why voters should trust him, Walker said, “I’ve been very transparent about everything I’ve done.”
    [GOP crisis in Herschel Walker race was nearly two years in the making]
    The woman said that Walker paid for her to have an abortion in 2009 and that he ended a relationship with her in 2011 after she refused to have the procedure again. The woman has told The Washington Post that reports in the Daily Beast, which first reported the story, and the New York Times accurately described her experiences. She spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her privacy and that of her child, who is now 10.
    Walker has denied that he paid for an abortion or knew about one at the time. The woman and one of Walker’s adult children by a different woman have accused him of failing to be present as a father.

    continues....

    lol he could have written "ABORTION FOR MY GIRLFRIEND" on the check memo line and would not lose a single vote.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • mickeyrat said:
    Walker concedes giving check to ex-partner, denies knowing it was for abortion  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/17/walker-georgia-senate-abortion/ 

     Walker concedes giving check to ex-partner, denies knowing it was for abortion
    By John Wagner
    October 17, 2022 at 8:33 ET
    Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker acknowledged giving a $700 check to his then-partner in 2009, but in an interview broadcast Monday, he continued to deny the woman’s claim that the money was provided to pay for an abortion.
    Shown images of a receipt from an abortion clinic and a check dated days later with his name, Walker said, “Yes, that’s my check,” during the interview that aired on NBC’s “Today Show.”
    Walker said it was his signature on the check but rejected the allegation from the woman, who is the mother of one of Walker’s children, that it was to pay for an abortion.
    “It’s a lie,” said Walker, who has opposed abortion in all cases as a Senate candidate. “Prove that I did that. Just to show me things like that does nothing for me.”
    He also said he has “no idea what that could be for” when presented with a copy of the check.
    Asked why voters should trust him, Walker said, “I’ve been very transparent about everything I’ve done.”
    [GOP crisis in Herschel Walker race was nearly two years in the making]
    The woman said that Walker paid for her to have an abortion in 2009 and that he ended a relationship with her in 2011 after she refused to have the procedure again. The woman has told The Washington Post that reports in the Daily Beast, which first reported the story, and the New York Times accurately described her experiences. She spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her privacy and that of her child, who is now 10.
    Walker has denied that he paid for an abortion or knew about one at the time. The woman and one of Walker’s adult children by a different woman have accused him of failing to be present as a father.

    continues....

    lol he could have written "ABORTION FOR MY GIRLFRIEND" on the check memo line and would not lose a single vote.
    He’d gain 2%
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