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RunIntoTheRain

mickeyrat said:

I'll just leave this right here....

https://youtu.be/Ns8NvPPHX5Y

Wow. That was well worth watching. Thank you for posting.

HughFreakingDillon

mickeyrat said:

I'll just leave this right here....

https://youtu.be/Ns8NvPPHX5Y

damn. can't watch in canada. 

mickeyrat

HughFreakingDillon said:

mickeyrat said:

I'll just leave this right here....

https://youtu.be/Ns8NvPPHX5Y

damn. can't watch in canada. 

see about on the shows facebook page or maybe Twitter?

jpgoegel

https://news.yahoo.com/house-rules-chairman-blocked-lauren-140953291.html

Score one in the sanity column for Massachusetts

As McGovern would recall it, his response was, 'We have a new rule in the Rules Committee. If you're batshit crazy, you're not getting an amendment,'" Draper writes. "'I'm sorry. We're not doing this. We're not doing this. I'm not going down that road. I'm not going to be part of any effort to legitimize people who are fucking lunatics.

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

I'll just leave this right here....

https://youtu.be/Ns8NvPPHX5Y

Around the 10 minute mark is something I was always questioning.  There seem to be a lot more Trans people coming out that doesn't support the numbers.

I think we are way off on population of people who identify as trans. 

mrussel1

Is this not okay?  I mean he believes the election was stolen, so this should be okay for team MAGA.  https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/gop-candidate-maricopa-college-board-arrested-charge-of-public-sexual-indecency-randy-kaufman/75-add261c3-7948-4503-ab42-7351c5c283cd

tempo_n_groove

mrussel1 said:

Is this not okay?  I mean he believes the election was stolen, so this should be okay for team MAGA.  https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/gop-candidate-maricopa-college-board-arrested-charge-of-public-sexual-indecency-randy-kaufman/75-add261c3-7948-4503-ab42-7351c5c283cd

Let's see if that officer falls into job purgatory now.

I'd love a follow up with hat.

So.  U need to do that THAT bad?  It's AZ.  U can drive a few minutes and be in the middle of no where...

mrussel1

tempo_n_groove said:

mrussel1 said:

Is this not okay?  I mean he believes the election was stolen, so this should be okay for team MAGA.  https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/gop-candidate-maricopa-college-board-arrested-charge-of-public-sexual-indecency-randy-kaufman/75-add261c3-7948-4503-ab42-7351c5c283cd

Let's see if that officer falls into job purgatory now.

I'd love a follow up with hat.

So.  U need to do that THAT bad?  It's AZ.  U can drive a few minutes and be in the middle of no where...

Not where you get to watch some young kids walk around.. sicko. 

mickeyrat

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-europe-744e33c8ac5f789329a5f8ec178c1ef5

 

Russia-Ukraine war 2022 Midterm elections Elections Donald Trump Think tanks Government and politics Midterm elections

Pence warns of 'unprincipled populists,' 'Putin apologists'

By JILL COLVIN

Today

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday warned against the growing populist tide in the Republican Party as he admonished “Putin apologists” unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader over his assault on Ukraine.

Speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington less than a month before November's midterm elections, Pence addressed the growing gulf between traditional conservatives and a new generation of populist candidates inspired, in part, by former President Donald Trump, who has transformed a large swath of the party.

“Today, on the cusp of a new era of Republican leadership ... I think we need to chart a course that doesn’t veer off too far in either direction," Pence told the think tank audience.

“Our movement cannot forsake the foundational commitment that we have to security, to limited government, to liberty and to life. But nor can we allow our movement to be led astray by the siren song of unprincipled populism that’s unmoored from our oldest traditions and most cherished values," he said. "Let me say: This movement and the party that it animates must remain the movement of a strong national defense, limited government and traditional moral values and life.”

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To that end, Pence criticized those in the party who have pushed a more isolationist foreign policy, particularly when it comes to Russian aggression. Earlier Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law for four illegally annexed Ukrainian regions as his forces have suffered stinging battlefield defeats and renewed attacks on Ukrainian cities and vital infrastructure.

“Now, I know there is a rising chorus in our party, including some new voices to our movement, who would have us disengaged with the wider world," Pence said. "But appeasement has never worked, ever, in history. And now more than ever, we need a conservative movement committed to America’s role as leader of the free world and as a vanguard of American values.”

“As Russia continues its unconscionable war of aggression to Ukraine, I believe that conservatives must make it clear that Putin must stop and Putin will pay," he added. "There can be no room in the conservative movement for apologists to Putin. There is only room in this movement for champions of freedom.”

Pence has been traveling the country, campaigning on behalf of Republican midterm candidates as he lays the groundwork for a potential 2024 presidential campaign. Some of the candidates he has endorsed have espoused the kinds of populist and isolationist views he seemed to take issue with Wednesday. Arizona's Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters, for instance, has labeled the Russia-Ukraine conflict a “European problem” and has criticized federal spending on Ukraine.

Pence's speech largely focused on the conservative “Freedom Agenda,” which he released earlier this year. It serves as both a concrete policy plan for Republicans as well as an implicit criticism of Trump, who has spent much of his time since leaving office obsessing about the 2020 election instead of looking forward.

Pence, who again argued in his remarks that in order to win "we must do more than simply criticize and complain," has been a target of Trump's ire since he refused to go along with the former president's unconstitutional plot to try to overturn the will of voters in January 2021.

Pence once again stressed the importance of the oath he took when he was sworn in as vice president, adding that, “The American people must know that conservatives will not simply pay lip service to keeping faith with the Constitution, but that we will always keep our oath — that we will keep our oath, as the Bible says, even when it hurts" and "stand for the Constitution ... even when it would be politically expedient to do otherwise."

mrussel1

I don't agree with Pence's social conservatism,  but on this topic,  I'm 100% aligned. 

tempo_n_groove

mrussel1 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mrussel1 said:

Is this not okay?  I mean he believes the election was stolen, so this should be okay for team MAGA.  https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/gop-candidate-maricopa-college-board-arrested-charge-of-public-sexual-indecency-randy-kaufman/75-add261c3-7948-4503-ab42-7351c5c283cd

Let's see if that officer falls into job purgatory now.

I'd love a follow up with hat.

So.  U need to do that THAT bad?  It's AZ.  U can drive a few minutes and be in the middle of no where...

Not where you get to watch some young kids walk around.. sicko. 

Cop said he was looking down at his phone.  He wasn't around to look at kids it seems.

mrussel1

tempo_n_groove said:

mrussel1 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mrussel1 said:

Is this not okay?  I mean he believes the election was stolen, so this should be okay for team MAGA.  https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/gop-candidate-maricopa-college-board-arrested-charge-of-public-sexual-indecency-randy-kaufman/75-add261c3-7948-4503-ab42-7351c5c283cd

Let's see if that officer falls into job purgatory now.

I'd love a follow up with hat.

So.  U need to do that THAT bad?  It's AZ.  U can drive a few minutes and be in the middle of no where...

Not where you get to watch some young kids walk around.. sicko. 

Cop said he was looking down at his phone.  He wasn't around to look at kids it seems.

Considering where he parked,  my guess would be he was looking down and up.  Why else would you park there,  of all places?

tempo_n_groove

mrussel1 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mrussel1 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mrussel1 said:

Is this not okay?  I mean he believes the election was stolen, so this should be okay for team MAGA.  https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/gop-candidate-maricopa-college-board-arrested-charge-of-public-sexual-indecency-randy-kaufman/75-add261c3-7948-4503-ab42-7351c5c283cd

Let's see if that officer falls into job purgatory now.

I'd love a follow up with hat.

So.  U need to do that THAT bad?  It's AZ.  U can drive a few minutes and be in the middle of no where...

Not where you get to watch some young kids walk around.. sicko. 

Cop said he was looking down at his phone.  He wasn't around to look at kids it seems.

Considering where he parked,  my guess would be he was looking down and up.  Why else would you park there,  of all places?

I will say it doesn't look good.  Thankfully this happened before he could be elected.

My fav part of all this was the "off the record" name drop.

HughFreakingDillon

"i was really stressed, so I diddled in public"
"um..."
"well, judgy, what do YOU do when you're stressed?"
"I dunno, go for a run?"
"well, lah dee dah, mr smartypants, where were YOU when I needed an alternate idea?"

cincybearcat

You know, one of the worst things the GOP has done recently was McCarthy stating a reduction in Ukraine funding should the GOP win Congress.  I understand that somehow this will garner them votes because GOP has know forgotten their soul and lacks the integrity and determination to support freedom and friends....but this has a direct impact on actual lives.  Not just how they live, but more people could actually die because of that statement.  

Merkin Baller

cincybearcat said:

You know, one of the worst things the GOP has done recently was McCarthy stating a reduction in Ukraine funding should the GOP win Congress.  I understand that somehow this will garner them votes because GOP has know forgotten their soul and lacks the integrity and determination to support freedom and friends....but this has a direct impact on actual lives.  Not just how they live, but more people could actually die because of that statement.  

Agreed.

& if (when?) the GOP wins next month and follows through on that, the damage it will do to our country's reputation among our allies will be staggering. 

tempo_n_groove

cincybearcat said:

You know, one of the worst things the GOP has done recently was McCarthy stating a reduction in Ukraine funding should the GOP win Congress.  I understand that somehow this will garner them votes because GOP has know forgotten their soul and lacks the integrity and determination to support freedom and friends....but this has a direct impact on actual lives.  Not just how they live, but more people could actually die because of that statement.  

Pence just spoke up about Putin apologists and that it's dangerous for the party so there is a positive .

gimmesometruth27

the funny thing to me is that pence thinks he actually has a shot at winning the primary in the "hang mike pence" party.

Gern Blansten

https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/1583478410625839104

Bannon's comments as he left court were fucking insane. 

mrussel1

Hey how is that four months going to be for Steve Bannon?